Its one of those movies that every good line has been quoted and referenced into the ground, likely before you even knew where it was from. So it can never actually be as good as it was to watch back in the day or as a youngin who didn't have the time to here all of that.
Its the culmination of the liberalization of media. Rurals are constantly shown to be uneducated, racist, and traditional in all their values in the media. This is the most terrifying thing possible to a soft Leftie urban bug, someone who not only rejects their political pedestal but also is immune to their shaming tactics to get them into line.
As such, these "hicks" can be assigned every negative trait under the sun for any horror you want. Want them to be cannibals? Texas Chainsaw got you covered. Gay rapists? Deliverance got it. Literally deformed demons? Wrong Turn is here!
What the Southerners/Rurals/Hillbillies actually are or believe is irrelevant. What's important is the Lefties consider them subhuman, so bad writers can just slap random evil on them and no one will raise an eyebrow about it.
I'm putting Funny Games twice because it came out in 97 and 07 with the remake, and both are equally good sans small casting details. So that's two decades covered.
While it falls into the "fuck you for watching this" type of subversive film making we've come to know so well in recent years, its doing it well before that was a political jab and does it philosophically instead. And its still an all around good movie besides. The tension in a few scenes is so uncomfortably thick it will hurt you worse than any jumpscare or bloodbath.
I've also just got a soft spot for Stan Hellsing, no good reason. I just think it deserves better than being overshadowed by the Scary Movie series.
I think most of the original run is still good to this day, minus maybe a few stinkers I've forgotten that every show has.
Everything from that moment on has been trash, and the only times it wasn't trash was when it was deliberately trying to manipulate you like the episode with his Mom trying to ape the Dog episode.
I still can't decide of the Evolution episode, the Gay marriage one or the not-Obama one is the most actually offensive thing I've seen a show try to pull. Not throwaway jokes like Family Guy or South Park, but full on no subtlety liberal propaganda spots.
New World was probably the most "successful" of Amazons gaming division, and it made it maybe a few months at best before everyone dumped it. And it was one of many huge money dumps they tried to get going that went nowhere.
They needed to get out years ago when it was clear they had nothing but "infinite money" behind them.
"Cuck" has lost most of its meaning in modern discourse, and most of the times its meaning is "is with a woman who wasn't a virgin" or even just "got disrespected by a woman."
Its the "Right's" version of things like "incel," where its use is meant to be emotionally charged rather than accurate. Because no one wants to be a "cuck" or even "defend cucking" so you can just use it liberally and everyone continues to go along with it.
The "first season" of a renewal from a big nostalgia show is always huge, and this convinces the execs to keep it going because "everyone clearly loved it!" Only for the following ones to recieve basically a fraction of the views.
Look at what happened to Futurama, its happened multiple times to that one show alone and every time it becomes a joke by the time the S2/3 finish.
I'm sure plenty of idiots watched it, but I doubt they will return in nearly the same numbers for more.
He's really in a lose lose situation. He is very front facing and out there doing shit, compared to most VPs who hide in the background doing basically nothing beyond token appearances. The moment he isn't in full lockstep with Trump on something the opposition will explode and never stop hounding them trying to shove the wedge in and waste a lot of their time dealing with it.
Its the problem where our political system isn't based around principles, but business, optics, and other nonsense that keeps compromises constantly happening.
Honestly, not every single useful politician needs to be snapped up in either a presidential run or taken in by the president's admin after. We need them at the governor and lower levels doing work on the ground instead of having every single thing needing the federal government to do it.
As far as it seems, sans a handful of major blunders, DeSantis is doing well for Florida and helping it pull ahead on a lot of these issues. Even if you ignore his hilariously bad presidential campaign, he should stay there and keep doing that for the betterment of his own people.
Its almost certainly them trying to play both sides. They are aware enough to know the Body Type meme is getting heat and will lose them a market, but not confident enough to actually take a stand on it and risk losing the other market by appearing to appeal to the "chuds."
Its similar to Lords of the Fallen waiting until it had already flopped to revert to Male/Female in a big show during a patch, just to try and ride the controversy to a few more sales.
Maybe you underestimate how bad he is since you don't go to any other .wins.
His current state is completely unhinged, likely because he never did grow out of this "phase" as it is for most people. I think the current version of him versus the pre-KIA2 bans is a good example of how living in such a mindset can deteriorate you into nonsense.
The bad actors absolutely find their way to KiA2
Oh I didn't question you on their existence, but I've been here a long time too. I know when someone is obviously trying to pull something, or rally some kind of narrative. Telia was a very clear one on the "anti-Jew" train, if we are being honest.
But that exists everywhere, and confronting or learning to see through it is still a skill we should work towards as a whole. And yeah, I don't know why anyone would care about this little backwoods squatting zone, but clearly they do as various ones keep coming.
I never do that.
You have not, and aren't someone I'd think of when leveraging these criticisms, but you have seen the type of behavior I am describing.
Anyone who praises KF's moderation wasn't around for the last few years of "TERFs are the exact userbase I want and represent what KF is meant to be" that the site went through.
Something that only ended because Nool accidentally offended their queen bee, and her little cabal left the site to jerk off in Discord while setting up raids.
That's literally networking 101. You need to signal you will both "fit" in, but also fluff the correct nuts when the time comes. This applies just as much in the political office building as it does in any other office.
One of my professors in college literally showed up in the big city with a bag on his back and walked into a random factory to ask for a job, got one assembling bird cages and sleeping on the lot for a few months. After two decades of working moving around the chain, he was "qualified" in dozens of engineering disciplines and was able to just walk into a high paying college job teaching metal working until he retired.
He would tell us this story with the same tone as this tweet, to tell us that something he walked into as a teen now required a degree in a hard and competitive field, which meant not only a huge debt but losing most of your 20s trying to keep up with the difficulty of the degree that left minimal time to socialize or work on the side. And that's hoping you got the job instead of a random Indian who took an online class in his fake country.
TheImp has no parallel really
In the MRA sphere? He is a dime a dozen really. There were guys like him everywhere, with the only exception that they usually grew out of it. That's why I was soft on him for so long compared to a lot, because its a "phase" I saw many through. In the "anti-Jew" sphere it would be pol-tards really, or the guys who take Jewish conspiracies and go "also lizard people" (even if that was initially a psyop, quite a few fell into it).
The .win network is full of bad actors
When I say "here" I mean just KIA2, I don't go elsewhere because its either the blind sycophancy of T_D or Conpro level retardation with little in between. And I don't believe half of what gets posted anyway, but arguing with people about what is and isn't is a great way to sharpen your own mind even if you lose.
it seems like people interpret criticism of Trump as dooming
And many take any defense of him as full support of everything he does.
That's not going to happen.
I know, we are generations away from even the possibility. But its a solid example of my point because it does exist. Meaning you are voting D or R, and anything outside those two just benefits whoever has the more overwhelming side (right now D, given their fraud capability). So you are forced to work within the system to get what you want, rather than simply refuse "out of principle" until you get what you truly want. I only support R because the chance of me getting anything I want goes from 0% to a small chance.
I expect people to have some sort of criticisms of Trump
Personally, I don't feel the need to virtue signal that "I DONT LIKE THIS" whenever he does things that are obviously fucked. If I have something useful to add I will, but a lot of topics I simply say nothing because everyone else has it covered already. The votes can't be taken back, so whatever's on the table is going to play.
This is different than "he did something pro-Jew" because I feel the need to consistently remind people that he has been openly that way this entire time, and if you didn't know it until that moment that's really on you. And if that's your big "Crux issue" I get it, but the Dems are literally no different are the Congressional level and would have done the exact same things he does (probably more capitulating honestly) but in more secrecy.
To keep it on the theme I keep harping, criticizing him for it is reasonable and should be done. Freaking the fuck out and acting like you should have never voted for him (or go full Fuentes and say vote for Kamala) is autistically single minded because of aforementioned issue of them all being Jew lovers at the top level, making it a principle without difference in reality.
Gears is unironically a game you play for the story. The bro dynamic of the main team during the original 3 games and the payoffs of their storylines are legitimately great, with plenty of good moments in between. Its truly a lost genre of "macho men being macho but still hurting" without feeling like its trying to beat you in the head about toxic masculinity and other politics.
That and its never meant to be played solo. Its a splitscreen game all the way.
It should have been nationalist right-wingers taking the lead on this
It should but the majority of anti-Jew people throughout the years have made it incredibly easy to dismiss them due to the very things I've been describing, either by being insane about it, attaching themselves to actual violent groups out in the wilderness, or just going too hard too fast.
Those that weren't, were simple to get lumped in with the aforementioned ones and just had an uphill fight to accomplish nothing. I know this particular struggle well because in my MRA days it was the exact reason we "lost" constantly. Imagine if everytime you try to make a point to someone whose on the fence, Imp shows up representing your "side" and explodes it. Nothing you did mattered anymore as long as he was around, and no amount of logical discussion could undo his existence.
And that's why I criticize the same problem happening in front of me so regularly when it comes to other groups. Its one thing to "let it out" here so to speak by just screaming how much you hate them (see how often I rant about niggers here), but its another to let that be your dominant form of communicating it. Which, based on the responses I usually get, seems to be the case with many.
You seem to just be hopelessly addicted to the GOP
You'd be surprised to here that this place is the source of 90% of my news, as I don't watch TV or have a twitter. And all my youtube subs are hobbies where I leave the moment they say anything political.
My only connection to the GOP is "this is what I have to work with right now" and I'd see them destroyed otherwise as traitors or sinners of the highest order. And I only defend them here so often because doomers are useless retards and will exaggerate everything to justify their gloom, and not offer any solutions or even ways to help other than vague useless "muh principles" platitudes. Like explaining how we should actually start to end the Two Party system in a way that doesn't just guarantee Dem wins forevermore.
To keep it on theme, there is useful, possible ways to go about your belief and then the extremity that is counterproductive and self destructive. Most here always default to the extreme, and then take "that's a little dramatic, the world isn't over" as full defense of it. And that anything outside the hivemind, echo must mean you are a subverter trying to trick them.
Most of us here agree on 90% of things, we should be able to discuss the minute details from there without needing a Purity Test first. But clearly that seems to be the case, as it keeps coming up that you need to Disavow Trump/GOP hard enough first to be listened to.
Yeah for Day 1 stuff is the one huge benefit they still have. If you want a physical copy of a game immediately you should always go to the store. Unless you are banking on them sending it early which I have had happen shockingly often when I did buy it (for games I didn't care if it was a bit late).
I've considered it a few times on massive sale just for the "basic bitch action horror" itch since I've played Dead Space enough times.
But then you see how much time is spent slow crawling in vents and how fucking many cheap jump scares they pack in.
PC gaming was the first to go really. I remember Gamestop even during its peak in like 2008 having a comically small PC gaming section, and it was usually all Blizzard gamechests anyway. I doubt they've had discs with the game on them for over a decade.
And yeah, its usually pointless to go physical because its 99% of the time the same price but requires twice the effort and all the possible positives aren't provided because its incomplete on the cart/disc anyway.
I tried to watch part of it once with my wife, and when they had to stop in the middle of a "someone is about to die" emergency to let two characters full smiles and hype sing the Neverending Story song in its entirety I knew exactly what this series was trying to do in terms of emotional manipulation.
I get wanting to be pandered to with nostalgia from your childhood, but has that specific age group not had it enough?
That and they absolutely cannot have people going out and interacting with such folks directly, that would break their entire narrative into pieces. Because once they see that those rural folks aren't mindlessly hateful, might even be "progressive" to some extent (lord did I know a few hardcore Dems down the Bayou) and are downright kind to their neighbors in a way cities don't have, they will be unable to keep up the charade of a boogeyman.
So you write movies that paint them as so insanely violent and territorial that people fear even driving through those places, and are on edge waiting for the shoe to drop talking to anyone around there.