Sweet Baby Inc. and the Steam Curator Group Conspiracy - The company that is responsible for the diarrheic video game writing.

[Božidarka]

In the first minute of this review, he demonstrates less cognitive ability than a toddler.

 

[FedPostalService]

Imagine the Vikings caring about 'indigenous lands'.
Imagine other Indian tribes caring about 'indigenous lands'.

Reminder: The ethnicity that killed, colonized, and genocided the most Indians are.... INDIANS

Flashback to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla were the main character said they were, erm, just using the bits of England that the English weren’t using.

Ignoring that even if that was true they were available for settlement because THE FUCKING VIKINGS MURDERED THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE.

 

[Carpenter Trout]

Dean Takahashi(t) who can't read instructs on a screen because he's a spastic.

He was one of the faggots I was thinking of when writing that sentence. That Cuphead video is prove that they're useless hacks with no redeeming value whatsoever. There's more editorial value in both KnowYourMeme and This very website's gaming sections than in any of the big corpo's owned "gaming" "journals"

Copyright law goes to federal court. You cannot sue someone over copyright in state court.

And yeah they haven't gotten precedent but in nearly all legal cases a settlement is the preferred outcome because it saves the cost of lawyers and court fees and the risk of losing. More importantly they don't need precedent; the law is very clear that piracy is not legal and circumventing or facilitating circumventing the DMCA is not legal. They turn a blind eye to most of it, only really doing anything when it gets egregious or at a mass scale.

Do you really think it'd be that hard to get rid of every rom site hosting Nintendo stuff if they really wanted to? Make a list and DMCA takedown it to Google, their web infrastructure, and cogent and it's gone. They don't because it doesn't really matter.

Half of this doomer shit is voided the instant you read some old court cases:

https://casetext.com/case/sony-computer-entertainment-america-v-bleem

tl;dr Emulators ARE legal, they are built upon Retroengineering and shit, to deem that illegal would deem basically 3/4 of the web illegal.

Nintendo set no legal precedents, they're just Mobsters being Mobsters: buying out websites to shut them down, threaten to sue the little guy, lobbying to fuck up the industry even more (like when they tried to patent Tears of The Kingdom's glue ability. Too bad that concept was already in Tabletop Simulator, Garry's Mod and countless other games before the Nigtendo Switch even launched)... The Yakuza root is still in the big N.

You get what you deserve

As if everyone who tries to criticize and go against the status quo doesn't get "Cancelled" or silenced, fuck off with that bullshit.
Only Reddit-tier website have been defending the rise in videogames' price, wokeness, and the scam that is live service/Game as a service. Ross Scott even started a lawsuit over Ubisoft closing down the servers for a SINGLEPLAYER game, The Crew. Shit or not, the game should've been patched as to make singleplayer still available, or even better, open sourced so people can provide their own master servers.

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Alternatives to discord even if we really want. You just don't have to be lazy to set up Revolt or Element/Matrix.

Really, how is Element for voice group chat and screen sharing? This is fucking dumb, there's still no real discord alternative, let alone a FOSS one. Maybe Guilded, since Discord is copying most of their features from them. Element and Matrix clients are more of a modernized IRC, but nothing still comes close to discord when it comes to feature richness, for better and for worse. Even TeamSpeak's twitter is literal seething against discord because people ditched that program for free servers, also remember ts5? it turns out it's just TS3+Telegram's Group chat. Server messages are still cached locally and won't get you what other messages were sent while off line, but funnily enough, while TS5 has less feature than TS3, it consumes twice the ram.
Spacebar/FOSScord? Literally a client that doesn't has shit;
Revolt.chat? «Lol, lmao even», it has been stagnant on the same build ever since it launched and it's not even really open source. Also there's troon drama;
Nerimity/Nertivia? The lead dev is a redditor drunk with power who plays OW2;
Matrix? The home node is a piece of shit, and Element still sucks to this very day, even Trillian would be a better alternative, and it uses XMPP.

The Build Engine is a lot like the DOOM Engine in that its not real "3D" but based on sprites

This "doom wasn't 3d" bullshit was disproven time and time again. It is 3d, very limited, but still 3D.

 

[Puff]

I find land acknowledgements as a sign that the company is truly evil, because either they're lying about feeling guilty about living in conquered lands or they're violating their own moral code by occupying conquered lands, all while admitting they're doing it.

 

[WelperHelper99]

I find land acknowledgements as a sign that the company is truly evil, because either they're lying about feeling guilty about living in conquered lands or they're violating their own moral code by occupying conquered lands, all while admitting they're doing it.

Agree. If they cared, truly, they'd move. It's all smoke and mirrors, kabuki theater. It just says they have no morals they won't bend for money.

 

[Božidarka]

Flashback to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla were the main character said they were, erm, just using the bits of England that the English weren’t using.

Ignoring that even if that was true they were available for settlement because THE FUCKING VIKINGS MURDERED THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE.

It's problematic to portray warrior cultures the way they were.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I might be more oldschool, but I very much live under the "As long as it doesn't hurt anyone, we can all go back to minding our own business and live in peace" -mantra.

This is the correct attitude to have, but it won't happen because of the people involved.

Opticscucks, blackpillers, and tradcucks vary in argument and motivation, but their goals are the same. Some are well meaning and argue in good faith, but many are actively trying to undermine any effort because it's not in their interest.

Just how many people are doing that tho? 1000? 10000? that's peanuts unless they are also all whales. Seems most of the growth its coming from mobile games which are far from the minigames from 10-15 years ago and some are even on-par with switch games.

Among the servers I lurk in, there are a number of people who do this. Looking at lolcows, you have DSP, Razorfist, and Short Fat Otaku who are guilty of this. Yes, it's a small number, but it's not zero. A real world example would be those photos of concerts where almost the entire audience is holding their phone up to put it on the internet instead of enjoying the music. It's the same general concept. Let's say it's 1000 people doing this, that's still 60,000 in DIE pockets.

Wait wait, $6k sure, even at the beginning with shit like farmville (remember that shit?) there were a few who wasted almost that much money, but $60k? that's like 1/4 of a house in some places, where did you hear that?

DSP spent 5 figures on JPGs of wrestlers. I vaguely remember Brianna Wu was rumoured to have spent 6 figures on Final Fantasy gotcha, and those are niche games in comparison to things like Fifa Ultimate Team.

Even so, the exact number isn't the problem, the ratio is. If a game is $60, and for sake of argument we'll ignore taxes, distribution, etc. Then 100 whales are worth more that 100 regular customers.

Addiction. I think a lot of people simply can't stop lol.

But it's not an addiction to games. It's an addiction to the "zeitgeist", to have an opinion on current popular thing.

 

[Cheeseknife]

I might be more oldschool, but I very much live under the "As long as it doesn't hurt anyone, we can all go back to minding our own business and live in peace" -mantra.

This doesn't work in the long run. I'll just give you a short Christian perspective on it:

While my belief in God may not break my neighbor’s leg, it certainly has the capacity to violate his sense of selfhood, especially if this selfhood is wrapped up in an ideal of sexual self-expression. Even so, many conservative Christians have adopted this state of mind and react to any and all attacks on religious beliefs with what is known as "Jeffersonian liberalism."

"Just leave us alone to practice our faith and we will leave you alone.”

But this is gravely short-sighted and progressives actually understand this better than conservatives do. Kim Belair, CEO of SBI, understands this better than many mainstream Christians do, hence she says, "We're not doing this under a veneer of wokeness. You actually have to care about these things." In other words, wokeness isn't woke because it is normal in her eyes. Same with Kotaku. They don't believe they are enforcing wokeness on everyone. They believe they are enforcing what is normal and everyone else is evil. Everyone else just needs to catch up...

Conservatives are catching onto this, slowly. Jeffersonian liberalism functions along what is called the “pickpocket” theory of religious neutrality. It rests on two false assumptions:

1) the only important form of harm is material—an injury to one’s body or pocketbook.
2) government is only concerned with the prevention of harm, not the promotion of good.

Of course, no one actually lives this way. The legal system regularly punishes non-material forms of harm (e.g., defamation), and advocates policies which actively promote social good (e.g., public education). But just because no one actually lives this way, many still think this way, try to live this way, and try to force government into this restricted, unnatural, and ultimately inhuman channel. And this has consequences.

After two centuries of pretending that government can, and should, turn a blind eye to everything short of highway robbery, we find ourselves inundated with utopian calls for government to prosecute every micro-aggression, tear down every systemic inequity, and promote any conceivable form of a "better and brighter future." Therefore, liberals are no longer liberal, but they are "post-liberal." Meaning liberalism formerly confined politics to the “harm principle,” but is now outright enforcing ideals such as identity politics upon everyone.

So, society has sequestered religious beliefs under an umbrella of, "Stop forcing your beliefs on me! Leave us alone and we'll leave you alone!" But then comes, "Don't be racist, or we'll come and get you."

 

[LaxerBRO]

I find land acknowledgements as a sign that the company is truly evil, because either they're lying about feeling guilty about living in conquered lands or they're violating their own moral code by occupying conquered lands, all while admitting they're doing it.

A skit on stolen lands.

 

[CircuSphere]

This because FOSS ideology isn't more widespread. Everything has to be non-free or proprietary, and it bites everyone's ass, except lawyers.

Yeah but I don't even think that will work. Opensource is absolutely infested with do nothing minders who obsess over minutia and verbiage because they are too fucking stupid to code their way out of a paper bag but need to pad that resume by nagging actual devs. Sure you can fork stuff (most of the time) but like with the NexusMods debacle who ever controls Arrakis controls the spice controls git hub controls the source.

 

[Brigadoom]

Imagine the Vikings caring about 'indigenous lands'.
Imagine other Indian tribes caring about 'indigenous lands'.

Reminder: The ethnicity that killed, colonized, and genocided the most Indians are.... INDIANS

HEY! Don't you evil yt devil shitlords not know that only yts colonized and killed their enemies?! Indians were totally peaceful and not at all a roving band of brutal cunts. In all seriousness the second I see anyone saying that shit I simply start tuning them out. There is not a single country, nationality, ethnicity etc that didn't kill and nick each other's land. It's a fact of life and if they can't accept that I know they are smooth brained gimps who will only drag me down into the ballpit of mongoloids.

He was one of the faggots I was thinking of when writing that sentence. That Cuphead video is prove that they're useless hacks with no redeeming value whatsoever. There's more editorial value in both KnowYourMeme and This very website's gaming sections than in any of the big corpo's owned "gaming" "journals"

I am trying to remember if he did Doom 2016 as well or if they hid the name of the person that captured the footage. Polygon seems to be in desperate need of people who can actually play the games instead of recruiting people who clearly have traumatic brain injuries.

 

[BikeLock]

In the first minute of this review, he demonstrates less cognitive ability than a toddler.

Once again, a "game journalist" doesn't know how to play video games. And they wonder why so many people think they're retarded. It's because they are.

How a real Gamer thinks:
"Oh, he finishes his bubble bowling animation off of the button, so I guess that means that I just have to start the animation off the button so that when he finishes he's on the button and its pressed, simple."

Game Jurno:
"OMGWTFBBQ YOU CAN'T DO THIS WHILE ON THE BUTTON, THIS IS LITERALLY AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK THAT I CAN'T GET AROUND, THE GAME IS BROKEN!"

 

[Not A Fed]

So, society has sequestered religious beliefs under an umbrella of, "Stop forcing your beliefs on me! Leave us alone and we'll leave you alone!" But then comes, "Don't be racist, or we'll come and get you."

In other words, while you may not be interested in the culture war, the culture war is interested in you.

 

[Meat Target]

In other words, while you may not be interested in the culture war, the culture war is interested in you.

The side that just wants to grill will always lose to the side that wants to win.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Oh since we're ragging on journos sucking at viday, here's one from IGN

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You can actually hear someone in the background telling them how to get over that,

I've never fucking seen that one, I thought IGN's Sonic Unleashed one was bad

But this... It's not even on YouTube, this is some ancient, arcane mental retardation at display here.

Seriously, how the fuck do you fail at Green Hill Zone, that too at the near start like this?

 

[Cheeseknife]

The side that just wants to grill will always lose to the side that wants to win.

Not necessarily. Because the side that "wants to grill" still needs to pay for the grill. Meaning every individual is fighting his or her own battle at home. This is why I don't buy into this whole "culture war" nonsense because it puts you in a position where you think you have all the answers. The best thing I believe any individual can and should do is focus on themselves and those closest to them. From there, things will just spiral outwardly.

Like, there was a book published recently titled White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy. It's about how just regular people, minding their own, out in the country are apparently some huge threat to democracy. You know? People who live out in the country because they don't want to be bothered by anyone else. And now progressives are absolutely terrified that these country bumpkins are going to ruthlessly and maliciously seize power for the nefarious purposes of "Leave us alone!"

I don't think people realize that simply by minding your own business and just trying to live in peace absolutely terrifies the progressive Left. Again, look at the Kiwi Farms. It's Null's little space he created for autistic spergs like yours truly to talk about stuff with other autistic spergs. Nobody here has lifted a finger towards Sweet Baby save simply clicking a button on Steam that joins a Curator page. That's it.

Just click the button that says, "I want to mind my own business and be left alone."

That terrifies them.

 

[Big Meaty Claws]

I've never fucking seen that one, I thought IGN's Sonic Unleashed one was bad

But this... It's not even on YouTube, this is some ancient, arcane mental retardation at display here.

Seriously, how the fuck do you fail at Green Hill Zone, that too at the near start like this?

In the first minute of this review, he demonstrates less cognitive ability than a toddler.

Shit like this really cements the theories that these guys are paid out to give positive reviews by companies who bribe them, and that they see games as just Political platforms, than something to actually enjoy and cherish. I bet these Corpo journalists only got the job because they line up with there companies political views, and nothing more.

 

[Wendell X]

I don't think people realize that simply by minding your own business and just trying to live in peace absolutely terrifies the progressive Left. Again, look at the Kiwi Farms. It's Null's little space he created for autistic spergs like yours truly to talk about stuff with other autistic spergs. Nobody here has lifted a finger towards Sweet Baby save simply clicking a button on Steam that joins a Curator page. That's it.

Just leave us alone to practice our faith and we will leave you alone.”

But this is gravely short-sighted and progressives actually understand this better than conservatives do. Kim Belair, CEO of SBI, understands this better than many mainstream Christians do, hence she says, "We're not doing this under a veneer of wokeness. You actually have to care about these things." In other words, wokeness isn't woke because it is normal in her eyes. Same with Kotaku. They don't believe they are enforcing wokeness on everyone. They believe they are enforcing what is normal and everyone else is evil. Everyone else just needs to catch up...

???

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Shit like this really cements the theories that these guys are paid out to give positive reviews by companies who bribe them, and that they see games as just Political platforms, than something to actually enjoy and cherish. I bet these Corpo journalists only got the job because they line up with there companies political views, and nothing more.

Some of them have publicly admitted blatantly that they hate video games, so yeah. It gets proven all the time, a lot of time.

 

[Big Meaty Claws]

Some of them have publicly admitted blatantly that they hate video games, so yeah. It gets proven all the time, a lot of time.

Needs to fucking change man, its why I stick to fucking Youtube reviewers, atleast they don't (usually) got there ass being grabbed by a company, and actually enjoy gaming.