Their entire existence is because of Civilization

Sid Meier has a lot to answer for.

It might not be a typical leftist, there’s still a slim chance he pivots into being yet another pedo pajeet alt.

If I had to guess, it’s because leftists have been substituting “stakeholder” instead of “shareholder” for at least the past decade as part of their corporate subversion.

e.g. instead of having a fiduciary duty to its shareholders to produce good movies that people like and that make money, leftist theory—embraced, it would seem, by the company itself—holds that Disney has a much more nebulous social duty to “stakeholders,” which could be anyone who might be perceived as being affected by their media in any way, to effect social change. Which leads to the kind of stuff Disney is making instead of good movies.

"Dear Speed, I shall be very lonesome without you, love Lincoln," one read in the trailer. Speed was Lincoln's friend who he had a friendship with since his youth.

If this is the quality of evidence they have, it looks like yet another case of leftists interpreting all close male friendships as homosexual.

Not that I should expect logical consistency from Imp, but isn’t that completely retarded? Women in office/admin jobs is a prime opportunity for them to manipulate men and play office politics/HR harpy (both in his mindset and in more realistic versions of what that actually looks like).

Chattel slavery, or some sort of sci-fi cloning and gene manipulation thing to get rid of women completely are pretty much the only solutions that should follow out of his view of female nature, right?

That doesn’t really sound like Imp at all. I think most of this board is fine with—or at least willing to engage with—the “women are, on average, more emotional than men, more herd-based than men, less logical than men, and probably shouldn’t vote” line.

What Imp says is more like “women are all misandrists who all knowingly participate in a global conspiracy, and should be treated as chattel slaves lest they knowingly and willingly destroy us all.” Which is a totally different argument.

Also, he steadfastly refuses to see race. He’d never throw in that bit about niggers. That’s just a womanly ploy to turn men against each other.

It’s very annoying, it’s absurd fear mongering, and personally, I blame climate change.

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I hope this person is dead.

I don't really like Tulsi, but I'm also not going to doompost a ton if she does get tapped. Are there realistically any good choices that aren't a pipe dream?

Was involved in some cryptocurrency rug pull scam

Is that not just all of cryptocurrency? I could be wrong, but I thought that basically all of it boiled down to either one or two names that are well known enough to go up with something approaching reliability, and then anything outside of Bitcoin and maybe etherium or doge or whatever is pretty much just trying to buy in right when the meme push starts and then get back out before someone pulls the rug.

Exactly. His most famous piece of advice is probably the "clean your room" line, or to put it in its more formal form, "set your own house in order before you criticize the world." His own house is clearly not in order but he keeps criticizing the world, so now what?

The only Brave Trail these people are walking with regularity is the one from the living room to the kitchen.

Not exactly. I grant you that the “controversy” Nintendo was avoiding may have come from the same place, but that doesn’t mean Nintendo bought into it at the time. There’s a definite difference between “whatever, it’s a different culture, I don’t really get why they care but let’s just make a few changes that’ll make them happy so we can sell this” and “I actually believe in this cause!”

Can you link some of this stuff?

I’m pretty sure “whiteness” is the font from which “cisgender” and “Christian” and “Patriarchy” and all the other things flow in some of these people’s minds. Their brains are rotted by articles about some uncontacted Amazon tribe that has three genders or some wiped-out group of Africans that were a matriarchy or whatever, and they genuinely believe that if not for white people, the world would be filled with atheist/spiritualism/xey/xem/polysouled/BIPOC/girlbosses.

So, when you hear them talk about how evil “whiteness” is, all of the rest of Western society is thrown in under that.

Oops, I misread that. Thanks for the correction.

I assume the copyright holder would be the parents now, so even putting aside any political motivations, “hey, would you be willing to publicize the crazy hate-screed your mentally unbalanced child wrote before turning into school shooter?” is probably not a request most people would grant.

That’s not the grandmother. That the politician whose grandmother it is.

I’m sure there are a few cases where what you’re describing happened, but more often a character where you can choose the sex is intended as a self-insert, and the story is also written with that in mind. This is usually expressed through dialogue choices, branching paths, multiple romance options. With some games those differences are minor and with some they’re major, but they’re almost always there (or, alternatively, you get the Pokemon-style silent protagonist, barebones story, customization is in the Pokemon you use or whatever).

In other words, the fact that the personality is perceived as different depending on the avatar is a feature, not a bug. So, when you say “actually, take it out,” you’re not protecting the story/game as intended—you’re actually damaging it.

Not to mention that even if we say “allowing a self-insert is always strictly worse than what you would produce if you redesigned the story to have a specific protagonist,” what you’re saying would still only apply as writing advice for future projects. A remake of a classic game is based on an already finished product that people loved as it was, and as such its artistic integrity is entirely dependent on not fucking with that product.

“Arguing” from the perspective of “actually, you’re the racist” is exactly the sort of “arguing” that the conservative movement has been doing—and losing at—for about 50 years now. Is there ever a point where it leads to saying anything about the actual flaws in black culture, history, or the issues with our great societal nigger-worship?

I said black “history,” not “historians.” Although you shouldn’t entirely ignore the culpability of the race grifter academia blacks as well. They do exist.

As for “turning their language around,” I’m not disagreeing with your tactic, I’m disagreeing with your verbiage. When you say “appropriating black history,” you are saying that pieces of black history are being taken. “Appropriating black history” would be if Ubisoft made an Assassin’s Creed game in Africa but replaced the role the Zulu played with Europeans or something. But there’s no black history involved in this. It’s the blackwashing of someone else’s history. Thus, you should say “appropriating [Japanese] history for blacks.” That’s just grammar. My complaint is that you’re expressing the opposite of what I think you intend to express… unless you really are writing this from a perspective of “those poor dumb blacks, being taken advantage of by the liberals,” in which case, lol.

Writing it as “appropriating black culture” makes it sound like black history is the victim, instead of black “history” being the vandal. When they make black vikings or black samurai or whatever, they are not appropriating blacks into the culture. They are appropriating the culture onto blacks.

I’m not sure that resigning to drop off the radar and enjoy my looted millions for the rest of my life would be anything someone had to “force” me to do, but I don’t have the kind of egotistical ambition that would put me in a position like his in the first place.

I'm not that guy, but I don't usually watch long videos because it's often 20+ minutes of some guy rambling to say things that would have taken me a minute to read in a more focused piece of writing. Usually posted with the title "thoughts on this entire podcast?" and no time stamp.

I'm not watching this video because it's got every sign of being vapid engagement bait.

Well they'll need to learn or they'll get wiped out.

So far, they’re mostly picking option two.