You realize the CCP absolutely does have global social engineering campaigns, right?
You know how MAGA idiots got fooled by Russian bot farms? That’s you and the CCP. They don’t care about you as an individual the way they do their own dissidents, but they absolutely do want to influence people like you in order to sow chaos, violence and political discord in the US. They see you as a repeater for their propaganda network.
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If you can find any Uighurs left ask them if Chinese atrocities are “made up”.
Do better.
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How do people not understand that Biden is not changing direction on this and that even if he did the damage is already done for many?
There is no “appealing” version of the Biden admin. The only realistic long-term strategy is allowing zionists to become politically untenable. Democrats in a position of privilege need to experience the consequences of their dead end politics, they simply cannot be made to understand any other way.
This election is already lost to the extreme right, regardless of who wins. The best long-term option is to aim for what will most quickly lead to reform within the Democratic party. The “lesser of two evils” strategy has been tried for 40+ years and has only resulted in failure after failure.
Yes…because it did. You’re literally just going to be in denial because it undermines your belief about how long a game should take?
I’m not defending it, I’m just saying anyone with eyes can see it’s not a scam at this point, whether you like the game or not.
Nah, games take a long time to develop, especially doing a single player and mmo in tandem. Starfield alone took a decade, take that and add an MMO on top with a live environment to support and it’s pretty obvious it will take a long time. Plus building a production company from the ground up.
There’s plenty to criticize CIG for but the scam claims are old hat at this point.
It’s obvious at this point the games aren’t a scam, they’re being delivered, bit it does look like the culture at CIG has toxic elements within it.
It’s not a big surprise though, there’s a history of nepotism within the community management side, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s similar within the dev sector of the company too.
Will Leverett is the head of player relations at CIG. Prior to this he did community management for League of Legends so…you know…
In terms of the layoffs though they’re just following the same dumb trend in the rest of the tech industry – firing people to make it seem like they have “cost discipline”.
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Nope, the ending makes perfect sense and is foreshadowed from the beginning. The entire game is themed around the cycle of violence and revenge and how it prevents both sides from actually living, those themes are reinforced throughout the story.
The issue was Abby was built and gamer bros couldn’t handle it.
It’s not about the writing and never has been. The Last of Us Part II was perfectly coherent and thematically true to itself. The “controversay” around this game has always been drummed up because of the misogyny of gamer bros.
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China isn’t a smaller threat though because, in the same way that Russian bot farms didn’t have to be domestic to manipulate MAGA heads in to trying to topple our democracy, the CCP does not need to be a domestic power to have really destructive influence in the democratic process (which is their goal).
This idea that the CCP is some benign force just sitting “over there out of everyone’s way” is naive to say the least. The Internet is one of the prime places where they attempt to control narrative.