"Action roguelite"/"Action roguelike"

Whichever variant of that simple phrase, if it appears on the Steam page for a game, whether it's in the tags or, worse, in the description of the game by the devs or, worst of all, both of those places, that's all it takes to make me instantaneously nope the fuck out entirely, even if the game ostensibly looked interesting at first glance. Possibly unfair of me, I'll admit, but then, that's just what grossly overused buzzwords do to me. *shrug*

"Shot: Blizzard Crimes Exposed, Chaser: New Overwatch Character | Castle Super Beast Clips"

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I keep thinking back to how I used to feel about Blizzard Entertainment, pre-2011 or so, compared to how I feel about Blizzard Entertainment now, and it is completely night and day. Prior to the whole Diablo 3 fiasco, Blizzard games were no-brainer, day one purchases for me. Now, I wouldn't play a modern Blizzard game if you paid me to do so, doesn't matter what it is or how ostensibly good people claim it to be, and I'm sure as steaming shit not going to spend my own money on any of it. The combination of the fact that the higher ups at Blizzard are increasingly being exposed as actively evil and the fact that the games themselves have just been demonstrably, objectively worse between then and now is just... urgh.

I hate it. All of it. To hell with Blizzard forever.

For all the RWNJs who constantly whinge about "woke" and such...

...so, like, isn't "redpilled" just the RWNJ (corrupted) equivalent to "being woke"? Or, at least, that's what they see it as, anyway? I mean, "redpilled" is actually more like "drunk the Kool-Aid" than "woke," but the RWNJs obviously don't see it that way. The so-called "redpilled" see themselves as enlightened, as more "aware" of the "real" world than all the "bluepilled sheep" out there. In reality, the "redpilled" are misguided, at best, delusional and sociopathic, at worst, but good luck convincing any of them of that. The sad thing about all this is that everything I just said about the "redpilled" is how the "redpilled" view "woke" people. And, for that matter, anyone and everyone else who isn't "redpilled," too, whether they're "woke" or not.

And it's also just more typical RWNJ hypocrisy, for the most part. They rant and rave and rail against "wokeness" (or, rather, the imaginary evil that they wrongly believe "wokeness" to be, because they don't understand the actual meaning at all and only see it as nothing but the latest bogeyman to hate and be scared of) and demonize anyone and anything that they see as representing "woke culture," all while simultaneously claiming to be "redpilled." The cognitive dissonance is real.

For me, as I've written here before, I define "woke" mostly in the same way that it was originally used, i.e. "aware of systemic bigotry, such as racism." That's all it means, in this context, no more and no less. Or, at least, that's the most useful definition, anyway. In that sense, at least, I guess I am "woke." Well, as "woke" as a white guy can be, anyway. I don't claim to be a scholar on systemic racism or anything like that. I just acknowledge that it is something that actually exists, because it absolutely does. Anyone who defines "woke" as something other than that, well... I don't know what to tell you. I know there are more than a few people out there who claim to be "woke," yet have only marginally more of a clue as to what "woke" actually means than the RWNJs/"redpilled" do, which is sad. The only consolation is that those who claim to be "woke," whether they understand what that means or not, are usually not of RWNJ persuasion, at the very least.

And I define "redpilled" to mean "completely suckered in by RWNJ 'news' 'media' to the point that they can hardly even comprehend actual, objective reality anymore, seeing enemies where there are none, seeing friends and allies in those they should be seeing as enemies (or, at the very least, seeing as negative influences, as cynical panderers, or otherwise as ones who are completely indifferent and uncaring about them and their concerns beyond how those ones can abuse and manipulate them via their concerns, to the ones' [exclusive] benefit), and acting in ways to further facilitate this abhorrent worldview, to the detriment of everyone, including themselves." Or, to restate, "misguided, at best, delusional and sociopathic, at worst." Sort of like how I define "GamerGate" as "an irredeemably toxic shithole."