This weekend marks the second-to-last weekend of May, and on Monday, we'll be in the last week before the woke begins to celebrate utter moral degeneracy and calls it "progressive" for an entire month.
I'm not even sure that this is the future the people at Stonewall wanted. All they wanted was to be seen as equal people, not to see a hivemind of sick and paedophilia take form and seemingly take over a number of their kind!
This is why I'm typing this down: I want you to prepare yourselves. Last year, they had a choir singing that they'll convert your children, and this year I dunno what kind of child-preying evil they're gonna pull off. Basically, duck and cover, make an LGBTQ sandwich, show it to actual alphabet idiots on Reddit or Twitter, and get below. And if anyone here is homosexual, bi or even trans, I have to say this:
Happy Pride, people. I just wish we could celebrate loudly, happy, and under better circumstances than what we're seeing today.
My first experience with Oddworld was at a friend's house. He had an Xbox and a copy of Munch's Oddysee, and I played a bit of that game for a while. Then, in my second experience, it was on a PlayStation 2, with a physical copy of the first game, Abe's Oddysee. It was back when I was a depressed, volatile teenager and because I gravitated towards FPS games back then, I stopped playing it after a while.
Now, that I'm branching out to other genres, I'm making my way through arguably the most accessible installment in the series: Stranger's Wrath, a standalone platformer/shooter hybrid, and really fantastic. Oddworld in general is unique in that it is overtly political, but done in a right, responsible way where the anti-consumerist messages are built into the fabric of each game's basic plot and the Oddworld itself. There are also spiritual themes in each game, and there's plenty of dark humour to balance things out.
So what was your first experience with Oddworld?
War has changed.
It's no longer about ideals, resources or nationalities.
Its a neverending celebration of wrongdoing; governments, businesses and journalists prematurely take a side depending on what they hear from the other and proceed to celebrate that faction and overlook the blood on its hands. To them, there's no grey: just black and white.
War has changed.
Companies ban services, goods and funding to countries, just so they can virtue signal in spite of all the distrust they'll create. Entertainment people rig tournaments in favour of the country whom the government has sided with and news outlets are dedicated to propaganda openly demonising entire nations rather than the ones at the top responsible. The glorification of war, and those who are as guilty as their enemies, has become a well-oiled machine. All in the span of 5 months.
War has changed.
When the West applies its woke mentalities to the battlefield... When people who push far-left ideologies interfere with matters that should've never concerned them... When we dedicate our man-power to those who don't need it, rather than those who do...
War becomes routine.
[based on Solid/Old Snake's opening speech from the 2008 video game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]
Okay, so the levels are unfinished, but it's still pretty playable. You can find it on the Internet Archive if you feel like looking at what the game could've been had George Broussard not been such a dickish perfectionist.
The 14th doctor will be played by a guy named Ncuti Gatwa (pronounced shoot-y). I don't care that he's a black man. All I care is that he is a MAN, just as we knew the Doctor before the Chibnall wrecking.
Hopefully, things will be back to normal, but since Chibnall's reign wrecked so much (the Doctor's morality, the Master's ultimate fate and the Doctor's true nature), it's going to be SUCH an uphill battle.
I WISH TO GOD THIS CULTURE WAR NEVER HAPPENED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Apparently, although Sam Raimi does the best with what he's given, the script sucks as rather than going all out, they instead give us Doctor Strange and some other woman named America Chavez being chased for several hours by a crazed Wanda.
THAT was what they went with for their multiverse-spanning horror adventure? I mean, I'd probably watch it because I'm a casual fan of Raimi's work (Evil Dead 1 & 2 are some of the greatest horror films ever), but my expectations are pretty low.
DUCK AND COVER, PEOPLE!
[Though hopefully the sale of Crystal Dynamics to Embracer might prevent this from happening.]
"Life isn't about just passing on your genes. We can leave behind so much more than just our DNA. Through speech, music, literature, movies... What we've seen, heard, felt... Anger, joy, and sorrow... These are the things we pass on. It's what we live for. Building the future and keeping the past alive are the same thing."
-Solid Snake, April 30th 2009 (in-universe)
