>>116771067The problem with that, aside from the fact that the majority of the posts I responded to were definitely trash tier bait, is that even if they are their actual thoughts...Those are stupid thoughts. Who cares if a company engages in performative actions. It doesn't effect the games. The cards that were banned? Those never see play anyway. The race change? There's been a continual move toward that for years, decades at this point. The people complaining about these changes aren't a part of the community it effects yet they whinge endlessly about how "sjw's" are encroaching on their community. The blatant hypocrisy combined with the insufferable stupidity of it all means that I'd likely not even engage with them in good faith since I doubt they even understand what that is. If they did they would't be framing their arguments the way they are. Here, let me steel man them for a sec.
"I don't like the race changes because I think having innate characteristics associated with race makes playing non-standard characters more interesting. They're forced to play around a mechanical handicap that can lead to interesting rollplaying opportunities."
It's not a great argument, but good god at least it's an attempt at one. Notice how none of the people whinging about it have made anything even remotely close to something like that. It's all just "muh feels" and shit.
>>116771297Okay, I may be seeing things through a bit of rose tinted glasses. I'll cop to it. I know memes were always prolific in their usage and a lot of content was reposted. That's something of the lifeblood of the site. That said, it's gotten so much worse in the last few years.