Kulturkampf

[Nintex]

It's good to see that gaming is slowly freeing itself from the woke/ESG menace.

- No budget cuts
- Jiggle physics
- Ass shots
- Luis: "I know you like it when I'm tied up Ada   "
- Beheadings and dismemberments

They did remove the boob window costume from the beta though, but that probably has something to do with Soyny.

Ada Wong has one of the best looking and animated character models in gaming right now.


Let's hope the developers of Tomb Raider take note.

[D3RANG3D]

Core values are back on the menu boys! 

[HaughtyFrank]

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An inverted re-run of the Miss Helsinki 2017 controversy

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/miss-helsinki-winner-racism-ugly-16968306

[Polident]

I get why they’re outraged. Eyes could be bluer.

[benji]

The anti-Blackness running rampant through Zimbabwe say the two UK based women.    

[Potato]

Currently sitting in a "respectful workplaces" training session thinking of ways to subvert the process. Any suggestions welcome.

[benji]

Currently sitting in a "respectful workplaces" training session thinking of ways to subvert the process. Any suggestions welcome.

Just remember that everything they say is true. Everything. No, don't think for yourself about this. They are the Oracles, they would not try to mislead you as they don't have any ulterior motives ever. The problem is, and always will be, the others who are not following their teachings exactly. This will not be you, you will shut up, listen and learn to do better then use your privilege to be an active force for change.

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For those not following along, they hate this more than anything. You're supposed to assume they're acting in bad faith to know what they mean not what they say.

[Potato]

Got a good one from this session I'll share later. Involves an anecdote about respect including the Barbie movie and a 15 year old nephew

[Potato]

Ok, so session is finished and it was as boring and hollow as expected. Lots of wishy washy bullshit.

Anyway, the fun story was we were discussing definitions of words and this douchey facilitator shared an anecdote about his 15 year old nephew (this was the second anecdote about this nephew in the first 15 minutes).



So we're taking about the word "respect" and what it means.

Our group came up with the usual bullshit about being kind to each other etc. My contribution was the classic do into others... line of treat people how you want to be treated.

He disagreed and said that he was having a conversation with his nephew about the Barbie movie and his nephew said something that made him re-evaluate his outlook on respect. It's not about treating people how you would want to be treated, but rather treating people how THEY WANT to be treated.



You don't need to be a an undergrad philosophy major with a Good Will Hunting fetish to see the problem with that kind of thinking.

Couldn't help myself and had to speak up. Posed a question about Donald Trump wanting to be treated in a certain way and whether he would do that.

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Closed the session off by saying "I got her number. How do you like them apples?"

Then everybody spontaneously cheered and carried me out of the conference room on their shoulders!

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

do into others

[Potato]

do into others

[D3RANG3D]

[Nintex]

Ok, so session is finished and it was as boring and hollow as expected. Lots of wishy washy bullshit.

Anyway, the fun story was we were discussing definitions of words and this douchey facilitator shared an anecdote about his 15 year old nephew (this was the second anecdote about this nephew in the first 15 minutes).



So we're taking about the word "respect" and what it means.

Our group came up with the usual bullshit about being kind to each other etc. My contribution was the classic do into others... line of treat people how you want to be treated.

He disagreed and said that he was having a conversation with his nephew about the Barbie movie and his nephew said something that made him re-evaluate his outlook on respect. It's not about treating people how you would want to be treated, but rather treating people how THEY WANT to be treated.



You don't need to be a an undergrad philosophy major with a Good Will Hunting fetish to see the problem with that kind of thinking.

Couldn't help myself and had to speak up. Posed a question about Donald Trump wanting to be treated in a certain way and whether he would do that.

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Closed the session off by saying "I got her number. How do you like them apples?"

Then everybody spontaneously cheered and carried me out of the conference room on their shoulders!

Here's my go to trolling strategy for these sort of things (and it always works).

Be the most interesting, participating and active member of the group for the first half. Act like you're helping the person running the session. Gaslight him/her so they think you are on their side. Everyone will start to pay attention to you as you seem to give the right answers. Then at some point do a complete 180 turn where you disagree with basically anything the trainer says or point out small inconsistencies in their lecture. Since you are now the co-host you can freely interrupt and your opinion is as valid as that of the person running the session. Perhaps you are even more of an expert in the eyes of your co-workers (after all they trust you more than some rando). 

At the end there's always the 'upsell' because they do these things to sell books/courses/personal training/newsletters or whatever. 
Politely say: "Thank you, but I think I speak for all of us that we don't feel like this is something we are interested in at this time. To be honest we were kind of dissapointed in the quality of the session we expected something more in depth on this subject." Everyone will nod in agreement because wow, you dared to speak up that this fucking sucked.

You just ruined their day and they'll never train anyone at your company again.

[Uncle]

that sounds like it could go very wrong if you don't play it perfectly, and it's probably something you personally have to worry about less since from past discussions it sounds like you have some immunity at your place of work

[Nintex]

I own a stake of the company now but back in the day when I was still a wagie me and a co-worker would do things like put up pictures of Kim Jun Un next to the clock to see if anyone would notice or comment.

The founder of the company recently went to Egypt and apparently they have a clothing store there called 'Hitler'.
So sure enough he brought me a 'Hitler' bag as a gift. 

It's literally a red/white/black shopping bag with a picture of Hitler on it   

He's now in Iran and I bet he'll bring back some Soleimani drone strike shirt for me or something. 

[HaughtyFrank]

[Puffy Fucking Baby]

or its because they're shit?

[NekoFever]

I own a stake of the company now but back in the day when I was still a wagie me and a co-worker would do things like put up pictures of Kim Jun Un next to the clock to see if anyone would notice or comment.

The founder of the company recently went to Egypt and apparently they have a clothing store there called 'Hitler'.
So sure enough he brought me a 'Hitler' bag as a gift. 

It's literally a red/white/black shopping bag with a picture of Hitler on it   

He's now in Iran and I bet he'll bring back some Soleimani drone strike shirt for me or something. 

If it's anything like the parts of India with significant populations of Aryan (in the older sense) people, he'll have no problem finding shit with Hitler on it.

Driving around Ladakh in India, where a lot of people identify as Aryan (and it's a common name) and know the swastika as a Buddhist symbol, you'd see cars with swastikas and "Aryan pride" banners plastered all over them. They're not Nazis and don't know any of the connotations; I assume they just Googled "Aryan" and saw their religious symbols alongside pictures of Hitler and thought, 'This guy gets it'.

[Uncle]

https://imgur.com/gallery/2YQxjCb

[benji]

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[Puffy Fucking Baby]

or its because they're shit?

To expand on this a bit, is there the backlash against cape shit (from non neckbeard culture war dorks anyway) if it wasn't basically the only genre of film in cinemas for a good 5 years. Its kind of that way for me tbh.

Good thing is the genre seems to be on its way out going by recent box office anyway so

[benji]

I would imagine the reason that directors whine about it is because it constrains what they can get funding to make. Why fund a big name director who might not sell when you can do a "safe" movie that you know will make money?

[Polident]

Many of the legacy directors who decry superhero slop have in fact praised Barbie.

[Puffy Fucking Baby]

Didn't Scorcese have trouble finding someone to do the Irishman iirc when he could basically write his own cheques before that?

[HaughtyFrank]

Well this is awkward. I'm sure transgender players can actually also use a lot of support but this is basically what people are fearing would happen to women sports. I guess making a "trans-team" would then again be considered too othering

[benji]

Who knew League of Legends was a "sport" where the biological advantage would display?

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They've locked them now instead of going through and hiding.

[Eric Cartman]

Many of the legacy directors who decry superhero slop have in fact praised Barbie.

This is a particularly take when his latest film is about the investigation of murders of indigenous people and the societal implications of why it wasnt picked up sooner

[benji]

This is a particularly take when his latest film is about the investigation of murders of indigenous people and the societal implications of why it wasnt picked up sooner

Oh, great, murder pron for the white cishets rather than positive representation.

[Eric Cartman]

I would also fucking love for The Marvels to be even half as good as Jackie Brown

[NekoFever]

Well this is awkward. I'm sure transgender players can actually also use a lot of support but this is basically what people are fearing would happen to women sports. I guess making a "trans-team" would then again be considered too othering

I'd like to know who watched that video and thought yes, this will garner positive attention and support.

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Unless they knew exactly what they were doing