Kulturkampf

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[HaughtyFrank]

As soon as it comes to Russia Snowden takes get really dumb

[Nintex]

Nature is healing

[Besticus Maximus]

Tbh the best art direction goes to the monkey game. Stellar blade had some good enemies.

[HaughtyFrank]

[Nintex]

not diverse?

not inclusive?

are we back bros, ARE WE BACK?

-BF3/BF4 era considered 'peak' of Battlefield. "We have to have the core. The core Battlefield players know what they want."

We want some battlefield waifus now vince, FSB honeypot spy ladies in leather suits assuming Russia are the enemy(?).
Otherwise we're still not buying your woke ass game.  

[HaughtyFrank]

Nah, I doubt they'll change any diversity. It'll just be a bit less ridiculous to put an amputee female soldier on the cover than with the WW2 one

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[Polident]

Was checking to see if Spider-Man 2 was on PC yet and came across, well, not spoilers. It reads as parody. For background, the first game had a small group of annoying people angry that Spider-Man works with the NYPD to stop crime. For the sequel... all the cops are gone  

That really happens?

[Nintex]

Was checking to see if Spider-Man 2 was on PC yet and came across, well, not spoilers. It reads as parody. For background, the first game had a small group of annoying people angry that Spider-Man works with the NYPD to stop crime. For the sequel... all the cops are gone  

That really happens?

Because ACAB

The developers didn't like the idea that Spider-Man was a cop and Mary Jane was hot
So Spider-Man is gay and Mary Jane is an ugly lesbian and all the cops are dead.

[HaughtyFrank]

Apparently this only seems to push Trump voters away from science journals while it only has negligible effect on democrat voters. So it seems to be a pointless gesture that only furthers the divide.

[HaughtyFrank]

Was checking to see if Spider-Man 2 was on PC yet and came across, well, not spoilers. It reads as parody. For background, the first game had a small group of annoying people angry that Spider-Man works with the NYPD to stop crime. For the sequel... all the cops are gone  

That really happens?

Not gone in the sense of not existing at all but certainly less interaction between any cops and spiderman

[Uncle]

how do you square that with the fact that heroes are literally cops but worse, unilaterally imposing their will on the people they fight without even the veneer of oversight or bodycams

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I actually love how rare it is that superhero comics even comprehend the question of "what if the hero is wrong?" Whenever superheroes make mistakes it's treated as one-offs not a fundamental challenge to their very vigilante notions.

There's a Superman storyline where he's mind-controlled into believing he has to literally address every problem in the world and it basically turns him into a tyrant who does try to "put the whole world in a bottle" and I think this is great conceptually but it shouldn't be that he was tricked by a villain, he should actually consider this a logical extension of his regular intentions. Why shouldn't somebody who is that fast and powerful and "good" think he needs to cover the entire planet trying to stop every murder or disaster or anything else? Regular Superman stories just assume he's not aware of shit going on elsewhere even with his superhearing and supervision and so on, but what if he sees that shit and just says "nah, it's not Metropolis, I'm not bothering"? Doesn't that make him seem evil in some way that a regular human would not? Batman (and Iron Man) goes down this route every so often with his need for control, why doesn't it happen to any powered heroes? Is the idea too morally fraught?

This is actually one reason I didn't hate BvS even when everyone else did, it was directly considering this topic for both heroes. And it really pissed people off that it treated all three of the Trinity as actual human beings rather than gods.

[Polident]

There a number of scenes in Batman vs Superman where they do a commendable job addressing Batman’s perception among various groups. You have people saying he’s targeted the less fortunate. But some of those same people are saying he’s doing what the cops can’t. There are mock political cartoons implying the cops use Batman to bypass the law. There’s the idea he doesn’t consider the collateral damage.

It’s interesting because it’s Superman, as Clark, facing these perspectives. All while these questions about Superman’s role in the world are at the center of the movie. He’s in a way investigating Batman as a way to investigate his own purpose. The inverse of that is this Batman is so lost he doesn’t consider these questions. And he doesn’t consider his hypocrisy towards Superman.

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[Nintex]

There a number of scenes in Batman vs Superman where they do a commendable job addressing Batman’s perception among various groups. You have people saying he’s targeted the less fortunate. But some of those same people are saying he’s doing what the cops can’t. There are mock political cartoons implying the cops use Batman to bypass the law. There’s the idea he doesn’t consider the collateral damage.

It’s interesting because it’s Superman, as Clark, facing these perspectives. All while these questions about Superman’s role in the world are at the center of the movie. He’s in a way investigating Batman as a way to investigate his own purpose. The inverse of that is this Batman is so lost he doesn’t consider these questions. And he doesn’t consider his hypocrisy towards Superman.

The Dark Knight Trilogy explored this as well but there the conclusion was always the same. The ends justify the means but you have to retire before you go crazy.

So the range of "tents" this election is
 
Ilhan Omar - Dick Cheney (D)
Queer Disabled Witch - Elon Musk ®

[HaughtyFrank]

I actually love how rare it is that superhero comics even comprehend the question of "what if the hero is wrong?" Whenever superheroes make mistakes it's treated as one-offs not a fundamental challenge to their very vigilante notions.

There's a Superman storyline where he's mind-controlled into believing he has to literally address every problem in the world and it basically turns him into a tyrant who does try to "put the whole world in a bottle" and I think this is great conceptually but it shouldn't be that he was tricked by a villain, he should actually consider this a logical extension of his regular intentions. Why shouldn't somebody who is that fast and powerful and "good" think he needs to cover the entire planet trying to stop every murder or disaster or anything else? Regular Superman stories just assume he's not aware of shit going on elsewhere even with his superhearing and supervision and so on, but what if he sees that shit and just says "nah, it's not Metropolis, I'm not bothering"? Doesn't that make him seem evil in some way that a regular human would not? Batman (and Iron Man) goes down this route every so often with his need for control, why doesn't it happen to any powered heroes? Is the idea too morally fraught?

This is actually one reason I didn't hate BvS even when everyone else did, it was directly considering this topic for both heroes. And it really pissed people off that it treated all three of the Trinity as actual human beings rather than gods.

The alt universe Injustice comic books basically do this.

I dropped it after some point as it gets pretty whack somewhere down the line which might be owed to it being a prequel for the videogames and not a deep superhero deconstruction but a fun read nonetheless

[Nintex]

The Witch Hunt on the Saber CEO has begun, hold the line brothers!

[HaughtyFrank]

Curious how something like this instantly gets investigated by journalists but not something like the accusations of a bonkers work environment at the Concord studio

[Nintex]

What morals 

Anyway they are now openly showing what used to happen behind the scenes when anyone refused to make a videogame woke and gay.

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[Ethan]

14-year-old Taylor didn't believe in abortion. I think this revelation deserves a tell-all book and an hour interview  with Tucker Carlson.

[D3RANG3D]

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[Potato]

‘Unacceptable’: University of Sydney vice-chancellor Mark Scott apologises over anti-Semitism from pro-Palestinian encampment protest

The vice-chancellor of one of the country’s biggest universities has issued an apology over what has been called “unacceptable” anti-Semitism expressed during an eight-week protest.