Hardcore gamer = someone who plays only cinematic grizzed white dude games and/or military fetishizing FPS

Casual gamer = anyone that is not a 15-25 yo male, and/or plays anything outside of the previously mentioned games, especially if those games are colorful.

So basically the gaming community is full of gatekeeping, misogyny, toxic masculinity and general chuddery. They make sure they’re the loudest voice heard when anything about games is talked about, and won’t be happy until all games a homogenous stream of bland, hyper-realistic but with a grey filter slog of mindless action with no heart or soul. And don’t you dare force them to read any dialogue or story.

  • Goblinmancer [any]@hexbear.net
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    I hate esports i hate how Riot took all the actually fun modes in league like OFA and nexus clash and the pve game modes and decides to only make them appear in rotations (or not even appear for pve modes) because apparently Riot only cares about competitive and ranked play.

    Also hate how certain characters like Azir is effectively neutered because its too good for the highly coordinated esport teams, whose gameplay barely resembles even the highest ranked play.

    Billion dollar game cant even afford to support other game modes.

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      1 year ago

      LoL says “here’s a game and some pieces tailor-made to play it” while DotA says “here’s some toys and a sandbox, it’s out of my hands now” and I think about that every day

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        LoL says “here’s a game and some pieces tailor-made to play it” while DotA says “here’s some toys and a sandbox, it’s out of my hands now” and I think about that every day

        hell yeah, same

        honestly I think dota’s way should be the way for fun+challenging games in general