Don't get me wrong, they're still woke morons, but I am actually surprised by the move.

SJWs usually double-down. This seems out of character for them.

Perhaps they realize that alienating the user-base of an eminently moddable blockbuster game is a stupendously stupid move?

Just the usual pruning of the Overton window by our local moderator.

Subscriptions from plebs, or 'subscriptions' from USAID?

I guess we'll find out in next year's earnings call.

My mind went straight to the Jack Sparrow 'but you have heard of me' meme

https://imgflip.com/i/9r9g4a

There's risky clicks, and then there's 'fuck no.'

This is the latter.

A win for Rowling and the TERFS.

It's not sanity, it's sanctification of women's special rights & protections.

Hispanic illegals can at least be deported, which is a legal/political 'out' to stem the tide; I don't know how to even begin reversing H1B's followed by chain migration.

Watch Canada closely. The US's larger population has a proportionally longer incubation time, but Canada's is a similar illness & endgame. I suspect that heritage Canadians will be in the same boat as South African whites shortly, but with a chinese/indian majority vs. a bantu one. Triangulating between SA now and Canada in two or three decades should give a decent bead on what the US can expect if its demographic shift continues.

I would argue that originality only works if you aren't wasting your readers' time.

I'll point to Ecclesiastes 1:9 -- "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun." (Emphasis mine)

You will get more mileage out of retreading the monomyth, with its familiar cycle, than you will by trying to reinvent the hero's journey. Similarly, if you're telling a fantasy story, using elves, dwarves, and orcs saves the reader time acclimating to your world. Tropes exist to be used as shorthand, so that the elements of the story you wish to emphasize-- what your muse yearns to explore can take center stage. You want to twist the tropes, ideally making at least three changes to make them your own, but you don't want to subvert; you're using the cultural shorthand to tighten your story, not drive the culture.

The more trite and unoriginal the basic elements are, the more they fade into the background. Ideally, this leaves your readers with headspace and bandwidth to appreciate how you tell the story elements that matter, or how you've tweaked elements to suit your tastes and style.

To sum up, originality isn't the most important thing. Execution and concision are. To the extent that you beg, borrow, and steal tropes and familiar literary forms to save your readers time acclimating to your story, you save both your and their time. The rest is entirely up to what you bring to the table-- does your story entertain and spend the readers' time well?

It's all fun and games until the wall smacks them in the face.

There's an old word for a woman who cannot get a man: spinster.

Islam is right about women.

For all the left has blathered about 'stochastic terrorism,' the idea that rhetoric creates a dangerous environment by agitating the mentally ill...

Mental Illness skews left and (as always) they are projecting.

The Babylon Bee effect-- by projecting just a little further left you aren't making satire, you're predicting the future.

Even if they got off on ALL the charges, the process would still be the punishment.

There is no war in Ba Sing Se, eh?

Bold move considering Crowder already got swathes of it leaked: https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/sources-june-11-2024

Sure.

Release the Tranifesto, then we can talk.

Nintendo cartridges having the game on them was the whole selling point for me.

If some cartridges will be license keys instead, that opens the door to a 'bait and switch' and makes me hold my nose in disgust.

It's a lie.

Correct. According to this leak, some Switch 2 cartridges are going to be license checks, allowing you to download the game. The game isn't on the cartridge.

Preparing the narrative for the hedgies potentially shorting the whole economy, no doubt. If they can't drive the culture left, they'll drive it into the ground.

Since we're talking screeching retards: Extinction Rebellion is worse than any amount of anti-vaxx sentiment you can muster. Plus, they believe in 'The Science.'

Leftists who are Statists invariably plug the state into that God-shaped hole they're trying to ignore. From there, you get moral busybodies (in CS Lewis' tyranical sense) who will appeal to the authority of the state for every political end, because the state has become their God.

There is no one on earth more sunk-cost, Dunning-Kruger, subhuman IQ, Mass Formation Psychosis than the political Left Wing, and no one on earth more evil than the people manipulating them into ruining our nations and our future as a species.

100% agree.

SJWs always lie: note laws 1 & 3.

1. the SJWs are lying.
2. the SJWs will double down.
3. the SJWs are projecting.

And when you call them on it, they will also do law 2: double down.

So this whole spiel in the OP? Totally applies to the utopian left more than anyone on the right.

Smacks of a minstrel show, tbh. Something's deeply inauthentic about it; one of the multicultural elite, who usually plays with the upper class whites, playing herself off as lower class black. It strikes me as layers of masking, which is why I was asking where her authentic self is-- because I don't see it.

Is the act the ghetto accent, or 'playing white?'

Where is the authentic self? (Other than the lack of empathy, I mean.)

We'll see if it's impact on Ubisoft's finances are jaw-dropping.

Yasuke's magic 8 ball says: 'All signs point to yes.'

Grummz is quoting an internal Ubisoft source as saying that the PC sales represent 'only' 27% of sales. The middle of the road estimate on Steam DB is 230k 'owners,' which would include promo codes included with graphics cards and the like.

SmashJT is stating that the budget for the game could be as high as nine hundred million dollars.

Steelmaning these numbers Grummz's source is spouting means everyone who's 'owning' the game (230k/0.27) bought-in for 70 bucks, that's just shy of 60 Million gross revenue-- a loss of 840 million relative to SmashJT's cost estimate.

It's a marxist word that has never been used in any way except as a weapon against white people.

I'll toss Vox Day at you: https://voxday.net/2021/12/28/racism-is-pro-human-diversity/

To sum up: Racism as a term was coined for use against Native Americans who were (also) trying to preserve their culture. 'Racism' is and always has been a cudgel wielded by those in favor of 'progress,' which was defined initially as elimination of racial distinctions in a vain attempt at enforcing a cultural 'tabula rasa.' (Kill the Indian, save the Man.) Yes, it's Neo-Marxists wielding the cudgel these days. White people/Heritage Americans are their target, but the idea of mixing and/or destroying ethnic identities has always been deeply American, predating Marx.

Vox again: https://voxday.net/2015/04/21/mailvox-racism-lens/

I assert that an unborn female black child with a missing chromosome and an inclination to homosexuality is equal in human value and human dignity and unalienable, God-given rights to a straight white male in the prime of his life and a +4 SD IQ. How many of my dishonest critics will do the same?

That doesn’t mean that I think it is wise to ask that particular child, when she is grown, to design the next plane on which I intend to fly. Or even to work in the air traffic control tower.

I deal in reality as determined by history, science, and logic. And I care no more about what an equalitarian fantasist thinks about me or anything else than I do about the mentally deranged babbling in the psych ward. The world is as it is, not as we might wish it to be. If you can’t understand that, then I am among the least of your problems.”

--Vox Day

There are exceedingly difficult conversations to be had, but I don't see the ideologically possessed ('anti'-racist left OR racist right) as being capable of having any form of discussion about the topic.

Nuance and honesty as regards race seem dead in the cultural sphere.