PraiseTheSoup

I know of a bar that still has these. They were also the very last bar in the city to have a real jukebox with CDs. Honestly it's a great place but the bathrooms are awful.

In addition, ordering online from Walmart is every bit as bad as Amazon with the heaps and heaps of low quality Chinese junk sold under brand names that only exist for a few weeks at a time.

April 26th, 1992, there was a riot on the streets, tell me, where were you?

While true, US guns aren't even on top anymore. Canik has become an unbelievably popular brand in recent years, and they're headquartered in Turkey.

No it didn't. I don't know if a single vendor aside from Bandcamp that will sell you the actual files, and let's be honest their catalogue is pathetic.

If I have to pay extra attention to a specific part of the screen during a specific part of a show just to notice the difference, is it really that big of a difference?

I've played all these and agree that Lies of P is one of the few good ones. The Surge is actually one I had in mind when I wrote my response. I think it's absolute trash. The limb targeting gimmick and the forced quicktime finishers constantly stopping the action are just awful. I agree with your assessment of the others.

At the end of the day I'd almost always rather just play Dark Souls (yes, even Dark Souls 2) again rather than any of the crappy copycats out there.

That's because Elden Ring is Dark Souls for noobs. You just weren't able to git gud. It's okay. Not everyone can. Saying a game that literally spawned an entire genre has "horrible design" is pretty ridiculous though, don't you think?

People don't play dark souls for the story either. We are there for the gameplay.

I'd agree with you mostly except that nobody out there making a "soulslike" actually seems to understand what makes Dark Souls so good. There are so, so many garbage soulslikes out there, and exceptionally few good ones.

they're outta control

I've also seen them at Michaels and Dollar General recently. Unfortunately they are not nearly as good as my memories of them and I ended up throwing half the bag away.