Things we'd be talking about if the forum wasn't deadFollow

Is there anything that makes sense anymore? We are descending into a world of madness. Tomorrow we'll be reading articles about how they're all wearing boots as hats and walking around the president in a circle like peacocks.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

To be fair, if you wear boots for a hat, it's way easier to do a handstand. Assistance with mental gymnastics is helpful for being part of the Trump team. They already do that circle thing.

Reforms aimed at having more police with more guns? Probably.

I feel as though SPG whooshed a few of you.

The Alt-Righters are sad because their video game safe space suddenly, uh, includes shooting Nazis?

First was Far Cry 5 which will take place in Montana and has you fighting against a militia-cult. How dare they! (That link likely won't work due to a bad word in the URL -- edit: sure didn't; added a hyphen in the offending word)

The follow-up is Wolfenstein II which has good ole BJ Blazkowicz (Spoiler: guess he survived, huh?) fighting now on American soil to defeat the Nazis who took over the world. This has people mad which is pretty weird because the best thing the Nazis ever did was give us video game opponents decades later that no one could complain about killing.

Lest one think these examples were cherry-picked, you can visit the Steam forums for the respective games and get either very amused or very depressed for yourself, depending on your state of mind. Presumably, these are the same people who are convinced that social justice warriors broke Mass Effect: Andromeda, sabotaging it so that they couldn't jerk off enough to the female character models.

Edited, Jun 14th 2017 9:34am by Jophiel

I'm going to need Cliff's Notes because I had to stop reading there due to tears from all the laughing made it impossible to continue. I enjoy a good satire. The second link though? Farming 4chan and the Youtube comments sections for an article unironically? Really? Might as well search the ocean for water to complain about wetness.

Not that I doubt there are people like that, just that the writer is a hack over-inflating the reaction for clickbait.

That's working as intended though. The intent is that the "common man" House of Reps gets to make a bill, the "elite" Senate gets to make a bill and then they reconcile it into something both are happy with. For certain definitions of happy. It's only wasted effort if you don't care about the differences between the two chambers. Which is a legitimate thing to not care about, but so it goes.

Why have two chambers?

Oh, there's people like that. Like I said, you can read the Steam forums (or any gaming forum, really). But I just linked to the article as a handy catch-all and primer on "People are going ape over this".

Of course, in regards to trolling, I think we've reached singularity with Poe's Law in that regard.

Edited, Jun 14th 2017 10:44am by Jophiel

Each chamber has a slightly different representation of the electorate. Having something that will pass through both filters means it is more likely to be broadly accepted by the population as a whole. Spoiler(Well in theory at least... )

Edited, Jun 14th 2017 8:56am by someproteinguy

Are you new to Steam? To internet gaming in general?

Citing Steam forums as proof of some large group of gamers freaking about about **** is silly. The Steam forums, and gaming forums in general, are pretty much the poster children for minority gamers raising a stink about **** online. And others running with it for troll lolz.

Edit:
Might as well be an article written about Pold citing Tumblr and NeoGaf forums about some SJW freak out.

Edited, Jun 14th 2017 12:02pm by TirithRR

Yes, that was the point.


Only one post (two now). Just reminds me of the articles my cousin posts, just opposite ends of the spectrum. He and Pold would probably get along very well. Who knows, he may actually be Pold.

Plus, what else am I going to do? It's 100 degrees on the shop floor and I'm stuck behind a machine with my programming laptop waiting for them to get their shit together and run this damned thing.

Edited, Jun 14th 2017 12:20pm by TirithRR