The console wars died with the 360, and anything beyond that was more people memeing it up over it being a legitimate debate.
Anyone who cared about console gaming bought a PS4, except for normies so casual that they couldn't give a shit about the "war" in any sense other than crossplay with their bros. All Xbox had going for it was momentum of "its what I always had" and its huge push for backwards compatibility making all your old games run on the new console, which was a great move.
What is going on with current gen, if anything?
We are just in the last year or so reaching the point where major games aren't still releasing on the PS4 along with the PS5, so the number of actual reasons to buy one is still minimal.
How is gamestop still in business?
The entire big stock blowup a few years ago only started because they were in the process of being shorted until they went out of business, and it was just autism and nostalgia that saved them that day. They've been fucked for years.
I'd wager selling TCG cards and merch for nerd stuff makes up most of their profits, while the games themselves are just tradition. Like, everytime I've been in one the last few years its been dudes buying Pokemon cards and we all know how that market is exploding.
And yeah, Major 1st Party Nintendo games are never discounted ever in any storefront, because Nintendo will never discount them themselves. You'll pay over 40$ if not 50$ to full on them until the production run ends, and then again on the re-release next console. That's not really Gamestop's fault there, as you can see the Non-Nintendo ones are still overpriced but not to the same extent.
But yeah, brick and mortar game stores do themselves zero favors compared to online shopping and its comical that they don't realize it. Any game worth buying is wildly overpriced compared to its age, and anything in a reasonable price range is throwaway nonsense like WWE '19 that no one will ever buy again.
I'm at least lucky that my local one has been run by the same lady and her few dude employees for going on 25 years now (I got my Halo 3 Legendary from them and we all still remember it), so I can go in and talk to them to get a lot of information or special deals that normies wouldn't.
I think invoking Callitso Protocol's name is the opposite of a recommendation, short of "this but done well" and even that's risky.
Still, appreciate the lead, as we always need these tucked away series to get recognition for not being gay.
Unironically you could use Pitch Black/Chronicles as a measurement of franchises evolution from horror to action between iterations. Could even add the third one in there as the "now minimal horror, just set ups for badass one liners" to it.
It is not possible to solve the black problem first.
Never said it was, you seem to obsess way too much over "solved" instead of "fixing." That's the utopian nonsense I was talking about.
My aching back cannot be solved until my job is changed. Should I ignore any and all possibilities to soothe it until I get a new job that will fix it entirely? Or do I take some steps to reduce the pains of it in the mean time while working on the larger issue, you know doing two whole things at once instead of autistically single minded focusing on one? Would not being in less pain from said back make me more capable of finding a new job or increasing productivity to be promoted out of it?
That was the criticism I brought up originally, that you proved time and time again is the problem. Where you are so focused on saying "the Jews did this, the Jews are everything, did I mention the Jews?" that you disregard anything outside talking about them as the problem. To the point that anyone who says to the contrary sounds like an enemy to you, because if they aren't only talking about Jews, they must be defending Jews.
you are in effect doing nothing
I'd take this criticism more to heart if the method you are using didn't accomplish nothing beyond helping them for decades.
The only reason we are seeing a change right now is because their own golems are turning on them due to their hubris thinking that "I'm not white I'm Jewish" would work. We only have this "chance" because the Left is doing it within their own power channels and ideology, and its helping us as a secondary effect. Its why you cannot still scream about Jews without trouble but you can say "Zionist" instead to applause.
But nah, best to just slam on the gas and start talking about the Holohoax in public and anyone who isn't 100% on board with Total Kike Removal is secretly working with the Jews and should be accused as such.
but you don't have to boil friend/enemy distinction down to the GOP's electoral prospects either
It only seems such because you take mild criticism of "calm down" to be an attack on all your beliefs and a diametric opposition. As you've proven many times here, you cannot read anything I've said in the slightest without shoving it into your simple dichotomy of "Jew friend/Jew hater."
I cannot stress enough the continued irony you keep providing, because literally after you say that you say this:
yet you are trying to convince people they are our friends
As if the only possible option is agreeing with you on going full gas on the Jews at all moments, or you must actually want to be friends with them. Your ideology has got you so wound up that someone who does not fall into your easy two camps must be your enemy.
I want them gone, period. In whatever manner that takes expulsion or worse. And I want that to be actually achievable instead of a masturbatory fantasy of tough guys online, which means pursuing realistic steps towards it.
People are suffering because we live under Jewish rule.
My uncle was killed by a random nigger in a town that has never met a Jew. If we had less niggers, we'd have at least one guy alive who'd be helpful in opposition to them, but I think we both know its not just one but millions. But I suppose its better to just let all these other problems run rampant until we solve the Jew issue first, all those sacrifices you are willing to make.
Its funny you try to make a grandstand about what power and politics really are, when your apparent position is "do nothing except absolute victory, and make no allies because I don't need them as I am super smart."
Naughty Dog is a great example of how you don't even specifically need it to be just white dudes, you just need the meritocracy and gatekeeping to filter out the garbage otherwise.
Amy Hennig helped write some of the most phenomenal games in history (Soul Reaver), and she is the reason why Naughty Dog was able to go from mechanically amazing games to Jak 3 and then the Drake series that managed to be both well written and fun. She is the exception that proves the rule of how garbage most women devs and writers are, because clearly its possible for them to do better and they simply don't.
Its also one of the reasons why Druckmann goes so hard in his woke nonsense, because his literal rise from a nobody in the company to this "big name" was him backstabbing a white woman above him to get her to leave the company so he could take control and steal everything like the Jew he is. Like any good Wokie his history is something horrifically anti-Woke and he overcompensates so nobody looks into it.
Self checkout works best when its the "I didn't even need a cart to carry what I've got" option for people just moving quick and getting out.
Once it became the default it was always going to go to shit, no matter what they tried because it now relied on the intelligence and speed of a common idiot to function. Which is why one of the first things they had to bring back was having a full time employee just there to troubleshoot the things.
All their "replacements" to be the runner in 2028 keep failing and exploding horribly. Trump/Vance is literally chopping down any who stand up and try to take the mantle, when they don't usually knock themselves over looking retarded on their own. Not helped by their own ideology killing any white dude's chances of doing so, even when that's the best they have.
So instead they keep clinging to the most recent "success" they had, which was her at the head. The same way they pulled Biden out from the nursing home in 2020 when it was obvious Hillary was poison.
I just had one earlier this year and with regular work provided insurance it totally out to about 4000 with tiny monthly payments to chip it down.
The meme of how expensive kids are is more damaging to our birthrates than the reality of it is.
Where the real expense happens is if you have complications and stay until you feel "emotionally ready" like someone women do, or simply try to be "comfortable" instead of trying to leave. But most complications come about from women not taking care of their body and pushing themselves too hard to begin with, usually by working until the 8th~ month.
Uncritical support for the Republicans?
Do I need to open every comment with an affirmation that I don't support current thing, and Trump bad, to fulfill your purity spiral before we are allowed to converse? Should I come and beg forgiveness from you my master when the Right does retarded shit to be absolved of my sins?
What difference are you trying to make right now?
At this point, I'm mostly just getting a laugh. I said my piece in sincerity and then you made it clear you cannot actually understand my point and are just waffing wildly to find the right combination of words to win.
You seem to be suggesting that eliminating all their golems will somehow defeat them.
No I didn't, and its laughable you keep trying to assume things when my initial point was made quite clear. Its being able to oppose two things at once, instead of focusing autistically on a single one because its the originator. Nowhere did I say they would be defeated, only possibly weakened and the direct suffering minimized.
You just really want it to make no sense because you don't actually care about people in the real world suffering, just your "principles." But saying that out loud might make it too obvious. Instead you want to fluff it up with debate club tactics and say "I'm not mad, I'm just presenting my thesis like an intellectual."
The Union never cared about Africans, at least not the majority of them. It was just a whitewashing of their history that makes people think otherwise.
They fought to say "nu uh, you can't leave we own you" to the South, which the obvious irony should be palpable even now. Which is why said whitewashing took place, because on almost no axis except the "slavery" one does the North not come across as the aggressor and in the wrong.
This is all to say they'd still do all the did during the War regardless, even if they killed all the niggers they came across.
They don't care about anything other than being right. Even the principles they espouse are secondary to getting proven right and getting to rub it in the noses of others.
Its why they never talk about realistic solutions, never give a care about actually selling their beliefs, and seem completely unconcerned about any consequences beyond getting what they want now now now.
What's amusing is that my extreme racism and beliefs along that line would, if I followed their example, have me screaming incoherently at you to kill yourself. Yet we have found the ability to discuss like men, even if our beliefs might put us at opposition should it come down to it.
I think those fractures were towards the mysticism of the American (or maybe all Allied) soldiers and populace, where they could goof and shit on them. Because Jews love nothing more than pissing on the people who help and die for them.
The Jews themselves weren't nearly as mocked. They still aren't. The most you get is self-deprecation from Jewish writers on like Family Guy, and you aren't allowed to repeat it ever. But it does seem that the Woke Palestinian movement might be changing that.
There's nothing utopian about the idea that you should actually oppose those in power who are destroying your people.
The utopian is in the method chosen to do it, not simply doing so in general. You seem to keep falling to differentiate these two things. Once again, quite ironic in that its what the Jews themselves do where any criticism of their actions must mean you hate Jews altogether. Funny how often these two groups mirror the other.
Do you just never criticize any of them? What's the point of that?
I respond to what is being said, and have the conversation that is happening right now. I talk to people who my criticisms have a chance of actually effecting and making a difference in the world, however small it may be.
Instead of getting my updoot fix by saying redundant shit (that smarter men than me already said) that get all the seals clapping because I said the thing that they all agree with and we all get to jerk each other off about how Virtuous we are.
Jews aren't going to let you remove golems that are still useful to them.
Are they God now? Will they just show up with their shields raised and their wallets open to save their pet niggers? The more you describe them the more omnipotent they come across.
The worst thing you can do now is defend Jews, which you are doing even if only backhandedly so.
Ah yes, the famous defense of "calm down you sperg, you are setting us back by overextending." You should be a military commander with your brilliant tactic of ATTACK ATTACK NEVER LET OFF THE ATTACK.
The more common idea I see is to break the two party system by refusing to participate or just refusing to do so out of principle.
Exactly, utopian nonsense masquerading as moral superiority that in reality simply hands our enemies the victory. That's the difference between circlejerking online about how smart you are and actually trying to fix something.
Is it?
It is. You can whatabout all you want but Muslims are our enemy and the enemy of basically all civilization because they are incompatible with anything but their camelfucking barbarism.
If I was in a conversation with Trump, I'd speak to him my criticisms of his choices and actions. I'm not, but I am talking with them so yes I'll speak about the issues I am directly having with what they are saying. Considering you are sperging out this hard about "some anti-Jew guys go too extreme and it makes them look silly" I'll be happy you can't take me seriously.
What's the golem going to do if Jews are in charge forever?
Well considering one is a fraction of the population and famously weaselish and cowardly, I think they will be far less in charge of anything without their golems doing all the actual damage for them. Not entirely, as they still need to be removed from power, but enough to start minimizing the damage.
Because I have actual care about the people suffering, instead of the apparent position of "some of you may die, but its a price I'm willing to pay for my principles!"
People are rapidly turning on Israel
They are, and the fastest way to kill that momentum is to go too hard too fast mindlessly. We are literally in one of the best positions in decades if not centuries to turn people against them, and achieve actual, tangible ground on it instead of sitting around in dead end forums talking about it.
And the easiest way to ruin that is to continue to look completely retarded and autistic about it, that those who are not currently on board dismiss you out of hand. Even a NASCAR driver has to ease off the throttle and sometimes break to win a fucking race, instead of mindlessly accelerating.
True or not, anything that breaks the invincibility of the WW2 victim narratives around Jews is a positive. So if this is taking the piss out of Anne Frank or just straight up makes her story look retarded by being Uber Woke, both are good.
Its these little abilities to joke that will be the foundation that their untouchability will one day break on.
You can get a lot more people to join your side on something or see your point of view if you're not constantly being a fucking asshole about it.
This is the most important takeaway here, and something that many cannot seem to grasp.
Its especially ironic as this is the very year where we are seeing the Woke and many of its forms losing ground just by being that unlikeable that the moment the wall had a chink, everyone just fucking attacked it. Yet many seem to think the same "angry sperg accusing you of being a Jew if you don't fall in line" method will totally work for them.
I want Jews to be questioned and controlled, if not removed from my country entirely. I want Israel to just cease to exist. And I want all the damage they've done to be stopped and begin being healed. That is more important than anything else, but especially the ego trip of "I got 30 upvotes for (((noticing))) super hard today! I am so edgy and cool!" that seems to be the real motivation for many.
And what have you done to solve that problem? Have you made your side look appealing enough that people stop turning traitor? Reached hands out to bring those on the center back to your side and deny the enemy another soldier?
Or have you simply repeated angry /pol/NPC lines at the issue hoping that this time it'll change something.
Even for the doomiest of doomers, if we are all fucked with no hope out this year has given us at least comedy to die to.