#insult simulator

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael knows FNAF Moon is a lawsuit waiting to happen

[madamscream]

So I'm used to people showing up to my dorm to fist-fight my cat, but now they're also beating up the french twink I'm holding captive.

[artvann]

i think they should be forced to get married and play house for a bit, not sure what reason the universe or divine powers would have to make them do this but they should. Gotta do the whole wedding and have rules to play by for a certain amount of time until it ends. i hate them so much (affectionate)

[gamerzylo]

[necro-acid]

quick sketch of three last games

-oh darling, what are you standing for? let's get out of here, this man is clearly mentally ill…

-WHAT'S SO WRONG WITH IT I JUST WANNA GET TO WATCH MY FUCKING TV LIKE I USED TO??!!

[crovvlipso]

Some people are straight-up being mean and rude to me in the inbox I have no idea and I don't even know who they are, is this the same person? what did I ever do to you?

[kristianwastaken]

This kid insulted one of my friends and you might be wondering that "why you're posting this" Actually, this Iranian girl told my friend that my friend's father had sex with my friend as an insult and also said that my friend's father raped my friend, she doesn't know anything about my friend's life and she is saying SUCH THINGS only because of a game called Sakura School Simulator. This shows that being a fetis among children under 18 has become very common, this is not the first time She has made such insults.

My friend and I tried to ignore her but she always insulted us like this just because we insulted her favorite game. She was normalizing family sex and rape. please, How to get rid of her?

Translation first image: haha is your dad f-u-cking you that you are moaning? hahaha

Translation second image: look i am not the one that's having sex with my family, you are and And I only brought it to you, was it so hard that your dad raped you? aww

[indiegamesource]

Oh... Sir!! The Insult Simulator + Beginner Playable Characters

[annieisyourfavourite]

today might be the day i've been the most uncomfortable and upset at treatment from the trainees, even tho it's not even by far the worst stuff they've said

a man was cutting me off and acting in an accusatory fashion because i was acting tired and "your eyes look droopy". Which, people sometimes question my tired demeanor, but not usually so insultingly and aggressively. And then in the notes after, he said if he was in charge, he would have ordered a urinary test for drugs or medication by the end of the day. Based on meeting me for 15 minutes. And because I was tired at 8:30 in the morning.

Like. Not even close to the most egregious shit someone has said to me in character. But to have him in the debrief be even LESS compassionate and more suspicious of my "abnormalities", even taking into account that I got annoyed at him for asking. Like I'm playing a traumatized person for the scenario. And I, the actor, have many different disabilities related around fatigue. So the fact that he wasn't even listening to me, and couldn't FATHOM any reason why the human being in front of him would be tired and a little slow in the morning.

And then even after explaining that, another woman noted that I had both a coffee cup and a water bottle, and was suspicious as to why I had both, or why I coughed a couple times. And that made me mad enough to log off. I left for lunch after reminding them that the actress in front of them was obviously also a human being with needs, who had been having interviews for almost an hour straight. So I just needed water. Like not everything that someone in CPS does is suspicious!!!!!!

And it's hard, normally I wouldn't log off bc I was mad. But like. I just simply couldn't take it anymore. Like the disrespect of me, the actress, as a person, was so gross. And the inherent suspicion that someone who is tired or speaking slowly or drinking different beverages MUST be hiding something Bad is just. Blech. Usually the interviewers aren't like this but it just felt very ableist and personally dehumanizing

[thecittiverse]

After Midori accidently spills the beans on Yandere-chan's latest scheme, Kokona tries to give Kizana a heads up in Dank Midori #213.

Kizana's a real meanie! No wonder her appearances in this comic are rare!

I do not own Yandere Simulator, this is only a fan parody.

Like Dank Midori? Read 'em all here!

[meezer]

4 minutes of research later I have to say she's right

[emeraldart]

I’m bored so. Ranting about obscure Pizzeria Sim details under the cut ^^

Lefty does not come with the restaurant. Why doesn’t she??? She gives you the most money if you salvage her, she’s only five bucks, it’s like Henry’s going pspspsps look at what a good deal this one is. Dude. Just make her included with the restaurant. Or better yet, burn the Puppet and THEN do your shit. Like what was the point. Is he just a drama king.

I mean, animatronics CAN come with the restaurant. Look at Helpy. Lefty continues to confuse me (and that’s not even covering that Lefty is probably a torture device, yippee).

Henry puts his diary in a BUYABLE item (Egg Baby) but fucking. Lobotomizes you if you find it? What was your plan there, buddy?

He needed an employee for this but, was just gonna find some guy off the street. What if they died night two. What then.

The office design, not including the drawings, makes me want to kill myself. That might be the point. Shit.

Crack theory that the pickles are psychological torture. Why are they the only thing that gives you happiness but the hardest item to get. Are we here only just to suffer. Is this, too, like the office meant to get me to want to kill myself.

Why is Lefty an enemy anyway? Henry can shock the Puppet via Lefty to keep her docile. And she’s MEANT to be more aware than the others. (Yes, she is an antagonist in FNAF 2, but this was before Charlie was retconned to be the Puppet, and it was some boy) Is she just attacking for fun? Like she thinks it’s a game? Is Henry sending her after you to keep you awake? For enrichment?

Can I befriend her? Can we kill her dad together? Peace and love on the planet earth.

Kinda curious about the experiences of the early players who hadn’t read the books. Were they just like who the fuck is this guy and his daughter.

Scraptrap, known for making fun of angsty teens (see Handunit), acts like an angsty teen. That’s kinda funny actually. What is wrong with him.

RIP Michael Afton you would’ve loved Our Flag Means Death

Thats simply a vibe I get but I stand by it

[dalishious]

The Sanitized Lore of Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Tevinter is the heart of slavery in Thedas. This lore has been established in every game, novel, comic, and other extended material in the Dragon Age franchise to date that so much as mentions the nation. But in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, when we are finally able to actually visit this location for the first time… this rampant slavery we’ve heard so much about is nowhere to be found. It’s talked about here and there; Neve mentions The Viper has a history of freeing slaves, as does Rook themselves if they choose the Shadow Dragon faction as their origin, for example. But walking down the streets of Minrathous, you’d never know. Because Dragon Age: The Veilguard, for all its enjoyment otherwise, has one glaring issue: It’s too clean.

The world of Thedas is full of injustices. Humans persecute elves, fear qunari, and belittle dwarves. Mages of any race are treated like caged animals in most places. The nobility is corrupt. Although, Dragon Age has not always handled these injustices well, mind you. Many, many times I’ve found myself frustrated with moments that just feel like a Racism Simulator. But what makes it worth it, is when you can actually do something about it. These injustices are things that a good-aligned character strives to fight back against, maybe even for very personal reasons. Part of the power-fantasy for many minorities is that this fight feels tangible. I cannot arrange the assassination of a corrupt politician in real life, but I sure can get Celene Valmont stabbed to death in Dragon Age: Inquisition, for example. Additionally, these fictional injustices can be used to make statements on real life parallels, like any source of media. For example, no, the Chant of Light is not real, but acting as a stand-in for Catholicism, through a media analysis lens we can explore what the Chant of Light communicates on a figurative level.

When starting Dragon Age: The Veilguard and selecting to play as an elf – this should be unsurprising to anyone who is familiar with my bias towards them – I was fully prepared to enter the streets of Minrathous and immediately get called “knife-ear” or “rabbit”. But this did not happen. I thought perhaps it was just a prologue thing, but returning to Minrathous once again, there was not a single shred of disapproval from any NPC I encountered that wasn’t a generic enemy to fight. And even the generic enemies, the Tevinter Nationalist cult of the Venatori, didn’t seem to care at all that I was a lineage they deemed inferior before now. This is a stark difference from entering the Winter Palace in Dragon Age: Inquisition and immediately getting hit with court disapproval and insults. Are we now to believe that Tevinter has somehow solved its astronomical racism and classism problems in the ten years since the past game? Or perhaps are we to believe all the characters who have demonstrated Tevinter’s systemic discriminatory views were just lying or outliers? Because it makes absolutely no sense at all for this horribly corrupt nation to not have a shred of reactivity to an elven or qunari Rook prancing around. But here were are, and not a single NPC even recognizes my character’s lineage. And because this is so different from every single past game, it feels weird.

As an elf, you have the option to make a comment about how “too many humans look down on us” in one scene early in the game. You can also talk to Bellara and Davrin, the elven companions, about concerns that people won’t trust elves after finding out about the big bad Ancient Evanuris… but this is presented as if elves don’t already face persecution. It’s all so limited in scope that it could be all too easily missed if you are not paying very close attention, and coming into the game with pre-existing lore knowledge.

All this made it easy to first assume that the developers simply over-corrected an attempt to address the Racism Simulator moments. And if that was the case, than I would at least give credit to effort; they did not find the right balance, but they at least tried. However, the sudden lack of discrimination against different lineages in Dragon Age: The Veilguard is not the only sanitized example of lore present.

In Dragon Age: Origins, Zevran Arainai is a companion who is from the Antivan Crows; a group of assassins. He discusses in detail how the Crows buy children and raise them into murder machines through all kinds of torture. The World of Thedas books also describe how the Antivan Crows work, echoing what Zevran says and expanding that of the recruitment, only a select handful of those taken by the Crows even survive. When you start Dragon Age: The Veilguard as an Antivan Crow, you immediately unlock a re-used codex entry from the past, “The Crows and Queen Madrigal”, that says the following:

“His guild has a reputation to uphold. They are ruthless, efficient, and discreet. How would they maintain such notoriety if agents routinely revealed the names of employers with something as "banal" as torture.”

Ruthless, efficient, and discreet. Torture is banal. This is what the Crows were before Dragon Age: The Veilguard decided to take them in a very different direction. The Antivan Crows in this latest game are painted as freedom fighters against the Antaam occupation of Treviso. Teia calls the Crows “patriots”. And while I can certainly believe that the Crows would have enough motivation to fight back against the Antaam, given that it is in direct opposition to their own goals, I cannot understand why they are suddenly suggested to be morally good. They are assassins. They treat their people like tools and murder for money. Even as recent as the Tevinter Nights story Eight Little Talons, it is addressed that the Antivan Crows are in it for the coin and power, with characters like Teia being outliers for wanting to change that. It makes the use of the older codex all the more confusing, as it sets the Antivan Crows up as something they are no longer portrayed as.

I personally think it would have been really interesting to explore a morally corrupt faction in comparison to say, the Shadow Dragons. Perhaps even as a protagonist, address things like the enslavement of “recruits” to make the faction at least somewhat better. (They are still assassins, after all.) Instead, we’re just supposed to ignore everything unsavory about them, I suppose…

We could discuss even further examples. Like how the Lords of Fortune pillage ruins but it’s okay, because they never sell artifacts of cultural importance, supposedly. Or how the only problem with the Templar Order in Tevinter is just the “bad apples” that work with Venatori. I could go on, but I don’t think I have to.

It is because of all this sanitization, that I cannot believe this was simply over-correction on a developmental part. Especially when there is still racism in the game, in other forms. The impression I’m left with feels far deeper than that; it feels corporate. As if a computer ran through the game’s script and got rid of anything with “too much” political substance. The strongest statements are hidden in codex entries, and I almost suspect they had to be snuck in.

Between a Racism Simulator and just ignoring anything bad whatsoever, I believe a balance is achievable; that sweet spot that actually has something to say about what it is presenting. I know it is achievable, because there are a few bright spots of this that I’ve encountered in Dragon Age: The Veilguard too. For example, some of the codex entries like I mentioned, and almost all the content with the Grey Wardens thus far. It is a shame there is not more content on this level.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is overall still a fun game, in my opinion. But it’s hard to argue that it isn’t missing the grit of its predecessors. The sharp edges have been smoothed. The claws have been removed. The house has been baby-proofed. And for what purpose?

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[gamerzylo]

[computerpeople]

because if theres one thing my dad taught me is that men like him don't care about an argument. they care about winning. they care about how it effects their status, their looks, their smarts, how other men would feel reading those arguments. no matter how many times they say they care about facts and logic, they don't. they don't care how factual and logical they are because if you do that they'll try to appeal to emotion, and then it just becomes a back and forth of bad faith arguments until you're exhausted. you HAVE to stoop to their level. every time i won an argument with my dad it'd be like i state my fact and then i make fun of his side of the argument until he decides he'd rather blow his brains out then keep talking about it. it works

[multifandombullshitbabes]

hangman being seen as being selfish and cocky and like he thinks he can do everything by himself when in truth he's much more caring than he wants to seem as. like this scene here is a competition. they need to be the best and hangman wants to be on this mission. but he also knows phoenix wants it to and he respects her A LOT. so he "betrays" her right here to ensure not only his spot on the team later on, but i also think he knows he has a role to play. the role of that guy everyone hates but is actually good, so u bet ur ass we're gonna prove we're just as good as you to shut u up.

and he WANTS that!!! i am a firm believer that jake goes on his own all the time and leaves his wingman etc. because he knows the missions they go to are dangerous. and he much rather make a mistake on his own and own up to it then to have his squad make the mistakes.

he and javy seem very close so i think javy is the only person jake would ever let himself fight alongside. because if jake gets into shit then at least it doesnt involve anyone else.

so he plays up this selfish cocky facade in a way to make sure he gets to complete his missions with whatever he needs to do to complete them and make sure the minimum amount of ppl get hurt.

its not rly he doesnt trust his team. he just knows that life is unpredictable. if he gets as much of the unpredictable variables out of the way, he can finish the job quicker and thats done.

i also feel like he knew in some way he wasnt gonna be team leader. he did assume he'd be on the team but i think he knew he wasnt getting that spot. he just said all that to rile ppl up. he just assumes its much easier for ppl to spite him and go on their own way, away from him, than it is to let himself into a group where they most likely will die.

jake is definitely a sensitive and caring character. but most of all he has the utmost respect for his fellow pilots. he just also has a role to play in this team dynamic and he does it very well

this entire scene makes me insane. the basis of hangman’s callsign is that he “hangs people out to dry.” he sells them out to save himself. by all rights every other scene up until his redemption arc shows that he’s egotistical and selfish to those who aren’t in his inner circle (ie. coyote)

but this scene. he says “i can’t shoot him without shooting you.” and then whispers an apology! like this shows us so much about who he is as a person and how the name hangman is just a callsign given to him and not who he is intrinsically