Basically. All you're taught your whole life is shitlibbery. Even if you're raised "conservative" it's shitlibbery from decades past mixed in with just enough traditionalism to make it palatable.
The only way you come around to this side is if you see something that makes you realize "hey this shit ain't working, and it's not going to start working just by doing more of it"
Even if you're raised "conservative" it's shitlibbery from decades past
The mainstream conservative movement really is ridiculously cucked. I heard a joke criticizing them, and it's sad because it's so true: It would be radical and absurd for a modern Republican to propose Obama's spending bill from five years ago. That would be so out there, you'd get laughed out of the room. What are they conserving exactly? Apparently they're not even conserving the liberal paradigm they "compromised" on last cycle, since they've already compromised on more recent stuff since then!
Also, apparently we have a "Republican climate change caucus" or something, too...?
There's some good politicians in there but, by and large, the party is an absolute joke. At least they're not actively trying to destroy us, though...for the most part. God forbid you peacefully protest, though. They'll throw you under the bus so hard if you actually try to make your voice heard.
Yes this is why when people ask why the left doesn't act as though they respect the right I say the right hasn't given them any reason to do so.
They'll vehemently "oppose" (but not really because they never truly put up a proper fight) something like gay marriage then 10 years later declare it a "conservative value" while they're vehemently "opposing" Drag Queen Story Hour.
Why should your opponent respect you when they know when they win you'll simply take their side in 10 years?
There's a lot of that, I've started to pick up on it a ton in my family in the past year. I call them church conservatives because they only don't vote Democrat because of their church and it's stance on abortion and homos. Things I could never get behind like socialist programs, stimulus, mask mandates, lockdowns, vaccine passports, etc. they are all good with. Maybe not to the extreme of a liberal, but they support them.
This group is almost all women, and what men they surround themselves with are cucks. Perhaps not cucked in the sense of a 20-something soyboy wife's boyfriend type, but they dare not stand in the way of what the woman wants. Partly the reason I harp on about the influence of the men I had around growing up, because the stand on your own two feet, take care of yourself, think for yourself, and be independent all came from them. The ones of those men that are left in the family are either divorced or deceased at this point unfortunately.
Yeah, I remember there was some serious pushback on half-Kia about this shit, even a lot of people insisting that we won and that there was nothing left to fight for (lol).
It should be abundantly clear by now the amount of people who didn’t really give a shit about globohomo infiltration and we’re only involved because they were consoomers who were just afraid their favorite games were being taken away.
Once it was directly tied to the left, the liberal side of KIA and GG noped out and freaked because it was their special political side, which isn't a surprise when you realize most of the big names are now openly leftist.
It should be abundantly clear by now the amount of people who didn’t really give a shit about globohomo infiltration and we’re only involved because they were consoomers
I can't count the number of times I've read on HalfKiA, "I know the producers and the talent involved with X are all racist shitbags who hate me, and that X is nothing like what I want X to be, but I can't wait to buy it anyway because I'm such a huge fan of the franchise."
It's just unreal. I want to grab these people and say, "GET A LIFE!"
There was always a certain cohort who didn't like the other people they ended up being thrown into the pit with and tried their damnedest to limit the scope of their opposition to the regime in an attempt to avoid being completely cast out of polite society.
These people for example didn't understand what the big deal was when the exact same activist crowd wanted women in the Boy Scouts. Or wanted to do the exact same thing to comic books as they did to video games. Or Open Source.
I remember getting downvoted and shouted at back when GG started for saying this rabbit hole went a lot deeper. That this was a full "culture war" bigger than games, and involved hard stances on women, race, and Leftism entirely.
But you know, at least they got to feel powerful making small changes on the small stages they fought while ignoring the looming death bleeding poison into the industry anyway.
Thia has always been a war against the left entire. Without being able to put a name to your enemy, delaying actions and retreat is all that any group can do.
There are many, many battlefronts, but only one enemy.
And yet when you name that enemy, people screech that it's actually muh Joos because the Pfizer CEO is Jewish (even though the vaccine is produced by BioNTech and licensed by Pfizer.)
What do Citibank, Mastercard, the Federal Reserve, the CDC and the Nasdaq have in common?
If someone points out that LGBT are massively overrepresented in media, you probably nod your head in agreement. They're only about 3% of the population, so why are they in every television show?
If someone points out that blacks are massively overrepresented in violent crime stats, you probably nod your head in agreement. They're only about 13% of the population, so why are they committing half of the murders?
But if someone points out that a certain tribe is massively overrepresented in government, media, finance, academia, and business, you shake your head no and call that person a stormfag. This ethnic demographic are only 3% of the population, too, but they dominate almost every center of money, power, and influence in the West.
What if Jews are that much higher IQ and more hard working than other groups?
Although the real answer is nepotism. Same with women and gays. Whenever they take over a place they prefer to hire more of "their kind".
But in the case of Jews they already have an image of being hyper-successful, so the stereotype works in their favor even from non-Jews. Like even black guys will favor hiring Jews as their accountants and managers because they have a reputation. Which further strengthens their position.
So I can recognize the pattern without attributing some centuries-long plot to it.
You make a compelling argument. I bow to the superior intellect in the room, ranking among the most elite of Jewry. I'll think about everything you said and work hard to be better.
Casual reminder of that time pornhubkatie brought up Jews out of nowhere during an AMA about incest porn because NPCs don't pay attention to context before throwing out their buzzwords
I wish I had that naivety. Listening to Rush Limbaugh showed the collusion by media to spin a narrative of false victims and false facts has been around f-o-r-e-v-e-r
It's the same old story of control. They started with the news media, before realising most half intelligent people see right through fake news. So they came for our entertainment, which was much more effective.
Our culture is so infantilised and most people are latched onto entertainment media like good little consoomers, so the pipeline of woke bullshit into their heads is more direct than they could have possibly dreamed.
It's all well and good for people to start waking up, but until they grow a spine and actually start doing something it'll just be the tired old story of reasonable people ceding more and more control to lunatic leftards, as has ALWAYS been the case.
Inflation is here to stay. Parasites demanding more free money will just make it worse. The pain begins soon. With pain comes motivation to ask questions about your life and beliefs, and eventually, to take action.
I don't really follow Hearthstone but Trump and Alliestraza delayed their cards because of the Blizzard lawsuit, they were celebrated, but the same people refused to fight against China and they aren't criticized.
A good strategy that should have been implemented from day one would be to call attention to good comics/movies/videogames/media, thereby driving sales away from the corrupt bullshit and to quality entertainment...
GG SHOULD of went on the offensive and fought back but every call to action from emails to boycotts was met with "don't do that, that's what the SJWs do!".
Richard C. Meyer, the "ya boi Zack" guy, eschews boycotts for what he calls "buycotts," basically saying "buy these books, they're legitimately good."
He also makes comics, which doesn't hurt.
Right now, I think that's the best strategy. Don't try to make "anti-sjw" games, just make good games. Look at how the indy market is blowing up. You've got a lot of crap, sure, but you've got a lot of legitimately amazing games, even if they're not the most polished. (you've also got some stuff I don't know how to categorize, like FNAF, but that's beside the point, lmao)
Look how fast the woke crap flounders and dies, while the stuff that just tries to be good thrives, even at the corporate studios. (Doom 2016 being a solid example).
Have an alternative to the woke crap in every medium, and you'll start to see a shift. Push a little harder and people start to listen. Corporations don't give a flying fuck about "muh diversity," they just want to make bank, so you have to show them that they're bottom line will hurt if they keep supporting this garbage.
I'm not saying trust these companies, just understand how they work and where their loyalties lie. Like any good mercenary, they'll go where the gold flows like water.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, lol, but basically yes.
On the subject, I've been dinking around, trying to set up a Lakka/ChimeraOS machine, but unfortunately, I think My 10yo hdds are having none of it, lmao
Videogames are actually an amazing indicator of where things are going. Most fans like new technology and how to use it. So they often get into things before anyone else.
Want 3D? The only people with experience in 3D real time physics was military simulators. Need the guy to move fluidly? That's a medical tech no one really knows what to do with. So making Mortal Kombat 4 meant using people from those industries so the game looked good. Literally the guys who made that game went on to help with Gollum in the Lord of the Rings and other stuff.
Meanwhile, fans were figuring out how to emulate or port games to their PCs. They created download programs and info checkers so someone could continue to download even after a phone call stopped everything. Suddenly I miss Go Zilla.
So we have been ahead of the curve for a long time. A lot of cover had to happen so we didn't find out the big dirty secrets about the industry. I think the one that shocked me the most was the console wars between Genesis and Super Nintendo. It turns out Sega lied about their console sales numbers to cover for other stuff. Nintendo's first real competition news Sony, and even then it looks like Sony lied a lot. For example, they were happy to talk about MK4 and motion capture, but not the 3D simulation part.
I guess this explains a lot. Gamers got old enough to look at statistics and talk to other gamers around the world. The usual subterfuge others could use didn't work anymore. That's probably the reason why so many companies went SJW. The average fan could see through bullshit, but SJWs can't. So, they stopped aiming for gamers.
KotakuInAction1 does itself a disservice by forcing everyone to keep their posting related to video-game-related happenings.
Eh, that's a completely valid mission statement. Not everyone has to want to be in the culture war.
My objection would be it was obviously done against the will of the userbase, who were interested in such things. That's what I object to. I've got nothing against a community that either doesn't want to be political, or wants to focus on a certain subset of politics. But I despise the censorship and authoritarianism of trying to stop people who want to talk about such things from doing so.
But, hey, it's not all bad. That's how we ended up with the based KiA2.
Disagree completely. The notion that you can call out bad video game journalism without ever noticing or addressing the fact that literally every bad journo is a frothing radical leftist is asinine.
I'm just saying, if a community wants to focus on video game related politics, I don't have an issue with that. For the record, I absolutely agree that they're related, and it would be pretty obtuse, but not everyone wants to be bombarded with this nonsense day in and day out. If people just want to talk vidya and game journo soyboys, that's fine with me. The people that want to talk about other more meaningful stuff still can too. The only reason halfKiA and KiA2 had to split is because the mods were deciding what people could talk about. And that's the bad part.
Honestly, considering there is so much activity in KiA2, it's pretty obvious that most people did want to talk about things beyond vidya. I was mostly arguing the theoretical anyway. Obviously people do want to talk broader politics, and I agree that's a good thing.
So what you're saying is the pipeline to the "alt-right" (whatever that is) is real and the pipeline is bad experiences with shitlib ideology
Basically. All you're taught your whole life is shitlibbery. Even if you're raised "conservative" it's shitlibbery from decades past mixed in with just enough traditionalism to make it palatable.
The only way you come around to this side is if you see something that makes you realize "hey this shit ain't working, and it's not going to start working just by doing more of it"
The mainstream conservative movement really is ridiculously cucked. I heard a joke criticizing them, and it's sad because it's so true: It would be radical and absurd for a modern Republican to propose Obama's spending bill from five years ago. That would be so out there, you'd get laughed out of the room. What are they conserving exactly? Apparently they're not even conserving the liberal paradigm they "compromised" on last cycle, since they've already compromised on more recent stuff since then!
Also, apparently we have a "Republican climate change caucus" or something, too...?
There's some good politicians in there but, by and large, the party is an absolute joke. At least they're not actively trying to destroy us, though...for the most part. God forbid you peacefully protest, though. They'll throw you under the bus so hard if you actually try to make your voice heard.
For most of the politicians, it's conserving being an opposition party. That's about it.
Yes this is why when people ask why the left doesn't act as though they respect the right I say the right hasn't given them any reason to do so.
They'll vehemently "oppose" (but not really because they never truly put up a proper fight) something like gay marriage then 10 years later declare it a "conservative value" while they're vehemently "opposing" Drag Queen Story Hour.
Why should your opponent respect you when they know when they win you'll simply take their side in 10 years?
There's a lot of that, I've started to pick up on it a ton in my family in the past year. I call them church conservatives because they only don't vote Democrat because of their church and it's stance on abortion and homos. Things I could never get behind like socialist programs, stimulus, mask mandates, lockdowns, vaccine passports, etc. they are all good with. Maybe not to the extreme of a liberal, but they support them.
This group is almost all women, and what men they surround themselves with are cucks. Perhaps not cucked in the sense of a 20-something soyboy wife's boyfriend type, but they dare not stand in the way of what the woman wants. Partly the reason I harp on about the influence of the men I had around growing up, because the stand on your own two feet, take care of yourself, think for yourself, and be independent all came from them. The ones of those men that are left in the family are either divorced or deceased at this point unfortunately.
Imagine that. ;)
Yeah, I remember there was some serious pushback on half-Kia about this shit, even a lot of people insisting that we won and that there was nothing left to fight for (lol).
It should be abundantly clear by now the amount of people who didn’t really give a shit about globohomo infiltration and we’re only involved because they were consoomers who were just afraid their favorite games were being taken away.
Once it was directly tied to the left, the liberal side of KIA and GG noped out and freaked because it was their special political side, which isn't a surprise when you realize most of the big names are now openly leftist.
I can't count the number of times I've read on HalfKiA, "I know the producers and the talent involved with X are all racist shitbags who hate me, and that X is nothing like what I want X to be, but I can't wait to buy it anyway because I'm such a huge fan of the franchise."
It's just unreal. I want to grab these people and say, "GET A LIFE!"
There was always a certain cohort who didn't like the other people they ended up being thrown into the pit with and tried their damnedest to limit the scope of their opposition to the regime in an attempt to avoid being completely cast out of polite society.
These people for example didn't understand what the big deal was when the exact same activist crowd wanted women in the Boy Scouts. Or wanted to do the exact same thing to comic books as they did to video games. Or Open Source.
I remember getting downvoted and shouted at back when GG started for saying this rabbit hole went a lot deeper. That this was a full "culture war" bigger than games, and involved hard stances on women, race, and Leftism entirely.
But you know, at least they got to feel powerful making small changes on the small stages they fought while ignoring the looming death bleeding poison into the industry anyway.
Remember the Frankfurt institute thread and how salty people got?
Julian Assange himself told us directly that all of this went well beyond videogame journalism.
Look, the gods of Gamergate once told me that Antifa attacking Journalists is neither Social Justice or Ethics in Journalism.
Who are we to question such brilliant minds?!
Thia has always been a war against the left entire. Without being able to put a name to your enemy, delaying actions and retreat is all that any group can do.
There are many, many battlefronts, but only one enemy.
And yet when you name that enemy, people screech that it's actually muh Joos because the Pfizer CEO is Jewish (even though the vaccine is produced by BioNTech and licensed by Pfizer.)
What do Citibank, Mastercard, the Federal Reserve, the CDC and the Nasdaq have in common?
If someone points out that LGBT are massively overrepresented in media, you probably nod your head in agreement. They're only about 3% of the population, so why are they in every television show?
If someone points out that blacks are massively overrepresented in violent crime stats, you probably nod your head in agreement. They're only about 13% of the population, so why are they committing half of the murders?
But if someone points out that a certain tribe is massively overrepresented in government, media, finance, academia, and business, you shake your head no and call that person a stormfag. This ethnic demographic are only 3% of the population, too, but they dominate almost every center of money, power, and influence in the West.
The incongruity is pathetic.
What if Jews are that much higher IQ and more hard working than other groups?
Although the real answer is nepotism. Same with women and gays. Whenever they take over a place they prefer to hire more of "their kind".
But in the case of Jews they already have an image of being hyper-successful, so the stereotype works in their favor even from non-Jews. Like even black guys will favor hiring Jews as their accountants and managers because they have a reputation. Which further strengthens their position.
So I can recognize the pattern without attributing some centuries-long plot to it.
Their IQ isn't the issue here, it's what they do with the control they wield. All of this globohomo shit is their fault.
You make a compelling argument. I bow to the superior intellect in the room, ranking among the most elite of Jewry. I'll think about everything you said and work hard to be better.
Casual reminder of that time pornhubkatie brought up Jews out of nowhere during an AMA about incest porn because NPCs don't pay attention to context before throwing out their buzzwords
https://archive.fo/QESL7
You do realize that Talmudic Judaism is passed down through the mother's side?
Our culture and art is reflective of our society.. everything is turning ugly, fat, anti-man and anti-light skin complexion.
More queer and queer.
I wish I had that naivety. Listening to Rush Limbaugh showed the collusion by media to spin a narrative of false victims and false facts has been around f-o-r-e-v-e-r
It's the same old story of control. They started with the news media, before realising most half intelligent people see right through fake news. So they came for our entertainment, which was much more effective.
Our culture is so infantilised and most people are latched onto entertainment media like good little consoomers, so the pipeline of woke bullshit into their heads is more direct than they could have possibly dreamed.
It's all well and good for people to start waking up, but until they grow a spine and actually start doing something it'll just be the tired old story of reasonable people ceding more and more control to lunatic leftards, as has ALWAYS been the case.
Inflation is here to stay. Parasites demanding more free money will just make it worse. The pain begins soon. With pain comes motivation to ask questions about your life and beliefs, and eventually, to take action.
I miss when people weren't so cucked.
I don't really follow Hearthstone but Trump and Alliestraza delayed their cards because of the Blizzard lawsuit, they were celebrated, but the same people refused to fight against China and they aren't criticized.
A good strategy that should have been implemented from day one would be to call attention to good comics/movies/videogames/media, thereby driving sales away from the corrupt bullshit and to quality entertainment...
GG SHOULD of went on the offensive and fought back but every call to action from emails to boycotts was met with "don't do that, that's what the SJWs do!".
It's not too late, honestly.
Richard C. Meyer, the "ya boi Zack" guy, eschews boycotts for what he calls "buycotts," basically saying "buy these books, they're legitimately good."
He also makes comics, which doesn't hurt.
Right now, I think that's the best strategy. Don't try to make "anti-sjw" games, just make good games. Look at how the indy market is blowing up. You've got a lot of crap, sure, but you've got a lot of legitimately amazing games, even if they're not the most polished. (you've also got some stuff I don't know how to categorize, like FNAF, but that's beside the point, lmao)
Look how fast the woke crap flounders and dies, while the stuff that just tries to be good thrives, even at the corporate studios. (Doom 2016 being a solid example).
Have an alternative to the woke crap in every medium, and you'll start to see a shift. Push a little harder and people start to listen. Corporations don't give a flying fuck about "muh diversity," they just want to make bank, so you have to show them that they're bottom line will hurt if they keep supporting this garbage.
I'm not saying trust these companies, just understand how they work and where their loyalties lie. Like any good mercenary, they'll go where the gold flows like water.
What's it's about?
Ah, current events, lol.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, lol, but basically yes.
On the subject, I've been dinking around, trying to set up a Lakka/ChimeraOS machine, but unfortunately, I think My 10yo hdds are having none of it, lmao
Videogames are actually an amazing indicator of where things are going. Most fans like new technology and how to use it. So they often get into things before anyone else.
Want 3D? The only people with experience in 3D real time physics was military simulators. Need the guy to move fluidly? That's a medical tech no one really knows what to do with. So making Mortal Kombat 4 meant using people from those industries so the game looked good. Literally the guys who made that game went on to help with Gollum in the Lord of the Rings and other stuff.
Meanwhile, fans were figuring out how to emulate or port games to their PCs. They created download programs and info checkers so someone could continue to download even after a phone call stopped everything. Suddenly I miss Go Zilla.
So we have been ahead of the curve for a long time. A lot of cover had to happen so we didn't find out the big dirty secrets about the industry. I think the one that shocked me the most was the console wars between Genesis and Super Nintendo. It turns out Sega lied about their console sales numbers to cover for other stuff. Nintendo's first real competition news Sony, and even then it looks like Sony lied a lot. For example, they were happy to talk about MK4 and motion capture, but not the 3D simulation part.
I guess this explains a lot. Gamers got old enough to look at statistics and talk to other gamers around the world. The usual subterfuge others could use didn't work anymore. That's probably the reason why so many companies went SJW. The average fan could see through bullshit, but SJWs can't. So, they stopped aiming for gamers.
Indeed.
They knew we had just caught a glimpse of what was really going on. They knew we were ready to leave Plato's cave.
Eh, that's a completely valid mission statement. Not everyone has to want to be in the culture war.
My objection would be it was obviously done against the will of the userbase, who were interested in such things. That's what I object to. I've got nothing against a community that either doesn't want to be political, or wants to focus on a certain subset of politics. But I despise the censorship and authoritarianism of trying to stop people who want to talk about such things from doing so.
But, hey, it's not all bad. That's how we ended up with the based KiA2.
Disagree completely. The notion that you can call out bad video game journalism without ever noticing or addressing the fact that literally every bad journo is a frothing radical leftist is asinine.
I'm just saying, if a community wants to focus on video game related politics, I don't have an issue with that. For the record, I absolutely agree that they're related, and it would be pretty obtuse, but not everyone wants to be bombarded with this nonsense day in and day out. If people just want to talk vidya and game journo soyboys, that's fine with me. The people that want to talk about other more meaningful stuff still can too. The only reason halfKiA and KiA2 had to split is because the mods were deciding what people could talk about. And that's the bad part.
Honestly, considering there is so much activity in KiA2, it's pretty obvious that most people did want to talk about things beyond vidya. I was mostly arguing the theoretical anyway. Obviously people do want to talk broader politics, and I agree that's a good thing.