It baffled me while playing Bloodborne, how a game that people kept telling me was designed around the need to “get good” was so unfriendly about letting you get back into the boss fight right away to keep practicing. Instead, a boss could kill you in a few moves, then you had to trek all the way back to try and learn…

Saying “no games should have an easy mode” is gatekeeping. Saying “it’s fine this game doesn’t have an easy mode” isn’t. Look, I’m of the opinion that it’s fine that From games don’t have a difficulty selector, because I think we need to let creators be free to do what they want (as long as it’s not actively harmful -…

It is gate keeping. You are judging by your skills. And who are you to tell someone else how the difficulty makes a game less satisfying?? What is hard to you may be easy to others - or may be impossible. I long ago swore off any souls types games. No matter how much the setting or story appeals to me i have no…

“I don’t like games having difficulty options” are saying they don’t want the choice to be there. The choice being there does NOTHING if they chose not to engage it. The choice NOT being there affects everyone else who would have engaged with said options... so its gatekeeping. Who the hell are YOU to dictate whether…

It’s not gatekeeping to say “I would prefer an experience custom built by the game’s director.” It is gatekeeping to say “Developers who had difficulty settings are making a mistake.”

There’s a huge gulf between “I like X” and “people who don’t like X aren’t real gamers”

They literally said the word “Personally”,…

Having an option does not make a game worse.  That’s gatekeeping.  You’re saying that if someone can’t keep up with the difficulty YOU are comfortable with, they shouldn’t be allowed to play the game.  Other people having the choice to lower or raise difficulty has no effect what so ever on the difficulty you play on.

The problem is that she has enormous reach and gives transphobes a sense of legitimacy. She galvanizes transphobes and helps transphobia seem like a mainstream and reasonable position, leading to extremely harmful legislation. It’s something the UK is struggling heavily with right now. Her reach extends way farther…

Well that was certainly a lot of words, expressed as is your right, without much to say for themselves. Lots of straw man arguments, misrepresentations and miscontextualizations, and downright fallacies. Well done.

Yeah, but that likely isn’t what people were asking of him. They likely wanted their company to take a stance against her, and the company wanted to dodge responding in anyway to that request.

So... ya know hydrophobic particles exist, and that no one is claiming that molecules have brains to be afraid of water, right?

a combining form meaning “dread of,” “phobic aversion toward,” “unreasonable antipathy toward” a given object: agoraphobia; xenophobia.

Hey you dont have to agree with trans people or like it, but when you right a book and repeat ideas that they are pedophiles and predators, that makes you phobic.

Yes if you went around fat shaming people that would make you fat-phobic. This post is so ignorant I cant tell if you’re purposefully trying to make this bad faith argument or you genuinely dont know better.

“If I said I don’t agree with people eating so much as to be obese does that make me an obesephobe?”

Actually look up the definition of “Phobia” in a dictionary. Any dictionary.

Don’t be so fucking stupid.

Yeah it’s the simplest trick in the book. It’s a fucking strawman (which isn’t just about inventing imaginary opponents like the crazy radical feminist that supposedly plague today’s movement but also inventing imaginary arguments). He acts like the argument was “she has no right to hold this opinion” instead of “this…

Does this fallacy have a name?

Does Covid infect fish? No? That one sounds fine.

How do I make the layout of this website not stupid. This one is like the final straw, legit to bad to use.