Sometimes I just need a shot of conflict in my life and nothing stirs it up like going on reddit and mildly critiquing the lore or text of any game ever made.
Sometimes I just need a shot of conflict in my life and nothing stirs it up like going on reddit and mildly critiquing the lore or text of any game ever made.
:only-good-gamer: Isn't it time we stopped putting women in video games always in heels and chain mail bikinis?
:gamer-gulag: :frothingfash:
TIME TO ELECT A MEME THAT WILL MAKE ANIME REAL :so-true: :trump-feed:
You hate Trump because he's a Russian KGB Agent.
I hate Trump because he didn't make anime real.
We are not the same :gustavo-fring:
When they mean "make anime real" they mean some impossibly contradictory weeby version of The Handmaid's Tale.
If they wanted a Universal Century and to make Zeon real, at least it'd be an ethos. :edgeworth-shrug:
Our Gundam would be so much more stupid with big corpos like amazon and tesla duking it out in giant robots on mars or something.
One of the bits of worldbuilding I liked from the Horizon series is that before the apocalypse, major corporations would fight these massive pitched battles for control of territory and resources, and a gambling industry popped up for people to bet on which corporation they thought would win that week's battle
It'd be a ton of bazinga billionaires trying to build the Torment Nexus, for sure. :so-true: :no-mouth-must-scream:
Doesn't even have to be that spicy. I went on to the Warframe subreddit a while back and suggested that the Tenno were roving space bandit chiefs more than anything else.
The fandom did not care for the comparison.
Wait, how is that even a hot take? Last time I played Warframe I figured you were supposed to feel like an ambiguously evil space bandit. Isn't that the entire vibe they were going for? Sometimes you do good things but it's never because you feel like they're the right thing to do, it's because it benefits you directly, either financially or in terms of resources used to get stronger.
I think the more generous interpretation is that you're supposed to be like knights errant or Robin Hood figures, saving people from the evil clone fascists and occult capitalists.
But it don't really matter one way or another. To the folks who got mad, I wasn't just attacking Tenno, I was attacking them. People get attached to their game narratives because it's the one place they can still exert some agency, and I don't think a lot of people like grappling with questions of how they're using that agency.
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I was quite fond of Warframe and I wouldn't argue with you there. Even the "take down the big bad guy" missions were called "contracts" because they were paid assassinations.
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