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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 3, 2024 0:46:18 GMT
Deus Ex- "Non woke"
New Vegas- "Light social commentary"
This no life motherfucker has in no way played these games.
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Post by Tuffty on Sept 3, 2024 11:57:27 GMT
I do like that some games like Cyberpunk are called out for being trans humanist and overtly political but something like the original Deus Ex gets a complete pass. Or something like Portal is red flagged because 'all important characters are female'. At least they've got some bangers on the non woke section like 'Alex Jones NWO Wars' or 'Dogs Organised Neatly'
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Post by Reviewer on Sept 3, 2024 12:05:04 GMT
The in laws have started using woke far too much and not in an ironic way.
Things that are too woke include strictly come dancing, celebrity masterchef (specifically mentioned when the blind guy was on it, the FIL is blind so ….), children’s play parks (smoking not allowed).
I just give them a look of are you serious or joking. It’s not worth the argument.
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Post by grey_matters on Sept 3, 2024 12:14:03 GMT
The in laws have started using woke far too much and not in an ironic way. Things that are too woke include strictly come dancing, celebrity masterchef (specifically mentioned when the blind guy was on it, the FIL is blind so ….), children’s play parks (smoking not allowed). I just give them a look of are you serious or joking. It’s not worth the argument. You could gradually start referring to everything as 'woke'. Other TV shows that they still like at first and then later items that they may use like soap and make-up or types of clothes, and then just absolutely anything.
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Post by cubby on Sept 3, 2024 12:15:26 GMT
Tell them to stop being weird about all the woke stuff, it really gets under their skin.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Sept 3, 2024 12:27:12 GMT
The in laws have started using woke far too much and not in an ironic way. Things that are too woke include strictly come dancing, celebrity masterchef (specifically mentioned when the blind guy was on it, the FIL is blind so ….), children’s play parks (smoking not allowed). I just give them a look of are you serious or joking. It’s not worth the argument. It probably is worth the argument, but if not, do the thing of just referring to everything as woke and see how long it takes them to pick up on it. This bloody woke door keeps sticking!
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Post by Reviewer on Sept 3, 2024 12:34:02 GMT
Fortunately I only see them about two weeks of the year in total. I can’t counteract 50 weeks a year of Daily Mail reading.
Someone at work used the phrase and I spent the whole day making fun of them.
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Post by grey_matters on Sept 3, 2024 12:35:41 GMT
The in laws have started using woke far too much and not in an ironic way. Things that are too woke include strictly come dancing, celebrity masterchef (specifically mentioned when the blind guy was on it, the FIL is blind so ….), children’s play parks (smoking not allowed). I just give them a look of are you serious or joking. It’s not worth the argument. It probably is worth the argument, but if not, do the thing of just referring to everything as woke and see how long it takes them to pick up on it. This bloody woke door keeps sticking! I can't even get angry about this stuff anymore. It's just everywhere. Even the curtains are LGBT-friendly these days.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Sept 3, 2024 12:51:31 GMT
It's just a word. Eventually people will stop using it and start getting worked up over some other bullshit buzzword.
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Post by Reviewer on Sept 3, 2024 12:53:26 GMT
Looks like MolarAm has gone woke.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 3, 2024 12:54:21 GMT
Can't wait. I don't think we're far off from people in office saying the N word now.
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Post by zephro on Sept 3, 2024 13:08:15 GMT
I do like that some games like Cyberpunk are called out for being trans humanist and overtly political but something like the original Deus Ex gets a complete pass. Or something like Portal is red flagged because 'all important characters are female'. At least they've got some bangers on the non woke section like 'Alex Jones NWO Wars' or 'Dogs Organised Neatly' The whole transhumanist thing just made me laugh. For all of them like "yeah not shit it's a fucking major theme of cyberpunk" as in the whole genre. Have they not read Gibson?
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Post by simple on Sept 3, 2024 13:38:30 GMT
Didn’t the original Deus Ex have a slider for changing JC Denton’s race?
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Post by Aunty Treats on Sept 3, 2024 14:22:43 GMT
Pong - significantly more black than white. Woke. Not recommended
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Post by RadicalRex on Sept 3, 2024 14:25:00 GMT
Chess - black is absurdly overrepresented. White genocide
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Post by Vandelay on Sept 3, 2024 14:37:10 GMT
Nah, chess is non-woke. White gets to go first.
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Post by nexus6 on Sept 3, 2024 14:42:29 GMT
Nah, chess is non-woke. White gets to go first. Woke - female is most powerful piece
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Post by Vandelay on Sept 3, 2024 14:48:32 GMT
But the game just ends when the man dies, because what's the point in carrying on.
This is a lot harder than it looks!
Wonder how they deal with South Park games*, where the difficulty slider is the colour of your character. Is that social commentary or taking the piss?
*I actually can't access the document on my phone for some reason, so don't know if it is listed.
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Post by zisssou on Sept 3, 2024 14:49:07 GMT
All games are woke these days, because the demographic is pink hair and ADHD.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 3, 2024 14:52:23 GMT
Didn’t the original Deus Ex have a slider for changing JC Denton’s race? I believe you could chase race yes but shhhhhhh, that doesn't fit with their narrative.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 3, 2024 14:55:16 GMT
I do like that some games like Cyberpunk are called out for being trans humanist and overtly political but something like the original Deus Ex gets a complete pass. Or something like Portal is red flagged because 'all important characters are female'. At least they've got some bangers on the non woke section like 'Alex Jones NWO Wars' or 'Dogs Organised Neatly' The whole transhumanist thing just made me laugh. For all of them like "yeah not shit it's a fucking major theme of cyberpunk" as in the whole genre. Have they not read Gibson? That's the thing media literacy is at an all time low with these absolute morons. I mean I mentioned earlier that they pegged New Vegas as "light socialcommentary". I don't know if it was trolling or they were genuinely that stupid that on a surface level their comprehension was so low that they couldn't even parse what was being shown to them. I don't know how you look at Caesar and go yes this is lightly political
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Post by nexus6 on Sept 3, 2024 14:58:28 GMT
But the game just ends when the man dies, because what's the point in carrying on. This is a lot harder than it looks! Wonder how they deal with South Park games*, where the difficulty slider is the colour of your character. Is that social commentary or taking the piss? *I actually can't access the document on my phone for some reason, so don't know if it is listed. Good point re the king dying. Counter with pieces being able to ‘transition’ if you get the pawn to the far side of the board!
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Post by zephro on Sept 3, 2024 17:15:57 GMT
The whole transhumanist thing just made me laugh. For all of them like "yeah not shit it's a fucking major theme of cyberpunk" as in the whole genre. Have they not read Gibson? That's the thing media literacy is at an all time low with these absolute morons. I mean I mentioned earlier that they pegged New Vegas as "light socialcommentary". I don't know if it was trolling or they were genuinely that stupid that on a surface level their comprehension was so low that they couldn't even parse what was being shown to them. I don't know how you look at Caesar and go yes this is lightly political They're just stupid. Literacy implies nobody has actually taught them this stuff.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 3, 2024 17:27:31 GMT
I actually think for some of them nobody has taught them stuff. The American education system really has been doing work. Or actually no work.
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Post by Vandelay on Sept 3, 2024 18:32:10 GMT
I expect Obsidian would be insulted by any of their games being described as "light" social commentary.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Sept 4, 2024 6:03:28 GMT
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Post by simple on Sept 4, 2024 6:36:50 GMT
They’re still on ITV2 or 3 most weekends now
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Post by zephro on Sept 4, 2024 8:59:17 GMT
Maybe in the 90s but the 00s? Not a chance.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 4, 2024 10:31:11 GMT
I don't really believe in guilty pleasures but if I did, the Carry On movies would be mine. I tend to watch them like middle aged women watch Friends and I will shove one on in the background as wallpaper.
And, as someone who could go on mastermind about them, they do have at least three separate epochs. The first nine (!) are more straight farces with a little bit of 'ooh, mrs' in them, then they get to the classic era everyone thinks of them as with Carry On Cleo for like 10 movies until Henry and then it goes in on all the bawdy sex pervert stuff, devolving for another half dozen films until it reaches its natural conclusion with the absolutely dreadful Carry On Emmanuelle.
But, yeah, those first raft of movies are harmless and very 'British'. The middle tranche are fun and very 'of the day' but actually very funny and the last raft are just lazy cash-ins.
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Post by oldskooldeano on Sept 4, 2024 10:58:56 GMT
Funnily enough I used to do the same. If Johnny Foreigner wanted to understand British Culture I would point them to the Carry On franchise. I guess we really are not like that any more, but I don’t know what we are. Dickheads mostly.
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