20 minutes of challenge becomes 5 minutes of chores becomes 2 minutes to blaze through flawlessly once you get it down

And it breaks you out of the headspace. You can’t just dive back in, every attempt has weight, even if not much

Also most people who complain about this seem to not understand that this is not random, these are well thought out design decisions. If it feels impossibly hard to just get to the boss, there’s probably an easier way. There’s tons of shortcuts, there’s often an easier route to another bench, and when there isn’t the boss is probably an easy one when you’re not anxious about having to repeat the section

Plus, platforming is a huge aspect of the challenge in itself. Sure, it’s annoying chores now, but what happens when you need near perfect movement for long stretches with no platforms to rest on?

It will! That one took me a while too, but it opens up a lot

Let me fill up the negative space in that comment…I want Silksong to be hard. I want to do things dozens of times before succeeding, I want to struggle then overcome

It’s all skill based. You get better, your character gives you more breathing room, but ultimately you have to learn and overcome each new challenge

And that feels amazing, it’s not for everyone but I don’t want a way to make it easier… It would cheapen the experience to even have the option

Is cup head comparable? It looks really floaty

The point is I get frustrated, then I get better. There’s stakes, and every time I get a little better. I see the next phase of the boss, then it takes me multiple tries to get to that stage again. Then suddenly, nearly every time I’m getting to that phase in seconds

This game isn’t hard for the sake of being hard, it’s hard because it repeatedly gives you a new challenge that seems impossible, and if you have the will to keep pushing you can overcome it. Not through luck, you just learn the patterns, and you adapt your combat style

And once you surpass a challenge, it feels like an accomplishment. The world opens up, you’re rewarded with new exploration and abilities

You ask on a link aggregator…

No, no there’s not. The Internet is dying, the best you’re going to get is human made submissions

You could put yourself on some mailing lists, otherwise a well curated set of communities is about as good as it gets

Political violence is a symptom, not a cause

We were already here. Lawmakers have already been killed. Just, no one took it seriously because the Democrats miss every moment

And yes, they were already invading Chicago. They were already calling to arrest political opponents. They were going to do it all anyways

Sorry friend, but it’s only going to get worse for the foreseeable future

I’m with you lamenting it though, I’m very frustrated too. Everything is breaking, for the stupidest reasons…

For decades now, I’ve joked that the Internet is just a fad… But recently I realized, we might just see it die

Definitely… But you can both streamline an interface for the masses without taking away from power users. OSX was a pretty good example of this - they kept a simple veneer, but if you dug a little deeper you used to be able to do some pretty advanced things and configure it all just how you like it

It just takes more time and effort, so it’s becoming rare

Well, that’s just capitalism for you. Maintaining code takes man hours, so of course the minute they had the slightest excuse to reduce code and fire people, that became the norm

It’s profit dictating style basically

They don’t teach material design or something, they teach you to look at the interfaces people use the most and copy the shorthand and general layout

Then they teach you what not to do… Don’t make buttons appear and disappear, don’t make interactions move things around… These are basically universally confusing

They get into a bit of color theory, making certain actions “weighty” by adding loading, and all sorts of other techniques

But the most important piece is figuring out what the main use cases are, and making the tradeoffs to make the experience as frictionless as possible. Stuff like minimizing clicks, piching things by default, hiding unnecessary information, etc

It’s like teaching art. You put labels on concepts and make them practice picking apart the composition so they can understand the individual elements at play and how they fit together

It depends on how you look at it, and how it’s presented

You don’t fill a hole by grabbing dirt and finding a hole, you realize you need to fill a hole, and then you grab/buy materials to fill it in with.

It’s just a matter of approach. You can frame it in either direction

You realize this is actually a field of study? Like, this isn’t a particularly soft science… Companies have done massive A/B campaigns and written papers on it, universities do studies on it… It’s not just opinion

I mean, I do this professionally, I took courses that break down what makes something feel intuitive

Yeah, it’s basically a UX issue. You can make either one seem more natural depending on how you present it, although if I’m transferring money I probably care more about where it’s going

I think that my flow is far more natural… But suffice to say I wouldn’t switch it on you either way

Sure… If I want $300 in an account, that’s my goal. I don’t want to decrease another account by that amount

So my goal is to move X money into Y account, or maybe all but X money into Y account

The second half is where it comes from. It’s not the goal, it’s the means

But again as I said, flipping this is a worse solution than either direction

Honestly, picking the destination first makes more sense.

But the primary law of UX is you don’t change shit up on people. I’d have taken a stand if I was on that team

Power exists where people believe it to be. You want to build up alternate systems? Go for it, I think that’s great. I’d join up. Let me know when that’s an option on the table

But you can’t ignore where the power actually is. No revolution happens without organizing around people already in power.

And as much as you can learn from the past, we’re well into uncharted territory. You can read all the praxis you like, but those are the writings of academics.

At some point you have to talk to people, you have to get average people on board. You can’t do that by giving them pamphlets, they’re not going to read them.

You do it by picking your strongest argument, like housing or taxing the rich, and you get them on board. You give them leaders to rally behind, you gain their trust by improving material conditions for them. You fix their problems and win their loyalty, you tell them you’re going to fix their problems, and then you do everything you can to get money out of politics so that we can unfuck things

If you want to organize on the side, go for it… But we live in an extremely low trust and antisocial society. I just don’t see it happening anytime soon

The perfect is the enemy of the good

This is so dumb.

If you want change, you have to take power. Power is where the people think it is.

If people can’t even realize their own power as workers and unionize, they’re not about to rise up in some glorious revolution. And even if they did, the majority would just do capitalism again, because most people can’t imagine anything else

But the economic system is collapsing. When it does, we need power. That’s how this works. We take local, State, and federal positions and use them to do progressive things, to improve material conditions.

And then when we get to an inflection point, we need leaders who already have the support of the people. We need populist progressives in power