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Don’t worry, the 30 seconds I spent making this post are not stealing away the time/energy I spend on praxis
Honestly I wonder how much if the "controversy" and "boycott" were real and how much of it was just cynical manipulation by marketing companies. I know most of the trans women in my circle only gave a shit about the game in so far as they wish people would shut the fuck up about it.
I disagree a little bit, but I get where you’re coming from and respect your viewpoint :cat-trans:
which means it was always going to look like an L for le woke sjw left and people would clown on us for it
I think it's important to understand that it's not about whether we look like we took an L or not. Appearances are utterly meaningless and pandering to optics is liberalism.
There has been a growing trend of transphobes feeling far too comfortable being transphobic and a significant widespread backlash about it is a valuable warning signal to others about what may happen if you spew transphobia. It sends significant signals of support for trans people across society that has a chilling effect on transphobes fearful of being caught in the crosshairs of these supporters, a culture-war form of terror if you will. It also sends those same signals to trans people themselves, who have widely been extremely happy about that support, which makes their lives just a little bit nicer in this hell. Lastly it did damage the game at least a little bit, there are objectively people that didn't buy the game because of the backlash, a little damage is good and it will hopefully also translate to damage of all future elements of the franchise too.
There was no real attempt at a "boycott". This all started simply because a few of the mods on GCJ decided it would be extremely funny if we banned everyone that said they were buying the game. That's it. Momentum built up off of some articles being written about the shit we were doing so we leaned into it even harder to spite them and cause even more articles. At no point was any boycott intended, if anything it was merely a tool for us to identify and purge fake-allies from the subreddit that was interpreted as a boycott by the right without any understanding of what goes into keeping a leftist subreddit left-wing. The primary tool we use to achieve that is purges and we particularly like to latch onto anything that identifies reactionaries in funny ways.
Public support over buying a wizard game is irrelevant though. That's the point. Optics here are irrelevant, the power is the only thing of importance in culture war and this manifests itself through the effects.
- Liberal guilt. Many who have rejected the discourse will not forget that they did so and will regret it.
- Cultural terror. Repression of transphobia because of fear of backlash. "Cancel culture" was coined by the right as a means of pushing back against cultural terrors.
- Ripple effects. This won't be forgotten when the next thing comes along. And the thing after that. And the thing after that.
- JK Rowling effects. Many were entirely unaware of her links to literal actual nazis now. Huge amounts of awareness was spread about this.
I am so tired of us abandoning political tactics because we’ve decided “that’s liberalism.”
The point is that it doesn't matter in the online space. It's literally irrelevant. It has always been irrelevant in the online space. Optics will play as much of a role in the rising far-left as it has played in the rising far-right in the online theatre.
Even if I were to accept that in some cases a thought for optics is useful I would tell you that you can't obsess over it, that there are tradeoffs that must be made and that the net value is what must be considered overall. A loss in optics can be a gain in other things and I'm pretty damn certain that we gained more than lost on this one. The pushback against it was impotent.
they suplexed us
Can you quantify that belief in something other than sales?
I actually agree that letting them sell the idea this was a boycott was a tactical loss but I don't see how it's a loss overall.
The only loss you're suggesting that occurred here is the ability for the right to say "haha you lost" on the terms that they set for it to be a boycott that would wreck the game.
This is not what it was. And they certainly don't gain anything from that.
What have they gained? What have we lost?
It emboldens those already against us, gives pause to those who tepidly support us, gives a bad first impression to those unfamiliar with us, and makes a lot of us feel discouraged about our mission. It’s not just optics, it’s propaganda and propaganda matters a lot.
I think we disagree on almost every one of these points.
It has emboldened the pro-trans side in my experience, significantly more than before where they would have been utterly fearful of speaking their mind about a game like this or standing up for themselves. I don't give a shit if it gives pause to tepid supporters, tepid supporters aren't supporters they're cowards that haven't picked a side when one side is genocide and the other is not. I don't see how it has discouraged a lot of us, activity is sky high and a massive quantity of people feel hugely empowered by having had their first experience of getting their message (however distorted) into media. The experience of actually being able to move the media and journalists is itself a win. The experience that through the use of collective shitposting you can actually have real effects on discourse is a real one.
I view this is having been the left collective tentatively trying to figure out how to perform its own gamergate.
All I can say is that right now, with all these anti-trans bills getting passed, transition being criminalized, trans people getting erased from public life, and a barrage of propaganda equating us with pedophiles, this is the least positive I have ever felt about our standing as trans people.
All of that is not a result of this though.
I think you are allowing despondency caused by other things to colour the judgement you are applying to this particular thing.
but it pisses me the fuck off that our team just wasted a month fighting over a fucking PS5 game.
I don't see why you think any time at all was "wasted" on this. This is treat time. Treat time would have been treat time regardless of whether or not that treat time included a culture war within it.
the food gentrifier also made the "authentic as possible" breakfast wrong
Getting pay checks from the fascism game but still cant be bothered to hire a subtitler lol.
Ordinary Sausage beats him once again, this time by not latching on to product placement gimmicks without looking
the average bit is not so much red as they are a shade of gammon
I love that this is the platonic ideal of a breakfast for English people. Just a bunch of individual shit that barely complements each other
Strongly disagree. Fry ups are great. The fact that they still work after you remove all the meat and dairy is testament to that.
I've recently become a master of scrambled tofu and my god does it hit the spot.
Interested in eating more tofu, whats your scrambled goto for doing it?
Tumeric onion and garlic do all the heavy lifting. Rip the tofu up to get good consistency. Cook in margarine if you want it to be greasy and unhealthy
I assume its like a lot of other british food where its a way to cram as much slop into the working class mouth as fast as possible so they can work themselves to the bone.
Yeah this is the funny thing cus like traditional pre industrial rev British food is pretty banging, who doesn't like pies and fried shit. It was the industrial rev that made everything as cheap shit and canned as possible which is why modern British food sucks.
"Full English" means one of every type of food they have in Britain
Babish fascish.
Seriously he had to have known the controversy with the game, saw it in his email, and said yeah sure I got 10M subs - I'd risk it. $1488 bucks is $1488 bucks.
I know for a fact that the people producing this show know about the controversy, because instead of the "X dish from Y notable show" they went with just the name of the dish.
I thought they posted this under the "basics" label, which doesn't do movie foods.
In any case, this is some uninspired bs. Imagine being so shit at marketing that "yeah make a full English, that's connected to our brand" is what you spend a large amount of your billion-dollar franchise video-game marketing budget in.
I feel like it might've been a last-minute switch - like they gotta put it out to get paid, so they're just gonna make it a "basics" episode.
Adam did a sponsored video about coffee landlords that was just totally despicable to me imo
The founder was also some Latin American lieutenant during the 70s :what-the-hell:
the only food tuber that is great is internet shaquille, which is funny because he used to give massive chud vibes but he's great because all his advice is practical, goes straight to the point, has no sponsor shit slammed in the middle of the video, and only takes this fancy wine shit sponsor stuff. i bought a sous vide because of that guy.
I never got any vibes from him. He just seemed cool from the start
I kinda want to quit my job and start a garden.
But more realistically, I just got reminded of this video. I should try a couple of these out instead of eating frozen pizzas every day. That smoothie looks pretty interesting.
Damn, he also subtitles all his shit?
That alone is basically an instant subscribe for me.
Chud vibes? He's always been the best for having actually useful info in like 4 minutes
Yeah it was a complete misjudgement from my part lol, like way off. But also this was years ago when YouTube was like super combative
This guy really fucking leaned into the obnoxious self-promoting YouTuber asshole archetype so hard it's not even funny.
I enjoyed his movie gimmick videos but as soon as he got some success with that he expanded into everything he could and he is clearly high on his own supply
I remember him making an “every meat burrito” from Regular Show, and he got annoyed with how expensive it became and how it didn’t even taste good lol
Also I remember him posting some random ass picture of himself at a range with an AR15 which is incredibly funny considering his job
Very sad, was a big fan for a while. Still gonna use his Nashville hot chicken recipe but I guess I'm just gonna lie and say it's my recipe now.
