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    • RE: RL Anger

      I get stopped regularly by 'Save The Children' folks asking for donations. Every time they ask me 'Excuse me Sir! Do you believe every child deserves a fair start in life?'

      Fuck that question. Fuck them. Here's my last two answers.

      "No, and I'll tell you why. These 'children' you are saving is really just patching a wound, a wound that is best fixed by providing education and infrastructure to third world countries. Ensuring that children are born in better conditions is a better use of money."

      And... here's the lazy version I used most recently.

      "No. The world is overpopulated as it is." That one earned an 'Oh my God!' and a look of horror. It felt -good-. Fuck you, Save The Children. Fuck you so hard.

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    • RE: Good TV

      Iron Fist was peak White Savior bullshit. That said. They could have just made Danny Rand Asian and solved a number of the character's problems. (Primarily Finn Jones and his terrible acting.)

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    • RE: I owe a lot of people some apologies.

      I feel oppressed.

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    • RE: I owe a lot of people some apologies.

      @thenomain ...what? I don't recall ever posting that. I'd appreciate you not abusing your position. Thank you.

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    • RE: I owe a lot of people some apologies.

      @surreality I have no problem with you in general but I do wish, for your health and well-being, that you did not get as involved in the... more dubious social aspects of this hobby. The backbiting and rumormongering and stuff that other folks do may just be venting to them but you seem to be more negatively impacted by it than others when you are exposed to it.

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    • RE: I owe a lot of people some apologies.

      @kanye-qwest Yeah, I'm crushed. I love being the center of attention.

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    • RE: I owe a lot of people some apologies.

      I care about the hobby and enjoy it just fine. You people freaking out about 'zomg so and so said mean things about me!' is what I am mocking. You're all being ridiculous.

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    • RE: I owe a lot of people some apologies.

      @thenomain Your post says ten people care too much.

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    • RE: General Video Game Thread

      @jeshin No. You are incorrect.

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    • RE: I owe a lot of people some apologies.

      I just want to chime in to say...

      This whole thread is very Dramatic(tm). I wish I could say shit like 'This is why I don't post much anymore!' but the truth is I just don't feel strongly enough about any of you enough to stay invested.

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    • RE: General Video Game Thread

      Diablo Immortal is a reskin of Endless of God, a previous Diablo-clone by the company contracted to make Diablo Immortal.

      Diablo Immortal is a reskin of a clone of a game. That's what has the fans pissed off.

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    • RE: General Video Game Thread

      @thenomain The game can be solo'd. It seems like it would be enjoyable solo as well. I planned to play it solo myself during the beta...

      But then I ran into people. And the team dynamic just sort of happened. For the socially awkward, it doesn't seem hard at all to play within a group. Or if you like, to avoid a group. The players-per-map is kept at a small enough number that you don't need to worry about being mobbed or having too many people around you.

      When the game fully opens, I plan to mix my solo and teamplay. I will do a lot of solo stuff, such as building my camp and doing the 'flavor' quests. Then I will team up and go exploring. The game allows for both.

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    • RE: General Video Game Thread

      @thenomain Nope. I claimed an area from a group that was nearby and they didn't come destroy me. But if you do claim a contested area others can take it from you if you don't stop them.

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    • RE: General Video Game Thread

      Fallout 76: I play on the PC. What makes it worth buying, though?

      Firstly, I logged in planning to play a couple hours and drop off. Nine hours later the beta was ending and I was still logged in. My play experience, in that nine hours, was me and some random guy I just met tromping around the wasteland doing random stuff. We had an absolute blast just running from some 'Wanted' guy who kept following us around the map, just out of sight but ever-close. We fought enemies way above our level and screamed in terror as a herd of Anglers chased us across an irradiated lake-bed. The fact that you can drop in and just blammo, group up on the fly with no expectations is great. Team not working out? De-team and go your separate ways.

      Also, it never felt tedious like Fallout 4 did. The leveling/perk system is entirely, entirely different and based around getting packs of perk cards and ranking them up and assigning them, which you can change up as needed such as swapping out Lone Wanderer (when you are alone) for team-based perks. You aren't completely locked in but it doesn't feel like your choices don't matter. I took lock picking, the other guy had some hacking perks. He hacked the terminals, I picked the locks. It was nice synergy. We got toys we never would have gotten alone.

      On the topic of lack of tediousness, there's some really cool encampment systems. Firstly, you have your basic camp. A small area that -persists- every time you log on. I don't know if it disappears when I log off, but as soon as I was on, bam. There was my camp. My turrets, my walls, my everything. You can move stuff around, scrap it, upgrade. Etcetera. The prices for furniture/recipes is really, really high and cap gain is super low so buying my welcome mat felt like a triumph. Aside from the basic camps...

      Are contested camps. Claim a power plant and you can build a ton of defenses and goodies, but other people can attack it and claim it from you. It's a great PvP element that you are not required to take part in, but when you do claim a contested area... you can build some truly massive bases. The build area is huge and there's a pretty lenient object budget you have to work with. There's benefits, too. Like easy mining spots, or access to fusion cores and fusion-core charging (I believe) and other hijinks.

      There's also daily quests, drop-in events for large numbers of players, and all sorts of things you can do aside from 'X quest, Y quest'. The amount of content on the game is amazing, and you can repeat much of it if you like. There's easily a hundred hours of playtime for a casual, easily-bored player and much, much more for anyone who wants to really sink their teeth into it.

      The only problem I ran into was, in some really, really dense areas I had some choppiness from my crappy graphics card. That was it. So yeah. That's why you should buy Fallout 76. I liked it enough that I bought a friend of mine a copy as well, just so he'd play it on PC instead of PS4. So it's got my endorsement.

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    • RE: General Video Game Thread

      Fallout 76 is worth buying. That is all. Carry on.

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    • RE: Potential Buffy Game

      @sunny Right. A game set in the Buffy canon universe isn't a Buffy game. There's only one right way to play. You're just so negative.

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    • RE: Potential Buffy Game

      What about going the other direction? Slayers are everywhere. Buffy activated them. Girls are murdering monsters left and right.

      Players are the monsters, trying to survive against a regime of ultra-powered bubblegum popping teens bent on their destruction.

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    • RE: General Video Game Thread

      @coin https://kotaku.com/inside-the-culture-of-sexism-at-riot-games-1828165483

      I've got a friend who worked at Riot as a programmer. She described the behavior of people at Riot as being the 'norm' in various companies she's worked at, though not to the same degree as at Riot. The only one she never described in that way was EA, which was described as basically 'faceless workers in cubicles, grinding out their existence.'

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    • RE: RL Awkwardness/Cringe

      @ganymede Socialism doesn't work! Just look at Denmark! - Tomi Lahren, 2018.

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    • RE: Fallout: Montreal

      Things are scarce in Fallout because most of the people don't have plot armor. They aren't protagonists. If they go out to scavenge for forks, they wind up dead.

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