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There is literally no circumstance where I support age verification to access a website. As I've said before I'm very much the "there's nuance here" person on almost everything but on this issue there's no nuance for me, it's awful and horrible in and of itself and it also sets an awful and horrible precedent

99% of users on tumblr are some sort of gay as fuck animal

i was talking about this on my server earlier but i really think "cozy" is one of the worst genre labels out there in the gaming space. like people dunk on the terms "metroidvania" and "first person shooter" a lot for being uncreative or limiting but at least those are like... falsifiable descriptors. you can look at a game and go "yeah this game's mechanics and core gameplay loop generally operate like metroid/castlevania" or "yeah this game primarily uses a first person camera paired with some sort of projectile weapon" so i don't think they're completely useless. but "cozy" is just nonsense. fully subjective. i see a lot of games popularly labeled as "cozy" that share almost zero mechanical features between them and don't even always match in tone or aesthetic. hearing a game described as "cozy" doesn't tell you anything about what to expect as a player beyond maybe giving you a sort of forewarning about the fanbase and their discomfort tolerance. "cozy" is not a quantifiable metric. like imagine if someone offered to buy you takeout and asked you what kind of food you'd like and you told them fully unironically, and with no further elaboration, "i want to get yummy food." that's what hearing "cozy games" sounds like to me

i especially chafe at the way "cozy games" just seems like a "woke" way to say "girl games" and conflate certain game mechanics or aesthetics with a non-cis/het/male identity (to equally useless effect from a buyer's pov). gender stereotyping by any other name is still gender stereotyping. i'm not cis het or male, but i've spent decades enjoying pvp shooters and feel bored to tears by cutesy cottagecore farming sims. and i find those pvp shooters very "cozy" to play, too! @_@;

dio brando would be so much happier if he was in vampire the masquerade instead of jojo's bizarre adventure

he wants to be doing ruthless vampire politics so bad but he's getting punched to death by a guy with Powers instead

Let’s do a Wild Hunt larp where we kidnap Jeff Bezos and release him in the forest and then give all the larpers (who are amazon employees) weird masks and motorbikes painted to look like fucked up horses and wolves.

Somewhat disturbed at how fast this post started picking up notes.

don’t set out food if you don’t want us to eat

i love that i can’t write the word fuck on facebook without risking getting zucced and here I’m greeted everyday by posts like this

my only problem with this is that this sounds less like a larp and more like the actual Wild Hunt

Quality larps are as realistic as is practical.

I think we need way more knight mecha. Give me mechs covered in the heraldry of their pilot, wielding a giant sword and shield. Give me a pilot in lightweight armour to protect themself in case their mech goes down. I don't care if the knight is the mech or the pilot, we just need more of it