• heavy@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    I’m actually surprised to see how many people want Samus in Fortnite. I just don’t understand, what does it matter? If you want to see your favorite character in something, you can go consume their media. What about shooting a gun and doing a dance makes it special?

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      7 months ago

      People can use skins to show that they’re fans of a particular work. The Metroid fans want to socially signal their Metroid fandom in Fortnite, which is a social game home to many non Metroid fans they can posture to.

      It’s like wearing a costume to Comicon.

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        7 months ago

        The costume analogy makes sense, everything else sounds kinda weird to me but I’m not trying to judge.

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        7 months ago

        So Epic games makes all that money because people want to teabag as their favorite characters?

        Man we live in wild times 🙂

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      7 months ago

      you can go consume their media

      Can they, though? Can they?