NoneOfUrBusiness

Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern (I should probably give other cuisines a try). There's a lot more to this stuff than shawarma, y'all.

Israel and acts of war have a rather long history together.

Literally nothing, which was the whole problem.

I don't really think "Let's stop voting for Democrats!" is a solution to any of that

It's not a solution on its own, but an actionable threat of withholding votes will have to be part of any realistic plan to do something about it.

I get the sentiment, but more realistically it's probably ~75% of Israeli Jews and ~0% of Palestinian Israelis.

Obviously not, but it's also not normal to commit genocide so all bets are off when it comes to Israel.

Accessibility options can be a a lot more nuanced, even going as far as altering level structures to provide pathways for players that can't platform.

Sure, but then we're way past "there's no reason not to add X."

In a game like Hollow Knight (and Silksong), I can't help but feel such a crude setting would end up doing more harm than good. I mean, let's take health for example. Increasing your health wouldn't help much if you can't handle what the game is throwing at you; the few extra masks the game gives you only really help if you can handle the difficulty but need mistake tolerance, otherwise enemies will still hit you and you'll still fail at platforming and fall into spikes. Fundamentally the difficulty of a game like Hollow Knight comes from a lot more than just damage numbers, so a naive difficulty scale would only give an illusion of accessibility that would fade away at the first difficult part, and in that case it's better for everyone involved if the inaccessibility of the game is easily apparent.

(I'm just irrationally mad that they removed the cheeseable pogoing. It was so cheeseable but I get why they tweaked the mechanic to become harder to use in exactly the same way. I'm actually using the other offensive abilities more.)

Early game areas feel as hard as late game areas from the first game.

Are you sure about that? It's been a while since I played Hollow Knight, but other than Hunter's Marsh I think Sillksong has been comparable to or slightly harder than equivalent parts of the Hollow Knight. The enemies are tougher, but you also get more tools to deal with them so it evens out. Mostly thinking of the projectiles here, but the mobility difference also can't be understated; you can abuse dash attacks in Silksong in a way you never could in Hollow Knight. Also I haven't quite (or at all really) gotten the hang of it but the game might've been designed with parrying in mind, which would allow you to avoid a lot of damage because many of the harder enemies are warrior types.

Maybe they should've tried harder to get any branch of government.

Okay whatever is going to happen in Chicago is probably going to be higher stakes than the Epstein files.