I think “difficulty settings” can work

all of the things you say are completely, 100%, unaffected by a difficulty setting.

The only thing a difficulty setting changes is that some people can say “I am better than you, I beat [game X] and you didn’t”

that’s it.

and even that is a complete illusion, see the prominent worst business man in the world, paying someone to make PoE ranks for him. Also there are mods, cheats and plain lying.

This whole thing is excluding people, and for what? Literally worthless bragging rights.

as if that little worm was important enough to shoot. pfft

are you aware of the meaning of the word “setting” in this context?
Just in case I can explain:
It means you can switch something from one behaviour or effect to another, basically giving you a choice of how something should work. So, adding a difficulty setting changes nothing about your experience of the game.

do you need more words to explain this simple thing?

I can try to use simple language and shorter sentences if you require it?

would they still like it if there was a difficulty setting?

“Not like THAT! Other peoples deaths!”

yes, i HATED that, and don’t think I ever finished any of those games.

that was not a good thing.

Every game should have difficulty settings, the more, the better.
That goes for indi darlings too.

agreed, except that the “getting dumber” really only started around 2010 or so…

“I just got a great idea for a new novel! It’s about the end of humanity, but with a twist, because the humans don’t even know they are done for yet. They think it’s just a bit more aggressive flu, but in fact it’s highly contagious and each time you get it, it damages your brain a slight bit more. Everyone keeps getting infected and so they slowly get dumber and more aggressive until civilization collapses in wars and economic chaos.”

“That’s stupid, something like that could never happen.”

same :)

What a nice example of problems with typed conversations. I was trying to interpret your post and just failed to, and i guess i could have writte my first comment a bit less open to interpretation.

exactly this. Mother in law got one of those calls not long ago.

Having a codeword sounds stupid now, but might be normal in a few years.

I’m curious to understand this comment, if you would sacrifice some time to explain what you mean?

Or even more interesting would be to know what you think I meant with my comment.

The good thing is, it’s all free software (*), so you can just try.

(*) Windows is free, because you almost certainly have a license with your pc which you can use in the vm too if your pc runs linux.

Autistics everywhere furiously clicking the upvote button.

because criminals tend to be not that smart, and police (in civilized countries at least) are very well trained in interview techniques.

correct analysis. Absolutely go down to their level. Weirdly enough, you will even take some of their voters away with that. Some of them don’t care that much about the words, just the way they are spoken.

why is this news, that’s his fucking job.

This made me laugh, thank you :)

That’s the sprit :)