In playing tom Clancy games I usually find their politics amusingly by-committee bland compared to their actual reputations whereas a lot of shooters considered unpolitical can be frankly much more problematic (CoD etc)
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In playing tom Clancy games I usually find their politics amusingly by-committee bland compared to their actual reputations whereas a lot of shooters considered unpolitical can be frankly much more problematic (CoD etc)
Spec Ops: the Line, though
So good
So meta-good
It had to have that title to work
Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
In playing tom Clancy games I usually find their politics amusingly by-committee bland compared to their actual reputations whereas a lot of shooters considered unpolitical can be frankly much more problematic (CoD etc)
I was actually kind of surprised playing the new crackdown there were a couple weirdly on point political commentary moments.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Why is it worse for prosecutors to try a person for rape vs assault vs both? Do they not get to downgrade to assault if needed?
The step down to lesser charges in a deal is only going to come when you make a deal. Since subjects are more likely to try and go to trial for a rape charge, you've gotta go in with a plan that you have an airtight case for rape. Which, because of juries and society, is rare.
But why do they need to take a deal if its effectively proven in the court later anyway?
The deal is what happens before going to trial. The prosecution says "Here's what we will prove to a jury if we go to trial", and in the vast majority of cases a defendant will say "Okay, you got me, I go to jail" and end up getting less jail time that way. Nothing is really "proven" in that case, because the defendant admits it and it doesn't have to be. It's at this stage that the defense might say, "Hey, we'll plead guilty to assault if you stop charging rape" and that's one way you get a deal for a lesser charge.
But with rape, it's way more likely a defendant can say, "Nope, can't prove it, I committed no crimes." So before the prosecution signs off on arresting a person they have to expect that will be the response and in turn they have to have an overwhelmingly compelling case for rape.
In playing tom Clancy games I usually find their politics amusingly by-committee bland compared to their actual reputations whereas a lot of shooters considered unpolitical can be frankly much more problematic (CoD etc)
In playing tom Clancy games I usually find their politics amusingly by-committee bland compared to their actual reputations whereas a lot of shooters considered unpolitical can be frankly much more problematic (CoD etc)
The politics by-committee means there is a ton of extremely problematic stuff. The substanceless rah rah American patriotism mixed with "boo rules and corrupt government people getting in our way" and "it is A-OK to kill these drug smugglers, brown people, etc." stuff is both bland and problematic.
It is like how Farcry 5's nihilism is the result of playing it safe.
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In playing tom Clancy games I usually find their politics amusingly by-committee bland compared to their actual reputations whereas a lot of shooters considered unpolitical can be frankly much more problematic (CoD etc)
I was actually kind of surprised playing the new crackdown there were a couple weirdly on point political commentary moments.
When the dispatcher lady explicitly identified capitalism as the root of their problems I laughed out loud
I finally got around to playing Darkest Dungeon, and as you do, I picked chat handles at random for hero names. Then I was quickly horrified by SiG going insane, EM refusing to do anything, and Chu bleeding to death, and realized maybe I should not name Darkest Dungeon characters after people.
Thrice have I played xcom or xcom 2 with chatter names, and all 3 times @Shivahn has been an unstoppable killing machine, the first game she became a mech, more machine than woman, dispassionately dissecting chrysalids with enormous robo-claws and commenting about the futility of the alien's struggle
both times Organichu came up in the rookie pool he died while in full cover from an enemy who couldn't possibly have had a shot
I made Arch an antiquarian, which means he sat around at the back of the party doing nothing but looking for bugs treasure.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
I was thinking of trying to stream a commander or maybe even legendary ironman run of xcom 2 and add in viewer names. @TheKoolEagle has been doing a non-ironman run that has seemed fairly popular and it's a fun thing to play. I already beat commander ironman so going to max difficulty has an appeal.
I want another Silent Storm game.
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MrMisterJesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered Userregular
in gaming, let a thousand political flowers bloom
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Why is it worse for prosecutors to try a person for rape vs assault vs both? Do they not get to downgrade to assault if needed?
The step down to lesser charges in a deal is only going to come when you make a deal. Since subjects are more likely to try and go to trial for a rape charge, you've gotta go in with a plan that you have an airtight case for rape. Which, because of juries and society, is rare.
The true sickness of our society is that if it goes to trial it is easier to get a conviction for murder (70%) than rape (45%). A large part of it is simply resources. A homicide detective will see about 8 cases a year, an svu detective will see about 60.
In playing tom Clancy games I usually find their politics amusingly by-committee bland compared to their actual reputations whereas a lot of shooters considered unpolitical can be frankly much more problematic (CoD etc)
The politics by-committee means there is a ton of extremely problematic stuff. The substanceless rah rah American patriotism mixed with "boo rules and corrupt government people getting in our way" and "it is A-OK to kill these drug smugglers, brown people, etc." stuff is both bland and problematic.
It is like how Farcry 5's nihilism is the result of playing it safe.
I guess we would have to start taking specific games here because this does not describe Division 1 or the parts of Division 2 shown thus far at all
Ghost Recon wildlands had zero American patriotism, but you did kill drug smugglers at the behest of the local government
Rainbow six is just “stop the bomb or free the hostage” most of the time
Farcry’s cavalier attitude towards depictions of torture and the games’ general tenor overall strike me as a hundred times more gross than Tom Clancy games of the last few years
In playing tom Clancy games I usually find their politics amusingly by-committee bland compared to their actual reputations whereas a lot of shooters considered unpolitical can be frankly much more problematic (CoD etc)
I was actually kind of surprised playing the new crackdown there were a couple weirdly on point political commentary moments.
When the dispatcher lady explicitly identified capitalism as the root of their problems I laughed out loud
Comrade Crackdown is with us in the struggle
Well even the director like attacks rich people twice. Once it feels like a direct shot against like a bezos/bill gates billionare who made a ton of money off the backs of the poor and then offer charity to hide their sins. And then again later on he attacks rich people for signing on with the big bad and "following orders doesn't stave off the agency murdering". It's like they mix it in with the hyperbolic judge dredd style justice in Crackdown, but I see you writer, I see you putting subtlety in there.
Honestly my issue with the Division and Ubisoft games in general is that they feel like they want to play it safe so much they end up being offensively bland/lacking any story whatsoever. I enjoyed the division 1's setting and gunplay, but most of the stories the game was trying to tell were super basic emotional appeals, or like preper fantasy "what I'd do in the apocalypse."
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
WW2 no-femmes-no-fats heterosexuality simulators alongside anarcho-8bit vegan text adventures
Your chaotic ideal is feeding consumers' more outlandish tastes, creating echo chambers and leading to more division between ooh, is that an alternate history RTS where the Soviets invaded America and the Americans heroically beat them back?
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I felt hinky in The Division about shooting "looters" but you graduate pretty quickly from that to crazed genocidal garbagemen, fascist PMCs, and rogue CIA agents so *shrugs* eh
also the narrative and flavor content in the game, the various characters you interact with and the various audiologs/phonecalls/etc you pick up, was sometimes surprisingly good and I felt like was pretty good about depicting a busy, multicultural NYC in a way that's meant to evoke empathy and sympathy - you're supposed to feel bad about the disaster and defiantly want to set things right, not jerk off to some conservative fantasy of God smiting Babylon or whatever
(with the caveat that the narrative stuff in the game varies wildly in tone from straitlaced super-serious "this is real life" milsim to like, nearly slapstick in parts)
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I will buy Sunless Skies once I beat BOTW: Zelda Edition, I have to save link from the castle he's trapped in with the help of my many ghost girlfriends
One of my favorite characters in Anthem is the intelligence agent you work with on two of the games instances. He's just so casually insulting to you in the missions, and if you visit him in the bar he'll occasionally comment on things you the player did but in a catty way. Its delicious.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Again I feel like in div1 it’s pretty clear that regular people are also looting, the difference is whether or not they cross into threatening people with AK-47s in the street
You’ll see the NPCs trying to force open car doors before they walk up to you to ask for a granola bar or whatever
You’re stopping people from using violence to enforce an unfair social hierarchy while you’re being the street level stop gap until society can get back on its legs
I guess I assume that the modern setting does not preclude generic video game ethics from applying where players are allowed to shoot 7000 peoplebecause “video games” and there’s some fig leaf of you doing this for the sake of society vs the basic personal will to power of most fantasy RPGs
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One of my favorite characters in Anthem is the intelligence agent you work with on two of the games instances. He's just so casually insulting to you in the missions, and if you visit him in the bar he'll occasionally comment on things you the player did but in a catty way. Its delicious.
Wooo maxed out sick time last pay period while I had the flu and went over but no one in HR said anything so I get a surprise 800 dollar pay check. Neat!
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So good
So meta-good
It had to have that title to work
I was actually kind of surprised playing the new crackdown there were a couple weirdly on point political commentary moments.
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I want to be a communist velociraptor
Glory to Arstotzka
Just another layer of tiddies, even ruder.
The deal is what happens before going to trial. The prosecution says "Here's what we will prove to a jury if we go to trial", and in the vast majority of cases a defendant will say "Okay, you got me, I go to jail" and end up getting less jail time that way. Nothing is really "proven" in that case, because the defendant admits it and it doesn't have to be. It's at this stage that the defense might say, "Hey, we'll plead guilty to assault if you stop charging rape" and that's one way you get a deal for a lesser charge.
But with rape, it's way more likely a defendant can say, "Nope, can't prove it, I committed no crimes." So before the prosecution signs off on arresting a person they have to expect that will be the response and in turn they have to have an overwhelmingly compelling case for rape.
That’s specifically what I had in mind yeah
The politics by-committee means there is a ton of extremely problematic stuff. The substanceless rah rah American patriotism mixed with "boo rules and corrupt government people getting in our way" and "it is A-OK to kill these drug smugglers, brown people, etc." stuff is both bland and problematic.
It is like how Farcry 5's nihilism is the result of playing it safe.
so you're saying I disappeared...
*waves hands*
into the mists...
When the dispatcher lady explicitly identified capitalism as the root of their problems I laughed out loud
Comrade Crackdown is with us in the struggle
I will buy it only it if there is a chorus of velociraptors singing revolutionary songs.
I made Arch an antiquarian, which means he sat around at the back of the party doing nothing but looking for bugs treasure.
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I want another Silent Storm game.
WW2 no-femmes-no-fats heterosexuality simulators alongside anarcho-8bit vegan text adventures
The game could no longer contain psychic kosh. He now roams the world, watching. Waiting.
but they're listening to every word I say
I guess we would have to start taking specific games here because this does not describe Division 1 or the parts of Division 2 shown thus far at all
Ghost Recon wildlands had zero American patriotism, but you did kill drug smugglers at the behest of the local government
Rainbow six is just “stop the bomb or free the hostage” most of the time
Farcry’s cavalier attitude towards depictions of torture and the games’ general tenor overall strike me as a hundred times more gross than Tom Clancy games of the last few years
Well even the director like attacks rich people twice. Once it feels like a direct shot against like a bezos/bill gates billionare who made a ton of money off the backs of the poor and then offer charity to hide their sins. And then again later on he attacks rich people for signing on with the big bad and "following orders doesn't stave off the agency murdering". It's like they mix it in with the hyperbolic judge dredd style justice in Crackdown, but I see you writer, I see you putting subtlety in there.
Honestly my issue with the Division and Ubisoft games in general is that they feel like they want to play it safe so much they end up being offensively bland/lacking any story whatsoever. I enjoyed the division 1's setting and gunplay, but most of the stories the game was trying to tell were super basic emotional appeals, or like preper fantasy "what I'd do in the apocalypse."
pleasepaypreacher.net
Your chaotic ideal is feeding consumers' more outlandish tastes, creating echo chambers and leading to more division between ooh, is that an alternate history RTS where the Soviets invaded America and the Americans heroically beat them back?
also the narrative and flavor content in the game, the various characters you interact with and the various audiologs/phonecalls/etc you pick up, was sometimes surprisingly good and I felt like was pretty good about depicting a busy, multicultural NYC in a way that's meant to evoke empathy and sympathy - you're supposed to feel bad about the disaster and defiantly want to set things right, not jerk off to some conservative fantasy of God smiting Babylon or whatever
(with the caveat that the narrative stuff in the game varies wildly in tone from straitlaced super-serious "this is real life" milsim to like, nearly slapstick in parts)
Kinison and Goldthwait used it so well. It was great.
There isn't any real cannon to abide by in crackdown. Like the idea of long term story is kind of laughable.
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you can do both of these things in sunless skies, more or less
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You’ll see the NPCs trying to force open car doors before they walk up to you to ask for a granola bar or whatever
You’re stopping people from using violence to enforce an unfair social hierarchy while you’re being the street level stop gap until society can get back on its legs
I guess I assume that the modern setting does not preclude generic video game ethics from applying where players are allowed to shoot 7000 peoplebecause “video games” and there’s some fig leaf of you doing this for the sake of society vs the basic personal will to power of most fantasy RPGs
Sexy delicious.