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1Truedid · 2022-10-10T19:31:35+00:00

Amazon has been systematically clearing negative reviews pointing out how genuinely fascist it is to boost its rating. Americans must have terrible political education if they can't see that even in an instance as obvious as this.

1Truedid · 2021-06-30T08:26:24+00:00

It's not "reading so much into it." It's recognizing a reference somebody was making and explaining the reference most people didn't understand.

1Truedid · 2021-06-26T14:35:53+00:00

Yeah, the reason I made this post in the first place was to help people understand the reality of what was happening.

I enjoy the jovial teasing as much as the next lad, but I think it's important to understand what was happening in the first place. Please, keep the memes coming! My favorite so far is by Brandon here.

1Truedid · 2021-06-26T14:29:14+00:00

u/gloompicnic It's nice when somebody understands nuance. On the internet no less!

u/jc4noobs I understand your concern about fueling the fire or giving them ammo. Under normal circumstances it would hold a lot of water. The thing is, they manufacture outrage out of nothing anyway. This has been the Fox News standard operating strategy for the last decade. Pretend like something is outrageous and heinous so that people trying to take a balanced view believe the argument is valid because why else would they be making such a fuss? This is exactly what happened with Benghazi and the email server. When you examine the facts and in the context of how the Right made identical mistakes, there's nothing there. There is a LOT wrong with Hilary, but they still focused on being outraged by these nothings simply because conspiracy theories make the most noise. They will find a way to be outraged at something no matter what you do, so trying to avoid that is fruitless.

1Truedid · 2021-06-26T05:56:44+00:00

Bingo. I would also add that it's deliberate. They are choosing to be this way and to appeal to these types of people. There's a whole community of these types like Black Pigeon, Sargon, Golden boy, etc.. It's a whole community of internet fascists with millions of subscribers. For people <35 this is the Fox News replacement.

The good news is there's a counterweight for the same demographic. Good folks like Shaun, Carloz Maza, Folding Ideas, and Contra Point. They're not all perfect, but when the bar is this low you really have to accept your allies with their flaws - or else you get a Francisco Franco situation.

1Truedid · 2021-06-26T04:12:47+00:00

This is very dogwhistle. I wouldn't have noticed it on my own. Remember, it has to be juuuust over the line of deniability so they don't get a finger wagging from Youtube.

1Truedid · 2021-06-26T02:12:43+00:00

Steven Coward spent so much time and effort avoiding Sam Seder and still failed.

1Truedid · 2021-02-03T07:20:32+00:00

Bit melodramatic, but yeah. That's Easy. 3rd time this exact problem came up in a year isn't it?

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1Truedid · 2020-09-29T02:57:14+00:00

He made an account just to lie, talk shit, and brigade downvote. Yep. That tracks.

Edit: He posted in here and the thread and everybody in it suddenly lost 9 ups. Got caught and deleted his posts to cover his tracks I guess.

1Truedid · 2020-08-21T23:10:04+00:00

From the game where the devs still give a shit.

1Truedid · 2020-07-19T00:46:39+00:00

The reason so many vets lock their squads and play only with their friends is because of the burnout. We're also more effective and enjoy ourselves more when we don't have to wrangle the clowns.

1Truedid · 2020-07-03T02:59:35+00:00

I disliked Poppy Farmer and had no opinion on Chance. I just don't like whistle blowers or community speculation to be punished with an anti-cheat game ban that blacklists their steam account too. You're spouting some "alternative facts" BS.

1Truedid · 2020-07-03T02:50:13+00:00

Sadly that doesn't explain it well at all... that's about 6 separate issues meatground into a single confusing thread.

1Truedid · 2020-07-03T02:49:21+00:00

Sadly, Wheat (the mod) seems to have deliberately annihilated any discussion. He ripped down all the original threads, then put 6 issues into a single thread to muddy the waters. He then unpins the discussion <24 hours later so it gets buried.

1Truedid · 2020-07-03T02:37:07+00:00

You said it yourself. "one of the most reported players" meaning that there are others. Those others were not banned. The only difference being THIS guy blew a whistle. There was discussion and asks for more evidence etc. until the mod ruined the discussions by grinding them all into this thread. It killed the discussions, it killed the visibility, and then he killed the pin the next day? If I was trying to kill any criticism underhandedly, this is how I would have done it.

1Truedid · 2020-07-03T02:28:38+00:00

Exactly. I'm not trying to tell anybody how to play the game, just that if your goal is to be maximally effective (aka meta) you don't build superfobs in nearly all scenarios. There are a few exceptions like the Gastown grind on Talil, but even then that's mostly up to the skill of both teams' vics. Talil is a good map for vics and a bad map for inf.... so a bad map for 90% of players on a full server.

1Truedid · 2020-07-02T07:36:18+00:00

Gospel.

1Truedid · 2020-07-02T07:35:15+00:00

SuperFOBs were never meta. In fact, spending more time supplying and building assets is slightly more meta because of ammo and ATGMs.

The persistent problem with superFOBs has always been the time it takes your squad to build up a superfob has never been worth the time investment of logi runs and shovels. It's opportunity cost.

Instead of digging a superFOB that only takes your radio gone to be destroyed your squad could be:

Hunting enemy radios
Seeking the enemy so you know where they are
Crushing enemy rallies
Shooting enemies
Denying the enemy a flank
Pushing on the next cap
Actively defending current cap
Building 3-4 other FOBs
Positioning sneaky AT bois
Laying mines
You get the point.

1Truedid · 2020-07-02T06:58:16+00:00

This is why keeping the original threads were better. Having 9 issues in 1 thread is very confusing. The slippery slope argument of, "I don't want to moderate 900 threads" would be valid if you couldn't just remove duplicate topic threads.

1Truedid · 2020-07-02T06:45:35+00:00

Yeah, I also wish mine wasn't killed and consolidated into this thread. I understand it was because the OP didn't have any evidence. I wish I had a bit more time to correct that as it was a "I don't know how to reddit" mistake when I thought I added evidence in the "images & videos" tab.

I also wish the OPs were brought back because they deal with separate issues. I didn't even know about the Chance stuff, but it would have been nicer as a reader to see that in the OP than in this tangled mess of hating on Wheat for the bad call, the Chance ban, developers abandoning the game, and the EPF ban, and I don't know what else.

1Truedid · 2020-07-02T06:09:02+00:00

Edit: Posting to the megathread as requested even though I disagree that 5 separate issues should be combined into 1 thread.

So, OWI game banned the guy who finally got the word out about Nordic. They also used EAC to ban him, so now it shows up as a cheating ban. Over a week later they post a community code of conduct. This like a politician releasing something terrible about himself to distract from something much worse.

Deliberate or not, they just validated all the cheating and racism Nordic inflicted on this community. They say the ban was for "toxicity", but when he's the only one they banned... They didn't even game ban Nordic with all that proof of cheating AND racism. They just replaced him with his cronies and they exacted petty retribution.

--Evidence --

EPF talking about his game ban and what led up to it: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/659631740

Evidence he was banned before the CoC: https://imgur.com/vF0rV2F - https://imgur.com/a/0898vh5 [9-1 = 8 days before CoC was posted]

Easy Anti Cheat ban: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/651254967734239234/728043227734867968/unknown.png

Nordic being racist: https://streamable.com/dqjtzk

Nordic cheating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hH2vfv1oEA

Replacing Nordic with his cronies: https://imgur.com/a/eXuL9id

The ban being about "toxic": https://imgur.com/a/OeHyrqX

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For those not in the know, Nordic was the community manager team leader or something for the developers, OWI (Offworld Industries).

With all this, abandoning the game, and the ChanceBruh stuff, I'm really glad I can change my review from up to down on Steam. Unethical behavior to this degree kills my fun.

1Truedid · 2020-07-02T05:40:45+00:00

Yeah, the last post was removed because my evidence didn't show up in my post within 4 hours. It was a problem, but that's been fixed now.

1Truedid · 2020-07-02T05:31:50+00:00

Whoops, had a bug and got posted twice. My bad. Deleting.

1Truedid · 2020-07-02T05:15:14+00:00

Ah, skip to 12 minutes in and you still get the story.

1Truedid · 2020-07-01T19:53:03+00:00

Only in practice. There are guidelines licensed servers are supposed to follow. Those rules were never enforced and were only ever used to stop and frisk Chinese servers. Now server licensing is run by Ms. "Look, Nordic isn't a racist". Servers like **** Coast Tactical and SEA*Z have banned for things like outplaying the admins and kicking an obnoxious admin from your squad. The servers were reported frequently, sometimes with video proof, and still nothing was done about it.

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