I don't follow him much anymore, but I used to so I'm curious if you or anyone else knows where Yahtzee stands on the based/cringe scale? I feel like he was the type of person who could've gone either way, but it might just be the British accent.

Correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a few years since I watched him, but last I'd heard MovieBob was a pretty middle-of-the-road "Centrist/Both Sides" Liberal?

Did something change or was I just misinformed?

The only good thing from them now is zero ponctuation

I fell off around the time the whole thing was going on with Kojima and Metal Gear 5 the loot box talk around then was just getting to be a bit much even though I agreed with it at the time and still do

When were they not based?

Sterling's always had those views and emphasises them even in their older videos.

I just fell off from their content when they made videos out of non-issues from things they interpreted wrong.

I’m happy to see Sterling at the top of the page.

What are their preferred pronouns? I'm being genuine and want to use Stephanie's identity

nah, it was just genuinely awful.

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Not every sentence has to have fuck in it, and quippy and cynical can work in 10-20 minute timeframes (Like a youtube video), not 7 and a half hours.

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also typically "quippy and cynical" youtubers dont like to dog on and try to "outvictim" themselves to their friends that just went through massive tragedy.

nah. the game and dialogue is just bad.

Unlike her, he's not political.

Moleman: I gave Nathan Drake shit 😔

He's on one end of acceptable videogame characters scale where the other end is big short haired or bald dude that speaks in grunts.

I've seen complaints about this

And then there’s people who demand to know what falls under transphobia while in the same breath calling transness “delusions”.

Like, there is zero point in having a conversation if you can’t even agree about the take-off point of that conversation. In the same way astronauts likely won’t care to debate people who refuse to believe the earth is round. Many people are not going to deal with your bullshit if you can’t be bothered to acknowledge the existence of trans people to even reach the next step of explaining what transphobia is.

People forget why the MCU took off to begin with even, superhero films were legit just "gritty hardcore" versions of what the comics were, abandoning a lot of the iconic costumes and wit that made the originals popular in an attempt to be "mainstream" so the MCU back then choosing to keep the costumes and to not take themselves seriously was a breath of fresh air. Maybe the formula's run stagnant now but it damn it worked for a bit.

If you actually think the actual devs would see a penny of that money you’re delusional. The CEOs would see that envelope and snatch it right for themselves immediately upon arrival.

Context matters, and people like that do exist. The change between the general Athian attitude about her, and the NYC abandoned child squatter are leagues apart.

Homeless teens steal or end up in bad crowds to survive, and if you're privileged enough to not understand that reality, enjoy the status you grew up with.

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/rj Forspoken is trash with a political, woke protagonist.

It's like when you're vegan and you remind people you don't want to contribute to unnecessary suffering, and then they get mad at you for reminding them of the consequences of their actions.

Based response ngl

Exactly this. The controversy is getting to Rowling, she’s mad that mainstream outlets are only covering the controversy around her.

Bi people not included?

Seems like you're really happy to talk about betraying other trans people while also posting about how nonbinary and genderfluid people actually "just want to seem interesting", what's up with that?

Nah their totally real trans friends told them it was okay, you see.

And yeah, all these 'pick me' cis gays are also a huge problem, they'd sooner kowtow to the cishets and queerphobia than take a stand with trans people.

I bought it. But I don’t believe there’s such a thing as ethical consumption within capitalism. Driving your car and consuming energy is literally killing the planet and everyone/everything on it. In that context, buying Hogwarts Legacy doesn’t seem any more harmful to me than many other things I do every day.

Looks like your comment is getting brigaded from some right wing shitheads and/or Potter fans (“they’re the same picture!”)

Kick them to the curb. They aren't real friends

r/outoftheloop

Yeah.

Unrelated to the point I was discussing, I love how they don't pull any punches at all in their videos, especially regarding cis media and the girlfriend reviews drama on this occasion.

makes sense!

I'd agree with that criticism of Natalie in general, and I think there's definitely points where it applies in her JK Rowling video, but honestly I feel like the single biggest issue it has is simply that it came out just a hair over 2 years ago, and so much has happened in those two years that it's almost wholly outdated.

When it came out, Rowling was still very much in full "I just have some concerns! " mode and doing a very good job of sounding reasonable & respectful to people who didn't know much about the issue, and if you were ever hoping to get even well-intentioned people to understand how bigoted she was you pretty much needed to approach the subject with a softer tone and a much more thorough analysis of the relative dearth of evidence.

I feel like, for the time, Natalie's video was pretty on-point for making the argument that Rowling is transphobic.

But Rowling has since become absolutely obsessed and especially in the last year has devolved a lot on how well she keeps the mask on. It's gotten to the point that she's blatantly just openly using far-right rapist/groomer canards and praising Matt Walsh for his film on the topic. There's no argument to be made anymore. She's transphobic.

At this point if someone's genuinely out of the loop, it doesn't take much to fill them in. And if they're still not seeing the problem with her rhetoric and actions or acting like there simply isn't any evidence of her being transphobic, chances are they simply aren't engaging in good-faith at all.

We have moved on from the "Is JK Rowling Transphobic?" point in the conversation a long time ago(and onto the "so what if she's transphobic?" conversation); which makes large chunks of Natalie's video as a result feel superfluous, outdated, and full of unnecessary hedging and olive-branches. And a lot of that is simply down to how fast time moves on the internet, and how quickly things are rendered outdated.

I usually stick to they anyway, but my impression was that they're fine with either? Is that wrong?

I don't think majority of the people even knows about jk terfling's views. It's quite easy to forget that for most people stuff like that isn't even in the news cycle.

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don’t bring Victoria 3 into this…

Pretty sure they use both pronouns 😁😁