I remember reading on a mongolian basket weaving forum that reset era were struggling to figure out if Dustborn was on the nose leftism in action, or a hits too close to home parody they should be concerned and angry about.
Which leads me to believe the thing we all already knew. You can't "do it right" enough for a general consensus, let alone perfect. So we can all stop trying and just go back to making games that are fun instead of ones that tickle our politics.
If it's an ideology so untenuable that it might as well be a nebulous cause that jumps onto the next "thing" to make it a goal, then it's a cult and it should be treated like one, instead of being celebrated.
Given that the giants who wear kilts entertain themselves by tossing entire fucking tree trunks around (and could probably kill me with one punch), I have nothing but respect for kilts 😆
So we can all stop trying and just go back to making games that are fun instead of ones that tickle our politics.
Unfortunately we'd still have some huge hanging problems before anyone who cares still has to deal with before such things could reasonably be enjoyed.
One of the scariest moments of my life... I don't tell this story very often because I don't think I can convey it accurately if you don't already understand how bad the problem is:
A long time ago I was self-described "very liberal" to the point where I was a PhD student in Sociology. Yes, that was me.
But right from the rip it didn't sit well. Why the fuck were we reading Marx on day 1? Why the fuck are these idiots celebrating Freud? I stumbled through two years while always reading stuff on the periphery, as well.
The summer I was supposed to be writing my thesis I was reading. It started with The Myth of Male Power (which is nearly impossible to find now, on purpose) and went into Who Stole Feminism? and went through about 50 other books and dozens of papers.
I came out the other side with a worldview that made sense. I had to believe that my colleagues would be as thrilled as I was to learn something new. We had all talked about the inconsistencies in the coursework and theoretical background, and I thought I had found a missing piece of some value.
I have never in my life seen people so resistant to ideas that weren't in the pre-packaged box. There was no curiosity, there was an immediate "wait, take men's issues seriously? BURN THE HERETIC" backlash. It was immediately obvious these people were so far down the hole there was no coming back. Cognitive Dissonance had long been murdered. And the entire department of professors was united on this.
Classes for my third year started in a week or two. I wrote a very long email telling the powers that be exactly what they could do with a lifetime supply of chocolate and was back home 5 states away within 36 hours.
I ended up moving to Asia for 5 years... that was the depth of my despair. I definitely haven't done that sense justice in this post, either.
When I talk about why I left grad school these days, I usually just refer to it as "staring into an abyss that shook me to my soul."
It is why, more than anything else, I am MAGA to the core. I will stand with people who haven't bludgeoned their common sense to death with postmodernist bullshit every day.
I don't know who else could have broken me from that miasma if not for Trump and his unabashedly pro-America rhetoric. This is the fight worth having.
Sort of, but the problem is that sentinels don’t necessarily stop mutants from being born, and they also don’t really do shit except make the most powerful ones mad (unless we’re playing “alternate future where sentinels killed everyone” instead of “the ten-thousandth guy who can tie reality in knots just showed up” this week).
Really, the best solution is preventing mutants from being born. They’ve done it a couple times. It was a background detail in Logan and a plot point for a while after House of M and maybe in a couple other cases I don’t know about. They always treat it as a bad thing though, instead of having the rational reaction, which is: “oh thank god someone just unloaded the cosmic gun that’s pointed at our heads.”
I still don't believe its real, but only because I've seen how screenshots like these get faked once and then reposted over and over by people who will believe any anti-SJW thing until its just accepted across the board as reality. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was either.
Leftists have a real problem with trying to "reclaim" words and memes. Every year or so they either go all in on trying to make one cool again (there were a slew of comics trying to make "cuck" cool) or make up a variation to try and reverse it (see the word "chud").
It never works, and it only seems to stick around when the Right enjoys successfully reclaiming it (see again, chud).
The left tried to do it with snowflake too. And they'd misuse it when some guy got upset because his business got shut down or his kid was attacked by an illegal. Hahah what a snowflake! Not getting that it was intended for people who are so delicate they breakdown over trivial shit, not about legitimate, horrible grievances. In short, the left is retarded.
Which isn't what snowflake means either. Snowflake came out of the Tumblr bio novels. When you had 4 chronic diseases, 2 mental disorders, and your sensuality was 9 syllables because you had to be SO special.
One of the game mechanics is you use a device to scan the thoughts of random people on the street, and if they have the wrong thoughts you can just delete them to reprogram their entire world view. The characters liken this to moderators removing comments on social media.
I remember reading on a mongolian basket weaving forum that reset era were struggling to figure out if Dustborn was on the nose leftism in action, or a hits too close to home parody they should be concerned and angry about.
Which leads me to believe the thing we all already knew. You can't "do it right" enough for a general consensus, let alone perfect. So we can all stop trying and just go back to making games that are fun instead of ones that tickle our politics.
The ideology isn't tenable, so it looks ridiculous when manifested transparently in art. It wasn't parody. Not purposeful, at least.
If it's an ideology so untenuable that it might as well be a nebulous cause that jumps onto the next "thing" to make it a goal, then it's a cult and it should be treated like one, instead of being celebrated.
How did they not notice how ridiculous it looked when they were making it?
I mean, they don’t notice how ridiculous a 6’5, 282lbs man in a skirt looks 🤷🏼♂️
Kilts excluded. They tried to ruin kilts though.
Given that the giants who wear kilts entertain themselves by tossing entire fucking tree trunks around (and could probably kill me with one punch), I have nothing but respect for kilts 😆
If a man is 6'5 280, I'd say he can just wear it and not give a shit if anyone thinks it's a skirt.
Intravenous 1 and 2 are perfect counter-points. they tickle all my politics and are still great games.
There are great games with political themes but I play games to escape the political world.
Unfortunately we'd still have some huge hanging problems before anyone who cares still has to deal with before such things could reasonably be enjoyed.
I can believe it. The ultimate leftist power fantasy to be able to control other people's thoughts.
"You won't have friends because I canceled you!!"
"You will do things you don't want to do because I bullied you!!"
"You will believe lies because I made them normal!!"
That basically sums up being with a psychopathic narcissist. They're the scariest critters on Earth.
One of the scariest moments of my life... I don't tell this story very often because I don't think I can convey it accurately if you don't already understand how bad the problem is:
A long time ago I was self-described "very liberal" to the point where I was a PhD student in Sociology. Yes, that was me.
But right from the rip it didn't sit well. Why the fuck were we reading Marx on day 1? Why the fuck are these idiots celebrating Freud? I stumbled through two years while always reading stuff on the periphery, as well.
The summer I was supposed to be writing my thesis I was reading. It started with The Myth of Male Power (which is nearly impossible to find now, on purpose) and went into Who Stole Feminism? and went through about 50 other books and dozens of papers.
I came out the other side with a worldview that made sense. I had to believe that my colleagues would be as thrilled as I was to learn something new. We had all talked about the inconsistencies in the coursework and theoretical background, and I thought I had found a missing piece of some value.
I have never in my life seen people so resistant to ideas that weren't in the pre-packaged box. There was no curiosity, there was an immediate "wait, take men's issues seriously? BURN THE HERETIC" backlash. It was immediately obvious these people were so far down the hole there was no coming back. Cognitive Dissonance had long been murdered. And the entire department of professors was united on this.
Classes for my third year started in a week or two. I wrote a very long email telling the powers that be exactly what they could do with a lifetime supply of chocolate and was back home 5 states away within 36 hours.
I ended up moving to Asia for 5 years... that was the depth of my despair. I definitely haven't done that sense justice in this post, either.
When I talk about why I left grad school these days, I usually just refer to it as "staring into an abyss that shook me to my soul."
It is why, more than anything else, I am MAGA to the core. I will stand with people who haven't bludgeoned their common sense to death with postmodernist bullshit every day.
I don't know who else could have broken me from that miasma if not for Trump and his unabashedly pro-America rhetoric. This is the fight worth having.
I dunno moving to Asia for 5 years as a young man sounds pretty cool to me.
I will be remiss if I spend every year of my life in the US because then I'll never know what it really means to miss it.
Every one of these are things these same people have cried were evil, dastardly tactics of far-right abuse, supremacy, and HATE.
Yet these are in the game as points of pride, justice, and virtuous signature moves used by ultra liberals.
Maybe PROJECT was too OP and had to be cut from the game.
like when you say jews control everything, it's antisemitic conspiracies. when jews say they control everything, it's a matter of pride.
celebration parallax
There are no bad tactics, only bad targets.
From what I understand, the normalize ability is used in the game to groom and kidnap a child.
Are we sure it isn’t a satire?
And you just know Larry Fink sees himself as Professor X, instead of that asshole who runs the sentinel factory on Genosha (which is who he REALLY is)
sentinels are a justified response to mutants when there can be one that just wakes up one day and kills a whole town.
Sort of, but the problem is that sentinels don’t necessarily stop mutants from being born, and they also don’t really do shit except make the most powerful ones mad (unless we’re playing “alternate future where sentinels killed everyone” instead of “the ten-thousandth guy who can tie reality in knots just showed up” this week).
Really, the best solution is preventing mutants from being born. They’ve done it a couple times. It was a background detail in Logan and a plot point for a while after House of M and maybe in a couple other cases I don’t know about. They always treat it as a bad thing though, instead of having the rational reaction, which is: “oh thank god someone just unloaded the cosmic gun that’s pointed at our heads.”
Fink is Johnny Sublime
I still don't believe its real, but only because I've seen how screenshots like these get faked once and then reposted over and over by people who will believe any anti-SJW thing until its just accepted across the board as reality. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was either.
Leftists have a real problem with trying to "reclaim" words and memes. Every year or so they either go all in on trying to make one cool again (there were a slew of comics trying to make "cuck" cool) or make up a variation to try and reverse it (see the word "chud").
It never works, and it only seems to stick around when the Right enjoys successfully reclaiming it (see again, chud).
The left tried to do it with snowflake too. And they'd misuse it when some guy got upset because his business got shut down or his kid was attacked by an illegal. Hahah what a snowflake! Not getting that it was intended for people who are so delicate they breakdown over trivial shit, not about legitimate, horrible grievances. In short, the left is retarded.
Which isn't what snowflake means either. Snowflake came out of the Tumblr bio novels. When you had 4 chronic diseases, 2 mental disorders, and your sensuality was 9 syllables because you had to be SO special.
It was Special Snowflake not Fragile Snowflake.
you can find plenty of gameplays showing these on the tube
It's completely serious and sincere, like all of the completely psychotic things they've done in the last 10 years.
One of the game mechanics is you use a device to scan the thoughts of random people on the street, and if they have the wrong thoughts you can just delete them to reprogram their entire world view. The characters liken this to moderators removing comments on social media.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker were right: It is literally impossible to parody the current year.
every time you parody the leftist, one is spawned in with those exact beliefs and more.
So they're gonna quit finally?
I like how the dace of the Strong Independent Black Female Lead Character® gets angrier and angrier in each subsequent screenshot.
This looks like a Persona game if it was made by the gayest jewish niggerfaggots on earth
and lemme guess the "normalize" ability is used to turn a dude gay?
I'm old enough that their walking around telling each other KYS used to bother me. Now, they need to stop making empty promises.