Nick Fuentes says the left doesn't actually care about Jeffrey Epstein
โYou think the left really cares about Jeffrey Epstein? If the left cared so much about child rะฐัะต and pedophilia, why do they want muslims coming here? They make Epstein look like a lemonade stand!โ
"Great games" as in creation club shit for Skyrim which are just reskins of existing features that they sell for over 10 dollars or euros, lol. 10 dollars for less and lower quality content than what hobbyist modders release in their free time. Tamriel Rebuilt mogs nu-Bethesda.
Bethesda union members are protesting after being laid off and it's hilarious how out of touch they are
>"we make great games!"
>"we make games players love!"
>"we make games that define generations!"
They're even holding signs that say "PLAYERS DESERVE BETTER" and it's like, where was that energy the entire time that corrupt AAA has been taking advantage of gamers by putting out buggy, overpriced, modern audience slop?
They were radio silent, but now that they got laid off they're pretending to care about the players๐
For good or ill, basically the only cultures where treating your employees or servants with any respect and fairness is a thing is in a handful of "WEIRD" cultures.
On Singapore reddit you can read how notable it is that Western expats prefer to pay foreign domestic workers more than local Singaporean families do, sometimes up to 2x the going rate, and give them more time off as well. It's a very interesting aspect of our culture
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Oh? "Fat Retard" Now? Wow. Looks like I REALLY pissed you off Critical Drinker. You must really be SEETHING over there about all this Odyssey drama Will. "I WAS RIGHT JOE!" in your best drunk voice. Yes, you were "right" drinker, you poor thing. Truly a mid cop-out disappointing Disastrous Triumph! Letting that mask slip here.๐คฃ
Blizzard was a game developer that was so popular that they used to have their own annual ComicCon style convention where fans from all over the world would come to meet the developers of their favorite games and learn what new stuff was coming.
Then, an unhappy faction who didnโt like the โfrat houseโ atmosphere made a bunch of largely false allegations at the height of #MeToo. Lawyers were brought in to investigate, and they found email chains discussing the โCosby Suite,โ which was the hospitality suite at the convention hotel that Blizzard developers named for its carpets that looked like a Bill Cosby sweater.
These emails were from years before Cosbyโs sexual assault conviction, but they were considered damning at the time and it was insinuated in the media that the men on the email chain were committing rape in the โCosby Suite,โ entirely because of the name.
Everyone on the email chain โ men who had worked at Blizzard for decades and built the Warcraft, Diablo and StarCraft franchises โ were fired in disgrace over this.
Alex Afrasiabi had his name stripped out of World of Warcraft. An Overwatch character named after veteran Blizzard developer Jesse McCree was renamed in the game. These guys did absolutely nothing wrong except joke with their friends in emails they never expected to be exposed as part of a witch hunt.
In the wake of the mass firings of veterans game designers, the entire culture of Blizzard changed as an institution, and the games changed too โ for the worse. โWorld of Warcraftโ became a cozy fantasy coffee shop game. โOverwatchโ became a gay pride game. Nobody would go to a convention these days to celebrate these games or the people who now work on them.
The false sexual assault allegations were a pretense for a crowd of disgruntled nonbinary weirdos to seize the greatest game studio in the United States, but without the people they purged and replaced, they could not uphold Blizzardโs once legendary standard of quality and the studio collapsed into irrelevance.
When you see gamers celebrating mass layoffs at game studios, it is because things like this happened across the gaming industry. The hobby was conquered and transformed by people who believed gaming needed to change. But they changed it into something nobody wants to pay for, and now theyโre all losing their jobs.
Right. Because devs don't have any effect on product quality and are not allowed to exercise their creativity in any way. Like the only difference between the people who made Diablo 2 or Doom and the Halo remake's devs is *just* management and nothing else, lol.
idk why people celebrate layoffs like this when the people actually responsible for the shitty games you hate aren't going anywhere and all get bonuses
@ManletThorin Maybe the reason why video gaming in such a sorry state is because dev studios are jobs programs and firing anyone for any reason is apparently anathema. And then you have bloated development costs as a result and a product worsened by poor workflow and a lack of focus.
Strongly suspect that the breed of game dev that developed these games and also Diablo 1 & 2, Doom, etc. is mostly gone and replaced with uncreative, conformist, and worst of all, un-enthusiastic types with no pride in their craft whatsoever, except for as a medium for activism.
This shitty post-Gamergate era will never be able to produce another Planescape Torment, Vampire the Masquerare: Bloodlines, or Morrowind.
The post-Gamergate censorship culture suffocates the creativity that made these masterpieces possible in the first place.
@Creetosis22 These people want bethesda's customers to be happy with Bethesda being a perpetual jobs program for devs who are probably redundant anyway (hence their firing) that releases a game that isn't a remaster or another edition of Skyrim only once every 10 years. Fuck off lol.
@Creetosis22 The only reason bethesda is up and running in the first place is due to consumer demand, ie people buying their products, and as the people keeping their firm running, they are in fact within their rights to critique their products and have certain expectations.
This shitty post-Gamergate era will never be able to produce another Planescape Torment, Vampire the Masquerare: Bloodlines, or Morrowind.
The post-Gamergate censorship culture suffocates the creativity that made these masterpieces possible in the first place.
Gamer has been a euphemism for bigoted idiot for 20 years and the gamers who find that offensive response was to become even more right wingโฆ
But I promise being anti-union will not make video games feel how they did when you were 12 again.
Anita Sarkeesian did nothing wrong.
How is an anti-immigration person not going to bring up the most transformative ongoing event in the 21st century which is mass immigration to the West? It's the single most important topic and everything else is a red herring meant to distract people with pointless bullshit.
Literally 100% of anti-immigration people I personally know are unpleasant to be around.
Avoiding the topic doesn't work, because they keep bringing it up.
0% of the immigrants I personally know are unpleasant to be around.
Exception: Anti-immigration immigrants.
Everyone is also taught nowadays to look at typical dumb underclass behaviour through a sociological lense as an issue that can be fixed with education and welfare or a "social safety net". Ie every solution must involve a transfer of resources from avg. people to "those people".
Smart people look at dumb people getting enraged and think: โOh my gosh, they must be facing terrible injustice and repression!โ
Nah, they just lack impulse control and tend towards violence and bullying.
Have sympathy, but not empathy.
@Copeniga@cornu__copia I'm not lying. I stayed for 2 weeks. There were anti-racist slogans posted on storefronts, which I'm sure are still up, and swarthy people, especially South Asians, were not an uncommon sight.
โJust lies. Absolute bullshit,โ says Latvian blogger Maksometr, reflecting on his new life in Belarus.
Maksometr used to spread a lot of false information about life in Latvia - including that Latvia was mining the border to prevent Latvians from fleeing to Russia and Belarus.
His supporters from Russia and Belarus urged him to save himself and come live a better life with them.
He actually took up their offers and moved to Belarus in 2023.
Alas, as he now laments, life there turned out not to be so great.
Not only that, his donations appear to have declined significantly after he left Latvia, suggesting that much of his audience was only interested in him spreading anti-Latvian content from the inside.