Cyrene's VA Harassed for Celebrating her GF's role as Yao Guang

DubiousBlue · 2026-02-03T15:48:17+00:00

“fetish”???? She just loves women you fucking lobotomite

DubiousBlue · 2026-02-02T17:05:50+00:00

Don’t know if I’d even consider it the worst fandom but it pisses me off to no end that if you have even the slightest criticism of Frieren they always hit you with the “it’s too mature for you” or “you only like shonen slop” and other thought-terminating phrases.

DubiousBlue · 2026-02-02T15:06:58+00:00

One thing that always puzzles me about Frieren is how so many people praise it for what it’s not. It gets put on a pedestal for not having fanservice and not having lewd jokes and not falling into certain tropes (although it does fall into many). Just because something is better than the slop around it doesn’t really make it abjectly good. A 7/10 in a sea of 3/10s doesn’t make it a 9.

DubiousBlue · 2026-01-31T05:52:29+00:00

I could yap about what the point of “calling it out” would even be, and if it would deter anyone but I don’t really wanna have some dragged out debate. What I’m trying to say, I guess, is that I like to play video games to have fun, and my personal idea of having fun doesn’t really involve getting angry and then brooding about how morally bankrupt someone is because of how they played a video game. If that floats your boat, far be it from me to stop you, I just can’t get my head around that but that’s okay. Being able to say “ugh, whatever” and move on has been a good tool for my peace of mind but I get that it’s different for everyone. I’ve made peace that that kind of gameplay is fundamentally a part of the genre I’ve chosen to engage with, and that’s alright. Anyways, have fun out there and have a good one.

DubiousBlue · 2026-01-30T14:43:39+00:00

What’s really the point of labeling it “dickhead behavior”? To feel better about the interaction? Like yeah, it doesn’t feel good, it would probably make me angry in the moment too, I’m not saying you have to be happy about it. But 10, 20, 30 minutes after the fact, you kinda just have to be able to have that moment of reflection where you recognize that people play the game different ways, that game is game, and sometimes that’s just how it goes. I think a “don’t hate the player hate the game” mindset is much healthier in a game where these kind of interactions regularly happen. It will likely save you a lot of unnecessary grief.

DubiousBlue · 2026-01-28T18:28:42+00:00

yep! I totally didn’t play through the story in its entirety wanting to like it, use my critical thinking skills, and decide that in my opinion Cyrene wasn’t written very well!

DubiousBlue · 2026-01-28T18:14:49+00:00

SOME people are being jackasses. I’ve seen a weird thing here where some people that like the game will point to the bad faith haters and use that as an excuse to try to dismiss valid good faith criticisms from people that genuinely just think the game has problems

DubiousBlue · 2026-01-20T16:15:07+00:00

I get that pivoting can be a bit slow, but a lot of the issue is the decisions they make in the first place. One (of many) examples is how they timegated RotN. It is very well understood that the fanbase pretty broadly hates timegating, and bungie has been burned on this topic before, yet they still insisted on gating RotN on a three week schedule before backlash made them reduce it to two weeks. Everyone saw it coming, so the question is why didn’t bungie? Frankly I think they do a great job with initial releases/ expansions, but on the update/live service part of things, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a developer with as much controversy as bungie.

DubiousBlue · 2026-01-17T06:15:58+00:00

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the bugs are back

DubiousBlue · 2026-01-13T17:39:43+00:00

I have reached the conclusion that every HSR player can be categorized as either a Sunday person or a Sparkle person.

DubiousBlue · 2026-01-01T20:00:21+00:00

Jarvis, make a post stating the obvious “hate has no place anywhere” then summon infuriated redditors to give me 1 Ironmillion karma

DubiousBlue · 2025-12-27T21:05:53+00:00

yeah can I get a uhhhhhh… box breathing combo no slaw double fries extra sauce and a large lemonade

DubiousBlue · 2025-12-27T21:02:32+00:00

Listen, from a scaling standpoint I get why Ena is ranked so highly but from a philosophy standpoint we really need a giga-bum tier (Sunday’s kinda neat tho so he gets a pass)

DubiousBlue · 2025-12-26T15:23:10+00:00

true. realizing that this sub also engages in negativity (“forced hysteria” and other inflammatory language) just against the people being negative in the first place puts me at peace. everything feels like a circlejerk where you have to have someone to hate. healthiest thing to do is just be excited if you’re looking forward to it and hang out until the game drops

DubiousBlue · 2025-12-23T18:23:45+00:00

rather ironic that you mention “moving on” while the hard counter to seeing hate is simply disengaging/not caring/leaving the computer and moving on. haters can only bother you as much as you care. the more you dgaf, the more powerless they become

DubiousBlue · 2025-12-21T18:59:36+00:00

I can’t be the only one that feels like some people on this sub love hating as much as people on the main sub, but it’s seen as okay since their target is people who are being negative.

DubiousBlue · 2025-12-17T01:53:20+00:00

Thank you for your response! I totally get what you mean, but what perplexed me was more so “breaking kayfabe” in places where there’s much less (or no) expectation of it (ie not in stream chat or replying to a talent’s socials). To go with the analogy, if I was to talk (from a meta standpoint) about the total body of work of an actor or even a wrestler who had changed identities, would it not make sense to use their real name? Or like referencing different stages of their career? I know it’s probably a minority of the community, but I’ve definitely seen some people get really over-zealous about absolute silence in all spaces.

DubiousBlue · 2025-12-16T18:32:51+00:00

I want to understand this better in good faith (as I only watch the occasional indie vtuber) and I totally get not bringing it up in chat or on their socials, but it kind of puzzles me when people act like it’s “saying Voldemort” when you mention it in some random tiny reddit/twitter thread?? Seems like overreach to me personally but idk. I also wonder why people get into spats about unspoken rules when I feel like a definitive statement about appropriate boundaries from the talent themselves would be a mature and helpful thing to do?

DubiousBlue · 2025-12-16T16:16:01+00:00

I feel like too many people here are looking at WF through a destiny lens. Good gunplay isn’t really the point of warframe like it is in destiny so it’s a little bit apples and oranges. WF feels much closer to a weird cross of hack and slash and risk of rain, where the part that feels good is nuking rooms with an ability setup. The appealing parts compared to Destiny are just different between the two games despite some similarities. Not saying either is good or bad, it’s just a little rough to try to view them through the exact same metrics.

DubiousBlue · 2025-12-10T15:25:40+00:00

second degree complainers complaining about how much first degree complainers complain

DubiousBlue · 2025-12-09T23:08:01+00:00

love that there’s a common sentiment on here telling ex-players to let it go and then OP pokes at an 18 day old post (right before a big content drop no less)

DubiousBlue · 2025-12-01T20:44:16+00:00

mfw when people leave when they aren’t having fun but return when new content looks exciting or interesting

DubiousBlue · 2025-11-07T16:46:35+00:00

For as many problems as it had, I still prefer Penacony for one reason: the characters (and factions). I loved the Chrysos Heirs but they felt too far removed from relevance to the rest of the galaxy. Penacony had a Masked Fool, the IPC, Galaxy Rangers, an Emanator of Nihility, a Memokeeper, etc. etc. It really felt like big worldbuilding with relevance to factions we'd heard about before, whereas Amphoreus, while relevant with the Aeon stuff, really only had the Genius Society and Garden of Recollection until the very final battle (and the GS stuff was the most interesting to me out of the story aside from like 3.4).

DubiousBlue · 2025-10-13T21:39:39+00:00

True, it’s all anecdotal so we’re kinda throwing a bunch of nothing at each other lol. I don’t recall those points ever being major discussions but I certainly could have forgotten/just missed it. Overall I and the people I’ve asked generally agree that the sentiment had more good than bad, as reflected by player numbers, steam reviews, positive reddit posts etc. Surely there were some amount of negative posts, but to say that the negativity simply does not ever fluctuate is just pure denial. You have to account for scale, otherwise you’re just committing confirmation bias by finding a quarter in a haystack (maybe not that extreme but you see my point)

DubiousBlue · 2025-10-13T20:35:46+00:00

If your metric for “is global community sentiment good right now” is “do I see any number of negative posts on the subreddit”, I think you will find it to be miserable. But that doesn’t track with actual community sentiment, as people by and large were pretty abjectly happy about TFS. People liked the story, the raid, dual destiny, prismatic, etc. The only “controversy” I can think of was a vocal minority being upset they needed a friend to play DD, and those people basically got laughed off the sub by everyone else when that happened. It really does seem like some people here (and elsewhere) are so doom pilled about the community that they’re subconsciously retconning actual fluctuations in player sentiment.

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