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Quoting: tuubiOffensive things aren't automatically funny unless you're eight years old or just emotionally stunted.

It's not the things themselves, it's all the outrageous reactions of hypocrites that are funny.

Hypocrites or not, people get offended by all kinds of trivial stuff. The Internet is full of snowflakes, regardless of politics. Although sometimes when your intention is to offend, it's perfectly reasonable to expect people to get offended.

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Quoting: IperpidoTerence Hill is actually still pretty active, he is the protagonist in a very successful italian TV serie.
I'm quite sure it was never teansmitted outside Italy, but it's pretty successful there. There are something like 11 seasons, and it's still going on.

If you mean Don Matteo, they've shown it in Finland at some point. On one of our state-run broadcaster Yle's channels I think.

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This game should be good for a chuckle or two, but probably not worth my money. A decent story might change my mind, but a goat simulator with bums wouldn't do it for me.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPI always love offensive games like that for the sweet butthurt they cause in all the hypocrites and do-gooders [External Link].
The sideshows and comments are almost worth more than the game.

There's a fine line between a crude (but funny) joke and embarrassingly edgy dudebro crap. Offensive things aren't automatically funny unless you're eight years old or just emotionally stunted.

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No proper metroidvania should have randomly/procedurally generated levels. Or permadeath if you ask me. Subjectively speaking, I like a properly designed experience with a clear progression and the repetitive aspect of roguelites almost always just ends up boring me and driving me away.

Dead Cells does look nice despite these drawbacks and I'm definitely interested.

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Quoting: devnullThat is kind of the point of contention though. I could for example, run without a gpu at all. If the hardware survey popped up then, it would skew the results.

First of all, why would you run Steam on a system without any graphical capabilities (does it even work?), and secondly, do you think this would ever be common enough to cause a significant blip in the statistics? I'm not saying the results are in any way reliable, but surely a few outliers aren't the problem.

Quoting: devnullIt's more common then you think. There's a reason NVIDIA actively tries to prevent such installs.

Why would they care enough to do that? Do you mean that they don't actively support them?

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Quoting: devnullIt's virtue signaling and identity politics, nothing more.

Exactly. Nothing more. (Not sure I'd use the same terms you do, but I don't care enough to take the bait.)

I know many people feel strongly about these issues for various reasons, but I still don't see why you pretend this is somehow relevant to the topic. So what if the game lets you choose a pronoun or put a beard on a lady? Makes no damn difference to my enjoyment of a game.

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Quoting: devnullTo dismiss that as trivial and "just get back to discussing gaming", when the devs themselves take such a political stance is a bit revolting.

I still ask: Why should we care. I just don't see what shocks you to the point of revulsion here. Artists and creators do have their own politics and opinions, just like the rest of us. I'd understand if they were spreading hate speech or something. This is almost the opposite.

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Ooh, this looks nice and relaxed. I really appreciate the polish.

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Quoting: TheRiddickIf you run NVIDIA hardware you might want to test games with __GL_NextGenCompiler=0 if you get graphical glitches because games like Deep Rock Galactic will give you triangle hell on some missions for example (Unity3D I think).

I had to do this a lot on 396.18, but is it still a problem with 396.24? Just curious, as the few (native) games I've tested are fine with the new compiler now.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeWhat? I knew about homosexual animals, I also know those are mutations (yes Dawkins himself said so in the video you linked. The "Pirate" is your mutation there. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I'm saying that's just the way it is, and that yes some animals are bi, some are gay, but if there weren't a large portion of them that were straight/bi they would die off, right? Like literally no one would be reproducing and the species would have no progenitors.

I think you're mixing up the words "mutation" and "mutant" here. There would be no evolution without mutation, but it simply means random changes in (the DNA of) an organism, possibly resulting in a trait that might or might not be beneficial or significant. A mutation is not a ninja turtle or a gay animal. I doubt Dawkins said anything like that, and if he did, he was oversimplifying to the point of losing the message. Always an easy mistake to make in explaining science.

In any case, I don't see your point. Yes, a species would die off it they didn't reproduce. How is that relevant to the discussion? Why does that make you care if someone does or doesn't use a pronoun? As a native Finnish speaker, I find the whole concept of gendered pronouns totally pointless, but that's neither here nor there.

@Patola: feel free to correct my corrections on the subject of biology or evolution. I'm no expert.

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