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Next up on Worth Reading: The other team should just fucking let me win when I play baseball. 

well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc  not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless  i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE. 
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but it’s a genre that I’m intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option. 

Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, don’t fight.



Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right?Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So I’m all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place.Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



I’ve had to stop playing certain games because all the button mashing aggravated my carpal tunnel pain, and I rage quit some because they had a super frustrating part that I could never get past. Games should be fun, not a test of endurance. At least, they should let you skip the difficult parts you are unable to do. They can still have a hardcore mode for people who enjoy a challenge. They would still get to brag about their accomplishments without preventing others from enjoying an otherwise fun game.



Unpopular opinion but just watch the game on youtube then? Why spend money when you don’t get the full experience? 

The different between watching and playing is
Watching you’re seeing someone’s experience
Playing you’re experiencing it
I watched a lot of gameplay and playing some of the games myself have a very different feels to it



Understandable but why waste money on a 70 bucks game if you cut out like 30 or 40 percent? That’s not worth it

I have to go 50/50 on that one because I tend to avoid fights in AC: 
Syndicate




Isn’t the whole point of AC to avoid fighting? Or did that change since Brotherhood? 


Syndicate is based on victorian era & there’s gangsI literally had to hide because I keep walking to area higher than my current level because of main story line


Goddammit AC. You had one job: solaredarisen:

randomnightlord:

solaredarisen:

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GO WATCH A MOVIE 

Next up on Worth Reading: The other team should just fucking let me win when I play baseball. 

well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc  not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless  i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE. 
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but it’s a genre that I’m intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option. 

Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, don’t fight.



Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right?Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So I’m all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place.Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



I’ve had to stop playing certain games because all the button mashing aggravated my carpal tunnel pain, and I rage quit some because they had a super frustrating part that I could never get past. Games should be fun, not a test of endurance. At least, they should let you skip the difficult parts you are unable to do. They can still have a hardcore mode for people who enjoy a challenge. They would still get to brag about their accomplishments without preventing others from enjoying an otherwise fun game.



Unpopular opinion but just watch the game on youtube then? Why spend money when you don’t get the full experience? 

The different between watching and playing is
Watching you’re seeing someone’s experience
Playing you’re experiencing it
I watched a lot of gameplay and playing some of the games myself have a very different feels to it



Understandable but why waste money on a 70 bucks game if you cut out like 30 or 40 percent? That’s not worth it

I have to go 50/50 on that one because I tend to avoid fights in AC: 
Syndicate




Isn’t the whole point of AC to avoid fighting? Or did that change since Brotherhood? 


Syndicate is based on victorian era & there’s gangsI literally had to hide because I keep walking to area higher than my current level because of main story line


Goddammit AC. You had one job
        

            
            

                
                
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sinbadism:

maxofs2d:

guitarbeard:

alexxdz:

GO WATCH A MOVIE 

Next up on Worth Reading: The other team should just fucking let me win when I play baseball. 

well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc  not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless  i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE. 
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but it’s a genre that I’m intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option. 

Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, don’t fight.



Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right?Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So I’m all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place.Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



I’ve had to stop playing certain games because all the button mashing aggravated my carpal tunnel pain, and I rage quit some because they had a super frustrating part that I could never get past. Games should be fun, not a test of endurance. At least, they should let you skip the difficult parts you are unable to do. They can still have a hardcore mode for people who enjoy a challenge. They would still get to brag about their accomplishments without preventing others from enjoying an otherwise fun game.



Unpopular opinion but just watch the game on youtube then? Why spend money when you don’t get the full experience? 

The different between watching and playing is
Watching you’re seeing someone’s experience
Playing you’re experiencing it
I watched a lot of gameplay and playing some of the games myself have a very different feels to it



Understandable but why waste money on a 70 bucks game if you cut out like 30 or 40 percent? That’s not worth it

I have to go 50/50 on that one because I tend to avoid fights in AC: 
Syndicate




Isn’t the whole point of AC to avoid fighting? Or did that change since Brotherhood? 


Syndicate is based on victorian era & there’s gangsI literally had to hide because I keep walking to area higher than my current level because of main story line


Goddammit AC. You had one job: solaredarisen:

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dropkicks:

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sinbadism:

maxofs2d:

guitarbeard:

alexxdz:

GO WATCH A MOVIE 

Next up on Worth Reading: The other team should just fucking let me win when I play baseball. 

well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc  not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless  i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE. 
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but it’s a genre that I’m intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option. 

Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, don’t fight.



Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right?Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So I’m all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place.Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



I’ve had to stop playing certain games because all the button mashing aggravated my carpal tunnel pain, and I rage quit some because they had a super frustrating part that I could never get past. Games should be fun, not a test of endurance. At least, they should let you skip the difficult parts you are unable to do. They can still have a hardcore mode for people who enjoy a challenge. They would still get to brag about their accomplishments without preventing others from enjoying an otherwise fun game.



Unpopular opinion but just watch the game on youtube then? Why spend money when you don’t get the full experience? 

The different between watching and playing is
Watching you’re seeing someone’s experience
Playing you’re experiencing it
I watched a lot of gameplay and playing some of the games myself have a very different feels to it



Understandable but why waste money on a 70 bucks game if you cut out like 30 or 40 percent? That’s not worth it

I have to go 50/50 on that one because I tend to avoid fights in AC: 
Syndicate




Isn’t the whole point of AC to avoid fighting? Or did that change since Brotherhood? 


Syndicate is based on victorian era & there’s gangsI literally had to hide because I keep walking to area higher than my current level because of main story line


Goddammit AC. You had one job
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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atelierabintra:

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glitterpill:

dropkicks:

lesbianmooncolony:

sinbadism:

maxofs2d:

guitarbeard:

alexxdz:

GO WATCH A MOVIE 

Next up on Worth Reading: The other team should just fucking let me win when I play baseball. 

well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc  not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless  i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE. 
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but it’s a genre that I’m intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option. 

Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, don’t fight.



Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right?Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So I’m all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place.Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



I’ve had to stop playing certain games because all the button mashing aggravated my carpal tunnel pain, and I rage quit some because they had a super frustrating part that I could never get past. Games should be fun, not a test of endurance. At least, they should let you skip the difficult parts you are unable to do. They can still have a hardcore mode for people who enjoy a challenge. They would still get to brag about their accomplishments without preventing others from enjoying an otherwise fun game.



Unpopular opinion but just watch the game on youtube then? Why spend money when you don’t get the full experience? 

The different between watching and playing is
Watching you’re seeing someone’s experience
Playing you’re experiencing it
I watched a lot of gameplay and playing some of the games myself have a very different feels to it



Understandable but why waste money on a 70 bucks game if you cut out like 30 or 40 percent? That’s not worth it

I have to go 50/50 on that one because I tend to avoid fights in AC: 
Syndicate




Isn’t the whole point of AC to avoid fighting? Or did that change since Brotherhood? : solaredarisen:

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well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc  not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless  i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE. 
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but it’s a genre that I’m intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option. 

Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, don’t fight.



Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right?Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So I’m all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place.Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



I’ve had to stop playing certain games because all the button mashing aggravated my carpal tunnel pain, and I rage quit some because they had a super frustrating part that I could never get past. Games should be fun, not a test of endurance. At least, they should let you skip the difficult parts you are unable to do. They can still have a hardcore mode for people who enjoy a challenge. They would still get to brag about their accomplishments without preventing others from enjoying an otherwise fun game.



Unpopular opinion but just watch the game on youtube then? Why spend money when you don’t get the full experience? 

The different between watching and playing is
Watching you’re seeing someone’s experience
Playing you’re experiencing it
I watched a lot of gameplay and playing some of the games myself have a very different feels to it



Understandable but why waste money on a 70 bucks game if you cut out like 30 or 40 percent? That’s not worth it

I have to go 50/50 on that one because I tend to avoid fights in AC: 
Syndicate




Isn’t the whole point of AC to avoid fighting? Or did that change since Brotherhood? 
        

            
            

                
                
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well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc  not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless  i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE. 
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but it’s a genre that I’m intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option. 

Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, don’t fight.



Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right?Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So I’m all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place.Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



I’ve had to stop playing certain games because all the button mashing aggravated my carpal tunnel pain, and I rage quit some because they had a super frustrating part that I could never get past. Games should be fun, not a test of endurance. At least, they should let you skip the difficult parts you are unable to do. They can still have a hardcore mode for people who enjoy a challenge. They would still get to brag about their accomplishments without preventing others from enjoying an otherwise fun game.



Unpopular opinion but just watch the game on youtube then? Why spend money when you don’t get the full experience? 

The different between watching and playing is
Watching you’re seeing someone’s experience
Playing you’re experiencing it
I watched a lot of gameplay and playing some of the games myself have a very different feels to it



Understandable but why waste money on a 70 bucks game if you cut out like 30 or 40 percent? That’s not worth it

I have to go 50/50 on that one because I tend to avoid fights in AC: 
Syndicate




Isn’t the whole point of AC to avoid fighting? Or did that change since Brotherhood? : solaredarisen:

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Next up on Worth Reading: The other team should just fucking let me win when I play baseball. 

well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc  not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless  i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE. 
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but it’s a genre that I’m intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option. 

Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, don’t fight.



Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right?Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So I’m all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place.Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



I’ve had to stop playing certain games because all the button mashing aggravated my carpal tunnel pain, and I rage quit some because they had a super frustrating part that I could never get past. Games should be fun, not a test of endurance. At least, they should let you skip the difficult parts you are unable to do. They can still have a hardcore mode for people who enjoy a challenge. They would still get to brag about their accomplishments without preventing others from enjoying an otherwise fun game.



Unpopular opinion but just watch the game on youtube then? Why spend money when you don’t get the full experience? 

The different between watching and playing is
Watching you’re seeing someone’s experience
Playing you’re experiencing it
I watched a lot of gameplay and playing some of the games myself have a very different feels to it



Understandable but why waste money on a 70 bucks game if you cut out like 30 or 40 percent? That’s not worth it

I have to go 50/50 on that one because I tend to avoid fights in AC: 
Syndicate




Isn’t the whole point of AC to avoid fighting? Or did that change since Brotherhood? 
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc  not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless  i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE. 
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but it’s a genre that I’m intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option. 

Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, don’t fight.



Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right?Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So I’m all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place.Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



I’ve had to stop playing certain games because all the button mashing aggravated my carpal tunnel pain, and I rage quit some because they had a super frustrating part that I could never get past. Games should be fun, not a test of endurance. At least, they should let you skip the difficult parts you are unable to do. They can still have a hardcore mode for people who enjoy a challenge. They would still get to brag about their accomplishments without preventing others from enjoying an otherwise fun game.



Unpopular opinion but just watch the game on youtube then? Why spend money when you don’t get the full experience? 

The different between watching and playing isWatching you’re seeing someone’s experiencePlaying you’re experiencing itI watched a lot of gameplay and playing some of the games myself have a very different feels to it


Understandable but why waste money on a 70 bucks game if you cut out like 30 or 40 percent? That’s not worth it: solaredarisen:

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GO WATCH A MOVIE 

Next up on Worth Reading: The other team should just fucking let me win when I play baseball. 

well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc  not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless  i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE. 
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but it’s a genre that I’m intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option. 

Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, don’t fight.



Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right?Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So I’m all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place.Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



I’ve had to stop playing certain games because all the button mashing aggravated my carpal tunnel pain, and I rage quit some because they had a super frustrating part that I could never get past. Games should be fun, not a test of endurance. At least, they should let you skip the difficult parts you are unable to do. They can still have a hardcore mode for people who enjoy a challenge. They would still get to brag about their accomplishments without preventing others from enjoying an otherwise fun game.



Unpopular opinion but just watch the game on youtube then? Why spend money when you don’t get the full experience? 

The different between watching and playing isWatching you’re seeing someone’s experiencePlaying you’re experiencing itI watched a lot of gameplay and playing some of the games myself have a very different feels to it


Understandable but why waste money on a 70 bucks game if you cut out like 30 or 40 percent? That’s not worth it
        

            
            

                
                
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Next up on Worth Reading: The other team should just fucking let me win when I play baseball. 

well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc  not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless  i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE. 
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but it’s a genre that I’m intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option. 

Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, don’t fight.



Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right?Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So I’m all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place.Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



I’ve had to stop playing certain games because all the button mashing aggravated my carpal tunnel pain, and I rage quit some because they had a super frustrating part that I could never get past. Games should be fun, not a test of endurance. At least, they should let you skip the difficult parts you are unable to do. They can still have a hardcore mode for people who enjoy a challenge. They would still get to brag about their accomplishments without preventing others from enjoying an otherwise fun game.



Unpopular opinion but just watch the game on youtube then? Why spend money when you don’t get the full experience? 

The different between watching and playing isWatching you’re seeing someone’s experiencePlaying you’re experiencing itI watched a lot of gameplay and playing some of the games myself have a very different feels to it


Understandable but why waste money on a 70 bucks game if you cut out like 30 or 40 percent? That’s not worth it: solaredarisen:

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Next up on Worth Reading: The other team should just fucking let me win when I play baseball. 

well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc  not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless  i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE. 
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but it’s a genre that I’m intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option. 

Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, don’t fight.



Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right?Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So I’m all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place.Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



I’ve had to stop playing certain games because all the button mashing aggravated my carpal tunnel pain, and I rage quit some because they had a super frustrating part that I could never get past. Games should be fun, not a test of endurance. At least, they should let you skip the difficult parts you are unable to do. They can still have a hardcore mode for people who enjoy a challenge. They would still get to brag about their accomplishments without preventing others from enjoying an otherwise fun game.



Unpopular opinion but just watch the game on youtube then? Why spend money when you don’t get the full experience? 

The different between watching and playing isWatching you’re seeing someone’s experiencePlaying you’re experiencing itI watched a lot of gameplay and playing some of the games myself have a very different feels to it


Understandable but why waste money on a 70 bucks game if you cut out like 30 or 40 percent? That’s not worth it
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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Next up on Worth Reading: The other team should just fucking let me win when I play baseball. 

well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc  not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless  i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE. 
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but it’s a genre that I’m intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option. 

Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, don’t fight.



Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right?Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So I’m all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place.Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



I’ve had to stop playing certain games because all the button mashing aggravated my carpal tunnel pain, and I rage quit some because they had a super frustrating part that I could never get past. Games should be fun, not a test of endurance. At least, they should let you skip the difficult parts you are unable to do. They can still have a hardcore mode for people who enjoy a challenge. They would still get to brag about their accomplishments without preventing others from enjoying an otherwise fun game.



Unpopular opinion but just watch the game on youtube then? Why spend money when you don’t get the full experience? : mordinette:

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GO WATCH A MOVIE 

Next up on Worth Reading: The other team should just fucking let me win when I play baseball. 

well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc  not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless  i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE. 
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but it’s a genre that I’m intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option. 

Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, don’t fight.



Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right?Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So I’m all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place.Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



I’ve had to stop playing certain games because all the button mashing aggravated my carpal tunnel pain, and I rage quit some because they had a super frustrating part that I could never get past. Games should be fun, not a test of endurance. At least, they should let you skip the difficult parts you are unable to do. They can still have a hardcore mode for people who enjoy a challenge. They would still get to brag about their accomplishments without preventing others from enjoying an otherwise fun game.



Unpopular opinion but just watch the game on youtube then? Why spend money when you don’t get the full experience? 
        

            
            

                
                
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GO WATCH A MOVIE 

Next up on Worth Reading: The other team should just fucking let me win when I play baseball. 

well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc  not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless  i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE. 
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but it’s a genre that I’m intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option. 

Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, don’t fight.



Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right?Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So I’m all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place.Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



I’ve had to stop playing certain games because all the button mashing aggravated my carpal tunnel pain, and I rage quit some because they had a super frustrating part that I could never get past. Games should be fun, not a test of endurance. At least, they should let you skip the difficult parts you are unable to do. They can still have a hardcore mode for people who enjoy a challenge. They would still get to brag about their accomplishments without preventing others from enjoying an otherwise fun game.



Unpopular opinion but just watch the game on youtube then? Why spend money when you don’t get the full experience? : mordinette:

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GO WATCH A MOVIE 

Next up on Worth Reading: The other team should just fucking let me win when I play baseball. 

well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.

what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode

i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat

honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc  not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless  i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether

Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE. 
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.

Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.

Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??

I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but it’s a genre that I’m intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option. 

Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, don’t fight.



Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right?Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So I’m all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place.Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.



I’ve had to stop playing certain games because all the button mashing aggravated my carpal tunnel pain, and I rage quit some because they had a super frustrating part that I could never get past. Games should be fun, not a test of endurance. At least, they should let you skip the difficult parts you are unable to do. They can still have a hardcore mode for people who enjoy a challenge. They would still get to brag about their accomplishments without preventing others from enjoying an otherwise fun game.



Unpopular opinion but just watch the game on youtube then? Why spend money when you don’t get the full experience? 
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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zombierightsactavist:


Someone: hires a woman 
Men: “THIS IS LITERAL OPRESSION” 


The automatic assumption that recruiting women equals hiring less qualified people is some serious sexism at work. 
: Tweet
 Duolingo e
 @duolingo
 This year, we achieved a 50:50
 gender ratio for new software
 engineer hires. V
 Next up: 50:50 companywide.
 This Women in Tech Week, we're
 proud to celebrate all of the incredible
 women who make Duolingo great
 #2018:WITW
 Tweet your reply

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 Duolingo just tweeted about how we
 achieved a 50% female ratio of new
 engineering college graduate hires.
 We're very proud of this. I'm
 disappointed that the top comments
 were all from men angrily arguing
 discrimination, and that we should hire
 the best people instead. Idiots.

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 T he women we hired had either
 perfect or near perfect GPAs from the
 best universities in the world, with
 stellar recommendations, and aced
 our very thorough interview process.
 We've gotten over 90K applicants for
 jobs throughout time, and we've made
 offers to under 250.
 10/11/18, 9:42 AM
 120 Retweets 880 Likes

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhr
 We achieved a 50% ratio not by
 lowering our standards or by
 discriminating against men. We did it
 by only actively recruiting fronm
 colleges with higher female ratios in
 their computer science programs.
 These were also not shitty colleges --
 CMU, MIT, Duke, Cornell, Harvard, etc.
 10/11/18, 9:44 AM
 244 Retweets 1,227 Likes

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 If other companies do this, colleges
 will be incentivized to have more
 diverse graduating classes.
 I'm amazed that it's 2018 and I still
 have to defend gender equality.
 10/11/18, 9:44 AM
 125 Retweets 1,259 Likes
spacemonkeyg78:
zombierightsactavist:


Someone: hires a woman 
Men: “THIS IS LITERAL OPRESSION” 


The automatic assumption that recruiting women equals hiring less qualified people is some serious sexism at work. 

        

            
            

                
                
                    spacemonkeyg78:
zombierightsactavist:


Someone: hires a woman 
Men: “THIS IS LITERAL OPRESSION” 


The automatic assumption that recruiting women equals hiring less qualified people is some serious sexism at work. 
: Tweet
 Duolingo e
 @duolingo
 This year, we achieved a 50:50
 gender ratio for new software
 engineer hires. V
 Next up: 50:50 companywide.
 This Women in Tech Week, we're
 proud to celebrate all of the incredible
 women who make Duolingo great
 #2018:WITW
 Tweet your reply

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 Duolingo just tweeted about how we
 achieved a 50% female ratio of new
 engineering college graduate hires.
 We're very proud of this. I'm
 disappointed that the top comments
 were all from men angrily arguing
 discrimination, and that we should hire
 the best people instead. Idiots.

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 T he women we hired had either
 perfect or near perfect GPAs from the
 best universities in the world, with
 stellar recommendations, and aced
 our very thorough interview process.
 We've gotten over 90K applicants for
 jobs throughout time, and we've made
 offers to under 250.
 10/11/18, 9:42 AM
 120 Retweets 880 Likes

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhr
 We achieved a 50% ratio not by
 lowering our standards or by
 discriminating against men. We did it
 by only actively recruiting fronm
 colleges with higher female ratios in
 their computer science programs.
 These were also not shitty colleges --
 CMU, MIT, Duke, Cornell, Harvard, etc.
 10/11/18, 9:44 AM
 244 Retweets 1,227 Likes

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 If other companies do this, colleges
 will be incentivized to have more
 diverse graduating classes.
 I'm amazed that it's 2018 and I still
 have to defend gender equality.
 10/11/18, 9:44 AM
 125 Retweets 1,259 Likes
spacemonkeyg78:
zombierightsactavist:


Someone: hires a woman 
Men: “THIS IS LITERAL OPRESSION” 


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        Next Up: Tweet
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 This year, we achieved a 50:50
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 Next up: 50:50 companywide.
 This Women in Tech Week, we're
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 #2018:WITW
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 @LuisvonAhn
 Duolingo just tweeted about how we
 achieved a 50% female ratio of new
 engineering college graduate hires.
 We're very proud of this. I'm
 disappointed that the top comments
 were all from men angrily arguing
 discrimination, and that we should hire
 the best people instead. Idiots.

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 T he women we hired had either
 perfect or near perfect GPAs from the
 best universities in the world, with
 stellar recommendations, and aced
 our very thorough interview process.
 We've gotten over 90K applicants for
 jobs throughout time, and we've made
 offers to under 250.
 10/11/18, 9:42 AM
 120 Retweets 880 Likes

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhr
 We achieved a 50% ratio not by
 lowering our standards or by
 discriminating against men. We did it
 by only actively recruiting fronm
 colleges with higher female ratios in
 their computer science programs.
 These were also not shitty colleges --
 CMU, MIT, Duke, Cornell, Harvard, etc.
 10/11/18, 9:44 AM
 244 Retweets 1,227 Likes

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 If other companies do this, colleges
 will be incentivized to have more
 diverse graduating classes.
 I'm amazed that it's 2018 and I still
 have to defend gender equality.
 10/11/18, 9:44 AM
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                    Next Up: Tweet
 Duolingo e
 @duolingo
 This year, we achieved a 50:50
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 Next up: 50:50 companywide.
 This Women in Tech Week, we're
 proud to celebrate all of the incredible
 women who make Duolingo great
 #2018:WITW
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 @LuisvonAhn
 Duolingo just tweeted about how we
 achieved a 50% female ratio of new
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 We're very proud of this. I'm
 disappointed that the top comments
 were all from men angrily arguing
 discrimination, and that we should hire
 the best people instead. Idiots.

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 T he women we hired had either
 perfect or near perfect GPAs from the
 best universities in the world, with
 stellar recommendations, and aced
 our very thorough interview process.
 We've gotten over 90K applicants for
 jobs throughout time, and we've made
 offers to under 250.
 10/11/18, 9:42 AM
 120 Retweets 880 Likes

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhr
 We achieved a 50% ratio not by
 lowering our standards or by
 discriminating against men. We did it
 by only actively recruiting fronm
 colleges with higher female ratios in
 their computer science programs.
 These were also not shitty colleges --
 CMU, MIT, Duke, Cornell, Harvard, etc.
 10/11/18, 9:44 AM
 244 Retweets 1,227 Likes

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 If other companies do this, colleges
 will be incentivized to have more
 diverse graduating classes.
 I'm amazed that it's 2018 and I still
 have to defend gender equality.
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 Duolingo just tweeted about how we
 achieved a 50% female ratio of new
 engineering college graduate hires.
 We're very proud of this. I'm
 disappointed that the top comments
 were all from men angrily arguing
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 the best people instead. Idiots.

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 T he women we hired had either
 perfect or near perfect GPAs from the
 best universities in the world, with
 stellar recommendations, and aced
 our very thorough interview process.
 We've gotten over 90K applicants for
 jobs throughout time, and we've made
 offers to under 250.
 10/11/18, 9:42 AM
 120 Retweets 880 Likes

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhr
 We achieved a 50% ratio not by
 lowering our standards or by
 discriminating against men. We did it
 by only actively recruiting fronm
 colleges with higher female ratios in
 their computer science programs.
 These were also not shitty colleges --
 CMU, MIT, Duke, Cornell, Harvard, etc.
 10/11/18, 9:44 AM
 244 Retweets 1,227 Likes

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 If other companies do this, colleges
 will be incentivized to have more
 diverse graduating classes.
 I'm amazed that it's 2018 and I still
 have to defend gender equality.
 10/11/18, 9:44 AM
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                    Next Up: Tweet
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 @duolingo
 This year, we achieved a 50:50
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 #2018:WITW
 Tweet your reply

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 Duolingo just tweeted about how we
 achieved a 50% female ratio of new
 engineering college graduate hires.
 We're very proud of this. I'm
 disappointed that the top comments
 were all from men angrily arguing
 discrimination, and that we should hire
 the best people instead. Idiots.

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 T he women we hired had either
 perfect or near perfect GPAs from the
 best universities in the world, with
 stellar recommendations, and aced
 our very thorough interview process.
 We've gotten over 90K applicants for
 jobs throughout time, and we've made
 offers to under 250.
 10/11/18, 9:42 AM
 120 Retweets 880 Likes

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhr
 We achieved a 50% ratio not by
 lowering our standards or by
 discriminating against men. We did it
 by only actively recruiting fronm
 colleges with higher female ratios in
 their computer science programs.
 These were also not shitty colleges --
 CMU, MIT, Duke, Cornell, Harvard, etc.
 10/11/18, 9:44 AM
 244 Retweets 1,227 Likes

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 If other companies do this, colleges
 will be incentivized to have more
 diverse graduating classes.
 I'm amazed that it's 2018 and I still
 have to defend gender equality.
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 This year, we achieved a 50:50
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 @LuisvonAhn
 Duolingo just tweeted about how we
 achieved a 50% female ratio of new
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 We're very proud of this. I'm
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 were all from men angrily arguing
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 the best people instead. Idiots.

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 T he women we hired had either
 perfect or near perfect GPAs from the
 best universities in the world, with
 stellar recommendations, and aced
 our very thorough interview process.
 We've gotten over 90K applicants for
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 offers to under 250.
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 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhr
 We achieved a 50% ratio not by
 lowering our standards or by
 discriminating against men. We did it
 by only actively recruiting fronm
 colleges with higher female ratios in
 their computer science programs.
 These were also not shitty colleges --
 CMU, MIT, Duke, Cornell, Harvard, etc.
 10/11/18, 9:44 AM
 244 Retweets 1,227 Likes

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 If other companies do this, colleges
 will be incentivized to have more
 diverse graduating classes.
 I'm amazed that it's 2018 and I still
 have to defend gender equality.
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 This year, we achieved a 50:50
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 Duolingo just tweeted about how we
 achieved a 50% female ratio of new
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 We're very proud of this. I'm
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 the best people instead. Idiots.

 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 T he women we hired had either
 perfect or near perfect GPAs from the
 best universities in the world, with
 stellar recommendations, and aced
 our very thorough interview process.
 We've gotten over 90K applicants for
 jobs throughout time, and we've made
 offers to under 250.
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 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhr
 We achieved a 50% ratio not by
 lowering our standards or by
 discriminating against men. We did it
 by only actively recruiting fronm
 colleges with higher female ratios in
 their computer science programs.
 These were also not shitty colleges --
 CMU, MIT, Duke, Cornell, Harvard, etc.
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 Luis von Ahn
 @LuisvonAhn
 If other companies do this, colleges
 will be incentivized to have more
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 have to defend gender equality.
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<p>FIXED IT</p>
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<p>in Today’s Episode of: “The MCU Fandom Isn’t Racist, But…”</p>
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<p>in Today’s Episode of: “The MCU Fandom Isn’t Racist, But…”</p>
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<p>this shitty fandom is back to its “lets erase sam for another white guy!!!!” agenda, tell me how 3k people thought this was acceptable</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tisheriffic.tumblr.com/post/133914761862">tisheriffic</a>:</p>
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<p>FIXED IT</p>
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<p>in Today’s Episode of: “The MCU Fandom Isn’t Racist, But…”</p>
<p>@ op: grow the fuck up </p>
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<p>this shitty fandom is back to its “lets erase sam for another white guy!!!!” agenda, tell me how 3k people thought this was acceptable</p>
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<p>All offense OP you’re a fucking racist piece of shit<br/><br/>There’s a fuckin huge area of negative space between Steve and Bucky you couldn’t shoop his ass in there no you had to cover up Sam? That was your first thought?</p>
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<p>sam isnt even in the shot ??? watch the trailer perhaps ???</p>
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<p>Next up on ‘tumblr gets upset over nothing’</p>
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<p>fucking lol</p>
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<p>I hope this website falls through like yahoo is saying</p>
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<p>I’m crying</p>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://draumbooty.tumblr.com/post/148796102331">draumbooty</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://peppermint-bones.tumblr.com/post/134426646588">peppermint-bones</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://captainamerica-in-middle-earth.tumblr.com/post/134360821447">captainamerica-in-middle-earth</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://emilyblunts.tumblr.com/post/134313545900">emilyblunts</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://fatcr0w.tumblr.com/post/134310955814">fatcr0w</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://steveandsam.tumblr.com/post/134310500040">steveandsam</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://weinersoldier.tumblr.com/post/134310333243">weinersoldier</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tisheriffic.tumblr.com/post/133914761862">tisheriffic</a>:</p>
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<p>FIXED IT</p>
</blockquote>
<p>in Today’s Episode of: “The MCU Fandom Isn’t Racist, But…”</p>
<p>@ op: grow the fuck up </p>
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<p>this shitty fandom is back to its “lets erase sam for another white guy!!!!” agenda, tell me how 3k people thought this was acceptable</p>
</blockquote>
<p>All offense OP you’re a fucking racist piece of shit<br/><br/>There’s a fuckin huge area of negative space between Steve and Bucky you couldn’t shoop his ass in there no you had to cover up Sam? That was your first thought?</p>
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<p>sam isnt even in the shot ??? watch the trailer perhaps ???</p>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="353" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/eeda5054dfb1704734f54399702e841e/tumblr_inline_nynxr94zsQ1r1hxr0_540.png"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/b899fb2d936d847e9d1954fed62d23ad/tumblr_inline_p9cmsmmtXZ1sh1tst_540.png" class="" data-orig-height="353" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/eeda5054dfb1704734f54399702e841e/tumblr_inline_nynxr94zsQ1r1hxr0_540.png"/></figure></blockquote>
<p>Next up on ‘tumblr gets upset over nothing’</p>
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<p>fucking lol</p>
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<p>I hope this website falls through like yahoo is saying</p>
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<p>I’m crying</p>
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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<blockquote><p><a href="https://libertarirynn.tumblr.com/post/162267492114/so-im-going-to-take-my-crack-at-some-bios-for" class="tumblr_blog">libertarirynn</a>:</p><blockquote>
<p>So I’m going to take my crack at some bios for these new Ken dolls.</p>

<p>First there’s Jayveon. His friends call him Jay. He’s a star forward on the high school basketball team and has a new girlfriend every week but there are rumors that he might be lowkey gay.</p>

<p>Then there’s Mark. Huge Bernie Bro. He frequents the local artisan free trade coffee shop and drinks French press while blogging on his MacBook Pro.</p>

<p>Next up is Carlos. His talents include playing soccer and picking up girls. He loves to say dumb things in Spanish because most girls think it’s the sexiest thing they’ve ever heard.</p>

<p>Then we have Justin, lifeguard at the local pool. Major tool but he does have a girlfriend named Stephanie and he likes to hang out at her dad’s Lakehouse.</p>

<p>Dontaveous is a real enterprising type. Wears dress shirts and ties to class and sometimes glasses even though people say he doesn’t really need them. He dates a white girl.</p>

<p>And finally, Chad. He’s the essence of the basic white boy. His dad’s a lawyer and his mom is a socialite. His parents frequently leave for the weekend and he throws parties at his house that are absolutely the place to be. He doesn’t hold his liquor as well as he thinks.</p>
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<p>tag yourself i’m Jayveon </p></blockquote>: <p><a href="https://feanorus-rex.tumblr.com/post/162267664014/libertarirynn-so-im-going-to-take-my-crack-at" class="tumblr_blog">feanorus-rex</a>:</p>

<blockquote><p><a href="https://libertarirynn.tumblr.com/post/162267492114/so-im-going-to-take-my-crack-at-some-bios-for" class="tumblr_blog">libertarirynn</a>:</p><blockquote>
<p>So I’m going to take my crack at some bios for these new Ken dolls.</p>

<p>First there’s Jayveon. His friends call him Jay. He’s a star forward on the high school basketball team and has a new girlfriend every week but there are rumors that he might be lowkey gay.</p>

<p>Then there’s Mark. Huge Bernie Bro. He frequents the local artisan free trade coffee shop and drinks French press while blogging on his MacBook Pro.</p>

<p>Next up is Carlos. His talents include playing soccer and picking up girls. He loves to say dumb things in Spanish because most girls think it’s the sexiest thing they’ve ever heard.</p>

<p>Then we have Justin, lifeguard at the local pool. Major tool but he does have a girlfriend named Stephanie and he likes to hang out at her dad’s Lakehouse.</p>

<p>Dontaveous is a real enterprising type. Wears dress shirts and ties to class and sometimes glasses even though people say he doesn’t really need them. He dates a white girl.</p>

<p>And finally, Chad. He’s the essence of the basic white boy. His dad’s a lawyer and his mom is a socialite. His parents frequently leave for the weekend and he throws parties at his house that are absolutely the place to be. He doesn’t hold his liquor as well as he thinks.</p>
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<p>tag yourself i’m Jayveon </p></blockquote>
        

            
            

                
                
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<blockquote><p><a href="https://libertarirynn.tumblr.com/post/162267492114/so-im-going-to-take-my-crack-at-some-bios-for" class="tumblr_blog">libertarirynn</a>:</p><blockquote>
<p>So I’m going to take my crack at some bios for these new Ken dolls.</p>

<p>First there’s Jayveon. His friends call him Jay. He’s a star forward on the high school basketball team and has a new girlfriend every week but there are rumors that he might be lowkey gay.</p>

<p>Then there’s Mark. Huge Bernie Bro. He frequents the local artisan free trade coffee shop and drinks French press while blogging on his MacBook Pro.</p>

<p>Next up is Carlos. His talents include playing soccer and picking up girls. He loves to say dumb things in Spanish because most girls think it’s the sexiest thing they’ve ever heard.</p>

<p>Then we have Justin, lifeguard at the local pool. Major tool but he does have a girlfriend named Stephanie and he likes to hang out at her dad’s Lakehouse.</p>

<p>Dontaveous is a real enterprising type. Wears dress shirts and ties to class and sometimes glasses even though people say he doesn’t really need them. He dates a white girl.</p>

<p>And finally, Chad. He’s the essence of the basic white boy. His dad’s a lawyer and his mom is a socialite. His parents frequently leave for the weekend and he throws parties at his house that are absolutely the place to be. He doesn’t hold his liquor as well as he thinks.</p>
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<p>tag yourself i’m Jayveon </p></blockquote>: <p><a href="https://feanorus-rex.tumblr.com/post/162267664014/libertarirynn-so-im-going-to-take-my-crack-at" class="tumblr_blog">feanorus-rex</a>:</p>

<blockquote><p><a href="https://libertarirynn.tumblr.com/post/162267492114/so-im-going-to-take-my-crack-at-some-bios-for" class="tumblr_blog">libertarirynn</a>:</p><blockquote>
<p>So I’m going to take my crack at some bios for these new Ken dolls.</p>

<p>First there’s Jayveon. His friends call him Jay. He’s a star forward on the high school basketball team and has a new girlfriend every week but there are rumors that he might be lowkey gay.</p>

<p>Then there’s Mark. Huge Bernie Bro. He frequents the local artisan free trade coffee shop and drinks French press while blogging on his MacBook Pro.</p>

<p>Next up is Carlos. His talents include playing soccer and picking up girls. He loves to say dumb things in Spanish because most girls think it’s the sexiest thing they’ve ever heard.</p>

<p>Then we have Justin, lifeguard at the local pool. Major tool but he does have a girlfriend named Stephanie and he likes to hang out at her dad’s Lakehouse.</p>

<p>Dontaveous is a real enterprising type. Wears dress shirts and ties to class and sometimes glasses even though people say he doesn’t really need them. He dates a white girl.</p>

<p>And finally, Chad. He’s the essence of the basic white boy. His dad’s a lawyer and his mom is a socialite. His parents frequently leave for the weekend and he throws parties at his house that are absolutely the place to be. He doesn’t hold his liquor as well as he thinks.</p>
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<p>tag yourself i’m Jayveon </p></blockquote>
                    
                
            

            
                
                
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<blockquote><p><a href="https://libertarirynn.tumblr.com/post/165142225189/governmentspins-its-wheels-in-eternal" class="tumblr_blog">libertarirynn</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Government:*spins its wheels in eternal uselessness during this crisis situations, often taking months to offer any significant help while being vastly outpaced by private charity programs*<br/>
CNN: “This is why we need more government!!!!”</p></blockquote>
<p>Some liberal: How can we help disaster-zones without the government?</p><p>Me, an intellectual: Private charities, even for-profit companies, offer more resources *and* flexibility than-”</p><p>Some liberal: SO YOU JUST WANT PEOPLE TO DIE IS THAT IT????!!!11!</p></blockquote>

<p>Liberals want to blame Bush for the FEMA clusterfuck during Katrina and then turn around and act like more government is the answer.</p>: OOO AT&T
 2:45 AM
 CNN
 Hurricanes Irma and
 Harvey remind us why
 Ronald Reagan was
 wrong
 Julian Zelizer, CNN Political Analyst
 Updated 10:03 PM EDT September 8,
 2017
 Editor's Note: Julian Zelizer is a historv
 NEXT UP IN
 TRENDING

 2:45 AM
 own.
 As Hurricane Irma moves
 ominously closer to Florida's
 shores and Texas continues
 digging out from the
 wreckage of Hurricane
 Harvey, Americans are
 reminded how much
 government matters
 Devastating natural crises
 such as these, like others in
 our history, instantly remind
 us why President Ronald
 Reagan's famous maxim
 "government is not the
 solution to our problem
 government is the problem
 was so Wrono
 NEXT UP IN
 TRENDING
<p><a href="http://cliff-snowpeak.tumblr.com/post/165142339750/libertarirynn-governmentspins-its-wheels-in" class="tumblr_blog">cliff-snowpeak</a>:</p>

<blockquote><p><a href="https://libertarirynn.tumblr.com/post/165142225189/governmentspins-its-wheels-in-eternal" class="tumblr_blog">libertarirynn</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Government:*spins its wheels in eternal uselessness during this crisis situations, often taking months to offer any significant help while being vastly outpaced by private charity programs*<br/>
CNN: “This is why we need more government!!!!”</p></blockquote>
<p>Some liberal: How can we help disaster-zones without the government?</p><p>Me, an intellectual: Private charities, even for-profit companies, offer more resources *and* flexibility than-”</p><p>Some liberal: SO YOU JUST WANT PEOPLE TO DIE IS THAT IT????!!!11!</p></blockquote>

<p>Liberals want to blame Bush for the FEMA clusterfuck during Katrina and then turn around and act like more government is the answer.</p>
        

            
            

                
                
                    <p><a href="http://cliff-snowpeak.tumblr.com/post/165142339750/libertarirynn-governmentspins-its-wheels-in" class="tumblr_blog">cliff-snowpeak</a>:</p>

<blockquote><p><a href="https://libertarirynn.tumblr.com/post/165142225189/governmentspins-its-wheels-in-eternal" class="tumblr_blog">libertarirynn</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Government:*spins its wheels in eternal uselessness during this crisis situations, often taking months to offer any significant help while being vastly outpaced by private charity programs*<br/>
CNN: “This is why we need more government!!!!”</p></blockquote>
<p>Some liberal: How can we help disaster-zones without the government?</p><p>Me, an intellectual: Private charities, even for-profit companies, offer more resources *and* flexibility than-”</p><p>Some liberal: SO YOU JUST WANT PEOPLE TO DIE IS THAT IT????!!!11!</p></blockquote>

<p>Liberals want to blame Bush for the FEMA clusterfuck during Katrina and then turn around and act like more government is the answer.</p>: OOO AT&T
 2:45 AM
 CNN
 Hurricanes Irma and
 Harvey remind us why
 Ronald Reagan was
 wrong
 Julian Zelizer, CNN Political Analyst
 Updated 10:03 PM EDT September 8,
 2017
 Editor's Note: Julian Zelizer is a historv
 NEXT UP IN
 TRENDING

 2:45 AM
 own.
 As Hurricane Irma moves
 ominously closer to Florida's
 shores and Texas continues
 digging out from the
 wreckage of Hurricane
 Harvey, Americans are
 reminded how much
 government matters
 Devastating natural crises
 such as these, like others in
 our history, instantly remind
 us why President Ronald
 Reagan's famous maxim
 "government is not the
 solution to our problem
 government is the problem
 was so Wrono
 NEXT UP IN
 TRENDING
<p><a href="http://cliff-snowpeak.tumblr.com/post/165142339750/libertarirynn-governmentspins-its-wheels-in" class="tumblr_blog">cliff-snowpeak</a>:</p>

<blockquote><p><a href="https://libertarirynn.tumblr.com/post/165142225189/governmentspins-its-wheels-in-eternal" class="tumblr_blog">libertarirynn</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Government:*spins its wheels in eternal uselessness during this crisis situations, often taking months to offer any significant help while being vastly outpaced by private charity programs*<br/>
CNN: “This is why we need more government!!!!”</p></blockquote>
<p>Some liberal: How can we help disaster-zones without the government?</p><p>Me, an intellectual: Private charities, even for-profit companies, offer more resources *and* flexibility than-”</p><p>Some liberal: SO YOU JUST WANT PEOPLE TO DIE IS THAT IT????!!!11!</p></blockquote>

<p>Liberals want to blame Bush for the FEMA clusterfuck during Katrina and then turn around and act like more government is the answer.</p>
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        <p>🅱hit on yourself via /r/dank_meme <a href="http://ift.tt/2eGiP9n">http://ift.tt/2eGiP9n</a></p>: Fig. 1: Capitalism
 explained by Capitalists
 Fig, 2: Socialism
 explained by Socialists
 Demand Supply
 Equilibrium Value (relative to inflation, btw)
 Tax Compensation (Businesses and Rich don't pay taxes
 they tag them to the prices)
 +Labor Costs
 This system will evenutally
 eliminate the poor and rich
 Higher
 Value EquilibriumValue
 and create one big "working
 Pensions
 class," free to reap the whole
 Value
 fruits of their labor and those
 least fortunate members of
 society will be assisted
 Price (Higher than equilibrium, as result of costs)
 Is the price too high for a particular consumer? (Y/N)
 Equilibrium Value Cost- Fail
 Equilibrium Value > Cost Win
 Social
 Bureacracy
 Potential sales lost:
 Potential Capital lost
 Potential Job Growth lost
 MiddlePrograms
 Class
 $Sale $
 Regulation
 Sales Profit
 Profits
 Profit
 - Shares
 - Executive Income
 The employed get money to spend in the market, in turn not
 only funding other workers via trade, but the businesses who
 employ more workers; the result is a self-sufficient economy
 without recourse to government (taxes and labor costs would
 reduce in the absence of intervention, lowering prices and
 improving the number of sales.)
 Capital
 - Marketing
 - Research and Development
 nsion
 laxes
 Job Growth
 All in all, the businessman and shareholders get rich, con-
 sumers get what they want, workers get their cut, and the
 poor find jobs
 Woot
 Fig. 3: Socialism
 explained by Capitalists
 Fig. 4: Capitalism
 explained by Socialists
 19
 2
 This sytem wil evernutalty
 ellminato tho poor and rich1. The aim of socialism is to bring the lower
 and croato one big "workin classes into the middle class and dissolve the
 class, free to reap the whole
 PoorPensions u e ubos and oeupper classes; what is not realized here is the
 east fortunate members of
 existance of a centralized bureaucracy would only
 sockety w5 isedset up a new upper class of "bureaucratic elites
 Socia
 MiddleProgram
 Bureacracy privileging themselves with the primary hold on
 capital and resources as they monopolize distribu-
 tion; this solution to "class warfare" defeats itself
 2. While some individuals are truly disadvantaged
 and in need of help, automatically labeling the poor
 as "in need" is a sure way to keep them so. Not
 only is the welfare system flawed in acting as a
 "free lunch" to the unwilling, but also a trap, waiting
 to backfire as soon as individuals standard of living
 raises to a point where they no longer qualify for
 aid, but will not maintain a good standard of living
 for some time until they are independant
 RichLabor
 Taxes
 4
 . The services provided by bureaucracy are poor and make for a tax more expensive than any bill or pricetag on the
 narket; they are poor for the same reason a diabetic has more incentive to excercise than a perfectly fit individual
 here's always the threat of health, metaphorically job security. Also, they are more expensive due to added-on
 ureaucratic costs (paperwork, wages, etc.) and the cost for the actual services themselves, even more so for high-
 end service. 4. By putting the tax burden on the rich and business, one is sure to hamper industry; every cent of a
 rofit taxed is a cent lost to being able to provide more jobs, better goods and services, and a better working facility
 This is to assume that the bureaucracy won't own and manage the workplaces, in which the threat of failure and
 rofit loss would not factor in decision-making for the company's (worker's) best interests. 5. The fallacy in criticizing
 he rich as greedy, manipulative, and authoritative is that socialism's alternative, bureaucracy, is in essence no differ
 nt the problem now is the cronies are working together instead of competing. 6. Like taxation, regulation is a hin-
 rance to industry; instead of directly cutting into capital, it is a loss of potential gains. While they are good meaning
 egulations hinder the efficiency and production capabilities of the workplace, only hurting the worker in the end. 7
 Soviet Russia, China and North Korea are/were socialist economies; next up, America
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                    <p>🅱hit on yourself via /r/dank_meme <a href="http://ift.tt/2eGiP9n">http://ift.tt/2eGiP9n</a></p>: Fig. 1: Capitalism
 explained by Capitalists
 Fig, 2: Socialism
 explained by Socialists
 Demand Supply
 Equilibrium Value (relative to inflation, btw)
 Tax Compensation (Businesses and Rich don't pay taxes
 they tag them to the prices)
 +Labor Costs
 This system will evenutally
 eliminate the poor and rich
 Higher
 Value EquilibriumValue
 and create one big "working
 Pensions
 class," free to reap the whole
 Value
 fruits of their labor and those
 least fortunate members of
 society will be assisted
 Price (Higher than equilibrium, as result of costs)
 Is the price too high for a particular consumer? (Y/N)
 Equilibrium Value Cost- Fail
 Equilibrium Value > Cost Win
 Social
 Bureacracy
 Potential sales lost:
 Potential Capital lost
 Potential Job Growth lost
 MiddlePrograms
 Class
 $Sale $
 Regulation
 Sales Profit
 Profits
 Profit
 - Shares
 - Executive Income
 The employed get money to spend in the market, in turn not
 only funding other workers via trade, but the businesses who
 employ more workers; the result is a self-sufficient economy
 without recourse to government (taxes and labor costs would
 reduce in the absence of intervention, lowering prices and
 improving the number of sales.)
 Capital
 - Marketing
 - Research and Development
 nsion
 laxes
 Job Growth
 All in all, the businessman and shareholders get rich, con-
 sumers get what they want, workers get their cut, and the
 poor find jobs
 Woot
 Fig. 3: Socialism
 explained by Capitalists
 Fig. 4: Capitalism
 explained by Socialists
 19
 2
 This sytem wil evernutalty
 ellminato tho poor and rich1. The aim of socialism is to bring the lower
 and croato one big "workin classes into the middle class and dissolve the
 class, free to reap the whole
 PoorPensions u e ubos and oeupper classes; what is not realized here is the
 east fortunate members of
 existance of a centralized bureaucracy would only
 sockety w5 isedset up a new upper class of "bureaucratic elites
 Socia
 MiddleProgram
 Bureacracy privileging themselves with the primary hold on
 capital and resources as they monopolize distribu-
 tion; this solution to "class warfare" defeats itself
 2. While some individuals are truly disadvantaged
 and in need of help, automatically labeling the poor
 as "in need" is a sure way to keep them so. Not
 only is the welfare system flawed in acting as a
 "free lunch" to the unwilling, but also a trap, waiting
 to backfire as soon as individuals standard of living
 raises to a point where they no longer qualify for
 aid, but will not maintain a good standard of living
 for some time until they are independant
 RichLabor
 Taxes
 4
 . The services provided by bureaucracy are poor and make for a tax more expensive than any bill or pricetag on the
 narket; they are poor for the same reason a diabetic has more incentive to excercise than a perfectly fit individual
 here's always the threat of health, metaphorically job security. Also, they are more expensive due to added-on
 ureaucratic costs (paperwork, wages, etc.) and the cost for the actual services themselves, even more so for high-
 end service. 4. By putting the tax burden on the rich and business, one is sure to hamper industry; every cent of a
 rofit taxed is a cent lost to being able to provide more jobs, better goods and services, and a better working facility
 This is to assume that the bureaucracy won't own and manage the workplaces, in which the threat of failure and
 rofit loss would not factor in decision-making for the company's (worker's) best interests. 5. The fallacy in criticizing
 he rich as greedy, manipulative, and authoritative is that socialism's alternative, bureaucracy, is in essence no differ
 nt the problem now is the cronies are working together instead of competing. 6. Like taxation, regulation is a hin-
 rance to industry; instead of directly cutting into capital, it is a loss of potential gains. While they are good meaning
 egulations hinder the efficiency and production capabilities of the workplace, only hurting the worker in the end. 7
 Soviet Russia, China and North Korea are/were socialist economies; next up, America
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<blockquote><p><a href="http://connard-cynique.tumblr.com/post/164678993329/the-real-todd-howard-belfastbullshit" class="tumblr_blog">connard-cynique</a>:</p>
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<p><a href="https://the-real-todd-howard.tumblr.com/post/164678750339/belfastbullshit-libertarirynn-this-is-some" class="tumblr_blog">the-real-todd-howard</a>:</p>
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<p><a href="https://belfastbullshit.tumblr.com/post/164678606062/libertarirynn-this-is-some-deviantart" class="tumblr_blog">belfastbullshit</a>:</p>

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<p><a href="https://libertarirynn.tumblr.com/post/164678356134" class="tumblr_blog">libertarirynn</a>:</p>

<blockquote><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-width="440" data-orig-height="330" data-tumblr-attribution="caffeinumplayer1:k2ddBNrjXJoKKyOMSGXlnQ:ZBNSdq21s5DhY" data-orig-src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/e4b383110e5a9a400f1e49d451ae3a86/tumblr_o2n5xdFVar1sgfcxuo1_500.gif"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/e4b383110e5a9a400f1e49d451ae3a86/tumblr_inline_ovcu2vo8KE1rw09tq_540.gif" data-orig-width="440" data-orig-height="330" data-orig-src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/e4b383110e5a9a400f1e49d451ae3a86/tumblr_o2n5xdFVar1sgfcxuo1_500.gif"/></figure></blockquote>

<p>This is some deviantart bullshit</p>
</blockquote>

<a class="tumblelog" href="https://tmblr.co/mF406VRNJNpZHrD3aIN4l4A">@connard-cynique</a>
</blockquote>
<h2>
<b>NEXT UP ON BUZZFEED: </b><br/></h2>
<h2>FEMINIST ARTIST EMPOWERS OVERWATCH FEMALE CHARACTERS  BY MAKING THEM EAT THE PATRIARCHY</h2>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1145" data-orig-width="1497"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/62eb0985278fab3b57cd17c12d33aac8/tumblr_inline_ovcv0ky65f1qdvnh9_540.jpg" data-orig-height="1145" data-orig-width="1497"/></figure></blockquote>
<p>WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP MISTAKING FETISH ART FOR POLITICAL SHIT WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY</p></blockquote>

<blockquote>
These drawings of cartoon characters have been made dangerously obese, but is there a message behind the madness?

Disney princesses and female heroines are a favorite for online artists to get creative with. Whether it is dressing them in historically accurate garb, gender swapping them or sending them to college, these creations normally get a positive response, but this artist might have taken things too far.

George Lopera, a 20-year-old computing student from Spain, has hyper-inflated Disney princesses and iconic female video game characters until they are dangerously obese.

Lopera, who also creates morphs of female celebrities packing extra weight, explains on his Deviantart profile that:

&ldquo;I love create morphs of a normal woman to a big sized woman, they&rsquo;re beautiful too. Some people like it, and others hate it.&rdquo;</blockquote>

Oh stop pretending it&rsquo;s that deep, dude. You draw inflation fetish art.: These Shocking Drawings Push Our Favorite
 Characters Into Dangerous Territory
 galleryroulette.com
<p><a href="https://trilllizard420.tumblr.com/post/164680039033/connard-cynique-the-real-todd-howard" class="tumblr_blog">trilllizard420</a>:</p>

<blockquote><p><a href="http://connard-cynique.tumblr.com/post/164678993329/the-real-todd-howard-belfastbullshit" class="tumblr_blog">connard-cynique</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://the-real-todd-howard.tumblr.com/post/164678750339/belfastbullshit-libertarirynn-this-is-some" class="tumblr_blog">the-real-todd-howard</a>:</p>
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<p><a href="https://belfastbullshit.tumblr.com/post/164678606062/libertarirynn-this-is-some-deviantart" class="tumblr_blog">belfastbullshit</a>:</p>

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<p><a href="https://libertarirynn.tumblr.com/post/164678356134" class="tumblr_blog">libertarirynn</a>:</p>

<blockquote><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-width="440" data-orig-height="330" data-tumblr-attribution="caffeinumplayer1:k2ddBNrjXJoKKyOMSGXlnQ:ZBNSdq21s5DhY" data-orig-src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/e4b383110e5a9a400f1e49d451ae3a86/tumblr_o2n5xdFVar1sgfcxuo1_500.gif"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/e4b383110e5a9a400f1e49d451ae3a86/tumblr_inline_ovcu2vo8KE1rw09tq_540.gif" data-orig-width="440" data-orig-height="330" data-orig-src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/e4b383110e5a9a400f1e49d451ae3a86/tumblr_o2n5xdFVar1sgfcxuo1_500.gif"/></figure></blockquote>

<p>This is some deviantart bullshit</p>
</blockquote>

<a class="tumblelog" href="https://tmblr.co/mF406VRNJNpZHrD3aIN4l4A">@connard-cynique</a>
</blockquote>
<h2>
<b>NEXT UP ON BUZZFEED: </b><br/></h2>
<h2>FEMINIST ARTIST EMPOWERS OVERWATCH FEMALE CHARACTERS  BY MAKING THEM EAT THE PATRIARCHY</h2>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1145" data-orig-width="1497"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/62eb0985278fab3b57cd17c12d33aac8/tumblr_inline_ovcv0ky65f1qdvnh9_540.jpg" data-orig-height="1145" data-orig-width="1497"/></figure></blockquote>
<p>WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP MISTAKING FETISH ART FOR POLITICAL SHIT WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY</p></blockquote>

<blockquote>
These drawings of cartoon characters have been made dangerously obese, but is there a message behind the madness?

Disney princesses and female heroines are a favorite for online artists to get creative with. Whether it is dressing them in historically accurate garb, gender swapping them or sending them to college, these creations normally get a positive response, but this artist might have taken things too far.

George Lopera, a 20-year-old computing student from Spain, has hyper-inflated Disney princesses and iconic female video game characters until they are dangerously obese.

Lopera, who also creates morphs of female celebrities packing extra weight, explains on his Deviantart profile that:

&ldquo;I love create morphs of a normal woman to a big sized woman, they&rsquo;re beautiful too. Some people like it, and others hate it.&rdquo;</blockquote>

Oh stop pretending it&rsquo;s that deep, dude. You draw inflation fetish art.
        

            
            

                
                
                    <p><a href="https://trilllizard420.tumblr.com/post/164680039033/connard-cynique-the-real-todd-howard" class="tumblr_blog">trilllizard420</a>:</p>

<blockquote><p><a href="http://connard-cynique.tumblr.com/post/164678993329/the-real-todd-howard-belfastbullshit" class="tumblr_blog">connard-cynique</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://the-real-todd-howard.tumblr.com/post/164678750339/belfastbullshit-libertarirynn-this-is-some" class="tumblr_blog">the-real-todd-howard</a>:</p>
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<p><a href="https://belfastbullshit.tumblr.com/post/164678606062/libertarirynn-this-is-some-deviantart" class="tumblr_blog">belfastbullshit</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://libertarirynn.tumblr.com/post/164678356134" class="tumblr_blog">libertarirynn</a>:</p>

<blockquote><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-width="440" data-orig-height="330" data-tumblr-attribution="caffeinumplayer1:k2ddBNrjXJoKKyOMSGXlnQ:ZBNSdq21s5DhY" data-orig-src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/e4b383110e5a9a400f1e49d451ae3a86/tumblr_o2n5xdFVar1sgfcxuo1_500.gif"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/e4b383110e5a9a400f1e49d451ae3a86/tumblr_inline_ovcu2vo8KE1rw09tq_540.gif" data-orig-width="440" data-orig-height="330" data-orig-src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/e4b383110e5a9a400f1e49d451ae3a86/tumblr_o2n5xdFVar1sgfcxuo1_500.gif"/></figure></blockquote>

<p>This is some deviantart bullshit</p>
</blockquote>

<a class="tumblelog" href="https://tmblr.co/mF406VRNJNpZHrD3aIN4l4A">@connard-cynique</a>
</blockquote>
<h2>
<b>NEXT UP ON BUZZFEED: </b><br/></h2>
<h2>FEMINIST ARTIST EMPOWERS OVERWATCH FEMALE CHARACTERS  BY MAKING THEM EAT THE PATRIARCHY</h2>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1145" data-orig-width="1497"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/62eb0985278fab3b57cd17c12d33aac8/tumblr_inline_ovcv0ky65f1qdvnh9_540.jpg" data-orig-height="1145" data-orig-width="1497"/></figure></blockquote>
<p>WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP MISTAKING FETISH ART FOR POLITICAL SHIT WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY</p></blockquote>

<blockquote>
These drawings of cartoon characters have been made dangerously obese, but is there a message behind the madness?

Disney princesses and female heroines are a favorite for online artists to get creative with. Whether it is dressing them in historically accurate garb, gender swapping them or sending them to college, these creations normally get a positive response, but this artist might have taken things too far.

George Lopera, a 20-year-old computing student from Spain, has hyper-inflated Disney princesses and iconic female video game characters until they are dangerously obese.

Lopera, who also creates morphs of female celebrities packing extra weight, explains on his Deviantart profile that:

&ldquo;I love create morphs of a normal woman to a big sized woman, they&rsquo;re beautiful too. Some people like it, and others hate it.&rdquo;</blockquote>

Oh stop pretending it&rsquo;s that deep, dude. You draw inflation fetish art.: These Shocking Drawings Push Our Favorite
 Characters Into Dangerous Territory
 galleryroulette.com
<p><a href="https://trilllizard420.tumblr.com/post/164680039033/connard-cynique-the-real-todd-howard" class="tumblr_blog">trilllizard420</a>:</p>

<blockquote><p><a href="http://connard-cynique.tumblr.com/post/164678993329/the-real-todd-howard-belfastbullshit" class="tumblr_blog">connard-cynique</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://the-real-todd-howard.tumblr.com/post/164678750339/belfastbullshit-libertarirynn-this-is-some" class="tumblr_blog">the-real-todd-howard</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://belfastbullshit.tumblr.com/post/164678606062/libertarirynn-this-is-some-deviantart" class="tumblr_blog">belfastbullshit</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://libertarirynn.tumblr.com/post/164678356134" class="tumblr_blog">libertarirynn</a>:</p>

<blockquote><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-width="440" data-orig-height="330" data-tumblr-attribution="caffeinumplayer1:k2ddBNrjXJoKKyOMSGXlnQ:ZBNSdq21s5DhY" data-orig-src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/e4b383110e5a9a400f1e49d451ae3a86/tumblr_o2n5xdFVar1sgfcxuo1_500.gif"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/e4b383110e5a9a400f1e49d451ae3a86/tumblr_inline_ovcu2vo8KE1rw09tq_540.gif" data-orig-width="440" data-orig-height="330" data-orig-src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/e4b383110e5a9a400f1e49d451ae3a86/tumblr_o2n5xdFVar1sgfcxuo1_500.gif"/></figure></blockquote>

<p>This is some deviantart bullshit</p>
</blockquote>

<a class="tumblelog" href="https://tmblr.co/mF406VRNJNpZHrD3aIN4l4A">@connard-cynique</a>
</blockquote>
<h2>
<b>NEXT UP ON BUZZFEED: </b><br/></h2>
<h2>FEMINIST ARTIST EMPOWERS OVERWATCH FEMALE CHARACTERS  BY MAKING THEM EAT THE PATRIARCHY</h2>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1145" data-orig-width="1497"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/62eb0985278fab3b57cd17c12d33aac8/tumblr_inline_ovcv0ky65f1qdvnh9_540.jpg" data-orig-height="1145" data-orig-width="1497"/></figure></blockquote>
<p>WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP MISTAKING FETISH ART FOR POLITICAL SHIT WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY</p></blockquote>

<blockquote>
These drawings of cartoon characters have been made dangerously obese, but is there a message behind the madness?

Disney princesses and female heroines are a favorite for online artists to get creative with. Whether it is dressing them in historically accurate garb, gender swapping them or sending them to college, these creations normally get a positive response, but this artist might have taken things too far.

George Lopera, a 20-year-old computing student from Spain, has hyper-inflated Disney princesses and iconic female video game characters until they are dangerously obese.

Lopera, who also creates morphs of female celebrities packing extra weight, explains on his Deviantart profile that:

&ldquo;I love create morphs of a normal woman to a big sized woman, they&rsquo;re beautiful too. Some people like it, and others hate it.&rdquo;</blockquote>

Oh stop pretending it&rsquo;s that deep, dude. You draw inflation fetish art.
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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<blockquote><p>Dying man’s son is deemed “special visitor” at hospital <a class="tumblelog" href="https://tmblr.co/mZHrjydhp9oUbxMGBDJA8rw">@libertarirynn</a></p></blockquote>

<p>GW: &ldquo;Hey dad!&rdquo;<br/>HW: &ldquo;Georgie! It&rsquo;s so nice to have my son here :)&rdquo;<br/>Jeb: &ldquo;But dad I&rsquo;ve been here for weeks. I even brought you cookies!&rdquo;<br/>HW: &ldquo;Did you hear something?&rdquo;</p>: 1:13 AM
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 FOX NEWS
 George H.W. Bush
 gets special visitor
 at hospital
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 Published on April 20, 2017
 @GeorgeHWBush/Twitter
 Former President George H.W. Bush
 remains under care at a Houston
 hospital, but got a special visitor on
 Thursday.
 NEXT UP IN
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<p><a href="http://wolfsburgedition.tumblr.com/post/159818057035/dying-mans-son-is-deemed-special-visitor-at" class="tumblr_blog">wolfsburgedition</a>:</p>

<blockquote><p>Dying man’s son is deemed “special visitor” at hospital <a class="tumblelog" href="https://tmblr.co/mZHrjydhp9oUbxMGBDJA8rw">@libertarirynn</a></p></blockquote>

<p>GW: &ldquo;Hey dad!&rdquo;<br/>HW: &ldquo;Georgie! It&rsquo;s so nice to have my son here :)&rdquo;<br/>Jeb: &ldquo;But dad I&rsquo;ve been here for weeks. I even brought you cookies!&rdquo;<br/>HW: &ldquo;Did you hear something?&rdquo;</p>
        

            
            

                
                
                    <p><a href="http://wolfsburgedition.tumblr.com/post/159818057035/dying-mans-son-is-deemed-special-visitor-at" class="tumblr_blog">wolfsburgedition</a>:</p>

<blockquote><p>Dying man’s son is deemed “special visitor” at hospital <a class="tumblelog" href="https://tmblr.co/mZHrjydhp9oUbxMGBDJA8rw">@libertarirynn</a></p></blockquote>

<p>GW: &ldquo;Hey dad!&rdquo;<br/>HW: &ldquo;Georgie! It&rsquo;s so nice to have my son here :)&rdquo;<br/>Jeb: &ldquo;But dad I&rsquo;ve been here for weeks. I even brought you cookies!&rdquo;<br/>HW: &ldquo;Did you hear something?&rdquo;</p>: 1:13 AM
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 Sprint
 FOX NEWS
 George H.W. Bush
 gets special visitor
 at hospital
 FoxNews.comm
 Published on April 20, 2017
 @GeorgeHWBush/Twitter
 Former President George H.W. Bush
 remains under care at a Houston
 hospital, but got a special visitor on
 Thursday.
 NEXT UP IN
 TRENDING
<p><a href="http://wolfsburgedition.tumblr.com/post/159818057035/dying-mans-son-is-deemed-special-visitor-at" class="tumblr_blog">wolfsburgedition</a>:</p>

<blockquote><p>Dying man’s son is deemed “special visitor” at hospital <a class="tumblelog" href="https://tmblr.co/mZHrjydhp9oUbxMGBDJA8rw">@libertarirynn</a></p></blockquote>

<p>GW: &ldquo;Hey dad!&rdquo;<br/>HW: &ldquo;Georgie! It&rsquo;s so nice to have my son here :)&rdquo;<br/>Jeb: &ldquo;But dad I&rsquo;ve been here for weeks. I even brought you cookies!&rdquo;<br/>HW: &ldquo;Did you hear something?&rdquo;</p>
                    
                
            

            
                
                
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        <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://draumbooty.tumblr.com/post/148796102331">draumbooty</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://peppermint-bones.tumblr.com/post/134426646588">peppermint-bones</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://captainamerica-in-middle-earth.tumblr.com/post/134360821447">captainamerica-in-middle-earth</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://emilyblunts.tumblr.com/post/134313545900">emilyblunts</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://fatcr0w.tumblr.com/post/134310955814">fatcr0w</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://steveandsam.tumblr.com/post/134310500040">steveandsam</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://weinersoldier.tumblr.com/post/134310333243">weinersoldier</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tisheriffic.tumblr.com/post/133914761862">tisheriffic</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>FIXED IT</p>
</blockquote>
<p>in Today’s Episode of: “The MCU Fandom Isn’t Racist, But…”</p>
<p>@ op: grow the fuck up </p>
</blockquote>
<p>this shitty fandom is back to its “lets erase sam for another white guy!!!!” agenda, tell me how 3k people thought this was acceptable</p>
</blockquote>
<p>All offense OP you’re a fucking racist piece of shit<br/><br/>There’s a fuckin huge area of negative space between Steve and Bucky you couldn’t shoop his ass in there no you had to cover up Sam? That was your first thought?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>sam isnt even in the shot ??? watch the trailer perhaps ???</p>
<figure class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/eeda5054dfb1704734f54399702e841e/tumblr_inline_nynxr94zsQ1r1hxr0_540.png" class=""/></figure></blockquote>
<p>Next up on ‘tumblr gets upset over nothing’</p>
</blockquote>
<p>fucking lol</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I hope this website falls through like yahoo is saying</p>
</blockquote>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://draumbooty.tumblr.com/post/148796102331">draumbooty</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://peppermint-bones.tumblr.com/post/134426646588">peppermint-bones</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://captainamerica-in-middle-earth.tumblr.com/post/134360821447">captainamerica-in-middle-earth</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://emilyblunts.tumblr.com/post/134313545900">emilyblunts</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://fatcr0w.tumblr.com/post/134310955814">fatcr0w</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://steveandsam.tumblr.com/post/134310500040">steveandsam</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://weinersoldier.tumblr.com/post/134310333243">weinersoldier</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tisheriffic.tumblr.com/post/133914761862">tisheriffic</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>FIXED IT</p>
</blockquote>
<p>in Today’s Episode of: “The MCU Fandom Isn’t Racist, But…”</p>
<p>@ op: grow the fuck up </p>
</blockquote>
<p>this shitty fandom is back to its “lets erase sam for another white guy!!!!” agenda, tell me how 3k people thought this was acceptable</p>
</blockquote>
<p>All offense OP you’re a fucking racist piece of shit<br/><br/>There’s a fuckin huge area of negative space between Steve and Bucky you couldn’t shoop his ass in there no you had to cover up Sam? That was your first thought?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>sam isnt even in the shot ??? watch the trailer perhaps ???</p>
<figure class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/eeda5054dfb1704734f54399702e841e/tumblr_inline_nynxr94zsQ1r1hxr0_540.png" class=""/></figure></blockquote>
<p>Next up on ‘tumblr gets upset over nothing’</p>
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<p>fucking lol</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I hope this website falls through like yahoo is saying</p>
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                    <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://draumbooty.tumblr.com/post/148796102331">draumbooty</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://peppermint-bones.tumblr.com/post/134426646588">peppermint-bones</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://captainamerica-in-middle-earth.tumblr.com/post/134360821447">captainamerica-in-middle-earth</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://emilyblunts.tumblr.com/post/134313545900">emilyblunts</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://fatcr0w.tumblr.com/post/134310955814">fatcr0w</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://steveandsam.tumblr.com/post/134310500040">steveandsam</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://weinersoldier.tumblr.com/post/134310333243">weinersoldier</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tisheriffic.tumblr.com/post/133914761862">tisheriffic</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>FIXED IT</p>
</blockquote>
<p>in Today’s Episode of: “The MCU Fandom Isn’t Racist, But…”</p>
<p>@ op: grow the fuck up </p>
</blockquote>
<p>this shitty fandom is back to its “lets erase sam for another white guy!!!!” agenda, tell me how 3k people thought this was acceptable</p>
</blockquote>
<p>All offense OP you’re a fucking racist piece of shit<br/><br/>There’s a fuckin huge area of negative space between Steve and Bucky you couldn’t shoop his ass in there no you had to cover up Sam? That was your first thought?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>sam isnt even in the shot ??? watch the trailer perhaps ???</p>
<figure class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/eeda5054dfb1704734f54399702e841e/tumblr_inline_nynxr94zsQ1r1hxr0_540.png" class=""/></figure></blockquote>
<p>Next up on ‘tumblr gets upset over nothing’</p>
</blockquote>
<p>fucking lol</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I hope this website falls through like yahoo is saying</p>
</blockquote>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://draumbooty.tumblr.com/post/148796102331">draumbooty</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://peppermint-bones.tumblr.com/post/134426646588">peppermint-bones</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://captainamerica-in-middle-earth.tumblr.com/post/134360821447">captainamerica-in-middle-earth</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://emilyblunts.tumblr.com/post/134313545900">emilyblunts</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://fatcr0w.tumblr.com/post/134310955814">fatcr0w</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://steveandsam.tumblr.com/post/134310500040">steveandsam</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://weinersoldier.tumblr.com/post/134310333243">weinersoldier</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tisheriffic.tumblr.com/post/133914761862">tisheriffic</a>:</p>
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<p>FIXED IT</p>
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<p>in Today’s Episode of: “The MCU Fandom Isn’t Racist, But…”</p>
<p>@ op: grow the fuck up </p>
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<p>this shitty fandom is back to its “lets erase sam for another white guy!!!!” agenda, tell me how 3k people thought this was acceptable</p>
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<p>All offense OP you’re a fucking racist piece of shit<br/><br/>There’s a fuckin huge area of negative space between Steve and Bucky you couldn’t shoop his ass in there no you had to cover up Sam? That was your first thought?</p>
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<p>sam isnt even in the shot ??? watch the trailer perhaps ???</p>
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<p>Next up on ‘tumblr gets upset over nothing’</p>
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<p>fucking lol</p>
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<p>I hope this website falls through like yahoo is saying</p>
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urulokid:

facebooksexism:

skeptikhaleesi:

brownglucose:

nextyearsgirl:

The absence of women in history is man made.

How petty

just look at babe ruth’s face tho
so confused
so lost
i love it

Jackie Mitchell…a bad ass lady I had never heard of. 

From her Wikipedia page: “Seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell, brought in to pitch in the first inning after the starting pitcher had given up a double and a single, faced Babe Ruth. After taking a ball, Ruth swung and missed at the next two pitches. Mitchell’s fourth pitch to Ruth was a called third strike. Babe Ruth glared and verbally abused the umpire before being led away by his teammates to sit to wait for another batting turn. The crowd roared for Jackie. Babe Ruth was quoted in a Chattanooga newspaper as having said:

“I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day.”

Next up was the Iron Horse Lou Gehrig, who swung through the first three pitches to strike out. Jackie Mitchell became famous for striking out two of the greatest baseball players in history.
A few days after Mitchell struck out Ruth and Gehrig, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract and declared women unfit to play baseball as the game was “too strenuous.”[5][10] Mitchell continued to play professionally,barnstorming with the House of David, a men’s team famous for their very long hair and long beards.[11] While travelling with the House of David team, she would sometimes wear a fake beard for publicity.”
TL;DR: teenage girl strikes out two of the greatest baseball players ever, teenage girl gets her contract voided, teenage girl plays baseball wearing fake beard

These guys were so fucking injured by a teenage girl’s awesomeness that they literally threw a hissyfit and hung up a sign that said “NO GIRLS.”
They gave up.
They couldn’t handle it.
Losers. 
Teenage girls are amazing.

Here’s a friendly reminder of why the big leagues of sports aren’t co-ed.
It’s not to “make it fair” on women. It’s because men are scared of being beaten by women.

She’s from my home town! And after all the baseball games I’ve been to here, no one ever mentioned her at all. I only recently looked her up online.
Men are the fragile ones.
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The absence of women in history is man made.

How petty

just look at babe ruth’s face tho
so confused
so lost
i love it

Jackie Mitchell…a bad ass lady I had never heard of. 

From her Wikipedia page: “Seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell, brought in to pitch in the first inning after the starting pitcher had given up a double and a single, faced Babe Ruth. After taking a ball, Ruth swung and missed at the next two pitches. Mitchell’s fourth pitch to Ruth was a called third strike. Babe Ruth glared and verbally abused the umpire before being led away by his teammates to sit to wait for another batting turn. The crowd roared for Jackie. Babe Ruth was quoted in a Chattanooga newspaper as having said:

“I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day.”

Next up was the Iron Horse Lou Gehrig, who swung through the first three pitches to strike out. Jackie Mitchell became famous for striking out two of the greatest baseball players in history.
A few days after Mitchell struck out Ruth and Gehrig, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract and declared women unfit to play baseball as the game was “too strenuous.”[5][10] Mitchell continued to play professionally,barnstorming with the House of David, a men’s team famous for their very long hair and long beards.[11] While travelling with the House of David team, she would sometimes wear a fake beard for publicity.”
TL;DR: teenage girl strikes out two of the greatest baseball players ever, teenage girl gets her contract voided, teenage girl plays baseball wearing fake beard

These guys were so fucking injured by a teenage girl’s awesomeness that they literally threw a hissyfit and hung up a sign that said “NO GIRLS.”
They gave up.
They couldn’t handle it.
Losers. 
Teenage girls are amazing.

Here’s a friendly reminder of why the big leagues of sports aren’t co-ed.
It’s not to “make it fair” on women. It’s because men are scared of being beaten by women.

She’s from my home town! And after all the baseball games I’ve been to here, no one ever mentioned her at all. I only recently looked her up online.
Men are the fragile ones.

        

            
            

                
                
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damegreywulf:

naamahdarling:

urulokid:

facebooksexism:

skeptikhaleesi:

brownglucose:

nextyearsgirl:

The absence of women in history is man made.

How petty

just look at babe ruth’s face tho
so confused
so lost
i love it

Jackie Mitchell…a bad ass lady I had never heard of. 

From her Wikipedia page: “Seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell, brought in to pitch in the first inning after the starting pitcher had given up a double and a single, faced Babe Ruth. After taking a ball, Ruth swung and missed at the next two pitches. Mitchell’s fourth pitch to Ruth was a called third strike. Babe Ruth glared and verbally abused the umpire before being led away by his teammates to sit to wait for another batting turn. The crowd roared for Jackie. Babe Ruth was quoted in a Chattanooga newspaper as having said:

“I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day.”

Next up was the Iron Horse Lou Gehrig, who swung through the first three pitches to strike out. Jackie Mitchell became famous for striking out two of the greatest baseball players in history.
A few days after Mitchell struck out Ruth and Gehrig, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract and declared women unfit to play baseball as the game was “too strenuous.”[5][10] Mitchell continued to play professionally,barnstorming with the House of David, a men’s team famous for their very long hair and long beards.[11] While travelling with the House of David team, she would sometimes wear a fake beard for publicity.”
TL;DR: teenage girl strikes out two of the greatest baseball players ever, teenage girl gets her contract voided, teenage girl plays baseball wearing fake beard

These guys were so fucking injured by a teenage girl’s awesomeness that they literally threw a hissyfit and hung up a sign that said “NO GIRLS.”
They gave up.
They couldn’t handle it.
Losers. 
Teenage girls are amazing.

Here’s a friendly reminder of why the big leagues of sports aren’t co-ed.
It’s not to “make it fair” on women. It’s because men are scared of being beaten by women.

She’s from my home town! And after all the baseball games I’ve been to here, no one ever mentioned her at all. I only recently looked her up online.
Men are the fragile ones.
: 00000 Verizon LTE
 7:08 AM
 National Women's History
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 HISTORY
 Museum
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 April 2 at 5:25 PM O
 #OnThisDay in 1931, 17-year-old Jackie
 Mitchell struck out both Babe Ruth and
 Lou Gehrig during an exhibition game
 against the Yankees. A few days later,
 her contract was voided and women
 were declared unfit to play baseball.
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The absence of women in history is man made.

How petty

just look at babe ruth’s face tho
so confused
so lost
i love it

Jackie Mitchell…a bad ass lady I had never heard of. 

From her Wikipedia page: “Seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell, brought in to pitch in the first inning after the starting pitcher had given up a double and a single, faced Babe Ruth. After taking a ball, Ruth swung and missed at the next two pitches. Mitchell’s fourth pitch to Ruth was a called third strike. Babe Ruth glared and verbally abused the umpire before being led away by his teammates to sit to wait for another batting turn. The crowd roared for Jackie. Babe Ruth was quoted in a Chattanooga newspaper as having said:

“I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day.”

Next up was the Iron Horse Lou Gehrig, who swung through the first three pitches to strike out. Jackie Mitchell became famous for striking out two of the greatest baseball players in history.
A few days after Mitchell struck out Ruth and Gehrig, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract and declared women unfit to play baseball as the game was “too strenuous.”[5][10] Mitchell continued to play professionally,barnstorming with the House of David, a men’s team famous for their very long hair and long beards.[11] While travelling with the House of David team, she would sometimes wear a fake beard for publicity.”
TL;DR: teenage girl strikes out two of the greatest baseball players ever, teenage girl gets her contract voided, teenage girl plays baseball wearing fake beard

These guys were so fucking injured by a teenage girl’s awesomeness that they literally threw a hissyfit and hung up a sign that said “NO GIRLS.”
They gave up.
They couldn’t handle it.
Losers. 
Teenage girls are amazing.

Here’s a friendly reminder of why the big leagues of sports aren’t co-ed.
It’s not to “make it fair” on women. It’s because men are scared of being beaten by women.

She’s from my home town! And after all the baseball games I’ve been to here, no one ever mentioned her at all. I only recently looked her up online.
Men are the fragile ones.

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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I paid £2.50 for the Sunday times, took out the magazine and binned the rest 😂


I’m sorry you paid to listen to a shitty interviewer being rude af: DAN AND PHIL
 Seen
 and nerd
 MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
 Above: YouTubers Dan Howell (left)
 and Phil Lester can now sell out arenas
 like rock stars

 DAN AND PHIL
 A geeky pair of YouTube bloggers have topped
 the autumn bestseller list with their debut
 book. Eight million teens are addicted to their
 channels. Josh Glancy meets the poster boys
 of the great British vlogger boom
 THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE 41

 DAN AND PHIL
 THE WHO? Dan and Phil - their in-jokes and "like" patois are all but impenetrable to anyone over the age of 25
 here is an air of hushed
 excitement outside when I arrive
 at the arena an hour before the
 evening in October. And the two
 twentysomething British men are not rock
 stars, but gawky YouTube bloggers called
 Dan Howell and Phil Lester.
 and Phil have the passion of One Directioners
 or Beliebers (fans of Justin Bieber), but the
 relationship is not just one of distant
 obsession. Dan and Phil interact with their
 fans, tweet them, answer their questions and
 take on their challenges. For many of their
 followers, Dan and Phil play the role of big
 brother, agony aunt, newspaper columnist,
 comedian and sex icon combined.
 show begins. Groups of young
 teenage girls mingle nervously,
 cans of energy drink in one hand,
 iPhones glued to the other. Blue
 jeans and blue hair abound.
 Unless you are an attentive parent of a
 web-obsessed teenager or under 25, you are
 unlikely to have heard of Dan and Phil,
 whose online personas are Danisnotonfire
 and AmazingPhil. But in internet-land
 they are titans. Between them, they have
 more than 4m Twitter followers and 8m
 subscribers to their YouTube channels from
 as far afield as the USA, the Philippines and
 Indonesia. The pair have separate channels
 but also collaborate regularly.
 The figures don't do justice to their
 almost cult-like influence. Followers of Dan
 A voice calls from inside and
 the girls snap into line, trooping
 at speed into a VIP holding area, where free
 Haribo and mineral water are provided.
 Eventually, two young men walk in and the
 Toom erupts with screaming, crying, a flood
 of photos. "Oh, my God, you exist in real
 life!" one fan shouts. The girls are completely
 overwhelmed, yelping in excitement. The
 organiser tells me that fainting is a
 possibility, and assistants are on hand to
 They have been around for a few years
 now. Along with the likes of Alfie Deyes and
 Zoella they were at the heart of what they
 call the "great British vlogger boom" of 2013,
 when several vloggers went from having
 hundreds of thousands of followers to
 millions in a matter of months. But until
 recently, most members of the adult world,
 who use the internet for ordering groceries
 and checking the news, have continued to
 ignore them.
 Now, though, they are becoming
 impossible to dismiss. Last month they
 released a book, The Amazing Book Is Not
 on Fire, a glimpse into their online world
 and how it was created. Everyone in
 publishing had expected Bill Bryson's latest
 book to top the autumn bestseller list, >
 "We are nerds. We are losers.
 People like the fact that
 somebody like them has
 the audacity to put
 calm them down if necessary.
 This, I imagine, is what it felt like to
 De the Beatles in 1965, or to be One Direction
 today: world-famous megastars attracting
 nordes of feverish young women every time
 they land in New York or Los Angeles.
 Except this is not Hollywood, but the
 Plymouth Pavilions on a grey Tuesday
 themselves out there"
 THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE• 43

 it was immediately beaten into second
 place by the "amazing" book. Their debut
 sold almost 50,000 copies in its first fortnight.
 DAN AND PHIL
 en and Phil are outperforming books by
 Tom Jones, Sue Perkins and Steven Gerrard.
 Vlogger books are the new frontier in
 publishing. Last year, despite controversy
 over whether she actually wrote it.
 7oella's debut, Girl Online, became the
 fastest-selling debut novel since records
 began, shifting 78,109 copies in just one
 reek. The 25-year-old fashion blogger from
 Wiltshire sold as if she were JK Rowling.
 Unsurprisingly, all the publishing houses
 are eager for a piece of this new alchemy.
 The Amazing Book Is Not on Fire doesn't
 fit a conventional book format. It is partly
 the story of Dan and Phil and partly trivia
 about their lives, along with silly drawings,
 games, emoji interviews and selfie reels. The
 Catcher in the Rye it is not, but intelligent
 children are devouring it nonetheless.
 To accompany the book they have
 developed a stand-up show and are touring
 the country, filling theatres and arenas from
 Belfast to Brighton. The unlikely princes of
 new media are taking old media by storm.
 This is what has brought me to Plymouth,
 with a number of questions I want
 answered. Who are these strange internet
 geeks who are taking over the real world?
 And how on earth do they do it?
 WILD AT HEART "In real life we're likely to be watching Come Dine with Me"
 They brush off my question
 about what it feels like to
 be unlikely sex idols by
 claiming that their fans only
 fancy them "ironically"
 T
 he Dan and Phil phenomenon is
 undeniably huge, but as I arrive in
 Plymouth I'm still slightly baffled
 as to what their appeal actually is.
 I watched several of their videos
 ahead of the show. They are
 quirky and eloquent, a paean to
 internet wackiness, but they also
 come across as fairly aimless, full
 of creativity without direction and
 smile around them, but it is difficult to believe
 we are all about the same age. Spending most
 of the past decade on YouTube has given
 the internet generation would stop reading
 printed books were wrong.
 "This book appeals to all sorts," says
 Zach, 16, one of only two boys amid a sea of
 girls. "There are a lot of people I know who
 them a Peter Pan-like quality; they come
 across as a pair of overgrown teenagers.
 "Watching Dan and Phil makes me
 laugh, it makes me happy," says Shelby,
 a 16-year-old with electric-blue hair and a
 pierced septum. "They have a unique
 connection with their audience. They act
 humour without any depth.
 A typical video might see the pair
 attempt to apply make-up to one another's
 faces while wearing a blindfold. They often
 conduct "seven-second challenges",
 submitted by fans, such as "name three
 things you wouldn't have tattooed on your
 body" or "spell Christmas backwards", which really casual with you, like you're all part of
 they then have seven seconds to complete.
 At the show, I asked some of the girls
 what it is they like so much about their
 idols. The most common response was that
 they are dorky everymen with whom
 teenagers can genuinely identify. They seem
 to provide an online comfort blanket, a
 refuge from the travails of adolescence.
 I joined Dan and Phil backstage for a
 while and found them unthreatening, clean-
 cut, lovable and slightly irritating. Their
 clothes are Topman, their hairstyles both
 fiercely swept Bieber-esque fringes. Their
 humour is also similar: a fusion of millennial their own special technique for how to paint party: Smartie Artie meets Michael Mclntyre
 kookiness, "like" patois and David Brentian
 irony. They work well together, generating a
 bouncy positivity that makes it hard not to
 would never ever read a book in their life
 who have bought this. They've watched the
 YouTube videos so they know what to
 expect." Zach is in the long queue to meet
 Dan and Phil, which involves a hug with the
 pair, a quick selfie and then a furious session
 of tweeting, Instagramming and
 WhatsApping the picture to jealous friends.
 It's only when I watch the show itself
 that I understand quite what is going on
 here. The entire thing is full of in-jokes from
 their vlogs. Phil sits on a giant model lion,
 Dan on a llama. The crowd emits an ear-
 splitting shriek– apparently Dan has a thing
 for llamas. Then they start acting out
 seven-second challenges. I'm the same age
 as Phil, 28, but I have never felt more
 the same internet family." Shelby is part of
 the sprawling, multi-platform Dan and Phil
 online community. She has a special Twitter
 account that she uses to discuss their work
 with virtual fans all over the country.
 "I love Dan and Phil because I can relate
 to them," says Abby, a 14-year-old fan. “I just
 like watching them so much. They're my
 favourite YouTubers because they are more
 personal, you can relate to them more."
 Like many of the girls present, Abby has
 cat whiskers painted on her face. This is a
 Dan and Phil trademark - they demonstrate
 appallingly middle-aged. The whole event
 has the feel of a large children's birthday
 What I quickly realise is that boring
 adults aren't meant to get it. Indeed, the fact
 they don't is part of the appeal. In the >
 them in one of their videos. Almost
 everyone is clutching a copy of Dan and
 Phil's book, proof that those who thought
 THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE• 45

 same way that pop music confounded the
 eardrums of mid-20th-century parents, fans
 of Dan and Phil like the fact that this is their
 DAN AND PHIL
 world and the rest of us don't understand.
 meet Dan and Phil properly the next
 day at the offices of their publisher.
 They are 24 and 28 respectively, but
 when Dan describes my use of a pen to
 take notes as "endearing", it feels like
 ve are from different generations.
 Texplain my struggle to understand
 what it is they actually do on YouTube.
 "There is a whole fanbase out
 there that is specifically
 passionate about me and Phil
 and what we stand for"
 Dan smiles knowingly. “Nobody
 specifically passionate about me and Phil
 and what we stand for," he says.
 understands what YouTube is vet.
 especially in the British media and public,"
 represent the people who aren't cool," says
 Dan. "We are nerds. We are losers. People
 They are understandably coy about their like the fact that someone like them has the
 ays. "The grandma that has Facebook
 cees YouTube as this place where there are
 ints of cat videos. But really it's a Wild West
 frontier of independent creativity. For the
 frst time in the world, you don't have
 commissioning editors and channels and
 budgets. People are just independently
 doing whatever they want."
 Dan Howell, a Berkshire native, is the
 pin-up of the duo and turns up in a tight-
 itting black leather jacket and black skinny
 jeans. Phil Lester is older, a “YouTube
 dinosaur". He started on the website in the
 far-distant days of 2006 and was already a
 regular vlogger when Dan messaged him
 five years ago to ask for help with his own
 video ambitions. Both were living in
 Manchester at the time: Phil with his
 parents, having just finished a master's in
 video postproduction, and Dan in his first
 year studying law at Manchester University.
 "I wasn't making videos to get an
 audience," says Phil. "I just saw it was a cool
 thing that other people were doing. I was just
 going to talk about my day and whack it on
 there. It took a year to get 100 subscribers."
 "Everybody who is at a big place these
 days has been growing their channel for
 years," says Dan, who describes his early
 YouTubing as a "creative hobby with no
 goal in sight", and claims success came to
 him pretty much by accident.
 Things moved faster once the pair began
 collaborating regularly. Dan dropped out of
 university and the pair gave themselves a
 year to see if they could make a living out of
 YouTube. In 2013 Radio 1 brought them in to
 appeal to younger listeners and they quickly
 found themselves reporting from the Brit
 Awards - but YouTube has remained their
 main focus until the recent book and tour.
 "I like the book because it's a physical copy
 of everything we've done on YouTube," says
 Phil. "If we die in a meteor strike in 50 years,
 it will still exist."
 Phil may have started off as the master
 earnings, but it's clear they haven't looked
 back from their decision to try to make a
 living off YouTube. Estimates put Dan's
 wealth at £2m. Their main source of
 YouTube income is simply from the
 advertising on their videos – but sometimes
 they also produce sponsored content.
 This got them in trouble with the
 Advertising Standards Agency (ASA)
 recently, when it was decided they hadn't
 made it clear to viewers that an Oreo
 audacity to put themselves out there. We
 spend all our time inside reading Harry
 Potter and playing video games. We're the
 faces of the losers at school. That's why Dan
 and Phil are different to other people, who
 look perfect, who are mainstream, with the
 perfect teeth and the perfect hair."
 They may share much of their lives with
 millions of followers, but the rest is strictly
 cordoned off. They live together in a flat in
 London, but won't say where. They brush off
 my question about what it feels like to be
 unlikely sex idols by claiming that their fans
 only fancy them "ironically". I ask Dan what
 biscuit-licking competition was paid for by
 the brand. The ads were banned. Dan and
 Phil's friendliness recedes for a moment
 when I bring it up. "Oh, for God's sake." savs
 Dan. “Was there a controversy? It was another
 element of misunderstanding, I think."
 “There was no controversy because
 there were no guidelines in place," says Phil.
 "This was just the ASA deciding what the
 rules should be. Everyone was, like,
 "Great, now we know what to do."
 "What we're annoyed by is that people
 think there was an incident, but the story
 was that nobody did anything wrong," adds
 Dan. "The ASA were deciding what the rules
 are, which is a good and necessary thing."
 Has the bruising episode put them off
 doing sponsored content? "I'm in the quite
 lucky position where I don't have to do a lot
 of sponsored content to support myself,"
 says Dan. "I can take an opportunity if, for
 whatever reason, I want to. But there are
 he thinks about the persistent rumours that
 he is gay. He references the actor Tom
 Hardy's plea for privacy over the same issue.
 "We don't talk about our private lives in any
 way," he says. “Creatively, we want to be
 apart from the people who are reality stars.
 We don't want to be some Kardashian."
 "In real life, we are more likely to be
 playing video games or watching Come Dine
 with Me than going to nightclubs, and they
 [the fans] know that," adds Phil.
 The pair are enjoying their tour, not least
 because they "don't usually spend much
 time outdoors". Next up they plan to take it
 to Rio, Manila, Jakarta and America, where
 their biggest fanbase resides. But what does
 the future look like? Aren't they getting a bit
 old for larking about on YouTube? I find it
 hard to believe that these intelligent grown
 men aren't starting to find it odd playing
 entertainer to young teenage children.
 "Never underestimate the intelligence of
 a 12-year-old," says Dan, who claims that he
 doesn't dumb down his content for younger
 followers. "I'm having such a good time
 right now," says Phil. "The exciting thing is,
 no one knows what the future [for YouTubers]
 is going to be. We're the first ones, we're like
 the test subjects, to see what happens."
 "Everything is brand new," adds Dan.
 "Are the YouTubers going to jump on to TV?
 Is TV going to implode into nothingness?
 creators out there who literally survive off
 sponsored content. So I think it's necessary."
 YouTube is making them rich, but what
 do they say to people who find their work
 entertaining, but ultimately a bit pointless?
 "It's just wrong," says Dan. "It's completely
 wrong. It's understandable, people haven't
 had that much exposure to YouTube. The
 reason people like me is because I open up
 about my opinion and my thoughts on
 everything, from existentialism to whether
 or not it's right to keep hamsters in cages."
 "Even in our videos, we have fun in
 some, but others have advice and messages,"
 Literally, nobody knows. We're in a great
 position, so we are going with the
 flow. Confidently." I
 The Amazing Book Is Not on Fire (Ebury
 Press £16.99) is out now. To buy it for
 £14.99, inc p&p, call 0845 271 2135 or visit
 thesundaytimes.co.uk/bookshop
 and Dan the apprentice, but in interviews, at says Phil. "A lot of it is reflecting what life is
 least, it appears that Dan is in charge as he
 ends up fielding almost every question,
 brimming with an almost arrogant
 ebullience about their achievements.
 "There is a whole fanbase out there that is
 like in school, or when starting university.
 That kind of thing, coming from someone
 who has experienced it, can help people."
 I wonder what their own explanation is
 for their seemingly insatiable appeal? "We
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 and nerd
 MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
 Above: YouTubers Dan Howell (left)
 and Phil Lester can now sell out arenas
 like rock stars

 DAN AND PHIL
 A geeky pair of YouTube bloggers have topped
 the autumn bestseller list with their debut
 book. Eight million teens are addicted to their
 channels. Josh Glancy meets the poster boys
 of the great British vlogger boom
 THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE 41

 DAN AND PHIL
 THE WHO? Dan and Phil - their in-jokes and "like" patois are all but impenetrable to anyone over the age of 25
 here is an air of hushed
 excitement outside when I arrive
 at the arena an hour before the
 evening in October. And the two
 twentysomething British men are not rock
 stars, but gawky YouTube bloggers called
 Dan Howell and Phil Lester.
 and Phil have the passion of One Directioners
 or Beliebers (fans of Justin Bieber), but the
 relationship is not just one of distant
 obsession. Dan and Phil interact with their
 fans, tweet them, answer their questions and
 take on their challenges. For many of their
 followers, Dan and Phil play the role of big
 brother, agony aunt, newspaper columnist,
 comedian and sex icon combined.
 show begins. Groups of young
 teenage girls mingle nervously,
 cans of energy drink in one hand,
 iPhones glued to the other. Blue
 jeans and blue hair abound.
 Unless you are an attentive parent of a
 web-obsessed teenager or under 25, you are
 unlikely to have heard of Dan and Phil,
 whose online personas are Danisnotonfire
 and AmazingPhil. But in internet-land
 they are titans. Between them, they have
 more than 4m Twitter followers and 8m
 subscribers to their YouTube channels from
 as far afield as the USA, the Philippines and
 Indonesia. The pair have separate channels
 but also collaborate regularly.
 The figures don't do justice to their
 almost cult-like influence. Followers of Dan
 A voice calls from inside and
 the girls snap into line, trooping
 at speed into a VIP holding area, where free
 Haribo and mineral water are provided.
 Eventually, two young men walk in and the
 Toom erupts with screaming, crying, a flood
 of photos. "Oh, my God, you exist in real
 life!" one fan shouts. The girls are completely
 overwhelmed, yelping in excitement. The
 organiser tells me that fainting is a
 possibility, and assistants are on hand to
 They have been around for a few years
 now. Along with the likes of Alfie Deyes and
 Zoella they were at the heart of what they
 call the "great British vlogger boom" of 2013,
 when several vloggers went from having
 hundreds of thousands of followers to
 millions in a matter of months. But until
 recently, most members of the adult world,
 who use the internet for ordering groceries
 and checking the news, have continued to
 ignore them.
 Now, though, they are becoming
 impossible to dismiss. Last month they
 released a book, The Amazing Book Is Not
 on Fire, a glimpse into their online world
 and how it was created. Everyone in
 publishing had expected Bill Bryson's latest
 book to top the autumn bestseller list, >
 "We are nerds. We are losers.
 People like the fact that
 somebody like them has
 the audacity to put
 calm them down if necessary.
 This, I imagine, is what it felt like to
 De the Beatles in 1965, or to be One Direction
 today: world-famous megastars attracting
 nordes of feverish young women every time
 they land in New York or Los Angeles.
 Except this is not Hollywood, but the
 Plymouth Pavilions on a grey Tuesday
 themselves out there"
 THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE• 43

 it was immediately beaten into second
 place by the "amazing" book. Their debut
 sold almost 50,000 copies in its first fortnight.
 DAN AND PHIL
 en and Phil are outperforming books by
 Tom Jones, Sue Perkins and Steven Gerrard.
 Vlogger books are the new frontier in
 publishing. Last year, despite controversy
 over whether she actually wrote it.
 7oella's debut, Girl Online, became the
 fastest-selling debut novel since records
 began, shifting 78,109 copies in just one
 reek. The 25-year-old fashion blogger from
 Wiltshire sold as if she were JK Rowling.
 Unsurprisingly, all the publishing houses
 are eager for a piece of this new alchemy.
 The Amazing Book Is Not on Fire doesn't
 fit a conventional book format. It is partly
 the story of Dan and Phil and partly trivia
 about their lives, along with silly drawings,
 games, emoji interviews and selfie reels. The
 Catcher in the Rye it is not, but intelligent
 children are devouring it nonetheless.
 To accompany the book they have
 developed a stand-up show and are touring
 the country, filling theatres and arenas from
 Belfast to Brighton. The unlikely princes of
 new media are taking old media by storm.
 This is what has brought me to Plymouth,
 with a number of questions I want
 answered. Who are these strange internet
 geeks who are taking over the real world?
 And how on earth do they do it?
 WILD AT HEART "In real life we're likely to be watching Come Dine with Me"
 They brush off my question
 about what it feels like to
 be unlikely sex idols by
 claiming that their fans only
 fancy them "ironically"
 T
 he Dan and Phil phenomenon is
 undeniably huge, but as I arrive in
 Plymouth I'm still slightly baffled
 as to what their appeal actually is.
 I watched several of their videos
 ahead of the show. They are
 quirky and eloquent, a paean to
 internet wackiness, but they also
 come across as fairly aimless, full
 of creativity without direction and
 smile around them, but it is difficult to believe
 we are all about the same age. Spending most
 of the past decade on YouTube has given
 the internet generation would stop reading
 printed books were wrong.
 "This book appeals to all sorts," says
 Zach, 16, one of only two boys amid a sea of
 girls. "There are a lot of people I know who
 them a Peter Pan-like quality; they come
 across as a pair of overgrown teenagers.
 "Watching Dan and Phil makes me
 laugh, it makes me happy," says Shelby,
 a 16-year-old with electric-blue hair and a
 pierced septum. "They have a unique
 connection with their audience. They act
 humour without any depth.
 A typical video might see the pair
 attempt to apply make-up to one another's
 faces while wearing a blindfold. They often
 conduct "seven-second challenges",
 submitted by fans, such as "name three
 things you wouldn't have tattooed on your
 body" or "spell Christmas backwards", which really casual with you, like you're all part of
 they then have seven seconds to complete.
 At the show, I asked some of the girls
 what it is they like so much about their
 idols. The most common response was that
 they are dorky everymen with whom
 teenagers can genuinely identify. They seem
 to provide an online comfort blanket, a
 refuge from the travails of adolescence.
 I joined Dan and Phil backstage for a
 while and found them unthreatening, clean-
 cut, lovable and slightly irritating. Their
 clothes are Topman, their hairstyles both
 fiercely swept Bieber-esque fringes. Their
 humour is also similar: a fusion of millennial their own special technique for how to paint party: Smartie Artie meets Michael Mclntyre
 kookiness, "like" patois and David Brentian
 irony. They work well together, generating a
 bouncy positivity that makes it hard not to
 would never ever read a book in their life
 who have bought this. They've watched the
 YouTube videos so they know what to
 expect." Zach is in the long queue to meet
 Dan and Phil, which involves a hug with the
 pair, a quick selfie and then a furious session
 of tweeting, Instagramming and
 WhatsApping the picture to jealous friends.
 It's only when I watch the show itself
 that I understand quite what is going on
 here. The entire thing is full of in-jokes from
 their vlogs. Phil sits on a giant model lion,
 Dan on a llama. The crowd emits an ear-
 splitting shriek– apparently Dan has a thing
 for llamas. Then they start acting out
 seven-second challenges. I'm the same age
 as Phil, 28, but I have never felt more
 the same internet family." Shelby is part of
 the sprawling, multi-platform Dan and Phil
 online community. She has a special Twitter
 account that she uses to discuss their work
 with virtual fans all over the country.
 "I love Dan and Phil because I can relate
 to them," says Abby, a 14-year-old fan. “I just
 like watching them so much. They're my
 favourite YouTubers because they are more
 personal, you can relate to them more."
 Like many of the girls present, Abby has
 cat whiskers painted on her face. This is a
 Dan and Phil trademark - they demonstrate
 appallingly middle-aged. The whole event
 has the feel of a large children's birthday
 What I quickly realise is that boring
 adults aren't meant to get it. Indeed, the fact
 they don't is part of the appeal. In the >
 them in one of their videos. Almost
 everyone is clutching a copy of Dan and
 Phil's book, proof that those who thought
 THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE• 45

 same way that pop music confounded the
 eardrums of mid-20th-century parents, fans
 of Dan and Phil like the fact that this is their
 DAN AND PHIL
 world and the rest of us don't understand.
 meet Dan and Phil properly the next
 day at the offices of their publisher.
 They are 24 and 28 respectively, but
 when Dan describes my use of a pen to
 take notes as "endearing", it feels like
 ve are from different generations.
 Texplain my struggle to understand
 what it is they actually do on YouTube.
 "There is a whole fanbase out
 there that is specifically
 passionate about me and Phil
 and what we stand for"
 Dan smiles knowingly. “Nobody
 specifically passionate about me and Phil
 and what we stand for," he says.
 understands what YouTube is vet.
 especially in the British media and public,"
 represent the people who aren't cool," says
 Dan. "We are nerds. We are losers. People
 They are understandably coy about their like the fact that someone like them has the
 ays. "The grandma that has Facebook
 cees YouTube as this place where there are
 ints of cat videos. But really it's a Wild West
 frontier of independent creativity. For the
 frst time in the world, you don't have
 commissioning editors and channels and
 budgets. People are just independently
 doing whatever they want."
 Dan Howell, a Berkshire native, is the
 pin-up of the duo and turns up in a tight-
 itting black leather jacket and black skinny
 jeans. Phil Lester is older, a “YouTube
 dinosaur". He started on the website in the
 far-distant days of 2006 and was already a
 regular vlogger when Dan messaged him
 five years ago to ask for help with his own
 video ambitions. Both were living in
 Manchester at the time: Phil with his
 parents, having just finished a master's in
 video postproduction, and Dan in his first
 year studying law at Manchester University.
 "I wasn't making videos to get an
 audience," says Phil. "I just saw it was a cool
 thing that other people were doing. I was just
 going to talk about my day and whack it on
 there. It took a year to get 100 subscribers."
 "Everybody who is at a big place these
 days has been growing their channel for
 years," says Dan, who describes his early
 YouTubing as a "creative hobby with no
 goal in sight", and claims success came to
 him pretty much by accident.
 Things moved faster once the pair began
 collaborating regularly. Dan dropped out of
 university and the pair gave themselves a
 year to see if they could make a living out of
 YouTube. In 2013 Radio 1 brought them in to
 appeal to younger listeners and they quickly
 found themselves reporting from the Brit
 Awards - but YouTube has remained their
 main focus until the recent book and tour.
 "I like the book because it's a physical copy
 of everything we've done on YouTube," says
 Phil. "If we die in a meteor strike in 50 years,
 it will still exist."
 Phil may have started off as the master
 earnings, but it's clear they haven't looked
 back from their decision to try to make a
 living off YouTube. Estimates put Dan's
 wealth at £2m. Their main source of
 YouTube income is simply from the
 advertising on their videos – but sometimes
 they also produce sponsored content.
 This got them in trouble with the
 Advertising Standards Agency (ASA)
 recently, when it was decided they hadn't
 made it clear to viewers that an Oreo
 audacity to put themselves out there. We
 spend all our time inside reading Harry
 Potter and playing video games. We're the
 faces of the losers at school. That's why Dan
 and Phil are different to other people, who
 look perfect, who are mainstream, with the
 perfect teeth and the perfect hair."
 They may share much of their lives with
 millions of followers, but the rest is strictly
 cordoned off. They live together in a flat in
 London, but won't say where. They brush off
 my question about what it feels like to be
 unlikely sex idols by claiming that their fans
 only fancy them "ironically". I ask Dan what
 biscuit-licking competition was paid for by
 the brand. The ads were banned. Dan and
 Phil's friendliness recedes for a moment
 when I bring it up. "Oh, for God's sake." savs
 Dan. “Was there a controversy? It was another
 element of misunderstanding, I think."
 “There was no controversy because
 there were no guidelines in place," says Phil.
 "This was just the ASA deciding what the
 rules should be. Everyone was, like,
 "Great, now we know what to do."
 "What we're annoyed by is that people
 think there was an incident, but the story
 was that nobody did anything wrong," adds
 Dan. "The ASA were deciding what the rules
 are, which is a good and necessary thing."
 Has the bruising episode put them off
 doing sponsored content? "I'm in the quite
 lucky position where I don't have to do a lot
 of sponsored content to support myself,"
 says Dan. "I can take an opportunity if, for
 whatever reason, I want to. But there are
 he thinks about the persistent rumours that
 he is gay. He references the actor Tom
 Hardy's plea for privacy over the same issue.
 "We don't talk about our private lives in any
 way," he says. “Creatively, we want to be
 apart from the people who are reality stars.
 We don't want to be some Kardashian."
 "In real life, we are more likely to be
 playing video games or watching Come Dine
 with Me than going to nightclubs, and they
 [the fans] know that," adds Phil.
 The pair are enjoying their tour, not least
 because they "don't usually spend much
 time outdoors". Next up they plan to take it
 to Rio, Manila, Jakarta and America, where
 their biggest fanbase resides. But what does
 the future look like? Aren't they getting a bit
 old for larking about on YouTube? I find it
 hard to believe that these intelligent grown
 men aren't starting to find it odd playing
 entertainer to young teenage children.
 "Never underestimate the intelligence of
 a 12-year-old," says Dan, who claims that he
 doesn't dumb down his content for younger
 followers. "I'm having such a good time
 right now," says Phil. "The exciting thing is,
 no one knows what the future [for YouTubers]
 is going to be. We're the first ones, we're like
 the test subjects, to see what happens."
 "Everything is brand new," adds Dan.
 "Are the YouTubers going to jump on to TV?
 Is TV going to implode into nothingness?
 creators out there who literally survive off
 sponsored content. So I think it's necessary."
 YouTube is making them rich, but what
 do they say to people who find their work
 entertaining, but ultimately a bit pointless?
 "It's just wrong," says Dan. "It's completely
 wrong. It's understandable, people haven't
 had that much exposure to YouTube. The
 reason people like me is because I open up
 about my opinion and my thoughts on
 everything, from existentialism to whether
 or not it's right to keep hamsters in cages."
 "Even in our videos, we have fun in
 some, but others have advice and messages,"
 Literally, nobody knows. We're in a great
 position, so we are going with the
 flow. Confidently." I
 The Amazing Book Is Not on Fire (Ebury
 Press £16.99) is out now. To buy it for
 £14.99, inc p&p, call 0845 271 2135 or visit
 thesundaytimes.co.uk/bookshop
 and Dan the apprentice, but in interviews, at says Phil. "A lot of it is reflecting what life is
 least, it appears that Dan is in charge as he
 ends up fielding almost every question,
 brimming with an almost arrogant
 ebullience about their achievements.
 "There is a whole fanbase out there that is
 like in school, or when starting university.
 That kind of thing, coming from someone
 who has experienced it, can help people."
 I wonder what their own explanation is
 for their seemingly insatiable appeal? "We
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