What do you mean?
Most people (schizos excepted) who say things like this don’t mean that some random person was actually receiving orders from whatever group they blame, but that said group has manipulated societal incentive structures to produce this kind of outcome more often. Your performative incredulity is misplaced because it doesn’t address the point; it’s as though you saw someone talking about “Soros DAs” releasing criminals and went “wow, of course George Soros personally ordered Jamal to mug that guy and Shaniqua to release him afterward!”
No one was suggesting that, and you look dumb and/or hostile for implying they were.
Of course, like a true milquetoast, he picked the feminist angle along with the “bad for the baby” angle. Sure, the “victim” is the one who’s getting paid and willingly entered into this evil deal. Right.
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely believe woman agreeing to surrogacy will probably change their minds and regret it. I think the biology at play in pregnancy and birth makes bonding with the baby inevitable, so unless you’re surrogating for an infertile relative and can stick around in the kid’s life, it must be a gut punch. For that matter, if a woman says “I regret this, I want to be his mother,” and means it, I think it’s a forgivable error. Better to let her try than give him to the gay guys.
But.
That doesn’t make her the primary victim. It doesn’t make her the victim at all. It makes her, at best, a fool her saw the error of her ways, and at worst a willing accessory to the selling of a baby who is now feeling like she didn’t get enough money for her role.
The only true victim is the baby being ripped away from his mother and thrown into a home that is disproportionately likely to abuse him, and provides bad role models even if they have no nefarious intentions and try to do everything well.
The Fallout one was a little dumber, though. “It’s not woke, it just has a female lead in an action role, a black-white leading romance, and a scene where they rewrite all the lore so that the evil capitalists started the nuclear war for profit!”
If that’s non-woke, this is straight-up right-wing.
I enjoyed it. As you mentioned, there were two scenes where a woman beats up a man she has no business beating (one of which is much more egregious than the other), but neither one was presented as “yeah, girl power!” so it made me roll my eyes in more of a “maybe they should have made this scene work a little differently” way than an “ugh, feminism” way.
Because—like GG1–GG2 is a case of people that don’t realize how bad things are catching hold of one tendril of the Kraken without realizing there’s a whole beast attached. Let’s hope that lots of them do see more of what’s going on, I guess.
To be honest, unless you’re already over 45, I suspect that the only way you’ll see any social security money is if it’s so inflated by money printing it is almost literally worthless. Speaking as someone that will “lose out” if social security is abolished or fails in the next 30 years, I’d rather take the hit personally and not also import infinity immigrants trying to save a system that’s already collapsing.
I can see grandfathering people who are already receiving it, for whom it makes up a significant portion of their monthly budget, but other than that it really should just end. It is a grenade, and someone needs to jump on it.
supposed music industry “experts”
There's your problem. The connected "expert" class(es) should all be understood to be Current Year adherents. The real experts are the ones that get labelled "controversial" or similar such things, and shunned from big culture contests, academia, etc.
Oh, look, you posted something utterly insane believing that Trump is a total idiot with no proof and it turned out to be utterly insane and also completely fake. This is only, like, the 10th time that’s happened.
I get that one of Trump’s faults is that he makes questionable picks for staffers and advisors. It’s my biggest complaint about him. But this article was obviously amplifying that to an absurd degree. It’s about two steps removed from “Donald Trump considering Hillary Clinton as running mate.”
How do I know this isn’t made up? It cites “people familiar with the matter” and that “Republicans close to both campaigns think” it would be good.
Politely, your thinking isn’t always the clearest about Trump. I’m not even saying all your issues with him are invalid… but you have rushed to believe silly things before.
Certain parts of it are, but not exactly the parts they’d ever admit. Just as certain parts of the North are, to which they’ll never admit.
I think they wanted to go the “welcoming granny” route for their version. She does have a cheerful smile when she hasn’t been face swapped with Uncle Ruckus. I’m not saying it’s necessarily a great adaptation, just that I don’t think it’s supposed to be vitiligo.
Jedi Survivor is just the latest in a long line of such that includes, most infamously, SimCity and Diablo 3. It really is a retarded choice and always has been.
It is, but I think that he did it on a talk show or something and one of the guests was agreeing with him unironically.
I don’t think Hestia has vitiligo. She’s the goddess of the hearth. I’m pretty sure she’s just covered in soot.
I am admittedly ignorant of the finer mechanics of competition shooting, but how well does the laser pistol simulate, for example, recoil? It seems like there are important aspects of the shooting part of shooting that would be lost with a laser.
Edit: I'm assuming here that with a pistol shot distance, things like the laser traveling in a straight line vs. the arc of a bullet are negligible, but I could be wrong about that and maybe it's even sillier than I think.
I listed twenty-two games. Two were remakes. If the only defense of your point that you can muster is “remakes don’t count,” I need make no further argument.
The issue is that your contention in your original post was that there is “an artificial push for co-op happening,” and that they are trying to “avoid all other genres.” My point is that that’s provably untrue, because look at all these other games being made.
I agree that most of the games I mentioned are mediocre at best, but that’s not the point. The point is that their existence, the fact that lots of dev time, marketing campaigns, and billions of dollars are going into these largely non co-op games blows your point completely out of the water. I don’t care how much you defend your point with “but those games are disappointing,” because that’s not the debate here. The debate is: “are big publishers still making non co-op games,” and the answer is: “unequivocally, yes!”
So… you’ve arbitrarily disqualified over half the examples given (you said ‘decades,’ but the GoW stuff is too old? Or maybe it was Elden Ring snd Armored Core you meant with that?), then still admit to three titles (which is more than the two you have)? You want an AAA game, but you also don’t count anything that’s a woke, shallow game with a buggy release (i.e. almost all of AAA?)
I mean, I could find you even more titles (Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man 2, Far Cry 6, Like a Dragon: Isshin, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth), but they’d all fall under at least one of your arbitrary disqualifications.
If you want to say “the only games I think are ‘good,’ on the one platform I pay attention to, are co-op,” thst would be one thing. But you said “the industry isn’t making any of these games,” and you’re just… really, really wrong.
We haven't seen a major push from AAA studios to create real singleplayer content realistically for decades.
Suicide Squad and Redfall are just as (not)-playable in single player as in squad co-op. Starfield is single player only. The God of War Games are single player. TLOU 2 was single player. Dead Space Remake and RE4 Remake were single player. Zelda TOTK is single player. Pokemon is primarily single player. Mario is singleplayer. Hogwarts Legacy is singleplayer. Dead Island 2 is primarily single player.
Everything FromSoft makes is primarily single player. Stellar Blade is single player. I don't think Atomic Heart was AAA, but it's single player and got hype.
Single player games are absolutely still being made. You just forgot all of them.
What is the good reason?
Well, it should also be noted that Lethn talks a lot about moving to Argentina or some other South or Central American nation. In his case, it’s more like “I’ll enjoy watching this place collapse behind me.”
If you go through the scored side of the interface. If you still access the site through the kia2.win domain (which I think looks nicer and is better overall), you won’t see the scored stuff like avatars.
He makes a lot of fairly good contributions, but much of what he writes is also needlessly verbose and overly self-congratulatory and self-referential. Pay attention to how often he brings out stuff like “like I say,” “as I’ve been talking about,” “like I predicted,” as well as talking about his “autism” (in the context where you’re supposed to infer he means “intelligence”). Or how often his train of thought jumps through a semi-related anecdote about a great thing he did elsewhere.
I’m not one of his downvote followers, but it does get on my nerves. I imagine it gets on some other people’s as well.
Ah…