We exposed another health bar of perhaps the most significant "boss" in human history and y'all want to say that we failed? Before GG, the mainstream position was that the media was mostly trustworthy. Today, not only has trust in the media cratered and actually become a mainstream topic of conversation, but it's also become mainstream to believe that Epstein didn't kill himself and that a cabal of elites conspires to control world events.
Our initial, focused and agreed upon Operation Disrespectful Nod was a resounding success. Kotaku itself has been sold and resold for less and less each time. VICE has been written down (by Disney, who are having their own problems) into literal worthlessness. No one has thought about Leigh "I AM Games Journalism" Alexander (or really, any of the other Literally Whos) in years. Gaming websites are widely acknowledged as dead, with YouTubers taking over as credible reviewers. Massive layoffs are sweeping through not just gaming journalism, but the media at large. Frosk's infamous woke rant was met with the swift destruction of her entire network and her ignominious exit from the industry.
Woke project after woke project has bombed or badly disappointed. Off the top of my head: Ghostbusters 2016, Terminator, Charlie's Angels, Watchmen (HBO), She-Hulk, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Rings of Power, Bros, Lightyear, West Side Story, and on and on. Star Wars has been such a profound disappointment for Disney that there are no new movies in production. It is literally reduced to a streaming TV show.
If there hadn't been another health bar, this battle would have been decisively over years ago. But we helped expose the seemingly unlimited amount of money being poured into woke causes by a cabal of wealthy elites. We were instrumental in exposing that second health bar by easily crushing the first, and it's become a legitimately hot topic of conversation.
The lies have already started, and they have already had an effect. The "so-called" (by the media) "Don't Say Gay" bill happened under his watch. That's what inspired my comment. He will be painted as a "notorious homophobe" (and therefore transphobe nazi racist sexist) and he will suddenly be "shooting himself in the foot" constantly -- if you listen to the media. It's already happened.
doesn't give the media free ammo
Of course he will. At least if he would actually be a good president.
RON: I am signing an executive order making it illegal to discriminate based on race.
NYT: DESANTIS' SO-CALLED "CONTINUE THE OPPRESSION" ORDER IS TYRANNICAL, RACIST
RON: No mask mandates are allowed.
WAPO: DESANTIS' "PUBLIC NUDITY IN FRONT OF CHILDREN" ORDER IS RACIST, WOULD KILL 9,999,999,999 GRANDMAS OF COLOR
It looks like Republicans have over five million more votes than the Democrats. This may or may not be enough to win due to gerrymandering, but they are certainly not "electoral poison."
they don't care.
Not entirely true. Star Wars has been such a profound disappointment for Disney that there are no new movies in production. Zaslav at WB has been cutting projects left and right: CNN+ was canceled after just a few weeks. Batgirl was canceled after it was finished (or 95% finished). If they truly didn't care, they would still be pumping out movies, and Brian Stelter would still have a job.
It hasn't really been working now. Star Wars has been a terrible disappointment for Disney, to the point that there are apparently no new Star Wars movies in production. It has literally been reduced to a streaming TV show at this point.
I suppose we could do it as a mini living community -- have multiple GMs running different games for different groups at different times, perhaps agreeing ahead of time on an overarching plot or problem. The nature of Shadowrun makes it easy for different characters to drop in and out of various jobs whenever needed.
That might be waaaayyyyy too much work, though.
I still masochistically love Shadowrun.