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Splitgate 2 Director Refuses to Apologize for ‘Make FPS Great Again Hat’, Then Apologizes Anyway - IGN

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨chloyster@beehaw.org⁩ to ⁨gaming@beehaw.org⁩

https://www.ign.com/articles/splitgate-2-director-refuses-to-apologize-for-make-fps-great-again-hat-then-apologizes-anyway?_cache=pass

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  • CybranM@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Such a pointless thing to do which puts a massive target on your back for no reason. Backlash is deserved and maybe he learned something

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hes a libertarian nepo baby born into extreme wealth. Learning isn’t likely a strong suit.

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  • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just 3 months ago Kojima was sporting „Make TV Great Again” hat with zero backlash. I think people look for ways to be outraged.

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    • Vodulas@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You mean in 2017 like the article pointed out. And maybe there should have been backlash for it. It was a shitty thing to do then, and an even worse thing to do now

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      • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        There are more important things to get angry over. Getting angry over hats is just tribalism.

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    • Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      i will. thank you for your permission

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      • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s my fetish. It only makes my penis more erect.

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    • nisk@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I was instance banned for trying to reason that we should talk about policy rather than hats when talking about politics.

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      • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “I guess it wasn’t a safe space for autistic people” is an insane takeaway from being temp banned for talking about people fucking their mothers and how people downvoting you arouses you (on a thread about not using a right wing hate symbol).

        As an autistic person I’m baffled you’d try to hide behind your neurodivergence here.

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  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nah fuck the political implications, the message is %100 correct. The current FPS games don’t give the same enjoyment as I used to get from the old MW3/CS:Source era, and I really enjoyed Splitgate 2 and truly think it can change up a lot of things in the FPS space.

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    • bogpunk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There are a million other ways to express that sentiment.

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    • chloyster@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean yeah but really no. The political implications are too big to ignore here. Especially given the event being in LA with all the shit going on. Also like as a particularly targeted person in this fascist administration, it really doesn’t feel great for people to use fascist iconography to make a stupid joke!

      Also like splitgate 2? Really? The game that during this announcement announced a battle royale mode? The most tired shooter mode since hero shooters? And the one that had $145 microtransactions on launch? This is the savior of fps gaming?

      Nah

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      • Lumbardo@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Are you able to leave your house? People are going to wear shit and make jokes. There is no use getting hung up on things that are well out of your control.

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      • FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So this is a little off topic but is SG2 any good?

        I was in love with splitgate 1 at launch then stopped kinda played off and on during the last season and put down the game after they announced they’d stopped. I played some of the closed betas and stuff just felt off, 1 felt like maps were designed with portals in mind offering sight lines and some risky areas if you were gonna shoot thru portals, but 2 felt like they made a pretty cross between a hero/ability plus arena shooter then slapped portals on it, and it just didn’t feel like splitgate to me.

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    • Vodulas@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The political implications were the point though. Or do you think he had no idea what he was doing? The “We didn’t know it would be taken as a political statement” BS is just damage control

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Isn’t Splitgate 2 going to be a BR? Or is that just an optional mode? Because I don’t see diving straight into the dumpster that is Battle Royale as making FPS great again, even without the political undertones.

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      • PrinzKasper@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The main mode is a 4v4 arena shooter, the BR mode is new

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      • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s an optional mode for those who like it, I found their team fight modes more fun.

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    • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Cs source was an abomination though. The hitboxes were insanely large. Cs 1.5 and 1.6 was the best ones. Cago/cs2 are good too.

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      • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        idk but for me none of the CS games feel as smooth to play as CS:Source.

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