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I think kickstarter has done some good things for games. A lot of developers have their heads up their asses and completely ignore the audience that made them big in the first place. A few of these high profile kickstarter games are basically like "capcom and konami won't pay for this but their old fans will"

Re: Spiked et al., O'Neill did write this recent piece critical of the alt right: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/07/hounding-leslie-jones-anti-pc-gone-mad/

kickstarter talk going a bit off topic yeah but i do think video games are relevant here since gamergate was such a major mobilizing moment for these ppl

I think kickstarter has done some good things for games. A lot of developers have their heads up their asses and completely ignore the audience that made them big in the first place. A few of these high profile kickstarter games are basically like "capcom and konami won't pay for this but their old fans will"

― Robert Adam Gilmour

i don't know i don't think "mighty no. 9" isn't exactly a vindication of this way of thinking.

and even if igavania turns out to be good, is it really a great triumph for kickstarter to provide funding for cookie-cutter sequels-in-all-but-name to formulaic game franchises? (note that i love the igavania games and if his new game is good i will probably buy it and play it.)

It's something good. It's better that they exist. There probably are far more innovative games but I don't know about them.

Kickstarter usually has to tap into an existing audience so most things will be quite familiar.

i also think that the kickstarter model has been very misleading to plenty of people who have pledged, and for a lot of us pledging has been a misleading and disappointing experience. we love terraria and pledged to starbound, because we were suckered by the advertising copy and caught up in the mass excitement the kickstarter generated. theoretically this game has been "successful" in that it's delivered more or less what it's promised, but the game isn't very well balanced and, consequently, isn't very much fun to play.

individual gamers just don't have good enough judgment to determine whether a game is worth funding or not, and by collecting the money directly from gamers before making the game the people who run these kickstarters are actually losing out on quality feedback on how to make the game better. i'm not saying that process always works in big gaming companies - one need only look at the barely mitigated disaster that has been the sonic series for most of the last 25 years - but the process isn't, in most cases, producing better games or more innovative games than the AAA industry, and is making many gamers disillusioned and more selective about what gaming risks they're willing to take. i don't see that as a good thing.

It's early days still and there's hundreds of them. I'm sure plenty of them are fine but most are very low budget.

Just explained the meaning of cuckservative to some idiot Orthodox Jew on fb who clearly did not get the memo on who alt righters are referring to when they say the country has been sold out. His brother in law texted me to thank me. Not the first person to text me this election season for sonning their moron relatives.

i could not imagine how to carry on such a conversation.

Ha, getting email is certainly a validating reaction.

Also, back to an earlier point, Kickstarter isn't the reason for games not being finished; that shit is entirely due to Early Access*

*excepting whatever Star Citizen is now considered.

is vaporware still a term in use?

Not as much, due to the similar -sounding musical genre gaining popularity

Do you guys read We Hunted the Mammoth? It's where I get my daily alt-right hatefeed tempered with a bit of levity so I don't actually kill myself.

My wife reads it faithfully. She loves to keep tabs on what these pieces of shit are up to l. She first told me about the whole red pill thing like 3 years ago.

That site also spun-off the similarly amusing Tumblr feed Confused Cats Against Feminism

http://confusedcatsagainstfeminism.tumblr.com

A few of these high profile kickstarter games are basically like "capcom and konami won't pay for this but their old fans will"

Aye but as rushomancy says, Capcom and Konami are right here.

There's definitely a thread in Gamergate of "Hi there X we understand that you are a professional in your job but as a collection of straight white men we are an unparalleled resource of objectivity and we are concerned that you have overlooked this" - X is usually journalists or police or the FBI investigating Anita Sarkeesian's harassment but "games developers who want to make something other than what we want them to" fits as well.

It's tied up with Real Gamers as well - they don't actually exist except as an idea of who games are made for - some people like to identify with them as a cultural force (larger than Hollywood, you know) and then get massively entitled about their assumed power.

Both these points extend pretty smoothly out from GG to the thread's topic, of course.

do you guys get recommended racist crap when watching completely random videos on youtube? like i was watching some videos about old EM pinball machines and all of a sudden youtube is recommending that i watch videos that will "tell me the truth about the jews". is it just that youtube can't handle recommendations based on videos with low view counts or something?

it's based on your past views iirc

it's a combination of the video you're watching now and your past views- some are based on that particular video and some are from the "recommended for you" pile. so on a given video i'll get recommended twelve klaus schulze videos and a 1978 burger king ad, you know, only one of those things is based on my viewing history. i think this particular recommendation was based on the video.

i saw the opening sketch of a MDE World Peace episode that was pretty brilliant, it was like half a dozen people cackling in a generic high rise apartment drinking wine, and then this guy trips sam hyde's wife and she falls into a glass table and is lying there totally mangled, and the guy says he didn't trip her and they replay the shot and the opacity is turned way down. it was this really disturbing thing on gaslighting and a certain type of white ppl in their 30s dinner party(??) i was totally bowled over by it.

then the next sketch is the fucking most unfunny tim and eric weirdo bullshit ripoff of sam hyde drinking milk in a gym and being flamboyant and obnoxious. i really hate how widespread tim and eric's influence is, their aesthetic is lingering everywhere and it's so stale, pretty soon NO ONE is going to remember what the fuck "public access television" was.

The new shits ripping on YouTube aesthetic

What's this thread ostensibly about again

what is youtube aesthetic? vaporwave?

There's probably gonna be ASMR roleplay on prime time within two years

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Oh joy; Heat St had an exchange/convo between Vix Day and Louise Mensch about Conservative feminism back in May, but I'm not linking to it here

Aye but as rushomancy says, Capcom and Konami are right here.

There's definitely a thread in Gamergate of "Hi there X we understand that you are a professional in your job but as a collection of straight white men we are an unparalleled resource of objectivity and we are concerned that you have overlooked this" - X is usually journalists or police or the FBI investigating Anita Sarkeesian's harassment but "games developers who want to make something other than what we want them to" fits as well.

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 14 October 2016 02:22

Capcom and Konami are correct in not making these games? Plenty of Japanese developers would like to make them and a substantial amount of gamers want them (very very far from being just white guys or gamergate types) but sometimes they're just risky enough and the resources are harder to find* and the Japanese business is probably hurting right now.
I'm not very in the know about their fortunes right now so I don't know what reasonable expectations would be.

Konami is slowly moving away from games and willing to cancel what might have been a hit so maybe they don't need games anymore.
Lots of gamers are overly entitled shits** but fan feedback and wishlisting is an important part of how games are made.
I think it's better that franchises end and people just make similar games elsewhere (hopefully with more control). Lots of gamers have been waiting for some sort of successor in the Final Fight/Streets Of Rage style and I'm surprised it's never really happened apart from Godhand (which is similar) and a bunch of things that never worked that well.
There's dozens of genres that could be revitalized, lots of people who want to make them and play them and keeping up the demand might help them get made.

* The Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy Tactics guy had a kickstarter and most of the team is American if I recall correctly.
I think a lot of fans know now that pretty good 2d graphics, never mind state of the art 2d graphics are extremely expensive and therefore a big risk. Vanillaware is one of the few still plugging away at this and they don't release many games.

** I bet most of the fuckers who kept saying Iga ruined Castlevania are grateful in retrospect how long he kept it going and they probably funded Bloodstained too.

why can't we all just play katamari damacy and be happy

I wonder if there's anything to the idea that some geeks watch genre movies (fantasy and sci-fi in the main) / tv/games/comics and get so wrapped up in them that, aside from dressing up as the characters, or doing other traditional geek culture things, they end up thinking the simplified ethics and/or philosophy in these tv shows and movies are substantial, and would/should work in real life? And if this has anything to do with this alt-right movement?

Ever since reading David Brin's Star Wars vs. Star Trek analysis I've been suspicious of anyone identifying as Jedi, cosplaying as a stormtrooper, and so on.

at some point i became the sort of person who mistakenly refers to "star wars" as "star trek" and vice versa. i know the difference, i just can't keep the words straight in my head. you know, it's star... something.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/14/nazi-facebook-group-alt-right-execution-jews-black-people-colorado-students-expelled

Of course, then there's this piece of work:

http://furredreichblog.com/2016/08/25/put-your-tolerance-cap-on-furry-fandom-the-alt-right-is-here-to-stay/

"Put Your ‘Tolerance’ Cap on, Furry Fandom. The Alt-Right Is Here To Stay"

Banger's youtube channel, LOCK HORNS: Sexism in Metal Panel Discussion
379 thumbs up, 1k thumbs down

I remember people saying metalgate never taken off because metalheads generally didn't give a toss but I wonder if anything has changed.

xp this is quite something and i can't imagine how you found it

From here:

http://theworstthingsforsale.com/2016/10/16/the-furred-reich/

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/514sKZZ6u5L.jpg

Really missing out on literalizing "Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS" but that's none of my business.

This is good, about the defection of the son of the founder of Stormfront to the other side - Iggy & The Stooges - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-white-flight-of-derek-black/2016/10/15/ed5f906a-8f3b-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html

Iggy & The Stooges have nothing to do with the alt-right, I pasted two things by accident

AFAIK

@Elvis Telecom - yeah, adult Star Wars fandom is probably a key example? The lure of being a manchild that still just thinks things are either boring or awesoooooome + imagery straight from Triumph of the Will + that universe has literal good and bad guys predetermined by supernatural forces or biology = strong possibility of some of these guys getting a bit confused about politics and ending up in some weird places politically

xp crazy, huh. i wouldn't have believed that story as fiction!

@Elvis Telecom - yeah, adult Star Wars fandom is probably a key example? The lure of being a manchild that still just thinks things are either boring or awesoooooome + imagery straight from Triumph of the Will + that universe has literal good and bad guys predetermined by supernatural forces or biology = strong possibility of some of these guys getting a bit confused about politics and ending up in some weird places politically

― Never changed username before (cardamon)

i think i saw those movies once, and i don't remember any of the stuff you're talking about. the movie i saw was about some loser farm kid and a space hermit teaming up with a smuggler to fight space nazis. there were goofy supernatural forces but they didn't seem to actually determine anything, some people chose to be good and some people chose to be evil.

Yeah it's probably not that strong a case, and whatever might be in the movie, it's obvs a bit of a giant leap from that to being an alt-right white nationalist

In a novel bit related to this, the Chapo Trap House has on Matthew Karp, author of The Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy.

They have good fun digging into the weird-ass Antebellum racial science and proto-eugenic justifications of a lot of Confederate culture, and how a lot of travels down and rings thru the online white supremacist shit today, "race realism" and all.

https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-50-akp-50th-episode-ergenekon-extravaganza-101716

remember that in the old days of usenet "alt" used to stand for "anarchists, lunatics, and terrorists"

Is the trans woman Blaire White considered a part of this?