r/KotakuInAction • u/CommunistsAreCancer • 2d ago
The final boss of virtue signaling
https://x.com/house_house_/status/2110599487228117283?s=46
What’s funny is that this is having the opposite effect, most people are shitting on the devs for being brainbroken by Isreal (even on the woke ass Xbox sub) more than they are paying attention to the so-called “genocide”, it’s almost like gamers just want to play video games or something.
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u/Deadlift_007 2d ago
I miss when gaming was a niche hobby and was able to avoid shit like this because of it. I wish we could go back to the days where the only "political" discussion around games was "violent video games make people more violent." Those discussions almost seem quaint now.
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u/oscuroluna 2d ago edited 2d ago
You and me both.
Problem is the Social Justice Evangelists can't leave anything well enough alone without The Message. Its a cult and cultists aren't exactly known for separating things, especially given they're glued to their phones and social media and have this imprinted in their brains 24/7 (as intended).
I miss when even being a nerd was rare lol. Didn't have the pop culture infection and subversion as a result...
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u/Ongobongas 2d ago
Phones and widespread access to internet ruined everything.
Theres a entire generation of low IQ mindless consoomers that got fed a steady diet of garbage. It takes decades but it's happened.Their brains are completely mush.
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u/Mysterious_Tea Mod 2d ago
My thought exactly.
Many idiots still do not get the fact people play games primarily to escape from the oppressive politicized reality.
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u/javerthugo 2d ago
Sad thing is all the game makers only stood up for themselves because it was icky conservatives making that argument. The moment a commie in flannel said roughly the same thing they caved in almost immediately
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u/Consistentdegeneracy 1d ago
Not just conservatives, but boomers. The moment young women start swinging a certain ideological direction, the simps will always follow. It happened with prohibition. It happened with the hippie movement. And now we suffer it again.
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u/dionysus_project 22h ago
It happened with the hippie movement.
Started with men doing psychedelics, the women followed. And it was true too. The Vietnam War was a catastrophe, and Nixon and Ehrlichman waged war against drugs to destroy the opposition of the military industrial complex. We are still paying for his self-serving policies today. So I wouldn't mix the hippies into a simplistic "simps did it" like you do.
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u/mushy_friend 1d ago
I'm happy it's a little more mainstream so that people don't get bullied or ostracised for it anymore, but yeah I wish it wasn't this mainstream
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u/Drakonic 1d ago
The societal problem more fundamentally is that politics should have stayed a niche hobby. Too many morons learning about it in biased environments, spending mindshare on it, and degrading other spheres of life with irrational conflations.
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u/Send_Boobs_Via_DM 2d ago
No one gonna play this shit anyway
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u/sick_of-it-all 2d ago
I watched the trailer when it released on Playstation. The people at the game studio who made the game narrate. You can tell by the way they talk, they're all soy filled betas. Very soft-spoken, very sensitive, very feminine. It's like you're sitting in a coffee shop in a gentrified neighborhood listening to someone with wax in their moustache gently tell you about their new game.
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u/TheHoovyPrince 1d ago
Not surprising at all because their from Melbourne which is the most progressive/left-leaning place in Australia by far. I know because im from here. There's legitimately a decent number of socialists here who ironically vote for the socialist party.
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u/SneakyBadAss 2d ago
I tried to watch even the "funny moments", and it's too much autistic supreme game even for me, an autist.
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u/Infamous_Hospital_33 2d ago
No, it was actually fun for the 10 hours my buddies and I played for it. There were puzzles and coordination and a little bit of physical platforming. It was actually a fun distraction.
That being said, fuck these guys, I"ll never revisit it and it wasn't THAT good. There's a reason why it was launched on like a psn subscription tier.
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u/Eomb 2d ago
It sold over a million the first week. People love walking simulators I suppose
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u/TheGloomyBum 2d ago
Friendslop and streamerbait games are designed to be fun for a few hours at a time with friends for a few weeks. Then people get bored and move on to the next friendslop game because the games don't have a whole lot of depth, content or replay value.
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u/PenileNotPenal 2d ago
We're located in Portland, Oregon
Yes!! We still believe in DEI.
We highly encourage women, people of color, and other resilient populations to apply for our open positions.
Of which, they have none.
Rainbow flag in their Bluecry profile banner. Buying their products finances "the message." Don't do it.
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u/HonkingHoser 2d ago
Which is funny because Big Walk is just a nonsensical game. But frankly, I'm not into mediocre friendslop and walking simulators. If I want to go on a walk with my friends, we'll just do that in the real world and save ourselves the money and supporting a bunch of dumb communists.
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 2d ago
I’m gonna bet my life savings that most Jews (and anyone non-Muslim) are gonna have a hard time getting employed at their company.
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u/Mysterious_Tea Mod 2d ago
Don't worry bro, not a chance.
Switched to Linux last year and never looked back (I'm comfortable btw).
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u/PenileNotPenal 2d ago
Much of Linux is heavily compromised:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMRP3G25lwc
And there are plenty of other videos by him explaining what's going on with open-source software and Linux. I hope you're not giving one cent to any of the woke projects.
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u/TheHoovyPrince 1d ago
The publisher is from Oregon but the devs, house house, are from my city of Melbourne, Australia.
Melbourne is the most progressive/left-leaning place in all of Australia and it's where the pro Palestine movement is biggest. So it's not surprising at all to see them take this woke stance.
Funny enough Melbourne is pretty similar to Portland in various ways besides politics.
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u/WowiiZowii 2d ago edited 2d ago
Supporting DEI is completely BS, but I respect their decision to join the Israel boycott, leaving a lot of money on the table. Israel and its supporters get no sympathy from me.
Edit: Checked and the studio is not behind those quotes but the publisher. Still bad though
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u/CypriotGreek 2d ago
I’m genuinely convinced this is just an attempt to cling to relevancy through virtue signaling and manufacturing political drama. These people don’t actually care about Israel, Palestine, or Xbox. They just want attention, and they’ll use whatever political cause is trending to get it. Gaming is simply the vehicle they’re using to make themselves look morally superior.
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u/AdorableDonkey 2d ago edited 2d ago
These people would unironically scream "Free Palestine" in a 5 yo party, attack the kids for not understanding, and then call the parents zionists when they get kicked out
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u/CrankyDClown Groomy Beardman 2d ago
So they're boycotting microsoft yet it runs on windows? Peculiar.
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u/Nemesis-1984 2d ago
They should just go all in and protest capitalism by not releasing the game at all. That'll teach the powers that be!
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u/Edheldui 2d ago
It's never not gonna be funny how these people are both against nazis to the point of seeing them everywhere and somehow support a people led by actual antisemitic terrorists. Like, there gotta be some sort of external influence, I refuse to believe one can be that much hypocritical.
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u/SteveMartinique 2d ago
I mean if you remember 2020 there’s never been a better lesson in how easily people are propagandized weather it was covid or floyd.
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u/tiredfromlife2019 2d ago
My comment of why they call people nazi. I would repost but I already got banned a week
https://www.reddit.com/r/GGdiscussion/s/YQYRVRSiKk
Anyway, they don't say what they say cause they care about what happened to a certain people
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u/peanutbutterdrummer 2d ago
Yup, they call you nazis, because it's socially acceptable to "punch nazis" (and worse) - therefore it's now socially acceptable to punch you (and worse) as well - all because you disagree with them.
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u/SoloCavalier 2d ago
This is one of those decisions that you can’t even comprehend how stupid they are and you just remain silent in disbelief.
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u/Silkychocomilk 2d ago
"Palestine will be free"
Free from what? Do these people honestly think it's a vassal state of Israel?
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u/SheevSyndicate 2d ago
Maybe it means they will be free to spread terrorism elsewhere to western countries and even islamic ones.
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 2d ago
Unironically yes, they think Isreal is going to war with itself.
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u/Ubiquitous_Cacophony /r/Nioh mod 2d ago
Dunno if you care, but you misspelled the word "Israel" twice now. If that's intentional, uh, I guess continue on! Otherwise, figured you'd like to know.
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u/ErikaThePaladin 95k GET | YE NOT GUILTY 2d ago
I'm so tired of the Israel/Palestine stuff. The more these people "protest" for Palestine, the less I care about it.
Honestly, I really liked Untitled Goose Game (which is still available on Xbox, btw), but I haven't cared for anything since from House House.
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u/Mashamazzi 2d ago
They’re Australian and they have an acknowledgment of land at the end of the game, what do you expect?
I platinumed this game with my sister because it was free and I was going to actually purchase it a few days ago because it was mostly enjoyable but I’m glad I opted not to
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u/SheevSyndicate 2d ago
Australians do the retarded land acknowledgements too?
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u/Mashamazzi 2d ago
My brother in Christ, we invented that fucking thing lmao (I think)
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u/BigTL13 2d ago
Yeah, originated from us in the 70s. 50 years later at least the conversation has been started about how tiring it is.
Honestly when I saw that the most pretentious 'media literate' people I knew were treating Big Walk like the second coming of Christ in video game form I decided against buying it.
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u/WhereAreTheFrogs 2d ago
Since they support BDS i really hope they dont have AMD, nvidia, intel hardware or windows OS on the computers they use to develop games
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u/ravage214 2d ago
Imagine losing money because you want to support terrorists
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u/ghost49x 2d ago edited 1d ago
Terrorists with puppies! How can you be heartless? Adds pictures of sad puppies.
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u/Enruoblew 2d ago
Sometimes these studios forget their #1 priority should be making money when the video game market is so volatile and studios are either getting shut down or experiencing massive layoffs left and right.
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u/Raikoh-Minamoto 1d ago
The pc version of your game runs on windows and it is sold in Israel, you also got gamepass money from Microsoft for your previous game 🤡 , just say that the porting cost won't be worth the forecasted sales on the platform, instead of this performative BS.
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u/Vespinobambino 2d ago
Most of those computers be running Steam on a Windows OS.
All of this over yet another fakeocide.
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u/redditpowermod3 1d ago edited 1d ago
Way to make sure I never buy your game by mentioning centuries old conflict in the opposite side of the world.
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u/WhereAreTheFrogs 2d ago
Who's gonna tell them all the parts being used in PC (AMD, nvidia, intel etc) all have HQ and R&Ds in israel, which means people who will play it on PC support israel by having literally any hardware on their pc lol
Also sony has its own playstation store in israel that uses shekels
Also 2# - most computers run windows, which is microsoft operation system, if they really wanted to boycott Microsoft, they would make the game linux only.
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u/saintboot7B 2d ago
wish someone would post that to Resetera and see what gets said in response in addition to seeing how quickly the poster gets banned perma.
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 2d ago
News flash, these people probably wouldn’t be able to point to Isreal on a map, they just like to bitch about a non-existent genocide in order to virtue signal.
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u/WhereAreTheFrogs 2d ago
Also, something else i forgot since the game is out on switch, which is funny to me cause the 2nd ever nintendo OFFICIAL worldwide retail is literally in tel aviv, israel.
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u/DinosaurAlert 2d ago
I completely do not understand how people can feel this way after seeing what happened October 7th. Videos from that day were like watching a horror movie. Women being dragged away to be killed or raped.
Then they try to say they are just against the “genocide”, but these people were cheering the attacks starting the same day they happened.
The left are monsters.
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u/Data_ 1d ago
In their minds Jews are the enemy, no matter what. So Hamas slaughtering 1200 people is a justifiable act of resistance. I've seen people on Reddit outright deny what happened and blame everything on a 'false flag' operation. Just a few days ago in my city there were pro-Palestine marches with masked people carrying 'We support Hamas' banners. Nothing was done.
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u/OrgrimmarYogaStudio 2d ago
Never heard of a BDS but I get strange results when I start typing it in google.
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u/studioscents 2d ago
Meh, you’re not really missing anything, just play something else. Why they felt the need to author this letter, oof.
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u/SheevSyndicate 2d ago
With the left there is always an insatiable need to look morally superior and flaunt just how good&righteous they are. They cannot keep it in their pants. Everybody needs to know where they stand on everything, lest someone think the quiet leftist is secretly a centrist or worse, a chud!
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u/Spiritual_Orange_737 2d ago
I would have to imagine Sony has some random investments going between Israel for whatever reason... Nintendo of America too, especially when all three are investing heavily into AI partnerships.
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u/ThatDamnRocketRacoon 2d ago
You don't understand, guys. Keeping a game off of one platform will end the genocide. This game is that important to the world.
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u/solo_shot1st 2d ago
It's purity Olympics. A small group of people at the studio are probably loudly anti-Israel, and they bully everyone around them, or else they will be shamed and/or fired. This snowballs until the whole studio is forced to bend the knee to this groupthink until this happens, where they start sacrificing their own game on behalf of the cause.
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u/wildwolfcore 2d ago
What’s ironic is steam still mostly runs on windows which is also owned by Microsoft and they still decided to release on pc.
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u/Short-Waltz-3118 2d ago
Its not like microshit gets a cut of a sale for a game existing on pc. If its on pc, it supports windows. Thats the only practical way to sell a game
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 2d ago
Microsoft absolutely gets revenue from Windows licensure for gaming PCs.
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u/Short-Waltz-3118 2d ago
The windows license is happening regardless, because pcs arent only used for gaming. And again, its the only practical way to sell a video game. Its not on thw windows store, its not on xbox, it supports windows and Linux. Thats how games get made. This isnt a gotcha
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 2d ago
I’m sorry, but it is.
They are literally doing nothing of value to boycott Isreal, your argument is that “it’s too hard to boycott Isreal” is not a rebuttal, it’s just admitting that these people don’t care enough to put their money where their mouth is.
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u/Short-Waltz-3118 2d ago
Youre giving "yet you participate in society! Curious!" Vibes
98% of pc gaming happens on windows.
Microsoft does not get a cut from you releasing on windows. Microsoft and windows will remain dominant if this company didnt exist at all. So to suggest "well, you boycotting somewhere we do get a cut, but actually, youve done nothing because you released on the only viable platform in the world!" Is stupid as hell
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 2d ago edited 2d ago
>”You participate in society! Curious!”
Just because you put hypocrisy in quotes, does not mean it is no longer hypocrisy lmao.
Like 99% of the revenue they’ll attain will be tangentially touched by a corporation that deals with Isreal, the fact that you think this is some grand stand is hilariously moronic.
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u/Short-Waltz-3118 2d ago
Its like yoyr suggesting that if you cant do 100% boycott, you cant do any. It doesnt make any sense. Theres no cut going to windows. Its not released on a window store front. Supporting the only OS out there is just what games do on pc. To suggest you cant boycott Microsoft xbox without only releasing your game on obscure basket weaving OS does not mean they are hypocrites. But you really want to "own" these devs for having different moral stance than you, who knows why
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 2d ago
>It’s like yoyr suggesting that if you cant do 100% boycott, you cant do any.
That’s a nice strawman, please feel free to link the comment where I’ve said that?
I don’t particularly give moral credence to slop activism, which is what this is, you’re the type of person who would criticize capitalism and vote for the DSA but then salivate at the newest iPhone every year.
>There’s no cut going to Windows.
Again, this is stupid, VS Studio was used to develop this game, ChatGPT is partially owned by Microsoft, they probably used Outlook, Azure, and Teams to talk to each other, please spare me your nonsense, these devs do not have a moral backbone, they’re just virtue signaling, as stated. The fact that you think them not releasing on Xbox is some grand exemplary of moral fortitude is utterly pathetic.
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u/Short-Waltz-3118 2d ago
boycott one thing
huh, what a dumb ass, you didnt boycott the other thing this company made
actually thats a strawman, I never said they are hypocrites for boycotting one thing and not the other by the company, even knowing you cant release a pc game to any success without including the os with 99% market share
The absolute state of you
you must use iPhone
Speaking of made up statements, ive never owned an iPhone nor do I get particular excited by any phone in the year of our lord 2020+6
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u/suspect_scrofa 2d ago
They are putting their money where their mouth is though? They are losing out on profit.
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 2d ago
You think losing an incalculably small convenient amount of money by not releasing on the worst performing console platform (whilst still releasing your previous game on it and directly funding the publisher of said platform to make the game) is what was meant with the phrase “putting your money where your mouth is”?
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u/suspect_scrofa 2d ago
So if you get rid of your speculative adjectives and the non-related devs' behavior in the past, you essentially typed "You think losing an amount of money by not releasing the game on a platform is what I meant by the phrase 'putting your money where your mouth is'?".
Which yea, I do think you just typed that out and aren't making sense.
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 2d ago
Apparently you can’t read?
>You think losing an incalculably small convenient* amount of money…
Somehow these are “speculative adjectives”, the amount of cope is unreal lmao
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u/suspect_scrofa 2d ago
Yea those are speculative and your personal opinion. You could do a back of the napkin estimation. 0.01% of 120M Xbox users, with the game being $20 is a quarter million bucks. Small, incalculable, and convenient are just subjective.
They are putting money where their mouth is.
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u/skydave1012 2d ago
Oh, it's that game that people played for about an hour before never touching it again.
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u/CurseOfLeeches 2d ago
The luxury these people have to pick and choose issues is astounding. Everything they hate has given them this freedom.
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u/OscarCapac 2d ago
Wait wait wait
Those devs boycott Xbox and Microsoft. Not because Bill Gates is in the Epstein Files and is funding globalism worldwide, causing unparalleled suffering. Not because Microsoft bougt and sabotaged good studios, resulting in mass layoffs. Not because they mass fired american workers to replace them with Indians
But because Israel bad. Facepalm
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 1d ago
>Not because they mass fired Americans workers and replace them with Indians.
I’m actually okay with Asha laying off the commiefornians ruining our games to be fair.
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u/Apex720 1d ago
Well, I certainly feel vindicated for hating Big Walk from day 1 now. Fucking $20 to talk with and do mind-numbingly boring puzzles with your friends, it's an absolute joke.
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u/No-Lawyer4665 1d ago
I just looked up gameplay. I legit thought it was a toddler cartoon video. Garbage.
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u/Data_ 1d ago
I looked up the game and what the hell, it looks like someone slapped together a Unity/UE world together in a few hours. Of course IGN gave it a 9.
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u/Apex720 1d ago edited 1d ago
And the hilarious thing is, apparently this took them like
4-56 fucking years to develop.It's a game that really should be a laughingstock (especially when other games in its genre, PEAK in particular, frequently do so much more for less than half the price), and I'm surprised so many people were fooled by the paper-thin gimmick.
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u/HonkingHoser 1d ago
It pretty much came and went like a fart in the wind. A lot of streamers played it together, but that's about it. Guaranteed that normies haven't played it.
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u/Little-Witness-1201 23h ago
Imagine telling /pol/ anti zionism would become a mainstream leftist position 10 years ago.
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u/Zero-Fate 2d ago
Please remind on which OS most pcs run and who makes the OS? Oh wait right its FUCKING MICROSOFT. This people are fucking idiots.
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u/DragonOfChaos25 1d ago
They should continue on this path. The whole "balestine" bullshit has gotten old and they keep shoving it down everyone's throats in every opportunity (despite almost everything related to that cause being revealed to be lies and fabrications).
In a year or two this entire thing with be forgotten for the shiny new thing to fight for.
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u/kanguran1 2d ago
But what if I don’t care about a shit game or a bunch of desert-dwellers getting pissed at each other over their real estate rights?
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u/idontknow39027948898 2d ago
I don't know anything about this game, but I hope that everyone associated with it spends the rest of their lives in abject, miserable poverty. Preferably so poor that they can't afford a phone, so we don't have to hear from them either.
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u/peanutbutterdrummer 2d ago
Before they support Palestine, they should read up on what Palestinians have historically done to their neighbors.
That being said, two wrongs don't make a right and Israel's actions are pretty fucked up as well.
No good sides in this unfortunately.
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u/SheevSyndicate 2d ago
Luckily for these activists they can boycott the most irrelevant platform. If only they had to worry about nintendo, sony or valve being a target for their boycott.
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u/Mysterious_Tea Mod 2d ago
A lot of disappointment expressed in that post...
Looks more like crocodile's tears to me.
The fact they want to blame BDS' boycott is also laughable.
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u/CorianderIsBad 2d ago
I'm gonna be real. Palestine will never be free. There'll never be a two state solution. They'll continue to be bombed by Israel, Palestinians will attack back. America and Iran will continue to arm both sides. Releasing a random video game on Xbox or not won't change this. I don't care about Israel or Palestine.
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u/TazerPlace 7h ago
If the developers are willing to put their money where their mouth is and potentially lose sales, then who cares? Some business don't like gay wedding cakes. Others don't like ethno-fascism, apartheid, or genocide. Different strokes and all that.
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u/WowiiZowii 2d ago
>so-called “genocide”
Are you from Israel by any chance, OP?
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 2d ago
Nope.
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u/WowiiZowii 2d ago
Then you are lost in the sauce.
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 2d ago
Ditto.
I think I’m just not easily swayed by terrorist propaganda, sorry.
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u/WowiiZowii 1d ago
You clearly are, just not the ones you think. Also I don't think ditto means what you think it means lol
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 1d ago
I don’t recall chanting from the river to the sea or flying the Pali flag, so I’m gonna have to disagree with you on that one chief.
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u/RealtorsOfPalestine 2d ago
Imagine having an opinion on which group of children should die.
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 2d ago
I can’t wait till they boycott any company selling to Palestine for (actually) targeting Isreali kids.
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u/RealtorsOfPalestine 2d ago
Right so you've decided what kids you want to get bombed. Fine.
The only serious solution to this, or anything in that region, is the full colonization of the area by the West.
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 2d ago
That’s literally what the British did post-WW2, how did that work out?
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u/RealtorsOfPalestine 2d ago
Poorly, because they left.
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 2d ago
They left because they made a mess.
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u/RealtorsOfPalestine 2d ago
Right it's so much better now
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 2d ago
It quite literally is.
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u/RealtorsOfPalestine 1d ago
It's a black hole that sucks in money and blood, and spits out nothing except the occasional bit of terror.
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u/Yeet-Dab49 2d ago
Devil’s advocate, Xbox is turning itself into a PC brand and storefront anyway. If you asked Microsoft, they’d say it is on Xbox
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u/Kurigohan-Kamehameha 2d ago
It’s so easy to boycott a country committing war crimes, you don’t have to align yourself with the victims just because you’re boycotting the perpetrators
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u/Periuga_vamshot 2d ago
Tbh they actually did something, not just screamed on twitter
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u/WhereAreTheFrogs 2d ago
they didnt tho, cause the game is still released on PC which most players using Windows (microsoft product) and has parts from companies that support and have HQs in israel (nvidia, amd, intel). Nintendo 2nd ever worldwide official retail shop is in israel (they released the game on switch) etc. They didnt do anything, thats the point, if they wanted to really be against israel theyd have no platform to release their game on.
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u/Oh_Henry1 2d ago
Isntreal ain’t getting any more popular so get used to it
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u/CommunistsAreCancer 2d ago
Isreal is also not going anywhere, and Pallywood will never get a state, so get used to it.
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u/Oh_Henry1 2d ago
spoken like a Rhodesian
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u/BigDaddy_Delta 2d ago
What are you doing to help Gaza?, besides crying on Reddit
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u/Oh_Henry1 2d ago
apparently raising the blood pressure of dumbass dispensationalists
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u/UL-99 2d ago
What's funny is that the game is available in all the Israeli stores of the platforms its on.