The same people that go full autist at their video games and kick my face in while flaunting all the stupid microtransaction bullshit on me can't handle a game in my arena, eh? It's really simple, you just have to learn some words.

Strong woman don't need no man, right? Women brought this on themselves.

That's an alpha male move anyway. A real alpha man doesn't fear internet outrage and instead does what they want.

I wouldn't have bought at launch anyway. Especially turn based JRPGs, because I'm forever behind on what of those I want to play anyway.

Added childishness is probably not a deal-breaker, but I hate how these clowns always do that to games.

I was going to buy this game too. I still might once the details are picked in to more, but it seems like at best it was made infantile.

If I woke up tomorrow morning and my job and everything I owned except the clothes on my back were gone, I still wouldn't sleep on the street that night. I'd walk to a friends house where at the very least I'd be offered a couch to sleep, because they know I'd be doing everything I can to be gone as quickly as possible, that I wouldn't bring drugs into their house, that I wouldn't harm their children, and that I wouldn't escape one night with all of their things.

So I question the character of any allegedly good person living on the streets as to why they've made so little of a good impact to the people around them that they'd be allowed to live on the streets.

This narrative is pushed all over the communist sphere in places like Reddit. you always see things like “almost all of the homeless are just people who lost their job, their car broke down, they are just like you and you could be next.” Uh, just no. There is a mountain of difference between most of the homeless I see who being locked in asylum is the compassionate thing to do, and me and normal people.

Watch it be won by a 300lb man in a dress.

"Your annoying barking is so gay!" Everything was gay back then in words. Now everything is gay but you can't say it.

My oldest nephew the school was trying to send to the drug doctor in first grade because he wouldn't sit still or some nonsense. Yeah he can be a bit careless and hyper, but if you give him something he's interested in his attention span seems infinite. The youngest one starts I think in another year, it will be interesting, because he's going to be bored. He's already reading and spelling at age 4, so "hey kids, here's the letter A" is going to last about 5 seconds with him. I wish I could talk my brother into homeschooling or something else.

I only did well in elementary school because generally I could just quietly be left to my own devices. It gave me patience, I'll give it that. I can sit for hours on end and stare at a wall really well.

Gender segregated classes at the lower levels would go a long way. You know though if the boys ever pulled ahead of the girls at something, the feminists would flip out. Or there would be kids trying to tranny their way into the other one, etc.

I don't know the character (I'm guessing from Pokemon), but they can't even make the fat ugly one have the same feeling. One looks like a happy little girl, the other is like an angsty tranny. Can't even smile, really?

Makes sense and why I've really always hated representation. They always pick out the one person "we need to see ourselves in a story." If I play a game that I create someone to mirror myself, I still want to be a badass. My real world self can't fight off hordes of monsters with an axe, call fire down from the sky, win an F1 race or a World Series, etc. Who wants realistic real life simulation anyway?

That I do. I have a pretty good group of friends and family, some practicing Christians more than others but all with at least that similar moral compass.

It's been interesting though to just read through unhindered without someone trying to interpret things for me. Especially since a lot of it is really not all that complicated.

I might even go so far as to argue that putting a repentant man around children would be leading them to temptation. Would it be right for a Christian to offer a former alcoholic a drink?

Those that hate Christianity are always trying things like this, and the "Church of Everlasting Love" as I refer to it doesn't help the image. I'd even argue that the existence of so many false "Churches" only serves to make it easier for things like this.

Can and does God forgive sins these heinous? Everything in the bible would say so. Is it as simple as "oh yeah just love God and Jesus and regret it a bit and you're good?" I think not. Part of repentance would be acceptance of the worldly consequences. I've often wondered, should a repenting Christian enter a plea of not guilty, for example? You're covering a sin with a lie. Anyway, it's still only for us to judge the man and give fair "worldly" punishment, then forgive move on and leave the eternal part to God.

I've been reading the bible a lot lately, sort of a "clean" reading not like bible study or looking up specific verses, but just reading it almost like a book. It's been interesting as someone who grew up Christian and had never really lost that, but lost interest in "Church."

I've been told similar in person by actual middle school kids about others at their school--kids who wear tails to school, call themselves furries, etc. I took a bit of it with a grain of salt, but never really dismissed it. With what we know for certain about things happening in schools, it's not as much of a stretch as it seems.

If I took it at face value it would be fine. Taken in the modern context likely from a woman, well I know it means something entirely different.

Well that looks absolutely terrible.

I mean kids in wheelchairs with physical ailments is probably one of the "inclusion" groups I have the most compassion for, having not gotten there by the way of mental illness. I could probably talk myself past my ever increasing aversion for DEI characters if that type character's placement was right. Someone that looks like they'd be in the fat cart at Walmart with a 5 sizes too small mask stretched over their face screaming at me about health, well that isn't going to shine those people in a positive light anyway.

The first one was diverse enough.

Besides, if I’m a god, I’m surely not going to be in a fucking wheelchair. I’m either going to be god enough to heal myself, or command some lesser beings to carry me around on a golden and velvet throne.

I won’t be buying this game over that alone, and I have every game Supergiant has made.

Superb artwork depicting any American public transport I've been on.

Yeah, I remember when I started it before the combat annoying me. If it gets too awful the second run I'll either cheat if I want to finish the game or move on.

Yeah, that. I don't think it's a tranny but just an ugly woman. I actually looked her up a bit the second time through the trailer and at the very least couldn't easily find a screeching Twitter profile full of pronouns. Or really much of anything at all.

I'm still always skeptical of any game.

The combat was weird if I remember right. Otherwise it's an RPG that goes for a really realistic depiction of medieval Bohemia. I only played probably 10 hours a couple years ago, I'm going to start fresh. I've heard a lot of good things about it.

I had no idea Gamefly even still existed.

Thought this might be of interest to you all. I didn't really notice any diversity at all, and if I recall the original pissed a lot of those people off, so, maybe something good coming. I just re-bought the original one to play a few weeks ago as I started it on Game Pass years ago and never made it far. I'll probably pick it up again this summer.

I would totally not be surprised by it being intentional. Older men at least those I know about seemed to highly value reading and literature. My granddad always pushed me to read, and when he got older he was more well off and bought up a pretty big collection of high end books of just classic literature that he'd let me read and now myself and my brother split up when he passed. Even my great-grandfather from a totally different part of the family, who was very much greasy old school blue collar held on to some books I have my hands on now. They are compliations of 20-40 page writings on different things in history, written with detail and intelligence the modern world would have you believe no one but those with a list of degrees could even understand. Men used to value this stuff, yet now how many average-age adult men read at all?