So our dear old friend Matt Forney, the neo-Naziesque internet doofus, has found himself suspended from Twitter (again), shortly after posting an assortment of tweets so wildly homophobic they even managed to offend the lovely Milo Yiannopoulos and his internet horde.
According to noted free speech expert Matt Forney, Matt Forney was suspended “because I was guilty of Being Conservative on Twitter.”
Evidently the powers that be decided at their latest meeting that Forney constitutes A SOMEWHAT SMALLISH THREAT TO THE NARRATIVE, and thus must be silenced, sort of, by not being allowed to use one of the many social media platforms available to him.
Twitter may be picking on me because I’m popular enough to be a threat to the leftist narrative yet small enough that they can silence me without causing much of an uproar.
Naturally, the rule-abiding Forney, who insists he “wasn’t doing anything that could be considered a violation of the Terms of Service” has violated these same Terms of Service by setting up a new Twitter account to get around the ban. Just like he did the last time he was banned, if I recall correctly.
As for Milo, Forney insists that
I like Milo … but I question how much longer a guy who brags about having gay sex with black men can call himself a conservative.
Here’s some examples of the kind of TRUTH* that Twitter will be shielding us from.
NOTE: aforementioned TRUTH* should not be confused with real truth.
How will the world’s Twitterers survive being deprived of these insights, at least if said Twitterers don’t bother to subscribe to Forney’s “backup” Twitter account?
Nightmare, sweetie.
Sorry. I just wanted to use that gif again.
And speaking of gifs, in case any excessively literal-minded hostile readers are reading this, please note that this post contains
Among disturbing RPGs, there is two of them that I like dearly, but who aren’t translated in english to the best of my knowledge.
The first one is “Hystoire de fou” (“stori of madmen”), who is basically an RPG where scenarios are bouts of madness. You suddenly jump into a distorded, hallucinatory world, and you want to get out. The main way are by finding things that are inconsistent with the delirious episode but consistent with what the reality should be like, and by finding a fatal inconsistency in the logic of the delirious bout.
It’s on surface a lighthearted RPG, as is apparent in the colorful and silly cover, and that continue in the fact most delirious bouts are mostly silly. But the darkness of the premise do seep in rather quickly.
The other one are “Rêves de Dragons” (“Dragon’s dream”) and “Chimere”, who are two RPGs in the same universe. In short, the basics are that dragons, powerful entities who transcend time, remind themselves of human stories during the middle age. That way, they actually recreate the world around their stories. Once again, on surface it’s rather not horrific, but the presence of the Opponent, who want to corrupt the dream and take root in it, and the fact one can actually experience the limits of the dreams (the fact most peoples aren’t people with free will, or the physical limit of it) while not being in the know that he is a dreamer often lead to existential horror.
@Petal
My favorite thing about Eternal Darkness was the way it tried to freak out the player in a fourth wall manner. I’m not really into horror games, though, so I didn’t play it much.
“I have never understood why some people write “G-d” instead of… well, God. I’ve heard it claimed that it’s because you shouldn’t write God’s name out of respect but… God isn’t God’s name or any god’s name for that matter, so… I do not get.”
When I’ve seen it, it’s been an Orthodox Jewish thing. To some people, it’s as good as his name, and so receives the same treatment (like “YHWH” instead of “Yahweh, for instance).
@Ohlmann
Nice, I will see if I can find those. It would be a good excuse to practice my french. :3
@dslucia: Thanks for the info, I have only heard about the difficulty. I’m not adverse to high difficulty, I have bested many games including the likes of The Gears of War series, Dead Space, Bulletstorm, Bayonetta and many others on the hardest settings in single player. But I like to do a first run through of a game on the normal settings to get a feel for it, soak in the atmosphere and so on. But as I am running out of 360 games to play and even with my newfound riches (lol) it’s gonna be a while before I can afford an Xbone it might be time to check them out. Is it better to go with the first then second? Or jump straight to the second?
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LOL that is some superior reasoning right there, almost PHD level.
Being told to shut up is like being banned everyone!!
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Pathetic.
@ varalys
If you like Lovecraft you may enjoy Neil Gaiman’s short story “A Study in Emerald”. It’s a Sherlock Homes pastiche (with a twist). It’s available on his website.
@Alan: Cool, I like Neil Gaiman’s comics so I’ll check that out tommorrow when I feel less brain fried 🙂
@kupo
My older brother literally turned the console off in panic the first time the game played the “deleting your save file” trick. That must be one of the greatest built-in pranks in videogame history.
@varalys:
Dark Souls II is… er… polarizing.
Either is a fine entry point, really, because if you go into II first you won’t have to retool your expectations from playing the first game, but many people (myself included) consider the first to be by far the better title. II wasn’t directed by the same person who did Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Dark Souls III, and Bloodborne, and I’d argue that it shows, particularly in how enemy placement works.
While the first game rewards slow, methodical play and careful observation, the second game seems much more focused on showing off combat, and it unfortunately doesn’t have the general faster, tighter feel that Bloodborne and Dark Souls III seem to have. It also just doesn’t have the same feel in the world design; in the first game, nearly every location you can see is one that you can visit and it’s all to scale.
From the beginning of the game you can see both Anor Londo and Blighttown, and it really hammers home just how large and imposing the world truly is. Souls II uses truncated path connections, which ends up leading to things such as taking an elevator up from the top of a mountain peak and coming out inside of a volcano. The first game is kinda like a true 3D Castlevania, especially because a lot of the locations wrap back on other locations which all contributes to the game world feeling kinda real, while II seems much more obviously game-y.
I usually summarize my feelings on it in the same way as I describe Final Fantasy XIII: I don’t think it’s really a bad game, but it’s a letdown for the franchise that it’s tied to.
I’d personally say that Dark Souls II is the Dead Space 3 to Dark Souls‘ Dead Space, if that makes sense. (I liked Dead Space 3 overall, but one thing that seriously frustrated me was the sheer number of enemies in certain locations, and Souls II does the same sort of thing.)
EDIT: Word of warning, though, on consoles the performance in Blighttown in the first game is notoriously awful, which is made extra bad by the fact that it’s the least fun location in the game to traverse.
@Buttercup:
Ohhhh, l@@k, A-G-E-N-D-A, be afraid, be very afraid, MMWHAHAHA… (Pfffff…)
Do blow it up some more, Buttercup. Two words were written. Context provided. Apology offered. Yet the ‘hurt and damage’… continues.
I’m not part of this community but even if I was, some disagreement is inevitable. And that can cause hurt…
Wouldn’t just offering an unqualified apology been easier than arguing and doubling down all day?
An apology along the lines of “I’m sorry you were offended but I wasn’t fat shaming” doesn’t come across as sincere.
We all fuck up sometimes. Take your lumps and move on .
I think my favorite part of Gert’s little meltdown was when they accused Viscaria of slander.
The fuck?
@dslucia: Appreciate the detailed response, and wow I don’t think I have EVER been more disappointed in a game than Dead Space 3. Wish it hadn’t nuked the whole franchise though, I have the books, anime style film and comics and it had plenty of mileage left in it. Anyway, I still have The Saboteur to finish and I am trying to get 100% completion in GTA V, then I think I shall give Dark Souls a whirl, cheers!
Gert, I pointed out that your choice of words suggested that I and people like me can be immediately dismissed as wrong because of our mental health, and you said I deserved to be dismissed and disregarded on that basis. Do you believe that’s the cost of admission I should have to pay for being in “lefty” spaces?
@WWTH lol yes, that was a bit odd. I think they were looking at the entire commentariat as a single entity, rather than a collection of individuals. That said, I don’t think anyone slandered Gert.
I came to this thread intending to reply to Imaginary Petal only to find that in the intervening time a troll had arrived, and been routed. Well done, everyone. I think this may be the first time I’ve ever seen Brony swear.
This actually suits my answer to IP, though, because I can use it as an example.
A very charitable analysis of Gert might assume that he came here with sincere but idiotic intentions. To him (and many like him) the internet is a place where one picks a cause and then is savagely rude to those who hold the opposing cause. The cause one picks is largely academic: it’s just a banner or a symbol to mark sides, like football colours. Likewise, the persona one affects is chosen entirely for the purposes of fighting.
He came here expecting us to thank him for it. After all, to him we’re just a bunch of fatsos, cucks, ladybrains and manginas, unable to effectively defend ourselves. It’s a good thing we have a great internet warrior here to save us and lead us to victory!
When it became apparent that we not only wanted to be his banner, but also objected to his plan of internet-fighting in general, he grew angry. How dare we object? We’re not great internet warriors like him! We need to stop holding him back, and be grateful that he picked us as the side to be on.
Sigh.
To me, “male feminist” is not a noun but a verb. It’s a thing I try to do, not a description of me. It doesn’t matter whose side I think I’m on; if I act with privilege and thoughtlessness, I have ceased to feminist and have become the enemy.
Being male is really fucking easy. It’s great. I get all this free privilege and it means I not only bypass lots of problems, but I can ignore their existence. Trying to feminist while being male means intentionally forgoing that privilege and acting to undermine it. It means, in essence, being a traitor.
It is the duty of every just man to fight against unearned privilege, said Spinoza. To me this is the essence of male feministing: it’s about fighting the privilege even when that privilege belongs to me, rather than trying to maintain it and revel in it like Gert did.
Do I get it wrong? All the time. I’m grateful that people help me recover and get better in future.
@varalys:
Yeah, especially as someone who did enjoy the third game overall it’s kinda sad that Dead Space as a property is basically… dead, now. (Did I avoid turning that into a pun?)
One last thing I’ll say on the subject of Dark Souls is that the entire franchise is pretty poor at communicating certain things to the player, so there’s no harm in keeping the online Wiki at hand while you’re playing. It took me until I did an LP of it with a buddy to actually push myself past one part that had stumped me, and upon reflection part of the reason I’d been so discouraged from playing the game more was because I had the constant thought in the back of my mind that it would be too difficult for me.
I ended up beating it actually fairly easily, and then continuing on through New Game+ and halfway into New Game++ so that I could 100% the achievements.
@dslucia: Ah Achievements. I am obssessed with them. Not my overall score (which is only about 76,000) but getting 100%. I’ve managed to do this with 28 games now, all single player only, as I didn’t actually get a modem/router that would recognise my 360 until this year. Also I’m always happy to keep a wiki on hand, I used to write walkthroughs on GameFAQ’s (and about a zillion sites that steal from it) back at the turn of the century before back problems caused me to stop gaming for about five years until better pain killers and more ergonomically designed controllers came along (I love the 360 controller so much it changed my gaming life). I find Youtube a real boon for the dedicated Cheevo hunter as well. Ah, techology.
@WWT:
I addressed the wrong commenter there. I typo. My bad and apologies.
@Viscaria:
I addressed the wrong person, with that comment. I have no idea of your mental health. Any issues you might have, I commiserate. Was bipolar for 10 years myself.
@varalys
I’d personally recommend playing DS1 first. I think both I and II are great, but the first is special in a way that the second wasn’t quite able to emulate. And while reversing the order might avoid the “readjustment of expectations”, I don’t think you’d quite be able to experience the fullest possible sense of newness and wonder in DS1 if it’s not your first Souls game.
Also, the Souls games don’t have a difficulty setting per se, but they do have a New Game+ system where upon completing the game you can restart with the same character at a higher difficulty (and the “+”s will keep stacking upon consecutive completions). In addition to that, given the huge level of potential for build customization, there’s tons of metagame challenges you can try out. Like low-level runs, or trying to one-hit KO bosses, or novelty builds, etc.
@EJ:
Your utter drivel isn’t worth addressing and is 100 % wrong. You know me from Adam nor Steve, yet already think you could write a small book about me. Shameful absence of any evidence but definitely a full mouth of teeth.
@varalys:
Heh, I’ve only ever 100%ed the achievements for a handful of games (to date, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Darksiders, DmC: Devil May Cry, Dark Souls, Dex.)
There are others I’ve very nearly completed (Arkham City, Borderlands 2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Half-Life 2 Episodes 1 & 2, Ori and the Blind Forest, Shadow Warrior 2013, Sonic Generations, Strider, Technobabylon) and they all tend to have a few cheevos that just grind away at my patience until I can’t be bothered trying anymore.
Mostly Off-topic:
I know we have some kink and BDSM folks among the commenters. My girlfriend and I are getting back in the scene, and, well, it’s lead to a lot of stress and frustration and a certain degree of despair.
I want to vent my thoughts and feelings on it somewhere where people will get it, and possibly even have advice, and I thought of here. I also want to respect the sensibilities of the general audience. Nothing I have to say would be particularly explicit, but certainly personal.
So yeah, if EJ or the other kink people on here are interested, I’ll post my mini-rant. If other folks aren’t keen to read about it, I can take it the week-old otherwise-dead open thread or just talk to him or others privately.
It’s only mostly off-topic because the problems all have to do with gender and with uncertainty how as a man to live feminist values in complex and stressful circumstances.
@Daniel: Thanks for the extra info, this is all very enlightening, and it’s become a must buy now.
@dslucia: Because I could only 100% games with no online ones I have finished A LOT of Lego games 😀 I am currently polishing off The Saboteur which has been more fun than it had any right to be, but blowing stuff up and wrecking the Nazi’s shit Never. Gets. Old. There have been a couple of games where I am one Achievement short of the full set, Sleeping Dogs is a heartbreaker. 990 points, can’t get the last one for acing all the karaoke songs. Bah. I have also done the full set for Fallout 3:GOTY edition, Fallout New Vegas, Skyrim and Oblivion. And many others.