The sprite comics are by far the worst part and any community that enables them deserves to burn
The sprite comics are by far the worst part and any community that enables them deserves to burn
Ah, I see. Those points make sense, yeah.
Though then again, sometimes FGO themselves reduce characters to one-note. Correct me if I'm wrong, but at least in NA Saber Lancelot has been reduced to a milf-hunter who gets Mashu's ire (or Mashu at least get an unknown feeling to smack him) for a while. Not saying I like it, because turning someone genuinely remorseful about what they did in life to a one-note joke is terrible, but I can see why people might get tempted to do that too when the game did it.
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Oh it's absolutely a problem for some characters in the game too for sure, but it feels more widespread among the fanbase to me at least.
I have yet to laugh at a single sprite comic
The ones about the FSN pseudo-servants are particularly heinous
Yeah, GO reddit unfortunately buries interesting discussion while low effort memes and comics thrive.
The fact that a lot of the old fanartists have moved on (either to newer games that give them more content they care for or just life stuff changing their schedule) certainly doesn't help, I think.
Well, the content I care for was on the low side in the first place since subreddits not explicitly for stuff with primarily female fans tends to be male dominated
That's not reddit, that's the community in a nutshell. Reddit is only one place where those congregate.
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This all boils down to, and it saddens me to say it, boomer talk. Reddit is not uniquely guilty of all these things; FGO itself, in its drive to become popular and accessible, has enabled and invited the type of community that thrives on this sort of low-effort content. You can find it on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram, on discord, pretty much everywhere "FGO players" tend to congregate. TM fans have become a minority.
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While this all seems somewhat true, I think the attitude expressed here is a tad bit elitist. It's not the end of the world that all that shit is happening, and there's no right or proper way to enjoy anything.
"a tad"
Bit more than that, there are low effort memes everywhere, and the only reason some people are able to pretend X is better is because they dont go there or dont speak the language
Its like how many people in many communities will make fun of reddit but then they have a official subreddit and the big members use reddit as well
I don't particularly have an attachment to reddit despite being on it for years myself, the sprite comics are my least favourite newer addition honestly. That being said, I'm not sure it can really be blamed for anything? I've had a worse experience in Fate Tumblr in comparison for example but really which social platform feels worse is kind of a YMMV
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Well, even if I say all that, I don't really have much to say about someone not wanting to share their stuff with reddit
Everyrhing else aside, not wanting leaks to be shared with a platform thousands of people visit daily so as not to cause too much of a stir and potentially alert the JP side of things is entirely valid. I still remember the kerfuffle that caused the death of Viramate in GBF, for example.
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To me it's not about having the "low effort content", it's about perpetuating it that is the problem to me. I couldn't really care less what other random site #500 does, because it doesn't effect me. I know Tumblr and Twitter have some TERRIBLE content on them- but it doesn't effect me. "Jalter" and "Salter" becoming cannon and used throughout the internet everywhere effects me. Having the low effort content from there thrown everywhere effects me. Their wide spread reach and advertisement potentially causing DW to tighten things up, especially right before Lostbelt 6, effects me. Maybe that's selfish I don't know I'm not the smartest person. I wouldn't call myself elitist though- I don't believe that just disliking something makes you elitist.
I don't know why you assume all those things wouldn't happen regardless even if Reddit didn't exist.
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I didn't mean to come off that way if I did woops. I think the content based problems would still exist, maybe not some of the organization and moderation problems though. I regret mentioning my personal beefs with r/grandorder due to derailing the threads and perhaps stinging some people the wrong way, (I got some interesting DMs after I posted that), but the point would still stand that I don't think they should be posted there due to DW noticing, especially before LB6.
Never saw any statistic like that and the Viramate dev certainly didn't keep any (afaik at least).
Either way, Viramate was working just fine until some salty Jap who saw a streamer using it started Angrily Tweeting Cygames, and we still don't have all the QoL it used to bring two years and change later. (Not to mention all the people that caught a ban to go along with it).
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