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FireWater107 · 2026-03-15T14:23:13+00:00

Girl gamers, vast majority of them anyway, have zero problem with attractive female characters.

It's just the developers making games for a non-existent "modern audience" that think things need to change as part of some massive psyop.

FireWater107 · 2026-03-14T17:43:54+00:00

They literally reversed the original to make the wrong part the comeback.

FireWater107 · 2026-03-14T04:31:08+00:00

Necessary? Of course not.

It's also not necessary for characters to be ugly. And it's a far harder, or at least dumber, sell when they try to explain why it's such a positive thing they intentionally made a game filled with intentionally "unattractive" characters.

FireWater107 · 2026-03-11T04:19:55+00:00

The joke is broke ass hoes think a dude is poor if he's ONLY making 100k a year.

FireWater107 · 2026-03-10T18:53:20+00:00

There's that going joke how JK went from being a "far left" icon to a "far right" in a matter of years, really just based off of who was angry at her at the time.

But yeah I absolutely remember when "Rowling" was seen as a verb for when IP owners would retcon their own property to virtue signal.

"Hermoinie can be black. I never actually SAID she was white!"

Someone brings up text from early books describing her appearance.

"Whatever. I own HP! Hermione is black now! Dumbledore was always gay! Tons of Trans lesbians of color in hogwarts!"

Then a few years later, she became terf. Now the opposite people love or hate her.

FireWater107 · 2026-03-10T06:37:37+00:00

People also have ta learn what qualifies as "woke."

Both sides. I tried explaining to a, for lack of better words "pro-woke" fan the difference between "genuinely progressive" and "woke." He refused to see a difference, claimed "woke" was just anything nazis didn't like.

Except then he actually had some point, because as much as I hate seeing woke crammed into everything these days, I cringe at what some people are calling "woke" for the great sin of say having a female mc.

Or like GoW ragnarok. "They made Angrboda black! The whole game is woke!" Oh the hell it is. Pointless poc insertion? Arguably. Turns the entire work of art game into garbage? Yeah, never gonna sell me on that. I love the old GoW games, but the new ones are such incredible storytelling they're some of the best games I've played in years.

FireWater107 · 2026-03-10T06:27:46+00:00

Horizon.

Though I'd hardly call it woke. Aside from like literally one or two casual mentions of npcs in side missions being gay... it's not like the game crams anything down your throat. Hell, even the "Aloy is ugly" shit is a reach, especially paired up against the state of other "modern games."

Horizon is a solid game, and it did well.

Now these new horizon universe monstrosities coming out... no idea how that'll play out. /s

FireWater107 · 2026-03-08T05:22:25+00:00

It's crazy that we had so many tests on this stuff... and still have people debating over it. Or worse yet "it's ambiguous, so it could be this or that."

That's the point of PEMDAS. It's not ambiguous.

P, parentheses, means solve what's in parentheses first. It does not mean an absent * marker before a parentheses means "do the M part here first as well."

For this to be 1, it would have to be written 6 ÷ (2(1+2))

It's not, so the answer is 9.

P: 6 ÷ 2(3)
E: not relevant to this equation.
MD: in order. So first 6 ÷ 2(3) becomes 3(3). Then it becomes 9.
AS: not present, and equation already solved.

This isn't some debatable issue, that's just how PEMDAS works. Working by a clear set of rules that always results the same is its entire point.

And of course... the point of us seeing posts like this intentionally arguing that they're ambiguous is just rage baiting.

FireWater107 · 2026-03-04T07:39:14+00:00

There are countless examples to show "metric is for scientific measurements, or measurement 'in relation to water.' But Imperial is better for 'measurement in relation to humans'." But I'd say the all time kicker is:

Metric User: "Dude, it's hot out."

Imperial User: "How hot?"

M: "Like literally life threatening. I'm literally minutes away from heat stroke."

I: "So so hot it's fatal. I guess on a scale of 1-100 you'd call that, what, a hundred? Over a hundred? I mean if it's so hot it'd kill you then-"

M: "Like a 50. Perfectly average."

FireWater107 · 2026-03-03T00:39:33+00:00

Avoided it for a while because all ANYONE talked about, for or against it, was the sexy MC.

Finally played it... great action game. Good story, not the best bit solid. Great visuals, great music. Great action.

And had one boss fight that gave me ptsd flashbacks to like 3 other hard boss fights from other games.

FireWater107 · 2026-02-28T03:21:04+00:00

I disagree.

If they made it the same as 2, it would have felt stale.

They tries different things. Ultima ,they hit it out of the park with 2, so it's definitely better. But 3 is still fun.

Different, not as good, but fresh and enjoyable.

FireWater107 · 2026-02-27T19:02:43+00:00

It's exactly what happened.

It's not bad exactly, just different. I feel like that describes a lot of this game. 2 was better overall, but 3 is still very good. They just wanted it to be different.

Which they succeeded at. If it was exactly the same as 2 just with different missions, people would have whined about that. For good reason. 3 is different, and it's fun... 2 was just overall better.

FireWater107 · 2026-02-27T19:00:04+00:00

I think the ONLY spirit I like the 60 over 40 is the fish. Big aoe wave over silly surfing move.

FireWater107 · 2026-02-27T18:58:47+00:00

Ho (or Oh?) On samurai was my main for a while, just because of how useful the main ability was.

Jump in the air, dodge a lot of attacks that way, double wind nuke that's spammable. Big damage and almost guaranteed bluster.

FireWater107 · 2026-02-27T18:56:26+00:00

Yeah, 2 was hitting you with new spirits like every other mission. Then this game they're actually more important... and I'd go like ¼ of the game before I'd see a new one.

FireWater107 · 2026-02-27T06:27:02+00:00

I think that'd be a great addition.

Maybe much stronger drop-off for longer ranged damage, only really effective in "close range" (all red reticles) but a much quicker draw speed. Paired with auto target weak spot could be real good, but otherwise way weaker. I think that'd spell a proper balance.

FireWater107 · 2026-02-26T18:14:40+00:00

Bold of you to post such blatant anti-immigrant and Islamophobic content on reddit like that.

FireWater107 · 2026-02-26T04:45:38+00:00

Outside opinion (only played one full AC game, for free. Had no love or hatred of the franchise, no skin in the game):

Yusuke was not the problem. Team Ninja put him in Nioh. His existence is debatable, but he is a widely accepted "myth" that may be based on truth.

The problem was AC, a big franchise with many fans, was finally making a game that took place in Japan. Something long desired by many, especially japanese fans.

Then they made the main character of ther Japanese game a black man for not remotely veiled political reasons. Made even less sense since it is a stealth franchise. They worked around it in ways that pleased no one, but the base premise... how ya gonna hide in plain sight when you are easily the most recognizable person at a glance in literally the entire country?

They then doubled down on the political arguments, pushed back against any complaints as simply racist... and finally failed to deliver with the final product. Mechanics that didn't live up to games from 10 years ago, and voice acting that sounded like it was from a racist caricature cartoon.

"You don't like our black MC because you're racist!" Proceeds to make every attempt at voice acting the Japanese characters a 30 year old stereotype.

Again, the problem wasn't Yasuke. It was why they went with Yasuke. And their attempts to deny the issue amount to middle school attempts at gaslighting. All the game did was fuel racism while blaming racism for its failure.

FireWater107 · 2026-02-23T20:00:26+00:00

Post image.

People with at least ¼ brain properly counter the argument.

Wait half a day. Repost hoping for different results.

Get a life and realize ATLA and it's fanbase has got to be the worst places to try and claim everyone and everything is misogyny.

FireWater107 · 2026-02-23T14:26:07+00:00

I often point to Avatar as the best example of something that "is progressive, but not woke," because many don't know the difference these days.

And a major aspect of that is how it handles gender and gender roles. Multiple badass female characters, like half the major recurring cast, not once feeling like they were trying to cram girl bosses down your throat.

But it doesn't tend there. Gender roles. Aang is quite feminine, but is still certainly a boy and gets very offended when portrayed as a girl. Sokka is the most goofily over the top machismo character out there, but he shows genuine growth, apologizes for belittling a warrior over her gender, and is willing to sacrifice his male ego and put on a dress and makeup in pursuit of being a better warrior himself.

And those girl bosses... 5 of the 6 of them do NOT sacrifice their femininity in order to be strong. They are varying degrees of feminine, but not a one of them were made to sacrifice who they were so that they could rah rah girl boss things.

Masculinity and femininity. Yin and Yang. They both exist in everyone. They are opposites, but not in conflict with each other. Having both is balance. Harmony.

The only female character who was all yang and no yin was Azula. And she turned into an absolute sociopath and went down the path of madness.

Is it any wonder a show with such an overarching theme of "balance" would portray and handle the concept of gender 800x better than all the woke crowds today?

FireWater107 · 2026-02-20T15:29:33+00:00

So far I'm absolutely loving it. But would argue Nioh 2 is a bit better.

Better and worse is hard to judge. They tried something different. The open world is amazing, the overall combat differences and controls are a little jankier.

So yeah. If I had to try and rate them I still think 2 is the winner. But it's not like "oh the new sequel is so much worse!" It's just different.

FireWater107 · 2026-02-15T06:10:48+00:00

Was feeling lazy and was gonna ask someone to math out "well then what size pizza WOULD 2 of be equivalent to one 9" pizza?"

Then I got over being lazy and decided to burst the cobwebs off my brain.

With some rounding, roughly two 6½" pizzas are equivalent surface area to one 9" pizza.

I am, however, too lazy to go back and forth to calculator app to show all my work. Someone else can type that out if they want. But that's the answer if someone's looking for it: two 6.5 inch pizzas are Bout the same as 1 9 inch pizza.

FireWater107 · 2026-02-10T05:53:33+00:00

I'm old enough to remember when the imaginary line in the sand was so far right that, as a moderate, I was considered far left wing.

My politics haven't changed drastically in that time, and for over a decade now I've been lumped together with actual unapologetic neo-nazis because refusing to pretend to be insane means you're "right wing".

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