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[ShutUp]

The campaign to ban the Harry Potter game has officially begun!

Funny that we're now at the point where Rowling is championing people who openly call for genocide and say the fewer trans people the better for a sane world it would be, with direct intent to limit the amount of people who can transition, and is there supporting and praising the anti-trans propaganda of self-confessed fascists.. yet come December we'll be hosting a thread for a product that will aid her in her ability to spread such viewpoints and radicalisation efforts in the middle of this ongoing moral panic that is actively seeing hate crimes rise and our rights threatened.

I've pinged a PM to an admin to discuss. Was wary of raising it in the feedback thread as B-Dubs mentioned such discussion there was banned and didn't want to risk a threadban or warning by raising it again. A lot has changed since the initial decision and days of Troy Leavitt, both in terms of Rowling and the climate at large, so I think it's fair to suggest it should be revisited and reassessed.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/terf-jk-rowling-continues-to-be-a-hateful-bigot.221245/page-51#post-89809596

 

Sales threads starting in January will be land mines to dodge trying to post in. No one not protected will want to dare say they have been playing and loving the game because they’ll be piled on, called a transphobe and banned. All to cater to one small community on the board.

Meanwhile Kyuuji will be gleefully posting away about having played and beaten it already and saying it was a fun game.

[ShutUp]

This thread proves their point lol, these pics are in major news sites

Nipples are normal

Just looked at a few sites and the pictures are posted but the nipples were pixelated. Good try though.

[HaughtyFrank]

Titties are bad, cover them up!

Oh but wait

Anyway, good for Florence Pugh. The US is trying to slide back into being hyper puritanical when every conservative scandal over the past decade has shown that no one is dying from seeing some nipples. Having to cater to men being titillated is ridiculous.

It shouldn't be NSFW, but it is. The US feels much more sexually repressed than other countries and it really just makes a lot of things unnecessarily complicated/stupid/dangerous.

Yes we indeed are. Men and women alike, and it continues because they pass that repression on to their kids. I doubt it will get any better given the hard Right lean the country is taking.

Indeed. That sexualized character thread should be closed. Free The Fucking Nipples

Ah, the puritanical mindset at work.

If only this mindset was applied when they say it’s the patriarchy that makes women find sexy character designs sexy.

Gotta protect the children from the eldritch nipple truth

Let me point you to the game design’s third OT and apply this logic there.

God that thread is a goldmine for their hypocrisy.

I really want them to explain to me why seeing a sexy looking videogame character causes harm to people but a real woman who dresses sexy doesn't. I know they'd probably talk about agency but that's really muddy field when were talking about a fictional character. No one seems to give a fuck about the agency of virtual characters when they're murdered, tortured etc.

If you'd really want to go down that road it's actually much more likely that the celebrity cult surrounding someone like Ariane Grande has an effect on body image, eating disorder and so on because people will compare themselves to a real human, not a computer generated one, and yet they praise the former and despise the later.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taika-waititi-says-he-would-do-thor-5-as-long-as-chris-hemsworth-is-involved.606435/#post-89833374
They're still triggered about that tweet
https://twitter.com/morebuttertv/status/1546193820387246081

[ShutUp]

Nah, Taika's way better than Gunn.

Gunn’s Suicide Squad alone makes this a LOL no. Then add in Peacemaker too though I don’t know how involved Gunn is with that day to day.

[benjipwns]

Someone use one of our hundred burner accounts to post PlanetSmasher's "psychic damage" post from the chud "research" thread in that free the nipples thread. Don't even alter the post so it matches the topic.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/florence-pugh-wants-us-to-free-the-fucking-nipple-🌸-nsfw.606177/page-4#post-89806626

So you're saying men get to decide which parts of our bodies are "sexual"?

And if she wants to wear high heels in Diablo?

[BIONIC]

Someone use one of our hundred burner accounts to post PlanetSmasher's "psychic damage" post from the chud "research" thread in that free the nipples thread. Don't even alter the post so it matches the topic.

I would, but someone changed the password to our shared Riotous account 

[Boredfrom]

Nah, Taika's way better than Gunn.

Gunn’s Suicide Squad alone makes this a LOL no. Then add in Peacemaker too though I don’t know how involved Gunn is with that day to day.

Man, The Suicide Squad was so much better than Guardians of the Galaxy. I didn’t saw Guardians when it come out originally, but I thought it was fun but overhyped. Hell, I think the new game is better.

The Suicide Squad was surprisingly good, way better than I expected.

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taika-waititi-says-he-would-do-thor-5-as-long-as-chris-hemsworth-is-involved.606435/#post-89833374
They're still triggered about that tweet
https://twitter.com/morebuttertv/status/1546193820387246081

Taika doesn't really have to try anymore now that he has so many projects with Disney and so many hits under his belt.
He can just write a decent script on monday, fool around with the starlets on tuesday, submit his raw footage to the VFX company on wednesday and do some voice work on thursday.
Then it's party time.

These guys aren't stupid, they know this super hero trend isn't going to last forever (and if it is, it will do so mostly on Disney+, away from the 'critics')
so at this point it's really a matter of making as much bank as possible before it all comes crashing down and securing that 'executive producer' credit on whatever comes next.

[Polident Hive]

Not a defense of Thor 4, as realistically I’ll never watch it, but it’s Taika coming off of success with Thor 3 and winning an Oscar for Jojo. Landed a Star Wars. Midlife crisis age. Left his wife and kids to party abroad with younger women. Add that people fluffed his ego by giving him sole credit for projects he’s lightly involved with. Falls somewhere between Noah Baumbach writing Madagascar 3 and M Night making The Last Airbender. He’ll bounce back. Probably.

At the very least Thor 4 gave Bale enough money that he wasn’t tempted by WB’s insane offer to return as Batman.

[VomKriege]

Oh, he turned into the character he plays in Free Guy ?

[benjipwns]

I think RE has a weird idea about empowerment and how mass media influence society. They say this is empowering because is doing intentionally by actress while fictional women are “forced” by faceless goons at studios to “exploit them”. They have expressed sentiments that fictional characters can “consent” at their most delusional.

 Is a similar idea with the OF girl:

“That actress/model that I like is showing boobs in public events to defy society norms, so cool.”

“That whore online is showing boobs if she gets paid, they are forcing that slut to show her body.”

Agency is only reserved if the intentions are perceived as “good”.

I think resetera posters may be reactionary hypocrites you guys

Do you think they're aware of how they use their cult ideology to try and place criticism of their personal tastes off-limits while raising others tastes to a mortal sin or do you think they think they actually are having "productive discussion" about complex issues (which all have a single objectively correct answer) that only they are intelligent and intellectual enough to be able to grapple with?

[Nintex]

Not a defense of Thor 4, as realistically I’ll never watch it, but it’s Taika coming off of success with Thor 3 and winning an Oscar for Jojo. Landed a Star Wars. Midlife crisis age. Left his wife and kids to party abroad with younger women. Add that people fluffed his ego by giving him sole credit for projects he’s lightly involved with. Falls somewhere between Noah Baumbach writing Madagascar 3 and M Night making The Last Airbender. He’ll bounce back. Probably.

At the very least Thor 4 gave Bale enough money that he wasn’t tempted by WB’s insane offer to return as Batman.

Taika is probably going to end up as the Adam Sandler of Disney+.

He releases annual super hero/Star Wars popcorn movies with his friends and girlfriends on Disney+ and once in a while does an 'Uncut Gems' like cult hit.

[ShutUp]

Nah, Taika's way better than Gunn.

Gunn’s Suicide Squad alone makes this a LOL no. Then add in Peacemaker too though I don’t know how involved Gunn is with that day to day.

Man, The Suicide Squad was so much better than Guardians of the Galaxy. I didn’t saw Guardians when it come out originally, but I thought it was fun but overhyped. Hell, I think the new game is better.

The Suicide Squad was surprisingly good, way better than I expected.

Gunn got to be much more of himself with the R rating for Suicide Squad. You have PG-13 hints of it in both Guardians but that’s it. And yeah, the game is pretty damn good too. Wish it had sold better so a sequel was a guarantee.

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/florence-pugh-wants-us-to-free-the-fucking-nipple-🌸-nsfw.606177/page-4#post-89806626

So you're saying men get to decide which parts of our bodies are "sexual"?

And if she wants to wear high heels in Diablo?

Don't worry morrigan, you'll be relieved to know you're not in danger of any man finding any part of your body sexual.  Rest easy.

[benjipwns]

Might as well label that character design thread the hypocrisy thread. Who’s sexually repressed again? What about Free The Nipple?

"SHUT 👏 UP 👏 CONSERVATIVES 👏 LET 👏 WOMEN 👏 WEAR 👏 WHAT 👏 THEY 👏 WANT 👏"
"Okay, so Bayonetta and Quiet are going to have matchi-"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU'RE REINFORCING PATRIARCHIAL AND CAPITALIST VALUES EXPLOITING WOMEN YOU NEED TO BE DEPROGRAMMED"

[benjipwns]

They have the patriarchy comeback ready to go for women like that. Which, you know, means they think women are mindless drones who can’t think for themselves, but they get to feel good they dog piled and had banned anyone who would try to point that out, so no biggie they just degraded all women with the patriarchy comment.

What's the point of seriously considering some form of moral quandary when you can mental gymnastics your way out of it instead

The real moral quandary I have is whether or not there's an entire forum that mostly doesn't understand the concept of agency or whether they're just ideologically opposed to the concept. They seem to indicate that they believe agency only exists when you make the "correct" choice otherwise you're just a victim of systems of power that control reality. Unless you're a chud and just choose wrong on purpose because you're a chud.

Many such cases.

[Uncle]

we all have choices to make

but

only one choice produces maximum good in the world

praising choice or "freedom" for the sake of it without gently directing people toward that one best choice is toxic

[maninthemirror]

It’s genius really , a crowd tells a  woman that she shouldn’t expose her breasts , she gets mad and said I will expose it more now , and the crowd smirks “mission accomplished”

Truth be told half of those in thr thread saying she should expose her nipples more masturbate to her nipples. They say we shouldn’t sexualize it but masturbate by browsing pornhub looking at images they say shouldn’t be sexualized

[bork]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-is-really-really-racist-right.606534/

[Uncle]

wtf 90% of people didn't even play far enough to see this scene 

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-is-really-really-racist-right.606534/

A desperate attempt to cancel Lara before she can cause more psychic damage

[FUME5]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stranger-things-s4-ot-every-ending-has-a-beginning-open-spoilers.585854/page-132#post-89793663
It's that dude with the axe avatar who got butthurt by a foreigner

User banned (1 week): Trolling. Hostilities. Community generalizations.

We got a bad ass here

You’re all just so defensive and incendiary. My opinion has no bearing on any of your lives and I got “shat” on. Yes I’m calling the lot of you nerds out. If you’re going to be a nerd (I.e. be a fan over things pop culture sci-fi to the point that you’re posting about it on a video game message board) then behave civilly about your interests instead of taking it personally someone doesn’t like the same thing as you.

It’s culture like this on resetera that is making more members with minority opinions leave, because these threads with majority opinions just have dogpiling going on.

Nothing loud a bad ass? Has he not seen the thread about his ass?

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-is-really-really-racist-right.606534/

So I'm a white person and I'm not really equipped to talk about racist tropes

White people are the most equipped to talk about racist tropes, tbh

seems like they are the only ones anyone will listen to.... 😒

In the game those characters are hundreds of years old and have become corrupted because someone stole the item they were created to protect 400 years ago - so they’ve lost their minds.
I don’t think they are intended to be a depiction of any indigenous people.

That doesn't really matter because they are all coded to look indigenous, and that's how they will be perceived and internalized by players.

But this was ultimately the problem with the reboot trilogy's direction, you just can't have realistic looking people in a high production value environment for this kind of thing. You either need to make it all Illuminati and Nazis or all dinosaurs and ancient robots, if you don't you're going to end up feeding into racist tropes

You call it a trope but it has literally happened numerous times in real life such as the Cargo Cults of Melanesia.

The monsters in the game are clearly influenced by the deities of Xibalba or the Aztec Lords of Night.

A trope being based in an actual thing that happened historically does not absolve it of its racist undertones.

LMAO. I shouldn't laugh, but the idea of a AAA game in this day and age being RE5-levels of racist and it not causing a huge shitstorm because it bombed so hard is hilarious. Unless there was a shitstorm and I just never read about it? This is the first time I'm hearing about it.

It is wild, I've heard about how ass these games were, and a little about what the OP is talking about, but it's only now that someone cared enough to bring up just how genuinely awful it is lol

the entire premise of the franchise, since the very beginning, not just talking about the reboot trilogy, has always been cursed. it's in the very name. it's about an english archeologist traveling the world to raid tombs from other cultures

like, they should have let that shit stay dead and in the nineties where it belongs. no need to revive it. make a new ip instead

shadow of the tomb raider seems like the worst one so far, and the racism is even less excusable now than it was 25 year ago. the writers really should have known better at this point. but i guess it's simply the logical conclusion and culmination of a franchise that was always rotten

To be fair, I assume that any game that has the themes of old school western adventure serials where white folks are pillaging from minority cultures are just racist by default.........

[Boredfrom]

But this was ultimately the problem with the reboot trilogy's direction, you just can't have realistic looking people in a high production value environment for this kind of thing. You either need to make it all Illuminati and Nazis or all dinosaurs and ancient robots, if you don't you're going to end up feeding into racist tropes

 

So what you guys want?

[Polident Hive]

It’s genius really , a crowd tells a  woman that she shouldn’t expose her breasts , she gets mad and said I will expose it more now , and the crowd smirks “mission accomplished”

Truth be told half of those in thr thread saying she should expose her nipples more masturbate to her nipples. They say we shouldn’t sexualize it but masturbate by browsing pornhub looking at images they say shouldn’t be sexualized

People freely shared those leaked/stolen celebrity pictures some years back. You’d be browsing around and they’d share a photo of a nude actress with X-men face paint still on. Weird time. That X-men character would be CGI these days.

[Boredfrom]

the entire premise of the franchise, since the very beginning, not just talking about the reboot trilogy, has always been cursed. it's in the very name. it's about an english archeologist traveling the world to raid tombs from other cultures

While fighting dinosaurs, monsters and guys with guns in skate boards.

[BikeJesus]

wtf 90% of people didn't even play far enough to see this scene 

Wokies don't play games.

[Mostima]

But this was ultimately the problem with the reboot trilogy's direction, you just can't have realistic looking people in a high production value environment for this kind of thing. You either need to make it all Illuminati and Nazis or all dinosaurs and ancient robots, if you don't you're going to end up feeding into racist tropes

 

So what you guys want?

[BrokenVerses]

wtf 90% of people didn't even play far enough to see this scene 

I'm part of the 10% and enjoyed the neo-Tomb Raider trilogy more than any Uncharted.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-i-get-older-and-tech-improves-i-am-having-a-harder-and-harder-time-killing-standard-humanoids-in-video-games.606444/

Humans still look and act super fake in most video games, but okay RE.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/breaking-elon-musk-officially-tries-to-bail-on-buying-twitter.605601/page-14#post-89835318

I honestly can't believe people took him seriously.
The first time this fucking clown mentioned buying twitter I fucking knew he just wanted to fuck with the platform.
How in the hell did people, far smarter than me, who's job this shit is, didn't see it?

I'm sure they did

[Boredfrom]

Yeah, most analysts predicted he was going to chicken out as soon he started to bitch about bots.

[BadAss2961]

Nah, Taika's way better than Gunn.

Gunn’s Suicide Squad alone makes this a LOL no. Then add in Peacemaker too though I don’t know how involved Gunn is with that day to day.

Man, The Suicide Squad was so much better than Guardians of the Galaxy. I didn’t saw Guardians when it come out originally, but I thought it was fun but overhyped. Hell, I think the new game is better.

The Suicide Squad was surprisingly good, way better than I expected.

Gunn got to be much more of himself with the R rating for Suicide Squad. You have PG-13 hints of it in both Guardians but that’s it. And yeah, the game is pretty damn good too. Wish it had sold better so a sequel was a guarantee.

The Suicide Squad was decent, but bland. I prefer the original, even with the messy production. It was far more balanced in tone, closer to what Suicide Squad should be. I thought it left more to build off of.

Not a fan of these cornball directors like Gunn and Taika. The Suicide Squad IP in particular is (or was) massive potential, wasted on someone of Gunn's range who'll just make a crass comedy of the whole thing. Squad should be fun, but it should take itself seriously too. These are supposed to be some of the grimiest, lowest of the low villains of the street level DC universe. It should have some characters that could be believable in a Batman level film.

Give me a Robocop kind of vibe for Suicide Squad.

[ShutUp]

“The Tomb Raider reboot was ass!”

Metacritic for 2013 game: 86-87
Metacritic for the sequel: 87-88
Metacritic for Shadow: 82

And yet they act like all three tanked with reviewers.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/breaking-elon-musk-officially-tries-to-bail-on-buying-twitter.605601/page-14#post-89835318

I honestly can't believe people took him seriously.
The first time this fucking clown mentioned buying twitter I fucking knew he just wanted to fuck with the platform.
How in the hell did people, far smarter than me, who's job this shit is, didn't see it?

They're not smarter, they're just richer

the possibility of some Woodward and Bernstein type, like reporters actually confronting people in power and giving them tough questions and holding their feet to the fire is extremely rare. Most reporters are just going to give softball questions and just be happy a person in power even spoke to them to avoid losing access to these people.

Uh, he did actually try to buy Twitter. Nobody "fell" for anything, he made an offer that was accepted. That's kinda the whole thing going on here?

[Boredfrom]

For the sounds of it, Twitter had its reservations about the sell even after accepting it. Also it sounds like Musk making the offer was mostly a visceral decision before Tesla shares went down.

This is what Twitter does to your brain.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/does-anyone-else-feel-like-posting-on-era-is-like-posting-into-a-void.606567/

Sometimes I get this weird feeling when I post responses to threads here where I spend a good 5-10 minutes thinking about the topic and coming up with an answer and writing, sometimes even rewriting a response, and no one acknowledges what I wrote at all. No quotes, no reference. Nothing. It’s like I might as well have not posted.

And I understand Era probably has alot more posters than other boards I visit, so it’s impossible to respond to everyone, but I would say 95% of the time I post it gets zero response. I sometimes feel like I’m doing it wrong.

I remember on message boards when I was younger it felt like there was far more interaction with other posters. Even things like daps and reps would let me know at least someone liked my post.

Maybe it’s just me.

Edit: I also want to apologise to everyone responding to this thread. I am reading all your posts and even chuckling internally to some of them, but just as the nature of this void is, I won’t be responding to a lot of them. I am also part of the problem. I would dap them if I could though.

Dude has 5k posts

[demi]

I can think of a way to get instant responses with this one simple trick

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/does-anyone-else-feel-like-posting-on-era-is-like-posting-into-a-void.606567/

Sometimes I get this weird feeling when I post responses to threads here where I spend a good 5-10 minutes thinking about the topic and coming up with an answer and writing, sometimes even rewriting a response, and no one acknowledges what I wrote at all. No quotes, no reference. Nothing. It’s like I might as well have not posted.

And I understand Era probably has alot more posters than other boards I visit, so it’s impossible to respond to everyone, but I would say 95% of the time I post it gets zero response. I sometimes feel like I’m doing it wrong.

I remember on message boards when I was younger it felt like there was far more interaction with other posters. Even things like daps and reps would let me know at least someone liked my post.

Maybe it’s just me.

Edit: I also want to apologise to everyone responding to this thread. I am reading all your posts and even chuckling internally to some of them, but just as the nature of this void is, I won’t be responding to a lot of them. I am also part of the problem. I would dap them if I could though.

Dude has 5k posts

On thebore, we have the like economy to provide that succulent positive reinforcement.

 
Maybe if the moba network upgraded to a modern forum software like we have, they would be able to join in the fun

[Lonewulfeus]

They aren’t posting into a void, we read them and I assume kiwi farms reads them too.

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/breaking-elon-musk-officially-tries-to-bail-on-buying-twitter.605601/page-14#post-89835318

I honestly can't believe people took him seriously.
The first time this fucking clown mentioned buying twitter I fucking knew he just wanted to fuck with the platform.
How in the hell did people, far smarter than me, who's job this shit is, didn't see it?

I'm sure they did

far smarter than me

who's job

Checks out.

[FUME5]

I can think of a way to get instant responses with this one simple trick

#freethenipple

[BIONIC]

I can think of a way to get instant responses with this one simple trick

Posting hog?

[VomKriege]

Create an alt, report your own posts to make sure someone reads them.

[SmokyDave]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/who-is-ready-for-amazon-prime-day-starting-tomorrow.606531/

EAT FEED THE RICH.

[VomKriege]

I'd actually argue the most underrepresented group online is the normie Dem who thinks Biden is too old, inflation is too high, etc. but wishes Klobaucher or Mayor Pete were President instead, not AOC, Bernie, or even Kamala.

Dozens of us !

This is my age group and ideological cohort, but it's not so much that we're underrepresented online as it is most of the group really just wants to put our heads down, ensure the safety and success of our families and children/parents the best we can. There's a problem with this, as we're CRAZY dream hoarders , unequipped to handle big problems like rising inequality and not very credible to solve them even if we had workable ideas and not unworkable larp like stakeholder capitalism.

No one wants to risk that by being anything of a public figure online, if you do look at the voices out there along this axis it's full of psueudonyms, heavily protective of their personal identity.

[VomKriege]

people complain about people not taking young people seriously but this poll is a good example why

...how are these numbers even possible? Are people that unaware of what's going on in the country or are they just that stupid? Vote for Trump? In 2024? After his role in 1/6? It makes absolutely no sense.

 

I can't help but laugh at the people who want Biden not to run. Do you realize that Harris would be handed the mantle and nobody else would run against her? That's how the Democrat party works.

And she'd get demolished, guaranteeing 4 more years of Trump.

Something Umberto Eco fascism must believe the enemy something strong yet weak.

[VomKriege]

I've discussed OF with my wife and she seems receptive to the idea. She could make a small fortune selling her used panties, tampons, and fart jars too.

No grown-adults-making-decisions-shaming but that one made me laugh.

[Transhuman]

Is it shaming to say that it's revolting and anyone partaking in that shit is a fucking disgusting human being? Especially the men?

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/twitch-streamer-amouranth-reveals-she-made-33-million-on-onlyfans.606078/#post-89787222
Slayven

Damn she be grinding, she is on twitch almost every day all day

He posts this while having 75k posts.

[Uncle]

For the sounds of it, Twitter had its reservations about the sell even after accepting it. Also it sounds like Musk making the offer was mostly a visceral decision before Tesla shares went down.

This is what Twitter does to your brain.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

it's pretty obvious that he did it to have a plausible reason to sell a bunch of his tesla stock to raise money for the buy without scaring all his investors by selling off for no reason

predictably it saw a big drop at a time when musk conveniently had a chunk of cash in hand protected from the drop

[close]

[VomKriege]

Is it shaming to say that it's revolting and anyone partaking in that shit is a fucking disgusting human being? Especially the men?

Well... Yeah.

[Transhuman]

Experiencing revulsion is my lived experience, you wouldn't want to silence a person's lived experience would you? How are the feelings of the people buying and selling piss and shit so they can jack off sacrosanct, and i'm not even allowed to say "ew"?

[VomKriege]

You asked.

[VomKriege]

I've never been to onlyfans and don't want to visit the site, what's an example for one of these overpromise/underdeliver scams?

I wonder if one could make a legal case for this being false advertising. Enforce more transparency on that kind of content.

It's about ethics in risqué pics

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mickey-rourke-the-expendables-the-masked-singer-on-tom-cruise-i-think-hes-irrelevant.606681/

 

Also not sure why the unofficial number 2 to an international predatory cult gets a pass.

[Transhuman]

You asked.

It was what they call in France a "questione rhétorique"

[VomKriege]

You asked.

It was what they call in France a "questione rhétorique"

Question