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Great, now I'm back into it. Thanks TC.
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Yeah, Betoota Advocate is a fairly new player in the "hamfisted satire website" niche. They're a few months old, to my knowledge - or at least that's how long it's been since I first saw them crop up on Facebook.

They have pretty funny headlines. I like seeing them around more than I like seeing The Onion.
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Cool. Less racists, Nazis and Nazi sympathisers in the world, the better.
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I dunno, any group that's down to fight Nazis is at least a little bit American. Definitely more American than Nazis.

I've said all I want to say to you. Have a good life - I hope you don't break out in hives the next time you see a black person wearing a bandanna.
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If Antifa and KKK/white supremacists are two wings of the same bird, then they'd be the wings of a bird that constantly uses its wings to try and cut off the opposing wing. In other words, it'd be a pretty shit bird.

Have fun indulging in your self-centred deflection circlejerk. I'm sure you'll get to the bottom of this somehow, despite being completely wrong.
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One last bump. When the OP hits "1 day ago", I'll take the poll as the end result.
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One last bump. Gonna remove it from my sig soon.
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His wit was legendary, his plays and sole novel (The Picture of Dorian Gray) are classics for good reason and the fairytales he wrote for his kids were emotionally mature while being fanciful enough for the imaginations of children. Have you ever heard about "The Prince and the Swallow"? I had a tape of fairytales with that on it, and it's a piece of art that became incredibly important as I grew up.

He was imprisoned for gross indecency with men, basically a charge for homosexuality, sentenced to hard labor, and he died destitute in Paris at the age of 46. The Picture of Dorian Gray was edited by Wilde to tone down or excise potential homoerotic themes when changed from a serial into a novel. He left two children behind, as he had children during his life and was married when imprisoned - the signs point to bisexuality rather than homosexuality.

His work, coming 200 years after Shakespeare, can still ring true today. Dorian Gray dealt with the corruption, moral indecency and enabled ignorance that comes with being a part of the upper class, and how one's physical beauty and good standing in society can hide degeneracy, awfulness and stupidity. He was one of the best essayists and playwrights of the late 19th century, and it's sad how his light was snuffed out by prison-time and illness that stemmed from it. May the errors of his time stay where they belong, and the great minds of today be better respected than he was.
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Sephiroth1288 posted...

Who was president when the alt-right began? When BLM started and began protesting the police by blocking ambulances? When students started advocating for segregation on campuses? When Antifa started beating up innocent people?

You really should be more careful when trying to make an equivalence like that. And lying about Trump not denouncing Nazis and other racists.

The Alt-Right began identifying as the Alt-Right around the same time Donald Trump started campaigning, though. They established their front and began what would become the Alt-Right during Trump's rise to power, to support Trump and shit on the "libby hippy leftist scum" who were into Hillary Clinton.

They're tied to Donald Trump. If he had never run, I sincerely doubt they would have grown this bold and entitled - they'd be the same bitterbeard basement dwelling fucks they always were, maybe supporting the republicans through memes but never pulling shit on the same level as Charlottesville. The Alt-Right, as we know it - if it would even exist - would be infinitely more inconsequential without Trump. Obama was the president when they began to pick up steam, but their existence and relevance are directly tied to Donald Trump.
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DreadedWave posted...

Honestly I just don't like South Park I have no idea how it plays, if that's your jam go for it.

It does play well, but do I want to prioritise it over the other three? That is the question.
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Bump
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As stated in the fifth poll option, I've posted this poll before. I didn't include South Park, though, and frankly I've forgotten the result of the first one. I think Tales of Symphonia might have won out.

Still, I thought I'd bring it back to CE. I'm done with Yakuza 4 now, so I have the room to start an RPG.

Of the four options, Suikoden 2 is the only game I haven't started to some degree. I tried Tales of Symphonia, and that opening dungeon plus the different gameplay turned me off at the time - though I'm willing to slog through the game and hopefully hit a groove with it. I started playing South Park with my friend and we never followed it up, so I'm willing to start a new game, and Atelier Totori felt a bit rough around the edges after 100% completing Atelier Ayesha so I dropped it to play more MGSV.

I have no preference as to which one I play first, though Suikoden 2 might need a bit of time. It's an exciting prospect, but I feel like I should cut down on other unfinished games before I dedicate a great amount of time to it. The first game was good fun, but I needed space to play it like I did.
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Yikes, sounds like a nightmare. Sorry you have to deal with such shitty people TC.

How does your girlfriend feel about all this? Is it going to put strain on the relationship?
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There are ongoing game series that make use of more powerful hardware later on. If you want to play those games, you need to upgrade.

The jump isn't as big as it used to be, but there is a reason. I understand not wanting to upgrade, though - the PS3 alone has access to more games than I know what to do with.
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jayj350 posted...

I feel like that is a 200 hour game at least

I would never get 100% completion.

The trophies, on the other hand, are do-able. All I need to do is learn how to play Mahjong.
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Nintendo stopped being a JRPG powerhouse with the PS1's release, and it never really regained that market share. The PSP is a sex machine when it comes to JRPGs, and now all the really Japanese games and turn-based RPGs are on Sony platforms.

But even then, it has a decent enough library - six Final Fantasy games, some Dragon Quest games, five Pokemon games plus a Mystery Dungeon game, some Breath of Fire games, Yggdra Union, Tactics Ogre, Golden Sun... it had an alright niche of ports, releases and original games. If you count Mega Man Battle Network as a strategy RPG (though a really unorthadox one at that), that's another series of like 6 games.
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Error1355 posted...

I'm about 20% through watching the Giant Bomb playthrough of Yakuza 0 and I really fucking love the style the game goes for.

I can't believe I never even thought of looking up this series.

Which ones were given western releases?

All of them except for most spin-offs. Yakuza 1 through 5 have localizations, as does 0, and the Yakuza 1 remake and Yakuza 6 are getting english releases as well. There's also a third person shooter involving zombies, but to my understanding it's mediocre at best and nearly killed the franchise in the west.

The only games that aren't coming over ever, to my knowledge, are a pair of PSP spinoffs and a pair of Japanese historical pastiche games.
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"open the car door and hang out of it by your seatbelt, and let your fingertips and/or knuckles lightly dust the ground as the car travels at 40 km/h"
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Yakuza is one of those series' that I remember coming across as a kid, not being able to get the games myself and subsequently missing out on. I played the first game's demo, and it was good fun - GTA was one thing, but the small snippet of beat 'em up gameplay and batting cage practice suggested a level of depth on Yakuza's part that was never present in GTA. Being more of a beat 'em up, it really had Urban Reign to live up to - but I never got the full game, and I didn't hear about the series for years afterwards.

Just about a month ago, Yakuza 4 went on sale on the PSN store. It was that or Yakuza 5 - I didn't play Yakuza 3, which I understand is a western fan favorite, because it wasn't a part of the sale. I didn't really care, because I heard about the Reminisce feature - maybe one day in the future I'll go back and play it, but I know enough from the Reminisce cutscenes to have gotten me by in Yakuza 4.

First off, the story. The story of this game is like the plot to a Fast and the Furious movie - there's an emphasis on family and togetherness, there's some heavy action moments that are counterbalanced with absolutely absurdity, there are a bunch of ridiculous twists and there's a truly ludicrous amount of money involved. You have four separate stories of revenge, hope and the pursuit of justice, with the four main characters staying true to a set of virtues and values that come across as subtly as a freight train and render (most) of them as stoic and cool as a Hollywood cowboy.

Along with the main plot, you have Substories - these are little storyline quests you do for rewards and XP. All four characters have their own set of Substories, and chances are they'll take up most of your time. I consider my playthrough "finished" because I beat all the Substories - even the bonus boss at the end of the game - and I racked up 50 hours just getting to that point.

The game is very Japanese, you have sentai suits and banchos and cute cartoon mascots. The characters aren't above a good hotblooded speech, and the values and virtues of the main characters are manly as fuck. The game is also pretty creepy towards women, the hostess club minigame has an ogling minigame (that's at least more tactful than Killer is Dead's Gigolo Mode) and the Hostess Maker minigame feels slimy. There's also a substory where a main character turns down a single mother for a loan, saying she doesn't have enough of a work ethic, because she isn't willing to work in a massage parlor to stay afloat. There's a point in what he's saying, but it felt pretty wrong to see your player-character turn away a struggling single mother because she didn't rush to work in a jack-off parlor.

The main gameplay aspect of the game is the beat 'em up aspect - you go up to assholes, a health bar appears after a small loading cutscene, you beat them until they're bloody and you get a reward from them or from a person you're doing a quest for. But that makes up half the gameplay at best. You have activities like golf, fishing, karaoke, bathing in a hot spring, ping pong, bowling, gambling, pachinko machines, arcade games and a fucking claw machine, and they all add up to 100% completion to my knowledge. I didn't even touch golf or fishing, outside of a single Substory, and I only ever touched on everything else when I was looking for a laugh. I got this game for $10, and the sheer wealth of gameplay it has justifies the purchase several times over.

And on a smaller note, the game doesn't have a massive skill curve if you're new to the game. The bonus boss will fucking annihilate your anus, but an absolute beginner could beat this game. That being said, there are several levels of difficulty and an equipment crafting service for the balls-hard difficulties, so everyone's happy.

To my knowledge, Yakuza 3 is said to be one of the best starting points to the series. I reckon that if you can't get 3, then 4 is a fucking amazing substitute. This is one of the best games I've played all year.
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TroutPaste posted...

MrMallard posted...

That's crazy. Can't wait to see the reactions to this, people are going to be calling her petulant and spoiled and shit because of this.

Has there been a social media "reset" this big yet? Is it going to become a trend after Ed Sheeran's exodus and this Twitter wipe? Shit, was it even Taylor Swift's doing - was she hacked?

She's probably tired of creepy comments. That's how every famous person talks, and she's AA-list, not just A-list. Nobody knows who I am, and I already find twitter annoying af

Well yeah. I sympathise with celebrities with massive Twitter followings, I was just listening to a Donald Glover interview where he mentioned that whole thing about people wanting him to be Spiderman. There was a Twitter profile dedicated to sending him death threats, threatening him and calling him the n-word if he even thought of asking for the role.

They're incredibly well-off compared to us simple-folk, but they deal with some heinous shit and I don't blame them for fucking off out of social media.
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That's crazy. Can't wait to see the reactions to this, people are going to be calling her petulant and spoiled and shit because of this.

Has there been a social media "reset" this big yet? Is it going to become a trend after Ed Sheeran's exodus and this Twitter wipe? Shit, was it even Taylor Swift's doing - was she hacked?
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Also:

Bullet_Wing posted...

There are many shades of white, and Mom’s-basement white is the least popular crayon in the box.

This is great.
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The latter half of that comment about communists killing 94 million people and this being some sort of payback? I can see someone on CE actually saying that, then bitching about being moderated because "i was just stating a historical fact! CommunistFAQs wants to destroy American history, but god forbid you call this shit out!" - glossing over the fact that they're calling the murder of a liberal protester some sort of divine payback against the communist ideology.

The comment as a whole, and the person saying it, seem a lot more openly unhinged and disgustingly hateful than CE has ever gotten away with, though. Fuck that guy. I hope he's never granted for another zoning permit again.
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Tmaster148 posted...

At this point the books have been out long enough and they even have movies based on them, that any spoilers regarding Harry Potter are fair game.

If you haven't read or seen Harry Potter at this point, it's on you.

I think TC's talking about when the final book leaked and people started throwing spoilers around online and in real life to ruin it for other people. Doing that shit back then was a shitty thing to do, and doing the same thing with today's media should be just as frowned upon and punished.

It'd be like talking about the part from the recently leaked Game of Thrones episode where Tyrion Lannister turns into a 50 foot mecha-dragon and fucks Jon Snow and Danaerys Targarean to death with his 90-inch robo-cock, without the spoiler tag, so everyone knows that he is actually a kaiju in disguise. No-one has seen the episode yet except a handful of people who saw it illegally, so posting unmarked spoilers for something that isn't meant to be out yet should be instantly bannable - accidentally spoiling something that's been out for a day is a dick move, but you're being a fuckass if you spoil leaked material and you should have your right to post revoked for your negligence.
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For a sec I thought you were talking about Anders Brehvik. In which case, I would have called you all manner of obscenities and possibly been modded.
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Depends if they're "red-pilled" or not.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

So, can someone explain what exactly is causing this much hype for this particular DBZ fighter game?

Like there are probably a dozen other DBZ fighters, but this one seems to have everyone frothing at the mouth for it, saying it'll put Tekken and SF to shame and stuff like that.

I think the guys behind Guilty Gear (Arc System Works) are doing this game.
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Well take a look at me now
I'm just an empty space
And there's nothing left here to remind me
Just the memory of your face
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Star Wars is making a big comeback because Disney is hyping it in the same way that they hype Marvel movies. You can compare The Force Awakens and the reigniting of the public flame of adoration to the MCU because they're being handled the same way. With that said, the way that uber fans and bitterbeard turbovirgins hailed it as the Best Thing Ever for years before that is truly ridiculous.

And while Ghostbusters 2016 ended up being mediocre at best, the second the project was announced - free of any pre-release screenshots and trailers - bitterbeard babies were crying about their childhoods being ruined. People like to say "It was the trailer! no-one complained until the shitty trailer!", but the backlash started as soon as the project went public. Even if their complaining was justified in any way to begin with, it was annoying and childish. I don't respect anyone who worships Ghostbusters as a hallmark of modern cinema - it's an alright movie, but being in your forties and screeching like a demon in the year of our lord 2016 because it's being ruined is not a good look. Lots of shit gets ruined by Hollywood, even fairly modern shit like Ratchet and Clank and Avatar: The Last Airbender. It's a shame, but you don't have to turn it into a progressiveness holy war, even if the film crew ended up taking the bait and responding.

There's something so unappealing about geek culture. I bought into it as an early teen, I liked Doctor Who and I was like "starwars... stormtroopers... haha" because I wanted to be The Geek. I broke out of that mold after watching the first season and a half of The Big Bang Theory, because I realized how shallow the jokes were and it disgusted me how people felt the show defined geek culture - let's drop a geek reference in relation to a character's penis size, or have an overly literal 30 year old man unironically state a Geek Thing and laugh at him for being so bad at social norms that he would ascribe it to modern life! It garnered a fanbase that defended the show, because they "got" the jokes and took an attack on Sheldon as an attack on themselves, and because of that "Geek Chic" crowd the show is a certified cash cow. Geek Culture latched onto that show and made it what it is, even if "true geek" types denounce it. That is what the quote-unquote "Geek" is - a sum of face-level references, a desire for a happy home life and a laugh track aimed at their inept handling of social norms. It's pathetic, and I hate how it's been co-opted as an appealing social life.
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You should play V. The story is fairly loose, you're basically like "Wow, we should do this thing! Time is of the essence, and all that!" and then you can dick around for a couple hours with the Jobs. The gameplay is tight, you don't necessarily have to grind but with all the Jobs available it is a delight for people who like grinding. The art is good, there are some good emotional moments, and the music is fucking rad. If you play it, you need to play up until you reach the Big Bridge. It's somewhere between 8-10 hours in, I think.

You should absolutely play it.
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The fart joke looks really mediocre and awful, but it is just a fart joke. People talk a mean game about hating fart jokes, but a genuine fart in the right context is killer. It's a shame that this one was, in essence, a stinker.

The fanservice is trashy, though. And after The Killing Joke's sex scene, and an alleged sex scene in this one, I don't particularly care for what Bruce Timm does with the animated movies.

It really is a bummer to see what's happened to the DC animated movies. They used to vary wildly in quality, but they were genuinely varied as movies - Batman Year One, Superman Doomsday and Batman: Under The Red Hood were all very different, and flawed in their own ways - I wasn't hot on Batman in Year One, and felt it should have been a solo Jim Gordon story, Superman Doomsday's Superman sounded like Peter Griffin and the animation came across as a bit primitive compared to the later movies, and Under the Red Hood is mostly a masterpiece except for maybe the Joker's voice (John DiMaggio does a good job, but you can hear hints of his other characters in there and it throws me off a bit). Ever since Justice League: War, the movies have sort of bled together and the characters carry over, so if you think a character is trash (like Damien Wayne or Meathead Superman from War) you're SOL. You have the Special Events every now and again like The Killing Joke, but it's not the same.

Even these cool DCAU throwbacks have unnecessary sex scenes in them. More violence, more adult themes? Cool. Characters you spent your childhood watching crawling into bed with each other for the sake of drama and/or a sleazy joke? Gross.
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I would eat so much chocolate. Then when I get sick of gorging on food and stocking up on non-perishables, I consider driving down to the coast and learning about boats so I could hopefully grab one, stock up on fuel and try to go to another country. Because other countries have more interesting types of food, and the scenery would be different.

Chances are I sail out to sea and die on the ocean because I have no fucking idea what I'm doing or where I'm going, and I didn't bring enough fuel. But if I got across to Indonesia, I could probably putter up the coast and find my way to mainland Asia.
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Yeah, they're well-known for using their shelters to kill animals. There's this fucked up "liberating them from the shackles of human greed" complex going on as far as I'm concerned.

There are dozens of environmental activism groups that do good work and aren't buttfuck crazy. Don't support PETA, and you probably shouldn't support Greenpeace either - both groups love to pull shitty publicity stunts and damage what they claim to be protecting.
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Kaliesto posted...

Actually making Goatthief a mod is a sane choice, he isn't really bad.

Only trolls are trying to make him look bad.

He's a pretty chill dude.
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spincr posted...

Tldr; all in all smart thinking, you know windows are going to shatter when antifa shows up.

Tldr; UtR demonstrators yelled anti-semetic slurs as they passed a synagogue and three armed demonstrators wearing fatigues stood across the street eyeing the place. Antifa didn't do shit.
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Four always wins. Fuck yes four.

At least if you pick the first one, you can push Bill Cosby around. He did some heinous shit in is heyday, but he's blind and frail now. Not like he's gonna get his pickle anywhere near you.
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I was told that this link was shared on CE already, but I can't find it. Hence why I'm making a topic dedicated to the article.

http://www.newsweek.com/charlottesville-police-refused-protect-synagogue-nazis-so-it-hired-armed-651260

The Jewish community in Charlottesville hired armed security to protect its synagogue for the first time after local police declined to provide a guard for the site despite hundreds of white supremacists congregating on the town over the weekend for a rally that resulted in the murder of counter-protester Heather Heyer.

Alan Zimmerman, president of the Congregation Beth Israel in the Virginia town, wrote a blog post published on Monday evening following the violent scenes on Saturday that resulted in a car-ramming attack that took place just 200 feet from the place of worship.

He described the fear he felt in the presence of white supremacists, who rallied around anti-Semitic slogans, as 40 members of the community prayed in the synagogue, without support from the local authorities.

The police department promised to provide “an observer” near the building but Zimmerman says it “was not kept” by the force, leaving the congregation vulnerable to assault as they worshipped.

“For half an hour, three men dressed in fatigues and armed with semi-automatic rifles stood across the street from the temple,” he wrote. “Had they tried to enter, I don’t know what I could have done to stop them, but I couldn’t take my eyes off them, either.”

Not only did armed protesters stand across from the synagogue, but neo-Nazis paraded past the building, shouting anti-Semitic slogans, a horrible reminder of Nazi Germany’s persecution and mass slaughter of European Jews.

“Several times, parades of Nazis passed our building, shouting, 'There's the synagogue!' followed by chants of 'Sieg Heil' and other anti-Semitic language. Some carried flags with swastikas and other Nazi symbols,” Zimmerman wrote.

This was before James Alex Fields Jr. plowed his car into protesters in the town, leaving a scene of carnage that has sparked outrage across the United States, and the wider western world.

The Jewish community has faced more incidents of hate crimes since the ascension of Donald Trump to the Oval Office. Jewish community centers have received bomb threats—many of which turned out to be from a Jewish man based in Israel—Jewish cemeteries have been desecrated and Trump himself has failed on several occasions to single out the white supremacists for censure, blaming violence “on both sides,” in reference to anti-racist protesters trying to stop Saturday's white supremacist march.

Zimmerman said the threat was not only on the ground, but online too. He learned that Nazi websites had posted a call to burn the synagogue after which the community leaders took “the precautionary step of removing our Torahs, including a Holocaust scroll, from the premises.”

Zimmerman told the Jewish worshippers that it would be better if they exited the synagogue by the back entrance, “and to go in groups” to protect each other.

“This is 2017 in the United States of America,” he wrote.

Presented without comment.
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Caution999 posted...

TheVipaGTS posted...

val of the statue!"....Yea once the Nazi Flags, Nazi Chants and Hitler quotes come out....you would think the "good people" would use their brains and say "hey...this isn't what i signed up for...I should leave"....No, they stayed and chanted...Spare me this "It was just about the statue!" nonsense....

Let me ask you a question.

Would you, personally, ever confront one of these Neo Nazi crazies? Seems to me, that if a normal person thought these crazy Neo Nazi's was out of his mind, that they would avoid them for fear of them going off the rails and killing some-

OH

OH...that's what happened didn't it?

You don't confront crazy. Let them make fools out of themselves - the media would've picked up this story, and made all these bigoted racists look like a bunch of idiots. AntiFa made this worse. FACT.

All that these supposedly "good people" would have to do is walk away and denounce the event, saying it was hijacked by scum and co-opted to spread a message that was counter to what they believe. They didn't have to square off with the neo-Nazis, though it would have been awesome - they just had to abandon ship, condemn the event as being hijacked and state that their own views + the views of the "true" supporters were not represented by neo-Nazis.

Most people, if not all of them, chose to march alongside them instead. They had no problem throwing up Nazi salutes and being associated with swastika-bearing alt-right activists. That tells you everything you need to know about the "good people" who feel ashamed and frightened of what they did because the internet jammed a foot up their ass.
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Good.

I feel sorry for that dude's hair, though. Damn. Dude ripped a chunk clean off.
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Damn_Underscore posted...

It's basically Sonic Adventure but with almost 20 years of advanced technology.

"A-watch out, Luigi! You're-a going to crash! AAUGH"
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Not always big on Richard Dawkins, but that is a Grade-A pot-stir. Holy shit.

Of course, people are instantly going to assume he means it, rather than it being a comment on Trump's decision to place blame on the left and right sides of the political spectrum as opposed to the right side that showed up to this disgusting right-wing rally. Saying this shit at face value is going to look awful when this week drops from the public radar.
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snesmaster40 posted...

I just think it's interesting when some people would defend Nintendo's takedowns as some sort of copyright losing thing.

In the case of AM2R and Return of Samus, I'm willing to side with Nintendo for the fact that they're both remaking the same game. AM2R is still floating around on the net, but if AM2R was still flourishing and being updated as Return of Samus hit the market, I can see more people going for the free fan-made option and leaving Nintendo's remake behind - which might still happen, but with no opportunity to update the game and directly compete with Nintendo, I feel like it won't be as effective. In that particular context, I see why Nintendo did what they did.

On the other hand, Pokemon Uranium was pretty lame of them. There are scads of Pokemon ROMhacks and a handful of prior fangames that have existed for years, and continue to exist and be produced - unless Pokemon Sun and Moon 2 or the Pokemon Switch game involves radioactive substances as a main plot point, their takedown of Uranium feels like a dickish "while we're here..." moment while they were claiming AM2R.

Nintendo has done a bunch of dumb shit, they shit on Youtube videos and are generally pretty antiquated in a couple major aspects. I love Nintendo games, but I try not to shill if they fuck up. The reason I can get behind AM2R's takedown in this case is because of their own take on the same concept, and not wanting to lose business to a free alternative.
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AM2R was most likely pulled because Nintendo was already working on their Metroid 2 remake at the time. It sucks, considering the production time of AM2R, but there's at least a very good reason as to why Nintendo shut it down.

Meanwhile, Sonic Mania was published by Sega and made by people and companies that they specifically hired. It's a fangame in the sense that its creators came from a background of fangame creation, but it is an officially licensed product that Sega paid for - just like the Sonic CD port for mobile devices that Christian Whitehead also released under Sega, as well as other mobile ports of Sonic games. AM2R was not contracted work, and was unfortunately released within a year of Nintendo's own official product. Or at least, within a year of Nintendo announcing their own product. (I would edit my blooper out, but the post has been up for too long and people have seen it.)

You can't reasonably compare the two situations. One is an official product and was launched as an official product from day one, while the other one was a dedicated fangame with no affiliation to the parent company that managed to cross swords with said parent company when they decided to capitalise on the same idea.
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Was he arrested, did he get off scott free?
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Meanwhile, 30+ years ago:
https://68.media.tumblr.com/4f59914f303884288c8f941d8384656d/tumblr_inline_ou9p8hRrJi1uy5zgl_540.jpg
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The Great Muta 22 posted...

Kineth posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-left
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right

Read the first link and then proceed to stfu.

Ahaha thanks dude, I had a great laugh with that. I needed that

Mark Pitcavage of the Anti-Defamation League states that the word is made up by extremist groups to create a false equivalence between the far right and “anything vaguely left-seeming that they didn’t like

Have you guys read the discussion about whether the Alt-Left article should be deleted or not?

Keep. The word has significant notability, and has been used in thousands of mainstream articles.
* Admin, note: The above user is the article creator, and has only edited this article and Unite the Right rally since account creation, which was all of 90 minutes ago.

Which CEman created that article?
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Fuck yeah, dude. How much was it? They cost $50 AUD pretty much everywhere I look.
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Because extremist ideologies aren't attractive. The people who subscribe to them are bitter, angry people who need a scapegoat to lash out at to deal with their own insecurities.

Also, extreme right-wing ideology falls in line with 50's-60's housewife sort of ideals, and no self-respecting attractive woman would ally with a side that wants women to co-habitate with unattractive, angry dudes who outwardly express hatred for other races and ideologies. Hate and anger are rarely confined to a single subject, so what happens when a woman does something her partner doesn't like? Same disgusting hateful fervor as the rally this weekend, directed at her. I feel like most women realise tangling with this degree of human filth is a terrible idea for their wellbeing.
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