Which is usually what Rogan is best at. It humanized Musk back when, it did it for Dorsey, it works for most people who aren't completely compromised idiots whose "normal" mode is completely unlikeable like Adam Conover.
Problem is, I don't think Harris was remotely capable of that. She was so fake that if she tried to loosen up she might end up saying some real nigga shit and tank herself in a different way.
I mean yeah. Obama was a literal blank slate, empty history when he came into the spotlight. All anyone talked about was "he was a community organizer" and then it was just "he black" and other low stakes nonsense.
It wasn't until midway into Trump's first term that people started to go back and look into his actual history and find more questionable things.
A personal favorite of mine, Steamworld Heist 2, manages this pretty well.
Some maps come with alarms, alarms can range from level 0-3 depending on the circumstances, and they level up over time. Each level of alarm means more enemies spawn every turn indefinitely (0 is obviously nothing, 1 is 1-2 low rank guys every other turn, 3 is 3 synergized guys every turn).
So playing slower will create more enemies, but because it often gives you more dynamic and safe cover, it still ends up safer. As long as you don't drag too much. A real nice balance most of the time until the end game where you become so overpowered every mission just starts at level 3 to try and fight you.
Xcom 2 sucked awful at it until they added the ability to double the turn timer at some point (was it WotC?). With double it finally felt like you had time to breathe but not enough to turtle forever, which is where it should have been.
So again, your opinion is gospel and god, and anyone who has an opinion that you consider bad ceases to matter, which means you can disregard anything they say.
I don't disagree these people exist. I actively acknowledged that some of the ones you just banned fall into the "terminally online, extremely aggressive, pro-terrorism" camp.
But to act like they don't matter, that their beliefs and opinions don't have a place at the table or worse don't need to be heard (even if only to know what to avoid and attack), is literally janny thinking. Its "if I ban them I win and they cease to exist" in a nutshell.
These people never actually retire. They just stop being actively involved.
Every decision will be balanced around his approval or lack of, people will run to him to settle debates, and if things go sideways he will walk in and slam his dick on the table.
Even when he dies, it'll still be his "inheritors" in that position.
Turn limits are the death of strategy games, and its such a wide spread problem I cannot fathom who thought it was a good idea. Between Solomon hating Overwatch turtling from Xcom 1 to LTC niggers ruining Fire Emblem, you literally cannot have a game where you enjoy the careful crawl and you can scout to determine your approach as either baiting or defensive positions.
It always has to be a bumrush foward where the only difficulty is forcing you to make risky calls because you are rushing. And anything that isn't speed oriented feels more like a handicap instead of a different tool.
Which is likely why its so common. These people don't know how to create difficulty in any way besides arbitrary shit like that.
to legitimize crackdowns on innocent people.
Of which they increase their capability of by making themselves unique and special by convincing everyone to censor and self censor anything that might appear similar, increasing the power of the honeypot by being the only honey in town.
retarded schizo-shit that no one who matters really wants or is seeking.
You should work on keeping your opinions like this to yourself, as it makes your questionable mod decisions look far more like personal politics and vendettas than begrudging rule enforcement.
Is having an opinion you dislike the barometer of what makes a person "matter?" It is certainly sounding that way, which is wildly selfimportant.
I only stopped arguing my point when you did, my nigger. You decided to drop all pretense to devolve into this little back and forth. And then when we hit the literal forum limit, you decided to keep it going.
We are both laughing at each other now, endlessly. Every accusation you make at me equally applies to you in this exchange.
Of course, you’re more than welcome if you are Ukrainian
I can bet if you asked any of the people in support of immigration reduction, Ukraine wouldn't get off the hook. This is literally just the Elites, whose support is conditionally based on Jewishness, money, and warhawking, sliding it in.
The Commonwealth is a relic.
It is, that's why your nations are in fucking shambles instead of semi-functional colonies. Britain stopped propping your subhuman asses up and now your people literally run to it to keep the milk flowing into their baby mouths.
Why are we still playing this rigged game? Why are we still begging for visas
This is literally what everyone who voted for Trump wants you to do. Stop coming here. No one cares what kind of mental gymnastics you need to do to understand that, if you sit in your own country we won't care about you. Whatever loss we will make up for on our own.
This dumb nigger acts like only Cubans can be doctors.
took it back to gamestop when I learned you had to be a lesbian
This was only added in the DLC, and it was kinda forceful in a "we are going to make the thing you like Woke" way that Druckmann is now famous for.
The original game (don't know if the various remasters changed things) without any additional content was a solid one and done story. Its nothing masterpiece level but what it does with its pieces is worth the time. Bill, its actual gay character, was noted at the time for being so well written nobody cared he was gay, mostly because he was written well enough that he never mentioned it, and you had to piece it together.
However, that game and only it is the only thing in the franchise that is remotely redeemable. And only then because you can just emulate (or buy for pennies) the PS3 version to deny them any money.
You mean Liberals didn't flood the church en masse when he said gays and atheists were now totes cool and going to heaven, in numbers high enough to replace those he drove away?
Who'd ever guess that going Woke wasn't a successful business model.
If you've seen Joe outside his podcast, its not just business model. That's just him as a person. He is a walking meathead who compensated for a long time by just being loud and aggressive, before his podcast taught him it was better to just stay quieter for success.
Its also why he doesn't try to have an agenda, he isn't actually capable of that deep of thought and planning. He destroyed Carlos Mencia for joke thefts, and then turned around and gave Amy Schumer (a confirmed rapist) every excuse under the sun why she didn't steal jokes she obviously stole. He just reacts in the moment to whatever is happening.
This sounds like its hate, but its literally why he can get those interesting people on his show. No other podcast could pull from both sides, Zlist comedians to literal elites like Musk and Jack Dorsey (at the time), both presidential candidates. Its what makes him successful.
Telling people they aren't allowed to speak their opinions and minds unless its within the approved and allowed forms, that doesn't threaten the government and power, is literally doing the work of the glowies by forcing self-censorship hard enough to stifle people even thinking or congregating around mutual hatred. It allows them to stand out and get attention by being the only ones allowed to say these things and lure people into their honeypot.
Its literally got people so afraid of being called a glowie they just stay quiet, and get easily trapped by the only ones allowed to say it. That is the real glowie.
The only thing that's surprising about this is how these people think they can manufacture consensus on the internet
One of the recent "political tell all" books about the Harris campaign shows how they thought they could manipulate Rogan into giving them a huge leg up, and that they consider the loss of his show (and Trump getting it) one of the biggest reasons they lost.
So the literal Powers That Be with infinite money and connections thought they could control the biggest podcast in the world for their favor and failed so spectacularly they handed the win to their opponent, almost entirely through hubris of their own power.
Also, Joe is pretty stupid. Its why he can get literally anyone on his show (they think they can talk around him easily) and people constantly let down their guard enough to admit shit in front of him. No hate on the guy, but his great strength is in being a "no thoughts, head empty" bouncing board for important people to monologue at.
Modern Doctor Who was propped up like 75% by horny women wanting to fuck the Doctor and self-insert as his companion.
Once the Doctor stopped being a hot British guy with charisma, and the companions got uglier and less easy to insert into, it was doomed to fail no matter what.
The Woke writing was just a final nail as those facts sealed its doom.
Its honestly the peak in terms of mixing all possible avenues from what people desired.
Story? Gimmicks? Technically impressive? Titties? Things to make you cool at school?
You had someone doing one or more of those things at any time. Everything before and after was missing some part of that.
Pure Dorito Pope level, nice.
Guess I'm just out of the loop too much, so my opinion is worth little here. But probably for the best, because I'm far too cynical to enjoy anything if I see that.
I suppose I'll just rewatch my old attitude era tapes some more.
Well yeah its always been that way. But I don't recall one quite as fully blatant as this. Every square inch will be covered in ads, but not entire basic skits to this level.
But maybe I'm just filtering them all out of memory as well.
How in the shit is XBX_X a "brigand?"
If I had to guess, its because he had been posting all caps
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT WHITE MAN
type things a lot recently, which sounded like call to violence. Which is one of those rules that most of us have gotten banned for doing less on.
You can disagree with his conclusion but him and Telia do post like brigaders trying to manipulate the place instead of "legitimate community members." They almost only talk about Jews, hit the spam cap constantly talking about Jews, and often only post anything else to get mad at you for pointing these things out or trying to "call to action" about it. XBX is more varied in that regard, but usually its to post actual incitements like previously mentioned.
I'm not here to justify him doing it, I'm just pointing out where the logic might be in response to your question.
I think even back then Naughty Dog didn't really think through the entire logistics and logic of an apocalypse. Its why they treated the ending as "morally grey" instead of "the Fireflys were retards and had no chance of saving anyone" as everyone managed to figure out once they thought about it a little. Which of course got retconned by Part 2 to be "actually evil because they totes could save the world, somehow" to make it even worse.
At least in this case you can give it the suspension of disbelief of "its a video game element" and just slash the number you technically killed from 40 down to 4 "in the story" and it works fine. Its still dissonant but its workable.