Kulturkampf

[Uncle]

was sunglasses guy reading her tweet as "also NO ONE ELSE has any reason to use chatgpt either" and thought "well since she phrased her general indictment as a personal statement, I'll mirror her phrasing and also share a personal anecdote, and trust that she and other readers will be able to intuit that I'm arguing against her implied point, and counterarguing that chatgpt is broadly useful to many people"

or were they both just pissing

[benji]

I think there's a whole genre of people who read "...and therefore it/they shouldn't exist" into whenever someone says they don't like something/someone. I assume it's projection.

[Uncle]

...implying that such people who think that way should be drug out into the street and shot??

reported for violence

[benji]

Possibly they're also doing the catastrophizing thing we were talking about in the other forums thread, that people will read it and it will cascade into everyone agreeing and so the thing they like will go away. And then slavery comes back.

[Uncle]

I almost said catastrophizing but then you mentioned it was in like a psychological/medical context and I thought well no that's not quite it then, and then that chudder guy showed up and said it anyway and everyone was like oh yes what a cromulent word, thank you for your well-considered contribution

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

was sunglasses guy reading her tweet as "also NO ONE ELSE has any reason to use chatgpt either" and thought "well since she phrased her general indictment as a personal statement, I'll mirror her phrasing and also share a personal anecdote, and trust that she and other readers will be able to intuit that I'm arguing against her implied point, and counterarguing that chatgpt is broadly useful to many people"

or were they both just pissing

[D3RANG3D]

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[HaughtyFrank]

Now I'm not an expert but didn't British folk music probably originate from white people in the UK? How does using "decolonize" make any sense in that context?

[Nintex]

It's obvious that the yts stole music from some other race. 

The earliest fragment of musical notation is found on a 4,000-year-old Sumerian clay tablet, which includes instructions and tunings for a hymn honoring the ruler Lipit-Ishtar.

Hurrian Hymn No. 6
But for the title of oldest extant song, most historians point to “Hurrian Hymn No. 6,” an ode to the goddess Nikkal that was composed in cuneiform by the ancient Hurrians sometime around the 14th century B.C.

The clay tablets containing the tune were excavated in the 1950s from the ruins of the city of Ugarit in Syria. Along with a near-complete set of musical notations, they also include specific instructions for how to play the song on a type of nine-stringed lyre.

there you have it. yts should stop gatekeeping music and sit down and listen to more diverse melodies.

[Nintex]

The trans #freepalestine producer of *checks notes* HALO cannot work on a game that *checks notes* glorifies modern weapons. 

Pretty soon Microsoft will claim that the HALO music came from the same magic in space as Minecraft as Marty O'Donnell speaks out against marxism, DEI and woke.

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[Nintex]

[HaughtyFrank]

[Nintex]

She then woke up with a soiled mattress and a wet MyPillow, many such cases

[Chudder Barbarity]

Now I'm not an expert but didn't British folk music probably originate from white people in the UK? How does using "decolonize" make any sense in that context?

I can't find it at the moment, but wasn't there some museum in germany or some other euro country that only allowed BIPOCs? I wonder who could possibly be the indigenous people of Europe...

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The black people of rural Bohemia of course 

[PhoenixDark]

Now I'm not an expert but didn't British folk music probably originate from white people in the UK? How does using "decolonize" make any sense in that context?

This is wild in the context that British/European folk and ballads were mixed with African music (gospel, call and response, blues) to create Appalachian music ie what later became country music. That seems like a much better academic angle to approach this with instead of going to a club, seeing only white people and deciding it must be a bad thing that needs to be explored.

[HardcoreRetro]

I wish I was drowning in excesso de bichas.

[HaughtyFrank]

Former Naughty Dog and Rocksteady developer

[tweet]https://twitter.com/TheCartelDel/status/1803046843611578579?t=SwE2zPYcpdSM-Q3pBAS9hg&s=19[/tweet]

This one is pretty interesting as he can't just be dismissed as a chud grifter. This is a black developer with an accomplished resume who often speaks out in favor of diversity

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[tweet]https://twitter.com/TheCartelDel/status/1804612799383142733?t=asl4pGGY93z6I_Ka5kSyLg&s=19[/tweet]

[Potato]

Dude got got by the fat lesbian video game chick mafia

[benji]

He's just keeping it in the community, cacs need to keep their nose out of Black people business.

[TylenolJones]

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There we go.

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The Texas Rangers are frustrating LGBTQ+ advocates as the only MLB team without a Pride Night

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Rafael McDonnell sometimes gets to address the staff of his beloved Texas Rangers on issues of diversity and inclusion through his role with the Resource Center, one of the leading LGBTQ+ organizations in the Dallas area.

For several years, the Rangers have been the only Major League Baseball team without a Pride Night. When questioned about it, Texas has cited its work with the Resource Center, among other organizations.

As Pride Month — the June celebration of LGBTQ+ culture and rights — comes and goes again without the Rangers participating, McDonnell tried to explain the connection between his group and the team he has loved and watched for the better part of 50 years.

“It’s a complicated relationship,” McDonnell said. “As someone who grew up watching the Rangers, as someone who has gone to games since the 1970s, some of my biggest and best memories are going to games at the old Arlington Stadium with my late grandfather and listening to games on the radio in his backyard.

“It pains me that this remains an issue (after) all these years.”

Painful enough, McDonnell said, that he considered not attending the parade with his boyfriend when the Rangers celebrated their first World Series championship last fall. Ultimately, he decided to go.

“For a long time, I’ve thought that it might be somebody very high up in the organization who is opposed to this for some reason that is not clearly articulated,” McDonnell said. “To say that the Rangers aren’t doing anything for the community, well, they have. But the hill that they are choosing to stake themselves out on is no Pride Night.”

MLB did not have comment when asked last week about the Rangers’ Pride Night status.

McDonnell and DeeJay Johannessen — chief executive of the HELP Center, an LGBTQ+ organization based in Tarrant County, where the Rangers play — also say they believe the Rangers some day will join the rest of MLB with a Pride Night.

At the same time, McDonnell and Johannessen say the catalyst for change might have to be new ownership. Johannessen said he hasn’t requested to speak with majority owner Ray C. Davis to discuss Pride.

“I have not because, quite honestly, that’s just not going to happen,” Johannessen said. “I’d love to meet with Mr. Davis and talk about why it’s important. But I don’t think that’s on his priority list right now.”

Through a spokesman, the Rangers declined a request by The Associated Press to interview Davis.

The Rangers’ stance doesn’t keep Misty Lockhart, who lives near the ballpark, from attending about 35 games a year. Also a big Dallas Stars fan, she was at the NHL team’s Pride Night in March at the American Airlines Center in downtown Dallas.

Lockhart was wearing a No. 91 Tyler Seguin Pride jersey that had been worn during warmups in a previous year and was signed by the Stars forward. The Stars logo on the front was in rainbow colors.

While she doesn’t believe the Rangers risk losing fans over their stance on Pride, Lockhart would prefer the Rangers complete the MLB picture on something that is believed to have started with the Chicago Cubs in 2001.

“I think if it were something where MLB said, ‘We’re not participating in this,’ but the MLB does participate in it. And the Rangers have chosen not to,” Lockhart said. “I think that’s where I take the bigger issue, is they have actively chosen not to participate in it.”

Lockhart says she doesn’t see Pride Night as a political issue, but acknowledges there would be more pressure on the Rangers if they had a downtown stadium in the heart of Dallas County, where the majority of elected officials are Democrats.

“I think that the issue here is not whether they are losing every game or whether they are World Series champions,” he said. “It’s a matter of whether or not having a Pride Night is something that the ownership of the Rangers is supportive of.

“There may be deeply held beliefs of why they don’t want to do that,” Johannessen said. “And, we’re very respectful of that, but also have to advocate for our community. Because it’s kind of an embarrassment to the city of Arlington that their team is the only one that doesn’t have a Pride Night.”

Still, the attention the change received on social media illustrated the scrutiny the Rangers have invited as the only MLB team without a Pride Night.

“The Texas Rangers have reached out to us about working with us and providing services and volunteers,” said Johannessen, whose organization has provided health services among other things in the LGBTQ+ community for 30 years. “That actually hasn’t happened yet. When they asked what they could do, the first thing I said was, ‘Let’s talk about a Pride Night.’”

[Polident]

Just the fact that every other team capitulated isn’t enough paints all this shit as mafiosos demanding protection money.

[benji]

That's what makes it such an affront. If it was half the teams it wouldn't offend but now we have the situation of these one holdouts ruining everything.

[Chudder Barbarity]

Former Naughty Dog and Rocksteady developer

[tweet]https://twitter.com/TheCartelDel/status/1803046843611578579?t=SwE2zPYcpdSM-Q3pBAS9hg&s=19[/tweet]

This one is pretty interesting as he can't just be dismissed as a chud grifter. This is a black developer with an accomplished resume who often speaks out in favor of diversity

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[tweet]https://twitter.com/TheCartelDel/status/1804612799383142733?t=asl4pGGY93z6I_Ka5kSyLg&s=19[/tweet]

Apologies for the sperging, but this sort of cowardice makes me rage. Here is someone with an (correct) opinion on how stupid some of this performative bullshit is, and instead of using his position as a developer and high ranking member on the oppression olympics scale to make good change, he capitulates like a little bitch to parasites who have nothing but contempt for games and gamers. True cult like behaviour.

Fuck western devs, fuck naughty dog and their sleep inducing walking simulators plaguing the industry (how the mighty have fallen since the crash days) and fuck playstation, I am glad they will be out of industry by the end of the decade, they deserve it wholeheartedly.

[PhoenixDark]

Former Naughty Dog and Rocksteady developer

[tweet]https://twitter.com/TheCartelDel/status/1803046843611578579?t=SwE2zPYcpdSM-Q3pBAS9hg&s=19[/tweet]

This one is pretty interesting as he can't just be dismissed as a chud grifter. This is a black developer with an accomplished resume who often speaks out in favor of diversity

Edit in case he deletes

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[tweet]https://twitter.com/TheCartelDel/status/1804612799383142733?t=asl4pGGY93z6I_Ka5kSyLg&s=19[/tweet]

Apologies for the sperging, but this sort of cowardice makes me rage. Here is someone with an (correct) opinion on how stupid some of this performative bullshit is, and instead of using his position as a developer and high ranking member on the oppression olympics scale to make good change, he capitulates like a little bitch to parasites who have nothing but contempt for games and gamers. True cult like behaviour.

Fuck western devs, fuck naughty dog and their sleep inducing walking simulators plaguing the industry (how the mighty have fallen since the crash days) and fuck playstation, I am glad they will be out of industry by the end of the decade, they deserve it wholeheartedly.

You're this mad because the woman in a video game doesn't give you a boner? 

I'm not sure why developers have decided that black women characters should look like Amanda Waller and I'm not really a gamer, besides some niche PC arpgs. But I'm not sure why anyone gives a shit about this lol. Outside of the Waller thing, most female characters I see in TV ads just look like regular women? Not hot, not ugly, sometimes cute I guess. Honestly they remind me of Ripley or Sarah Conner: feminine yet tough chicks. Nobody thought that was a problem in the 80s or 90s.