So after immediately getting it and going through a few settlements, wow did this patch break my muscle memory hard.

I was panicked-looking for my Geyser Pumps and my Rain Collectors. (they’re under gathering now)
The new stuff seems all awesome. Fishing Huts are an interesting change of pace since you can haul in the nets early but that instantly depletes the node. Frogs are fascinating and a giant headache, being unable to be housed in non-specialized homes. The change on Foxes to no longer be rainwater-specialized makes the races feel more balanced. The new recipe combinations are weird as hell (again, all muscle memory gone) but seem balanced so far.

All very nice. Am impressed.

It cannot be front and center and normal at the same time.

Why not? If it’s normal, any possible identity and any possible element will be front and center every so often, no? That’s what normality means after all? Something has to be front and center, and if everything is normal, everything will appear there repeatedly?

So this then begs the question, why are people decrying games as “woke” trying so hard to push their political agenda into gaming discussions? After all, as per point 1 + point 3, the game was already criticized/panned anyways, then someone came in and tries to push the critique onto a political level instead of a game one.

But like you say, if you want to normalize it, shouldn’t it be front and center then? Since that’s part of being normal, also being front and center?

Anyone got any good resource on how to get started developing addons from scratch?

Are there Jetbrains plugins or something to streamline the process?

Oooh, I did not know that. TYVM!

So long as it’s possible to ban the bot so I don’t see the spam, sure.

So “woke” means all of the following together, trying to summarize:

• A game includes anything related to LGBTQ+ or political left-leaning ideology.
• The above is presented via non-gameplay elements. It’s fine if its in the gameplay.
• The game was a commercial flop or critically panned.

Did I sum that up correctly?

It’s a very overused and absolutely terrible use of a word.

For two reasons:

1. It has a predefined meaning, and if you read what the DA creators say, they’re not actually “slamming” it. While they’re pretty openly hostile - and for good reason - that’s a far cry from what someone “slamming” someone else or a quote would be.
2. It’s inclusion in the headline is for sensationalism, which would not be needed as the “You’re an idiot!”-quote already does that. Or maybe it’s just surprising how desensitivized people on the net are nowadays.

To think it further, consider the whole headline had been slam-ified:

Dragon Age GOATs slam “woke” lollerz: “Cry moar!”

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Because things like black protagonists with hip-hop music in the background make no sense in a feudal japanese setting and people are sick of games being abused as vehicles for morality preaching.

But games about dudes in medieval-looking sci-fo power armor stomping around WW1-styled soldiers do?

And that doesn’t preach any morals? But a black guy in a samurai setting does? How come one does, but the other does not?

Also…

An example from borderlanfs two could be Sir Hammerlock, who was introduced as a normal (for borderlands) character early on and later in a side quest was revealed to be gay in passing.

Maybe don’t make it as readily apparent how much you internalized gayness being abnormal. Telling. You wouldn’t write sentences like this if that wasn’t a normal thought process for you, since you did probably not have to actively consider your wording.

Visuals are part of the experience, it’s not unrelated.

Why? Or rather, why this, but apparently not your character or their back story?

There are a lot of good games that can be considered as “woke” and no one talk about them like this.

[citation needed]

When they have no good material, they start to promote unrelated things to gameplay. This is just one of those things.

Didn’t YOU just say that people focus on the visuals of characters? As in, something unrelated to gameplay?

By all modern shithead alt-righters, Skyrim is “ultra woke”: It promotes ultimate equality and the ability to be anything you want to be, and freely become someone else later.

Or maaaaaybe people who use “woke” unironically just lack the brain capacity to comprehend even a game like Skyrim. 🤷

Why would firing DEI consultants improve the work?

And if you want to have lgbtq characters, then do it like borderlands 2, that game got it right in 2012.

In what particular way do they differ?

I’d definitely keep the HDD as a data graveyard of course, since for your in-use drives you’re using solid state drives nowadays but those while large now are still small-ish and games are huge.

Other than that, depends on what you want to do. For 1080p at 60 FPS, that sounds fine, so I’d keep the geforce at first. Replace MoBo+RAM+CPU, then later replace the graphics card and the monitor.

I have one problem with this:

slams

… siiiiigh

Aye, it has become another dogwhistle of the weirdo alt right crowd. It’s kinda helpful because whenever you see someone use it unironically, you can just safely block/ban them at no loss of conversation.

because the creators using it to hide their bad games

How does this work in particular? The hiding bit? Doesn’t it actually draw attention, considering how many people then spam “OMG SO WOKE!11!!angry-1!!” and so on threads everywhere?

Aye, let’s agree to respect each other’s opinion. No matter how wrong yours might be.

(joking of course, I actually like 2 a lot despite how clearly unfinished and rushed it was, although I really really disliked 3 except for the romances and the character interactions)