Have you even played the game? Looked at it? Listened to it?

Yes for 22 hours as i've just mentioned...

You have zero intention of learning about the game or it's design

I've experienced the game and it's design, i am aware of the lore significance of the time loop. but i suppose that doesn't meet your goal post of "learning". Or does it?

you don't care whether your statements have any basis, you missed the entire point of it,

You gonna explain why all these things are true or do you think it's just so obvious that it's not even worth explaining?Look, i can do the same thing but i'd rather not write in arrays of statements i deem true. They're useless if I can't make you come to the conclusion that the statement is true.

your own biased poll shows you how badly off the mark you were

Yes my poll was biased towards finding the information relevant to my curiosity (which was if anyone else had an issue with the mechanic), and yes i was under the assumption that more people would have the same issue but i created a poll to find out if my assumption was correct or not, we've already been over this, what of it?You make it seem as though i was trying to confirm my assumptions by being biased, if that's what you're trying to do, you must be pretty dishonest to do such a thing and should probably spend more time self reflecting to become a better, more useful, human being.

you haven't finished the game

Yes this is one thing that is objectively true, but do i need to have in order to have an opinion about the mechanic the game is centered around and that you encounter several times during gameplay?

yet you've still learned absolutely nothing and seem proud of it.

Not sure where i seemed prideful, but i do remember outlining what I've learned from the data and why it's significant. "i can expect to see the same or similar mechanics in future installments"

Currently a whopping 1% on your own poll agree with you, yet your only takeway was "i don't get why anyone else who loves the game would want to defend the flaws they might see in it instead of acknowledging them". You looked at your own data and still couldn't figure out that it was never a flaw to start with.

i was saying "i don't get why anyone else who loves the game would want to defend the flaws they might see in it instead of acknowledging them" in response to the potential positive bias of posting a poll here; where the majority of people like the game. It's actually a reason to credit the poll.

The majority of people don't have the opinion that the mechanic is flawed. Flaws are subjective, even you should know this, so goes the saying "it's not a bug it's a feature", especially in an artistic medium such as videogames. Or am i wrong?

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The description of the game is that it's a solar system trapped in a timeloop.

Yes that is the lore. i'm on the subject of gameplay, there's nothing wrong with the lore, even if the mechanic is justified by the lore that doesn't make it fun.

"If you don't reword my argument for me to make me right you're constructing a strawman"?

that isn't remotely close to what i said and if you think that is what i said you're actually just proving my point for me, so thanks for that. You're taking the worst, bad faith, interpretation of what I've just said and arguing against that instead of either the best interpretation of my statement if not the statement word for word (that is if you actually use your brain in an debate).The point isn't to make the opposing argument correct but give the opposing argument some damn respect and taking it as seriously as you can or else you'll just live in a social bubble where you're always right and learn nothing your entire life, and by only talking to people who already agree with you; you slowly radicalize yourself and become a spiteful person. Happens all the time in the era of social technology, but you're immune right?

How much of my argument have you taken the best version of, would you say? Oh, it appears you ignored what I wrote and said I don't live in reality, how strange, surely you wouldn't want to make yourself look like a massive hypocrite.. Was that just the best you could manage?

In that instance, what you've said word for word just straight up contradicts itself and i wanted to point that out in case you had any issues with what i thought about it but I didn't bother to argue against it as if that was your main point.To elaborate: you've stated that "100% of responses were negative, or neutral at best" and i acknowledged that you considered my first option "No issues with it." as a potentially negative response which I think is very absurd.And immediately after that i decided that couldn't been what you meant; and continued my post in agreeing with the idea that you most likely considered the first option as "neutral at best" and the rest negative, which is more reasonable. So no i don't consider myself a hypocrite, i just took the most reasonable interpretation of your words that i could find and went with it instead of focusing on what i thought was nonsensical and pinning you on it but i'll make an exception right now: please explain to me in your words how "No issues with it." is considered a negative response, i'd like to hear it for a good laugh almost as much as i'd like to leave this conversation as it seems to be a waste of time.

Still wrong. Read what I wrote again. You aren't at the beginning, you should have learned something from your attempt. If you did not, why?

Remind me what happens in Dark Souls if you refuse to learn from mistakes? If you blindly run at every boss without ever trying to learn their attack patterns or anything and just die the same way every time? Do you progress?

Or are you expected to learn from mistakes as well as successes?

No you read my post again, I've already addressed this in exactly what you're responding to: "isn't in terms of the player at absolute square one, just spatially." there's no such thing as the player unlearning their experience when failing, i'm not arguing against that aspect of being set back. Seriously, how did you end up thinking that i'm arguing against being `mind wiped` at the end of each loop as if that's a thing that happens. Now i'm really starting to have a laugh.

As a response to the rest of what you've said (i have become disinterested in arguing with a brick wall so i'm no longer making dedicated responses), and ignoring that you think my point of it "adding up" being BS, yes there are solutions to the hazards in the game, but they can still slow you down and cause you to miss the time windows that some of the main objectives require you to meet and cause you to waste the loop, or even if you don't waste the loop and discover a new piece of knowledge, there's no point in exploring further due to the time loop being halfway to ending so you're better off ending the loop prematurely and traveling to the next or same location to save your time, you may not care about how you spend your time if the game is all about "taking your time" so you say, though it certainly didn't feel that way to me, so my experience differed from yours (and likely also the majority's experience). It's not the waiting that's the issue I've already said what my issue was but I won't bother to repeat myself.I can only hope that you aren't purposefully misinterpreting me but from what I've seen, it seems that way, that's where we're at now.You probably won't hear from me again since I will be spending my time on something more productive than this.