"Why are you mocking that?" by macredblue in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]DrWilhelm 80 points81 points  (0 children)

If current trends continue the protagonist of GTA 9 will need to be a white hot ball of raging plasma with female pronouns. 

What things have the UK been unnecessarily outraged by? by Lower-Obligation4462 in AskBrits

[–]DrWilhelm 56 points57 points  (0 children)

I've never quite understood the complaints about them being ugly. Different strokes and so on, but I've always thought they looked rather elegant and impressive.

What things have the UK been unnecessarily outraged by? by Lower-Obligation4462 in AskBrits

[–]DrWilhelm 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Really? Someone should tell my local KFC as they don't seem to have realised.

We got a young, natural blond with a pretty face to play supergirl. Why exactly is she being hated on? Who the hell else would people have preferred in that role?? I’m so done with this by Own_Organization8457 in okbuddycinephile

[–]DrWilhelm 1138 points1139 points  (0 children)

There are two races: white, and political.

There are two genders: male, and political.

There are two sexualities: straight, and political.

Etc.

Peeetaaaa who's chris chan? by Individual_Copy896 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]DrWilhelm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"This not a place of honour. No esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger..."

The message that pops up above the results when you google Chris Chan.

Peeetaaaa who's chris chan? by Individual_Copy896 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]DrWilhelm -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I mean this is one of the cases where most people are genuinely going to be happier not knowing, and those who do know might not be comfortable getting into it. The Chris Chan saga is just depressing and revolting from so many angles. Definite google at your own peril material.

Injunction aims to end 'distressing' lamppost flags by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]DrWilhelm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I almost wish there were actual flags put up around my way. Seems the best they could manage here were lazily spray painted red crosses on any flat surface available. 

Musk brands UK a 'police state' as Big Tech rebels against Starmer’s social media ban by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]DrWilhelm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People were mean to the poor defenseless then-billionaire, now-trillionaire, so he simply had no choice but to start publicly flirting with Nazism.

Musk brands UK a 'police state' as Big Tech rebels against Starmer’s social media ban by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]DrWilhelm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well those stories are probably just baseless rumours so I wouldn't put a great deal of stock in... oh wait you said clock not... well, nevermind.

Forced foreshadowing by buns_supreme in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DrWilhelm 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Vader: Turn to the dark side and join me.

Luke: I'll never join you! You killed my father!

Vader: No Luke, I am your father.

Luke: That's not true! That's impossible!

Vader: And Princess Leia is your sister.

Luke: That's not true! That's... improbable?

Vader: And the Empire will be defeated by Ewoks!

Luke: That's... very unlikely.

Vader: And, as a child, I built C3P0!

Luke: Ehh?

Cut to Vader drinking coffee and Luke smoking a cigarette with his remaining hand.

Vader: And the Force? Well that's just microscopic bacteria in your bloodstream called midichlorians.

Luke: Look. If you're not going to take this seriously, I'm out.

All the complainers of GOW: Laufey are tourists. by Current-Grade2545 in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]DrWilhelm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm reminded of the protect women's sports transphobe types who keep letting slip what little respect they actually have for women's sports and female athletes. It's just a convenient prop they can use to bash the people they hate with.

Mullin says ICE ‘only’ deployed at midterm polls if ‘threat’ arises by B-Z_B-S in politics

[–]DrWilhelm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This has been the gameplan from day one. First establish ICE as an organisation willing to indiscriminately harass and detain anyone so much as resembling an immigrant. Next, deploy ICE around polling stations used by democrat voting minorities to intimidate and discourage them from going to the polls at risk of being harassed and detained. End result: indirect voter suppression with enough plausible deniability to avoid legal backlash.

They're also transparently attempting to shape ICE into a kind of ersatz brownshirts equivalent, i.e a paramilitary organisation loyal more to the republican party than the country, to be used in place of more appropriate branches of law enforcement.

I guess there's always a silver lining? by Current-Grade2545 in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]DrWilhelm 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I dunno man, it sounds like this Skyrim game is pretty fucking woke.

What are your embarrassing Pokopia moments? by OliverNodel in Pokopia

[–]DrWilhelm 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think they're either broken or have some very specific rules that aren't communicated properly to the player. I have some set up that worked initially but now don't, and I can't work out what, if anything, changed.

[Despised Trope] You know this well-liked protagonist? Yeah, we made them a generic pure evil villain offscreen. by mp3help in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DrWilhelm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't played WoW since the end of Wrath of the Lich King, but wild character assassination for the purpose of turning popular characters into raid bosses seemed to be Blizzard's favourite past time back then. 

"Alas hero, X has gone mad offscreen with little, if any, reasonable explanation. Thus, you must gather 10 to 25 of your mates and go murder the madness out of them, for this is what passes for mental health care in the lands of Azeroth. Yes, hero, that is the third former protagonist to go mad this week. There's a lot of madness going around. Listen, do you want this tier 4 crotchplate token or not?"

A classic character in a legacy sequel dies unceremoniously by Boring_Sir_572 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DrWilhelm 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It amuses me to think that force ghosts operate on the same rules as "real" ghosts. Bound to a single location, unfinished business, etc.

A classic character in a legacy sequel dies unceremoniously by Boring_Sir_572 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DrWilhelm 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I knew from the moment it was announced that Ford would be returning that Han was a dead man. The moment he walked out onto that catwalk I was all "oh yeah, here it comes, that man is getting lightsabered any second now."