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They're great at making us look very cool (gregtech.eu)
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[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Tangentially related but I miss the days when the 2016 DOOM Slayer was yet to be confirmed as the original DOOM Guy from 1993. I thought it was way cooler to think that the Slayer was a genderless force of anger against evil and the fully-covering Praetor suit made it easy to think of them that way

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There was absolutely no reason for them to give him a face. Irked me as well.

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

Maybe they wanted to avoid making them that much more like Master Chief. Then again Master Chief is personified by his voice