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The Wicked ZOGA posted:sLAUGHTOISE
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Feb 19, 2022 11:46
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Mr. Fix It posted:so reading this I learned that 人権 (jinken), the Japanese word for human right, has some weird particular meaning in gaming "culture", and that's being used as a defense. weird, huh? i kind of have a feeling this is some intentional or semi-intentional dilution of the word. years ago i played a decent amount of Winning 11 soccer with coworkers in our office in Tokyo during our break, and a few folks threw "senpan" around jokingly to refer to athletes in the game that hosed up and caused the team to lose. i look it up and the word is 戦犯: war criminal. it's a common enough definition of the word to show up in dictionaries as the second entry. so yeah, weird poo poo. I'm not sure what conspiracy you're implying here; how is this any different from Gamer Culture and dudes screaming "I'm being <sexually assaulted> by a bunch of <racial slurs>" whenever the opposing team scores a point, and "hell yeah we're <war criming> these <other racial slurs>" when their team scores a point, and whinging about free speech and cancel culture when called out? I'm pretty sure there isn't an ongoing astroturf campaign to minimize the Nanjing Massacre via Gamer Words, but it'd def be wild if there was.
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Feb 19, 2022 12:14
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I was under the impression that Japan doesn't need gamer words to downplay japanese war crimes, with mainstream/government view on a spectrum from "didn't happen" to "yeah we did it, and they deserved it, so what?"
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Feb 19, 2022 12:43
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I'm not sure what conspiracy you're implying here; how is this any different from Gamer Culture and dudes screaming "I'm being <sexually assaulted> by a bunch of <racial slurs>" whenever the opposing team scores a point, and "hell yeah we're <war criming> these <other racial slurs>" when their team scores a point, and whinging about free speech and cancel culture when called out? no particular conspiracy, just wild how people dilute language. seems like a universal problem
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Feb 19, 2022 12:48
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I was under the impression that Japan doesn't need gamer words to downplay japanese war crimes, with mainstream/government view on a spectrum from "didn't happen" to "yeah we did it, and they deserved it, so what?" Pretty much this, if you think the average Japanese person gives a single poo poo about past warcrimes you would be very wrong.
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Feb 19, 2022 13:51
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“How can I be expected to care about something that I never learned about and anyway never happened?” - average Japanese person
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Feb 19, 2022 13:56
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Belated shoe chat: yall need them disposable boot covers.
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Feb 19, 2022 14:06
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moonmazed posted:cultivation stuff has gotten really popular in the west during the pandemic what do they cultivate
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Feb 19, 2022 14:08
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It's like dragon ball except instead of going AAAAAAAAA and clenching to power up you do like meditation and poo poo to power up.
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Feb 19, 2022 14:14
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It's also not nearly as inherently goofy as Dragonball.
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Feb 19, 2022 14:22
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OwlFancier posted:It's like dragon ball except instead of going AAAAAAAAA and clenching to power up you do like meditation and poo poo to power up. When I poo poo it powers me down for a while afterwards
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Feb 19, 2022 14:24
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can't these people just play video games like normal shut ins
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Feb 19, 2022 15:00
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Scratch Monkey posted:“How can I be expected to care about something that I never learned about and anyway never happened?” - average white Republican
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Feb 19, 2022 15:04
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That's being pretty generous to the average white republican. They're more "here's my 14-point list of reasons why slavery was good"
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Feb 19, 2022 15:13
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kirbysuperstar posted:The controversy is that Nintendo came out and said "thanks for your interest but we're not planning to let you play those games again" and actively pursues legal action against ROM sites as well as lobbying against safe harbours like the Internet Archive. Nintendo "currently has no plans" for anything. That's their go-to response for almost everything they ever do. As for that other tweet, that sounds like an issue with ESA. Sony and Microsoft are also paying members of that organization; in fact, almost every major company that makes a game you like to some degree contributes directly to this. I don't understand why Nintendo is held to a higher standard when the entire industry does this. On top of that, the 3DS and Wii U eShops do not use Nintendo's current account system; they use the old Nintendo ID, which is probably extremely not secure at this point. People fought Sony to keep the PS3 and Vita stores, but have you tried to log into those stores recently? If you have 2FA, you have to jump through an extra set of hoops that often don't work, and the community has decided that the solution is to turn off 2FA to access them. The systems were not designed to handle the way we do things now, so the solution is to compromise your account security to play Tokyo Jungle. Of course, that also assumes that your current account credentials even work, because there's a strict character limit for your email and password on those systems. Once the systems are no longer supported, just hack them and do whatever you want with them. Access to ROMs will almost always be viable as long as there is an internet, and if you want to stop companies from constantly shutting down access to these ROMs, attack the source. Also, don't pretend that downloading a Metroid game makes you an activist.
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Feb 19, 2022 17:47
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Finally, a centrist take on the issue
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Feb 19, 2022 17:58
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:Finally, a centrist take on the issue it is really impossible to tell the difference between good things and bad things 
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Feb 19, 2022 17:59
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hallo spacedog posted:Pretty much this, if you think the average How do you feel about that statement now? Hackles rising? Note that "goons" are not representative of the "average American" so however you yourself feel about US war crimes is irrelevant. E: vvvvvv agreed Weatherman has a new favorite as of 18:48 on Feb 19, 2022 |
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Feb 19, 2022 18:44
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I think the average person of any nation in the world does not think much about the war crimes of that nation. Except maybe for Germany, because that’s in their school curriculum by law.
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Feb 19, 2022 18:47
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Weatherman posted:How do you feel about that statement now? Hackles rising? Note that "goons" are not representative of the "average American" so however you yourself feel about US war crimes is irrelevant. nah it's still completely accurate. The average American thinks Japan deserved getting nuked and doesn't know poo poo about the firebombing of Tokyo, not to mention all the poo poo we did in Cambodia/Vietnam, the Highway of Death, how we basically destroyed an entire generation in Fallujah...
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Feb 19, 2022 18:48
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Highway of Death is in one of the Call of Duty games, but they say it was the Russians that did it.
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Feb 19, 2022 18:52
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Takoluka posted:it is really impossible to tell the difference between good things and bad things Nope. You must make a broad, sweeping generalization about a population right now or else you are both-sidesing and also a war crime denier
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Feb 19, 2022 19:03
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:That's being pretty generous to the average white republican. They're more "here's my 14-point list of reasons why slavery was good" Awfully generous to think they can count to 14
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Feb 19, 2022 19:17
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It’s irresponsible to ever be in the US while saying “lol those brits do love electing pedo nazis, they even love the Windsors lmfao” without a prologue where you list every US crime ever committed starting in 1607. This is definitely not sadsack americans practicing american exceptionalism.
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Feb 19, 2022 19:19
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Byzantine posted:Awfully generous to think they can count to 14 The 14 words is where they stop counting.
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Feb 19, 2022 19:25
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It’s irresponsible to ever be in the US while saying “lol those brits do love electing pedo nazis, they even love the Windsors lmfao” without a prologue where you list every US crime ever committed starting in 1607. The US didn't commit any crimes in 1607 because it didn't exist as a nation. It was a British colony. Basically, yeah, America has done a lot of heinous poo poo, but we learned it from the Brits. Brits invented loving concentration camps.
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Feb 19, 2022 19:39
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The US sucks a whole lot. Other countries also suck a whole lot, sometimes in the same way as the US. The only country free of sin is Belgium.
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Feb 19, 2022 19:45
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Fish Appreciator posted:The US sucks a whole lot. Other countries also suck a whole lot, sometimes in the same way as the US. They did have a hand in the Congo...
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Feb 19, 2022 19:47
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Fish Appreciator posted:The US sucks a whole lot. Other countries also suck a whole lot, sometimes in the same way as the US. Uhmmm?
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Feb 19, 2022 19:47
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Skwirl posted:The US didn't commit any crimes in 1607 because it didn't exist as a nation. It was a British colony. so swings and roundabouts really
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Feb 19, 2022 19:48
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:Finally, a centrist take on the issue Nah that’s not a centralist take that’s just nerds protecting the reputation of Nintendo. It’s like nerds with Elon Musk but somehow even sadder
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Feb 19, 2022 19:49
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IncredibleIgloo posted:The 14 words is where they stop counting. Sometimes they get up to 88
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Feb 19, 2022 19:50
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CharlestheHammer posted:Nah that’s not a centralist take that’s just nerds protecting the reputation of Nintendo. At least Nintendo Switches don't run over people and are much less likely to spontaneously combust.
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Feb 19, 2022 19:51
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kazil posted:They did have a hand in the Congo... TOO SOON
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Feb 19, 2022 20:14
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CharlestheHammer posted:It’s like nerds with Elon Musk but somehow even sadder This is an abnormally high bar to clear.
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Feb 19, 2022 20:23
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Skwirl posted:At least Nintendo Switches don't run over people and are much less likely to spontaneously combust. Now I suddenly want them to team up and make a console
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Feb 19, 2022 20:28
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IIRC the Congo Free State was the personal property of King Leopold rather than belonging to Belgium as a country. It doesn't change anything about what happened but it's an interesting historical wrinkle.
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Feb 19, 2022 20:47
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As an outsider, it seems like America has spent an inordinate amount of effort in creating propaganda to present it as a bastion of freedom and honesty and GOOD, when it is beyond obvious that the US is, and always has been a cruel, destructive hyper capitalist hellscape. Yes, other countries are worse, but compared to most European democracies, the US, is, at best a marginally developed country. It's been known for at least the last 150 years that the only thing that matters in the US is money, is an enormous problem. Foundationally, the US is built on agreeing that the rich have a right to shape society, because their wealth makes them better than everyone else. I'm not attacking the average American, youse are victims of a dreadful system.
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Feb 19, 2022 21:20
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That can’t be right, I’d have heard about it by now from our pervasive pop culture and advanced public education system
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