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It's the dunk tank.

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[–] DiscoPosting@hexbear.net 125 points 2 years ago (6 children)

racist-lorry-driver — "Fuck you, falling into a world and just getting lost! No, no, no! Current-fucking-day! You take everything we love — all our immersions, all our fantasies, all our escapism — and you can't help shovel your dogshit, fucking-crap ideology into everything!"

de-half-light — He won't fucking shut up. Knock him out.

de-empathy [Challenging: Success] — The wavering of his voice, the tears dewing in his eyes, the erupting tantrum; he isn't acting like the usual grifters you've seen. He believes this. Video games are the only thing that he has. You can see before you the faded afterimage of a friendless little boy, kneeling alone in a patch of playground grass and clover. He's been this way forever.

de-authority — Don't go soft on a display this pathetic. Make an example out of him. His little computer-buddies need to be too ashamed to agree with him in the open.

[–] reddit@hexbear.net 73 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What fucking Disco writer is secretly running this account, goddamn, how do you nail it every fucking time?

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[–] Egon@hexbear.net 57 points 2 years ago

If you're Kurvitz you have to tell us. It's the law

[–] Suns_Firstborn@lemmy.ml 51 points 2 years ago

I hear their voices in my head

[–] axont@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like how how every half-light suggestion is to kill someone like a wild animal or crawl into a corner and cry

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[–] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Always appreciate a good DE Skills post

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 77 points 2 years ago (13 children)

It always blows my mind how angry capital G Gamers get about games where you very much have the option of playing a cishet guy but can also choose to play as someone different

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 75 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They're viscerally angry that they're no longer the only target audience for nerd media.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 60 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

They don't actually like video games, they just like being catered to.

Video games are fucking awesome and infinitely varied, so much more than any other kind of media, they're for everyone and that rules you fuckin chud dweebs.

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[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, you're right, it's just so weird to me, like I didn't mind playing as non-white/male characters in games when I was a literal child and it's not like I was a super enlightened 10 year old or anything

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago (5 children)

one of the most popular games from my childhood was tomb raider where you were forced (at controllerpoint no less) to play as a woman
it was wildly popular

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I do wonder how Tomb Raider would be recieved if it was released today just as it was 1996, but with modern graphics.

Like on the one hand, forced to play as a woman. On the other hand though, if Lara had the design she had in 1996 would they not mind because she fits their traditional ideas of what "hot" is? Like modern Lara seems to piss them off I know that (even though she's still very much hot) but would old school Lara in modern graphics piss them off if it was a new franchise being released for the first time today? Makes me think.

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

Kids almost always have to be taught racism. Like they'll pick it up from their elders but it takes a few years.

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[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also saying "twatwaffle" is incredibly soy lmao

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[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

You should see them when a game doesn't even offer a white cishet option! They go Thermonuclear!

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[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 69 points 2 years ago (15 children)

My man's complaining about being constantly taken out of the immersion

Oh, is it asking your pronouns every time you enter a new planet? Every time you boot up the game? Every time you're introduced to a new character? Yeah, wow, that's so excessive

Wait, what's that, only during the character creation screen and then never again?

Has your brain been eaten by maggots?

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

Its like bro you're creating a character the game hasn't even started yet.

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[–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fun fact: this is what virtue signalling actually looks like.

Whatever Mr Shouty divorced man actually thinks, he's not acting like this because he cares that much about pronouns but for the approval of his garbage audience.

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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago

I love that pronoun choices cause so many chuds to melt down, please add them to everything sicko-pog (also for other reasons of course)

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

christ, he looks like he's about to cry lmao

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The expression he's making when he TABS BACK IN ANYWAY after that rant had me rolling.

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[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ha ha holy fuck i'm still definitely not buying that game, but seeing this man transform into a gammon in real time means that when i meet todd on the road i will spare his life.

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[–] Sasuke@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago (15 children)
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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago

Please give me a pronoun slider except when you move it all the way to "man" it doesn't let you select it

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago (11 children)

he got owned by a trans npc later and it fucking rocks. these dudes are so fucking frothy and stupid it's awesome. on the one hand screaming about immersion and treaterinos and on the other hand failing to recognize that any reasonable future society is going to have a lot more options than just gender affirming surgeries and hrt

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[–] Tayphix@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Does anyone know how these people react to games like Celeste?

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[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They don’t have pronouns in space

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

“Muh immersion” is the “but what about the children?” for freeze-gamer

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[–] axont@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (11 children)

His entire rant is how he wants an immersive escapist fantasy where trans people don't exist. Is this person popular? He reminds me of that guy TotalBiscuit but less articulate.

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[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Everything that overgrown infant cried could very well be directed right back at him.

LGBTQ+ people just want to have a good time in fantasy media and get immersed in a story to be fully themselves using pronoun selection and seeing characters reminiscent of them and their people they know in real life.

However these whining maggots have to constantly shovel their soy ideology into everything, crying about muh pronouns as if LGBTQ+ people being happy is such a fucking abhorrent thing. Constantly reminding LGBTQ+ people of the very dangerous hostile body politic that they seek to escape from every time they go on one of these childish right wing tantrums.

And they've been doing so for about a decade now, it's fucking boring, pathetic even, how much importance these fascists still assign to their insane barbaric opinions as more and more people see them for the twisted creatures they are.

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[–] JohannaChittarra@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I made the mistake of looking up live gamer reactions live-tucker-reaction to this, and saw a lot of folks agreeing with this ghoul. Man, I feel so safe as a trans person these days. screm-a Also, it is simply astounding how easy it is to spot the reactionary if you even mention pronouns.

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