I quit browsing r/gcj a while back after seeing someone get upvoted to the top of their daily discussion thread for their hot take that cyberbullying the U.S Army Esports twitch account is morally wrong because its probably run by some poor kid who was forced into the military by circumstances and surely itsn't responsible for what the military does. I think they compared it to yelling at a retail worker for their store's items being too expensive lmao
Glad to see its still the same den of faux-radical liberalism that it was back then
At the end of the day, no matter how not terrible their politics are, they are still g*mers.
probably run by some poor kid who was forced into the military by circumstances
He Was Just Following Orders, you guys. :-p
I think they compared it to yelling at a retail worker for their store’s items being too expensive lmao
I mean, more comparable to yelling at an entry level marketing/sales rep.
And while I agree that's sort of a shit thing to do individually, I'd argue the world would be a better place if Sales Reps were more openly reviled and discriminated against than pimps or street dealers.
don't you hate it when the boss tells you to bomb a village and some 12 year old KAREN asks to speak to your manager because you "killed their parents." Like I'm sorry honey, but whose idea do you think that was?
Yeah it kinds of reminding me of Chick Fil A getting so much attention when realistically McDonalds is terrorizing the Amazon more and is more powerful. There aren't really good fast food corporations
Honestly wasn't going to bother checking the post, so yeah that's hilariously cringe thanks for filling me in
I think it comes down to a question of how blatant it is. If you try to eat nothing that involved horrifying human rights abuses, you'd have an empty fridge. With games you have options hat involve far less human suffering and aren't inherently antisemitic while funding a massive transphobia campaign. I think we should also work on boycotting soda too though. One step at a time hopefully.
Just fyi JK Rowling was bragging on twitter recently about all the royalties she makes from Harry Potter merch. Stop giving her your hard earned cash. THERE’S BETTER BOOKS OUT THERE.
I'm not sure how this could disagree with my point at all, which was that food has leeway entertainment does not.
Meh. Its /r/gamingcirclejerk not /r/treatsforgeeks.
Also, I boycott Coca Cola because its a toxic sludge that destroys my body's ability to create insulin. The death squads stuff is practical incidental.
Might as well judge people on the model of gun they use to play Russian Roulette.
You're either pro concept of nuance, or you're against it. There's no in-between.
I am radically pro-nuance. Marx was in favor of "ruthless criticism of all things," not just some things, all, and there is absolutely no room for insufficiently nuanced critiques. "Some topics are just cut-and-dry." Wall. "There's no point getting caught up in the reeds if it doesn't translate into some kind of action." Wall. "If everyone's preoccupied with aligning with a special little take, we might lose sight of the fundamental points we agree on." Wall "I agree that we should be pro-nuance, but maybe we should put anti-nuance people into reeducation camps instead of shooting them." Wall. There must be zero tolerance for anti-nuance sentiment.
Any recommendations for nuanced circlejerk subreddits?
Glass houses and all since most of our userbase came from Reddit, but that's the most Reddit sentence I've ever read
Based gcj mods. Ban everyone who said anything nice to this prick ever. Can we lure him to :hexbear-retro: and ban him here too?
I still can't get how they correctly understand Rowling's terrible political views are a liability, then turn around and accept whatever kind of script these guys showed them. They might as well hand the IP to David Cage.
That could actually be a good idea. David Cage's games have been steadily improving from raw sewage (Omikron), to dogshit (Fahrenheit, Heavy Rain), to bad (Beyond: Two Souls), to, finally, bungling (Detroit). His next game might cross the threshold into good territory if he keeps it up.
At least Cage had the sense not to make putting down a slave revolt the hero path.
I still think it's hilarious that anyone takes such a garbage writer seriously though.
Isn't there a scene where the main character in Beyond Two Souls assassinated an elected leader in Africa for the CIA or something.
When she learns the truth or whatever she's horrified so it's not quite the same but still
well they knew ppl accepting of trans ppl wouldnt play the game so they prob just decided to full out cater to chuds
Not sure if I'm happy to see a Hexbear person in the wild or annoyed that :reddit-logo: mods have an active presence on this site.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/zrpjlc/comment/j14hm04/
Post removed and comments locked. Real :freeze-gamer: moment.
Gamers: Nooooooo gimme my thinly veiled racist goblin strikebreaking simulator!!!!!!
