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Virtue Signaling in Gaming Megathread, v.2

Croaker said:
Yes, 44,000 for subscriptions, there is no way USAID has used alternative modes of moving money or labeling for funding ideological projects. This is some serious cope. It's making the donations look legitimate, its pedaling influence.


I don't know where the rest of your rant is going, you need help.

It's like someone is fucking your girlfriend in front of you but they say they're just pretending and you believe it. I don't know how you got to this state, but I also know that nothing I say will drag you out of it. So idk what I'm doing here at this juncture.
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What he’s saying is very believable because it is genuinely their gameplan and has been for a while. There’s been like a countless number of examples at this point of stories being run in unsubstantiated facts, blowing up as if true and then just quietly disappearing when it turned out to be fake while the outrage remains. Back when they first announced doge, I said they were going to find some examples of poor spending and use it as a smokescreen to cut a bunch of legitimate spending. It’s looking like I was exactly right.

But this thread got too serious. I prefer to come in here just to see examples of tone deaf game developers. I don’t hate trans people, but those goofy ass trans clips from Veilguard had me dying. I think we can all appreciate that. I also don’t think there’s some big government conspiracy to brainwash us into being gay through our video games
 
Blayt7hh said:
What he’s saying is very believable because it is genuinely their gameplan and has been for a while. There’s been like a countless number of examples at this point of stories being run in unsubstantiated facts, blowing up as if true and then just quietly disappearing when it turned out to be fake while the outrage remains. Back when they first announced doge, I said they were going to find some examples of poor spending and use it as a smokescreen to cut a bunch of legitimate spending. It’s looking like I was exactly right.

But this thread got too serious. I prefer to come in here just to see examples of tone deaf game developers. I don’t hate trans people, but those goofy ass trans clips from Veilguard had me dying. I think we can all appreciate that. I also don’t think there’s some big government conspiracy to brainwash us into being gay through our video games
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Idk who they are, but I do know that there will be things taken out of context and will just go away. The problem is so far, we have confirmed what was conspiracy theory before, about funding projects in foreign nations that aligns with the Democratic parties agenda. Destabilizing cultures with "freedom" like pride parades and stupid shit like that. The CIA already got busted in Pakistan in 2011 with that vaccine front where they claimed to be helping the locals but were just collecting bio-metrics on the populace. Their primary reason for starting it was told as a front to find Bin Ladin. It went way further. This shit is no different. You can see it in the documentation, obfuscation/misdirection with terminology.

It's just a coincidence these things were being used and perpetuated by American companies though. Total coincidence I'm sure. Even with legitimate and independent funding... lol

I have no doubts that the Republican party has gone with or assisted with this shit. I also have no doubts that Musk would do something to benefit himself in the process. I've said that guy is a conman for 10 years at this point.
 
Blayt7hh said:
What he’s saying is very believable because it is genuinely their gameplan and has been for a while. There’s been like a countless number of examples at this point of stories being run in unsubstantiated facts, blowing up as if true and then just quietly disappearing when it turned out to be fake while the outrage remains. Back when they first announced doge, I said they were going to find some examples of poor spending and use it as a smokescreen to cut a bunch of legitimate spending. It’s looking like I was exactly right.

But this thread got too serious. I prefer to come in here just to see examples of tone deaf game developers. I don’t hate trans people, but those goofy ass trans clips from Veilguard had me dying. I think we can all appreciate that. I also don’t think there’s some big government conspiracy to brainwash us into being gay through our video games
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Yeah it has gone way off topic. I was mostly speaking about how Asmongold's rhetoric has gotten very dark recently. I didn't intend for the discourse to go in this direction lol. I think everyone would feel much better if DOGE was more transparent. I don't buy the BS he was spouting from the White House today. DOGE is exempt from public records law and Elon is only held accountable to himself so yeah.... nothing shady at all lol.
 
Madmick said:
Elon didn't post that she earned $23m. He reacted to a post about Mario Nawfal (an insight likely gained through public disclosures) about her net worth, and later wondered aloud about how she gained that net worth in the 2020-2024 period when it was so radically disproportionate to her after-tax salary of $180K/yr for those years.
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Do we have a solid net worth for her? Because I can't find one googling, so it sounds like one of those infamous Forbes' estimates.
 
avenue94 said:
Do we have a solid net worth for her? Because I can't find one googling, so it sounds like one of those infamous Forbes' estimates.
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I couldn't find anything either. I guess his point is that Musk wasn't necessarily saying she earns 23 million salary but rather she is doing shady things to add on top of that 183,000 dollars she gets annually. I was kind of wrong either way because I phrased it as salary instead of net worth.

The only information I found was actually from Forbes.

No. Musk responded to a post on X claiming former USAID chief Samantha Power earned $23 million between 2020 and 2024. Power received a salary of $183,100 while working as administrator of USAID, according to federal records, and there’s no evidence suggesting she benefitted from her position to the tune of millions of dollars. In 2020, Power disclosed royalties and sales from her books—none of which exceeded $1,000—in addition to positions in several exchange-traded funds and mutual funds, including some holdings with Vanguard valued up to $1 million. In 2024, Power disclosed a retirement fund valued at up to $1 million and other assets held in ETFs and mutual funds. Over four years, some of Power’s assets rose in value, but many of them were mutual funds that track broad stock market indexes—and there isn’t any evidence that growth had anything to do with her job at USAID.
 
Zazen said:
I couldn't find anything either. I guess his point is that Musk wasn't necessarily saying she earns 23 million salary but rather she is doing shady things to add on top of that 183,000 dollars she gets annually. I was kind of wrong either way because I phrased it as salary instead of net worth.

The only information I found was actually from Forbes.

No. Musk responded to a post on X claiming former USAID chief Samantha Power earned $23 million between 2020 and 2024. Power received a salary of $183,100 while working as administrator of USAID, according to federal records, and there’s no evidence suggesting she benefitted from her position to the tune of millions of dollars. In 2020, Power disclosed royalties and sales from her books—none of which exceeded $1,000—in addition to positions in several exchange-traded funds and mutual funds, including some holdings with Vanguard valued up to $1 million. In 2024, Power disclosed a retirement fund valued at up to $1 million and other assets held in ETFs and mutual funds. Over four years, some of Power’s assets rose in value, but many of them were mutual funds that track broad stock market indexes—and there isn’t any evidence that growth had anything to do with her job at USAID.
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Yeah, it sounds like someone pulled the $23 million net worth out of their ass and everyone ran with it. I don't imagine she isn't rich, but she also married a pretty well off guy.
 
This sucks. Not the only one that been seeing nasty comments about this game.
 
Zazen said:
This sucks. Not the only one that been seeing nasty comments about this game.
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FFS, we just did this with Veilguard.

These snowflakes pre-scapegoating "racists" for a bad reception has cratered any optimism I had Xbox might be putting out a solid title. It's gonna be horseshit, isn't it? They know that, but they still think it's 2015 and they can shame people out of speaking their minds, honestly.

Newsflash to the woke: it's over. Your time is done. If the game is good, it will get good reviews. If it gets bad reviews, it's because it's bad. Not because people are racist. Stop trying to manufacture consent, you hypocrites.
 
KaNesDeath said:
His only real life job was doing temp work at the IRS during tax season. Prior to that he made his money by using Diablo3's auction house and scamming players/RMT'ing in World of Warcraft. Doing all this while he lived off welfare.
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And your point is?
 
Dizzy said:
You are so fucking far gone there is literally no chance of saving you.

The tide will swing back eventually, and you’ll be much older, likely not smarter but maybe finally realizing that the billionaire swindled you and shockingly wasn’t acting in your best interest, the prospect of a family long in the rearview and reflecting on how you spent your “prime years” being a hate filled mongrel because you were too blind to see that you were just a customer to these people exploiting your rage and insecurities.

That’s going to be crushing.
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So... you can't defend that USAID going to gaming publications & DEI propaganda, so you try to make this discussion personal.

Typical leftist. Constantly deflecting from the facts.
 
Madmick said:
FFS, we just did this with Veilguard.

These snowflakes pre-scapegoating "racists" for a bad reception has cratered any optimism I had Xbox might be putting out a solid title. It's gonna be horseshit, isn't it? They know that, but they still think it's 2015 and they can shame people out of speaking their minds, honestly.

Newsflash to the woke: it's over. Your time is done. If the game is good, it will get good reviews. If it gets bad reviews, it's because it's bad. Not because people are racist. Stop trying to manufacture consent, you hypocrites.
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You’re always unhappy. Breathe dude. How’s it woke by the way?
 
GearSolidMetal said:
"Everybody who dislikes what I like are racist, bigots, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, etc etc...."
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Nobody is saying this though. It’s just based on comments from social media. Game might suck but to just call it woke based on what exactly?
 
Zazen said:
He’s not saying that. The comments are negative surrounding this game and nobody has played outlook.
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The comments can't be racist. The NFL removed 'End Racism' in the superbowl end zones because racism no longer exists.

And whatever negative comments are in a comments section for a new video game, congratulations on your first day of being on the internet.
 
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