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marvel rivals is probably the ugliest game of all time. something deeply upsetting about the disney approved porn brained yet completely sexless ken doll aesthetic. nasty vibes. especially when anyone actually making games genuinely about sex is being debanked and banned

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Also one of the ugliest names of all time

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I have no strong opinion on Marvel Rivals as a game, but I hate it passionately as one of the worst possible combinations of syllables in the English language

installed it for two days and was stunned by how many menus for gambling and mtx for hideous skins you had to get through to find the also terrible game. it feels like an unabashed brain rot machine that doubles as a radicalization tool

I stopped playing pretty quickly when i realized mobas are bad but yeah, the way they pumped out a million paid skins for the pop idol character originally created for a marvel phone game was pretty telling

Marvel Tokon feels like such a stark contrast! All the characters look great and have unique takes to them. Penny in particular is a huge improvement, correct me if I’m wrong but before rivals she’s pretty much never worn a plug suit?

saw they're in hot shit right now for not giving storm's signature skin any of the usual bonus animations that all the identical white women get and it was like. well yeah. least surprising controversy of all time you gotta admit

whenever I remember they married her and t'challa at one point I start grasping my head. it's a horrible idea and extremely racist and also completely out of character for her. She is married to the most normal and boring guy ever and her favorite part of the day is listening to his work drama

Meanwhile Paladins is over there being the actual best hero shooter and you can play a giant turtle man with a hook shot shooting people in the face while being healed by an ent who throws axes while a dragon with a jet pack fires rockets at you.

i watched someone play genshin for the first time earlier this year, and being forced to confront the fact that this game where players gamble for women with lovingly modeled and animated cleavage is also clearly designed and written for ten year olds convinced me the entire industry is irredeemable

we live in a weird era where actual porn is more forbidden than ever, with even a ton of young people hating it, but "99% of the way to porn" is completely tolerated and mainstream 1 cm of covered skin is the difference between "banned from this site" and "you can sell this to a 12 year old"

Co-signed. All the crass, badly done T&A* (of both the cheese & beef variety) of Marvel Rivals finally drove me to reinstall Overwatch, which I had quit playing when OW2 came out. I relaunched OW & was like “oh look, people wth cool outfits!” *I LIKE T&A, they managed to make me NOT like it.

Terrible to look at. The only thing worse is the character portraits for league of legends. All the soft edges and lighting make them look like thomas kinkade for nerds.

There’s some post about Rivals that goes like “the final form of pop culture under capitalism is caked up squirrel girl running around semi futuristic not-Korea”

Shit like this is I think a large part of the reason this weird backlash to sex is happening. The huge amount of utterly cynically deployed corporate sexuality that's primarily for the purpose of getting teenage boys to spend spend spend

I feel like when that's the main form of acceptable sexuality presented to people, often they reject it in favor of just keeping sex private, where it still can have some humanity left in it. And people are so inundated by it they're getting to where they don't trust any sex in anything to not just