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[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

I am learning every day that I like games that the Bire does not 😔

I'm currently playing and enjoying Star Wars: Outlaws on Xbox Series X.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Malody can't get government assistance because he lives at home with his parents rent free. This dipshit expects people to believe that the kind couple that puts a roof over the head of their ungrateful and creepy son doesn't also feed him.

One user called him out when he posted the kofi only to be permanently banned. Despite this being one of the main causes of the definitely real trans genocide, they have since been unbanned. I always wondered how they pulled that off. I assume they just linked to this thread in their ticket.

Edit: Triple Post!!! Sorry for stealing your kink, potato.

[Potato]

Edit: Triple Post!!! Sorry for stealing your kink, potato.

Sometimes you just gotta get it all out in one go!!

[benji]

Babies first platformer. 

The reaction to Astro Bot is insane. Some of them have never played a 3D Mario game in their life and it really shows. A lot of the stuff they're creaming themselves over is ten-a-penny in those games

I guess they're so used to gobbling up cinematic, third-person shite like Uncharted/The Last of Us/God of War/Horizon and nothing else, and have forgotten what a fun game feels like.

[BananaBlast]

That fool got banned in an xbox thread, lol:

User Banned (1 month): thread derail, metacommentary, sniping, antagonistic behavior towards other members, history of similar behavior

I dunno if they even got to use the alt, as I remember that 1 month ban became permanent very quickly.

Thanks for the info.

Was wondering how one of the burka thread regulars got banned  Bet a year later they're still malding they can't seethe with their buddies over sexy female characters

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-mainstream-press-is-failing-america-%E2%80%93-and-people-are-understandably-upset-the-guardian.976221/#post-128415276

I mean I'd like this but how? It seems easier to foresee a path of Supreme Court reform (also a hard proposition) than the media to be reformed since a lot of people seem content with just using the media for their own ends instead of changing it

I don't know how but I want my pound of flesh.

The real answer is legislation and rules/consequences. The legal system is not prepared for that though because it's been laid bare that enough money = no consequences.

Time to break up the media companies, bring back the fairness doctrine, and remove ratings counts from news programs.

Somebody actually corrected this in the thread surprisingly.

Funny thing is carrying Trumps water doesn't guarantee a future for the press in another Trump administration. They seem to think they will survive to report on all the drama Trump brings that they live so much. I wonder if they ever stop to consider they might find themselves locked up or shutdown when God King doesn't like something they've said.

I love how they always go for this explanation, that everyone else is being a "pick me" and that's the only reason they do anything.

They all start convincing themselves the media is against them:

It's been happening so much, I've literally lost all faith on how the media will portray the debate. I am certain no matter how bad Trump does, they will cover for him.

It's why Trump is going to win. He cant be held accountable and Harris can do no right. The same thing with Clinton.

Even excluding right-wing media the last few years have just been beyond fucking pathetic to watch. Legitimizing the endless culture wars and right-wing clown show, completely perpetuating the status quo, baiting readers with pathetically transparent headlines and skimpy articles. It's so disasppointing. The latest shit with "interpreting" the inane shit Trump is trying to say to try to weave it into coherent policy rather than disorganized, stream-of-consciousness lying is bordering on criminal negligence when it comes to delivering the truth. I hate it.

And outside of that I have so many issues with NY Times and their clumsy and sometimes borderline-offensive heel-turn into making everything about identity. If I read one more article written by some bearded white fucking dork that's basically saying "hey music-lovers, did you know BLACK WOMEN play acoustic guitar TOO!?" or "meet these GAY hikers" I am going to scream. It's so de-normalizing and othering despite its (I'm assuming) opposite intentions. Yes, black people play guitar not just rap, gay guys climb mountains not just work out in gay gyms, etc. I find these kinds of articles so infantilizing and ridiculous.

The median NYT reader; reasonably wealthy, right of center sheltered whites, are probably the people who love to be wowed like little children at the science museum regarding the diversity roles you mentioned.

They were doing this before. Point in case, the NYT makes good money (recipes, crosswords, etc) and plenty of people signed up after 2016 and they carried on doing the same nonsense. They seem to actively revel in it tbh.

The über rich and conservative class has bought up the main lines of communication and push their lines accordingly. Is there money in newspapers or cable television channels? Not really, but you can launder plenty of shit views to legacy consumers year round at a relatively low cost.

It doesn't help that many of the tech bros that started or run a lot of the main services today view news/politics as one more thing to commercialize, have minimal, if any, ethics to ground themselves in, and/or eventually redpill themselves into even more insufferable douchebags (Zuckerberg, Musk, etc).

Timely as I spent lunch discussing how much we expected the debate tmrw to be a shitshow almost entirely due to the media likely planning to drag Kamala down a peg as it feels time they soften out of a honeymoon phase.

As long as the editors/publishers are rich and white it's just selling product. Throw in private equity, rage clicks = profit and a once honorable profession is shit.

Iceberg ahead mainstream media after this election no one will trust you the rise of independent media is unstoppable and you are just a bunch of silly consultants who tell people in your industry how to fail.
ABC tomorrow headlines although Trump barely answered a single question I think he made good points and Harris did as well she did fine.

No one will remember you in 10 years and all your conservative owned bosses will be embarrassed and forced to pay the taxes they owe to the Harris administration. As a crazed poet once said in song

The old get old
And the young get stronger
May take a week
And it may take longer
They got the guns
Well, but we got the numbers
Gonna win, yeah
We're takin' over
Come on!

Then a guy actually pushes back against the weirdos and a conspiracy theorist takes him to task:

from my perspective, those hyper-consumed about the state of corporate media in whats largely campaign-based coverage (which we've always been in since Trump first became the republican front runner all the way up to the present moment) tend to self-absorbed in their own media bubble. It's important that mass media its criticized, and its role in influencing the positions of everyday people, that's certainly important. Yeah, the media shapes narratives, but also its not like access journalism has gone away and they don't play ball with the dems. Everybody saw Biden's clear mental decline, and you had the Press Secretary claim those videos were AI fake news. No they werent! Certainly some people created edit videos but the actual footage tracks with the characterization and we know that because it happened often! And the prevailing, dominant opinion amongst the commentariat was "Biden is doing just fine, its offensive to imply his age is a factor cause trump also old and bad but also biden is fine" Just complete head in the sand stuff and the elation of Kamala being passed the torch allowed many people to realize how well they were getting stringed along too.

What? The media had been playing up the mental decline angle since 2022.

https://css.seas.upenn.edu/new-york-times-a-case-study-in-inconsistent-narrative-selection-and-framing-that-tends-to-favor-republicans/

In fact, the only thing Kamala Harris showed is the media by large still will cover for Trump.

If you think of it as a binary, mutually exclusive "if they're being biased towards trump that means they're not aligned with the democrats" then you'll be confused. Otherwise you have to explain why they tolerated the White House's narrative that Biden was doing A-OK when it was uncle genocide grandpa's nap time. And it *was* toleration up until the debate, given the overnight about-face and the floodgates opened. All those press hits Pelosi did? Come on. This stuff was an open secret to people who paid attention and the actual players themselves. The only people were misled were those who naively think the media's softpeddling of trump coverage as proof that they don't softpeddling shit for dems all the time.

What? No. This is just flat out wrong.

The NYT coverage was explicitly because the NYT owner felt slighted. The CNN coverage is explicitly cause Zaslav wanted CNN to lean more conservative.

But your downplaying of Russia's influencing elections tells me I probably shouldn't engage with you.

[DocWager]

I am learning every day that I like games that the Bire does not 😔

I'm currently playing and enjoying Star Wars: Outlaws on Xbox Series X.

This is when you realize that there are people on The Bire who are too slimy even for The Bire.

[Boredfrom]

Babies first platformer. 

The reaction to Astro Bot is insane. Some of them have never played a 3D Mario game in their life and it really shows. A lot of the stuff they're creaming themselves over is ten-a-penny in those games

I guess they're so used to gobbling up cinematic, third-person shite like Uncharted/The Last of Us/God of War/Horizon and nothing else, and have forgotten what a fun game feels like.

Mr Tooty sounds like a prick.

[Boredfrom]

Also, I remember the original God of War games being also in the easy side of character action games.

[kaleidoscopium]

New kofi goal, $150 and $0 in donations. At least Malds is honest this time, it’s for food “and stuff”.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/grrm-new-blog-post-some-new-twow-pages-written.976509/

Suddenly, Era is feeling bad for GRRM again. Everyone understands that the dude is old and has writer block and is depressed… yadayada. 

They totally mean it when they said “retire and rest well… we totally not going to bitch about it.”

[Boredfrom]

I have a lot of respect for George the author who created among my favorite fantasy book series and I feel bad that he clearly struggles that hard now to do anything associated with writing. I have less respect for George the celebrity that put himself in this avoidable position many years ago and will probably never come out from under.

Much “better”, more honest… But I know you want to actually call him slurs and a fat fuck sell out. The condescending tone doesn’t hide your anger.

He really can't figure out a way to edit his ending even though all he has to do is actually write some actual plot development that doesn't flanderize characters and their motivations like season 8 did.

Come on, George. Instead of fretting over minor changes in HoTD that aren't series breaking (the 8 season episode order was much more of an issue), or wrongly claiming that adaptations can't surpass source material, focus on what really matters or just forget about trying to finish the series.

Another one that is more honest, and more stupid.

“Come on, George. Is easy. Just write good you lazy fat fuck CHUD!”. 

[benji]

Love how these dudes can make multi-hour videos about Harry Potter or whatever that everyone insists are so intellectual, then tweet stuff like this: 

[Boredfrom]

Love how these dudes can make multi-hour videos about Harry Potter or whatever that everyone insists are so intellectual, then tweet stuff like this: 

[Boredfrom]

This so hilariously (well, sadly, but also hilariously) recontextualizes his last post about House of the Dragon. I guess there's nothing more to say other than thoughts and prayers for his health (whether physical, mental, or emotional).

Here we have the bitchy school girl type of post. 

But again, this is probably “better” than the fake crocodile tears of that thread.  

I think people should be able to criticize the dude and don’t pretend they empathize with him… but is annoying that many are mad about the dude criticizing a show they stanned for and that GRRM has stopped being polite about his opinion of adaptations.

[benji]

Funny how their whole thing about artists seems to go out the door when it comes to the written word. Well, unless they're game journalists apparently.

[benji]

The fuck is this shit?

 

Spoiler: manifesto (click to show)(click to hide)

[D3RANG3D]

Fact-check-a-ton!

[benji]

Capitalism strikes again, I'm so fucking tired:

Hi everyone,

We have come to the decision to cease operations of cohost and anti software software club due to lack of funding and burnout. As of today, none of us are being paid for our labor1; all of our money in the bank, and any money coming in from people who buy our merch or don’t cancel cohost plus, is going towards servers and operations — paying the bills so we can turn the lights off with as little disruption as possible.

cohost will become read-only on Tuesday, October 1st. At this time, we will make best-effort attempts to keep the servers online through the end of 2024.

edit: This was one of the alternate Twitters saving us from Elon for those who forget, only this one wasn't going to be a corporation/capitalist/etc. so it couldn't be corrupted.

[D3RANG3D]

What are the alternatives exactly? bluesky? threads?.

[benji]

In-depth review (9/10) in Spanish from a colleague, with a lots of screenshots: https://www.pcmrace.com/2024/09/09/marvel-vs-capcom-collection-pc-review/

Who the fuck names their website PC Master Race if they want to be taken seriously?!

Again with this nonsense. I've had the website for 11 years now. I already changed the slogan as requested by some people here, but I won't change the name of the website. I understand that some people may find it offensive, but it was just a meme back then. Get over it. My content is good and my reviews with lots of 4K screenshots and 4K videos speak for themselves. It's the most visited website in Argentina and probably South America. It's fine if you don't like the name, but don't treat the content like it's second hand. Would you change the name of your website after 11 years if some people suddenly found it offensive? I don't think so.

It's not so sudden.

Get over it.

I don't care how sudden it is or was, I won't change the name of the website just because of the crystal generation. And FYI, I share my content in a lot of forums, but this is the only one in which I hear this type of complaints all time.

Yikes, "generación de cristal" is a huge red flag. You're not doing yourself any favors if you're using that term.

people always found "pc master race" offensive, actually. maybe you didn't care in 2013, but lots of people had problems with that "joke" back then.

I'm drawing a complete blank on why PC master race is offensive.

Master race? Nazi terminology??

Because it's Nazi shit.

Nazi terminology, also the whole "master" and "slave" (ala a HDD)verbiage is really not socially acceptable anymore.

If you are actually South American and you use "generación de cristal" unironically, yeah that's a huge red flag to me, only people complaining about "la generación de cristal" are those claiming that people get offended by anything nowadays, and we all know what they actually mean by that.

Yikes, "generación de cristal" is a huge red flag. You're not doing yourself any favors if you're using that term.

It's just really funny to me to see somebody say my pc master race site is really popular in Argentina.

Like...I'm sure bruh didn't mean it that way, but please just be cognizant of history. lol

I am aware of history, but only 30% of my visitors are from Argentina (that doesn't make me or my visitors Nazis). The rest of the viewership comes from Spain, Mexico and pretty much every country in Latin America. People don't mind because they know it started as a meme. The ones that got offended in 11 years are basically just the people in this forum, and the feeling of constantly being treated like scum (or belittling my content) due to the name of the website, doesn't make you any of you any better.

[D3RANG3D]

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

If it really is a Latin American fansite shouldn't it be all about SNK fighting games?

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-is-worse-for-gaming-capitalism-or-communism.976488/

Layoffs in the video game industry reached a high water mark this year. Beloved studios are fading away. Concord happened. It feels like greedy suits with dollar signs for eyes have sucked half the life out of gaming in one year alone. Capitalism is busted and it's hurting games.

Is communism any better? Or is it even worse? Black Myth Wukong sold like 80 million copies but thanks to all of the regressive censorship PR demanded , the game seems to have left a bad taste.

Mean while, China does not produce very many global video games. Maybe the don't have to.

I thought capitalism was worse for video games, but now I'm not sure. What do you think?

The cure (or improvement) for capitalism isn't communism, it's capitalistic socialism.

Communism is better if you like indie games
ideally everyone would have the means to work their hobbies and this would be amazing for small indie games

Capitalsm is better if you like AAA games, as they are the ones more geared towards profit and enrichment

So communism

Politics is certainly not that black and white.

But in an ideal "optimal" world where we don't really need to worry about money, because our society is run efficiently by computers/robots and humans only chip in with as much work as they like and can spend the rest of their time on hobbies, I do think we'd see a lot more great indies and smaller sized games, but the giant AAA offerings might just take ten years each to make. Unless passionate developers improve the open-source tools so much that making games is much faster and more efficient and everyone involved is all in and loving the process and okay, I'm just rambling at this point.

I've voted communism.

Concord is uniquely a failure of capitalism in the sense that is a failure that can only exist in capitalism.

It's failure is basically because executives saw something making money, put A LOT of money into making more (because more money = more profit) and didn't considered that after the time it takes to make it, the market would be overcrowded.
Concord's budget and how it failed is connectec to capitalism because AAA and profit seeking GaaS games are insanely connected to capitalism.

Communism would not have AAA and would not have GaaS because it is not a profit centered system

Communism requires an international effort that I don't think we'll see in our lifetimes, sadly.
Also Capitalism is going to end humanity so... I guess Capitalism is worse for gaming because gaming will not even exist in the future.
And China isn't even communist, technically speaking no country can even be communist because communism requires the end of the state or whatever the fuck, whatever.

There are no communist countries in the world today. One could argue there has never been one, period.

Considering the stated goal of Communism is to allow the laborer freedom to pursue their own interests and goals for the sake of fulfillment, I don't see why gaming couldn't exist under such a society. Granted they likely wouldn't be to the scale we know them as today but they'd probably be far more diverse, personal and interesting.

Uh, no it's not.  

China's uses a hybrid system that combines market mechanisms with strong state control and socialist values. Unlike let's say…. the states (where I'll just assume OP is from), China's focus is on long-term development, poverty alleviation, and collective welfare. It has lifted millions out of poverty, avoiding the pitfalls of unchecked market systems like in the states. China's approach is about prioritizing social stability and communal progress over PURE profit. Look into the fall of the soviet union and how they went out in their way to avoid that without becoming a neoliberal wasteland like the states.

It's people named Jeff, if people would stop naming their kids Jeff, everything would work out.

SHOTS FIRED

Then two guys reply to Chief Malik:

That is a WILDLY charitable explanation of how China works.

Have you ever been to China? One of my oldest friends has lived there for nearly 10 years, and the day to day he experiences is not at all China prioritizing long-term development, poverty alleviation, and communal progress. At all.

You are regurgitating government propaganda.
- China has some of the poorest social safety net, it is tiered and CCP officials get the best stuff
- China has some of the highest real estate prices in the world even after years of declining (yes, worse than the US now: check out what "six wallets" mean)
- China does not really have universal healthcare, its system is again, tiered, and poor, rural people get the worst healthcare
- China tries to achieve social stability by the most oppressive panopticon-like surveillance system ever exists
- The criteria of China's "lifting poverty" is extremely low; still 600 million people lives on <$150 a month

I've seen such rhetoric spouted by ignorant westerners so many times I've lost count.

China doesn't have *strong state control*; the state acts like a company: a (many elite) family-owned, dynastic company, much like the zaibatsu in Japan. It is owned by the elites, not any one of us.

And B-Dubs races in to the rescue with the lock:

Do we really need to do this? All these sorts of threads do is turn into ideological slap fights while the people who lived in places like China get ignored when they talk about what life is like for them.

Even though the bulk of the thread was just people making jokes or mocking the OP before Platy and Malik took it seriously.

[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/era-whats-a-good-general-birthday-gift-to-a-good-friend-that-is-married-and-wont-be-misconstrued-by-their-spouse-as-anything-else-but-a-friendly-g.975135/post-128419710

MrHedin said:

Word of unsolicited advice, you should make an effort of getting to know her husband if you and she are really that close. You don't need to become friends (unless you think he is cool and want to) but you do need establish some sort of relationship there.

Seirith
She/Her
Why? I have a good friend who I have known for 15+ years and I have never once met his boyfriend. My friend and I met at the business our small businesses are part of. We text back and forth all the time, we don't get together often because my friend is so busy with a FT job and his small business otherwise we would. He has been with his boyfriend for 17 years and I've been with my husband 26. My husband has met him but they are not friends and have not said more than hi how are you to each other. We are friends, not our SOers. It's ok for people to be friends without their SO being involved.

A woman being friends with a gay man and not his boyfriend is a different dynamic. Especially now we know the situation.

I'm going to hope she just didn't read the other thread and that's why she's being so obtuse about this.

lol, they’re so fucking stupid they don’t get the idea behind different dynamics in relationships.

Also if they aren’t wary of you sniffing around the other half you’re a munter

[Boredfrom]

The fuck is this shit?

 

Spoiler: manifesto (click to show)(click to hide)

Yes, use the millennium falcon and robots to fill your totally serious document denouncing harassment. I will totally take you seriously.

Jesus, and I hate most of the assholes they bitching about but…   

[Potato]

Capitalism strikes again, I'm so fucking tired:

Hi everyone,

We have come to the decision to cease operations of cohost and anti software software club due to lack of funding and burnout. As of today, none of us are being paid for our labor1; all of our money in the bank, and any money coming in from people who buy our merch or don’t cancel cohost plus, is going towards servers and operations — paying the bills so we can turn the lights off with as little disruption as possible.

cohost will become read-only on Tuesday, October 1st. At this time, we will make best-effort attempts to keep the servers online through the end of 2024.

edit: This was one of the alternate Twitters saving us from Elon for those who forget, only this one wasn't going to be a corporation/capitalist/etc. so it couldn't be corrupted.

Well, it wasn't corrupted by capitalism (or supported) so, there's that...

[Snoopy]

New kofi goal, $150 and $0 in donations. At least Malds is honest this time, it’s for food “and stuff”.

Starts a new goal in the same week Astro and Space Marines launch

[Potato]

In-depth review (9/10) in Spanish from a colleague, with a lots of screenshots: https://www.pcmrace.com/2024/09/09/marvel-vs-capcom-collection-pc-review/

Who the fuck names their website PC Master Race if they want to be taken seriously?!

Again with this nonsense. I've had the website for 11 years now. I already changed the slogan as requested by some people here, but I won't change the name of the website. I understand that some people may find it offensive, but it was just a meme back then. Get over it. My content is good and my reviews with lots of 4K screenshots and 4K videos speak for themselves. It's the most visited website in Argentina and probably South America. It's fine if you don't like the name, but don't treat the content like it's second hand. Would you change the name of your website after 11 years if some people suddenly found it offensive? I don't think so.

It's not so sudden.

Get over it.

I don't care how sudden it is or was, I won't change the name of the website just because of the crystal generation. And FYI, I share my content in a lot of forums, but this is the only one in which I hear this type of complaints all time.

Yikes, "generación de cristal" is a huge red flag. You're not doing yourself any favors if you're using that term.

people always found "pc master race" offensive, actually. maybe you didn't care in 2013, but lots of people had problems with that "joke" back then.

I'm drawing a complete blank on why PC master race is offensive.

Master race? Nazi terminology??

Because it's Nazi shit.

Nazi terminology, also the whole "master" and "slave" (ala a HDD)verbiage is really not socially acceptable anymore.

If you are actually South American and you use "generación de cristal" unironically, yeah that's a huge red flag to me, only people complaining about "la generación de cristal" are those claiming that people get offended by anything nowadays, and we all know what they actually mean by that.

Yikes, "generación de cristal" is a huge red flag. You're not doing yourself any favors if you're using that term.

It's just really funny to me to see somebody say my pc master race site is really popular in Argentina.

Like...I'm sure bruh didn't mean it that way, but please just be cognizant of history. lol

I am aware of history, but only 30% of my visitors are from Argentina (that doesn't make me or my visitors Nazis). The rest of the viewership comes from Spain, Mexico and pretty much every country in Latin America. People don't mind because they know it started as a meme. The ones that got offended in 11 years are basically just the people in this forum, and the feeling of constantly being treated like scum (or belittling my content) due to the name of the website, doesn't make you any of you any better.

Argentinian. Unironically doesn't recognise Nazi terminology. You can't make this shit up. 

Also, fuck you reees getting offended at an old shitty meme.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-is-worse-for-gaming-capitalism-or-communism.976488/

Layoffs in the video game industry reached a high water mark this year. Beloved studios are fading away. Concord happened. It feels like greedy suits with dollar signs for eyes have sucked half the life out of gaming in one year alone. Capitalism is busted and it's hurting games.

Is communism any better? Or is it even worse? Black Myth Wukong sold like 80 million copies but thanks to all of the regressive censorship PR demanded , the game seems to have left a bad taste.

Mean while, China does not produce very many global video games. Maybe the don't have to.

I thought capitalism was worse for video games, but now I'm not sure. What do you think?

Seems the capitalist games are doing just fine. It's the "modern audience" stuff that seems to be suffering.

[Rendle]

The Albatross got banned because he politely questioned moderation decisions in the thread specifically for that, so no ban reason makes sense.