People call left wing podcast discourse to be terminally online but god damn how did these right wing become such soyboys crying about shooting at ones and zeros.

I hope someone makes a game where if you shoot a cop in the game, a cop magically dies irl.

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    I definitely pulled a Hank Hill when I played those games in the past. I practically turned into the character, being like “I wanna go straight but they keep pulling me back in!”

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      Putting on my tinfoil hat for a second: Rockstar paid them to make these videos so they could get counterculture marketing for the first time in almost 2 decades

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        I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised, a big part of the marketing of the original GTA back in 1997 was leaking information about how you can kill cops and pedestrians to conservative morality crusaders and right wing rags like the Daily Mail. All of the “Ban this sick filth!” tabloid headlines were apparently celebrated by the dev team because they knew every British (and soon after international) kid would desperately want to check the game out lmao

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    Unethical against what system of ethics? Ethics are a system or morally based policy and is generally applied to a professional field. These geeks always use the term ‘unethical’ as a substitute for ‘immoral’ which is what they really mean, but ‘immoral’ is an individual value jusgement and subjective where ‘unethical’ implies a pre established code of ethics that wasn’t followed and is an objective statement. So they’re using the wrong word to make their opinions seem like facts.

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        I think that’s where they started using the word wrong all the time or deceptively. Although in this case the deception is in the entire premise, they’d be using the words ethics correctly if the whole sentence wasn’t a lie.

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        They either know what they’re doing or are just bad with words. They’re commonly turned into synonyms, and it bugs me cause of what I posted above. Not knowing about words makes you more susceptible to propaganda, knowing the precise meanings of words let’s you know how dumb marketing is

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      Also ‘morals’ and ‘ethics’ are used interchangeably in general too often, being a linguistic percrisriptivist is always gonna be a lost battle, but I don’t like when a language evolves to lose words or to make two words synonyms when they weren’t before. Like precise word choices because I know precisely what is being said, don’t be a vibes based language any more than necessary

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        I mean, prescriptivism in technical terminology is good IMO. We need consistent definitions to discuss technical subjects, and people who study and discuss the technical subjects should be familiar with the prescribed definitions. Like, you’ll have a difficult time understanding theory if you think “materialism” is used as “driven to acquiring material goods”

        In general conversation, prescriptivism is shit and should be avoided

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    The fact that right wing Gamers™ deliberately ignored shit like this coming from conservative moral panickers since the days of Jack Thompson and instead focused on EssJayDubyas says all you need to know about them.

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        It ran extremely poorly when I tried it, like an inconsistent 40 on the first bank map. I tried to look for fixes but on top of there not being much I didn’t really want to do the developer’s work for them. It’s also online only. The core game loop seemed good but I didn’t get far enough to see how the progression worked. Also the nebula site that’s needed to play was outright broken for a full day when I tried it at the end of november.

        I’m going to check on it in again in a year and see if it’s worth playing.

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    I’m glad to see that being able to express aesthetic criticism only in terms of morality is not exclusively a leftist problem