This is not something I see here on lemmygrad. In fact, lemmygrad does an excellent job of this and challenges ableist language I sometimes use.
However, this is the only place I know that is willing to stay tough on problematic language and terminology.
As I’m sure you know, the 90’s and 00’s was a time when the “F” slur was common. You heard or said “thats gay” 95 times a minute. The “R” slur was about as common.
Then, somewhat suddenly, this language began to die down. Over the years it became more and more rare to hear. I think this is because people wanted to be more respectful, or, at least that’s why I also decided to be more intentional about these matters.
But this is changing. The last few years I’ve seen people double down on the R slur. I am somewhat unsurprised, afterall, the R word was not rejected as aggressively as the F slur or the “thats gay” comment. I am convinced most people around me are closeted eugenicists emboldened by the extreme ableism baked into their emerging fascist identities.
But now I am seeing people defend how they use gay as an insult as well. I find this to be terrifying. I don’t understand how any conscientious person could shamelessly use such language.
For those of you that have decided its ok to use such language. Thank you. I am working overtime trying to find out who exactly will be comfortable killing disabled people and queer people. You make my life easier. I will trust my gut about you in these times and treat you as the enemy you are.
How did Hades II turn out? I didn’t enjoy the gameplay in Hades I as much as most of the public, but I kept playing for the character development alone. Now I wonder if I should put Hades II in my backlog. Next year I’ll have time to play games again, hopefully :)
I think it’s incredible, but I am not exactly the most unbiased reviewer given my stats:
I think it’s overall tuned a little easier than Hades 1. There are a lot of extremely busted god and weapon combos that are easy to set up, and practically melt bosses. For example, Zeus on the torches’ primary attack with Hestia as a second god, you can create a one-button feedback loop where Zeus’ Blitz keeps triggering itself, and stacking Hestia’s Scorch every time it happens. Then you can stack up some other boons where it starts chaining around to other baddies, and it gets pretty nuts pretty fast.
Damn that’s a lot of playtime, the only roguelike I have this much time in is Isaac. Your description sounds super cool tho, I really want to get Hades 2, but I got a few things left to do in Hades 1 that I want to do first. The only negative thing I heard about Hades 2 is the ending, is it actually bad or are people overreacting? I didn’t see exactly what is the issue since I don’t want to spoil myself, but it’s a recurrent complain I have been seeing.
It’s not a grand slam like Hades’ ending, but it’s fine. In both cases, the journey was better than the destination, anyway.