Welp, I’m going with this theory and I haven’t even had my first street fight yet.

The frustrating (and entirely expected) thing is that most of the backlash I’ve seen is as simple as “I am disappointed to see someone playing this game,” only for it to be framed as bullying and harassment.

You quote LowTierGod, a troll of middling skill who habitually ragequits, is hated by the community, pees in jugs, and who was caught by one of the FGC subreddits laughing at animal torture videos.

One of the scrubbiest players around and an all around awful person, and you quote him.

Not a likely scenario, I know, but I think it would be fucking hilarious if this guy was cheating all that time in order to actually get “better” at chess.

You can either make a good point, or you can throat punch someone verbally, you can’t do both because the latter will always make the former a waste of effort.  Always keep em separated for maximum fun.

Because the overwhelming number of folks that show up on screen (especially in main roles) are white, so having a person of color fill a role previously portrayed as white is fine because it helps push against that trend whereas having another white person taking a role that would otherwise be a person of color winds…

I think that’s the exact reason WHY they didn’t go Roman.  It would quite literally be just OG God of War all over again only with the names changed.

That would be almost silly given the relationship between Greek and Roman paganism. What, would they engineer a reason for him to kill Are-excuse me, Mars? Turns out his real REAL father is Jupiter, who’s just Zeus with a fake moustache on top of his already big beard?

Representation is progress and you don’t get to tell the people being represented it isn’t.

Okay let’s just not enjoy anything ever anymore.

I’ve always enjoyed GoW’s take on myth (even if it wasn’t any deeper than “who can we kill?”) so this is exciting to me.

Can’t wait for The Gamers™ to start bitching about a black girl being in their norse-themed game. 

And when they did, they were transitional heel champions; the crowd was ballistic when the Lucha Bros beat the Bucks in an instant-classic (and it’s a little easier to swallow EVP champions when you work the kind of great matches the Bucks constantly do; count them for insane PPV bangers for the tag titles, as with…

I guess a few grays pointed out that I was confusing FChamp with ChrisG. FChamp apparently has a history of saying terrible shit too.

Wasn’t FChamp a racist and sexist though? Specifically against black female players? 

The reporter was with MSNBC. I would bet money he saw MSNBC on their vans or the camera man’s jacket or on the camera, lost his mind, and pulled over to berate them - not because of anything this reporter was doing because he has no idea what they’re saying while driving by - but because they were with MSNBC and Trump…

He saw a black dude and an NBC logo, I doubt he even thought about the weather. His tiny Fox-poisoned brain probably jumped right to BLM or CRT or something about fraudulent votes.

Well, there you go!

Dude owned a electroplating business and thought his whiteness qualified him to go waaaaay out of his lane to tell this trained meteorologist how to do his job.

I know I’m very much in the minority, but I’m hoping for a tone similar to the first game. It was still somewhat grounded, and its sense of humor had some cleverness to it. The whole “shooting poop as a minigame” thing in Saints Row 2 was too dumb for me.