Ostrakon

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[–] Ostrakon 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Why is it Valve's job to police game content? That's a shitty precedent for any platform.

If you don't like it, don't buy it. Whether it's ultraviolent stuff like Postal or Hatred, ww2 games where you can play as literal Nazis, or the opposite side of the spectrum where you have LGBT centric content.

Bear with me, that previous sentence isn't intended to equate those two things, but the reality is a lot of people find LGBT content objectionable. By putting the publish/not publish decision up to platform owners, you're setting up a system that getting your game published is according to the political whims of whoever is in charge of that process. Any system you make here can easily be abused.

If you think banned books are dumb the same should apply to games. I for one appreciate knowing that freedom of expression is alive and well on Steam, and if I don't want to engage with content I find objectionable, I simply don't. Why is that such a foreign concept?

[–] Ostrakon 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I think i agree with the general premise that flawed characters are more interesting, and i also feel (with no data to back up that feeling, so bear with me) that these 'woke' characters sometimes fall into a pitfall where they're just so boringly written that it does feel like the writers are either afraid of being perceived as 'punching down' or (edit: finishing this thought) want to misguidedly write a perfect character for the sake of superficial representation of some group.

That said, for this show in particular (i have watched TNG/DS9/Voyager but not Discovery), is it a valid criticism for this captain that couldn't be applied to the older series? Picard's flaws are heavily understated - sure, he was a violent little shit off screen when he was younger, and he can be a little more of a hardass than called for occasionally, but I always felt he was pretty consistently portrayed as the voice of reason, and his flaws were only relevant in a couple episodes. I think I would say that's also true of Sisko and Janeway, though Sisko has a lot more nuance to his pragmatism that is really interesting as DS9 continues.

[–] Ostrakon 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hmm. I wonder what this one is about.

[–] Ostrakon 3 points 3 weeks ago

The number of declensions and conjugations are very much finite. Linguistically there were only three genders (male, female, neutral) but those pronouns had a singular and plural, x5 for nomination, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative cases. It sounds like a lot but it's not nearly as scary as it sounds.

[–] Ostrakon 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Nuclear waste, bury in the desert for 10,000 years level take.

[–] Ostrakon 4 points 3 weeks ago

Don't get me wrong, I loved Animal Well, thought it was a stellar and unique metroidvania, but I don't recall any things that couldn't have been accomplished with Godot or Unity.

[–] Ostrakon 10 points 3 weeks ago

Sure but also, fuck you for blocking Bernie in 2016.

[–] Ostrakon 32 points 3 weeks ago

Well, they didn't do everything right. There was no marketing for this game and no indication that it had even a single differentiating selling point compared to its already-entrenched competition.

[–] Ostrakon 3 points 4 weeks ago

What an absolute farce.

[–] Ostrakon 4 points 1 month ago

Played it somewhat recently and the voice acting isn't terrible, but i was assuming they'd want to do a localization pass and record new lines for the remaster

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