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Yeah... idk what the terminology is for that tbh lol. I guess card game meets "push your luck/hot potato"?
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Hello yes it is me the board game police I am afraid we have to arrest you for this article IMMEDIATELY. Exploding Kittens is NOT a deck-builder it is MAYBE a hand-builder and even THAT is pushing it. You are hereby in board game JAIL for being WRONG. 🚔
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But it's something like "a field that welcomes both wolves and sheep does not welcome sheep." I'd say the game-community version of that could be "a community that welcomes both gay people and homophobia can not claim to welcome gay people."
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What's more, I also disagree with the notion that platforming people with "different opinions" will necessarily make a space more open or welcoming, especially when those "different opinions" can be boiled down to pretty transparent hatred and bigotry. I don't know the adage off the top of my head
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Their revenue is a bit cynical and not really accurate to the thought process I've seen developers have when working on a game. If every game dev just made their game to appeal to as many people as possible, then every game would be the same uninteresting risk-free stuff over and over again.
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See I think a core disagreement here is the whole "games should aim for as wide of an audience as possible at all costs" bit. Yes, games do have to break even, like anything else that costs money, but to pretend like people only make games with the goal of maximizing their audience and therefore
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Treating those groups poorly or purposefully seeking out incendiary situations for the sake of controversy and views. I don't think they should ban people from playing the game or anything, but I don't see a problem with them intentionally distancing themselves from the more toxic "fans" out there.
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Hostile or unwelcoming if said bad actors are left unchecked. If a game is intended for a certain audience, especially if that audience is one underrepresented in the mainstream gaming ecosystem or a marginalized community, I think it makes sense to be a bit wary about people with a history of
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I really disagree with the overall vibe of this video, tbh, particularly the idea that any attempt to curate your audience or cultivate a certain kind of community is inherently a bad thing. Games live and die by their fan bases, and a few loud bad actors can very quickly make a community feel-
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It definitely has big shitpost/copy pasta energy for sure lol
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And him referring to himself in the third person? Is this a fucking bit? Did he think he was on an alt account?
If this was dug up on literally any other day this would be like, a genuine controversy for a month.
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I have no idea how to react to this lol. It almost reads like a shitpost but it's detailed enough that it seems like these are legitimate grievances? I just can't take anything that starts with "open your eyes kid" and then goes on to talk about Minecraft build techniques seriously. What IS this.
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FINALLY