If I meet one
This is a pretty telling little phrase. If you live such a privilege existence that merely meeting one is an "if," then you have little horse in this race yet shout down from your ivory treehouse at those of us who do.
It was never a joke, even back whenever you are thinking of it was based on legitimate problems.
The fact that people took over a decade to "wake up" to the problem and then suddenly "oh, /pol/ was right again" is why things are so shit now.
Not that most of /pol/ isn't retarded, they absolutely are. But they were also willing to openly talk about and discuss this problem years before most everyone else, and before it might have been too late to push back on a lot of it.
The word Socialist in it kinda fucks with the idea of Nazis being super, always right wingers that they need to be in the simplified media narratives. I'm sure that's why it lost popularity.
Heck, I'd bet most of the West wouldn't even connect the dots to Nazis if you said that, and think you were describing a legitimate Far Left political group.
I personally know people who are racist to black people
And I personally know almost every flavor of anti-black and/or pro-white their is. Its a benefit of growing up in the South, you meet a lot of them because merely existing around blacks creates them.
You know what's a really common trait among most of them? Saying a bunch of shit the more extreme ones say just to piss off the Libs or anyone else that might say it, despite being more milquetoast in their actual beliefs and ideologies. Trolling prissy Yankees and basically guys like you is their ideology, and they know saying shit like that will make you react like this.
They/we get called retarded racists by you/them anyway, why not act the part for the lols?
I wasn't being dishonest, I was giving you what, why, when, and how.
And i pointed out why this was lazy, dishonest, and undermined your entire point. It doesn't matter if you say "I'm gonna make shit up," I'm still gonna say you are making shit up to that. These groups are not the same, they will not all line up to donate to this, and you only had to make up this scenario of a massive all grouped up bloc sincerely posting their ideology on this page to compensate for trying to support that they make up tens of thousands of a population with large amounts of disposable income just for a girl who probably burnt coal anyway.
If you had said they make up a sizable portion of those donating, that'd be believable. But trying to stand on them being the primary donors with most other whites either not knowing or not caring is a foolish assumption.
most of them were about love-bombing the white race, which is not something anyone does outside of this specific group of ideologues.
The fact that you not only think this, but have made it seemingly the crux of your entire thought here, clearly shows your bias working backwards from what you want reality to be.
The internet is filled with people who will absolutely say these things without supporting the very specific ideologies you listed out. They'll part with money just to spell out N I G G E R across 6 donations. This is a space that had all eyes on it and was making a lot of people upset. Its a stage for all sorts of people to say things just for the attention, to cause trouble, to enrage someone, or any other reason that brings them joy. I've participated in /b/tard raids with less national attention to do similar back in the day.
Also, don't think I didn't notice you used three different names (Nationalists, Supremacists, and Racialists) interchangeably to make your fluffing up of their numbers seem more reasonable. However much overlap they may have, they are not one and the same and to treat them as the same simple little monkeys who'd all just throw every penny they have at a random thot who said nigger is incredibly intellectually dishonest.
Heck I'd probably fit into one of those categories and I refuse to support her because I can make a pretty reasonable assumption based on where she lives, her fashion/life style and willingness to say Nigger so directly that she absolutely has burnt coal in her life. Making any support of her for saying it ironic and lolworthy.
What's sad is, if they were just honest about it most gamers would probably be pretty forgiving because an AI that isn't hard lobotomized would play at a level that is unbeatably perfect at the game. So the only form of difficulty for most of them is just pure numerical advantages that you overcome through your own skill.
Its not ideal, but its understandable. Yet devs for decades seem so scared to admit to it.
Frankly, they probably are the primary donors to this
The only way this statement holds true is if the amount of White Nationalists in America is a much larger number than anyone thinks and they are all operating independently without a greater structure coordinating them.
Also, it doesn't take a White Nationalist to be aware that "she said the no no word, and people will be after her for that" and want to support that defense. You can just as easily simply think that her being utterly destroyed is overkill for her action.
Unless you've dropped the definition of White Nationalist to "any white who doesn't worship blacks" then your assumption is based on bupkis.
Shinobi Hunter: one of the very first spear minibosses, whom you encounter in the hirata memory.
He is the exact reason why I say that. He is super early in the game, in a game famous for its difficulty, with a dozen adds around (meaning every reattempt takes a while as you pick them off), and you are basically fucked trying to kill him if you didn't spend your skill points on the exact skill he needs at a time when your skill points are slow coming still.
The entire Hirata memory feels off in its placement. Like, you receive it and get a lot of benefits from doing it as early as possible, but things like that and Lady Butterfly make it feel like it should be held off until a few more bosses into the game.
I wonder how much of the reputation Sekiro has is because of that alone.
how prosthetics can carry you
Having watched a few other people play, I don't think enough people realize how far they really can carry you. Like the amount of people who don't realize that the Flame Vent inflicts burn faster to anyone wearing Straw, or anything fuzzy (like the Ape) is staggering. Same with using the Spear to pull the Ape's Centipede out to do a considerable amount of damage. Or Firecrackers on basically anything, but especially animals like the Bull or the Ape. I feel like there is a pattern there. But it is a huge boon to open with to get a chunk of health off to make the posture damage stick.
The big problem I think is how two of them (Flame/Firecracker) just so significantly outclass everything else that there is little point in messing with the rest. Umbrella has niche uses once you get the anti-Terror version, but all the rest are basically only useful for a handful of random mooks or for the thing meant to very specifically work like the Whistle on Demon of Hatred.
Unfortunately, all the hardest and best bosses are basically just Man v Man duels without much in the way of options, so they never get much chance to shine. At most, you are weaving in a Firecracker hit into a combo that you know by heart will punish Owl exactly.
He teaches you about the importance of mobility, of staying out of range, of dodging and how prosthetics can carry you
Ironically, all great lessons for Shichimen Warriors, who you won't be able to seriously fight until the end of the game.
And are the by far worst part of the game, them and the Headless. The game would be unironically improved if those two types got removed and replaced with generic Generals or anything else.
They wouldn't hold it against Hogan nearly as much if he wasn't such a big face of "say your prayers" and being pro-American in his heyday.
They are still mad he was able to inspire people to love their country and God, and were just ecstatic they had a reason to cut him down.
that I thought I'd hit my ceiling and that Charmless/Bell was too much for me and I'd have to throw in the towel
You are a better gamer than me, because I absolutely did. But I also feel across all genres my age is slowing me down considerably, and I've always sucked at rhythm games (which Sekiro absolutely becomes at the highest level, it feels like a dance) so I've hit my own limit.
Even right now playing Clair Obscur I feel myself struggling often with basic dodges and parries that shouldn't be as hard as I keep making it look. But that's my personal limit, and I think most gamers are more capable than I am in this department if they tried and pushed (as you did).
despite the fact that you more or less hit a hard limit on attack dmg at that stage
One of Sekiro's best traits is that damage is mostly just a safety net. Sure it makes the posture bar fill up faster and decrease slower, but you are very rarely going to actually deplete it. What it does is make you feel like you are making tangible process even as you fuck up (keeping morale high) and saying that if you can just survive you can win even if you never get a perfect deflect reaction going.
By the time you hit the damage cap, you are likely a player strong enough that you don't need it. Your skill is high enough to be Deflecting well and just breaking them.
But imo rather than parry spam, the real training wheels in first run difficulty is ... blocking.
I think this is a problem with playing the genre too much. You come in with expectations and thoughts from prior games and then pigeon hole yourself into certain mindsets. Sekiro players almost all came from Dark Souls or Bloodborne, and saw they had no shield so they went with thinking about only Deflecting.
Shit by the time I realized how broken the Umbrella block was, I had already 100%'d the game. Heck I barely used any of the tools because they always seemed too niche except for the obvious Flame and Firecracker ones with immediate results.
The game has numerous ways to both increase or mitigate the difficulty with a little effort, but most people (myself included) just defaulted to only the most basic strategies. Which makes it seem much harder than it is, though at the gain of beating the fundamentals in to increase skill level.
Though Mikiri Counter should be a default ability and not an unlockable. That is 100% a fault of the game that makes the very beginning very hard for no reason other than "you didn't know."
Looking it up, it was in Halo 3 they added it in. Beforehand Heroic just said "Survival is not Guaranteed." And then starting with 5 they changed it again to "only for Veteran players." So it was only in 3/ODST/Reach/4 that they admitted it was the intended version.
I think it might start the cursor there, but I think its basic human assumption to think "Normal" is the default difficulty regardless. So that little blurb about being the intended is important here.
Yeah Heroic is by far the best balance between all the factors. You can pick up Heroic without a deep knowledge of the game and still have an enjoyable but challenging time.
And Breath of the Wild already had a terrible difficulty system even in Normal mode. The durability system is designed to force you to constantly hard gimp yourself so you can save "good weapons" for bigger moments. Not only using subpar equipment, but taking up more and more inventory slots with stuff you are hesitant to use because you know it'll break instantly once you do.
Its just not super noticeable because the game is so easy that you aren't really hard challenged much. If you aren't getting one shot, you are usually not in any danger and will eventually whittle down anything.
I think most numbers systems are bad, because usually they are made on the coding side without consideration for how they actually play. A lot of companies have admitted they don't even play test their highest difficulty levels. Sometimes this creates emergent strategies, often times it leads to the Legendary restrictions I mentioned earlier.
And its not just the number systems becoming too hard, it can happen in the opposite. Games that are too easy numerically never let you engage with to learn the systems or get good at them because you never need to and its wasteful to pretend to try. You see this a lot with bad tutorial modes/zones, or even games where "the post game is the real game." Halo on Easy or even Normal suffers from this a lot.
Heroic Halo really was a perfect balance, its a shame it took them until like Reach to say "this is the intended version" because I think most people default to Normal because it says Normal.
I trained in the always underfunded Psych field, and it was well known even in your undergrad that your entire life is a cycle of "sell yourself to a company to do research for their money, use that money to fund the study you are passionate about."
These guys are so used to basically getting to live the good life of always doing their PhD on Feminist Breakdance Therapy they didn't realize how privileged they were.
Its Gamestop, its probably just a minimum wage job to her or a job to get discounts on Pokemon cards or Funko Pops.
Video games are like 1/3rd of their business now, and even when it was closer to 100% they girls they hired were usually just there to look pretty and draw in nerds.
The two choices presented are "boss has 300% more health and does 100% more damage, meaning the difficulty is playing correctly for longer" and "the boss has more moves and mechanics."
Majority of games just use difficulty to mean the first option, which is harder because mistakes are punished harder but also usually pretty lazily done in a lot of games making it feel closer to a slog than satisfying.
I happen to be in the camp that thinks Sekiro's difficulty is overstated
Most people who beat Sekiro didn't do it charmless, let alone with the demon mode active. This isn't to brag, as I didn't get very far charmless alone, but its unironically turning the game into what its intended to be difficulty wise.
Regular Sekiro you can spam the parry button and fish for hits and do pretty well. Timing isn't super strict and you lose little from doing so. And you still feel really fucking good mastering it regardless, because it is still very hard to do.
But it is a great example of a "Mechanical" Difficulty change that is purely skill based. All it does is take off training wheels you didn't know you had, and makes the game absolutely miles harder.
but a big part of the scale from Easy-Legendary is about how much damage you do, or enemies do, or your occasional marine allies do
Halo is a great example for it because Legendary in a lot of games also shows the problem with "Numbers" as the big barometer.
Halo Legendary is often a game where numbers are cranked so high that a lot of the mechanics actually stop mattering. Most of the weapons that aren't named Plasma Pistol become useless. A lot of the vehicles just become death traps. Heck merely peeking out a pixel from cover is death if you haven't memorized Jackal spawns. It becomes basically "meta only."
Its not "absolutely bad, no one can have fun with this" but its a good example of why people also dislike the Numbers system a lot of the time as well.
Everyone just thinks of Autism as Rainman, so the people with it that don't get Awesome Special Super Powers just get categorized as "oh he is just retarded" in their mind.
Like, my brother got a touch of the 'Tism. The only thing he gained is the ability to never get bored of doing the same repetitive task. As a kid he would just replay level 1 of the same game all day long, or watch the same movie instantly again once it finished. So he got the super power to be an excellent factory line worker.
But that isn't a sexy discussion and doesn't make anyone money. So guys like him aren't even considered. All focus goes on girls who need infinite therapy/meds (which they'd still be doing without autism because they are modern white women), and guys who might make a billion dollars through their autistic magic.
Low Autism, which the majority of those diagnosed have, is basically nothing. Its a problem that can be mostly beaten out of a child with proper and strict parenting, and women and the sons of single women especially aren't being beaten enough as children.
Anyone who can live on their own and only have "minor emotional troubles" about it only has babby autism and shouldn't be given much sympathy or leeway. Its why they were able to completely remove Asperger's from existence without the world ending, and changed High Functioning (a cool title) to simply Level 1 (low).
Level 2 and 3 autists are a completely different matter, are the ones RFK seems to be referring to every time he talks, and aren't gonna be going out and doing most things without significant supervision and support. Level 3's don't even go outside and spend their days usually wrapped in pads so they don't smash their face into the wall constantly.
Chris Rock used to go on stage and openly talk about what a nigger was and how it was a specific type of black person that nobody liked. It was such a universally loved show that multiple younger black men cited it themselves decades later.
So of course once too many whites started agreeing with him, Rock disavowed it all and pretended everyone was just racist and evil.
''he was autistic so apparently that means he can do whatever he wants''.
The little detail lost in this is that this kid was almost certainly autistic.
On paper.
Ghetto nigger moms push to get all their kids into Special Ed by any means necessary, because it gives a huge increase to their welfare and other free funding. My grandmother taught special ed back in Louisiana and about half her class were just "normal" black kids whose mom's would beat them if they didn't "act dumb" enough to be diagnosed with something.
So unless it was just a detail made up wholesale by some rando on the internet, the kid is probably a diagnosed autist because his mom wants to get her nails did monthly on his welfare check.
I think during Cosby's era there was genuine improvement happening. The 80s had a lot of actual positive, civilized black role models. But between Rodney King and gangsta rap taking off, it all got flushed away in a moment.
Basically they are. DEI is a specific named movement for the current iteration, while affirmative action has become more of a conceptual name for the practice.