— “Fuck you, falling into a world and just getting lost! No, no, no! Current-fucking-day! You take everything we love — all our immersions, all our fantasies, all our escapism — and you can’t help shovel your dogshit, fucking-crap ideology into everything!”
— He won’t fucking shut up. Knock him out.
[Challenging: Success] — The wavering of his voice, the tears dewing in his eyes, the erupting tantrum; he isn’t acting like the usual grifters you’ve seen. He believes this. Video games are the only thing that he has. You can see before you the faded afterimage of a friendless little boy, kneeling alone in a patch of playground grass and clover. He’s been this way forever.
— Don’t go soft on a display this pathetic. Make an example out of him. His little computer-buddies need to be too ashamed to agree with him in the open.What fucking Disco writer is secretly running this account, goddamn, how do you nail it every fucking time?
it really might be now that i think about it. they had the fuckin chapos as voice actors on release.
If you’re Kurvitz you have to tell us. It’s the law
I hear their voices in my head
I like how how every half-light suggestion is to kill someone like a wild animal or crawl into a corner and cry
Fight-or-
flightcri
Always appreciate a good DE Skills post
Discoposting is amazing.
HOLY SHITS THAT’S YOUR USERNAME I AM NOT JOKING I ONLY JUST NOTICED THAT
It always blows my mind how angry capital G Gamers get about games where you very much have the option of playing a cishet guy but can also choose to play as someone different
They’re viscerally angry that they’re no longer the only target audience for nerd media.
They don’t actually like video games, they just like being catered to.
Video games are fucking awesome and infinitely varied, so much more than any other kind of media, they’re for everyone and that rules you fuckin chud dweebs.
Have you played Oxenfree?
I’m aware of it and that it was well-received, but I’ve never been big on stuff in the point-n-click adventure ballpark
Yeah, you’re right, it’s just so weird to me, like I didn’t mind playing as non-white/male characters in games when I was a literal child and it’s not like I was a super enlightened 10 year old or anything
one of the most popular games from my childhood was tomb raider where you were forced (at controllerpoint no less) to play as a woman
it was wildly popularI do wonder how Tomb Raider would be recieved if it was released today just as it was 1996, but with modern graphics.
Like on the one hand, forced to play as a woman. On the other hand though, if Lara had the design she had in 1996 would they not mind because she fits their traditional ideas of what “hot” is? Like modern Lara seems to piss them off I know that (even though she’s still very much hot) but would old school Lara in modern graphics piss them off if it was a new franchise being released for the first time today? Makes me think.
I feel like it would suffer Seinfeld Syndrome and nobody would give a shit about it at all
Well you just brought to mind Last of Us 2 and the Horizon games. Both of which feature a female protagonist and both were subject of weird online chud tantrums.
They complained about the newer Tom Raider games too.
Yeah but those protags dont have big tiddy and an ass in short shorts you can stare at so im unsure.
i wonder how GTA San Andreas would be received today
. it already caused a stir that made some people not want to play as a black person back in the day
One of the biggest chuds in my own family was scared to play that game as a kid because playing as a feeemale would damage his mighty masculinity but he also jacked off endlessly to Lara Croft porn and bragged to strangers about liking porn that “put that (slur) in her place.”
jesus tapdancing christ
He’s also fine with Gambo being on TV when his small children are in the room (he’s a father, unfortunately) but loudly raged (with them still in the room) about how a gay blowjob scene one time on the show was corrupting his children and that it should be a criminal act to have that where his kids could see it (they could see it because he argued they were “mature for their age” for everything else the show had going on in it until then).
thats grim.
fr, I was also a Jill Valentine “main” in Resident Evil (admittedly some of that was because you got to hang out with the GOAT Barry Burton but still)
saaaaame
the master of unlocking > some dude called chris
She got a grenade launcher too
Kids almost always have to be taught racism. Like they’ll pick it up from their elders but it takes a few years.
It’s extra funny because it’s such an unoptimized mess that it actually is still only targeted at them because they’re the only ones who can afford the hardware needed to play it
Also saying “twatwaffle” is incredibly soy lmao
Tommy need drinky.
If the game was absolute dogshit I could see being annoyed by features that seem pointless. If the core of a game is shit, spending money on QoL features for small demographics seems ridiculous. Make solid mod tools and a solid game and it’ll get sorted anyway.
“features” like basic character creation in an rpg lol
“Small demographics” like… women.
This isn’t just for trans people.
Hell even as a cis man I might want to play a woman, and I’d sure not want my immersion broken by other characters calling my female character “he” if I did so. Like its a roleplaying game, its cool to let me play a role.
I’m a cis man who rarely plays as a male character. I play games to experience something different, not to engage in power fantasies.
This guy is upset that the game reminded him that the real world exists, where he feels like things are moving away from a white male centered society. It shattered his power fantasy and reminded him he’s an insignificant loser shouting into the void.
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spending money on QoL features for small demographics seems ridiculous
To you and your selfish little bubble world.
Cry more.
Gamers by and large have no idea how video games are made and rarely are they curious to learn. This is one of the classic misconceptions: that there is a finite amount of a perfectly malleable resource (time, money, effort) that goes into creating a video game, and therefore the lack of any feature that you feel is missing from the game can be directly attributed to the presence of any other feature you feel is extraneous. In this case, pronouns are just one of many character creation options in an RPG – the game genre that is all about the player creating and playing as a unique a character. It’s a feature that’s easier to implement than, say, even one more face customization option, and not meaningfully different in implementation from the classic “are you a boy or a girl?” option.
But development resource management’s not really what you’re complaining about, is it? You mentioned something there about “small demographics.” Your point, your actual point, was about people whom you despise receiving any validation from a hobby that you believe should exist for you and only you.
Small demographics
half the human population
A Bethesda game was never going to not have male and female characters, and decoupling pronoun from body type can’t possibly be an insurmountable hurdle.
My man’s complaining about being constantly taken out of the immersion
Oh, is it asking your pronouns every time you enter a new planet? Every time you boot up the game? Every time you’re introduced to a new character? Yeah, wow, that’s so excessive
Wait, what’s that, only during the character creation screen and then never again?
Has your brain been eaten by maggots?
immersion
“People exist outside of this tiny bubble and that’s terrible!”
Suburb brain, not even once.
Its like bro you’re creating a character the game hasn’t even started yet.
I did actively notice that there is writing specifically included to take advantage of the fact they have a pronouns selector. The first example I spotted was a “hey new girl” from one particular npc, which would then refer to me with that moniker a few too many times thereafter.
I feel like if I noticed it and felt like it was included specifically for doing gender affirmations then it probably sends people like this into an absolute frenzy, which makes me laugh.
I mean, selecting gender has been in games since well before pronoun discourse. That’s literally the “Prof Oak asking if you’re a boy or a girl” stuff. The divergence comes when you have a masc body/face with “she/her” pronouns or sth.
gender affirmations
What the Epic G*mer chuds fail to realize is that they receive gender affirmations themselves in their “nonpolitical” games where everyone must play a grizzled middle aged white man that kills otherfied less-than-people to avenge his fridged wife and/or rescue/protect his camera-oogled teenage daughter figure while also sometimes having le sexy cishet sex.
It doesn’t show up in the clip but the game actually has John Oliver pop up in a live feed every 5 minutes to yell “IT IS 2023 AND THERE WAS A CHEETO IN THE WHITE HOUSE” at you
Fun fact: this is what virtue signalling actually looks like.
Whatever Mr Shouty divorced man actually thinks, he’s not acting like this because he cares that much about pronouns but for the approval of his garbage audience.
Fun fact: this is what virtue signalling actually looks like.
Whatever Mr Shouty divorced man actually thinks, he’s not acting like this because he cares that much about pronouns but for the approval of his garbage audience.
Same deal whenever some chud makes a performatively “aren’t I cool” clown face while eating le steak and drinking le whiskey while holding le cigar to trigger the wokes.
I love that pronoun choices cause so many chuds to melt down, please add them to everything
(also for other reasons of course)I though gamer nerds liked having robust character creation.
“the last thing i want to do in a big immersive experience is create a character”
christ, he looks like he’s about to cry lmao
The expression he’s making when he TABS BACK IN ANYWAY after that rant had me rolling.
It’s all he has
Yeah but I think these are crocodile tears and all of this is an act
He doesn’t hate this, he probably loves that there’s a shitty game that’s “gone woke” or whatever so he doesn’t have to justify hating BG3 and can just avoid talking about it
I believe it’s the great games that have explicitly gone against his hate filled ideology that really hurt his feelings
ha ha holy fuck i’m still definitely not buying that game, but seeing this man transform into a gammon in real time means that when i meet
on the road i will spare his life.- at home watching this guy have a tantrum:
It just works
literally
Someone please trace this and make a new soyface lmao
Gammonjak
Perfect, equal parts this guy, gammon and hotdog man
This should be an emoji.
WhyEssEff never misses.
Lots of emoji potential for this one as :gamer-rage:
and that’s why i support authoritarianism, cause this asshole thinks he supports “freedom” but he’s a fucking liar so he needs to be in a pit with some lead implanted into his brain.
Please give me a pronoun slider except when you move it all the way to “man” it doesn’t let you select it
he got owned by a trans npc later and it fucking rocks. these dudes are so fucking frothy and stupid it’s awesome. on the one hand screaming about immersion and treaterinos and on the other hand failing to recognize that any reasonable future society is going to have a lot more options than just gender affirming surgeries and hrt
Oh my God where can I find this video
Perfection.EETZ EEENFEKKKTED EVERYWHEHRE
I think it might be this https://twitter.com/heelvsbabyface/status/1698457945711739062
Guy is an immense fucking baby
Same moment but he removes the part where the flips out when the NPC owns him with some idle dialogue. I posted the version we were talking about to SerLava
lmao sorry I missed it, the full version is way better
“nerves kicking in?” bouhahahaha
You know now that I think about it I don’t think I’ve ever seen a trans clone in media before, seems like it could be a really interesting character premise. Is the person she’s cloned from also trans? Is her transness in some way caused by her desire to distinguish herself from who she was cloned from, or is it just a completely random thing that can happen in the cloning process? Some interesting nature/nurture ideas to explore in any event.
The video of him getting owned by an NPC is perfect
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Does anyone know how these people react to games like Celeste?
Yes.
spoiler
I’d wager their take is “it’s just a fun platformer, stop injecting politics into it!”
Or they just somehow deny the game is trans
Probably like they reacted to walking simulators. They all hated Gone Home because if you followed a walkthrough you could beat it in 2 minutes
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