It sure feels impossible to have an honest conversation about Starfield online right now.

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    I think the ones that bother me more are the ones that are rage bait for a thing that the OP hasn’t even experienced themselves. Maybe everyone else enjoys X and you find an article that summarizes your feeling on it, so you post that article and say how you share that position. That’s all well and good. But posting an article that’s angry about FFXVI’s depiction of slavery, even though OP has no first-hand experience with the game to say if the article is full of shit or not; that bugs me. I don’t know how many of the topics the OP has first-hand experience with, but I know they have none with FFXVI, and all of these articles are just designed to get people angry about something. Plenty of games have slavery in them without having to make their story about slavery being bad; we know slavery is bad. If OP has a problem with it after playing the game and that article sums up their thoughts, then it’s okay to post that article. If OP is sincerely as pissed off about every one of these things that the articles they post are pissed off about, then maybe I should block them, because they’d have to be a miserable person. We also don’t need 3 slightly updated posts about Baldur’s Gate 3’s split-screen not working on the Series S.

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      I post things that I think can get people talking and spark conversations along with things I think are interesting. I posted this, for example, because of the way it was talking about how gamers can get tribal and make it so you can’t seriously talk about a game when that happens because of how some folks lose their shit when you try.

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        It starts conversations because it’s designed to get people angry. It’s the kind of engagement-driving Twitter nonsense that the fediverse doesn’t rely on. Try shooting from the heart with your own opinion in a self post rather than just posting the most outrageous thing someone said on the internet today.

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          There’s literally no one angry in these comments except the folks complaining about this being posted. Everyone else is talking about the game.

          But you have a nice day.