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dev comments are too ironic this year
too many developers are using the opportunity to be funny, or irony poisoned, and are using the developer comments to basically post on the internet. it's literally like i'm reading tweets on the loading screen. one of them is like "real gamers know how to pronounce coup de grace". another one is like "did you see the bug where alucard was riding a rainbow capybara while in chase with the trapper?".
i want to illustrate why this is boring by highlighting a really wonderful developer comment. it's a lovely story, with a lovely mental image, and it completely changes how i look at a piece of dead by daylight. it's the story of how snug's pawprints were created using the pawprints of a developer's real-life dog, a border collie named Taro. for the rest of my life, i'm going to be thinking about Taro, this developer's border collie, and how her pawprints are leaving their mark all over the entity's realm, and will be leaving her marks forever, long after she's gone.
i am not going to be thinking about weird posts about alucard riding a capybara.
i understand that this is a space where the developers can say whatever they want, and by all means, feel free to say whatever you want. but there's just a little too irony poisoning. too much detached internet posting for my tastes. i really feel like i am just reading tweets, and they're not even curated tweets about dbd from the internet, they're more like dbd-themed tweets from the developers.
i wish you were using this space to tell me more heartfelt factoids that change the way i think about a small piece of the game. the little sliver of love and soul that went into every stitch along the seam that holds this game together. i know it's scary being genuine online, but Taro's story really touched me. i hope more of you have the confidence to do the same next year.
thanks.
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To be totally honest, I've never been a huge fan of them. Anecdotes like the one you shared are cool, I'll admit. But they usually tend to go more on the side of "We have the best community ever!!" (are they being serious 😭) or rando stuff like you mentioned. In another thread I brought up the old anniversary comments about Trickster, which were really thirsty and kinda gross and weird. Often times they make me feel an even stronger disconnect from the devs, but that might just be me.
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omg let ppl have fun XD
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Oh god, I love them for that. Most people DO mispronounce coup de grace. I was watching a streamer who managed to get all THREE of the words wrong.
Can we also give lessons on how to pluralise survivor names too? its 'Leons' not 'Leon's' and the plural of Nancy is Nancys not Nancies
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i LOVE Coop dee Greys
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SERIOUSLY, holy crap
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ok, then let me turn it off 👍
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close your eyes if it bothers you so much :P you don't HAVE to read it XD
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you're sooooo in favour of peoples' freedoms except when it's mine. "let people have fun" turns into "don't like? don't look" when i want to turn it off.
this game got so much more annoying when it started trying to be funny everywhere. funny quippy oneliners on the loading screen into funny quippy oneliners being delivered by the funny quippy killers. and then we have funny quippy survivors saying iconic funny moment quips like "stupid hook". and now the funny quippy event with the funny quippy character that pops up to quip funnily at you during the match.
truly and completely irony poisoned, and i want to turn it all off! i don't want to see it any more. i don't want to hear it. i don't want it in my matches. this is beyond "you don't have to read it", because i also have to hear it, even when i'm not playing the characters that do it.
give me a "funny" setting so i can turn all of this off and eliminate all the superfluous voice lines.
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you have YOUR freedom. you don't control the game. XD
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