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Nothing will surprise me after the journalist called the game racist because he picked all the racist options.
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Dec 9, 2020 05:07
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Kaysette posted:Nothing will surprise me after the journalist called the game racist because he picked all the racist options. So, there's a test that scientists will sometimes use to detect if an animal is self-aware; whether it knows that it exists. The test is quite simple: paint a red dot on the animal's head and see if it responds to the red dot if placed in front of a mirror. If it reacts to the dot on its own head, it recognizes that the image in the mirror is a reflection of itself and therefore must be aware that it exists. Many primates pass this test, as well as elephants. This motherfucker failed the self-awareness test.
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Dec 9, 2020 09:20
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Pattonesque posted:So they looked at the fascist thought cabinet choice that literally hurt your morale every time you said something right wing and thought it was pro-fascism? I'm pretty sure that saying that saying that they actively thought about anything is a step too much.
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Dec 9, 2020 09:24
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Kaysette posted:Nothing will surprise me after the journalist called the game racist because he picked all the racist options. The fascist dialogue choices make you sound like such a loving dolt too, I don't know anyone play that way and not think the game is laughing at Harry for saying them
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Dec 9, 2020 10:21
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I felt like a loving dolt when I told Evrart 'and all the workers look like me' and he's like, gently caress it fine Harry, whites only. I thought I was taking a stand for worker solidarity. Then the game rubbed it in my face by triggering the traditionalist bit. e: Are some of / how many of the bullet holes in the walls etc that Kim dismisses as from the revolution, from the old guy? Chubby Henparty fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Dec 9, 2020 |
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Dec 9, 2020 10:39
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Foreign capital, the bad kind of capital
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Cpt_Obvious posted:So, there's a test that scientists will sometimes use to detect if an animal is self-aware; whether it knows that it exists. The test is quite simple: paint a red dot on the animal's head and see if it responds to the red dot if placed in front of a mirror. If it reacts to the dot on its own head, it recognizes that the image in the mirror is a reflection of itself and therefore must be aware that it exists. Many primates pass this test, as well as elephants. Ah, to be dumber than a magpie...
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Sankara posted:Perhaps they have finished translating their book! uber_stoat posted:i'm up for any kind of Disco action. i do want the book to hurry up and publish tho. Oh man I hope they announce the translation of the book at The Game Awards ™. One, because I want to read it. Two, because the reaction of a bunch of gamers being told to read a book will be hilarious.
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Dec 9, 2020 15:56
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Pattonesque posted:So they looked at the fascist thought cabinet choice that literally hurt your morale every time you said something right wing and thought it was pro-fascism? if i'm not mistaken it was some American leftist (austin walker maybe? i'm not sure but i remember his take being surprisingly dumb. could also have been patrick klepek, the trust fund kid whose leftist credentials are about as fake as astroturf) who hated it cause DE didn't present communism as perfect and without fault. even though DE is probably the most effective and meaningful left-wing game ever, that still wasn't enough. No, it had to present socialism as the completely right path, even though DE is meaningful precisely because it is filled with self-reflection and self-critique.
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Dec 9, 2020 16:30
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The Gaston sandwich rhetoric check but instead of fascist or communist things to say it is fascist or communist games to play (or gently caress off, as Volition desperately urges)
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Dec 9, 2020 16:34
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oscarthewilde posted:if i'm not mistaken it was some American leftist (austin walker maybe? i'm not sure but i remember his take being surprisingly dumb. could also have been patrick klepek, the trust fund kid whose leftist credentials are about as fake as astroturf) who hated it cause DE didn't present communism as perfect and without fault. even though DE is probably the most effective and meaningful left-wing game ever, that still wasn't enough. No, it had to present socialism as the completely right path, even though DE is meaningful precisely because it is filled with self-reflection and self-critique. They both recorded a podcast about how much they liked the game. This is the dumbest loving conversation.
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Dec 9, 2020 16:55
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If you don't like the video game I like, you're a fake leftist
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Dec 9, 2020 16:57
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Arist posted:They both recorded a podcast about how much they liked the game. This is the dumbest loving conversation. Arist posted:If you don't like the video game I like, you're a fake leftist Don't break your fingers defending your internet heroes so hard. They literally said that they were unsure about which journalist it was.
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Dec 9, 2020 17:03
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Jack Trades posted:Don't break your fingers defending your internet heroes so hard. Why does that matter? It doesn't affect my point at all. People are allowed to criticize this game even if you think they're wrong, and being a big baby about how they're all trust fund kids or whatever because they didn't effusively praise it to your exacting standards makes you look like a child. Especially when they actually did.
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Dec 9, 2020 17:07
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I found DE to be incredibly well written but thick on navel-gazing and not especially 'fun' for a 'video game'. Though if it makes midlife nerds question their life choices and be better people, I'd even say its art in a way that almost no other video game is. Anyway that's my pisswarm take, thanks for readin
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Dec 9, 2020 17:21
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Arist posted:Why does that matter? It doesn't affect my point at all. Boring Cop detected
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Dec 9, 2020 17:23
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Considering the quality of the vast majority of video game writing, I don't blame anyone who was trepidatious about a game that offered the oppotunity to be an in-game fascist. Hell, a lot of the games edgiest content is 100% front loaded; the two most obvious objectives on day 1, investigate the body and visit the docks, ensure that you'll probably encounter Measurehead, Cuno, and Racist Lorry Driver as part of your first impressions with the game. Cuno calls HDB a f*g a bunch of times in his opening convo whereas I can't think of any non-fictional slurs being used in the rest of game. I can think of some reasons cynical and otherwise why the game starts on a fairly agressive note, controversy produces buzz and having an intially harsh facade allows for the moments of genuine beauty to be all the more powerful, but it's not hard to see why people might get turned off on it especially when it stands near a tradition of South Park style myopia.
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Dec 9, 2020 17:28
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It was a drat near mainstream games journalism idea not that long ago that presenting something as an option to do at all must clearly be condoning it, though that did seem to get laughed out of the room eventually. I think there was at least one case of a journalist or two dismissing DE as racist/problematic in their first impressions and then changing their minds later on, possibly after the narrative didn't catch on.
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Dec 9, 2020 17:53
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Arist posted:Why does that matter? It doesn't affect my point at all. Do you have a trust fund perchance?
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Jack Trades posted:Do you have a trust fund perchance? are you loving serious
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Lots of high Half Light, low Volition energy in this thread right now
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Dec 9, 2020 18:16
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Chubby Henparty posted:e: Are some of / how many of the bullet holes in the walls etc that Kim dismisses as from the revolution, from the old guy? high shivers lets you recognize a lot of them by the end. high visual calculus lets you reconstruct scenes, including at least one of a bunch of people being executed, yes Arist posted:Why does that matter? It doesn't affect my point at all. people are allowed to criticize the game, but no one is allowed to criticize those people, got it.
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Dec 9, 2020 18:20
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Come on, man. Of course you're entitled to say "hmm dunno about that" when you see a weird or bad take. I've done that in this thread--with an article from the same website, no less. Going into weird attacks on someone's leftist credentials because they stood next to someone else who wrote a mildly critical article on their early impressions of a game that takes a bit to really come together into something truly special is... silly, to say the least.
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Dec 9, 2020 18:29
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Doc Hawkins posted:people are allowed to criticize the game, but no one is allowed to criticize those people, got it. The posting would be less tedious if it hadn't been replicated identically about 10 times already 
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Arist posted:Come on, man. Of course you're entitled to say "hmm dunno about that" when you see a weird or bad take. I've done that in this thread--with an article from the same website, no less. Going into weird attacks on someone's leftist credentials because they stood next to someone else who wrote a mildly critical article on their early impressions of a game that takes a bit to really come together into something truly special is... silly, to say the least. 1. Nah dude they're all a bunch of lovely rich liberals cosplaying as revolutionaries. They'll be the first against the wall. 2. Look, they're just trying to appeal to a broader audience to generate more clicks. I appreciate that kind of hustle. 3. Have we considered that maybe gaming journalists and faux lefties are both bad? 4. This wouldn't be an issue if they weren't constantly shoving *politics* down our throats.
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Dec 9, 2020 18:43
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so long as everyone itt agrees with the core thesis that gamers must be destroyed
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World War Mammories posted:so long as everyone itt agrees with the core thesis that gamers must be destroyed You're posting on a web forum for video games.
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Dec 9, 2020 19:09
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quod erat demonstrandum
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World War Mammories posted:so long as everyone itt agrees with the core thesis that gamers must be destroyed  as a leftist, i
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Sorry for the tangent, but has everyone tried out the "gameboy version" of Disco Elysium yet? https://csbrannan.itch.io/disco-elysium-game-boy-edition It's surprisingly good.
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Dec 9, 2020 20:47
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Cheers, I caught the execution, . may have missed or not noticed some more. It would be / was awesome if literally every crazy notion in the game was part of something, like working class woman 
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Dec 9, 2020 20:54
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Can't wait for the Raphäel Ambrosius Costeau And The Quest For The Cocaine Skull DLC. 
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Dec 9, 2020 21:38
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Fister Roboto posted:1. Nah dude they're all a bunch of lovely rich liberals cosplaying as revolutionaries. They'll be the first against the wall. Lmao shut the gently caress up
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Lotsa people in here talking about how rich games journalists are fake leftists who have low media literacy and cannot engage with the works they review while parroting the same kind of rhetoric as the extremely fail old sniper communist
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Dec 9, 2020 21:59
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Roobanguy posted:Lmao shut the gently caress up -1 Morale
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Fister Roboto posted:-1 Morale tbh i read that while being very tired and didnt see the sarcasm.
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Doc Hawkins posted:how are any games journalists rich? Tim Rogers makes $12k a month on patreon.
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