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- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 22 hours ago:
You are in essence gatekeeping enjoying a video game as a concept. Like people must enjoy them the way you envision.
What an incredibly inaccurate statement. I love modding video games, I spend more time modding video games than I spend playing video games. I understand that the vision developers have doesn’t often align with what I want from their product.
I don’t agree that developers should be spending dev cycles making a game functional for a user that turns off any configuration of gameplay mechanics.
Saying you can just set a variable from “
truetofalse” is so laughably misunderstanding what goes into software development much less game development that it sounds entitled. What gameplay mechanics are you even saying should be configurable? All of them? Just turn off the combat in a fighting game? At what point is a gameplay mechanic integral to the genre/experience? And who is the person or persons that decide?Developers should be free to create what they want, and the end user is free to mod it however they want. That includes, for the devs, not purposefully obfuscating things so that modding is more diffcult.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 day ago:
I disagree because it solely approaches games as some sort of “electronic commodity” and outright despises a development group’s artistry.
Sure, not every game is trying to be art. But games have long gone beyond the realm of simply “entertain me”. That opinion is like saying “books should be made in a way that allows users to change the story whenever and however they want.” It is something you can do but there’s no imperative to cater to it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
But the context of the Game of Throne quote is diminishing.
It might seem like I’m trying to make you out as a bad person; I apologize because that’s not my intention. That comment was just the latest one I saw using it and it stood out even more because I didn’t get the sense that you were trying to be rude.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Beyond how dreadfully overused it’s become, I think people should acknowledge how explicitly patronizing the phrase “you sweet summer child” is. If you’re not actively trying to demean someone, it’s strange to essentially tell someone “it’s cute how naive you are.” If you were trying to demean the other person, then that’s a different issue but I’m assuming you aren’t that type of person.
I decided to leave a comment instead of passively downvoting.
- Comment on Steam Machine is huge for indie development 2 weeks ago:
I think we should see what it’s priced at before we start making proclamations about the Steam Machine being the “standard gaming PC”.
- Comment on Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I don’t know why this would translate to mental illness?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
That advice stands in opposition to my lifestyle: living in four-day batches.
History will prove I was correct…
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 weeks ago:
I wasn’t talking about people.
I’m talking about me.
I don’t want needles (or any sharp objects) close to my genitals.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 weeks ago:
Is the syringe in the dong? Because that’s a beeg no for me. I’m not squeamish around needles but am squeamish about the dong and dings.
- Comment on Albania what are you doing? I thought you just made peace with Aberbaijan??? 4 weeks ago:
What in the fuck does this even mean?
- Comment on Gotta get those tickets! 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen a number of comments coming in defense of the mother but I didn’t read the OP as a critique in the first place.
The caption is just a funny “rationalization” for the scenario we’re seeing.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 5 weeks ago:
That’s what it seems. I try not to write everyone off immediately and gave them space to explain themself because some people’s brains are a mass of wet noodles that don’t do logic good.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 5 weeks ago:
Indie and AA.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 5 weeks ago:
I’ve gotten release copies of games for review. Unless they have another secret tier of pressers, this is nonsense. If anything, review copies are more likely to have bugs that making completing the game harder.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 5 weeks ago:
It’s kinda like saying housing would be a lot better if there were more forest rangers.
How is that at all the same?
- Comment on arborholing 5 weeks ago:
Then they redwoods should be sending aid to the Amazons, because they are losing hold.
- Comment on Great business idea, tbh 5 weeks ago:
Dom’t worry. His services are not mandatory.
- Comment on Discuss 5 weeks ago:
Gotta up the drone strikes to set a spectrum. More strikes is more serious.
- Comment on Steam Next Fest is back for October 2025. What good demos have you found? 1 month ago:
Maybe I’m suddenly shite at games but parrying feels like happenstance rather than a technique. The block windup is too long for me to react to the quick strike they throw out. It feels like Skyrim combat, from a “battle flow” standpoint.
- Comment on Priorities 1 month ago:
I think non-consensual modifying people’s bodies (and minds because who knows how a human mind maps on to a dinosaur brain) is pretty top-shelf villainy. People have body dysmorphia over body shapes human normally have. Toss on leathery skin or scales, and people will be offing themselves if there’s no fix.
- Comment on Priorities 1 month ago:
I don’t think he’s getting consent…
- Comment on *squints* 1 month ago:
Dat’s caked up heels
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 month ago:
Potential partners don’t have to be rapists or murderers to be worth avoiding. They could have anti-social tendencies, explosive tempers, or violent reactions. Or, just be generally unpleasant. Like you.
I wouldn’t have discovered I’m not much a fan of you, if I hadn’t made an innocuous comment about not holding it against women if they do a single smoke test for bad actors. We might have otherwise been buddy-buddy, with years of casual friendship, before something else triggered this, or a similar, conversation. And then, months or years down the road, I’d have to grapple with whether the friendship is salvageable. Because I don’t think shrugging at women who have to play russian roulette for love is very cool.
But, as I said, I’m lucky. I can say we’re done here, right now.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 month ago:
That is so utterly devoid of empathy that I have nothing left to say to you.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 month ago:
It might seem like a game to you but that’s someone’s life.
Do you have an alternative for how they should determine if a potential partner is a danger? Besides hiring a private detective or rolling the dice by finding out after they’re invested?
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 1 month ago:
Oh! This is the guy who talked about what a shithead Fetterman was even before the stroke! I could never find it again but I remember his face.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 month ago:
I don’t think “begrudging women a single test to see if someone is the type to explode over a single inconvenience” is the right hill to stick your flag on.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 1 month ago:
I recently stumbled upon “dense block of hamstink”.
- Comment on Y = -x² 1 month ago:
Fuck me, who thought that was a good idea??
Madness
- Comment on I volunteer as tribute! 1 month ago:
No? Those numbers always “quantify” physical attractiveness.
Nobody’s going around saying Quasimodo’s a 10.