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Now that Bowsette is officially over, where will you be sending your horny energy? This poll is closed. |
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| Melinda Rust (née Megamelons) |
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13 | 5.86% |
| Twitch streamers |
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9 | 4.05% |
| VTube animes |
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27 | 12.16% |
| Any of the other –ette monstrosities |
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10 | 4.50% |
| [Lie] I don’t get horny. |
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54 | 24.32% |
| Other (Bowsette) |
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93 | 41.89% |
| Now that I'm an IK, I can make my own option |
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13 | 5.86% |
| David Crossup |
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1 | 0.45% |
| Bob PSPGodenkirk |
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2 | 0.90% |
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At best you're making extremely tiny insignificant or not at all important changes. EA dropping microtransactions from Battlefront II did nothing to stop employee abuse in the game industry.
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Sep 11, 2020 14:53
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Yeah mass union action industry wide would be the way to go.
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Sep 11, 2020 14:55
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Don't buy games from rapists though
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Sep 11, 2020 14:56
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Jay Rust posted:Don't buy games from rapists though Here is a safe list to choose from:
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Arrrthritis posted:It's pretty much this. I don't like the message being co-opted into "Well, there's no ethical consumption under capitalism so I might as well buy Blizzard's latest title because what else am I going to do?", but at the same time not buying a game alone isn't going to do jack poo poo. When people say "no ethical consumption etc." they don't mean "never try to do the right thing, ever." They mean that the modern world forces people into impossible decisions all the time and attempting to establish some kind of hierarchy for what is good vs. bad consumerism in a system where such exploitation is commonplace and ubiquitous a fruitless exercise. More importantly, it puts an unfair onus upon the consumer to somehow personally absolve themselves of the ills of capitalism through their own pristine buying habits, which are themselves largely ignorant, arbitrary and/or irrational, rather than stopping the relatively few people who are doing direct harm.
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Sep 11, 2020 14:57
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ANYWAY Koei Tecmo are gonna give a 50min Hyrule Warriors presentation at TGS. Hype. https://twitter.com/zelda_musou/status/1304244038623662080
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Sep 11, 2020 15:00
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exquisite tea posted:When people say "no ethical consumption etc." they don't mean "never try to do the right thing, ever." They mean that the modern world forces people into impossible decisions all the time and attempting to establish some kind of hierarchy for what is good vs. bad consumerism in a system where such exploitation is commonplace and ubiquitous a fruitless exercise. More importantly, it puts an unfair onus upon the consumer to somehow personally absolve themselves of the ills of capitalism through their own pristine buying habits, which are themselves largely ignorant, arbitrary and/or irrational, rather than stopping the relatively few people who are doing direct harm. 
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Sep 11, 2020 15:05
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Real hurthling! posted:Meat industry seems untouchable via the market because there are still so many countries to bring the american diet to that no amount of american boycott could compare to like getting everyone in africa to eat 3 bigmacs a day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp_3553sw0Q
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Sep 11, 2020 15:09
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Sep 11, 2020 15:11
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being worried about boycotting affecting the livelihood of the developers is pointless. that would mean poor people hurt developers by not being able to afford games. they're paid for their work they're fine. maybe they have to find new work after the project is over, that's just normal for the industry. everyone's gotta hustle in this broken world unionizing is the only way to fix their actual issues The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Sep 11, 2020 |
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Sep 11, 2020 15:24
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Lol, I was just about to mention The Good Place.
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Sep 11, 2020 15:27
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I'm going to start carrying a big spiked morningstar with "MY WALLET" written on it
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Sep 11, 2020 15:29
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The Good Place was good but I feel like season 3 petered out a bit and by 4 it was pretty obvious they couldn't think of anything for half the characters to really do. I liked how the vibe the titular Good Place set off was basically just The Sims, down to it being a torture chamber. Bortles
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Sep 11, 2020 15:35
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The best joke on The Good Place is still the item on Tahani's bucket list that reads "Write Tahani al-Jamil's Borges' Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"
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Sep 11, 2020 15:51
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Arrrthritis posted:It's pretty much this. I don't like the message being co-opted into "Well, there's no ethical consumption under capitalism so I might as well buy Blizzard's latest title because what else am I going to do?", but at the same time not buying a game alone isn't going to do jack poo poo. This is where I'm at. I'm not naive enough to think my purchasing decisions are seriously impacting the bottom line of these companies, but I still try to form my own moral values around what I'm buying because it is something I can control about my own life, and it provides me an opportunity to share my opinions to people in my social community. I think saying, 'gently caress all context, buy it, who cares' sucks. Plus, we get to have a few pages of these discussions, which I genuinely enjoy, and maybe we're getting a few more Games Goons to acknowledge that Captialism is a gently caress.
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Sep 11, 2020 15:52
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Is saying some video game character has “kickstarter-backer-face” derogatory?
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Sep 11, 2020 16:00
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Jay Rust posted:Is saying some video game character has “kickstarter-backer-face” derogatory? Well now it is
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Sep 11, 2020 16:05
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Yes, because didn't that come from some RPG project that made "we'll put you in the game as an NPC" a donation perk? With the end result being that the NPC population was segregated into two tiers, the ones that felt like they belonged there and the ones that didn't.
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Sep 11, 2020 16:11
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I've seen it in a few kickstarter rpgs and its not that they look bad but you can often tell their portraits were based around some facebook snapshot the backer sent in and the concept artist turned it into an elf or whatever
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Sep 11, 2020 16:13
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Also Pillars of Eternity has neogaf rape elf guy as a portrait option which is fun
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Sep 11, 2020 16:13
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The KS backer stories in PoE were some of the most embarrassing things I've ever read.
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Sep 11, 2020 16:18
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exquisite tea posted:The KS backer stories in PoE were some of the most embarrassing things I've ever read. There are some very embarrassing ones in Battletech
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Sep 11, 2020 16:19
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I stopped reading them after the first three, but still got annoyed by how many moon-people and fire-guys there were everywhere you went
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Sep 11, 2020 16:22
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Is it like tragic backstories for their OCs or something, I haven't played PoE
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Sep 11, 2020 16:25
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yeah are there excerpts anywhere, I’ve heard about the questionable backstories for awhile but never tried to look them up
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Sep 11, 2020 16:28
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Is the section in Hollow Knight with the rows of heroic bug spirits a kickstarter area? It's not really out of place in the same way PoE1's NPCs are but it does feel a bit disconnected from the rest of the game. That reminds me, I need to finish HK. CK3 coming out has temporarily derailed me. I didn't expect to like it because I don't usually like those types of games and I have a pretty low frustration limit - only tried it because it was on gamespass (superb value, etc). Had a bit of a shaky start but grew to really love it once I got a couple of powers and did some exploring. One of those games where it just feels really well designed. Definitely not going to 112% it or anything (sorry moth lady, I'm never delivering that flower  ) but going to be quite thorough. Also seems like i've timed getting into the series pretty well since Silksong is coming out soon.
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Sep 11, 2020 16:34
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UrbicaMortis posted:Definitely not going to 112% it or anything (sorry moth lady, I'm never delivering that flower  Hollow Knight rules
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Sep 11, 2020 16:44
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UrbicaMortis posted:Definitely not going to 112% it or anything (sorry moth lady, I'm never delivering that flower
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Sep 11, 2020 16:46
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exquisite tea posted:The KS backer stories in PoE were some of the most embarrassing things I've ever read. I liked the one about the guy opening up his plant shop in Defiance Bay for the morning, but everything else was an almost unbearably bad read.
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Sep 11, 2020 16:49
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mango sentinel posted:It's less bad than you think especially with the dream nail teleport also the trick is to kill all the enemies to clear a path first, then go back to get the flower, without resting on a bench, so there will be a lot less danger on the path
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Sep 11, 2020 16:51
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I’ll load up PoE myself and take some screenshots cuz I can’t find any examples online
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ymgve posted:especially with the dream nail teleport I thought the tele will kill the flower
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Sep 11, 2020 16:56
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Not a Children posted:I thought the tele will kill the flower It does
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Sep 11, 2020 16:59
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Not a Children posted:I thought the tele will kill the flower It will, but if you drop it at the quest start it makes failure a lot less annoying
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Sep 11, 2020 16:59
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mango sentinel posted:It's less bad than you think My friend who recently did the path of pain has told me the same thing. My plan is just to play until I stop having fun, so we'll see how it goes I guess. I've still got quite a bit of the 'standard' stuff to do first though.
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Sep 11, 2020 17:00
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   (Not as bad as I remember if i'm being honest, just very boring)
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UrbicaMortis posted:My friend who recently did the path of pain has told me the same thing. My plan is just to play until I stop having fun, so we'll see how it goes I guess. I've still got quite a bit of the 'standard' stuff to do first though. path of pain doesn't count to the 112 either so you can skip it if you want you only have to complete the base 100%, the grimm content and the first four pantheons. nightmare king grimm is a ball-buster but i had more trouble with the final boss of pantheon 4 because by the time i made it that far my reflexes were in the toilet from all the previous fights
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Sep 11, 2020 17:06
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i guess there's some stuff coming out on steam soon atomicrops and welcome to elk on the 17th pendragon on the 21st (by inkle, 80 Days/Heaven's Vault dev) soldat 2, rebel galaxy outlaw on the 22nd art of rally on the 23rd (by the Absolute Drift dev), also goose game going under, serious sam 4 on the 24th  mafia remaster on the 25th the sojourn on the 29th and of course spelunky 2
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Sep 11, 2020 17:24
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ostranauts came out yesterday(?) also, I forgot to buy it
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exquisite tea posted:When people say "no ethical consumption etc." they don't mean "never try to do the right thing, ever." They mean that the modern world forces people into impossible decisions all the time and attempting to establish some kind of hierarchy for what is good vs. bad consumerism in a system where such exploitation is commonplace and ubiquitous a fruitless exercise. More importantly, it puts an unfair onus upon the consumer to somehow personally absolve themselves of the ills of capitalism through their own pristine buying habits, which are themselves largely ignorant, arbitrary and/or irrational, rather than stopping the relatively few people who are doing direct harm. "Maybe Apple shouldn't have a monopoly" "Yet you own an iPhone! Curious. I am very intelligent."
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