I really feel bitter writing this considering my liking for the console in question and my lack of fondness for it's "successor" but I must address this since it just happened sooner than I thought: the dreaded time when the PS3, the last great Sony console IMO, is officially discontinued in its home country, Japan. I know some people (SOME people) will just not care and go "oh boo-hoo, an olld console dat almost nobah-dee carez abowt in da wohrld iz goin' de wey of da doh doh but I gawt me sum fancier s--t with moar graphics and spekz and s--t so I dawnt feel bahd" but let me, as one of the presumably few people sticking with an "old dinosaur" console put my thoughts on this.
I'm simply saddened that Sony chose to put a pretty console out into the pasture and basically making us gamers stick to the "PS4" of which will always be a PS3.5 without backwards compatibility nor it's very convenient XMB menu system; all this without even putting back the ability to play PS2 discs in some version that can considered the "swan song"! God, writing that just makes me even more angry at Sony for just canning the PS3; I get it, it's no longer the big system that the gamer community care anymore for some reason but at least give it a few more years before say 2020 and maybe a few more games like Atlus did with Persona 5, of which I will forever be happy to own it as one of the last PS3 games ever made in my lifetime but I digress. I mean the PS2, despite it's heyday fading out by 2008, got to be able to be made until 2013, that's like 13 years since it came out in the year 2000 and with the rather unwarranted advent of the "PS4", I expect the company to do the same with the PS3, in spite of my earlier distaste for the console since Sony thought it was a great idea to get rid of backwards compatibility, disc-wise for the PS2, in their later models (and I will never get over it, never!). But alas, I was wrong and here they are discontinuing the console in their home country of all places, though to be fair they did start this trend in New Zealand almost two years ago so it's technically expected this would happen but not this early.
*Sigh* At least I have the Nintendo Switch as the true next-gen console to look forward too, that system is worth getting for as far as I'm concerned (the PC doesn't count, though I would need to get Win 10 sometime before 2020 but that's another story for another time) .
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Monday, May 29, 2017
Slander Fi! The Marines Get Attacked for "Toxic Masculinity"!
Happy Memorial Day! and today I'm going to show you something not so happy. Why? Because it's outrageous and deserves to be mentioned. For some hairbrained reason, Vox, one of the many "respected" mainstream publications, decide to crap on the USMC for being some supposed "rape culture" institution that uses "systemic sexism" of a sort. And I'm like what? All this on a day where our armed forces, in spite of their problems in the past and today, are to be respected for the duties they do? It's as if Vox has a bone to pick with the Marine Corps of all things, especially in a service that's supposed to use "toxic masculinity" to carry out various tasks to ensure the safety of our citizens and other countries around the world; it's a military institution for crying out loud.
And I suppose one can argue they're merely criticizing the past treatment of women and I guess that might be okay; but why bother trying to all negative on a holiday when they should be rightly praising the USMC's attempt to get women into their ranks? It goes to show you that SJWs are never satisfied in a true sense and will criticize anything, even my country's military, just to make their voices heard. Well I got bad news for Vox; the Marines are more worried about ISIS trying to wreck havoc in the Middle East as much as they can before they rightly go kaput and/or try to take down more innocent lives in Europe and the West than some nonsensical "systemic sexism".
And I suppose one can argue they're merely criticizing the past treatment of women and I guess that might be okay; but why bother trying to all negative on a holiday when they should be rightly praising the USMC's attempt to get women into their ranks? It goes to show you that SJWs are never satisfied in a true sense and will criticize anything, even my country's military, just to make their voices heard. Well I got bad news for Vox; the Marines are more worried about ISIS trying to wreck havoc in the Middle East as much as they can before they rightly go kaput and/or try to take down more innocent lives in Europe and the West than some nonsensical "systemic sexism".
Sunday, May 28, 2017
Spawned In the USA: Far Cry 5 Stokes Politicized Craze
I did not see this coming though I must stress that I really don't care about Far Cry at all aside from playing the first game on the Xbox console of which I enjoyed a lot but lost interest over time nor am I interesting in the upcoming game I will mention now. Anyway it's shown that Far Cry 5 is not only coming out but will be set in my home country, the United States and that the villains will be some fringe, Christian doomsday cult that took over some county in Montana and they are all white. Granted I really don't care if I'm fighting the Nazis, the Soviets, not-Al Qaeda, or Morden's Rebels as long as I know that the bad guys are evil in both historical and/or fictional context, i.e. deserving to be whooped, but I have to stress that description of the villains of FC5 for a reason.
A good number of articles and people on twitter (sometimes I wonder why twitter was ever invented in the first place) are trying to make it out to be some "commentary" on the Trump administration and of the US political scene today. And you can tell I'm not enthusiastic about this agenda pushing nonsense since I feel they definitely aren't contributing to whatever the message the game might present to us and of discussion. I mean I don't see how trying to shove current day politics in pop culture (in a blatant fashion rather) would do any wonders though granted there were numerous attempts in the past since print was invented I guess but I feel like the recent trend of trying to tie stuff about Trump and other political subjects in something like Far Cry 5 is really getting annoying real fast. Heck I called this out when people where trying to tie the Trump campaign to something like the Man in the High Castle TV show of which something like an Axis takeover of the USA isn't worth a lot of political debates and campaigns to deal with but I digress for the sake of my sanity.
And here again, something like an insane doomsday cult that speaks for God yet abuses its Christian ways (and no doubt bringing out the bad from the Bible...no joke the Bible had some bad stuff in it) should not worth getting politicized over as there is nothing political about obviously evil cults taking over innocent towns and whatnot, it's a moral issue and something has be done to defeat them. Thankfully this article points out the stupidity of making FC5 something about Trump and the USA and kudos to him; the more people pointing out the agenda pushing nonsense the better.
And as for me, I'm not getting FC5, not because of the setting and the controversy, but because there's more games worth my time IMO, like the Misadventures of Tron Bonne and Gotcha Force, as they are more expensive to own than they should be but that's another post for another time.
Update: Things are really getting of out hand now that there's a "petition" floating around that basically demands Ubisoft to change the game as to not be "anti-white" yet it has been pointed out by plenty of people that the petition is a fake and that many gaming "journalists" fell for it. I mean the whole line about "harassment of gamers by mainstream journalists during Gamergate" should be obvious that something isn't right about the petition given that while the major of the pro-Gamergate community has not done any harassment, there is a small minority of them that did do the harassment business. Yet, they are rightly condemned by the majority since they like many other asshat trolls, they don't add anything meaningful; the most the mainstream journalists did is shame gaming culture and declare them "dead" of which I will contend help escalate the controversy more than it needed to be but that's another story for another time. But I will link more about how this petition is a fake to this article that explains more in detail than I can.
A good number of articles and people on twitter (sometimes I wonder why twitter was ever invented in the first place) are trying to make it out to be some "commentary" on the Trump administration and of the US political scene today. And you can tell I'm not enthusiastic about this agenda pushing nonsense since I feel they definitely aren't contributing to whatever the message the game might present to us and of discussion. I mean I don't see how trying to shove current day politics in pop culture (in a blatant fashion rather) would do any wonders though granted there were numerous attempts in the past since print was invented I guess but I feel like the recent trend of trying to tie stuff about Trump and other political subjects in something like Far Cry 5 is really getting annoying real fast. Heck I called this out when people where trying to tie the Trump campaign to something like the Man in the High Castle TV show of which something like an Axis takeover of the USA isn't worth a lot of political debates and campaigns to deal with but I digress for the sake of my sanity.
And here again, something like an insane doomsday cult that speaks for God yet abuses its Christian ways (and no doubt bringing out the bad from the Bible...no joke the Bible had some bad stuff in it) should not worth getting politicized over as there is nothing political about obviously evil cults taking over innocent towns and whatnot, it's a moral issue and something has be done to defeat them. Thankfully this article points out the stupidity of making FC5 something about Trump and the USA and kudos to him; the more people pointing out the agenda pushing nonsense the better.
And as for me, I'm not getting FC5, not because of the setting and the controversy, but because there's more games worth my time IMO, like the Misadventures of Tron Bonne and Gotcha Force, as they are more expensive to own than they should be but that's another post for another time.
Update: Things are really getting of out hand now that there's a "petition" floating around that basically demands Ubisoft to change the game as to not be "anti-white" yet it has been pointed out by plenty of people that the petition is a fake and that many gaming "journalists" fell for it. I mean the whole line about "harassment of gamers by mainstream journalists during Gamergate" should be obvious that something isn't right about the petition given that while the major of the pro-Gamergate community has not done any harassment, there is a small minority of them that did do the harassment business. Yet, they are rightly condemned by the majority since they like many other asshat trolls, they don't add anything meaningful; the most the mainstream journalists did is shame gaming culture and declare them "dead" of which I will contend help escalate the controversy more than it needed to be but that's another story for another time. But I will link more about how this petition is a fake to this article that explains more in detail than I can.
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