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[–] 8 points 2 days ago (1 child)

This is an interesting take, because I assume you don't know the context of what the person you responded to was referencing?

The Tl;dr is that someone on Twitter? Tumblr? Some place like that, said that they wished there was a Disco Elysium style game, but with a more casual plot/setting. And suggested a game about "A witch in a small village in the Alps, looking for her lost cat".

This post got clowned on a ton, I think somewhat unfairly, because even leftists can have Gamer Misogyny Syndrome. But you raise an interesting idea, that small villages can also have a lot of fucked up politics. So it could work.

Justice for the Witch in the Alps game idea, is what I'm saying

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  • This is an interesting take, because I assume you don't know the context of what the person you responded to was referencing?

    No, i'm fully aware of the context. I unironically think it's a perfectly fine idea and that the people clowning on it are just pissed that it's girly cozy aesthetics instead of cocaine divorced guy aesthetics, which is not sufficient to infer anything about its quality, artistic merit, originality or politics. It's 100% just Gamer misogyny that people get so upset about it. When i can play a game about a fucking cop who has stalked his ex so badly he can dial her new phone number from muscle memory and appreciate the finished product as one of the best video game stories of all time, i can expect guys to not piss their birthday boy pants when a game looks like an episode of the Heidi anime.

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