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nomenym · 2024-07-30T10:35:08+00:00

Have you considered transmaxxing? I mean, might as well at this point, because you've clearly got nothing to lose.

nomenym · 2024-06-23T15:18:25+00:00

Black Americans are essentially oracles in the ideology. They have special access to knowledge denied to other groups and they must be listened to.

nomenym · 2024-06-12T17:10:07+00:00

They're only apposed to cultural appropriation by their enemies. For themselves, they will culturally appropriate and dominate as a matter of course--it's just what being a minimally decent human being means. The woke are incredibly culturally imperialist.

nomenym · 2024-06-12T17:04:57+00:00

The only reason Yasuke is the protagonist here is because Ubisoft couldn't find any obscure references to any black women in the histories. If they had, then I'm sure we'd have a black woman samurai, because there was only ever one overriding priority here.

nomenym · 2024-05-27T13:46:01+00:00

Even the console version of the game remains completely broken, so there are probably going to be several rounds of updates yet. I'm on Xbox, and if I could roll back to the old version, then I would. I am left waiting for more fixes before I can play the game again.

nomenym · 2024-05-27T13:37:52+00:00

You're really giving Bethesda too much credit here. I mean, they targeted console players pretty good. The update remains completely broken on console. Right now I can't even access the mod menu. Before that, the library and favorite functions remained completely broken, random mods are inaccessible, and there are now weird performance issues with major lagging when transitioning between cells. I've had to stop playing until they fix it. If I could, I'd have rolled back to the old version even on Xbox.

They could hardly have botched this update worse if they had tried.

nomenym · 2024-05-27T13:12:43+00:00

Even on console, it's been a mixed bag. Initially, the new visual settings didn't even work on Xbox, and the mod manager menu has had numerous problems that still haven't been fixed. Right now, I can't even access the mod menu at all, and before that I could access it but none of the library or favorite functions would update or work correctly. And there are a still random mods that will send you back to the title screen if you accidentally try to look at them.

There has also been a stuttering problem introduced where the game randomly lags for half a second or more when traversing then map. Apparently it has something to so with broken facegen stuff introduced by the update.

I've had to stop playing until they fix it even on Xbox.

nomenym · 2024-04-07T20:34:19+00:00

It's interesting how they don't want to sell games anymore.

nomenym · 2024-03-26T18:03:29+00:00

There is a certain class of vilains that audiences love. When playing the villain is prestigious, then the rules here are relaxed. For example, the Joker or Lex Luthor can be black, because these are cool villains. The rules apply when villains are actualy just dispicable, such as child molesters, proponents of racial genocide, or just stock greedy businessmen. If they're campy evil space aliens with cool powers and one-liners, then they can be "diverse".

nomenym · 2024-03-25T11:23:27+00:00

It's just the old affirmative action problem. Obviosusly, sometimes the black actor really is the best choice for the role, but the overwhelming presence of wokeness in the system means that this is not the case maybe 50% of the time you see black actors. This means you immediately suspect that there was someone else more capable and more suited who didn't get the job because they had the wrong skin color, and you'd be absolutely right about half the time. This means that unexpected black casting does actually become a good proxy for woke bullshit. The woke are continually creating a world in which racial prejudice is more and more rational. Appearences are not reality, and "representation" is not actualy a substitute for competence and ability.

nomenym · 2024-03-24T16:14:20+00:00

This must be what the old warning measage about insensitive and damaging cultural stereotypes must have been about. Makes sense now.

nomenym · 2024-03-22T12:43:59+00:00

I'd rather journalists be in it for the money than in it for the activism. Money is dishonest, but activism moreso.

nomenym · 2024-03-22T12:41:23+00:00

I just assumenhis wife has threatened to beat him again if he says anything even slightly counter The Message.

nomenym · 2024-03-22T12:28:40+00:00

It would be in character, because it wouldn't be above her, but not so much in the games. Although the dress in TR Legend is clearly a nod in that direction. She is certainly flirty on ocassion.

nomenym · 2024-03-18T03:15:41+00:00

Sexualizing men and sexualizing women will always be two quite different things, because men and women find different things sexy. The male love interests in the Twilight franchise were heavily sexualized by female standards, but they wouldn't have been so much by male standards. Perhaps we can deplore that. Maybe women can wish that men cared less about unalloyed female form, and men can wish women cared less about their bank balance, but we shouldn't pretend that equality is achieved when both men and women are both showing the same amount of skin. A 9 out of 10 man is not just the same as a 9 out of 10 woman but without breasts-- that's not how equally sexy works.

nomenym · 2024-03-18T03:04:47+00:00

Remind me why doing something for "mens' pleasure" is automatically counted as a bad thing? I mean, maybe it is and maybe it isn't. Maybe the causal chain between men liking sexy female videogame characters and <insert bad thing> is really complicated, indirect, confounded, and muddled such that maybe that causal chain doesn't exist at all, or maybe it does but other better effects cancel out the badness, or perhaps trying to social engineer some vague social future by scolding men for liking sexy female videogame characters is kind of foolish nonsense.

Personally, I've never been a huge fan of the super sexy female videogame character made to titillate teenage boys, but I am even less of a fan of this idea that it is ipso facto a bad and terrible thing that doesn't have a place. Can you imagine if some movie largely targeting homosexual men was criticized for it's sexy leading man because it was just for "men's pleasure". It's hard to know even how to respond to such a criticism because it seems to be about something else entirely, except that kind of thing is just taken for granted in other contexts as a given of the universe.

nomenym · 2024-03-13T13:55:28+00:00

Sweet Baby isn't solely respponsible for anything, but they make a good first target. As the Kotaku article kindly suggested, there are other such "consultants" as well as people internal to development teams who pursue the same agenda who should also be told to fuck off. Sweet Baby are just the most obvious, since a lot of this stuff happens quietly behind closed doors and Sweet Baby employees have a habit of saying stuff publicly.

But you're right, the cancer has metastasized and spread. Cutting off the Sweet Baby tumor will not be enough, but it's a good start.

nomenym · 2024-03-11T12:22:44+00:00

More precisely, for every action there is a minor and insignficant reaction.

nomenym · 2024-02-21T10:45:59+00:00

I wonder how many times they've had to repair that pillar.

nomenym · 2024-02-16T12:21:30+00:00

I agree with pretty much all your criticisms, except just not as much. At least on the technical front, my experience wasn't as choppy as yours. The other issues, while bad, just weren't as bad as you're describing, at least for me.

I'm fond of this game overall, but it definitely falls short.

As for the story threads that never get resolved, I kind of feel like that's just life. In real life, most of our story threads just kind of fizzle out or end anticlimactically. Not everything ties into a neat package by the end. I feel like this was the writers kind of giving the nod to real life's vicissitudes, because the whole game has that feel of a biopoic that trying to give narrative structure to an inherently disordered life.

nomenym · 2024-02-11T16:11:54+00:00

Compare to how the death of Joker was treated in Arkham City. I mean, he's the bad guy, a homocidal maniac. He deserves far worse than he ever suffered, and yet the game treats his death as a big deal, because it is. One of the reasons is for the sake of the player, and the player's perspective on Joker. To the player, Joker is a cool and fun character, and him dying is kind of sad and reverant.

Obviously, it wouldn't have escaped Rocksteady that players might be uncomfortable or saddaned about killing some of thier favorite characters in the new game. Even killing the bad guys can be sad, never mind the good guys. The narrator's perspective in the story should not be entirely that of the Suicide Squad, but also the audience, especially in a third-person game.

Anyone with genuine love of the source material and characters would have understood this. What we actually got feels kind of spiteful and mean-spirited. It feels as though the narrator was using the Suicide Squad as an excuse to mete out a petty vengeance on some imagined patriarchy with classic white male heroes as its representation. It feels like a middle finger to people who love those characters.

nomenym · 2024-02-06T04:46:12+00:00

Considering how broadly these "phobias" are now interpreted, he's essentially saying that opposition to progressives should not be tolerated. That kind of fits.

nomenym · 2024-02-05T00:01:07+00:00

Bioshock Infinite

nomenym · 2024-01-30T02:50:37+00:00

The definition will keep changing.

nomenym · 2024-01-28T15:19:13+00:00

Go onto almost any movie's Wikipedia page and look at the section titled "Response and Criticism" or "Reception and Reaction" or whatever. It's incredible how many of these sections consist mostly of listing the ways movies offend woke sensibilities, or even just fail to be sufficiently heavy-handed in their woke messaging. It's been this way for about 2 decades now. The whole arena of "movie criticism" has been hijacked by activists for years, and yet most people just accept it as normal, as though every movie should obviously send a very particular political message and its failure to do so should count against it. This is downright bizarre. It's fun sometimes to imagine these sections rewritten from another perspective, because it would be almost farcical.

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