[Very joke] Wait… if I buy the latest fishgame I can get double XP at Little Caesars?! If only I even knew where to buy those things!

Grinning at critters remembering Tribes and Global Agenda ^. Also hoping this one is many funs, though I kinda just wanna play Tribes 2 again and doubt this’ll be much like that.

Yeah, that’s the one. There was so much outrage because it had the word “pronoun” in it at all 🤣It’s just a little thing on the side during character creation and its effect is absolutely trivial. Actually I think the other MechWarriors ‘have pronouns’ too if you deliberately open the character editor for them. It’s really the bare minimum, like I’m trying to come up with something sarcastic but those people were freaking out over nnnnooothing like the one word in one game is gonna ruin videogames for them forever, or some crap.

Which, like… if we could somehow trans so hard they’d go away don’t they think we’d do it instead of just getting yelled at?

Hah! Good luck with that :3

(Same but mine doesn’t have the mohawk and doesn’t specifically hunt KGCs :P ^. )

Well, it’s… pronounceable? Technically?

Okay I don’t actually like it and don’t know anycritter who does but it’s there soooo putting it there seemed like a good idea at the time? 🤷

Wow, I’m the only person that bellend didn’t reply to. I feel special 🤣 Everycritter else gets a fresh pile of horsecrap, I don’t even get a downvote. Works fine for me, I guess.

Hi, woke garbage here. Very trans. Enby too. Just sitting here existing at you. Existing so hard, it probably hurts you just knowing about it. I hope it does, 'cause you’re a prick and you deserve it ^.

being a man, woman, or black person isn’t political

Being a woman isn’t political… until I do it? Kinda seems like there’s no actually valid (sound? I forget the terminology) argument for how our existence is a problem, nor for how supporting or acknowledging our existence is a problem.

I don’t actually quite understand what you’re on about but it kinda seems like you’re arguing that allowing people to play characters that don’t match your preferences exactly is some kind of forced political thing and that’s kinda horsecrap, y’know?

Anyway I’m gonna go exist at that bigot up there now. Byeee ö/

option to choose pronouns fills them with blind, seething rage

Yeah I was there when BATTLETECH (still dunno why its name has to be so LOUD :P ) launched. Every hatefool was raging about it, apropos of anything or nothing. Try to talk about any part of it and it’s “OH YOU MEAN FUCKING PRONOUNWARRIOR?!?!” and a bunch of incoherent senseless bile. There’s a sizeable group of people who deeply love being offended, and it’s not us (queerfolk/LGBTQIA+/QUILTBAG/GSM/whatever). Like, I’m neck-deep in queer over here and every time I play a game with a pronoun selector at the beginning I promptly forget about it but oohhhh nooo, not these bellends. They somehow think a button at the beginning of the game that matters like three times ever has entirely DESTROYED videogames with LIES and FALLACIES 🙄

They’d be a joke and an insignificant oddity if they didn’t deliberately make messes of everything else (say, going to MWLL/other games, ranting about “pronounwarrior,” pretty sure some critters got teamkilled over it…) for no good reason.

🥠Here you go! :P Look, you’re two off, be glad you got anything 😅

Wait, mine’s 19 and I didn’t even get that D: WE DEMAND SNACKS! ✊

[Very sarcasm] It’s nice that copyright just means a copyright holder gets to do literally anything they want as long as a relevant work is involved. Wouldn’t want anyone to get away with any kind of local modification, tinkering, tweaking an old piece of software to work in a modern environment, some forms of modding… All obviously reprehensible violations of a wank gesture, eyeroll Copyright Holder’s right to control distribution of their work!

IP law is so fucking vile, and yet proves it can continually get even worse :|

Edit to preempt, just in case: Also, no I don’t need another bullshit lecture on how “IP law isn’t a real thing, it refers to separate segments of law blah-blah-blah” but somehow can’t be used as a term because some wankstain feels like being condescending.

Does he? By now his brain may be addled enough for him to believe that. The guy’s been Todd Howard for decades now and that’s really got to wear on a person’s mind.

Okay I just spent a while watching some of their videos <.<; Thanks(?) for sharing… I think… 🤔

Ugh, I hate bad PC writing. It’s bad enough when it’s “I agree 100%,” “I agree 100% and wanna s your d,” and “You’re the stupidest, ugliest, evilest piece of absolute crap I have ever seen in my life and I’d kill you myself if it wouldn’t get your blood in the carpet” but then some games just insist on somehow making it non-obvious which is which >:|

Buddy, if you didn’t hit on everyone all the time then maybe you had more friends.

Haynow, some critters respond well to that!

Jak from Jak and Daxter? Oh, no, boring milquetoast Jak from the soooper with-it-and-hip new wannabe-hit videogame, Immortals of Aveum™

Actually I don’t remember whether that other Jak was any good either. Haven’t played that since it was new 😅

The systems and progression used for monetization always detracts from the final result

This, this, this! When is a company ever going to sell something and not encourage people to buy it? "Oh hey, if you wanna skip the grind you can just gimme $5 ;) " yeah sure, that grind is an important part of the game (being sarcastic here) that I’m skipping by bribing the company in charge of it.

wanders off mumbling instead of spouting more sarcasm at other forms

There’s still code work going in that’s not going to get any extra money but the art work has to get extra money? I think that’s worth talking about. Is (visual, audio, etc.) art less necessary? Should it be seen that way?

Of course, some companies sell patches (DLCs that fix long-standing bugs certainly exist). Maybe there’s a kind of equality to come, code-work and art-work both getting exploited equally hard and wrung for every last cent.