It’s wild how the person you’re responding to doesn’t understand that “but it’s okay because they DESERVE it” is exactly what rape apologists believe. They just draw the line at who “deserves it” differently.
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There’s a pretty common attitude that all manner of atrocities - murder, torture, rape, even war and genocide - are fine as long as they happen to the “deserving”.
Look, we can talk about the death penalty. But there is no “rape penalty” - and there shouldn’t be. There shouldn’t be, because it then normalizes rape, a thing which is not normal and has no justification ever. I understand the hate and revulsion, I feel it myself. But this narrative of “haha, you’ll go to jail and…
It seems strange to me that various art websites have managed to maintain this kind of NSFW segregation for a long time without flooding the entire site with porn, or prompting pearl clutching from users, yet Twitch seems unable to do so. Maybe the live aspect of streaming is too much to manage?
The term “game gone gold” is no longer in game publisher vernacular.
Well, you’ve hit the nail on the head! You ARE holding the gamepad at (almost) all times, so when you want to play on the gamepad you just... keep playing.
Could’ve just been killing time on their phone since the movie hadn’t started yet. It doesn’t really take that long to switch to your camera (on my old samsung s8, all it takes is a double-tap on the power button)
It’ll be better if you find or come up with a new analogy. Making fun of people in the Special Olympics won’t go over well here, and rightly so. You could do “wrestling pigs in the mud” for example which has exactly the same meaning but isn’t nasty to people.
man it's like the problem is it shouldn't be a reason to screw you in the first place
yep, sounds about right. for 20 years the internet was a cesspool of racism and misogyny and now that everyone is online the hosts now have a financial reason to keep this shit off their servers. As soimeone who grew up with that shit being “cool and edgy” good fucking riddance to that shit.
“2003's Beyond Good & Evil was a truly wonderful game, offering a gentle mix of third-person platforming, wildlife photography, and a genuinely lovely story.”
And the sickening part; it is working. Hell, this whole article is about this tactic working. In fact, it has always worked and this kind of tactic has been around ever since the first predatory tactics started arriving. The only reason we don’t make fun of expensive horse armour DLC any more is because all the other…
The reason it didn’t is exactly why it should have: it eliminates FOMO and reduces the pressure to spend money, because nothing is ever truly locked-off.
Yeah Fortnite is surprisingly generous compared to almost everyone else. Definitely part of why they’re so big I’m sure. Especially with their catchup exp mechanic for players who have been absent. Makes it feel like you’re not punished too much for taking time away from the game.
In the two weeks Overwatch 2 has been live—yes, it’s only been two weeks—
This is now they (game companies) get the Public to help make sure loot box/gambling legislation doesn’t come to pass. “Sure, we’ll take away loot boxes...but *this* is going to be the replacement! Sorry just...golly gee-whiz our hands are tied here!”
I have the original Elite series controller and I’ve been rocking it for a good 4+ years with no issues. Wonder if series 2 had bad quality control or maybe I just got lucky. Unfortunate, in any case. Especially since they are too expensive as-is.
Not trying to defend SONY or pricing it’s just, players have been spending this or more for years now, well before this recent inflation, on SCUF and such. It’s barely more than the Elite Series 2.
Overwatch 2 is still Overwatch 1 and the same reasons everyone quit playing Overwatch 1 are still present because this game is an abomination of retooled ideas from a PvE MMO without any meaningful feedback loops to being a healer or acting as a team other than winning...which everyone is more than happy to blame…