:kelly: skill issue
(midwest.social)
RNAi [he/him]
GamesThis hexbear comment section has been set to Nightmare difficulty, for some reason
Sometimes, situations reveal which users need to reflect on their beliefs
Sometimes it's a news article
Sometimes it's a meme
Either way, it's important to learn to take someone saying "Hey, that's not cool" without getting defensive or angry
Getting touchy about being corrected is a type of Liberalism
Hard mode is fun though... makes me feel like I'm improving at something and gives a reason to keep playing.
::: spoiler also Singleplayer games are easy by default because you're just solving a puzzle not competing against another person :::
This is a terrible take because most of the people I know who play games on hard have girlfriends because they enjoy confronting challenging and unique situations.
haha women difficult amritie
kindly shut the fuck up
I really could have avoided this whole thing if I said "partners", Christ. Shouldn't have mirrored the fucking meme.
I wasn't making a joke, I am saying relationships are difficult and most of the people I know who play games on their hardest settings are in relationships. Or maybe game difficulty setting preference has no relationship to how active one's sex life is?
This is a terrible take because most of the people I know who play games on hard have girlfriends because they enjoy confronting challenging and unique situations.
I play games on hard and people don't like me in general.
They're jealous
Yeah, that can be the case too, but I am not usually friends with those people, because they tend to be difficult to be friends with.
So girlfriends are the unique and challenging situations of IRL. Sorry, i have to ask, but are the straights ok?
Given the complete online media divide that exists to solely separate and drive gender antagonisms (which is usually a small foundation of real grievances onto which a mountain of bullshit is heaped), no, not particularly.
That said, I see the same level of bullshit coming from the queer community, it just presents itself differently. So I am pretty sure nobody is 'ok'.
Actually curious, what same level bs do you see coming from the queer community?
Usually involving aesthetics, particularly among white queer men (which is the community I have the most contact with). Alot of racism, body type and age shaming, particularly around hair. A valorization of fascist aesthetic presentation, but its all very Log Cabin Republican types stuff. Also, an association with aggression and energy as defining masculinity.
Not as much stuff that is particular to gender, but the amount of weird shit that they say about women can be... off putting, to say the least. Maybe it's just my area though, idk, I live in a college town that is otherwise extremely conservative. However, most of these people are talking about shit they have seen online, so I assume it has wider reach than simply where I am.
I don't really see it with the college aged queer people, but definitely with those who are in their mid-twenties and thirties.
Hating men is actually a fairly reasonable and based stance, but go off champ.
Ah yes, saying that hating half the population of the world due to their gender is 'reasonable and based' is something an extremely reasonable person would say, for sure.
you say it like people hate men for the same reason men hate women
misandry isn't real, women or even anyone who dares to not present masculine are extremely oppressed under patriarchy, and it is reactionary to attack anyone who feels resentment toward men because of that.
it's also extremely dismissive and gross that you think there's only a small foundation of real grievances and you need to educate yourself on patriarchy.
If you read through the rest of the thread, that is not what I am saying.
Cry about anti white racism next.
What exactly is your problem here? You've come out shooting both barrels to my personal criticism based on my personal experience, of a dumb meme.
Women have a much larger foundation of much larger and more serious grievances than men do, but I, weekly, hear things from straight women talking to each other such as 'I knew he wasn't a real man because he wanted to split the check.' 'Oh, I'm not a feminist, I have a boyfriend.' or 'Well, men don't have real friends.'
I get it, small potatoes compared to the woman's side 'this man might snap and kill me.' Not to mention the rampantremoved culture and sexual assault.
However, my point is if you want a relationship with the opposite gender to work, you have to work through your preconceptions and biases of gender and gender expression. And both sides have to want to go through that process. It can be a challenging and difficult process along which people can, and do, fuck up. And usually there is far more at stake for women when those relationships go sour.
If this is an unreasonable position to you, then great, whatever.
Hey, shut the fuck up, the comment wasn't directed at you.
To equate being born with a penis with being a man is a textbook case of transphobia.
Ok.
Yes, it's ok to call out transphobes. Enjoy your ban Harry Potter.
Ah, the transmisogynist classic, calling a trans woman a terf when she's mean to men after they have made a boomer ass ball and chain joke.
I didn't make a ball and chain joke, I wasn't really making any particular jokes.
I'm a little bit phobic but I'm pretty sure OP was saying that people who enjoy confronting challenges are more likely to be able to attract a partner because they're more interesting, not that they're willing to take on the horrible task of making a woman happy.
A simmering anti-man hatred is totally reasonable but a reflexive and reactionary anti-man hatred is counterproductive at best.l and the least charitable interpretation of someone's comment is often not the accurate one.
I love playing on easy. Life is already on hard
The only times I really like playing on the harder difficulties it's when it's a New Game+—that way it'll scale with my already-upgraded loadout, and by the third or fourth playthrough I can revel in being able to steamroll the highest difficulty.
100% choose the story mode difficulty whenever possible. I’m here for a bit of escapism and to immerse myself in the world.
