• Obinice@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’ve managed to avoid finding out what the slang term skibidi means so far, somehow.

    I guess it just doesn’t come up in the media I consume. Not heard Kruggsmash or Technology Connections mention it yet :-P

    But yes slang aside, I’ve never enjoyed toilet humour, even as a child. Maybe because I’m very hygienic? It just disgusts me, haha. So this is good news.

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      2 months ago

      It also doesn’t mean anything. It’s not even slang, it’s just a meme reference.

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      2 months ago

      Skibidi is a machinima. Like in ye olden times when we used gmod to make movies / animations / shitposts. Just another generation of people leaving their mark on the world. They do have source filmmaker now, so that makes it higher quality than the physgun posed animation way back when.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I feel like a game like Borderlands needs to lead, not follow. They took some risks with BL3 that did not pay off, but the playability of the game was significantly improved.

    Naming a character “skibidi” is moronic in the sense that, this is already a meme. If it get put in the game, they’re just trying to be cool for the sake of it. It’s a very “hello, fellow kids” kind of thing.

    Borderlands, instead, should have some creativity with what’s being said and done in the game. Take a look at Tina for a second. When she’s introduced, she’s unapologetically strange. You either work with her on that level, or not at all. IMO, that’s why Tina is a fan favorite. The absurd and borderline insane statements she constantly makes is the reason that she is so well liked. She makes sense in an almost frightening and sociopathic way… And we love that about her.

    Going to the length of dragging Gen Z memes into the game for no good reason isn’t going to help, and will, in all likelihood, make things very bad. It’s just, in bad taste, lazy, and a cop out IMO. With such interesting and absurd stuff already in the game, like butt stallion, CL4P-TP, BNK-3R, and more than I could possibly think of or remember that are amazing… They’re going to stoop to a pop culture meme instead?

    Borderlands is about being weird and original with stuff, and some things really work, others, not so much. And that’s what made the series great IMO. They took chances, and went out on a limb for a joke, sometimes literally.

    I mean, who can forget shooty mcface? That’s a footnote in a quest and it’s honestly really funny, weird and something that sticks with you. That’s what Borderlands should be. It’s not some meme pop culture reference machine.

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    2 months ago

    If this is the message they took from Borderlands 3 then I don’t have high hopes for this game. Borderlands 3 was boring. The story was subpar and almost every single item in the game was utterly pointless due to the ridiculously high legendary drop rate.

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    2 months ago

    Fell off, if this was some millennial Nyan Cat they’d feel so clever, also the loot containers were toilets it writes itself

  • Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I got to about level 5 in borderlands 3 and just gave up… It felt like a slap in the face after the great stories of borderlands and borderlands 2. The third attempt seemed like it was written by 13 year old boys…

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      2 months ago

      Complaining that Borderlands 3 has a juvenile tone, while praising the first two games great stories, feels disingenuous. Or, at the very least, it reads as excessively nostalgic.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 months ago

        Borderlands 2 was written by Anthony Burch, and featured a lot of HAWP style humor. It had plenty of material that didn’t land but plenty that hit the mark.

        Burch also set a bar that 3 failed abysmally.

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    2 months ago

    Why? Are we allergic to fun now? Worried that this franchise is just going to be yet another shooty shooty bang bang with no discernable characters or story, just skins, guns, and microtransactions.