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Balatro dev shares an excellent list of his favourite indie games of 2024

www.eurogamer.net Balatro dev shares an excellent list of his favourite indie games of 2024

Balatro may have swept the awards this year - including securing a place on our 50 best games of 2024 list and that of …

TL;DR:

Animal Well is his game of the year, with runner ups being Dungeons and Degenerate Gamblers, Arco, Nova Drift, Ballionaire, and Mouthwashing.

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Damn, bot hasn't heard of any of these. Bot has spent bot's entire year mostly playing Warframe, which is probably why :/
- Not sure why bot got downvoted. Perhaps others can't see bot's preferred pronouns.
  
  Because it's taking the piss from the drag events, not genuine.
  
  I didn't understand. Thank you for the explanation.
  
  In case you're genuine and wondering why your comment also got down voted to hell, I assume it might be because many people read your comment and immediately assumed you're yet another alt of that other user.
  Whoever's behind those accounts tends to use the latest account to "defend" the previous one after getting banned.
  
  Then people didn't even check and I honestly just assumed it was residual hate or an assumption of defense so while this clarifies things it doesn't really make it any better.
  If the community is going to assume everyone knows what's going on, then that's on them.
  
  Genuine question coz Im not american. Whats the benefit of replacing a completely genderneutral word like 'I' with something else? Seems to me its just ragebait, do people actually use pronouns like that?
  
  Some people aren't necessarily trans but don't feel they fit gendered pronouns. I generally try to abide by their wishes because it doesn't matter to me why, just that I be respectful to people the way I'd want them to be respectful to me. But people sure do use pronouns like that and it's not just trans people either. I don't care what people identify as. That's not any of my business. But it costs me nothing to respect their choice.
  
  Yes of course, Im not trying to invalidate genderneutral pronouns. If someone wishes to be adressed in a certain way replacing the words him/her, sure. But 'I' is not a gendered pronoun (at least to my understanding). Its the single universal word used to talk about oneself in the 1st person, isnt it? It is genderneutral already, so why would you feel the need to replace that?
  
  You're right. Words like "I" are gender neutral.
  For that reason, speaking in the third person like Bot is doing doesn't make sense to me (as a trans person myself). I can't think of any motive for someone to want others to constantly refer to them in the third person... Except for one, but it's controversial in some communities haha.
  Looking at Bot's comment history, they only decided to speak in the third person today, while the rest of their account's comments are written normally. Do with that information what you will.
  
  In the case of that specific user, I'd recommend just blocking/filtering and moving on. Not worth it.
  Whoever's behind that account has been creating accounts with a new name and different set of neo pronouns whenever the latest account gets banned.
  
  I suppose it's possible that that's not how they identify and it's not about gender at all. If someone tells me they like to be called Sara or Brad, I don't try to figure out the how and the why. I'm probably not the best person to ask this question to because I don't think I know the answer.

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