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goat, do games w Seeking Constructive Dialogue on Mod Removals: Stereotyping Doesn't Help

damn nexus really just said “fuck you enbies” :(

Voroxbob,

The pronoun mod took away pronoun choices. It was created by an obvious transphobe, and Nexus got rid of it because they have no patience for obvious transphobes.

dingus, do gaming w Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Review Thread
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I think it would be interesting to compare these reviews to the same publications reviews of Cyberpunk 2077 in it’s pre-release review period.

Ethereal87, (edited )
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Here’s kind of your easiest parallel thread from Reddit at the time to see if anyone’s interested what overlap might be there.

scrapped

(go use Hot Saucerman’s link instead!)

dingus, (edited )
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Pretty sure that’s an April Fools thread.

EDIT: Looks like the original CP2077 review thread got nuked. There’s a follow-up from a few days after it released.

Original megathread: old.reddit.com/r/…/cyberpunk_2077_review_thread/

Post-release megathread: reddit.com/…/cyberpunk_2077_review_thread_2_postl…

Ethereal87,
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Ahh nuts, you’re right. It was harder to find the right one than I expected and didn’t even realize it was an April Fools joke. Thanks for the correction!

Stillhart,

“Hot Saucerman” is my favorite of the many. Solid reference!

dingus, (edited )
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Yacht Rockerman, Shock Jockerman, and Trick Shotterman are pretty high up there, too.

Also, the one he never used because I made it up myself: Snot Flickerman.

anon_water, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 17th
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Lies of P. So far so good on boss #3

smort, do games w Just beat Elderand
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store.steampowered.com/app/1413660/Elderand/

It’s a Metroidvania, for anyone else wondering.

OP, do you remember how long it took you to beat it? Did the game keep your interest throughout?

doggish,

It took me just shy of 20 hours and that’s mostly because I was so impatient and died a lot. Took me a long time to realize that jumping over attacks was just better than using the dodge for a lot of enemies.

The game almost lost me right away. It gets so much easier after racking up some levels and a fun weapon have been found.

jordanlund, do gaming w Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Review Thread
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26th? I thought it was the 21st?

AHorseWithNoNeigh,
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21st for the update. 26th for the DLC.

jordanlund,
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Aha! Makes sense!

stagen, do gaming w Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Review Thread
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You know, I’m kind of relieved it’s being so well recieved. I feel like CDPR could use some positivity.

RaivoKulli, do gaming w Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Review Thread

makes amends

redemption

redemption arc

I guess they’re talking about the update since saying how 30€ DLC is their redemption would be too ridiculous even for gaming world. Still, giving some of the shit you promised years after the launch is hardly a “redemption” imo. It should’ve been there from the get-go and giving it now, way late, is least they could do.

totallymojo, do gaming w I am so pumped for Phantom Liberty and Cyberpunk 2077 v2.0!
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I could not bring myself to finish Starfield. Such an old feeling generic janky game. Fucking fast travel simulator. They didnt even bother to fix the NPC faces. Like 5% technical improvements since Fallout 4.
Fuck that expensive crap.

Also looking forward to the Cyberpunk update.
Now maybe I can enjoy it. Love that world but I think I had every bug at release.

Stillhart,

Looking forward to CP2077 so I can stop trying to have fun in Starfield. That game just is not doing it for me, as much as I try.

Kra, (edited )

CP2077 was always an outstanding game to me, with flaws, but still outstanding from the start. Starfeld however… why is it 70€, it should cost 30€ then it would probably be worth it.

Catastrophic235,
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Damn I’m glad I bought AC6 at launch instead of Starfield, unlike half my friends lol. Pretty sure one of them got a save breaking bug on the same night I beat Balteus 😂😂😂.

I’ll probably still get it, but it’ll be months from now after the modding community has gotten established and the problems have been mostly worked out.

CorrodedCranium, do games w Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of September, 18, 2023
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I’ve been playing Max Payne 3. It stopped working at the end of Chapter 6 on my PS3 so I found a completed save and started playing it on my Steam Deck from where I left off.

Also Cyberpunk 2077. I avoided it up until now partially due to how buggy it was at release and how things like the police mechanics were still lacking. Keanu Reeves being in the game was another thing. I find celebrity worship really off putting and based off of Reddit’s reaction I kind of assumed that would be a bigger part of the game with lots of obnoxious winks to the audience. I just got started but the game seems neat so far. I like the atmosphere a lot.

averyminya, do gaming w Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Review Thread

While some of Cyberpunk 2077’s issues still linger,

Curious what ComicBook.com means by this.

MargotRobbie, do games w Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?
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Suppose there is a federated ActivityPub based Wiki network, how would that work? Fandom is so terrible for looking up actual info with irritating video ads, especially since after they brought out their competition from Curse.

bitsplease,

I don’t think it’d work all that well to be frank. You’d wind up with dozens of pages for each subject since each instance can have their own. You could probably come up with a distinct federated solution that might work though, where the servers are federated but the content is shared. Not sure how that would look in practice though, and how you could keep instances from diverging

Voroxpete, (edited ) do games w Seeking Constructive Dialogue on Mod Removals: Stereotyping Doesn't Help

You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nr, nr, nr.” By 1968 you can’t say “nr”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nr, nr.”

  • Republican strategist Lee Atwater.

Atwater’s point here is that dogwhistles work, and they’ve been a core strategy of regressive bigots for decades.

Today’s hateful bigots understand that they can’t openly say “I want to legislate trans people out of existence, even if that means they all die.” So they engage in layers of abstraction, and wrap their abstractions up in leftist talking points. They claim to be defenders of “free speech” even as they support laws that empty out libraries of books, remove shows from television or make discussion of anything LGBTQ related impossible online.

So to you, the innocent rube, removing a pronoun selection from a game might not sound like an attack on trans people, but it very much is. The mod was a rallying cry, a call to fellow bigots to express themselves while pointedly saying to every trans person watching “You are not safe. We are here, we hate you, and we want to erase your existence.”

The existence of the pronoun selector impacted them in absolutely no way, shape, or form. There was nothing to be gained from its removal other than the statement it made, the proud declaration of their hatred encoded in a language of abstraction that made it visible only to their allies and their targets.

And the fact that they can get away with this; the fact that they can openly torment their chosen victims while the average idiot pats them on the head and calls them a “victim of censorship”… That’s their favourite part.

librechad,

I understand the concept of dog whistles and the historical usage of coded language to advance certain agendas. My primary concern here is not the mod itself, but rather how moderation decisions are made and the criteria used. If we can’t openly discuss these topics, it’s hard to determine what is or isn’t acceptable. I’m not advocating for intolerance; I’m advocating for clarity in community guidelines.

bungle_in_the_jungle, do games w whats your unconcious sign that you really really like the game you are playing

When I can’t stop thinking about it when I’m not playing it.

Chailles,
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For me, that tends to be a sign of burning out. Or at least it’s imminence.

HidingCat, do games w Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Review Thread (90/100 OpenCritic)

Feels like being a patient gamer wins again. Will pick this up at some point.

simple, do games w Lies of P - Discussion

I’ve been playing a lot and it’s the first soulslike that’s genuinely great. It obviously borrows a lot but the mechanics they added in like the arm, skill tree, weapon assembling etc. do a great job at expanding some ideas rather then just copy pasting.

I agree with some people that it’s deceptively more similar to Sekiro than Dark Souls. Even with the first dodge upgrade I feel like it’s a bit undertuned compared to perfect blocks. Dodging feels finnicky because it has little I-frames and many enemies and bosses have insane tracking that’s hard to dodge. Hopefully they might balance it out a little in the future.

I’m very happy the game didn’t turn out to just be puppets as the first few areas suggest. The game really gets going when you come across some real monster variety. The area I’m in now is straight out of resident evil 4.

The one other complaint I have is the dialogue. It’s so hit or miss. Like it’s trying to be Bloodborne but also a comedy? It feels bizarre to see a lot of horror and be completely taken out by Gemminy making jokes. Just doesn’t work for me.

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