Outer Wilds doesn't have any combat, you're thinking of Outer Worlds.
At this point in time I tend to take terms like "intersectional feminist" to mean someone is probably an ally, but if someone just calls themself a feminist without any adjectives, that gives me absolutely zero information as to whether they're interested in gender equality for all gender identities. I know they support cis women, but I have no idea whether they support any kind of trans person.
Yo I did some googling and found this
Cut out her sex hormone gland, and she eats again.
I'm not joking, I'm being 100% serious while using a totally incongruous example to make my point that tons of stuff people refuse to believe is political, is deeply political. My point further reinforced by the fact that you found it difficult to accept that I think Mario is political. People are LLMs, they don't understand the words they're using, they just regurgitate according to probabilistic association models. The word politics is associated probabilistically with seriousness, so people assume silly fun things like Mario can't be political. They don't understand the words they use, they just use heuristics. People aren't sapient creatures, they literally have the same intelligence as chatgpt.
Designers don't have to program in every evil thing to make an evil path. They just have to program in one evil path that's fun. Making games fun is their job. If playing an evil character isn't fun, they failed. If they can't find it in themselves to write an evil main character, they shouldn't be including the option.
I loved the first half of Tyranny. You get to play as a bad guy. You're encouraged to be clever, calculating, to make important decisions that will affect the rest of the game. There's mysteries about, and power to be had, and though you have superficial allegiances, your actual boss is an enigmatic figure who wants you to vie for power. Your mentors warn you that others will try to control you, and that you should always be looking out for number one.
Unfortunately, halfway through there's a moment where you don't get to do that. A moment where the obvious decision to make in order to gain power, is blocked off. Where you cannot make the smart play. Where you have to act not in your own interest, not with cunning, nor deception, nor brute force, though any of those options were easily possible. The game simply doesn't give you those choices. Your only option is to do what a guy you allied with at the start of the game says. No double cross, no clever lie, no action and rationalisation of the thing you want, the thing that will give you power. You simply give up power that is nearly in the palm of your hands because a guy who thinks he's your boss but isn't, says so.
And now I hate that game.
"Yeah! Are you gonna ask her out or nah?"
I give a fuck against both the pedo proship position and the prude antiship position. I am very firmly sometimesship
We've made basic human survival so obtainable that much of the population enjoys living in excess.
No we haven't. Most millennials will never be able to afford a house. I know there's a tendency over time to lower the poverty line and say "well if your heart is beating then you're living", but in mediaeval times working wage labour to pay rent would have been seen as destitute poverty.
They're introducing new rules about being in the same country?? Fuck, this news gets worse and worse.
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Yeah but the thing is, Th4tguyII has the most upvoted comment in this subthread. Language is a democracy and the people have spoken.