Hot takes

[PhaseJump]

Goldeneye and Perfect Dark easily stomps over anything on the PSX since it has a joystick and proper ways to aim.

Nothing is completely stomping on Medal of Honor or Syphon Filter

 

[MasterEn]

I've noticed in some communities that there's a growing number of people who insist that women don't play "real" games. They like Candy Crush/mobile slop, Animal Crossing, The Sims ect... and that "real" games should be made for men. Not women. Whatever that means. I take this to mean they all need big booba sexy momma type characters. As long as she's not the MC (unless there are a lot of cleavage and panty shots). She can't use big weapons like swords or guns because "That's unrealistic". Even in games with magic and dragons and aliens. Apparently a woman wielding a comically huge sword, wearing heavy armor or using an enormous firearm is not realistic because she couldn't be able to lift it.

Despite some of the issues with AssCreed Shadows I noticed a lot of people didn't like that there was a female ninja. As if kunoichi haven't been a popular type of character in games and anime for decades. Same with Ghost of Yotei. Like we haven't seen that type of female character before. I haven't played either game. I don't have the hardware anyway. But all this character driven misogyny seems like a sad hill to die on. What's wrong with these guys? Some of the female characters they say are ugly aren't even ugly. Legions of bald space marine jacked jock stereotypes with so-so faces=fine. Woman that doesn't look like a triple filtered super model=Affront to all that is Holy! Burn the witch!

I'm sorry. Default male Shepherd is not even remotely attractive to me. I think he has a goofy face. But I'm not gonna fry a whole game because I don't like what the main guy looks like. I'm not that shallow.

I don't think these guys know what games women actually like which would be whatever games they enjoy playing. Whether that be The Sims or Big Boobie Action Game #458.

i wouldn't consider candy crush to be a real game, but animal crossing and the sims are legit games. they aren't action packed but that's not their focus. they challenge you to be creative. i've heard quite differently on the "women can't have ridiculous weapons and outfits". a lot of people, including women, like to have characters with absurd weapons, armor and body types. the people who don't like to have fun don't want others to enjoy anything, ever. they are the ones pushing for realism in games, movies, tv shows and books. that kind of defeats the whole point of fiction, but i don't think they can separate fiction and reality.
most people would have preferred to have a ninja samurai to play as instead of two separate characters to play as; going by online discussions that i have seen. but since everyone was given plenty of reasons to dislike the game, they just decided to hate on everything in the game; regardless if it was a good part or not. and i'm guessing that since ghost of Yotei looks similar to assassins creed shadows, they decided ahead of time to hate on it. i haven't heard or read anything saying that the game is bad, so they are just using up their energy on it while they are on a roll.
they either don't know or don't care. some people just like to create drama, no matter what the cost.

 

[moonbits]

i wouldn't consider candy crush to be a real game,

what makes it not a real game?

 

[bjork]

i didn't particularly like it as much as F4 but i think its better than F3

 

[MasterEn]

what makes it not a real game?

it mainly just match 3 or more objects, and then they are cleared off the screen. and then some more pieces move in. not very hard or challenging. not every game has to be; but i'm guessing that since i was introduced to tetris attack for the game boy first, i'm holding games like that to a higher standard, since the mix and match pieces scroll up as you play and in the vs cpu mode, the ai drops large blocks onto the field for you to deal with. as far as i know, you don't do that in candy crush.

 

[Ephemera1_]

it mainly just match 3 or more objects, and then they are cleared off the screen. and then some more pieces move in. not very hard or challenging. not every game has to be; but i'm guessing that since i was introduced to tetris attack for the game boy first, i'm holding games like that to a higher standard, since the mix and match pieces scroll up as you play and in the vs cpu mode, the ai drops large blocks onto the field for you to deal with. as far as i know, you don't do that in candy crush.

Do you feel the same way about the Bejeweled series

 

[ProudPlatypus]

Do you feel the same way about the Bejeweled series

I was just going to ask. Though, having not played Candy Crush, I do find the monetisation, and engagement bs, of mobile games can get in the way of them feeling like "real games". At least in comparison to older games like Bejeweled. So I understand their sentiment, if it's something along those lines. Though I find mobile games to have got worse on that front since Candy Crush was popular.

 

[MasterEn]

Do you feel the same way about the Bejeweled series

sort of. i don't think i've ever actually seen any footage or screenshots of bejeweled, but i did play that one mode in plants vs zombies on the xbox 360. it seems to me that you can improve both candy crush and bejeweled by mixing in some other elements for more variety in game play. the base games seem fine as they are; they just aren't very appealing or interesting enough for me to try and play them.

 

[C.Endfield]

Second Toughest in the Infants is the best Underworld album and I will never be convinced otherwise.

 

[skramz]

nirvana's only good album is bleach

 

[nathman]

More specific to the electric guitar but;

- Different types of wood do not change the sound (electronic output) of your guitar.

- Just because an amplifier is powered by vacuum tubes does not make it sound any better or even noticeably much different. In fact, tube amps are inferior in every way to transistor amps. They're much heavier, they're less reliable, they waste a lot of energy, they get very hot and they're stupid expensive. The only reason why transistor amps have such a bad reputation is because of crummy 1x6 practice combo amps from the 80s-90s.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

I think its fine to talk aggresively to your children (cuz my brother and I are often treated like that and no one complains)

 

[Sfjeov]

Idk if it's me but I like Apocaplyse Now Redux over the original

 

[Boo Man]

Korn is terrible now, they made better music when they were all on drugs
now their songs even have back up singers going "ahhh ohhhh ahhhh" like wtf is this.
the first album, Follow the Leader, Issues, Life is Peachy, Untouchables and Take a look in the mirror were all gold! but anything after that is straight

 

[resketreke]

I was tempted to post here "CDRomance was the perfect name" several times in the past. Glad to see I wasn't the only one who thought so

 

[RandomHajile]

My hot take?

"Thread Necro'ing" is a good thing. Conversations can always have more input added from new people...suspending or penalizing folks for wanting to add to a conversation is really crazy, imo. I'll never understand the anger it causes.

Yeah, I get it if it's just some newb going "GIB LINKS PLOX" but if it's a legit query or addition to the topic, why be mad? Just my two cents.

 

[skramz]

a few things i guess

-straight pipes CAN sound good, it just depends on the car. don't straight pipe a fucking yaris.

-adding to my previous statement, loud cars rock! don't be ashamed to do a muffler delete, let er rip!

-a lot of car related things huh? well, one more. you NEED a subwoofer in your car. you need music in your bass ;)

-the only truly inventive grunge band was alice in chains

-cheesecake is the only good cake

-all of the rides in pimp my ride were SWAGGER (oh right, no more car stuff)

-i hate wi-fi with a passion. ethernet all the way! imagine using air for internet LOL!!

-the dumbphone craze is... dumb. you wouldn't survive without social media, you bastard. if you actually wanted to use a dumbphone, you wouldn't flaunt it 247.

-if you play guitar with a usb interface, you don't play the guitar. sorry not sorry.

-i don't like rgb keyboards. they stink.

 

[RETRO-VETRO RETRO-VETRO]

I think pineapple on pizza is good!

 

[Bakuma1997]

Bluey is a good show, but its status as the "Serious issue tackler" has been overblown by Internet

 

[Bakuma1997]

The best Breath of fire games are average compared to the worst RPG representative in the market

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Morse should still be taught and used (Same with the NATO phonetic alphabet).

It's bad for coded messages but perfect for communication in case conventional methods are unavailable thanks to its binary system

Hexadecimal can also be nice but trickier.

 

[RETRO-VETRO RETRO-VETRO]

Morse should still be taught and used (Same with the NATO phonetic alphabet).

It's bad for coded messages but perfect for communication in case conventional methods are unavailable thanks to its binary system
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Hexadecimal can also be nice but trickier.

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[Ikagura Ikagura]

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[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

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Genuinely impressed that you "at"ed them in morse code.

 

[aquova]

If they made me God Emperor for a day the first thing I would do would be to change the calendar we use. Having every month be a different number of days, causing the day of the weeks to shift from month to month is crazy. Either we should do 12 months of 30 days, with a 5/6 day "extra" week at the end of the year, or 13 months of 28 days with New Year's/Leap Day as an intra-monthly day. I'm in favor of the latter, that way every single month would be exactly four weeks and be identical. No more buying calendars every year, it would always be the same.