Thanks but I'll opt for no cancer at all, personally.

Even without any clear tells, just the fact that they've put so much effort into capturing social media space makes everything which achieves widespread popularity on social media, suddenly, instantly suspect.

I'm insanely suspicious of any game that explodes suddenly on social media.

Well my 6'4" ass will remain not on tinder.

There are a massive number of conservatives who absolutely share my values and can be easily trusted to support them strongly. Giving someone a label doesn't impart an identity upon them, it's merely an attempt to describe them in short hand, but bad actors love to pretend otherwise when it can convince you to agree with their goals.

That is one of the most brilliantly succinct comics I've ever seen.

I'm pretty sure most of them don't even consider it that deeply.

Did nothing of the sort

You literally contradicted yourself on this one sentence after the other, which I quoted in my first reply.

One night in Bangkok will make a hard man humble, as they say.

If you call turning the goose that lays golden eggs into an entree "successful" then maybe I could agree with you, but they're basically the perfect example of how, even with all of the power in the world, their hateful ideology is literally incapable of producing a functional society.

Probably couldn't have picked a better thumbnail to support their bill though...

My problem with these efforts is that they never want to actually address the real problem, because the economy is addicted to exploiting real children for profit. They always go after the porn problem, but never the exploitation problem. Yes, computers and the Internet have done unimaginable damage to our youth, but it is absolutely not restricted to sexuality at all. I imagine they focus on porn because certain types of people become so irate when the concept is brought up that they cease being capable of parsing anything else related to the situation.

If you actually cared about real children, maybe consider addressing how the Internet is becoming increasingly tailored to facilitating real girls becoming sex workers. Porn is bad for people, I get it, but there are a million issues right now which are far more directly harmful to actual children.

It's smug to tell people there's something wrong with them for not knowing something you know, doubly so when it's a subject that people are honestly better off knowing nothing about. Do you have any clue how humiliated you would be, on a great many subjects, if everyone involved here actually shared their total knowledge? Especially if you're so deeply buried in pop culture that you can't even conceive of a person who doesn't know about it.

I can't be the only one growing increasingly alarmed by signs that those holding positions of power don't seem to actually understand how people work, right?

For fuck sake dude, you're the only one being smug here and you keep throwing it around at everyone else.

Know when to cut your losses and leave.

My point wasn't "you absolutely should have heard of this its so big."

Uh...

we have had dozens of topics on it on this very forum about it prior

His whole point is that you can't expect everyone online to know all about what else was posted there before, because a LOT of people only browse forums like this very casually, and do not at all keep up with whatever others have discussed in the past.

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Did you expect anything else from a genre that started with exploitation first, then built a game over top of that?

There's a pretty significant gulf right now between people who keep up with pop culture and those who don't.

I'm another person who had no clue at all what this post was about. Didn't even really know they were making a live action TLoU.

I don't get it

Mass Effect: Andromeda?

And Disney has already done Star Wars thoroughly

Companies are like Buffalo Bill in a skin suit when the original founders sell.

People wanted to see BioWare fail

You're not wrong, but that's hardly the reason I didn't play it.

This is one of the most Chinese posts I've ever seen, and any of you who are actually real people agreeing with it are WAY too stupid to ever accomplish anything, and frankly you aren't safe online.

Duh. If they actually showed the reader thing, then all their creative writing classes would be pointless.

Bingo. It's the people programming and applying AI that are the primary issue.