Stellar Blade / Project Eve Thread - aka Stellar Ass

[Cheeseknife]

Calm down.

No u.

Since this is probably Sony's doing I think the "cancel your subscription and tweet it to Sony" part of this could actually have some impact if it's part of the misguided "ruin your shit for westerners because they like that" thing Japan has always had an issue with and not just one of those random censorship kicks Japan has occasionally.

I'm surprised I haven't heard much on the Australian ACCC angle. Those guys are brutal for a (non-evil) government agency and really fucking hate shit like false advertising. They're the whole reason Steam has its current (international) refund policy. If they go after them on the grounds of every Australian order and disc copy (I read something about Australians trying the blurays and not being able to avoid the patch? idk) the easiest remedy would be a global rollback.

I remember this was the MO during the Blitzchung controversy back in 2019. A lot of people canceled their Battle.net subscriptions to WoW after that happened.
Blizzard just doubled down, however. No lessons have been learned.
And then people just re-subscribe later on when a new product is released because they just memory-hole things.
Generally-speaking, gamers are not principled people. They can be rallied within the moment, but when no longer prodded to do so, they just devolve back into regular consoomer practices like the nigger-cattle they are.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

I literally cannot make that post sound any nicer. I am restraining myself and I deleted entire paragraphs calling people subhuman faggots. If I sound antagonistic in that post it's genuinely not intentional.

I mean in the Twitter/ X post. You come across like an asshole, but that’s like most of your posts. Most people here are used to you sounding unhinged because there’s a likelihood of the person you are responding to being an ultra faggot in DMs.

I agree with your posts there, but you come across as hostile or dismissive when you give good advice in text. It’s a skill in some circumstances. That’s all I wanna say on your comments.

I find the game kind of whatever for being marketed for a sexy character (her head is distractingly small to me), but shit like the Last of Us 2 has a sex scene that serves no purpose to the plot and weird gross dyke shit. People can have eye candy, but I find the western gaming industry to be infested with the worst types of fags. The types who get angry when they aren’t overtly pandered to. When Nier Automata was a hot topic I remember 9S being a topic of how much of a twink he was in gaming publications that no one reads like Kotaku, Gamespot, or whatever. It’s a lot more sleazy to me. I understand men oogling at women, but I find it pathetic to admit that as a man myself. It feels like someone is telling me their masturbation habits and I get grossed out. The tranny and twink shit makes me think something more insidious, though.

 

[Blackhole]

I literally cannot make that post sound any nicer. I am restraining myself and I deleted entire paragraphs calling people subhuman faggots. If I sound antagonistic in that post it's genuinely not intentional.

don't restrain yourself jersh, please obliterate these retards verbally. anime faggots need to be bullied again

 

[Null]

I mean in the Twitter/ X post.

So do I.

 

[Random Internet Person]

https://www.change.org/p/free-stellar-blade

https://archive.is/9WYJa

 

[draggs]

Find a secret weeb coomer judge because proving damages over the examples given would be just about impossible otherwise. Plaintiffs can reee "THEY SAID NO CENSORSHIP THEN THEY CHANGED A FEW OUTFITS TO CENSOR TIDDIES AND INNER THIGHS," but all Soyny's lawyers have to do is point to all the grorious coomer opportunities the game provides (including the ability to upskirt Eve with minimal effort) and 99.9999% of judges are going to say 'plaintiffs aren't damaged by changes in less than a handful of outfits out of dozens, which all provide a plethora of opportunities for titillation.' Canceling PS+ subs and reeeing on soshul media costs less and is more likely to succeed (not going to still, but more likely than litigation)

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

I remember this was the MO during the Blitzchung controversy back in 2019. A lot of people canceled their Battle.net subscriptions to WoW after that happened.
Blizzard just doubled down, however. No lessons have been learned.
And then people just re-subscribe later on when a new product is released because they just memory-hole things.
Generally-speaking, gamers are not principled people. They can be rallied within the moment, but when no longer prodded to do so, they just devolve back into regular consoomer practices like the nigger-cattle they are.

I don't think it's meant to be a general boycott or anything; playstation plus subscriptions are just the sort of thing people keep around indefinitely and forget about unless something reminds them to unsubscribe. Sony doesn't want that so it's just an immediate signal for attention.
Whether it'll actually do anything is a mystery, but a first-party publisher like Blizzard and some basically trivial (to them) shit that probably happened due to some uninvested executive game of telephone at Sony are two different things.

Find a secret weeb coomer judge because proving damages over the examples given would be just about impossible otherwise. Plaintiffs can reee "THEY SAID NO CENSORSHIP THEN THEY CHANGED A FEW OUTFITS TO CENSOR TIDDIES AND INNER THIGHS," but all Soyny's lawyers have to do is point to all the grorious coomer opportunities the game provides (including the ability to upskirt Eve with minimal effort) and 99.9999% of judges are going to say 'plaintiffs aren't damaged by changes in less than a handful of outfits out of dozens, which all provide a plethora of opportunities for titillation.'

Eh not fulfilling a very specific binary marketing claim at the last minute is pretty textbook. No judge is going to rate the contract performance in terms of percentage of cock hardness.

 

[dustbuster]

No judge is going to rate the contract performance in terms of percentage of cock hardness.

Are you sure?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-sentenced-for-exposing-himself/

Foster told authorities that she saw Thompson use the device [penis pump] almost daily during the August 2003 murder trial of a man accused of shaking a toddler to death. A whooshing sound could be heard on Foster's audiotape of the trial. When jurors asked the judge about the sound, Thompson said he had not heard it but would listen for it.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

So do I.

It’s something I think you yourself have mentioned on the podcast before. How you come across in spoken conversation vs text conversation. I don’t mean to be patronizing about this, but I thought I’d remark.

The thing I mostly am talking about is the lawyer and class action talk. It is good advice, but as the conversation flows in plain text it sounds slightly hostile if I read by someone who’s never heard you speak. I can imagine if you spoke it, it’d probably be more annoyed and tired at how retarded some obese black guy saying “won’t you sign my petition” is.

Side note: please cover the Rekieta Michelle Obama joke that Kurt had to suffer through. It’s cringe kino.

 

[draggs]

Eh not fulfilling a very specific binary marketing claim at the last minute is pretty textbook. No judge is going to rate the contract performance in terms of percentage of cock hardness.

Actual damages have to be proven. People bring claims that someone else broke their word all the time but they still have to prove actual damages. Otherwise the court can rule nominal damages. In the vast majority of cases, nominal damage award is $1. $1 return for spending six figures on lawyers. The court says yeah you're right, feel good that you were vindicated, that's all you're getting bye. That's about as valuable as reeeing on soshul media and signing petitions

 

[X Prime]

I just want the lawsuit because I think it would be funny.

 

[dustbuster]

Actual damages have to be proven. People bring claims that someone else broke their word all the time but they still have to prove actual damages. Otherwise the court can rule nominal damages. In the vast majority of cases, nominal damage award is $1. $1 return for spending six figures on lawyers. The court says yeah you're right, feel good that you were vindicated, that's all you're getting bye. That's about as valuable as reeeing on soshul media and signing petitions

If you win the lawsuit you can request attorneys fees.
So a $1 judgment is a 6 figure expense to the defendant.

 

[Cheeseknife]

I don't think it's meant to be a general boycott or anything; playstation plus subscriptions are just the sort of thing people keep around indefinitely and forget about unless something reminds them to unsubscribe. Sony doesn't want that so it's just an immediate signal for attention.
Whether it'll actually do anything is a mystery, but a first-party publisher like Blizzard and some basically trivial (to them) shit that probably happened due to some uninvested executive game of telephone at Sony are two different things.

One of the dudes in Mark's little petition compilation says he bought a PlayStation 5 just to play this game. That's brain damage.
I see a game released on a platform I refuse to use and either wait for a PC release or opt out entirely. Buying an entire console for the purpose of playing one game is insane.
I don't see this hop aboard an "anti-censor" train as being legitimate. That's the point I was making earlier with the ESRB--people censor their content all the time and as a matter of course.
The only difference here is that Mark is able to capitalize on the "us and them" politics which (nowadays) is a tried and true method of manipulation.

I just want the lawsuit because I think it would be funny.

Same. It would also force either party to put their money where their mouths are.

 

[draggs]

If you win the lawsuit you can request attorneys fees.
So a $1 judgment is a 6 figure expense to the defendant.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1992 that in a judgment of nominal damages, the plaintiff is still considered the prevailing party, but is not entitled to attorney's fees because that would be "unreasonable."

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

Actual damages have to be proven.

Generally not so for consumer protection matters like false advertising. Only that deception occurred and may have been material in purchasing decisions. Otherwise it wouldn't really work as a concept. See the Lanham Act in the US, C&C Act in Australia.

 

[draggs]

Generally not so for consumer protection matters like false advertising. Only that deception occurred and may have been material in purchasing decisions. Otherwise it wouldn't really work as a concept. See the Lanham Act in the US, C&C Act in Australia.

Likelihood of injury to the plaintiff and actual deception, or a tendency to deceive a substantial portion of the intended audience have to be proven

With Soyny offering refunds to anyone who is big mad about booba concealment, that kind of takes away the plaintiff being injured, and how many weeb coomers are going to sign onto a class action to show sufficient evidence that a substantial portion of the intended audience was deceived? By the time a lolsuit went before a court Stellar Blade is going to have what, 2 million+ copies sold? More? Would 100,000 weeb coomers signing a petition (and proving they bought the product) be enough?

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

Likelihood of injury to the plaintiff and actual deception, or a tendency to deceive a substantial portion of the intended audience have to be proven

With Soyny offering refunds to anyone who is big mad about booba concealment, that kind of takes away the plaintiff being injured, and how many weeb coomers are going to sign onto a class action to show sufficient evidence that a substantial portion of the intended audience was deceived? By the time a lolsuit went before a court Stellar Blade is going to have what, 2 million+ copies sold? More? Would 100,000 weeb coomers signing a petition (and proving they bought the product) be enough?

I don't disagree, but you've now pivoted away from your original idea that it would have anything to do with what percentage of the game can be masturbated to. That wouldn't be the complaint, it would be that the marketing claim was deceptive.

The standards differing is why I said I'm surprised I haven't heard these people pushing an ACCC angle. No need for a class action there, and they likely wouldn't care about offering refunds on request on an individual basis either, only that it happened in the first place.

 

[RIPRhongoBongo]

All I'm waiting for is the eventual Photo Mode. I'm wasting hours on that when it happens

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Talking on the game, it was interesting that

Spoiler

Mother Sphere is identical to Aura from .hack

 

[LOWERCASE LETTERS]

People are butthurt about stellar blade being censored because of the double standard; TLOU2, Baldur's Gate 3, etc, had all sorts of grody sex scenes/gore/etc and didn't get touched even a little bit by Sony. Hell, BG3 flat out has bear fucking.