• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    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.

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

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    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.”

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    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.

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      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

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      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).

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        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.

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      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.

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        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.

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    4 days ago

    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)

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

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    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.

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      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