I'd buy this if you removed the internet meme achievements.

[guy? toilet seat]

This actually looked like a fun game and I would have bought it if not for checking the achievements page. They are completely out of place and come off as nothing but pandering to idiots that actually laugh at every name drop of a celebrity or internet meme. Why do they have to infect everything? Can't I see SOMEONE not misuse the word epic? Don't you have enough confidence in your own game to let it stand up on its own, without help from 12 year old mouthbreathers that actually think referencing "why so serious" is funny in 2013?

[Pangolin Legends: Arceus]

"Meme. DO NOT WANT". The icon is a cat with a "plegh" face.

[guy? toilet seat]

Първоначално публикувано от GammaFoxTBG:

Apparently it seems hard for you to comprehend that the internet has developed it's own unique culture, as informal and random as it may be. You clearly don't agree with the humour often used on the internet, or the memes that are often spread throughout sites and forums. This all in mind, instead of simply ignoring it and continuing on with your own sense of humour, you decide to barge in to this forum so that you may pretentiously announce that you won't buy a game, because some achievements have meme references that you denounce so thoroughly?

Get over yourself.

There is room for everyone and their own senses of humour, art, and opinion. In turn, there is absolutely NO valid reason to try and act as though you have the superior taste. So, you can stop with the pathetic ad hominems, whining and excuses.

Internet meme "humour [sic]" has barged onto and largely taken over most, if not every website on the internet. This isn't culture. A poorly drawn face ctrl+v'd onto 1000 websites isn't culture. Culture is some kind of respectable and unique aspect or tradition of a society. Internet memes are neither of these things. I'm not going to have this shoved down my throat just because I decide to use the internet. If you had read even half of the pages before this, your ignorance statement would have been addressed as you are not the first to cry "hail status quo".

Just because you have to be so militantly neutral doesn't mean everyone follows the same mindset. For example, aforementioned poorly drawn face isn't art, it isn't giving any kind of message or statement and certainly didn't take any effort to make, however in your mindset, it must be art simply because that's what's neutral to say. Just because other artists also create images doesn't make 5 year old Felix's attempt to draw a circle art. The same goes for humour. Just because something can be found funny to someone doesn't make everything that anyone ever laughed at count as humour. Mentally disabled people can laugh at things that don't even exist. Memes are both nothingness and poorly constructed when it comes to humour. Amassing a large group of idiots and making a site just for them so they can laugh at memes doesn't validate it either, just like a large group of uneducated people thinking the Earth is flat doesn't make it so. The difference is that now there is proper education and no excuse for this to happen. Also if it was simply a matter of taste it wouldn't be all over every website like hives or chicken pox. It would have a little niche somewhere and everyone that didn't want to be exposed to things like "poorly drawn face", "epic fail" and "u mad" wasn't forced to see it every time they went to any website.

Alas, text without idiotic insults and status quo pleas is too much to ask from this forum. I wasn't even trying for a reply, just hoping the developers would see that it cost them a sale. Even asking for replies that are coherent and legible is too much to ask because reading is so/too hard for these people.

[SneakyEcho]

Anyone else annoyed this guy keeps misusing [sic]?

[SneakyEcho]

To clarify, because I know you will attempt to correct me:
1. This is Internet Humour, it is accepted to refer to as humour, as others find it funny and/or amusing.
2. Trolling, same thing. When used on the internet, it is accepted slang, and is not at all out of place in the sentence it was used in.

[Pangolin Legends: Arceus]

Първоначално публикувано от Elarith:

Anyone else annoyed this guy keeps misusing [sic]?

I think he believes the other poster is spelling "humour" incorrectly. It's just the British spelling though.

[Cdr.Keen]

Първоначално публикувано от Bonsewswesa:

[...]
Internet meme "humour [sic]" has barged onto and largely taken over most, if not every website on the internet. This isn't culture. A poorly drawn face ctrl+v'd onto 1000 websites isn't culture. Culture is some kind of respectable and unique aspect or tradition of a society. Internet memes are neither of these things. I'm not going to have this shoved down my throat just because I decide to use the internet. If you had read even half of the pages before this, your ignorance statement would have been addressed as you are not the first to cry "hail status quo".
[...]

i like that part :>

thats evolution bonse, you can't stop it since 14 billion years. mankind invented many traditions like poorly drawn crosses for religion, burning down women for beeing witches or getting drunk/dancing for random reasons.

our modern society offers no room for tradition (time, racism, discrimination, laws & rules), so people create new ways to keep unique ideas and the way of traditions ;)

[Rust Titan]

Първоначално публикувано от Bonsewswesa:

Първоначално публикувано от J-Dizzle:

Seconded. You know... this whole post that you put up could be considered to some, trolling. Food for thought.

You actually used "trolling [sic]" and the real word thought in the same body of text. You actually did that, while fully expecting to have added anything to the discussion. With full conviction. That just happened. Why, in this day and age, is basic literacy and correct usage of basic language such an immense task for so many of us? Is it so hard to think of real terms (of which there are many) that you have to resort to using meaningless, incorrect text? Is life that hard for you that you can't just use one of the most widely used languages in the world without sullying it with false words?

First of all, "trolling" is a word. It means to "search for something" (in this case, a reaction), or to "fish by trailing a line behind a vessel". Second, the English language is alive, and new words are being added to it constantly. Just ask the creators and compilers of any major dictionary. Third, even if the gentleman you quoted had not in fact been using the word in its original and correct function, he would have still been correct in using it in its current, additional, meaning (itself merely an adaptation of its original definition).

Lastly, he made a good point. Many people are going to look at your inane complaints (which amount to "boohoo, I don't like the name of this thing in this game, why couldn't they name it ____ instead") as, in fact, trolling (again, itself, in addtion to its original definitions, a meme, and thus ironic). To which you attacked him personally, albeit indirectly, stating he was incapable of basic literacy and language skills and is otherwise, generally, wrong.

You will have noted by this point that I have not attacked you personally nor have I called you any names or otherwise resorted to such infantile gestures regardless how deserving of them you may be. It is in light of that, that I would like to take a moment to respectfully call you a putz (which is also a word) and request that you remove your bloated cranium from your rectal cavity (all of which are words, and none of which are memes).

Good day to you, sir. (Which is a meme.)

Deal with it.

(Also a meme.)

[Clocky]

Language is a tool, not an object of worship. There's no such thing as "false words". If someone says a word and someone understands its meaning (it's not meaningless gibberish), it's a word.

deal w/ it, nerd (oh hay, another one)

[ens0]

I'm big about collecting achievements, but I've really never cared that much about their names, to be honest. For me, it's about having interesting challenges to set for myself during gameplay.

[Hero]

what a stupid discussion....

[Pod]

I know it's extremely petty, but I'm skipping the game because of this too. Speaking with my wallet.
It's not funny or cool, devs really need to stop putting this stuff in their games. It breaks the fourth wall.

[Rust Titan]

Shame, because as of the most recent patch, virtually all *real* problems with the game are fixed.

[Talis Cat]

Since this game wasn't meant to get money for teh devs, not buying it for silly (IMHO) reason isn't a big deal.
Now I hope this kind of behavior won't spread into the 'real game' market ... I would hate having devs losing more time than needed over the achievement ...
Of course they could just simply remove it but I ind it a great way to make the game last a bit longer (once I'm finished it gave me a bit more to do ...)
Ah well, this whole discussion was funny, though ^^

[Pangolin Legends: Arceus]

Първоначално публикувано от Prod:

I know it's extremely petty, but I'm skipping the game because of this too. Speaking with my wallet.
It's not funny or cool, devs really need to stop putting this stuff in their games. It breaks the fourth wall.

Achievements popping up at all would probably ruin your immersion if you feel that way, so disable the overlay completely for the game, then you won't see the achievements. Problem solved?

[ч²о DaiNingen]

Or you could just adjust your steam overlay settings to block the pop-ups from when you gain an achievement.

Seriously, if you're not going to buy a game you like because of achievement popups, get off Steam.

Making comments like "OMG not buyin this game because of dreaded ACHIEVEMENT POPUPS" is just going to bring the wrath of the flamers on your back.