Apparently in this case, because everyone who even knew what Kotaku was threw up their hands and left when it just turned into the generic snarky hate group that the feminists had been accusing it of being.
Who am I failing to engage with? One guy talked about video games and I replied to him.
One guy basically said "All video games are trash so there's no point in talking about them," and I didn't really see a reason that needed a reply.
I don't know, there aren't that many Jewish people in a lot of parts of the world. It's 0.2% of the population.
So you're telling me that you do, in fact, know some of them? Got a Jew or three in your various schools or workplaces or communities or whatever?
Did they murder Jews, gypsies, and retards? Even if you buy the propaganda, apparently not enough to stop them from founding an entire country and having enough people left over to cripple Germany with "reparation" payments for the next 80 years.
Propaganda? JFC, there are still people who were alive when it all went down. There are hundreds - thousands - of first-person eyewitness reports.
I guess someone born in 1948 could be forgiven for not getting that, because there was no Internet and no easy way to communicate with other people.
And I guess someone born in 2010 could be forgiven for not getting that, because they're teenagers and teenagers are stupid.
But if you were born anywhere in between those years, I cannot for the life of me figure out what must be wrong with you if you think none of it happened.
I guess I'm coming around to understanding it. It's just so fucking disappointing that there are only two forums on the entire Internet.
There's the corporate "We're your mom and we'll control every word you say, now play on the playground but not too boisterously, children" forum.
And then there's the "Joos joos joos I hate the jooooooos and my personality is joooooos" forum.
And... absolutely literally nothing else. I guess there are exactly two people in the world and everyone's just a clone of one or the other.
My backlog's fairly small right now. I keep finding myself browsing Steam, feeling distinctly uninspired, and saying "fuck it, I'll play Rimworld for a couple hours."
I did just finish Esoteric Ebb. It was... all right. One of those spiritual successors to Disco Elysium that just makes you wish Disco Elysium 2 had been able to exist. But it's probably the best spiritual successor to DE... for what that's worth.
Far Far West looks aight. I don't really enjoy co-op. Makes me feel like I'm at work.
No shit...
I'm guessing you don't?
Oh, I'm not just talking about atheists. That's only one of your fifteen hundred categories of enemy.
Yes, Kaarous, 99.5% of the human race is your enemy, and that must be overwhelmingly lonely.
I'm not going to get up your ass about that: it's your perfect right to believe whatever dumb shit you want to believe.
But spending your life compulsively spamming gaming communities with that same dumb shit is the very height of faggotry.
Well, I certainly don't want a more Christian world, given that I'm an atheist and I think Christianity is fully retarded.
I've got no dog in the Jew fight, except that I actually know Jewish people and they're, you know, exactly like everybody else. Meaning: mostly assholes, a few are cool.
I just think it's a fucking shame that GamerGate today is just five weird fuckers memeing about how much they hate the Joos.
Nah, they weren't right. They tried going down the Murder Fucking Everybody route, and after it was over the overwhelming sentiment was Jesus Fucking Christ what have we done we're all fucking monsters and I don't know how we're gonna live with ourselves.
But with 80 years to lose perspective, kids are finding it fun and edgelordy to go back to it.
And, whatever, fun is fun, free speech is good. It just fucking sucks when's so obsessive that it drives out every other fucking topic.
How strange that "modernity" boils down to constantly, obsessively saying the exact same shit about the exact same group that people were all saying in 1700.
I love indies. I just finished Esoteric Ebb. Sort of a Disco Elysium meets D&D thing. I liked it, at least somewhat; I imagine this community would have mixed feelings if any of them played games anymore. It's, you know, Scandanavian.
There are also good AAs. I liked Dispatch. Maybe this community would complain about it? I'm not sure. It doesn't have any trooned-out dykes, but there is a profane black speedster who runs until he (spoiler because you don't care) prematurely ages and drops over dead, and I'm not sure whether you'd consider that tokenism or rather based.
But why am I talking about games, when this is just an identical instance of the Internet's other 600 "JooMemes" sites now.
No, I was there. Hell, I bought Depression Quest two days before GamerGate started. I watched the whole thing unfold on Reddit, I read all the media hand-wringing, I read all the think pieces, I went ahead and saw everything that happened between Saints Row 3 and Dragon Age: Veilguard.
I come here and see what's become of the community annnnd I find that no one gives a shit about video games and it's all just generic Joo shit.
Right, because everybody knows GamerGate started on Scored.
Well, I checked, and the original D&D recognized no stat differences whatsoever between the sexes.
AD&D (both editions) capped women's strength at 18(50) instead of 18(00), which meant women could never lift more than 280 pounds, while men could potentially lift up to 480.
But Gygax said in an interview he never enforced that rule because the whole game was fantasy so who really gives a shit about that particular sliver of realism.
...even though in many other ways, Gygax was obsessed with realism and wanted the DM to track basically every calorie the players ate.
It is very much not the same shit, and that Stanford professor happens to be a retard: D&D has always been an aggressively woke system. From 3E on, it recognized no differences between men and women, and the only racial differences it recognized were between different species.
And I say "From 3E on," because I know there was a brief period in 2E where women's strength was capped at 18(50) and men's was capped at 18(00) - but I'm not sure if that was in the Player's Handbook or if it was just a feature of certain early '90s video games.
Holy shit, a post about a video game.
I haven't played it yet. I've been playing Esoteric Ebb. Which is a game that would most likely piss y'all off a little bit, but only a little bit.
I think we all know that everyone's opinions here are pretty unsubvertable. I remember when GamerGate had something to do with video games. It would would seem that everyone who cared about video games left a long time ago.
In a thread yesterday, I was made to understand that raping Muslims is pretty based.
Interesting. Feels like he's talking about Reddit. Except that Reddit isn't trying to bring everyone into the hive-mind. Instead it's just rejecting everyone who doesn't immediately conform to any and all mainstream beliefs. Which does leave plenty of room for small innovative groups.
I mean... if the reporting's to be believed, this one was as clear-cut as hate crimes get. Apparently he followed her home, forced his way in, beat her with a stick, told her he was the master over her filthy race, pulled off his pants yelling that this is what a white British cock looks like, and choked and raped and beat her for 24 minutes while demanding that she cry out "Hallelujah." Which is a Hebrew word, of course, but he thought it was a Christian one. Also thought he was raping a Muslim. Sigh.
But, yeah, they probably should have locked him up for longer after the 10 other times they convicted him. He'd punched a nurse in the face at a mental hospital three days before this happened.
So a crazy homeless druggie wanted to rape a Muslim and managed to even fuck that up, instead going after a woman from the no-shaving religion.
Dude had 18 priors, soooo maybe not the kind of guy you want roaming the streets...
Soooo you're arguing that I'm being nihilistic by arguing that no one is casting a good vote; and then you're practically rephrasing my argument by saying that democracy itself should be violently overthrown.
Seems a lot like trying to have your cake and eat it, too.
I always think it's funny when people's advice is "go outside." Sure, I can go outside. Then I'd be: outside. I can touch grass. I can roll around in it and rip it up by the roots and shove it down my pants. Then, what: I've achieved enlightenment? People are fucking weird.