Leftists hate Jobst because he used to be a PUA Youtuber before going over to speedrunning drama, which is honestly kind of funny. I never really was into that whole sphere considering I barely read r/TRP as it was anyway, but have seen some of the videos when people link them and it's hilarious
think of wear the NBA without Jordan and Lebron
The history of the NBA is weird. In the 70s, no one cared about basketball, to the point where teams were literally kicked out of their arenas and forced to play elsewhere because the arenas prioritized Ice Capades, etc, players were doing drugs on the sidelines, throwing games to their bookies, and all sorts of crazy shit.
David Stern becomes commissioner in 1980 after Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson and Larry Bird got drafted and decided to use the Celtics/Lakers rivalry to boost them up with marketing, etc, which lead to Michael Jordan getting the deal with Nike. Magic getting HIV and Larry Bird blowing his back out while repaving his neighbor’s driveway forced their early retirements and lead to the juggernaut that was Michael Jordan and the Jordan brand during the 90s, with the shoes everywhere, Space Jam, etc.
LeBron was so good that for the first time ever, ESPN was broadcasting high school basketball games live, specifically for his school, NBA players were going to his games, he was a celebrity at 17 years old.
Black athletes get used to sell the idea that we are missing out on something by not embracing multi-racialism
I understand that you wouldn’t throw water on me if I was on fire, but all I can do is be a productive member of society. I just want to work and go home, and the fact that society has weaponized the past to the point that a certain number of people on the various .win sites (whether they’re genuine or just trolls, I will never know, all I can do is copy/paste or archive comments) would want Smith1850 and I deported even though we were born in this country and are productive members of society sucks ass.
Black athletes get used to sell bad and destructive ideas about race.
There’s a lot of things this entails, but I’m just curious, because I’m always trying to make sure what others think. Are we talking about the usual ghetto bullshit with rap and all the assorted nonsense, or what exactly?
The fact that he served isn’t irrelevant, but he did serve in the Army and not the Navy, correct. The fact that he served is a large part of why the rest of his life happened, but I think overall that the segregation of the Armed Forces during both World Wars is rather relevant to all branches of the military (which I wish they would include the name of the specific book like they did the MLK and Einstein book). I’m probably just overthinking it, but removing this just feels unnecessary.
One of the main reasons that I posted this is because if this isn’t malicious compliance, there are people in the government who want to actively bury the past of this country, and you can’t exactly separate race from the rest of the country’s history because a massive part of the US’ history was influenced by it. The history of sports in America pretty much comes down to the history of race in America as well, and so pretending these things don’t exist just really irks me.
Like I said in the post about the DoD article, pretending the past doesn’t exist does nothing but harm for everyone involved, but you can also recognize the past without becoming self-hating like Germany. I think that people absolutely recognize that Germany at some point became self-hating because of de-Nazification, but the same shouldn’t happen to the US. I hope that the end result of all this going over the DEI stuff is instead finding ways to recognize the history of the nation without flagellating white people.
China will just do it anyways.
You missed where I mentioned that China's government passed a law making it illegal to do so without permission of the people they're training the LLM off of and have to pay annual royalties to that person or else the data needs to be destroyed. Hoyoverse is already just hiring non-US based voice actors and sidestepping the issue, now that SAG-AFTRA is completely overestimating how much leverage they actually have. South Korea and Japan have the same law on their books as well.
Whether or not the consumer does whatever they do, is up to them, but the studios in charge of recording have to follow said laws. I just don't think that is going to happen nearly as much as you say they will, hence the current strike. What I do agree with you on is that machine generated content will continue to grow more advanced.
FF7 and FF14’s reboot both saved Square Enix from bankruptcy due to the failure of other games in 14’s case, while 7 was one of the most expensive games of all time, for its time.
NieR:Automata didn’t save Platinum games, that was Bayonetta 2 after Nintendo basically paid them to make it a Wii U exclusive, but NieR:Automata was massive for Platinum Games, yes.
LOL, fair enough.
Edit: I actually forgot why I said that, but yeah, the dynamics are kinda weird, as the primary (and honestly only) power a union has against a business is the ability to withhold labor via strikes and lockouts
Drake's been known to be suspect for ages. Not only was he grooming Millie Bobby Brown before she turned 18, but there's literally video of him at a concert groping an underage girl talking about how thick she is...and now she works for his record label, which would be hilarious if it weren't for who Drake is.
The whole of the beef involves a lot of black culture stuff that this site would have no interest in understanding, but to say that Kendrick Lamar won would be a massive understatement.
Croatia, but because I do watch soccer as my main sport, I’m just going to go ahead and list where the 15 were born and their parents.
Kylian Mbappé, born in Paris to a Cameroonian father and Algerian mother
Ousmane Dembélé, born in Normandy to a Senegalese mother and Malian father
Michael Olise, born in London to a Nigerian father and French-Nigerian mother
Bradley Barcola, born in Lyon to a French mother and Togolese father.
Aurelian Tchouameni, born in Normandy to Cameroonian parents.
Manu Kone, born in Paris suburb Columbes, parents unlisted
Jules Kounde, born in Paris, Beninese father, mother not listed
Dayot Upamecano, born in Evreux to a Senegalese mother and Guinea-Bassauian father
William Saliba, born in Paris suburb Bondy to a Lebanese father and Cameroonian mother
Theo Hernandez, son of former footballer, French-Spanish Jean-Francois Hernandez
Mike Maignan, born in French Guyana to a Haitian mother and Guadeloupean father
Warren Zaire Emery, son of former footballer, Franck Emery, and a Martiniquais mother
Eduardo Camavinga, born to Congolese parents in an Angolan refugee camp, moving to France at 2 years old
Randal Kolo Muani, born in Paris suburb Bondy, to Congolese parents
Desire Doue, born in Angers to an Ivorian father and French mother
Unlike the Nuremberg trials, we actually actively sabotaged the Japanese equivalent, mostly for Operation Paperclip reasons, to take their scientists and use them to boost our chemical weapons stuff.
In addition, a decent portion of the Japanese population pretends nothing happened and there’s nothing to apologize for
To add, fair use isn't actually formal law, it's case law. Companies technically have the right to make you take shit down for copyright, it's just that the vast majority of game developers understand that streaming is free advertisement, so don't do so. Japan doesn't have the concept of fair use in their case law, which is why Japanese developers get more pissy about it than Western developers. Ubisoft just decided to abuse the copyright system
Edit: didn't know fair use was actually formal law, thought it was only case law
Which I hate. I have the feeling that a lot more is going to end up deleted than what's necessary, and many people here will simply accept that as the price the left has to pay, but god damn, there's some things where I've just been looking into because I got curious and well I hope the collateral damage isn't horrible.
Like I absolutely understand believing that this was malicious compliance, but I could imagine some of the people working for DOGE have the personalities of some of the more extreme users of this site and might not even like this stuff, which I'm hoping isn't the case.
Might be just worrying way too much about this shit, but like I said in the original post, ignoring the past does nothing but harm. However, we shouldn't turn ourselves into Germany because of our past.
IIRC not really, but Jackie was specifically chosen to be the one to break the color barrier aka Rosa Parks because he was the best player in the Negro Leagues + a stand up man.
The reason it was specifically the Brooklyn Dodgers is also racially motivated, because ironically that was the club the Triple Parentheses Gang supported in NYC, so the Dodgers’ ownership thought that he’d receive less discrimination on the Dodgers and the players would be more accepting of it
You’d think this, but basically all of the big corporate vtubers either got doxxed ages ago or never even bothered hiding who they are behind the screen, to the point there was a forum that was specifically for doxxing vtubers that only got shut down just last year.
If this hadn’t already been litigated a while ago maybe you’d have a point, but it’s known who most corporate vtubers are behind the screen