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Alacron
Feb 15, 2007

-->Have tearful reunion with your son
-->Eh
Fun Shoe
Randy Pitchford Created Retweeted the BattlePorn subreddit mere hours after its creation in a desperate bid to make BattleBorn relevant.

That's really all you need to know about the man.

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sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Contra remaining proud to be the :decorum: leftist will always kinda confuse me but I'm just glad she's not getting those freaks' usual reaction of complete freakouts.

https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/993241229293969408

DoubleCakes
Jan 14, 2015

sexpig by night posted:

Contra remaining proud to be the :decorum: leftist will always kinda confuse me but I'm just glad she's not getting those freaks' usual reaction of complete freakouts.

https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/993241229293969408

I'm happy for Contra but there's a chance that this is going on:
https://twitter.com/marionpdaly/status/993241642093219840?s=20

DoubleCakes fucked around with this message at 23:31 on May 6, 2018

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
yea on one hand I do agree if she can actually reach these people rock on, but those comments are just 'no I still like this complete idiot fraud but you were nicer than the other mean people so thank you'.

Also a lot of the 'so much more respectful!!!!' thing makes me roll my eyes because maybe we just shouldn't show the dude who draws straight up bonkers diagrams of loopy lines leading to "DRAGON FEMININITY" and "KING ORDER" to prove that Frozen is actually communist propaganda but Sleeping Beauty was randian any respect. Maybe if we all just called him an idiot and stopped giving him any status as an intellectual he'd go away.

It's like the chess player joke, he's running in with his completely made up rule and no one is just saying 'no, get out, we don't want to play with you' so now he's just ingrained.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
Also, this is hardly the first time Contra has been love-bombed by right-wing loons.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

She knows what she’s doing by now, though I wouldn’t call it decorum. She’s just saying they’re different from the nazis that flood all her chats calling to rape and kill her. Maybe she’s even doing a reverse love bomb on them.

And there are no doubt plenty of Peterson fans who only got there because he’s the first charismatic person who said helpful things to them and prompted them to do some thinking. They can be reached, as a starving man can be fed. In a long-ago 2004 I may have been really into Dick Dorkins and the dead Hitchens for similar reasons.

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
She’s doing the equivalent of the I could have a beer with George Bush thing.

Or that one comic about Regan.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
She has the best lighting while she does it, whatever you want to call what she does.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
Mood lighting.

EndOfTheWorld
Jul 22, 2004

I'm an excellent critic! I automatically know when someone's done a bad job. Before you ask, yes it's a mixed blessing.
Cybernetic Crumb
Still personally amazed people find Jordan Peterson charismatic.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
Big #mood lighting

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

EndOfTheWorld posted:

Still personally amazed people find Jordan Peterson charismatic.

https://twitter.com/classiclib3ral/status/979849183434825728?s=20

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Is his voice being distorted or what?

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
^^^No he's straight up Canadian Kermit

EndOfTheWorld posted:

Still personally amazed people find Jordan Peterson charismatic.

It's really not even that, he's most of these guys' first exposure to literally any literary analysis beyond the most base level high school english 'the storm in The Tempest represents the characters' emotions as well' level stuff so any authoritative voice, even a completely wrong one, is revolutionary.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
He still talks like Stewart Pearson in The thick of It. Can't speak in normal sentences and throws big words in there to sound smart and distract people.

Augus
Mar 9, 2015


Hey if she makes a few people re-examine their views even a little bit that's good in my book

EndOfTheWorld
Jul 22, 2004

I'm an excellent critic! I automatically know when someone's done a bad job. Before you ask, yes it's a mixed blessing.
Cybernetic Crumb

sexpig by night posted:

^^^No he's straight up Canadian Kermit


It's really not even that, he's most of these guys' first exposure to literally any literary analysis beyond the most base level high school english 'the storm in The Tempest represents the characters' emotions as well' level stuff so any authoritative voice, even a completely wrong one, is revolutionary.

I mean, people on the right have done enough to denigrate the humanities that people think anything other than a STEM education is liberal bullshit, so when a guy who sounds like Joseph Campbell after one too many kicks to the head starts going on about ~symbols~ the audience has no frame of reference for what a good scholar of the humanities sounds like.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Is his voice being distorted or what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddIDCR1ApnM

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

EndOfTheWorld posted:

I mean, people on the right have done enough to denigrate the humanities that people think anything other than a STEM education is liberal bullshit, so when a guy who sounds like Joseph Campbell after one too many kicks to the head starts going on about ~symbols~ the audience has no frame of reference for what a good scholar of the humanities sounds like.

Yea like I said before it's a loving amazing grift. He's part of the crowd that makes sure his target demo thinks 'humanities' is just what idiots who can't be STEMboys get into to learn gender science and anti-western views, then he comes in all 'I'm one of them and I can tell you I'm the only one NOT a brainwashed communist' so his insane poo poo is gospel.

Like, if he had any ambitions other than scamming these people I'd call him dangerous because he genuinely clearly understands social engineering better than half the alt-right guys competing with him.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Uhh.. why did you link me to a video that's 80% this other dude asking about THE JEWS and where Peterson is barely intelligible?

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

sexpig by night posted:

Yea like I said before it's a loving amazing grift. He's part of the crowd that makes sure his target demo thinks 'humanities' is just what idiots who can't be STEMboys get into to learn gender science and anti-western views, then he comes in all 'I'm one of them and I can tell you I'm the only one NOT a brainwashed communist' so his insane poo poo is gospel.

Like, if he had any ambitions other than scamming these people I'd call him dangerous because he genuinely clearly understands social engineering better than half the alt-right guys competing with him.

I think he’s as much a dumbo as any conservative pundit. I think he fell rear end-backwards into his grift and is just doing the only thing he knows how. That maps of meaning book is from the 90s, right? He just landed in a perfect niche.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Uhh.. why did you link me to a video that's 80% this other dude asking about THE JEWS and where Peterson is barely intelligible?

Because it’s the moment he realizes he’s cultivated an audience of literal nazis and then decides to placate them with some hosed compromise instead of telling them off or ordering them to kill themselves.

I apologize. I didn’t realize the nazi spoke for so long at the beginning of the clip.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

business hammocks posted:

Because it’s the moment he realizes he’s cultivated an audience of literal nazis and then decides to placate them with some hosed compromise instead of telling them off or ordering them to kill themselves.

I apologize. I didn’t realize the nazi spoke for so long at the beginning of the clip.

That's great but I was specifically asking about his voice. I went ahead and looked for him on Youtube (RIP my viewing algorithm), and he doesn't sound all that Kermity, say, on Bill Maher.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Absurd Alhazred posted:

That's great but I was specifically asking about his voice. I went ahead and looked for him on Youtube (RIP my viewing algorithm), and he doesn't sound all that Kermity, say, on Bill Maher.

I think a lot of it is the power of suggestion with the Kermit visual, but he does legit sound froggy when phlegmy. I don’t think the clip’s audio has been altered.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

business hammocks posted:

I think a lot of it is the power of suggestion with the Kermit visual, but he does legit sound froggy when phlegmy. I don’t think the clip’s audio has been altered.

Fair enough. Also, now I know that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote an somewhat anti-semitic history of Jews in Russia, so that's my evening made. :smith:

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

business hammocks posted:

I think he’s as much a dumbo as any conservative pundit. I think he fell rear end-backwards into his grift and is just doing the only thing he knows how. That maps of meaning book is from the 90s, right? He just landed in a perfect niche.

I think people tend to overestimate these people, assuming they got here through some genius rather than luck

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Fair enough. Also, now I know that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote an somewhat anti-semitic history of Jews in Russia, so that's my evening made. :smith:

Russians don’t exactly have the best track record with that kind of thing, generally speaking, but it’s also possible that a nazi chud might not have the best reading comprehension.

Sorry again.

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



marathon Stairmaster sesh posted:

2 days off before the 1 year anniversary of Kim Justice's vid doc on Duke Nuken Forever.

Other "Randy Pitchford loves Duke Nukem and Borderlands too much" escapades:
The Sega vs Gearbox lawsuit over Aliens Colonial Marines
A duke nukem 3D remake cancled because it would make DNF look bad imedatily instead of the "oh god I went through the game" slowburn. The team involved in the remake later made the Rise of the Triad remake and Bombshell.
Rereleasing Bulletstorm with a Duke Nukem DLC that is literally a model swap and voice lines with the DNF Duke model.
Spite remark: Murdering Brothers in Arms by turning it into the prototype of Borderlands even if said prototype was cancled.
When they got the license they also pulled the Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition from Steam, which was $10 for the original game plus three licensed expansions, and replaced it a year later with their own Duke Nukem 20th Anniversary World Tour which was $20 for no expansions except a fifth episode designed by the guys who made Duke Nukem Forever.

Bombshell was also originally a Duke Nukem game, because why not.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
Didn't bombshell eventually turn into that Ion Maiden game?

Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 01:54 on May 7, 2018

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Arcsquad12 posted:

Didn't bombshell eventually turn into that Ion Maiden game?

Ion Maiden is made by the same people and has the same character, but Bombshell did actually come out.

it wasn't great

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

business hammocks posted:

I think he’s as much a dumbo as any conservative pundit. I think he fell rear end-backwards into his grift and is just doing the only thing he knows how. That maps of meaning book is from the 90s, right? He just landed in a perfect niche.

oh you can be dumb as poo poo and good at social engineering. I think him being better at it than his peers is more an indictment of how absolutely stupid his peers are than praise of his own intellect.

Like, Donald Trump is better at Ted Cruz's scam than Ted Cruz is, but neither of those dudes are what I'd call a political genius

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
LOL

achillesforever6
Apr 23, 2012

psst you wanna do a communism?
https://twitter.com/nolan_north/status/993273973638021120
Looks like Nolan North and Troy Baker are doing a video game series which should be fun to watch since they are two of the best VA's in games and have good chemistry.

Dean of Swing
Feb 22, 2012
Kermit: Brush your teeth. Go to bed at a reasonable hour.

*Zarathustra plays softly in the background*

Dean of Swing fucked around with this message at 03:40 on May 7, 2018

Max Wilco
Jan 23, 2012

I'm just trying to go through life without looking stupid.

It's not working out too well...

Alaois posted:

Duke Nukem 3D

To be more exact, Pitchford was tester and map designer on the Plutonium Pak / Atomic Edition. His Twitter handle is DuvalMagic, and you can find that name hidden on one of the maps added from the expansion.


Ghostlight posted:

When they got the license they also pulled the Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition from Steam, which was $10 for the original game plus three licensed expansions, and replaced it a year later with their own Duke Nukem 20th Anniversary World Tour which was $20 for no expansions except a fifth episode designed by the guys who made Duke Nukem Forever.

Bombshell was also originally a Duke Nukem game, because why not.

I don't know if they worked on DNF (I'm sure they probably did to some degree), but the fifth episode was done by Allen H. Blume III and Richard "Levelord" Grey, who notably did maps/design for the original Duke3D.

Bombshell I think originally started out as Duke game by Interceptor/Apogee, but Gearbox hit them with C&D or raised some sort of legal trouble, and so they changed it to

Bombshell tanked hard, but Ion Maiden is :krad: and it is definitely worth checking out.

There was also the debacle with TerminX's Duke3D ports. I don't remember all of the details of it, I think it all got ironed out, though, but was another example of Pitchford and Gearbox being underhanded. Alien: Colonial Marines still seems to stands as the most egregious thing they did (even though they technically didn't make it).

Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 03:42 on May 7, 2018

Kim Justice
Jan 29, 2007

Gearbox kinda suck a lot of dicks. The debacle that was the Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition stands out too...like, as much as Bulletstorm is a pretty freaking cool game, charging full price for its remaster felt a bit of a pisstake. But not as much of a pisstake as then charging for Duke Nukem as DLC where they didn't even bother to sync up Jon St John's newly recorded lines with the mouth movements. And that wasn't as much of a pisstake as taking sponsorship money from freaking G2A of all people.

I mean...they got DNF done at least and it's out there, even if it's utter shite. They really didn't do a whole lot to it, mind - most of the work had already been done by 3D Realms in the last couple of years of the torturous dev cycle (after half the devteam walked and Broussard realised "poo poo, we might actually have to release this thing at some point").

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Gearbox is easily the worst studio that releases a series that i really like in a lot of ways

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

I think it’s been posted already, but Three Arrows just did a good feature on Peterson that complements the Contrapoints one pretty well, just highlighting what a goddamn fraud Peterson is and why that’s dangerous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8AcmzqFdPM

Kay Kessler
May 9, 2013

Gearbox is perhaps the most unprofessional non-indie dev I've seen. They're the only one I've seen where employees publicly insult their competition, like Burch mocking Last of Us's writing or a group of their artists calling Dragon's Crown ugly. A better company would have PR people keep them from doing that poo poo. And of course, there's Pitchford himself who regularly calls critics "haters" and accused Jim Sterling of "having a boner" for him.

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Microcline
Jul 27, 2012

Kay Kessler posted:

Gearbox is perhaps the most unprofessional non-indie dev I've seen. They're the only one I've seen where employees publicly insult their competition, like Burch mocking Last of Us's writing or a group of their artists calling Dragon's Crown ugly. A better company would have PR people keep them from doing that poo poo. And of course, there's Pitchford himself who regularly calls critics "haters" and accused Jim Sterling of "having a boner" for him.

It's not even that they publicly insult their competition. They pick fights and immediately get owned.

https://twitter.com/playoverwatch/status/707010249455067137?lang=en

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