Well I’m holding you in contempt in court for making a joke that I didn’t agree with. I hope you’re ready to pay a huge fine, because this is an open and shut case.

It isn’t JUST speech that radicalizes people. There are a plethora of underlying material conditions that contribute as well, but nobody here is talking about any of those. We can’t just prevent people from saying bad things, we have to address things like education, poverty, inequality, housing, and journalistic integrity before we can just punish insulting sentiments.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6414414/

https://www.start.umd.edu/publication/radicalization-violence-pathway-approach-studying-extremism

That’s fundamentally not the same thing, don’t be obtuse for the sake of debate points.

Insults and general demeaning comments should not be punished in the court of law. Saying offensive things should not be punished in the court of law.

As I said before, the action/intent is the part that should be punished. Providing private information about someone who you disagree with or want to incur harm upon is an action with malicious intent.

As a leftist, I fail to understand why we always jump to tone policing and purity politics? We can identify the material conditions that cause radicalization and general bigotry and act upon these things, but we always just jump to punishing people for being radical bigots, which only further galvanizes those positions.

We’re not making these spaces smaller, we’re making them more volatile by doing this. They see these conversations and think “this is why we have to remove leftism, because they will punish us for crimes we have yet to do” and that’s precisely what this argument is.

Sure!

Valheim is fantastic, Kenshi is brutal and unforgiving but very fun, outward is similarly difficult and fun, also very unique.

Open world is kind of a huge genre, so I’d even say games like Subnautica, terraria, etc might be up your alley.

Edit: I can’t believe I left out no man’s sky and hyper light drifter! Highly recommend them both, no man’s sky is such a good space life sim and hyper light drifter is kind of like a throwback to the first Zelda game, but obviously updated and with some different intentions to the gameplay/story. Happy gaming!

So you get a bunch of radicalized people that say shit but don’t do anything about it?

In order for that group of radicalized people to be dangerous, they would have to do something right? Maybe that means March around in Nazi regalia, maybe that means some sort of assault or altercation. But it’s at that point that those people should be charged, not when they are online saying dumb shit.

If they’re just saying that, I certainly don’t want to be around them but I don’t think they should go to prison. If they act upon that, that’s entirely different and should be treated as a hate crime.

Also, you just said it. Does context matter to you? What about intention?

I mean there are good AAA games. From soft still puts out bangers, CD projekt red makes some good stuff (the cyberpunk launch was pretty rough though), larian is pretty good. Most AAA studios are dog shit, but you can still find a few diamonds in the rough.

Nah man, Elon husk will eventually colonize some other dog shit planet, and then we’ll just be looking at the plot of Hyperion in 1000 years or so.

As much as I dislike people spitting hatred at women, LGBTQIA+ folks, and POCs, this is still freedom of speech. You don’t have to enjoy it, you don’t have to listen to it, and you’re certainly free to remove these people from your personally owned spaces. But it doesn’t change the fact that people should be allowed to say whatever the fuck they want, otherwise we literally are punishing people for thought crimes and edgy jokes.

People should be judged for their actions, not their words. Words don’t actually mean anything without action behind them.

I’m a gay man, and I’ve definitely given out the occasional f slur pass. Why? Because I honestly think it’s funny as fuck when my best friend of 20 years calls me that. He doesn’t hate me, he knows and loves my partner like a sibling, and he is my brother. It would be so fucked if he got in some kind of actual trouble for that…

Yeah for sure, gamers get so fucking sweaty and cringey about people who like different shit. It’s annoying. I’ll take the heat and just say windwaker is my favorite Zelda game.

If you like platformers, I highly recommend spark the jester 3, it’s like a good new sonic game. Also I guess Ghost runner is like a platformer/action game that’s supposed to be good? Haven’t played it yet but it looks cool.

Anyway I wish you luck in your search for good new games, and I hope you continue to be a chill ass viber

Fourth option: I filled the cart with groceries, it is now my home.

A game about a murderous pet rock that takes place in a quarry

I think the issue that people are responding to is that you’re comparing it to Diablo, which is fundamentally a different game. Diablo is a hack and slash game with rpg elements and a god awful loot system. Bg3 is pretty much just playing DND on a computer without a dungeon master. They’re just two completely different games. You can’t even hack or slash in bg3, it’s turn based and tactical.

That said, if you don’t like the aesthetic of fantasy games, then clearly none of this will matter to you.

Frankly, it seems like you mostly care about the aesthetics of a game (no shade, just saying) so I’m kind of curious what your favorite game is?

Hey that’s fair, cyberpunk is a very “safe” game in the rpg genre.

Honestly you might just not be into RPGs at all, and that’s totally fine. Don’t let other people tell you what to play ya know?

There are good games out there, but the big studios are not making them. Except maybe from soft and larian (imho)

This meme is giving “I have only played Ubisoft/ea/actizard titles for the past 4 years” and I mean do whatever you want but it seems silly to complain about games you continue to buy no?

I loved Pokemon, but it hasn’t really changed in like 20 years. I’ll play some romhacks, maybe I’ll “try out” a newer pokemon game, but I haven’t bought one since like omega ruby/alpha sapphire. The point I’m making is if we stop buying repetitive garbage, we can bring the small devs up and let them determine the course of game design moving forward.

Or I mean you can just… Keep playing assassin’s creed: (insert vague cultural name here) I guess