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[Scarlett Johansson]

I think they abandoned that because it basically echoed the over arching plot of Xena, Warior Princess. A show about Greek warrior with a bloody past who tries to atone for the killing they did, then gives birth to a girl who bestows on her mom the power to kill gods from various Pantheons in order to pave the way for Jesus and Christianity.

If they went in that direction, Kratos would be mocked as Xena with a beard.

Its a shame because you could take other gods from different cultures too. Although you most likely would never be able to get it published in Japan. Can't see him ripping off Buddha's head. Or stabbing Amaterasu. Orochi on the other hand maybe. Pele would be interesting too.

 

[Disc]

Its a shame because you could take other gods from different cultures too. Although you most likely would never be able to get it published in Japan. Can't see him ripping off Buddha's head. Or stabbing Amaterasu. Orochi on the other hand maybe. Pele would be interesting too.

you'd just have to dig deeper and get gods from more ancient cultures in that area. maybe the buddha's off limits, but there's a lot of gods in japan you could go beating the snot out of.

It's also worth remembering japan is the place where games like Persona come from, so if you do it right, it's totally viable. you'd just have to be sure to not spare things like english pagan gods and be a lil' vague about which divine savior we're all waiting for.

 

[Flaming Insignias]

you'd just have to dig deeper and get gods from more ancient cultures in that area. maybe the buddha's off limits, but there's a lot of gods in japan you could go beating the snot out of.

It's also worth remembering japan is the place where games like Persona come from, so if you do it right, it's totally viable. you'd just have to be sure to not spare things like english pagan gods and be a lil' vague about which divine savior we're all waiting for.

Persona 4 ends with “Izanami's crazy, kick her ass.” The Japanese definitely are not too pearl-clutching about showing their nasty gods getting roughed up, even if they do get pissed at shrines being defaced in western-produced games. That said, I still argue that is does somewhat focus more on the “ash-covered guy kills pantheons” aspect of the series rather than the concept of creating a sort of mythology to cover the death of the Europe's old gods and rise of modern religion. Maybe I’m just obsessed with that one early storyboard, but the idea of God of War being about the end of paganism and the rise of Christianity still feels more interesting than Kratos running around and brutally murdering various gods just because they wanted to keep finding mythologies to massacre.

 

[DrPrincessMeatball]

Aftermath is now claiming they have 30,000 registered users, with 5400 of them being paid subscribers. There's no reason to doubt those numbers, but its obvious that the majority of the paid subscribers are only doing it because They're Good F*cking People and don't really care about the content. Aftermath's engagement across all platforms is pitiful. Anything on the site that's not a hot-button issue (mostly kvetching about AI) or a deliberately acerbic headline struggles to get into double-digit comments. Their Instagram and TikTok both hover around 1,300 followers. Their Bluesky seems impressive at 120,000 followers until you start looking at posts. There isn't anything from the past month that could crack 1,000 updoots. Less than 1% of their followers can be bothered to leave a like. But at least they're putting out quality content, right?

Let's focus on Gita Jackson. She's the Chilli's Triple Dipper of the site, acting as the token woman, token negro, and token they/them (nobody cares about the pooner Riley MacLeod in the middle):


Her output over the past month is mostly typical Kotaku-era slop such as safe horny posting, Nazi bait, and shit nobody cares about:



But when it's time to really shuck and jive for that paycheck...


A Black Woman who has a B.A. in Cinema Studies from Oberlin College (tuition: $70,000/yr) is teaching you about Real Hood Culture. Ya'll white people need to sit down and listen.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

Aftermath is now claiming they have 30,000 registered users, with 5400 of them being paid subscribers. There's no reason to doubt those numbers, but its obvious that the majority of the paid subscribers are only doing it because They're Good F*cking People and don't really care about the content. Aftermath's engagement across all platforms is pitiful. Anything on the site that's not a hot-button issue (mostly kvetching about AI) or a deliberately acerbic headline struggles to get into double-digit comments. Their Instagram and TikTok both hover around 1,300 followers. Their Bluesky seems impressive at 120,000 followers until you start looking at posts. There isn't anything from the past month that could crack 1,000 updoots. Less than 1% of their followers can be bothered to leave a like. But at least they're putting out quality content, right?

Let's focus on Gita Jackson. She's the Chilli's Triple Dipper of the site, acting as the token woman, token negro, and token they/them (nobody cares about the pooner Riley MacLeod in the middle):
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Her output over the past month is mostly typical Kotaku-era slop such as safe horny posting, Nazi bait, and shit nobody cares about:
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But when it's time to really shuck and jive for that paycheck...
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A Black Woman who has a B.A. in Cinema Studies from Oberlin College (tuition: $70,000/yr) is teaching you about Real Hood Culture. Ya'll white people need to sit down and listen.
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She's also part Jeet as well and I know this because she wrote an article on Kotaku a decade ago about how she was at some Indian wedding or some shit.

 

[Frosted Snowflakes]

There we go. There was an error just for posting and it caused duplicate posts without the sources. Anyways...

Rory Norris of PC Gamer & 1-UP is shitting on Xbox Game Pass by making a clickbait article comparing Xbox Game Pass as a "mediocre slop factory" and "communism". Notice how it's always the soyboy beta males making clickbait articles.
(Archived Article)

 

[Tanner Glass]

There we go. There was an error just for posting and it caused duplicate posts without the sources. Anyways...

Rory Norris of PC Gamer & 1-UP is shitting on Xbox Game Pass by making a clickbait article comparing Xbox Game Pass as a "mediocre slop factory" and "communism". Notice how it's always the soyboy beta males making clickbait articles.
(Archived Article)
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Technically it's the Ori and the Blind Forest director doing it and he's right.

Not sure why he's saying that when both Ori games were Gamepass slop (or First Party slop before Gamepass) except now his publisher died and he needs the new game (that isn't Ori, looks like every other top-down arcade souls like) to do well on it's own.

 

[p1138]

There we go. There was an error just for posting and it caused duplicate posts without the sources. Anyways...

Rory Norris of PC Gamer & 1-UP is shitting on Xbox Game Pass by making a clickbait article comparing Xbox Game Pass as a "mediocre slop factory" and "communism". Notice how it's always the soyboy beta males making clickbait articles.
(Archived Article)
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But it's not really clickbait? He's entirely correct.

https://archive.ph/l6Rbl

Xbox hasn't had their studios making games worth a shit, instead they've been producing slop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_Game_Studios_video_games

You can sort that by date. When was the last truly huge game? Halo Infinite in 2021? Halo MCC in 2020? Sea of Thieves in 2018?

They currently own
The Coalition(which hasn't done anything worth a shit with Gears of War in a decade it seems)
Compulsion games(they made south of midnight)
Doublefine(which they're trying to buy themselves from Microsoft and haven't done anything major in years since people still have to refer to them as the guys that did Brutal Legend)
Halo Studios(hooray, they're remaking/remastering more stuff again, whoopdeedoo)
inXile(no fucking idea)
Mojang(they just print money with minecraft)
Obsidian(avowed, enough said)
Playground Games(forza horizon isn't a huge blockbuster game, and Fable still isn't out)
Turn 10(didn't they get fired from doing Forza?)
Undead Labs(State of Decay, which might be fine but it isn't some huge game to convince people to sub to xbox)
Worlds Edge(sorry but AoE is a niche)

And then they've sold or closed a bunch of other studios.

 

[Toxic BRAAAAP Mask]

Laufey's actress has been making the rounds.

It's been in dev since peak DEI and the cube is 'deeply part of the lore,'as if w didn't know Ragnarok was pozzed


She rants about Diversity, women in gaming, and how it's integral to telling more stories, aka nogs and woke ugly women in DEI vernacular


It's ok, you can say they made you ugly

 

[Captain Quazar]

Laufey's actress has been making the rounds.
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It's been in dev since peak DEI and the cube is 'deeply part of the lore,'as if w didn't know Ragnarok was pozzed
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She rants about Diversity, women in gaming, and how it's integral to telling more stories, aka nogs and woke ugly women in DEI vernacular
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It's ok, you can say they made you ugly
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I really hope this game bombs hard.

 

[Tanner Glass]

I hope the game succeeds on accident by having an accidentally diverse story where Laufey is an even bigger piece of shit than Kratos ever was.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

>Planned since 2018
>Directly fucks over the main motivation of the badguy from Ragnarok.

Sure it's been Planned since 2018.