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Does Chick-fil-A not have the same anti-LGBTQ reputation anymore? Anecdotally, young people (Gen Z) keep casually announcing that they eat there and it's jarring to my aging millennial ears.
Chick-fil-A was THE culture war issue at a time when the term “culture war” was employed a lot less frequently (or at least I heard it less). Hard to believe the stigma is gone among presumably pro-LGBTQIA+ young people. 🤷♂️
Some 20-something at work just asked me where to find a Chick-fil-A (I didn't know, but others have asked me the same question). That's what inspired this…
There is no ethical consumption, but when a corporation becomes publicly associated with bigotry, mistreating workers, other social/environmental ills, I'll boycott in solidarity + to send a message. But seems like, eventually, people forget.
Boycotts can be an effective tool, but it seems like there is more awareness now than ever that systemic, radical change is necessary to address root causes of corporate greed/abuses (including capitalism itself). Consumer choices only go so far.
https://twitter.com/EricShapiro3/status/1791880151279505443
what does woke mean?
Woke's over, younger Gen Zs and Gen Alpha dgaf about this stuff
Not sure how you personally define “wokeness,” but Gen Z is extremely concerned about LGBTQ+ rights according to available data (regardless of whether they connect it with a specific chicken place).
Wokeness = radical liberalism and performative politics. There's a polarisation - some Gen Zs (those older and closer to millennials) are woke, but overwhelmingly the younger section do not seek institutional approval (couldn't get it anyway) and so aren't led by the radical liberalism of the PMC (as millennials were). Plus, now every other school / guidance counsellor / social worker / university is promoting woke radlib ideology it's not viewed as ‘cool' (every generation rebels in their youth, as Nick Cave said if he were 16 today he'd go to church [to be counter-cultural]) and that's partly why we see a resurgence of trad. Many polls indicate Gen-Alpha (turning 14) are the most right-wing / conservative in generations. But there is a huge split amongst the sexes (young men are much more likely to be rightwing / conservative than young women).
except that's not what woke means. yall should stop talking about things you have no idea about [black woman speaking]
Now I'm starting to understand better why some people think being ‘woke' is a bad thing smh
it's conservatives taking words ( aave) they don't know the meaning of and basically turning them into a slur. so now the entire country thinks woke is something it's not [black woman speaking]
https://twitter.com/DrJenIzaakson/status/1792166612235137399
We don't get no rewards for not eating there
Not funding organizations that hate you?!?!
I think this is a fair point. But at the end of the day, no ethical consumption in capitalism. I fund governments that hate me every single day, baby. May as well get some Polynesian with it.
“There's no ethical consumption under capitalism “ doesn't mean I should spend and vote with my dollars recklessly
I don't vote recklessly. But you're a great example why I eat the chicken. This shit turns you off to regular people who have a lot in common with you. What am I really helping by freaking out over chicken and telling them about themselves? Cutting them off? Over some nuggets.
https://twitter.com/courtsidekenny/status/1792169661783482854
https://twitter.com/wet_church/status/1792040310249255045
https://twitter.com/SoGoodWeNamedlt/status/1792202288578339011
not the chick fil a cup
https://twitter.com/DearlyBearloved/status/1792133167660298451
Just shows the addictiveness of fried MSG
Highly incorrect. MSG is not addictive just awhole lot of racially charged history behind it. Many things have MSG both naturally and added. The addictiveness comes from fats and salts. Chick fil a is just more of brand type to show off similar to iPhones and other hyped things.
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Link to video -
Link to sub for the sub for the star wards hotel - reddit.com/r/GalacticStarcruiser
You don't need to watch the video - just know that she fricking hated the hotel and found it was not worth 6000 dollars, according to summaries I read.
The funniest part is the Disney adults in the sub who are coping hard. I don't need to link to anything because it's literally all over the front page. This is amplified by the base level of cope for the hotel closing.
It cost 6000 dollars for two nights in a shitty hotel with no windows and cruise ship size rooms btw
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Isn't the whole game alternate history? Why do you have such a big problem with this? (16)
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Why is Krayt so obsessed with politics? This has nothing to do with Star Wars (0)
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That's because you're not focusing on the actually important complaints. The devs have said over and over that they would not have a historical figure as a main character out of respect. It is not a coincidence that the character to buck this trend is the one black man on the entire archipelago. (10)
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Get. The frick. Over it.You've got a Japanese protagonist in the game. Play her. Were you this pissed off about William in Nioh? Or any of the horseshit in resident evil? (1)
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Your dad is a pedophile; you grew up knowing that.
— Theatre of Pain (@Molassar179695) May 17, 2024
After this exchange, he replied to me 30 times, posting my memes in response to my tweets going back a full month
Each screenshot below is a unique post. These are no duplicates lmao
Lmao update:
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S2E3: A Allan Adventure 🔴📎 #SmilingFriends pic.twitter.com/hTEUh0y45n
— Badgerclops 🏞️🌊🇵🇸🆓 (@BadgercIops) May 20, 2024
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Great work, @VisitNotts!
— Dr. Waitman W. Beorn (@waitmanwbeorn.com 🟦)🇺🇦 (@waitmanb) May 18, 2024
You failed the Don't Invite The Nazis Challenge 2024.https://t.co/J0gL9gj154 pic.twitter.com/CXO3C97a9z
https://twitter.com/waitmanb/status/1792122643694436527
https://twitter.com/weewoono/status/1792121206772056472
https://twitter.com/NeonEcho1/status/1792007094352142417
https://twitter.com/waitmanb/status/1791949017833701415
https://twitter.com/lifesdrunk/status/1792153555350016223
https://twitter.com/cagyphoenix/status/1791947280548848070
https://twitter.com/Osteichthyes12/status/1792071169778282746
- forgor : h/europe
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I'm crying at all of these 😭😭😭😭😭 they were so spot on pic.twitter.com/gjMQOHyWkz
— Ichigo Niggasake (@SomaKazima) May 17, 2024
Someone posted this gay teachoid tiktok making fun of blacc student attire/behaviour
this caused a spergfite between lards and poors, as well as olds and children: https://twitter.com/itsjustfatimah/status/1791576838394818780
it's because of the morning, it's because they can only afford 1 piece of clothing, it's because of the s-xhavers
europeepee don't understand what it's like to attend school for 6 hours a day:
https://twitter.com/judeochrstn/status/1791801321680748858
let people enjoy pajamas, only pajamas are comfortable
they're wearing pajamas because they're so focused on learning, and maybe they took a shower then put their pajamas back on
idk why they can't just say it's a teenage fashion choice and move on instead of making up a billion r-slurred reasons to justify it, but it's kind of funny
- WeihnachtenSalvador : Interesting how more things changed in 16 years than in 22 years
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I'll make this an effort post since I know you zoomies know nothing about the Internet or gaming before 2015.
Dyack in the middle
Silicon Knights
Silicon Knights was a Canadian developer who made a few decent games, like Legacy of Kain and the Gamecube remake of Metal Gear Solid. They're mainly remembered for the classic Gamecube horror game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, which is quite good for its time and is notable for being the only rated-M game ever published directly by Nintendo. They were lead by a guy named Dennis Dyack, a whiny manchild who doomed his company to fail.
Zoomers: This was considered scary in 2002
To give you an idea of their management, here's an image of games in production, games that were cancelled or abandoned before release are marked in yellow. Note the staggering ratio of unreleased/released games:
Anyways, Dyack's passion project for decades had always been a game called Too Human, but every effort to make it had been abortive. After the successes of Eternal Darkness and MGS, Dyack decides the Wii doesn't have shiny enough graphics and makes the bold choice to unshackle his company from a lucrative position as a Nintendo third party so he can truly fulfill his vision on the superior XBawx Please Fix Me. Silicon Knights shacks up with Microsoft and Epic Games and produce an E3 demo (zoomers: people used to go to an annual convention for video game trailers) which is received overwhelmingly negatively.
Dyack is NOT HAPPY and goes on the IGN forums to whine about how the critics will regret their words and deeds:
Unedited clip from Too Human
NeoGAF
Once upon a time there was a gayming website called Gaming Age, with their forum called the Gaming Age Forum (or GAF). Eventually Gaming Age imploded, but the top two jannies (Evillore and Bishoptl) were able to move their community to a new forum, appropriately called NeoGAF. You wouldn't know it these days with GAF being a shambling corpse and its spinoff ResetERA being what it is, but pre-G*merGate GAF was chill and a place where industry figures would show up and sperg out while everyone laughed at them.
Dennis Dyack makes a bet
Right now the man just appears confident in his project. But his next post is a bit more... unhinged, and seems to be setting the bar rather low by making alreay-forgotten games Lair and Haze the standard to beat:
Dyack then does another interview where he declares that not only is NeoGAF the worst forum in the world, but forums in general are evil and this is why the US military no longer uses writing:
Too Human comes out and scores lower than Haze. In classic GAF fashion the top janny punishes Dyack for losing the bet by writing lots of words and then perma-banning him. Dyack copes by saying g*mers are too stupid to understand his genius.
By this point the capital-G G*mers are pissed at Dyack in a way that prefigures G*merGate in a way. Seething articles are written speculating that angering the G*mers has resulted in him not just being banned from NeoGAF, but divorced from his wife, kicked out of the house, abandoned by his employees, his car towed, banned from every website ever, banned from the city of Niagara and tossed over the waterfall.
He messed with g*mers. G*mers.
The Saga Ends
Denis Dyack has brought Silicon Knights from one of the more respected devs in the industry to basically a joke. Following the failure of Too Human Dyack blamed the Unreal Engine and Epic Games and made the genius decision to sue them. This didn't go their way and by 2012 they owed Epic millions of dollars, had less than five employees, and were legally obligated to destroy all of their unsold games and source code.
In the meantime they had six more projects (including two sequels for Too Human) which were cancelled before they finally released another game, the absolutely awful X-Men Destiny, which turns out to be their last. In desperation, Dyack crawls back to Nintendo and pitches a sequel to their last hit, Eternal Darkness. NeoGAF insider reveals that Nintendo is agreeable until SK loses the lawsuit against Epic, and they decide they'd rather not fork over $10 million in legal fees so SK can survive, which Dyack denied. Former SK staff reveal that this was the case and part of the reason the X-Men game sucked was because Dyack was taking money given by Activision for that game and instead putting it toward Eternal Darkness II.
Years later Dyack attempts to kickstart his own Eternal Darkness successor and makes $300,000 out of the $700,000 target. He has yet to make another game. The end!
Dyack, left
tl;dr
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this is going to turn me into the joker pic.twitter.com/BDz8FgWtV8
— and my name is alex (now on bsky) (@DudeExclamation) May 19, 2024
https://twitter.com/manuclearbomb/status/1426363490638483457
A big Simpsons thread from two years ago is getting new traction on Twitter as new generations realize the Sneed show was funny (rip Phil Hartman). However, zoomers are so used to musicals that reheat dead franchises with corny music that they fail to understand why Planet of the Apes: the Musical is funny.
Full clip:
Additional seethe (mostly 15 year olds asking where the shiny lights, references to modern movies, and Rick and Morty references are in a clip that is older than they are):
https://twitter.com/socialnomadrach/status/1791794323425800223
https://twitter.com/sonyplaytation/status/1792336067598881226
https://twitter.com/thegrayfruit/status/1791820189648003214
https://twitter.com/wiiiframe/status/1791918626767020186
I HATE EVERY APE I SEE
FROM CHIMPAN-A TO CHIMPANZEE
Let's check in on the song that the latest season of the Simpsons was advertising in an episode last week by the way, extreme coal warning: https://twitter.com/thesimpsons/status/1789816702869348687