I was expecting you to wait for a little while longer until we reached 700. I'm planning to celebrate by going to Five Guys and play Afterlife Empire, if I have the time to spare, but also watch the Airplay event hosted by the Society of Professional Journalists. Don't tell me you forgot about that too.

>>1699479 You like benis, don't you, anon?

My benis in Viv's Bagina

>>1699367 Looks fine, but it doesn't look like it does anything with the 4th dimension. In understand that the last game was 3D, so the sequel got called 4D, but if you do give it that sort of name, I expect you do something more than a 3D platformer. It reminds me of those 7D cinemas that were a thing many years ago.

>Read meta thread, GG comes up a lot >Decide to check it out >Enter thread >Try to click archive links >archive.ph and .is are down Okay, fair enough, it happens that these occasionally have maintenance done on them. >Decide to click the wiki to see what information it has >Presented with the Internet equivalent of an archeological dig >Some links throw an Internal error That second one might be on me, but it seems a bit farfetched to look at the "How to Get Started" article, considering that this was last edited 2018. It also has the second video removed- sends the right message, sure, but perhaps not as eloquent as the video that existed. In every article that I could check, there seems to be a 5-6 year darkness. But that doesn't seem right, since this has been ongoing for a decade. It bothers me- what is the state of the board? How did that happen? It is like having the first twenty chapters of a book, then sixty chapters mysteriously vanished. Does any of the history matter, or is it a waste of time to bring up? But then, when is history and when is the current situation? Forgive me if I sound like I'm wasting time. I'm genuinely curious about what has gone on since it was last talked about when it was demonized by the mainstream.

>>1699367 Demon Tides got postponed for this?

>>1699508 2nd video has been mirrored https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=5fnRSL3d_xU Reposting it here in case it disappears again

Archive of previous bread https://archive.is/oYrQf

>>1699519 Also reposting the first video from the article just in case that one goes too

>>1699596 Bunnys >>1699374 I'll be grabbing some Five Guys as well. Did it last year and the year before, might as well make it an annual thing proper. >>1699510 It's not like roidrage Bubs' game would've been much better. Hate that they did that to her body.

Speaking of Five Guys. In culture whores news, Cracker Barrel "scrapped" rebranding. This likely means they're only keeping the old logo while continuing other plans. Such as aesthetically sterilizing locations by removing most antiques & keeping their bigoted DEI policies internally until they get sued into the ground.

>>1700097 Of course they will do, they have to justify their 700 million dollar investment somehow. But hey, they kept the logo, and Trump said it's now good, so go there and consume like a good drone.

Watch out for GamerGate 'The public enemy of the world #1 It is the main hashtag responsible for… ☑ Accidentally re-starting the French Revolution ☑ Weaponized Gondolas ☑ Hacking German politicians and media ☑ Played "To Catch a Predator" with Randy Pickford ☑ Masterminded the destruction of GDQ via the Catfish of Legend: Namazu ☑ Under the light of the Blood Moon; Self-destructed Western Journalism by having a some kid smirk at a drumming savage ☑ Just wanted to start a conversation with everyone, everywhere, eternally ☑ Watched Gawker die TWICE ☑ Guilty of face crimes ☑ When GameStop tried to sell itself; offered $3.50 in in-store credit ☑ Made telling "journalists" to "learn to code" into a hate crime ☑ Taught the Alt-Right ✅Then harassed said Alt-Right ☑ Started in 2011-2012 when 4chan tried to steal Anita Sarkeesian's SSN# ☑ Created "Boner Culture" which made cis straight male erections the most powerful force on earth ☑ Had a Jewish Mobster 'Take Care' of it ☑ Asked THQ about gaemu which somehow triggered World Wide Web War III ☑ Tricked /cow/ into developing and sharing their fetish for Mark's plump bagel with ResetEra ☑ Triggered GJP3.0 with 57 hitpeices on THQ Nordic's AA ☑ Orchestrated the GaymerGay misogynist review backlash against Marvel's Captain Woman ☑ Taught New Zealand about "White Day" ☑ Radicalized Spyro the Dragon ☑ Turned Pewdiepie into the Osama Bin Ladin of GaymerGays ☑ "The nerds and gamers were joined by the proto-storm troopers of the alt-right in a bond that has never been broken" ☑ Was a trial run for "will the US tolerate fascist behavior" ☑ Exploring new frontiers in sexual harassment via Jelly Bean ☑ Groomed young impressionable politicians into misogynists ☑ Created and trained the alt-right to take over the political landscape on a global scale (And succeeded) ☑ Arranged for Sonic the Hedgehog (movie ver.) to get "fixed" ☑ Remains undefeated for all time ☑ Turned Rage 2 into a Trump-esque attack on game journos ☑ Joined forces with Amazon ☑ Helped Mark impress Resetera ☑ Used Elliot Rodger's martyrdom to unite 4Chan and Breitbart to elect Donald Trump ☑ Will be looked back upon in 50 years as the root cause of the coming Cultural Civil War ☑ Government-sponsored shitposting ☑ Mastered the manipulation of the news cycle to their advantage ☑ Made Anita cry when Feminist Frequency went broke ☑ Destroyer of Worlds ☑ Russian Conspiracies (all of them) ☑ Extended Reanon's death/meme-magic to animation studios (please meme responsibly) ☑ An instrument of American Trumpian Power Worldwide

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☑ Cured alleged "journalist" of dyslexic anxiety ☑ An aberrant, creeping horror ☑ As dangerous as Anti-Vax, ISIS, and Holocaust Denial ☑ Five years of ruining everything ☑ Came to the classroom ☑ Trained Google whistleblowers ☑ Never died and foreshadowed our toxic meme-strewn politics ☑ Blew up the Internet ☑ Made wanting challenge in videogames into supporting White Supremacy ☑ Was secretly fighting WWIII all along ☑ Stochastic Terrorism ☑ Being a national security threat according to the DHS ☑ Helped Mark win the lottery ☑ Gave the money back ☑ Living long enough to see itself become the villain in a TV Show THRICE ☑ Confused the FBI into thinking /v/ is /baphomet/ ☑ Turned Anita Sarkesian into a crazy cat lady ☑ It's #Gamergate Forever ☑ Justifiably felt alienated by the neoliberal fetishization of feminism and the reductionism of politics to identity teams ☑ Was rabidly pro-corporate ☑ Manipulated a SJWeeb into review-bombing a LGBTWTFBBQ-friendly game as a "test" ☑ Non-meat based cam girls ☑ Caused the Corona outbreak which destroyed China to cheer up a depressed CIA glownigger ☑ Digisexuals ☑ Called the cyber police to put a cripple in cyber jail ☑ Weaponizing decency ☑ Made the games industry a nightmare for Women, Colored People, and Ashley Burch ☑ The inevitable ultimate horror of Sega's "toxic" advertising for ChuChu Rocket ☑ Has the highest body count of any COVID-19 disinfo group ☑ Finally got the 8kun administration to get off their ass and answer the damn phone ☑ Searching for a new home (again) ☑ Made some /v/ hotpockets on other imageboards go insane ☑ Burned julay to the ground by doing basically fuck-all except continue to exist (props to a certain bunbunmaru reporter, tho) ☑ Having a high enough IQ to be mentioned on Rick and Morty ☑ Radicalized a grandmother to the point she promotes harassment against alleged games journalists ☑ Is the terrorist group backed by 'The French' who are behind President Trump's exhausting battle against twitter ☑ Protecting FUCKING GAMESTOP from looters ☑ Finally started the Race War by forcing a meth-head on a date with Corona-chan to take a knee to the neck from the police ☑ Confirmed for Baby Hitler ☑ Gave a lot of airtime to Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov ☑ Got on the Atlantic's "free $100" van only to get intervewed ☑ Started a backlash against the French independent film industry because they want to raise pure little girls ☑ And then Russia wanted to shut down 8chan.moe to be ironic ☑ Was clearly a blueprint for Trump's online assault in 2016 ☑ A gravestone marked “Games Journalism; Dead By Suicide,” with the date of death corresponding with the launch of GG ☑ Took over the US capitol ☑ Funded by the GOP ☑ Using Reddit's radicalized nihilism to counter jews shorting FUCKING GAMESTOP ☑ Made Mark the Godfather of Gamergate ☑ Corrected Polygon on Titanfall lore ☑ Accidental meme magic discharge (R.I.P Miura) ☑ Planet-range racism field ☑ Not wanting people to put down the controller and talk about their feelings ☑ Destroyed the logic process of a bot wreaking havoc across multiple imageboards with just one simple trick ☑ Caused Blizzard executives to threaten their employees with rape ☑ Came to Alex Hutchinson's Defense ☑ Made Vivian a feminist symbol ☑ Grew to a geopolitical scale and spilled into real life with devastating consequences ☑ Got their own TV show ☑ Brandon’s First fan ☑ Gave birth to Qanon ☑ Is the precedent for /K/yle Rittenhouse ☑ Ruined people's brains by turning them into corporate bootlickers ☑ Created the concept of "Culture War" ☑ Was the watershed event in the ascendancy of online extremist personalities and tactics ☑ Mars manifest destiny ☑ Was behind Elon Musk's twitter takeover all along ☑ The Ruby Ridge of online violence ☑ Funneled men into far-right politics via witch-hunting ☑ We now live in a gamergateocracy ☑ Resulted in abortions being banned ☑ Accused of being none other than Gamergate ☑ Making mainstream games soft-sell white supremacy ☑ Getting their own theater piece in the Netherlands ☑ Was a rebellion against English class ☑ Conquistato il senato Italiano usando nerd armati ☑ Let the far right borrow it's online moves ☑ Radicalized a """"Right Wing"""" illegal immigrant canadian nudist hippy into assassinating Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer ☑ “How did I get into all this,” Mr. DePape wrote in one passage on his blog: “Gamer Gate it was gamer gate” ☑ Caught dogwhistling about Kotaku's journalistic integrity at MAGFest ☑ Being as legitimately terrifying as loving AI art on alt-right hate subreddits ☑ Actually, it's about ensuring children are left alone ☑ Channeled decades’ worth of bigotry and hatred embedded into systems, platforms, and communities both online and off ☑ Ignited a fundamentally misinformed firestorm against Sweet Baby Inc ☑ Becoming Spiteful Failsons ☑ It cannot be overstated how much of an influence Gamergate2 et al had in reeee-electing Donald Trump ☑ Elon Musk's war on federal workers ☑ Winning, except in video games☑ Actually, it's about ensuring children are left alone ☑ Channeled decades’ worth of bigotry and hatred embedded into systems, platforms, and communities both online and off ☑ Ignited a fundamentally misinformed firestorm against Sweet Baby Inc ☑ Becoming Spiteful Failsons ☑ It cannot be overstated how much of an influence Gamergate2 et al had in reeee-electing Donald Trump ☑ Elon Musk's war on federal workers ☑ Winning, except in video games

>>1700432 Can I get archive pages for all those things?

FUCKING GAYMERGAYS SOULSLIKES ARE FOR THE CHUDS Hard games didn't exist before Dork Souls This person worked for Kotaku lol

>>1700797 Are you sure that's not a bait account?

>>1700797 "work"

>>1700803 It probably is >>1700804 good point

>>1700797 >person

>>1700838 What do you want me to say? call her a cunt? She's clearly a joke.

>>1700803 She's the whore that tried to do "investigative journalism" in a discord server or something.

>>1700853 ehh, I guess?

>>1700851 The one and only? I'm not good with names

>>1700845 >thing >creature >blob >literal discarded prostitute

>>1700858 ehh, I guess?

>>1700864 I want to drain my benis in her :D

>>1700803 That's the real account, but she's a massive attention whore so it's probably a bait tweet

>games industry about to crash >AAA published games constantly flopping >Indie industry booming endlessly >Linux gaining more popularity than ever >Pro-consumer movements gaining publicity and being championed by industry veterans >general public longing for more unique single player games and even normalfags getting tired of shitty political messaging in gaymes It's been an awful couple of years but I feel just a little bit optimistic. Almost makes me want to try taking up gamedev again...

>>1700797 >Soulslikes are right-wing A Kotaku writer having a retarded take? Color me shocked. <Video games [are] fractured into two dominant male groups: alpha jock FPS gamers and beta "git gud" Souls players >insulting fans of, not one, but two different genres of games >using Alpha and Beta to describe groups of people unironically >gaming is now just mostly either FPS games or Soulslikes >just ignore all the metroidvanias, action games that aren't FPS/Soulslikes, retro throwbacks, platformers, RPGs, etc. So did Alyssa Mercante give up on gaming journalism and go back to sex work? I haven't anything from her aside from occasional updates on that SmashJT lawsuit.

I still miss mombot.

>>1700797 She's desperate for attention as always, I see. >>1700892 >I feel just a little bit optimistic Yeah, me too. Personally, I'm looking forward to The Wayward Realms.

>>1700892 Shame about the economy, but hey things got to get worse to get any better.

>>1701017 <Wayward Realms I don't know if it's an intentional joke, but people here are still addicted to Elder Scrolls and its derivatives? I want the CRPG done right too, but not through these game formulas unless TWR had some gigantic architectural breakthrough or something that actually allows for emergent gameplay. >>1701007 >I still miss mombot. Right, she popped up for a bit last fall but went radio silent afterwards? >>1701143 <deleted I mean, even if I personally disagree with it and found it of no substance, I'll just let you all know what it said unless it's LCP, but recent events just make that murkier >Define economy dumbfuck. Everything seems to be getting deleted here, what's going on?

>>1701180 That's user deleted

>>1699500 since it seems to be normal for people to treat time as a 4th dimension in spite of the proper treatment of 3 spatial & 1 time dimensions(since we could have say a system with 2 time dimensions, as an example), i think the 4th D in bubsy is a reference to the passage of time for the franchise

>>1701180 >>1701184 Self deleted and reposted due to typo.

>>1700892 >games industry about to crash /v/ has said this every year going back over a decade.

>>1699367 bubsy's niece & nephew are cute

>>1699797 Bunyu

>>1701219 Well it's probably for real this time considering they've spent billions on ESG hires who don't know what the fuck they're doing.

>>1700797 Souls games aren't any harder than the average NES game I played as a kid and I don't understand how they even got memed as being difficult in the first place.

>>1701516 I think it's part because of the time it released in and part because NES games are bullshit hard (because they needed to artificially extend play time or curb rentals) while Dark Souls knows how to twist your balls as much as it knows when to release them

>>1701516 Probably because back in the 360 days games were getting a lot easier and Dork Souls was the only game with a single difficulty rather than handholding the gamer into finishing the game. Take Metal Gear Rising as an example of how the "normal mode: in games around that time was a code word for "piss easy". That and Dork Souls was one of the few Japanese games ot have a Steam port early on.

>>1701526 Yeah, and Dork Souls also respected your time where if you died you restarted quickly, rather than sit through a five minute game over screen like the new Shadow of the Ninja game.

Please help me saar I'm indian

>>1701663 >The Last Redeemer Is this #woke?

>>1701506 Which is what they've done for over a fucking decade.

>>1701709 That is also true.

>>1701219 People were talking about the inevitability of another Industry crash back in the 90's when Sega dropped off the map, Nintendo's console was still a long way's off, and Playstation's early titles were still pretty rough with the transition to 3D.

>>1701663 >even in fantastical video games they can't escape the Ork style favelas Please fight tooth and nail to not let them into your country.

>>1701219 Everybody saw the red flags, and now it's happening

>>1701896 Two more weeks just keep waiting trust the plan.

>>1701921 >Bethesda sold to Microsoft >Activision sold to Microsoft >Microsoft pulling out from consoles >Sony stating consoles are niche and moving to PC >Warner Bros Interactive cutting down half the studios they have >Ubisoft selling their assets to the highest bidder You fucking blind or something? https://archive.is/JML30

>>1701936 Okay, Qultist. Call me when something actually happens.

>>1700797 Too bad she didn't directly mention GamerGate, would have been a great chance to add something new to the Watch out for GamerGate list. >>1701663 >boot up indian game >load into world >first thing you do is stalk and choke a woman I applaud the developers for their authenticity. >>1701226 True, they are.

>>1701890 That would imply they see anything even remotely wrong with the way they live.

Video games industry will only crash if something happen to the chink gacha scene that it implodes on itself, but that is unlikely to happen. Unless having every video games existing in the future being a gacha in both east and west counts as a crash for some people then sure it's "crashing". Just not monetarily.

>>1701960 Post proof it'a not happening >>1701985 When people say crash they mean AAA collapsing on themselves, rest of the industry is fine.

>>1701431 Nice bunnies.

>>1701663 >indian vidya >it's just a sekiro clone Their movies are more creative ironically.

>>1701977 Wow, I don't instantaneously worship luciano-tier spam without question! I must not belong here! >>1701991 Go away. https://archive.is/UXJSu

JSON

>>1701681 Has Grummz finally gone too far and will finally be disavowed by fellow Gamergays? https://archive.ph/P22Sm https://archive.ph/CMaXN >>1700797 >>1701527 How new (or old) are you that you don't remember v bitching about how casualized gaming became by the 7th Gen, with the standout example besides Souls being Ninja Gaiden 2?

>>1700892 Things are looking bright, but I wouldn't count on the propaganda completely disappearing since indie devs are usually progressive, maybe they'll learn how to be subtle

ANCHOR I'm about to try out what I had in mind for max revive. It's a bit strange, but I talked about it with Codexx, he thought it was interesting, and I suggested we trial it today in the thread, and he gave me permission to do so. Are anons ready to hear what I have to say?

>>1702219 I'm ready anon, I think. Not sure what's going to happen but I've been wondering what you've had planned since yesterday.

I hope everyone has been doing well. It's been a rough decade +1, and I'm glad to see dedicated anons still around. The events of this year seem to have taken anons by surprise, but I think the future of 8chan is very bright. I imagine most anons are unaware of the progress made in cryptography over the last five years. Many techniques are becoming practicable which may seem like science fiction to anons, especially involving ring signatures. There is something you can do now that I believe will help 8chan as a whole. It is my opinion that, counter-intuitively, one of the best things you can do for your anonymous imageboard today is to set up and post a public key. This will allow (you) and the site to take advantage of new cryptography. It is my opinion that anons doing so will help the long-term health of the site, as well as potentially allowing some unexpected features in the future, many of which will be very helpful for max revive in particular. So here's what I'm going to ask anons to do for this trial: >generate a public key and a file for it >sign a challenge file using that public key >verify both files and make sure they are what you want >post your key and the challenge file here in the thread as a reply to the anchor >>1702219 >download your key and challenge, and verify both again >if either the key or the challenge is not what you expect, delete immediately and start over A few extra notes: >public keys are OPTIONAL, and will remain so >you may OPTIONALLY volunteer as much or as little additional information about yourself alongside your public key, the only recommendation I make is that visitors, tourists and other arrivals declare themselves as such >WHEN submitting public keys, the challenge is REQUIRED, and only public keys which submit a signed copy of the challenge text are likely to be respected For any anons that for any reason will not be joining us in this thread, I am also collecting keys on my personal-use board at >>>/bsp/32. Anons may post their keys and challenges in either or both threads. The keys for this key collection are two GnuPG-compatible NIST P-256 keys in plaintext, one for signing and one for encryption. In GnuPG these are: >ECC and ECC >NIST P-256 GnuPG may be downloaded at https://gnupg.org/ and is also available through the package managers of most Linux distributions. GnuPG also has several GUIs, though I have not tried them to see which ones are best. The relevant GnuPG commands are: gpg --full-gen-key --expert # generate a public key, remember to select the key parameters above, name does not matter but DO NOT actually use your real name gpg --armor --export <KEY> > <KEY-FILE.TXT> # generate the text version of the public key, for uploading gpg --local-user <KEY> --clearsign <CHALLENGE-FILE> # generate a signed copy of the challenge file <CHALLENGE-FILE>.asc, this may also be done to provide additional signatures as you feel appropriate gpg <KEY-FILE> # check the contents of the key file gpg --verify <SIGNED-FILE> # check the contents of the signed file Note that you will need to re-name the signed challenge file to a txt file for 8chan to accept it. I have more to discuss, but it's big and I think most anons would see it as "schizo", so I'll hold off for a bit. Are there any questions?

>>1702270 >Are there any questions? Would it not be better to have every thread saved as a HTML & zipped into a collection that spans as a tapestry from the beginning? Maybe somehow making use of the keys to verify the archived downloads?

>>1702297 Maybe. I was thinking of throwing up the JSON archives on GitGud. I was worried about storage space, which is one reason I haven't simply done it. Having keys will add to non-repudiation of history.

>>1702270 Thanks for explaining this in laymans terms, but I'm largely a potato when it comes to this stuff so will sit back as other anons who know what they're doing take part and I'll carry on as normal. also checking >>1700000

>>1702297 Second, and this is assuming the project is linux-focused Let's say the year 2038 problem takes effect that makes older 32-bit distros like Debian 3.1 (Sarge) or windows 2000 & earlier, troublesome to use. Would this method still work on Debian 4.0 (Etch) & Windows XP 64-bit, along with older hardware like the Core 2 Duo PCs & laptops? Even when those OS's having long been out of support and being only there because of the ocassional surprise projects made by the communities? That's why I was talking about saving the HTMLs of the archived threads & zipping them earlier. Especially if things get so locked down that one would have to use sandboxed hardware from 25 years ago if they wanted to sift through the archives.

>>1702270 I'm gonna be blunt: I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, how this is relevant to getting anons back (which I'm cynical about to start since the only way anyone actually came was from entirely unrelated circumstance when the Soyteens got Hiroshima's cuckchan password and most of them went back the moment the site came back), and I have very little interest with anything to do with the word "crypto" in relation to imageboards after the 08chan disaster. Clearnet or bust. And fighting people who are ruining the Clearnet, before anyone gets uppity about burying your head in the sand on Tor or something.

>>1702270 From my understanding, you're proposing something like a "trust bootstrapper," right? Given a recent incident here and my experience using Matrix and E2E chat, I'm being pushed towards considering it, but I'm wary. >the obvious point being that GnuPG is too hard a barrier to entry for most, which can be spun either way, but pragmatically your proposal isn't going to accurately reflect the userbase and will only get a minority at most who are predisposed to be tech-oriented >inherently this involves some deanonymization into pseudoanonymization; IPs are already logged here so an argument can be made that we're already pseudoanonymous, and this is being proposed as a way to identify certain individuals who switch IPs to spam, but it defeats the format of this site. It's a more tech-oriented way of instating an account-and-password system, correct me if I'm wrong. >this still mostly relies on trust and good faith, theoretically being able to reliably identify bad actors and spammers easily would be a boon, but what's preventing possibilities like poisoning the well, and Sybil attacks like what we're currently experiencing? >are you pitting yourself as a CA? What's going to happen with the root keys? Having used the ZeroNet bunker and the disaster that ensued from that has me being cautious.

>>1702346 I would generally think the JSON files are lighter. With the exception of thumbnails I believe the HTML can be re-constructed. Regarding the issue of older computers, there have been several advancements in performance. I believe older computers should do OK.

>>1701709 >>1702063 >How new (or old) are you that you don't remember v bitching about how casualized gaming became by the 7th Gen I remember, that's what I'm talking about.

>>1702362 >Clearnet or bust. Yes, if a solution doesn't work on the clearnet, it can't be considered a solution. >>1702376 >From my understanding, you're proposing something like a "trust bootstrapper," right? Given a recent incident here and my experience using Matrix and E2E chat, I'm being pushed towards considering it, but I'm wary. I haven't heard the term, but that sounds right. >>the obvious point being that GnuPG is too hard a barrier to entry for most, which can be spun either way, but pragmatically your proposal isn't going to accurately reflect the userbase and will only get a minority at most who are predisposed to be tech-oriented Ideally, I'd like a quick and easy script or GUI instead. >>inherently this involves some deanonymization into pseudoanonymization; IPs are already logged here so an argument can be made that we're already pseudoanonymous, and this is being proposed as a way to identify certain individuals who switch IPs to spam, but it defeats the format of this site. It's a more tech-oriented way of instating an account-and-password system, correct me if I'm wrong. Yes and no, I think of it more like a natural advancement of web-of-trust, long-term. Linkable ring signatures do allow banning of individual keys, without identifying them. >>this still mostly relies on trust and good faith, theoretically being able to reliably identify bad actors and spammers easily would be a boon, but what's preventing possibilities like poisoning the well, and Sybil attacks like what we're currently experiencing? Sybil attacks are definitely the hardest part. I think there are several options, each of which can be deployed on a case-by-case basis. In "closed" communities the problem is "easier": long-term members can demonstrate good participation, without revealing their posts or identities. >>are you pitting yourself as a CA? What's going to happen with the root keys? Yes and no, I don't think CAs give strong enough guarantees, and centralizing trust does not seem reasonable. I think at most one can start with a CA, but it CANNOT be the end.

Everyone's concerns so far have been useful. I'll be relaying it all to Codexx, as well as keeping it for my own reference during development. Further comments are welcome, and I do appreciate them. I doubt there are many places where I would have gotten such excellent criticism rather than delusion, so thank you very much.

>>1702708 I'll warn you now: if you complicate the conditions for posting on a permanent basis (say, being forced to generate and upload a key to even start posting), you're gonna lose posters. The anti-spam PoW is annoying enough as-is, especially when reporting.

>>1702759 Noted. So no matter what, I MUST make it seamless.

>>1702759 Is the report function reliant on the PoW? I thought it was only a captcha

>>1702802 Yeah, submitting a report basically acts a mini-version of posting from my experience. Including having "flood detected" cooldown.

>>1700797 >>1700804 more like whored for Kotaku

>>1702362 It's schizo babble. I don't see any reason random anon's would need to use PGP keys. The point of imageboards is anonymity, and for the posts to be publicly viewable. Using PGP completely contradicts both of those. He's essentially proposing an extremely convoluted version of requiring user accounts. Just more retarded ideasguy shit while the site still doesn't let you filter spics out of the overboard.

No css theme change this year or am I late?

>>1703137 Mark didn't bother changing the theme this year. The colors ought to be on the dedicated Gamergate thread archive board though.

ACID MAN https://gamergatewiki.org/ https://archive.ph/Ooq6X https://ggwiki.deepfreeze.it/index.php/Operation:_Torrential_Downpour What is the status of the Gamergate wiki? Bongolem is still missing? I need to access the Torrential Downpour Article but couldn't find any mirrors of it hosted on archive.is like the rest.

>>1703200 Found the last active Torrential Downpour article saved on archive.org! Here's the archive saved in a archive: https://archive.ph/TihhB Not the most ideal solution, but it's better than nothing.

>>1703291 Yeah I'm just happy that it was saved at all. Are there any more articles preserved like that? I'll be posting a few other things later when I wake up, but for now here's a litlle something that may trigger past memories: https://archive.ph/R6dsZ

>>1703200 >What is the status of the Gamergate wiki? Bongolem is still missing? I need to access the Torrential Downpour Article but couldn't find any mirrors of it hosted on archive.is like the rest. For all the importance of archival, it was all too easy to become complacent when it came to redundancy if a wiki became inaccessible or compromised. TheCuttingRoomFloor is in a similar ordeal after the tranny-in-charge got into a slapfight.

>>1701219 >>1701877 Tbf I think when most people say an industry "crash" they don't literally mean the complete dissolution of it into chaos, more like an industry recession. That's what I'd say we're in now judging by the constant flops, failures, and closures in the AAA field.

>>1703689 The cynicism sets in because the guys responsible for this get golden parachutes to jump their way to safe harbor to repeat the process almost infinitely. Bethesda might be bought out, for instance, but it's not dead.

>>1703760 Sure, and that's why it's important to know who's responsible for the overarching shit decisions in the industry. But that's an issue with all industries, isn't it? These are specifically signs that the games industry itself is correcting counter to the last 15-20 years of trash.

>>1702806 I've never understood why reporting is on a loner timer than posting. A spammer can hop IPs and post way faster than legitimate users can report them individually.

>>1703689 Right! Even I, a complete detractor from this narrative, fully recognize that "crash" is only meant to refer to the "big players," a slowdown/cession of "big" game releases, and a massive drop in revenue for the industry. And… we're not seeing that at all. So there's no crash happening. Restructuring happens all the time; that's not an indicator of a crash.

>>1703798 >These are specifically signs that the games industry itself is correcting counter to the last 15-20 years of trash. I'll believe it when there's shit worth playing that I DON'T have to second guess as being made by some leftist freaks. God knows the writing rooms haven't improved despite flop after flop because the entire hiring pool is just fags and fag-sympathizers all the way down. Fuck, sometimes I even find myself questioning the "victories" in regards to the practical effect effect of "having fun games again". Has Chris Avellone even gotten a new job recently despite being among a vanishing few to fight a #MeToo cancellation with a lawsuit (and fewer to actually win)?

>>1703689 Well i do wish for a dissolution into chaos since a recession is much easier to control

>>1703321 >Are there any more articles preserved like that? There seems to be more on archive.org that are waiting to be archived again, so perhaps? Operation Timber https://archive.ph/oKPoh Operation Goolag https://archive.ph/kQ8WL

>>1703848 >>1703849 Man, you guys never even like an ounce of optimism. You ever wonder if more people would actually care about the state of things if you weren't always so god-awfully insufferable?

>>1704073 I checked the projects page for those past operations https://ggwiki.deepfreeze.it/index.php/Category:Projects Of those past OPs, only Firefly, Baby Seal, Chickasaw, Gaben, SKYNET, Vox Populi, & the Rebuild Initiative still have an active page. The rest of the projects have 'Internal Error' and are unlikely to have their pages preserved on archive.ph, so time will have to be spent parsing those links to past OPs on archive.org and archiving them from there.

>>1704074 Optimism means action might be taken, at the end of the day there is some comfort in the miserable place some people found themselves in and there is fear of trying to change the mindset and being met with a outcome they didn't want to.

>>1703154 Ah. I'll just select it from the drop-down, then.

>>1704116 I checked the GG page on Infogalactic, another alternate wiki. No updates in two years, and the backend is producing errors.

>>1703321 >taylor lorenz Stopped reading there.

>>1702270 Reminds me of the pgp key directory, but at what moment would I need to send encrypted data to someone? If I post something here, I expect any other anon that doesn't use this feature to still read it. I guess the other possibility would be to ensure my text won't be edited, and tangentially would act as a user account.

>>1703321 This guy shows his complete ignorance as usual. The right as it is, doesn't "organize" like the left does. But he's too closed minded and stupid to understand the fundamental differences between the 2, and how they stem from their differing worldviews and ideologies.

>>1704600 >The right as it is, doesn't "organize" like the left does You mean like when the white house didn't hire a bunch of retarded e-celeb faggots to parade around redacted fake epstein files.

>>1704623 >>1704600 I don't know if the left is a super organized corporate machine or if they're unoganized as fuck due to the commies taking positions of power within the left wing establishment.

>>1704705 The left is increasingly becoming fragmented into two factions. "Leftists" (communists), and generic neoliberal fags. The "leftists" are basically if you took voting doesn't matter libertarians but instead of being like 2% of the political wing they were closer to 20-30% of the political wing and completely dominating all online e-celeb discourse. Essentially the most popular left wing political commentators basically spend every waking moment talking about how the democrats are evil because they support the israeli "genocide" of sandniggers. With that said the republicans are arguably 10x more fucked since without trump the entire party is dead. So really the awkward fracturing the left has going on is a nothingburger. But the republicans do engage in the same gay astroturfing faggotry that democrats do, they just also happen to have an army of genuinely insane grass root Qniggers that want to die for israel.

>>1700892 >>1701219

The game industry will crash next Wednesday.

>>1704740 >The "leftists" are basically if you took voting doesn't matter libertarians but instead of being like 2% of the political wing they were closer to 20-30% That would explain how things went last year, not that I'm in any hurry in discouraging that. >an army of genuinely insane grass root Qniggers that want to die for israel. I also fail to see how suicidal cannon fodder throwing their lives away for shit reasons like that is bad thing. >>1704778 Tuesday. Prove me wrong.

>>1704811 >I also fail to see how suicidal cannon fodder throwing their lives away for shit reasons like that is bad thing. It's a bad thing because they support you getting drafted for their wars.

>>1704811 it will live a day longer thanks to console-tans or something

>>1704705 >I don't know if the left is a super organized corporate machine or if they're unoganized as fuck due to the commies taking positions of power within the left wing establishment. It is a super-organized corporate machine. See: https://archive.ph/NJih5 > nearly $23 trillion of assets > 200+ impact investors See also: https://archive.ph/B57Rf > It will launch with 700,000 members spread across 148 countries > run out of Unilever which owns almost every brand on store shelves

>>1704778 Can you reschedule to a Friday instead thanks.

>>1704778 five more minutes...

>>1705122 >>1704778 Nah man I have a game I'm looking forward to, reschedule to next semester or I'm pulling out

>>1703200 >>1703291 Downpour really should be revived as it was extremely successful. Still don't understand why that one furry name fag on 8chan prime kept shilling against it.

>>1705140 Marche was probably controlled opposition

>>1705140 >Downpour really should be revived as it was extremely successful. How would it work as a revival? It's been nearly a decade since Downpour.

>>1704850 >Sacrificing a generation that's already irreversibly fucked after a mix of pandemic shit, lockdowns, and schools that couldn't teach them math or basic fucking literacy so they can be lectured on how bad the White Man is and all the genders. Again, how is this a bad thing?

>>1705140 I still don't understand his hatred for TD. >>1705338 See how the Japanese are aware of the pozz in localisation, along with other DEI stuff coming into their games? Why not try building off of that to test the waters, many still quote our work with Fire Emblem.

>>1705868 nor your ribbit ribbit

>>1703618 >it was all too easy to become complacent Basically yes. You'd think original 8chan getting nuked, would have given anons a kick up the backside. Even after that, among other things, complacency set in again a bit too quick. >when it came to redundancy if a wiki became inaccessible or compromised. The idea of online - and especially offline - backups needs more attention.

>>1705140 >>1705474 He didn't hate Downpour initially, he hated that anons wasted and derailed like 3 threads to create a mediocre OC.

PRODUCER OF SILENT, MOTOI OKAMOTO ADMITS THAT THE LATEST SILENT HILL HAS FEMINIST INSPIRATION! https://archive.is/4cCiY

Shit, I meant to type "Inspirations" I forgot the "s" at the end of the sentence.

>>1706047 I haven't played a Silent Hill game since the PS2 and I don't see that changing.

>>1706047 Well there goes any interest. Not like the series has been any good since 3 anyway.

>>1706047 >Silent Hill f Press f indeed.

>>1706047 >""Hinako is an individual who's gone through a lot of repression, so there are a lot of things that are applying pressure to her. This is the source of many of her internal conflicts. The focus that we place on the story, and for Hinako, is how she musters the courage to combat that repression."" Fine, that's been done before, in fact it's a very common theme for horror games. Internal struggles causing visible horrors, summoning evil things, etc. >"...Hinako doesn't want to conform to what society views as her role as the subservient wife or daughter. Unlike her older sister, it doesn't seem like she has much interest in marrying, and she has no love left for her abusive father, who seems to either ignore or yell at her depending on his mood." Also fine, and also a common trope. She feels disconnected from her family and society and doesn't get along with her family. Horror game protags rarely have a stable happy home life. >""The 1960s were a time when this type of repression was prevalent, but it is also one of the hallmark eras in Japanese history for women's rights movements."" But why go this far? Why connect the game at all to women's rights movements or anything related to 1960's feminism in Japan? The story could make complete sense without it. Does the producer have a personal interest in this era? Is he a feminist himself? Does he think feminism means something different than what it really means? Or does he think talking like this during an interview/adding pro-feminist content to his game will get sales from people overseas, because he's been mislead by someone internally?

>>1706093 Who is the producer?

>>1706047 Considering who the writer is, I'm surprised it did not have some tranny shit.

>>1706109 Motoi Okamoto according to a quick search.

>>1706109 >>1706114 Motoi Okamoto. It also says so here >>1706047 in big red letters, anon. He's the same guy who produced Silent Hill 2, which changed numerous things from the originals, including character personalities. And there was that scene where Maria held up her original outfit, said "no way", and put it back. So that might make this whole thing with Silent Hill f more believable.

>>1706121 As usual, my skimming while multitasking bites me again.

>>1706121 >which changed numerous things from the originals, including character personalities. And there was that scene where Maria held up her original outfit, said "no way", and put it back Was it the remake where he changed things or did he change things for the ps2 release internationally?

>>1706158 Yes, the changes were present in the remakes and not in the international releases of the PS2 version. People outside of Japan remember the originals and recognized right away that things were altered.

>>1706121 >>1706114 Decided to check his twiiter games for him seem to be purely a corpo thing, his thing is growing "global" influence, he doesn't seem to talk about the stuff hacks usually do though

>>1706113 It's impressive how bad this is

>>1706121 >>1706158 >And there was that scene where Maria held up her original outfit, said "no way", and put it back You're mistaking that with the Harley scene from the Suicide Squad shitshow, still doesn't excuse the SH2 remake for being dogshit.

And now steam wants you to verify your age in the uk piracy really is a service problem gabe, i do wonder if steam might get sued for taking away access to peoples games

>>1706265 Wanna try again with proper sentences?

>>1706265 Why haven't they bombed the parliament yet?

>>1706269 oh deary me, that would be awfully impolite. those nice ladies and gentlemen in parliament are just doing their job, after all. remember, we voted for th[YOUR INTERNET LOICENSE HAS EXPIRED]

>>1706047 >>1706093 Until I see screenshots showing the propaganda in game I'm going to assume this is just the devs trying to get blowjobs from the press. No I'm not buying it. But I still take statements like this with a gain of salt.

The absolute fucking state of videogames

I want to play vidya with Vivian and inseminate her also.

>>1706357 KYS aifags.

>>1706406 whence corner of the ethernet have the dropped from?

>>1700892 >>1703689 Wouldn't this recession make some companies leave the game industry? >>1700797 I don't understand how can people like this dumb cunt can come up with conclusions and claim that video games are filled with X or Y political group, considering the fact that gaming is a billion dollar industry catered towards people of different backgrounds.

>>1706603 Define recession.

>>1706690 the thing that occurred to >>1706603 pic's guy's hairline

It's only a recession if you don't consoom the bugs- you're happy with the nothing you own, right?

Is it true the last 4k-capable blueray/mdisc rw drives are no longer being manufactured?

>>1706176 Global = marxism.

Went out to Five Guys and got cake for the 11th birthday a couple days back-Just saw this a few hours ago: https://xcancel.com/EltonelArts/status/1960461605138735293 >>1706357 Missed opportunity again, OP

>>1705943 >Anons made a tan and fun while doing TD stuff <Emustan furry who'd do nothing but derail threads with his commission autism and shitposting Marche was a faggot then and he's an even bigger faggot now.

>>1706121 >>1706158 >>1706254

>>1706406 Go home, homo.

Whoever came up with the term "creative translator" to justify rewriting dialogues, characters and plot devices in Japanese video games, anime and manga should fucking die the slowest of death. I fucking loathe that term being normalized by localization dumbasses who sees it as being a "normal practice" when their icons were rewriting how things are actually written. May they and their families die the painful of deaths. Fuck them all.

>>1701219 You'd be amazed at how long the powers that be can kick a can down the road. Take Two has posted multi-billion dollar losses for two years in a row and is still considered a good stock pick. So long as Black Rock is spending people's retirement money to prop this bs up, it isn't going to go away. Then there was all the money laundering from the US government and venture capital. Both are now dried up.

>>1707563 They're probably waiting to see if GTA6 bails them out

>>1707563 Matters less than setting up an nvidia + intel merger to have ai chip fabs for national security.

>>1701516 Because retards think dog-shit game design makes a game hard. Over half of NES games were not hard, they were just poorly designed trite made by fuckwits who had no idea what they were doing who just threw shit into a blender and hoped what came out was drinkable.

>>1707716 Yeah but those aren't the games people talk about because since they suck they don't get played as often. But games like Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden are good but very hard by today's standards. You could feel things get easier even year by year. Mega Man just gets easier and easier. 1, 2, and 3 are pretty hard. By the time you get to 6, it's pretty easy. 7 is insane but only at the very last level so maybe that was just bad design. It continues in later generations too. Crash Bandicoot 1 is insanely hard by PS1 standards because it's basically using Super Nintendo standards of difficulty. It's basically as hard as Donkey Kong Country, an obvious inspiration. Crash Bandicoot 2 is then way easier, and 3 is even easier unless you play the Time Trials, basically added as a way to add optional difficulty for those who want it. And the Jak & Daxter? Absolutely piss easy.

If anyone has not seen it yet, here is the 4chan + Kiwi Farms lawsuit against the UK. Reclaim The Net had a copy that was not behind a paywall.

>>1707716 >dog-shit game design And you don't realize that you're ALSO participating in a form of revisionism. A lot of these games were not "badly designed". In fact, some of them actually were rather innovative for their time, when not following industry standards that existed back then. But you have a lot of retards who are used to the "modern conventions" and modern "industry standards" of video games as their frame of reference, and think that because something was "different" in the past that it is suddenly "bad". I take it that you're also one of those people who also ridicule tank controls as "bad gameplay design".

>The official trailer for ‘THE SAVANT’ starring Jessica Chastain. >The series follows an undercover investigator and mother who infiltrates hate groups online to detect and prevent domestic extremists before they act. >Premieres September 26 on Apple TV+ Hope there is a gamergate episode.

>>1707766 >Reclaim The Net had a copy that was not behind a paywall. >paywalling a lawsuit document Is it in OnlyLaws?

>>1706690 Like 9e764f said: >That's what I'd say we're in now judging by the constant flops, failures, and closures in the AAA field.

>>1707889 He's not plenty of rushed out games with bad game design are just called "hard". You play one of those rushed out console games and then an arcade game and it's night and day, the first is badly designed and the later is hard by design.

>>1707766 Who was the retard that paywalled it?

>>1708477 me

Players Are Getting $500 From Bungie For Playing ‘Marathon’ For A Month https://archive.ph/ZkXnO >"Testing the game", they say <More like bribing peopel to even play it so they can at least have some higher numbers

>>1705474 I think Downpour would have more teeth this time around especially with all the backlash to the Ass Creed: Black Samurai game. That the disrespect to both Japanese and western gamers and cultures goes both ways by developers and localizers. >>1708013 >White woman married to a black guy >Doesn't even have one black eye Why do they have to make these show so unrealistic?

>>1708013 >Hope there is a gamergate episode GAME ON NYPD

>>1708718 I agree.

>>1708691 Got to love how everything went from actual sales, to shipping sales to fucking numbers. Are shareholders really that retarded?

>>1708691 What's stopping people to just turn on the game in keep it in AFK forever.

>>1708746 Any Attempt to associate black samurai with downpour would have to be done quickly before attention is drawn away by other things in the Japanese gaming sphere. Strike while the metal is hot. A potential tactic that could be used is "Black Samurai hasn't been the only thing done by western localizers and developers. Here are more examples of their disrespectful behavior towards what Japanese creators have done." Shine a light on it. >>1708831 >Are shareholders really that retarded? Usually uninformed but basically, yes.

>>1704504 I don't know if you're being ironic or not since some people (Mark) use it, as well as the maker of this Pizza Tower mod featuring Gilda: https://gamebanana.com/mods/582457

>>1708831 >Are shareholders really that retarded? I might be remembering wrong, bu there once was a Capcom shareholder briefing FAQ and one of the questions boiled down to "this game is set to release in 2025 why not release it in 2024 to make more money" and the answer being a very corporate way of saying "the game needs to be ready first"

>>1708894 i jerked off to gravity falls porn more times than id like to admit

>>1706113 I never liked R07. Dedicating an entire Umineko EP to mocking people "missing the point" with the goats reeked of the kind of pretension you see more often in western writers. Yasu being like crack to trannies didn't help. >>1706603 >Wouldn't this recession make some companies leave the game industry? No - even at its worse, vidya has simply too much potential high-water marks to keep kikes away. They might sell themselves to bigger fish to take some of the pressure off, but outright leaving the (potential) shekels on the table? Never. As >>1708850 says, you can scam shareholdfers into anything if you know how to speak "short-sighted retard".

>>1708013 >infiltrates hate groups online to detect and prevent domestic extremists before they act. Ah, so I imagine most of the episodes will cover the infiltration of various islamic extremist groups and rape gangs.

>>1708909 >I never liked R07. Dedicating an entire Umineko EP to mocking people "missing the point" with the goats reeked What epi was that it's been to long, i decided to just disregard authors that are obviously having a ego trip

>>1708850 >and one of the questions boiled down to "this game is set to release in 2025 why not release it in 2024 to make more money" and the answer being a very corporate way of saying "the game needs to be ready first" Anon, there are instances of companies who have a completed product and refuse to release it because of whatever reason. Most commonly in the film industry. You may think it sounds retarded, but it is a valid questions, especially in today's world with how games are practiclaly being shipped half finished and all their content being patched in post-launch sometimes five years down the line.

>>1708909 >>1708850 >>1708956 Also I don't think the shareholders, being the "short-sighted retards" that they are, are very appreciative of the fact that video games now see development cycles the last an entire console generation compared to the games of a decade ago where five year development times were still uncommon.

>>1708970 if that was the case theyd be pushing for more tiles with shorter development time and smaller budgets but you get flops that cost hundreds of millions

>>1708932 Nah, it will probably be about all the redditors organizing to burn Tesla cars, dealerships and charging stations

>>1708978 Anon, if you haven't noticed, companies are increasingly becoming very selective and restrictive about which shareholders can ask questions and what questions they can ask. And even if they do ask the "wrong question", you'll have companies effectively calling the shareholder stupid for even asking it. Like when Sony recently told a shareholder to effectively "Fuck off" when it camed to abandoning GaaS projects, because Sony is now in a "better" position than they were five years ago and they have "learned so much" about the GaaS market.

>>1701663 Kolkataro. Sirs Souls. Shitter Blade.

>>1708985 thats news to me >companies are increasingly becoming very selective and restrictive about which shareholders can ask questions and what questions they can ask. is that even legal? I would imagine an investment firm like vanguard putting pressure on them for this kind of behavior

>>1709002 They care more about stakeholders, there is an entire movement to make shareholders useless

>>1709002 >is that even legal? No >I would imagine an investment firm like vanguard Anon, Vanguard (Like BlackRock) is one of the groups demanding that companies pursure these ventures. For them, it's not about the money, it about using companies for the purposes of pushing a political agenda.

>>1709027 >For them, it's not about the money, it about using companies for the purposes of pushing a political agenda. fair nuff, theyre swimming in cash from real estate and other ventures already

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=MJU8xGudhnI New Gamergate video dropped a couple weeks ago from a former Cracked writer

>>1708691 >$500 for 30 hours of work lol that's minimum wage in washington state. and i bet they still try to fuck people out of it.

>>1708941 EP8, if I remember right.

>>1709087 >Goobergrape lives rent free in the minds of internet blogger faggots forever Feels good, I will watch the world burn just to see these smug faggots shitting their pants. I just wanted to play videogames.

>>1708894 >>1708906 >>1708913 bunch of fomosexuals

>>1706113 R07 never started out this bad. He didn't start teetering towards this path until that one old dude he dedicated his stories passed away, which was around the midway point of Umineko. Somebody had to have been getting into his ear about this shit cause that nigger just went full-on westaboo real fucking fast.

>>1708013 Or an episode infiltrating a group of virgin in.cel chuds who gather on 4chad and support MUGA and it's far-right leader called Tromp. >This tv program is fiction and any resemblance to persons or institutions is pure coincidence.

>>1709236 >Wendy As if my Viv lust wasn't enough. And to think, they're 0.14% of the population. TRAGEDY.

>>1709285 I got tons of red hair in my family - still funny how it's "rare" since most of the women who were into me were red heads oddly enough

>>1706357 Hey, that first one really captures the line weight, character physiognomy, and washed out colors of the anime of the era.

>>1708842 It's flat rate (can't play for 2 hours each day and get 1000) and online only, so it would be trivial to track "joined at least one game" >>1708831 Comparing the Insomniac breach to Sony's press releases showed us that one of the Uncharted games had "player" numbers that were more than double the actual sales total years latter.

With Gamergate's anniversary, it's crazy how people read the Zoepost and immediately sided with Zoe, despite her showing every signs of being a massive abuser, all because she's a woman and Eron made it public exposing her.

>>1709356 You mean at the time or the years since? It's not really a shock if you knew how much shit women get away with. Just see how little time women get for infanticide and how other women defend them for "postpartum depression" when the kids they murdered are 8 or 9.

>>1709367 >when the kids they murdered are 8 or 9. weeks, right?

>>1709367 The real redpill is when you realize that if you count abortions, infant morality in the modern west has not actually dropped significantly compared to other times throughout history and other parts of the world. Really makes you question just how much "infant morality" has always really just been women murdering their children and getting away with it.

>it's not changed grifter! <Videos prove otherwise Why are centrists so fucking retardly obtuse? This is so fucking cut and dry, its gotten to the point where the centrists are actively trying to downplay moments of genuine censorship now. https://archive.ph/uxeiX

>>1704074 Emotions aren't relevant to truth, though.

>>1709572 I don't see a difference in the first video, and in the second, the problem is that the original's breasts move too much for the amount of motion, while the remake's move too little.

>>1709596 Eva has 1960s era breast implants. They should be unnaturally stiff.

>>1709572 No they didn't, you grifting sperg. A Reminder that this poster jerks it to Futanari.

>>1709601 Apply the "achsually 1960s" standard to the rest of the game and it ceases to exist.

>>1709572 Why do these types always feel the need to be contrarian?

>>1709631 Probably something to do with the fact that claiming centrist has the connotation of being contrarian, so they relish in it.

>>1706357 Your secrets. Your prompts. Now.

>>1709572 I also read somewhere that various pinup posters were toned down and made more SFW. I'd do some digging myself, but I don't have the chance right now. Has anyone else seen any proof of this? It's probably true but it's always good to have proof and all. <second video >her little animation was changed It was probably altered because whoever was doing the remake was worried it seemed to sexy and out of place for an xray menu. Is it supposed to be sexy fanservice? Yes. Is it also supposed to be silly? Probably. Ironically, Eva would likely do something like the original pose, given her role in the story as a beautiful seductress and spy. So it isn't even a shoehorned in, out of character animation. Guaranteed if there was somehow some similar animation for Snake where he showed off his pecs it wouldn't have been changed at all. >>1709631 Because they are social media centrists specifically. Most of them aren't actually holders of a centrist point of view. They just don't have the will or guts to pick a side, but they also don't want to do the alternative, which is to just keep quiet and watch. So they play as if they sit on the middle of the issue while always leaning towards the side that seems to be the safest and least controversial at the time.

>>1709572 >>1709596 >>1709601 >>1709610 >>1709611 >>1709631 >>1709785 >>1709845 >>1709875 Be honest, how many of you are going to play this shit anyway? I DID NOT say "buy", I said "play". Pirating the game carries with it the intent to still play it.

>>1709880 Personally, I will not be playing it. I've already experienced the original and there is nothing new in this remaster that is worth retreading old ground to see. Modern graphics isn't enough to justify the time I would spend playing the game. Even if there was no censorship and a lot of new content, I don't know if I'd play it even then, as the MGS series really isn't a priority for me right now. Some anons might disagree, but if there is some sort of censorship or alternations to a game, the ability to sail the seas to get it doesn't automatically motivate me to change my mind and play the game. Even if it's free, the changes made to the game that frustrate me and betray the original vision of the game are still there. There's no reason to put myself through the annoyance or seeing these things in-game, whether it cost nothing or full price.

>>1709875 >Because they are social media centrists specifically. Most of them aren't actually holders of a centrist point of view. They just don't have the will or guts to pick a side, but they also don't want to do the alternative, which is to just keep quiet and watch. So they play as if they sit on the middle of the issue while always leaning towards the side that seems to be the safest and least controversial at the time. I actually hate Centrists more then leftists at this point, yes the left/sjws are the real foe and I won't pretend otherwise. But internet centrists are so purposely obtuse and dishonest about their positions, the left is at least honest to degrees about their shit at least. When ever you ask these Centrists "Well do you have an actual solid solution?" they stare at you like a headless chicken, for all the flaws of the modern anti sjw movement and despite the recent batch that's come from sweet baby inc's bullshit being retarded outrage baiters. They at least attempt to come up with solutions and alts, now they tend to be half assed but at least I can respect them fucking trying even if I hate the results. Centrists sat on their asses the past 11 years and pretty much enabled cancer, from either sides or added to it >>1709880 I'll play the OG on my PS2 or emulate it.

>>1709905 The knowledge that I would be playing a gimped/negatively altered version of a game is usually more than enough to ensure I avoid it. I'm not a normalfag so I can go back and play the old game if the need or interest is there.

>>1709880 >pic them's gabachos do have their moments

>>1709880 I do not care for Metal Gear

>>1709880 I'd most likely be deep into Onirism to care about it.

>>1709880 I will, I've already played he OG version too much to do yet another playthrough of it so this remake is a perfect excuse to dive in yet again.

>>1710370 >I will And with that, I would like to inform the rest of the thread that Konami hasn't done a single fucking thing wrong. Yeah, it's terrible that the game is being censored, but does that matter when people are well aware of the censorship and choose to play it anyway? Especially when the OG version exists: >>1709921 And the 3DS remake.

>>1709880 I was excited to see the MGS collection vol. 1 when it was announced because it meant I'd finally be able to play MGS3 on PC, having never played it before. But then the reviews said the keyboard/mouse controls were shit (etc.) and so I just didn't. Then the announcement of Delta had me thinking "okay, maybe I can play it now," but it needs a GPU with 8 gigs of vRAM, and I don't have that. Oh well.

>>1710615 Pretty sure the one intentional bit of censorship is the omission of the survival viewer dance for EVA, UE4/5 notoriously has a shit tier default soft body physics (aka boob / ass jiggle) so most likely just laziness for that specific part (especially with Konami and the supporting devs track record), same thing happened to Lollipop Chainsaw iirc. I'm honestly much more pissed at Konami for pushing the inflated pricetag in some areas It's also a bit upsetting that you don't get a "definitive version" of sorts because the HD collection lacks a few neat things, the PS2 versions even emulated have noticeable issues especially if you want 16:9 / good framerates and the 3DS version has some noticeable downgrades in graphical fidelity, and obviously delta has the mentioned issues on top of extremely inflated PC requirements >>1710840 Just use a controller on one of the emulated version, 3DS might allow for jank mouseaim too if you're really afraid aiming is gonna be an issue I'd even say the game is worth trying to learn a bad M/KB control scheme just to play it once (even as someone who thinks it's not that great of a game compared to others in the franchise), which is good since iirc pirates don't get controller support on the PC port.

>>1709875 Okay, looked into it a little bit, and the story seems to be a bit different than the devs just full-stop making the posters SFW. Konami apparently reached out to the gravure idols who posed for the posters in the originals and asked them for photos of "themselves looking their best." Since it was left up to the models, some of them sent pictures of themselves wearing some kind of swimsuit, while others sent non-erotic pictures. One woman even sent a family photo, which of course looks more like a picture you'd see on a family's Christmas card than on a poster inside a military base. I tried finding examples of the original posters for comparison but they seem to be really hard to find. https://archive.ph/Denny#selection-1587.0-1595.217 It's important to note that these posters are only seen if you play the "New Style" mode. If you play on the "Legacy Style" mode, you will see the original posters. https://archive.ph/yYWUh#selection-799.296-799.644 Of course, if you ask any of the devs about this decision, chances are they will say something about wanting to give players of the original some feeling of nostalgia as they tried out the new gameplay mode. But given what we know, it's much more likely that they were worried how journos and sjws would react to pinup posters of attractive women being in a video game, even though the game is rated for mature audiences and the posters make sense in context. New players, especially casual gamers who are intimidated by the idea of non updated controls and mechanics, will just play the New Style and never see the posters. If anyone asks about the Legacy Style keeping the posters, Konami can say that they simply kept things as they were in the original with an HD upgrade, not changing anything, which includes the posters. All the while Konami gets good press on release about how they were so wise and inclusive for getting the new posters for the models in the game. In their eyes, they won on every front.

>>1709319 It's GTO style: https://civitai.com/models/1202788 >washed out colors of the anime of the era. I tend to increase saturation afterwards, but I kept colors a little more muted for that style. >>1709855 Photoshop & inpainting were involved, but sure. Here's prompts with links to everything.

>>1709572 >A Reminder that this guy jerks it to Futanari Even if that were true, how does this counter the censorship argument? I do think the guy might be somewhat wrong as the X-ray stuff seems okay in the 2nd video, but the jiggle physics do seem toned down. >>1709875 >I also read somewhere that various pinup posters were toned down and made more SFW. I'd do some digging myself, but I don't have the chance right now. Has anyone else seen any proof of this? It's probably true but it's always good to have proof and all. https://archive.ph/yYWUh Seems like both the originals and new photos are in the game depending on which mode you play the game in, so it might not be censorship. >In an interview with Famitsu, creative producer Yuji Korekado says that the devs’ initial plan was to only increase the resolution of the posters found in the original game. But after it was decided that the remake would include both a “Legacy Style” mode, which replicates the camera and controls of the original game, and a “New Style” mode, which features an improved camera and gameplay systems, Konami chose to have fun with the gravure posters too. As a result, the Legacy Style displays sized-up versions of the original posters, while the New Style will feature brand-new posters. Moreover, the new posters were made with a kind of “Where are they now?” approach. >Though newcomers will appreciate the posters found in New Style, the updated images are meant to appeal to series veterans too. Korekado reveals that Konami asked the original models to provide recent photos of themselves looking their best. While some posed once again in swimsuits and fashionable costumes, others provided family photos. These new posters not only demonstrate the passage of time but give returning players who have since grown up a nostalgic glimpse at how the models have changed over 21 years. >>1709880 >another remake cashgrab to profit off Zoomers who won't touch the older games because they're not shiny enough >UE5 >100 GB To compare, Phantom Pain was 28 GB Fuck no. I'm just gonna stick to either Subsistence or the HD version.

You're gonna remember your rabbits tomorrow, right?

>>1711319 >Even if that were true, how does this counter the censorship argument? The "Argument" the guy is attempting to make is a strawman that the person is a "porn-addicted incel" who wants "all" media to be 24/7 pornos. Therefore, censorship is "justified" because actual "adults" don't "approve" nor "need" pointless "sexual explotiation".

>>1711182 >asked them for photos of "themselves looking their best >One woman sent a family photo Awww, that's kinda sweet.

>>1710891 >Just use a controller on one of the emulated version… I'd even say the game is worth trying to learn a bad M/KB control scheme just to play it once… Interesting. I might do that. Thanks, anon. >>1711182 >the story seems to be a bit different than the devs just full-stop making the posters SFW. Konami apparently reached out to the gravure idols who posed for the posters in the originals and asked them for photos of "themselves looking their best." Since it was left up to the models, some of them sent pictures of themselves wearing some kind of swimsuit, while others sent non-erotic pictures. One woman even sent a family photo… I read the same thing, and honestly I like that a lot. First of all, the original images are kept in the game and even upscaled (when you play classic mode), and then these are a "where are they now" selection you can switch to and from. As >>1711410 said, it's nice to see them that way.

>>1711319 >Even if that were true, how does this counter the censorship argument? It doesn't counter anything. He doesn't want to actually think up any kind of argument so he goes for an insult instead. You've probably seen sjws online try and insult someone by saying he gets rejected by women, doesn't have a girlfriend, doesn't get sex, etc. It seems to be some kind of default these types fall back on. >>1711410 >>1711430 It is pretty sweet, I don't blame the models at all in this situation. It's also been almost 21 years, many of these women probably aren't models anymore, so if Konami wanted new pictures it makes sense that they might not be comfortable doing a gravure photoshoot at this time of their lives. The presumed true motivation that Konami has for changing these posters is what is frustrating. They could have just kept the originals in both modes.

>>1711513 I know mods won't fix anything and that's it more of a crutch, but how easy is it to do texture swaps under UE4/UE5 games? With how streamlined game-making has gotten, I wouldn't be surprised if they all had the same encryption that could be broken

>>1711513 >It is pretty sweet, I don't blame the models at all in this situation. It's also been almost 21 years, many of these women probably aren't models anymore, so if Konami wanted new pictures it makes sense that they might not be comfortable doing a gravure photoshoot at this time of their lives. The presumed true motivation that Konami has for changing these posters is what is frustrating. They could have just kept the originals in both modes. Konami could have also done a new photo-shoot with new models. Since, after all, this is an remake. And if they're going for entirely new assets, might as well get new photos with new models.

>>1706343 How can the price be allowed to go up when it doesnt even have any games?

>>1708013 Meanwhile, in real life..

>>1711592 Right, they could have gone with new models and gotten new posters. It would have made complete sense, especially since the newly added mode is literally called "New Style." But as I mentioned up here >>1711182 , Konami is likely worried about how sjws and the typical crowd would react to the presence of erotic pinup posters in their game. And Konami also saw a chance to receive praise from journos and the press by giving these models a choice when it came to what photo they submitted (even though the models had a choice to pose for the original game too), and for removing erotic content from the game. To Konami, any good press matters, as they want more sales as soon as possible.

<<1711703 Are >we sure centrists deserve more hatred than leftists? If I had to spend one minute in one of their echo chambers I'd grab the nearest flamethrower and go berserk

>>1711319 >This person does thing that is frowned upon the normalfagsphere and thus his opinion is irrelevant That's how twitterniggers work, until their skeletons are displayed for everyone to see.

>>1711819 >Are >we sure centrists deserve more hatred than leftists? Yes. The Left is a religion that, while batshit insane, at least operates on "some" ideals people can at least agree upon and get behind. So-called "Centrists" on the other hand are basically the most evil group in that they advocate for mediocrity and complacency in all things.

Say something to our birthday girl

>>1712078 That doesn't take into account the sheer apathy, the "who cares" people, which I'll insist is probably worse among centrists and those pretending to be fence sitters until they discover the safe/majority opinion.

>>1712080 Milf Miku

>>1711819 >>1712078 The real reason centrists should be hated is because they exist for the sole purpose of facilitating leftwing infiltration of society.

>>1712080 >>1712339

>>1712080 >>1712491 Someone needs to turn that Hatsune Miku into Hatsune Milfu.

>>1712080 >>1712523 How about a granny Miku?

JAST USA was just kicked out of an anime convention in Texas this weekend https://archive.ph/u2URf >After a very successful Friday, we were banned from the San Japan convention in San Antonio, Texas this weekend. Our content is too provocative for the powerful of the Lone Star State, ahead of the anti-anime bill SB20 going into effect on Monday. >... >The law wasn't involved. No arrests, charges, prosecutions, trials, or convictions. Honestly I'll be surprised if anyone ever gets charged under this law. Its power is in this sort of private and self-censorship, not actually having cops arrest people for anime.

>>1708985 Honestly, while its shitty that they chose to support gaas. I think its pretty based for any company to tell any shareholder to fuck off as shareholders are one the main reasons why things are so shitty now because we've put them over literally everything else and why certain companies should've died out a long time ago.

>>1712583 Is it really a surprise this is the result of the bill as opposed to some nightmare scenario of jackboots raiding weebs in the middle of the night because they downloaded something on Gelbooru or toyed with generating their own images for personal use? Hell, probably Texas considered this and just shrugged off any economic hit they might face because having some moral high ground always meant more to them.

>>1712583 People need to remember that nobody in power is on the side of gamers and weebs. At most >we're being used as a convenient demographic until they feel like fucking us over. I'm glad that the people speaking out against this bullshit is rising, but this law needs to get overturned already because it's blatantly unconstitutional. >Is it really a surprise this is the result of the bill as opposed to some nightmare scenario of jackboots raiding weebs in the middle of the night because they downloaded something on Gelbooru or toyed with generating their own images for personal use? That can easily happen in the future.

>>1712583 This feels like it will cause some new wave of the weeabo blade-studier, somehow... If it does, I would love to see the resulting Ramen Westerns.

>>1712583 >>1712620 Man, I hope this new law bites (((them))) in the ass too as they also make content that breaks this law like Rick and Morty, Simpsons, Family Guy, and more. I live in Texas, somebody save me, liberate me from this hell.

>>1712638 >Man, I hope this new law bites (((them))) in the ass too as they also make content that breaks this law like Rick and Morty, Simpsons, Family Guy, and more >implying (((they))) don't operate on "rules for me, rules for thee"

Can't wait to leave this shithole state.

>>1712583 This also does almost just sound like the event organizers being pussy faggots more than the law itself, realistically the police aren't going to raid an anime con. Cowards who give in to fear from the enemy have joined the enemy themselves.

Sure smells like Willy Nigger in here.

>>1712684 Guess it's a bad time to post that Nippon news about importing diversity then?

>>1712714 Don't even mention shit like that even as a joke, just making that post will set him off to spam the same shitter screencaps he always does about how totally overs asses and elbows it is.

>>1712730 Wasn't actually joking, I get your point. Was trying not to blackpil, and was going to post to see if anons had found any reaction on japanese twitter or 2ch/5ch etc.

>>1712678 Sounds like you're just shifting the blame away from puritanical republican politicians towards random citizens not wanting to risk their businesses getting litigated out of existence by gambling that the government will somehow arbitrarily decide to never at any point in the future actually enforce it.

>>1711819 The "moderates" Monty Python sketch is always relevant. >>1712078 The left doesn't really have ideals, they only signal ideals and attack others Rules For Radicals style. >>1712637 >ramen westerns Wouldn't that be burger chambara? >>1712638 Get tor or a VPN, anon

>>1712583 That can't be right. There's literally 18+ events at San Japan.

>>1712771 In fairness, they kicked them out before the law even went into effect, that's really fucking lame.

>>1712771 The blame lies squarely on both parties, obviously I'm not doing cover for the government, i even called texas a shithole. That doesn't mean the org had to do this.

>>1712827 It's actually a good idea to start moving groups and events out of (((Texas))) as that will provide a loss of revenue the state would have otherwise had. This is boycotting the anti-anime/loli laws by withholding money from the state and businesses surrounding the event site such as restaurants and hotels which would have benefitted the most.

>>1712714 >that Nippon news about importing diversity then That was posted last week by Willy and then another anon posted something else fully debunking it as a misleading headline and Willy ran away with his tail between his legs like always.

>>1712837 I'd agree if they wholesale cancelled the convention in protest but what happened here is the orgs kicked one booth from the convention MID-CONVENTION. On the contrary this, if anything, shows an intention by the organizers to NOT leave texas.

>>1712837 Unfortunately that's not feasible for most entities in Texas. If you've built your entire reputation around "anime convention based in Texas", you can't exactly just up and move out without suffering massive consequences. Not to mention that a lot of the organizers probably live in Texas too.

>>1712842 Fair enough, didn't see that, or maybe it all got deleted so I missed it.

>>1712852 Basically the "partner cities" are just for show. They're importing zero Africans as permanent residents. They send a couple of teachers over there for a couple of months. Bring some teenagers over for a two week trip. Take some photos. It's empty PR shit.

>>1712875 Well nips sitll didn't like it and seemed to start protesting even if its not true

>>1712890 I think that's fine. Protesting even empty overtures shows a good zero tolerance policy.

>>1712875 >>1712890 >>1712897 >We are all still filthy gaijin That's good.

Long, tongue-in-cheek anti-Reddit post worth a read: The Four Commandments of Reddit >How a website for geeks gave us totalizing societal libtardation https://archive.is/uTjla Runs through some history and GamerGate gets a mention: >A few years later came Gamergate, an event that has been analyzed so meticulously elsewhere that I will pass over the details: A female game developer was accused by an ex of sleeping with a gaming journalist, influencing his reviews. The resulting social media brouhaha over industry sexism, harassment, free speech, and journalistic ethics came to dominate Reddit to the point where Gamergate discussion was inescapable, and mods and admins began censoring and shadowbanning accounts who criticized mainstream narratives. Original substack post has about 300 comments, not included in the archive, if anyone wants to check them out. URL at top. WARNING Soyboy images. :^)

>>1712950 I saw some school girl protesting too but idk if it was really about immigrant shit, too many grifters trying to take the scene with random videos so can't be sure

>>1712583 >JAST Aren't these the niggers responsible for (((localizing))) a bunch of VNs in the past

>>1713030 Indeed, worth a read. Minor nitpick in the GamerGate bit in that even halfchan was banning discussion of that shit.

>>1712080 something to our birthday girl

>>1711261 >Photoshop & inpainting >Photoshop So much for replicating this but with lolis and maybe a shota. Nevertheless, thank you for the prompts and other links. Do those embed things actually work? Seems hit or miss according to the comments.

>>1712080 >34yo

>>1713319 I think they censored 1 VN like 15 years ago.

>>1709572 Koopaman had a spectacular freakout calling anyone who asked "why is Manglawyer wrong?" He cried that anyone asking was a extremist culture warrior. It was a hilarious sight to behold and he even used a star wars reference in a Redditor manner.

>>1713030 After reading this I am convinced geeks have always been, since their inception, vermin deserving of full ostracization and contempt, and that Redditors are their natural conclusion.Truly, the Scottish word for “fool” was more appropriate than people realised. This is confronting to say the least, given that this place is a direct descendant of 4chan, which even prior to the exodus was a den of otaku retards.

>>1713030 >>1713658 The geek/nerd culture was founded by marxists to begin with. From older comic books, into the: >"cosplay as your useless fictional character" to: >"don't aim to emulate successful real people, but instead idolize completely impossible idealized fictional weirdos" it was all carefully crafted to breed a caste of subservient idiots who would attack only the successful while protecting the useless, out of sheer envy for the success of superior people/superior castes of society.

>>1713030 >>1713658 >>1713828 So, why are you here on a video game board? I don't fully trust people who talk like stereotypical jocks because inevitably their rhetoric turns to "Be a real man and die for Israel, oorah!"

You all are geeks, nerds, dweebs, and babies

>>1713924 Mods! Ban this f*ggot.

You're niggers. >bu- NIGGERS

Is this a new psy-op? It's a really fucking weird one if it is. Like, yeah, the idea "geek culture" as stereotyped by the media is shit but it was also always fake. But groups of guys with hobbies like video games, books and shit like that and making a group culture around them is fine.

>>1713829 I have never heard any jock say this in my entire life.

>>1712583 >there are retards who still go to conventions Reminds me of pic related. Conventions are a den of pedophiles and overall just scams to steal people's money and fund child trafficking.

>>1714079 Comic-con is such a weird concept, especially since it seemed to get big back when comics and games were still seen as unsavory by the general public. It also feels like this mythical thing since as a kid it seemed cool but I was too young and poor to go, but now that I'm older and can afford it it seems too immature and commercialized. Just seems like the kind of thing that doesn't exactly mesh properly with the Western normalfag-sphere. Have any anons ever been to it?

>>1713658 >This is confronting to say the least, given that this place is a direct descendant of 4chan, which even prior to the exodus was a den of otaku retards. It's a necessary confrontation, I suppose, if only to defuse the "we're all here for the same thing" comforting lie they use to infiltrate. Always remind yourself: the victims most easily indoctrinated into the tranny death cult are the autistic.

>>1714106 >it seemed to get big back when comics and games were still seen as unsavory by the general public And that makes it even more plausible that it was all a money laundering scam. With added child trafficking. >It also feels like this mythical thing since as a kid it seemed cool but I was too young and poor to go, but now that I'm older and can afford it it seems too immature and commercialized The same thing happened to me, for literally any convention or the like (E3 and all): as soon as I got disposable income as an adult to go to any of those, I learned how those conventions operate, and they were all exposed as basically money sinkers. There is no real value in going to any of them. And some may even be criminal activity disguised as conventions.

MY BODY IS READY for this AI tech!

>>1714275 you are lucky i like it

>>1714275 Wonderful, the future is promising!

>>1714275 But can you have it local

Attention: I have something important to post.

>>1714766 Do you really?

>>1714766 Hell yeah

>The controversy arose earlier this year when leaked private chat logs from a former developer (thanks, Reset Era forums member Ceerious) began to spread online >“This project can only be completed thanks to Yang Bing [Lost Soul Aside director/producer] and me,” dismissing the contributions of others. >Far more serious was the use of a slur and the claim that “when you lose one unit of sale from yellow people, you will receive ten units of sale from black people.” Another message accused Sony of forcing political correctness during a studio visit. >The authenticity of these leaks was not disputed by Lost Soul Aside director/producer Yang Bing, who promptly issued a public apology. He admitted his own failings in leadership, acknowledged that the remarks had caused harm, and stressed that the employee in question had already been dismissed last year. >"国外主力购买群体就是尼x" "Niggers(in Chinese) is the largest overseas audience for video games" >"昨天索尼老头来，zzzq安排上了" "Yesterday, a senior from Sony came to the studio and set the political correct agenda" >"听索尼的肯定没错，顶多少一份黄种人销量，但你会获得十份黑皮销量" "We had better listen to Sony. When you lose one unit of sale from yellow people, you will receive ten units of sale from black people(or: Every sale we lose from yellow people, we will get 10 times more from black people)" https://archive.vn/8md52 https://archive.vn/RhTPw

>>1714766 FUCK, that reminds me I wanted to save as many clips of "anime characters saying the names of months or dates" as I possibly could and spam them to my best friend on the appropriate dates. I only have this one and a tiny handful of others (like the DMC clip of them saying "The fifteenth... of June...). Can anyone point me in the direction of a good resource to fulfill this specific brand of autism? Even, like, a way to merely search within the subtitles of various anime so that I can download specific episodes and cut the video file down to a character JUST saying a date. I realize this is a particularly autistic brand of autism.

>>1714790 is this delusion or faggotry on sonys part? Niggers do not care about videogames except maybe the small subset of nerd ones and they seem to love nintendo instead >>1714839 had the same idea before but abandoned it, you could try downloading subtitle files from nyaa si and combing thru them with notepad +

>>1714849 The black rabbit is SOMETIMES a prostitute, though.

>>1714849 >fapped to rabbits before bed >said rabbits when I woke up >fapped to more rabbits Here's to a month of good luck hopefully.

>>1714848 Soyny is delusional ever since the soystation 3. And yes, they still think that they can ever change people's behavior through entertainment, when reality has proven that people simply abandon entertainment that doesn't align with their beliefs.

>>1714848 Sport games and fighting games are also popular among black people, even the most chimp of them.

>>1714790 >>1714848 >>1714927 This makes me even more happy that Sony is gradually falling apart. Nearly every big release they had since the PS5 launched has either bombed or been hit with controversy with the only games that did well and are remembered fondly being Helldivers 2 (although that had controversy of its own), Stellar Blade, and Astro Bot, and two of those are also on PC. Now Lost Soul Aside got tainted with controversy, one that can even label Sony as racist towards chinks, costing them the Chinese market.

>>1714790 To appeal to niggers, you just make FIFA/Madden. It's just that easy. Why Sony is too retarded about this.

>>1714106 Even as a kid I thought comic-con was stupid, but nowadays its even worse. My mom for whatever reason watches it on the TV every year and she complains it's nothing but people selling funkopops and not even comics. There's apparently not even many cosplayers excluding men dressed as women.

>>1714839 Are you looking for the characters saying the months and dates in Engrish where they try to say the actual names, or their actual Japanese words like 9月（くがつ）with the English subtitles below it saying the month's name? Because if it's the former, then I doubt you'll find more like that recently posted September webm. It's too specific. If it's the latter, then it could be done. I have 2 instances in this category.

>>1715190 I suppose dubs would be preferred, or just the character pronouncing the month or date in an approximation of English. It's just a silly little thing I want to do. Thanks for being able to help with this, of all things!

>>1714790 That would explain why Sony games have been consistently boring over the past decade or so.

>"Legality Is Not The Defining Factor": Steam Censorship Campaign Details It Seeks Removal Of Games Whether Legal Or Not https://archive.vn/NU4c8

>>1715433 by both your previous posts as ell as your writing style, it is clear you ain't niggerpill, BUT from that project 2025 comment it is obvious you are that one cock gulcher that posted this retarded notion a few times before, unkindly have an anal prolapse & then take a bonesaw to it

I'm not quick to discredit the idea that republicans and project 2025 and so on are in favor of this... but collective shout is australian, not american so I can't see how that would be the case.

>>1715442 It's probably just best to ignore anyone that even remotely posts like NIGGER WILLY does.

>>1715452 i don't think he's niggerpill, he's likely some smegma snorter from quarterdoublechan

I recently did some reasearch on the mythology of witches for creative writing, and something that came up constantly was that witches had red hair and green eyes. Another one that was known throughout many ancient cultures was left-handedness. I am sure nobody really thought about what hand Vivian James considers her dominant hand at the time, but I think it would be interesting if she actually was meant to resemble something akin to the traditional witch, representing the witch hunt of gamergate. Admittedly, this would only be known by persons from her inception, but if that was not the case, then it is an interesting coincidence, at least.

>>1714849 >>1714876 >>1714881 Someone say black rabbit? >>1715451 Also, it was happening when the other party was in power as well so likely it is the will of some group that operates globally, some kind of NGO.

>>1715023 After jewsney was exposed buying their own tickets to their movies in order to inflate sales numbers, I suspect that soyny and other companies did the same for the sports games' so called "success". It seems odd that, once people started investigating those companies, the sports games sales dropped or isn't as highlighted by those companies as much as they were before. Not the e-sports garbage, but the actual Maddens/Fifas/whatever.

>>1714849 Rabbit rabbit

>>1714275 Nice

>>1713973 >But groups of guys with hobbies like video games, books and shit like that and making a group culture around them is fine. That’s not really what being a geek is though. Being a geek is existing for no reason other than your trival, sedentary hobbies; being extremely lazy, irresponsible, and infantile; and thinking you are smarter than you actually are simply because you know how to use a keyboard. Any actually learned and wise man of history would look down on geeks with immense contempt.

>>1713365 >Minor nitpick in the GamerGate bit in that even halfchan was banning discussion of that shit. Considering the mainstream narrative of GG all these years something that minor can be forgiven. Plus the post is aimed at Reddit, not halfchan. >>1714849 I remembered. >>1714839 I will look out for any from now on. >I realize this is a particularly autistic brand of autism. That I will remember it if I see any is also somewhat autistic.

>>1715866 >That’s not really what being a geek is though. It was the word used for it. Granted it was a word made up mostly by external people to describe groups of guys who engaged with these hobbies, usually to make fun of them, but it was a word that used to be aimed at groups like gamers, people who watch anime etc. Mainstream trying to co-opt those groups and create a faux culture (a la Big Bang Theory and the like) was the cancer, but it was also always a minstrel show that didn't really reflect the reality. So the issue is word(s) kind of took on a double meaning because of that lamestream integration. You seem to be talking about the superficial version concocted by corporations and normalfags, to which I agree. I'm talking about the groups of disaffected young men who were unpopular or otherwise weren't interested in sportsball so they made their friend groups around something else they did enjoy.

https://archive.ph/NYH6C https://archive.is/0XcuG Who is Steve Jobs Charlotte?

>>1715962 "AI" doesn't exist, and algorithms aren't sentient. Take your ARG somewhere else.

>>1715962 I don't get it, did something happen with Bonegolem? Deepfreeze hasn't been touched in forever, I don't see a reason for him to mess with it now unless he can't afford to host it anymore or something.

>>1713527 >Do those embed things actually work? A bit. If you can get them working. The bulk of Photoshop involved: Image 1. Changing the chip bag labels to something coherent, making the GameBoy look like a GameBoy instead of the generic "sort-of GameBoy" that the AI produces. Image 2. Adding a text bubble with what I wanted, boosting contrast & adding a halftone overlay. Stable Diffusion can't generate a uniform halftone very well, & halftones fuck with inpainting consistency, so manually adding a halftone afterwards in Photoshop makes far more sense & is significantly more uniform.

>>1715987 Stop being gayer than (((Reddit))).

>>1716015 He's not wrong, they're advanced algorithm that still need to be overseen and managed. They're not self automated and lessen per-existing work strain. They're not the total human obsoleting phenomena people make them out to be unless you're a middleman.

>>1716015 >you don't believe what Reddit believes, therefore you are... worse than Reddit? Your "AI" waifu isn't real, isn't sapient, isn't human, doesn't have rights, and will never be anything but a predictive language model in your computer.

>>1715987 How do you know we're sentient anon? What if we're just some bacteria made after hundreds of millions of years of sun radiation and everything we think of sentience is a lie?

>>1716077 Sentience is just sentence with i in it.

>>1716100 oh fuck

>>1716077 >How do you know we're sentient anon? What if we're just some bacteria made after hundreds of millions of years of sun radiation and everything we think of sentience is a lie? You did just now by self introspecting and acknowledging the possibility. If you can can question the idea of what you know is a lie and think about it thoroughly, you've shown that you are sentient. Otherwise, you wouldn't think all to hard about it.

>>1713828 >"don't aim to emulate successful real people, but instead idolize completely impossible idealized fictional weirdos" What do you call what the Greco-Romans were doing with mythology? I'm pretty sure they existed before Marxism did. >attack only the successful Wrong. Nobody attacks Hollywood or "successful" entrepreneurs, they attack outside influences (no matter how correct or justified the outsiders are) >>1714790 >when you lose one unit of sale from yellow people, you will receive ten units of sale from black people Who wants to tell em it's closer to 0.6 from Black people given the number of thefts? Or that they forgot a certain race?

>>1714790 I bet they just told them to fill the game with brown characters. But the concerning part is that chinese directors/producers are taking Sony's advice seriously