NeoGAF & ResetERA - The Hilarious N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶e̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ Splintering "Gaming" Forum Circus

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Hear that kiwis? Play your cards right and you could be pozloading my neghole!
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So when will ResetEra be put on a terrorist watch list then? If they're going to bring in more 'Muhammads' into their own ranks then I expect them to be that they probably will be put on a terrorist watch list if they're going to put potential Jihad sympathizers in charge of their own website at this point.
 
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bighugeguns said:
Isn't Neogaf pretty comfy these days, post-purge?
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It's not easy to reduce the current population of NeoGAF to one category. This is what you have to remember - their membership still consists of regular users - albeit the usual spergy ones you'd associate with GAF - who ultimately got fed up with the power structure that repeatedly told them to lie there and take it, only for them to sieze their moment and man the barricades when the troons began their exodus.

I can only describe their forum's current personality as this sort of shared suffering the veteran forumers all share.
"This forum is shit," they're saying, "but this is so much better than it used to be."

There's two big things that changed when the old guard of GAF pulled their failed coup de'tat against the site owner and ultimately got sent packing. First, a fucking arsenal of topics no one was ever allowed to address became free to discuss without repercussions, including the offenses of the old guard and how horrible they were.

Second, the incidence of people whining about microaggressions, racism, sexism, and every other "ism" under the sun dropped by about a thousand percent. It's this reminder of how things used to be and aren't anymore that keeps the Gaffots loyal to their site despite its problems, and while at best you can argue it's migrated from Plagued to Infected, there is a certain enjoyable level of vitriol the Gaffots spare for their old masters that is really fun to see when it surfaces.
 
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Jaimas said:
Second, the incidence of people whining about microaggressions, racism, sexism, and every other "ism" under the sun dropped by about a thousand percent. It's this reminder of how things used to be and aren't anymore that keeps the Gaffots loyal to their site despite its problems, and while at best you can argue it's migrated from Plagued to Infected, there is a certain enjoyable level of vitriol the Gaffots spare for their old masters that is really fun to see when it surfaces.
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The kind of people who whine like pussies about utter nothings like "microaggressions" can't do this in an environment where whining like a pussy just isn't tolerated. They either get banned or, much more often, they flutter off to some safe space that allows them to weaponize their crybullying. They don't stick around when nobody cares about their bullshit.

Sites like NeoGAF and SA and RetardEra only get completely pozzed up with this bullshit by tolerating it and immunizing it from all kinds of criticism, either because mods actually agree with this bullshit themselves, or because they allow themselves to be bullied into it out of misguided empathy.

If you firmly and consistently tell these scumbags to go fuck themselves and relentlessly mock them when they try this bullshit, they find somewhere more congenial to their cancerous nature.
 
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moocow said:
I am actually completely, 100% fine with a game including an "Easy Mode" that simplifies game mechanics and allows the player to complete most or all of the game (maybe withholding the best endings or best weapons, etc.) on the condition that it be called "Games Journalist Mode." It should make periodic references to the fact that it's in GJM and maybe even pop up a little notice on screen whenever it "assists" the player. And it needs to include jokes at the player's expense somehow.

I want them to have to pick it knowing the game is mocking them for it before they can get their baby pass.
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I think a lot of people are really mistaking this one. Iirc, the game should include an easy mode was first written by Heather Alexandra of Kotaku (i might be wrong).
She literally wrote it after finishing Sekiro, earlier than probably most of us. She finished it, legitimately.
But many people just want to read the headlines and spread wrong information. So "that game journalist" is actually good at games. I remember in one of the comments she literally replied "i beat games for a living". So this game journalist mode is really an overused and misinterpreted meme.
 
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edricluffie said:
I think a lot of people are really mistaking this one. Iirc, the game should include an easy mode was first written by Heather Alexandra of Kotaku (i might be wrong).
She literally wrote it after finishing Sekiro, earlier than probably most of us. She finished it, legitimately.
But many people just want to read the headlines and spread wrong information. So "that game journalist" is actually good at games. I remember in one of the comments she literally replied "i beat games for a living". So this game journalist mode is really an overused and misinterpreted meme.
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You site a single example when there are dozens more of journos being complete retards. Iirc the guys at Polygon couldn't play 2016 Doom because it was too hard for them.
 
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edricluffie said:
I think a lot of people are really mistaking this one. Iirc, the game should include an easy mode was first written by Heather Alexandra of Kotaku (i might be wrong).
She literally wrote it after finishing Sekiro, earlier than probably most of us. She finished it, legitimately.
But many people just want to read the headlines and spread wrong information. So "that game journalist" is actually good at games. I remember in one of the comments she literally replied "i beat games for a living". So this game journalist mode is really an overused and misinterpreted meme.
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There are a million examples why they are trash at games.
 
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Duration Pending said:
Damn, am I going to be made obsolete? :(
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Still there in spirit:
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AnOminous said:
The kind of people who whine like pussies about utter nothings like "microaggressions" can't do this in an environment where whining like a pussy just isn't tolerated. They either get banned or, much more often, they flutter off to some safe space that allows them to weaponize their crybullying. They don't stick around when nobody cares about their bullshit.

Sites like NeoGAF and SA and RetardEra only get completely pozzed up with this bullshit by tolerating it and immunizing it from all kinds of criticism, either because mods actually agree with this bullshit themselves, or because they allow themselves to be bullied into it out of misguided empathy.

If you firmly and consistently tell these scumbags to go fuck themselves and relentlessly mock them when they try this bullshit, they find somewhere more congenial to their cancerous nature.
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Yup. Somewhat unrelated, but not really.

I recently read a report about the whole Boycott Israel/BDS Movement. Whenever a corporation gave in to their demands or played along and responded and apologized, it was quickly followed by escalating demands and more faggotry.

When a corporation refused to engage them or ignored them, they’d go away and find another target. Every. Single. Time.

In both cases we’re talking about a small minority who don’t like difficulty and weaponize whining. Tell them to fuck off and they will.
 
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Adding "easy modes" to games isn't as simple as altering a few game variables and leaving it at that. Many people (myself included) will start a new game on "easy" to get a handle on the controls and mechanics, then restart the game on a higher difficulty once they've got the hang of it. So if the easy mode is boring, unbalanced, or buggy, people will hate the game without really experiencing it. That means that an extra difficulty mode (particularly an "easy" mode that still needs to be fun) requires a lot of dev time, playtesting and maybe changes to the core game mechanics. And that dev time and budget then cannot be spent improving other aspects of the game. It's not a "win-win", something needs to be sacrificed.

Sperging about a game whose easy mode harmed it (I can't remember if I mentioned it in this thread or somewhere in Games):
The original Rome Total War is one of the best games of all time, provided that you play it on Medium or Hard difficulty. For God's sake don't play it on easy. The devs "adjusted" the difficulty by giving CPU-controlled armies huge morale penalties, such that the second you sent your troops to attack them, they would rout. It didn't matter what troops you brought or how intelligently you used them, you could throw a mob of peasants straight at elite cavalry and they would still run away. So you didn't get to experience the most fun and rewarding parts of the game: building the right armies by managing your economy, and then commanding them well to win difficult battles. Easy mode was fucking boring, and didn't even prepare you for the higher difficulties other than teaching you the controls - you didn't learn what troop types were good against other troop types, because all troops were good against everything. Likewise, the "Very Hard" difficulty just gave those morale penalties to your troops instead, meaning that battles became about cheesing the AI and fighting in weird ways that were optimal for stacking your morale bonuses - very metagamey and not very fun. Just tacking an "easy mode" onto a game can actively make it worse unless you spend the time and money to implement it properly.

If you're going to add sped/game journo mode to a game, that's a big time and money commitment. With only so much budget, how do you create room for that? Less playtesting? Less content? More crunch? That's the real world decision project managers need to make.

There's also a big difference between accessibility and difficulty. Most accessibility features (remappable controls, colour-blind modes, FoV sliders) are not things that fundamentally break the game (it used to be argued that bigger FoVs gave some kind of unfair advantage in competitive FPS, but I've not seen that argument advanced in a while) and can be added independent of the development of the core game. These "game journalist modes" require rebalancing of the entire game and that may be completely beyond the budget of especially smaller devs.
 
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Jaimas said:
Everything must be accessible to everyone, dragged down to the lowest common denominator, must be made more accessible, so as to eliminate troublesome concepts like meritocracy, value, and achievement.
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With one exception. Their media. If you have a problem with anything from She-Ra to the Star Wars sequels, suddenly it's "not for you".
 
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