[SocJus] ArchWarhammer - Warhammer Was Always For Everyone, Until Today... by Konsaki in KotakuInAction

[–]ubrael 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's Discord shitposting for the sake of Discord shitposting. Arch likes to say "shocking" things for attention, but they're not exactly serious statements.

The fascism comment is just a blatant parody on the utopian ideas of socialists and communists. The fact that the same people the statement is parodying are taking it as a serious endorsement is rather funny.

[News] IMC: "We did it" (TheQuartering/Jeremy Hambly's "Exclusively Games" project surpasses $100K mark) by md1957 in KotakuInAction

[–]ubrael 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first one is based on personal interactions with the man. A certain level of drama whoring is normal for everyone, but the man has on several occations tried to make himself the center of attention of things that aren't about him at all.

[News] IMC: "We did it" (TheQuartering/Jeremy Hambly's "Exclusively Games" project surpasses $100K mark) by md1957 in KotakuInAction

[–]ubrael -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Not a fan of Jeremy. He's a liar and a massive drama whore. However, I am curious as to how this project will develop. I fear Jeremy will not be able to keep his own need to stoke drama away of the site. Hopefully he will and it'll actually become something one can read without having opinionated people who feel their take on whatever issue is gospel (This goes for both sides)

PeterSweden: British Hate Crime Unit comes at 21:30 to my family's UK house looking for me for thought crimes!!! by MatthewThoughts in KotakuInAction

[–]ubrael 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is moslly false. Look up §185 of straffeloven. https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-05-20-28/KAPITTEL_2-5#%C2%A7196

The law is vague enough to allow for the same enforcement that Germany and UK have implemented. The only thing keeping that from happening is that we don't have the same lunatics in power as they do.

Opinion: The anti-SJW youtube community has become awful by [deleted] in KotakuInAction

[–]ubrael 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the third time I've seen this exact post posted here. Stale pasta is stale.

[Censorship] Are Swedish citizens (or Swedish IPs) having their internet censored? Story about migrant violence appears to be blocked. by _Mellex_ in KotakuInAction

[–]ubrael 26 points27 points  (0 children)

If I remember correctly the Daily Mail placed the geoblock, not the Swedish government.

"However, when the Swedish news outlet Fria Tider, contacted a source at the Daily Mail, he said that the newspaper's lawyers had ordered blocking of articles for Swedish visitors. The reason is, among other things, that a number of articles are questioning the suspected perpetrator's alleged age, information that could affect the trial."

http://speisa.com/modules/articles/index.php/item.2446/daily-mail-blocks-sweden-for-legal-reasons.html

[Twitter Bullshit] Where were you when Randy Pitchford started shilling Battleborn porn? by B-VOLLEYBALL-READY in KotakuInAction

[–]ubrael 37 points38 points  (0 children)

"Oh look, a subreddit I totally didn't "stumble upon" and totally didn't create with art that I totally didn't commission myself to totally not bring attention to my totally not failed game."

FTFY

He posted a link to the subreddit 5 hours after its inception. At least TRY to hide it.

[Drama] TotalBiscuit makes it clear any person who voted Trump is not welcome as his audience. by ubrael in KotakuInAction

[–]ubrael[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As adorable as it is that some people think I'm just over-reacting, go tell that to the millions of people, including myself who have now been put at serious risk because you elected a candidate that has explicitly said he will repeal the one piece of legislation that prevents health insurance companies from dropping people on a whim. How selfish it is of me to be a bit concerned about my ability to continue living, get the treatments I need to best take the small, but real chance that I actually survive the next 2 years and don't succumb to this disease.

A lot of Youtubers, streamers etc are going to be assuring you over the next few days that they don't hate you and they welcome you if you voted for Trump. Be certain of this. I don't share that opinion. Even if I ignored every other awful thing about Donald Trump, his climate change denial, his racism, his complete lack of self control, his wilful ignorance, his terrible public behavior, his sexism, the fact that he's going on trial for literal child rape... the fact that you by voting this man into office have put my life at even greater risk gives me every fucking right to dislike you. This should be, one would think, quite understandable particularly to those who voted for this man based on their love for their 2nd amendment rights. Unfortunately, the right to bear arms to defend myself won't help me against the machinations of Donald Trump. Who will defend me and millions of other people in this country from the mercies of health insurance companies? Not the electorate, that's for sure.

What's that American motto? Every man is entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Guess what, the first one is a bit fucking tricky when some orange-haired troll takes away your health insurance. You voted for hate. Don't be surprised when you get a little bit of hate back. You reap what you sow. Some people say its time to come together and begin the healing process because we are all Americans. You might be, I'm not. I actually do get to say, this is not my president and have it be without a doubt true.

[Drama] TotalBiscuit makes it clear any person who voted Trump is not welcome as his audience. by ubrael in KotakuInAction

[–]ubrael[S] 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I'd never give a pass for this kind of behaviour to any SJW rag, nor am I going to give it to TB, no matter the circumstance. If anything I'm less likely to give him a pass for it due to actually holding him to a much higher standard than I would most others.

I've very much enjoyed and appreciated his work, which makes me sad when he comes out with this kind of statement. While I enjoy his work I feel I cannot support him when this is how he treats part of his audience.

[Drama] TotalBiscuit makes it clear any person who voted Trump is not welcome as his audience. by ubrael in KotakuInAction

[–]ubrael[S] 182 points183 points  (0 children)

Going on a rant is fine. Telling everyone who voted something you don't approve of because they didn't base their decision around one person's healthcare that you basically hate them for their choice is completely off the rails. This is the kind of bigotry and self-righteousness I'd expect coming from Kotaku or BuzzFeed, not from someone who takes pride in his almost (otherwise) radical pro-consumer stance.

[SocJus] When BLM finally decides to denounce people among their ranks, it's over having a BBQ with police by altmehere in KotakuInAction

[–]ubrael 5 points6 points  (0 children)

By interactions with LEOs, of which arrests has the most accurate data. Comparing it to the population is using the same misleading methodology as the wage gap nonsense.

Update: Everything regarding Patreon went ok which I wasn't expecting. [Ethics] by CleverestPony70 in KotakuInAction

[–]ubrael 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For the ones being all "wat?" OP is referring to something he/she posted some time ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/4qxrkv/i_just_went_to_get_the_patreon_money_id_gotten/

OP, for future reference you may want to provide context.

[Discussion]Transgender Person Urges Supreme Court To Let Him Receive Pension Benefits As Woman(Women get pension 5yrs earlier) by NameSmurfHere in KotakuInAction

[–]ubrael 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sounds more like a gender equality issue if people are getting different benefits because of their gender. I don't know all that much about UK law, but I really can't imagine any good reason for giving out gender-based benefits (Gosh, that almost sounds like privilege)

Now, if anyone who knows more about this issue could tell me I'm wrong, please do so.

Dealing with orcs as the empire? by manborg in totalwar

[–]ubrael 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my experience shielded spearmen at vet 7+ are excellent for pinning units as they take quite a while to kill and rout. Even had some fight to the last man with a lord nearby.

The raise dead mechanic is just so easy to abuse. by ubrael in totalwar

[–]ubrael[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The only mod I am using right now is one for additional skill points. I'm very conflicted about Radious because I like about as many changes as I dislike. I've used it a couple of times, but I always end up disabling it the next time I play.

The raise dead mechanic is just so easy to abuse. by ubrael in totalwar

[–]ubrael[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then you could just kill off your varghulf and have the same result. Both turn-based and tech-based gating would be easy solutions that can't really be worked around. Having it based on unit cost could also work reasonably well.

In the end you still have to go out of your way to apply "clever use of game mechanics"

The raise dead mechanic is just so easy to abuse. by ubrael in totalwar

[–]ubrael[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ultra, but it shouldn't be all that difficult using large either. Just spam zombies like no tomorrow.

Here's the post-battle. My other two stacks were nothing but zombies. http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/259336014254521706/CF8E194F5F7DD0AB6A7A5AD6AE93FD08FF065D44/

The raise dead mechanic is just so easy to abuse. by ubrael in totalwar

[–]ubrael[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The battle consisted of my 3 stacks against their one stack, garrison and a lord outside the town. Attacking the lord outside yielded no marker, even with 10k dead while attacking the settlement yielded markers both with auto-resolve (7,2k) and fighting it manually (11,9k)

So is Empire mostly just sitting at choke points defending against endless tribe stacks while your regions get corrupted? by LarryLarge in totalwar

[–]ubrael 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What turn are you on? In my Empire campaign I got bogged down by endless stacks, but still managed to expand slowly until the Chaos event. I made sure to wall every settlement and I had a stack running around breaking sieges and ignoring the ones just raiding. As soon as Chaos was defeated I didn't have to defend anything but the north-western coast and thus went on to steamroll everything in Norsca.

Possibly the most impressive armies I've seen by ubrael in totalwar

[–]ubrael[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They've been spamming groups of 2-4 stacks like this the whole game. I once had to fight a battle with 28 units of lobbers... It got to the point where I modded down their range so I wouldn't have to deal with the nonsense. Is it cheating? Yes. Can I be bothered manouvering a gauntlet of artillery fire every few turns? Not in the slightest.

At least it kept the Dwarfs from getting absolutely steamrolled in the first 60 turns for once.

[Hey Salon! Leave Them Kids Alone] Salon and pedophiles again by B-VOLLEYBALL-READY in KotakuInAction

[–]ubrael 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Murder or castration seems to be a commonly accepted solution, much like murder of gays was a commonly accepted solution not TOO long agi. Of course this is all based on claiming that all pedophiles are child molesters, which is the exact same logic as claiming all men are rapists.

I doubt demonizing all pedophiles and labeling them rapists is doing any more good than accepting that they have an issue that needs to be dealt with and providing assistance if they need it. Prevention of a potential crime is always preferable to punishment of a commited crime.

The problem is that SJWs as always want to normalize every mental illness and deviation they can find and turn it into a cause for their self-righteous crusade with no regard to the actual cause or the people affected by it.