Oh, it's been DEBUNKED, huh? Just like that? Not called into question or warranting a revisit, just DEBUNKED. Well, if it's DEBUNKED, that settles it! The science, it's settled. BTW I'm sure the DEBUNKING was completely intellectually honest and scientifically rigorous, I'm sure the methodology was completely sound! It's not like an EXPERT would ever set out to find a certain answer and manipulate and cherry pick data in order to DEBUNK some understanding they find objectionable or inconvenient...
... and it's not like men and women have trivially observable physiological differences. I mean... it's been DEBUNKED.
They import American/Frankfurt-style grievance/progressivism/marxism politics, and when people naturally resist they call it 'Trumpian' in an attempt to delegitimize that resistance.
Do you know why people around the world are saying the same things, progressives? Because they're fighting the shit that you are pushing on them. They're fighting globalism, which - miraculously! - is springing up everywhere at once, in exactly the same putrid form. But apparently that's completely organic and normal, surely it's the defense mechanism which is cynical and artificial!
And yeah - they'll call everything moderately right 'far right' but they never, ever refer to anything as far left. Vile dishonesty at every turn.
Governments funding the arts is similar to this, isn't it? Tax productive people working in productive industries, and use those taxes to pay people to loaf around and work on vanity projects - most of which, these days, will be little more than propaganda.
At the time we started creating original programming, our creators felt like they were pretty trapped in this kind of overnight ratings world and weekend box office world defining their success and failures,
But that's how it's supposed to be. If you're just creating art for art's sake with no expectation of external reward, that's one thing, but if you're creating a product, or even a piece of art specifically designed for consumption and influence, it's supposed to live and die by how successful it is with consumers.
I'm the kind of guy who wishes there was more room for experimentation and artistry in the media, but even I know that creating a delusional idea of success and failure that's completely divorced from actual success and failure is what leads to the shambling monstrosity of an industry that we have now, which nobody likes, which is defined by failure after failure, and which, ironically, has no artistic integrity to speak of because the only purpose it serves is to push subversion.
How can you expect to be shielded from the performance/impact of your work and still call yourself a professional? Or even a creator at all? This isn't some auter so confident and in tune with his own work who doesn't care what others think - it's cowards hiding from any solid metric of feedback. Because they know they're hacks, but they want plausible deniability of that knowledge.
“And as we all know, a show might have enormous success down the road and it wasn’t captured in that opening box office.
The garbage you are producing are not going to find success down the road. It is despised for a reason and that reason is because it is subversive garbage. It will not stop being subversive garbage. It's not a diamond in the rough that awaits discovery. It's a stinking turd that nobody sane wants to be around.
What a sick world these boomer fucks created
It's the political class who created it. The boomers can be accused of letting it happen, but only now are we starting to see the depths of deception and psy-opping that was involved in hiding the crimes and the true goal of said political class.
Sadly, boomers, despite often being based or semi-based when it comes to individual symptoms, have largely succumbed to a lifetime of brainwashing and cannot be counted on for meaningful resistance to the disease itself. Their indoctrination was complete before things were bad enough to start noticing.
But the current shitshow isn't their fault. The blame lies squarely on the liars and the traitors who exploited their trust.
I would say that the false veneer of positivity that politically left messaging is drenched in is one of their most irritating qualities.
Sorry to double post, but I agree. It's the unique combination of abject delusion, and the smug, self-satisfied certainty of their intellectual and moral superiority. And by claiming ownership of that wafer-thin veneer of positivity, they imply (and sometimes state explicitly!) that anything opposed to them, no matter how rational or decent, is anti-love, anti-positivity, and irredeemably evil.
It's sad how they're perfectly willing to criticize Jews, but are incapable of doing it on behalf of themselves or their own society, only if they first launder their criticism through someone non-white.
And by sad, I mean pathetic.
I thought trying to escape from things that make you uncomfortable was a bad thing? Or is that only bad when you don't enjoy every second of being around pedos, hordes of illegal immigrants and violent, wannabe gangsters?
Firing squads are plausibly in the future, but we can enjoy the growing risk of getting kicked to death by sneering activists wearing LOVE WINS shirts in the present!
This is a good insight. And most of the time it's not even the result of a sincere, well-meaning but misguided urge to act - rather, they're acting entirely for the purpose of feeling important and superior, or to signal their purity to others.
Change and progress aren't always bad, but a huge amount of the world's problems come from 'doing something' for the sake of doing something, without caring about the consequences.
It would be highly effective on almost every enemy. The problem is making it happen. First you need people to be aware there's a problem, then you need them to realize how much power they have.
Vast underground meetings in dark rooms in whispers are wholly unnecessary when practical or selfish interests align.
Yeah, but that's where the ingroup preference comes in. They're all pushing the same garbage because they all believe the same garbage and it benefits them, but there still isn't the level of calculated malice that I've seen Imp suggest. If nothing else, most of them are incapable of that degree of forward planning.
Odd how leftist rhetoric is never "borrowed" from mass-murdering communists...
The numbers for the game dropped off hard after the initial sales
There's a reason for that, and it's not going to go away with a rerelease. Which is what it is, maybe with a couple graphics settings changed to help sell the lie. They'll eke some more money out of it but people aren't going to suddenly love it.
They had so much good will with TLOU 1 and they destroyed all of it.
A GAME RELEASED THREE YEARS AGO DOES NOT NEED A REMASTER
It's getting worse. It's like we're crossing some kind of event horizon...
If you care so much about XP and leveling, at least incorporate it better!
So it sounds like he's addicted to the XP-grind. I get that, I've been there. The problem is when you start to think every game needs a player-progression mechanic like that, and when you can't imagine any different ones.
This dude subverted his supposed magnum opus because he became dependent on the dopamine release of 'numbers go up' and mining and crafting and shit. It became a faded, passionless patchwork of rote addiction and half-formed ideas. That's sad.
Does local government ever not suck?
Is local government ever not filled with overreaching authoritarians and smugly incompetent morons?
It's depressingly easy to predict. If there's one thing that characterizes feminists, it's the ongoing attempt to avoid responsibility of any kind. Being quick to ghost people, and rationalizing why it's not only okay, but Good™, fits perfectly with that.
Maybe I'm just speaking out of rage caused by this vote but as it stands now, I'm really starting to think imp was right all along.
He thinks it's a malevolent conspiracy against men. There is sometimes malevolence, and there always is a significant ingroup preference, but there's not enough planning for conspiracy on any meaningful scale. Most of it's incompetence and ignorance. (Edit: And a fuckload of entitlement)
Ultimately the enemy isn't women. It's the culture that worships them, elevates them regardless of competence, and enables the worst tendencies of their worst members.
argues that he did not know that pulling the fire alarm would set off the fire alarm
Do they think him being so thoroughly incompetent would make this better somehow?
This is the sort of thing that, yeah, it is actually important to know how to end relationships well if they're not a good match or they're unhealthy for you, but entering it into the Feminist Doctrine is going to make all the midwits and idiots (99.9% of feminists) treat it as gospel, and search for reasons to end their friendships.
Their lives and their interpersonal dealings revolve around buzzwords and half-formed progressive ideas, which is why so many families get torn apart - the ideology makes them seek out reasons to end them.
This is just another example of leftist sophistry - taking something that has a tiny nugget of clarity to it and surrounding it with delusional, destructive nonsense.
Also, I don't even need to read the article to know that the advice boils down to 'just ghost them'; that's their answer to everything and they twist themselves in knots to excuse, conveniently never addressing how cruel it is to do that to someone.
equity deserving group
So they're openly saying we don't deserve equity now?
The skill and discipline revolving around 'observing' things, now requires you to close your eyes.
This is the best and most succinct way I've ever seen the problem phrased.
People always talk about golems turning on their masters, but seeing it in happen in real time is a sight to behold.