exocrinous

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

To be fair, some Warhammer writers also don't understand that they're writing satire. The Imperium lights it's spaceships with candles because they're too religious for common sense, and yet some claim only a fascist government is efficient enough to save humanity.

The Administratum is such a tangled and immense bureaucracy that entire planets are a rounding error to them. Their propaganda says this is because the Imperium is too big to manage efficiently. But the true reason is, fascists are bad at math

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I personally choose to believe the people complaining about Aloys peach fuzz have never seen a real woman

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Good thing Risa's still around. The other one bans people for having a mental disorder

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Starship Troopers also has the joke earlier in the movie about the kid as a soldier, which becomes reality later on as younger and younger kids are drafted into the army. Maybe Helldivers should let you play as a child.

Space Ninjas game spoilersThe player characters in Warframe are children and Warframe players all understand that the government that made them soldiers is evil.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I upvoted it. I don't think it's literally just as bad as meta, but I still think it's bad. Websites should let you opt out of cookies in one click. If they don't, I prefer not to use them. I'm sure this website's article is very important, but if they want their journalism to be read they should present it in a respectful manner. Otherwise I'm just reading the headline. I like the headline, it's a good headline, it will inform my views going forward. I will not read the article and I will not give them ad traffic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Nah. If you love each other a proposal doesn't matter in comparison. Healthy love is bigger than that. A proposal can be a big moment, but not as big as actually having a solid relationship. You can fix it. And if you do, one day you might be telling that story at the wedding and laughing about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Just say "That's lot from me, that's from Jose, the immigrant trapped in a sobe factory who is being enslaved by Pepsi Co under threat of deportation, and needs a marriage visa so he can pursue his dream of becoming a tailor. If you want to marry Jose, go ahead."

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