[ SECRET POST #2085 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2085 ⌋

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Comments

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

I don't get why people think this is so awesome. If I'm gonna buy a game, I sure as hell don't want to get one where some giggling meddler went "girl power!" and furtively messed around with the cover (possibly creasing or damaging it).

Do what you want with the game you buy, and keep your hands off the rest. This should be common sense, seriously.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh no a creased cover. How ever shall I enjoy this game now.

you sound like fat comic guy

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

Wow, an anonymous poster making comments about someone's weight! How unusual.

Also, you completely missed the point (also not a surprise). Look, all I'm saying is that if I'm spending a lot of my hard-earned money on buying a brand new game, I don't want anyone else to have tampered with it -- especially when said tampering very easily damages the cover. That's all. If you can't understand that, then...

[(Anonymous)]

IA, now I know to avoid the Femshep covers because someone may have tampered with it.

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

It sucks that it has to be that way, but yeah. Good job, "feminists".

[(Anonymous)]

It's kind of offensive to assume that M!Shep is the default and the game only has F!Shep if it's been tampered with. Wouldn't the company ship it with both covers?

[(Anonymous)]

In a perfect world it should be 50/50, but instead we get male company assholes who only ship them off with the male default showing and female assholes going in stores fucking around with the games. I'm glad i live somewhere where you can't open the game before bying it. Honestly, if i see a game has been opened and changed in some way, I'm not bying it. And a bigh fuck you to all women/girls who think it's cool to just switch to all females. You realize there is nothin equal about that, right? Why not leave half of them with the male cover so people can decide for themselves?

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

That's... offensive? O_o

That aside, I'm not assuming anything -- the cover with M!Shepard is the factory default. So if you buy the game new, without anyone having tampered with it, that's what it'll look like. It just wouldn't make sense, out of a productivity POV, for the company to do both.

[pynapel]

Yes, it is offensive. It's sexist as all hell, but of course, you don't give a shit about anything unless it's in "mint condition".

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

So stating a fact is offensive and sexist? I'm sure you hear this a lot, but you're an idiot.

[pynapel]

Oh, look. You're all pissy because you completely missed the point.

It's sexist to assume male is the default in a world where over half the population is female. That is sexist. I...really don't know how to make it more simple for you.

[(Anonymous)]

The hell are you talking about. If you're buying the game new then (in the UK at least) it'll come with that plastic shrink wrap meaning no one can tamper with it. I took the secret to mean that op changes the covers on second hand copies being sold, in which case the game has already been owned by someone else meaning it's been "tampered with" by default. :/

[ariakas]

This was my thought exactly. "Golly the people around these parts don't buy a lot of vidya games, do they." New games are shrink wrapped. If they can switch the covers around, you're buying used, and clearly don't give a shit about getting it in mint condition.

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

...And the Southern accent/misspellings are supposed to mean what, exactly? I'm surprised you didn't just come straight out and call me "retarded", or something equally ignorant. Because ignorant is what you are, sorry to say.

First off, I do buy a lot of video games. Secondly, I don't buy them used and I do care about getting them in mint condition. And finally -- brace yourself for this one, as it'll obviously be a surprise for you -- stores vary from country to country! Over here (and in many other countries as well), you cannot find a single video game store that sells games shrinkwrapped. I really shouldn't need to explain why that is, but then again... I think I better spell it out for you: The stores open up the games in order to remove the disc(s), therefore minimizing the risk of theft.

[pynapel]

please tell me this is a troll

[elialshadowpine]

Nope, they are a fairly regular poster.

[ariakas]

Not a troll, just someone who got caught saying something stupid, and is now trying to furiously bullshit in the hopes that we'll cringe away from the "I'M FROM ANOTHER CULTURE YOU IGNORANT AMERICAN" card and not bother to ask another Swedish gamer to verify.

[ariakas]

So you're not online a whole lot either, is what you're saying?

"Vidya" is not a "Southern misspelling", it's internet slang from 4chan's /v/.

...And you've gone completely off the rails to rage at a stranger who said something completely innocuous, so have a good day, ma'am.

EDIT: Actually, you know what? I've been suspicious from the moment you started talking about "mint condition" and being a "collector", so rather than be polite I'll return the favour and catch you in your outright lie.

See, it so happens that I'm a collector too. And as a collector, you'd know that "mint", when it comes to video games, has a very specific meaning (as it does for comics, etc.): factory sealed. So, it it were true what you said about Swedish game stores, it would mean that no Swedish game store sells copies in mint condition. By definition, they've been opened, and the discs removed. The best you could get was "near mint".

So, if you really cared about getting "mint condition" copies for your collection, you'd order the games online. (I am aware that games retailers and eBay stores do sell to Sweden, so don't even try to bullshit me on this one too.) Yet, you don't. You buy the near mint copies from your local game store, claiming it's your only option. By definition, your case has been tampered with. It's been opened, and the disc is removed.

Of course, it's obviously not your only option (you could buy online) so you were full of shit from the start, but as it turns out there are other gamers from Sweden on the internet who could also point out that no, Swedes aren't too stupid to figure out locked display cases and the use of display copies/locked copies.

You're not a collector of mint condition games, you're lying about Sweden in the hopes of preying on the ignorance of others who have called you out for saying something tremendously stupid, "vidya" is a very common slang term for "video games" on the internet that has nothing to do with any accent or dialect, and "golly" is not Southern - it's dated. And given I was the one who said it in quotes, quoting my reaction, those would have been words I put in my own mouth anyway.

You, ma'am, are the ignorant one. And a poor reader. And worse, a liar.

Kindly go fuck yourself, and good day.

[(Anonymous)]

+1


As someone who is female and actually /prefers/ the M!Shep cover as I think there are serious flaws with the F!Shep design, however much I enjoy both versions of the character and have done multiple playthroughs as both genders. I'm also not among the "Rah rah feminism!" mindset.

I'm all for women empowerment, but tbh that shit's irritating. Your preference /=/ everyone's preference.