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redrocket posted...

Are they really communists in the year 2020? Or are they fascists paying lip service to communism out of social inertia?

spoilers communism has always been fascism

NFUN posted...

how did china block the game?

The reason people bend a knee in this specific way is that china can with a flip of a switch completely block an industry/company from their gigantic population. If China was a free market where global ideas were made or broken based on their own merit there wouldn't be even a little problem.

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HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

Anyways don't let this semantic argument distract anyone from the fact that capitalism is trash

World largest communist government blocks video game

gamers: "why did capitalism do that"

redrocket posted...

Reminder that one of the key points that Nixon apologists use to claim he wasnt that bad of a President was his normalization of US relations with mainland China.

I mean we did bring a level of capitalism to China and probably prevented the starvation of literal billions and increased the standard of living for the nation, so it was probably a good move in retrospect. We just had about several thousand bad moves after that.


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psaltery posted...

It's a stupid move on Sony's part. This actually encourages people to buy the Stadia version and go console-less.

I'd believe this entire stunt was funded by google since this is the first time I've heard anyone talk about stadia in anything other than a joke

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Yeah people with phds are part of the small group of people I respect for doing something I will never be able to do so I refer to everyone as "dr." unless asked not to

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After sleeping on it I put my finger on what's different. Reggie would always talk about nintendo games like he knew what they were. You could kinda get a feel that Reggie enjoyed having fun with nintendo games, whether or not thats true. Bowser's answers were the same answers he would have given if he was in charge of a shoe company or a paint store. His answers were always "seems the public is responding to this positively so we'll have to see how the company responds" Even in the Age of Calamity question, Russ sets him up for an easy avenue to talk about their new game, and Doug just says "Yeah who knows"

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I actually feel like reggie had a good way of dealing with interviews. Usually there was a little something more concrete in Reggie's answers and I felt like he would tease exciting news a little more.

This was basically a page of "I'm not going to answer that"

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I feel like ranting about my opinions but not sure which would be better

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htaeD posted...

Yeahbutwhat

deepspraw hates the independent nations that china has claim over

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Vite doesn't have spelunky 2!

Also literally the only game I play on ps plus, so I can save like 100 bucks a year if I buy it on switch

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I am so happy about the spelunkys coming to switch. The game needs to be portable.

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1st season was a very stark 5/10

2nd season was 6.5/10

here's hoping for a 8/10 season 3!!

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BetrayedTangy posted...

but most of that is really geared towards adults who don't care about their money.

Joe Camel - Sonic in this argument. The claim that these games are geared towards adults is absolutely false and lawmakers haven't caught up with technology enough for even Sega or Apple to claim these games aren't meant to be aimed toward children.

We have a precedent in this country to tolerate scummy business practices until it become predatory to children. Gatcha games crossed the line cigarette companies and sugar companies crossed ages ago.

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the single most offensively wrong take in this topic

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Blue-G posted...

Yes, the parents done goofed.

Did they goof to an extent that they should be out $16,000? No.
Should a game targeted at children allow you to spend $16,000? HOLY FUCK, NO.

This is essentially it. Tbqh I'm surprised this topic is still going, did you all not see my coup de gras a while back where I got FD to compare mobile games to cigarette machines?

People arguing over whether the lady was stupid are missing the point in the same way wealthy companies want you to miss the point. Oh our dangerously hot coffee welded an elderly ladies vagina shut? Dumb bitch she should have know coffee is hot lmao.

There's no amount of stupidity or neglect that makes it okay for sonic forces to get 16k out of someone's wallet. A game that ALLOWS you to spend 16k is inherently flawed and obviously predatory.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

And some wealthy people legitimately get so much enjoyment out of mobile games that they will actually drop thousands.

If people like that existing allow games to be free for me then I'm on board.

Every free game ever made sucks shit though, and usually caters more to the 1k spenders than the reasonable spenders. The model is usually "Our fake currency that you have to use to buy imaginary product is so expensive no one reasonable would ever buy it except for whales, oh no one's buying it? Well we'll have to make our game steadily more sluggish over time so that non-whales are forced to spend something"

It's a new model, which admittingly is much better than the old farmville model of "make your game not fun and people will spend money hoping to make it fun" but still, compared to how cheap video games are in the real world, free to play games money/enjoyment ratio is far far down the trash.

Please don't use this minirant to veer into a "freemium games can be good" argument. If you like smoking that doesn't make it a good habit.

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Yeah you're right that is closer.

I wonder why I don't see cig vending machines around anymore...

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so to be clear, you're ok with the store selling the cigs to the kid, not retuning the money, as long as it took place over a long enough amount of time?

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Star Wars

second place: John Denver oddly enough

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Out of curiosity, if the child stole a credit card went to the gas station, and bought 16k worth of cigarrettes you guys would be 100% ok with the gas station saying "nah bruh you should have been more careful about your credit card"

because it's an identical situation.

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StealThisSheen posted...

It seems kinda silly to have to completely idiot proof a device just to protect people that don't keep an eye on their kids. The fact that you have to disable it yourself should be enough, since then it's on you if you choose to.

It's a product that is quite literally designed to be addictive to children, and your take is "well it's hard to make everyone happy, what about the people who want to intentionally spend 16k on sonic forces!"

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Console- Box types

so like all the switch games with "nintendo" on the side or ps2 classics or weird box arts get their own section, then series are grouped together

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Dominick the Donkey

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There's a reason I love fire emblem enough to be a regular in this topic for over a year, but can't stomach downloading the game again

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pikachu

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the ps2 was online capable in the same way my car is boat capable

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Is this the channel for finding out what the christmas units are? This is your chance to draw me back in FEH! Don't blow it!

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No, try as I might I just can't dig him even as a character.

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Collidings actually kinda right so I think we've kinda reached the apex of are argument and I don't feel like we can go much further without talking in circles. This is a topic celebrating Elliot and grammar I'm actually a little embarrassed I steered it so far away. Let's let what we said to each other marinate for a while and come back fresh next topic.

Good Game SEP

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are you sure it's me and not the people who come in with a laundry list of my past grievances to discredit whatever my latest post was about <_< I ain't tryna go full ulti here but people brought personal attacks about me into the conversation way before I started talking about myself.

You're definitely right to an extent though! I think me and sep had this argument coming for a long time tho, so it had to come out in some topic sooner or later. Sorry Elliot! I promise I'll watch your next movie that edgelords boycott as a penance for this topic.

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StealThisSheen posted...

Applying that logic to everything is probably partially why you've gotten into some of the problems you have.

if your argument is "if you followed the rules all the time, you would get into less trouble" yeah, I agree. But a society that follows the rules all the time goes to a way darker place than a boner press in the night. So I still think I did it right.

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And yet, apparently, we have millions of people on this planet who have questioned this thought, and found not enough evidence to sway them from their actions. Myself included. Why did I do that, what did I not understand, and how can I prevent other people from making the same mistake? You can bark all about how humans "should" be all you want, but we need more than that apparently.

And being a government rule or a social rule is literally exactly the same. The punishment might vary from government to government but it's still the same framework holding up the house.

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Also, if I can play my own devil's advocate, those people who want to get away with their bad behavior and save the status quo sound a LOT like me, which is a big problem. The insincere are good at nothing save imitating the sincere It means the same way the world needs people like me challenging what I think is "wrong" you also have to have people challenging me, and people challenging those people as well. I'm def not looking for a world where everyone agrees with me, which is why I love to argue on board 8. Really gives me a chance to explore the space and let my id take control over a lot of the discussion so that I can know what to reign in when I find myself arguing with real people who could take actual offense over it in the real world.

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"if there's a rule, then follow the rule don't question it" is an ineffective strategy that humanity has seen fail time and time again. Even if its a good rule, people are going to break it, and where does that leave them? Do we sweep those who broke the rules and had better success than those who didn't under the rug? Do we simply label these rule breakers as others/monsters because it didn't work out for them? We have to have a multifaceted approach to problematic behavior because so many people do it, and if we drive the people who do bad things away, you'll get almost a full half of the country think they're not welcome in a space where people are supposed to improve themselves.

I realize it's very hamfisted to call your thought Orwellian by nature, but Animal Farm is required reading in most schools for a reason. You can't fix society with platitudes, and usually any attempt at doing so is not a failure on the platitude's part, it's a failure on a network of people who know how to disobey the spirit of the law but not the letter. It's tougher and it takes longer, but you have to rechallenge social dogmas over and over until the day you die. Challenging ideas isn't a sign of disrespect or not believing in the ideas. It's the farmer shaking the fence to make sure it won't fall over. It's Frank Lloyd Wright throwing sand on his building to defend his architecture.

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StifledSilence posted...

Dont sleep on 3. Its surprisingly fun.

This is my take too. I haven't seen it recently enough to fully defend it but I remember rewatching it as an adult and thinking it was the better of the 3. I remember my thought was "it's definitely more home alone than I remember home alone itself being"

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Yeah, as I said, I was arguing about what he was claiming, which is was being posted and also being attacked at the time. The dick press isn't a move I'll defend unless you're married/in a long term relationship to the person. I was trying to be concise in my summary because, as I said, rehashing this old argument isn't really something I think is productive.

StealThisSheen posted...

This is part of the problem, though. You rely so hard on what you, personally, think is offensive that you seem to think then nobody could reasonably find X offensive and so they must be snowflakes, looking to be offended, whatever. And then you criticize those people and go into "Sniff own farts" mode instead of trying to understand where they're coming from. You don't appear to want to look past your own feelings and experiences to accept that others don't share those same feelings and experiences.

Not entirely true. In the last topic of this sort, I asked someone to explain why they found a public statement offensive. When they refused, I explained why I thought their take was offensive. The person in question then decided to use alternating caps and lower case to clarify that they were right.

Tom Bombadil posted...

What I am hearing this boil down to is that you like to play devil's advocate to help jerks be less jerky

Usually there's a level of damage that happens when virtue posturing happens that I want to fight. Both for the personal PR of progressive ideals and also in consideration for the people who are hurt by by people who use "woke" as a matter of status and class instead of lifting each other up.

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Also the incident in question was Mangs, fire emblem youtuber, claiming to have sniffed a girls hair and putting his arm around her when he slept in the same bed as a woman. My take wasn't "Everyone does something like this, it's not that bad" it was more along the lines of "Most people have done something along these lines because we aren't born understanding boundaries and their own level of self control." with the crux of my post saying basically I didn't really think what he did changed my opinion of him very much. The other hot takes I dropped in that topic were things like "many of us have tried stuff like this and had it work out" in which I pointed to my own examples of doing similar actions and having them end in a relationship. Again, since oversharing is my thing on this board, I've since evolved to "I'm probably not going to share a bed with you unless you are 100% down to clown" just to kind of stay clear of any grey areas that could potentially hurt people.

This isn't really the productive area to talk about this but I did want to clear the air about this.

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StealThisSheen posted...

The reason people tend to not "I'm glad you got better" in these situations is because you keep giving these takes that makes it sound like you have not, in fact, gotten better. You keep pushing the same beliefs and protecting the same kinds of behaviors and making the same arguments and criticizing the same people when they say something is wrong or offensive.

As a progressive, I have to make sure my portfolio is ironclad, and I can defend it. This means I can't jump on the bandwagon of everything that twitter thinks is offensive. I have to actually self-reflect, and consider where I stand. Defending bad ideas that I don't agree with will damage my authenticity, which, I think even you will agree I have in spades. If it's not a bad idea, and I'm wrong, usually I can count on the board to correct me, which they often do. I think The reason you think I defend the same type of people and critique the same type of person is because we are on a liberal board, where even the hardest right of us is fairly socially progressive compared to the norm. If you had caught me during the DWMF topics, you probably would have seen the opposite me. If you caught me talking to the people in my rural neighborhood, you would see the opposite me (Though he would be saying the exact same things).

Furthermore, as I've pointed out, I'm an asshole. I defend people I see myself inside, not to justify their behaviours but to offer both the assholes and the "victims" of assholery a way forward. Would my time be better spent defending the sensitive, the fragile, the broken? Perhaps it would, but I'm better equipped to help assholes get better, and help people find peace with assholes, and it seems the others have the help they need even without me.

Even in topics where there's a progressive issue I'm passionate about, there's usually already people ready to take up the charge on this board, and they usually have a better grasp on how to defend the issue than me. The fact that you're using the word snowflake means you had a box to put me in and you put me in it. Just so you know, in other arguments I would be called the snowflake or the SJW or the liberal pile o' sticks so if there's a group out there that accepts my ideals I sure as hell haven't found it.

Ultimately I don't really believe in shame as an effective tool (I use it against you guys ironically, I hope no one thinks I'm genuinely ashamed of them[but I doubt anyone would lose sleep if they did]) I believe in self-actualization, making peace with each other's flaws, and a diverse landscape of ideas. I believe being rough around each other is how we learn to get close with each other, which is why I love a culture of put-downs, roasting, and scathing commentary.

Yeah, I do act holier than thou most of the time, but in my defense, thou sucks shit sometimes so I like to flex it when a rat like me gets to wear the halo.

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StealThisSheen posted...

This is coming from Santa of "No often means Yes" and "C'mon, we've ALL almost sexually assaulted somebody" fame.

It's funny when I bring progressive ideals to these topics, usually through the lens of being critical of myself, taking ownership of my own wrongdoings the message usually gleamed from people on the internet are never"I'm glad you got better, please continue to improve" or something along those lines, its usually "You were bad once so you should always be shamed, because normal people aren't like that" It really kinda outlines the intolerance of well "left wing" or "progressive" isn't the right term, because that's not what you are. More like "internet posturers" who care more about being on the correct side than actually solving the problem. People like you don't actually care about improving the environment, it's more about just being correct for you. I'm glad you've never done anything that hurt people before, because I doubt you would have the tools to improve nor the self-love for yourself if you did. I'll never have a specific soundbyte available to discredit you, so you'll probably win most arguments as far as the internets concerned. Bravo for that. I say the things I say because I think they're helpful and true to self-improvement for people like me. If one person becomes 1% less transphobic because of my post, or rethinks their own past behavior with sexuality, or finds it in their heart to forgive someone in their life who was an asshole like me, it's worth giving you a .txt file of quotes to say out of context so you can win fights on board 8.

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

has it ever occurred to you that if you're constantly misunderstood on this board, the problem may be that your posts are unclear at times and not that most people on the board can't read? >_>

Most of these plebs can't read James Joyce but no one ever asked him to dumb down his work.

side note, I also can't read James Joyce

Corrik7 posted...

Torn between this is bullshit and maybe this is something you shouldn't admit.

Yeah I have a surprising amount of people in my life telling me I shouldn't admit this. I have a commitment to oversharing though.

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WazzupGenius00 posted...

??? This is a Paul W S Anderson movie, it was not written in Chinese first

sorry bad syntax on my part. I meant it seems as in "it would be more believable if"

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

I know theater girls sometimes en up dating multiple gay dudes, but I dont know what the male equivalent would be that puts you in a situation to date a bunch lesbians

I think it's being an incredibly non-threatening male lacking testosterone that leads some girls toward me as their last pit stop before homosexuality.

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I accept your apology, THANK YOU, now we can move on

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Also after translating this, it really seems like the script was written in chinese and poorly localized into english. It's not remotely offensive but it's such an awkward line to put in the movie UNLESS you have to translate a chinese proverb.

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I gotta say the japanese rhyme is far inferior to the english "peepee in your coke" joke.

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Mallrats because it closed a lot of kevin bacon loops for me.

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Paratroopa1 posted...

Lesbians have weird power dynamics... and your example is a fictional couple

I'm pretty sure you don't know any of the several lesbians I could point to who would back me up. I pointed to a fictional example because it's clearly mainstream enough of a phenomenon if it makes it into a popular show.

You're acting very defensive about what I'm saying as if I'm personally attacking you or any lesbian, so again, I'm going to say I have literally no judgment on the matter. I've literally dated 4 lesbians in my life and I've been married to a trans man so I'm not entirely ignorant of the situations and cultures of queer communities. There's probably an inherent difference between two women dating that makes power dynamics weirder than a biological man and woman dating. And I use the word "weird" as a placeholder word to mean "could be perceived as red flags if genders were switched in this scenario" which is, as it is, an incredibly benign statement.

Paratroopa1 posted...

By the way, if you think lesbians have weird power dynamics, let me introduce you to heterosexual couples sometime. Some of the shit they do is WILD!

whats the "ok boomer" equivalent of LGBT stock redundant response. Yeah literally every couple has weird power dynamics, men women cats and dogs. Thank you for the the education.

Paratroopa1 posted...

Why is it that people always jump to like crazy names, like which trans people do you know (if you know any at all) that are calling themselves weird shit? Most will just ask you to call them a different normal first name. It isn't that hard. Even if it is weird, it doesn't matter. When people tell you their name that's what you call them. They probably aren't showing you their birth certificate so why do you give a fuck?

Again you're being very defensive about something that I was trying to expose about myself. Again, I am being called SANTA in this topic and in real life. I'm not try to call these people weird, I'm trying to identify a gut reaction within myself that cringes when I hear someone ask for a funny name. If you want to brag about how you don't have this gut reaction, thats fine. Maybe brad from accounting asks you to call him sea otter and you don't go home and tell your partner about it to kind of defrag what just happened. That's great for you. Maybe you're to most tolerant person in the world, and we should all be like you. But in my own personal experience, in grappling with my own demons, this was the realization that helped me get over my, well transphobia is a harsh word, but just the part of me that got a little ruffled at the thought of trans. If you wanna dissect this, and call me an asshole because I instinctively cringe when people want to change their names or gender, then you are absolutely right. You are right because you are parroting the exact sentiment that I just made with my statement. I'm not saying what I'm saying for you, because you're perfectly tolerant and don't need to worry about it. I'm saying what I'm saying because it's whats helped me be 1% less of an asshole and I'm talking to the other assholes reading this topic, hoping they can find a new perspective that can help them be more tolerant.

This wall of text would be completely unnecessary if you all could just learn to both read and comprehend at the same time, the artistry of my gamefaqs posts is lost on most of you.

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And yeah obviously people picking their own names can be normal, but usually the names people pick stem from their legal name. If someone starts working for your company, and insists of everyone calling the "sea otter" there's a level of uncomfort and resentment there that's hard to pin down.

Again, I am aware of the fact that everyone here calls me Santa, and even that there are certain variations of my own name that I will correct people on if they refer to me improperly. I'm just saying that radical change that I think most people cringe at is probably at the root of a decent amount of transphobia. Maybe I'm not making any brave revelations or anything but this was something that I just recently realized was at the heart of my own transphobic lizard brain thoughts.

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

can you elaborate on this because right now it seems crazy

Lesbians traditionally have weird power dynamics in their relationships. I as a straight male have no judgement nor skin in this game, but it's an occurring phenomenon. The only example I can think of in popular culture to point to is she-ra and catra's relationship.

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Corrik7 posted...

If someone's name is Michael and they request that you call them Mike, you do so out of politeness.

That's true, but it's kinda the opposite of how names work. People give you names, you don't make your own. I actually think this is the root of whats initially distasteful about trans people to a lot of people, it's like making your own nick name in both A. Super weird thing to do B. Super weird that you think names matter to the degree you've gone with this.

In reality both trans people and people who make their own nicknames are perfectly fine, obviously. But I think this is one of those non-transphobic bothers to many people that makes them feel more transphobic than they actually are

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poop flavored chocolate and it's not close

I'd sooner eat poop flavored poop than chocolate flavored poop. You know how when somethings the wrong flavor it's very unsettling?

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Conkers bad fur day still has the best multiplayer of any game to date, also the main game is worth finishing.

jet force gemini I recall being very good (I last played it like 20 years ago)

Blast Corps was kinda unplayable and outdated when it was released so you'll be having the same experience in 2020 as we did when it was released (it's a good game)

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