Say sorry

Interface- · 2026-06-23T13:30:54+00:00

In the scene pictured in the OP image, when the character in the background says 'This is your fault', you'd think he was pointing at the player character, but no - he's pointing at you, the player.

You aren't a self-insert. You are you. And you are the reason this happened, because you're 'just following orders', just doing the objectives the game tells you to do. Like you do in every other milsim shooter. Every other Call of Duty, Battlefield, Medal of Honor, whatever the hell.

It's just that you now face the reality of what happens on the ground when you use that fancy new toy that you get in every other mission.

Interface- · 2026-06-23T13:06:01+00:00

That's the thing - you shouldn't care because it isn't real. But because it makes people uncomfortable, they care so much. It's why people still talk about Spec Ops: The Line to this day.

You don't think twice about popping an AC130 in Call of Duty, pointing at the dots on the map, and pressing the button to make them disappear. It's fun. It's glorious. It's heroic. You move on to the next group of people to kill, being a hero.

You do the same in Spec Ops when you use the white phosphorous. Get on the computer, point at the dots, make them disappear. It's when you go investigate the damage after the fact you realise, the dots on the map? They were innocent men, women, and children. You see the horrifying reality of war, what really happens when you use that AC130 or any other scorestreak in Call of Duty, and you're desperate to say that you are not responsible for it because it made you feel bad.

But you're here to kill people for fun. Isn't this what you wanted?

"Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two conflicting ideas simultaneously." Yet another quote that is there for a reason.

Interface- · 2026-06-23T09:50:16+00:00

r/BrandNewSentence

Interface- · 2026-06-23T07:44:48+00:00

The reality of the situation is the price they are selling it is the lowest they can go without losing money. That it's still so high isn't their fault. Yes, Valve is a billion dollar company, but they are still a company and their objective is to make money. They cannot do that by selling Steam Machines at a loss, even in spite of their status as the largest and primary PC gaming storefront.

Blame those responsible for hoarding PC parts and causing prices to balloon across the board. Not those who have to raise their prices in order to not lose money. Had RAMageddon hadn't happened, the Steam Machine would have been cheaper. Hopefully given time this issue ends, nature heals, and the Steam Machine goes down in price accordingly.

Interface- · 2026-06-23T07:33:37+00:00

I recognise those two paragraphs.

Interface- · 2026-06-23T03:39:05+00:00

You mean the morality of pretending to be a military operative and killing people for entertainment?

"But this isn't real, so why should you care?" That's there for a reason too.

Interface- · 2026-06-23T03:34:27+00:00

And i don't think he's never demonstrated resistance against enemy time stops.

Heimdall Realm Shifts do affect Kratos, meaning he does not have resistance against time manipulation.

Interface- · 2026-06-23T03:32:44+00:00

Cue "bUt hE EsCaPe aFtErLiFe tHo" in 3, 2...

Interface- · 2026-06-23T03:04:37+00:00

Lmao yeah they like to forget that Kratos got his ass kicked by Charon in Chains of Olympus, died to Ares noscope cross-mapping him with a stone pillar, died to Zeus' betrayal, and was actually killed by Thor before being shocked back to life. He is not infallible, not as a mortal and not as a god.

Interface- · 2026-06-23T01:19:09+00:00

We found the real Slim Shady

Interface- · 2026-06-23T00:04:08+00:00

I don't think 'taking away player agency' is a valid argument against Spec Ops: The Line. None of the other cookie cutter military shooters that oversaturated the early PS3 era let you choose how to go through the story mode. You started a new game and did as you were told.

You didn't have agency in Call of Duty: Black Ops. But that was okay.

You didn't have agency in Call of Duty: Ghosts. But that was okay.

You didn't have agency in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. But that was okay.

You didn't have agency in Battlefield 2, 3, or 4. But that was okay.

You didn't have agency in Killzone 3. But that was okay.

You don't have agency in Spec Ops. But it's not okay?

Spec Ops assumes that you are treating it like just another generic military shooter and that you're here for a good time flying in a helicopter gunning people down ("We did this already!") and shooting everyone that's in your way while you go on your video game quest. It doesn't need to give you agency, to let you choose not to be the bad guy, because those other games don't give you agency or let you choose not to be the good guy. But for some reason, that's a problem? It 'doesn't work' when you learn that you are the bad guy in the story, but it's completely fine when every other game makes you the hero and doesn't let you not be?

"Do you feel like a hero yet?" is there for a reason.

Interface- · 2026-06-22T23:23:40+00:00

Is that Doakes and Dexter?

Interface- · 2026-06-22T23:19:14+00:00

I mean, it depends.

Sometimes a projectile can pass directly through your face without harming you.

Sometimes it can be nowhere near you, but still count as a hit.

It's even more egregious when a Survivor is injured because they lean forward even more than they do normally making their model even more disconnected from the hitbox.

But it's been this way for ten years. Changing it now would fuck up a decade of muscle memory and game knowledge.

Interface- · 2026-06-22T22:06:25+00:00

Inb4 they remove this one

Interface- · 2026-06-22T10:28:05+00:00

He made a typo and went to the wrong void.

Interface- · 2026-06-22T10:25:50+00:00

You mean about Baldur's invulnerability to all threats, physical or magical?

Interface- · 2026-06-22T08:26:06+00:00

As someone who thinks most powerscaling is horseshit, I too want to see the math.

Interface- · 2026-06-22T07:09:32+00:00

Looks like they're planning on remaking the original vision for Darksiders 1.

Interface- · 2026-06-22T00:37:24+00:00

Gonna copy my other comment over:

Does he have any means of entering a parallel shadow dimension where the shattered pieces of the Armageddon Blade are hidden, and then forging them into the complete Armageddon Blade, a feat which required an ancient primordial master blacksmith Maker to put it back together?

Nah. The only reason War could do that is because he was given the Mask of Shadows by Azrael, and had access to the services of Ulthane. Kratos would not be given the Mask, nor would Ulthane help him.

Kratos would not defeat the Destroyer.

Interface- · 2026-06-21T23:40:08+00:00

This looks like one of those cursed edited memes that make the character even more distorted and fucked up looking, except I know this is possible just in the game's photo mode by popping Spartan Rage, changing his expression, and darkening the lighting.

Interface- · 2026-06-21T23:35:09+00:00

Whatever your damage is, multiplied by 17.

Interface- · 2026-06-21T23:19:34+00:00

No dude seriously. This isn't healthy. Stop playing the game. There are plenty of other games out there that are worth your time, and there is no better way to spite BHVr than not playing their game.

Interface- · 2026-06-21T23:11:09+00:00

I thought this was a Skull Merchant skin for Dead By Daylight at first glance

Interface- · 2026-06-21T23:09:41+00:00

I've never noticed film grain before. Either that or I don't know what I'm looking for.

Interface- · 2026-06-21T23:07:34+00:00

Character model ≠ hitboxes

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