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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Workers Guarding San Francisco’s Wealthiest Companies Vote to Authorize a Strike⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely nothing bad would happen to data centers and AI companies suddenly left without security guards

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every payment option has a fee⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There WERE laws against this sort of thing. Briefly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All we did was make the already rich even richer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the government is a revenue source for huge companies is like half of Elon’s wealth, the other half being actually illegal market manipulation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This isn't fair⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget that equifax is now generating employee scores so employers can figure out who is the most desperate and will take the lowest pay, on top of who will actually be a good employee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Bioshock Review' - MandaloreGaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely agreed. Rapture WOULD AND SHOULD have collapsed under the weight of it’s own misguided ideals, that was kind of the entire point of the first game. It just really undermines that message fundamentally when instead

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  an all knowing demigod comes to specifically fuck up your society on a whim.

  I do also agree that, given the contradictions between 2 and infinite, we as players get to decide what the prime canon is. It’s kind of damaging to anything that might show up moving forward though unless a brave writer comes forward going “okay sure but fuck that, it didn’t happen”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Bioshock Review' - MandaloreGaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely agreed on the “wouldn’t it be cool if…” But not thinking out style of design. That’s not terrible, but it’s better suited for something completely over the top like 40k, rather than a more grounded setting like bioshock. And yeah, they really did just nail the worst version of multiversal story, in the general sense.

  We’re celebrating this victory!

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  Even though the player character is a literal demigod that exists amongst all timelines and is deciding, based on relatively little, that she should abandon that power and die to save one person, at the cost of thousands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Bioshock Review' - MandaloreGaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah also

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  Because Elizabeth causes the civil war and gives the ace in the hole to Fontaine, prompting the entire plot of Bioshock 1 by setting up Jack, and then she goes out of her way to save Sally, because she sees Jack will eventually save her and the other little sisters, once again undermining the original game’s other original message about player agency, that Jack starts with no agency but breaks free of his conditioning and gains that agency back to choose the ending, but actually, no, Jack was always destined to do things one way only and never had any agency. On top of that, really weird that Elizabeth decides that her own death is okay because Sally would eventually be safe, given that she condemned all of Rapture to death along the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Bioshock Review' - MandaloreGaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
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  You may recall that in the original, Ryan believes that Rapture can stand on it’s own ideals and grows increasingly paranoid that the only real threat for the society is outside interference, such as from the CIA destabilizing it. We see that these delusions are baseless and rapture collapses under the weight of its own misguided ideals. However, in Burial at Sea part 2, Elizabeth frees the imprisoned Fontaine, who had been presumed dead, attacked by Ryan’s forces for his increasingly rebellious behavior. This, in effect, means that Elizabeth is solely responsible for enabling radical revolutionaries to start the Rapture civil war, resulting in the collapse in the style of a CIA backed coup.

  There’s a lot more, it decanonizes Bioshock 2 while being internally inconsistent with it’s own story telling in the same spaces, and the Daisy Fitzroy plotline doesn’t really make sense, in a way that cheapens that, as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whew, I better take a break⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sex slaves human trafficked from Russia, land of a dictator he openly praises. I did a longer writeup elsewhere in this thread, but most of the details coke from the Behind the Bastards podcast episode on him

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whew, I better take a break⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright let’s see what I can remember! Most of this is pulled from the Behind the Bastards podcast episode on him (great podcast about terrible people) and the rest is supplemented from wikipedia to refresh my memory.

  It’s worth noting that, possibly due to Seagal’s mob ties, a lot of folks who have come to court with credible accusations have subsequently mysteriously withdrawn their accusations or otherwise failed to finalize their court cases.

  First off, bro wants to fuck any woman he thinks he can lay hands on and has had consistent credible sexual assault accusations against him his entire career. Particularly noteworthy is that he worked REALLY HARD to try and get Ray Charles’ granddaughter alone in a room with him during an impromptu casting event at his home after meeting her at Ray’s funeral. Her dad, Ray jr, tagged along and prevented this initially, but she was hired as his assistant, and walked on day one after he explained what kind of “massages” he expected. This habit of sexual assault also applies to minors, to whom he has bragged, in adult life, to that it’s fine, because he has girlfriends their age (bro lies about anything and everything he thinks will make him sound good and cool though, so make of this what you will, on multiple levels)

  His time as a cop was actually aired as a tv show: Steven Seagal: Lawman. As stated, he drove an army surplus tank through a home. He actually SHOT the 11 month old puppy afterwards, separately from the tank thing, in the same event.

  As stated, he got his start through mob ties and, around the turn of the millenium, when he walked out of a mob funded film deal, was sued and threatened by a crime family over it. He subsequently narc’d on them and some arrests were made following his testimony on RICO act charges. Seagal would subsequently settle out of court. Everything I’ve heard about the man makes him sound like a cowardly bitch, so I’m assuming they bled him for millions.

  He has a long record of deliberately hitting stunt performers during fight scenes, because of course he does. There is one story of him claiming, baselessly, that thanks to his aikido training he was immune to being choked out (???), so a stuntman indulged him in a bet and subsequently choked him out. I’ve heard a number of similarly amusing anecdotes about the man one might call instant karma on a variety of obviously bullshit lies, many of them involving stolen valor. The dude LOVES to pretend he was black ops, navy seal, whatever sounds good at the time (imagine why he started a film company to keep making movies about him actually being these things into his late age. Dude is a massive LARPer)

  Dude owned two human trafficked Russian women for some time, keeping them as sex slaves. Iirc, this occurred during the time he was filming being a cop (it may have been before, one way or another, the accusations didn’t keep him off the force)

  Speaking of Russia, dude is a huge fan of Putin (wild how the best people somehow consistently become friends with dictators) and has described him as “one of the great living world leaders” and endorsed invasions of Ukraine. He’s also cozied up to Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela

  That’s all I can think of at the moment, but it’s been a good use of waking up in the middle of the night wide awake. There’s probably more I’m forgetting, though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VR controls are the worst⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, he did have a stint as a cop, during which time he killed some dogs with a tank

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whew, I better take a break⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re gonna point out that Seagal is fat, lazy, and pathetic, but not his history of owning human slaves, killing dogs with a tank during his time as a cop, or mafia ties?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Bioshock Review' - MandaloreGaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He promises a subsequent Bioshock 2 review, but I really hope he makes it to the Infinite DLC. Without spoiling anything, that dlc fully undermines the entire message of Bioshock 1 and leaves Andrew Ryan 100% correct and justified in all of his actions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is a wild comment to downvote given how direct Microsofts support of the Israeli genocide has been. They’ve literally been the ones enabling the surveillance that identifies targets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth noting the devs have since released a sequel, Robotniks Ring Racers, but it does it’s own thing in a way that does less for me personally in terms of nostalgia, and is also generally more complicated, and thus harder to pull random friends into. That’s not to say it’s worse or bad, it’s just got very different appeal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SRB2K, or Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart, is a mod of SRB2, itself a doom mod, that is an absolute love letter to the classic days of Mario Kart (I’m thinking super mario kart or 64). Full of small QoL changes, and with a forum full of mods for any character you can think of, it’s an easy pitch if you’ve ever wanted to play a kart styled game thats better than the original, with online play

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Had the same issue with their controllers. Got one, was busted on arrival. Got replacement, was busted within a week. I’ve never had such a bad experience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess The Game (#012)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, Space Station Silicon Valley, published by take 2 (now known as the gta publisher and not much else) and one of very few (maybe the only) games for N64 that don’t work with the expansion pack. If you have the extra ram, it just won’t run at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because with the contest itself he’s already got Johnny caught on pride and greed, and now Johnny will go around telling other people they can beat the devil, making his job easier down the line. The only winning move was not to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot of reasons, but the big thing you need to keep in mind is that the average gamer buys less than 2 games a year. That’s who you’re targeting if you wanna sell a million billion copies of a game. Where most years that’s probably going to be a sports game or cod, GTA is a cultural phenomenon that will have millions and millions of dollars of advertising behind it. First buying the game will be social, a way to engage with cultural phenomenon, then it’ll be a good value proposition (typically they’ve had a lot of hours of gameplay per dollar thanks to open ended sandbox gameplay and breadth of features), and then it’ll be social again when GTA6 Online drops, and again when the PC release happens. This is all staggered out to maximize sale and resale and stay in the discourse to the point that it’s what an AI would say a CEO should do for a big release. After that they’ll be targeting whales because old GTA Online still makes over a million dollars a day in 2026 but that’s drifting away from the why

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capcom isn't worried about PlayStation and Nintendo shrinking the physical games market: "90% of our unit sales are digital"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For capcom? Not a majority, but I think it’s their largest single segment. I’ll dig up the details

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how to cut aluminum pipe with hardly any comments about flock cameras⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they actually protest and have a history of killing fascists in the ruling class when faced with government overreach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A third so far!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Admitedly some of their stated platform goals are a bit weird and extreme, such as abolishing presidential elections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did the tariffs do for us?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  $1.19 billion for apple, iirc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF Is Happening To The Video Game Industry?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I’m not strictly arguing with your points here, I do feel like a lot of this thread is ignoring a lot of Japanese gaming companies, especially Sony, who have been playing the same game as microsoft, just on a smaller scale. Squeenix have also been obsessively chasing live service games, making dozens and then shutting them all down, most of them surviving 3 years or less. Meanwhile konami shut down their gaming development entirely (unless you onclude gambling games) not that long ago and have had 3rd party devs (like bloober team for silent hill 2) making anything involving their properties so they can back out anytime they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s not forget they’ve been emulating amazons efforts to drive prices up across the market

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro they make an entirely different model in Europe so the batteries can be less replaceable everywhere else. Nintendo has supported region locking for ages and it can be done on a software level without a new SKU. I don’t see any reason they’d be doing away with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do both games & consoles cost more in the US when you factor in both sales tax and minimum wage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yooooo! Anything worth reccing? That’s deeply nostalgic, and a friend has been starting dev on one, so it might be worth seeing how they’ve progressed in the decades since MUDs were commonplace

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon invents a time machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, there’d also be no Israel. The creation of Mandatory Palestine, which would go on to be Israel, was just the British answer to the “Jewish question” after WW1, if you can just convince the Brits to be chill you can prevent a lot of atrocities

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld v1.0 - Official Release Changelog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally forgot about this. Great call out