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Diseased #Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!
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Lol they seriously cannot help themselves
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Oh i know, i think the whales have completely fucked up the gaming landscape with acceptance of loot boxes and shitty practices (paid mods are just around the corner). However I'm just a customer and also know that it is very good business sense for the companies to chase those whale bux. For example: I fucking hate EA for killing studios and franchises that i loved, but they do know business.
EA ultimate team ~75% play it and 35% of players spent money on these micro-transactions. That's an extra $650 million per year on a shitty virtual card game from 35% of the current playerbase. EA is now less reliant on holiday shoppers for earning potential making the company more sustainable. If that wasn't enough EAs stock prices in the last 5 years have roughly multiplied by 5 ($22 to $115).
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But...but...this will surely defeat Trump once and for all. He'll read that comic and say, "Gosh, I am destroying America! I will immediately step down as POTUS and make Hillary President for Life!"
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For those who care, EVS was interviewed by Andrew Klavan (I've set the timecode to the start of the interview, if it fails, jump to the 26:10 mark.
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The problem in gam8ng is the Whales can be a too edged sword. They can prop up and make profitable a worthwhile niche product. Star Trek Online is a good example. Also plenty of other specialty games such as the Simulator genre. But pricing for them can be hellishly exploitive in a more mainstream game. Call of Duty does not need massive micro transactions to keep the lights on. The STO players all understand that buying a ship or loot crate every now and then keeps the lights on, which makes it seem less like highway robbery. Plus they didn’t pay $70+ for a AAA game upfront. But $70+ and then pay to win mechanics and core content walked off behind other paywalls. EA’s evil bullshit? Yeah that hurts everyone. And the few whales propping it up hurt everyone.
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Oh how the tables have turned 
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I think they're more effective if not necessarily more progressive.
Claremont's X-Men understood that mutants could be dangerous and that it was reasonable to be afraid of out of control mutants. Claremont had his X-Men spend a lot of time protecting people from evil and dangerous mutants like the Hellfire Club and Brotherhood of Evil. You sympathized with the X-Men because they tried to do good despite the hate and disrespect they received from normal people.
The current crop of Marvel writers take the gay rights metaphor almost too literally. The X-Men can do nothing wrong, and any fear of mutant powers is bigotry, no matter how justified. The X-Men in the current run of books are seen attacking frightened humans (aka BIGOTS) more often than evil mutants. Its reached a point where its hard to sympathize with the plight of mutant discrimination because the X-Men are fucking bullies who constantly pick fights with people they can easily (and inevitably do) beat the fucking shit out of.
A recent example is the Iceman comic Ya Boi Zack reviewed a few months ago. It was your bog standard X-Men story: young mutant develops his powers, accidentally hurts someone, and a mob forms to chase him down. The X-Men have a million ways to extract the young mutant without any conflict. Kitty can grab him and pull him through a wall. Nightcrawler can bamf in, grab him, and bamf out. Any one of the hundred flyers could snatch him and fly away. Etc. What do the current progressive X-Men choose to do? They beat the ever loving shit out of the frightened townsfolk who were afraid of a kid who hurt someone (albeit accidentally). Some fucking heroes.
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Boy, that comic is going to become real dated after Trump finishes his presidential term(s).
Come to think of it, a lot of these comics will become dated trash by 2024 at the latest. This is what happens when comic creators value propaganda over timeless stories, their shit will be forgotten at best, or will become a reminder of a failed "resistance movement".
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I've always viewed comics as: The true measure of a villain is the power he shows; the true measure of a hero is the restraint he shows.
So when you say the X-Men are showing their power more than their restraint that just translates to me as "them's the bad guys". I don't support villainy, no sir. Anti-heroism yes, but usually those guys tend to go after people their own size.
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Lol at those renfamous bigoted posts.
Jesus, that’s extremely embarrassing. What an awful person, in 10 years she hasnt changed into a better person. Just changed her targets.
Jesus, that’s extremely embarrassing. What an awful person, in 10 years she hasnt changed into a better person. Just changed her targets.
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That's pretty standard for SJWs. Most of them have a lot to hide. By their own nobody is ever forgiven logic, and their punch a Nazi rhetoric, they are themselves Nazis who should be punched.
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Yeah, I always point that out and I'm unsure if others notice it on their own. Writers get way too hooked on "Mutants are stand-ins for minority groups" that they're forgetting their writing about people who can manifest random (usually chaotic) powers around puberty with potentially more as time passes by. It doesn't help that the 2000s had Cyclops become Magneto-lite before they kinda jettisoned that or how they keep the "NEXT STEP OF HUMAN EVOLUTION" stuff which doesn't work with the metaphor or how the X-gene seems to behave. Mutant couples don't necessarily produce mutant children and if they were going to become dominate, they would've by now.
Like sure, I'm not presenting the full context here, but a scene like this is extremely broken no matter if you look at it as "lol minorities" or what mutants actually are, the product of some Celestials experimenting on early humans which resulted in superpowers being a thing.
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They somehow missed that. In the past comics used current politics sparingly, largely because it ages poorly. One of the best examples was the “classic” Captain America Man Without a Country storyline from the early 70’s. (cap quits and becomes Nomad.) Which was up front direct commentary on and inclusion of the Nixon administration. Reading it today it is shallow, dull, incomprehensible and pretentious. Nobody born after 1966 can really understand it. (“Why is that guy from Futurama in this comic?”) Heck in Frank Miller’s Dark Night Returns the worst pages are the few Ronald Reagan references, which aged extremely poorly.
Clever commentary on current politics can make for an interesting if confusing time capsule. Provided you don’t use all the subtlety of a hammer in doing it.
“Lol I was a 19 year old angry asshole (bigot) with no life experience” isn’t this one of the twits schrieking to burn a federal judge alive because some woman said he might have touched her when they were both drunken high school kids? (With no nudity or sex). So “teenage years” excuses their misdeeds, but not anyone else’s? Uh huh.
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SJWs judge others by the worst thing they ever did in the past, and themselves by what they aspire to be. Actually that's not just SJWs, it's fucking everyone and it sucks.
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Not to pigeonhole the X-Men into just one metaphor, but one of the big analogies used to be that Professor X was a Martin Luther King figure, and Magneto was his Malcolm X counterpart.
Fast-forward to the Current Year, and the received #woke opinion is that Dr. King was an Uncle Tom who deserved what he got, and Malcolm X had it right. No wonder the X-Men's characterization is a mess.
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Rules for thee, not for me (the extemely bigoted cunt with unchecked mental issues).
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Ren doesn't seem to be a very smart person. If you're a completely different person now, wouldn't you want to drop the username you used as a straight, white bigot? She was just going on about how a 20 year old has ruined his life by supporting an internet comic book campaign. Yet her dirty e-laundry is stuff she did at 19, so it all should be forgiven. Which is it? Forgive the naivety of youth, or have it burden you the rest of your life? The answer is obvious to us, rules for thee not for me.
She's not the first one who's done something like this. It's an SJW trend. One of the worst has to be Pedobutts. Nick Nyberg is apparently allowed to say he wanted to rape his pre-pubescent cousin and we're supposed to view that as nothing more than teenage banter on the internet. Of course, he wasn't a teenager anymore when posting that stuff and being a pedo was never really a 4chan identity but facts are hate speech. Nyberg is the same person who believes today's actual teenage internet banter should result in that hanging over your entire life.
SJW behavior has often been thought of a pseudo-religion for woke people. These are the born again Christians with severe projection issues. Except instead of praising God, they screech all the time and want to ruin everything.
Isn't this the book from the asshole pic guy?
Man sends out a public, unsolicited picture of his asshole to an unwilling individual while working for Disney. Doesn't get punished at all. The absolute state of this industry.
She's not the first one who's done something like this. It's an SJW trend. One of the worst has to be Pedobutts. Nick Nyberg is apparently allowed to say he wanted to rape his pre-pubescent cousin and we're supposed to view that as nothing more than teenage banter on the internet. Of course, he wasn't a teenager anymore when posting that stuff and being a pedo was never really a 4chan identity but facts are hate speech. Nyberg is the same person who believes today's actual teenage internet banter should result in that hanging over your entire life.
SJW behavior has often been thought of a pseudo-religion for woke people. These are the born again Christians with severe projection issues. Except instead of praising God, they screech all the time and want to ruin everything.
Isn't this the book from the asshole pic guy?
Man sends out a public, unsolicited picture of his asshole to an unwilling individual while working for Disney. Doesn't get punished at all. The absolute state of this industry.
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>Two absolute whitebreads REEE at a guy named "Nasser Rabadi" for being white.
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>An overweight, middle aged, never-was, cosplay thot wannabe REEEs at a 20 y/o who just got his publication funded. Like she has anything to do with any publishing industry, or any creative industry, for that matter.