this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2024
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[–] [email protected] 89 points 5 months ago

& I'll say it again:

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It makes me so so sad to see that Alex effing Jones has a net positive rating on Steam. That POS really needs to fall off the planet.

“Someone, someone… a sodomite… sent me a bucket of poop.”

“It’s time to pray.”

[–] Diplomjodler3 12 points 5 months ago

The people who download something like this are well and truly lost to start with.

[–] EnderWiggin 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

First time caller? 🤣

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago

Oh no! Not pronouns!

[–] pivot_root 40 points 5 months ago (3 children)

And yet, they consider the woke to be the snowflake bitches.

[–] xenoclast 22 points 5 months ago

Projection is the only thing they do correctly and consistently

[–] Crackhappy 5 points 5 months ago

aka projection

[–] ZILtoid1991 4 points 5 months ago

80% of it is just about them whining gaming lost its "niche"...

[–] Sanctus 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I bought a friend Cassette Beasts and they stopped playing the minute it showed him pronouns. I called him a fucken bigot, convinced him to buy me the Elden Ring DLC, and I haven't touched it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The only games I've ever played with no pronouns were games that didn't have any written story. Like Tetris. Super Mario has pronouns

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

You can't expect these people to understand what pronouns are

[–] Hope 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My friend group did a video game Secret Santa back in January. Incidentally, I think 6 out of the 7 games had some form of pronoun choice, with like 4/7 directly letting you choose and the other two being a character selector with fixed pronouns for the characters. Cassette Beasts was the first game opened, and there were quite a few references to that one streamer yelling about pronouns.

[–] Sanctus 2 points 5 months ago

I didn't even know you could romance any partner you wanted or what that would even be like. The only experience I had with pronouns were the character select and it was just an option for they/them. Then Frankie, but you had to practically beat most of the game to see her and it doesn't outright say she is trans she just has a little trans pin on her bag. Totally avoidable I guess if you're a bigot. I gotta say I got down with my boy Barkley and never looked back. Dog over people any day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair cassette beasts is SUPER woke, and I love it. Very diverse cast, you can romance anyone (I think, I never selected those options), and one of your party members is literally a communist and his whole side quest is kicking landlords off the island (Eugene my beloved).

[–] Sanctus 3 points 5 months ago

That game deserves some kind of award it was so damn good. I loved every character, place, sound. It was by all meanings of the word dope. It felt so human and that it was just made to be art.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Cassette beasts is amazing

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

the cherry on top – you can’t leave reviews if you haven’t bought the game or played it through Steam (free to play, family share)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Not necessary for curators, I believe. Those are not reviews in a normal sense, but are just lists with notes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Here's the problem, modern review systems have become some kind of stupid cultural football so I don't know if something is genuinely good or not though the review system.

I was looking at Homeworld 3 but the reviews are overwhelmingly negative, and they all read so wishy washy about it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

generally, on either Steam or Amazon, I find the negative reviews more useful – not for the actual reviews themselves, but the overall tone – if all the negatives are just whiny conservative pearl-clutchers then the game is going to be just fine – if all the negatives are talking about bugs, broken gameplay, unfinished storylines, predatory microtransactions then it’s more EA shovelware

[–] I_Has_A_Hat 7 points 5 months ago

You avoid Sweet Baby because they are "woke".

I avoid Sweet Baby because every time they get involved the story becomes flatter than an open soda container forgotten in the fridge for a week.

We are not the same.

[–] SkunkWorkz 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mister BoneSaw buying his way into the games industry is not a good thing. No matter what side of the aisle you are on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Talk shit about Dad of War one more time