Add a virtual pet mechanic where we raise emojis and power them up via upvotes on posts using them and then battle them whenever someone initiates a battle by typing ENGAGE in a post. (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by AndJusticeForAll@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Call it a Tamemoji. It gets its own column on your profile page complete with its stats. It evolves digi-like across emojis sharing keywords. Not sure how we'd tier them though.

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[-] AndJusticeForAll@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The tiers would be:

egg
baby leftist
radlib
socialist
ultra leftist
news mega poster

[-] AndJusticeForAll@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Would also have a rock-paper-scissors type attributes like Digimon has with that adds 10% effectiveness sometimes.

Each emoji would be tagged with either advanced marxist [AM] -> progressive lib [PL] -> regressive reactionary [RR] (-> advanced marxist) (not sure the order or the names).
With "apolitical" (always in scare quotes) being a free type that doesn't interact with the other 3 this way.

COuld literally just use the Digimon system of Vaccine -> Virus -> Data( -> Vaccine) and Free instead maybe. Can't think of an equivalent.

Or maybe Thesis (more liberal/neutral emojis) -> Antithesis (more straight-up reactionary emojis) -> synthesis (more marxist emojis).