The White House Hunger Games: --- ------- ----- Edition pt2

[ultimamax]

there is nothing wrong with game streaming, and how do you figure it won't survive as a concept? people can video share literally any game they are playing lol

game streaming has inherent latency which is annoying, also with game streaming the concept of "owning" a game will probably disappear, you will just be renting it from the cloud or owning a license or whatever

what you don't even like it? it's got your stuff written all over it and its funded by the government. the European government no less (not the nasty American one). If you don't like it then why does it even exist? who or what is a game like this made for other than to sell some political message or idea?

all of my friends are people you would call woke commies or whatever and none of us play stuff like this. none of us are choosing which games to play because they have token corporate diversity or whatever. i feel like you are shadowboxing the sjw that basically only exists in your head dude. there is lots of public arts funding in EU, that funding doesnt come with some kind of requirement to push certain political messages i don't think.

https://x.com/GlobalUpdates24/status/2019716798728564739
Now Ghislaine Maxwell is getting in on this

Something insane is about to go down

i feel like ghislaine is just going to blatantly lie on the stand right? no one is gonna go after her for perjury, not in the current admin at least.

i have no idea what bill clinton is doing i think he almost certainly forgeted kids or at least knew about it

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[mod-man]

all of my friends are people you would call woke commies or whatever and none of us play stuff like this. none of us are choosing which games to play because they have token corporate diversity or whatever. i feel like you are shadowboxing the sjw that basically only exists in your head dude. there is lots of public arts funding in EU, that funding doesn't come with some kind of requirement to push certain political messages i don't think.

well you can feel like whatever you want it doesn't change the fact there are games now that are abundantly influenced by politics. that game is a pretty heavy example, but it was made as a dunk on the Annoying Orange election supposedly. saints row got pretty molested by it it went from being about badass gangster stuff influenced by badass gangster culture to borderline being reddit: the game.

so if you're telling me you don't even like this stuff then they're literally just wasting money to poison the well.

literally what would I say about any of the other stuff. welcome to capitalism pal

>trying to throw my pal stuff back at me cause i was right about the conspiracies this entire time

tee hee

[ultimamax]

well you can feel like whatever you want it doesn't change the fact there are games now that are abundantly influenced by politics.

that isnt a good or a bad thing. lots of amazing games are overtly political and better for it - the entire metal gear series, spec ops the line, receiver 2, fallout new vegas, disco elysium, mother 3, cruelty squad

wanting 0 politics in your games is just the other side of the coin of the bluey/my little pony adult phenomenon

so if you're telling me you don't even like this stuff then they're literally just wasting money to poison the well.

the canadian and EU governments give artists grant money just to make art without strings attached and it's awesome

>trying to throw my pal stuff back at me cause i was right about the conspiracies this entire time

tee hee

the bidens are completely absent from the files so far

[mod-man]

that isnt a good or a bad thing. lots of amazing games are overtly political and better for it - the entire metal gear series, spec ops the line, receiver 2, fallout new vegas, disco elysium, mother 3, cruelty squad

yeah because those are actually well-crafted polished games made by teams of people that don't hate their core fanbase that use their political angle to tell an actually engaging story and aren't overtly in your face about it. i dont care about politics in games as long as its not cigarettegy and poorly done. saints row is a prime example of politics in games being cigarettegy and poorly done if not downright nefarious

the bidens are completely absent from the files so far

are you implying pizzagate and jeffrey epstein weren't on my list to begin with? hell i don't give a stuff if the bidens are in the files or not. i had the bidens files. its just as bad lol

[Goth77]

game streaming has inherent latency which is annoying, also with game streaming the concept of "owning" a game will probably disappear, you will just be renting it from the cloud or owning a license or whatever

we have different interpretations of game streaming. what I'm talking about is as simple as sharing your screen via discord. there is latency, sure, but it's very minimal if you have a good connection. my friends and I share our game streams all the time with practically no latency whatsoever...maybe 10-20 ms??

renting games from the cloud is a different story, which I disagree with and think is scummy. goes back into the whole subscription based nonsense I was complaining about before

[ultimamax]

we have different interpretations of game streaming. what I'm talking about is as simple as sharing your screen via discord. there is latency, sure, but it's very minimal if you have a good connection. my friends and I share our game streams all the time with practically no latency whatsoever...maybe 10-20 ms??

renting games from the cloud is a different story, which I disagree with and think is scummy. goes back into the whole subscription based nonsense I was complaining about before

yeah i am talking about stuff like google stadia, where just your inputs get sent to a server where the game is being executed and rendered, and then the video output is sent back to your machine. and i'm pretty sure that's what dr block was referring to

[Conan]

i dont care about politics in games as long as its not cigarettegy and poorly done. saints row is a prime example of politics in games being cigarettegy and poorly done if not downright nefarious

then say that in the first place instead of saying "theres too much politics in games". theres no point beating around the bush besides trying to hide your full thoughts.

[Drydess]

if video games were banned then the fertility and literacy rates would double

[bloody jumper]

-nevermind engaging with this thread is pointless-

[Aide33]

-nevermind engaging with this thread is pointless-

the realest stuff ive ever seen

[mod-man]

then say that in the first place instead of saying "theres too much politics in games". theres no point beating around the bush besides trying to hide your full thoughts.

games abundantly related to real life politics

yeah because thats what i said. i think this comment is open to interpretation enough to consider im not talking about all games that utilize real life politics to stylize their game, but games that are ABUNDANTLY about politics so much so that they sacrifice fun over the message

halo had a religious slant to it but it was still fun. call of duty had an american slant to it but it was still fun. i dont really know what fallout or mother 3's political slants were but those games were still fun. dustborn doesn't even look like a fun game and saints row looks like a broken mess and i cant help but think its because they sacrificed fun and playability over some bad idea they wanted to sell to people

ironically if you're even trying to sell a convincing message to someone its more effective when the game is good and fun. its why people who played halo and call of duty decided to join the military

[Conan]

but it doesnt sound like your issue is the level of politics, its whether or not the game is fun. id hesitate to call the mgs not "heavily political", or to use a new example, papers please. fundamentally it sounds like the issue isnt with the message of the game but rather what you personally feel about the overall quality/fun of the game. and the obvious (to me at least) counterpoint is that some people find certain things fun that others dont. not everything has to be a smash hit, and its fine if some studio spent a lot on a game that only appeals to a niche audience. businesses make bad decisions all the time and its silly to deride a specific subset more, purely cause you dont agree with the message or how its portrayed.

that said, i agree with your final point. i just think you're misattributing bad quality as because of political tone as opposed to bad game design/developers. and your casual use of a slur to make your prior point doesnt help your case.