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CommonShore posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/spirit-halloween-indigenous-costumes-culture-winnipeg-1.3811089 I'm glad I've never actually bought anything from them. Their animatronics are fun to look at, though. 
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But flamethrowers were mostly a WWII weapon. Great War models weren’t portable.
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Platystemon posted:But flamethrowers were mostly a WWII weapon. Loooots of the weapons and tanks used in BF1 weren't really used in WW1. They get by because they're all things that were built or expirimental or used at the very end of the war, but showing the heavy tanks in major conflicts in the middle of the war and using lots of more advanced or rare guns all over the place is very historically inaccurate. They kept it accurate enough while generally favoring entertainment over realism. After all, realistic WW1 would be sitting in a trench for weeks and then getting shot or gassed.
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CommonShore posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/spirit-halloween-indigenous-costumes-culture-winnipeg-1.3811089
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I'm dumb, I don't get it
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Tired Moritz posted:I'm dumb, I don't get it (I assume it's the problem you're not getting, since the joke is pretty obvious.)
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Tired Moritz posted:I'm dumb, I don't get it World War I actually happened and that might be considered tasteless e: beaten
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Strudel Man posted:What does racist even mean in this context. Like blackface, redface, etc. Dressing up as an offensive caricature of another race or culture. SUPER popular even in tyool 2016.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Like blackface, redface, etc. Dressing up as an offensive caricature of another race or culture. SUPER popular even in tyool 2016.
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Strudel Man posted:What makes those costumes offensive, other than not being historically accurate? Because the point of them is "lol minorities"
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Slime posted:Because the point of them is "lol minorities" (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Strudel Man posted:In other words, nothing. It's offensive and racist merely because it depicts another culture at all - after all, you could speak that exact criticism regardless of its design. So, how often do you wear blackface?
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Like blackface, redface, etc. Dressing up as an offensive caricature of another race or culture. SUPER popular even in tyool 2016. Dude he's obviously loving trolling with this, don't respond to him in earnest.
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People that say tyool are more annoying than racists
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Mu Zeta posted:People that say tyool are more annoying than racists You know what, that's valid. I'm ashamed of myself.
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Mu Zeta posted:People that say tyool are more annoying than racists Can't believe people are still saying tyool in tyool 2016
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Such behavior in this, the Year of Luigi.
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Strudel Man posted:In other words, nothing. It's offensive and racist merely because it depicts another culture at all - after all, you could speak that exact criticism regardless of its design. Ah, I see you're attempting reactive inverse retro-ironic double-genuine racism. Weak troll, but solid attempt.
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being racist is part of my white culture please stop appropriating it
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The ol' "You're actually the racist one" gambit!
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:I can't believe the same derail that kept popping up in the Fury Road thread came here of all places. greg land?
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snergle posted:greg land? J. Scott Campbell While I can see their point, I don't know I feel as adamantly as they do about its inappropriateness.   If it bothers people change it I guess, but it doesn't really bother me.
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quote:I like how the "fix" was to redraw her in the Iron Man suit instead of the belly shirt and yoga pants, but she's still got a broken hip pose.
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Whoopsie https://twitter.com/Battlefield/status/793180553138753536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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oh, I thought you guys were just joking about the WWI thing. I thought it was about club fires.
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Zaphod42 posted:Whoopsie 9-11 happened only 15 years ago and its fine making jokes about that, don't see the reason that WW1 should be any different
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Have EA made many 9/11 jokes?
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If you are turning a period of human tragedy into a place for teenagers to call each other fags, you shouldn't be obliged to pretend having any respect for it.
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That's just the weird double-standard state that war videogames intentionally put themselves into. They advertise it as all ho-rah are troops and being memorable about the wars and the sacrifices and press X to pay your respects, but it all comes out goofy because they're really still entertainment games where you respawn instantly and not at all simulators, and the fact that most people playing are eating cheetos and drinking mountain dew and only kill about getting more frags. Its gotten them in hot water in the past too, like when call of duty tried to sell guns or knives or whatever. They'd probably be better off just ditching that air of realism completely, which I guess is what Call of Duty is doing now that they're moving into space. To their credit BF1 does present the harshness of WW1 pretty well, but then the multiplayer completely undermines that, much less the marketing.
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steinrokkan posted:If you are turning a period of human tragedy into a place for teenagers to call each other fags, you shouldn't be obliged to pretend having any respect for it. *presses F*
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Lots of games put an anti-war quote in the loading screen or something to tell us war is bad, but they show us it's actually a cool fun adventure. The only ones I can think of that made me think war is bad were Spec Ops the Line and This War of Mine. Maybe the original Canon Fodder as well (who I gather got a lot of poo poo for using the poppy)
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Well, I think a lot of the pretense of respect for war and the impact on human life comes from paying homage to the mother of the entire genre of console based first person shooters, CoD4. The nuke scene was genuinely gripping and is still to this day one of the best sequences in any realistic military shooter. People like me still gush about it as much as we gush about Spec Ops. Those are two of the most critically acclaimed and well remembered shooters of the last generation. But also, the genre has been getting a lot of well deserved flack for being racist, jingoistic, and entirely tone deaf to the implications of their games. So I think that especially after Hardline, where you're supposed to be excited to either murder cops or be a cop gunning down thieves and turning a robbery into a shoot out, EA wants Battlefield to be free of those legitimate complaints this time. Which is stupid in its own right, but I can understand the effort Let's not forget the mess that is The Division, where you play a secret government agent in New York City after a bio-terrorism attack and gun down rioters to take their food and weapons. You were supposedly the good guy in that situation, in case it wasn't obvious. Well armed soldiers that wear no uniform killing civilians in the street immediately following a terror attack because they are looting in a city with very limited supplies and no law enforcement is the American ideal of justice, or something.
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The Door Frame posted:
Assuming I remember right, the random guys you come across are usually picking over a dead body that they just killed (and they attack you on site), and the 2 types of bad guys you come across in missions are the "Cleaners" that kill everyone they come across and the guys that broke out of prison, so it's not just "kill hungry people" AFewBricksShy has a new favorite as of 18:52 on Nov 1, 2016 |
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AFewBricksShy posted:Assuming I remember right, the random guys you come across are usually picking over a dead body that they just killed (and they attack you on site), and the 2 types of bad guys you come across in missions are the "Cleaners" that kill everyone they come across and the guys that broke out of prison, so it's not just "kill hungry people" Oh, there are the cartoon villains too, but you do kill a lot of looters on sight, and then immediately take stuff off of their warm bodies. Only you attacking people on sight and looting the corpses of your victims is the good thing. It's a little... hypocritical? Ironic? I can't think of the word, but it's definitely shaky moral ground, and definitely not something that people should be rooting for
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bitterandtwisted posted:Lots of games put an anti-war quote in the loading screen or something to tell us war is bad, but they show us it's actually a cool fun adventure. Ohhh man trip down memory lane to my old Amiga 500. That game owned.
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Remember when this post sparked controversy?
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I spent the nuke scene in CoD4 hopping and crouching on the junglegym
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CommonShore posted:Ohhh man trip down memory lane to my old Amiga 500. That game owned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiYuq6Ac3a0 It was an ace game.
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