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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 144 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

A fuckin CENSORED greentext? Really? Never thought I'd see the day 4chan got whitewashed lol

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 54 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Assuming OOP said 'retarded', that doesn't fit their message well does it?

[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

it's called context switching, within 4chan the r-word is an honorific rather than a slur.

[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

There is nothing wrong with the word "retard", don't let corporations push their double speak.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

Americans and their hatred of random words. Lmao.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I’ve grappled with “retard” & “bitch” (made a thread about it a couple months ago too, trying to form/reform my opinion).

Clearly we have to be careful with any messages industry pushes. With that said -

What do you think about these statements from Special Olympians?

CC: @yeahiknow3@lemmings.world

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (23 children)

I appreciate your good faith response. I see and empathize with your perspective. To play devil’s advocate, you can’t control whether a group of people decide, out of the blue, to internalize hurtful language that isn’t aimed at them. The N-word had a very specific target and a very cruel purpose. The word “retard” did not. It basically has the same vernacular trajectory as “moron,” or “idiot.” From medical diagnosis to non-specific pejorative. Why aren’t those synonyms verboten? Because people like to make things about themselves.

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

This post reminded me of that old Louis CK bit on not liking the term "N Word" because it transfer the burden of saying the actual word from the speaker to the listener's brain

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

It's so social media AI doesn't block the image. Yeah, that's our world now.

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[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 118 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love the fact that the slave owner is not only the one unarmed person you don't lose honor for killing, but you actually gain honor for killing him.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 46 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

You also don’t lose honor for killing this guy, and can do it right in front of the police without them reacting

https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Norris_Forsythe

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I can shoot that dude without getting a bounty? :O

I would never have guessed. I can't even walk down the street in Saint Denis without getting bullshit "disturbing the peace" bounties. I like to pretend it's because they're jealous of Arthur's awesome mustache.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 13 points 2 weeks ago

That guy was, I think, intended as a stand-in for real-life eugenicist and all-round villain Henry Laughlin. Killing him in-game was quite the treat.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

I'm going to remember that for my next playthrough. I always just punched him and made him run away.

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 66 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

> You will not be able to play multiplayer without hackers ruining the experience

[–] Schmuppes@lemmy.today 17 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Is it as bad as GTA Online?

[–] Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

It's worse. It is utterly abandoned by rockstar

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I tried playing online when it first came out. It was fun for a few days, but wasn't very long before cheaters would just spawn a hundred cougars right on top of you every game.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm sure that was frustrating for you, but from an outsider's perspective that's funny as fuck.

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[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Worse. I’m convinced that Rockstar only keeps the servers running because nobody knows which ones they are among the sea of GTA5 servers. The game has been entirely abandoned by the devs, because it never took off like GTA5 did.

Hacking in RDO isn’t just rampant; It’s downright expected. If you’re not hacking, you’ll constantly get blown up from across the map by people with unlimited explosive ammo, no reloads, and auto-aim. The bare minimum requirement is an unlimited health hack, just so you can survive the cross-map snipes long enough to finish a mission or two.

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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 51 points 2 weeks ago (26 children)

I'm honestly surprised that no one calls this game woke

[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Because the game sold and reviewed well, so it goes against the narrative of “get woke go broke”

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Nobody except the craziest of crazy thinks negatively about woke stuff if the actual content is good. Examples of good ones from the top of my hat: Arcane S1, Last of Us S1E3, Twin Peaks S3E4.

This is how you actually influence opinions to a good direction.

When the wokeism was apparently more important to the producers than the quality of the actual product is when shit gets irritating and from the pov of activism, counter-productive.

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[–] spacecadet@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Mainly because you can shove “woke” shit down peoples throats and they won’t care as long as they get to play a manly man or stacked chick and the story and characters are well developed. It’s just when the game is really bad that people care about it and then the studios can blame the poor performance on the alt-right as a cop out for their shitty game. I.e. Star Wars outlaws and Concorde

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[–] noxet@mander.xyz 32 points 1 week ago (8 children)

And somehow this game is never part of the examples that some bigots are listing when talking about woke games.

Similarly with Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3. Both of those games are gay as fuck.

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[–] Valorie12@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The first time I ran into the KKK in the woods, I was really glad I had a stick of dynamite on me.

[–] Litany@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's funny if you watch them for a minute too, their burning cross catches its surroundings on fire, burning many of them to death.

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[–] IceFoxX@lemm.ee 19 points 1 week ago (30 children)

Much people forget before black slavery there was white slavery... So its just good if there is none slavery.

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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

There was that other thread talking about Ubisoft games and how theyre putting a black samurai in there. I wrote a comment about how ubisoft marketing is so controversial but then they deliver these milquetoast Ubisoft games.

Just imagine if Farcry 5 actually went the route of RDR2 and had some fucking balls. Instead of try to appeal to both sides.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

That's what I don't get, out of millions and hundreds of thousands gamers, how many are actually that stupid and bigoted to rage on anything they don't like? These incel gamers always accuse many games as being woke, but then these games are blockbusters. Devs listen to a loud minority who don't represent the entire community of gamers. The rest are silent majority who, have varying interest of games, like a game for being a good game, not because it is "woke". And hate a bad game, because it is a bad game. It's simple as.

Devs fall into the faux outrage bait from tiny minority of unthinking hordes, and it actually makes them bad than if they just ignore ridiculous baseless cries.

Edit: grammar

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[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 13 points 2 weeks ago

Suddenly this has me wondering if the south is playing a whole'nother game.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's funny because moron used to be a medical term as well.

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[–] julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow, that was their takeaway from that game? I honestly didn't think about it once the whole playthrough, why are they so desperate to role play racism/sexism?

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh we're they saying these things like how much they hate Wokeness or something?

I thought this was an endorsement!

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

I thought OOP was saying it's a good thing too

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