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So I have this person. We never spoke. We don’t know eachother.
But any day I play Elden Ring in the evening, it doesn’t matter if I’m dueling or cooping or invading, I have like a 20% chance of stumbling into him.
When I’m dueling it’s ALWAYS very close. I think I’m slightly better but sometimes he wins.
When I’m cooping and he invades, he makes all the smart plays. Which is mostly “don’t fight huggingtentacles kill the host as fast as possible”. You know. It’s a smart play.
And when I’m invading it’s always a breeze to co-invade with him. He never hits me unnecessarily. He always pays attention when I’m in trouble. He takes aggro really well and most importantly he knows that when fighting 2v2 you have to be sandwiching the host and the phantom and not be on the same side. Good co-invader.
We have a bit of a rivalry going on? Whenever we fight eachother it’s always the most tryhard shit that you’ll ever see. The kind of shit that makes Redditors disconnect in tears. All is fair game when we fight because god damn I if one of us loses the winner gets to do the “Bravo” gesture which might be genuine expression of being impressed but it’s probably sarcastic.
It’s always very hype to see him. I get very fired up. No matter how shitty my day is he always lights me up and forces me to play full force.
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maybe it’s just because i spend my time scrounging around libraries and itch.io and such but i’m often bewildered whenever people talk about everything becoming the same or death of art or everyone being afraid to Get Weird with It. i promise people are still out there getting weird with it. the hegemonic mainstream art remains hegemonic and mainstream like usual. counterculture remains counterculture. as usual. interesting and somewhat off-putting zines cost a little more but the cost of living is pretty high right now, and i don’t particularly mind giving an independent artist a few more bucks for their work
i think i just get confused by anything that sounds like ‘this countercultural, challenging, or otherwise disruptive artistic sensibility isn’t present in the most popular or mainstream corporate media’. did we expect it to? why are we trying to buy clothes at the soup store
