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Board 8 > "Teddy bear lynchers" - A Quinton 1st Look at the Modern Class War

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SaveEstelle
10/30/19 4:15:37 PM
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/bethesdas-fallout-class-war-has-players-targeting-premium-subscribers

Since its launch in November 2018, Fallout 76 has played host to chapter after chapter of a saga in greed and ineptitude. Yet not since #canvasgate has the beleaguered online service faced such sharp resentment as it does today, with its rollout of Fallout 1st, a monthly (or yearly) subscription designed to further shackle its bourgeoisie to the chains of capitalism and belittle its proletariat once more.

I bought Fallout 1st on my own terms and I enjoyed it, but those asshats had to hunt me down, nuke my camp, and attack me relentlessly, a reddit user (not Ultimaterializer) claimed. Those asshats are a frustrated proletariat systematically targeting the rich in a constant stand against the excesses of Bethesdas best-paying clientele. What a shocker, another Redditor wrote. A game with themes of class struggle and people struggle against a feature that only benefits players with disposable income.

The only way players can meaningfully rebuild West Virginia, it seems, is by doing the exact same thing as in the pre-apocalypse, gaming site Polygon wrote of the conflict between the games anti-capitalist aesthetic and its relentless pressure on players to buy things. Sure, you can farm Atomic Points, but these cosmetics come so fast and furious that the only way to get everything you need is to pull out your wallet.

Dancing to the tune of the top 1% has always been an easy feat, unless you happened to be a Czar in early 20th-century Russia. Well, we can add another underprivileged elite class to the fold, because Fallout 1st players are easily identifiable by their icons, their covetable gear, and special moves only available to top-paying members. Even doing one of those special dances is license for a beatdown now, said one player who claimed to have been beaten up when I decided to do the Mothman emote [a premium-only dance move] in Vault 51. At least 5 -7 people in teddy bear costumes kept punching me.

This is a developing story.
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Gatarix
10/30/19 4:23:33 PM
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expected essay about bear bros and quina's elim
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LeonhartFour
10/30/19 4:24:08 PM
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xp1337
10/30/19 4:36:44 PM
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Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry bears
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DeepsPraw
10/30/19 4:48:01 PM
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who tf is quinton

i thought you were jeff

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Gatarix
10/30/19 4:50:45 PM
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quinton is quinton
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LeonhartFour
10/30/19 4:53:29 PM
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SaveEstelle
10/30/19 4:54:34 PM
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DeepsPraw posted...
who tf is quinton

i thought you were jeff


I was

I legally changed my name
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Eddv
10/30/19 4:56:07 PM
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This is Quinton Teodhor Yellamenius TikTok von Corgenshmitt IV but you as a plebe may call him Quinton.

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SaveEstelle
10/30/19 4:56:40 PM
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Eddv posted...
This is Quinton Teodhor Yellamenius TikTok von Corgenshmitt IV but you as a plebe may call him Quinton.


Thank you, Agent Eddv
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Nrrr
10/30/19 5:43:24 PM
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it's interesting how reactionary the typical gamer is given the constant complains about the practices of game companies. absolute bootlickers. but hey, thats america!
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banananor
10/30/19 7:42:09 PM
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Main takeaway from this is Bethesda needs to be selling the whales bigger guns with which to defend themselves!
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MZero11
10/30/19 7:44:28 PM
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Eddv posted...
This is Quinton Teodhor Yellamenius TikTok von Corgenshmitt IV but you as a plebe may call him Quinton.


I have it on good authority he hasn't not abandoned our family name of Zero

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SaveEstelle
10/31/19 7:36:56 PM
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I would never

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scarletspeed7
10/31/19 8:06:59 PM
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Is it class warfare or the tragic misdirection of anger towards a corporation that misrepresented its product?

The issue is that people are continuing to play the game when they're this upset. Giving 76 any metric results in value for Bethesda.
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SmartMuffin
10/31/19 8:29:21 PM
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If you don't have disposable income and are over 18, you shouldn't be playing MMOs.
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scarletspeed7
10/31/19 8:30:09 PM
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Having a disposable income or not is really immaterial to the situation.
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SaveEstelle
10/31/19 9:08:04 PM
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SmartMuffin posted...
If you don't have disposable income and are over 18, you shouldn't be playing MMOs.


the heck does that have to do with anything

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xp1337
10/31/19 9:12:11 PM
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One can only hope this eventually leads to becoming like EVE Online so we have another source of the literal best stories in gaming ever.
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