Deep Dive Devin

That's not actually answering what I'm asking, though. You may notice literally nobody said that racial supremacy movements don't exist outside of white people. I should know, I listened to a black woman rant about Mexicans being literal vermin a few years ago when I was working in LA. But you may notice that the groups you've placed here almost universally hate LGBT people, Jewish people, and religions other than their own. And oops, guess that doesn't really place them in-line with the "SJW" menace, does it? Even if you disingenuously pretend that "white people bad" is what any meaningful part of your opposition believes, I sure am not seeing a lot of consistency between that ideology and the one you're claiming is calling you racist. Same deal here, basically. The Yale one is a little more legitimate, so I'll give you that. But besides that, we have one school listing ways to be less shitty, and because anti-racism itself can't be critiqued, everyone focuses on the (admittedly poor) language. The second one is literally just agenda-pushing using what is clearly a mentally-ill person as a prop. Even if these weren't cherry-picked, they're not in any way damning of anti-racist rhetoric, just assigning a "believes what my opposition believes" role to whatever person is most convenient for you to attack. See how this rhetoric fails? All of this is to say, this is a question of degree, not of kind. You could find a group of fascists who want to enforce beehive haircuts on everyone, but they're not gonna have the kind of clout or be the kind of threat that can be equated with white supremacy. And even if you did that, your so-called essjaydabyews would be against them anyway, which you only don't believe because "SJW" is a label invented so you don't have to listen to any opinions but your own. The pendulum hasn't swung. It's debatably not even moved. If it had, wealth, governments and military power would be more equally distributed in...literally any way whatsoever. Also, if it's "too far the other way", then you absolutely are claiming that they're the "real" racists when compared to white racism, because you're saying one is a "real" problem and the other isn't. So, leaving aside "believing white supremacy still exists institutionally = religious fanaticism" as the rock fucking stupid take that it is, you know that most racial supremacy groups already are religious fanatics, right? How does that make people you accuse of religious fanaticism (and that, shocker, the other group calls atheist supremacists attacking their religion, but I'm sure you're just extra right about all this) a bigger threat? You're the one getting angry at people for pointing out racism, but you're still here saying that actually, racism DOES matter, but only when it's against white people. Also, what do you think "critical race theory" actually is without looking it up? Bonus points if you don't regurgitate fascist talking points when describing it.

Well no, that would actually be more evenly distributed, since racism against brown and black people actually hasn't gone anywhere either. The change I'm talking about has only been anticipated by the reactionary net. They're genuinely scared of being less-racist. Also, assuming it's not something you pulled out of your ass (which you did, but let's ignore that for now) who are the people you're claiming are actually racist against white people? Does it just so conveniently happen to be these "SJW"s, and do you not see the contradiction in saying "you're too sensitive about racism" and "you're the REAL racist" at the same time?

Do you think doing that sort of thing unironically has no effect, even subtly, on the biases you are reinforcing in yourself or others? I'm not going to have the "language has no effect" argument here. Okay, and who gets to decide where that line falls? You? Because it sure seems like the zeitgeist has moved away from casual racism, otherwise scaremongering about the cancel-goblins coming for your free speech would be a lot less popular (and let's not forget, profitable). So "SJW" is just a random point that happens to traffic between whatever loosely-related groups you feel like? Gee, that seems convenient.

It's actually really easy to not get called racist by a fake caricature created by reactionary grifters for youtube clicks like the mythical "SJW" cryptid. Why should you demonize the rest of the world for not treating your personal incompetence with kid gloves?

Yeah, I can agree with that. A good Lovecraft-inspired work is generally greater than the sum of its parts.

The person is not wholly separate from the idea. You can't have a meaningful discussion with someone vocally admitting to arguing in bad faith. When he says "I am not going to read anything you put in front of me", how are you supposed to attack that? So long as we're taking the values-neutral approach, this is just going to happen over and over until someone gives up the war of attrition, and it's not fun for anybody.

People are inherently prejudiced toward or against every superficial trait you can find on someone, that doesn't mean putting stock in them is desirable or that the playing field is in any way level. Saying "well we're all a little racist" is just a personal convenience to excuse whatever you feel like. Everyone's a little bit bisexual too, but that doesn't mean every supposed heterosexual will feel attracted to the same sex in their life. Do they deserve to be called liars just because the theoretical possibility of that exists?

I mean...yeah there is. "The other guy" is not an entire ethnic group(s). Humans are also naturally cooperative and social. Every time someone isn't is a choice they make.

Damn, sorry about the people you hang out with on nationalism day.

I think that's pretty subjective. If his themes, elements, characters and general plotlines were good...then by quite a number of respects, his writing was good. I guess you're saying his prose was bad? I agree, in that case. It's not fun to read, even if cosmic monstrosities are cool. But also, a lot of the themes were just thinly-veiled "person of other ethnicity causes me great existential terror" (which I'm guessing is why OP wants to get into it), so I'd wait a second before calling it good across the board ?

Closeted?

Does that mean you'll stop dumping them on the forum?

I mean, I'd less blame individual citizens and more the systems that make helping others incredibly difficult. Nobody likes the military coup in Myanmar, but fixing your internet is a thing you can do right now. That is to say, you can judge a population all you want, but the well is being poisoned from the top-down, so your results are going to necessarily be biased. Someone who calls any assistance of the disadvantaged "socialism" isn't just saying that because they're an asshole, but because there is a complex network of opportunists and grifters whose livelihood depends on as many people thinking that way as possible.

The bad things he did haven't gone away yet, and his rhetorical and political trademarks are going to color the entire political spectrum for decades to come. You're going to hear fake "voter fraud" comments every single time an election doesn't give conservatives their oligarch for the next several years at least.

After a decade of picking it up and putting it down, I finally finished Majora's Mask 100% last night. What a wild ride, there's never gonna be another Zelda game like it, and that sucks.

Well but I think she's talking about Fade to Black, so the game would be inspired by another game, not music.

I mean, being a long continuous sequence is kind of the point of Half-Life. I'm not sure how much they'll be able to find enjoyment in if the first episode doesn't do anything for them. If you have to start somewhere else, I guess episode 15 is where I'd say. Blast Pit always struck me as the most memorable sequence, which is funny considering what a pain it is to play.

For anyone else reading: what do you think this guy believes "communism" means?

People already gave you plenty of answers to this dumb insult and you refused to accept any of them because you would rather self-fellate your own ego than listen to anyone.

Man, looks like the environment designers for this game just need to get hired by a different studio.

I see a non-sequitur statement that offered no real observations of any value, followed by a stalwart refusal to explain said non-sequitur, instead opting for accusing those who didn't find said statement cogent of simply lacking understanding. You had a bad take, dude. Just own it. It's not other people's job to give a shallow statement value and then still pretend you're right.

Who the fuck said anything about Biden? All I said was that there's not a coherent worldview that would make Ross a Trump guy. Biden also sucks, he's a milquetoast conservative in a corporate-owned party whose only political strategy is to be more like the other corporate-owned party. I am not defending him, and saying that Ross is not on the side pretending a soggy ham sandwich is "the radical left" is not the same as either of us being on the soggy ham sandwich's team.

But I mean, look how he talks about Microsoft, live service games, or...anything in the Deus Ex and follow-up #3 videos. I simply can't imagine someone saying what he said about climate change, the CIA, the military-industrial complex, and corporate plutocracy, and also stanning for Donny.

Ross doesn't live in America, dude. He wouldn't be in the qult even if he were a conservative. You're being messed with

From what I've heard, he's had worse landlords.