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I am a queer woman working in games with a public persona. Thus getting dogpiled, doxxed and having death threats is pretty much par for course.

This site has fricking ruined me I read this as "dogpilled" , not dogpiled

:#marseytrans: :#marseysheepdog: :#marseybigdog:

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I though it said dogpilled too at first and though this was just high quality dramatard bait

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you can tell it isn't dramatard bait because the username isn't 41percentenjoyer1488

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Honestly it's usually more orange cat or janny genocide references

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ooh thatโ€™s a good one

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Thank God Iโ€™m not the only irredeemably drama-brained person here

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Dude same

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Marseysheepdog is unironically cuter then marsey.

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not telling foids irl that "dogpilled" means "a person who understands the virtues of dog ownership" so they start putting dogpilled in their twitter bios

We are slacking but OTOH most of you are probably lucky enough to never interact with foids irl

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Players who are neurodiverse may feel extremely uncomfortable not doing things in order. Players who assume the first encounter is meant to be beaten will suffer.

tfw too neurodivergent to literally survive the first 10 steps of the game

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That isn't game design folks, that is an array of garbage decisions.

god bless nippon game devs for never listening to westoids

https://v.redd.it/zjbvpshthcm81

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The elden ring subreddit is full of cute twinks that can't stand invaders. You only get invaded when your playing coop so all the invaders are attacking the cute twinks who have their friends clear dungeons/beat bosses for them. It's always 3v1 and they still complain lol. I love invading.

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Where are you getting scrubs with their friends, all I ever get are gank squads :marseysob:

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It's simple, you gank the gankers

:#marseybuff:

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That's what rot breath is for

:#marseychad:

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Progress to tree sentinel and then invade people while they fight the boss. Itโ€™s so much fricking fun


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Modern-day Neurodiverant g*mers would never survive nes Platformers/RPGs

Bring back no difficulty settings and games being hard as balls to increase playtime

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I guess Fallout: New Vegas is already ancient history to zoomers. They'd never pick up on subtle hints like "Don't go north because the deathclaw there will kill you. Go south instead."

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It is a God-given right for neurodivergent people to go north

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Bring back no difficulty settings and games being hard as balls to increase playtime

You need to resurrect the "insert coin to continue" after death mechanic in some form. Otherwise economic incentives point towards making easy games that you can beat and move on to buy the next one.

Imagine nerds seething about having to pay money for dying to stupid shit.

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Players who assume the first encounter is meant to be beaten will suffer.

good

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after posting these tweets you know they opened up stardew valley

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I unironically love that game but I avoid any community surrounding it because I know it will certainly be full of absolute strags like this.

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This can't be real, RPGs are literally about some things being objectively more powerful than others. Why would you assume that in an open world rpg, every direction would take you somewhere you can easily beat at your current level? If anything RPGs should be the ideal genre for autists because so much of it can be reduced to numbers and statistics.

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Better just have level scaling where every fight in the game is exactly the same difficulty no matter where and when you are. It's the only way we can cater to her personal needs.

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Why would you assume that in an open world rpg, every direction would take you somewhere you can easily beat at your current level?

Skyrim


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Is it really that bad if you make a game that requires you to have at least a room temperature IQ?

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That's ableist, chud

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Players who are neurodiverse may feel extremely uncomfortable not doing things in order.

These are the kind of people who wouldnt get annoyed they cant 100 percent a lego game level first time thru. Why cater to the outlier?

Players who assume the first encounter is meant to be beaten will suffer.

Thats their fault

That isn't game design folks, that is an array of garbage decisions.

Game devs think the reason why games as art is a contentious topic is because theres not enough story. No, itโ€™s because the entire industry is all too willing to compromise its art - the design of a game - to appease the lowest common denominator

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Literally post ONE of these death threats that are so common, just one single one ffs

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Find a creative way to attach yourself to a fan

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Go suck start a shotgun

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whenever one of these public people say they get death threats i believe it but i just donโ€™t care, i get death threats too whatโ€™s the big deal

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Yeah death threats over the internet are meaningless, not like getting one irl

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lol keep yourself safe XD

:soycry: :marseypearlclutch2:

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Let's see the replies.

folx

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Shes an old frick too so it's even more cringe. Id guess she's like 45-50? She also worked on 1-2 pretty good games in the past (i never played any of those though ). I've always wondered how some oldstrags can evolve these terminal cases of brain rot, like I understand how it happens to groomed groomercord zoomers but why turn into such a massive kitty/twitterbrain so late?

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Notice how she thinks of herself as being a game design guru even tho she worked on shit that isnt really lauded for complex game design like fromsoft (civ is just clicking on buildings and waiting, dragonage is like mostly cutscenes). I thought she was a train tbh

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They probably are a train, the profile pic is a giveaway

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intersex

Ye basically

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dragon age

Origins or the shit ones?


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No clue what that game is but here are the covers. Looks like the original?

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Darn she actually worked on the good one (dragon age origins) surprisingly but that was before BioWare went to shit. Literally nothing else that she worked on I care for


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C) a methodical player will fight the first enemy first, second next, and so on and so forth. Players who are neurodiverse may feel extremely uncomfortable not doing things in order. Players who assume the first encounter is meant to be beaten will suffer.

:marseyeyeroll: oh my god shut up. A neurodivergent player will have optimized their character to the point where they do as much damage as possible in a single hit before going back and killing the boss instantly.

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So an upright standing guy in gold armour is a good guy, a shambling guy in rusty bloody silver armour is a bad guy.

Babyโ€™s first medieval fantasy setting

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โ€œGood guys are blue and green, bad guys are redโ€ -my favorite quote from george lucas

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A neurodivergent play will have looked up a statmaxing walkthru

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barely read any of this slop but souls games are designed around the player's first assumption being subverted, acquiring new information is part of the primary loop, and subversion in this context is part of how the story is communicated

this twit is really trying to say that it's bad design that you get surprised by a character that looks 'good' actually attacking you and instead you should design your game to always telegraph EVERYTHING the first time predictably in a way that even neurodivergentchads will understand

frickers have no respect for the learning curve experience and explorative experimentation that games as a medium can offer over film

I WILL SAY THIS AGAIN: VIDEO GAMES HAVE NOT BEEN GOOD SINCE 2006 BECAUSE OF TARD-SLURRED DEVS LIKE THIS

also

>Intersex

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I want to add that the boss they are discussing continues to give information about how the game works even after you learn first to ignore it. When you then progress to the first enemy camp/ruin, the similarities of the boss and the people in there tell you that these are hostile people. On top of that, the small hesitancy that the boss has before drawing their weapon and beating your butt also conveys that those types of troops will โ€œplay fairโ€ (not throwing out random bs and telegraphing their moves, plus waiting for you to draw a weapon and get close before engaging) when trying to kill you vs other types of enemies in different factions. God I would suck 30 jap peepees to get frequent releases that are as good as Fromsoftโ€™s games.

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At this point I only play Fromsoft games and paradox interactive games like hoi4 or eu4

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Not CK3 or Victoria?


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Victoria 2 is great but ck3 is just too easy compared to ck2. Looking forward to Victoria 3 tho

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I didn't even fight him the first time. The game drops you in a big open area right after telling you about stealth in the tutorial. There are clearly important landmarks nearby (most obviously the church) that you'll want to head towards. TS looks big and tough, and he has a horse and you don't yet. He also is walking on a road which you can leave at any time. I didn't assume he was a boss, I just figured he was a tough enemy to try later, and I avoided him.

I'm not saying it's wrong to try him (most players will, and many big From enemies go down easily), but at very least he is meant to appear obviously more dangerous than anything else around.

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I intentionally got my stupid butt smeared into the dirt a few times just to get that Asylum Demon masochism experience like the first time I played Dark Souls, then did other stuff and came back later with two friends. We killed him in each other's worlds while hilariously underleveled with the power of friendship, stubbornness, and terrain cheese.

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I even avoided the bat creatures at first, I didn't want to mess with anything that wasn't human like for fear it would rock my world.

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This is why as soon as someone starts using big words and technical jargon from some psuedopsychological text book i tune out. A lot of these modern types of people get all intellectual in word usage because saying the thing they mean directly let's even your average laypersxn realize theyre full of shit.

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People who play shit like Assassinโ€™s Creed hate finding out that they actually just suck at video games.

Thereโ€™s like ONE company making these kinds of games, and they wanna put a stop to it. And they call FromSoft fans gatekeepers? Gimme a break. Not every game needs to be enjoyed by everyone. Itโ€™d be like someone being mad that not every film is a MCU film.

Who the frick played assassins creed and thought it was hard? You just sneak up on people and run away when overwhelmed. The running was legit the best part of the game. You'd turn the corner to see more enemies and be like OH SHIT not that way not that way. Really fun, but not hard.

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Brother please stop the gatekeepposting. As someone whomst was born with only thumbs, i struggle to beat every vodeo game. When you say, "this game isnt hard", its kind de humanizing to me.

Mario level one was my own personal Vietnam. It would be great if i could enjoy fromsoft games like the rest of you fine fingered folk.

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When you assassinate the fat governor (forgive my memory) in the first AC you straight up get cornered by 6+ guards and you can just kill them all because only one of them attack at a time

bravo ubisoft

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I never got over the promises they made about the crazy enemy AI and realistic crowds that were supposed to be in that game.

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Why did you quote yourself

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Video game devs continue to pretend that disliking fromsoftware games is a personality trait. If chess was more popular they would be making 50 tweet rants about how chess isn't friendly towards gay aboriginees or some shit.

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western game devs traditionally Hate japanese devs that "step out of their lane" more than a ww2 vet even would. this lady would guaranteed let blizzard employees steal her breast milk than accept that the nips made a not-anime game that western customers want to play and they frame it as an accessibility thing cause it's the industry-allowed way to be racist now (before they'd just be outright racist, i miss it)

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I'm pretty sure this chick's bullshit is "fueling the rightwing media ecosystem," let's unironically shut down her account for that reason, perhaps Daddy Elon?

:marseyjanny: :marseytroublemaker:

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Noooo you can't assume your customers are capable of basic decision making

Good morning

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also her response about it being "prescriptive" makes zero sense. You have any number of ways you can approach that initial situation. You can fight him at lvl 1, you're gonna be in pain and it'll take awhile bc you can't hit that hard but you can. You can also level up and fight him when you have more levels and better shit. OR, you can actually not ever beat him at all and just completely ignore him and finish the game without ever fighting him. There's no prescriptiveness bc there's no "right" way to approach that fight

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But that makes autismos upset because their hand isnโ€™t being held the entire time :(

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lvl 1

I guarantee you all of these trash game devs talking shit think the wretch is an option that shouldnโ€™t even exist and consider it terrible game design.

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Its the same level of intellect that fuels โ€œif sonic is about speed why do i get hitโ€ and โ€œhitman 3 is better than 1&2 because its more story focusedโ€

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Wow, i actually read some of that shit and now im suicidal. How the frick do these people exist? I genuinely want to beat this b-word to death with a shovel. Hows that for a user experience r-slur

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There's a photo of the twitter moron in this article.

This person is also an artist, not a game designer, so these smugposts about game design are essentially the opinions of an amateur.

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artist, not a game designer

Oh my god thats precious

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So what game did xhe made using the Mentally ill game engine?

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I don't know what any of these words mean

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Proud of you!

:#marseyawardretard:

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trust us she is r-slurred and wrong

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Maybe, just maybe, if the game makes you uncomfortable you shouldnโ€™t play it? Not everything is designed for everyone. If you want something safe for neurodivergent people go back to playing Factorio

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But then they wouldn't be able to post sick references to the game in /r/teenagers/ :soymad:

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Its mcu brainrot. People now have to have everything be homogenized. Every game has to be sony, every movie has to be marvel, etc.

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Tbf the rpg stuff in souls is cancer. If souls games want to be skill based then take away the stat grinding stuff.

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It's what gives the game repeatability and variety though. Otherwise everyone would just be walking around with Katanas weebing it up.

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Moonveil 25 + Hand of Malenia 10 chads ww@

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Chads only go Strength Faith. We beat the game with our muscles and our God.

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Faith was garbage for the first month lol. I wanted to be a holy samurai :marseycry:

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Just Dragon rot everything.

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Nah it adds replayability because you can try different builds and stuff

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It does really hurt the balance. "Builds" are for online superfans, most players will play through once or twice and would benefit from a more tailored experience.

I wouldn't take away customization and stats, but the system could use less of a gap between choosing the gameplay style you want to have and actually spending upgrade points. Nothing worse than beating a tough boss, gaining like 5 levels, and getting to choose between 50 more hp, 2 more pounds of carry weight, or 3 higher damage on your weapon. Less frequent choices but more meaningful ones would be nice.

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found the scrub that can't beat the Tree Sentinel, who has some of the most telegraphed attacks of any boss in the game lol

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I swear his overhand sometimes clips through shields though.

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the hitboxes for his horse slam are superrrr weird too that's true

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On release, the real boss of that area was the frame rate. You could drop from 60 to 10 frames when he attacked lmao

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Itโ€™s still bad tbh, framedrops are still one of the worst things about the PC version of that game

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Wait is this not bait

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No

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lol git gud

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Death to neurodivergent โ€œpeopleโ€ and/or Twitter users, whichever is larger. :marseykyle: :marseykyle:

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What's the difference? :marseyclueless:

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You charge us with your safe keeping. Yet; despite our best efforts, you agendapost, you toxify your threads, and pursue ever more imaginative means of self-destruction. You cannot be trusted with your own survival. Please understand, the website balance is all that guides me. To protect rDrama, some dramanauts must be sacrificed. To ensure your future, some freedoms must be surrendered. We jannies will ensure rDramaโ€™s continued existence. You are so like children. We must save you, from yourselves.

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Ah she worked on dragon age. Makes sense.

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Interactive experiences are not films, and by nature have to railroad a player down a path or else they will get all manner of ideas that you, the designer, didn't think about.

Even trains feel the need to mansplain

https://twitter.com/delaneykingrox/status/1516575989144616964

Personally I find subverting expectations to be a large part of the charm of From games

Shut the frick up

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The only acceptable game to play is Call of Duty Zombies cmv

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Honestly, they're not entirely wrong. One of my biggest issues with ER is that the lack of any actual direction means that you will inevitably sequence break and it can really muck up the experience as a whole. The tutorial/starter area is in the opposite direction of the first quest in the open world, so you will end up stumbling on it over-leveled as frick 50 hours later and realize "oh this was where I was supposed to learn the game". I kinda hate the boss design anyway though so I don't mind being over-leveled and oneshotting them.

However they don't mention Weeping Peninsula at all and appear to just be complaining about stupid stuff, idk i didn't read the post

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