Issues with it:
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Lack of customization options to do various different builds in fun or unique ways.
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Only a few weapon sets are really viable.
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Disgusting "Souls" stagger mechanic.
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Enemy types are boring as hell.
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"Souls" Boss Fights.
Armored Core 2 was my favorite. I also love the Souls games, but this ain't it for me.
I would like to formally remind you all that GamerGate was NOT the first Domino. Tumblr was the fuse and GamerGate was the explosive.
All the tranny and SJW shit was neatly contained in Tumblr and universally laughed at in that era.
Oh fuck yeah man, hard agree. Freespace was one of the first games I experienced where player choice had a secret but valid outcome. I don't quite remember the context but these ships come in and your target lock doesn't work but you'd could still get in close and down their shields and kill them. Game acknowledged the achievement was cool as shit.
Saints Row 2022 was insanely woke dogshit. It was less of a game and far more of a leftist play on woke-broadway trying to speak through characters as if they were the left-wing Jordan Peterson speaking only in Twitter-isms.
It comes as no surprise that ultimately this would contribute to the final nail in the coffin for what was once one of the greatest game dev studios. All the while, spitting on "IdolNinja" who put in so much work to fix their broken Saints Row 2 before eventually passing as a result of cancer.
Volition did a lot of other things besides just Saints Row that makes this a sad day for Gaming History. Volition also controlled the license for Red Faction and while "Armageddon" was certainly not great. "Guerilla" is to this day still one of the most fun destruction simulators ever made.
Rest in Peace Volition, not for what you had become but for what you once were. Fuck these woke pricks and everything they infect.
My wife has/had zero issues with female being overtly sexualized in games and vastly prefers it to the hogs in modern TV and gaming.
The only thing that's ever made her roll her eyes is female armor in fantasy games, which I mean yeah just say you want a sexy bitch don't try and writers room yourself on that one.
Despite being firmly Agnostic, there is not a single bone of doubt in my body that Christians ARE in fact being oppressed in the United States today.
Despite not believing in any of it, I am first and foremost an American and it is my civic duty to give a shit about someone stomping on your right to practice and speak your faith.
The modern woke leftwing ideology is an all out authoritarian attack on any system that can threaten their belief structure which is religious like in design.
Yeah I could reasonably accept that for the time.
I think the reason it has the "Right wing stamp" if you will now-a-days is because the progressive left vehemently opposes it and has more Atheist as party members. Thus, a new "Panic" would be inherently evangelical of which is nested under the GOP.
Now an interesting thing though is that around 14% and rising in the GOP are Atheist or Agnostic.
If you want a good laugh. To your point.
On reddit there is a subreddit called /r/truscum. Don't know if they got banned yet but they are the "real" trannies. Ones who believe you can only be trans via medical diagnosis and that "Gender ideology" is retarded.
Were you to take the trans naming out of it, you'd swear it was a Conservative subreddit.
No. That doesn't alter my position at all.
Just because one side is nuts, does not mean you can point to the other side and somehow make your favorite viewpoint less crazy by proxy.
I'll retain that there was a large amount of Christian Zealots in the 80's-90's and there may have been an equal amount of stupidity on the other end. Both can be true.
Myth? I lived through it and around it.
My parents were absolutely convinced that Mortal Kombat was a satanic object meant to defile kids brains into killers and satanist.
Same thing with heavy metal and what is now classic rock. I don't know how it's being used now-a-days as a descriptor but it was almost 1:1 with tranny cancel culture of today.
Ehh, I don't jive well with Reddit-tier Atheist. Some of this attitude comes with age though I'd wager.
I remember living through the late 80's and 90's during the right wing "Satanic Panic" era coupled with that fucking moron Jack Thompson.
Arguably, progressive LGBTQ ladyboys are far far far more annoying than the right wing religious zealots of that time but I'd rather both just go far far away.
We want to progress society, right? Then patriarchy is inevitable. Progressives believe in patriarchy. You're regressive if you promote feminism.
Well that's the thing, (I'm going to lump them all together for conversations sake) Lefties/Libs/Commies/Socialist in Western Society are selling to the masses a lie wrapped in a beautiful box with an elegant bowtie.
That wrapping is "Tolerance" and the bow-tie is "Equity". Of course they all support traditional systems but they want it to benefit ONLY THEM and people who agree to think like them so that they are easier to control as the end goal is complete demoralization of the populace.
Hell, at that high of a level it's even less about a system of societal governance and more of a much needed appeal back to root evolutionary biology. We need to put the guardrails back up in establishing clear roles based on ability, tied into that is a patriarchal system of societal governance but it is low on the totem pole in order of importance.
At some point, in the current US political dogma there will come the realization from one side that the two party system is "Fighting Gravity" and hoping to levitate. When that rationalization is realized by the masses we will see the next huge culture shift. It just depends on which side wins that battle which is why the left wing is trying SO FUCKING HARD to brainwash children with their ideology because they know the clock is ticking on that moment.
I mean you can disagree with it all you want, I am correct. Conservatism has never been opposed to change, just that change is promoted gradually and tested within the confines of the existing society. You can look up the mission statement of any historical Conservative movements ideological definitions and you'll see this. (Excluding pure Evangelical theocrats masquerading as Conservatives such as the "Freedom party")
Liberals thus push the concept that the change was inevitable but much of what has changed is not inevitable and we can change it all again to be exactly what we want not what liberals propose is an inevitability.
Except history itself has shown that they are in fact correct in that one avenue. The United States never would have been founded without progressive change and shift away from a Theocractic Monarchy that was Great Britain. Change IS in fact inevitable and the earliest Conservatives thought very pragmatically about this. Knowing society will change, it's best to try and control the vector and speed of change rather than prevent it entirely.
Now here's the kicker on how fucked up "Horseshoe" Theory really is, ready?
For example, there's nothing to stop us from banning women from working or relegating them to nothing more than property of men. There's nothing inevitable about modern feminism. We can do away with it for good and call the patriarchy, progress.
You are absolutely correct! However, you and I would no longer be Conservatives. We would be "Regressives" which is equal and opposite of Conservatives. The libs would then become Conservatives to maintain their tranny/feminism bullshit. round and round the wheelhouse goes....
It's all less about the political definitions and more that we all need to objectively agree on what is immoral bullshit.
Psychologist here! We've had this discussion for a LONG time and it's pretty well known. We call this "Temperament" and it is a non-static sliding scale throughout an individuals lifetime.
There are some objective items we have identified about human behavior. It is correct that gender ROLES are socially created. Though we know that the social construct behind those roles usually has some sort of sensible biological marker that based them to begin with:
Example 1: Males do heavy lifting because they are more built for it, but it doesn't mean woman can not do it. It's just a matter of what makes the most sense.
Example 2: Women are better at interior design and micro engineering due to having eye evolution that grants them access to a wider array of the color spectrum and more patience on average than a male.
The idea that "Gender" and "Sex" are completely separate entities is pseudoscience. Politically motivated leftwing folk deliberately twist the language to make their point. Whereas most Americans do and historically have used Gender/Sex as a synonymous term, the modern left wing have insisted that "Sex" is simply a verb and a noun and gender only exists as an adjective. They use examples such as:
Example 1: "Lol go gender with your dad!"
They do this to deliberately obfuscate the language to put their position as completely unarguable or unbeatable. It's called Weasel Wording or "Doublespeak".
Now as for the whole "Gay is a choice or make people gay" debate there is a whole host of evidence that supports a lot of points and the conclusion at present time is "We just don't know with certainty."
We know that 100% Hetero or Homosexual human beings don't really exist. Everyone is sort of in-between. We call this the: "Kinsey Scale". So we know that human beings can be somewhat malleable to either side.
We also know that sexual abuse at a young age is HIGHLY correlated with being gay later in life and also a high chance of being a sexual offender themselves. (Which is extremely sad I will say)
Transgenderism is where things fly off the rails.
Yes, Body Dysphoria is a real condition. People with Diabetes and other forms of "by proxy" weight gain often experience this and it leads to depression and all sort of other mental ailments which can be pretty easily understood without a medical education.
We know from a singular comparative study done in the United Kingdom that kids who identify as 'Trans' are usually just confused on who/what they are (Typical of teenagers in general.) and these kids usually grow up to be gay but associate their feelings as "I must be a woman because I like X".
Intersex people DO exist but account for around 1.3% of the entire human population and while having intersex traits exist there is in fact no "Third classification" of sex. We use a variety of panel test and psychiatric evaluations to best determine the sex the individual fits in the most with. These people often look nothing like a transgender as you know them today.
Ultimately, there will come a point in time in which technology is able to make transsexual transformation a reality in true form but at that point in time of singularity the discussion will be far less about transgenderism and far more about transhumanism.
As of now, lopping off body parts of which kids are convinced is the right move via cognitive behavioral therapy isn't just incorrect, it's ethically reprehensible and any medical specialist engaging in this should both lose their right to practice and be subjected to criminal action. This is the modern equal of lobotomy for the low IQ.
Elden Ring, Bloodbourne have it as well.
Yeah I'm not shooting em down for a sequel, but I was rather unimpressed by this entry.