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Post by ketmar on Sept 5, 2024 18:21:41 GMT -5
This bothers you, but not the mancubus? wait, that is NOT a picture of mancubus?!
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Post by qwaz on Sept 5, 2024 18:54:42 GMT -5
I think most gamers lean right these days and corporations would not switch up that fast it would take them like ten years if ever(they would still be filled up with progressives). Yeah I don't know what lokk's talking about. All of the managers, devs, artists and mappers who work at these companies making this slop are all very vocal and active on Twitter. They aren't cigar chomping capitalists. They're full blown leftwing nutjobs dogmatically adherent to The Party. Their timelines are absolutely packed with activism, racial/gender agitprop, pronouns and Palestine flags and steady stream of hate.
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Post by deathevokation on Sept 6, 2024 10:17:14 GMT -5
The only good thing to come of Concord is this video..
Bro made an inspirational presidential speech over video games.
Oh wait this is a Doom forum, right?
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Post by 40oz on Sept 6, 2024 10:50:05 GMT -5
If you're unable to relate to something unless "it looks like you" then you might be either a narcissist at best or a xenophobe at worst. That's silly. You mean to tell me when you play any game with a character selection, you would validate your healthy sense of self esteem and empathy for strangers by deliberately picking characters you least relate to? Noble if true, but, wouldn't the more wildly diverse character models assist you in this goal?
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Post by uhhhh on Sept 6, 2024 10:55:37 GMT -5
Since this is turning into a concord/diversity discussion, I will say that the the characters have bad and uninteresting character design and this and being a overwatch like at 40 dollar was why the game failed.
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Post by qwaz on Sept 6, 2024 10:55:59 GMT -5
If you're unable to relate to something unless "it looks like you" then you might be either a narcissist at best or a xenophobe at worst. That's silly. You mean to tell me when you play any game with a character selection, you would validate your healthy sense of self esteem and empathy for strangers by deliberately picking characters you least relate to? Noble if true, but, wouldn't the more wildly diverse character models assist you in this goal? Are you lecturing me about "empathy for strangers" after your Godsmack thread where you denigrated and othered the poor and called them "trash"?
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Post by ketmar on Sept 6, 2024 13:07:37 GMT -5
any game without a sexy anime girl as a protagonist doesn't worth playing anyway.
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Post by deathevokation on Sept 6, 2024 13:44:46 GMT -5
If you're unable to relate to something unless "it looks like you" then you might be either a narcissist at best or a xenophobe at worst. That's silly. You mean to tell me when you play any game with a character selection, you would validate your healthy sense of self esteem and empathy for strangers by deliberately picking characters you least relate to? Noble if true, but, wouldn't the more wildly diverse character models assist you in this goal? The enshitification of gaming really is something you have to experience without a game like DooM to fall back onto to understand.. people want escapism, a certain group want gamers to experience their and ONLY their politics and approved character tropes when the market is saturated with that/it. You need to experience the existential dread of being a jrpg fan, then waiting 8 years for an open world Japanese role playing game to come out that looks beautiful and is already set in an established universe (example; Granblue Fantasy: Relink).. the game is created by Japanese hands and is targeted towards you.. but by the time the game comes to this side a bunch of trojan horses disguised as translators change the character personalities, erase others, make characters that were hetero normative couples suddenly distant towards eachother, making the storytelling inconsistant, destroying sub plots that made a game multi layered.. translating characters that weren't gay into gay characters and ontop of that they deduct five years off the "target audience" and then tell you "this game is not for you" and use this as a means to justify all the former changes.. ontop of that they'd put in memes taking a dig at the gamers and dogwhistle "owns" at the people who were waiting to play it. Without wanting to, you start becoming hyper aware of their politics, their attempts to guard the industry from making a game that targets you. They then procede to translate every big JRPG release and make sure nothing slips through the cracks without their cultural imperialism/appropriation.
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Post by 40oz on Sept 6, 2024 14:20:52 GMT -5
That's silly. You mean to tell me when you play any game with a character selection, you would validate your healthy sense of self esteem and empathy for strangers by deliberately picking characters you least relate to? Noble if true, but, wouldn't the more wildly diverse character models assist you in this goal? Are you lecturing me about "empathy for strangers" after your Godsmack thread where you denigrated and othered the poor and called them "trash"? It was a question. Just want to know where you stand. Don't know why it's a difficult one to answer. And it was a godsmack thread. I was talking about godsmack.
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