This has been the opposite of my experience. I played Bloodborne on a friend's PS4 and the load times were atrocious, sometimes over a minute to wrap between areas. I played it on my PC and all loading is 5 seconds or less
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I've managed to get Cryostasis working, and for a game over a decade old, it's a lot of fun. Great atmosphere, interesting mechanics, fascinating story, the whole package.
This supports my theory that Smough is a basilisk
Only one way to find out
This was my answer too, except my solution was just running at the problem head first over and over until stuff despawned. I would not recommend my strategy.
The biggest problem with blighttown, in my opinion, is that too much of it looks the same. The layout is pretty easy to just run through if you already know where you're going, but it's so easy to get turned around or confused because of the lack of unique landmarks that it makes for a frustrating experience. I've played through the game more times than I can count so I have the route essentially memorized, but it was definitely a pain for the first... many attempts. I had the same complaint with a lot of Bloodborne where you go from one street of Victorian houses to the next street of Victorian houses. I think they cleaned up that particular problem with their game design by DS2, thankfully.
Based on that link it says that conservatives are at odds with and are critical of liberalism. There is a subset of conservatism called liberal conservativism that incorporates liberal stances into the conservative position however.
The Wikipedia entry for it is pretty scathing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator
If you look into it further, neither of the people who designed it has any background in psychology except having read a book by Jung once.
The Mayers Briggs Type Indicator test. It was developed with the same rigor as horoscopes, yet I still hear people I know are smart proudly tell me their four letter personality code.
Stationary missions like termination or evac. Aside from that kind of mission I always run light armor. Heavy armor works very well on stationary missions because you're running around a lot less, so the slow speed downside doesn't matter as much.
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Obvious scams are obvious on purpose, but not for the reason you're suggesting. They don't want to waste actual manpower on anyone smart enough to recognize a scam. So they make the scam obvious, and they know that anyone that does respond to it is in that small percentage of clueless or gullible people that the scam might actually succeed on. They're not trying to play 4D chess, they're trying to find the people that can only play 1D checkers.