@Admirablw I do think lane-locked items are the logical conclusion of the quests, yeah. Maybe a few legendaries but especially starting items - rioters have talked about dshield being a major balancing problem between mid/top for a while now which is why its not very good
@_BaconPug im not learning japanese but i have indeed done this strategy by attempting to read smut danmei in the original chinese (it has failed miserably because i am a monolingual american moron)
@pupzypup both before and after I used 4tran spaces I was derided for being a 4tranner doomer self-hating bigot whatever, they say these things bc they fundamentally don't actually care about people who are suffering, and if they do they don't wanna put in the effort to help us at all
@prenee_colon3 as someone whose only exposure to genshin and gacha games more generally comes through the lens of twitter lesbians I think I'm beginning to get a skewed idea of who these characters are
@StupidAmerica17@6lim6atan Also social science actually agrees with me bc social sciences focus on these things holistically, through which lens you'd realize that most people are not on board with abolishing gender. It took millennia for ppl to want to abolish class. It'll take longer for gender
@StupidAmerica17@6lim6atan I think you're missing the point here. Yes they're social constructs, but you can't just handwave them away. As with class struggle, it may take literal centuries for the concept of gender to shift - but I doubt it'll ever be abolished entirely bc sex exists and theyre tied
@bonevoid you just need to train your botlaners into listening to you by giving them treats (double kill) for good behavior (listening to your pings and coming to drag).
@ananasadamm@6lim6atan I do think there is a general segment of social/feminist/etc scholarship in the west that gets caught up in a weird vibes-based approach to the world that doesn't consider things in the holistic (and primarily materialist) way it probably should, yeah
@drungshrooms there's this weird trend (not exclusive to shooter players but they are largely responsible for it) where people think that their skill in one genre of game should immediately carry over to another completely different genre, and then they get mad about it and blame the devs lol
@6lim6atan and I don't blame them or anything they're just wrong and need to read more about anthropology and sociology to understand that you can't just get rid of these things, in the same way you can't just suddenly do away with class exploitation or whatever
@6lim6atan people who are both gigawoke but know nothing about social science or anthropology have come to believe that "social construct" actually means "oh only conservatives care about it and most normal people don't care" as if most ppl wont think ur insane for wanting to abolish gender