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One of my favorite things to watch on Twitch are the Dark Souls randomizer runs.

E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8R0JWQdeo

Randomizers are a fantastic innovation of the past decade. They can breathe so much new life into a game you've gotten comfortable with, where subsequent playthroughs are becoming stale.

I played through a Dark Souls randomizer a few years ago and it really made me explore a lot more like I haven't really done since my first playthrough, since I eventually learned where to get all the equipment I like and which areas aren't worth going to.

I'm just glad we're getting to a point where they're at least a little more mainstream.

For quite awhile there, a lot of randomizers would include potential requirements like knowing how to do some arbitrary wrong warp, or some highly technical unintended interaction. They felt like toys only for the speedrunning community.

Wow! I never expected to see Barb talked about on hacker News.

There are a lot of us bald programmers..

Or balding!

He's always on in the background when I work. Love him to bits, and I've been a paying customer for almost six years already. He's the only subscription I pay for rather than Netflix et.al.

Like the variety of games and of course mawio! The only thing I don't like is barb insisting on doing those fake sneezes all the time...

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