Starker on 14/11/2018 at 10:50
Hell, forget Japan, shows like Archer are mainstream television now. And GTA has a lot more crass humour than that.
froghawk on 14/11/2018 at 16:26
games aren't pc and aren't made for pc anymore WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TO
Starker on 14/11/2018 at 17:11
I find that often what gets lambasted as PC culture is just changing tastes. Some audiences just don't find it funny anymore when a comedian spends an hour talking about how disgusting or weird gay people are, for example. And that's just because the way a lot of people view certain groups has changed. Ratings are everything in television. If a show is controversial and draws lots of viewers, you can bet it will be milked to death just like anything else that gets popular.
Starker on 15/11/2018 at 11:00
What goes around comes around. Making fun of jews, gay people, black people, etc might seem like a cherished tradition to some, but it was never fun for people in those groups.
Thirith on 15/11/2018 at 18:39
Frankly, that sounds less like humour and more like bullying to me. If that's what PC is up against, I'm more than happy to sign up for the PC brigade.
henke on 16/11/2018 at 18:18
Yes I am also not ok with NON-PC JOKES.
Unless they're really funny. :P
ANYWAY I'm playing Steel Rats!
[video=youtube;tEZ6aB-yb2w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEZ6aB-yb2w[/video]
It's like Trials HD and Sonic The Hedgehog has a BABY. (and I don't mean that in a DeviantArt kinda way) It starts off pleasant enough, but it really gets good a few levels into the second zone, once you've come to grips with the somewhat unique controls and the difficulty ramps up. I'm getting close to the final zone now. Will report back once I'm done with it.
Starker on 17/11/2018 at 07:53
There are degrees to everything. It matters who is telling the joke and where and when. A sitcom like The Nanny making fun of jewish stereotypes is different from The Daily Stormer making fun of jewish stereotypes, etc. And someone telling an ethnic joke among friends is different from a president saying that African nations are shithole countries and indicating that therefore people born there are undesirable, no matter how much individual merit they might have.
And not everything is because of political correctness. Disney didn't fire James Gunn because of political correctness, but because jokes about pedophilia don't go well with Disney's image as a children's entertainment company, for example. And sometimes it's actually because of conservative groups worried about moral corruption, etc. It's not the "PC police" that Nintendo is worried about when they cut references to alcohol, Christianity and sex from their Western releases.
henke on 17/11/2018 at 19:19
Finished Steel Rats. 4 hours playtime. Length and pacing felt appropriate. Game felt pretty easy, aside from 2-3 difficulty spikes. End bossfight was quite tepid, story bleh. The gameplay's fun though!
Sulphur on 17/11/2018 at 19:37
Hurray! Now for me to finish it.
Meanwhile, I've given a chunk of my Saturday over to Sunset Overdrive, which can only be described as a twenty-something punk dweeb hellspawn whose parents were Saints Row 4 and Jet Set Radio. Insomniac's only spent half of their lifetime giving Ratchet things to grind on (and those things are rails, you pervert), so it makes sense that they create a game that's so good at it. It animates like a dream, feels excellent to handle, there's ridiculous weapons every other hour, and things consantly explode, burn, melt, pop, and spark while you bounce and grind through a very colourful apocalypse. Unlike Ratchet & Clank, though, the humour's of the forced fratparty variety that gets old so fast you'll feel like you graduated half a century ago, but the solidness of the gameplay makes up for just about everything, including tiresome fetch-quests. About as addictive and lightweight as the fizzy drink responsible for its in-world orange zombie crisis, so essentially some good shit.
Severian_Silk on 18/11/2018 at 08:15
Finally finished Kingdom Come : Deliverance. Despite the bugs and the combat system, which I frankly do not understand at all after 100h of playtime, I loved the experience and I'm kinda sad that it ended.
Now it's time for Pillars of Eternity 2! I slept through most of the first game and honestly did not care for it much, but I'm totally loving this one. It just feels like a major improvement over the first game and also feels different, just like how Baldur's Gate 2 was different from the first one (which was a snoozefest for me too, actually).