True, the whole ME franchise was always a little suspect, but I think ME3 got a lot more in-your-face about it than the first two did. ME3 turned Kaiden gay and gave him a gay romance option with Shepard, even though he was straight in previous games. They also replaced Kelly Chambers with a lesbian Indian who could only be romanced by femshep, and had the gay black pilot who cried to you about his husband without you even asking, and tried offering him as a gay romance option for Sheperd.
And then of course they replaced the krogan sidekick with an annoying beaner who calls you "Loco" and a girlboss female krogan who goes on rants about how males ruin everything.
Racist? No. A double standard? Yes.
ME3 was pretty faggy too.
What amazes me is people who still mod old games. I recently found a group of people modding an old 20+ year old console game I used to play. I was happy just to get the original game working in an emulator, but having a community texture remaster on top makes it feel like a new game.
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Of course reddit is saying that it must be Republicans, the party that has repeatedly pushed for voter ID and in-person voting.
I understand where you're coming from. Theoretically, if the musical style of rap (as in, talking quickly with a beat repeating in the background) had evolved in a different timeline with a completely different culture, and had none of the other aesthetic associations connected to it that it has today, then I might not hate it as much. But I don't buy the idea that rap is secretly a good genre and the jews just tricked me into disliking it. More like they took a genre that was already bad and tricked everyone into thinking it's good.
I didn't say that it was inherent. If we want to talk about the theory of why people like or dislike certain types of music, then I would say it's largely due to subjective psychological associations.
But we don't need scientists to analyze and tell us that rap's aesthetic is based on gangster culture. That's just readily apparent to anyone with eyes.
The aesthetic behind rap is completely based on gangster culture. Even when people do parodies or spinoffs of it, they're still emulating that aesthetic. Saying that we're being manipulated by the media because we recognize this is a really weird take. Even if the lyrics aren't about violent gang culture, even if the rapper is White or Asian, I still find the style as a whole distasteful.
As the saying goes, RAP stands for Retards Attempting Poetry.
Hot videogame women made for the enjoyment of straight men is the same as DEI propaganda? Lol.
Did they really release the game with adrenaline misspelled? They couldn't even bother to have a spellcheck program scan the text?
Discovering a more efficient manufacturing process may have practical value, but reading a philosophy book does not. Often times people who think highly of their own intelligence end up wasting their time trying to organize ideas into abstract systems, but it never amounts to anything. Their time could have been better spent doing something actually productive rather than playing around with thought exercises.
People who have time for philosophy have too much free time on their hands.
Honestly, I find it weird that people care about vtubers at all. I don't understand what their appeal is. I've never found that a virtual avatar or even a real person's face ever made a video more enjoyable.
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I don't remember starting any argument with you. If you want to go found a new nation go ahead, but like I said in another comment, mocking people for voting is counterproductive.
If you have suggestions for solutions then go ahead and offer them. People can still vote while also enacting other solutions. But it's counterproductive to try to mock people for voting, and it suggests that you actually believe it would be better to have Harris elected than Trump. Would you prefer seeing Harris elected?
One of the reasons Harris was so unpopular with Democrats was because of her record for jailing black men for marijuana possession. That last bullet is going to get mocked so much.
"Don't vote guys! Just do nothing instead!"
"We should vote for Harris because accelerationism!"
I swear all of these accelerationists and TDS posters have to be either feds, or retarded enough to not realize they're being used by feds. They should be treated the same as any other brigaders.
"It was the cop's fault for coming up to the door with a gun drawn, all threateningly like that."
"He could have tried de-escalating the situation first!"
"He should have used his taser or baton!"
Seeing how often cops get demonized just for defending themselves, it seems like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.
He was arrogant at times and tended to ramble, but I don't remember him having particularly worse takes than what I've seen from many other people. I never really understood why some people seem to hate him so passionately.
Tor is free, so I don't know where you're getting this $20/mo bit from, and it was used and recommended by Edward Snowden while evading detection by the NSA. Going over to your friend's apartment to use their internet, however, is not a good opsec strategy.
Eh, I'm well aware that the Palestinians as a whole were put in a shitty situation, but I'm not going to buy the whole "muslims are innocent sweet angels" propaganda either. This reads exactly the same as people complaining about White colonizers genociding the poor indians of the Americas, who didn't do nothing wrong.
Don't get me wrong, I don't support Israel either. I would love to remove Israeli influence from American politics, but I'm also not going to start putting a watermelon emoji in my handle and start chanting "from the river to the sea". Let my enemies fight my enemies and leave me out of it.
I've actually never heard anyone else in RL talk about Hamas. The internet blew up for a bit after Oct 7th but otherwise I think most normal people stopped caring shortly afterward.