This isn't stupidity. This is intentional. It's tribalism that leftists love so much: you cross me and you're out of the 'good' group. Where they lose their damn minds is in trying to make 'groups' out of characteristics no one controls, but base membership on actual behavior. They do this because they're playing every emotional side of every argument, and no logical side of any argument.
It's a strategy of manipulation that only the 'over-educated' would enjoy. It requires that special kind of arrogance that comes with seeing yourself as better than the rabble around you.
You guys pick some weird fuckin heroes. If she can pretend her child isn't human, she will treat him that way. Sounds good to you? Sounds good to the kid in her arms who I doubt will live long enough to appreciate this picture's irony himself? Yeah, of course it does, you're deranged...
Post-show:
No Halo, I'm shocked.
Riot collaboration, all characters unlocked in League, Valorant, lots of cards in Runeterra. Fun stuff.
New Forza looks excellent, Flight Sim gets helicopters and the Halo Pelican (brilliant). Hotwheels collab in Horizon, seems fitting but seems like we already did this once. Forza is a definite for me, the rest just looks decent.
Scorn is a creepy, Giger-style, shooter(?), with a bangin doom-style soundtrack. I like it muchly. Cocoon is a minimalist puzzle platformer that looks fun.
Finally a new Team Ninja game on Xbox: Wu Long. Looks good, but no gameplay yet. Atlus is porting Persona 3, 4, and 5. Very happy about this. Kojima pre-announces an Xbox collaboration on a brand new game. All in all, good news on the Japanese front.
Big Diablo 4 presentation. Until MS makes a show of going through Acti-Bliz's headquarters with a flamethrower, this is tainted goods. No thanks.
Tons of time reserved for Todd Howard to fellate himself on-screen. Starfield looks... sharp but dated. Bullets have no impact... whole game looks like same old Bethesda but now with super-sampling. Flight mechanics shown, and they're arcade rather than space sim. In a word, "ok, sure."
Pre-show comments:
Infinity killed what of my love of Halo that survived Spartan Ops and Halo 5. Hard to imagine what they can show that I'll like. Maybe, since SF6 is on Xbox finally, we'll get a second character reveal after Guile? Probably too early to announce any ActiBliz IPs since that acquisition is still in the early stages. Some Japanese games?
Expecting lots of woke pander-y shit. I wonder how many chair-spins / volume mutes I'll have to get through it, or if I'll abandon it before the end. Your move, MS.
I'm glad you had fun. I play Genshin and am continually surprised by how popular Raiden is. I dislike her character as presented, fundamentally. She becomes slightly redeemed in epilogues of the main story, but it was an uphill battle for me to ignore what had come before. I wonder if people really like her character, or they just like how she looks.
You didn't mention trouble with the hazmat policy of this event, which is striking to me. I loathe to ask, but what were the impositions you had to deal with concerning mandates and policies impeding the fun?
I ask because it coincides with a similar event I witnessed last weekend: "Combo Breaker." This is one of the staple yearly fighting game tournaments. I tuned in as I often do to these events to see good matches, especially offline matches (finally) where skill isn't dampened by lag. It is mid-match of Guilty Gear as I tune in. Commentators sound a little strange. Then the round ends and we get a shot of the competitors.
They have masks, and one is fumbling with his because he wants to drink some water, finally does and immediately pulls it back up. I assume this is some kind of virtue signal thing because they're on-camera. Pan the crowd: masked to the man. Every single one. The commentator booth is in the front row, and they are masked. This is why they sound like they're talking through blankets on the broadcast.
I go to their main site to see what policy has resulted in this and find: Mask required at all times in all locations, security staff will throw anyone out without a mask on. Additionally: must have full boosters of this (fairly complicated) list of approved injections, weird inconsistent definitions of what constitutes 'full,' official papers required to this effect and another complex list of entities that constitute 'official.'
The entire thing is a celebration of insanity. You have to be certified immune and wear a mask at all times. Everyone does. Justification for any one of these rules is contradicted by every other rule. The mask prevents spread, ok, then wear one and you'll be fine. No, no, your mask protects me so YOU have to wear one or I won't be safe. Ok, so lets all wear masks. But you need to have the government approved injections too, why if the masks do their job? To be extra double sure. Ok, then I'll take my mask off since now I'm immune. Yes but how will I know you didn't just sneak in with a mask and then take it off?! You have the injections, and you have the mask, you are fully battle ready, why do you care what I do? YOUR INJECTIONS PROTECT ME THOUGH!
Round and round we go. It never stops. Think up a new performance and we must all do it "for grandma" or... "for the kids" or... for someone probably, the messaging is muddy.
Fundamentally I knew, I wasn't going to see good matches at this tournament. The only people who attended were OK with all of this shit. I stopped watching.
I also know (hope) that geography plays into this. Combo Breaker is in Chicago. Momocon is in Atlanta. I'm eager to hear how it was different or the same.
No, I understand your position. This was a guy taking specific umbrage to the notion that psychiatrists and the trans tender pipeline were advocating mastectomy operations alongside the rest. It was a very specific "bridge too far" / "this is made up" assertion on just that point.
As though mutilation is where we START thinking some thing ridiculous is happening, and everything before that is fine and normal.
Gotta page the guy who claimed girls weren't being encouraged to cut their breasts off. Hell, gotta go through my history to see who that even was... it was a while back.
I also reckon that the subtext here is that the Asian girl was murdered between frames by the Afro-queen as a show of solidarity with BLM.
"If the mistreatment ... is ridiculed by the world..." doesn't square properly. You either mean "celebrated" or you meant to only use one of 'mistreatment' or 'ridicule.' But lazy misconstruction of your argument aside, I must assert for clarity that what people are actually doing is ridiculing the mistreatment conducted of Amber Heard BEFORE this point. The present treatment is being celebrated, and it is being celebrated for its karmic comeuppance relative to the previous undeserved favor and lavish support.
So then, how does the celebration of present justice, and ridicule of past injustice (mistreatment) result in a dangerous outcome for Black women? Do tell.
"Help, I don't want to die!" claimed the patient who was clearly suffering from dementia. We're doing the right thing by respecting his true wish to die that he can't espouse properly due to the dementia we are in charge of diagnosing.
And for those following along, the Eugenics Wars took place in the early 1990s. The rest of Star Trek ends up hinging on this pretty tightly despite it being a minor detail until Wrath of Kahn. That's what you get when your most popular movie features a very interesting character with a background in a historical event you now can never ignore.
Voyager ignored it, but Voyager ignored a lot of things. Before we had Kurtzman Trek, we had Berman Trek, and he managed things pretty badly, leading, in my opinion, to the decline of the brand in the 2000s.
Being constantly surprised when the inevitable happens isn't a good thing. Leftist ideology has accelerated suddenly, but it hasn't changed direction. It was always going this way. Assuming there were no consequences for the cause you felt was benign in the 70s and then being surprised that there were, makes you a dupe.
People who say, "the left left me," are the foot soldiers who willingly are used for a time before looking around and asking, "was this always rubble here?" The whole time they were aggressively condescending against those who opposed the crusade they blithely participated in.
It troubles me that they can confidently presume they have no responsibility for the current state of affairs "I was just who I was believing what I was believing and suddenly that isn't cool, and that excuses me for the outcomes of everything I championed that turned out wrong in the meantime." The Road to Hell.
Chapo here, admits that he walked with the earliest homosexual protests in the 70s, and the "good Christian Calgarians pelted us with eggs." And he doesn't grasp that if they wanted to hurt you, they wouldn't have used eggs. They were responding to your demonstration with a peaceful demonstration of their own. And you couldn't conceive of it. It was hostile action (kind of like your disruption of their lives in your raucous, vainglorious, show of force was to them) that couldn't be tolerated because it fit in with your assumption of what evil was.
I've forked one project already for this. I'll do it again. Turns out its real fuckin easy to rehost your MIT licensed code without the retarded TOS that demands all users denounce Russia to download it. Activism in OSS is a poison.
At least their bragging is honest. I don't even have to pull up an example to take the argument apart because the argument is actually "we made it better by making is less subtle, more direct, and as (con)temporary as possible." What a self-defeating ideology. If humanity loses to this, then we deserve it, unfortunately.
It IS about being able to say whatever you want. That strongly implies a lack of consequence FOR speaking, which correlates strongly with a lack of monitoring and policing for the purpose of exacting consequences for every utterance. All of these serve the primary goal of encouraging an individual to express thoughts rather than curtail them with the presumption that for a culture that is a net-positive at the ultimate scale.
The philosophy of "freedom of speech" is a practical expression of the belief that when unfettered by codes and dictates, an individual will achieve the greatest heights in thought, and finally action. It literally is an actual encouragement to "say whatever you want."
"Humans have no analog to the Covenant term of 'Sacred Ring'", sure we do, fucknut, it's 'Halo.' You know, that ring-like thing depicted almost universally in sacred art around the important characters. Just because you require a movie where a character states a thing, doesn't mean people of average intelligence also require that level of hand-holding. You wrote an article about this. You waste of life.
"Rules for thee but not for me" - Scott Travis