

daphy ⋆ ˚。 ✧
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i suppose were signing these people 😆








Calling the sexism angle “insane” is exactly the kind of black-and-white thinking that keeps people from seeing what’s actually going on. Calling the idea “insane” shuts down discussion instead of engaging with it. No one is saying every complaint about supports is rooted in sexism. There are absolutely valid balance frustrations in games. But pretending that player behavior exists in a vacuum, completely untouched by real-world social patterns, is just willful ignorance. Support roles across games have consistently been: - Framed as “helping” rather than “carrying” - Treated as less skilled or less important - More likely to get blamed, micromanaged, or disrespected Those patterns don’t come out of nowhere. They line up pretty closely with how people undervalue roles associated with care, support, and service in real life. Yes, game design matters. Yes, balance matters. But social conditioning shapes how players interpret and react to those mechanics. If you only look at this through a pure “skill issue vs. balance issue” lens, you’re choosing to ignore half the picture. The truth is, gaming culture has well-documented gender biases. Sexism doesn’t have to be explicit to influence behavior. It often shows up as patterns of expectation and disrespect.


People drawing comparisons like this to sexism/politics are genuinely insane. The characters are just annoying to deal with and have access to very easy tools to deal with problems in their games (dive) but they refuse to get good at using them. The devs then have to compensate for their lack of skill through buffs, further reducing their skill floor leading to favored matchups against characters that are supposed to counter them lol. This is why people have an "inherent hatred" towards the support role, it's quite literally because they whine and get what they want, it has nothing to do with fucking sexism, that is an INSANE line of thinking.










yeah there should be a hot fix on how many strat’s can get banned because this is bad











this is just hilarious i’m sorry






