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cait @cait.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 02:41 UTC

happy july 4th

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Rory Blank (on vacation) @roryblank.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 02:52 UTC

I wrote this comic on the fourth of july a few years ago so I think I'm going to keep reposting it on the fourth of july

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Rory Blank (on vacation) @roryblank.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 02:51 UTC

Yep! A LOT of that movie is the kid running up and down the river walk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvW4...

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Rory Blank (on vacation) @roryblank.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 02:49 UTC

spy vs spy redux (2023)

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Rory Blank (on vacation) @roryblank.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:05 UTC

07/04/2024a

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Rory Blank (on vacation) @roryblank.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 01:01 UTC

Yeah the last time I used Google lens it told me that a kit kat was “child” flavored

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Rory Blank (on vacation) @roryblank.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:38 UTC

I'm sorry, I know that this is an extremely mundane request for someone who went to the trouble of learning a second (or third or fourth) language, but I bought some shirts from a Japanese company, would anyone be willing to translate/summarize the care instructions for me?

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Rory Blank (on vacation) @roryblank.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:45 UTC

Trying to line up the weird jump to get into an out of bounds area to make the demon of hatred fall off a cliff is more difficult and tedious than beating him fair and square

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Rory Blank (on vacation) @roryblank.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:39 UTC

I did this because I had heard the reputation the studio's games have for difficulty and was trying to do anything I could to get an edge, and the end result was making the game significantly more difficult for myself than if I'd just listened to what the game itself was trying to tell me.

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Rory Blank (on vacation) @roryblank.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:36 UTC

The end result being that I managed to get pretty far into the game without really fully understanding the combat or having a real sense of the rhythm of the game, because I wasn't actually engaging with what the game wanted me to do and trying to go around it instead. Then I was in trouble.

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Rory Blank (on vacation) @roryblank.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:35 UTC

My first playthrough was my first direct experience with any FromSoftware game other than people handing me their controller to watch me fail at playing Dark Souls. I attribute my difficulty with it to the fact that during that first playthrough, I was relying heavily on "cheese" guides.

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Rory Blank (on vacation) @roryblank.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:33 UTC

I think Sekiro is probably my favorite of Hidetaka Miyazaki's games. I've played through it twice and the first time I had no idea what I was doing and sucked shit at it and was miserable. I started over and paid more attention to the tutorials until it clicked and once it clicks it's exhilarating

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