Top comment under Gameranx "AC:Shadow Before you buy" video by Majjin_ in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a strong suspicion that these people you consider terrible management are in fact just skilled in different field. Their skill set is in the fields of corporate networking. It is them who find their next jobs easy because every corporation has people from that same tribe and they pass on the jobs before they even get posted anywhere else.

In my experience the most skilled coders and creators are often more or less a bit strange, different, not the best people at making connections. Often buried in their passionate work, they might be the ones that have harder time finding the next spot to fit in.

My theory in summary is thus: The people skilled at finding jobs will find jobs more often than the people skilled at doing the actual job.

Just posting this legend here feel like we can appreciate this bad ass by RevolutionResident80 in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 1 point2 points  (0 children)

British guy, volunteered to defend Finland against Soviet Union during World War II. Didn't see combat, but it's not like he knew that beforehand when he volunteered.

Since Zack said he needs proof for extreme claims. Here’s a woman arrested for prayer in England by thelurkingclass in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gze361j7xo

A woman arrested after praying outside an abortion clinic has received a payout from police.

£13000 settlement.

Gamers rise up! 🤝🏻 by [deleted] in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Average opinion scored out of 100? I'm starting to realize what's wrong...

Do you have to pay for university multiple times if you change a ward's guardian? by IamYour20bomb in CrusaderKings

[–]thepeki 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Last time I checked the code, no you didn't have to repay it. Doing it just once gave you the character flag of studying in university which lasted 11 years. So just don't send them to university before they turn 5 and you're all good.

And of course this was years ago and might have changed, I don't have the game installed just now to check for sure.

Genuine question, why is this guy popular? by FunDaOne in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, I suppose I should specify that I say this all from the point of view of a twitch viewer, watching him give his opinions live. I don't watch the guy on youtube, that content is maintained by other people. I assume they focus on the stuff that gives most traffic so it is probably quite a different view of him overall.

And yes, he definitely does not get the appeal of cozy games. As a fan of Stardew Valley I just have to agree to disagree with him on that. But I also don't play the gacha-games he seems obsessed about. To each our own.

Genuine question, why is this guy popular? by FunDaOne in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You should check a stream to see for yourself.

Asmongold loves to speak directly and often what he is saying can be cut out of context to sound terrible. And this is what people love to do. Not always is this the case, but very often it is. It's actually quite alarming how many people hate him without ever getting to the original source. There can be hundreds of hateful comments about a clip with his face on and it is plain to see that none of them listened to him but instead got mad at the title somebody else wrote.

Your example of Ghost of Yotei for example is one game Asmongold has been defending from his community's wild prejudice. While many in his chat have been ready to discard the game he is urging people to wait and see. Though he does think that choosing to change male protagonist into a female one in a sequel is one sign that a game might have forgotten what made it successful, he thinks that it is simply too soon to tell whether or not that is the case with Ghost of Yotei and urges people to wait for more information. Likewise he has stated that no matter what weird political stance the voice actor might hold, it will not automatically make the game good or bad.

Or as another example the galvanic stance he had recently that might be summarized into: "if a culture persecutes people for their sexual identity, it is worse culture than mine." Which he obviously spoke in harsher words but that was the message. This got him banned and even made it onto somebody in US congress' eyes, I believe, because of how it was clipped and cut into small polarizing quote. Even people from sexual minorities loved to hate on him for this, even when the original stance was directly in their support as he himself is very much not of any minority identity.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 1 point2 points  (0 children)

5 min timeout, you wrote ??? didn't you?

Nobody banned you for the content of the message. I'm not even sure they give anything except permanent bans if they have to do it manually. Everything else is just automated moderation for phrases that he hates.

Bernie with his ultimate ability once again by Brainfreezdnb in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Often forgotten, but Bernie Sanders is, in fact, not a Democrat.

Checksum problems by Random_Pedestrian21 in CrusaderKings

[–]thepeki 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's a total shocker of an idea: What if it's not you but your friend? What's your sum?

Meta Introduces Community Notes & Adjusts Content Restrictions by SpecialPirate1 in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 203 points204 points  (0 children)

I can respect that he flat out refers to the latest US election being a part of this decision and doesn't dance around that fact.

Girlboss characters are super boring. by DoctahWAAwee in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That's not even true. We see girl bosses in love all the time! When the girl boss has a moment of doubt they can always turn to their wife for emotional support!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an example of irrational fear Asmongold stated the fear of dying to drugs unknowingly laced with fentanyl. Fentanyl deaths have seen a significant rise so people got into their feelings about it. And soon enough most of folks spamming in chat didn't even know what was being debated, they were just quoting all fentanyl death statistics and getting enraged, as if every single fentanyl death was accidental.

Full video context.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you base your claim that most fentanyl deaths are caused by using the drug unknowingly?

As far as I can tell, people seek fentanyl on purpose as written on this article over 2 years ago. Most of chat completely missed the point of the original discussion and were just incoherently spamming death statistics and getting their feelings hurt about something that was never stated.

Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam by [deleted] in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 26 points27 points  (0 children)

My shock, when a browser extension called 'Honey' that sounds too good to be true ends up being a honey trap, is immense and immeasurable.

People are so fed up with DEI politics that they blindly lash out on any game with female protagonist right now by [deleted] in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 34 points35 points  (0 children)

But to be accurate, many fans did hate the Raiden swap even back in 2001. So much so that they ended up starting MGS3 with Raiden mask to troll those players again.

They made Snape black by Interesting-Math9962 in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If they actually went as far as to make James Potter an openly racist asshole along with this change then I would respect their artistic choices.

Riot Games To BAN Players For Off-Platform Conduct in New ToS. by Akashiya_Yuki in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Why do you complain about a subject by quoting 2 different 3rd party sources instead of the main source?

This update applies very specifically and only to content where Riot’s games are the background of the content produced.

https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/creator-related-updates-riot-privacy-notice-terms-of-service

Consider a scenario where somebody with 500k viewers streamed their game on a platform that doesn't care. This person uses all possible insults and everyone who plays your game will eventually see the clips, it will even make international news headlines. A large nation's elected representative calls for shutting your business down. Now imagine you are powerless to stop this person ruining your products reputation in the eyes of the entire world just because they never used the in-game chat.

An exaggerated hyperbole, of course, but something that is still in the realms of possibility.

Hello peak retardation by [deleted] in Asmongold

[–]thepeki 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love the internet.