exocrinous

Designers don't have to program in every evil thing to make an evil path. They just have to program in one evil path that's fun. Making games fun is their job. If playing an evil character isn't fun, they failed. If they can't find it in themselves to write an evil main character, they shouldn't be including the option.

I loved the first half of Tyranny. You get to play as a bad guy. You're encouraged to be clever, calculating, to make important decisions that will affect the rest of the game. There's mysteries about, and power to be had, and though you have superficial allegiances, your actual boss is an enigmatic figure who wants you to vie for power. Your mentors warn you that others will try to control you, and that you should always be looking out for number one.

Unfortunately, halfway through there's a moment where you don't get to do that. A moment where the obvious decision to make in order to gain power, is blocked off. Where you cannot make the smart play. Where you have to act not in your own interest, not with cunning, nor deception, nor brute force, though any of those options were easily possible. The game simply doesn't give you those choices. Your only option is to do what a guy you allied with at the start of the game says. No double cross, no clever lie, no action and rationalisation of the thing you want, the thing that will give you power. You simply give up power that is nearly in the palm of your hands because a guy who thinks he's your boss but isn't, says so.

And now I hate that game.

To be fair, some Warhammer writers also don't understand that they're writing satire. The Imperium lights it's spaceships with candles because they're too religious for common sense, and yet some claim only a fascist government is efficient enough to save humanity.

The Administratum is such a tangled and immense bureaucracy that entire planets are a rounding error to them. Their propaganda says this is because the Imperium is too big to manage efficiently. But the true reason is, fascists are bad at math

I personally choose to believe the people complaining about Aloys peach fuzz have never seen a real woman

Good thing Risa's still around. The other one bans people for having a mental disorder

Starship Troopers also has the joke earlier in the movie about the kid as a soldier, which becomes reality later on as younger and younger kids are drafted into the army. Maybe Helldivers should let you play as a child.

In 40k there were plenty of good guys before the Imperium killed them all for not being racist enough. RIP Interex

I upvoted it. I don't think it's literally just as bad as meta, but I still think it's bad. Websites should let you opt out of cookies in one click. If they don't, I prefer not to use them. I'm sure this website's article is very important, but if they want their journalism to be read they should present it in a respectful manner. Otherwise I'm just reading the headline. I like the headline, it's a good headline, it will inform my views going forward. I will not read the article and I will not give them ad traffic.

In Warframe there's this debt internment colony called Fortuna you can ally with. The workers there are slaves who are working to pay off their debts. Most of those debts come from them buying expensive cybernetics which are necessary for them to work in the first place. If they can't make their payments, their robotic body parts will be "repossessed". Brilliant critique of capitalism.

Anyway, you can join Fortuna's union and help them with industrial actions against their oppressors. And in a really good nugget of writing, your contact always refers to stealing as taxing. "Go tax their supply shipments, Tenno". The people of Fortuna are so financially abused that their word for theft is "tax". They don't have a word for stealing anymore other than the euphemism corporations use.