Ken is canonically 3/4 Japanese so perhaps the meme is working on a deeper level.
Benz claims it was literally controlled opposition - a group psyop ran by jews for the purpose of cushioning against worsening anti-semitism. I don't have to believe his claims that Frames Games improved the world for jews, I only know that his current line is that he thinks it did and that it was the entire purpose. If he's telling the truth, it was the right being unethically psyopped in order to prevent them reaching anti-semitic conclusions. If he's lying now to cover his ass, it introduces at minimum the realisation he's a snaky jew who'll say any old bullshit when under pressure, even if 99% of the other stuff he says seems useful.
Same cops who show up on your doorstep in the UK for complaining about immigration, or who tell rampaging muslim anti-white mobs to drop their weapons off at the mosque.
If the muslims get let off the hook it'll be business as usual, if they get punished it'll be performative. I couldn't care less about the outcome to this case beyond hoping that everyone in the video got brain damage and is also fully vaccinated.
I'm wary of Benz ever since it came to light that he had an alter-ego as Frame Game, an alt-right ethnonationalist, which he eventually claimed was an elaborate deradicalisation op to make WN types hate Jews less.
Everything he says is usually true and insightful. In light of this history though, one always has to wonder when there's something more important that he's not saying.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun should run on fairly modest rigs and is very cheap atm. Good stealth strategy homage to games like the Commandos series and some people seem to say it's better than Desperados 3, which followed it.
Downwell could run on a casio watch and is available for pennies, if you're talking really low spec. Great little shooter, especially once you figure out how to keep the combo going (the knack is that you're supposed to try to never touch a surface, just bounce on enemy heads and breakables while buying float time with the recoil).
The people who preferred Maelle's ending were using a lot of leftist-coded language while defending it. Stuff like "media literacy", "genocide" "body autonomy" and that they preferred the female characters and thought the men were all being "oppressive jerks".
Haven't played E33 but out of curiosity, where on the internet (other than here) can you even go for games discussion which isn't going to be biased towards this kind of language, after several years of only leftist perspectives being permitted in almost every moderated space? I guess rpgcodex wouldn't talk about E33 in those terms but I also kind of doubt rpgcodex has much to say about it at all. X is shitty for discussions with strangers, reddit is obviously hopeless, Discord isn't much better, ditto Steam, /v/ is infested with bots and tranny discord raiders...
Seeing these kind of terms used in discussion could be more a reflection of the modern internet rather than anything related to the game themes, speaking as someone without much knowledge or opinion on the game.
The FGC in 2025 is all troons and cringey woke brown anime fans. Capcom know they don't have to put in any effort at all since these youngins have zero standards and the old 30-40+ yo orbiters will buy everything purely based on momentum/nostalgia.
Personally I think all the charm of these games died when they went to 3D models and the '2.5D' look. Outside of games which purposely emulate the look of old sprites by using cel-shading and similar techniques, everything else now looks like a bunch of grotesquely proportioned rubber mannequins, regardless of game. And there's no going back, because 3D models are easy to sell DLC for. 2D sprites which you have to reanimate all over again, not so much.
There's an element of the competency crisis too. For example I have no idea how VF5, a 19 year old game with fine looking character models, was somehow re-released for Steam and modern consoles with everyone looking worse. Gutted of content compared to the old console versions and with terrible matchmaking too. When Sega was unable to even put a classic game like this back out without fucking it up, it was the death knell in my interest in fighting games honestly. That's without even getting into the fact there is a virtually complete, unmolested version of PC VF5 contained within Yakuza 6 and 7, sitting unreleased by Sega (accessible with mods). They had to go make a butterface version and release that instead.
""Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant" (Where they make a wasteland, they call it peace)
-Tacitus on Rome
In a sense this represents the death of credentialism on all sides. Covid rendered medical 'expertise' and qualifications worthless, because of how the establishment attempted to wield those to abuse their citizenry.
If the establishment too is dropping even the appearance of qualified expertise while giving its orders, it's because they're so brazen and comfortable in their power, but also possibly because they know that sensible people really don't give a shit about all those things any more. The ones who paid attention don't fall for the spell of letters after a name any more, and the ones who don't pay attention are already the type of people to obey a random fat gibbering muslim woman because she's been appointed 'Health Minister', so just appoint the muslim.
And fwiw, she is Nancy Hamzawi, new president of the Public Health Agency of Canada (not minister for health). She has some minor science and biochemistry qualifications which actually makes her the perfect scientismo stooge for the kind of AI-generated mRNA model that WEF-pharma wants to turn medicine into.
As a bonus, since I wasn't going to post it anywhere else, here's some pharma logos from this month:
Brb, need to look this one up in the bestiary
Hmm. 12 hour old comment with inane worthless statement gets you a Razor like. 13h old, more popular comment saying 'I don't care about Israel or Iran' does not. Bit odd considering the whole argument seems to be 'all you doomers worried too much about nothing'.
Definitely coming to Ireland too, possibly sooner than the UK. Ireland made a big deal about wanting to introduce police bodycams a year or two back - but the talking heads made sure to emphasise that it would need to be implemented alongside a facial recognition system. Of course, to link it to such a system would require the creation of that system in the first place, since such a database doesn't currently exist.
The first phase of a proof of concept for Body Worn Cameras (BWC) for An Garda Síochána and the supporting Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS) is taking place in Dublin City Centre and Limerick.
Their gripe can be summed up as the normie frustration with how long it might take to read and memorise all of wikipedia. These ciphers don't take the next step and realise the immense power that comes from the centralised control of these 'sums of human knowledge', nor the consequent uselessness of the internet as a reliable information source.
What they're repeating is still the 90s/2000s utopianist idea of the net as an unsorted trove of pure truth, and their trivial complaint boils down to 'wow, how flippant and superficial it makes us. We don't know what to do with all this learning!' Unfortunately governments figured out exactly what to do with it all, which was shape it, rape it, hide it, direct it. These two are 20 years behind the curve and keeping us all there with them because the net is for their dumb arses now.
"fire and fury like the world has never seen"
That was in response to N. Korea
This from a guy who believes Hamas paragliders raped a gorillion Israeli women while evading IDF Apaches for hours. Nobody fucking cares any more.
'SIDS is horrifying'
Silly cow. Even reading what she's reading, she doesn't process the conclusion that SIDS is a euphemism for infant death which the establishment doesn't want to name the real cause for - be it vaccines, or mothers shaking their babies, or whatever...
That said, I have a soft spot for these two. Chris Martenson gets some things wrong, some right, and talks a lot about other stuff (economics) where I'm too clueless to tell. 'The Signal Hour' is the podcast this is clipped from, which is the me-and-the-wife format he split off from his normal channel of Peak Prosperity. I don't know how he landed this bird (crypto$$$) but she seems to have a good heart despite being rEaDy To SeTtLe DoWn. There was an incredibly cringe/cute moment some entries back, where just as part of their intro she said 'I love this part of the week... because we get to hang out!' To which he was momentarily lost for words and could only come back with something like '...we hang out!' He's probably fucked. Good luck, Chris!
I think they're hilarious. As a media narrative and ideological stance, 'don't deport illegals' is as doomed as 'biological women don't exist'. The only argument for full amnesty that might have had legs was the idea that mass deportations were impractical - but every deportation which succeeds is practical by definition.
Bill Gates has that market cornered for the third world.
pantifaggot down, repeat, we have a rentifaggot down
I want to issue a formal apology...
Reposting my c/gaming comment since I only just made it and it used up all my funny for the day:
I don't see the problem. Brown people in the UK are the only ones allowed to operate outside the law, so it's perfect for Bond's handlers. They can crack the whip on white boy Jimmy for a Non-Crime Hate Incident if he gets uppity too.
I just got a good idea for a dramatic moment in game: James in trouble, he's outnumbered and at the mercy of a South African Boer villain; all of a sudden a gang of Bri'ish muslims storm in and start swinging at the henchmen and baddies with machetes and uprooted bollards. James is relieved, the victorious muslims all start reporting into their collar radios as M tells them 'good job boys, just drop any weapons off at the mosque.'
James: 'Wow, you lads really saved my bacon- I mean... er...'
M over radio: 'Really, 007? Another NCHI?'
At least crystal woowoo is neutral to health at worst, so you don't have to come up with gay science doublethink like 'negative efficacy' as a euphemism for 'actually poisonous'.
As detailed in the linked blog post, the owner has been kicked off patreon and ko-fi with no real explanation other than accusations of infringing material. Ko-fi reinstated him after he explained the measures he takes to observe TOS and the law, whereas Patreon has essentially told him to go swivel 'but feel free to start another Patreon project with us'. He was making $1300 on patreon but only $20 through ko-fi. Given Patreon's history, this could be ideological.
Catbox is a hosting site I use a lot whenever I need to hotlink a piece of media or show a quick video to friends, without having to deal with the cancer that is social media. I'm not affiliated with the owner nor can I vouch for how safe it is to give him money - payments go through Stripe although there are crypto options available I believe - but for myself, I did choose to sack up and give him a sub after reading his situation the other day. Free hosting is capped at 200Mb then there's a 500Mb tier and one for 1Gb. The community has apparently rallied and almost got him to $1,000 of the $1,488 dollars required for monthly expenses within 24 hours. Thought I'd drop a heads up for anyone else who finds use in the site or might want to support.
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.
I said this 2 months ago about Vinay Prasad's new FDA:
One is forced to consider the entire MAHA movement as a scam camouflage, since the system is every bit as murderous and corrupt as it was mid-pandemic. It's arguably worse now because there's no call whatsoever to still be hysterical about the 'risks' of covid to children, 4 years on.