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Trying to figure out which game to start with since I only ever played 14

Thinking 6 or 7 but I thought I'd get a second opinion as all I really have to go off of is redditors and game journos 🤮

repost cause I fricked up the roman numerals. also remasters count

Velma is the smartest and most put-together member of the Scooby-Doo gang. And while she can’t see a thing without her glasses, she’s absolutely the most likely member of the squad to solve any given mystery. However, in MultiVersus, the Super Smash Bros.-like fighting game filled with Warner Bros. characters, she’s a total narc — or, rather, she was.

One of the strangest aspects of Velma’s character in MultiVersus was her ability to summon the fuzz after solving a mystery (which simply involved collecting clues around the arena). A police car would then roll up on Velma’s victim, throw them in back seat, and attempt to drive them off the stage. Is that a funny idea in concept? Of course it is. Is it funny in practice to watch a cop car roll up and start wreaking havoc in the year 2022 in a game with Black characters, including real-world people like LeBron James? Not so much.

In America, police distrust is at an all-time high, with some cops finally facing punishments for criminal actions committed on duty, and many more getting away with obvious abuses of power because they wear the badge. It’s clear now to many Americans — although this has long been obvious to marginalized and oppressed folks in this country — that the police are not the “good guys” they are depicted as in shows like Scooby-Doo.

It’s with that slow but steady cultural shift in mind that some MultiVersus players winced at the choice to have Velma call the cops — a small group of fans even started an online petition to remove the cops from Velma’s ability, and replace it with the Mystery Machine. And that’s exactly what Player First Games did.

In Thursday's patch, the notes included this bit about Velma’s passive ability: “Instead of calling the police, Velma now solves the mystery and calls the Mystery Inc. gang and the Mystery Machine to take the bad guys away.”

This change may seem small, but it takes away some gloom from an otherwise silly ability while still keeping its charm. Instead of the heat rolling in to do god-knows-what to Jake the Dog, LeBron James, or Steven Universe, Fred and Daphne will simply run them over in their hippie van. Same result, committed by fun cartoon characters instead of armed state employees.

As the petition calls out, the police aren’t necessary to MultiVersus’ gameplay or even the in-game spectacle of a character calling in a whole-butt car to do their bidding. So it’s nice to see Player First Games work to improve an issue that inadvertently sends the wrong message to players and makes a group of fans uncomfortable while playing an otherwise silly cartoon fighting game.

The author btw:

Reddit reactions:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MultiVersusTheGame/comments/x8ncgu/they_changed_velma_from_calling_the_police_to

https://old.reddit.com/r/PS5/comments/x97aou/velma_is_done_calling_the_police_in_multiversus

OP: Fallout modder try not to be a soft peepee challenge (impossible)

Example:

No Police? Based world (+41)

Average crime enjoyer (-21)

OP is not always the target of the sub's ire, though:

Why am I not surprised that an butthole who's scared of inclusiveness is quick to use terms like cuck and r-slurred. Frick nuggets like you are the reason "g*mers" are considered toxic pieces of shit. Edit: shocking, you're a PCM user as well. Keep your bullshit trash opinions in that cesspool and stop infecting the rest of the site. (-19)

>removing white people >inclusiveness Mhmmm, do keep going. And if me existing helps gatekeep the weak then good, we should have gatekept harder early on because look at how shit games that come out now are. (+17)

And my personal favorite, OP gets told to touch grass after editing out a white removal mod to avoid getting his post removed for racism

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By this point, if you've heard of Donkey Kong, then you've also probably heard of Billy Mitchell. The former 'King of Kong' held multiple world records in arcade games such as Pac-Man and the aforementioned, but many have since been called into question, with some accusing him of playing via Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. Mitchell denies the allegations and has even taken action against Guinness World Records supplier Twin Galaxies.

Now, due to those allegations, Mitchell is claiming that his doctor of 30 years is refusing to see him because he believes he's a cheat. In a new testimony shared on Perfect Pac-Man, this rather unusual claim states:

After Twin Galaxies’ defamatory statements of April 12, 2018, one of Responding Party’s doctors, Dr. Stanley Skopit, refused to see Responding Party after Responding Party appeared for an annual examination. When Responding Party Arrived for his examination, the assistant to Dr. Skopit informed Mitchell that Dr. Skopit would not see him... the assistant informed Responding Party that Dr. Skopit read the allegations from Twin Galaxies.

Mitchell states that the stress of the case has caused him to suffer from a hernia and atrial fibrillation. This testimony comes as part of the deposition process, as he has had to respond to requests for admission and production.

George Bush going to be a battle pass character https://t.co/0ww8HUUsvg

— dyzr (@DyzROhh) September 7, 2022

If Sauron was a boss in Elden Ring 🌋

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JW GOAT

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It’s official! #AGDQ2023 will be taking place online January 8th-15th!

While we would love to return in-person, we’ve determined that to provide a safe and welcoming event to all it was best that we move away from our originally planned location in Florida.

See thread below.

— Games Done Quick (@GamesDoneQuick) September 7, 2022

imagine still caring about covid lmfaoooo

Neat

Some nice Pokémon drama