Yeah but its also used in basically every article about the movie because its the most clear shot of her for much of the pre-release. Here, though its literally offensively ugly on a visceral level.
Which is why I think its so effectively hated. Because it has a disgust reaction compared to something like the Little Mermaid just looking odd.
You could probably spend a lifetime going through the list of all the deliberate cultural engineering done under the shadow of WW2. Most of which has been bred so deep into our minds that we'd not even think to question it.
Honestly, I think that picture of this goblina smugly looking off camera in the bright yellow light is far more offensive to everyone's sensibilities.
We could laugh at the dumbness of the 7 dwarves idea, but that's just a bad decision that would be funny on its own.
But having to pretend this disgusting creature is the "fairest of them all" (even if they tried to redefine "fair" to get around it) is an ask far too large for even normal people. Her face is disgusting, her attitude is so nasty it shows on her face, and then she started getting in the news for mouthing off at that.
343 had (and probably still has) a hate boner for people who worked on the original Halo games.
I'd probably be pissy too if my very existence was getting hated on for failing to live up to someone. Its like having a girlfriend who constantly talks about how awesome her ex was.
Granted, 343 absolutely deserves it for being both incompetent and pieces of shit themselves.They put themselves in the position to get compared like that and can't live with the fact that they suck and everyone isn't afraid to tell them they suck.
So while it makes sense why they hate like that, they can only blame themselves for it.
When I went see Sonic 3 with the kids the other day, there was audible groaning from the audience (midday on a weekend well after release so not very full) when the trailer for this played. There was nothing on the HTTYD trailer that followed but excited children, so its clear that this movie has particular bad blood built up beyond being woke.
Literally no one is interested in this and its offending everyone with its existence. Even the snippet of song they threw in was terrible.
And yet I'd wager you have probably thought about killing someone before in a rage. Does that make you evil because you desired murder? Should all people with OCD (aka, sufferers of unwanted intrusive thoughts) be woodchippered as well for their evil thinking?
Or do we make judgements based on generalized expectations of the behavior and actions someone will take based on their label?
Isn't this strict, pedantic definition game fun? It always works out so well!
comparing pedophilia to homosexuality is not a good comparison though
Except in this case it is. Either we go with the strictest definitions and neither of them are "inherently evil" because they are simple thought crimes with no victim besides yourself, or we accept the obvious conclusions to these labels as inevitable to happen and thereby part of that definition.
You can't strip the homo down to its barest, strictest and most pedantic definition to say "its not evil then!" and then turn around and treat pedos with all their baggage to use your woodchipper meme. That is literal Leftist argumentation for why they pretend that MAPs are a distinct thing from pedos in the first place.
Its a failed argument, and its not even getting into the huge overlap of pedophiles and homosexual men to begin with.
Personally, if it took until the pro-Jew thing for people to finally have an issue with him I think that's more of an indictment against them than him. He had made far more illogical and retarded claims than something as "normal" as that.
I think most people can sympathize, but its not an absolving feeling either. I can sympathize with the hard life a single mom is going through. This doesn't mean I approve of her actions nor believe that the blame isn't still squarely on her regardless. I'm certain almost anyone can manage that level of sympathy, as its basic human morality.
But that's what people want. They want your positive emotions, but without any judgement. Which is what "empathy" means to them. Its a woman explaining how she cheated but wants you to think of her as a victim anyway and tell her her reasonings as valid.
Its pure woman logic behind the word.
Yeah I can't say if 2 is good or not, as I picked it up on release and even during the short weeks I played it it was almost changing entire genres as they scrapped ideas. I've never gotten around to going back, though I probably should at some point.
But yeah, 1 was very different. Its 2d instead of 3d, so you can actually know what's going on half the time and not be constantly missing due to some Z-axis nonsense. And the sectors were localized, so you could just play in short bursts without having to think about the entire galaxy at once and accidentally getting yourself in a death spiral where you are forced to restart the entire game from scratch to escape.
Either way, its regularly on sale for a dollar. So even if you don't end up liking 1, you aren't going to be out of much.
It wasn't ironic. I was shitposting there back in those days and there was plenty legitimate pedo stuff. Far too many of us clicked an image only for that gif to switch to Daisy's Destruction two frames in.
The only difference was the internet back then, and especially 4chan, was big on that Wild West freedom of speech thing. So rather than people losing their mind and demanding rules and regulations daily to remove these things, it was just accepted as an evil you had to try and avoid while getting thicker skin.
/pol/ has been in the mainstream news for years, why would you expect it not to be filled with feds and shills?
Fuck its been caught and proven that various groups operate discord raids across basically all the main boards to shape narratives and change the community.
Also /pol/ is the literal example people use of how "diverse" the racist/extremist community is. All their meetups are filled with every shade of brown. The Islamists have always been there, and now they probably don't feel the need to sell it through downplay anymore.
Mosquitos are such hated creatures that even the most ardent pro-animal people are only just barely against their extinction because of their place in the food chain.
Giving us a moral and political reason to hate them might finally just tip that edge.
America is a big diverse land, it has prime locations for basically every type of energy production and if everyone got on the same page in government we could probably make massive strides in it by investing in all of them.
But instead we do things like Dam up the Colorado River to ship it off to California to prevent them from literally dying based on some ancient agreement, and let all that hydropower go to waste.
"Empathy" is just a made up word* women introduced into Psychology to champion their superior "emotional intelligence" narrative. Because too many times they got hit back for trying to sympathize with someone with lines like "how could you possibly understand what I'm going through."
So they created this super awesome power to just be able to emotionally resonate with people on everything regardless of their privilege or identity. When in reality it was just sympathy repackaged to pretend it wasn't 1st World White Women crying about pain they couldn't understand to begin with.
*It was originally a translation for some German word used to project your desires onto objects, like a mountain stretching upwards. It got complete redefined around WW2, coincidentally once Karen Horney had been poisoning the well with her feminist superiority psychology across America.
Peterson has fallen so far down the hole that only the most loyally delusional sycophants still really support him, meaning whatever "power" they once feared he had is long gone.
All that's been left for years now is a raggedy skeleton of a man who destroyed his own credibility multiple times over.
The fact that they are still trying to ruin him just goes to show how much their ego plays into these decisions.
Except they are going to do it, enough so that we can generalize without much room for error. We all know it, and trying to enforce a strictly pedantic definition to win your argument (that I admitted in the other comment was poorly phrased on my end) is the same Leftist tactic of "I know a black guy with a PhD so their average IQ stat is wrong."
Do you also think pedophiles are not necessarily harmful because you can be attracted to children without ever acting upon it? That MAPs should be protected and welcomed because they haven't committed any crimes until they do? Because that's the same line of reasoning you are now reaching for.
The more important part of that article is the list of all the other companies also doing the same. Its clear that the West Coast world is in genuine terror of Trump coming to office and many are trying to curry favor with him to spare some wrath they suspect is coming for their bullshit.
I don't think half of it will truly happen, but if they are paranoid enough to be doing this then its still at least a step away from full woke even if they are still worthless leeches on our country.
Also, why the fuck does an inauguration need apparently millions upon millions of dollars in donations? The only way it makes sense is truly if this is all tribute offered to the new king, because otherwise its the most wasteful party in existence.
Nexus already revealed their politics and lack of impartiality quite some time ago, so this is just par for the course.
It is amusing though that a site that is 50%+ nude or highly sexual mods for all sorts of games takes a stand on political mods of all things. And only specifically Right wing political ones.
If the entire thing is true, then this is the most likely case.
People don't realize how basically everything on your phone is accessible by the company, and then the police, if need be. The physical device is only there for you to access it yourself.
SPAZ 2 went in a wildly different direction and I have no idea what became of it as I played it briefly on release and gave up. But it was still in development with a lot of major changes apparently happening so I can't comment on if its good or not now.
SPAZ 1 however is a top down shooter, but its a lot more strategic and exploration based than that genre would normally mean. You build a ship that fits what you want to do, and go out and do missions to build rep and either buy better/different ships for different needs or progress deeper into the story. Its very arcadey, in that most stuff is contained to the galaxy you are in and you basically jumped through treating them as "levels" with only like an hours worth of anything in each one. Though its been a decade so my memories might be a little degraded so I can't give you reliable detailed stuff.
Its pretty similar to Starsector, the quintessential slav jank space game that I'm sure you know of. But if you haven't just go with that as its essentially the "better" version of SPAZ 1 because it wasn't quite as Indie developed.
You are right, it was a poor way of phrasing it because there is the possibility of being a homo and not having sex.
But the vast majority will be, just like the vast majority of heteros will as well, so the point remains either way regardless of that semantical failing of my currently ill mind.
Considering the sheer level of pony porn being created in spaces that were near adjacent to a children's show meant for little children, I don't think they get to pull the "chill guy" card.
Some were for sure unfairly maligned just for liking a kid's show, but there reputation for being creeps became pretty self-fulfilling pretty fast with how their "fandom" evolved. And not "a few extreme wierdos" problem, but seemingly an overwhelming majority of them were either for it or tolerant of it.