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No really, like what game is just trying so hard to be the most up to date, inclusive, socially and politically sensitive game in existence. Answers that would have been true at the time are good to.

There's always been games trying to force socialisation on gamers :p bioware rpgs often had discriminated against characters for example.

But I am not interested in any old game that's trying its corporate approved best. I want to see the extremes of itchio or whatever.

EDIT: I'm serious, I want like the game that would exist of you wrung all the discourse out of tumblr and put it in a game. Not "a few good takes" something that takes every opportunity to make some point about how it is good media with good politics and values. The sort of game that the frothing-mouthed gamers on twitter think the industry is always one boycott away from producing. Someone, somewhere, must have made something so earnest it deserves recognition.

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[–] 19 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

But once you recognize the secret reason for her exposure, you will feel ashamed of your words & deeds.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    What's the term? Deckhead? (diagetic essentialist or something) People that confuse the fictional explanation for the structural one.

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  • [–] 8 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    a deck head is part of a boat

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    Oooh an explanation for why I insist on still using the term "fluff" instead of """lore."""" Rules are hard. They require concentration to chew through. They're what we call "crunchy." Stories about the game's universe are easy to chow down. You can practically suck them up through a straw. That's why they're "fluffy."

    Fluff exists to give meaning to crunch so we're not playing an abstracted game like Go or checkers. 40k has subsequently fallen away from this as lore has become its own thing, where the point is something other than explaining why my toy soldiers are fighting your toy soldiers.

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