Funny, considering the topic, how this exchange is a microcosm of successful gatekeeping, gone unrecognised by most.
If I go with my edgelord favourite as a kid, probably Deinonychus. Same family as Velociraptor but actually closer to the enlarged version that Spielberg exaggerated for JP.
Since science fags started adding feathers all over their renditions of theropods, they seem less cool, so probably some kind of Ankylosaur these days. Although I do like the triceratops-likes, particularly the ones with the fancier neck frills like Chasmosaurus or Styracosaurus (bit small that one but eh).
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David Gaider is responsible for destroying games just as much as any EA suit. I'm not interested in what this faggot has to say. He's just trying to throw his corporate overlords under the bus to prove how different he is now that the tide is turning, but it's snake oil. If you don't remember him from the Bioware forums and you want to hear his real opinion on games and gamers, check some of the other interviews he's been doing lately.
"They're very determined suddenly to see your game fail as a sort of a lesson to others who would make games of the same type"
"You also just get, I think, an element where more and more fandoms are making the things that they're fans of integral to their identity, and if it's integral to their identity, anything that affects it or insults it, insults them, you know what I mean?"
"And even if they have to sort of manipulate the data or move the goal posts, it seems like it's become increasingly vital for these people to be able to run around and make their points online. To the point that I think a lot of developers, more and more, are kind of withdrawing from the public sphere."
He's not a friendly dev, he's a turncoat from the crumbling AAA monolith and a squealing pig in pain.
Zoe Quinn was also a helldump goon. In fact in my search just now I found chatter from 2015 conflating FYAD and helldump and suggesting that they share credit for the 'confirmed kill' more often ascribed to helldump. Foul petri dish.
The post-war yakuza movie series Battles Without Honor and Humanity starts with a brief scene of the main character fighting a couple of GIs as they attempt to rape a Japanese woman, while the Japanese military police are more concerned with preventing the locals from causing trouble with the US troops. It's funny that I always wrote this scene off as just some lawless hi-jinks to build character, but it could be that the director Fukasaku Kinji (same guy directed Battle Royale) had knowledge of this kind of scenario happening.
I don't know what more people think GG could have achieved that it didn't. GG successfully turned gaming into a battleground by establishing what is and isn't wanted within the gaming sphere. Every games blog, talking head or forum which went against the GG line is either gone or tainted. But the battle can't actually be won from inside gaming alone, since we know it to be much bigger, which GG also left people in no doubt about. I don't see how you divorce GG and the organic nature of it from the bigger political swings since - our enemies certainly don't, and it might be the only thing they're correct about.
Going more extreme from the start would have one possible benefit, in influencing normies and devs into realising that racism/sexism/etc isn't worth getting worked up about, and that creative freedom should remain king. This is - funnily enough - an optics argument. It's influence by appearances. It has all the problems of the optics arguments on the other side, which is that they don't really matter in the face of government power and blackrock. Nobody is organically deciding to insert genderqueer rubbish in their games any more, only selected ideologues and mercenaries are. That's not to mention that the most hardline arguments in politics today are not necessarily friendly to creative freedom at all or even gaming itself; should gamers have 'risen up' by becoming actually politically active, ditching their childish gaming hobby, and denouncing all 'degenerate content'? So tranny mercs march into gaming even easier? Doesn't look like a win to me.
'Will be'...? They already do this, see wayne o'rourke, maxie allen, rosalind levine, and probably thousands of others. I couldn't find the name of the ones who got a police visit for criticising someone in the Labour party, but that's probably the most egregious one. Even if this Ofcom thing never makes its way into law, the UK is already a country where government critics can be arrested for anything they say.
This is how they softroll tyranny: do something outrageous which can only be properly resisted via organised violence -> after or while this is happening, use the press to announce a still outrageous but slightly less outrageous, smaller thing. They figured out another way to boil the frog, by turning up the heat in bigger steps, then turning it down when the frog starts to shift, but never by as much as they turned it up. You're seeing it now with covid jabs in the US; wow they announced that they cause myocarditis! What a breakthrough, the pot is cooling! Meanwhile the frog is learning to forget the heat of his immune issues, turbocancers, neurological damage, vaxxed up frogspawn, loss of rights, etc...
In the UK it wouldn't surprise me if the fingerprints of Blair are on this. One of the biggest controversies where he lost ground in office over civil liberties issues was mandatory ID cards, which were roundly rejected. Now they'll be accepted de facto by normies as a means of internet verification, because of the ThinkOfTheChildren law or w/e it's called, and with hardly a scuffle in the lugenpresse.
Well I suggest you watch the vid and listen very carefully. He is not remotely antivaxx and that also applies to the covid jab. Americans are currently stuck with an FDA more pro-covid-jab than in 2021 when 2 vaccine experts resigned at the idea of approving them for children, and roughly as pro-jab as it was when they approved the addition of covid jabs to the child vaccine schedule. Babies of 6 months old are getting jabbed with mrna right now and he's saying nothing about this.
Pull them off the market. This is pointless.
To say I'm wary of Vinay Prasad's appointment to his FDA position would be an understatement, since his one and only bugbear with the vaxx was myocarditis in young people and his suggestion in response was 'just space out the boosters more'. He's still saying that shots can be recommended for people 'at risk of serious covid', among which he includes those who don't exercise and those with depression(!).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbRGlEsbKQ4
This shit's worse than nothing, because it falsely seems like something to those who'll settle for anything. It really just looks like a working plan for how they'll run interference for pharma going forward.
That's all of the woman who joined the Dan Bongino show behind the scenes, forgot her name. I went back 50 pages/9 months and see no thumbnails of Bongino.
The proper Dan Bongino channel seems to have been deleted and all these ones you land on by searching it now are fakes or offshoots. I was followed to the show on Rumble and none of the ones remaining fit the bill.
The video here is from like 2023, so its not a deathbed confession, unless he has been hiding the cancer this entire time.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/45Tqi-KYzDE/
As early as 2022 he alluded to a health complaint that was apparently so bad that he promised(!) he was going to kill himself in 1-2 years if it didn't get better (timestamp 51:50). The way he sandwiched this in between talk about antivaxxers 'winning' around that time suggests it was vaxx-related. He's pulling some doublethink fuckery at the moment - and by extension, has been doing so the whole time - by glossing over the connection between his general health and the covid shot, by hiding his cancer and by not talking about the course of his general health over the past 3 years. And as you said in the other thread it's all because he's sore about having 'lost' an internet argument, which he still frames as facts (him, but given the wrong facts) vs feels (antivaxxers, accidentally right).
He is on record for saying he wanted to kill himself over mysterious unspecified vaxx-related health issues, which he doesn't mention any more. Insistently separating all health complaints from the vaxx even when the complainer in question is now a crumbling skeleton, is more retarded than any comparison you can cook up.
No, I was talking about 300 year old, statistically unsupported Turkish shamanic technology.
His cope over the vaxx has become a thing of legend. He's the originator of the 'vaxx-sceptics were only accidentally right!' meme, which I expect will become the line the establishment leans on until - but only if - vaxx orthodoxy crumbles.
Wasn't there also a point where he revealed that he'd become suicidal over vaxx induced heath issues? Which were supposedly separate to this?
I hope he beats his cancer but he looks like shit. Maybe tapping into the righteous anger he should feel at his betrayal by every social, political and medical institution would give him the impetus to overcome this. Covid vaxx causes turbocancer, all other vaccines are also trash.
He also revealed that he held off announcing it because he knew people would mock and bully him about his Clott Adams status and wanted to minimize the time people could.
Contemptible.
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"People are going to say it's because I got the covid shot - there's no indication that makes a difference."
This is a beetle-brained wretch. I rescued a bluebottle from my cats' milk yesterday as it writhed in self-inflicted death throes. Scott Adams is on the same level. We humans are all not the same.
What do these two love to protect, even more than protecting their own reputation and credibility?
At first I misread it as John Walker (of RockPaperShotgun) who was very much anti-GG.
But now it seems it might be about Brianna Wu aka John Walker Flynt, which is still neither John Waller nor John Walker lol...
Considering there are already strong theories that they've used ticks as bioweapon vectors before, who's to say this meat allergy causing tick he mentions isn't just his work-in-progress...
There were also cases won against the New York City Depts of Education and Sanitation in 2022/23, reinstating workers with back pay. There's probably more besides, since it's not like the media is trumpeting this kind of news from the ramparts.
Rather than a deliberate strategy, this is his cope for explaining to normies how different he is compared to muh nazis, because it's taken as an article of absolute foundational moral faith in Britain that Far Right = Hitler = Bad, due to WW2. If Reform was conceived as a cunning strat to deprive the right of a true voice then they screwed up, since Brits could easily be in a situation as bad as Canada, Ireland or Australia where there isn't even a third option, leaving them stuck with an African woman-fronted Tory party.
This was also 6 years ago. The key now should be to turn Reform into the hard-line party Farage was denying it was at that stage. It seems kind of defeatist to assume that Reform will be more successful in shaping and limiting far right sentiment, than far right sentiment could be in shaping and radicalising Reform. If globalists can infiltrate every other party and turn them all towards the same end, why can't the right play the same game with the parties they have available?
I'm going to help you one of a couple of ways... First, you and I sit down and have a loving and open conversation, but you don't use cuss words and everything that is discussed is based in fact, and not some crazy stuff that dumb friend of yours told you, or you saw in a tweet.
Second option, I have you institutionalised again, where they medicate the crap out of you and you go back to Zombieland forever. Play date with the kids just won't be the same.
-Harley Pasternak and his loving ways.
Threatening undersells it.
I was intrigued by the clip since it seemed to be the most racist thing I've ever seen in my life. A branded black guy chained up like a feral youkai, peering uncomprehendingly at European art while negro spiritual chants play.
So I looked it up and I see where the 'weird and cringe' comes in. The director and the liberal establishment like Vice and MetalHammer are champions of this shit because they are hardwired for negro sympathy. The only thing they want to do is unchain the demon and let him fly. Black metal always subverts normie morality, but in this case the subverter is just cheering on a bioweapon against its betters. That might sound like the most racist description possible, but I felt sincere pity for the black guy duped into appearing in this vid.
Keep us posted on whether or not this zeal & ardor guy ever reaches the logical endpoint of his larp which I reached in 3 seconds. Could be a Sinfest situation (I had to refresh my memory on his name which I did via searching 'japanese lefty webcomic guy turns right wing').
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Nearly 10 minutes of rehashing all the worst D&C arguments (sympathetically, even) before he approaches the obvious crux, that this is a repudiation of anti-white double standards and everything which stems from them, such as cancellation and the Karmelo Anthony campaign. If nuance requires burying the lede and signalboosting irrelevant/wrong arguments then I'm fine without it. At some point this is just another flavour of white guilt, since even if this channel is openly racist, the weight of other people's white guilt is causing him to write a faggy essay of seethe before saying 'the sky is blue'.
The social engineering comes by way of the outcome of the argument, where she's the one who storms off, making her look like the affronted party. His character accurately identifies her as evil. The problem is that there's nothing to negotiate with her at that stage and she can't be shamed - he should be the one walking away upon realisation. As you say, this amounts to a demonstration for women in her position, to seize the initiative in the form of victimhood and turn away in anger when called what they are, in the hope of being chased or supported.
Having said that, she's playing a dead eyed psycho with a double-barrelled first name. 15 years ago the audience would be obviously expected to side against her absurd caricature. The writer/director could be a cultural subversive supporting the caricature that women have actually become, or could just be a sane person behind the curve.
Edit: oh, never mind, it's the show 'Girls' and was created by Lena Dunham lmao. She is all in on the woman's side and this is literally a training demonstration, possibly even based on life experience although that doesn't bear thinking about for more reasons than one.