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So Far Cry 5's promo art was revealed:



And of course, people are accusing Ubisoft of attacking the Alt-Right. Seriously...



I think people don't know what alt-right means. I'll try to be as non-political as possible here. That doesn't simply mean republican, conservative, or Trump supporter. According to Wikipedia Richard Spencer appropriated the term in 2010 to define a movement centered on white nationalism. This is a white supremacist group who calls themselves alt-right because their ideas are too extreme for normal republicans and conservatives. One of these posts says this game is villainizing the alt-right. What they don't seem to realize is that the alt-right is actually already kind of a group of villains.

I think the confusion comes from people throwing around the phrase alt-right way too often. It's often used by democrats to describe normal republicans they disagree with just like far-left, communist, or socialist are used to describe normal democrats that republicans disagree with. In both cases it's almost always an extreme exaggeration.

Judging by the cover image here I do think the enemies in this game are going to be the alt-right or some other form of extremist conservatives. That does not mean that mainstream republicans will be the enemy in this game. If a republican looks at that image and identifies with it instead of seeing it as an over the top caricature of extremism they might have bigger problems than video games.

Edit: After reading through Wikipedia a little more I see that Richard Spencer is from Montana. There is a good chance that this game being set in Montana is no coincidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer
 
I think people don't know what alt-right means. I'll try to be as non-political as possible here. That doesn't simply mean republican, conservative, or Trump supporter. According to Wikipedia Richard Spencer appropriated the term in 2010 to define a movement centered on white nationalism. This is a white supremacist group who calls themselves alt-right because their ideas are too extreme for normal republicans and conservatives. One of these posts says this game is villainizing the alt-right. What they don't seem to realize is that the alt-right is actually already kind of a group of villains.

I think the confusion comes from people throwing around the phrase alt-right way too often. It's often used by democrats to describe normal republicans they disagree with just like far-left, communist, or socialist are used to describe normal democrats that republicans disagree with. In both cases it's almost always an extreme exaggeration.

Judging by the cover image here I do think the enemies in this game are going to be the alt-right or some other form of extremist conservatives. That does not mean that mainstream republicans will be the enemy in this game. If a republican looks at that image and identifies with it instead of seeing it as an over the top caricature of extremism they might have bigger problems than video games.

Edit: After reading through Wikipedia a little more I see that Richard Spencer is from Montana. There is a good chance that this game being set in Montana is no coincidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer
I don't think anyone that is taking this cover as seriously as these people are has a proper understanding of any political ideology.
 
A new skin clinic opened in Vietnam. Why is this news? Well, their logo shouldn't inspire confidence from any gamers.

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For those that don't know.
 
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At e3 it was announced that Rocket League and Minecraft would be fully cross platform. Well, except for Sony. That's right, NINTENDO is allowing cross platform gaming before SONY is. And the statements that Sony made "defending" this action are incredibly stupid and the reporter totally called him out on their BS.

Here I rant about it for a while. NSFW language
 
Topware decided to add microtransactions to Two Worlds II.

Just for reference, that game came out 2408 DAYS AGO.

 
I'm thinking he's talking about the part where about 80% of the puzzle is red and over half of it is the exact same color with the exact same pattern. It's hard to put a puzzle together if you can't try to separate the pieces based on which part of the image they make up.

This is assuming that this puzzle is like just about every other puzzle in existence where the finished puzzle matches what is shown on the box. Hopefully this isn't the actual design of the puzzle and they just made a bad box.
 
I'm thinking he's talking about the part where about 80% of the puzzle is red and over half of it is the exact same color with the exact same pattern. It's hard to put a puzzle together if you can't try to separate the pieces based on which part of the image they make up.

This is assuming that this puzzle is like just about every other puzzle in existence where the finished puzzle matches what is shown on the box. Hopefully this isn't the actual design of the puzzle and they just made a bad box.

That's it. And even if it's just the image of Mario that they show on the cover it's not much better since most of the parts are 1 color.
 
That's it. And even if it's just the image of Mario that they show on the cover it's not much better since most of the parts are 1 color.
I don't see a huge problem. I've done puzzles more challenging than that. Being that it's 1000 pieces, it wasn't a kids puzzle to begin with.
 
Games for "Steam Achievement Hunters" are now getting out of hand. Look at this mess that promises 10,000+ achievements.

 
People are review bombing DOTA 2 because apparently they think that it's existence is the reason that Valve hasn't made Half Life 3/ 2 Episode 3.

Dota 2 is getting review-bombed because people think it "killed” Half-Life 3

In reality, Steam practically having a monopoly on PC gaming is the reason Valve hasn't made Half Life 3 or any other new games lately. Why spend millions of dollars developing your own games when you get a 30% cut of every game sold on Steam?

Yes, I know they don't have an actual monopoly. There are other services like Battle.net, GOG, Origin, and uPlay but the vast majority of PC games are sold on Steam. Even the ones that sell on both Steam and another service sell way more copies on Steam.
 
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NBA 2K18's level of microtransactions is being considered a bit unreasonable, and given how tempered people have become to these things, that's saying something.



Story the video references: https://kotaku.com/nba-2k18-is-riddled-with-microtransactions-1818554307

The game is getting hammered on Steam:

Oh, and let's not forget that the game had an awful bug for Xbox One owners that would wipe out entire saved games.

‘NBA 2K18’ gets emergency patch to fix data-wiping Xbox One bug


We did early edition, my son liked it, I am not crazy about it and yea we felt with bugs of all sorts over the weekend
 

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