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  • i tried to look up the case but only get loads of results for fritzl

    what age was his daughter? was he popping viagras and crying ‘this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you?’ i would previously have thought that being able to maintain a boner long enough to rape your own daughter (assuming prepubescent) makes you a paedophile. but having just read the ‘primary or exclusive’ bit of the definition i don’t know what to make of it


  • agree with all of that except the exclusive bit, i’m going to go with the wikipedia definition

    a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children

    which presents a problem for my point, doesn’t it. if you are attracted to children, but not primarily, what are you? a semipaedo? if you only ever told one lie, it doesn’t make you a liar. that is acceptable, even obvious to me. but you only fucked one kid so you’re not a paedophile? i can’t get my head round that








  • I like most games that fall into the category

    same. but considering that, it’s still a bad name for a sub (sub sub) genre at best, not a top level one. your RPG and Action examples are quite right but it’s easy to imagine games as being e.g. action > beat-em-up > roguelike or RPG > TBT> roguelike. it’s the same level as isometric or coop imo

    edit: you’ve helped me talk myself out of my own argument, now i want to spend all my money on combocore and get upset about the inevitable subsequent wave of combolikes


  • i think i agree with this which means i only dislike roguelite as a top level category (but see below). in your mario tennis example it might go something like

    sports ¬ tennis ¬ arcade (as opposed to simulation)

    a mario tennis where it would be practically impossible to win a randomly generated tournament without grinding out some progression would be

    sports ¬ tennis ¬ roguelite

    so it seems to me like roguelite is less useful as a genre rather than just being descriptive of a feature i suppose