Dragon Age: The Veilguard has received numerous criticisms since its full unveiling a few months ago. These criticisms have taken aim at the game’s new art style, its writing, its character design, it abandoning player world states, and generally how unfamiliar it feels in comparison to its legacy. It has also been engulfed by the […]
      • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
        7·
        2 months ago

        It’s a very overused and absolutely terrible use of a word.

        For two reasons:

        1. It has a predefined meaning, and if you read what the DA creators say, they’re not actually “slamming” it. While they’re pretty openly hostile - and for good reason - that’s a far cry from what someone “slamming” someone else or a quote would be.
        2. It’s inclusion in the headline is for sensationalism, which would not be needed as the “You’re an idiot!”-quote already does that. Or maybe it’s just surprising how desensitivized people on the net are nowadays.

        To think it further, consider the whole headline had been slam-ified:

        Dragon Age GOATs slam “woke” lollerz: “Cry moar!”

        • can@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          2 months ago

          It’s included in headlines is because it’s a small word. At least historically. Now it’s just a holdover.