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It doesn't happen, because Wal Mart uses monopolistic business practices to run Joe out of business and build a Neighborhood Market where his store used to be.
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Vote with our wallets sounds nice when they don’t ban your payment processors.
I’ve seen that happen to people involved in far-left/far-right politics as of late.
I’ve seen that happen to people involved in far-left/far-right politics as of late.
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I thought this was going to end after the less than positive feedback to your first post. Let me put it simply: if your having moral and political dilemmas over mainstream, corporate, annual release video games, you are the fucking problem.
This isn't Twitter and this isn't 2013, it's time to stop. Play the game or don't, if you enjoy the gameplay and it's fun, who gives a shit about what randos on the internet think. Are you just seeking attention?
This isn't Twitter and this isn't 2013, it's time to stop. Play the game or don't, if you enjoy the gameplay and it's fun, who gives a shit about what randos on the internet think. Are you just seeking attention?
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"Give your money to a multi-million dollar company that sucks commie china's dick because they made a trailer with a guy who said commie bad."
You know they will just spin the political narrative of the game to be some milk toast shit that only smooth brained faggots can jerk off to just like the last game, right?
You know they will just spin the political narrative of the game to be some milk toast shit that only smooth brained faggots can jerk off to just like the last game, right?
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I seriously hope most of the conservitards are not dumb enough to consume product just because they pandered to them.
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For sure, although I still think it is pretty noteworthy that they even included Yuri Bezmenov and the mention of active measures and communist subversion at all to begin with. That trailer alone is probably a better sign of where the current round of the "culture war" is heading than the final release of the game itself will be.
Like it or lump it, CoD is one of the biggest vidya franchises for a reason. It's also part of a "Holy Trinity" of the most normie-tier games of all time alongside Madden/FIFA and those Candy Crush-style mobile games.
This trailer is going to get a lot of normies and foul-mouthed Late Zoomer kids to start looking up Yuri Bezmenov and the concept of "Active Measures" and it's going to lead them down a big rabbit hole. ResetEra, Woke Twitter, and BreadTube are up in arms about this trailer but they're still going forward with it anyway.
Fallout: New Vegas helped get the song "Big Iron" into the public consciousness and in regular airplay rotation on classic country stations, same goes for some of the less "evergreen" 80's hits on Vice City's soundtrack that are now back in the limelight (whether from the game itself or all the memes about it many years later)
This is the kind of thing that shows you Woke Leftism might be nearing the end of its relevance and leftism is no longer en vogue even if the game itself is typical multiplayer vidya crap and at most, they go in the more safe direction with the story mode.
I'm not going to pre-order it or anything but I might buy it after it comes out depending on how well it turns out.
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Troon out and start chasing clout on Twatter dot com. Become the second host for the malevolent entity residing in the half-dead methuselah known as George Soros. Blow something up or hack them and change every file on their servers to animal porn. I don't know and I don't care.
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"Voting with your wallet" won't work now that there's China taking over most of the western gaming industry and owning an online store that throws money at the studios and publishers for a one-year exclusivity deal.
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wtf I love Call of Duty now.
Seriously, I always used to roll my eyes at that series but Cold War is definitely on my radar.
Seriously, I always used to roll my eyes at that series but Cold War is definitely on my radar.
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Over the past seven years, I’ve had a lot of time to think about the SJWs and their body of rhetoric. It’s actually rather mind-numbing. They never really vary their strategy much. All of their so-called cultural critiques have the same exact element at their core; didacticism. They view fiction through an intrinsically propagandistic lens. If a story isn’t propaganda for their side, then it’s propaganda for the other side.
To an ordinary reader or viewer, works of narrative fiction have many dimensions. They have aesthetic attributes, emotional ones, the quality of the prose is a consideration, and yes, even the politics may offer some intrigue.
The so-called cultural critic grotesquely distorts fiction by reducing it to nothing but politics. The reason why they do this is because they don’t see works of narrative fiction as stories, but as manuals or textbooks cloaked in a fictional veneer. They are incapable of reading for pleasure. No, worse than that. Pleasure and aesthetics are bourgeois excesses to them. They think that the primary motivation of every author is to influence the audience into coming around to seeing their own personal worldview as correct. Never mind that authors are more than capable of writing stories that are against their own views, of course.
I cannot overstate how pernicious the influence of didacticism is. SJWs believe that books, movies, television shows, and games are supposed to tell you exactly what to think, word for word. This is why they are interested in controlling their content and removing things they deem insensitive or politically-incorrect. They think that people are programmed, like robots, by the media that they consume, and if a story contains the wrong program, it must be altered.
The problem with this should be immediately apparent. For one thing, it makes all kinds of stories impossible to write, especially ones that explore the deeds of amoral or sociopathic protagonists. Take A Clockwork Orange, Prince of Thorns, or High Plains Drifter, for instance. All three of them have a protagonist who’s a rapist. If we apply SJW logic, this is intrinsically bad, because protagonists must necessarily be audience stand-ins, and they must necessarily be sympathetic and heroic. If they aren’t, then the audience, being impressionable buffoons, will read these books or watch these films and then somehow decide that the protagonist is a normal, well-adjusted person and should be emulated. This can apply to basically any fictional scenario you can imagine.
Take a less villainous but particularly nihilistic example, like the protagonist of À rebours; Jean des Esseintes. There is no plot in this story at all. The protagonist is a wealthy nobleman who has tired of society and of living in Paris, and so, he retreats to his villa in the countryside and partakes of all kinds of excesses and indulgences, hoping to feel something. At one point, he inadvertently kills a tortoise by weighing it down with all manner of jewels.
The book is essentially about nothing. It purports to teach nothing. Under the SJW paradigm, it is inconceivable to write a book like this. It is not enough for a story to not contain anything objectionable. According to them, it must actively promote their beliefs.
Didacticism is poisonous to art. Representation, diversity, and politics are useless trivialities next to the true aesthetic purpose of the writer’s craft. Stories don’t need to have a moral. Stories don’t need to be moral, either. This is something that the modern-day book-burners should be reminded of at every opportunity.
To an ordinary reader or viewer, works of narrative fiction have many dimensions. They have aesthetic attributes, emotional ones, the quality of the prose is a consideration, and yes, even the politics may offer some intrigue.
The so-called cultural critic grotesquely distorts fiction by reducing it to nothing but politics. The reason why they do this is because they don’t see works of narrative fiction as stories, but as manuals or textbooks cloaked in a fictional veneer. They are incapable of reading for pleasure. No, worse than that. Pleasure and aesthetics are bourgeois excesses to them. They think that the primary motivation of every author is to influence the audience into coming around to seeing their own personal worldview as correct. Never mind that authors are more than capable of writing stories that are against their own views, of course.
I cannot overstate how pernicious the influence of didacticism is. SJWs believe that books, movies, television shows, and games are supposed to tell you exactly what to think, word for word. This is why they are interested in controlling their content and removing things they deem insensitive or politically-incorrect. They think that people are programmed, like robots, by the media that they consume, and if a story contains the wrong program, it must be altered.
The problem with this should be immediately apparent. For one thing, it makes all kinds of stories impossible to write, especially ones that explore the deeds of amoral or sociopathic protagonists. Take A Clockwork Orange, Prince of Thorns, or High Plains Drifter, for instance. All three of them have a protagonist who’s a rapist. If we apply SJW logic, this is intrinsically bad, because protagonists must necessarily be audience stand-ins, and they must necessarily be sympathetic and heroic. If they aren’t, then the audience, being impressionable buffoons, will read these books or watch these films and then somehow decide that the protagonist is a normal, well-adjusted person and should be emulated. This can apply to basically any fictional scenario you can imagine.
Take a less villainous but particularly nihilistic example, like the protagonist of À rebours; Jean des Esseintes. There is no plot in this story at all. The protagonist is a wealthy nobleman who has tired of society and of living in Paris, and so, he retreats to his villa in the countryside and partakes of all kinds of excesses and indulgences, hoping to feel something. At one point, he inadvertently kills a tortoise by weighing it down with all manner of jewels.
The book is essentially about nothing. It purports to teach nothing. Under the SJW paradigm, it is inconceivable to write a book like this. It is not enough for a story to not contain anything objectionable. According to them, it must actively promote their beliefs.
Didacticism is poisonous to art. Representation, diversity, and politics are useless trivialities next to the true aesthetic purpose of the writer’s craft. Stories don’t need to have a moral. Stories don’t need to be moral, either. This is something that the modern-day book-burners should be reminded of at every opportunity.
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Except most of entertainment - not highbrow literature, but entertainment - does ride on the sympathetic paradigm and expects the consoomer to like the protagonist or lose interest otherwise. When their protagonists are rapists, it's because the author genuinely thinks being a rapist isn't all that bad. Most fiction isn't Blood Meridian or even The Escapement, it's Star Wars but Luke is a rapist but he's really sorry.
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Well look confirmed Mike confirmed a creep & the can't do anything
There goes EVO skull girls
What do they not get about "100% owner?" He can say "my way or the highway" and they can't do shit. If they think they have a case they should sue him.
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But, My Morale Company & Subversion of bowing to Cancel culture & feeling honored to be canceled
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As much as I think MikeZ is a sped, that's all he was in the DMs from what I've seen. The only reason I'm giddy is he tried to be a member of this group while lacking any awareness. That's why I laugh. Like I do to any dumbass that keeps picking up a rattler thinking it's a toy.Well look confirmed Mike confirmed a creep & the can't do anything
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Given he owns 100% of the equity...reading between the lines, it sounds like by "leaving Lab Zero peacefully" they mean selling his stake at substantially below a fair price, or at a "fair" price after allegations have devalued the company considerably, depending on how you look at it. Even if the allegations are all true this is bullshit, and reminds me of the crap with evilore and NeoGAF.Well look confirmed Mike confirmed a creep & the can't do anything
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I think I've found the problem. I'd say that most fiction could only benefit by being Blood Meridian.
I think you make an excellent point, though, because it raises another objection that I have towards cultural criticism. SJWs seem to have a strong fixation on YA Lit and SFF over literary fiction. They often over-analyze stuff that they, themselves, admit is junk food. They use “it’s supposed to be light entertainment” as an excuse for authors not to explore complex or challenging themes in genre fiction.
I argue that SJWs are holding back the advancement and evolution of genre fiction as a whole by trying to erect strict boundaries around it and prevent lit-fic elements from creeping in. The problem with the woke and diversity stuff is that it is formulaic and forced. It’s one thing to have a character who’s LGBT or a minority, and it’s another thing entirely to draw the audience’s attention to that fact or turn it into a round of moral grandstanding.
Imagine trying to write a villain who happens to be black and gay. Some wokescold would come along and say that the author is trying to imply that they’re villainous because their race and sexual orientation makes them evil. Diversity tokenism in fiction is crap because these characters are predictable as hell. They always have to be saintly and incorruptible, or someone will complain about it. They invariably end up monopolizing the plot and they always succeed at everything they attempt. That’s not a character. That’s a puppet act.
Some of my favorite works of fiction are the ones where literally everyone is terrible. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Thick of It, et cetera. The SJW program interferes directly with that sort of thing. Look at how they flipped out about Hazbin Hotel because one of the protagonists happens to be gay, but also a pervert and a drughead.
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Actual diverse characterization is swatted down by SJWs as “bad representation”. You’re only allowed to write minority or gay characters as angelic beings who wouldn’t harm a fly, or you don’t get your kosher certifica—I mean, your sensitivity reader star. The overall effect of this is to make stories that are, as a whole, less cynical and earthy and more cheerfully optimistic and preachy in a forced, saccharine-sweet, Stepford Wives sort of way. That, in turn, is the thing I find myself in direct opposition to.
Levity and humanity often emanate from the realm of the obscene. Observe.
Try to do this scene with no cursing and no verbal abuse, and yet keep the humor intact. You can’t do it. It’s impossible.
SJW-written stories are uncanny and inhuman because they are too cleanly. They write books and comics and movies and games and TV shows that are as sterile as a hospital corridor and preachy as a sermon, and they have the nerve to demand that we give up our fun for their humorless, artless trash.