That's some of it, but the "crybully" phenomenon is also a big part of it. As long as claiming to be a victim is a powerful indirect way of attacking someone, we'll have to deal with people maximizing every minor perceived insult.
Where would you even draw the line? Is nuclear power fake? That's a lot of nuke plants that are... coal plants in disguise? Are the historical nuclear accidents fake? All nuclear radiation, some of which you can verify in your own home? How about all the nuclear missile silos built over the years, some of which are available for private purchase on real estate sites right now?
I have personally been inside a room built of old battleship steel housing a nuclear counter to get maximum accuracy, because more recent steel is contaminated by all the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.
The conspiracy necessary for nukes to not be real would encompass an enormous number of people from around the world, many of which would be highly incentivized to blow the whistle if it were a hoax. Not to mention that a decent amount of it has been independently verified in the lab by a significant percentage of college physics students for decades. "Nukes aren't real" is on the level of "Spain doesn't exist" for the sheer level of conspiracy necessary for it to be true.
It's not even "Noticing any differences isn't allowed". Blacks are allowed to say Whites are awful and some of them make a career out of it. Women are encouraged to say Men are awful and plenty of them make a career out of it too. Both groups have entire departments at most colleges that exist to just say those things and teach college students to believe them. "Racism" and "Sexism" are only ever used as a weapon against Whites and Men to stop them from organizing in their own self interests or even defending themselves when every other group has already been doing it for all of history.
The thing is, the quote is correct. She really did say that. I have no idea why the seal would be AI generated. The actual seal is available as a png from the ODNI website and it doesn't look much like that thing.
"Fairly normal" No, it's not. It's "fairly normal" for the news channels you watch to tell you about a shooting somewhere, but that's because they deliberately only report on those things. This is a failing of what news you choose to watch, not the nation.
"Children are made to act out... as a perverse form a liturgy"
Not even remotely liturgy, and you're retarded. Children are made to do that because of retards like you who think it's the only way to make them safe, not because there's actually a good reason for them to do so. And, by the way, are fire drills also "perverse forms of liturgy"? Orrrr are you retarded?
"Teachers are forced to 'practice' being murdered execution style"
I assume this moron is entirely making this up, it sounds stupid. But if it's real, I'm sure it's because of a lefty like him making them do it, because they live in fear of a bogyman that isn't real. Also, the scare quotes around 'practice' are retarded.
"We are the only country where this happens"
Sort countries by rate of homicide, basically all of south america and africa are worse than the US. Which is, conveniently, exactly where the left is most enthusiastic to import people from. I'm sure that won't have any long-term consequences. By the way, the US would be near the top of the safety list if it weren't for all the blacks we're forced to endure.
"Baseline goal of guaranteeing people's physical safety against random violence is 'politically impossible'"
The only way to actually guarantee safety would be to lock every single person in the entire country in their own solitary cells. Yes, it is "politically impossible".
mass shooting is the most dystopian ever
I doubt you even know what that word means. You certainly aren't using it correctly.
Start counting how many times people will say, instead of "goodbye", "Stay safe". There are a lot of people who live in fear. The problem is they're trying to solve their psychological problem by legislating other people's behaviour. It's like someone with OCD making it illegal for anyone to open a door without tapping the handle three times first.
Of course, people with OCD are legitimately mentally ill, people suffering from leftism largely choose to do so by consuming strictly left-wing media which inundates them with fear porn.
It goes like this:
Sane person: "Blacks are a scourge on society, look at all these statistics that prove it."
Left wing: "You're just a racist white supremacist, therefore your statistics don't count, blacks would do well if whites weren't holding them down."
"Asians doing better than whites prove there is no systemic pro-white racism."
"You're super double racist for saying Asians are doing well, therefore your statistics don't count again. Racist."
That last step in the reality-denying argument is just summed up as "Model minority". It's the left's way of ignoring facts that disprove the foundation of their entire belief system.
I admit I'm totally clueless as to what's in it
The US congress passes between 4 and 6 million words worth of new legislation every two years. That's 9 to 13 times the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, in extremely dense and unreadable prose, every two years, and that's just what's enacted, not what's proposed, and the people voting on it spend a large chunk of the year back in their districts. These people are routinely voting bills into law that they've never even read themselves.
This is so retarded.
A: With no proof, no one gives a shit. People who hate Trump already will probably believe it, but they already think he's literally Hitler (and they probably think Musk is also literally Hitler too, so who knows). Everyone else will conclude Musk is acting like a teenage girl.
B: If it's true, why the hell wouldn't the Biden administration have said anything about it? Not a single leak across multiple administrations, one of which was staffed largely by people who would have detonated a nuke on american soil if they thought it would catch Trump in the blast?
C: If it's so super secret that nobody could leak it, how come Musk was free to see it?
D: If it's true, why the hell would Musk have waited until he's having a spat with Trump to say it? He's implying he was fine with the president being a pedophile, until they had a falling out on Twitter?
No, it does not prove that at all. All it shows is that there's a difference. Whether it's what they eat, how much they eat, how much they exercise, genetic differences, environmental differences, or anything else is not examined.
And as with most metrics, things change if you split off blacks. Particularly black women. Especially in the 'severe obesity' category. Asians living in the US are doing fine.
Ultimately, they conclude that the solution is to start pandering to male voters like they do other racial and gender groups, but make it so that it doesnt sound like pandering as that does turn off male voters.
But they can't. Their pandering to other groups isn't just saying "We think you're better than white men", it's also backed up by policy discriminating in favor of those groups. You can't discriminate in favor of everyone, and at this point, even simply not discriminating against men is an extreme right-wing position and would never even be considered by any politically viable democrat.
You can't pander to a group in your messaging while actively discriminating against them at every level of society and expect them not to notice the discrepancy eventually. Especially if all your messaging up to that point was the opposite.
Saying "Until he undergoes genetic screening" is just a formality, they know what the results will be because they already have the results from a previous test. He's a man.
The organisation confirmed that the decision was taken in response to “the particular circumstances around some boxers”: namely, Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, both of whom had been banned by the International Boxing Association after failing sex eligibility tests, but who were permitted to fight in Paris last year after the International Olympic Committee decided that womanhood could be determined by passport status rather than biology.
World Boxing, provisionally approved to run the next Olympic event, confirmed it had informed Khelif and the Algerian federation of the shift in policy. “Imane Khelif may not compete in the female category at the Eindhoven Box Cup or in any World Boxing event until Imane Khelif undergoes genetic screening in accordance with World Boxing’s rules and testing procedures,” it said.
It was striking how scrupulously the statement avoided referring to Khelif – reported by the IBA as recording tests that showed XY chromosomes, the male pattern – as “she” or “her” at any stage. Khelif has vigorously contested the IBA’s findings, declaring in a recent interview: “I see myself as a girl just like any other girl. I was born a girl, raised as a girl, and have lived my entire life as one.”
(Though I haven’t played the new Indy game, and have heard good things about its story - anyone with an opinion to share there?)
The graphics are great, there's a ton of attention to detail, the environments are large and interesting to explore. Mostly. The Himalaya segment was linear and was basically walking straight from the start to the end. It ends with a runaway vehicle segment which is unintentionally hilarious because it's clearly going in an infinite loop but trying to create the illusion of imminent doom. I haven't played beyond the opening of Shanghai- which I suspect to also be linear. The Vatican and Egypt parts of the game are a fairly enjoyable mix of exploration, minor platforming and puzzle solving, and an alright combat system for a mostly non-combat game (notable exceptions to enjoyability of the game post-Vatican below).
The puzzles are okay, I guess. It's a game aimed at mass popularity, there's nothing here that will make you think too hard. It's mostly immediately obvious what to do, the only thing that might slow a reasonably clever person down is just not noticing some relevant object in the environment. This isn't Talos Principle or even Portal.
Now for what's fucking awful: Gina. Holy shit. They introduce a woman after the first large section of the game who exists to do one thing: Prove she's a woman who's better than Indiana Jones. There were definitely some feminists on the writing team, and this is their character. Any time she's with you in a ruin, which is frequent, she is constantly shouting out what you should do, and sometimes solves the fucking puzzle herself. In a single-player game. They added a puzzle, then also added a character that solves it. When she isn't playing the game instead of you, she makes it impossible to enjoy looking around the environment, because she's constantly telling you to go break a wall or something. I felt like Basil Fawlty for a significant part of the game. It isn't even a tutorial thing: She shows up many hours in, and some of her comments pointing out objects are things which you have probably already interacted with. Hey, thanks for telling me about that obvious golden mirror in the middle of the room the instant we walked in, it looks a lot like the ten others I've already manipulated. Oh, I should use it to shine light on the obvious light target? Great, thanks, this is my first puzzle game ever and also I'm just a retard playing a retarded male character, so I wouldn't have figured that out. Thanks for taking the puzzle out of your PUZZLE GAME.
She saves his life many times, but I can't think of a time he really saves her. He punches out about a hundred nazis and does ten minutes of scaffold gymnastics to get onto a blimp, and she's already there (and saves his life again). He buys a lighter from a woman in a town after they both go to Egypt, and when he mentions it, she not only somehow knows the exact woman, she knows that Jones was scammed. Jones basically gets tricked into feeding an animal, finds out it's a snake, freaks out a little, and she and the other woman in the room laugh at him for being a coward. There's one male priest who's a reasonable character, but otherwise, every male character is either a bumbling idiot, a nazi, or a brown semi-verbal giant. Meanwhile, the female characters are: A hyper-competent professor who guides Jones through Egypt, a woman who basically figured out the entire secret of the game and Jones spends the storyline of the game just rediscovering her earlier work, and the aforementioned Gina.
They made a game about Indiana Jones, but the writing team hated the fact he was a man and used a substantial part of the game to "prove" that their self-insert woman was better in every way. A puzzle game where the designers considered it more important to have their character prove her supremacy over an icky man than actually allowing the player to play the game and solve the puzzles himself.
Whether or not you can enjoy it after the Vatican arc will basically come down to whether you can tolerate being back-seat-gamed by an actual NPC whose only purpose is to show how much better women are than men.
I think the push to power the treadmill also comes from the other side: Once a word becomes mainstream, then there has to be a new one for people to virtue signal how sensitive and woke they are. Then that implicitly means the old word is bad and it transforms into an insult.
Do they? Did the author actually survey some "gamers", or is this just a stand-in for the author himself, who is presumably concerned that his job as a gaming blogger could be replaced by an AI?
I generally suspect that a lot of the people who make comments about how they hate AI content in games/whatever are just people who have had their opinion fed to them by writers who fear for their job. Unity and their asset store existing and enabling a bunch of trashy asset-flip games wasn't the end of gaming, and good games written in Unity exist. Games with AI generated content will be the same. The difference is that there aren't a bunch of "games journalists" afraid their job will be replaced by the Unity asset store trying to drive opinion.
They could have just written "Fewer of those disgusting whites". Clearly a feature actual users wanted, and not one driven entirely by a political agenda and racial hatred for Whites. Those poor black people having to put the word "African" in their prompts. It is too confusing for them.