VOAT Containment Megathread of Trash People for Trash People

[venereology]

I stopped posting in the gb thread because they can get a little weird. Cool group tho. At the end of my gaf life I kinda just wanted to stick to my bjj thread, my fg thread, fgchq ot, and random assortment of fg threads. Of course, the thing that got me clapped was an fg thread lol.

Hi to you as well. Who are you on gaf, same name?

stump sock. you were either going to get clapped for that or the BCT, gaming side mods are a little faster on the trigger I guess. watching people try to explain Dan Ryckert to you was the most fun the gbgaf thread has been in a good while.

[Let's Cyber]

Some people seem ashamed to use their GAF handles here.

I think it is kind of lame tbh. Same with using the same GAF avatar.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Except for benji of course 

[close]

This is a fresh start. Leave your old life behind and embrace the new! 

[Himu]

I stopped posting in the gb thread because they can get a little weird. Cool group tho. At the end of my gaf life I kinda just wanted to stick to my bjj thread, my fg thread, fgchq ot, and random assortment of fg threads. Of course, the thing that got me clapped was an fg thread lol.

Hi to you as well. Who are you on gaf, same name?

stump sock. you were either going to get clapped for that or the BCT, gaming side mods are a little faster on the trigger I guess. watching people try to explain Dan Ryckert to you was the most fun the gbgaf thread has been in a good while.

I still don't get Dan. Someone explain Dan. I miss Drew.

Waypoint sucks btw. Social Studies Warriors the podcast and website.

[CrankyJay]

Some people seem ashamed to use their GAF handles here.

I think it is kind of lame tbh. Same with using the same GAF avatar.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Except for benji of course 

[close]

This is a fresh start. Leave your old life behind and embrace the new! 

Go pick me a new avatar then. It's gotta be cool and I have to like it.

[nudemacusers]

Re: names; just to be clear, my username here is very similar to my gaf username. I am in no way affiliated with other users such as Dennis or amir0x, one of which is an accused pedophile.

[skullstorm]

Can't wait to see all these new people stick to the GAF thread only and then leave as soon as their alt gets approved.

Hey I registered years ago  I also used to post on another account here but I somehow forgot my password and didn't have access to the email I'd linked that account to and then I decided I don't actually have anything to contribute so it's only better if I just don't post anything on this account either ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm also not permed from Neogaf.com (unlike Dennis and a lot of the new folks) because I never post there, either, so that's not why I'm here now. Amir0x's pedo ways just got me to crawl out after years of lurking, but yeah I probably won't post much cause I'm lame.

[clothedmacuser]

I feel we will see a revolution in the near future. The 1% just has way too much wealth and becomes greedier by the day. It will be bloody but necessary.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=243122587&postcount=78

[Great Rumbler]

Alright, I'm cutting through all the BS...who here wants to go to Taco Bell?

[Averon]

I'm rocking the same name that I use on GAF. Don't really care if GAF mods who reads this thread is aware I like to make fun of them. Not like I post enough on GAF for them to care about me anyway.

[chronovore]

Can't wait to see all these new people stick to the GAF thread only and then leave as soon as their alt gets approved.

The clue is if anyone ever ventures outside of this thread. If they actually participate in any other thread, they might actually hang out. Otherwise we're just methodone to them.

[clothedmacuser]

Can't wait to see all these new people stick to the GAF thread only and then leave as soon as their alt gets approved.

The clue is if anyone ever ventures outside of this thread. If they actually participate in any other thread, they might actually hang out. Otherwise we're just methodone to them.

I call you guys "my medicine."

[samfish]

Some people seem ashamed to use their GAF handles here.

This is my original handle. When I first found GAF in late 2007 and registered under this name, they rejected me. And after like 9 months of waiting, they rejected me again. And then a third time. Finally I said fuck it, chose a different username and  got approved like 5 months later. It was early 2010 when I could finally post.

Seriously. Fuck that stupid forum's signup process.

[samfish]

Wait, hold on. there's like 80 people viewing this board currently. Usually there's like 8.

Did Amir0x fuck another kid again or something?

[Shuri]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1404189

  let's see how this thread is gonna go..

[samfish]

There has to be a term for her "not so subtly lording over a bunch of thirsty virgins that you have a pussy" shtick.

[Himu]

"Girlgaf, does this haircut look good on me? Will I get a date?"

[etiolate]

The few girls that exist on GAF feeling okay with answering for all of womanhood, which explains why they'd be the few girls who can stomach GAF.

[Bulleta©™®]

That thread is just weird. They aren't going to get normal responses. And I for sure wouldn't reply in there thinking I'd give normal responses, either. But at least I wouldn't try to pretend so.

Alright, I'm cutting through all the BS...who here wants to go to Taco Bell?

Please get me a double chalupa and 1/2 pound beef & potato burrito. No sour cream on either.

[Shuri]

Alright, I'm cutting through all the BS...who here wants to go to Taco Bell?

Ah yes, all this internet stuff has made me hungry for some YUM! (tm) brands food products and/of beverages.

[Jenkem]

I went to my nearest Taco Bell the other day but as I drove in I noticed that it was odd that it wasn't busy at all, then I noticed all the posters were taken down and the drive thru menu was gone... WTF? I was there a week ago and it was still open.

 
legit shook

[bluemax]

NeoGAF is the Dark Souls of gaming forums. Sometimes you get banned and there's no logical explanation why.

[Jansen]

Some people seem ashamed to use their GAF handles here.

I proudly rock my one and only GAF name.

[clothedmacuser]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=243130095#post243130095



haha.  This is way better than the pussy footing DeepWater and company do.  I can respect it more than "sigh, america was built on racism, always been, always will be.  Nothing to be done until we revolt.  Imma take a nap, wake me when you guys do that for me."

[FunSlower]

I stopped posting in the gb thread because they can get a little weird. Cool group tho. At the end of my gaf life I kinda just wanted to stick to my bjj thread, my fg thread, fgchq ot, and random assortment of fg threads. Of course, the thing that got me clapped was an fg thread lol.

Hi to you as well. Who are you on gaf, same name?

stump sock. you were either going to get clapped for that or the BCT, gaming side mods are a little faster on the trigger I guess. watching people try to explain Dan Ryckert to you was the most fun the gbgaf thread has been in a good while.

I still don't get Dan. Someone explain Dan. I miss Drew.

Waypoint sucks btw. Social Studies Warriors the podcast and website.

Waypoint is unbelievably out of touch.

[zomgee]

Some people seem ashamed to use their GAF handles here.

My name over there was meaningless, really. No one really remembers me except that one time I overdosed on sleeping pills. And that's with 10,000 or so posts. I guess I didn't post things of value.

Not like here. Pure gold.

[Himu]

I stopped posting in the gb thread because they can get a little weird. Cool group tho. At the end of my gaf life I kinda just wanted to stick to my bjj thread, my fg thread, fgchq ot, and random assortment of fg threads. Of course, the thing that got me clapped was an fg thread lol.

Hi to you as well. Who are you on gaf, same name?

stump sock. you were either going to get clapped for that or the BCT, gaming side mods are a little faster on the trigger I guess. watching people try to explain Dan Ryckert to you was the most fun the gbgaf thread has been in a good while.

I still don't get Dan. Someone explain Dan. I miss Drew.

Waypoint sucks btw. Social Studies Warriors the podcast and website.

Waypoint is unbelievably out of touch.

Makes me glad gb doesn't have the politics crap. Jeff is right about that policy.

[Momo]

Jaysus lots of posts

[agrajag]

Some people seem ashamed to use their GAF handles here.

My name over there was meaningless, really. No one really remembers me except that one time I overdosed on sleeping pills. And that's with 10,000 or so posts. I guess I didn't post things of value.

Not like here. Pure gold.

Your name on GAF  was Alex Mogil. I remember because you never change your avatar.

[parallax]

Some people seem ashamed to use their GAF handles here.

i think it gives some people the courage to say what they normally wouldnt

[Jenkem]

Some people seem ashamed to use their GAF handles here.

i think it gives some people the courage to say what they normally wouldnt

go on...
is this referring to yourself?
why don't you tell us how you really feel?

[parallax]

Some people seem ashamed to use their GAF handles here.

i think it gives some people the courage to say what they normally wouldnt

go on...
is this referring to yourself?
why don't you tell us how you really feel?

im parallax here, gaf, slaent and the coli. ive got nothing to hide

[CrankyJay]

Some people seem ashamed to use their GAF handles here.

My name over there was meaningless, really. No one really remembers me except that one time I overdosed on sleeping pills. And that's with 10,000 or so posts. I guess I didn't post things of value.

Not like here. Pure gold.

behuhuhu the rub hive

[zomgee]

Some people seem ashamed to use their GAF handles here.

My name over there was meaningless, really. No one really remembers me except that one time I overdosed on sleeping pills. And that's with 10,000 or so posts. I guess I didn't post things of value.

Not like here. Pure gold.

Your name on GAF  was Alex Mogil. I remember because you never change your avatar.

Yeah, still is. And one time there was a thread where it was asked who the best poster was and I said you, and you were completely confused.

[agrajag]

Some people seem ashamed to use their GAF handles here.

My name over there was meaningless, really. No one really remembers me except that one time I overdosed on sleeping pills. And that's with 10,000 or so posts. I guess I didn't post things of value.

Not like here. Pure gold.

Your name on GAF  was Alex Mogil. I remember because you never change your avatar.

Yeah, still is. And one time there was a thread where it was asked who the best poster was and I said you, and you were completely confused.

Everyone knew me simply as the unofficial cock sucker

[Himu]

Cock

[Gibson]

Is there normally this big of an influx of new members on this site? Or is this from the recent turn of events on Gaf?

I had known about this place for at least a year thanks to some other gaf bashing sites, but honestly the main reason I ever registered here was because I once saw a post in this thread awhile ago(pre-pedo amirox scandal) that I really wanted to answer, so I registered here to answer it. I thought the account validation would occur the same day or so, but it took a couple of weeks for me to be able to post. The amirox think definitely increased the interest in checking this thread out more often though, and I figure "hey I might as well post in here since I have an account now".

Anyways, since we are talking about our history, I will just say that I posted on gaf from late 2012 until I was banned last spring. I wasn't a big name, had a couple thousand posts and averaged probably three posts a day, so I don't know if many people would remember me(I actually don't even recognize most of the people in this thread). I always thought the place was kind of a shithole, but as I learned more about the questionable bannings, deleted/locked threads etc, my opinion of the place grew about as low as it can get and just thought "fuck this place" and didn't care about posting there anymore. About a year ago, evilore made a comment that said something to the effect of "gaf doesn't show favoritism and every member is on a level playing field with no advantages over anybody else". I thought that was blatantly full of shit and it should have been called out.  I said that didn't make any sense, because junior members can get permanbanned for their first banning, and I also mentioned the besada/jado pm thing. My post was deleted and I was permabanned. I didn't  get a reason, my ban message just said "please enjoy your time at other forums."

Nowadays I don't actively go to gaf and read threads there because the stupidity is frequently mind-numbing. I do lurk threads like this here just to check out if any huge drama  such as trump victory, bish getting demodded and amirox arrest are happening, or I  sometimes I just laugh at the stupid shit people there say. People at gaf always says it's a bit sad that people like me can't just ignore gaf totally, but what can I say? Car crashes are fascinating

[VomKriege]

Oh Massive Cuck...

http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=243134020

[daycru]

"Girls"

[clothedmacuser]

Oh Massive Cuck...

http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=243134020

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=243128274&postcount=21

A needed thread and i wish you luck

Isn't he gay?

Between him and Massive Duck CM I can see why there is a divide between gay blacks and feminists.  They have to deal with people like Slayven and Massive Duck.

[Raist]

Why is GAF so overwhelmingly male

Response from one of the OFFICIAL GIRL-GAF PANEL MEMBERS©

Honestly, I still find it hard to believe that so many women are gamers and not just candy-crushers. I think that maybe they find the aspect of a fourm to be too...unpersonal? For instance, the GirlGaf thread is not nearly as posted in as much as the Discord is.

NOT A GOOD FIT

[Nola]

so now Gaf is down to Trudeau as their leader crush

https://twitter.com/wyatt_privilege/status/884480161495867395

Something tells me that if the only sources I can find for this are The Daily Caller and other right-wing nonsense sites, there is probably at least some important context missing here.

An Ivory Coast journalist questioned him about a "Marshall plan" for Africa (decided in the G20) and how much money would be allocated by G20 and France.
Macron basically dismissed the centrality of aid, or at least its capacity to solve problem on its own, and said Africa problems were deeper ("civilizational") and covered also security, stability, extremism, "directing" the private sector wherever it was possible, having the public actors pick up the rest (health for instance) and the need for a demographic transition -used this term twice- ("In countries where women have 7 to 8 kids, you can funnel any number of billions you want, you're not gonna stabilize anything" to translate on the fly).

"Repugnant" is probably hyperbolic, but it does have some nasty undertones. As pointed in a couple of French outlets, studies seem to show that overpopulation is an effect, not a cause, of underdevelopment.

I believe I mentioned it elsewhere but soon after taking office, Macron took a little bit of heat for cracking a tasteless joke about fishing boats from the Comoros Islands that "don't fish a lot but bring a lot of Comoreans" (to nearby Mayotte, a French island in the Indian Ocean).

Regarding Africa there's also the precedent of a terrible speech from President Sarkozy in Dakar "The African man has not yet entered History enough (...) Africa's problem is that it's living too much in the present and in the nostalgia of lost paradises from childhood (...) in this imaginary landscape where everything is a cycle, there no place for human adventure and the idea of progress", you can imagine how Sénégal intellectual elite appreciated that from the former colonizing power head of state. Macron actually borrows a bit from Sarkozy (the energy, the youth, some of the aggressivity) despite coming from a different place in politics. Plus, you know... France and not minor parts of Africa have a long, twisted history and some bits of the colonialist ideology is still imprinted deep.

We're being shelled by this narrative of Macron iron-fist PR and his demiurgic control but really there's been quite a few slip-ups already. Macron never held any elected office and only has maybe half a decade experience in high level politics, and it shows. I wouldn't rule out he'll shit the bed and be humbled at some point. He wasn't ever gonna live up to his own Massianic/Bonapartist hype long term because nobody can when in charge and having to deal with reality.

I think that would be more of the context I was looking for lol.

This is the best snippet of transcribing I could find so far that brings in the parts of the speech spliced out:

The challenge of Africa, it is totally different, it is much deeper, it is civilizational, today. What are the problems in Africa? Failed states, complex democratic transitions, demographic transition, which is one of the main challenges facing Africa, it is then the roads of multiple trafficking which also require answers in terms of security and regional coordination, trafficking drugs, arms trafficking, human trafficking, trafficking in cultural property and violent fundamentalism, Islamist terrorism, all this today mixed up, creates difficulties in Africa. At the same time, we have countries that are tremendously successful, with an extraordinary growth rate that makes people say that Africa is a land of opportunity.

In combination with the spliced together statement, he reads mostly armchair philosophical, amateurish in his delivery, and basically like you might expect a European economic centrist to sound, with a healthy dose of the modernized french colonial mindset that wouldn't be complete without a bit of racism.

Eh, not gonna say this shocks me all that much though. I could see it triggering some though. Seems a little nuanced and international for the GAF crowd.

[VomKriege]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=243129555&postcount=219

I like to think that he is now running Nintendoland. Not the physical imitation we see but the real one where the characters who have come to us in our imagination really exist.

Kinda like this comic?
(Image removed from quote.)

Exactly. Except the comic is a representation of how we understand it. Instead thoughts and imagination is energy and Nintendoland characters in their energy form have come to life in the way we express this energy. Iwata has been called to come home to again be one with this energy, we now call Nintendoland.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=243106518&postcount=202

I bought a single share in Nintendo, framed it, and on the frame there's a little plaque dedicating it to his memory. I looked up at it earlier today when his name appeared in the credits for Mario Kart: Double Dash (playing it for the first time).

[etiolate]

he ain't even played Double Dash before and he's mourning Iwata

fake ass nintard gtfo

[VomKriege]

In combination with the spliced together statement, he reads mostly armchair philosophical, amateurish in his delivery, and basically like you might expect a European economic centrist to sound, with a healthy dose of the modernized french colonial mindset that wouldn't be complete without a bit of racism.

Eh, not gonna say this shocks me all that much though. I could see it triggering some though.

There's quite a bit missing from your translated quote, though he mostly repeat himself. It's really clumsy to speak of "women having 7 or 8 children" (he would have been perfectly understoof just saying "demographic transition") or throw in the always delicate notion of "civilization". He should have known better.

[curly]

Macron comes off as very odd after the comments about being a Jupiteran president and his thinking being too complex to share with reporters. The full remarks in the Africa speech just make him sound like a blowhard. Maybe he doesn't seem so unusual from the French perspective?

[VomKriege]

Macron comes off as very odd after the comments about being a Jupiteran president and his thinking being too complex to share with reporters. The full remarks in the Africa speech just make him sound like a blowhard. Maybe he doesn't seem so unusual from the French perspective?

I'd say it's a shared opinion throughout most Macron-skeptics. But he's not the first blowhard (Sarkozy was awful at that) and Macron pushing to the limit the boundaries of the institutions as an hyper-president is in line with the larger trend since 1958.
To repeat myself, I wouldn't be too surprised if he alienated some of his domestic support at one point, he's a bit high on his onw success right now.

[seagrams hotsauce]

Waypoint is fine and Austin Walker is a good writer

[counterhit]

The "social studies" spectrum (IGN, true neutral)

(Youtubers, weebs, CRPG curmudgeons, "ethics", etc.) <  IGN > Gamespot >> Kotaku > Polygon >> Waypoint/Vice >> Mic >> esoteric deepweb blog from 2001 calling Hideo Kojima a rapist

[fistfulofmetal]

Waypoint is fine and Austin Walker is a good writer

Best new video game site since GiantBomb. Austin Walker's approach to video game discussion and injecting it with their own perspectives and political opinions when appropriation is genuinely great. I'll follow him anywhere at this point.

Calling them 'out of touch' is kinda hilarious and weirdly out of touch in and of itself.

[SeanR1221]

That girl gaf thread. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[Raist]

Austin Walker?

He's one of the press snowflakes who got triggered bad when a couple of Ubi devs used "mechanical apartheid" in the lore context of Deus Ex. And that's just one example.

[Gibson]

That thread is just weird.

understatement of the year right there.
"hey guys if somehow you have never managed to find a girl to talk to, be that through countless opportunities from school, family, friends, work or society in general, here's an opportunity to get to know us!"

[Dennis]

Austin Walker?

He's one of the press snowflakes who got triggered bad when a couple of Ubi devs used "mechanical apartheid" in the lore context of Deus Ex. And that's just one example.

Austin Walker was pathetic there.

[fistfulofmetal]

Austin Walker?

He's one of the press snowflakes who got triggered bad when a couple of Ubi devs used "mechanical apartheid" in the lore context of Deus Ex. And that's just one example.

I hadn't read any of his takes on that so I did some reading. Not seeing the "snowflake triggered" you're claiming. I see some responses giving his opinion of the usage. Seems pretty level headed. Regardless, are you surprised a black dude would be a little miffed about a tone deaf marketing approach that leverages apartheid? It was shitty I don't think anyone really tried reasonably defend it.

And honestly, nobody claimed every take is going to be the most thoughtful and the most level headed. That's the same purity test bullshit the ULTRA liberal folks try to do. Being so one dimensional against anyone with a hint of liberal takes is just as bad as the far far left.

[bork]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1404189

  let's see how this thread is gonna go..

Panelists:

JukeJointJezebel (mid 20s, white British, bisexual). Gym trainer [advanced aerobics/cardio] & photographer. Currently in an open relationship, NSA for two successive years. Extremely fetishistic. Has been in two prior long term relationships. A promiscuous beer swilling, heavy metal tomboy, JJJ is a "huge fucking nerd and musician." Will shoot the shit about just anything, regardless of topic or sensitivity.

BSB (late 20s, Asian American, straight). In public accounting. Married to partner of five years, met on League of Legends. In a kinky/BDSM with her husband. Has had seven prior partners. Raised in a conservative, evangelical house, BSB understands the difficulties of being a minority daughter to traditional parents. She enjoys yoga, makeup, shopping, and pink stuff.

Ishtar (early 30s, white Canadian, straight). Software developer. With partner and first love of over fifteen years, met in college. A feminist who enjoys combat sports and melee weapons, Ishtar's playlist is replete with underground artists.

Entwistle (mid 20s, German/Polish American, pan and demisexual). In sound design. In her first relationship, long distance. E is a transwoman who loves shitty B-list movies, noise/folk/jazz/IDM/classical music, and theatre. She can be found playing with her synths, reading Vonnegut, and writing experimental shorts about perceptions of reality. In her spare time, she also researches other cultures, be they present or past, wide reaching or contained.

AnonGirlGAF #1 (mid 30s, white and Asian American, bisexual). Office monkey, single after having divorced five years ago. Has been in three LTR, and has used online dating for casual relationships and hookups. Probably afraid of commitment.

WaffleTaco (early 20s, white American, bicurious). Law student/bookstore clerk. Currently engaged, been in two long-term relationships with light internet dating between. Likes mostly pop music, is heavily into politics, and is quite the snob when it comes to movies/tv.

DuaneDibbley (older than the other women, white American, straight). Married going on two decades. Will happily argue the minutiae of various nerd fandoms on the internet, while binge watching old beloved shows and reading a book at the same time.

AnonGirlGAF#2 (early 20s, black, bisexual). Writer, digital media arts, single, with a youthful and unsustainable preference for casual relationships. A super girly tomboy, loves art house animation, pink, bourbon,alternative fashion, politics, spewing facts about tech history and games that take way too long to get to the point

Pattycakes (early 20s, white American, bi/pansexual). Computer science college student. In a LDR with a girl (from the UK). Loves programming, hates math. Will kick your ass in any FPS.

[Verdigris Murder]

so now Gaf is down to Trudeau as their leader crush

https://twitter.com/wyatt_privilege/status/884480161495867395

Something tells me that if the only sources I can find for this are The Daily Caller and other right-wing nonsense sites, there is probably at least some important context missing here.

An Ivory Coast journalist questioned him about a "Marshall plan" for Africa (decided in the G20) and how much money would be allocated by G20 and France.
Macron basically dismissed the centrality of aid, or at least its capacity to solve problem on its own, and said Africa problems were deeper ("civilizational") and covered also security, stability, extremism, "directing" the private sector wherever it was possible, having the public actors pick up the rest (health for instance) and the need for a demographic transition -used this term twice- ("In countries where women have 7 to 8 kids, you can funnel any number of billions you want, you're not gonna stabilize anything" to translate on the fly).

"Repugnant" is probably hyperbolic, but it does have some nasty undertones. As pointed in a couple of French outlets, studies seem to show that overpopulation is an effect, not a cause, of underdevelopment.

I believe I mentioned it elsewhere but soon after taking office, Macron took a little bit of heat for cracking a tasteless joke about fishing boats from the Comoros Islands that "don't fish a lot but bring a lot of Comoreans" (to nearby Mayotte, a French island in the Indian Ocean).

Regarding Africa there's also the precedent of a terrible speech from President Sarkozy in Dakar "The African man has not yet entered History enough (...) Africa's problem is that it's living too much in the present and in the nostalgia of lost paradises from childhood (...) in this imaginary landscape where everything is a cycle, there no place for human adventure and the idea of progress", you can imagine how Sénégal intellectual elite appreciated that from the former colonizing power head of state. Macron actually borrows a bit from Sarkozy (the energy, the youth, some of the aggressivity) despite coming from a different place in politics. Plus, you know... France and not minor parts of Africa have a long, twisted history and some bits of the colonialist ideology is still imprinted deep.

We're being shelled by this narrative of Macron iron-fist PR and his demiurgic control but really there's been quite a few slip-ups already. Macron never held any elected office and only has maybe half a decade experience in high level politics, and it shows. I wouldn't rule out he'll shit the bed and be humbled at some point. He wasn't ever gonna live up to his own Massianic/Bonapartist hype long term because nobody can when in charge and having to deal with reality.

I think that would be more of the context I was looking for lol.

This is the best snippet of transcribing I could find so far that brings in the parts of the speech spliced out:

The challenge of Africa, it is totally different, it is much deeper, it is civilizational, today. What are the problems in Africa? Failed states, complex democratic transitions, demographic transition, which is one of the main challenges facing Africa, it is then the roads of multiple trafficking which also require answers in terms of security and regional coordination, trafficking drugs, arms trafficking, human trafficking, trafficking in cultural property and violent fundamentalism, Islamist terrorism, all this today mixed up, creates difficulties in Africa. At the same time, we have countries that are tremendously successful, with an extraordinary growth rate that makes people say that Africa is a land of opportunity.

In combination with the spliced together statement, he reads mostly armchair philosophical, amateurish in his delivery, and basically like you might expect a European economic centrist to sound, with a healthy dose of the modernized french colonial mindset that wouldn't be complete without a bit of racism.

Eh, not gonna say this shocks me all that much though. I could see it triggering some though. Seems a little nuanced and international for the GAF crowd.

Africa is so collectively fucked:

It's currently undergoing a sort of cultural bisection carried out by China on the one hand and Islam on the other.

Combine that with an unmanageable population growth, endemic corruption operating on micro/meso and macro levels of society (that concurrently exists with a misguided sense of entitlement of western handouts) and an unhealthy flocking of predominantly military aged young men with barely functioning literacy levels and misogynistic views to Europe, the only thing they don't have, is an obsessive need to worship some abstract bearded paedophilic sky-fairy. And that's currently changing. Good times ahead.

[ToxicAdam]

My favorite threads on GAF are the English v American culture ones. That Egg Cup thread is the latest example. That's when the OT is actually fun to read.

 

[Dennis]

An eggcup in every home.

[Raist]

Austin Walker?

He's one of the press snowflakes who got triggered bad when a couple of Ubi devs used "mechanical apartheid" in the lore context of Deus Ex. And that's just one example.

I hadn't read any of his takes on that so I did some reading. Not seeing the "snowflake triggered" you're claiming. I see some responses giving his opinion of the usage. Seems pretty level headed. Regardless, are you surprised a black dude would be a little miffed about a tone deaf marketing approach that leverages apartheid? It was shitty I don't think anyone really tried reasonably defend it.

And honestly, nobody claimed every take is going to be the most thoughtful and the most level headed. That's the same purity test bullshit the ULTRA liberal folks try to do. Being so one dimensional against anyone with a hint of liberal takes is just as bad as the far far left.

The word has been used in many contexts. I don't see how using the term for another technically appropriate parallel illustrating a similar social issue, be it entirely fictional, is inappropriate.

Regardless, other than the colour of his skin, is Walker related in any way, shape or form to what happened in SA? I doubt it.

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Waypoint is fine and Austin Walker is a good writer

Best new video game site since GiantBomb. Austin Walker's approach to video game discussion and injecting it with their own perspectives and political opinions when appropriation is genuinely great. I'll follow him anywhere at this point.

Calling them 'out of touch' is kinda hilarious and weirdly out of touch in and of itself.

They are, though. I like Austin. He's not where I feel they're out of touch.

Austin's fun to listen to. Patty Kleps, on the other hand, sounds like an old man desperately trying to stay hip and figure out what younger people like, and it usually takes a few months for him to pick up on a new trend and understand it. I think he's what's holding Waypoint back.

When Waypoint did their own fanfiction though...a lot of fanfiction.