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Which game/franchise/company do you think has a fanbase so sensitive they’ll downvote and rage at any criticism? (hexbear.net)
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for me, it would be Nintendo... In General

any time people are critical of something Nintendo-related it gets treated as a widespread boycott.

That way when the supposed "boycott" is inevitably unsuccessful, Nintendo devotees can sarcastically go "Another successful boycott, right??"

Has happened with every Pokemon release on the Switch since Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee

As someone who also enjoys Nintendo stuff, I find it pretty difficult to criticize Nintendo without a bunch of fans getting really defensive about it.

Like with this recent Switch 2 "boycott" narrative

there isn't a boycott, it's just simply people reacting to market conditions and overall economic conditions.

Wages haven't met with inflation, games are getting expensive, times are hard right now with layoffs and a bad stock market. Prices for goods across the board are going up. Is it any wonder that people are just going to continue playing what they have or buy a cheaper (and maybe more powerful) alternative instead of being early adopters for a new console and 70-90 dollar games?

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[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah it really takes away from the strategy of every edition before 8th. when vehicles don't have armor facings. They have video game HP instead of working like real AFVs. A Bradley, for example, is going to deflect everything you throw at it. Unless it gets shot in the rear by a rocket, then it's going up in a ball of fire. The early designers of 40k understood this.

And yah it was double your strength + 1 and you couldn't hurt it, every point higher than your strength increased the roll needed, and every point lower decreased the roll needed, with 1s always failing. Pretty easy to remember the chart. But this means you can't have a 40 wound model with toughness 11, because it's never going to die. Gotta have those big numbers with big numbers of dice being rolled to set off players' undiagnosed gambling addiction.

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 1 points 14 hours ago

Gotta have those big numbers with big numbers of dice being rolled to set off players' undiagnosed gambling addiction.

Yeah lmao, it's the only game I've played that gives Shadowrun a run for its money there.