what’s cwc? i can’t seem to google it
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yeah ed was friends with that band forever ago cuz of Santa Cruz scene
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it’s a really fucked up worst of both worlds combination of the tech industry and the film industry. like, yeah, in tech people tend to leave when budgets get more realistic post IPO, but they usually walk away with equity, and in film people will only take jobs for the length of a production because the structure of SAG allows them to do that and still get some stability. this is like, you get neither and it’s always a shock.
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From an article I read, the game apparently debuted with a peak concurrent player count of 97,249 and two weeks later was down to 4,524 so… 95% of people who tried the game walking away that quickly doesn’t make it sound like they had any real hope. Still sucks for everyone involed.
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you press the buttons in a haphazard imitation of real gameplay until your big brother tells you what to do / ‘just holds the controller until he has finished the hard part for you’
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The most stalked and harassed person in the history of the internet.
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sonichu
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Don’t know what it says about me that the name that sticks out the most is Zoe Thorogood, who as far as I an AFAICT is a reasonably acclaimed long-form webcomicker
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I just looked through this and “Liquid Chris” being in here is probably one of the worst ones.
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Wow what an impressive list of voice actors. Actual rapists. The guy who ran on-stage at the game awards (will never capitalize that shit) to rant about Bill Clinton. Various ‘phobes and ‘ists. Someone who served in the fucking IDF.
Damn it’s really cool and not at all depressing to see a disturbingly large amount of ostensibly leftist people online going out of their way to defend the honor of this game. They say to the critics: the game took over a decade to make, and dummying out some sound files at any point between then and now is a herculean effort. It’s like mastering the Saturn’s second core or some shit.
I really, really hate everything involving modern games.
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and Rivers Cuomo
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One of these things is not like the others. The Bill Clinton kid did nothing wrong, at least not in that moment.
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Being slightly fair to Hila, it’s not like Israelis get a choice about this one.
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There are in fact people who accept going to prison rather than work for a colonialist and genocidal military force.
There is a choice, even if it isn’t an easy one.
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in that moment he dropped an antisemetic dogwhistle, so I think it’s fair to criticize his inclusion
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What he said was “I think I want to nominate this award to my Reformed Orthodox rabbi Bill Clinton.”
Matan Even was born Jewish, can speak Hebrew and claims to read the Torah and the Talmud. “Reformed Orthodox” is an internal contradiction that doesn’t point to anything. He was 15 years old at the time of the event and has since made it clear that his guiding motivation is to troll and get attention, not to disseminate hate or conspiracies (of which, at the time, Bill Clinton was far down anyone’s list of concerns. He says Bill Clinton is the only presidential candidate he’d vote for.)
What he did is one of the only amusing and remarkable things to happen on that miserable show, far removed from Geoff Keighley’s stifling control. He’s taken his 15 minutes of fame and ran with it, speaking out whenever and to whomever, and if he were part of any kind of real problem he’d have said so by now.
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“It’s sad that some people might read this or other articles and be so put off by the idea of an inclusion of someone they don’t like so much that they will never play the game,” he concluded, “but I’m not sure someone who would be that upset by a ‘problematic meow’ would really enjoy the game that much anyway. Honestly the thing that bothers me the most about all this is, if a cat appears with the voice of someone you hate…you can literally throw it in the trash…or worse! People need to get more creative with their hate!”
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i could never throw a cat in the trash, will not play
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