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its 2022 how are ppl still obsessed with detroit become human to the point they're making aus with mcu (talk about the double the bland)

Yeah I don't understand it either. No one tags them but I still wonder.

i'd argue the game wasn't bland, just flat out bad

like in an entertaining sort of way, but ime anyone who plays from it takes it 100% seriously and is therefore 100% insufferable because they refuse to acknowledge the cage-shaped elephant in the room: that this man fucking sucks at making video games, always has and always will

I can never take dbh muses seriously but for a wholly personal reason.

When I watched my brothers gf play it I was on acid. So it's forever the game I experienced while on acid. There's just no way for me to come back from that.

i only discovered this game last year. i really enjoy playing some of the characters from it. that said, i'm not `obsessed` with it; i have plenty of muses from other canons too. it's up there on my list of favorites but i absolutely understand why someone would not enjoy this game and i'm aware of how fucking problematic it is.

at the risk of outing myself, i'll admit i'm in a discord with the weird dbh/mcu aus. our server was pretty damn quiet until they showed up and it's mostly just one person with a really weird headcanon about tony stark having a rivalry with cyberlife or something and having a bunch of robot children. i find it bland as fuck but they seem to be having fun and some of the other dbh players are having fun with them. the entire discord's been derailed into talk about this au on the daily.

it's not my bag of chips, but nobody's forcing me to eat them so that's fine. my only `real beef` is that one using icons from the umbrella academy. it tastes like tumblr all around in the discord lately and one other player and i retreated to a different discord server.

at the risk of outing myself, i ran across them on a meme and noped right out of the thread when they opted to take something my character said in response to them in a totally misconstrued fashion and after i read up on their info available, it just pinged too hard as the players i had a really bad run in with on lj back in the old random game/memebells days. or maybe that group that initially took over sws/smuttysws and basically attacked anyone 'icly' with very ooc sjw topic crap until people just avoided the barking pool of crazy.

maybe they're not like that, but i'm on a meme and can play whatever i want with no game obligations, so i don't have time to tip toe through a potential minefield with a character i'm not invested in.

ayrt

i've only interacted with them oocly and even then just barely, they're extremely chatty on discord and i usually just pop in to click `mark everything as read` and see if anyone else has said anything interesting. i agree that they reek of sjw and especially when i got to the point where they state `this character cannot and will not be sexually shipped.` like, i get that smut/ship might not be your thing and that's cool or whatever but it's a huge red flag for me when i've had so many people that are ooc ace and have ic/ooc divide bleed with their original characters.

they seem really displaced, as if they're from tumblr, but at the same time seem like they've been around the dwrp scene for quite some time - and maybe even dating back to the lj days. i can't decide if they're a transient or if they've been around the block and just aren't your average mcu trash.

i feel like we've both dodged a bullet with this one.

da

Not for nothing but plenty of people went to Tumblr during the great migration/when lj started to fall apart before dw became a thing so it would surprise me at all if there are people who subscribed to the Tumblr crowd rhetoric during that time and are back now because journal RP is just nicer/what they know/whatever the case may be. We're lucky that the cases of these people don't crop up much but they definitely exist.

sa

**wouldn't surprise me

memebells... *takes a drag so big my whole cigarette turns to ash* haven't heard that name in years

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