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@Jaded I have some choice words for you, sir, having been able to see it two days early.

It's winter.

That means it's time to play Skyrim again.

I'm at 216 mods. I've gone too far, please send help.

But it's running surprisingly well. Vortex is a better mod manager than I expected.

I've been playing far too much Hades lately. Supergiant can't seem to make a bad game if they tried.

Also, been fanboying way too hard for Nyx.

@Ghost In a sudden twist, the entire series was nothing but a Holodeck simulation that went haywire at the end because Data kept screwing around with the main computer.

@carma said in General Video Game Thread:

I heard it was anti-punk. Contained racist and transphobic subtexts. Things like that.

Not to mention the unfair treatment the workers went through to make the game.

So I don't think I'll support it.

I mean, should include just about every major dev/publisher at that point.

Like Ubisofts rampant sexual harassment via their upper management.

Or EA straight up encouraging uncontrolled online gambling.

Or Activison/Blizzard being against human rights in Taiwan.

Take your pick. No one is exempt.

I started going to the gym again.

I hate myself.

Mass Effect 2 is ten years old today.

You're welcome.

He sure did a good job of 'owning the libs'.

But nothing of value was lost.

The message is more or less, the holidays can suck, but I feel like there's people here that pretty supportive.

@faraday But how we would all know he quit unless he made it a point to tell staff to ban him?

/sarcasm

I'm done. I'm done.

I'm not doing anymore shopping. You can't make me, I've dealt with enough sore feet and ankles this week from standing in line.

I'm spending the rest of the holidays drunk.

@silverfox I'm still put out that WORA is gone and not even as archives.

There was some true gold in there.

RoS was a half-baked movie of even more half-baked ideas. Whatever else it does(and more often than not, doesn't do)it just reinforces my belief that Abrams should never be allowed to touch another intellectual property ever again.

I still haven't forgiven him for the Star Trek reboot. Thank god that Picard is releasing next month.

I got a character going with a friend and we've made some preliminary plans. I have to say, this is one of the most unique concepts for a game. And I'm utterly fascinated to see where it goes.

I really like the idea of creating your own little world, creating bonds with other dreamers and then creating bridges with those dreamers to visit their dreams.

I don't know if there will ever be any kind of grand unified theme or metaplot or whatever, but at this point, I don't care. I really like it.

I think this is the first time in a long time I've seen a mush so something utterly different, to my knowledge at least.

Some people say their butt is awesome when really it's just a boat. In this case, it's a really nice butt. I think I'm using that old WORA analogy properly.

@Seamus I've made it a point to close the MUSB tab when I've been drinking. Because I'll protect myself from reading something that'll seriously piss me off and I'll lose my filter of human decency.

I can however, RP just fine while drinking, so there is that.

Okay. So. I don't think that anyone is pushing back against the idea that you can't play a racist or a bigot or any other kind of character with some kind of prejudice. You see it plenty on WoD games because real world prejudices still exist. It happens. Hell, I've played a characters like that in the past.

And there's a difference between random players not liking each other and eventually making snide comments and snipes at each other to jumping right away to the idea that anyone is saying that everyone must be PC so we don't trigger the snowflakes. From what I've read, I haven't seen that.

You have two extremes here going on. Neither of which anyone was advocating for. Allowing characters to act like obstinate dicks IC? Whatever. Happens on plenty of games and it's never been an issue. From what I read, and maybe I'm wrong, it's when there's no OOC structure to discipline those players that take that freedom too far. Because there should be limits. There have to be limits.

The whole idea of 'everything is allowed' is ideal in theory. But humans are pieces of shit who will take every mile they can for every inch their allowed.

No, no game should be PC-world where everything is nice and any bad language is treated with draconian authoritarianism. But no oversight with nothing being seen as negative is just as bad.

There needs to be a middle ground, and this litmus test to say 'if it's worse than Trump' I'm not sure is the best measure.

I really enjoy(and hate)how catchy Toss a Coin to Your Witcher is. I haven't listened far too much today on my phone while at work.

@Alamias said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:

@bear_necessities Modern Day

That's my biggest detractor to most Ares games. And I like Ares. Could just never get into modern day types. But that's just me.