The original Redux is dead, the TNO-proper guys gravedanced about it shortly before the newest twists in this chain of events (to paraphrase Tyrion Lannister) turned their joy to ash in their dilated ax wounds. All I've been able to find about the 4chan Redux is this design document, I believe they just started work on it and (not unreasonably) seem to be quite secretive at the moment.
I think pedophilia is next for normalization by the forces of globohomo, not bestiality. Though that's mainly because it's so closely tied to transsexualism (as just the creepy grooming going on with TNO aptly demonstrates), well that and more of the western elite seems to be into fucking kids over animals.
I've heard it put as 'the left's violence is speech, the right's speech is violence'. Just another maddening aspect among hundreds more of the Clown World we live in.
Well, I can't say I agree with the first half of your comment, but I do agree with the latter half. In the context of The Frontier, ZuTheSkunk (the artist in question) actually doesn't seem to have done anything wrong - his artwork, while distasteful (in my opinion, and that's putting it mildly), was made entirely on his own time and separate from the mod. What work he did for the mod was just UI and armor graphical stuff, not anything to do with the writing, so he's unironically not the guy responsible for all the fetishy bullshit in there.
What happened here was that the actually guilty parties, the ones who turned a previously-hyped mod into their personal magical realm loaded with their creepy fetishes while hiding it from the players until release, are trying to use him as a scapegoat and blame him for everything they did. That's plainly scummy behavior, they aren't even man enough to own up to their own work when the controversy blew up (and I'm sure they must have seen it coming, nobody who's not already in a mental hospital could be so socially inept as to not see it) and instead fished around for the most convenient fall-guy they could, someone they previously had no issues with and who considered them friends. Truly there's no honor among thieves.
Re: the rest of the fetishy stuff, I actually agree with you that there wouldn't be anything wrong with it if it were honestly advertised, as I said in another comment here. Loverslab exists and hosts much more explicit content, which is fine because that content is openly advertised and won't fool anyone into thinking it's something it's not - you download a tentacle rape mod, you can get & enjoy all the tentacle rape you want, that's your choice as a responsible adult while people who don't want tentacle rape in their game will know not to get it.
But of course that's not what happened with The Frontier. The devs straight up lied about their mod being lore-friendly for 7 years, and they hid all of their fetish content up until release too, so loads of people were fooled into thinking they'd get a fun lore-respecting mod without a bunch of fetishes they may not be interested in. Then SHTF when their fans actually got their hands on The Frontier only to find out that they'd been lied to about quite a bit of what was & wasn't in the mod, but these devs were too chickenshit to own up to their mistakes and have varied between making up excuses like 'oh it was totes supposed to be gated behind Wild Wasteland!' and scapegoating ZuTheSkunk to take the heat off themselves.
Go back far enough, to the times of slavery that they still bitch about and demand reparations for, and you'll find it was rival black tribes and their kangz who were selling modern African-Americans' ancestors into slavery. The Atlantic slave trade could not have worked without the cooperation of native Africans such as the Beninese.
The girl who says that line was the same companion you can emotionally abuse into becoming your slave, and seems to have very little personality outside of being waifu bait for people whose tastes in waifus veer toward the creepy. She's clearly intended to be her writer's one-stop fetish fuel station - so in addition to the manifestly obvious fetishes for emotional abuse, mindbreak, enslavement & redheaded teenage girls in general, I don't think it's a big logical leap to guess that they must also have a foot fetish on account of that line about her feet stinking like rotten fish.
Which wouldn't be that bad (supposedly, in a CYA move the devs also slapped a note saying she's 18 in her inventory) if The Frontier had been honestly advertised as a weird fetish mod. There's shitloads of those on the Nexus and Loverslab, after all. But it wasn't, and a lot of people who DL'ed it thinking it would be an epic fun FNV mod with a cool new story, working vehicles & vehicular combat got a rude shock when it turned out that not only had the devs lied about it respecting the lore, but that they injected all these fetishistic wish-fulfillment fantasies into it with no prior warning. It's the modding equivalent of dropping people into your 'magical realm' by surprise and is, unsurprisingly, drawing people's natural reaction to such.
If anything, that Eurogamer article's main flaw is that it takes the devs at their word when they scapegoated the furry pedophile. The latter really did fuck off from the original websites he infested because they didn't allow him to post NSFW work with minors but, from what I've read on the /v/ threads they unfolded, his contributions were mostly UI/Pipboy icons/armor.
That means he wasn't the guy who wrote the 'Enclave are fascist paramilitaries so why would you want to join them' while also allowing you to enslave & mindbreak a teenage girl, nor was he responsible for the occasions where you could have sex with Deathclaws and talking snake drugfiends. The rest of the devteam are just throwing him under the bus to save their own skins, and undoubtedly have equally vile or even worse skeletons in their closet. /v/ was figuring out the team lead's links to another furry pedo last I checked, and has already found a 114-chapter ghoul rape fanfic by one of the other writers.
That feel when WSB make Wall Street fear & hurt more in less than 24 hours than Occupy Wall Street did over several months.
Hey, isn't this the guy who openly claimed to 'suffer' pedophiliac OCD - ie. literally can't stop thinking about screwing kids at times - on Twitter a few months ago?
To think there was once a time where I'd be surprised that their account was still up and they themselves were still freely walking around. But I guess in Joe Biden's America we'll be the crazy ones worthy of death or imprisonment for thinking that's fucked up.
Imagine the smell.
No thanks, I'm eating dinner right now.
What was the immediate trigger for this, his wife cucking him relentlessly in their 'open relationship'?
Social media starts a war. I'm not sure what type of war, and I'm not sure where. However the last time America had a runaway press that could literally print anything and a eager population to eat all that shit up, we got in a war with Spain. The same foundations are being laid today and all it needs is another Kony 2012 moment to mobilize hundreds of thousands social media zombies to start lobbying the American government to start a new war.
I think it might be Syria. Russia is too deadly to confront head-on, and Iran's still too tough a nut to crack (not to mention I expect Biden will be eager to restore Obama's deal with them), but Syria lets them kill several birds with one stone.
By pummeling Syria they can kick Russia in the shins without invading territories Putin considers integral (I'm sure that will make Victoria Nuland, AKA Mrs. Euromaidan and the new #3 at the State Department, very happy), already have a pre-hyped big bad evil guy for the normie masses in Assad, it's an easy vector with which to (re-)destabilize the Middle East as a whole, it weakens the Iranian 'axis of resistance' by knocking out its central link etc. The benefits for the MIC, warhawks and MSM alike are plentiful, even at this late stage in the game. Oh and of course, Biden would just be picking up where Obama left off and Hillary promised to continue back in 2016.
What’s next for America, a “Democratic Guard,” made up of ethnicities that Steve Cohen considers reliable?
BLM/Antifa reforms into the People's Democratic Volunteer Force and are officially armed & sanctioned by the Harris administration to serve as their mistress' soulless jackboot corps, doing any Ruby-Ridge-times-10,000 dirty work the military and even the worst, dirtiest cops refuse to touch (even if it's for no other reason than a sense of self-preservation): coming 2023?
After all, even the official Weimar gov't had its paramilitaries. One of them (the Iron Front) even invented the Three Arrows symbol, which has since been appropriated by the descendants of their Communist rivals.
From the announcement on the new patriots.win, it sounds like the opposite happened. The mod who wanted to start suppressing 'violent, racist and anti-Semitic postings' (and received death threats as a result) either quit or got shown the door by the others, but since he was the owner of the T_D.win domain, said other mods had to make the switch to the new domain (which is owned by them and not the guy who left). I've yet to see any indicator that any of the other T_D head honchos besides that one guy has left.
The good news is that this can be addressed in the courts but the bad news is, it will cost a lot of money.
Looks to me like it'll be addressed on people's yards and cost a lot of lives in the interim. I can't think of any faster way to accelerate to having millions upon millions of Ruby Ridges and sparking off the 2ACW than mass gun confiscation, even if the political atmosphere wasn't so polarized as it is now.
I believe it'll just depend on how thoroughly and indiscriminately the right is willing to purge, if they should come out on top in the inevitable struggles ahead. I've said as much on T_D before, but the Indonesians remain the kings of fedposting mountain and 60 years after what they did to sort out their Marxist infestation, they still don't have a problem with Communism and its associates rising up to threaten their society again (unlike, say, post-Pinochet Chile or post-Franco Spain). Turns out that for all its other problems, Islam was unironically right on the money about commies, women, etc.
Of course if the American right lacks the stomach to do what needs to be done, then there's nothing that can be done to help. But as we can see from the rapidity of recent developments on the left to consolidate and suppress, if they don't rapidly shape up and harden themselves, they aren't going to be winning any ongoing or future struggle anyway, so there's not much point in discussing what to do after taking a hypothetical victory lap.
So how do we stop it?
After what happened with this past election, I don't think Americans can vote their way out of this mess, period. Therefore, [insert fedpost]
Leftism is synonymous with hysterical mass psychosis. Unfortunately, at the rate things are going, I don't see any way to jolt them out of said mass psychosis - and in so doing save the rest of the country - other than [maximal fedposting]
Get rid of capeshit and open comics up to multiple genres, like back before the CCA. The quality of storytelling and art will improve when creators who don't want to soil their reputation with capeshit see that they can make good work that will be taken seriously as literature.
While I enjoy variety in any art, I don't think capeshit is even a critical problem in and of itself: two of the most popular manga to have come out in recent years are One-Punch Man and My Hero Academia, both of which are explicitly inspired by and feature classic Western-style superheroes doing superhero things (OPM's a parody, MHA plays it more seriously). They've both sold like hotcakes, I think MHA sold like 5 million copies last year while the most popular Western comics are lucky to break 300,000 and it's 'only' the 6th best-selling manga around, and they're equally beloved by Western and Japanese audiences alike.
There's clearly still demand for that stuff, it's just that nobody (quite justifiably) wants androgynous-melted-wax-figure Carol Danvers or Starfire's ridiculous self-insert daughter.
This is definitely one non-socjus related thing I think Western comics would benefit from. Barring extreme long-running outliers like Dragon Ball, manga have a clearly defined point where the author goes 'that's it folks, the end, thanks for reading' - you don't see Full Metal Alchemist being rebooted a billion times for a billion iterations of the Elric brothers' adventures with characters who died in one continuity surviving in another or vice-versa for example, once the manga ended, that was that. And of course, most also have an equally clearly defined starting point and continuity - you simply start at issue #1 or episode 1, there's no funny business there either.
Having an obvious start and end would help quite a bit. It wouldn't solve all their problems but I strongly believe it'd help, despite how obvious it sounds: right now, if I wanted to start say Spiderman, I wouldn't be able to start at Spiderman #1 because there's literally dozens of alternate continuities, crossovers (also quite rare with manga), one-shots, etc. - I literally don't know where to begin (which Spiderman #1? The one for Amazing Spider-Man, Spectacular Spider-Man, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man...) and most days I can't be assed to figure that tumbleweed out, doubly so if I know that whatever continuity I start with might very well be thrown out and rebooted in a completely different way in another year or two.
Also, pricing and the model for new releases could use an overhaul too. Japan sells their manga in weekly or monthly magazines (such as Shonen Jump) printed on cheap recycled paper, so you can get issues of multiple manga series spread out over hundreds of pages in a single anthology for the equivalent of $4-5 (last I checked) - as much as one 15-25 page issue of one Western comic (which comes on nicer paper and full color, but the SJW antics drove away a lot of the collectors who care enough about that stuff to take the hit to their wallet, so...).
Of course the latter can't reasonably compete with the former once it started hitting Western shores, it's several times the content for the same price and usually much better too. They'd probably have a hard time even if they weren't complete flaming garbage riddled with unwanted and ridiculous politics!
Why don't these professors and those who think like them just fuck off to Africa? Ghana's been offering citizenship and housing to black Americans who 'come home' there for months.
Still playing the original Deus Ex, just touched down at Area 51. I've been reading every document I can, it's definitely more topical than usual (which is to say, a lot).
I follow a mod for HOI4 that's set in a 1960s America which slides into civil war & lurk on their server. The devteam is unabashedly far-left, even after they got rid of the original team lead (who incidentally was the founder of CHAZ) for being too openly crazy to the point of making the rest of them look bad, and flaunt the thought of burning down suburbia making their feminine penises hard - to the point that a focus icon showing exactly that was a emote on said Discord server for a while.
For the longest time I didn't quite get why they hated suburbs so much (I'm not American and don't specialize in post-1960 social developments in the States), and chalked it up to being some old leftist meme or an injoke among the devs, but this has given me the answer. Jives well with their expressed attitudes about white people in general, even if they have toned the mood (and especially the bizarre fetishisation of non-whites, particularly urban blacks) down significantly since they gave the old lead dev the boot. Like other ethno-masochists (damn I have to use that word a lot more) they just can't stand the thought of those evil settlers getting to lead happy, non-totally-destroyed and even somewhat fulfilling lives anywhere.
The gleeful overreach the tech barons and Democrats are engaging in now strongly suggests they believe they've won for good and will never have to worry about another populist outsider again. I don't doubt the Roman Optimates thought the same when they murdered Tiberius Gracchus and 300 of his supporters.
Oh whoops, that just pissed off his brother Gaius Gracchus, who's now riling up the deplorable plebs too. Ah well, just kill him and 3,000 of his supporters, that's that solved right?
Wait, here comes Marius with a small army of freed gladiators. Guess he won't be as easy to get rid of. Call in Sulla and hope Marius doesn't murder too many of the elites while he can, now the Popularis problem is solved for good right?
Aw crap, now Quintus Sertorius just turned Spain into a base for his rebellion against the Senate. Well, send Pompey to solve that issue the same way Sulla solved the problems Marius made and call it a day...
Hmm, why's there boss music heralding the entry of this 'Gaius Julius Caesar' character onto the political arena? Maybe doubling down on the suppression of the political opposition, up to and including mass-murdering them, without resolving any of the issues motivating them to oppose you in the first place is actually a losing strategy in the long run. Especially when your opponents tend to be well-armed even before all their fears are validated in rapid succession.
I've heard this theory before, but not a good answer as to why the feds would stage the bombing in the first place. If it was to reduce public sympathy for and the growth of militias, it seems to have failed pretty badly - the Clinton administration evidently didn't feel public opinion had changed enough to let them massacre the Montana Freemen a year later (and even 20 years later the Obama admin. didn't dare turn the Bundy ranch standoff into another Ruby Ridge either, as I had said) and militias continued to grow after the bombing anyway.
Yep, I did mention that possibility a little further down in my post. It does strike me as more probable than the ex-Redux devs going on a vengeful rampage, since their lead at least was quite quick to cave under the pressure to disband his mod.
That said, if it was an internal coup attempt, clearly whoever did this didn't work long enough with the trannies to know that they're unstable enough to try burning their (and everyone else's) shit to the ground out of spite before handing it over to anyone else. According to someone on KF with ties to former devs, a fifth to a quarter of the dev team have been purged as of this morning - looks like they've still got their 'evil authoritarian purge' simulator after all.