БУ-принтер гораздо хуже БУ-бабы. БУ-бабе износу нет, опыт плюсом и картриджи сама меняет.
sEN: "whats up with videogames recently"
MGB: "huh?"
sEN: "the postmodernist shit. srsly, do they even allow players an honest win now?"
sEN: "they have you working for bad guys against your will. they have you gunned down. they have you lose in the most humiliating way possible."
sEN: "didn't they get the memo? players invest in videogames, invest in their characters. life sucks is a shitty meme to promote in escapist media. we know reality sucks. must fantasy suck also? on some level, we know our efforts have been for naught because we didn't save the real world, we just completed a videogame, flushed more time down the toilet that could've been spent helping orphans or whatever"
sEN: "being told your actions are meaningless sucks, especially in a videogame"
MGB: "Oh my, you're a very special person."
sEN: "What do you mean, a special person? Some sort of euphemistic swear word?"
MGB:
"Generally, yes, special as in retarded. But in that particular case I meant the intellectual dishonest semantics.
See, certain people love to lay claim to favors and sympathy via loading their speech with the verbal equivalent of farting.
One of these words is "especially".
For instance, a person says, "It's awful when your relative dies, especially one that you never got to know".
Why? Why especially? Why does losing someone you know and love and depended on and who depended on you should hurt less?
But noooo, me, the questioner, is being an insensitive fuck who affixes a price tag to people's relatives. Seriously, the dude's relative died, show some fucking compassion.
While in reality, it is them who affixed the price tag, and I'm pointing out the absurdity of it.
"Note that there are cases in which "especially" is appropriate. Troll example (side note: always use troll examples to spark active discussion and entertain the community): "rape is horrible, especially if you're a woman" is valid in the context of a shithole country where a raped man is just told to "man up" and stuff tissue up his butt until bleeding stops, but a raped woman is brought to court on charges of sexual indecency (what a slut, enticing upstanding citizens to commit adultery and get locked out of heaven, let's stone her).
"So yeah, your "being told your actions are meaningless sucks, especially in a videogame" is you being special. Because people get told that all the time IRL and that is worse."
MGB: "huh?"
sEN: "the postmodernist shit. srsly, do they even allow players an honest win now?"
sEN: "they have you working for bad guys against your will. they have you gunned down. they have you lose in the most humiliating way possible."
sEN: "didn't they get the memo? players invest in videogames, invest in their characters. life sucks is a shitty meme to promote in escapist media. we know reality sucks. must fantasy suck also? on some level, we know our efforts have been for naught because we didn't save the real world, we just completed a videogame, flushed more time down the toilet that could've been spent helping orphans or whatever"
sEN: "being told your actions are meaningless sucks, especially in a videogame"
MGB: "Oh my, you're a very special person."
sEN: "What do you mean, a special person? Some sort of euphemistic swear word?"
MGB:
"Generally, yes, special as in retarded. But in that particular case I meant the intellectual dishonest semantics.
See, certain people love to lay claim to favors and sympathy via loading their speech with the verbal equivalent of farting.
One of these words is "especially".
For instance, a person says, "It's awful when your relative dies, especially one that you never got to know".
Why? Why especially? Why does losing someone you know and love and depended on and who depended on you should hurt less?
But noooo, me, the questioner, is being an insensitive fuck who affixes a price tag to people's relatives. Seriously, the dude's relative died, show some fucking compassion.
While in reality, it is them who affixed the price tag, and I'm pointing out the absurdity of it.
"Note that there are cases in which "especially" is appropriate. Troll example (side note: always use troll examples to spark active discussion and entertain the community): "rape is horrible, especially if you're a woman" is valid in the context of a shithole country where a raped man is just told to "man up" and stuff tissue up his butt until bleeding stops, but a raped woman is brought to court on charges of sexual indecency (what a slut, enticing upstanding citizens to commit adultery and get locked out of heaven, let's stone her).
"So yeah, your "being told your actions are meaningless sucks, especially in a videogame" is you being special. Because people get told that all the time IRL and that is worse."