Multicore Processor

In the Dark Souls series, you can kick an enemy instead of attacking. The tactical uses for this are so niche that I never figured out how to do it. All I know is that the button combination is similar to the one for attacking, because sometimes I would try to attack and my character would kick instead.

In Silksong, one of the available Crests adds an alternate mode to your heal skill - if you hold up on the analog stick when using it, you instead recharge your limited-use-per-rest tools. I never used this alternate mode, so the practical impact is that in incredibly tense moments where I was one hit away from death, I had to be very careful not to touch the analog stick when hitting the heal button.

But the way AI art has shaken out is a bit of a compromise with this. AI usage is heaviest in what used to be the mundane drudge work of the art world - advertising, substack header images, porn, background music for studying, engagement-optimized viral videos.

No commentary on the politics, but I was impressed how this AP headline so concisely expressed a quintuple negative.

and wear a feather boa

But these games vary in how they treat the bosses' size from a lore perspective. Are they actually that big, or is it just a game mechanic?

On one end of the spectrum, in Guild Wars 2, there are certain raid encounters where the boss is a story character who appears at normal size in every other part of the story but grows to jumbo size at the start of the raid encounter and shrinks back down at the end. Clearly the size is for gameplay purposes only and not meant to be interpreted as literally happening.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is in the middle. Bosses like Gyoubu Oniwa appear huge despite presumably being normal humans, and we never see them at normal size. Isshin towers over Sekiro even when you're just talking to him as an NPC. But the lore doesn't really provide much reason for them to be that big, which leaves me thinking it's still not supposed to be understood as literal.