Meh.

I don't plan on using this much.

[brazenautomaton]

Bridget came out as a trans woman and if you don't like it you're a bigot! Why would the fact he was coercively assigned female and surrounded by people from infancy telling him he was a girl be relevant? It's a complete coincidence that this character forced to live as a woman would later "realize" they were a woman all along! And if you think otherwise you're a bad person!

[reply-guy-fieri]

At that point, they’re not trans. So I’m told, being transgender means transitioning to a gender other than the one you were assigned at birth. Bridget was assigned a gender (female) at birth and stayed with it. How can a character be transgender when no genders were even transed?

[triskelegant]

Hm, I'd seen the excited posts going around and was pretty neutral on the whole thing, but I hadn't really been aware that that was the character's backstory, hadn't thought of it the way OP puts it. Seems like a fair reading of the situation?

Gosh there's a lot of pretty nasty stuff-- real life, fiction tropes, stuff that's in both categories-- that parallels, isn't there. The one most salient to me is the old "girl who rejects expected female gender roles/aesthetics ultimately ends up leaving her gender nonconformity behind and embracing the role that's been forced on her since birth, And This Is How It Should Be." Trans guy narrative parallels seem even more obvious.

I mean, there's other reads and other backgrounds that change it up, it's not Strictly Bad, people aren't bad for liking it, but the "if you don't like this then you're a bad person" angle so many people take is, as usual, not great!

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Bridget was also forced to live as a girl by (checks notes) traditionalist, religious parents. And the character has a Christian theme.

This is not a good look for the pro-trans people applauding it, from either direction. It is somehow the worst of both worlds, and is somehow worse than the original backstory, which could easily be taken as a pro-trans analogy.

Of course, I’ve been informed that the term ‘trap’ is transphobic, from people who did not know and did not care how the term was actually used, which is just...very feminine boys, not trans women. 

At all.

If these rumors are true, the devs possibly made the change to pander to a whiny and wrong minority of wokesters who probably weren’t even fans.

[chickneighney]

It's also really interesting when you look at what was going on around the time of his release.

There had been a solid few months straight of people calling anyone trying to indoctrinate kids into the trans ideology "groomers," which eventually got it banned as being a slur for anti LGBTQ+ hate speech. Then a few weeks later, Bridget releases, and a bunch of cultural imperialists crawl out of the woodwork to say, "no, grooming is cool and good, actually. This story about a man trying to break free of societal expectations forced upon him and finally falling back into the brainwashing in the bad ending is an inspiration to us all. Stay mad about it chuds."

Because as we all know, a man can't be a man if he steps even a little outside of his gender roles, and nobody believes that more vehemently than the "diversity and inclusion" crowd.

[trutown-the-bard]

This show exists to launder money. It has to be. No one can be this uncreative especially when the games and books name several cities on the planet Reach.

[eric-coldfire]

I like how normies in the notes are like "you can't expect them to reference things from the books or games because then the viewer would be lost".

Thus confirming the show isn't for Halo fans, and it's main viewing body don't know and don't care to know anything about Halo.

"We can't reference things like Gotham City or Commissioner Gordon in our Batman show because it will leave non-comic book readers in the dark."

That's how stupid they sound.

[ottosgotanothergunagain]

This is Hungarian erasure.

[r4cs0]

I mean, it's a great reaction image that I'm saving more but that's it

[chickneighney]

“ “you can’t expect them to reference things from the books or games because then the viewer would be lost” “ would ALMOST be believable, if it wasn’t for the fact that they kept Keyes being Halsey’s daughter, which is literally only ever hinted at in one book on one page in a collectors edition for one of the games. It’s literally the most obscure piece of lore in the Halo universe that I know of, but they kept that in for some reason, while scrapping so much integral lore.

[statictay]

the way of the househusband and spy x family make up a new exciting genre i like to call contract killer slice of life

[sindri42]

There was also that 4koma manga about the lady who became an assassin by accident. Th one with all the animal puns?

[veryseriousjokes]

Happy kinakos killer life

[sindri42]

That’s the one!

[chickneighney]

There’s also this one about a normal guy getting married to an assassin.

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

this guy is literally a spoiled 14 year old in an adult body

[wizardshark]

Rich people sure used to getting absolutely everything they want, bar none

[sindri42]

1) a “poison pill” refers to the business practice of absolutely ruining your own company after somebody starts talking about buying it, causing significant and intentional harm to all of your employees just out of spite because you, the former owner, cannot stand the idea of anybody being richer than you are

2) the title here literally says “for Twitter’s board”. That’s not the workers. That’s not even the managers. The actual founder of the company hates them and said "It has consistently been the dysfunction of the company" and they "can literally make a billion dollars in value disappear.". These are people who pay themselves $3 million a year while actively making the company and the service worse.

[chickneighney]

Really funny to see so much of the “eat the rich” crowd come out of the woodwork to run defense for a group of millionaires because they might actually face some consequences for attempting to intentionally tank one of the biggest companies on the planet because someone they don’t like might get to play with their special toys that only they’re allowed to have. But the one playing by the rules and getting stonewalled for it is the spoiled child? 

[mornington-the-crescent]

Things are heating up in the Skyrim Fandom right now. Someone made a mod they removed hetro marriage and another mod that changes one half of every straight couples gender so they are all gay. Someone else made a mod that removed gay marriage and changed 1 couples so they were straight instead of gay and everyone is losing their minds over the second set of mods. Demanding the mod author and anyone who downloaded or endorsed the mods to be ban. The double standards are hilarious.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I vaguely remember a similar nontroversy about shipping/slash fics on Fandom Wank, over a decade ago. Slash of straight characters was fine. Making a gay character straight for shipping purposes was homophobic, apparently.

[chickneighney]

There was a mod on the Nexus for Stardew Valley that was up for less than a day that changed everyone in the game white and every comment on it before it was deleted was saying how racist it was. But you can still find a dozen mods that makes it “more diverse” by changing every single white person in the game to black.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[unlimited-shitpost-works-deacti]

They literally put monuments up so that we wouldn’t forget Hitler.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Not to mention the museums and historical sites.

If we’ll remember the Bad Guys just as well without statues and monuments, why remove them in the first place?

[sindri42]

Yeah just burn down the Holocaust museum it’ll be great.

Morons.

[chickneighney]

I would argue that nobody actually knows who Hitler was, considering people think the only thing he ever did was genocide. I think if they actually knew, they wouldn't be so ready to use all his methods of rising to power and convincing people how to excuse the horrible things he got away with for so long.

[drdrunkpigeon-phd]

Is anyone gonna talk about how turn based combat in games is boring, outdated, slow paced and just plain lazy and there’s absolutely no need to be creating games with it in gods year of 2020 or what?

[silent-calling]

Turn-based strategy is a staple to not just video games, but gaming as a whole, and I will not stand for this disrespect.

[drdrunkpigeon-phd]

Aye and the CD was revolutionary in the music industry that doesn’t mean theyre not outdated and unnecessary. And that’s coming from someone who still collects CDs.

It’s an incredibly lazy way to design combat in games.

[silent-calling]

It's not lazy or outdated. By that same logic board games as a whole are outdated. There is plenty of demand for turn-based games, and while I'm personally not a big fan of them, I can appreciate the fact that they do still have a large following.

[drdrunkpigeon-phd]

Board games are also incredibly outdated and it’s a stupidly saturated market for what it is.

[gholateg]

Take my turn based games from my cold arthritic hands you RTS bastards.

[sindri42]

Real time combat is incredibly lazy game design. You could be designing actually challenging tactical puzzles which require ingenuity, careful risk assessment and contingency planning, and efficient use of limited resources to survive, but instead you just say ‘what if more of the same monster, or faster?’ and pretend that’s an adequate substitute for thinking because you added a time limit. Stop pretending that Whak-a-Mole is a better game than X-Com.

[chickneighney]

Isn't the OP about Final Fantasy kinds of games and not XCom kinds of games? Did everyone here just kind of drop the ball on that or was it just me? Because I one hundred percent agree that turn based combat games are boring and lazy, but at least the turn based strategy games have depth to them.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Is twitter specifically designed so the page shifts just before you click on a “View” button?

In order to cause misclicks in some nefarious scheme?

Asking for a friend.

[lurker-lenore]

That would imply that Twitter has some kind of mouse tracking active.  I kind of doubt that’s the case.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I once read an article that had claims from an alleged web designer for shady sites. He said his type of people very, very carefully timed how certain elements would load, to cause misclicks. Which means more ad impressions.

When I scroll down and try to click on a “View” button for potentially “sensitive content” because I can’t be arsed to log in, the page tends to shift just before I click. On mobile and desktop. So I end up opening the link to some tweet, usually not the one I was aiming for.

It’s almost certainly not a plot, just bad UX. A simple ‘loading’ notice would mitigate it. Heck, even Tumblr manages to load more content without moving your position on the page.

[chickneighney]

Sounds like other "sensitive content" that you clicked view on higher up on the page is unloading and changing to a different size, messing up the formatting below.

[left-reminders]

[anti-sjwhiners]

Creating a company that hires and pays thousands of employees, and keeping that company running, stock owners and employees happy, and taking care of just day to day expenses is hard work.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

It’s amazing how often tankies ignore the fact that most businesses fail, and the ones that get rich are by far the exception.

And my first boss stressed himself to death over his business failing*, so these sorts of things particularly piss me off.

* He also had diabetes, and I think it was a combination of the two.

[nonenosome]

It’s amazing how these people don’t seem to understand that more responsibility comes with more pay. Like, do they think that their managers don’t make more than them? And that their managers boss doesn’t make more than their manager?

[siryouarebeingmocked]

They created an arbitrary mental divide between the “workers” and the “management”, the enlisted and the officers, so to speak.

[leanybeany09]

Except the fact that none of my managers at any job have ever done more work than the employees below them in rank. Business owners should treat their employees correctly. No reason a ceo should be making half the amount they do while workers are on welfare.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

> Except the fact that none of my managers at any job have ever done more work than the employees below them in rank.

In your opinion.

Also, there are literally tens of millions of managers and executives on Earth. I don’t think your personal experience is a significant sample.

[leanybeany09]

Just like your few good managers don’t mean there aren’t shit ones. Moral of the story. No one needs to be making the amounts of money business owners and ceos make while employees are on welfare

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Except a) I didn’t say anything about my managers, and this isn’t about the workers on welfare, it’s about anti-executive/management sentiment in general.

Oh, and, again, most businesses fail. I know you have confirmation bias somethin’ fierce, but this’ll only take a moment, okay? 

My old boss? My old dead boss? Whose company fell apart? His son told me about how him and his mom live in a fancy house but they were tens of thousands of bucks in debt. 

Sometimes the big chair only stays clean because the person sitting in it has bladder control. 

Sometimes those bottles on the sideboard aren’t for the visitors.

[just-a-cruel-white-man]

Moral of the story. No one needs to be making the amounts of money business owners and ceos make while employees are on welfare.

That’s a very bad misuse of the word “moral”. A moral is a lesson to be learned from the conclusion of a story. What you just said is not a moral, instead you stated your personal opinion again, as if it was the end of the debate. In @iamthemathman ’s exact words : “This is homeomorphic to an obnoxious teenage girl saying “You’ve got nothing else to say, ciao 🤣🤣😘”“

[chickneighney]

Emotional labor isn't something that only the lowest of minimum wage workers have to deal with.

[femmenietzsche]

Usually the problem with anti-male circumcision activism is how to implement it in a way that doesn't infringe on religious liberty, coupled with speculations of antisemitism

It’s not liberty to surgically inflict your religion on someone who doesn’t believe in or even understand it and can’t consent. If Judaism or Islam can’t handle that, too bad for them.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

In the US, most people who get cut aren’t doing it for religious reasons, which these accusations of Antisemitism - and it’s almost always just antisemitism, not  antisemitism and Islamophobia - never seem to acknowledge.

[howalive-tooalive]

can confirm.  when I finally asked my parents about it, they said they only did it because everyone else was at the time.

[chickneighney]

My mom told me a story about how when my brother was born, before anything else could happen, the doctors took him into another room and circumcised him without asking while she was laying there exhausted, having to hear the worst screams and cries she's ever heard in her life. The only thing she could do in that state was cry. 

Neither her nor my dad are even a little bit religious in any direction. Him being born male was literally the only permission they needed to mutilate him.

If the right to bodily integrity is antisemitic or Islamophobic or whatever, then good. Fuck ‘em. If your religion literally starts you off by violating someone’s human rights, your religion needs to change or it isn’t worth keeping. Tradition isn’t worth that price.

[catchymemes]

[itsstilloktobewhite]

Isnt that literally the military poster child? Some dumb loser that doesnt know enough to know that war sucks. Thats why they recruit at highschools. 

[chickneighney]

It’s not like there’s no precedent or anything.

[sweetbeanscomix-deactivated2020]

[shiver-stars]

and at the beginning of 2020, people immediately saw that the artist is an awful person and banded together by defending the character she bullied.

things are already looking up for the year. I don’t know what she expected.

[werewolf-cuddles]

I'm sorry, if we're not supposed to side with New Guy, then why is he shaped like a friend?

[cheshireinthemiddle]

He’s also the sane one of the two.

[gservator]

[feminismisahatemovement]

It’s funny trying to follow the thought processes of the purple-haired, passive-aggressive toxicity that originally posted this thing.

Think about what it says about her as a person: first of all, she openly takes joy in the suffering of a fellow human being - someone she doesn’t even know, has never met, has never personally hurt or abused her - but does so because she has learnt to put that individual into a series of differently labeled mental boxes that she considers exempt from compassion or empathy, and so can continue to feel a moral person through their dehumanization. Then, when questioned about it by an ordinary, decent passer-by, she has no justification, no funny, witty, insightful comeback: she simply says the opposite of what she means and then admits that she’s lying. And that’s the joke.

What a mess.

The only good thing this person has ever done for humanity is a) alert us all to very good reasons to avoid her, and b) inspire all the much more wholesome response cartoons:

[darkwee009]

I saw this live on Twitter and it was hilarious.

New Guy is the best Guy

[trilllizard666]

lmao

[chickneighney]

I think my favorite thing about this whole situation is that it perfectly encapsulates why I have a problem with “freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of consequences.” The comic is saying that PDP getting robbed was hilarious and deserved because he said a bad word or whatever it is nowadays, but then when people called the artist out on it, they hide behind privating their twitter, trying to duck the consequences of her speech. Her speech is part of his consequences, so she shouldn’t have any herself!

Suddenly the mob isn’t so great when you’re on the other side of it. Hopefully these people will start to learn. 

Not likely, though. People are already calling it harassment instead of realizing that this is exactly the kind of thing they’ve been doing for the past 5 years.

It’s absolutely baffling to me how someone can spend the time writing, proofreading, sketching, drawing, finalizing, and uploading a comic on the internet that says, “I’m a massive tool and dickhead,” in 4 panels, but then cries when people see it and say, “you’re a massive tool and dickhead.”

[sararyder]

mass effect: locations [ME2] [ME3]

[sindri42]

in case you forgot for a moment how gorgeous this game was

[chickneighney]

The Noveria being shown here is from Mass Effect 3 and not Mass Effect 1.

[unicorngurllxx]

Yessss!

I always find conservatives and libertarians always use ’freedom of speech’ as a get out of jail card to say all the shit they want and shut down debate. But the thing is freedom of speech applies to everyone which means its in everyones right to critise what u are saying and u have to face the consequences of what u say!

[panzerschwanzwagen]

This! Good thing leftists never threaten physical violence over political disagreements. Can you imagine how stupid that would be?

[bhikshu]

You know what? I just realized why this argument, aside from being in spectacularly bad faith, always rubs me the wrong way. No other right is treated this way by these authoritarian scum.

“Look, Syed, you need to understand: Freedom of religion doesn’t mean freedom from consequences. No, I understand you’re upset. But I can’t have a *winces* Muslim working here. I know your wife is pregnant, but this is a Jewish hospital. No, no, I’m not saying you shouldn’t have the right to work. I did contact every other medical administrator in a 50-mile radius to tell them not to hire you, though. Look, I’m sorry, but nobody forced you to follow the cult of a warlord pedophile. Hey, hey, calm down now. I’m not calling the cops or anything. This is a free country. But you’ve gotta understand, I can turn on the TV at any time and see Israelis being threatened by Hamas. This whole ‘associate with people from different religions’ thing is a privilege not all of us have.”

[chickneighney]

Every time I hear this argument, it reminds me of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Nice and how saying the wrong things in fascist states can get you and your family put in camps or worse. What about Malala Yousafzai getting shot? Jamal Khashoggi? Ah, well, they got what was coming to them, really. Shoulda just kept their mouths shut.

You want speech with consequences, go to those places and see how great they are, see how long you last. Needing to walk on eggshells, watching everything you say in case it’ll end up ruining your life. You think it’s fine and dandy because you think you’ll be the one judging what speech does and doesn’t deserve consequences. 

I see that the OP is trying to make this about “criticism,” but very rarely is this ever said in regards to it. It’s always said to people losing their jobs or getting assaulted in the street. In fact, the OP on their blog is defending people throwing milkshakes at people they disagree with. Tells me all I need to know about what kind of “consequences” the people saying this are looking forward to giving out.

[eyepatched-gourmet]

This whole nessa drama on twitter isn’t even about color theory anymore… the whitewashing is just blatant at this point.

[mx-mythos-deactivated20220425]

Y I K E S. I advise everyone to skip the notes. The amount of “I SUPPORT THEM FOR GETTING BACK AT THE TRIGGERED ART POLICE!1!!!!1” is all too telling. And let’s be real, the main trolls who say this are probably the same people who would ask “Oh, but what if it was a white character??? Would you feel the same????” as some sort of cheap comeback in a race topic.

Lmao, no wonder why people always call you out for showing the slightest bit of racist/colorist bullshit. Your amount of childishness is downright pathetic; you’re quick to defend actual derogatory behavior so you can get back at the people who spite you so much. Do yourself a favor, and get societally engaged because clearly, y’all are still trapped in the Dark Ages of Gamergate rhetoric. Anyways, great callout post OP and anyone else still trying to defend this foolishness can join the circus with the rest of their clown ass friends.

[finndeservesbetter]

Reblogged again with less nonsense from racist dumbasses with waifu profile pics

[trenderish]

they keep crying that its “just satire” but..

[curiooftheheart]

Not to expose my followers to this continued idiocy but hey I literally made a post the other day on how ironic racism is still racism so might as well share an example

[theunnamedstranger]

changing a fictional character’s skin color is not racism, you fucking butternut squash.

it can’t be “ironic racism” if it literally isn’t racism you dumb fuck.

[chickneighney]

It's pretty convenient how "power + privilege" got dropped when it came to Japanese artists in Japan making fun of oversensitive people in the west. Suddenly, it's not just The WhitesTM that can be racist.

[chickneighney]

I. Love. Your. Commentary. Following immediately.

Thanks. I don’t do it often, but I hope you get your money’s worth eventually.

[stankyleg-deactivated2918973]

A person who can befriend people of any political ideology is someone to avoid.

[stankyleg-deactivated2918973]

And they’re so smug about it too. That just means you stand for nothing. That’s nothing to be proud of.

[hardboiledoldman]

sorry, grandpa, but you’re marginally conservative and someone on tumblr told me im a bad person if i continue our relationship

[kompanie-mutter-deactivated2021]

internet leftists are really smug about the fact that they absolutely refuse to reach across the aisle and cordially share their views with people who don’t already agree with them and then wonder why no one wants to join them and they keep losing people to the right

[gangster-computer-kebab-deactiv]

I can’t wait for these causeniks to lose their shit over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, co-authoring a new bill with Ted Cruz.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/13/ted-cruz-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-partnership-1364592

[tearanny]

Compromise! Is! A! Good! Thing!

[spotofjane]

Guys OP said be FRIENDS. You can talk to people who disagree with politically, work with them, even compromise with them! That’s great! But you DON’T have to be friends with them!

On one hand cooperation is good, but on the other hand, you shouldn’t be obligated to be friends with people who you disagree with because “cooperation.” Both of you are right!

[siryouarebeingmocked]

OP didn’t say “people shouldn’t have to be friends”, and no one acted like they did.

OP literally said we should avoid anyone who can politically disagree with someone and still befriend them.

[chickneighney]

This is a very important conversation to be having, I just have a few questions as to how to apply this.

Is there a ratio for Right Opinions:Wrong Opinions? Does it only apply to people living in the same country, in the same political climate? How soon can I start grilling someone on their political beliefs before becoming friends? Does family skew it at all and by how much? Can we put it in an easy to use equation?

((RO+Fa)xFo)-((WO-Fa)/Fo) ?

Or is it zero tolerance? What if I’ve been friends with someone and politics never came up? How many Wrong Opinions are they allowed before I have to cut all contact and give them the boot on all platforms?

All joking aside, I sincerely hope, from the bottom of my heart, that OP and the people that think like her have a group of friends that don’t think like this before they end up being on the Wrong Side of History. With these kinds of people, it only takes one incident for them to pull the floor out from under you. They only keep you around because you’re convenient for their egos, not because you’re friends, and they’ll lose literally nothing when you step out of line and they ruin you for it.

Please diversify your friends with people you don’t agree with, I’m begging you, because those people will be friends with you because you’re you, not because you Right Think.