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Yeah, makes sense. They're an online community that is famously the gateway drug for rightwing hate groups before they move onto harder stuff. "Execute the furries" into "gays are bad" is basically a core part of the rightwinger life cycle
There's a major overlap between the two groups anyway, so hatred of one is often an easy sign of hatred of the other.
That, and how many furries are in tech related fields says a lot about the health of an online system. If the furries don't want anything to do with it, then it must have an issue of some kind.
I reconnected with some friends I haven't talked to much since covid. I was making fun of how Meta couldn't figure out VR legs at the same time that the furries figured out digitigrade legs and somehow they didn't pickup that I wasn't making fun of furries and one started complaining about furries. Fucking weird that they occupy their headspace like that despite never interacting with them irl.
One of them was also complaining about his comics being blacklisted on various sites for politics when really, his art just sucks and hasn't gotten any better in the decades he's been doing it. The other was complaining about woke games he doesn't have a system to play them with anyway. If you spend more the 30 seconds clowning on Forspoken, you have issues.
No matter how much I fail in life, I know I'll never be as pathetic as people who make fascism their entire personality. The right wing attracts losers like no other group.
This guy texted me around the time Feminist Frequency shutdown all proud and thought I would be happy as well. He was really confused that I just didn't care. I'm not a fan of Anita Sarkeesian, but she's not really involved in any of the games I want to play. It was such a none issue for me.
I try to steer the conversation to games I think are fun, but he just wants to complain about a subcuture he's not even a part of. Like, just play a fucking game instead of having these talking heads pump culture war bs into your ears constantly.
On the flip site, the biggest proponents of Sarkeesian I know irl also don't play video games and the few times I brought up video game thing, I was met with disinterest. Twitter really has rotted people's brains.
I have no idea how that site even still exists. I'm convinced Elong has been genuinely trying to kill it, but it's so cursed that shambles along like those movie zombies that shouldn't even be able to move.
Forspoken has an art design that immediately captured me, as I love playing a spellsword. I would have got it if I hadn't heard the writing is bad.
You can heard the writing is bad from the clips. But it doesn't deserve the hours long videos on why it's bad though.
Forspoken shares at least one writer with Halo 5, which also has bad, awkward writing and even though I've been a Halo fan since the first game and have far more emotionally invested in the franchise, I still haven't come close to the around of anger a single, stand alone has garnered from individual "reviewers". It would be baffling if I didn't know what was actually going on.
The writing problems with Halo 5 seem so much smaller now that Paramount's Halo is out. I guess the main problem with Halo 5 is no splitscreen and paid-only multiplayer.
Oh yeah I remember now, they killed off the Didact and Jul in comics, right? 100% reactivity to the small negative reaction to Halo 4, and ended up pissing off everyone else. Still, not as bad as making gaming's biggest asexual icon a rapist.
I never even touched the tv show, but this is the example of my issues with H5's writing. So many cutscenes don't have natural beginning or endings. That's not to mention the outright dishonest advertising.
The other problem with modern Halo is that they wont commit to a villain. Halo 5, Halo: Spartan Ops/Escalation, Halo Wars 2, and Halo: Infinite all discarded the villain from the previous entry. Hell, Infinite discarded two villains that could have been longer narrative investments in the same game they were introduced in.
That's actually one of the best written scenes in Halo 5. The only thing holding it back is the bad mocap acting. Which is at its worst during this sorry display. And it makes no sense, because Halo 5 does have great animation
That one always stuck out with me because the scene starts with the conversation already going and it just ends without finishing. It needed to start about a minute earlier and end a minute later. Halo Wars 2 also had these issues where it felt like story elements are missing.
It starts with "You're okay with this? Not just another target, you know." At that point in the story, we know Osiris is going after Chief, we know what Buck thinks of Chief (same as 99% of the UNSC), and we're about to learn what Locke thinks of Chief. That makes sense to me. Buck is using a pronoun instead of a noun to describe the mission, because the mission is what's on everyone's mind, audience and characters alike. He doesn't need to be specific, and Buck doesn't seem like the type of guy who gets all prim and proper about grammar and conversational etiquette. He sounds like a soldier.
It ends with "You're not the only one here because of him", and Locke walks away. Locke is a silent and stoic type who doesn't want to talk about his feelings, so he doesn't. We know he has some kind of history with Chief, and we know he doesn't want to talk about his past.
I dunno mate, it seems like both of these lines are just serving to help establish the characters and how they act. Buck is casual, Locke has a stick up his ass. Buck respects the Chief, Locke does too but he's got a job to do. They're not how a perfectly normal person would start or end this conversation, but we're not being shown perfectly normal people. We're being shown a guy with an above average amount of social intelligence, and a guy with none. These lines make sense and they give us information. They tell us that the mission to hunt down the Chief is on everyone's mind. They tell us who these characters are and what they value.