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Buckwheat Sings posted:It's hateful as gently caress and I don't think it even matters where it's made...liberal lies and all that. He can always start his own if it keeps rolling. This guy is going to get rich off of this even if it dies early. This is the most important part. Right-wing media has created an audience that cannot learn what it does not want to learn. Anyone who tries to explain "The same company made both beers" will be dismissed outright, no matter how "Cool" they are among other right-wingers, and thus the grift can continue indefinitely. It would be funny if not for all the people that are gonna die because of this poo poo
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I feel like the initial success of Hogwarts Legacy - if I recall the numbers right - might lend some credence to the idea that the fascists will performatively buy products they might not otherwise, but all the data - unless there have been recent developments - has consistently shown that the number of fascists who will both claim to boycott a product and actually not buy it is pretty insignificant. Fascism may be able to make people buy something they might not otherwise, but it seems pretty impotent at making them not buy something. Granted, there's also not been a dedicated, and viable, chud-alternative to most things so far besides social media, and most fascists are still in the closest enough that 4chan/gab/parler are a bridge too far. Plus laziness. But yeah. Didn't comicsgate spawn a bunch of fascist and fascist-adjacent studios? And didn't they all basically bomb or fail to make a difference? So it seems for some media even the presence of politically-aligned alternatives doesn't make a difference. The 4channers may complain that they are being forced to endure a black character with a speaking role, but they will still read X-Men rather than some fascist alternative.
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:I feel like the initial success of Hogwarts Legacy - if I recall the numbers right - might lend some credence to the idea that the fascists will performatively buy products they might not otherwise, but all the data - unless there have been recent developments - has consistently shown that the number of fascists who will both claim to boycott a product and actually not buy it is pretty insignificant. Hogwarts Legacy's success has nothing to do with the attempted boycott or anti-boycott and everything to do with the average normie harry potter fan not engaging with any of that online controversy
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Angry_Ed posted:Well, gotta distract from the fact that they might indeed be buying their MAGA Beer from ABInBev 20 dollars for a sixpack?
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In my experience, if AB lets you put your own label on a beer, then they are selling you Natty Light. A lot of bars and restaurants have their own house beer like "Jim's Special" or some crap, and its just natty light with a different tap on it.
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Vichan posted:20 dollars for a sixpack? Plus shipping!
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Vichan posted:20 dollars for a sixpack? Sax Mortar posted:Plus shipping! Freedom isn't free
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Tarezax posted:Hogwarts Legacy's success has nothing to do with the attempted boycott or anti-boycott and everything to do with the average normie harry potter fan not engaging with any of that online controversy Oh it would be a hit without that. But I seem to recall having heard some of the sales data and playtime data suggested there was a small but statistically noticeable bump of folks who bought it or pre-ordered and barely played? I might well have misremembered.
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Oh it would be a hit without that. But I seem to recall having heard some of the sales data and playtime data suggested there was a small but statistically noticeable bump of folks who bought it or pre-ordered and barely played? I might well have misremembered. It had a good opening but didn't really take off. I was seeing ads for it on TV so it's no wonder people bought it
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Regarding Hogwarts Legacy, it’s worth remembering that it’s currently only available on current gen consoles. It’ll probably see another high round of sales figures when it releases on last gen consoles in May, so may still be a little early to say it didn’t take off. We’ll see though.
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I think saying it didn't take off is pretty wild. It sold tremendously well. 12M units in 2 weeks is an absolute runaway success that only a few other games this year will achieve. https://twitter.com/bogorad222/status/1647487577128157184?s=20
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This is the same group of people who thought J.K. Rowling was literally teaching children evil sorcery 15 years ago. Without some really hard data to back it up, the claim that God-Fearing maga patriots deliberately bought anything Harry Potter branded just to own The Trans is insane
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Vaginaface posted:This is the same group of people who thought J.K. Rowling was literally teaching children evil sorcery 15 years ago. Without some really hard data to back it up, the claim that God-Fearing maga patriots deliberately bought anything Harry Potter branded just to own The Trans is insane Holy poo poo, that's a great point. I hadn't even thought of that. It's similar to how much they hated Roseanne Barr for loving up the anthem 30 years ago but now she's the poster child for the "Cancel this, bitches" movement.
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BiggerBoat posted:Holy poo poo, that's a great point. I hadn't even thought of that. No, I think the poster was expressing skepticism that MAGA chuds actually accounted for most of those Hogwarts Legacy sales.
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Zwabu posted:No, I think the poster was expressing skepticism that MAGA chuds actually accounted for most of those Hogwarts Legacy sales. RIght, I just meant that I forgot that for a good while these same people were banning Rowling's books and poo poo. Not that they were buying up the HL game in droves.
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I don’t find it even slightly unbelievable that the American right wing could love rowling in the present despite being the same people who accused her of devil worship 20 years ago. They don’t do the things they do out of a need for logical consistency or obligation to principle.
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The Onion already summed it all up https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1627729871454539779
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Anno posted:I think saying it didn't take off is pretty wild. It sold tremendously well. 12M units in 2 weeks is an absolute runaway success that only a few other games this year will achieve. E: wrong KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Apr 17, 2023 |
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Nope, different Avalanche studio.
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Charlz Guybon posted:Given how well they've been doing, I can't imagine Dominion settling for less than what they demanded at the onset. Wait isn't she a former fox host who made big bucks shilling their lies for years when Obama was president? She's a Democrat now?(probably always was) What a loving rear end in a top hat.
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VitalSigns posted:Wait isn't she a former fox host who made big bucks shilling their lies for years when Obama was president? She's a Democrat now?(probably always was) She just hates Roger Ailes.
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Burning_Monk posted:She just hates Roger Ailes. Can't imagine why EDIT: for those who don't want to click links (and/or might have forgotten the distant past of 2016), Gretchen Carlson is the woman who was fired from Fox News because she wouldn't gently caress Roger Ailes. She is essentially the catalyst for his downfall, and a significant contributor to the MeToo movement afterwards. Angry_Ed fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Apr 17, 2023 |
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https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/17/media/dominion-fox-news-allegations/index.html Here are the 20 specific Fox broadcasts and tweets Dominion says were defamatory This ones my favorite "Key false quote: “We have sworn witness testimony of why the software was designed. It was designed to rig elections … We have so much evidence, I feel like it’s coming in through a fire hose,” Powell said. “Wow,” Bartiromo said." Also, "I dare Dominion to sue me" "Key false quote: “Every outlet in the country, they go, ‘Mike Lindell, there’s no evidence, and he’s making fraudulent statements.’ No. I have the evidence. I dare people to put it on. I dare Dominion to sue me because then it will get out faster. So, this is – you know, they don’t – they don’t want to talk about it,” Lindell said. “No, they don’t,” Carlson said."
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I AM GRANDO posted:I shouldn’t be surprised that the Missing 411 guy is a chud, but for some reason I am. David Paulides probably is considering his career. He loves to talk about how he was a police officer but what he fails to mention is that his specialization was busting gay men for solicitation in public restrooms. I think there were accusations that he wrongly arrested and accused people of this but his career had very little to do with finding missing people or whatever. I think he's ultimately just an apolitical grifter because he's notorious for omitting information and being a whiny, confrontational rear end in a top hat with everyone.
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OgNar posted:This ones my favorite "Sworn Witness Testimony" is doing a lot of work there: quote:What was the evidence for these far-fetched claims that Powell sent to Bartiromo the day before the broadcast? An email entitled “Election Fraud Info” Powell had received from a “source” which the author herself describes as “pretty wackadoodle.” This email—also received by [former Fox host Lou] Dobbs—alleged Dominion was the “one common thread” in the “voting irregularities in a number of states.” In addition to promoting lies about Dominion, the sender claimed that Justice Scalia “was purposefully killed at the annual Bohemian Grove camp…during a weeklong human hunting expedition,” and that former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes (who died in 2017) and Rupert Murdoch “secretly huddle most days to determine how best to portray Mr. Trump as badly as possible.” The author continued: “Who am I? And how do I know all of this?…I’ve had the strangest dreams since I was a little girl….I was internally decapitated, and yet, I live….The Wind tells me I’m a ghost, but I don’t believe it.”
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FlamingLiberal posted:Headline: Man Who Got Sued I dare Dominion to sue me! No, not like that
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