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I used to make custom Starcraft maps and bind Cartman quotes to particular areas of the map, but I didn't know how to only make them once so if a Zerg player went through they'd hear Cartman screaming "respect my authoritah" repeatedly at machine gun speed.
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Kai Tave posted:https://twitter.com/BombardierBantz/status/1123689434392801285 X-posted from the Lancer thread. Shy-fash or just a centrist?
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Z the IVth posted:X-posted from the Lancer thread. A distinction without difference.
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Z the IVth posted:X-posted from the Lancer thread. Always check their feed. Have some of boyo's retweets: https://twitter.com/WhiteSmirk/status/1123720609446465536 https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1123203368858656774 Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 13:47 on May 3, 2019 |
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I'm gonna put five bucks down on "thinks they're a centrist, but complains about people on the left driving them further to the right".
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neongrey posted:I'm gonna put five bucks down on "thinks they're a centrist, but complains about people on the left driving them further to the right". ZUG ZUG
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If someone could explain to me how the last few Tweets in this thread are on topic I would appreciate it.
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Those are retweets from the person in the Lancer quote from Kai Tave, posted to answer Z's question about their fash-adjacency. In short: Very likely.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:If someone could explain to me how the last few Tweets in this thread are on topic I would appreciate it. I believe they are retweets drawn from the feed of the idiot yelling at the Lancer twitter about being too political, as proof that he is in fact a fascist. Which has been demonstrated, I suppose, but could have been done with, like, two of those? Maybe three?
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That's fair, the post looked a lot shorter before SA expanded them. I'll cull it.
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May 3, 2019 13:46
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Right. So nobody worth derailing the thread over.
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Joe Slowboat posted:...how did non-Warhammer orcs become green, anyways? I'm not even sure when green goblins took hold of the genre, or even if Spider-Man's Green Goblin came first. Green orcs predate Warcraft by a long time. Here's some art by the Hildebrandt brothers from their 1976 Lord of the Rings calendar:  
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Right. So nobody worth derailing the thread over. No fascist is worth anything so the discussion of fascists is, necessarily, a discussion of the worthless though?
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PoptartsNinja posted:Absolutely. Whoa now please don't tell me Pardoe is fash. Granted I went through my MechWarrior book phase back when MW2: Mercenaries was a thing, but I'd be disappointed that one of my favorite of their books at the time was by a fascist
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TheBigAristotle posted:Whoa now please don't tell me Pardoe is fash. Victor Steiner-Davion has his cousin Ryan Steiner assassinated and has Josha (Hallas) Marik replaced with a body double because those options were more expedient than a trial (Ryan Steiner) or explaining to Thomas (Hallas) Marik that his son had died of cancer despite the best efforts of the NAIS, that he would be naming the cancer wing of the NAIS after Joshua, and sending one of his favorite croneys to escort the boy's ashes home, and please don't stop sending upgrades to our Clan-fighting troops, we knew curing Leukemia would be a long-shot and here are the records that prove the NAIS did everything in its power to do so, etc. Stackpole is probably fash, though. 
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PoptartsNinja posted:Stackpole is probably fash, though. Fash or not, his original Grey Death trilogy is pretty yikes nowadays.
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If you want to talk "fash-adjacent," I couldn't listen to Ken & Robin's podcast after Hite did a "History Hut" segment where be basically said the problem with Pinochet was that Allende was so incompetent he made Pinochet necessary.
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Its not the main purpose of the thread obviously, but I do feel there is some merit in documenting/demonstrating just how prevalent it is. The example above is like such a textbook example of how ‘let’s keep politics out of our games’ is like 9 out of 10 times fash/fash-adjacent shielding. I even agree with the sorta basic sentiment! Politics talk can quickly turn toxic. Like even between people who really agree on everything, except maybe like orthodox Marx vs early Lenin or something, it can get kinda out of hand, but in the past like 10 years, it’s almost always a bigot or white nationalist or something who goes ‘let’s keep the politics out of it’. Especially on the internet obviously. I also think bideo james need a thread like this. Though I imagine it’d would hit toxic levels pretty fast. It’s not as reasonable a subforum 
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99% of the time when people say "Let's keep politics out of this," they only mean politics that aren't theirs. The most obvious example is American football, which is a celebration of nationalism from start to finish, but don't you dare use it as a venue to express your own politics.
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Revelation 2-13 posted:Its not the main purpose of the thread obviously, but I do feel there is some merit in documenting/demonstrating just how prevalent it is. There was a reason all discussion of GamerGate was banned. We'd have to start paying the mods to handle the garbage that would reveal itself in that thread.
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Speaking of "Lost Cause," wasn't there a lot of Confederate flag imagery in the original Starcraft? I haven't seen or played it since the 90's, but I seem to remember stars-and-bars flags on the spaceships.
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Cessna posted:Speaking of "Lost Cause," wasn't there a lot of Confederate flag imagery in the original Starcraft? I believe so, and my guess is that it was less from overt Lost Causer stuff among the staff - though I don't doubt some of them probably were/are Lost Causers - and more the decision to base Raynor and the frontier guys heavily on the American South.
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the initial portrayal of Terran Marines in Starcraft were as drugged-up violent hillbilly caricatures so I don't think giving them Confederate imagery was meant as a sign of approval EDIT: I say initial because they drop this angle pretty hard after the first game iirc. They still keep the Confederate theming though! That sure makes it a lot harder to defend. ZeroCount fucked around with this message at 16:24 on May 3, 2019 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:There was a reason all discussion of GamerGate was banned. We'd have to start paying the mods to handle the garbage that would reveal itself in that thread. alternatively, use it as a honeypot and use the ban money generated from it to pay for lowtax's laser spine
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ZeroCount posted:the initial portrayal of Terran Marines in Starcraft were as drugged-up violent hillbilly caricatures so I don't think giving them Confederate imagery was meant as a sign of approval Yeah original Starcraft definitely portrays the Confederacy as incompetent, evil, and incredibly poor spoken. I think they used Space Confederates because they needed an obvious bad guy so you'd be extra shocked to learn Mengsk and his Dominion were also bad guys all along. Jim Raynor, and thus the player, are driven right into the arms of Mengsk by said evil Confederate incompetence.
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"Hey man, I know we disagree on a lot but can't we just put it aside for today and enjoy a friendly game with no politics involved?" "Uh, mayb ---" "Great!" *unpacks proxied army of anime schoolgirls in nazi uniforms*
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Deified Data posted:"Hey man, I know we disagree on a lot but can't we just put it aside for today and enjoy a friendly game with no politics involved?" PST posted:
From the Industry thread; this game already exists in card form.
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Which gets me thinking, the chuds don't really consider themselves political. Politics is boring. It's rabble-rousing and complaining. Politics is caring enough about something to Get Mad. No, to them their beliefs and ideology are not politics, it's just the way things are and the communists and libtards would realize that if they stopped caring so much about politics. They're just trying to be themselves while you're the one sowing dissent and making everyone uncomfortable. Hey man, we're all bros here, why do you have to make everything political all the time? *is literally just dressed like dylan roof*Mors Rattus posted:From the Industry thread; this game already exists in card form. ugggggggggggh
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Mors Rattus posted:From the Industry thread; this game already exists in card form. Sexy/pedo anime versions of real world military events/equipment hurt my loving brain way too much. I don't like judging people for the media they consume too much but this is my big exception. Strike Witches, Girls Und Panzer, I even saw one where girls were personifications of infantry rifles that were sexually aroused when "maintenance" was performed. loving why, though?
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"Politics" and "political correctness" as pejoratives are super huge red flags to me and are dangerous. They are stealthy ways of signalling gross poo poo that sneaks by a lot of people because many people won't think very hard about it and agree by default that bringing "politics" into things or "political correctness" are bad things because of decades of media portraying "politics" as pointless slapfights and "political correctness" as out of control government censorship. A lot of people are terrified of being accused of doing those things and will back off if accused, or won't think much and agree by default if someone else is accused of those things. So lately CHUDs use phrases like "political correctness out of control" to refer to non-white or LGBT or women characters, or "bringing politics into it" by saying stuff like maybe people shouldn't die in a gutter if they get sick, etc., and a lot of people don't think anything of it. It's really insidious because people who weren't paying attention will automatically agree. So I'm glad Lancer's response to that crap was essentially "gently caress you." I like it when people aren't willing to give up their convictions in the hope that it gets them a few more dollars or a few more followers BattleMaster fucked around with this message at 17:04 on May 3, 2019 |
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Going through the image gallery for that Barabarosa game at BGG is just jaw-dropping: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72809/barbarossa/images (probably NSFW)PinheadSlim posted:Strike Witches, Girls Und Panzer, I even saw one where girls were personifications of infantry rifles that were sexually aroused when "maintenance" was performed. loving why, though?
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FMguru posted:Going through the image gallery for that Barabarosa game at BGG is just jaw-dropping: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72809/barbarossa/images (probably NSFW) This poo poo is why anime masturbators are the biggest bloc of literal nazis in 2019
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PinheadSlim posted:Sexy/pedo anime versions of real world military events/equipment hurt my loving brain way too much. That's Upotte I think. Some of that's an extension of the personification of things Japan does but in a way that's horny and marketable. GuP is more general tank nuttery but presented in a marketable way. Military otaku exist and they're just as weird as every other history/ military nerd
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PinheadSlim posted:Yeah original Starcraft definitely portrays the Confederacy as incompetent, evil, and incredibly poor spoken. Nice. Like I said, I haven't seen the game since - 1999?
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Xelkelvos posted:GuP is more general tank nuttery but presented in a marketable way. I was a tank crewman in real life. I DESPISE that show.
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Xelkelvos posted:GuP is more general tank nuttery but presented in a marketable way. Military otaku exist and they're just as weird as every other history/ military nerd Sadly one of the side characters is a huge Rommel nerd.
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Cessna posted:I was a tank crewman in real life. I DESPISE that show.
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Somebody tried to sell me that anime Eastern Front card game at PAX once and I was deeply uncomfortable but he actually trapped me between tables for the pitch.
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NGDBSS posted:How so? I know nothing but the premise of "moe + tank combat". Does it get too much into the grand illusion of war being heroic? It trivializes war and makes it look like a sport, with a side helping of sexualized young girls for extra creepiness.
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