Stephen A. Smith publicly APOLOGIZES to Kyrie Irving after calling him "selfish" for refusing the COVID jab.
"Hindsight-wise, it didn’t make him stubborn or selfish. It made him BRAVE."
"I watched Dr. Fauci on Capitol Hill yesterday, and the person I thought about most was Kyrie Irving."
“Kyrie Irving stood out in my mind because of the heat that he was taking... He refused the vaccine. New York City's mandate made him ineligible for home games, and he linked his stance to people losing jobs over vaccine mandates."
“In my opinion, particularly hindsight-wise, it didn't make him stubborn or selfish. It made him brave. His willingness to stand up and say, ‘Nah, I'm not doing that.’
“It's just a time for reflection — to look at things differently.”
Kyrie gave up $11,400,000 in game checks during the 21-22 NBA season and a $100,000,000 extension with the Nets to be unvaccinated.
That cements his holdout as the largest financial sacrifice any athlete has ever made over an issue in history.
I genuinely can't wrap my head around the people trying to clown on everyone taking part in the boycott.
You know what's actually pathetic?
Mocking people for trying to fight back against anti-consumer bullshit while you bend over backwards to defend a multi-billion-dollar corporation that wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.
Having women in the game is fine (e.g. Kat in Reach was well written). I've written women into my own games. The issue is artificial writing and lack of awareness.
It's clear that the devs needed to force more diversity into the story, so they made the new main character a girl, as if everything MUST be 50/50, evenly distributed against all logic.
Then they use the excuse of "lore" to make a poorly written character that immediately berates the player, even though it's contextually ridiculous.
The end result is a cliche girl boss telling the player how terrible they are, in a game where your (primarily) male audience is already very skeptical of forced social politics. But the devs/leads never stopped and said "Hmm, maybe the end result here is not achieving our goals of winning back our primary demographic."
It's tone deaf on top of being poorly executed. And this hurts branding, it hurts sales, and will destroy a studio's reputation (whatever's left of it anyway)
Went to #Gamestop to preorder a PHYSICAL copy of #HaloCampaignEvolved and the was told the stores are only allocated for 10 preorders PER STORE. #Playstation is setting a number limit of physical copies released… They'll do anything to skew the physical sales numbers…
🚨 BREAKING:
Colombian President Gustavo Petro to Trump:
"Instead of arresting the President of Venezuela over oil, you should have arrested Netanyahu, the genocide leader wanted by the International Criminal Court."
So Halo Campaign Evolved shows all the signs of rot we've been fighting against. It's been in development for awhile, so it would fit:
- Cringe dialog
- Girl Bossing
- AAA Ugly stick on Cortana
The studio that did this has to lose the IP. Let @asha_shar know.
Don't let this sit. Get loud. She seems to listen.
Americans protesting against the merging of the US military with a tiny putrid fake state.
Had to go on tiktok to see this.
Not on ANY mainstream media.
#Israel#trump
Trump pimping the bill that merges US-Israel military and intelligence under the cover of election integrity.
Trump works for Israel. He is transferring control of the United States to Israel.
Trump is a traitor.
Trump tells communities to stop resisting data centers, because we can’t stop it. He suggests we just go with it because it’s going to happen.
I say resist these data centers with all our might. Pass amendments to the state constitution that no business can exist if it threatens community resources like water.