Mr. Durden is not pleased.

• He verbally assaulted everyone in our 8th grade class yet was still generally liked.
• Justified not knowing how to fight by saying “Kicking is for pussies”.
• He was one of those kids who, at 13, claimed to have sex with half the girls in the class and a couple of the teachers.
• He once testified that a balloon could be used as a condom (I’ll let you think about that for a little bit).

The problem is even worse today. I’m sick of hearing my classmates asking people to follow them on Twitter. Are your mini-rants about Starbucks so interesting or beneificial that as many people as possible need to read them? You know something is wrong when you see people graffiti their Twitter names on bathroom walls. This isn’t what social networks were made for. They were meant to allow you to have meaningful social interactions on a new medium. Not a ruler for you to measure your virtual dick with. Go on your Facebook and go to your friends list. How many people on there do you regularly interact with? How many people do you enjoy having on there? If they don’t fall into those categories ask yourself “Why am I friends with this person?”

We have these wonderful tools that we can use to make connections with people, and you’re throwing that away because you want a bigger number. You can share ideas, have discussions, do mutually beneficial networking, make awesome friends (hi Alyssa!) with people thousands of miles away. By whoring for Twitter followers you’re spitting on what is an extremely significant contribution to society. Basically what I’m saying is, it’s not the website that sucks. It’s you.

note: I have not played Dark Souls so the game I am describing would be based off the mechanics of Demon's Souls.

This is where the MMO comes in. Players roam the worlds together in groups of 3 or less, putting their souls (the game’s currency and exp points) at stake, sharing the reward of a demon killed. I know what some of you have already jumped down to the comment section to say that this will cheapen the game and that if Demon’s Souls is too hard I should go play Wii Sports. But hear me out. Making the game into an MMO won’t make it easier, just different. The worlds tendency* will darken with every player added. In addition, the number of players allowed to invade will be increased to 3. Teams can make a collective effort to attack another as Black Phantoms. Not feeling so hardcore now, eh dumbass commenter? I like the Wii anyway.

*World tendency is the karmic system of Demon’s Souls. the darker the tendency, the stronger the enemies and the lower your health is.

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Voice chat will make the experience more interesting. In the current game, when you are in another player’s world you cannot communicate at all save for a few gestures (wave, point, cheer, etc.). But this communication would be distorted or quieted in response to tendency, areas in the world, and specific enemies, and distance from your friends. You’ll also have to use caution when speaking as it may reveal your location, especially in caves and dungeons. This adds more focus on strategy to the game.

What would an MMO be without events? Souls already has events, but they mostly only focus on world tendency. Imagine events like “Double Souls Weekends”. How about events that will let unlimited players fight against a super-enemy? Or maybe a giant battle between Black and Blue Phantoms? There is so much potential that this game has, it would be a waste not to make it.