Lurker > Zonbei

rexcrk posted...

Its weird how angry people get over this stuff lol.

Honestly to me it always comes off as Women never touched me in high school and now Im mad at all of them energy.

Agreed. Its pretty blatant misogyny and weird misplaced aggression where they basically get mad at anyone that turns them on that they cant fuck.

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This just in: people who get dates never watch porn.

People like what they like. Im poly, Im dating like four people, guess what: sometimes I still watch videos of attractive people on the internet.

YugiNoob posted...

That chick in the black is ew

nah shes the hottest one there

Avirosb posted...

If they ever invent cars that run on hot air they're all set.

They would refuse to use them because destroying the environment upsets libruls.

Avirosb posted...

People just want to feel superior to streamer daddy and post omegalul at anything

I mean. This isnt anything. Its an absurd level of mess.

Avirosb posted...

Cool of the devs to make a statement on where they stand on the whole nazi thing.
It was really ambiguous for a time.

lol. Youd think it wasnt, but people got real mad when they started tweeting things like make America nazi-free again. And made Wolfenstein: the new colossus woke.

Revelation34 posted...

Most of them can't afford to clean the way they need to.

I mean once it gets to that point, sure. Maybe. But you dont have to afford to clean up before it gets there. I say this as a generally messy person with ADHD who struggles to clean up, has been poor most of my life, and who has never let my home get anywhere near that.

Sure lets talk about videogames instead of politics.

I really love how in Wolfenstein: The New Colossus, which Im playing right now, the developers chose to really hammer home the point that in America the Nazis didnt even need to use their technological advantage to conquer the country; Americas legacy of white supremacy lead it to join them almost without resistance. Then of course, the first resistance leaders in America you meet are lead by a black woman with a child (who breastfeeds on screen, in a rarity even for mainstream media, let along FPS games). Black women having been at the forefront of social change and revolution for much of American history, this is a great nod to that.

I havent got past that part in the game yet, but really enjoying the storytelling (cool that they confirmed BJ Blaskowicz is Jewish, interesting to see how his heroism comes from living through his childhood with an abusive, racist father) and the unabashed stance that yes, punching Nazis is okay, and that America has a white supremacy problem and always has. I also like the gun that shoots little sticky bombs you can remotely detonate.

ImagineUsngAlts posted...

And where's the source that says they're conventionally attractive? That is entirely subjective. As I've said, having photogenic pics of creators is entirely normal among lists all over. You making a mountain out of something innocuous is weird.

Youre the only one making a mountain out of anything lol. And pretending you dont know what conventionally attractive means isnt going to change anything.

Ivynn posted...

Bruh, why do you care so much? They're just pictures. Public pictures meant to be seen at that.

I dont care so much, I just said the topic is clearly about them being attractive and its weird. Then this other person spent a lot of time defending TC and saying thats not true. Ive just been responding to them responding to me, silly. My first message was like five words.

ImagineUsngAlts posted...

Because that's a ridiculous question. How come listverse pages show the most photogenic angles of their examples? Do you also speak up when people make lists that happen to have attractive men? I personally don't find some of the women he listed attractive. At this point, this seems more like a personal issue.

Thats why I said conventionally attractive, silly. Im not talking about my own feelings on the matter. Your rebuttal is disingenuous in every sense and your defense of TC is weird.

ImagineUsngAlts posted...

Because this is a social board and sharing potentially interesting authors is something people do on social boards? You seem to be forgetting you're not on 261 anymore. Do you think listverse pages are weird too?

Why are you so invested in defending TC? You didnt address what I said. Why are they all conventionally attractive women?

ImagineUsngAlts posted...

These look like images that came from linkedin bios. I've seen him and other people posts pics of male writers/creators like this and of course nobody batted an eye. This feels a bit like you're making presumptions due to this site's admittedly bad problem with creeper users.

I mean, even if that were true, that he has randomly posted pics of male writers like this, thats.. still weird af? Like why? But theres no level of rationalization from you thats going to explain why OP posted exclusively conventionally attractive women.

ImagineUsngAlts posted...

From what I've seen of TC he's not like that

Yeah, hes just helpfully posting pictures of authors, and they all just happen to be conventionally attractive women. Totally.

ImagineUsngAlts posted...

Not everything that focuses on women is sexual.

That is true, but this topic clearly is.

MyBirthRight posted...

There are literally multiple people in this thread who have outright called men Creepy for wanting to date women younger than them

again, Im not refuting that. Im saying the red pill movement is harmful incel garbage and a massive overreaction to men being shamed for dating women younger than them.

MyBirthRight posted...

Men in this thread are literally shamed for dating women in their mid 20's, and you want to put your hands on your ears?

I didnt state an opinion on that fact. Just you spouting red pill incel bullshit thats a wild overreaction to that fact.

MyBirthRight posted...

And this is why the Red Pill space was created. So that men dont have to go through this.

Most people do not care about men's feelings

Oh lord. Shut the fuck up with your incel cult nonsense.

boxoto posted...

it's currently at 62 on Metacritic and 68 on Rotten Tomatoes

https://www.metacritic.com/tv/secret-invasion/season-1

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/secret_invasion/s01

there aren't that many reviews out, though, and it'll be a while until it premieres, so those numbers can rise or fall within the next week.

It looks like all of these reviews are only of the first two episodes. Its weird they even count.

Turbam posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/5/9/AANKsdAAEj-3.png

Yes, that is what the people who are constantly negative about every game and dont seem to even like games anymore look like while theyre whining about some game.

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sucks to suck

careful, this is technically an insult, and all insults are moddable no matter what!

eyeroll

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I assumed you deleted it feeling bad about being so rude lol. That post didnt look mod worthy at all and went away pretty quick.

And yet it got moderated anyways because this site is a joke.

I dont feel bad about being rude to rude people.

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Youre always posting angry comments at people. You need to calm down. Act normal and watch the video lol.

Only people who are rude as fuck and dont make any sense. Cant believe you reported my message lol. Only one person here needs to calm down.

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Were all watching the same video. You dont have to announce the games lol

Actually, I wasn't watching the video, and was just skimming this for what's in it. So. Shut up?

Am I Dreaming from Across the Spiderverse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aUZtDaxS60

Savoots posted...

Shut the fuck up.

Lmao, I see you've caught onto how I generally deal with you and other well known trolls. Cute mimicry, Savoots.

lilORANG posted...

She's not reading your posts bro. She's a mediocre actress and absolutely does not have the chops to carry a role more complicated than sitcom garbage like TBBT

Yes, I forgot this is the internet, and disagreeing with someone about whether an actor is a decent actor or not means you must want them to personally love you or whatever. My bad.

Clearly I just need to accept that gamefaqs user lilORANG is the authority on acting skill.

lilORANG posted...

That's like 1 of two things I have seen her in and it was terrible lol.

Her acting certainly isnt.

lilORANG posted...

Like it's really so hard to act like Kaley Cuoco

You clearly didnt see The Flight Attendant. It is in fact hard to act, in general.

Turbam posted...

Why don't they let the body double do the whole movie?

Because the body double isnt an actor who can act like Kaley Cuoco. Obviously.

Aloc posted...

He was really toxic in that lizzo thread.

Is zonbei just the biggest contrarian here?

I didnt agree with you personally two whole times, so I must be a contrarian. Thats definitely how that works.

And right, I was the toxic one in the Lizzo thread. Not all the people being horrible about someones weight and generally acting like dicks. People Ive disagreed with IN THIS TOPIC agreed with me in that one. Pretty sure thats not how being a contrarian works.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

because zonbei has ignored the studies that prove piracy doesn't decrease sales. he has to type 4 paragraphs of bootlicking to justify his anti-consumer beliefs

zonbei doesnt even understand what piracy is or how it differs from theft

I wasnt talking about piracy. I was talking about theft. Youre the one that doesnt seem to know the difference. I have no problem with piracy when it isnt blatantly theft. Which it is when you say I dont like them charging money, so Im cancelling my subscription and pirating all their shit instead. Thats not the same thing as I cant afford this so Ill pirate it or the service is so terrible and unusable Ill pirate it or its not available so Ill pirate it.

Also, the very study youre so smugly citing didnt prove that piracy doesnt affect sales. Heres the actual words from the actual study:

The results do not show *robust statistical evidence *of displacement of sales by online copyright infringements. That *does not necessarily mean that piracy has no effect* but only that the statistical analysis does not prove with sufficient reliability that there is an effect.

It DID find that pirating recent top box office hits actually DID impact sales negatively. This is, again, the literal study youre citing.

Dark_Arbron posted...

No ethical consumption under capitalism, so in that regard morality is artificial. Especially in the digital age where making a copy of something is not even remotely comparable to stealing from an apple cart. Part of what makes stealing wrong is that it deprives the owner of the item.

Since you edited this: thats part of what makes stealing wrong, but thats not all of it. If you steal an apple from a farmer, youre not just depriving them of the item. Youre depriving them of the profit they would have made from selling the apple to you, a person who wants the apple, which they spent time and effort on growing.

While physically depriving them of it doesn't apply to digital items, stealing the product of their work does. Stealing isnt magically not stealing because its digital. People put time and effort into these shows/movies/whatever. People put work into the platform. when you dont pay for it but just download all the shit anyways, youre stealing the product of that work/the proceeds. sure, they can sell it to someone else because you didnt physically deprive them of it, but youve still benefited from the work without compensating them for it, without their permission.

and then you go well I wasnt going to buy it anyways so they didnt lose the profit. Ignoring that that isnt actually true in many cases, thats where the word entitlement comes in. If you arent going to buy something, then you dont get to have it. Thinking you deserve it anyways so you might as well steal it is literally the definition of entitlement.

And sure: the giant corporation can easily eat that loss. They probably deserve to lose profits. That doesnt make it not stealing. I just dont really think I dont like what you did and dont want to pay for your product, so Im going to steal your stuff is a morally good stance. The company loses JUST as much profit and is hurt just as badly if you simply dont use their product. The stealing isnt some moral good or a necessity. It isnt sending a message. its just you getting a thing you want.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

Imagine being such a bootlicker you think Netflix didnt make an anti-consumer decision

Of course its an anti-consumer decision. Theyre a giant corporation. Every single decision every single corporation makes is pro-making money. Any decision that seems pro-consumer is for the aim of making money.

If you dont like what theyre doing, dont consume their products. Take a principled stand and decide not to use their stuff. Not Ill just steal it so I dont actually have to lose anything or sacrifice even the slightest bit in order to have a stance on this. Because in the end, even if its a giant corporation, youre still just stealing shit because you dont want to pay for it. And society is built on people not just taking whatever the fuck they want because they can. (Or at least it should be. Late stage capitalism has allowed far more of that than is healthy and thats why everything is going to shit.)

Dark_Arbron posted...

No ethical consumption under capitalism, so in that regard morality is artificial. Especially in the digital age where making a copy of something is not even remotely comparable to stealing from an apple cart.

That said

All good, as long as it runs both ways. You cant call something entitlement anytime someone remotely criticises a companys monetisation practices.

Not you personally, just in general.

Yeah I dont really have an issue with the criticism of them deciding to do it. (Other than wondering why anyone is surprised the capitalist corporation is trying to make more profits.) Just with the whole how dare they want us to pay for things, Im going to steal things now garbage.

bkilla posted...

It's good enough for me. They make 30+ billion dollars last year (and a hell of a lot more during the height of the pandemic) then want to screw over loyal customers? There are alternatives. Stop the moralizing. Nobody gives a shit.

I dont have to have morals, a giant company made me feel bad by breaking a promise I probably made up! Alright bud. Stealing just because you dont want to pay for things is like one of the most basic of morally bad things. Going stop moralizing doesnt change that.

If you want companies to stop doing things to keep making more money than before, (you know, the basic premise and literal only goal of a corporation), maybe do something useful about our late stage capitalist society instead of uh *checks notes* spending a bunch of money on 40TB servers or whatever so you can steal shit and watch tv.

bkilla posted...

*cries in million/billionaire

I dont really care about Netflix or their money lol. I just think as a general moral principle, people shouldnt just steal shit because they want it and dont want to pay for it. You know. A concept thats been around for literal millennia and basically needs to exist for society to function.

bkilla posted...

They went back on their promise. Too bad, so sad. Don't worry, they don't have much to download nowadays anyway. Plex and Jellyfin are so much better than Netflix. So...so much better.

Oh well...

The funny thing is I cant even seem to find them promising never to end password sharing. Sort of think you just want a justification for stealing shit.

they went back on their promise cool backstory, youre still stealing because someone asked you to pay for their product. Im all for stealing from giant companies, but because I dont want to pay for a product isnt a good enough reason in my book.

bkilla posted...

It did happen. I have a 40TB Unraid server now. My entire family uses it. Netflix changed their mind on a promise they made years ago while continuously raising prices. I paid for Netflix for nearly 8 years. Canadians were pissed. Maybe you like being shafted? Now bugger off.

I paid for Netflix for 8 years and they changed their terms after they said they wouldnt years ago, so now Im entitled to steal whatever I want isnt the argument you think it is.

I swear to god, companies are literally destroying the world and you people are like Netflix wants us to PAY for NETFLIX?! This is unconscionable and I must resort to theft! Its extremely silly.

Also you have a 40TB server so you can steal from them? Im not a tech guy so I might very well be wrong, but wouldnt it be cheaper to just pay for Netflix at that point?

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No, Im not. If a company offers a family plan, then its not stealing to use it. How is a family plan the same thing as just using someone elses password and login to use the service theyre paying for for yourself? Netflix has a family plan analogue. It costs money. In fact, literally every single family plan that every single service has costs more than a plan for a single person. So I literally.. dont know what youre talking about.

I didnt even say sharing your password is stealing. Im saying that its understandable for the company to not allow it because it was basically something free people were getting for no real reason. It wasnt stealing, because it was allowed. Its also not wrong for a company to want people to.. pay for its products? At least within the framework where we allow companies to exist at all?

Now, making a server to download all their shit or whatever is in fact stealing.

bkilla posted...

I canceled. Built a server instead. Now everything on Netflix will be free for life. Screw them.

This happened.

Can we all agree that this company asked me to pay for their product instead of essentially doubling/tripling/quadrupling it for free, so Im just going to steal everything instead is actually not a good take and acknowledging that isnt bootlicking? Like. Come on now.

I bought a ticket to the theater and then photocopied it and gave five to my friends, but the theater didnt bother stopping that for a long time. Now they say I cant do it, so Im just going to sneak into every movie without paying forever! Like wtf? What is the logic here? You just shouldnt have to pay for things because youre special?

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You know you cant just call it bootlicking anytime anyone believes anything even remotely in favor of a company or government, like people should pay for things they want probably, right?

Giant corporations are evil. That doesnt mean literally every single thing they do is evil. Wanting people to pay for Netflix when theyre watching it in multiple households is.. fine as far as giant corporations go. I think people should pay for our products is like the most basic thing a corporation can try to enforce.

Dakimakura posted...

Same reason why Blizzard can charge 70 dollars for a base game + minimum 40 dollars per year in battle passes + future DLC prices + upgrades on editions for more items + Micro-transaction shop and still have it be a best selling game.

Is the reason people have to pay for things they want and dont have to pay for things they dont want?

Like, I dont think sharing is stealing and its great when companies let you do it, but in the end if you want to watch Netflix, having to pay for Netflix is how that works.

Similarly, with the blizzard game you can just buy the base game and not buy all that other shit if you dont want it.

FolkenRawr posted...

Can't ball sweat on something that no longer exists

The chair no longer exists? Huh?

also whats with the emoji tag at the end of your messages?

is it like.. I dont know man?

TonyKojima posted...

Yup the progressive far left has gone off the deep end. Thankfully the Democratic Party is mostly mainstream liberals but the far left is definitely dragging the party down with nonsense like white knighting for obesity. We are to pretend obesity is "beautiful" and anything other than complete adoration is "fat shaming".

Shut the fuck up Tony, you fake ass liberal.

Vigero posted...

Screaming 'right wing!' doesn't disprove the cultist assertion btw. That's one of the reasons that community earns that label.

Thank god nobody ever just screams RIGHT WING. Usually its people debunking the dumb bullshit people like you are saying, while also mentioning youre clearly a right wing troll or worse, a true believer. Then you only read two words and ignore the rest because then you dont have to have an actual argument.

FortuneCookie posted...

Less likely to body shame and topless on Twitter: two reasons to like Veronika more than Jessica. (Three if you count her name being sexier.)

The fourth reason is that even from the tiny blurry image on here you can tell shes hot as fuck

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Overweight for who? You realize theres no set number that once you go above it youre overweight right? It varies with your height and such?

WTGHookshot posted...

Will this topic reach 500?

quick, someone argue with me! That usually seems to work

rideshort posted...

Yeah all those reasons are ridiculous. You watch the movie and give fair criticism or don't and leave it at that.

Youd think, and yet here we are. I have yet to see a criticism in like 5 topics of this that didnt just call the movie bad and provide no reason. I mean Im sure its not even that good, but I suspect most of the people bothering to whine about it on gamefaqs havent watched it.