Interesting
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I donāt know what are those TGA that you talk me about. Is this a new dish, like a new smash pumpkin spice burger?
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Tindian Gale Ale
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@adashtra had a good article about this also:
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this dang SoulFrame looks like it might turn out good
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Bro
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didnāt stand-for-nothing-ass-libertarian gabe already say his only regret was taking down a nazi game? heās not gonna do anything about the open nazi recruitment on his medium, because it doesnāt threaten his ability to continue making capital
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Black Myth Wukong is the most Game Awards coded game I can think of
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Iām in these Elden Ring and From Software trash meme groups on Facebook for some goddamned reason and the extremely loud dipshit who thinks Black Myth Wukong was the best game out this year are certainly out there, and itās fuckinā weird, cause none of them seem to be able to articulate concrete reasons as to why it is as good as they say it is. I tend to just assume thereās a silent-yet-implied ābecause itās not woke (allegedly)ā rattle of their own personal culture war sabre to those kinds of hyperbolic statements.
For the record I assume the game is fine but what Iāve actually heard about the game doesnāt really sound that mindblowing, particularly that though it has a great presentation and decent action it couldnāt even really be said to be a *Souls-*like since it doesnāt really have exploration or traversal elements, itās just like, linear pathways to boss arenas).
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I just assume that the same kind of idiot who is saying Black Myth Wukong is the greatest game of the last decade:
- Had that opinion dictated to them in whole or part by some fanatical, deluded ideologue, somewhere
- Were probably saying similar if not identical things about Palworld earlier in the year, a game of which none of them talk about at all anymore, certainly not within the context of GOTY discussions but also just not at all
- Probably had fun if they played all of it, but only after all but consciously completely shutting down any critical faculties while doing so
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Yeah, from everything Iāve seen itās just a nice looking 3rd-person action game (I wouldnāt call it a Souls anything), with settings and characters that are more novel to a western audience.
I feel like the big anti-woke game this year was Stellar Blade, but I can see Wukong being a stand-in since Stellar Blade didnāt make the cut. Itās a shame because Iām sure lots of people worked on Wukong that arenāt weird freaks, but they had to be bad with their PR.
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Do you know when he made this comment? Iām trying to find evidence, but canāt find any. Iām not saying I donāt believe youā¦ but all the searching Iāve done just keeps coming up with the recent news, and any older news about Steam taking down Nazi games doesnāt have any comment from Gabe on it.
Might be referring to him personally apologizing for removing Hatred
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I still see freaks online anti-virtue signal by casually namedropping Stellar Blade in conversations about really good games from this year, but I think they know that that game is much harder to pretend is good enough to stay in any serious conversation about the best games of the year, and they also know how easy it is to discredit them by calling them a pathetic coomer for being too vocally dedicated to defending it. I mean, itās not not going to The Game Awards, but only in categories where there isnāt much stiff competition.
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Ah that game. OK. I donāt see how itās specifically a āNaziā game. I think itās in poor taste and not something I would ever engage in. Seems like the kind of game created by edgelords just for a reaction. I did try to research the developers and metal band associated with the game but canāt find any far-right ties. (It doesnāt mean those ties donāt exist.) Thereās lots of non-Nazi games made by terrible people in the world.
I donāt think Gabe putting this game back is a discredit to Gabe. Now if he does nothing about the growing Nazi presence on the platform itself, then yes thatās a problem and he needs to be publicly called out for it 100%.
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that publisher has some not not nazi shit going on (using my Polish insights)
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So I think the āanti-wokeā nature of Stellar Blade was just manufactured by the anti-woke crowd. I mean, anyone on the left Iāve spoken to about the game has had nothing bad to say about it? It was like the game was made and the salivating coomers were like āHa! Take that woke crowd! We got a game made for us!ā Itās like they were desperate for a game with that style of protagonist and would play it regardless of quality. Also it wasnāt made for them anyway, but they still claim it as theirs.
I think Black-Myth Wukong was just another game for āGAMERS!ā to latch onto and start mouthing off about how only āREAL GAMERS!ā could beat it. Just toxic hype and fandom from the start. (Same toxicity could be applied to Stellar Blade.)
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Yeah the vibes were always rank around that one. A lot of fascistic stuff gets filtered through that kind of absolute nihilistic misanthropy
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Good to know!
I had the unfortunate experience this last week of learning that a friend Iāve had for over twenty years has fallen down the rabbit hole (or, possibly worse, always been there and just went mask off) when they went off on the new Dragon Age getting better reviews than Wukong, complete with the entire spectrum of opinions on āDEIā, āuglyā female characters, and Sweet Baby Inc.
He had no particular insights as to why the game was good, either, curiously enough. I assume he is ecstatic that the game (somehow) got the nod for game of the year, but I have (somehow) not had any interest in talking to him further on the matter
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