• inTheShadowOf [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    I appreciate you explaining and I get where you’re coming from. I’m not super into Nintendo, but I’ve known people who really care about the games and characters. It very much is a corporation first that does shitty things, but if the games are meaningful to people then I get being excited for a release. I’d probably line up if one of my favourite consoles/games got a big release

    I’m a gigachad-hd pc gamer though, so idk anything about lining up for a console

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      Getting excited for the release of a specific game would be less weird. This just comes off as fanboying for a company and it makes my skin crawl. “Woohoo, look at me, I can afford to buy the newest expensive gadget on launch day while decked in Official Nintendo® merch while playing the previous Nintendo® Switch™, aren’t I special and cool”

      I’m a pc gamer though, so idk anything about lining up for a console

      There was that time when a subset of PC gamers was making very cringy memes about “Lord Gaben” but I think that’s less of a thing now

      • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        5 months ago

        Yeah, if there was a launch title worth getting excited about I’d understand but I didn’t even know the switch 2 was coming out this week until I started seeing youtube thumbnails about how it just came out

        Maybe if I loved mario kart but racing games were never my favorite genre and I always preferred f zero so I just don’t get the hype