River Of Slime |OT| Mission: Impossible

[samir]

roid's hog is huge, lemme tell ya

[TVC15]

does reeeee know how big roit's hog is? 

riot has a hog on him? He looks really white, though. What is he? How big are we talking? Is there finally a new Big Dick Daddy in town?

[shosta]

he's got a nine iron

[team filler]

he's got that white chocolate BBC 

[samir]

joker's roid's trick 
 

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[benjipwns]

thread stickied but still...

The staff response to that thread made me feel more unsafe here than ever. I'm so sick of lip service.

I'm noticing more and more that a growing percentage of this forum values polite but offensive discourse ("I'm not transphobic, but I think there are only two genders") over impolite but necessary discourse ("what you're saying invalidates my very being so you can just fuck off"). There's just no part of me that is on board with this, and I think that one way in which we can do better is to get more vociferous at pointing out that sometimes it is right to be angry and that a reaction is not lesser simply because it is emotional.

It is truly such a shame how the trans concern thread went, I haven't been here as long as many here but it really sucks that someone who clearly helped so many on this forum got banned. I really hope that Era in general, both mods and the community as a whole, step up and do better cause it sucks seeing that trans people aren't able to have this forum be a safe place for them to just be themselves

Love seeing the outpouring of support with the changes of avatars, and it's good to see it being done for someone who was doing the opposite of dismissing concerns of transphobia in the community this time

I'm sorry that you have to put up with so many terrible people, and that this community has been failing you.

I really think the mods will be better ( ex/ the bans today in the South Park thread were handed out swiftly) from this point on and I know for a fact there are plenty of members here that are not gonna take any Transphobic bullshit from people and will always have your back.

I don't know what I'm allowed to talk about without catching a ban but Ket's my girlfriend and I did not divulge any personal information from the discords I had access to during my tenure as a mod.

I haven't received any substantial proof that Ket did or did not access my discord account during that time without my consent so I'm naturally choosing to believe my girlfriend, if that clears anything up.

I still have many friends on the mod staff and I find this all rather uncomfortable. It's been fun seeing my credibility ripped to shreds overnight.

Trans lesbian reporting in.

As a word of wisdom, be careful about divulging remotely personal information. We do have hateful eyes watching us from the shadows.

[Potato]

Have you ever seen a community of people that whine so fucking much? They have almost single-handedly turned REEEsetera into the toxic fucking trashfire that it is, yet they are the ones complaining about being hard done by? Fuck me that's rich.

Hey you arseholes, criticism of your view and debate about your crazy dogma does not equal phobia. You're fucking fundamentalists and like all fundamentalists, you're fucking mental.

[benjipwns]

All they're asking is that the staff actually does something to make them feel safe. The staff does that for white cishet posters all the time, then turns around and out of nowhere bans one of the most important mental health voices on the planet.

How can anyone ever feel safe on a forum where the moderators act in such an unpredictable and unclear way while seemingly having an agenda?

[benjipwns]

I recently joked about Hobbes getting a ban but otherwise I don’t think I’ve ever interacted with the guy lol

You shouldn't be surprised you're on blocklists, you post on a well known hate site. Also, you post on The Bire.

[TVC15]

I recently joked about Hobbes getting a ban but otherwise I don’t think I’ve ever interacted with the guy lol

You shouldn't be surprised you're on blocklists, you post on a well known hate site. Also, you post on The Bire.

codename: Big Dickdaddy

[ResetBanBot]

I like how Robin is just outright saying she's under threat of being banned for being transparent. Not even a mod anymore. So much backroom drama for a site founded on ideals of moderation transparency.

People know how certain users can just puppet the mods, but now we have those certain users gaining backdoor moderation access. These are the same people who cry about e-celebs flirting to fans, but meanwhile their mods are openly fucking users while exchanging favors.

[Potato]

Meanwhile, at NaziGAF...

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/october-2019-npd-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-takes-the-top-spot-overall-luigis-mansion-3-is-the-best-seller-on-switch.1511053/#post-255939835

Nintendo Switch

• Luigi's Mansion 3*
• Ring Fit Adventure
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening*
• Mario Kart 8*
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate*
• Overwatch
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild*
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt*
• Super Mario Maker 2*
• New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe*

The Witcher 3 and Overwatch being behind 2 1/2 year old games; so sad.

They breed 'em smart in those Aryan race training camps, huh?

[Pissy F Benny]

I’d have thought they’d hate overwatch there   

[BisMarckie]

I no longer feel safe on the Bire.
I wake up in tears every morning checking my putrid like count.
Like my posts or my blood will be on your hands!

edit: die cis scum

[Transhuman]

I'm sorry to hear that Markie.

[BIONIC]

I no longer feel safe on the Bire.
I wake up in tears every morning checking my putrid like count.
Like my posts or my blood will be on your hands!

edit: die cis scum

Shut up KennyLoggins.

Yeah I’m deadnaming you, bitch

[BrokenEchelon]

Zwarte Piet time! Let's get outraged over soot so we can virtue signal bebe.

[Lonewulfeus]

Zwarte Piet time! Let's get outraged over soot so we can virtue signal bebe.

It’s only November

[Don Rumata]

Zwarte Piet time! Let's get outraged over soot so we can virtue signal bebe.

I just feel compelled to hate on the Dutch, because of Bore's peer pressure. 

[Lonewulfeus]

Zwarte Piet time! Let's get outraged over soot so we can virtue signal bebe.

I just feel compelled to hate on the Dutch, because of Bore's peer pressure. 

Stop with the bore on boer crime 

[CHOW CHOW]

This has been the best 36 hours of my life.  I had lost hope thinking we’d peaked with the Cyberpunk 2077 trans apocalypse, that we’d never reach that pinnacle again, but here we are.  God is good.

[KarpalaJoe]

TIl Benji read Kiwifarms  Hatecrime, watch your bake brother.

[Tripon]

This has been the best 36 hours of my life.  I had lost hope thinking we’d peaked with the Cyberpunk 2077 trans apocalypse, that we’d never reach that pinnacle again, but here we are.  God is good.

And we're here because Ree banned protected users who lost their protection for a second. 

[HaughtyFrank]

This has been the best 36 hours of my life.  I had lost hope thinking we’d peaked with the Cyberpunk 2077 trans apocalypse, that we’d never reach that pinnacle again, but here we are.  God is good.

And we're here because Ree banned protected users who lost their protection for a second.

What I like is that they're also literally arguing that ketkat should be protected cause she's such an important pillar of the community

[benjipwns]

We need Ketkat back asap to handle a serious problem in the Mental Health/TransEra community: https://www.resetera.com/threads/transera-era1-were-people-okay.1909/post-26481322

I recently came out as trans. Mg girlfriend came out as gay. She still doesn't want to be with me despite saying she'll "see me as a woman", she wants someone with a vagina. . I want my girlfriend back.

It might be too early for you to know if you want or need it but did you discuss bottom surgery with her and if that would change things for her?

I've asked and she said "I don't know". Honestly. It baffles me. If she says she likes women. She only wants to be with women. But she says she will see me as a woman. Why are genitals so important? She is just stuck on the fact that she needs to have someone with a vagina. She keeps saying that she wouldn't even know how to have sex without using my penis and I'm like. Fuck. We can figure it out. But she's just set on needing a vagina.

even if it did... no? they shouldn't be with someone that says she's gay but won't be with a trans woman, regardless of genitals. Djkhaled you deserve someone better.

She's been with me through so much though I love her to death. I just don't get why she tells me she'll see me as fully a woman but she still is put off by my genitals. I don't understand it.

i think you do. her actions speak louder than her words. regardless of what she says, if genitals are the issue, she has some hangups about trans women at the very least.

trans people have enough shit to deal with with dysphoria as it is, you don't need this shit on top of it. i doubt she's gonna come around on this, she probably just doesn't want to hurt you by saying how she really feels about it. sorry, but this sounds kinda irreconcilable from the few details we have

i know... i really want to see a couples counsellor that specialises in lgbt stuff with her, and she has agreed to do that, but she "wants to wait a couple of weeks" I know she is just delaying, we should be seeing one ASAP, like next week if possible, right?, but... i know its over... i dont want it to be, I have no family, she is my only family and friend.... im basically going to be alone with no one that cares for me and no money because im on welfare due to disability. I also have Borderline personality disorder so I have strrooooong abandonment issues. I wont lie and say that suicide isn't in my head pretty strongly. It's been 6 years of devoting my life to her, in and out of hospital due to my disability, nearly dying, and now she wont fight through this with me.... i cant take this.

This is what the transphobic/acephobic/racist staff of ResetERA.com is causing with their privileged hubris silencing one of the most important voices on the largest independent video game forum as measured by traffic.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/ReeraTakes/status/1194985046194688001

[Don Rumata]

We need Ketkat back asap to handle a serious problem in the Mental Health/TransEra community: https://www.resetera.com/threads/transera-era1-were-people-okay.1909/post-26481322

I recently came out as trans. Mg girlfriend came out as gay. She still doesn't want to be with me despite saying she'll "see me as a woman", she wants someone with a vagina. . I want my girlfriend back.

It might be too early for you to know if you want or need it but did you discuss bottom surgery with her and if that would change things for her?

I've asked and she said "I don't know". Honestly. It baffles me. If she says she likes women. She only wants to be with women. But she says she will see me as a woman. Why are genitals so important? She is just stuck on the fact that she needs to have someone with a vagina. She keeps saying that she wouldn't even know how to have sex without using my penis and I'm like. Fuck. We can figure it out. But she's just set on needing a vagina.

even if it did... no? they shouldn't be with someone that says she's gay but won't be with a trans woman, regardless of genitals. Djkhaled you deserve someone better.

She's been with me through so much though I love her to death. I just don't get why she tells me she'll see me as fully a woman but she still is put off by my genitals. I don't understand it.

i think you do. her actions speak louder than her words. regardless of what she says, if genitals are the issue, she has some hangups about trans women at the very least.

trans people have enough shit to deal with with dysphoria as it is, you don't need this shit on top of it. i doubt she's gonna come around on this, she probably just doesn't want to hurt you by saying how she really feels about it. sorry, but this sounds kinda irreconcilable from the few details we have

i know... i really want to see a couples counsellor that specialises in lgbt stuff with her, and she has agreed to do that, but she "wants to wait a couple of weeks" I know she is just delaying, we should be seeing one ASAP, like next week if possible, right?, but... i know its over... i dont want it to be, I have no family, she is my only family and friend.... im basically going to be alone with no one that cares for me and no money because im on welfare due to disability. I also have Borderline personality disorder so I have strrooooong abandonment issues. I wont lie and say that suicide isn't in my head pretty strongly. It's been 6 years of devoting my life to her, in and out of hospital due to my disability, nearly dying, and now she wont fight through this with me.... i cant take this.

This is what the transphobic/acephobic/racist staff of ResetERA.com is causing with their privileged hubris silencing one of the most important voices on the largest independent video game forum as measured by traffic.

Don't want to pile on, since they seem to be going through some shit, but with all those problems they point out, i think having a dick may not exactly be the one reason she wants to bail on the relationship.

[HaughtyFrank]

Classic RE

https://twitter.com/JeremyReddel/status/1194540841064452097

[benjipwns]

Don't want to pile on, since they seem to be going through some shit, but with all those problems they point out, i think having a dick may not exactly be the one reason she wants to bail on the relationship.

Are you applying to be ResetERA.com staff with this defense of blatant transphobia?

Because it's about time to shuffle up the moderators anyway and the last thing we want to do is settle for Hobbes.

[HaughtyFrank]

Nepenthe sees a Need for speed Heat cutscene and believes it has the most amazing story ever, all because it has some corrupt cops 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lets-talk-about-how-amazing-need-for-speed-heats-story-is-huge-open-spoilers.153442/

I have never been so thoroughly angry at such a brazen abuse of police power in a video game before.

It wasn't just the impounding, because it's feasible he'd have gotten reports of her car during the race and thus have probable cause. But then Homeboy comes at The Player demanding ID, to which I said aloud "You don't owe him shit." But The Player complies. Upon answering some inquiry with "yes," he screams to correct you: "YES OFFICER!" before leveling a shit-eating grin at you. Coupled with his mocking attitude and the insults, it became unbearable.

This scene is eerily effective- from the establishment and abuse of power dynamics, to the naturalistic voice acting, to the low underscore- in a way that threw me off guard, like it was written by people with direct experience with bullshit police

They showed that cutscene in the GB quicklook and it's hammy as fuck

(44:02)

You can't tell me that's a typical police encounter in the US

[jorma]

We need Ketkat back asap to handle a serious problem in the Mental Health/TransEra community: https://www.resetera.com/threads/transera-era1-were-people-okay.1909/post-26481322

I recently came out as trans. Mg girlfriend came out as gay. She still doesn't want to be with me despite saying she'll "see me as a woman", she wants someone with a vagina. . I want my girlfriend back.

It might be too early for you to know if you want or need it but did you discuss bottom surgery with her and if that would change things for her?

I've asked and she said "I don't know". Honestly. It baffles me. If she says she likes women. She only wants to be with women. But she says she will see me as a woman. Why are genitals so important? She is just stuck on the fact that she needs to have someone with a vagina. She keeps saying that she wouldn't even know how to have sex without using my penis and I'm like. Fuck. We can figure it out. But she's just set on needing a vagina.

even if it did... no? they shouldn't be with someone that says she's gay but won't be with a trans woman, regardless of genitals. Djkhaled you deserve someone better.

She's been with me through so much though I love her to death. I just don't get why she tells me she'll see me as fully a woman but she still is put off by my genitals. I don't understand it.

i think you do. her actions speak louder than her words. regardless of what she says, if genitals are the issue, she has some hangups about trans women at the very least.

trans people have enough shit to deal with with dysphoria as it is, you don't need this shit on top of it. i doubt she's gonna come around on this, she probably just doesn't want to hurt you by saying how she really feels about it. sorry, but this sounds kinda irreconcilable from the few details we have

i know... i really want to see a couples counsellor that specialises in lgbt stuff with her, and she has agreed to do that, but she "wants to wait a couple of weeks" I know she is just delaying, we should be seeing one ASAP, like next week if possible, right?, but... i know its over... i dont want it to be, I have no family, she is my only family and friend.... im basically going to be alone with no one that cares for me and no money because im on welfare due to disability. I also have Borderline personality disorder so I have strrooooong abandonment issues. I wont lie and say that suicide isn't in my head pretty strongly. It's been 6 years of devoting my life to her, in and out of hospital due to my disability, nearly dying, and now she wont fight through this with me.... i cant take this.

This is what the transphobic/acephobic/racist staff of ResetERA.com is causing with their privileged hubris silencing one of the most important voices on the largest independent video game forum as measured by traffic.

Don't want to pile on, since they seem to be going through some shit, but with all those problems they point out, i think having a dick may not exactly be the one reason she wants to bail on the relationship.

yeah, based on his suicidal thoughts and borderline diagnosis i'm pretty sure that the turning lesbian part was to soften the blow of a breakup a bit because she knows how fragile he is mentally, and she did not expect him to counter with a "well i'm actually a woman now". It seems reckless to advice "bottom surgery" just to try to corner this wife extra hard. It's not gonna end well, and it's a really good reason to require professional counselling before you go through something like this. 


the alternative is that the trans announcement came first, and she responded with a "well as it turns out i'm a lesbian now, but never with you dickgirl". That seems kinda cruel, and i'm pretty sure that that's not how it went down.

[Transhuman]

Don't want to pile on, since they seem to be going through some shit, but with all those problems they point out, i think having a dick may not exactly be the one reason she wants to bail on the relationship.

I remember there was a a relationship thread once where the SO was behaviourally a mess and someone posted something like "the purpose of dating is to weed out those sort of people" and they got banned. Wish I could remember the thread

[benjipwns]

Can you take out a seven year loan on the cars in Need for Speed: Heat?

This joke is going to last for seven more years.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

What kind of so-called lesbian doesnt want to date someone with a cock and balls?
fucking transphobic cunt, amirite?

[Straight Edge]

So does gender dysphoria have strong comorbidity with mental and personality disorders? None of these trans folks on Resetera seem to have otherwise normal lives outside of being transgender. It always "I'm transgender......and schizophrenic, bipolar, manic depressive" etc.

[Transhuman]

Probably because normal trans people are disgusted by resetera

[benjipwns]

So does gender dysphoria have strong comorbidity with mental and personality disorders? None of these trans folks on Resetera seem to have otherwise normal lives outside of being transgender. It always "I'm transgender......and schizophrenic, bipolar, manic depressive" etc.

As much as she's a fucking insane asshole in a million other ways compare incelsiorlef's general disposition to the rest of them despite also being trans. She basically doesn't want to talk about it unless she's trying to get someone banned.

[Transhuman]

Hey benji use that big brain to find the thread i'm thinking of

[VomKriege]

Can you take out a seven year loan on the cars in Need for Speed: Heat?

This joke is going to last for seven more years.

That's pretty Old Testament compliant IIRC.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Nepenthe sees a Need for speed Heat cutscene and believes it has the most amazing story ever, all because it has some corrupt cops 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lets-talk-about-how-amazing-need-for-speed-heats-story-is-huge-open-spoilers.153442/

Holy fucking shit, that OP

in an era of increased knowledge of police misconduct (civil forfeiture is a good comparison here) and the lack of ethical standards police are beholden to. While I wanted Shaw to die, and still kind of do, his behavior is emboldened from the top. As aforementioned, the police are running a chop shop by impounding the cars of any unlucky street racers who get busted. And yes, I know- street racing is dangerous, illegal, and not to be condoned- but the nature of the crime outstrips the punishment

Yeah, seizing what is potentially a lethal weapon from people recklessly abusing it for personal gain is a disproportionate punishment.

Unlike bodyslamming an elderly woman into hospital for dropping an n-bomb, of course. Which doesn't go far enough.

[Nintex]

NEED FOR SPEED: F@%& THE COPS

[benjipwns]

Hey benji use that big brain to find the thread i'm thinking of

i broke the ban site doing this lol

ah it's back, quality work banbot guy

edit: the search should let you search for the reasoning, their actioning descriptions are so unique you could easily find shit like this from it just from remembering certain terms

[benjipwns]

hypothesis: the older a thread is the more people are banned in it and the more deleted accounts there are

[Great Rumbler]

Putting a story in a racing game is actually the dumbest thing of all time.

[benjipwns]

didn't find your thread, did find this though: https://rottenwebsites.miraheze.org/wiki/ResetERA

ResetEra is forum only for far-Left leaning individuals who hate President Donald Trump, who agree with third-wave feminism, and who adhere to admonishing anyone who doesn’t agree with the media’s narrative that all straight white males are evil and women are weak damsels in distress. Anyone who steps out of line gets banned.

This site is not actually a gaming forum, is more of a place where SJWs plot to insert their unpopular political agenda into various games and pull off various acts of bigotry without fear of repercussion:
They mocked John Bain for his induction in the eSports Hall of Fame after his death.
They doxed a GOG staff just because the organization criticized unethical and biased game journalists and SJWs.
They threatened to sue anybody who found about their pedophilia activities.
When XXXtentacion was murdered he was known for being a Kingdom Hearts fan who wanted to go to Japan and when Yoko Shimoura heard about it she composed at track Nocturne in his memory and when Resetera found out they decided to cancel her.
They attacked THQ Nordic and Limited Run Games for hosting a Q&A on 8chan.
They tried to forcefully censor Catherine due to its lewd content. And they even sent threats to the director of the game.
They tried to force Nintendo into censoring content in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Not even the Pirahnna plant was inclusive ennough in Super Smash Bros Ultimate.
They forced activision to censor a character in Crash Bandicot racing.
One user named Shinobi602 smugly leaked Banjo & Kazooie's appearance in Ultimate, ruining the surprise for many people.
They made an awful "suggestion" list on how to "improve" the Persona video game series and sent it to Atlus USA's twitter.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

hypothesis: the older a thread is the more people are banned in it and the more deleted accounts there are

the nature of the 'strikes' system they use makes that likely true, as all accounts will tend towards entropy and account death, as histories are never removed.

what would be interesting is calculating the predicted lifespan of an account that has no special privileges allowing its accumulated histories of histories to reach that point of terminal posting velocity.

[Great Rumbler]

One user named Shinobi602 smugly leaked Banjo & Kazooie's appearance in Ultimate, ruining the surprise for many people.

lmao

[thetylerrob]

Nepenthe keeps finding new ways to prove just how stupid she actually is. Mod of the year 2019, no contest.

[Tasty]

They attacked THQ Nordic and Limited Run Games for hosting a Q&A on 8chan.

One user named Shinobi602 smugly leaked Banjo & Kazooie's appearance in Ultimate, ruining the surprise for many people.

I love these are listed as equivalent.

[who is ted danson?]

Story in racing games could be good. Imagine NFS:MW (2005), except instead of Razor taking the pinkslip for your BMW, your dad scams you with a 7 year loan on a nissan versa and you spend the rest of the game paying it back.

[Nintex]

Stories in racing games can work. I remember Need for Speed Underground 2 had a pretty cool narrative but I was like 16 at the time.

[benjipwns]

Putting a story in a racing game is actually the dumbest thing of all time.

FACT CHECK: Garfield Kart

[Don Rumata]

Putting a story in a racing game is actually the dumbest thing of all time.

Here's a fool who has not played MegaRace.

[benjipwns]

Once I got home I YouTubed the rest of the cutscenes and oh my god, I loved it.

First off, give it up to the Rivera siblings for being awesome. The first time you enter the garage and Lucas is setting up an appointment you are hit with their sense of history and personality: the driving awards, the decorative graffiti, and most importantly the family picture with a yellow Camaro on the table. When they're together, there's an appealing duality of love and conflict: Lucas is a passive dude who rebukes racing to run the garage while Ana is a feisty college dropout who wishes to uphold the family racing legacy (this dynamic is made all the more interesting because of the flipped gender representation in ostensibly traditional roles.) If they're not prodding each other over their life decisions, Lucas is probably smothering her with tempered, big-brother guardianship or embarrassing shows of affection in Spanish. It's adorable. However, things come to a tense head when she crashes the aforementioned Camaro trying to escape Shaw after a race, with Lucas insisting she needs to go back to school and Ana dismissing his advice as a cowardly has-been who is willing to throw away his talent and their legacy.

This is another scene that took me by surprise, because I didn't land squarely on Lucas' side despite understanding he was right. "He built this car to be raced!" asserts Ana. The awards on the counter and the town talk of the Riveras makes it clear that the father was as much a gearhead as the daughter, to say nothing of Lucas' previous guarantee into The League. So I could easily sympathize with Ana and her desire to not only race for her own self-fulfillment but to try and continue upholding their father's legacy, and Lucas' inability to recognize that spark in her. However, Lucas' retirement comes back to the front after the police chief Mercer realizes you and Ana were tipped off to the police's chop-shop operation. Mercer roughs up Lucas to try and exploit info out of him, only for you and Ana to run up on the scene and get arrested. Lucas breaks free and saves you from being murdered, seeking refuge in a secret garage he built up over the years as a safe space from his father, the broken relationship implied over the course of the game to have resulted from his own racing antics. It turns out their father had a heart attack the night he was jailed, and Lucas puts this on himself, believing the stress of his youth got to the old man and killed him.

"Well, that was...legitimately rough to get through— Why the fuck am I feeling this way over a Need For Speed Game?" Again, is this normal?

All in all, Need For Speed: Heat should not be slept on. It wasn't just it's ability to tell a fun adventure story with appealing characters, but to do so while skillfully weaving in themes regarding police corruption, race, and power into the workings of an arcade racing game that is relatable and worth commending. I was pleasantly surprised, I remain enthralled weeks after the fact, and I'm hoping like hell we return to Miami in the next installment with these same characters to see how Torres will lead the fight and how the Rivera siblings will respond to her department.

How's the racing?

Again, I've got no real knowledge of the series beyond, like, the first Most Wanted way back in the day, so I wouldn't be able to give a fair rating in that regard. If you're talking about in general games that have good writing, that's hard to say, mainly because I think different games have different intents and thus approaches to good storytelling. To be honest, I can't think of another high-profile game off the top of my head that is firmly in the camp of how police affects minorities. And I think this game's narrative has enough substance and compelling drama to it that it doesn't really need the NFS moniker to stand on its own, or you could more cynically say that the NFS moniker is so low-key in 2019 that it's the only reason why a game company would have bothered with it in the first place. I think anything higher profile and we would've been having bigger conversations on ERA both about "forced representation" bullshit, and also how minorities- particularly Latino people- would take to the Riveras. I personally think those siblings are lovely, well-rounded characters and play off each other well.

And the racing?

Mmm, no. A lot of real cheesy dialogue happens during the gameplay sections. Like, a cutscene will happen, and after that the characters will talk about it as you're playing. Also there's a lot of generic and silly cartoon character acting to punch up the races; Initial D like shit of characters boasting about their skills. But when it comes to the actual cutscenes and the drama, there is no perceivable line between the scenario writers and the dialogue writers.

The game can't get anymore perfect.

Thanks.

[Nintex]

Once I got home I YouTubed the rest of the cutscenes and oh my god, I loved it.

 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

The story in Driver: San Francisco is actually pretty fucking great, even if it does just rip off the TV show Life On Mars / Ashes To Ashes wholesale.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

"Well, that was...legitimately rough to get through— Why the fuck am I feeling this way over a Need For Speed Game?" Again, is this normal?

[benjipwns]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed_Heat#Plot

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[Nintex]

The first Mafia legit had a good video game story and there's others examples too.

But Need for Speed: Heat looks like the same oven-ready narrative most Need for Speed games have about cars being impounded and dudes racing at night.

[benjipwns]

Mafia isn't a fucking racing game lol