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SMITE wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 10:58:

ForgedReality wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 00:04:
I love it that bigoted dipshit Reich-wingers don't understand that capitalism is the reason everything sucks. Billionaires are your enemy, not some idiot bait distraction like "woke". 🙄

The sheer hypocrisy in this place is what drove me to quit posting here altogether.

A post mocking wokeness is deleted as a "shit post" but this personally insulting post is allowed to remain--because of course it is. We may deny the thing exists, or we may praise it (often in the same post) but we can never mock it ...

Have fun in your little echo chamber.

Your reaction to the reaction to the shitpost wasn't deleted either. It's almost like not everything can be understood through the lens of anti-woke reductionism.

And describing someone calling out bigotry as a personal attack is a weird self-own.

Morn wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 11:13:
bye

ditto
It’s the classic “this is why I don’t post” post. Always a treat and guaranteed to be followed by more posts.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Jan 31, 2025, 10:38:

Beamer wrote on Jan 31, 2025, 08:30:
It wasn't a misrepresentation.
If your employer calls you by the wrong gender intentionally and repeatedly in America, they are going to lose any lawsuit that comes up. This shouldn't be controversial, but to people that insist upon being the lowest quality of human with the least respect for people around them while demanding they themselves be respected, it is.

Some people should just be shipped off to Monster Island and never allowed to interact with humanity. They offer nothing of value and just take take take. Absolute parasites of society.

Beamer, I could be wrong, but this really reads like you've had just about enough of a certain group of people's bullshit.

The "I'm superior because I only care about myself and am a dick to everyone" schtick is just such edgy 14 year old bullshit.

Beamer wrote on Jan 31, 2025, 08:30:
It wasn't a misrepresentation.
If your employer calls you by the wrong gender intentionally and repeatedly in America, they are going to lose any lawsuit that comes up. This shouldn't be controversial, but to people that insist upon being the lowest quality of human with the least respect for people around them while demanding they themselves be respected, it is.

Some people should just be shipped off to Monster Island and never allowed to interact with humanity. They offer nothing of value and just take take take. Absolute parasites of society.

Beamer, I could be wrong, but this really reads like you've had just about enough of a certain group of people's bullshit.

Mashiki Amiketo wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 23:29:

Beamer wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 18:14:
Yeah, I was going to ask which laws were extreme leftist, but I assume we'd get the Jordan Peterson misrepresentation of the Canadian pronoun law.

Imagine thinking that it was a misrepresentation, when that was the core argument used for his reeducation requirement.

It wasn't a misrepresentation.
If your employer calls you by the wrong gender intentionally and repeatedly in America, they are going to lose any lawsuit that comes up. This shouldn't be controversial, but to people that insist upon being the lowest quality of human with the least respect for people around them while demanding they themselves be respected, it is.

Some people should just be shipped off to Monster Island and never allowed to interact with humanity. They offer nothing of value and just take take take. Absolute parasites of society.

Beamer wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 18:14:
Yeah, I was going to ask which laws were extreme leftist, but I assume we'd get the Jordan Peterson misrepresentation of the Canadian pronoun law.

Imagine thinking that it was a misrepresentation, when that was the core argument used for his reeducation requirement.

El Pit wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 12:42:
... the game was shouting CONSOLE! I AM A FULL CONSOLE GAME NOW! to me so loud that I had to shut this game up. Not even for $5 I would buy it. Not with this fighting game mechanics.

+1 million. This game looked light-years away from Origins in style, tone, etc.

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Sepharo wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 16:20:

Cutter wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 15:38:

Prez wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 12:45:
The last thing in the world I want to see is people who tried but failed losing their jobs. And the last thing in the world that I want to do is agree with the anti-woke looneys. But I thought the latest Dragon Age was abjectly terrible. I think that the design team was put on a project that they weren't ready to handle, and I feel bad for them.

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That you think this is actually happening shows how deep you are into this fear peddling.

It's one thing to bemoan the supposed "wokeness" in games...
But you're out here saying that it's been codified into law that far left committees will select a surgeon based only on woke politics.
Who told you that, where'd you get that from?

Yeah, I was going to ask which laws were extreme leftist, but I assume we'd get the Jordan Peterson misrepresentation of the Canadian pronoun law.

Cutter wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 15:38:

Prez wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 12:45:
The last thing in the world I want to see is people who tried but failed losing their jobs. And the last thing in the world that I want to do is agree with the anti-woke looneys. But I thought the latest Dragon Age was abjectly terrible. I think that the design team was put on a project that they weren't ready to handle, and I feel bad for them.

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Can I have one singular example of "left-wing extremism"? How is you and everyone around you having more rights and freedoms "extremism", yet fascists doing and saying things that leads to people dying is not? I have never felt represented by my government. Leftists have zero power in this system.

edit- and the fact that you think dems are "the left" is just 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. They are center-right. You've never seen leftist policies enacted, because billionaires run the show.

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Cutter wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 15:38:

Prez wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 12:45:
The last thing in the world I want to see is people who tried but failed losing their jobs. And the last thing in the world that I want to do is agree with the anti-woke looneys. But I thought the latest Dragon Age was abjectly terrible. I think that the design team was put on a project that they weren't ready to handle, and I feel bad for them.

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That you think this is actually happening shows how deep you are into this fear peddling.

It's one thing to bemoan the supposed "wokeness" in games...
But you're out here saying that it's been codified into law that far left committees will select a surgeon based only on woke politics.
Who told you that, where'd you get that from?

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RogueSix wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 11:16:
The game sold like shit. 1.5 million sales for a Dragon Age franchise entry from one of the most renown RPG devs on the planet is a complete joke.

It's worse than that - 1.5m *engagements* likely meaning they're including those who played it on whatever streaming services it was on (including the 5 hour trial for the lower tier EA and Gamepass owners) Sales were likely <1m as Outlaws (released around the same time) barely broke that number and that was the 47th best selling game of 2024 - whereas Dragon Age was the 67th.

<1m sales over 3 months is dire for a game of that scale and cost. Also note it's been on sale twice on Steam (currently 45% off) and the stats show barely any change in player count, it didn't even move back into the top 100 sales chart, indicating even at a discount the rhetoric around the game is enough that people aren't bothering and waiting for a deeper sale.

The last thing in the world I want to see is people who tried but failed losing their jobs. And the last thing in the world that I want to do is agree with the anti-woke looneys. But I thought the latest Dragon Age was abjectly terrible. I think that the design team was put on a project that they weren't ready to handle, and I feel bad for them.

Lukiopimp wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 12:12:
After TEN years - all they came up with "Yeah let's make another Dragon Age".

Dude the Dragon Age Games were great and I loved the series but they need to learn to let things go and innovate, not re-iterate. Dragon Age Veilguard was just another iteration of the same game after a decade.

Make something new, come up with new shit not take the old stuff and giving it a facelift.

Lukiopimp, I didn't buy this game because it was NOT more of the same. I would have bought it if it had been like Dragon Age Origins or even like Inquisition. But they totally changed the fighting system and the game was shouting CONSOLE! I AM A FULL CONSOLE GAME NOW! to me so loud that I had to shut this game up. Not even for $5 I would buy it. Not with this fighting game mechanics.

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El Pit wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 06:43:

But wasn't the latest Dragon Age very different from older franchise games and nevertheless didn't sell enough copies?

After TEN years - all they came up with "Yeah let's make another Dragon Age".

Dude the Dragon Age Games were great and I loved the series but they need to learn to let things go and innovate, not re-iterate. Dragon Age Veilguard was just another iteration of the same game after a decade.

Make something new, come up with new shit not take the old stuff and giving it a facelift.

Carighan wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 04:09:
Like someone said already, the game didn't actually sell badly.

It seems that in Squeenix-like fashion, EA just had entirely unreasonable expectations for sales.

The game sold like shit. 1.5 million sales for a Dragon Age franchise entry from one of the most renown RPG devs on the planet is a complete joke.

EA expected three million which imo are very modest expectations given the (theoretical) pedigree of the dev and the franchise. Dragon Age Inquisition (direct prequel of this Veilguard garbage) sold over 12 million copies about a decade ago when the TAM was much smaller than today. How is 3 million "entirely unreasonable"? Get a clue, please. Thank you very much.

Carighan wrote on Jan 30, 2025, 04:09:
Like someone said already, the game didn't actually sell badly.

It seems that in Squeenix-like fashion, EA just had entirely unreasonable expectations for sales.

Bingo

They guessed 3 million and the game came in around 1.5m.
Nothing to see here.