Reva
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- Comment on Braga: ‘I still cringe when I hear it.’ Apparently, it was a long road to the franchise’s most despised title music 1 year ago:
I liked the song when I was a kid and watched Enterprise (and I liked Enterprise in general) but growing up, the sheer American nationalism throughout the series was pretty unwatchable. Still leagues ahead of the all-American new Trek.
- Comment on Starfield has gone gold. Preload tomorrow on Xbox/Microsoft Store, and on the 30th on Steam (Bethesda on Twitter) 1 year ago:
According to this article, they sent out the codes today and the embargo may lift on September 1st.
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- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
What, being European?
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- Comment on Star Trek executive producer wants more Strange New Worlds episodes, and I’m nervous 1 year ago:
What quality? It has the writing and acting quality of Big Bang Theory.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
Your entire account is video game porn mods catering to horny men who are afraid of or disgusted by real women.
It’s not about “being comfortable with people’s bodies”, it’s about shaming women as “prudes” if they do not feel comfortable the power dynamic that often comes with sex in hetero society (especially with straight men) being shoved in their faces and told to participate. “Stop being a prude” is the equivalent of “smile more (for me)” or “start wearing less”.
I do not have to participate in men’s power fantasies about fictional women because they never talked to a real woman and think that boob armor and 2B’s design are the pinnacle of womanhood and “liberating sexuality” while the only thing it does is making them into sex objects to be stared at and thirsted after like some kind of predator-prey dynamic or product to buy at the market. There is nothing liberating about it.
Y’all just want to jerk off to women. Just admit that you just want to jerk off to naked women. It has nothing to do with “being open about sexual topics”, or about sexual liberation, it has everything to do with getting your dick hard and thinking it’s some kind of political statement at the same time. Male (or male socialized) savior syndrome.
BG3 clearly, obviously caters to sweaty D&D neckbeards’ fantasies about “smeggsy” women, mid-tier fantasy writing and fulfilling their power fantasy of murdering, fucking indiscriminately, and avoiding responsibility at the same time. It’s the entire concept of the game. It is made by and for typical Redditors. There is nothing liberating about a porn game. There is no authentic romance, no negotiation of consent, no talking, no connecting as human people, there is only “playersexual” NPCs handcrafted to get predatory men horny who think they’re entitled to women’s (and these NPCs’) bodies and attention. It’s a power fantasy.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
I don’t mind sexuality and romance, not even in my games. I do mind what amounts to fan service porn and constant sex shoved in one’s face. The article makes good points.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
I mean, it was Greece.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
As a European, I spent college doing academic work and being an adult.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
It’s worth noting that the “decline” option is very often downright mean or abusive, so you get guilt tripped into sex.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
I feel the same; it’s probably because the way these characters are written in a very “cishet” way just do not evoke my experiences with romance or sexuality at all.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
Who needs interesting writing when you can make sex and fart jokes every five seconds?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
Play a porn game then, not an RPG.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
How the hell is this “realistic”? Everyone being playersexual, animal sex scenes around every corner?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
Truly, we will only reach a peak progressive egalitarian society when we are back to treating women like sex dolls. So right bestie.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
Some of us grew up. The others insist that “mature writing” means “haha sex penis”.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
I don’t want every one of my games to be turned into porn. I am not a teenage boy who was taught that sex was the epitome of humor and life enjoyment. I want a little more mature writing than that.
Besides, the way that these game developers write sex scenes and romance could not be further removed from my lived experiences.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
Completely agreed with the PCGamer article. I quit playing the game because it reminded me of Kojima’s handling of female characters and it just made me really, really uncomfortable that so many NPCs seem to be written only to be horny. BG3 genuinely, hands down, plays out like a porn game very often. I don’t want to play a porn game. I want to play a CRPG.
It is entirely unnecessary and forced and I can only wonder what kind of gamergate people were involved in the decision making there.
- Comment on What's a faction/group/alien race in Star Trek most similar to the Tech Priests / Mechanicus in Warhammer 40,000? 1 year ago:
Absolutely the Pakled.
- Comment on Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ 1 year ago:
Girl: “Hey you look kind of like my grandma :)”
… How is this in any shape or form offensive? Let alone homophobic? Fucking cops, man.
- Comment on A Gen Xer's Thoughts on Strange New Worlds 1 year ago:
But that’s just the thing. I too like utopia, but I want a believable utopia, not a Starbucks upper class version of what they think is “yass relatable”. I thought DS9 was actually a wonderfully utopian show because it showed that despite incredible hardship, people can still overtake their circumstances and keep a level head, good relationships and a just society. It was authentic to what I as a working class person experience, to what my life is; just an idealized version of it where others and society as a whole share my ideals and ethical standpoints. New Trek on the other hand tries so hard to appeal to progressive politics but fails at realizing the actual authentic circumstances of the working class and instead makes it into some kind of “Eurovision” or “Oscars”-ish upper class atmosphere thing. The recent musical episode was even more insulting in its “what rich people think is fun”-ness.
Now that you mentioned it, I hate that they stopped talking about “duty” and started talking about “work” or a “job”. It’s not supposed to be labour! That’s the entire point of a utopia! Why does everyone treat their Starfleet career like an employment contract with annoying bosses and all? The Lieutenant next to me is my comrade, not my “coworker”. Do they think it becomes relatable because they - in this utopia - still deal with the socialized equivalent of wage labour?
Everything in SNW/DSC/PIC looks, feels and sounds like a Marvel movie with unfunny quips and one-liners, or an advertisement at worst. They speak like the Microsoft boss does when he talks about Xbox - “millions of players all over the world come together to celebrate these incredible, amazing worlds that our people have created for you to express yourselves in” - it’s just marketing talk. It feels incredibly, incredibly sterile and corporate, but when DSC/SNW/PIC characters talk about Starfleet or the Federation, they sound exactly like that. The characters look like Hollywood actors, especially Pike; not like people I know in real life. Miles O’Brien could have been in my local pub; Pike looks and acts like someone who lives in a Californian villa and socializes with Jeffrey Epstein.
Star Trek has turned from union shop working class entertainment to rich white Americans’ entertainment. I do not like that one bit. And it’s not like I hate everything new. I thought Lower Decks was really enjoyable outside of a few stinkers, and I keep reading the novels.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 is turning deadly and will launch with new natural disasters 1 year ago:
Doesn’t look like it, unfortunately. Public transport still seems like an optional tack-on and cars to be the primal, essential mode of transport. To place buildings, you need a street, to supply businesses, you need trucks.
- Comment on Episode Preview | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Hegemony 1 year ago:
Thought I was watching a Marvel preview for a second. yawn
- Comment on Enterprise era new trek show? 1 year ago:
I just am scared how they’ll represent Earth life in a new show. It will most likely be incredibly Americanized with every radical Roddenberry-ism and Berman-ism thrown out of the window. The “Federation News Network” (FNN) and all of the American cultural dogwhistles in Picard made me turn it off in the first episode. It just feels like we throw utopia out of the window and make everything just future-USA.
They even reintroduced car culture and wide highways, American architecture and cultural norms.
- Comment on A Gen Xer's Thoughts on Strange New Worlds 1 year ago:
The problem I have with the new shows is that they all feel acted, designed and written like American advertisements or stock videos. It’s hard to describe, but everything is glossy, polished and corporate-designed, and people never act or speak like the people I know in real life; they act and speak like influencers, vloggers and YouTube personalities. It’s eerie and I cannot immerse myself at all. It’s too clean, too bright, not industrial or lived in enough. Even the “relatable” scenes just remind me of what an upper class hipster writer in a glass-front writing room thinks is relatable.
The people and sets on DS9 felt so real, so tangible, so relatable. The episode with Bashir’s parents comes to mind where the interaction between Julian and them was so gut-punchingly accurate to a regular immigrant working class family. The relationship between Ben and Jake. The entire character of Miles. The people in new Trek feel fake, like a Hollywood writer’s idea of a regular person. The politics in DS9 felt genuinely radical, in new Trek they feel shoe-horned in out of an obligation to be progressive with no meat behind it at all, just to market to a target demographic.
Maybe it is because I am European, but DSC/SNW/PIC just feel SO incredibly American. Like Alegria art.
- Comment on A Gen Xer's Thoughts on Strange New Worlds 1 year ago:
There’s a reason TNG/DS9/VOY are called the Golden Age, not TOS.
- Comment on Isn't technically everything open-source? 1 year ago:
But the same people who coined that term made some software “open source” but under licenses that only allow looking, not touching.
- Comment on where do the instances actually reside? 1 year ago:
One thing to add onto what has already been said: many internet providers do not like you setting up public services via your home network because it can drive a LOT of traffic into the neighborhood and may be a security risk. You most likely would like to rent a server from a server farm somewhere.