• UlyssesT [he/him]
      ·
      3 hours ago

      The most freeze-gamergate pandering game imaginable was "Subverse," which was crowdfunded by freeze-gamergaters and even advertised directly to them. It was a waifu harem porn game in space with a vague gameplay loop and no "politics" in a way that'd upset freeze-gamergaters.

      They apparently found it boring and it didn't really make a splash.

    • Blottergrass [he/him]
      ·
      3 hours ago

      They're playing the games anyway and their steam accounts prove it.

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
    ·
    4 hours ago

    this is truly going to be the decade of chill mail and package delivery games

      • fox [comrade/them]
        ·
        17 minutes ago

        There's 7 hours of cutscenes in Death Stranding and one is more than half an hour long. Let the man make films so we don't have to plod through mocap anymore

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    6 hours ago

    This reminds me of the game Lunacid. It has mandatory pronoun selection at the beginning and there are like 20 of them. Every NPC refers to you only by name so the pronoun selection was put in specifically to annoy gamer chuds and I'm all for it

    • barrbaric [he/him]
      ·
      3 hours ago

      they

      Comrade, I regret to inform you that they is also a pronoun. There is no escaping the woke gulag.

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      4 hours ago

      At some level, that these anti-“woke” g@mers are effectively apologizing for and distracting from the things that are actually a problem with the industry right now annoys me more than the bigotry. No no, don’t be complaining about microtransactions and live service and season pass models and paint-by-numbers hero shooters, the problem is woman with spunky hair cuts in vidya.

  • CarbonScored [any]
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    edit-2
    4 hours ago

    Unless this person is an expert in 13th Century Mongolian linguistics, I fail to see how they even could feel able to decry pronoun choices as being ahistorical (not that that would even really matter for a vidgam).

    • nothx [he/him]
      ·
      4 hours ago

      The funny part is that they haven't even tried to justify their opinion like that yet. They are just mad in general about the possibility of words being used in a way they refuse to understand.

  • Binette@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Notice how 99% of the time, anyone who replied negatively was pathetic enough to pay for twitter 🤔

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      ·
      7 hours ago

      Putting on mongolian throat singing and playing my horseman mail delivery simulator.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      edit-2
      7 hours ago

      Sounds like a less pompous and more grounded Death Stranding. Sounds great!

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
        ·
        7 hours ago

        I'm into it but I'm very fucking pissed we got Horse Stranding before Bicycle Stranding

          • 7bicycles [he/him]
            ·
            6 hours ago
            • Think Last of Us, 50:50 on the not-zombies, crucially, everyone didn't fucking forget bicycles existed
              -- possibly also STALKER or METRO-like setting

            But honestly pick any. Anywhere there is fuel scarcity bicycles would make sense.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
              ·
              6 hours ago

              Dangers and challenges include those fucking "goat head" thorns that pop tires.

              • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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                6 hours ago

                Dude. Those fucking things. You know they can lay dormant for like a decade+ in the soil? The devil made those things. Ho hum just pulling weeds and five inches under the soil one of those fuckers goes straight through my glove and right into the tip of my finger under the nail. Basketball rolls off the court into the weeds by the school, pick it up and throw it back, friend that catches it screams because one of those fuckers hitched a ride and slammed into his palm at 25 miles per hour. All true stories from my life.

                  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
                    ·
                    6 hours ago

                    Yes! Perfect description. And every plant produces like 50 of them. And they're hardy little bastards that can grow on a teaspoon of water. Straight from satan.

              • 7bicycles [he/him]
                ·
                6 hours ago

                I think Death Stranding is the best bicycle touring game out there so I'd propose instead of RNG tyre pop you just go with the footwear (tyres) that go bad insanely fast

      • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
        ·
        7 hours ago

        It sounds like the best parts of RDR2 - they've taken out all that annoying combat to focus on hanging out with your horse!!!

  • arianyanners 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇩@lemmygrad.ml
    ·
    6 hours ago

    sometimes i wonder how these dorks would react if they opened up an english grammar book, seeing as how they keep freaking out at the mere existence of a vital part of every language in the world

    i wonder if in the future there will be a reich-wing dialect of english where it just gets rid of pronouns altogether from the parts of speech and the english language because oOgA bOoGa ProNouns sCaWy... somehow. and replace them with nouns/names.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
      ·
      6 hours ago

      The thing that pisses me off endlessly about this is that they act like they're mad about the concept of pronouns, which makes them look like childish morons, but what they're actually angry about is the idea that someone has a say over how others are to refer to them. Just say that!

      • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]
        ·
        5 hours ago

        but what they're actually angry about is the idea that someone has a say over how others are to refer to them.

        I think they're just mad trans people exist, and pronoun selection reminds them of that.

        It fits with their bullshit about wanting non-political games. Their politics are fueled by hatred, and it infects their escapist treats to be reminded of the mere existence of minorities and trans people.

        • FunkyStuff [he/him]
          ·
          5 hours ago

          Take this further, many of them probably wouldn't think of trans people as real people if it wasn't for their representation in media. That's why they take the fight to the treat factory.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            edit-2
            2 hours ago

            Chuds with an unfortunately wide overlap with weebs (chanlords, mostly) are obsessed with what they call (CW: transphobic weeb word)

            spoiler

            "futas"

            in their hentai treats yet at the same time seem to violently hate actual living trans people. It's as confusing to me as their obsession with anime characters with vibrantly colored hair while also violently hating living women that dye their hair.

            • FunkyStuff [he/him]
              ·
              2 hours ago

              Right, and those dehumanizing portrayals are challenged by nuanced and positive portrayals in media which is why the chud brain must reject any representation. Honestly, media in general plays such a huge role in shaping social attitudes towards a less visible minority group such as trans people. I'm glad Hexbear anti-treat thought guides us to a dialectical understanding of this issue theory-gary

  • nothx [he/him]
    ·
    5 hours ago

    I'm buying one copy for every extra pronoun that gets added.