S.401 - Fair Access to Banking Act

One of the biggest scams in the world is how the Republican Party and Democratic Party actually agree on many things (banking system, military industrial complex, draft system, many such examples). They just pretend to be different so America fights about stuff that doesn't affect the powers that be revenue stream.
Exactly. This isn't an issue of left or right. Collective Shout isn't a left-wing NGO, it's actually partnered with an anti-LGBTQ organization. There are groups both on the left and right that oppose this. It's the authoritarian rich vs the people.

 
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caring about shit and being frustrated at the total and complete ineptitude of the masses you actually want to help is just soooo spergy bro...
Im in complete agreement about the evils of payment processors and the crimes of the patriot act. Im old enough to remember the before times.

But I also understand, to a degree, where the pushback is coming from.

All of this stuff is deeply upsetting and frustrating and there is nothing substantial we can do about it.

When you were asked what we should do you said:
writhe, suffer, and die a loathsome death under the boot of tyranny. basically.
So its understandable when people would rather distract themselves with inane bullshit instead of dwell upon the existential horrors they can't change.
 
So its understandable when people would rather distract themselves with inane bullshit instead of dwell upon the existential horrors they can't change.
It's also because it's such a slow death too. I remember when sexy games were everywhere, now when Stellar Blade releases glossy ass and tits it's treated as a return to glory. But it wasn't that long ago that every game had nice tits. They've slowly taken that away but even on PS4 there's still that extreme beach volleyball game. Now if you want softcore you go to gacha and gamble in the casino because they're the only people who won't compromise on giving you fanservice.

I think it will be decades before shooters actually get taken by the processors. Most people can't comprehend that long. Of course if we actually invent anti-aging medication that works, shit will be very different.
 
I think it will be decades before shooters actually get taken by the processors. Most people can't comprehend that long. Of course if we actually invent anti-aging medication that works, shit will be very different.
Technically shooters are being targeted by the processors decades ago. Or more accurately, the shooters were being censored and banned by the same governments that controlled the credit card companies now. It's more or less the exact same situation we have here.

It's also because it's such a slow death too. I remember when sexy games were everywhere, now when Stellar Blade releases glossy ass and tits it's treated as a return to glory. But it wasn't that long ago that every game had nice tits.

I would say this applies to anime more than video games. The difference between Fairy Tail and Frieren is stark.
 
You know there are many women who also agree with this but don't want to associate with a movement spearheaded by a guy who calls women "holes".
When you make every waking moment and aspect of your personality defined by the hole between your legs what else are we to define you as. Aren't you the same crowd that says we as males need to start thinking of you as the same people as us just with just different genitals? Find me one man that gets offended by being called a penis haver that isn't already some type of mental invalid.

Edit: Maybe that's why he took a moment to refer to those females specifically as a bunch of stupid holes versus all women ever. Are you even capable of parsing that? Like I only realized after I made my post that the level of vitriol that drips from what you're saying goes to prove that you're blinded by emotion and rage and aren't even willing to have a discussion about the fact that there is a huge portion of your peers that wish to destroy anything that doesn't coddle their mental illness.

Start with self-policing before you get mad at language, you know the same language that these mental midgets seek to censor.

Also I'm all for there being crazy sex games on steam because it's a great way for me to know to never associate with that person ever if I check their game list and see that it's full of that kind of stuff.
 
This mindset is how Europe got sacked into the boonies by the church for years. When people realized and they just kept resesrching philosophy, planets, gravity, incorporating Pagan Myths into Christianity (like Dante's Inferno) etc. despite the church has openly declared these things as heresy, it just decided it was enough and had to use other ways like communism to try taking over (and every mask they took on from that point on is explicitly classified as bad faith).
That’s because the church was never against those things and that was a made up narrative by anti-Catholic writers during the Enlightenment. There was a ton of scientific discovery in the Middle Ages and the church was at the forefront of promoting education.
 
In Null’s defense, it’s pretty disheartening and frustrating when you’ve seen this shit happen dozens of times over the years, and yet everybody acts like the latest incident is the only one because they’re either barely old enough to legally order a beer, have the memory of a goddamn goldfish, or both simultaneously.
That is just how people are. The vast majority of people dont even know there is a fundamental difference between Banks and Payment processors. More broadly they dont care too know.

It has always been thus. Which is why traditional societies with Kings and Nobles put so much emphasis on their rulers having a divine principle of morality. Liberal Democracy does not do this. It envisions an engaged and moral people. But that is fantastically optimistic and naive thinking.

The end result is the rulers can be as evil as they want, content in their conscience that the people have agreed to be fucked over by electing them.
 
Frieren is one of the most chaste things I've seen.
It's also just really good too. High quality animation, fun characters, a good story, and an interesting setting. Hard not to like it.


That’s because the church was never against those things and that was a made up narrative by anti-Catholic writers during the Enlightenment.
Protestantism and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
 
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Technically shooters are being targeted by the processors decades ago. Or more accurately, the shooters were being censored and banned by the same governments that controlled the credit card companies now. It's more or less the exact same situation we have here.
The ratings system is also VERY similar to payment processor censorship. The ratings boards ESRB (and CERO, PEGI) are private organizations. But they can fine companies similar to a government organization. If they rate something AO your game gets pulled from the shelves (see GTA SA). If your game is unrated you also cannot get your game into shops. If they really dont want something released they can simply refuse to rate it. There are also a lot of former government people on the board. It has the exact same "not a government organization, but also de facto a government organization" structure payment processors have.
 
I agree with Josh's points except for the beginning about Gamergate. To say that it lost the battle is true, but I think in the long term Gamergate did have quite a few victories under its belt since many of the journalists have been fired and are rotting in their own small websites like Aftermath if they're even still writing. And the big thing was it did wake up all tons of people over how corrupt journalism of all kinds is, and how they are not your friend.
When GamerGate happened over 10 years ago, most people hyper-focused on trying to shut down the careers of a few retard feminists
The big targets that should have gotten the most attention were DIGRA and the IGDA that were actively discussing how to push DEI bullshit into video games and blackmailing game devs into pushing that shit. There was some talk about these organizations but most of the attention was on those big 3 feminists who were just their puppets.
Wikipedia is more off the rails than ever and more influential than ever
I disagree that it is more influential than ever. People still heavily view wikipedia with distrust due to the fact everyone can edit it in theory (obviously there tranny jannies and shit but in theory anyone can add any sort of information that's wrong). Even today I constantly am told to not cite wikipedia due to that, even among leftists.
all those women made appearances at the UN and Google
And where did that go from there? It went nowhere, if anything it just added more distrust to both organizations since they were focusing on that. IIRC the UN even retracted and backed away from the statements Zoe and Anita made there because they were uncredible.
 
The ratings system is also VERY similar to payment processor censorship. The ratings boards ESRB (and CERO, PEGI) are private organizations. But they can fine companies similar to a government organization. If they rate something AO your game gets pulled from the shelves (see GTA SA). If your game is unrated you also cannot get your game into shops. If they really dont want something released they can simply refuse to rate it. There are also a lot of former government people on the board. It has the exact same "not a government organization, but also de facto a government organization" structure payment processors have.
Since you brought up ESRB, this is also normalized fraud. ESRB would not exist if some clueless senator didn't look at a heavily pixelated game where you have to save girls in nightgowns from vampires and thought that the game is about vampires mutilating the girls. At least it was so insane and over the top that it was actually funny.

That’s because the church was never against those things and that was a made up narrative by anti-Catholic writers during the Enlightenment. There was a ton of scientific discovery in the Middle Ages and the church was at the forefront of promoting education.
List something the church invented in the medieval era then. Stuff invented by Muslims and Jews don't count. So no serfdom, forever wars, mass censorship, torture devices, systematic genocides and the like.

Also people that aren't in high church during that time did not receive any education. There were no public schools or non-church libraries.

I agree with Josh's points except for the beginning about Gamergate. To say that it lost the battle is true, but I think in the long term Gamergate did have quite a few victories under its belt since many of the journalists have been fired and are rotting in their own small websites like Aftermath if they're even still writing. And the big thing was it did wake up all tons of people over how corrupt journalism of all kinds is, and how they are not your friend.
False, because the leftist influence is so strong that it outright covers over all common sense and morality during that time. As in you say something against that narrative, you will be ridiculed and cancelled. It's not until the end of the covid pandemic that it's actually better.
 
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What's always so strange is that everyone has a different canon to what GG was. Some people think it was all about stomping SJW bullshit, some people think it was about ethics in games journalism, but you ask ten GG vets and you'll have ten different but similar stories.
 
Protestantism and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
If you guys weren't so busy selling indulgences and worshipping the idols you call saints, it didn't need to happen.
ESRB would not exist if some clueless senator didn't look at a heavily pixelated game where you have to save girls in nightgowns from vampires and thought that the game is about vampires mutilating the girls
It would've happened anyway. Movies have their own censor board because they too were afraid of government intervention. It is better to pre-empt it by making your own censors and work with the government. Then you have more control.
 
What's always so strange is that everyone has a different canon to what GG was. Some people think it was all about stomping SJW bullshit, some people think it was about ethics in games journalism, but you ask ten GG vets and you'll have ten different but similar stories.
Whenever anyone asks what Gamergate was about I refer them to Jim's Quinnspiracy Theory videos, seen here in a compilation.


It's a contemporary source that followed the controversy as it developed. There's no historical revisionism going on and it's not clouded by the passage of time.
 
It would've happened anyway. Movies have their own censor board because they too were afraid of government intervention. It is better to pre-empt it by making your own censors and work with the government. Then you have more control.
Yes, but it doesn't change that it was created because of some legitimately stupid and embarrassing shit.
 
Whenever anyone asks what Gamergate was about I refer them to Jim's Quinnspiracy Theory videos, seen here in a compilation.


It's a contemporary source that followed the controversy as it developed. There's no historical revisionism going on and it's not clouded by the passage of time.
But I was there and watched those videos and yet all I can remember is is hating SJWs. Was that actually a fringe part of GG?
 
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