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Johnny Aztec posted:Don't worry about it. People have an unhealthy obsession of going through everything with a microscope to find every grain of "omgracism". Some people are also quick to dismiss as many instances of racism as they can so they don't have to worry about them. So I'm curious what was racist about the mole dudes?
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Trainmonk posted:Some people are also quick to dismiss as many instances of racism as they can so they don't have to worry about them. So I'm curious what was racist about the mole dudes? Sometimes a mole is just a mole. They have big hands and like to dig stuff. They use minecarts and bombs to help their mining because they are anthropomorphized moles.
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FauxGateau posted:Tyranny is a really good rpg. It gives you scaling degrees of being a horrible monster, but because of this you're constantly pushing yourself in order to be the best monster for the glory of Kyros (I have his poster above my bed). My own moral horizon showed itself when I was trying to get info from a prisoner and after gaining seemingly useless intel you're left with a choice. Either let the prisoner die or force the prisoner to kill her fellow prisoners for her freedom. So I gave her a rock. Tyranny is amazing for this sort of slow character slide. I ended up alienating almost everyone around me and became a figurehead for the rebellion by advocating moderate sensible reform of the Overlord's policies in the name of good long-term stable oppression and exploitation.
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Trainmonk posted:Some people are also quick to dismiss as many instances of racism as they can so they don't have to worry about them. So I'm curious what was racist about the mole dudes? Well yeah, I wanna hear what it was too, because it's sure to be great. What ethnic group did these anthropomorphic moles offend?
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Ibblebibble posted:Total War: Warhammer 2 One of the Lizard artillery units is a dinosaur with a laser cannon on its back. One of Its best features is the fact that after it fires off all its ammunition it can still say "RAWR IMMA DINASAUR!" and wade into melee combat to wreck poo poo. Also one of the Lizard generals is a 10-Foot tall Aztec Lizardman mounted on a T-Rex.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Don't worry about it. People have an unhealthy obsession of going through everything with a microscope to find every grain of "omgracism". but yeah I'll third wanting to know what was racist in Moletown, a quick google doesn't really show me anything
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Oct 6, 2017 00:31
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" Hey, I got a great idea! Let's kill ALL THE GODDAMN SPARROWS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY! Surely nothing could go wrong with this amazing plan!"
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Anyway yeah, bring on the possibly-racist Mario moletown stuff. I never played the game, but I'm pretty interested because of all the franchises Mario's one of the ones that's managed to keep their nose clean so far, at least as far as I'm aware.
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Simply Simon posted:I got a SNES Mini more or less through a windfall and while I'm super happy in general to play some good old poo poo again, I am half looking forward to and half dreading Super Mario RPG. I've tried it out emulated two or even three times and could never get past the first few sections, first a purple crocodile was kicking my loving rear end over and over, then I surmounted it on my next try and promptly failed like crazy against the next boss. I think I'm doing something super wrong...or should maybe actually read the loving manual like it's 1996??? I had a great time with Partners in Time which everyone hates, so...  Well, uh. It's a game made for literal children. Did you try using your fireball skill against the crocodile? You can't really do anything wrong in Mario RPG. Outside of a small handful of enemies you can beat the game in like, an afternoon just mashing the attack button.Danaru posted:My only problem is for some reason, every time I start to play Mario RPG, something catastrophic happens that makes me lose everything. At first the game cartridge battery broke and wouldn't save anymore so I'd just leave the system on, then my snes broke, then I moved on to emulators and my PC got a virus and had to be wiped, then the entire PC poo poo out and we had to get a new one, even my memory stick on my PSP suddenly became unreadable. It always happens just before or just after Exor. I must have played through the game like ten times up to that point but I've never once actually got to Smithy before something happened to my save When I was a kid, the last time I rented the game it had a broken save battery so I had to leave it running for the whole weekend. At one point I screwed up and died. There went all my progress. 
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jon joe posted:Divinity: Original Sin 2 You could teleport people into lava for instant kills in the first one but I haven't managed that in this one yet
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For some reason today in Dota 2 botmatches instead of being a random assortment, the bots would always play the same set of characters in what was actually a pretty well synergized team. They would also poo poo-talk each other throughout the match and the Zeus would type "?" into chat whenever he got a kill which was infuriating when he'd already been fed to infinity by a lovely mid. I swear it wasn't like this yesterday
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Oct 6, 2017 02:58
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Nostradingus posted:I'm playing through Mario RPG as well and trying to do a Mallow and Geno run, since I always ended up using Bowser and Peach in previous playthroughs. It's still one of my favorite games but I lost to Croco because I forgot to buy and equip armor. I also forgot that the mole village is a little uncomfortably racist TELL US WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE MOLE MAN VILLAGE YOU loving SON OF A BITCH
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Johnny Aztec posted:Well yeah, I wanna hear what it was too, because it's sure to be great. A lot of the time racism isn't about who is offended but more about what an instance of it is doing to perpetuate the cycle of ignorance and harm. Acknowledging and understanding this when it comes up is pretty key to eliminating the effects of racism for future generations. You dont have to stop liking something if you acknowledge problems with it, don't know why the first instinct is to dismiss and criticize.
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Johnny Aztec posted:" Hey, I got a great idea! Let's kill ALL THE GODDAMN SPARROWS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY! Surely nothing could go wrong with this amazing plan!" -All Chinese People(?) EDIT: I've never played Mario RPG but I demand to know what is racist about this place I've never heard of. Big Trouble in Little Mole Town. Ariong has a new favorite as of 04:51 on Oct 6, 2017 |
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Trainmonk posted:You dont have to stop liking something if you acknowledge problems with it, don't know why the first instinct is to dismiss and criticize. Because nobody has any loving clue what the Moletown racism thing is even referring to!
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RyokoTK posted:Because nobody has any loving clue what the Moletown racism thing is even referring to! If it's a troll, it's been a very effective one. We should consider ending the derail. Divinity: Original Sin is fun though. Just started playing the first one with a friend, and it's as close to D&D as you're going to get in a multiplayer game. At least in the beginning the summons are fun. We have found ourselves more than once cheering "Giant spider for MVP!"
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RyokoTK posted:Because nobody has any loving clue what the Moletown racism thing is even referring to! Right but it's not healthy to dismiss something as sensationalist before even understanding what it is. I'd like to know too
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PYF little things in games: The Terrible Secret of Moletown
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1stGear posted:PYF little things in games: The Terrible Secret of Moletown Once you know, you'll never play Mario the same way again.
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Jerry Cotton posted:They all eat mole 24/7. Mole is good though. 
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SergZpartan posted:One of the Lizard artillery units is a dinosaur with a laser cannon on its back. One of Its best features is the fact that after it fires off all its ammunition it can still say "RAWR IMMA DINASAUR!" and wade into melee combat to wreck poo poo. In one of the dev diary videos about the lizards they talked about adding some shittier mid-tier dinos to the roster. They basically went "these aren't canon but we thought dinosaurs are an important part of the faction identity and we didn't want the player to go too long without being able to field any." One of the skaven lords starts with the radioactive hellfire flamethrowers and I love them so much.
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Picked up Mad Max on sale on Steam, and it's pretty much what you'd expect: a decently-made WB-published open world collectathon like the Batman Arkham games or the Shadow of Mordor stuff. What I didn't expect was how bleak and pointless it all is, and especially what an unlikable and irredeemable piece of poo poo Max is. I know they had to return to the status quo by the end of the game, but the last hour of the plot is just....gently caress. I did not identify with or even root for Max. I hate him more than The Boss from Saints Row, even. And I'm not sure if that's an intentional part of the game's writing and design or not.
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yeah, it's intentional. the end of the game is meant to lead into the beginning of Fury Road. the weird PTSD flashbacks in the movie of people haunting Max and blaming him for their deaths are the NPCs who died. the movie is his redemption for what he did in the game.
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Johnny Aztec posted:" Hey, I got a great idea! Let's kill ALL THE GODDAMN SPARROWS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY! Surely nothing could go wrong with this amazing plan!" Weird, i cant believe a poor country with no education structure didn't know anything about food chain collapse. Apparently it is knowledge everyone but the Chinese are born with
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Nuebot posted:
When I initially posted, I thought I was in the complaints thread, but I guess that will actually be a little thing that makes playing Super Mario RPG ages too late* for it to be relevant actually special in a way for me. *I'm German, so I couldn't easily have played it before discovering emulators anyway!
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Tardcore posted:Weird, i cant believe a poor country with no education structure didn't know anything about food chain collapse. Apparently it is knowledge everyone but the Chinese are born with No but generally those people aren't deciding national policy. Generally. Edit: Nevermind just scrolled up and saw the context of that statement. Oh boy, backing off of that one.
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Blind Sally posted:yeah, it's intentional. the end of the game is meant to lead into the beginning of Fury Road. the weird PTSD flashbacks in the movie of people haunting Max and blaming him for their deaths are the NPCs who died. the movie is his redemption for what he did in the game. I thought there was some books or comic series that was suppose to lead into that though? At least that's as much as i understand.
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RyokoTK posted:Because nobody has any loving clue what the Moletown racism thing is even referring to!
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It's one of those things that only seems racist until you think about it for more than ten seconds.
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:I thought there was some books or comic series that was suppose to lead into that though? At least that's as much as i understand. Yeah the game is intended to be like the rest of the series: Max is an almost mythological character and canon is very loose. Theres not really a direct connection.
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I appreciate that Telltale Batman's series is using JB Blanc as Bane, who has done his voice in quite a few other adaptions. A pity they don't use the Arkham series' VA for Riddler, but giving the wildly different interpretation - Arkham guy is a massive, whiny poo poo dangerous by proxy, whereas TT Riddler is a legitimately dangerous terrorist - I suppose a new dude is suitable.
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Mass effect: Andromeda. In a side mission the landing team is sitting and those safety harnesses come down. Think: roller coaster overhead harness. If you take Drack with you the thing just goes up and down failing to cover them, failing noise included, because they're too big to fit in the harness.
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Nobody ever thinks about moleman
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:Nobody ever thinks about moleman Those lucky bastards.
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poptart_fairy posted:I appreciate that Telltale Batman's series is using JB Blanc as Bane, who has done his voice in quite a few other adaptions. Honestly I have a pavlovian anger response to his voice at this point so that's fine with me
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FactsAreUseless posted:The stereotypical hillbilly accent, which is what the moles do, overlaps with old stereotypes about how southern black people talk. Also I think people get it confused with the moles from Redwall. Oh well that's dumb I was hoping for a Jynx type situation
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Oh well that's dumb Good Lawd, Mistah Mario! I don't know nuthing bout riding no minecarts!
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