That's how I feel about most "claims" now.
If a woman claims a guy raped/abused her? I now 100% assume she is trying to manipulate me and/or destroy him, and he now has my support. And it takes considerable evidence to change that.
Any form of "bigotry?" You are either making it up or did something to deserve it.
On and on. In all of these various discussions, they've made me just reject anything they say outright and need a preponderances of evidence to shake that.
In a completely neutral setting, this is a decent idea just because its unique while being tied to something bigger. We have a lot of WW2 war movies that cover nearly every genre that have been done better than they ever could, so making that would just be pissing in the ocean. This could at least raise an eyebrow at first glance and that's huge in terms of marketing.
But we know its not a neutral decision and was chosen specifically because of the black and women portion, if that even actually happened, and is going to entirely be some nonsense anti-racism story where black women somehow suffered worse than the men getting shot at.
I think they are banking on him trying to do so, and the media/Covidians freaking out hard about it enough to fuck with everything for a while.
Because while we all know its bullshit, they are more than capable of raising enough alarmist nonsense to still make things difficult regardless of reality.
People who don't have large enough groups with both the time and interests aligned already to play with. In fact, playing with randoms is a great way to build a group of friends and was a solid choice for nerds for decades before Progressives invaded it.
If TTRPGs were limited to just "got lucky enough to grow up with a group of friends to play it with" then they would have died a long time ago.
Its a cyclical thing. Teachers feel self-important by adding them to flaunt how progressive they are, and to give themselves protection against that one student who will overreact and ruin months of everyone's lives over "distress" caused by it.
Its that same old throwaway legal shield concept, where its meaningless babble to protect against one random idiot that everyone knows will take advantage of it otherwise. And in this case, its only happening because we haven't beat these kids enough to make them not act like that.
Vince is the strange case where both his company and the entire industry would probably be nothing but a shell without his constant devotion and insanity dedicated to it, but his actual true hand was also a plague of utter nonsense and shit upon it too.
I'm glad to hear its gotten better as I myself bounced sometime in the mid 00s because of how hokey it had gotten.
Also, MeToo accusations against a tired, already retiring old man should never be believed. Its waiting to hit someone when they can't hit back and that's a literal violation of the Constitutional right to face your accuser. If you are that scared of him that you need to wait until he can no longer "threaten your career" then clearly the threat to your safety, dignity, and anything else wasn't strong enough for me to care either.
It used to be that people revealed more information about themselves as a show of trust and vulnerability. Now its almost always being done as a form of manipulation to try and use you, like a woman crying about being abused on the first date.
Worse yet, its also usually being done to debase themselves in front of some political ideologues to gain acceptance into their good graces in a form of purity test.
So her saying this isn't about her believing it. Its getting the people who do to like and accept her more by convincing a few cattle to their side.
These requests are always so telling. They don't care about any actual value, they just want a little star saying "she/her" next to the monster's name so they can clap along like seals and dunk on the chuds (somehow).
Its why things like raceswapping or whatever the equivalent is for gayness happens so often. Because that's the bar they set for themselves.
I'll give Bioshock credit for accurately depicting how their paradise would always be doomed, and Fontaine just supplied the largest blow faster. That place was falling apart at the seams because they all wanted to be the elite puppetmasters and forgot they still needed puppets for that. And by treating what puppets they had like literal garbage, they all got fucking killed by a bunch of lower class workers hopped up on the drugs they gave them.
Because the majority of the splicers aren't the "captains of industry" Ryan wanted, they are the dockworkers, failed actresses, poor doctors and other losers. I think only the Snobby Lady model isn't some sort of failed fool.
So even if we go with the its his "Jewish Paradise" idea, its still absolutely destroyed by the hubris of very common Jewish mistakes that any of us goys could tell would happen.
Literally the only way it doesn't come across as racist for them is when its done arbitrarily to a point of being obviously lacking in any thought like that, such as the raceswap artists on tumblr/twitter who just make everyone black.
A very common choice they make with Norman across a lot of adaptations is to make his hair so light that its almost red in a lot of lightings anyway. So of course they'd have pure ginger ones too.
Its very odd how consistent of a thing with him it is though. Its either dark ass shaded cornrows or barely browner than it is red.
Yeah, that's why I felt zero shame in making that reach of a comparison.
Cuckmann himself put the Jewishness very front and center and developed the game with them being given special consideration. Which means it could be in every aspect of his decision making around it.
Norm is famous for his brown hair being shaded so weirdly it has looked like cornrows since like the 60s long before those even became popular, so this version is ironically one of the most faithful in adapting that part about him.
Honestly, on point.
When I think of a father who alternatives between abusing and abandoning his son, I usually think of a black guy. Same with an amoral, self-justifying piece of shit who is just trying to pretend he doesn't enjoy violence and chaos with all of those justifications.
Like most companies, the autistic and passionate guys who built these companies/franchises are long gone and their reputation is being worn like a skin by people who want to use it to give weight and authority to their nonsense.
Its why loyalty to a company is always a retarded idea.
I think "Imperial Guards" is probably the closest they had, and it speaks a lot to how their society was set up.
They kept their best men around for the constant and regular coup attempts on their lives, and let the real fighting be fought by peasants with farm tools or barely capable idiots of their main army.
If he was still mobile and lucid when they carted him out, it would be one thing.
But he straight up looked like a dead corpse in a chair barely responding to stimuli around him. That is in no way someone who should be out of bed and away from whatever machines they need to be kept alive.
I'll choose to believe that his health didn't survive the stress of them wheeling his ancient ass out for photoops and to vote to try and save Harris' failing campaign.
So they literally sacrificed one of their own literal presidents to try and help her, and she still failed. And its a great example of what they will do to the rest of them too once they can't fight back, as shown by Biden as well.
As much as people (rightly) rag on Abbey, I’m just as pissed at what Cuckmann did to Ellie.
Let's not forget that Abbey gets to have her revenge and its "righteous consequences for Joel's actions" but Ellie's revenge is evil and bad and everyone leaves her over it only for her to not get it anyway because "its the right thing to do."
Which considering how much Cuckmann threw literal Jewish writing in the game by name, almost feels directly out of their "I can hit you but if you hit me oy vey Nazis!" playbook.
Musk immigrated out of South Africa in the late 80s at 18, before Apartheid ended and likely didn't get to fully experience any of the true consequences of the dark menace. Especially as an ultra rich kid, who was sheltered even more.
Him being South African is only useful in so far as "richest man in the world is African" jokes and in every other way he is just a Western White Guy.
Because we are one of the like 7 OG communities who have our own .win instead of being on the Reddit-copy/paste version like all the others. And, I believe, we are the only one who still uses it. The rest are either gone to another domain (T_D, Conpro), actually offline(Gavin Mcinnes), or just dead/abandoned (OmegaCanada, KIA original, Weekendgunnit). T_D did reform under a new .win but that was sometime later and I don't know the story there if its still associated with the place or not.
Everything else on the site uses the "scored" UI that is just a copy of the "new Reddit" one, with all the different subs being "c/XYZ" (including the current ConPro).
So the only way to even associate it with the name "Scored" is if you are so terminally online you actually go to c/Funny on this reddit knockoff website.