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Jay Rust posted:It’s actually kind of weird that we all happily buy the same game multiple times just because they’re on different systems. Sometimes they’re not even remasters its called consumerism friend and its wretched
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corn in the bible posted:I mean... I don't do that. Maybe it's because I'm poor same. the only game i can remember buying twice is chrono trigger for the snes and ds
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Sep 2, 2018 19:48
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kingdoms of amalur was fun but extremely flawed. the game balance was completely hosed and it had tons and tons of voiced dialogue but most of it was incredibly boring. every town had lots of fully voiced nps you could talk to just because and they all said the same boring crap in slightly different ways. a mindboggling waste of time and effort
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Sep 5, 2018 06:45
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The 7th Guest posted:they also did the same thing for "i don't want that", when you try to give them a random inventory object that was the first computer game i ever owned. my dad inexplicably bought it for me despite the fact neither of us ever watched an episode of the xfiles. sadly i never got it to work
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Sep 5, 2018 06:59
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The 7th Guest posted:I wouldn't get any sub-$400 laptop that doesn't at least have an i5 also dont get acomputer with windows 10 and only 4gb of ram
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Sep 6, 2018 14:12
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Andrast posted:I thought the story in Warcraft 3 was the raddest poo poo when I was 13. its dumb as hell but arthas putting on the lich king helm and saying "now we are one" is still cool to me
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Sep 8, 2018 06:42
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exquisite tea posted:The joke is that the big evil corporation is using passive-aggressive workplace jargon to invite literal Hell on Earth, not that demons = immigrants or w/e. This is clear to anyone who is familiar with Doom 16's brand of satire. “Earth is the melting pot of the universe,” “let’s make our friends feel welcome in their new home,” “Remember, ‘demon’ can be an offensive term, refer to them as ‘mortally challenged.’” its 3 jokes that could have easily come from a guy with a pepe avatar if you change a single word. they are not even good jokes, and its clearly a parody of college liberals not corporations. i mean how often do you see corporations going off about melting pots when i first heard about the doom thing i thought it was only the one about demons being mortally challenged which yeah you can kinda read as mocking corporate speak if you squint. but 3 of them in a small slice of gameplay? at the very least its extremely questionable in the current political climate. the melting pot one is just inexcusable imo babypolis fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Sep 10, 2018 |
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Sep 10, 2018 15:13
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Cowcaster posted:yeah uh it's parodying how corporations co-opt liberal speak while stripping their workers of everything and ask that they literally submit their souls to satan and you fell for it hook line and sinker lmao thats not how a corporation would co-opt liberal speak. a corporation would say some poo poo about diversity and breaking barriers and exploring new ideas some garbage like that. if its supposed to mock corporate speak its extremely badly done again you can kinda squint and make the joke about demons be about corporation but even then it doesnt work, a corporation wouldnt acknowledge theres such a thing as demons, they would say some poo poo like "ignore any rumors about so called "demons" if you see anything unusual report it to hr and continue with your duites blah blah". taken by itself it could be just an akward joke but when in the hell would you see a corporation talking about melting pots? thats a phrase used exclusively to talk about society. imo it seems like willfull ignorance to deny the clear resemblance to the way fascists talk about immigrants. its a really poor choice of word at best and really loving disgusting at worst
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Sep 10, 2018 15:27
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The Colonel posted:i mean the issue with the whole doom eternal thing is that we don't really have the full context for the whole scene yet and presented entirely out of the game's context it's really easy to read lines like that both ways because it's impossible to say whether doom eternal even holds onto the same general point that doom 16 does without, having the full video game to play and look at what context do you need? they are clearly throwaway jokes and the resemblance to anti immigrant speech is undeniable. like i said at best its just really inappropriate and dumb and at worst its fascist propaganda
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Sep 10, 2018 15:29
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Cowcaster posted:man, starship troopers got me super psyched to join the army and kill some evil bugs! if you want to be a complete moron about it thats cool too
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Sep 10, 2018 15:30
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https://twitter.com/search?q=%20melting%20pot&src=typd look at all these people talking about corporations! wow was i wrong
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Sep 10, 2018 15:33
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PantsBandit posted:Given two scenarios, one in which a PR sounding VO is parodying overly politically correct corpo-speak and one in which the ID writers for DOOM are finally getting a chance to insidiously sneak their fascist views into a game trailer, I choose to believe the one that gets me maddest. once again thats now how loving corporations speak. as a parody its horrible meanwhile this is the kind of statements an alt righter would mock "lets welcome syrian refugees into their new home" "america is a melting pot" which one is more similar to the jokes in DOOM
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Sep 10, 2018 15:39
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id like someone to show me a single loving example of a corporation talking about refugees and melting pots
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Sep 10, 2018 15:41
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A. Beaverhausen posted:Welcome to the internet the past year. Everyone's a secret alt right fascist now, with some things VERBOTEN to parody yeah so why the gently caress parody it like that?? why juxtapose it with bad things happening? i wonder who else likes to do stuff like that...
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Sep 10, 2018 15:42
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PantsBandit posted:UAC doesn't operate on the same scale as the corporations we know. They're like Weyland-Yutani, closer to a government structure than a business-organization. In that sense (especially considering the whole "demons invading Earth" thing is 100% their fault) it makes total sense to me that they'd have some kind of "life with demons" presentation for their employees on Earth. yeah that just makes the fascist overtones more blatant. its not hard to find some pepe guy saying basically the same thing about germany letting refugees in or whatever the gently caress like werent we just talking about how incredibly racist gamers are a few pages ago? and now everyone finds the idea of a fash game writer inserting some fash jokes into their game completely unbelievable?
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Sep 10, 2018 15:49
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Cowcaster posted:man you think that's bad, in the wolfenstein series the nazi's have taken over america how can one person be this loving dense christ
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Sep 10, 2018 15:52
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lol goons like doom so i guess everyone will gloss over some pretty lovely jokes, cool cool cool
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Sep 10, 2018 15:54
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Endorph posted:the joke sucks but it feels way more likely they're just ludicrously out of touch tonedeaf 47 year olds like most aaa video game writers. why the hell is doom trying to do political commentary anyway. it's doom. sure i could buy that. still extremely lovely and inappropriate in the current political climate
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Sep 10, 2018 15:58
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Cowcaster posted:the current political climate is why the joke is good, and well written, actually no shut the gently caress up and think about what your dumb rear end brain is saying for one second in your life
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Sep 10, 2018 16:00
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Endorph posted:it just reminds me of the aug lives matter poo poo from mankind divided in terms of an aaa company having literally zero idea what it's doing but knowing there's a Politics happening, somewhere black lives matter is way more mainstream that what is being referenced here tho, imo Cowcaster posted:you realize the uac are the bad guys, right yeah and they are using the same language a liberal would use to refer to immigrants. can you not see the loving correlation here??? is your brain too diseased???
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Sep 10, 2018 16:03
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Cowcaster posted:yes, that's what the bad guys do? they take the words that sound good to liberals and use them to couch xenophobic and genocidal ideologies in terms liberals like? yeah thats whats going on here. clearly doom is a complex critique of capitalism coopting revolutionary language. jesus loving christ
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Sep 10, 2018 16:07
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Oxxidation posted:extremely online leftists often get very mad about inconsequential things in video games and other media due to their overwhelming impotence in every aspect of life that matters sounds like every human being alive friend
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Sep 10, 2018 16:08
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al-azad posted:I work for the government and that's totally the language that's used. Every month there's some reflective email on diversity and how the federal government employs people and foreign nationals from all around the world including asylum seekers (granted the number of these emails took a sharp decline around February 2017). The irony of course being a lot of these foreign nations the government regularly recruits from (Vietnam, Korea, Pakistan) have a history of being crushed by Imperial powers. you said it yourself, they talked about diversity and inclusivity and what not. they dont refer to the workplace as a melting pot because thats a weird use of the phrase same thing with your second paragraph, a corp would say things like "demons? there are no such things as demons! just ignore the hellish visions and carry on!!" they wouldnt go say poo poo like welcome our demon friends
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Sep 10, 2018 16:15
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no i have not and i didnt know that. guess that makes the joke make a bit more sense but still super gross
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Sep 10, 2018 16:17
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Oxxidation posted:wow it's almost like getting all your opinions secondhand from fifth-rate twitterati makes you sound like a dumbass no ones talking about doom 2016 dumbass. other than missing out on that bit of context what does it matter? doesnt change my mind on how lovely those jokes are but keep railing agaisnt some invisible ghost i guess (i dont even like twitter)
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Sep 10, 2018 16:21
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Cowcaster posted:the reason the uac is espousing fascist bullshit is because the uac are fascists, hth im not a loving moron i have absorbed enough context to get the basic plot of doom 2016. we return to the same point: why are the fascist bad guys using liberal language? you say its a mockery of corps coopting liberal language, i say thats convoluted and dumb and so on as far as we want to keep this farce going DLC Inc posted:jesus christ lol i really dont see why its so relevant to the discussion of its sequel?
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Sep 10, 2018 16:24
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look i know im way over reacting here but this kinda stuff sickens me and i dont like it seeing anywhere near a AAA game. games that explicity appeal to chuds is something that could easily happen in the near future and i dunno i just see this kinda stuff as a harbinger of that ill stop know, sorry for making GBS threads up the thread with politics bullshit
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Sep 10, 2018 16:38
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Cowcaster posted:don't worry friend the call of duty series isn't going anywhere anytime soon sorry for being mad at you cowcaster i think ur cool but i strongly disagree with your interpretation here, should have left it at that instead of melting down
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Sep 10, 2018 16:40
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A. Beaverhausen posted:You're seeing chuds where there are none. What sickened you exactly and when was the last time you went outside im mexican so not a whole lot. doesnt mean theres plenty of reason for me to fear the rising tide of fascism in the us
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Sep 10, 2018 16:41
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Looper posted:always be talking about politics imo ehh theres a whole forum for talking about politics and its also everywhere outside the forums so having a space safe of that constant stress is good imo
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Sep 10, 2018 16:44
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Endorph posted:yeah this is the actual chud-pandering lol i dunno theres a significant chunk of change waiting in there. right now its not worth alienating half your playerbase and getting a bunch of bad press but if things continue to get more and more polarized? who knows
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Sep 10, 2018 16:49
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Endorph posted:youtube is a machine made to turn 12 year old boys into nazis and toddlers into... whatever the gently caress is the result of subjecting a young brain to all those videos where elsa from frozen gets spiderman pregnant
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Sep 10, 2018 17:08
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doomguy has very strong opinions about family court
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Sep 10, 2018 17:12
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chumbler posted:This is the only good thing on the internet. having a famous pet is its own kind of hell cant find the article that talked about it but some of these pets make loads of money, so you can imagine all the hosed up financial incentives going on there
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Sep 12, 2018 14:21
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Harrow posted:My college roommate used to play Kirby exclusively back in Melee and he was so drat good at eating people, then jumping off the stage, shooting them to the right, and floating back up. If you knew what you were doing it wasn't impossible to recover but most of us didn't so he would fuckin clean up with that poo poo the day me and my brothers discovered yoshi could turn people into eggs and throw em off the stage was magical
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Sep 14, 2018 16:45
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The 7th Guest posted:it seems like the switch 'drought' is pretty much over now, as they now have AAA support (EA with sportz, 2K with Civ, Ubisoft with Starlink), and AA devs like Cities Skylines, on top of the first party games I really wanna buy a switch but these international prices are... geez louise
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Sep 14, 2018 16:54
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Verranicus posted:So close to being done with Wildstar. I just want to finish the main story. Unfortunately the main story quests also seem to be the worst, longest quests they could come up with. One zone left to go and I can uninstall this mess. why would you do this to yourself
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Sep 16, 2018 19:09
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LawfulWaffle posted:Featuring a completely normal pronunciation of "orb" oh god that music, its insanely jarring
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Sep 17, 2018 17:19
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i dont think verranicus is a troll i think he geniuenly has weird and terrible opinions and just revels in it.
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Sep 21, 2018 16:27
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Endorph posted:the autistic girl in the walking dead season 2 is maybe the worst writing ive ever seen in any video game, ever. dad acting like autism is some impossible to explain malady handed down by elder gods, there being a way to 'save' her but then she dies three minutes later randomly for no reason, everyone acting like she's better off dead in the actual show a traumatized little girl is executed because shes too messed up to take care for so it sounds par for the vourse
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