River Of Slime |OT| Mission: Impossible

[ResetBanBot]

I do like that every is taking Tencent Tim at his word though. Didn't he say they wouldn't poach kickstarted games after Phoenix Point and then immediately poach Shenmue 3 and Mechwarrior?

Waiting for the "UwU I tried" statement

[marrec]

I think at least some of the animosity is from Blizzard refusing to take a harsher stance against outright hatespeech on their platforms compared to the treatment this Hearthstone player got.

Though, they aren't considering the nature of his statement, if some Overwatch champ was being interviewed after OWL and said "I hate n-words" he'd be unpersoned so much more thoroughly than this guy.

Also, most of Blizzard's terrible writing is based at least in part around the struggle of small groups of freedom fighters against overwhelming totalitarian odds.

The Omnic Wars might as well be a ham-fisted allegory for HKs struggle for independence

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-dead-in-synagogue-shooting-in-halle-germany-shooters-still-at-large.145942/page-2#post-25295834

Ban twitch


(seriously, this are some horrible news, wonder what twitch can do about this because this could blow up)

[nachobro]

I think at least some of the animosity is from Blizzard refusing to take a harsher stance against outright hatespeech on their platforms compared to the treatment this Hearthstone player got.

Though, they aren't considering the nature of his statement, if some Overwatch champ was being interviewed after OWL and said "I hate n-words" he'd be unpersoned so much more thoroughly than this guy.

Also, most of Blizzard's terrible writing is based at least in part around the struggle of small groups of freedom fighters against overwhelming totalitarian odds.

The Omnic Wars might as well be a ham-fisted allegory for HKs struggle for independence

blitzchung already got unpersoned pretty well. they yanked his winnings, booted him from the pro scene, and had his account permabanned.

also related to your point

Blizzard Expels Pro-Hong Kong Hearthstone Player: “Standing Up For Justice Is Only In Our Stories”

https://www.pointandclickbait.com/2019/10/truth-justice-honour-profits/

[ResetBanBot]

I think at least some of the animosity is from Blizzard refusing to take a harsher stance against outright hatespeech on their platforms compared to the treatment this Hearthstone player got.

lol what? Overwatch (along with like Rainbow Six Siege and Warframe) is like top 3 games I think of when it comes worst abuses of game licensing, where they'll outright steal from you due to stuff like "toxic emoting", saying the name of a in-game special ability in Spanish (espejo negro), or saying the name of an certain in-game item in combination with an in-game class (nezha siphon trap).

[Boredfrom]

I do like that every is taking Tencent Tim at his word though. Didn't he say they wouldn't poach kickstarted games after Phoenix Point and then immediately poach Shenmue 3 and Mechwarrior?

Did he though?

Honest question;  every time someone says something about Sweeeney it's always in rhetorical question form.. "Didn't he do this?"  And then I ask for a link and never get any lol

 

[ResetBanBot]

I unironically hope Twitch and Amazon come under intense scrutiny even that would be distinguished mentally-challenged scapegoating.  I'm just concerned about the size and scope of Amazon and hope for negative things happen to them.

[Boredfrom]

I unironically hope Twitch and Amazon come under intense scrutiny even that would be distinguished mentally-challenged fellowed scapegoating.  I'm just concerned about the size and scope of Amazon and hope for negative things happen to them.

That sounds a lot like RE logic.
Also, don’t kid yourself, is going to end in blaming games and more censorship before touching their practices.

[Joe Molotov]

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I like the idea that this is a big gotcha against Americans.

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ban this subversive game in America, as well as Cheetos (except flaming hot)

[ResetBanBot]

More censorship? Where do you think censorship comes from? The US government? It comes from places like China, and pressure from gamejournos/ResetEra who are dedicated to creating a public PR problem for any company that crosses them. Pearl clutching on CNN does nothing.

[marrec]

I think at least some of the animosity is from Blizzard refusing to take a harsher stance against outright hatespeech on their platforms compared to the treatment this Hearthstone player got.

lol what? Overwatch (along with like Rainbow Six Siege and Warframe) is like top 3 games I think of when it comes worst abuses of game licensing, where they'll outright steal from you due to stuff like "toxic emoting", saying the name of a in-game special ability in Spanish (espejo negro), or saying the name of an certain in-game item in combination with an in-game class (nezha siphon trap).

Which is why I said some Overwatch Pro expressing his hate of black people on an official OWL stream would be nuked from orbit.

The impression of players can be that misogynistic/bigoted speech is more allowed because of anecdotal encounters with the occasional racist who called them a porch-monkey cause they were playing Lucio, but the policy is quite clear even if enforcement is difficult.

[Boredfrom]

More censorship? Where do you think censorship comes from? The US government? It comes from places like China, and pressure from gamejournos/ResetEra who are dedicated to creating a public PR problem for any company that crosses them. Pearl clutching on CNN does nothing.

Wha...

[ResetBanBot]

More censorship? Where do you think censorship comes from? The US government? It comes from places like China, and pressure from gamejournos/ResetEra who are dedicated to creating a public PR problem for any company that crosses them. Pearl clutching on CNN does nothing.

Wha...

This might shock you but it was determined to be against the 1st amendment for the US government to censor video games because they're considered a form of speech.

[nachobro]

Did he though?

Honest question;  every time someone says something about Sweeeney it's always in rhetorical question form.. "Didn't he do this?"  And then I ask for a link and never get any lol

looks like it was Steve Allison head of EGS, not Tim, saying they wouldn't do it again (spoilers, they did)
https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-on-pulling-metro-exodus-from-steam-we-dont-want-to-do-that-ever-again/

Tim said that when they do it again (lol), Epic will cover the refund costs
https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-pledges-to-cover-refunds-on-crowdfunded-games-that-go-egs-exclusive/

[Boredfrom]

More censorship? Where do you think censorship comes from? The US government? It comes from places like China, and pressure from gamejournos/ResetEra who are dedicated to creating a public PR problem for any company that crosses them. Pearl clutching on CNN does nothing.

Wha...

This might shock you but it was determined to be against the 1st amendment for the US government to censor video games because they're considered a form of speech.

No, I was saying “what was your point? What it has to do with I was saying?

[ResetBanBot]

Tim would censor the player, but then let them keep their price pool to try to smooth things over, cause he's such a nice guy.

More censorship? Where do you think censorship comes from? The US government? It comes from places like China, and pressure from gamejournos/ResetEra who are dedicated to creating a public PR problem for any company that crosses them. Pearl clutching on CNN does nothing.

Wha...

This might shock you but it was determined to be against the 1st amendment for the US government to censor video games because they're considered a form of speech.

No, I was saying “what was your point? What it has to do with I was saying?

You said that Amazon coming under scrutiny would result in game censorship, presumably because boomer news TV would talk about it.

[Don Rumata]

I unironically hope Twitch and Amazon come under intense scrutiny even that would be distinguished mentally-challenged fellowed scapegoating.  I'm just concerned about the size and scope of Amazon and hope for negative things happen to them.

That sounds a lot like RE logic.
Also, don’t kid yourself, is going to end in blaming games and more censorship before touching their practices.

Germany already censors violent videogames.

[nachobro]

Thanks!

real thanks means likes and/or tits

[Boredfrom]

I unironically hope Twitch and Amazon come under intense scrutiny even that would be distinguished mentally-challenged fellowed scapegoating.  I'm just concerned about the size and scope of Amazon and hope for negative things happen to them.

That sounds a lot like RE logic.
Also, don’t kid yourself, is going to end in blaming games and more censorship before touching their practices.

Germany already censors violent videogames.

I think they recently mellowed down:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45142651

[Don Rumata]

The only real thing all of these shooter distinguished mentally-challenged fellows have in common seems to be craving public attention, to give their empty, shitty lives some meaning; so maybe they should ban Social Media.

[nachobro]

a million reactionary threads open re: blizzard stuff. only one closed because a wrongthinker agrees with them

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mark-kern-former-team-lead-on-world-of-warcraft-announced-support-for-hong-kong-and-boycotts-blizzard.146029

[BisMarckie]

I unironically hope Twitch and Amazon come under intense scrutiny even that would be distinguished mentally-challenged fellowed scapegoating.  I'm just concerned about the size and scope of Amazon and hope for negative things happen to them.

That sounds a lot like RE logic.
Also, don’t kid yourself, is going to end in blaming games and more censorship before touching their practices.

Germany already censors violent videogames.

You cannot buy 50 Cent: Blood on tthe Sand for a reasonable price because of this. 

[ResetBanBot]

"Blizzard's Hong Kong Missteps Prove Video Games Aren't Neutral" --Kotaku

>advocate for ending political neutrality in an entire industry
>claim not being political neutral is neutrality
>to be embrace your non-neutrality you must be political neutral

they've tied themselves in a logic knot

[Boredfrom]

oh no

 

[Joe Molotov]

oooh shit! good on him, hope more support happens to boycott blizzard,

edit ooh he's a gamergate, uuuggh!

[Rman]

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What's this about?

[marrec]

It's okay, for every Mark Kern you have a Brian Kibler.

This truly is the thing that is bringing together everyone.

[Joe Molotov]

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What's this about?

Some anti-feminist dude at Slut Walk a few years ago, iirc.

[OnlyRegret]

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What's this about?

I think some guy mooned a feminism rally or something

[nachobro]

It's okay, for ever Mark Kern you have a Brian Kibler.

This truly is the thing that is bringing together everyone.

that's what will make this interesting. finally the wokies and shitlords have something to agree on.

[BisMarckie]

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What's this about?

Shosta‘s fetishes

[marrec]

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What's this about?

SmokyDave's origin story

[marrec]

It's okay, for ever Mark Kern you have a Brian Kibler.

This truly is the thing that is bringing together everyone.

that's what will make this interesting. finally the wokies and shitlords have something to agree on.

Well for once the shitlords are complaining about actual censorship which makes my pithy tweet yesterday null and void THANKS SHITLORDS YOU DICKS

[ResetBanBot]

It's okay, for ever Mark Kern you have a Brian Kibler.

This truly is the thing that is bringing together everyone.

that's what will make this interesting. finally the wokies and shitlords have something to agree on.

Well for once the shitlords are complaining about actual censorship which makes my pithy tweet yesterday null and void THANKS SHITLORDS YOU DICKS

What Blizzard has done is nothing different than what you and ResetEra regularly advocate for, deplatforming. Frankly this was a mild deplatforming at that, he wasn't even officially fired from a permanent position or committed suicide. He's actually being applauded, this HK advocate got off easy compared to others in this industry and to call this censorship while other instances of deplatforming not-censorship a utter hypocrisy.

[marrec]

It's okay, for ever Mark Kern you have a Brian Kibler.

This truly is the thing that is bringing together everyone.

that's what will make this interesting. finally the wokies and shitlords have something to agree on.

Well for once the shitlords are complaining about actual censorship which makes my pithy tweet yesterday null and void THANKS SHITLORDS YOU DICKS

What Blizzard has done is nothing different than what you and ResetEra regularly advocate for, deplatforming. Frankly this was a mild deplatforming at that, he wasn't even officially fired from a permanent position or committed suicide. He's actually being applauded, this HK advocate got off easy compared to others in this industry and to call this censorship while other instances of deplatforming not-censorship a utter hypocrisy.

[Joe Molotov]

It's okay, for every Mark Kern you have a Brian Kibler.

This truly is the thing that is bringing together everyone.

Wapo was just in his MTG Arena stream asking him questions.

[marrec]

It's okay, for every Mark Kern you have a Brian Kibler.

This truly is the thing that is bringing together everyone.

Wapo was just in his MTG Arena stream asking him questions.

Finally my World Championship Syndey Brian Kibler deck is going to shoot up in value!

[Rman]

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What's this about?

SmokyDave's origin story

lol

[ResetBanBot]

nothing to worry about

[Nintex]

Don't worry the Chinese surveillance state that Google helped to build will not be used against you. 

There's only one man strong enough to destroy the ChinaComms in cyberspace and IRL

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[Boredfrom]

It's okay, for ever Mark Kern you have a Brian Kibler.

This truly is the thing that is bringing together everyone.

that's what will make this interesting. finally the wokies and shitlords have something to agree on.

Well for once the shitlords are complaining about actual censorship which makes my pithy tweet yesterday null and void THANKS SHITLORDS YOU DICKS

I want my boob games. 

[Chim Richalds]

I think at least some of the animosity is from Blizzard refusing to take a harsher stance against outright hatespeech on their platforms compared to the treatment this Hearthstone player got.

lol what? Overwatch (along with like Rainbow Six Siege and Warframe) is like top 3 games I think of when it comes worst abuses of game licensing, where they'll outright steal from you due to stuff like "toxic emoting", saying the name of a in-game special ability in Spanish (espejo negro), or saying the name of an certain in-game item in combination with an in-game class (nezha siphon trap).

Which is why I said some Overwatch Pro expressing his hate of black people on an official OWL stream would be nuked from orbit.

The impression of players can be that misogynistic/bigoted speech is more allowed because of anecdotal encounters with the occasional racist who called them a porch-monkey cause they were playing Lucio, but the policy is quite clear even if enforcement is difficult.

[nachobro]

reddit ads pls

[ResetBanBot]

The slippery slope of logical progression still doesn't exist, right?

[marrec]

I just want to bask in the glory of one of my childhood nerd icons (Brian Kibler) being relevant in the current geo-political crisis.

What's Jon Finkle got to say about all this?!

Logical schmogical BanBot you're right clown world is real.

[Potato]

I'm sorry, let me repeat myself, maybe I wasn't clear.

8ch harbors literal serial killers and 4chan has literal nazis on it.

There is precisely zero reason to presume that posters on there are normal, incapable of relating to sociopaths, or wouldn't adopt Joker as a mascot for their own sense of persecution and misanthropy. They aren't playing 4 dimensional irony chess. That has no meaning when you've blown all the way past Poe's Law and started tolerating fucking Nazis.

Miss me with your bullshit here.

If I seem to recall correctly, NeoGAF (which spawned REEEEsetera in case you didn't know—I'm an expert in online gaming forums) harboured a convicted paedophile and had literal communists on it.

There is precisely zero reason to presume that posters on there are normal, incapable of relating to sociopaths, or wouldn't adopt Joker as a mascot for their own sense of persecution and misanthropy. They aren't playing 4 dimensional irony chess. That has no meaning when you've blown all the way past Poe's Law and started tolerating fucking communists.

Miss me with your bullshit here.

[nachobro]

Slow work day for our intrepid freelancer

[Uncle]

I just want to bask in the glory of one of my childhood nerd icons (Brian Kibler) being relevant in the current geo-political crisis.

What's Jon Finkle got to say about all this?!

Logical schmogical BanBot you're right clown world is real.

clown world israel?

going far beyond transphobia into anti capitalism now 

[Great Rumbler]

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[james]

I'm sorry, let me repeat myself, maybe I wasn't clear.

8ch harbors literal serial killers and 4chan has literal nazis on it.

There is precisely zero reason to presume that posters on there are normal, incapable of relating to sociopaths, or wouldn't adopt Joker as a mascot for their own sense of persecution and misanthropy. They aren't playing 4 dimensional irony chess. That has no meaning when you've blown all the way past Poe's Law and started tolerating fucking Nazis.

Miss me with your bullshit here.

If I seem to recall correctly, NeoGAF (which spawned REEEEsetera in case you didn't know—I'm an expert in online gaming forums) harboured a convicted paedophile and had literal communists on it.

There is precisely zero reason to presume that posters on there are normal, incapable of relating to sociopaths, or wouldn't adopt Joker as a mascot for their own sense of persecution and misanthropy. They aren't playing 4 dimensional irony chess. That has no meaning when you've blown all the way past Poe's Law and started tolerating fucking communists.

Miss me with your bullshit here.

If I seem to recall correctly, The Bore dot com (which spawned from NaziGaf in case you didn't know—I'm an expert in online gaming forums) harboured a convicted paedophile, a sister fucker, and had literal communists on it.

There is precisely zero reason to presume that posters on there are normal, incapable of relating to sociopaths, or wouldn't adopt Joker as a mascot for their own sense of persecution and misanthropy. They aren't playing 4 dimensional irony chess. That has no meaning when you've blown all the way past Poe's Law and started tolerating fucking communists.

Miss me with your bullshit here.

[nachobro]

james was convicted?

[thisismyusername]

All these folks waking up to Blizzard South being shit and I'm just sitting here like "Blizzard's been dead since North died, my dudes."

[marrec]

All these folks waking up to Blizzard South being shit and I'm just sitting here like "Blizzard's been dead since North died, my dudes."

Diablo 3 is a better game than Diablo 2

[james]

james was convicted?

James was falsely accused and after an extensive investigation, the poster was totally cleared, thank you!

[thisismyusername]

/r/blizzard is all:

[Cauliflower Of Love]

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What's this about?

Some anti-feminist dude at Slut Walk a few years ago, iirc.

Wasn't he jacking off?

[stufte]

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What's this about?

Some anti-feminist dude at Slut Walk a few years ago, iirc.

Wasn't he jacking off?

Yah or pulled out his junk or something like that.

[james]

Troll or resetera poster?

https://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/dfhhev/my_23m_girlfriend_28f_cant_look_after_herself_and/

[BisMarckie]

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What's this about?

Some anti-feminist dude at Slut Walk a few years ago, iirc.

Wasn't he jacking off?

Yah or pulled out his junk or something like that.

The other dudes in the pic:

[Uncle]

All these folks waking up to Blizzard South being shit and I'm just sitting here like "Blizzard's been dead since North died, my dudes."

Diablo 3 is a better game than Diablo 2

it launched with a real money auction house and game design completely wrapped around that

you had to grind for weeks for one half decent item because if they dropped more often than that nobody would pay for them

to this day it's always online even in single player, except on console

regardless of which game is better eventually only one of them will still be playable on PC