Reading through Tumblr crap. I've always wanted to post a detailed breakdown analysis type thing for VII (I do a lot of them here already, even if they aren't particularly organised), but I would get eaten alive by angry fangirls on one side and paedophiles on the other.
On a scale of one to ten, with ten being MLP, how terrible is Half-Life's fanbase?
edited 15th Jul '14 8:53:46 AM by GameSpazzer
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I'd give it about a three, mostly because of the MLP fandom overlap and the couple of fuckasses that draw sexified whitewashed Alyx or G-Man having rape stuff done to him.
Almost everyone understands the point of the story, and dare I say that even the yaoi is marginally tasteful? I mean, yeah, it's a stretch to have Gordon and Barney lovin' each other up since they're both canonically straight, but they're both drawn looking like they should (nobody looks like a girl) and the worst I've seen was just smooching. Alyx is universally revered and never demonized, the pug-ugly vortigaunts are cooed over and everyone just seems to be really, really chill.
I haven't even gotten started on the fanart. HOO DAMN. There's a reason why my gallery is so well-stocked with nice pictures of Gordon. I hope I'm not overselling it, but this is pretty much all of the good parts of the Portal fandom with none of the shrieky teenagers. It's doesn't detract from the game and actually kinda enhances it at times.
So yeh.
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You know I wouldn't be surprised if this was all Homucifer's fault.