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Cara Cadaver is a game

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Cara Cadaver is a game

Actually, Cara Cadaver is the creator. The name of the game is Vile: Exhumed

I've spoken before about my regrets over not having played any of the Daemon X Machina games. The good news is, I was given a chance to do so—and I'm currently stunned at how slept-on the games are

a game that specifically tackles the topic of abuse against women from a trauma-informed and victim-centered approach (translation: it's not about "glorifying" abuse). Nevertheless, this is the kind of game that Collective Shout co-founder Melinda Tankard Reist marks as a "rape-my-little-sister incest game."

Thank you for pointing this out, at first I heard people say these groups are feminist, and they do technically call themselves that, but anyone can see that their hatred of pornography (and Detroit: Become Human apparently?) has overwritten any other thinking about their goal. They think this stuff is so bad they are willing to threaten and bully payment processors even if it ends in harming narratives that express the feelings caused by abuse or LGBT stories.

That isn't supporting women in the least unless you mean a very narrow slice of women who have decided to blame harmful things on media when those harmful things existed long before media. We can talk about how to educate people so they don't think media reflects reality or take bad lessons due to consuming it uncritically, but the second you tell me that media sold to an adult is the actual cause of abuse and we need to censor it because doing so will stop abuse you have lost the plot.

This is sounding dangerously close to a "no true Scotsman" post where you're trying to deny them from calling themselves feminists because they disagree with you on certain aspects.. I hope this isn't the case and we're not trying to gatekeep feminism.

For bonus points: the protagonist fights mainly with a boy and arrows.

This is sounding dangerously close to a "no true Scotsman" post where you're trying to deny them from calling themselves feminists because they disagree with you on certain aspects.. I hope this isn't the case and we're not trying to gatekeep feminism.

I'm just waiting for the next part of this where people go right back to wanting games they don't like being censored or banned once they know their own stuff is safe.

The progression of what is going on with payment processors and retailers has proven that the slippery slope arguments are no exaggeration. Japanese businesses closed shop because of this, and it didn't get much attention. It was easy for people to tell themselves it was just "that type" of game on some website they've never used or heard of before. But, it didn't stop because why would it? Now that it hit the de facto place to buy almost any PC game, people couldn't ignore it, and at least aren't so naive to think that this is job done for Collective Shout.

It's also interesting that the credit card companies are shifting to deflecting the blame. Now, they're responding to customers by saying it isn't them that is doing it because the "payment processors" are some unnamed companies involved as middle men between them and the stores. Even if that is the case, I don't believe for a second that those middle men would suddenly stop if one or both sides of the transactions didn't say so. Throw in that Collective Shout has named Visa, Mastercard, Itch, and Steam as companies to pressure into this, and it's pretty hard to take any of that seriously.

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I've spoken before about my regrets over not having played any of the Daemon X Machina games. The good news is, I was given a chance to do so—and I'm currently stunned at how slept-on the games are

I also thought they looked really cool but I wasn't sure because robot games are intimidating to me. It is my completely biased and unfair perspective that's the result of trying to play Armored Core and having no idea what was going on. I know this is more of a mech suit and not like Armored Core, but I still get intimidated by robot driven action games with a lot of features. Despite that I think they are really cool and I would probably enjoy this, I just need to see people talk about it so I can get over my weirdly embedded preconceived notions.

-Adventures of Elliot: Checked out the demo for this and it's almost like SqEx decided to do a Zelda clone (not helped by the bombs and arrows being weapons with roughly the same applications). So far has a pretty solid set up with more of an action-adventure bent than an RPG where you explore the world and find new tools and trinkets. Definitely keeping an eye on this one

- Sony vs. Tencent: I never had any interest in the Horizon games, I was surprised to know that the series has managed to sell over 30 million units, but I never hear people disussing the games, though maybe it's one of those things that doesn't seem big on the Internet but are actually pretty popular, I guess that may be the reason why Tecent decided to make such an obvious copy

The fact that the Direct focused on third-party titles didn't help, given that I believe that some hyped themselves, particularly due to "insiders" claims that the Switch 2 would receive tons of third-party ports and new games, and while I believe that'll see some major games for the Switch 2 in the future, I still believe that the console is still in its early days and the support will also vary depending on the publisher/developer. Though I agree that most of the stuff showed on the Direct wasn't that impressive, at least in the technical sense.

It's also interesting that the credit card companies are shifting to deflecting the blame. Now, they're responding to customers by saying it isn't them that is doing it because the "payment processors" are some unnamed companies involved as middle men between them and the stores.

The whole payment processor situation has become annoying and a lot of bad faith people are jumping in to capitalize on it The Mouthwashing dev lying was bad and I'm pretty sure half the posts I've seen about how people epically owned the minimum wage Mastercard customer service rep on the phone are fake and just engagement farming as well. I just wonder how many people are going to stick around once they feel their own brand of stuff isn't in danger anymore. It's weird to see people who once advocated for games to be banned weighing in on this and I'm just waiting for the next part of this where people go right back to wanting games they don't like being censored or banned once they know their own stuff is safe.

This is me being pedantic because, like... yeah, The Adventures of Elliot totally has Zelda DNA in it. But also, there's a lot of the old Ys and Mana games in here. Nevermind that Zelda's origins lie with Ys and Tower of Druaga, but combat in Elliot also has its own twists with the emphasis on using charge attacks (for example, charging your sword strikes to shoot out shockwaves, charging arrow shots to shoot out multi-arrow volleys). There's also a good deal of tech involved, like with throwing bombs (timing it so enemies get hit by both the bomb itself and the explosion). But this is the kind of thing that requires people at least be aware that Ys and Tower of Druaga exists, and that part of the conversation never gets brought up with regards to Zelda's history.