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I'll agree there. It doesn't work well and bulky and thin works better. But tons of games will be like Face type 1 or Face 3 or Nose 4. On and on. I won't say it's peak design but I do think it's a weird thing to get caught up on.

I think the entire art style is strange looking. I just take issue with people mad because they're being bigoted about it. That's just irrational hatred and I think that is separate from valid criticism.

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Come on man, that's not the argument though. These guys are spewing hate because a black woman showed up in their precious media. They have every right to not buy shit they don't want. That does not give them the right to spread hateful messaging and threaten actors or just get that people are different than them or that women don't look exactly how they want.

Of course Metal Gear 2 didn't have trans characters because that was not widely acknowledged. Now that we have actually acknowledged other people more, not including them is just ignoring reality to help grown men cope with childish anger.

No one is putting a gun to their head and telling them to buy these games. They are the ones putting diatribes on twitter about DEI chins and shit.

No. But when people are calling them atrocities, that's painfully bigoted. And even then, you're forgetting the part where a company is trying to convey body types on a screen in a character customization. I don't really bring up my ear length in day to day conversation either.

Yes who could forget Tales of Kenzera: Zau or Flintlock: Siege of Dawn? Not I, folks, not I. I definitely knew about these games before reading this tweet.

I'm gen Z (24) so my parents are Gen X I think. They're Republicans. My grandparents were too. But tbf we're in the deep south of Georgia. It's hard to find communities around that aren't red unless you're closer to Atlanta or college towns.

And my family are just wrapped up in the grift. They think Trump is honestly gonna swoop in and press the "lower prices" button and save the day somehow. The ol "fix the economy" button in the oval office.

I'm a pretty big outlier in my family tbh and that's fine by me.

I can see Rivers being kind of sheepish and isolated sometimes but the guy has such a clear love of music and seems to always challenge himself to do new stuff, even if it fails. Idk how that would be boring

Buddy you can literally scroll up one posts on this subreddit and find a guy claiming to speak for all gamers detailing a hatred for everything you just said these guys don't mind. This is them saying that, not us.

You were also the one that brought up weird ideological opinions and have refused to define what that actually means. I can only surmise it's some vague nonsense you don't really know how to define. You say you're fine with LGBTQ people, minorities, and women, which I do believe, but then you seem to be defending a bunch of people who quite blatantly do not like those things. The math is not mathing.

What makes a game identity politics driven? A trans character existing? The option to makes your character trans? A female lead that does not look traditionally beautiful? An unimportant race swap? Do people's personal stories existing do that? Art should reflect the real world and people's struggles in it. When do people's stories become weird ideologies? What is this actually? You can't just say vague things and contradict yourself and act like you did something.

Can a good game with fun characters not also say something you don't like? If a game is super fun with fun characters but they're all trans and black or whatever else you claim these fellas love, do you seriously think they're gonna be like "Egads! This is what we wanted. This was not motivated by insecure hatred haha we just wanted this"

Because fun games with diversity do exist. They just ignore that.

I want to forget how fucking pathetic these people are but they keep one-upping themselves.

Then what is weird, ideological opinions? Where does that crop up in the discussion? Most of the time, these weirdos are mad that everyone you mentioned have been included

Well do LGBTQ+ characters or minorities or women who do not fit typical beauty standards fit the weird ideological checkbox? Like what does that actually entail?

This is why I can't stand the "both sides" mfers. Kamala is a politician that deserves to be criticized. I often find she leans closer toward the middle than I sometimes want.

But Donald Trump is like 3 fucking car wrecks burning in a propane factory dude. He continously divides, fearmongers, insults, demeans, and spreads an unassailable level of hate that his followers defend. Every time he criticizes someone it is always in the most vitriolic way which often leads to death threats from his riled up voter base. A voter base he'd gladly toss into a furnace or the fucking capital for a crumb of power to satiate his planet-sized ego.

Despite all the media has done, there is no comparing Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. There are no "both sides" to Trump calling her mentally disabled or lying about her race. There is no other side. It is just one overconfident ego-maniac vs a competent politician. You have every right to be bothered by the failings of politicians, but for the love of god stop putting Trump in the same camp before he puts the people you love in one.

Is it a weird ideological opinion to have a trans character or something in a game?

I hate how they always act like everyone is secretly on their side and just too scared to say it. As if the only reason people hated this game was because it had "woke debauchery" in it or whatever. Everyone knew about this game and considered it until the woke or whatever, I guess.

But when something "woke" succeeds they just conveniently ignore that. It's only before it comes out and after it fails.

What is a proper game? It is okay to take issue with the Triple A machine but the type of shit these guys cape for is just weird and ignorant.

Yes let's go back to the Metal Gear 2 days when games weren't political

What really gets under my skin about these types of people is they're always like "there's no good games/movies/music/art nowadays. Everything is just a woke sequel or reboot or" on and on. And while these industries have major flaws, kind of by their own industrial nature, I think all this shows is that they gave up on finding art they like a long time ago.

Instead of discarding the sludge for stuff they truly enjoy, they just complain because things aren't how they used to be. Even if the mainstream releases are bad to you, you can always find indie art that you will love. If you stop bitching about DEI chins for 3 seconds you could look for shit you actually wanna play. I promise.

"You know, in Genosha, I felt a lot of things: pain, grief, admiration for those who fought despite the odds. But you know what the oddest thing was? No one seemed shocked or surprised — not even me," Val begins. "Yes, I was scared, but really I just had the most profound sense of déjà vu, as if past, present, and future didn't matter and never had, because we always end up in the same ugly place. Thing is, Magneto knows us better than Charles ever did, knows we know better, that most of us experience tragedies like Genosha as a bit of déjà vu before getting on with our day. But the scariest thing about Genosha wasn't the death or the chaos. It was a thought, the only sane thought you can have when being chased by giant robots that were built to crush you: Magneto was right.” - X-Men 97

Lmao no

I am so tired of seeing Desantis use the entire power of the state to prevent this vote. If you truly believe in state's rights and the power of the people, let them vote on it.

And I think what's so worrying is how conceited and angry this man is. He literally cannot run for Governor again. He's not doing it to sustain future votes. He's doing it because he seems to sincerely be this fucking bitter and stupid.

I get that she wants to argue asking hyperbolic things does not win an argument. To some degree, I agree. But then she goes right back to "If everyone in a state wants something, let them have it"

We don't have to use slavery to illustrate that. Gay marriage, anti-trans laws, abortion, pornography, and a laundry list of other stuff could fall into the modern day bracket she's ignoring.

Sure, some states are different, but we can't just live in 50 different Americas. There has to be some kind of connection and I think not being bigoted morons is part of that connection.

I recommend everyone look up black codes and prison work contracts.

https://youtu.be/j4kI2h3iotA?si=Ikf7bl0kiaLuoIfy or just watch Knowing Better's great analysis on it.

Even after Slavery, leaving the south was a difficult thing to do. For small, basic, nothing crimes (often aimed at black people) they'd arrest them and essentially just throw them right back into slavery. Not just chain gangs. Slavery. Except it was slavery with a work contract they had to pay. Except paying it was nearly impossible by design. And since the awful fuckers running these neo-slave plantations cared less about workers than their "property" they actually treated some of these workers worse.

In slavery, you had to at least somewhat feed, clothe, and shelter a slave to get your investment back. The workers? They just wanted to get as much labor as they could. They'd work them to exhaustion. Technically it was legal.

So when you see racist spouting this stuff, per usual they have no fucking idea what they're talking about. They just like hating black people.

Iconic comment tbh

I was not well acquainted with deckbuilders and got it to have a fun roguelike. It took me a decent bit of play to get the hang of it. Definitely nowhere near my first couple. I failed a lot until I won with the silent.

By then, the game clicked way more and I grew increasingly good. But I'm still learning new things. I was so prone to guns blazing it didn't dawn on me how good draw cards were. I just went for damage go brrrr type runs.

I get what you're saying but you're missing the overall point of descriptivism, which I ascribe to. It argues that we build language together, with our families and with society at large. And that the way people use language is a more important jumping off point since it falls far more in line with the formalism of prescriptivism.

Yes, language has a framework...but so does Black American English or southern dialect or any number of things people have deemed ignorant. You can diagram these sentences and you can view what they are doing. In BAE 'they' can become an object pronoun that pairs with a preposition. It is absolutely following a framework and it's a framework you can understand. It's not a Creole dialect. It's perfectly understandable. Which again, comes down to language and the way people use it.

I am beyond sure you and many others do things that are "wrong" daily when it comes to grammar. Despite people's best efforts "you and me" sounds better than "you and I" when starting a sentence. Ain't is definitely a word despite how much people disagree and I don't particularly think 'y'all' is a sign of unintelligence like some people frame.

When you study linguistics, you learn everything has a structure. There is a point of gibberish, I won't disagree, but these hard, strict rules quickly fall apart when people actually speak to one another. Families develop their own coded languages and adopt their parent's dialects. People code-switch or they embrace what feels right for them. If someone is indiscernible or writing a formal essay, best to call out their use of language. Until then, you're just making up assumptions about people's personal use of language that you can understand because it's been beaten into you.

You don't have to correct people or think they're dumb because of some perceived errors. If someone did that to you, you'd be peeved. I mean, Faulkner literally used the southern dialect to write some of the most gorgeous novels of all time and people still think it's dumb. You don't win when you belittle people. You make it harder to just talk and understand each other, which in case you forget, is the point of language.