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What a strange way to write "Submit to"
I was in a TF2 community server once when someone on all-voice-chat said they were a girl. They definitely sounded like one, and it made me smile when a bunch of guys said stuff on their mics like "Only guys play TF2!" "You're not a girl you just sound like one!" "Prove it!" and then there was this back-and-forth between the girl and those guys as if the girl were "just one of the guys." She didn't seem offended about anything.
As an aside I love that TF2 community server banter. It's always censored but you can get away with saying a lot of things that would get you banned in many other games.
If nobody ever looks at a priceless painting, it practically is destroyed.
When Rush Limbaugh left NY, the state leadership basically said "good riddance" (interesting how they target a private citizen). Then every year following Rush's departure, the state forced him to prove that he did not operate a business in NY.
I'll take "providing an escape from reality for a bit of fun" over "redefining mainstream perceptions of gaming" any day.
A lot of game studios use Unreal Engine's guidelines for themselves for several reasons. The main reason I think is that when a game developer with expertise in Unreal onboards to a studio that uses the engine, it makes the transition much smoother (Imagine going from studio to studio working on games using the same engine but writing code under different guidelines each time). Another reason is that the existing guidelines saves studios a lot of time writing their own from scratch.
For me it was the last season of House of Cards on Netflix. The series was already becoming increasing unbelievable to me by that point with holes in some plots and lack of satisfying closure in others, but the last season went warp speed ahead on it. Spoiler alert: It ended with the entire U.S. cabinet becoming 100% female and standing in a line breaking the fourth wall looking right into the camera all smug and arrogantly. It couldn't be more obvious of a statement if someone in the background held up a sign reading "Women are better than men in every way possible."
Before that the messaging was more subtle but still noticeable. Like in the climate change movie (The Day After Tomorrow, I think)...in it was a very important government official who looked just like Dick Cheney denying that anything was going to happen when one of the climatologists kept warning him about the major weather disturbances.
Is the new one going to be about a mary sue who travels through space and time imposing "modern values" on everyone while saving a gang of bandits (including a dumb white male) from every situation? And the Evil Genius, who sports an orange tan and golden hair, is continually outsmarted by her until she just kills him at the end?
The chans taught me to never underestimate weaponized autism. Sometimes they can be a force to perpetuate good, other times evil.
Sometimes the only "research" they do is asking their grandma and taking her word for it. Just like what happened with Cleopatra on Netflix. They even defended it.
If I were that preacher my first thought would be "Yes! I'm triggering satanists!" and my second would be "I look forward to saving souls from prison."
Love is not an accomplice to sin.
A good dad loves their son; but when their son scribbles on the wall with crayons after they're told not to, that dad is going to punish them so they won't do it again. And if you message that to people who think love means to support someone in every single thing they do no matter what it is, then chances are they will mentally blue screen.
What do you notice?
No garbage strewn around, nobody panhandling or wretchedly sitting anywhere, no shouting, no gawking, nobody pushing anyone, no gang graffiti, no morbidly obese people, nobody blocking the sidewalk having a conversation they could be having anywhere else in the entire city, no transsexuals or any kind of pride flair, people dressed civilly...
Along with gender and vaccine; and made up bullshit like "toxic masculinity" and "mansplaining."
Reminds me of when Netflix released Cleopatra. I still can't get over the makers defending their actions! "Well if my grandma said such-and-such then it's true. Period." I wonder if the devs will do the same stunt here.
If I were a historian I'd be so miserable knowing this crap goes on all the time from movies to games to social media.
"Noooooooo it comes from the 2% who make Russian bot farms and pretend to have a much bigger presence!!! I wish we could just ban Putin and ban toxic men from playing games forever so that we can usher in a new golden age of diverse and brave gaming!"
The silver lining for me is enjoyment watching the Critical Drinker eviscerate that content in his reviews.
They leave in silence and don't make a fuss.
The people who do make a fuss tend to make themselves look like clowns anyway because of either the overdramatic acting or the low IQ room not understanding them.
I quiet quit out of a chat group in my area during the lockdowns because I got tired of all the woke children in adult bodies having daily breakdowns and tantrums. I learned a few years later from someone who was still there that a few months after I left, it reached peak crazy and splintered into as many as five groups which never fully reintegrated. And of course each group was run by people determined to make it their personal echo chamber.
Apogee/3D Realms always has a special place in my heart for the Duke Nukem IP. Loved the 2D and first 3D games.
I think the second 2D game started with Duke Nukem being on Oprah Winfrey pitching his book "Why I'm so great" lol!
Girlfriend: "Why won't my boyfriend share his deepest feelings with me?"
Also girlfriend: "My boyfriend is so cringey when he shares his deepest feelings with me. Why can't I find a stoic man?"
If it fails, they're going to try again in 2 more years or less. People are only getting more upset with things, and the divide between them and their government can only get so wide before enough officials believe that legislation is necessary.
The MSM probably: "71% of Americans are racist bigoted homophobes. We need to do better!"
I am Lothar of the Hill People! Much have I seen and much have I done!
Locking a thread is how they're resilient in the face of adversity? So brave! Such courage!