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I mean, I've beaten Starward Rogue at the highest difficulty... with the redshift, which by default dies in one to two hits, but gives you all the time in the world to figure out what you need to do. It's not really a matter of understanding, so much as processing what you understand fast enough to react at the pace the game is asking for with the precision it's asking for.

Some folks by and large just can't do it beyond a point that's often enough well below what the kinds of games in question consider normal or easy. Slowing it down can make it so that sort of fellow can go from getting stomped on the lowest difficulties (basically stonewalled out of the genre) to successfully navigating the patterns thrown at them on the hardest.

I've tried a number (not hundreds, but probably more than thirty or forty, heh) of bullet hells or otherwise high-ish difficulty shmups over the years, most of it before I figured out how to slow them down manually. I'm well aware of what would and wouldn't surprise me at this point

But yeah, having a slowdown option in game is great. Not enough of the things do that, and there's precious few of those that do that give you enough granularity to really adjust it to fit everyone. Ideally they'd all have an option that bottoms out at Redshift/simultaneous movement and sliders its way up to TAS-only, but until then third party programs open the way

I seems to be the way of modern AAA games for some reason.

If by modern you mean "newer than DOS", yes

The major developers have had trouble on that front since it was a front you could have trouble on, heh. Turns out netcode can be hard no matter how much money you throw at it, I guess...

I still think using AI for writing is cheating, also aren't there books filled with names you could look at?

If using AI for writing is cheating, so is using an editor or asking for feedback from other people. Lotta' writing cheaters out there

If we're lucky this means we go back to writing by hand instead of keyboard.

Better the world end in fire than for everyone to have everyone else's handwriting regularly inflicted upon them once again. The world may have spun before typing existed, but it spun as a hell worse than the modern day.

surprised that apparently you're supposed to hear air ventilation

wait until you notice the unending godawful buzzing that accompanies fluorescent lighting

is feb. 2019 not before November 22, 2019?

Maybe it isn't on a leap year? Those are strange, who knows what they do to calendar arrangements. what do you mean that wasn't a leap year, everyone knows leap years discombobulate surrounding years, too

I'll roll for shadowrun and pillars in about five hours, I think -- around 6 CST. If anyone wants to actually make it a roll instead of the current state, you've got a little bit of time

Happy Hondadays!

hondaday is november 3rd, tho