Yeah its a useful spam filter, at the end of the day there are 10k or so on a hashtag and even 1% send a tweet or DM its still an absolute fuckton of incoming messages.
I’ve seen what a popular RT can do, but the most hassle I’ve had is a few dozen kippers or Respect/Islamists who weren’t amused at some of my more sarky tweets.
Well, I stick to baiting them on Disqus there. You can always delete your post and go as “guest”. (Won’t stop the site owner blocking you, but it and the flaming replies don’t show up in your post history ^^)
I guess it cant take much to bait a kipper, from what im seeing in the press at the moment, any of the following will see the candidate dropped or politician sacked in short order.
- letting them speak in public
- letting them write
- giving them an expense account
Oh, that’s not at all unusual in the UK for parties to the right of the Tories.
Unfortunately, clowns can still be dangerous.
(And yes, you can provoke a firestorm with a two-line comment. Which I do when they come to spam left-wing sites ^^)
Heh, Colonel Blimp is now digitally aware, online and very angry indeed.
ShivaX
4526
Here we can definitely agree. Thor seems to have been written by a 4th grader lately from what little I’ve seen.
Not that many comics are well written to begin with.
Timex
4527
The notion of the block bot seems counterproductive to me. The enemy of bigotry is open communication. If i understand the block bot, its purpose is to automatically block people who are deemed as undesirables by some group of thought police.
That seems like one of the worst idea ever.
It is only a bad idea if you don’t have something to lose from open discussion.
Alstein
4529
They’re not interested in open communication, they’re interested in winning their war.
Teiman
4530
Imagine a world divided into two groups of people. Group A uses a brainchip called “Persuadertron” that create a fantasy “America 50’s” society for them. Video and audio is edited in real time to fit this fantasy, as the brain is chemically and electrically stimulated to ignore any disonance. Group B uses a brainchip called “Persuadertron” that creates a fantasy “The Safe Space Community of Lalalarral”, the utopia heralded by the Social Justice Warriors.
They all get their news from a service called Spiredchan, this service customize the news to fit their society customs and ideology. All the news are real, but filtered to confirm their bias.
When they search for a partner, they uses a service called Tinderbell, that make sure only people from the group A meet people from the group A, and people from the group B talk with people of the group B.
Theres still only one president on the state, but while the group A sees a middle aged white men, group B sees a black lesbian with red skin and black eyes.
The persuadertron sometimes malfunction, creating a group of people that can see reality like it is, both groups put these people in a Asylums, separated from the normal people, the same asylum. Normal people can’t really communicate with this group of people.
Isn’t that the plot for Syndicate?
The problem is that twitter is not for discussion, really, it’s all about mass messaging. And if you want to see anything but a wall of “GG lol” messages if you attract their attention, you gotta use something like a block bot.
No Platform is an actual tactic these guys use. Combine the with safe spaces and what have you then debate isn’t possible even outside of Twitter. Debate is problematic.
They ain’t here. Even Virgil was the epitome of reason and politeness compared with Oolon and co.
If they’re worse than Virgil, you can’t have a discussion with them in the first place now, can you?
Busbecq
4537
I’m disappointed that so many people got so trolled by Virgil. I think everyone needs to work on their internet boundary-setting.
Quaro
4538
Why Everyone Should Want Politics in Their Video Games
Without politics, Bioshock is pretty much just an underwater shooter. Papers, Please is just a paperwork simulator. I don’t quite subscribe to the notion that all art is political by default - it’s fun to theorise about the political situation of the Mario universe, but it’s also nonsense. But the extremely obvious fact is that political themes often greatly enrich a story, and sometimes give it thought-provoking real-world context that gives it an intellectual life and vibrancy outside the confines of the game (or book, or painting) itself.
I suspect, ultimately, that a lot of the feeling behind “keep politics out of games” is really “keep politics that I don’t agree with out of games”. And I can relate to that. I find Hatred properly abhorrent - and man, the politics of its creators could not be more relevant to the themes of the game. But I have to support its right to exist, even though it makes me feel ill. I find Randian political philosophy gross and vaguely dangerous, but man, am I glad I read it. Deciding not to play games that you find politically disagreeable is one thing, but mandating that no game should be political at all? It’s got to stop. At best, it’s ignorant. At worst, disturbing.
Busbecq
4539
I take a less charitable view. The politics often seem like a smokescreen to draw attention from poorly developed mechanics. So Bioshock is a not great shooter, Papers Please is a trivial n-back game, etc.
If its left to the market, then even extreme politics can be injected where they want. If people don’t want them they won’t buy them.
However, supporting inclusive/identity politics friendly educational software (lets not be fooled into thinking some of these titles are pure entertainment, hence its useful to roll out the educational software label again) must mean games like Hatred are supported too.
Both sides of GG get this wrong.
