Considering most people never make it past the title and the title is

Article Title: “I saw a tiktok and I need to meet my article quota.”

Article Title: 23 Years Later, We’ve Discovered An Amazing GameCube Easter Egg

You see how this title is structed, right? Creates assumption that something BRAND NEW has been found, right? You mock yourself, but yet you also knew many people would click based on that title and waste their time.

You had to have known…

Did... did this “article” time travel from 2002?

23 Years Later, We’ve Discovered An Amazing GameCube Easter Egg

Indeed, shame on them for giving a genocidal fascist money instead of allowing their creative works to stand on their own merits. Sadly it worked out for them financially, which will only encourage such behavior in the future.

No, transphobia is childish nonsense. Anybody spreading it is a piece of shit. Anybody defending transphobes is also a piece of shit.

She has called for the eradication of a group of people. She is below shit, as is anyone who defends her.

Imagine if you devoted 1/10th of the energy you expended defending a billionaire on anything else. Like, for example, the people she brazenly wishes to disenfranchise.

This is very thoughtful and moving.

Putting aside the broader point you’re missing (as others explain better), loads of games have cooking/eating mechanics; and restaurant games are an entire, venerable genre.

The statement isn’t dumb, I think you’re just taking it more literally than it was intended. It gives a personal, humanised example as inspiration to consider adjacent things without them having to explicitly spell out each one.

What doesn’t help is that there’s Israeli interests who explicitly WANT this confusion to exist because it helps their geopolitical interests.

(As well as evangelical death cult interests in the US who want this confusion to exist because System Requirement for their doomsday prophecies, but that’s a whole other thing)

It’s easy to be snarky here but I agree with the larger point. Arab people are seldom treated with empathy in AAA shooters. That’s the point the interviewee was trying to get across. Indie games are taking huge strides in that direction, though, and I hope that this trend reaches the mainstream at some point.

Found the genocide apologist

I don’t think this option needs to be relegated to a fictional dining simulator. The option to dine with an Arab/any perceived antagonist in Call of Duty or any game glorifying violence and have a nice little cutscene play out would add depth and be a welcome reprieve and change of pace.

Americans cope backwards and scheme forwards.

Its not that videogames are the sole problem. Its that, as you pointed out, they are one outlet and re-propagator of a very large cultural issue (which I think the article does go into). So we have identified an issue. Where can we start addressing it? Everywhere we find it, and in this case, in this community, with…

There is an actual definition of genocide and what Israel is currently doing absolutely meets that definition. It does not require the complete elimination of an ethnic group. The hallmark of genocide is the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a ethnic, religious or other group. Israeli leaders at all levels have…

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