most fitting message I saw in entire run

and best part is premise of entire fight - she is optional boss, very end of Haligtree, guards nothing (well maybe except for her nice Katana), defeating her is the prize itself and she will make you work for it.
That was a great test of everything you have learned along the way

I would pick Malenia as arguably my favorite there, because she took me ~4 hours, at least 70 attempts but not a single time after death I felt "THIS IS BULLSHIT", every single attempt was honorable duel, even phase 2. (even if I still try to figure Waterfowl Dance out lol)

While some bosses had their BS phases (Mohg at moments, P1 of Maliketh when he is rabid animal) other ones gave you really good fights, like Godrick - has his own circus, but it's still a fair duel, Radahn, Malenia were great fights that allowed you to learn and adapt

- Elden Ring.
What I quite liked was the game rewards your curiosity - If you feel like you can go somewhere - do it, often you'll discover either shortcut/nice item.
Zero handholding and that's great, just the way I like it IRL - best way you can help is by not being in my way.

- Death Stranding 2.
QoL & graphics improvements were massive, however huge downgrade from 1st game in terms of plot delivery. Lore emails >> pointless yapping.
Also, whoever wrote Higgs like that for 2nd game - never let them cook again. And vtuber prepper and hat? Get out.

- cursor movement - omfg it's horrendous.
I have no clue what causes it, maybe it's wayland, but turning off acceleration + adjusting DPI on my mouse but it's borderline unusable for me - either too buttery/muddy or too smooth - no in between

- video editing
DaVinci works great there, like at some moments even better than on windows (general experience and smoothness). Sure, there is entire AAC codec bullshit but I'm fine with workarounds like converting clips to FLAC and then editing them. Not a huge time loss

- steam worked out of the box (because of course) and games i currently play (elden ring / death stranding / cyberpunk / tainted grail) worked without any issues, which is nice, considering that I'm on Nvidia (3070ti)

- sure, I could've went with easier options and sure, mint printed tested doc without issues, but cinnamon/xfc/mate are not DE's I'd prefer to use, like at all