Moreover, though, sorry to hear that 😔 Tell them to cut it out

simple solution is to avoid men, I can attest to its efficacy personally

yeah but like I have a cute pink one with sharks on it so

Another friend pinged me with this earlier this morning, I need it

huh?? whaa? I would neverrrr

we need to be kept in line, direly

want.

For games where high difficulty is core to the game's ludological experience and without it the game is, at an aesthetic and phenomological level, not the same game, and must be treated and considered differently? A much heavier decision that changes the game as a whole, which the designer may not

deliberate artistic decision that the designers must make.
For most games? A fairly irrelevant one, yes, there's no reason to not have difficulty options for accessibility.
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So true, that's definitely what I'm saying
You're being very dramatic about all this

I have no problem with the idea of difficulty options or accessibility in games. I'm just pointing out that adding such a thing doesn't leave the rest of the game unchanged, and that's a (cont.)

Taken from a more general art perspective, not all art is for everyone. As another poster mentioned, not all art is accessible, and that can have significance to the meaning of the art. Difficulty, in this case, is a part that can't be removed without changing the game into something else.

I think you're just not willing to see the basis. I'm trying to say that if you take the difficulty out of something like, for instance, the Dark Souls games, it's a quintessentially different experience with different ludological meaning, and maybe the devs didn't want that.

A dish that features ghost peppers is not the same if you replace those ghost peppers with tomatoes.

no one is allowed to have food with significant amounts of ghost peppers and such in it because it's too hot for some people

There's something to be said for the artistic and aesthetic quality of a game that can't be experienced on an easier difficulty

no food in the world should be spicy because some people can't handle or don't like spicy food

Oh neat! That does sound cool

Yeah I'm in a Chronicles game rn, it's decent enough.
Haven't heard of Don't Rest Your Head, name sounds promisingly ominous

That's fair too
Traveller (space sci-fi) is pretty fun
If you care about modern fantasy then stuff like Vampire the Masquerade is a good time
Blades in the Dark is a cool sorta like... necropunk steampunk victorian thing, it's neat

i know that feeling
Ars Magica is the answer