No, the difficulty of games of that era was just a function of necessity.

Not only did you have hardware limitations, games were deliberately designed to take longer that a typical rental period to beat, the goal being to get kids to either rent it again or have their parents buy it.

So while an arcade game is designed to eat quarters, the console games of the 80’s and 90’s were designed not to be fun so much as they were designed to be too difficult to beat in a weekend.

That’s one thing when it’s a game like Donkey Kong Country, it’s another thing when a platformer is designed to cause a bunch of deaths and game overs with required leaps of faith or whatever.

I do miss renting games, but in hindsight those games often kind of sucked specifically because they were still on the arcade model of difficulty 🤷‍♂️

Well you clearly aren’t going to one so it’s probably not an issue for them

Everyone talking about agile development unironically must be scrummed in the face, I’m sorry but it’s the rule

Yeah ok funny meme, what the fuck is in that walk in pantry

Don’t think I don’t see that power drill in the back!

It wouldn’t make sense, cave people weren’t dumb enough to have a war on drugs.

Some bitches don’t even think you need to smile to be flirting, apparently just talking to the opposite sex is sexual interest.

Gross ass horny normies

Nah I’m just going to be a crime grandpa

They needed extra knobby ones

I mean it could absolutely be submissive in behavioral but I think we can assume it wasn’t

Sentience check

Get good kid

Valyrian steel can kill white walkers, and that Needle is made of it gets brought up repeatedly when Martin is reminding the readers of where all the known Valyrian steel swords are.

You don’t train someone as an assassin and specifically give them a sword made of the metal that kills Night Kings if you don’t plan on them killing a Night King, first off. It’s also the exact kind of reversal of expectations for conflict resolving that Martin loves and, on the topic, I think the reason we’re never getting his ending is because it’s clear that this was his ending and people hated it.

As for her character arc and revenge, that’s the thing, it’s not revenge, it’s her duty as a Stark. By your own reasoning using her new skills in this way instead of going after the Lannisters or whoever is the inevitable conclusion.

Also, being what he is, I fully expect the leader of the Others in the book to get called a Night King/Night’s King if by some miracle he does actually publish the rest of the series. Yeah there’s all that stuff about that being a historical figure but it’s also the kind of name that becomes a title in its own right.

But, all that said, at this point only Martin really knows what his intentions are and were.

As someone that just read the books:

Arya killing the night king isn’t just thematically and plot appropriate with like five different chekovs guns shooting his face at once, it’s just cool to have all this magic bullshit fixed with a blade in the dark imo.

The problem is that scene was ugly and poorly filmed with shit tier effects. Plus she basically just yolos at the guy… Have her use her goddamn assassin powers, how hard is that?

We can’t say that for sure until the rest of the results return

Only if you think magic is anything you don’t understand

That sounds harsh but I don’t mean it that way, I just find that quote annoying

You don’t have to be good at it, you just have to never give up being a sex pest 😤

If we make this popular enough Trump might get confused and start arresting the puritans