TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)

Tell that to your queer friends and family, or I dunno, women in your life?

Sucks to sucks peasants, dont trust dnc next time

So the lesson wasn’t ‘don’t trust the fascists’? Interesting.

I love Zowie mice because their shapes are incredible and they’re built like tanks. One of mine is 15 years old and I still use it for work.

Removed everything after the ampersand, thank you. O7

This video is actually shockingly relevant right now, and does go through (some of) the ‘hows’ and ‘whys’.

Remember that tradwife/incel/etc shit is all just fascism boiled down into specifics. The Nazi’s sent women who wouldn’t marry to camps just as easily as Jewish people, gypsies, etc. We think of the Fascist movement as specifically anti-Jewish people, maybe throw in some gay people/etc, but Unionists, Communists, Socialists, and Women were targeted as well.

The reason it works is because it offers easy answers, and the average person has been made to be so lazy they’ll accept what they’re told, especially if they’re told everyone else is doing it. They aren’t a Nazi, they’re part of the Nazi’s.

We also have a huge backlog of emotional baggage for men post the 1980’s. At some point we all accepted that men wouldn’t show any emotions except anger, rage, frustration, etc, and then kept doubling down on it. Now you have groups of young men fed directly into a pipeline of Facebook/Youtube/whatever platform that spoon feeds them fascist garbage. Why? Because it makes them tame and easier to control. You notice fascists aren’t out there killing rich people, they’re killing minorities? That’s by design, because the wealthy know they’re fucked if young men turn that rage against them, the real perpetrators of said poor people’s suffering.

The wealthy love fascism, it gives them everything they want. They don’t see the poor people below them as human, so it’s all just a giant menagerie to them so they can have their Line Go Up Faster than the other rich people.

I worked in the games industry for ~18 years, and the software for ~2. Due to the news of constant layoffs, friends and acquaintances from outside of the industry ask how many times I’ve been laid off, and this is how the chat goes.

As another poster said, we used words like pr0n, and one that I personally have never used either of that replaces the “er” ending of a word with “a.”

Hell, half of the time we used l33tsp33k was to avoid using specific words.

This is not a new thing.

Ok, I still don’t understand the ‘hill you’re dying on here.’ I don’t think anyone truly believed that Oblivion was the First Video Game Ever ™ with Microtransactions in it, I’m not sure that was the point, I’m fairly certain the point was how ludicrous it was to force people to pay for Horse Armour in their First Person game. It set off a series of discussions about whether or not this should be the way forward, people acquiesced, and it became standard.

Thus: “From the comments here I can see we learned nothing from Horse Armour.”

Because people are still defending predatory practices in the industry with ‘yeah but you can just grind to get…’ or ‘but you don’t have to…’

I will die on the hill of “Oblivion’s horse armor DLC was not the beginning of micro transactions”

Because it wasn’t. There were micro transactions for games long before the hore armor thing.

Such as? Are you saying you could pay a small amount for something in a game before this? Sure, it’s possible.

Also, horse armor was a one-time purchase for that mechanic.

Ok, and? As in it’s a small amount (micro) purchase for a thing?

I’m not sure exactly what hill you’re dying on here. That there was a game somewhere that had buyable things for small amounts of money before Oblivion? Sure, there may have been. And?

From the comments here I can see we learned nothing from Horse Armour.

“I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo.”