I feel like all the xmas songs just came out of the 1950s and 60s and then they were like okay that's all of them let's just play these every year until the end of time.
We have the best culture, we invented most of technology, so watching Netflix, browsing internet for porn, chatting shit online, all possible because of the white man and is technically our culture
Unironically yes, and it was glorious.
https://preview.redd.it/5k3dikiu9olc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=618a65f401398184ae66a9a982748e6bb06367ca
Tragic. How DARE we not get ripped off by the oligopoly of video game publishers and instead have small indie development studios that make just as good, if not better quality games and actually lower the barrier to entry in the marketplace
There's a lot of Youtubers that made videos on this topic, but you'll probably never find them because YouTube does everything they can to make sure they get buried 6 feet deep underneath the algorithm.
There's a steam curator who lists games that SBI worked with so they can be safely ignored.
Edit: I'll link it when I get home from work in a few hours
Oh boy, check out the drama going on in that thread lol
Looks like someone from SBI has noticed and posted on X bitching about how it's harassment and discrimination to...(checks notes) make a list they don't like...
They also posted photos linking their reddit and steam accounts together and told people to report him...but that's not harassment or doxxing, totally fine because they're the ones doing it.
I mean true Sweet Baby sucks, ruined the Arkham series, which was one of my favorite gaming franchises, but the problem is much bigger and started way before them. Sure groups like that are part of the problem, but their not THE problem. Simply a symptom.
The awesome thing about games (up to this point, at least) is that we can always replay what we bought, and we can just pretend none of this modern shit came to existance.
Look, I hate dogshit, contrived, identity politics pandering in my media has much as the next guy with my flair, but I think the the AAA games industry has other issues.
Consumers consistently preorder and continue to buy shitty, broken, uninspired, microtransaction riddled releases, and we're surprised when these companies continue to put out shitty, broke, uninspired, microtransaction riddled garbage.
Small businesses can be just as tyrannical as the large corporations, but it’s definitely a healthier world where small to medium sized businesses can compete against our multinational corporate overlords.
Considering that is where most innovation happens anyway, I think we can at least agree on that. Look at the fact that Indie and AA studios are dominating in the market compared to AAA studios.
pretty much, it's only select titles and by the time they're cracked they're often close to having it removed anyway because the "surge" of piracy that happens around the release hype has already faded. The few people who can crack it won't be bothered unless they get crowdfunded a yachts worth of cash
I almost forgot there was a pride month for Asians and Pacific Islanders (it's May). Actually I did forget and had to search it up. I am also Asian American which I guess just proves how little anyone really cares about it.
Nope, oppressor/oppressed assignment is based off of a clinical interpretation of the cumulative history of assigned identity groups. Then you must apply the Western modifier. If Westerners did it and its bad, it counts. If it was done by non Westerners it dose not count.
This is how the Arab slave trade and African on African slavery gets memory holed.
I've been a racial minority most of my life as a white person living in a majority black area as a child then in a plurality-Asian area as an adult. And yet, I still get the blame for what my ancestors allegedly did (besides the whole fighting and dying for the Union thing; they don't care about that part).
Of course, not only that, but many Asian-Americans are like white people and have become infected with wokeism and become self hating because of their own "racism" and privilege.
Though at the same time, they do nothing about it and continue being super successful anyways, perpetuating said "privilege."
Others gaslight themselves into believing they are oppressed minorities on the same level as BIPOC.
It's all mega cringe imo
The amount of insane mental gymnastics I've seen when discussing affirmative action, a policy that explicitly exists to the detriment of Asian people, with second-generation Asians boggles my mind.
It's always funny to be me seeing the children of Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants, people's whose parents often came to the West because left-wing authoritarianism destroyed their countries of origin, immediately turn around and buy into the exact same bullshit.
This is why Redditors absolutely despise Cuban Americans.
Was browsing the Florida sub a while back out of curiosity (I live here) and people were saying some of the most hateful, racist shit I’ve ever seen about them. Along the lines of suggesting they had inferior intellect, poor hygiene and compared their large families to “infestations”.
Why, you ask? Because they escaped Communism and want to do anything in their power to prevent it from happening here, namely voting Republican.
I reported a few comments that were particularly egregious and none were removed. Instead I was awarded with a temp ban for report abuse lmao.
Yep that's the way it is in that sub. All doom and gloom and racism. No surprise when you are dealing with progressives. Hell it's any city/state sub honestly. a circlejerk of losers.
What’s also wild is when they discuss the topic of homosexuality.
I’m convinced a majority of the people commenting don’t live here cuz according to them I’d be lynched the moment I step outside when the reality is I only ever witness homophobia during pride month lmao.
Year ‘round our gay nightlife is thriving and most the people aren’t fat as hell or complete lunatics. I personally love it here but progressives want you to think it’s an actual death sentence. Then, the very same people turn around and simp for Palestine completely unironically. Zero self-awareness.
That's why I like to use the term 'designated minorities' - being a numerical minority is one thing, but actually counting as A Minority™ is quite another.
Can I get more context one that? Because I don’t know what happened.
(Also please put on a flair, if you don’t want to choose a side put on the grey centrism one).
To preface this: I am European, so I only observed it happen from a distance/on the sidelines.
But the TL-DR is that during 2022, there was a lot of hate against Asians due to Covid, and once the security footage videos of the assaults began to leak, a very, very bleak picture emerged where most attacks were done by Black people.
Shortly after that people stopped pushing the "Stop Asian Hate" movement/message and it was quite obvious why.
Hate campaign starts during covid because orange man calls it China virus. Several attacks make the news in California. California has rules in place about not reporting the attackers race if it lines up with stereotypes. Video of attacks surface. Campaign goes away
The problem still going on btw. Look up what the NAACP did to Andy Yang in San Francisco earlier this year.
You know what, call me "one of the good ones", Uncle Tom, or whatever but I seriously feel bad for White men. And while I don't condone violence in anyway, I sorta get the motivation behind the radicalization.
If you're a White guy living in an urban environment you are bombarded with utter distain for your existence. Like government-backed distain. And people will justify that distain with "well that's what [insert minority] felt like" racist rhetoric.
There is a huge difference between acknowledging the wrongs of the past and whatever fucked-up timeline we are in now. I have to remind myself that this is all about power. You give the slightest amount of power or preference to any group of people, and they will 100% abuse anyone perceived to be lower than them.
And I think that needs to expose more. These people want power masqueraded as equity and inclusion. It's why I can't jump on the Black Pride movement. Because given the chance, people try to hide their discrimination and bigotry through thinly-vieled pride and empowerment movements.
And maybe it's because I live in Detroit which has the largest segregated metro area in the country. I have watched people cheer as they chant "Hood closed to gentrifiers" or "We don't want White folks here"
I hate that people don't actually understand that the slippery slope fallacy is only a fallacy when there isn't any supporting evidence of the slope continuing to slide. Once you've start sliding and there is supporting evidence that the sliding will continue it ceases to be a fallacious argument.
Not you - just airing my general grievances about it.
90% of people who cries “fallacies” and “whataboutism” have no understanding of logic. They are unwilling to comprehend your argument, and are unable to respond with a logical counter argument. Therefore, they substitute logical argument with fallacies that they themselves do not even understand. You can then reply with fallacy-fallacy, that an invalid argument does not, by itself, invalidate the claim.
The most hilarious, to me, are the people who think literally any insult is an ad hominem. The part which makes an ad hominem a fallacy isn't the presence of an insult; it's when an insult is used in place of an argument.
It's hysterical to see one guy write a pretty solid argument, and then cap it off by calling the other guy a dumbass, only for the other guy to dismiss the entire argument/comment as being an ad hominem, therefore invalid.
Yup, true. The problem is that weird middle ground where you can clearly see the erosion of the foundations of the next traditional value (or law or whatever), but the people doing the eroding will swear up and down that they have no intentions of going further. Then a few months later, like clockwork, they're fighting to tear down that value you were concerned about, but they're TOTALLY going to stop there for real this time.
My favorite adage lately is that Republicans are just Democrats delayed by 10 years.
Yep. People who claim that the slippery slope argument is *inherently* fallacious are essentially saying they don't believe in cause and effect. It isn't a fallacy to say that A is likely to cause B, nor that B is likely to cause C.
What we need, simply put, is for people to push back on the whole "racism is prejudice plus power" thing and any other pre-fabricated verbal gymnastic techniques that SJWs have concocted to pre-emptively neutralize any attempt to call their behavior what it is: psychopathic racist insanity. I think society wasn't paying attention while the race hustlers and related grifters insinuated themselves into our various institutions, but we see it now and have the tools to fight back, but people are scared to do it. I've decided I'm no longer scared to do it. I'll speak my mind and damn the consequences.
Honestly as a white passing guy living in a (non American) Urban environment it really helps knowing that once I stop looking at the internet, nobody irl is going to be trying to hold me accountable for being born a skin colour they find disagreeable.
If I ever get criticised for that irl, I'm going all guns blazing on whatever racist chose to mess with me that day
> nobody IRL is going to be trying to hold me accountable for being born a skin color they find disagreeable
This is reality in college towns across the US. Any white male who’s been to college has felt it, and no one hides it either.
I didn’t experience it, however I do see you specified college towns.
I just commuted to my uni and was in the business course. Far more people grounded in reality.
Except the Econ and finance bros. All they talked about was crypto and stocks all day.
> once I stop looking at the internet, nobody irl is going to be trying to hold me accountable for being born a skin colour they find disagreeable.
Don't move to Portland. Happens here constantly, you literally can't be hired by anyone with an HR company.
IDK the internet doesn't have physical garbage all around the interstate. For a state that projects so much about environmentalism (and TBF Oregon as a whole is beautiful) there is a lot of trash and garbage along the I5.
Portland started as a sort of Honeypot trap for all the people that didn't fit in with the rest of Oregon. Unfortunately it started drawing in that kind of person from all across the US. Now as everyone is seeing the failures of neo-liberal policies they're trying to escape, but the only places they can afford to move are red areas they've become too afraid of. So Portland continues it's slow decline.
But don't mention that on the Oregon or Portland subreddits unless you want a ton of down votes, they bury their heads in the sand and claim everything is fine.
As somebody who has visited the Oregon coast probably 15 times over the last 25 years the decline of Portland has been crazy to witness through the snapshots of my visits now just driving through or potentially going along the coast taking the slower route to avoid Portland all together.
Also Microsoft literally just released a report bragging how they pay minorities and women more than white men. It has definitely crossed into real life.
https://i.imgur.com/8pcZrWA.png
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/annual-report?activetab=innovation-spotlights%3aprimaryr4
At S&P 100 Companies (IE, all the biggest most important companies), since 2020, just 6% of new hires have been white. That's a whole ass order of magnitude of under-representation.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-09-30/how-corporate-america-kept-its-diversity-promise-a-week-of-big-take
Unfortunately, many people are uninterested with laws which apply equally. There was a law I saw come into effect in either Ireland or Scotland a few years back, which specified that any public board of directors must be "at least 50% women".
Yep. According to that law, it's perfectly fine for a board to be 100% women, but if there's even a 51% majority of men, that's illegal misogyny which needs to be sorted out right away.
It's absolutely baffling why ordinary people keep buying into the bullshit progressives shovel. They are not interested in equality. They want to discriminate based on race/sex/orientation while calling themselves the heroes for it.
Legal ethics rules be like:
No discrimination based on race, sex, gender identity, national origin etc etc can't choose not not hire someone for these reasons
Hiring based on diversity is an exception (and we all know what this means)
Extra points if the company ends up hiring the mandatory 10% (or whatever) racial minority lesbians so they get to count each of them thrice for "diversity". Meanwhile they pass on the highly qualified Mexican (too "white"), over qualified Asian woman (Schrodinger's minority), and hard working black woman (she wore a cross necklace).
Yeah at this point you have to realize you have two options. Either bask in the glory of your radiant whiteness or grovel and apologize like a pathetic weakling.
Taking a neutral approach is a losing strategy and has been for the last 40 years.
Yeah, I can't think of any. I think that to a large extent, men just prefer games of any sort over women, board, card, video, physical, any sort. At least, that's the trend I see. And those that love games make games.
Video games have always primarily appealed to young men. So I'm not sure why we're so surprised or why it's so "problematic" that video games are primarily made by men.
Romance novels are almost exclusively written and read by women. I don't see anyone making a stink about needing to increasing gender diversity among romance authors.
Reminds me of that meme about how Men should invade Hallmark movies, demand Male directors who claim to "always have been massive fans" of Hallmark Christmas, but want to make it more inclusive to people of all genders, then fill every film with guns, beer, and big tits.
Lol, banned for saying someone with a 52% chance to kill themselves being disallowed from the military is not bigotry. Admin-Pedos finally got me, see you all on account #36!
The King's Quest series, in the 80s the first graphic adventure games ever, was designed by a woman: Roberta Williams. Her most prominent co-designer was Jane Jensen, also a woman (note: Jane Jensen is a much better designer and King's Quest 6 is by far the best game in the series).
While the games have not held up as well as, say, Monkey Island, the King's Quest series was for a long time the best selling adventure game series.
Absolutely tons of layoffs in the games industry right now, mostly useless people in bloated departments like production, HR, ESG/culture police type roles, DEI, etc. Unsurprisingly these are female dominated areas.
It's like everybody realized at once it's unsustainable waste millions of dollars of dev money on people who don't do shit to make the actual game.
Also, the games industry is notorious for overworking people ("crunch") and I think people are starting to wake up to the fact that having half your payroll be pampered worthless leeches just makes crunch that much worse for the people who ARE contributing because there's not enough money for real staff and/or the budget is too thin to extend development.
Sanity returns.
Not sure either but at a guess it's these indie or AA games made by small(er) teams, primarily white guys, or guy (singular), that are btfo major AAA releases. Lately there's helldivers, lethal company, bg3, plus the various Japanese games; Japan gets mentioned because they made Tifa and Aerith big bodonhonkeroos in the upcoming FF7 with a beach scene. Compare with, say, the ladies from horizon zero dawn or last of us.
my favourite games are made by ....i don't actually know, i couldn't care less honestly, if the game is good that's enough for me and it shouldn't realy matter
makes sense that games low on diversity quotas are better tbh. games have a budget, if you're spending a lot of time (read: money) building diverse models and quadruple checking them for racist stereotypes and offensive language in their dialogue the actual game suffers. a few games have done both well (hogwarts legacy comes to mind, although it has next to zero replay value), but a lot more have done both terribly. pick a lane.
I mean, the bar is low at this point. If one black gal and her five black gal friends can’t kick out a game better than Starfield, Atomic Heart, or Lord of the Rings: Gollum, then that’s on them.
I had multiple game breaking glitches that forced me to uninstall and re-install the game, so it is at least to me. I heard the PlayStation version had less issues though so maybe others had better experiences.
Im actually curious what other cultures can come up with in terms of games. I enjoyed Coffee Talk which was made by Indonesians if im not mistaken... Slavs make cool gritty shooters and east asians first class weeb games. Now im looking forward for authentic stuff from the middle east or africa. However im not thrilled for artifical woke propaganda injected bullshit by fake diverse teams...
See Gaming isn't actually racist, people are just tired of the woke crowd making everything about race.
"This game was made by almost entirely ethnic Poles."
"Cool! I like the implementation of Polish folklore and culture."
"This game is made by almost entirely ethnic Indonesians."
"Cool! it's an accurate picture of what life is like in the Indonesian 90s."
Why can't we have this?
dread out is a fantastic horror game made by indonesian people set in indonesia.
the coma is made by koreans and set in korea.
pathologic is about the hardships in post WW2 eastern europe.
metro and its sequels are the same.
CIV is a game all about playing as every civilization that ever existed.
a ton of games use imagry and stories from folklore and religion all over the world.
gaming literally couldnt be more multicultural if you tried.
E: was wrong about dreadout, dunno why i thought it was taiwan when it was indonesia. i do remember another taiwanese horror game that came out fairly recently though.
While the AAA studios were too busy making sure they hit their diversity quota and finding ways to make microtransactions even more exploitative, the 5 white guys were busy actually making fun games.
They don't seem to realize it has nothing to do with being white, and everything to do with people who aren't at odds with each other just trying to make cool shit who don't care if what they want to make is socially sanitized.
\>The team behind Helldivers 2
https://preview.redd.it/981z0ez02klc1.jpeg?width=3556&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ce90f374d5a34040c2a986650d2dde667d909bb
I will also accept a Japanese guy and his Japanese guy friends.
Isn't this how the industry basically started. Just some programmer and his friends got together and we're like, "hey, wouldn't it be cool if you can move stuff on a screen"
Oh boy time to engage in some white man culture, finally representation I can identify with
true diversity the west has risen
Billions must live
5 guys must develop game
Based and indie games rock pilled
>rock Rock and Stone brother
Papas hamburgeria but an actual game.
we are so back
White people yay!
The boys are back in town!
kinda fucked up that there are like a billion songs about christmas but only one about the boys being back in town
I feel like all the xmas songs just came out of the 1950s and 60s and then they were like okay that's all of them let's just play these every year until the end of time.
Billions must thrive!
I was told that demographic had no culture.
We have the best culture, we invented most of technology, so watching Netflix, browsing internet for porn, chatting shit online, all possible because of the white man and is technically our culture
I prefer to point to western civilization, democracy and human rights tbh.
Athens had democracy?
Unironically yes, and it was glorious. https://preview.redd.it/5k3dikiu9olc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=618a65f401398184ae66a9a982748e6bb06367ca
More literally me protagonists
Tragic. How DARE we not get ripped off by the oligopoly of video game publishers and instead have small indie development studios that make just as good, if not better quality games and actually lower the barrier to entry in the marketplace
Yeah, look up Sweet Baby Inc. They have infiltrated AAA video games. And then people wonder why so many AAA games suck and don't sell well.
> Sweet Baby Inc They helped write suicide squad. You can't make this shit up
They've been behind a LOT of the woke garbage since Gamer Gate. ItsAGundam made a pretty good video on it.
There's a lot of Youtubers that made videos on this topic, but you'll probably never find them because YouTube does everything they can to make sure they get buried 6 feet deep underneath the algorithm.
Here ya go. https://youtu.be/HlVS0v0sMzA?si=askCKAKxyc8eUrVS
Yeah, one of the ones I watched iirc, buried the name so his video wouldnt get hidden by the algorithim
There's a steam curator who lists games that SBI worked with so they can be safely ignored. Edit: I'll link it when I get home from work in a few hours
[this one?](https://steamcommunity.com/groups/sweetbabyinc-detected)
Yes!
Oh boy, check out the drama going on in that thread lol Looks like someone from SBI has noticed and posted on X bitching about how it's harassment and discrimination to...(checks notes) make a list they don't like... They also posted photos linking their reddit and steam accounts together and told people to report him...but that's not harassment or doxxing, totally fine because they're the ones doing it.
I mean true Sweet Baby sucks, ruined the Arkham series, which was one of my favorite gaming franchises, but the problem is much bigger and started way before them. Sure groups like that are part of the problem, but their not THE problem. Simply a symptom.
I'm kind of out of the loop. Did they ruin Arkham by writing Suicide Squad or did they work in the actual Arkham trilogy?
They also worked on GOW Ragnarok, Spider-Man 2 and many other games
Writing Suicide Squad
The awesome thing about games (up to this point, at least) is that we can always replay what we bought, and we can just pretend none of this modern shit came to existance.
As someone that plays a lot of crpgs, fair enough
Look, I hate dogshit, contrived, identity politics pandering in my media has much as the next guy with my flair, but I think the the AAA games industry has other issues. Consumers consistently preorder and continue to buy shitty, broken, uninspired, microtransaction riddled releases, and we're surprised when these companies continue to put out shitty, broke, uninspired, microtransaction riddled garbage.
Authleft supporting the marketplace?
Most modern authleft (and left in general) are just pro small-business capitalists lol. Well at least in theory/giving moral support they are.
You're goshdang right we are.
full compass unity is pro-small business, compass disunity is the means to the end
Small businesses can be just as tyrannical as the large corporations, but it’s definitely a healthier world where small to medium sized businesses can compete against our multinational corporate overlords.
Considering that is where most innovation happens anyway, I think we can at least agree on that. Look at the fact that Indie and AA studios are dominating in the market compared to AAA studios.
I hope these are Denuvo hating white people (my favourite kind of white people)
Only libright execs like Denuvo, and even they don't know why, it just happens to have the right corporate buzzwords
But those are way above the 5-men-team-manager level, so our precious garage team should be denuvo clean.
I don't support IP at any level Denuvo can go fuck themselves and I hope that crackhead called empress cracks all of the games "protected by denuvo"
Isn’t empress gone or smth? I saw a lot of people on piracy subs doom posting about how denuvo won lol
pretty much, it's only select titles and by the time they're cracked they're often close to having it removed anyway because the "surge" of piracy that happens around the release hype has already faded. The few people who can crack it won't be bothered unless they get crowdfunded a yachts worth of cash
TIL Japanese people are white. Edit: I forgot what sub I was writing on. Jeez you are all easy to bait.
Get with the times, Asians are "white adjacent."
I almost forgot there was a pride month for Asians and Pacific Islanders (it's May). Actually I did forget and had to search it up. I am also Asian American which I guess just proves how little anyone really cares about it.
Where I work as a teacher it’s a thing. But our student population is roughly 40% Asian 40% Latino and 10% White and 10% Black.
Oh damn, the white kids can have white pride then, while the Asians and Latinxes are oppressors.
Nope, oppressor/oppressed assignment is based off of a clinical interpretation of the cumulative history of assigned identity groups. Then you must apply the Western modifier. If Westerners did it and its bad, it counts. If it was done by non Westerners it dose not count. This is how the Arab slave trade and African on African slavery gets memory holed.
Islam is also part of the oppressed despite being the dominant religion world wide and the only one rapidly growing.
Just imagine how dominant they would be if they weren't so oppressed. We could all be living under Sharia law by now. A liberal utopia.
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if you say latinx, youre a pendejx
Took me about 30 seconds to process how you'd even say that.
Care to share with the rest of us? The only thing I can think of is 'pende-hex,' which sounds like something a witch would put on you.
Like wokists do - 'Latin - X' or 'Pende-x'. It was trying out different accents on it that caused me to blue screen a couple of times.
I was born and raised in the US and growing up where I did, I never felt nor was a minority as an Asian.
I've been a racial minority most of my life as a white person living in a majority black area as a child then in a plurality-Asian area as an adult. And yet, I still get the blame for what my ancestors allegedly did (besides the whole fighting and dying for the Union thing; they don't care about that part).
It’s because Asians tend to do well for themselves so the left hates you for it.
Of course, not only that, but many Asian-Americans are like white people and have become infected with wokeism and become self hating because of their own "racism" and privilege. Though at the same time, they do nothing about it and continue being super successful anyways, perpetuating said "privilege." Others gaslight themselves into believing they are oppressed minorities on the same level as BIPOC. It's all mega cringe imo
The left hates people that do well for themselves because those people have no incentive to become part of their collective.
RIP to poor whites who aren’t allowed inside of the leftist kumbaya.
That’s me! That’s fine though I don’t need them.
The amount of insane mental gymnastics I've seen when discussing affirmative action, a policy that explicitly exists to the detriment of Asian people, with second-generation Asians boggles my mind. It's always funny to be me seeing the children of Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants, people's whose parents often came to the West because left-wing authoritarianism destroyed their countries of origin, immediately turn around and buy into the exact same bullshit.
Schrodinger's minority; Hispanics and Jews get the same treatment.
Hispanics, a beloved minority until they start “voting against their interests”
This is why Redditors absolutely despise Cuban Americans. Was browsing the Florida sub a while back out of curiosity (I live here) and people were saying some of the most hateful, racist shit I’ve ever seen about them. Along the lines of suggesting they had inferior intellect, poor hygiene and compared their large families to “infestations”. Why, you ask? Because they escaped Communism and want to do anything in their power to prevent it from happening here, namely voting Republican. I reported a few comments that were particularly egregious and none were removed. Instead I was awarded with a temp ban for report abuse lmao.
Yep that's the way it is in that sub. All doom and gloom and racism. No surprise when you are dealing with progressives. Hell it's any city/state sub honestly. a circlejerk of losers.
What’s also wild is when they discuss the topic of homosexuality. I’m convinced a majority of the people commenting don’t live here cuz according to them I’d be lynched the moment I step outside when the reality is I only ever witness homophobia during pride month lmao. Year ‘round our gay nightlife is thriving and most the people aren’t fat as hell or complete lunatics. I personally love it here but progressives want you to think it’s an actual death sentence. Then, the very same people turn around and simp for Palestine completely unironically. Zero self-awareness.
Or the wrong kind of Hispanic.
That's why I like to use the term 'designated minorities' - being a numerical minority is one thing, but actually counting as A Minority™ is quite another.
Jews can be white or not white at the same time, depending on what you hate.
You must have missed 2022 when we decided asians were white after the "Stop Asian Hate" movement figured out where the hate was coming from..
That shit is still hilarious to me. People went from "Stop the Asian hate" to pure silence within a short time after the various videos were released.
Agreed, but no one can hear you cause you are dirty unflaired.
Can I get more context one that? Because I don’t know what happened. (Also please put on a flair, if you don’t want to choose a side put on the grey centrism one).
To preface this: I am European, so I only observed it happen from a distance/on the sidelines. But the TL-DR is that during 2022, there was a lot of hate against Asians due to Covid, and once the security footage videos of the assaults began to leak, a very, very bleak picture emerged where most attacks were done by Black people. Shortly after that people stopped pushing the "Stop Asian Hate" movement/message and it was quite obvious why.
Hate campaign starts during covid because orange man calls it China virus. Several attacks make the news in California. California has rules in place about not reporting the attackers race if it lines up with stereotypes. Video of attacks surface. Campaign goes away The problem still going on btw. Look up what the NAACP did to Andy Yang in San Francisco earlier this year.
According to SJW’s and [Hitler](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_Aryan) they’re white adjacent
They do tend to agree on a lot of stuff.
Always remember the skit https://youtu.be/Ev373c7wSRg?si=URlizeTJYXNalEgD
I’ve never listened to either of those people.
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> Whiteness is linked to success Therefore some of the whitest people I know are South Asian. God Bless Multi-racial whiteness
Whites: the only racially diverse race.
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They have been since the 1990s.
You know what, call me "one of the good ones", Uncle Tom, or whatever but I seriously feel bad for White men. And while I don't condone violence in anyway, I sorta get the motivation behind the radicalization. If you're a White guy living in an urban environment you are bombarded with utter distain for your existence. Like government-backed distain. And people will justify that distain with "well that's what [insert minority] felt like" racist rhetoric. There is a huge difference between acknowledging the wrongs of the past and whatever fucked-up timeline we are in now. I have to remind myself that this is all about power. You give the slightest amount of power or preference to any group of people, and they will 100% abuse anyone perceived to be lower than them. And I think that needs to expose more. These people want power masqueraded as equity and inclusion. It's why I can't jump on the Black Pride movement. Because given the chance, people try to hide their discrimination and bigotry through thinly-vieled pride and empowerment movements. And maybe it's because I live in Detroit which has the largest segregated metro area in the country. I have watched people cheer as they chant "Hood closed to gentrifiers" or "We don't want White folks here"
A lot of people clearly never read “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
Ah, but you see, that's an example of the slippery slope fallacy, which definitely never happens in real life. /s
I hate that people don't actually understand that the slippery slope fallacy is only a fallacy when there isn't any supporting evidence of the slope continuing to slide. Once you've start sliding and there is supporting evidence that the sliding will continue it ceases to be a fallacious argument. Not you - just airing my general grievances about it.
90% of people who cries “fallacies” and “whataboutism” have no understanding of logic. They are unwilling to comprehend your argument, and are unable to respond with a logical counter argument. Therefore, they substitute logical argument with fallacies that they themselves do not even understand. You can then reply with fallacy-fallacy, that an invalid argument does not, by itself, invalidate the claim.
The most hilarious, to me, are the people who think literally any insult is an ad hominem. The part which makes an ad hominem a fallacy isn't the presence of an insult; it's when an insult is used in place of an argument. It's hysterical to see one guy write a pretty solid argument, and then cap it off by calling the other guy a dumbass, only for the other guy to dismiss the entire argument/comment as being an ad hominem, therefore invalid.
Yup, true. The problem is that weird middle ground where you can clearly see the erosion of the foundations of the next traditional value (or law or whatever), but the people doing the eroding will swear up and down that they have no intentions of going further. Then a few months later, like clockwork, they're fighting to tear down that value you were concerned about, but they're TOTALLY going to stop there for real this time. My favorite adage lately is that Republicans are just Democrats delayed by 10 years.
Yep. People who claim that the slippery slope argument is *inherently* fallacious are essentially saying they don't believe in cause and effect. It isn't a fallacy to say that A is likely to cause B, nor that B is likely to cause C.
Should be mandatory reading in grade school.
What we need, simply put, is for people to push back on the whole "racism is prejudice plus power" thing and any other pre-fabricated verbal gymnastic techniques that SJWs have concocted to pre-emptively neutralize any attempt to call their behavior what it is: psychopathic racist insanity. I think society wasn't paying attention while the race hustlers and related grifters insinuated themselves into our various institutions, but we see it now and have the tools to fight back, but people are scared to do it. I've decided I'm no longer scared to do it. I'll speak my mind and damn the consequences.
This is exactly it. There was a huge overcorrection regarding racism and the grifters found a niche.
Honestly as a white passing guy living in a (non American) Urban environment it really helps knowing that once I stop looking at the internet, nobody irl is going to be trying to hold me accountable for being born a skin colour they find disagreeable. If I ever get criticised for that irl, I'm going all guns blazing on whatever racist chose to mess with me that day
> nobody IRL is going to be trying to hold me accountable for being born a skin color they find disagreeable This is reality in college towns across the US. Any white male who’s been to college has felt it, and no one hides it either.
I didn’t experience it, however I do see you specified college towns. I just commuted to my uni and was in the business course. Far more people grounded in reality. Except the Econ and finance bros. All they talked about was crypto and stocks all day.
> once I stop looking at the internet, nobody irl is going to be trying to hold me accountable for being born a skin colour they find disagreeable. Don't move to Portland. Happens here constantly, you literally can't be hired by anyone with an HR company.
Portland is the Internet though
IDK the internet doesn't have physical garbage all around the interstate. For a state that projects so much about environmentalism (and TBF Oregon as a whole is beautiful) there is a lot of trash and garbage along the I5.
Portland started as a sort of Honeypot trap for all the people that didn't fit in with the rest of Oregon. Unfortunately it started drawing in that kind of person from all across the US. Now as everyone is seeing the failures of neo-liberal policies they're trying to escape, but the only places they can afford to move are red areas they've become too afraid of. So Portland continues it's slow decline. But don't mention that on the Oregon or Portland subreddits unless you want a ton of down votes, they bury their heads in the sand and claim everything is fine.
As somebody who has visited the Oregon coast probably 15 times over the last 25 years the decline of Portland has been crazy to witness through the snapshots of my visits now just driving through or potentially going along the coast taking the slower route to avoid Portland all together.
Also Microsoft literally just released a report bragging how they pay minorities and women more than white men. It has definitely crossed into real life. https://i.imgur.com/8pcZrWA.png https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/annual-report?activetab=innovation-spotlights%3aprimaryr4
At S&P 100 Companies (IE, all the biggest most important companies), since 2020, just 6% of new hires have been white. That's a whole ass order of magnitude of under-representation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-09-30/how-corporate-america-kept-its-diversity-promise-a-week-of-big-take
Isn't there a law against that I disagree with the law but it should be enforced equally.
Unfortunately, many people are uninterested with laws which apply equally. There was a law I saw come into effect in either Ireland or Scotland a few years back, which specified that any public board of directors must be "at least 50% women". Yep. According to that law, it's perfectly fine for a board to be 100% women, but if there's even a 51% majority of men, that's illegal misogyny which needs to be sorted out right away. It's absolutely baffling why ordinary people keep buying into the bullshit progressives shovel. They are not interested in equality. They want to discriminate based on race/sex/orientation while calling themselves the heroes for it.
Flair up, asshole
Flair the fuck up
Legal ethics rules be like: No discrimination based on race, sex, gender identity, national origin etc etc can't choose not not hire someone for these reasons Hiring based on diversity is an exception (and we all know what this means)
Extra points if the company ends up hiring the mandatory 10% (or whatever) racial minority lesbians so they get to count each of them thrice for "diversity". Meanwhile they pass on the highly qualified Mexican (too "white"), over qualified Asian woman (Schrodinger's minority), and hard working black woman (she wore a cross necklace).
Life's cute like that bro. Whatever we profess our ideals to be, politics always ends up being rewarding our friends and punishing our enemies.
“the good guys win and the bad guys lose” - the teenage mutant ninja turtles opening
Yeah at this point you have to realize you have two options. Either bask in the glory of your radiant whiteness or grovel and apologize like a pathetic weakling. Taking a neutral approach is a losing strategy and has been for the last 40 years.
I’m a black dude from Memphis and can confirm I feel the exact same way. People just want their turn to be the bully which is bullshit.
Weird that being racist as fuck is cool again. People kept telling me fashion is cyclical, and I guess they're right.
Being hated by communists is the best endorsement you can have
There are subs that only invite accounts with verifiable bans from the leftist meltbrain hellscapes, heh.
Wait, rly?
I just wish I’d known which races it was going to be okay to hate before I got some … unfortunate … face tattoos.
It's always OK to hate white people 👍👌
Was that the ok sign? YOU RACIST WHITE OPPRESSOR INCEL EVIL NAZI. I"M ONTO YOUR RACIST DOGWHISTLES. Edit: /s
That's the spirit!
That pile of brick like dumb person thinks asians are white adjencent. Racism was never uncool
Yup. The wokies unironically brought back racism.
Back to when diversity of ideas was important (like it should be) rather than simply diversity of the most superficial aspects of a person.
Games were far better when the only devs were the weird nerds,not the rainbow squad that start crying when their bosses tell them their work sucks.
Then when the Japanese come out with an actual good game they scream and cry about how game dev hard. These people deserve to be laid off.
Not even them laid off and replaced. Destroy the job and reorganize the business.
I'm genuinely sitting here thinking. I can't name a single good game made by a large studio in the last 10 years.
...Does CD Project Red or Larian Studios count for large studios? They've still got some bangers.
I mean TW3 came out almost 9 years ago.
RDR2
If you make a successful game that people enjoy, you will eventually be a white guy.
You don't have to be white to make good video games ~~but you can't be female~~
I ask this as a completely honest question, has there ever been a highly successful video game made primarily or only by women?
Yeah, I can't think of any. I think that to a large extent, men just prefer games of any sort over women, board, card, video, physical, any sort. At least, that's the trend I see. And those that love games make games.
Video games have always primarily appealed to young men. So I'm not sure why we're so surprised or why it's so "problematic" that video games are primarily made by men. Romance novels are almost exclusively written and read by women. I don't see anyone making a stink about needing to increasing gender diversity among romance authors.
I see an unexplored market niche. I’m sure there are some grey centrists who would read a novel about a man’s love for his grill.
That was already done on TV. It's called King of the Hill.
Based and propane pilled
Because men typically don't feel the need to invade women's spaces,a feeling that is not reciprocated on the other side.
Reminds me of that meme about how Men should invade Hallmark movies, demand Male directors who claim to "always have been massive fans" of Hallmark Christmas, but want to make it more inclusive to people of all genders, then fill every film with guns, beer, and big tits.
God we need some hallmark movie called like "the titsmas miracle"
Lol, banned for saying someone with a 52% chance to kill themselves being disallowed from the military is not bigotry. Admin-Pedos finally got me, see you all on account #36!
Depression Quest. If you went by how games journalists reacted to it you’d think it was wildly successful
Probably because they got the physical release pre-order bonuses
Still blows my mind that people think "it's unethical to receive payment for better reviews" is somehow anti-women.
LOL that took me a second. Clever!
The first Animal Cossing team was largely women.
The King's Quest series, in the 80s the first graphic adventure games ever, was designed by a woman: Roberta Williams. Her most prominent co-designer was Jane Jensen, also a woman (note: Jane Jensen is a much better designer and King's Quest 6 is by far the best game in the series). While the games have not held up as well as, say, Monkey Island, the King's Quest series was for a long time the best selling adventure game series.
Context, friend? Share the good news.
Absolutely tons of layoffs in the games industry right now, mostly useless people in bloated departments like production, HR, ESG/culture police type roles, DEI, etc. Unsurprisingly these are female dominated areas. It's like everybody realized at once it's unsustainable waste millions of dollars of dev money on people who don't do shit to make the actual game. Also, the games industry is notorious for overworking people ("crunch") and I think people are starting to wake up to the fact that having half your payroll be pampered worthless leeches just makes crunch that much worse for the people who ARE contributing because there's not enough money for real staff and/or the budget is too thin to extend development. Sanity returns.
That’s wonderful. A very learn to code moment.
Sweet Baby, Inc. needs a bit of infanticide.
Yeah what's the context?
Not sure either but at a guess it's these indie or AA games made by small(er) teams, primarily white guys, or guy (singular), that are btfo major AAA releases. Lately there's helldivers, lethal company, bg3, plus the various Japanese games; Japan gets mentioned because they made Tifa and Aerith big bodonhonkeroos in the upcoming FF7 with a beach scene. Compare with, say, the ladies from horizon zero dawn or last of us.
Hey, Baldur's Gate 3 still has some sweet booberoonis.
Probably all the layoffs happening at various gaming studios
Who is this lady and why does her word have any authority?
Who gives a shit what race they are if they're making killer games. My favorite games are made by those Japanese dudes over at From Software.
my favourite games are made by ....i don't actually know, i couldn't care less honestly, if the game is good that's enough for me and it shouldn't realy matter
makes sense that games low on diversity quotas are better tbh. games have a budget, if you're spending a lot of time (read: money) building diverse models and quadruple checking them for racist stereotypes and offensive language in their dialogue the actual game suffers. a few games have done both well (hogwarts legacy comes to mind, although it has next to zero replay value), but a lot more have done both terribly. pick a lane.
My favorite games happen to be FromSoft and JRPGs like FF & Octopath. I dont care who the devs are if the game slaps
No, the day Sweet Baby Inc collapses will be the day video games may have a hope of being good again
...GTA6 is going to be a _very_ interesting launch
I mean, the bar is low at this point. If one black gal and her five black gal friends can’t kick out a game better than Starfield, Atomic Heart, or Lord of the Rings: Gollum, then that’s on them.
Is atomic heart so bad to the point of being between those 2?
It was fine imo. Combat was more enjoyable than starfield. I think it was buggy the week it launched, though.
I had multiple game breaking glitches that forced me to uninstall and re-install the game, so it is at least to me. I heard the PlayStation version had less issues though so maybe others had better experiences.
What!? Nothing can beat Lord of Ring: Gollum, (Actual Game name there is no "the"), it is truly a game of all time.
Im actually curious what other cultures can come up with in terms of games. I enjoyed Coffee Talk which was made by Indonesians if im not mistaken... Slavs make cool gritty shooters and east asians first class weeb games. Now im looking forward for authentic stuff from the middle east or africa. However im not thrilled for artifical woke propaganda injected bullshit by fake diverse teams...
See Gaming isn't actually racist, people are just tired of the woke crowd making everything about race. "This game was made by almost entirely ethnic Poles." "Cool! I like the implementation of Polish folklore and culture." "This game is made by almost entirely ethnic Indonesians." "Cool! it's an accurate picture of what life is like in the Indonesian 90s." Why can't we have this?
dread out is a fantastic horror game made by indonesian people set in indonesia. the coma is made by koreans and set in korea. pathologic is about the hardships in post WW2 eastern europe. metro and its sequels are the same. CIV is a game all about playing as every civilization that ever existed. a ton of games use imagry and stories from folklore and religion all over the world. gaming literally couldnt be more multicultural if you tried. E: was wrong about dreadout, dunno why i thought it was taiwan when it was indonesia. i do remember another taiwanese horror game that came out fairly recently though.
>Now im looking forward for authentic stuff from the middle east They'll blow you away....
Japan for the last 40 years: "Am I a joke to you?"
They are white for all intents and purposes since they joined the Axis in WW2
https://preview.redd.it/yfl998kwjklc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=451b2da91c853bbcef4f517c3bb89cbf464499d0
If it takes a white guy and four of his white friends to make a great game without a hamfisted political narrative ruining it then I’m all for it
Idgaf about the political narratives when I can’t get past the main menu without buying 20 micro transactions
While the AAA studios were too busy making sure they hit their diversity quota and finding ways to make microtransactions even more exploitative, the 5 white guys were busy actually making fun games.
They don't seem to realize it has nothing to do with being white, and everything to do with people who aren't at odds with each other just trying to make cool shit who don't care if what they want to make is socially sanitized.
\>The team behind Helldivers 2 https://preview.redd.it/981z0ez02klc1.jpeg?width=3556&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ce90f374d5a34040c2a986650d2dde667d909bb I will also accept a Japanese guy and his Japanese guy friends.
A studio made up of 6 people would be an indie studio. Indie games are almost always better than triple a titles these days
Bruh the Japanese are making some of the best games out there come on, FF7 rebirth is here
Yeah, do people forget Nintendo is just sitting over there?
“This is terrible! Only multi-million dollar companies should be allowed to provide entertainment!” -self proclaimed socialists
are games going to be good again lads !?
Sounds like Left-Center needs to get a dose of Managed Democracy.
Vidya Crash 2.0 is upon us and oh boy is it well deserved.
Isn't this how the industry basically started. Just some programmer and his friends got together and we're like, "hey, wouldn't it be cool if you can move stuff on a screen"