At this point, everyone knows I'm hugely into books.
It's just so depressing how even book people are about nothing more than intentionally creating this self-perpetuating "community" of anxiety.
You can't go to any freaking book-related online space without people asking for permission to not finish a book. "Is it okay to DNF?????"
Same with doing shit to your own books. Do not write into them, do not open them too much or the spine will crack. Get a panic attack because two fucking photons touched the book and how it will be DAMAGED.
"I am having a panic attack because maybe I didn't get all the references in this book."
The same with every hobby. Cooking? You are not environmentally friendly enough, you are not authentic enough, this is wrong, that is wrong.
Hell, I am kiiinda thinking about a Switch, I looked at Animal Crossing and people are freaking the fuck out at others for not playing the game "right". Others are having depression because their islands are not aesthetic enough.
How did the internet turn everyone so fucking neurotic over the things we were supposed to do as FUN? And I am not even just talking about SJW things, but every community is about "doing it the right way" even though it doesn't matter and there doesn't exist a right way?
I just quit trying for online communities of about anything. Video games probably being the last straw when it came nothing but griping and bitching or dick measuring contests. "OMG this game was so fun then it dropped a single frame once what the hell is wrong with games anymore it's such a shit game." Or, "The only reason anyone doesn't like Dark Souls is they are bad, it's not even a hard game it's so easy I finished it in 5 hours naked with a guitar hero controller and it was still too damn easy."
Oh, and I don't like cracking the spine of my books, but I've always been that way. I don't write in almost anything because I'm not a note-taker type. Still though, I don't give a shit if someone else wants to highlight the entire damn book and tear every page out one-by-one and read it. None of such things is going to give me a panic attack though. Panic attack over an inanimate object, really?
Dark souls at least is understandable. Its a game defined by its difficulty. Yet a bunch of people keep bitching and whining for the devs to make it easy or to add an easy mode. It needs its core community to gatekeep those people out.
In Elden Ring, summons were the difficulty slider. If you want the Souls experience don’t use them. If you want to make it easier, use them. It works.
The problem with a real difficulty slider on a Souls game is that it wasn’t designed for that because the gameplay is too tight. Other games have you button mashing with animation cancels to have everything happen instantly. Souls games are the exact opposite. Every single button press is a commitment. If you made it easier you’d basically be upping your HP and lowering the enemies and it would feel janky and it’d still be pretty rough because when you’re attacked you often can’t move. If you can’t beat a boss as is you wouldn’t do much better if it died quicker.