I love the fact that the slave owner is not only the one unarmed person you don’t lose honor for killing, but you actually gain honor for killing him.
Based Red Dead
Submitted 4 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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hactar42@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
kautau@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You also don’t lose honor for killing this guy, and can do it right in front of the police without them reacting
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 weeks ago
I can shoot that dude without getting a bounty? :O
rmuk@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
That guy was, I think, intended as a stand-in for real-life eugenicist and all-round villain Henry Laughlin. Killing him in-game was quite the treat.
hactar42@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m going to remember that for my next playthrough. I always just punched him and made him run away.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Because attacking Norris will not affect the player’s honor, nor gain the player a wanted level, the player can hogtie Norris and drag him across the map to achieve the Rank 4 Horseman Challenge.
Omgboom@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Hmm, I’ll have to give that a try
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
You will not be able to play multiplayer without hackers ruining the experience
Schmuppes@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Is it as bad as GTA Online?
Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
It’s worse. It is utterly abandoned by rockstar
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Worse. I’m convinced that Rockstar only keeps the servers running because nobody knows which ones they are among the sea of GTA5 servers. The game has been entirely abandoned by the devs, because it never took off like GTA5 did.
Hacking in RDO isn’t just rampant; It’s downright expected. If you’re not hacking, you’ll constantly get blown up from across the map by people with unlimited explosive ammo, no reloads, and auto-aim. The bare minimum requirement is an unlimited health hack, just so you can survive the cross-map snipes long enough to finish a mission or two.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
It seems worse. Though now days whenever I play GTA Online, it’s in private friends only mode.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Worse.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
If you play on PC you can change 1 file in a text editor and get solo lobbies every time. Share the file or the changes with friends and you’ll all join each other, I assume it’s got something to do with file hashing
I made a YouTube video on it years ago when I noticed the load screen skip mod produced interesting results in lobbies and started testing and occasionally people comment that it still works lol
tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Article + video here: grunch.com/trick-play-red-dead-online-in-a-solo-p…
Psythik@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m honestly surprised that no one calls this game woke
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Because the game sold w and reviewed well, so it goes against the narrative of “get woke go broke”
echodot@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
I think literally every business in the world has managed to tow that line. It’s not like the right stopped drinking bud light. Although they probably should have.
vga@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Nobody except the craziest of crazy thinks negatively about woke stuff if the actual content is good. Case in point: Arcane. When the wokeism was apparently more important to the producers than the quality of the actual product is when shit gets irritating.
lime@feddit.nu 4 weeks ago
i have only ever heard good things about that show. it apparently brought in a lot of new players (who then promptly left because they realized what the game and community were like).
spacecadet@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Mainly because you can shove “woke” shit down peoples and they won’t care as long as they get to play a manly man or stacked chick and the story and characters are well developed. It’s just when the game is really bad that people care about it and then the studios can blame the poor performance on the alt-right as a cop out for their shitty game. I.e. Star Wars outlaws and Concorde
lime@feddit.nu 4 weeks ago
people have been very uppity about the new dragon age even though i hear that’s good.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Outlaws is a good game though
VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I feel like people might have. I vaguely remember when it first came out that there was someone on youtube uploading videos of them assaulting the woman’s suffrage protester and they got taken down after blowing up.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
What is woke about the game?
SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Anti racism is woke. Arthur actively beats the shit out of or yells at anyone who is racist. Arthur is woke. This is a good thing.
Psythik@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Literally everything mentioned in the 4chan post.
droporain@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
Can’t even bang prostitutes, cowboy gta 1/5 stars
theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You can? Tho they are quite expensive, still cheaper than a gf tho!
But what does that have to do with this game?
droporain@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
Nah if you say yes it’s a set up. Why code something that isn’t available. It’s like making a door that never opens. Or a war game with no blood. Or an empty building. Immediate world breaking. Those nice honorable cowboys who have killed hundreds of men lol. The game just seemed lazy and repetitive to me. Good job Rock $tar. Also fuck you for having your own loader.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
instance checks out
noxet@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
And somehow this game is never part of the examples that some bigots are listing when talking about woke games.
Similarly with Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur’s Gate 3. Both of those games are gay as fuck.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Cyberpunk got a lot of hate by that crowd leading into release, and they dunked on the release a ton as if it vindicated them.
Whateley@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
It’s obvious they’ve never read any of Mike Pondsmith’s stuff if they think gender and sexuality in the Cyberpunk universe is any way at all viewed from a conservative lense.
noxet@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
I only saw hate on release for bugs and for the way it ran. Not for being woke. Idk
drivepiler@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Which ones are they listing? I’m a bit out of the bigotry loop.
noxet@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Usually it is any game that has a woman as a main protagonist.
The biggest examples are:
Horizon Zero Dawn
There was “controversy” where devs were releasing promotional material for the game and they released a video where they showcased graphical advancements and they zoomed in really close on the MC and you can see the very thin hair on her face that literally every person has. Some people didn’t like that.
The Last of Us 2 - very masculine woman
Fable - Not released yet, but the trailer had a woman that is not conventionally attractive.
Dragon Age Vanguard
Life is strange
Intergalactic The Heretic Prophet - new Naughty Dog’s game, Black Woman as MC
This is just from the top of my head.
Valorie12@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The first time I ran into the KKK in the woods, I was really glad I had a stick of dynamite on me.
Litany@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s funny if you watch them for a minute too, their burning cross catches its surroundings on fire, burning many of them to death.
Valorie12@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Interesting. Muuuch more satisfying to blow them up, though.
IceFoxX@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Much people forget before black slavery there was white slavery… So its just good if there is none slavery.
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
Not comparable
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Slavery is slavery no matter who does it or whom it’s done to.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
This argument is fucking stupid.
callyral@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
They’re both two types of slavery. They’re in the same category. They can be compared.
threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Are you saying white slavery was as systemic and width spread as black slavery in America? If so I’ve missed a big part of the American slave history.
IceFoxX@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
No, I’m just saying what I wrote. It is not meant to be an equality or anything else but just a statement that it is good without any slavery no matter what origin, skin color and (even if I am an atheist and despise any religion) religious affiliation. It was also not referring to Americans but a general statement.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
before black slavery there was white slavery
bzzt wrong. Portuguese slave traders worked out deals with african tribal leaders in the 1400s. Unless you’re going to relabel feudalism as slavery.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There was slavery before Portugal or feudalism were things. I’d wager slavery might even predate the homo sapien species and probably came soon after a species was able to communicate orders and threats.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
There was that other thread talking about Ubisoft games and how theyre putting a black samurai in there.
I wrote a comment about how ubisoft marketing is so controversial but then they deliver these milquetoast Ubisoft games.
I just imagine if Farcry 5 actually went the route of RDR2 and had some fucking balls. Instead of try to appeal to both sides.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s what I don’t get, out of millions and hundreds of thousands gamers, how many are actually that stupid and bigoted to rage on anything they don’t like? These incel gamers always accuse many games as being woke, but then these games are blockbusters. Devs listen to a loud minority who don’t represent the entire community of gamers. The rest are silent majority, who have varying interest of games, like a game for being a good game, not because it is “woke”. And hate a bad game, because it is a bad game. It’s simple as.
Devs fall into the faux outrage bait from tiny minority of unthinking hordes, and it actually makes them bad than if they just ignore ridiculous baseless cries.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
As someone who has been reading about gaming for a long time, it’s the console wars but now that gaming has become mainstream, it became political.
There has always been drama in gaming, there used to be PlayStation and Xbox fanboys that clearly wanted to be part of a team and for their team to win, it’s what makes it social for some people.
Then gaming became huge, the industry shifted and now we have a lot more diversity in types of games. So now you have these teams but it’s about other things (I’m on the story mode and no microtransaction team myself).
One team really benefits right wing media, and that’s the ones complaining about games being woke (and whatever that means). It’s amplified and hence why even though we live in the golden age of gaming choice, we keep hearing this loud minority.
julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Wow, that was their takeaway from that game? I honestly didn’t think about it once the whole playthrough, why are they so desperate to role play racism/sexism?
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Oh we’re they saying these things like how much they hate Wokeness or something?
I thought this was an endorsement!
curiousaur@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Suddenly this has me wondering if the south is playing a whole’nother game.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s funny because moron used to be a medical term as well.
quixotic120@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
These actually had distinction:
Defectives was generally the term prior to like 1845, which is when Howe published “on the causes of idiocy”. That led to more classification
Idiot was what we could call severe intellectual disability. Requiring 24 hour care but some muscular control, cognitive, and speech capabilities. Use was phased out in the late 19th century because it had become pejorative
Fool was a subcategory of idiot with more significant impairment of reasoning and speech skills. This became pejorative and was phased out.
Simpleton was moderate intellectual disability. Some degree of functioning, capacity for speech, motor and reasoning skills, but required assistance with tasks. This also become pejorative and was phased out (see a pattern). This was replaced with several terms, including feeble minded, imbecile, and moron, which were also in turn phased out.
at one point in the 19th century there was a distinction when symptoms of dementia set in. If you got what we would now call early onset dementia, it was called “amentia”. By the early 20th century “ament” was kind of a catch all for “idiots, imbeciles, and feeble minded”
There was also “cretin” which was originally supposed to be a kindness for all intellectually disabled people as it means “Christian” in French or something, but it also became pejorative
Another super racist one was mongoloid/mongolism which was specifically for Down’s syndrome. This is because, no joke, John Down thought people with down syndrome looked like Mongolians. His reward for his racism was the condition bears his name forever, apparently. This was only changed because Mongolia had to petition the WHO to change it because it was offensive
Imo instead of policing language we should maybe recognize that the intentionality behind the use of these terms is what the problem is.
Saying the word “retarded” does not have to be inherently offensive. Describing something that is slowed or hindered as retarded is accurate. Using retarded as a pejorative term makes you a dick, sure. But if I go through all the effort to change “retarded” to “intellectually disabled” guess what happens? The same thing that has happened for the past 175+ years. The people who have used the terms in the pejorative sense will quickly adapt, making your efforts to police language pointless unless you intended to enrich their lexicon.
If you consider actions that could actually be meaningful for the individual it would be something that would address the harm caused by pejorative use. That’s a challenging road to go down (imagine criminal penalties: middle schools would be ghost towns!). we want to feel like we do something though so we instead do this, which is pointless.
That said if the disorder was named by an old racist based on his racism then by all means change it up but maybe don’t memorialize him when you do it. That doesn’t come up as much anymore, thankfully
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
"Women voting? Sure why not. Anyone dumb enough to want to vote should be able to”
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I need to fire this game up again when I get home
quixotic120@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Anon wants to play as Micah
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Now that I think about it, RDR2 is set in the past. I don’t think people tend to question the past; the values set by the past is taken for granted today. Anyone who might complain about it makes them look outwardly supportive of regression.
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The wild west was largely a myth sold to people who stopped in remote towns and the people there put on a wild west show. So whatever you think of the game, it’s based on a myth.
militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Is it OK to do the opposite?
glimse@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
A fuckin CENSORED greentext? Really? Never thought I’d see the day 4chan got whitewashed lol
Zwiebel@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Assuming OOP said ‘retarded’, that doesn’t fit their message well does it?
Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
it’s called context switching, within 4chan the r-word is an honorific rather than a slur.
glimse@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This post reminded me of that old Louis CK bit on not liking the term “N Word” because it transfer the burden of saying the actual word from the speaker to the listener’s brain
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s so social media AI doesn’t block the image. Yeah, that’s our world now.
earphone843@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Wasn’t that just Reddit?
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
#NotMy4chan