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@matrix Alternative viewpoint: a society that wants to survive is doing nothing wrong in being "ableist" and expecting able bodies from its group members.
lol the kotaku review for ancestors is basically: wow i can't believe this game is so punishing and i have to learn everything myself i had to restart the game 3 times because theres no faqs but at least you won't have to since it'll be out and not prerelease!!!

i played through this game blind for like 30 hours, and yes admittedly the game gets pretty grindy after the 20th hour because the rate of progress starts to slow as you get closer to the end, it becomes a lot harder to level up skills because things like walking upright and going from prey to killing sabertooth tigers takes a lot of time and it can start to wear you down a bit but if you focus on exploring and seeing new things and going for evolution feats instead of things like leveling up neurons it's pretty good at mitigating the tedium

but really, restart 3 times? that's your own fault then, he didnt even manage to beat the game either

i've lost like 8 people before because of a mistake (that's a fucking lot in this game, you can only have like 16 at most or something) and i came back from it in about 2 generations, if anything the game becomes tedious after 20 hours because it gets TOO easy to recover from failure because by then you're so good at dealing with hardship because if you DONT RESTART everytime you fuck up and keep going you learn more and the skill tree itself advances you so you do better next time

the best part is that the review opens with "if this is how humans started no wonder we're so messed up" like they had no concept of what actually living in nature as a prey animal is like

i know it's kotaku but for fucks sake man

"Using a bespoke methodology, the report’s authors analysed “Games of the Year and E3 standouts” and awarded points for equality-positive features, such as female protagonists, LGBTQIA+ characters, disability, and positive representations of black, Asian and minority ethnic characters."

Therefore 100% bullshit

People who kill themselves because they lose a limb don't do it because society, bottom text or because of internalized ableism.

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Just because something is a natural occurrence doesn't make it not a problem.

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“This notion that people with disabilities are broken and need to be fixed – a concept known as the medical model of disability – was rejected and abandoned in the 1970s, yet still persists in media and in games, often through the trope of medical conditions being replaced by superhuman powers or superhuman prosthetics,” added accessibility expert Ian Hamilton. “Moreover, games are often guilty of furthering the myth that a disability is rare, with all the impact that has on broader prejudice and discrimination.”

Is this retard absolutely fucking retarded?
Yes. Most disabilities are a medical problem and fixing it will improve the person's life.
I would absolutely love some high tech prosthetics with weapons built in.

So apparently some people still think GG is going to shoot up a place or something

So from the reviews of Final Fantasy VIII Remaster, it looks like you're better off just emulating the original.

"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary." - Karl Marx

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