Add to this the numerous departments and prosecutor offices that quietly changed their policies and training to functionally make actual policing impossible. Most officers genuinely want to keep their community safe, but their department’s ability to fulfill its purpose was destroyed by politicians, political appointees, and activists, and it was done behind closed doors with bureaucratic policies so that the average person had no say or oversight, and so that the people that destroyed them can play dumb and hide from the responsibility of their actions.
Oh boy I CANNOT WAIT to play a game that’s going to force me do bad things and then tell me I’m a bad person and I should feel guilty for playing a video game I purchased.
An Ex-Call of Duty dev is making a psychological horror FPS that mocks shooter games
In it players will "confront the real-world history the game doesn’t want you to know"
This guy pulled off one of the most dangerous maneuvers with essentially zero flight experience, and then chose to crash the plane and kill himself because he thought he had no future.
@justalexoki Might be for the best, going viral is straight up like opioids. My hypothesis is it’s why so many content creators crash out so hard when their numbers drop. It’s basically withdrawal symptoms.
@_Hero_Hei_ >we don’t need our consumers
>antagonize consumers
>purposely make products that don’t give consumers what they want
>consumers stop buying the product
>companies lay off staff due to low sales
Who could have foreseen that actions have consequences?
I genuinely don’t know how the gaming industry operates like this. In almost any other industry openly hating and antagonizing the consumers that purchase your product usually gets you fired. In the gaming industry it seems to be openly accepted if not encouraged.
A few years ago I was in Munich for Oktoberfest and when I passed the beer tents all of them were playing music from the 70s, mostly American.
The next day I went to Cannstatter Volksfest in Stuttgart, same thing.
I was getting dinner at one of the beer tents and the band started playing YMCA and I saw young Germans (looked like mostly teenagers) up by the stage, having a good time, dancing to it.
Completely confused, I waved to my Austrian server and asked him,
“Hey, is this what younger Germans listen to? This what my Dad listens to back in America.”
He turned to look at the crowd by the stage, then back at me. He leaned over and quietly said,
“Now you see why they lost the war.”
you know people like to say Americans have no culture but my German neighbors are throwing a party tonight and i can hear their music from my living room and almost every song on their playlist is American. you are all fish that don’t realize you’re swimming in water.
15yo, back from a 3-week academic program: “I was one of the only athletes, so all the girls used me as a bodyguard to walk them home at night.”
Me: “Did it occur to you that might not be the only reason they asked?”
Him: “Why else would they ask?”
Youth. Wasted on the young.