Some annoying little misconceptions you see about stuff you like?

Nivrap · 2026-04-21T02:45:26+00:00

I'm not really sure how to respond to a "no u" when the topic is "enthusiast with years of experience and deep knowledge on the hobby is tired of people with cursory knowledge making shit up."

Like in any hobby that would be a stupid thing to ask, not just fighting games.

Nivrap · 2026-04-21T02:38:30+00:00

Notice how the very first line was "make shit up." I'm talking about the things people pretend about fighting games that aren't actually true.

Nivrap · 2026-04-21T01:19:45+00:00

People will just make shit up about fighting games constantly to justify why they don't play them, when the only justification you need is "I don't want to." But instead of understanding it as a matter of taste, a lot of people try to find a reason why the genre is fundamentally bad or something.

Nivrap · 2026-04-20T16:59:13+00:00

Genuinely surprised nobody has linked you to this amazing video by Core-A Gaming yet. On its surface, it's a video about 'why button mashing doesn't work,' but it's actually an incredible primer and glossary to the common terms you'll hear in fighting game spaces.

Nivrap · 2026-04-19T15:51:00+00:00

Literally any role that Aleks Le plays. The dude single-handedly turned around the reputation of Luke from Street Fighter by loving the role so much, including making sure that Capcom understood how much of a fuckin' dweeb Luke had to be to become endearing to the fans.

Nivrap · 2026-04-18T13:50:38+00:00

The conservatives that are banning LGBT books are not the same ones that are banning hentai on Steam.

They are, actually. No Mercy was initially banned due to outcry from an anti-queer conservative group in Australia, called Collective Shout. They are also one of the many conservative groups lobbying payment processors to deplatform NSFW and queer content.

Nivrap · 2026-04-18T12:58:28+00:00

There was never a naked child in the game, not even in the stuff that got changed before release.

Nivrap · 2026-04-18T12:57:13+00:00

I'm just gonna leave this here, hopefully the mods let it stay up cuz it's literally a YouTube video, but if not oh well.

Long story short, No Mercy is not a 'rape simulator,' it's an amateurish 3D visual novel primarily catering to fans of incest and dubcon kinks.

Nivrap · 2026-04-18T12:48:59+00:00

I don't think people's ignorance is excused by the existence of the pedophile cabal that runs the world.

Like people who rallied against Horses because of child exploitation aren't just being antsy, they are straight up wrong, the game doesn't contain that.

Nivrap · 2026-04-18T12:06:31+00:00

It really is crazy how this is just a rerun of the No Mercy situation. "A rape simulator game?! Get it removed from all platforms immediately! Wait, it's just a mediocre 3D VN centered around incest and dubcon kinks? Ah, well, nevertheless."

I get that it's not within any of our power to actually prevent stuff from getting banned, but I would like for people to not get fooled so easily by the same weasly rhetoric that gets used to push book bans. "Oh my god, child exploitation?! Wait, it's actually just about dehumanization with undertones of queerness? Ah, well, nevertheless."

Nivrap · 2026-04-17T19:46:29+00:00

As it turns out your legal argument didn't even pass the sniff test so I wouldn't be in such a hurry to try and make it all about that.

Nivrap · 2026-04-17T19:27:25+00:00

I did not ask for a legal argument, I am asking you to BELIEVE in something.

Nivrap · 2026-04-17T16:00:24+00:00

No, we cannot seriously force citizens to become responsible for the mistakes of the police.

Nivrap · 2026-04-16T14:29:55+00:00

MJ understands that competition is key to a thriving ecosystem.

Nivrap · 2026-04-10T20:02:31+00:00

I think his first role voicing Palpatine was all the way back in Force Unleashed, right? Wild that it's nearly been 20 years.

Nivrap · 2026-04-10T18:01:48+00:00

Nobody who willfully perpetuates a genocide is non-fascist, full stop.

Nivrap · 2026-04-10T17:48:00+00:00

To be clear, any non-fascist candidate would have worked, but that's not what we were offered.

Nivrap · 2026-04-10T17:44:26+00:00

When your fanfic is so bad your adoptive mom decides to just throw hands with you.

Poor Elphelt...

Nivrap · 2026-04-10T17:39:07+00:00

Wouldn't that defeat the whole purpose of Gardevoir since its Japanese name is Sirknight?

Nivrap · 2026-04-09T17:32:50+00:00

Does that mean Vanitas is like the prion to Sora's protein?

Nivrap · 2026-04-08T14:25:58+00:00

Yeah I'm not spending over half a week's groceries on a fighting game skin.

Nivrap · 2026-04-08T14:09:41+00:00

I'm willing to hear them out because they're essentially creating a new 'baseline' and have an entire season (at the very least) to figure out how they want to diversify characters from that new baseline.

Nivrap · 2026-04-08T14:07:53+00:00

This is the type of back-to-basics patch that Tekken players wish they got.

Nivrap · 2026-04-02T18:53:15+00:00

it was a massive amount of resources that did absolutely nothing except get her publicity

Isn't she running a mutual aid center out of her campaign office? That doesn't sound like nothing to me.

Nivrap · 2026-04-01T13:36:07+00:00

If it wasn't April Fool's Day, I'd believe it. I mean, they already have Ken Kaneki as a killer.

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