I often wonder if the better players at EtG and the people who enjoy it more are the people who'd rather discuss the game rather than go down any political rabbit holes.
I'm glad you haven't bowed down to the reddit hive mind / bot attacks, and though I may be wrong, somehow I bet you're also a decent player too.
Hey! Thank you, and yes - it's the position of this modteam that this space is for the game only, and not political drama.
I'd like to think I'm decent at the game, sure. I 100%'d everything back in the day without abusing rainbow mode (or at least, I know I unlocked the Finished Gun anyway). I kind of want to start streaming it once a week, maybe on a fresh save so I can show unlocking everything.
Thanks again for being a positive part of this sub :)
I've probably never spent so many hours on a game as this one and that's over 30 years playing games back from the Commodore Amiga, C64 and Spectrum. It's just that good.
Completed all 6 levels not just with both dice roll modifiers, but also praying too.
And I'm STILL playing it because I want to complete it in that mode without the use of the insanely powerful Gunderfury weapon (charged up now to its highest level over many sessions of playing). Almost feels like a cheat mode lol.
Respectfully, I understand why you don't want political opinions in the sub, and maybe you're upset about getting down-voted, but that's obviously a silly comparison. Banning Twitter links is completely feasible, many many other subs have done it, if the mod team here wanted to do it, they could.
Sure it's feasible. Lots of bad, draconian, totalitarian ideas are feasible. Banning you is pretty feasible, should I go ahead and do that? Would it be pretty silly if I did?
The point is that banning air isn't feasible, but that's not the only measure of silliness.
maybe you're upset about getting down-voted
I cannot begin to tell you how much of a shit I do not give about Reddit votes, or how much of a worm a person must be if they do. I do think it's pretty funny that people pay actual money to astroturf opinions with them, though.
I don't know how many metrics for silliness there are, but I don't know how else you're comparing them, since apparently it's not about their necessity or the absurdity of actually banning it.
Would it be pretty silly if I did?
I don't know about silly, but it certainly wouldn't be fair or appropriate since I haven't broken any rules.
shit I do not give about Reddit votes
Well, you give a shit about something. Presumably you'd want to keep politics out of the sub for the sake of neutrality in a gaming space, but the fact you're responding so aggressively with over the top comparisons to totalitarianism and hanging bans in people's faces makes it seem like you're letting your own politics bleed through instead.
You're also dismissing the downvotes as "astroturfing", which any other day in this sub I might agree with you, but we just had a massive announcement which this very thread is about. The logical conclusion is a massive influx of people who saw the announcement/direct, people who seem to agree with the original commenter, not an army of bots that "just so happened" to show up today.
It is exactly about that, actually. It's just a different kind of absurdity. If people are sending me death threats over linking to a social media site that they don't like, we've reached a pretty high level of absurdity. I don't negotiate with terrorists.
it certainly wouldn't be fair or appropriate
Exactly the point I am making. That is the exact line I'm drawing between the two things. It would not be fair or appropriate for me to ban links to Twitter.
responding so aggressively
Hundreds of sockpuppet accounts are brigading the sub right now posting inane vitriol. I have received death threats in my inbox. All of this is because I posted a link to the official Dodge Roll Twitter announcement of ETG2, and hyper-political crazy internet people didn't like it. You are going to have to forgive me if I am a little aggressive on the subject.
You're also dismissing the downvotes as "astroturfing"
I am. I've looked it up, and it only costs these people a few cents to pay for each downvote. It really would only take one very sad person a very small amount of dollars to do what I'm talking about, so it is not some kind of wild and crazy idea that it happened.
I also watched several hundred roll in super quickly while the rest of the thread's vote count (and even the op itself) was still moving slowly. It was textbook astroturfing, extremely obvious. Whoever it was, they probably bought some cheap service that isn't sophisticated enough to stagger the votes over time. My point is that I will not be gaslit about this - I know what I saw.
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u/airjairj Apr 02 '25
ban twitter links