Not sure why you seem to be on a crusade (heh) against Christians, but putting that aside...yeah, this is obnoxious, and reeks.
You will not win the culture war without Christians.
For one thing, no matter who does it, I hate the 'you need us' whining and bullying tone.
It's sadly led to a cancel brigade trying to root out Christians in gaming for saying what this is.
Citation fucking needed. Looks like victimhood nonsense. No, Christians shouldn't be hunted down and excluded. But people with bad takes should be called out. I don't want anyone shoving anything down my throat, and I don't care if your censorship or authoritarianism is rooted in progressivism, Christianity, or what; I've been pretty consistent that I largely want to be left alone.
Same advice applies to puritans offended by "lewd" games that goes for feminists, alphabet advocates, and the like: Don't like it, don't play or buy it. Easy.
At first I was like "well, this is obviously marketed toward retards, they deserve it, who cares."
Then I learned a bit more, and it seems they're marketing toward children. Yeah, these fuckers can rot in Hell.
"Predatory and Evil" seem apt descriptions. You could argue that people engaging with them should know better - and I completely fucking agree - but it's still ultra shady, and they deserve to get called out.
Absolute yikes.
This was a different post.
No, it's clear what they're talking about. "Jacket censored in [Tomb Raider] 1-3 collection. Statue AT LEAST censored in SR [Soul Reaver]..."
And then she responds to the jacket and fully nude woman. She's clearly talking about Tomb Raider I-III.
And, for the record, you're entitled to whatever opinion you want of course, I'm just asking you to correctly portray what they're all talking about. Which is the jacket in Tomb Raider which, yes, had a topless female.
No one is talking about male nudity in Soul Reaver, like you claimed. Or DLC swimsuits.
it seems nonsensical that they would target an audience that, frankly, has no interest in games in the first place
Three things:
Most importantly, they're not targeting an audience, which is one of my biggest issues with the whole scam. They're getting ESG funds from unaware investors via BlackRock/Vanguard and the like. They're trying to skirt the free market, and not be beholden to the people who actually purchase their products. They're trying to cheat, and take money directly from people who aren't consuming product.
Secondly, it's often a desperation move. There's the old 'get woke, go broke' line, and there's truth there, but as more and more people have been pointing out, there's often also a 'go broke, get woke, then croak' line; i.e. the company was already failing, and needs to reach out to the aforementioned ESG slush fund to try and stay afloat...but ends up ruining their products and reputation in the process, and thus not being able to stave off their demise.
Lastly, and this one is unfortunate...these freaks, while not per se interested in games, are interested in conquest, and are - again, very sadly - a growing population. Or at least were, I think the culture is changing. But yeah, freaks and their Allies are a pretty big chunk. Not as big as they want you to think, but they are around. I mean, most remaining liberals support the trans stuff, and definitely the gay stuff, and all that jazz. So you're just talking about libs, it doesn't have to be the actual trannies, and libs are a much bigger percentage of the market than the alphabet people.
They're talking about Pierre's jacket at the bottom, not the posters.
Honestly, I'm mixed. I do think the original is a bit out of place...but I also hate censorship, and it's the principle at this point. If there wasn't such a trend of censoring and otherwise fucking up old games, I'd think the new censored version was an improvement, in this particular case. The pinup posters should stay, but the jacket is a bit weird. Also not a huge deal though, and would have been fine with the original version as well.
But, yeah, the jacket is a little weird. Who goes around with fully nude woman on their clothes? It happens, but it's pretty rare, and generally and correctly thought of as weird. The bikini version is less jarring, while still capturing the attitude of the original for the most part.
Again, I just hate the trend, though.
You're completely wrong about what they're talking about.
I said it in my other comment, but check the bottom of the article, here.
Tagging u/SoctaticMethod1 - This is the censorship they're talking about.
I'm getting "glutton."
On different translators. With the correct Mangione spelling and the pictured spelling.
"Mansion" in Italian seems to most commonly be "villa" or "palazzo."
Huh. It's...close, thjough. I guess it's less used, and isn't showing up in the translation, but I am seeing "residenza" or "magione" as well.
So, magione, not Mangione, but it's close.
Or imagine a movie like Olympus has Fallen with Gerard Butler being a super super secret service agent. And then remember that the SS is actually a bunch of retards that...
I mean, to be fair, weren't the other agents, while not pants-on-head retarded, not so bright/competent? Butler's character was the exception (to an unrealistic degree, of course), and we weren't supposed to believe all SS agents were like that. Most of the SS got mowed down by equally retarded terrorists, or something.
"you are jewish" is such a brilliantly effective narrative battering ram that I would put it into the memetic weapon category along with "its ok to be White"
I'm not inclined to agree. "It's okay to be white" works because it's blatantly true, and the opposition to it proves the underlying point. "You're a Jew" isn't inherently true, and can easily backfire. I just said it was funny.
If you want to convince me otherwise, I am curious though. Doesn't have to be the full write up, and you can DM me if you want to keep it lowkey, but I am curious what makes it brilliant.
"You're worse because you're mean".
I asked you to prove it, and you just said it again. Whatever.
My posting on KIA predates the existence of kia2 or the .win domain entirely.
Same here. And same for yoisi. I don't really get the point. You've both been around. He's been around here longer. You can't really call him a forum slider and an immigrant when he's been here since the beginning. That's all I'm saying. You can disagree with him, of course. And, again, I did. The top comment in this thread is me saying he's mostly wrong, as I mentioned. But saying he's an immigrant is silly.
There is not a single account on this site that can be cited to even half the number of years I've been in this community.
Or me. So what? I don't try to claim to be able to decide what viewpoints are or are not allowed.
Nobody genuinely interacting with the community with an interest in the actual topics this board is supposed to be about would make this thread.
Says you. Again, I said he was wrong. But there's plenty of people with different opinions. And Trump has made bad picks. Heck, had a bunch of people shilling against Trump before the election, who are now shilling for Trump and his picks. I think that's pretty retarded too. But I'm not going to say they don't belong here. We're a diverse group of people, and we have our retards. If you think yoisi is one of them, that's your right. Doesn't mean he's an "immigrant."
Who are you identifying as my fellows, here?
THE JEWSSSS!
No. I thought I was pretty clear; two or three other posters here, who are equally obsessed and who I find obnoxious on this topic. I won't name names, because I'm not arguing with them at this point, I'm arguing with you. But, yeah, who I'm "identifying" is less than a handful of users. As I said. I was pretty clear.
The last time I remember saying anything hostile to you was calling your meta threads gay.
Which they are. No argument here. Meta threads are gay.
I don't recall seeing you post wehraboo bullshit, and that's the kind of thing that I'm entirely sick of and will get me to pick a fight.
Fair enough. And I don't really. Which doesn't keep some lunatics from calling me a Nazi, though.
Which, weirdly, is also something Imp does.
I wish he'd stuck with women. He was still insane, but there was a kernel of truth.
When Imp sided with the trannies on that issue, and then started shitting on "stormfags" and shilling for Israel on the other issue...yeah. He lost what little credibility he had.
"Imp vs women" was occasionally amusing, and occasionally ran into the truth on the way to insanity. "Imp vs women and stormfags, and in defense of trannies, porn, and Israel"...is just weird.
How exactly is ...equal to "you're (ethnic group)".
Not exactly what I said. Again: Reading comprehension. You're so far up your own ass, and so far inside your own head/reality, that you just hear what you want to hear.
You didn't make an argument, you just called him a leftist. You didn't "correctly identify" anything. You called someone a leftist. Someone called you a Jew. The Jew thing gets a reaction and is thus sort of funny. The "leftist" smear is stupid propaganda popularized by disingenuous faggots, and then driven into the ground.
How exactly is correctly identifying someone who is ideologically opposed to the userbase of this site, and thus is disingenuously shilling by this pointless thread, equal to "you're (ethnic group)".
Again, you didn't identify shit, you made a tired smear. Also...let the userbase of the site decide that? LOL.
He says "trump isn't on OUR side" when HE is not on our side.
And the top post is me saying OP is mostly wrong. What's your point? We're not a monolith. We never were. And we appreciate free speech. We've had people posting unpopular opinions since the very start. OP is mostly wrong. I said that, and "the userbase" seemed to agree with me. And they don't seem to agree with your particular brand of...whatever.
He is not right wing. He opposes ideologically the core of this board's movement, and the core userbase of this site.
I like how you're doing everything you accuse others of doing. Even if what you said was true, and he's a leftist...GG was not initially explicitly right wing. I'd argue it did become that, and we certainly have more right and right-leaning people here. Again, GG has always been about free speech; it tolerates left and right...which is probably why it drifted more right over the years. Your nonsense is gay, and hypocritical.
It is "hello fellow whites". These goons act like the stereotype they claim to fight.
No. You do that.
I've been "here" since before this site existed. Don't "muh account age" at me.
You're the one who opened the door, dumbass.
You called u/yoisi an immigrant, when he's been posting here years longer than you have.
Generally, generally, when you're talking about "forum sliding," you're talking about, you know, the forum. I don't care about your perspective on "the movement," there's a better argument that you're "forum sliding" than that he is, considering how much longer he's been here.
The conpro brigading fucks have no ties to gamergate. They are immigrants, tourists, brigaders, what have you. You know this. We all know this.
He was posting here before "conpro" was a thing.
You mean the normal posters here who are tired of getting spammed by disingenuous faggots who do nothing but attempt to derail the board?
There's like three or four of you who are extremely obsessed. That's by definition not "normal." And, no, not saying that's right or wrong, just that you'd think the normal people would be a few more than like three posters.
And you acknowledge that the conpro fags show up in droves in brigading actions...
I acknowledged no such thing, did I? Which calls into question all your other comments about how people are "self admitted XYZs."
You admit I'm right but still post in their defense...
No, I didn't, and again that calls everything into question. I said my point wasn't that you were wrong, and that they had some saboteurs and retards in their ranks, and that they piss me off too.
I never said "damn, you're so right, man." You're hearing what you want to hear.
You would prefer that the few people that still care about the original board just NOT reply, let the place become 100% conpro spam?
I, and many others, am the people who have been here from the start. You and your fellow weirdos have called me all sorts of names and said I don't belong, while saying what this board should be, to people who have been here longer. You're everything you claim to oppose. Trite, but true.
...we're WORSE than the actual invading group.
Uh. The invading group that preexists you. Well, doesn't that line sounds familiar?
"Oh sure the left is wrong but you're just as bad for being mean." Well doesn't that line seem familiar.
Not what I was saying. Reading comprehension, please.
You're on a site that exists because of the don, I'm going to mock you if you echo "but mean tweets" sentiments.
Fair enough. Now show me where I did that. I have no problem with "mean tweets." I have problems with retards.
True, I should have specified. I meant that Hollywood brand of professional assassin.
The only real life requirement to be a "professional assassin" is to be unscrupulous or otherwise twisted enough to accept payment to attempt to kill someone. It might be a somewhat rare breed, but that doesn't mean it's exactly a high bar. You have to crawl under a low bar to be a professional assassin, not leap some elite hurdle.
Point is, people were heaping all sorts of perceived competence on this guy that he probably didn't deserve. At least, that's one explanation.
The same people whining about this are probably the same people who go on at length about "banned books."
Yeah...blame China and their censorship. This is just hilarious. Every organization should embed all censored stuff, regardless of political, national, or religious persuasion. Make censorship as burdensome as possible.
Yeah, there's a lot that doesn't add up here.
Although some of that could just be that the story was blown out of proportion to begin with, so people were prescribing a lot more competence to the shooter than was actually merited.
I thought from the start this was merely...baseline competence. More than we've seen from some losers, and he gets credit for not immediately running after the shots (thus drawing immediate attention), but he brought a gun to the assassination that didn't even cycle.
So, yeah, some of the confusion could just be that people were expecting some elite assassin, when it could (emphasis on could, we still don't know the full story) just be some random retard.
Some of the people in the comments are obviously trying very hard to be retarded and obtuse.
He's right about Turkey. He's also right about Israel and the US though. No matter how "on-brand" the accusation is.
Consider Israel immediately invaded, and the US already had troops there, it would actually be more surprising if these countries weren't involved.
But, sure, Twitter dude; US and Israel are innocent, but, man, Turkey is definitely involved. Hah.
I don't even get this one. I do think there was stuff going on behind the scenes, but why would Iran want Syria gone or controlled by Israel? It's possible, as maybe they're retarded enough to think they can try to appease Israel/US,. but doesn't seem the likeliest occurrence. Blaming Iran for Syria's downfall is...something.
Good, we've got retards from all sides, just to be fair. Yeah...that's a big ol' "no." Fuck Israel, fuck the US interventionism...but fuck Turkey, too.
At least some people are getting it. This was clearly (among other things) a landgrab.