• DahGangalang@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    This is how I feel every time I see an overpowered “prototype” weapon in a video game that works better than the standard version.

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      This is how I feel every time I see an overpowered “prototype” weapon in a video game that works better than the standard version.

      Agreed!

      There’s is a bit of clever game design in Deep Rock Galactic, which I hope catches on:

      The default load out for new players is almost unarguably the best possible load-out, for that class, in the game.

      As players progress, they can unlock more entertaining while objectively worse equipment, to amuse and challenge themselves.

      And, I mean, of course we do. It’s hilarious because some truly challenging gameplay emerges.

      And when it’s kicking my butt, I at least realize I chose that challenge for myself. I had the option to bring the good equipment that I started with, after all.

      And it puts new players on more even footing with veterans. I tend to make easy missions with newbie friends harder on myself by bringing truly silly equipment load outs. It usually turns out fine, and when it goes badly for me, they feel good for rescuing a veteran. Or it goes sideways and I apologize and make slightly better equip choices for the next try.

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    The “alpha/beta” meme was invented by rightwing think tanks in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s to promote their ideology of rigid social-hierarchies where people at the top are allowed to impose and abuse people of lower social station with impunity, and to police and control the behavior of heterosexual men (it ain’t just the LGBTQ’s that get their gender-expression policed, ohhh no no no.)

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      Yup. I’ve had more than a few people claim I had to “give up my man card” because I love musicals, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Sex in the City.

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        What kind of musicals do you like? I don’t generally care for musicals as much as other play formats, but I got to see some real fun ones when I was a backstage tech at a theatre.

        The Wiz is absolutely amazing though.

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      EOL, they’re stuck, no updates, nothing fresh, their flaws are open, known and won’t be fixed and if you get them, they’re a seriously risk to your safety.

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    Considering the alpha wolf myth originates from observing a stressed out wolf population in captivity, unable to live out their fulfilling wolfy lives, the emergence of purported “alpha males” is an oddly appropriate indicator of what three decades of neoliberalism has done to our wellbeing.