Hasan Piker: “Trans people are 1% of the population. They shouldn’t be talked about endlessly. Muslims are 1% of the population. They shouldn’t be talked about endlessly. It’s not a Guatemalan migrant that made your housing more expensive. It’s your landlord, it’s hedge funds buying out all of these homes and rising up their prices. A transgender person is not the reason your energy costs are skyrocketing. It’s the wars we’re waging, the data centers sucking up the energy needs. This is just the truth”

El wey que no es "ni izquierda ni derecha" cuando gana la izquierda:

i want everyone to know brazil just won against fascism despite them having the media on their pockets and the elites on their side despite millions of dollars of american interventionism despite totally unrealistic odds if we can do it, so can you

we have a lot we can learn from the brazilian lefts mobilization against bolsonaro. international solidarity for all antifascists! congratulations to lula and the left for overcoming great odds.

Congratulations, Brazil!

The oxymoron of ‘tradwife’ influencer never ceases to amuse me.

Just like woke, they never seem to have a consistent definition lol

The culture war BS is useless noise distracting from the fact that consoles and games are becoming more expensive, physical media is disappearing, and gaming companies gleefully claiming you won’t own your games in the future. Wokeness doesn’t kill games, capitalism does.

"corporations exist to generate revenue." Some of the most glaring flaws in late Bioware games were a direct consequence of this mindset. You people are so obsessed with meaningless culture war issues that you're completely oblivious to glaring issues in the game industry.

Everything is a fucking subscription "Capitalism creates innovation" No, it fucking doesn't. Said "innovation" is just creating ways to squeeze out more and more money out of you. While the product quality decreases, the price only increases.

People defending EA’s mismanagement practices just because “BioWare done” and “it’s da end of da LGBT” is certainly a choice. I thought people with a functioning brain generally hated EA’s meddling and studio interference? We’ve spent years slamming EA for fumbling Dead Space, yet suddenly we’re supposed to ignore the publisher that was literally voted “Worst Company in America” two times in a row. A healthy studio releasing a bad game is one thing. A studio stripped down, hemorrhaging talent, and having its resources squeezed until there’s barely anything left is another. There’s a difference between a studio failing on its own merits and a publisher systematically undermining the people working under it. As usual…it’s Twitter. Conversations like this are apparently too nuanced for small, agenda-driven minds. That’s why I told someone, “Hey, man, I don’t want to have this conversation with you until you get out of the conspiracy zone.” What interests me is the why. I want to understand the facts and circumstances behind these situations, and time and time again, we see examples of EA mismanaging studios, interfering with their creative direction, or simply letting beloved IPs die on the vine. And honestly, I never expected things to improve under the Saudi acquisition. I knew this would ultimately lead to having to play it safe and EA shitting out another Star Wars game as quickly as possible rather than prioritize Mass Effect. This is what happens when you choose short-term profits over creative growth and long-term sustainability. BioWare has been struggling for years, but the question remains: who repeatedly put the studio in this position in the first place? EA. Ultimately, I believe BioWare is a victim of its own publisher. I will never forgive EA for what it did to Visceral Games, the original Dead Space studio, or Pandemic Studios, the team behind Destroy All Humans! Ever. This shouldn’t be about celebrating a studio’s downfall. If that’s what you’re doing, you’re engaging in destructive criticism rather than actually examining the situation. And if you turn everything into another culture-war talking point, you’re approaching the conversation with a one-track mindset that leaves little room for nuance or a deeper examination of EA’s own failures. It’s about looking at the bigger picture and holding the people responsible for these decisions accountable. But apparently, that’s too much to ask when people would rather push an agenda than to have an honest, meaningful conversation.

Reminder: - EA cancelled the Single Player Dragon Age 4 in development from 2015-2017 - Pushed them to create a live service Dragon Age because of trend chasing. They considered multiplayer the future of gaming, "nobody plays single player games anymore" except then Jedi Fallen Order released with huge success and they pivoted again. - After 3 years of development on Live Service Age from 2018-2021, EA & Bioware decide to remove the Multiplayer component but instead of rebooting a second time they gave them 18 months to rip out all that live service work and have them make it a single player game AGAIN, at a significant disadvantage to meet expectations. - Six years of wasted development now, when a lot of the series veterans had been laid off or quit out of frustration with EA along with numerous management and staff changes. Among these names are David Gaider, Mike Laidlaw, and later before Veilguard's release Mary Kirby. Her departure was an abysmal sign for the future of DA before this next game had even released. - This resulted in the announcement of Dragon Age Dreadwolf in 2022, later renamed Veilguard which retained the scars of it's live service development when it released in 2024 and was never the true game Bioware would have given us if they hadn't been constantly fucked around. We could and should have had the intended Dragon Age 4 before 2020, instead it took almost a DECADE for the follow up. The worst things these companies do is trend chase something, with zero foresight on temporary trends. By the time you release that game public opinion has shifted. Rocksteady's Suicide Squad as a clear example of this too. Just let creative people make something they are passionate about and stop putting them in boxes. Let developers make something real by giving them time and resources to deliver something memorable with a clear goal, not a post mortem example like Anthem on how not to develop a game. EA has been fucking over Bioware basically since they acquired them. Issues with Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard aside as yes all three have their issues and you'll even have people going back to Mass Effect 3/DA2/Inquisition with issues as well; a lot of this comes from a long long period of EA pushing Bioware into a corner and then watching them be a punching bag for it. It also comes from internal schisms within Bioware where there was a strange Mass Effect vs Dragon Age rift and David Gaider said they may as well have been two different studios with how the culture was different, plus the writers getting fucked over at every turn. People taking the lowest hanging fruit possible and are gonna just say it was Veilguard, it was Anthem, it was Andromeda etc that sealed their fate when in actual reality it was a long list of issues going back 15+ years that led to the issues within those games in the first place.

The anti-woke brigade cheering the closure of BioWare while being totally OK with EA being sold to Saudi Arabia couldn’t be a better representation of how they literally stand on nothing besides sticking it to the “libs”.

Common sense prevails!

All of Twitter in a nutshell now. A cesspool of whiny manchildren

Good on those soldiers!