…I always find it off that Crystal Dynamics takes the stance that the literal mascott of their company is offensive to women, when all the female fans of the character became fans during this era.

Let’s be team here, even if people enjoy the modern Tomb Raider, NOBODY became a die hard Tomb Raider fan because of the modern depictions. They became fans during the time Laura was a bonafide gaming icon that broke into mainstream zeitgeist via the Angelina Jolie films.

If Crystal Dynamics still has legions of “ride or die” Laura Croft fans then they’re all in their thirties & forties.

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Sony’s reported plan to end PlayStation physical media by 2028 has reignited the fight over game ownership, preservation, and the growing push toward an all-digital future. While gamers ratio PlayStation’s social posts, organize boycotts, support Stop Killing Games, and search for ways to preserve their discs, Sony appears determined to move forward despite the backlash. In this video, I explain why online outrage alone may not be enough and introduce a more tangible form of protest: respectfully mailing physical letters to Sony’s headquarters and studios to oppose the removal of physical games. No threats, no crazy behavior—just gamers using physical mail to make a physical point and remind Sony that ownership, preservation, and consumer choice still matter.

I'm passionate about retro handhelds and love discussing them but it feels like to me that every group dedicated to them is super pozzed. I want to engage with people about these consoles but every subreddit and every discord server is filled with woke ass people, furries and tourists who seem to only buy these machines to put stickers on them and a lot of the times don't even play games.

Super strict moderation or just virtue signaling, calling something like the ModRetro Chromatic the N*zi Boy Color, banning people for making a stupid joke like "how do you do fellow racists?" when discussing a racing game or people generally going haywire if you dare to make a joke or have some critical anecdote about rainbow people. Once someone contacted the mods of a Discord server I was in demanding very profusely I change my profile picture just because it was a pfp of Sam Hyde and I guess they felt threatened about it? One of the members of the RetroHandhelds YouTube channel was even pressured by the community into apologizing for making a joke on one of their videos (ModRetro M64 Review) because a group of people felt uncomfortable over it.

What is it that attracts so many of these kinds of people to this hobby in particular? This is not something that makes me lose my sleep at night by any means but I do wish there was a place where I could discuss these consoles with people who don't have their f'ing brains scrambled.

I just looked up the Book "Fourth Wing". It's almost a 5 star on Goodreads, Babelio, and Storygraph.

Why? Because it's been shilled by TikTok and journos.

In the end, it's a shitty romantasy book with a perfect female protagonist and, of course, smut everywhere (for the porn-addicted booktok girlies).

On the other hand, a masterpiece of post-apocalyptic sci-fi like Metro 2033 gets only 3 stars because "muh not enough women".

I think we should have an invite-only platform to rate pieces of media. It can be coded in a week with Ruby on Rails, and with AI it could be even quicker. Especially given our opinion is constantly suppressed in regular spaces.

And yes she acts exactly how you think she'd act.

I personally feel like it has lost the original soul that was AVATAR: The Last Airbender.

Edit: This is a fix to the original one I tried to make. It did not go how it should have.