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i've repeatedly clarified that i'm pissed that i was outright lied to by fans of the game who apparently did not hear a single thing i said about why i didn't enjoy it (in calm polite subjective terms, and only when they brought the game up to try to sell me on it yet again) and insisted repeatedly that all my complaints had been addressed, and pestered me to "give it another chance".
i don't know why you want my specs because it's (mostly) not about the game performance, everyone has bugs and memory leaks and while annoying af it's not a dealbreaker to me.
i don't think i'm "counter" anything, i'm just being genuine and that's a sin when you don't feel the "correct" way. you're projecting.
and yet back then all i did was leave my thumbs-down review and didn't think about it again for years. i laid aside my opinion because i trusted in my friends, and landed on the same opinion after trying the "fixed" version expecting a better experience. almost like i'm not some dipshit on a hate bandwagon the way you're so eager to cast me.
sorry, i flat out don't believe this happened.
it was more like they brought it up and i said i played at launch and didn't like it and briefly summed up the reasons why and they took every opportunity to badger me about playing it for a year afterward. again you're projecting a narrative onto me so you can dismiss me about it.
things i wish the game would let me say to johnny silverhand. also lmao more projection.
you literally can say that to silverhand, congrats on jokingly stumbling upon the entire point of his character
but continue explaining why it's everyone else's problem that you don't like a video game
the "lampshading how hacky and bad my story is makes it clever and self-aware actually" trope is the entire conceit of the game's central character?
that's hilarious and sad, everything i learn about the parts of the game i haven't played make it sound like it gets so much worse.
There's definitely something hilarious and sad about all of this.