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beepsandboops
Jan 28, 2014
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Saint Sputnik
Apr 1, 2007

Tyrannosaurs in P-51 Volkswagens!

Bicyclops posted:

Well, you gotta have one week of freebies. I mean, Halloween only gets you two at the most, and you can maybe get three out of the current President playing golf.

Thankfully you can milk a whole month out of new year predictions/resolutions.

Xenoveritas
May 9, 2010
Dinosaur Gum

OldTennisCourt posted:

Pretty sure the guy in that comic with Jennifer Lawrence is supposed to be the main character from the game Watch Dogs

It's definitely supposed to be Aiden Pierce, the main character in Watch_Dogs.

The thing is that the main character in Watch_Dogs is supposed to be a sympathetic character (I think) who's out for revenge against the people Who Killed His Daughter Niece.

The problem is that Watch_Dogs is horribly written, and Aiden Pierce ends up coming off as a completely unlikeable psychopath who doesn't care about anyone except himself. Conceptually he's trying to avenge his niece for "his family" but early on in the game his sister explicitly tells him "you're putting us in even more danger, knock it the gently caress off" and he responds by running out of the house and beating a guy to death.

Edit: Which is to say that Aiden Pierce as written would totally hack into Jennifer Lawrence's phone, steal her pictures, and then try and blackmail her over it. He actually does something similar to random people throughout the game, it's a gameplay mechanic. You can see "secrets" on various enemies' phones and then threaten to blackmail them in order to distract them.

Xenoveritas fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Oct 21, 2014

Acropolis
Feb 21, 2014

Rorus Raz posted:

Fyi, Tinsley does the "Asians and college requirements" arc every year without fail.

Didn't we get 3 weeks of "College is for stupids!" from Tinsley two weeks after graduation time? Why does he even care about college requirements!?

"Koleje Edjukashun is dums! Unless Asians are smarter than us and Blacks get a leg up! -hic-!" - A College Graduate

OldTennisCourt
Sep 11, 2011

by VideoGames

Xenoveritas posted:

It's definitely supposed to be Aiden Pierce, the main character in Watch_Dogs.

The thing is that the main character in Watch_Dogs is supposed to be a sympathetic character (I think) who's out for revenge against the people Who Killed His Daughter Niece.

The problem is that Watch_Dogs is horribly written, and Aiden Pierce ends up coming off as a completely unlikeable psychopath who doesn't care about anyone except himself. Conceptually he's trying to avenge his niece for "his family" but early on in the game his sister explicitly tells him "you're putting us in even more danger, knock it the gently caress off" and he responds by running out of the house and beating a guy to death.

It also doesn't help that WD is boring as sin with some of the worst driving controls in any video game ever made

esto es malo
Aug 3, 2006

Don't want to end up a cartoon

In a cartoon graveyard

Susan G. Komen org is loving awful so that Bors got a laugh out of me.

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

OldTennisCourt posted:

It also doesn't help that WD is boring as sin with some of the worst driving controls in any video game ever made

Thanks for the heads up I guess?

OldTennisCourt
Sep 11, 2011

by VideoGames

carry on then posted:

Thanks for the heads up I guess?

WD is a pretty bad game.

Can someone point in the direction of a good explanation as to why Komen is so bad?

Rincewinds
Jul 30, 2014

MEAT IS MEAT

Took me a few seconds to realize that the drill in the first panel was not some horrific dildo.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

Vogon Poet posted:

Heh, rural folk like to rape their siblings. Comedy gold right there. :downsrim:

It's funny cause it's true.

Xenoveritas
May 9, 2010
Dinosaur Gum

OldTennisCourt posted:

WD is a pretty bad game.

Well, yes, but what does that have to do with anything?

The point I'm trying to make is that I disagree with loquacius when he says:

loquacius posted:

Yeah, I wasn't trying to say anything like that, and the joke is still in terrible taste, but it means he wasn't trying to make a statement on the hacks like we thought, he was just trying to mash together a current event and a vidjagame like his hero Tim Buckley or our jolly friends at Penny Arcade might do and it didn't really work.

I think it was intended to make a statement. Aiden Pierce is supposed to be an "anti-hero" in the game, meaning he does "terrible things for the right reasons." Of course, Watch_Dogs is a bad game and the writing is bad enough that most normal people would find Aiden Pierce to be entirely unlikeable complete rear end in a top hat. Meaning that the idea of Aiden Pierce stealing Jennifer Lawrence's pictures and posting them online is entirely within his character (assuming she failed to meet whatever blackmail request he made first, of course). Which means that he'd be the villain to most normal people.

I suspect that the cartoonist isn't like most normal people, and we're supposed to side with the hacker.

OldTennisCourt
Sep 11, 2011

by VideoGames

Xenoveritas posted:


I think it was intended to make a statement. Aiden Pierce is supposed to be an "anti-hero" in the game, meaning he does "terrible things for the right reasons." Of course, Watch_Dogs is a bad game and the writing is bad enough that most normal people would find Aiden Pierce to be entirely unlikeable complete rear end in a top hat. Meaning that the idea of Aiden Pierce stealing Jennifer Lawrence's pictures and posting them online is entirely within his character (assuming she failed to meet whatever blackmail request he made first, of course). Which means that he'd be the villain to most normal people.

I suspect that the cartoonist isn't like most normal people, and we're supposed to side with the hacker.

I don't know, I feel like the tears on her face indicate some level of understanding that what happened was wrong and that the hacker wasn't a good guy. It's completely within the realm of possibility that it's a nerd seeing a dude in a game and thinking he's a hero due to A. bad writing or B. Being a weirdo, but I think that by drawing her crying he's not just saying "Hell Yeah, it sure is rad that her pictures got hacked!"

OldTennisCourt fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Oct 21, 2014

Xenoveritas
May 9, 2010
Dinosaur Gum
To put it another way, I'm pretty sure it's A Good Cartoon: the cartoonist intended one message, and it's nearly impossible not to get the exact opposite message from it because the cartoonist isn't that good at what he does.

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

OldTennisCourt posted:

WD is a pretty bad game.

Can someone point in the direction of a good explanation as to why Komen is so bad?

Here's a good start. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_G._Komen_for_the_Cure#Controversy_and_criticism

The criticisms of Komen mostly boil down to: their corporate partnerships benefit the corporations more than they do breast cancer research; they allow corporations that use or profit from potentially carcinogenic chemicals to just slap pink on their products without trying to change them ("pinkwashing"); they've actually tried to trademark the phrase "for the cure"; and their leadership leans Republican, even though the GOP is openly contemptuous of women's issues and is constantly attacking Planned Parenthood and other women's health clinics that are vital in the detection of breast cancer.

Selachian fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Oct 21, 2014

Saint Sputnik
Apr 1, 2007

Tyrannosaurs in P-51 Volkswagens!
Have some Gamer Gate propaganda posters because the imagery will be familiar to a lot of you in the thread and also loving lol





Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


OldTennisCourt posted:

WD is a pretty bad game.

Can someone point in the direction of a good explanation as to why Komen is so bad?

They're pretty well known for spending proportionately a lot more on advertising than actual research.

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good

OldTennisCourt posted:

WD is a pretty bad game.

Can someone point in the direction of a good explanation as to why Komen is so bad?

The criticism that's often leveled at them is that they're more interested in protecting and making money off of their very recognizable brand than they are about actually helping people. Podunk little towns will have their "Race for the Cure for Meth Abuse" or whatever broken up by Komen lawyers which insist that their brand is being harmed by any imitator. Also there have been several incidents where representatives or leaders in the Susan G. Komen Foundation advocate against other women's health issues such as contraception or abortion, and at some points even went so far as to attack Planned Parenthood. So basically they don't actually care about helping people and have in some cases actively worked against women's health.

edit: God, those gamersgate posters are utter poo poo. The stuff about how important tweeting and emailing is read like satire about the pointlessness and lack of actual effort to go into a made up cause.

Krinkle
Feb 9, 2003

Ah do believe Ah've got the vapors...
Ah mean the farts


Saint Sputnik posted:

Have some Gamer Gate propaganda posters because the imagery will be familiar to a lot of you in the thread and also loving lol

That last is a cartoon teenager that 4chan invented as a Muirian stand in to bash feminism but with the "it's okay look my black mouth piece says all blacks are lazy garbage so it's not racist" logic transposed over to women. Her job is to be tweeted at feminists to tell them they don't actually represent her, a fictional female, and should check their 3d privilege. They supposedly immediately started drawing porn of her.

Saint Sputnik
Apr 1, 2007

Tyrannosaurs in P-51 Volkswagens!

Krinkle posted:

That last is a cartoon teenager that 4chan invented as a Muirian stand in to bash feminism but with the "it's okay look my black mouth piece says all blacks are lazy garbage so it's not racist" logic transposed over to women. Her job is to be tweeted at feminists to tell them they don't actually represent her, a fictional female, and should check their 3d privilege. They supposedly immediately started drawing porn of her.

And when you point out to them that they demonstrably care more what a fictional woman has to say about video games than a real one, they just point out that she's based on a character from a haunted house game that predates #gamergate and so is brave and noble. It's baffling what they think that's supposed to prove.

Madmarker
Jan 7, 2007

Saint Sputnik posted:

And when you point out to them that they demonstrably care more what a fictional woman has to say about video games than a real one, they just point out that she's based on a character from a haunted house game that predates #gamergate and so is brave and noble. It's baffling what they think that's supposed to prove.

I kind of want there to be a thread on this whole #Gamergate thing, but then I think about what trolls are likely to arise to post in it, and am glad it doesn't exist/I haven't found it.

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003









I love the last one, it's pretty much a Kelly. :911: NFL FOOTBALL :911:

Xenoveritas
May 9, 2010
Dinosaur Gum

Madmarker posted:

I kind of want there to be a thread on this whole #Gamergate thing, but then I think about what trolls are likely to arise to post in it, and am glad it doesn't exist/I haven't found it.

It did exist (still does, I think), but yeah, GamerGate was not something that Something Awful could handle. Imp Zone took it upon themselves to destroy it, and I think it now lives on in YOSPOS. Edit: Nope, it's back in GBS now.

Xenoveritas fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Oct 21, 2014

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Saint Sputnik posted:

Have some Gamer Gate propaganda posters because the imagery will be familiar to a lot of you in the thread and also loving lol




At this point it is a telemarketing affair but you get paid in retweets?

Edible Hat
Jul 23, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Americans who call for a travel ban are not racist because black people who are in entirely different circumstances support a travel ban (which in their circumstances is far more efficacious).

This is the same reasoning that leads one to believe that because "black-on-black" crime exists, a white cop killing an unarmed black man couldn't possibly be characterized as being racist.

Edible Hat fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Oct 21, 2014

f#a#
Sep 6, 2004

I can't promise it will live up to the hype, but I tried my best.

Madmarker posted:

I kind of want there to be a thread on this whole #Gamergate thing, but then I think about what trolls are likely to arise to post in it, and am glad it doesn't exist/I haven't found it.

Click at your own despair, because despite all the :canthandle: in this thread, it's 20 times worse over there. The thread's title changes like on a daily basis now.

Lysdexique
Sep 12, 2010

Let me give you some advice, little buddy.

fatherboxx posted:

It is half creepy and/or hateful poo poo and half saccharine redditbait.


broken clock, twice a day etc, but these muslim folks need to get some sleep

I like how he's trying to say that the KKK is not indicative of all Christians, but then he adds a guy with a Confederate flag on his hat.

(Also sweet mirror Copy pasting for the background. Also also, I think one of the Muslims in the first panel is also in the Christians group in the 2nd panel! COULD IT BE A MUSLIM SPY?!?!)

Vogon Poet
Jun 18, 2004

Someone bought me this custom title because they think I kick ass at Photoshop. They happen to be right.
A rapidly developing country with over three times as many people as the U.S. now has a larger economy than ours? drat YOU OBAMA! :argh:

Obama 2012
Mar 28, 2002

"I never knew what hope was until it ran out in a red gush over my lips, my hands!"

-Anne Rice, Interview with the President

They also have an extra billion more people than we do, so I'm not sure where the surprise here is. Is the implication here that Obama should be running things more like the Chinese--hopelessly corrupt, authoritarian, big government crony capitalism?

I hate to say it, but I think this political cartoonist may not have fully thought out their idea here...

Hostile V
May 31, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.


Whenever these start coming around, I always end up watching those videos about the abandoned malls and apartment complexes in China. Because while their economy is growing at an amazing rate, it's only in certain sectors and there's not much growth for the citizens in China whose multi-family homes end up getting bulldozed to be replaced with unaffordable apartments. It's always sad and eerie how much the government denies that affordable housing isn't a problem when you juxtapose it against a building with one tenant.

Hostile V fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Oct 21, 2014

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


Yeah, China's economy is booming but it's also kind of a Lovecraftian clusterfuck just waiting to implode.

Irony Be My Shield
Jul 29, 2012

I like that Branco's Ebola Reaper is a skinny white dude in sandals.

The X-man cometh
Nov 1, 2009

Shugojin posted:

Yeah, China's economy is booming but it's also kind of a Lovecraftian clusterfuck just waiting to implode.

Almost as if it's the hare in the fable, where it starts off fast but eventually tires out and stops, while Obama's turtle keeps going and wins in the end.

Telarra
Oct 9, 2012

OldTennisCourt posted:

I don't know, I feel like the tears on her face indicate some level of understanding that what happened was wrong and that the hacker wasn't a good guy. It's completely within the realm of possibility that it's a nerd seeing a dude in a game and thinking he's a hero due to A. bad writing or B. Being a weirdo, but I think that by drawing her crying he's not just saying "Hell Yeah, it sure is rad that her pictures got hacked!"

On the other hand,he submitted it under the title "Thanks Aiden!", and the comments are filled with people sharing where to find the pics.

alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

Obama 2012 posted:

I hate to say it, but I think this political cartoonist may not have fully thought out their idea here...

If only thread titles could be this long.

Deep State of Mind
Jul 30, 2006

"It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."
Fun Shoe
Yeah China's per capita GDP is still like a third of America's. It's a stupidly huge country that has been the world's largest economy for almost all of recorded history. It's kind of embarrassing that they weren't the world's largest economy for the 20th century.

Monkey Fracas
Sep 11, 2010

...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!
Grimey Drawer


I dunno, the Ebola Reaper seems pretty scared of the giant CDC snail.

alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

Irony Be My Shield posted:

I like that Branco's Ebola Reaper is a skinny white dude in sandals.

He probably is balding and has a ponytail under that hood, too, the drat liberal.

Hostile V
May 31, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

alnilam posted:

He probably is balding and has a ponytail under that hood, too, the drat liberal.

"Save the trees and the whales, man! Now hold on I gotta go pick up a bunch of dead coal miners, hold my protest sign."

Guilty Spork
Feb 26, 2011

Thunder rolled. It rolled a six.
Ah yes, because the real problem with China's growth is that it might outpace the U.S., and not things like the abject environmental catastrophe, which has broken the scale for air pollution and made lakes and rivers turn colors better suited to blacklight posters.

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Rincewinds
Jul 30, 2014

MEAT IS MEAT
USA can't compete with economic growth of commies because of the commie in the white house!

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