Ah! Thank you again! Honestly in my mind I was thinking that “neurodiverse” didn’t make any sense. Okay now I’m interested to see what the next ‘that guy’ is going to say :)

haha. My bad, sorry. I think people used to say this but the language changed. I’ll fix it.

Is it really a decade old? Feels like they redesign it every three years.

Redesigning familiar UIs is a great way to give elderly, neurodivergent, and/or computer illiterate people a hard time.

I’ve never tried it either. It would be kind of an asshole thing to do. Torrenting only works because everyone contributes their fair share.

hm, if you set your seed ratio to 0, maybe not though

Is this true? You actually have to seed in order to download?

My area has around 3 or 4 competing ISPs. (Canada)

I’m not aware of any way they can catch you with a VPN.

I think they can also catch you seeding it.

I don’t see how that is related to the comment you’re replying to. Discord’s policies permit 14yo’s.

I mean… do you use discord? Maybe we use different servers. Some of the servers I’m in definitely have younger people in them of that age. Friends of my friends are of that age on discord even. And my partner’s younger sister was on discord at that age. IDK I don’t have a research article proving that people I have personally interacted with exist, sorry.

idk but 14-year-olds do.

are 14-yo’s not minors…?

I believe in some jurisdictions it is in some circumstances a crime, yes.

Right, it’s the fact that melee does no damage in Doom Eternal which I find aggravating. It worked just fine in 2016 as a last resort. They clearly removed its ability to deal any damage in order to force the player to engage with the flamethrower mechanic, which provides ammo (and also does no damage). It seems to me like clumsy design – it achieves the desired gameplay loop, but in the most heavy-handed way imaginable. Fun gameplay loop sure, but zero effort to justify it with what’s happening visually on screen.

I did enjoy the combat ballet though; in particular, it was fun to be always switching weapons. I just found myself often shaking my head because it’s so contrived how it’s implemented specifically. I’m sure most people didn’t care, but it did pull me out of it.

Also, I couldn’t understand the plot in Eternal whatsoever. Am I supposed to be saving Earth? It sure doesn’t feel like Doom Guy gives a damn. He’s just there to do some kind of prophecy I didn’t really find myself pulled into. In contrast, 2016 is punctuated sporadically by plot points I at least understood and felt some amount of motivation for. Take, for instance, the scene where Mr. Glados says “don’t dismantle the power generator things! They’re really expensive!” And Doom Guy is like: “IDGAF. Demons bad.” Best scene in the whole franchise if you ask me. (I’ll admit, some of the dialogue moments that lock you into a room are way too long though.)

NGL I would love to see Nintendo give Luigi Mario a rocket launcher.

It’s been a while since I’ve played it, but as I recall, melee combat worked very differently and much more intuitively in 2016. It’s always there in case you run out of ammo.

Agreed about the story. What I didn’t like in DE was the transparently arbitrary gameplay loop. You can’t punch enemies to death anymore, and your flamethrower instead of doing damage causes… items to appear. All are obviously in service of a gameplay loop, but they are terribly contrived. I wouldn’t say I go into Doom for immersion, but c’mon.

I liked this game better than Doom Eternal

If there were an entirely separate kids internet, which only kids can use (and it requires some sort of proof-of-being-a-kid to use the kids’ internet, but not the adults’ internet), what would you think of that idea? (Actual implementation would not be exactly like that of course, more like individual websites would offer kids’ versions separately.)