• CarlsIII@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Is there like an ongoing competition to see who can be the most negative over games? I’m starting to think I should just stay off the internet.

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      1 year ago

      I often go online after I’ve been enjoying a game to see what others think and then go…oh this was a mistake. Some seem to live to hate things.

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        1 year ago

        This is not an attack on your statement, as you’re definitely right. But I just want to add this:

        Some people are (understandably) complaining about the severely limited character creator in Baldur’s Gate 3, and comparing it to even middle-range ones in other modern RPGs; but many other people are attacking us as if we are trolls and we hate games, and those people are getting a lot of support. Baldur’s Gate 3 is fantastic, but the character creator sucks. We’re allowed to have nuanced opinions, right?

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      1 year ago

      Much of the gaming-adjacent internet are teenagers. It will always feel cool to be against [popular thing]™ when you’re still figuring out what your identity is as an individual.

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      Dude, it’s been like this for almost 30 years. Only difference between now and then is that everybody now has an easy way to stand on a soapbox to a large audience.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, it is lol. Internet’s more or less been this way since chat rooms and forums, but social media is where it really came out of the woodworks.

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      I learned a while ago to stop caring what most idiots on the internet think about games. There is always a mix of circlejerking, rage-baiting, and sour grapes muddying the waters.