Dan calling them the Wa brothers bothers me way more than it should.
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Dan calling them the Wa brothers bothers me way more than it should.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Watching the Drew blinking meme spread to all the parts of my Twitter that aren't even tangentially geek related is surreal
That terminology never has appeared in official Nintendo canon. Dan needs to stop trying to pass off his fan fiction as reality.
Yeah they did
I think a Ken Burns style anniversary video would be better. Lots of still photographs and slow push-ins or wipes.
Sleeping Lesson
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I would only accept a Gerstmann documentary in the style of Truth from Legend.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
I mean, he already let it all out during the E3 drive to LA.
Sounds like a winner to me.
Isn't it crazy how every week we get a new one of those?
Haven't listened to the Beastcast yet. Did they read my email about working out?
That doesn't even make sense. Wario is a business owner. Waluigi is just some guy drawing eyeballs.
Because free speech is taught to be the end-all, be-all at least in America. And it leads to people wrongfully thinking there's no such thing as consequences for offensive or damaging speech.
It's like how shitty dudes hear feminism means men and women should get treated completely equally and the first thing they say is, "So that means I can hit a woman, right?"
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Still no QLs for Sniper Elite and Halo Wars, not even on the schedule :/
It's really funny to me, cause in Austria you can go to jail for saying certain things so I never viewed free speech the same. Obviously our particular history helped to shape that too.
It's really funny to me, cause in Austria you can go to jail for saying certain things so I never viewed free speech the same. Obviously our particular history helped to shape that too.
I dont think anyone is choosing to die on that hill, it's simply all they have left to preserve their income stream.
Also, people are different. They grow up in different cultures and education. The internet is can be an echo chamber. Just because you know something to be wrong or right doesnt mean that this is shared by the other 7 billion people on this planet.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I barley use Tinder but what the fuck is up with that "Recommend [name] to your friends" option. That is among the creepiest shit I've ever seen in a "mainstream" app.
Well that's the pretty huge asterisk next to the reason why you can't spout off anti-semitic language in Germany and Austria. We're not far enough removed from the people that actually suffered during those times to resign it to the texts of history books yet.
Huh? You think if PDP didn't act like a bitch and blame the press his income stream would be damaged? His fans were with him either way and he's still going to make millions per year through Youtube.
If anything, he just threw away even bigger future opportunities, and maybe the chance to get out of this content grind he doesn't seem to be into.
Where have I said this?
I agree with you on the hate speech stuff, it's shitty and dismissing anything like that as "just jokes" is bullshit. But I also think the pewdiepie stuff is a bit more complex since so much of the WSJ video that caused this whole thing was misrepresented, out of context clips that paints him as doing or condoning much worse things then he actually did.
You claimed they die on that hill to preserve their income stream, implying of if they don't do this their careers are over.
That doesn't make sense. Plenty of people fuck up, sincerely apologise, and move on with their career just fine.
If you watch the whole video, PDP adds very little context, if any. WSJ didn't pluck them out of some satire masterpiece. He does shock 'humour', which is fine, but he couldn't deal with getting called out on it.
The GB crew have a good head on their shoulders. Jeff would never hire assholes.
First; I was replying to the posters comments about 'dying on that hill'; that's not my terminology.
Second; I don't see anyone dying on any hills. I see young people on a younger form of media making inappropriate comments and then defending those comments on said media.
Third; this will blow over irrespective of whether anyone apologises or not.
Fourth; content, content, content. Every view of that apology video (or response video) is making money for everyone. YouTube, PDP, the ad agencies, the sponsors, etc. Everyone is winning.
Except David, you mean.
Why you gotta bring up David.
David's good people. I know. I'm a fellow David.
slightconfuse
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Dan only buys stocks and doesn't sell.
What??
What??
Apparently you didn't hear the real reason Fridge-kun is no longer allowed in the studio....
none of this seems to relate to this comment:
which is what responded to. If anything "blow over irrespective" seems to contradict "simply all they have left to preserve their income stream".
I wasn't even talking about PDP, I was talking about the amount of people bending over backwards to defend the dude.
If I say, "I don't think saying "kill the Jews" is ok. Suddenly I'm branded as outrage culture. And someone who gets offended to easily. I just don't understand when caring about people became a bad thing to do.
I've seen the context and it's still not funny. I don't think he's antisemetic but I sure do think he's a douche.
Ninja Scooter
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It's because those people likely have never had to face any real kind of discrimination or bigotry and see first hand how destructive it can be. It's easy to sit on your ivory throne of privelage and accuse society of being "too PC" when you aren't the one being marginalized.
Death Metalist
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I bet Danny will do something as well and it'll be great.
If my best friend hides his farts from me then what else is he hiding from me, and why does that make me feel so alone?
Don't understand the music(nice beats though) but that is neatly directed. Must have been tons of fun.
DanLongman
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you sound like you have a beard
Sorry. Perhaps I should have been explicit in that I dont think it's either/or.
My belief is that the people making the argument for 'free-speech' (or whatever label we want to apply in this discussion) are doing so because they're the one who made the insidious remark and they'd prefer to own that remark and continue on with it and own that.
So I'll rephrase my original comment if I may. I dont think it's purely an income defense strategy. I think it's the strategy of a young person being caught up in something and defending it because they're young and dumb.
GustyGardens
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I'm surprised about the amount of people that have defending PDP when all of this stuff went down, but at some point, it really shouldn't surprise me. I wanted to write a more pointed argument, but really, he's just an asshole.
The whole, "it's a joke" defense is dumb. He's the biggest thing on YouTube, he has responsibilities that involve not building a community of people that believe racism and discrimination are OK when you're joking. I'm glad people are doing what needs to be done.
What makes it even worse is his half-assed apology video. "I'm sorry you were offended." That's BS.
EDIT: Just got this part on the Beastcast.
The whole, "it's a joke" defense is dumb. He's the biggest thing on YouTube, he has responsibilities that involve not building a community of people that believe racism and discrimination are OK when you're joking. I'm glad people are doing what needs to be done.
What makes it even worse is his half-assed apology video. "I'm sorry you were offended." That's BS.
EDIT: Just got this part on the Beastcast.
Glass Shark
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What has there ever been in any Nintendo game that would even come close to implying that?
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DanRyckert
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Wait, what? The boss? I think they're just buddies/brothers.
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