BenMcLean

I had been thinking that unless you are the most active and ardent cross dressing pedophilic cannibal alive, some expansion of the woke coalition to invent some new fake category of oppression will eventually come along that will leave you on the outside. But in recent weeks, some have suggested that the woke coalition may suffer a complete collapse. Maybe its expansion has been halted, at least for a time, which would be good news for sanity. But if not, the purity spiraling will continue and they will come for you eventually.

A great example of someone who was perfectly orthodox except on one issue was J. K. Rowling. Just a few years ago, the braindead wokist zombie hoard absolutely lauded her for making Dumbledore gay in order to groom children and doing every other perverted ritual of dedication to the cult she possibly could. She was regarded as absolutely one of them until she started to disagree on just one issue: transgenderism. She said that the fight for women's rights she had always believed in needed to stay being about actual women. Despite her being completely orthodox on every single other dogma of the woke church, she immediately became regarded as a blasphemer who must be utterly cast out. Now honestly, I think she absolutely deserved all of it because when you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. But the trans issue won't be the last issue people don't completely go along with. There will be more and one day, it will be some other new issue you can't stomach just like her. The revolution will not stop at whatever completely arbitrary set of fetishes you personally feel comfortable with. You think you're Stalin but you might actually be Trotsky and find yourself on the outside at any moment.

The braindead Leftist zombie scum regard and treat all heretics the same, even if they only disagree on one issue instead of being as consistently radical as I am. (radical, meaning tearing out this entire cancerous ideology by the roots) Many such cases. I want companies to stop killing games and I think that requiring that is a legitimate function of government. But if I could get all of this kind of scumbag removed from all power and influence in society then I'd gladly trade permanently killing every single video game that has ever existed all the way back to Tennis for 2 in 1958 just to accomplish that because there are things in life that are more important than video games and putting a stop to their evil is far more important.

That's obviously pretty damn specific if it entails dictating everyone's stances on abortion, prostitution, feminism, DEI and God only knows how many other issues. Is there any limit at all on how many issues you're going to demand an orthodox stance on? I mean at least the early Christians had creeds that were relatively short but yours, if it was written down, seems that it would go on and on for pages.

Those are all entirely legitimate opinions I absolutely, publicly stand by. I absolutely do think abortion, prostitution, feminism and DEI are bad. These opinions you've gone and looked up would obviously be off topic for the Stop Killing Games campaign. But is it required to be pro-abortion, pro-prostitution, pro-feminism and pro-DEI to want governments to require corporations stop killing games? How specific & narrow is the range of acceptable thought going to get? Do people have to agree with your take on every political issue or only some? What about GamerGate people, for example, who tend to be a lot more liberal on social issues than I am? They have a pretty large following who really, really care about video games. They aren't likely to agree with you on much else besides stop killing games. But they don't want corporations killing games. If they're excluded, Stop Killing Games will have dug itself into a tiny, rigidly orthodox corner of the political spectrum. Heresy hunting isn't the way to build a coalition.

You're right that Biden isn't much of a Leftist, because he wasn't doing much of anything at all during his Presidency due to his declining mental state. But that's why I said the Biden administration and not Biden himself. The point is that I can't say these are "liberals" since what I'm claiming they have been doing is obviously very anti-liberal. Genuine liberals I wouldn't have as much of a problem with. I use the term "Leftist" to refer to their stance on social issues due to the lack of a better commonly accepted term, while obviously they are definitely not committed to hard Left positions on economic issues as you seem to intend to point out. I myself might be further to the left on economic issues than many Democrats since I have come to the realization over the past decade that woke capitalism is capitalism. All that ESG and DEI crap is the free market at work and therefore, I've come to realize that I don't like the free market after all. Some of the left-leaning types I remember arguing with twenty years ago turned out to have had some valid insights on economics where I was wrong. Now if they could just recognize the fact that men can't get pregnant, they'd be well on their way to a sane governing policy.

I was proved correct in my claim that Leftists control social media to engage in mass censorship by subsequent events, as Zuckerberg told Congress and more recently the public that the Biden administration in fact did this directly at the time, both in direct communications with Facebook and with an actual web portal created for them to directly control this and Musk's revelations of what was happening at Twitter tell a similar story. The age of conspiracy theory is over. This is the age of conspiracy fact. Whatever you say isn't happening is happening and whatever you say isn't happening is happening.

We've all familiar with what you want, which is pure malicious evil for the sake of evil. Go to hell. You should have a lot in common with the demons there since you're the villain even in your own story and you know it. But for anyone else who might read this and might be willing to listen to reason, if you want to move the industry to stop killing games then you need a broad bipartisan coalition of support. Putting exclusively extreme Leftist social ideologues in charge (by letting them unilaterally write and interpret the rules) locks you in to only one side and it isn't the side that has been winning in elections recently. You need tight, clearly defined rules that don't let Leftist mods just ban anyone for not being a Leftist like this is doing with its elastic weasel words. And I understand you also will need to ban the most extreme stuff on the Right as well, like explicit anti-black or anti-Jew stuff, because that kind of hatemongering & chaos doesn't lead to a constructive discussion either. But you need it clearly defined so it isn't just feels and personal vendettas & power-trips like Discord, Reddit and other "community moderated" crap is rife with and has been for a decade where they simply ban all dissent and then anyone who questions banning all dissent and then anyone vaguely associated with anyone associated with them and quickly become a purity-spiraling echo chamber where no actual thought is allowed. These people act exactly like Stalin & Mao as soon as they get any smallest degree of power.

I understand and agree with the desire to keep explicit, intentional racial hatemongering and overly divisive off-topic rhetoric out. However, in practice, terms such as "hatespeech" are incredibly elastic. There are no real limits on what can count as "hatespeech" as the concept is entirely subjective -- and straight out of Orwell's Newspeak dictionary. It doesn't have to be anything genuinely offensive to a reasonable / normal person to count as "hatespeech" -- it can be anything Leftists hate. For any or no reason. What they hate doesn't stay still either: it changes faster than anyone can ever keep up with. There's also the problem of scope, because mods go banning people for off-platform behavior they don't like or just to assert their power over anyone who doesn't worship the exact same sociopolitical orthodoxy they do. A specific rule like "no doxxing" makes sense, but concepts like "harassment" are similarly elastic. Public disagreement or dissent becomes framed as "harassment" even when it doesn't involve contacting the person or pursuing them at all. "Harassment" needs a tight definition so it is clear what is allowed (disagreeing about issues and saying so should be allowed) and what's not. (creeping on someone's family or job, following them, phone calls, doxxing, that kind of crap genuinely is harassment and should be banned) By the way, I'm not complaining about any specific mod on this Discord or even saying that this Discord is abnormal: I'm saying they're all crap and this one isn't better. Idiots who can't tell the difference between an average Trump supporter and a Nazi have no business moderating anything and I think that describes the typical person "with lots of Discord moderation experience"

About the "Stop Killing Games" Discord: People "with lots of Discord experience" is not a valid type of credential. If anything, it should be a disqualification. Unfortunately, like so many "pro discord mods" they've copy and pasted stuff that basically amounts to, "You must be a left winger in order to participate" with unbelievably vague and elastic rules designed to promote Leftist ideology and attack everyone else.

I finally got the cash to get into VR! My setup is as follows. CPU: i5 RAM: 12 GB GPU: GTX 1060 VRAM: 6 GB Headset: ASUS MR HC102 Bundle I won't be able to max out the settings or anything, but this should be more than enough to get started. I decided that Mixed Reality was the way to go, because the idea of setting up base stations / "Lighthouses" always seemed really awkward and inconvenient to me. There are a few VR experiences I already know I want: 1. Tabletop Simulator 2. SUPERHOT VR 3. The Talos Principle VR 4. Batman Arkham VR 5. Job Simulator But another thing I am really interested in is watching 3D movies with virtual surround sound. So far my experience on mobile VR has been that 3D movies on Gear and Daydream only do a static downmix to stereo. That's not virtual surround sound. Virtual surround sound should dynamically mix down to your stereo headphones on the fly based on the position of your head relative to where you've decided to place some virtual surround sound speakers. So if you lean back, you'll hear a little bit more of the back channels, and if you turn around then you'll hear the left and right reversed, just like if you were in a room with surround sound in real life. I haven't heard of any apps doing that, but I really want it. Also (and here is the real point of my post) I want to try old games (Especially Descent. Descent is the most important) with stereoscopic 3D in a virtual theater like Ross was talking about! It has been quite a while since that video though. What's the final verdict on that, guys? Is VorpX still the best option? Have any other stereoscopic drivers for old games to work on new VR headsets come along? Has anyone in the community been running experiments on some of the stuff Ross was ranting about? I think this needs an update!

I'd agree the main thing the 8-Bit guy needs help with is sound design. What do you mean? Did his previous games have bad sound? I think his 8-Bit Keys videos sound good.

Alexander Brandon is working on this Kickstarter game with The 8-Bit Guy. Everybody support them cause the game looks really awesome mkay?

Has there been any updates?

Still praying for you to get better!

I prayed for you to get better. I know you probably don't believe in God but that doesn't mean He doesn't believe in you. I think we've lost control of things that cause problems like this because of the Fall of Man, but God is helping us win that control back gradually, to the extent that we can show we're responsible enough to use that power for good. It's really tough that we can get sick in the meantime though.

I know lots of weird, obscure and old games nobody's heard of and so I find Ross's Game Dungeon really inspiring, especially the really strange episodes like Super Cult Tycoon, Bozo's Night Out, Bip Bop II and Eternam. I am thinking of trying to make my own videos in a similar style and was wondering: what is the process? I would assume it involves three steps before you edit: 1. Capturing game footage 2. Writing the script 3. Recording the voiceover The question is, what order do these three activities go in? Do you write the script, then get game footage, then record? Or do you write and record first, then get game footage after?