• Cid Vicious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    25·
    13 days ago

    Somehow I think you’re going to be called a racial slur more often than you’re going to get this sort of thing.

  • 58008@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    13 days ago

    I’m not being hyperbolic or lying for the sake of comedy, but the only games that ever made me feel violent were platformers with high frustration levels. I’ve never felt violent playing DOOM or Carmageddon or Postal 2. It’s pantomime violence, regardless of how realistic it looks. But Mario Bros. and Super Meat Boy? You’d better leave the house when I boot those shits up, and take the hammer with you.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      13 days ago

      Anyone who says postal 2 makes people more violent/racist/whatever has either never played the game or they have incredibly poor media literacy. That game’s a gem and to this day has some of the best level design I’ve seen. Also if you didn’t know they had a 20th anniversary update a couple years back that added a bunch of bug fixes, qol, and content out of nowhere

    • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      13 days ago

      Same boat for me. I can whack zombies with a baseball bat all day or whatever and feel nothing, but get me frustrated with some insane timing-based thing and over- or under-sensitive controls, and I’ll crack for sure. Souls-like and certain platformers are pretty much the only ones that do it because I feel like I should be able to do the thing, and can’t. Other games that are super challenging, like RPGs or action-type games, I can try the same boss fight or “cinematic timing-based action sequence” (a thing that should die off) 100 times and not get the rages.

      I yell a lot, up to and including unintelligible screeching, and heaven help anyone who interacts with me in that state… But fortunately I’m not a controller thrower or slammer. Can’t afford to buy new shit due to rage. Instead I learned to just pause for a while and come back at it in better headspace. That’s often all it takes.

      It’s for the best I live alone, but I’m sure my neighbors think I’m insane…

  • 11111one11111@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    13 days ago

    Fuck me that is the most wholesome shit I’ve seen in a while.

    Edit: OP, you should crosspost this to uplifting news community. I just saw a post from that community where members were complaining of the lack of actual uplifting news because there are so many posts like the one I saw this complaint in that are cinical in a kind of satirical way. For example, the post I saw the complaint in was about a boat filled with youtube influencers almost sank and everyone almost drowned.