Your idea of a retcon is that the hospital looks different in the sequel game in that tiny cutscene you see? It’s not even true, the hospital is still dirty and dingy. You’re also claiming a character having a wishful opinion is a retcon.

Neither of these are retcons.

There’s zero plot or story changes here too to even start making the assertion a retcon happened. How and why are you escalating to accusing the entire TLOU2 of being a fanfic because of two extremely minor things about the previous game, one of which isn’t even true.

I wouldn’t call it “Walking Dead” style. If anything, it wears its Cormac McCarthy influences on its sleeve. If the first game was The Road, the second game is Blood Meridian. The story is intentionally dreary, miserable, uncomfortable, and emotionally draining. Kotaku’s review of the game was pretty on the money for a lot of people, it’s entirely possible to be so put off by the tone and story of the game because it’s so miserable.

The thing is that you play as Ellie and then as Abby to get both perspectives on the story. The entire message of the game is that revenge and unending conflict a downward spiral of self-destruction. Joel gets done dirty… but so does everyone. That’s the whole point of the game.

I dunno what you heard but the Fireflies didn’t get retconned.

Did what in the second one? Made the stealth action more involved?

I’m not playing defense for any particular perspective, I just try to understand all sides and get other people to see different perspectives before forming their own opinions.

You’re not trying to understand all sides by telling people they should entertain far right, xenophobic, and racist perspectives while doing your best to not acknowledge that that’s what the perspective is. You’re basically trying to shame people into tolerating the intolerant by vaguely gesturing at a blunt virtue.

Don’t pretend like you’re here trying to convince someone who is against considering a stream of ontology because they prefer a different branch of it. We’re talking about not entertaining DHH’s specific values. If you can’t even admit what those values are when you’re trying to tell people they should respect them, then you must know it’s wrong.

As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding.

Principles. Not feelings.

If you can’t argue your position without attacking a person’s character, you already lost the argument.

Is your argument on this matter your entire character? Because I clearly called your argument cowardly.

Yes, your argument was cowardly since you are actively avoiding acknowledging what specific perspective you’re playing defense for.

There’s no good reason to hold strong principles vaguely except obfuscation.

Go ahead and explain why you think far right, xenophobic, and racist perspectives need to be given a platform.

If you can’t complain on the internet then there’s nothing to say? Interesting perspective.

Not only does that screenshot say it’s only a slight decrease and that it may be due to underreporting, it also says nothing about rates being down due to guns.

You’re still basing your entire idea that Europe has a “rape crisis” due to something some idiot gun instructor told you ten years ago.

I notice you couldn’t bring yourself to search up “USA rape crisis”.

The AI lies, especially Gemini which is frequently wrong about what its sources say.

It’s also a lie to say that those USA stats exist (you notably didn’t ask the unreliable AI about them) and that it’s all due to the presence of guns.

Remember, you’re claiming that the US has no rape due to all the guns. There is zero statistics that will back up such a claim. Your only source is some gun safety instructor from ten years ago who definitely did not prove any such statistics either.

Yes he was, and he taught you how to practice confirmation bias and how not to critically think.

You’re asking fucking Gemini to make up an argument for you now. Notice how you’re not even asking it for how it compares to US figures or how many sexual assault cases are not reported in both regions, and if that discrepancy lines up or can be attributed to gun ownership rates.

Next time you should open with this so people will understand exactly the kind of brainpower and information that you’re working with in the first place.

This is such a ridiculous thing to admit, that your entire belief that Europe has a lot of rape while the US doesn’t just because some guy teaching a fucking gun safety class said that guns stop rape.

I was just thinking the same. I remember when she was everywhere.

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At 5 feet deep you wouldn’t hit your head on the bottom

Yes, you absolutely would if you dove headfirst into it. That’s why swimming pools say no diving when they’re less than 8 ft. deep.

You can also definitely break your neck diving headfirst into mud.

It was confirmed in Fire and Fury by Wolff that GamerGate was indeed Steve Bannon’s POC of MAGA.

His news outlet Breitbart and working partner Milo Yannopolis were the main instigators of it.

Reviews and editorials were never described as “gaming journalism” before GamerGate. The fact that Gamergate successfully convinced everyone that editorials and reviews can be called “journalism”, even people who opposed Gamergate, was their biggest victory.

GamerGate was a Steve Bannon POC for MAGA and it wasted no time in setting the stage for Lügenpresse by inappropriately using the term to describe opinion pieces they knew they could get angry young men to get outraged over to start getting people used to the idea of demeaning journalism as a whole. “MSM” was just the MAGA version of “gaming journalism”, but more refined since they realized with their POC that demeaning all “journalism” meant that any that they tried to spin up never got any traction because it was also “journalism”.

I once saw a company block Firefox through its corporately mandated antivirus software.

I stopped because I don’t have a hatred of these comics, and I was interested in the comments.

I’m not doing either of those things. There’s no way to read my comment and get to either of those two conclusions without making something up out of thin air.

So just scroll on by. You chose to open up the comment section for the comic. Nobody made you do that.

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