Does it ever bother you that this place is full of nitwits and trolls, many of whom make Reddit seem civilized and well-managed by comparison?
Yeah, me neither.

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  • amio@kbin.runtoChat@beehaw.org•It bothers me seeing weird used as a weapon
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    15 days ago

    Not a slur. Not even close.

    What it is is an omnipresent, versatile, variable, nuanced word, that someone apparently started using “politically” like fifteen fucking minutes ago - I don’t see that as a compelling reason to hustle to change my lexicon, and wouldn’t advise anyone else to do it either. It is literally playing into their dogshit tactics: “validating their view” is, respectfully, not a good argument if we’re talking about the American right which I’m going out on a limb and assuming we are. This is because their “view” (like many of their imitators) is “I will bitch about everything I can possibly pretend to take offense at, or else make something up”. Therefore, allowing them to dictate your vocabulary (extremely and intentionally hypocritically, between the incessant bitching about “political correctness”) seems like a losing or at least pointlessly annoying proposition. You are playing chess with a pigeon, it will shit on the board and strut around like it’s won.

    If they didn’t want to be called “weird”:

    1. Maybe they shouldn’t have been weird

    2. Maybe they shouldn’t be whinging about it from the #1 spot on the podium of irrelevant namecalling and shit-flinging kindergarten/zoo tactics.

    3. Tough shit lol

    4. GOTO 3

  • amio@kbin.runtoPatient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•How do y'all feel about using summons in Soulslikes? [Lies of P endgame spoilers]
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    1 month ago

    Games should be fun. If you are having fun, you’re playing it right. If you are using a feature they put into the game, you can’t be doing it that wrong.

    It’s perfectly fine to be a masochist, but it doesn’t make anyone better’n anyone else, or the games better than anything else. Knowing what you like, managing game difficulty, knowing its features and “optimizing” your enjoyment are just another kind of gaming skill. You should never feel pressure to play at harder difficulties than you want, because… why would you? I know “souls culture” is full of screeching 13-year-olds with infinitely long lists of things that make you “nOt a ReAl GaMeR” despite being literally designed and implemented as part of the game, but fuck it: that’s why nobody listens to screeching 13-year-olds.