fuck is wholesome direct lmao
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oh no we missed the battlefield reveal now we’ll never know what exciting new thing was announced
EDIT: okay apparently we have to wait 21 years to play it (weird)
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An indie video showcase with zero Hexen or Blaster Master clones.
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reading the words “Wholesome Direct” immediately upon waking has set me back on the path to becoming a pure pornographer
too tired to find the bugs bunny pic, just pretend it’s here
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i’m expecting a lot of twee regular-animals-causing-mischief type games, along with a bunch of stardew animal crossing visual novels, and maybe a couple kirby-likes for good measure
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so it’s not the name of a publisher? have the cute animal fishing coffee house games all joined forces for a “direct”?
i refuse to look it up
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It’s like a volunteer-run indie co-op themed around cute shit? We need the Deleterious direct to balance it out. That’s Wednesday
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is wholesome direct like a no kink at E3 thing
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wholesome direct is a psyop to distract you from Koch Primetime, which i assume is the Koch Bros. announcing their foray into the world of CIA training video games
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Honestly I still don’t get why you all are so against this concept just because of the branding. It’s an entire stream of games that would be That One Game that the SB hivemind would agree was the only interesting looking game in a Sony sizzle reel.
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having become trend,
we spurn those secret treasures
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“wholesome games” is redefining the “casual” market as gamers who don’t demand constant framerate and racism escalation in their games
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I prefer non-violent games but I don’t want to play a game that calls itself wholesome
Incidentally even Wholesome Games openly regrets the name of the brand
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really looking forward to engaging with my favourite brands, creators and franchises
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wholesome games is going to announce on their stream that they’re changing their name to AntiChristian DevilCrew games: Not Just for KIDS anymore!
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wholesome games, aka “games by queers (but not the icky ones who actually make challenging work)”
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e3 has every kind of game you want as long as it’s either 20 hours of a white dad brutally decapitating poor people with his bare hands or animal crossing but tom nook tells you you’re a good person for consuming products
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Half the wholesome games stream will be devoted to the inflatable pool channels on twitch issue
Also wholesome autocorrect to whoreson so we know what to call the counter insurgency now
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seething, playing wolfenstein II at 240 fps
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there’s a big hotel chain billboard near me which reads “COMFORT MEANS ALWAYS KNOWING WHAT TO EXPECT” and i think that’s what i find sad about the wholesome thing, it’s not even an aesthetic which necessarily precludes good work (things like ramble planet i guess qualify as “wholesome”?) but the point seems to be specifically to guarantee no moments of unsettled, uncertain, ambivalence or off-brandedness within that initial aesthetic package. you could rebrand yume nikki as a wholesome cozycore game (you sleep late!! you play with a famicom!!) but only if you got rid of all the dreams.
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