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am I interpreting it properly

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[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, and even superficial scrutiny demonstrates that that's not the case.

I'm so unfathomably sick of listening to people moan and moan about soulslikes.

Yes, the fanbase is rancid. Yes, the subgenre is wildly overrepresented and trend-chasing games are often designed in a very formulaic way and are liable to suck, as always. These complaints are fair game.

But very often people go several steps further because they have so much resentment over these facts that they extend this to attacking a serviceable genre on absurd grounds and always interjecting how much they hate it and how superior they are to it in every discussion about it. I don't really care for shoot-em-ups. Do you know what I do? Move on with my fucking life instead of writing dissertations about how they are fake and evil games and dropping into every shmup conversation to tell them how much it sucks.

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