Quoting: einherjar

Quoting: NezchanNothin' a trans person liked better than being lectured about what isn't transphobic, lol.

Trans people don't have the monoply to decide, what one is allowed to say and what not. Also none trans people are allowed to have an opinion, different from the opinion of trans people (and vice versa). This is not the ending of the age.

Just because someone is outraged/offended, does not automatically mean, this person is right.

The corollary of that is that trans people (and other minority groups) have a hell of a lot more experience encountering this stuff and will thusly be a lot better at identifying it than people who don't, by virtue of them encountering it all the damn time.

Just because you lable someone's concerns as "just offended over nothing" doesn't mean you're right.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: NezchanIt does seem that fans of the game, outraged that trans people and others weren't pleased at the Discord comments have been dogpiling them with some pretty nasty stuff on social media. I did some looking around after this broke, and even people with mild "Oh, this nonsense again, I wish I didn't have to deal with this" reactions were getting accusations of censorship (and worse) and insults from scores of people.

Looking at Twitter right now, there seems to be far greater vitriol against the devs for apologizing, 3D Realms for not putting up with it, and especially trans people for not just shutting up and taking it in the first place. It's pretty nasty stuff, and honestly I don't recommend looking at it.

As to the game itself, I've only seen it played on Samsai's stream for a couple hours thus far, but it looks well crafted and a lot of fun if you're an FPS player. I especially like how colourful and varied the level designs are, a far cry from the brown, dull green, and gunmetal grey of a lot of shooters. The addition of things like fans to traverse areas adds even more dimension to the spaces, which is welcome.

Except that trans people actually came out in defense of the game and not as you stated.

NONE of the released screenshots shows anything even remotely "transphobic"

Nothin' a trans person liked better than being lectured about what isn't transphobic, lol.

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It does seem that fans of the game, outraged that trans people and others weren't pleased at the Discord comments have been dogpiling them with some pretty nasty stuff on social media. I did some looking around after this broke, and even people with mild "Oh, this nonsense again, I wish I didn't have to deal with this" reactions were getting accusations of censorship (and worse) and insults from scores of people.

Looking at Twitter right now, there seems to be far greater vitriol against the devs for apologizing, 3D Realms for not putting up with it, and especially trans people for not just shutting up and taking it in the first place. It's pretty nasty stuff, and honestly I don't recommend looking at it.

As to the game itself, I've only seen it played on Samsai's stream for a couple hours thus far, but it looks well crafted and a lot of fun if you're an FPS player. I especially like how colourful and varied the level designs are, a far cry from the brown, dull green, and gunmetal grey of a lot of shooters. The addition of things like fans to traverse areas adds even more dimension to the spaces, which is welcome.

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Certainly can't argue with the price. Gonna wishlist this for the moment, probably end up buying it once the Linux version is out of beta.

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: scaineThat and I think I was bit fatigued by having just finished the awesome Shadowrun Returns, and subsequently the equally awesome Shadowrun Dragonfall.

You did play Hong Kong as well?

I also bought all of them and also Shadowrun Chronicles because it was 3D, but I got really disappointed when it stopped working because its developers got bankrupt and it stopped working completely (even for a single player run).

I know this is a little off-topic, but why would the game stop working because the devs went bankrupt? I tried to run Dragonfall a couple of weeks ago and it wouldn't even start, does that have something to do with it?

As to Wasteland 2, I got my fill of it when Samsai recently did a playthough on his stream. Makes me really want to try the new one, it seems to have improved on pretty much every aspect.

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"...perform a little rhythm mini-game..."

This does not fill me with confidence.

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The dev also seems to be selling it on Itch. There's also an old demo that runs on Linux still available.

https://kuupu.itch.io/exodemon [External Link]

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I'm sensing a similar sort of whimsy to this that we previously saw in Undertale. Wonder if the devs are fans?

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A crock pot that cooks things faster? What sorcery is this?

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Quoting: DamonLinuxPLIt was great for me for the first two weeks. Now bores me.
You can also see a slight decrease in the number of players. A slight decline, but nevertheless recently played at the top of day about 90 thousand players. Now it's 60 thousand.

It's also the height of the summer in the northern hemisphere, so that may have an effect. Although it's not surprising that there'd be an initial wave of people trying it out that end up deciding it's not their thing, given it's F2P.

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