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It’s hard to see this as anything other than another victim of the cancer that is cancel culture. Calling her out as racist and saying she should be fired just because she didn’t make a BLM post. Or calls for her to be fired because she supported Trump. By that logic, 74 million other Americans should be getting fired too. I don’t follow her, or anyone really, o social media but from the articles I read she hasn’t actually said or done anything wrong. Sure I disagree with the things she said but I’ve yet to find anyone I agree with on everything.

I think what a lot of us forget as we consume social media and whatnot... is that the ones making noise about anything and everything and the ones that create content and get everyone else riled up... are the extreme minority of humanity. The vast majority of us are middle ground, try to do the right thing, try not to harm others, try to understand that you can't paint one person or group of people with a giant stroke. Yes, I live in a progressive area. Yes, I am progressive (to the point that I was "Yang Gang" long before anyone knew who Andrew Yang was). Yes, I have definitely dealt with my share of "COVIDiots" (I mean, I have a neighbor who is) and racists and sexists and generally terrible people. But, while my neighbor is a "red hat" who thinks masks are pointless (and for a while thought COVID was a hoax), he's not malicious and quite neighborly and understands that COVID is dangerous. We, as people, generally forget that there is a middle ground. That just because one thing is chosen doesn't mean something else isn't. That because someone gets helps or a reward doesn't mean that something is taken away from someone else. That, let's just take for example, equal rights to all people does not mean taking away rights from others... or the super touchy subject here in the US about "the right to bear arms"... that just because I want some semblance of gun control doesn't mean no guns for anyone. Just it should be responsible ownership... Because I think people should have them as long as they know how to properly use and care for them. Or, non-hetero people getting married... like who cares if two guys or two ladies or two whatevers gets married? Last I checked their relationship has nothing to do with others? It's not black or white. One or the other. Everything is a shade of grey. Social media and the trolls that are on it to rile people up are a prime example of "a person is smart. People are dumb". Mob mentality happens super fast on social media.

That's four minutes of my life I won't get back. Didn't really explain anything except bang on about a cult. I suppose Disney are probably uber sensitive since they were founded by a fascist sympathiser😆

Hello my name is Greebs and I like long walks on the beach and candle lit dinners.......oh that's the not the type of meeting you wanted 😆 There is a few PC games that bring us together, the biggest is probably 7 days to die which with the Darkness falls mod is both brilliant and horrible at the same time. I also run a modded Minecraft server, currently running Sky Factory 3, and is open to anyone in FG. Outside of that though PC can be a little sporadic with games here and there on Star Citizen, Green Hell and more recently Valheim. Valheim does look interesting and something to keep an eye on with the good feedback from those who have played it though I'll probably be holding off for a little while as I picked up a few single player games I want to try first. Sent a friends request on Steam though too so hopefully see you in a game or on Discord sometime 🙂

The Dragon Age games are close to my heart ❤ The first one got me through a tough time and I've just been in love with the stories and the characters ever since If anyone wants to talk about it feel free >.< We can talk lore or just about about favourite characters :3 I've attached a photo showing the evolution of my mage elf in Inquisition (newest on the left)

I agree, in so much as there is an authoritarian tendency in a lot of people, that I find disturbing and should always be confronted. There's also plenty of folk on the likes of Twitter that seem to exist just to either act superior or outraged to another set of people. I just don't engage with it.

Calls for her to be fired because she supported "45" - yeah.. see... as much as I despise the man and his whole goomba crew and the people pulling his strings, I think that's a bit much. People who have a knee-jerk reaction to want to get someone fired just because of certain political views don't necessarily try to understand what the actual cause is then. That said, yeah, my friends and I have definitely lived in various levels of fear since November 9, 2016 because of "45" and everything he put out there. But, if you come to me saying you support/supported him because of real things and got your facts together, then you do you. If you come to me saying you support/supported him because you think people like me are a cancer to the US because I'm brown and Asian and COVID and other xenophobic BS, then you can go happily jump off a ledge that I will point you in the direction of it. Basically, what I'm saying is that at the end of the day, I just want to be left alone, in peace, to play my games, go outside to get food and whatnot, and not worry about getting thrown into a van to be sent to camp or killed or whatever. If you are in your political views move to harm me and my friends, I have a problem with that. But, if your views are all just blustering nonsense and you forgot that you are owned by your employer and forget that freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences from private entities, then well... lolz.

Laughing at the use of facemasks oh jeez heinous crime😂 whatever next. Anyway this is the post, I believe it may have been someone else that made the original post. She also got attacked by the trans community for not putting her pronouns in her bio🤔 I also read that Pedro Pascal compared 75 million Americans to being Nazis. Will await his award 😂 Eitherway this public lynching for wrong opinions is stupid, the fact people actually go trawling through others lives looking for offence is one of the dumbest things these days.

Context on my POV: I'm not a Star Wars fan, but I did enjoy The Mandalorian... and probably have a better than basic knowledge of Star Wars lore. I lean liberal. Is what she said offensive? Sure. Do I necessarily care? Ehhhh... not really? There are plenty of actors out there that have viewpoints dissimilar to mine, and for me, unless you are actually actively doing terrible sh*t to the tune of harming people and animals for no good reason (I'm looking at you worthless pieces of garbage a la Jake Paul and Logan Paul), I generally say... whatever. Look, we who are employed by others are endlessly told to keep your POVs to yourself and be mindful of your social media. I have signed something that had that wording in the last 5 places I was employed, especially in the position I hold. I'm pretty sure she had to sign that as well. It's DISNEY. They absolutely care about what their assets put out there. In terms of the corporate world, she did this to herself... getting fired. In terms of her POV, ehhhh. It's terrible, and I wouldn't want to know her as a human. But, I also liked that she was a woman whose body I could actually relate to... who wasn't fat but was considered strong. No one wins with her being gone. Not the story. Not women. Not her. Not Disney.

That's actually really impressive for a game that litterally came out of nowhere like that. Yes the genere is definitely overwhelmed with crap just like other genres but when you actually find a diamond in the rough it feels so good I am gonna go home and download this today 😊

I love all the feed back we are getting here. I'm hoping for something to come out that will really draw a lot of people in, I know thats a lot now a days to ask for. Also getting involved in a different game means new connections also different interactions. I'd love to have things scheduled out like Lee does but we all know things don't always pan out that way. I think I'm gonna try and talk to Lee about maybe having an open discord page where we can just jump in and out if anyone is on. But thank you all for replying means a lot.

I'm obsessed with Dragon Age, replayed all three games so many times 🙈 The first one got me through a hard time I'm my life, and I can't wait for a 4th ❤️

Thank you so much for all the info @GazzaGarratt! I definitely will and I will mention this to him also 🙂 I can talk for days about dragon age 🤣 I'm a little bit obsessed 😶 so I will get involved with talking about it and other games I love >.<

Hi there @Kimmi29 , welcome to FG. What would be great is if you could get involved in the community and hopefully over time people will feel like they can pop over to the channel. Its a lovely unique place where we get to know each other, more than other places. And if he REALLY wants to get involved to be an FGer, then ask him to pop over too so he can introduce himself as well. What games do you play? What platforms are you on? When did you start playing games? You looking to play games with people here? I'd just add a little bit more and you may find that people are willing to give things a look. As you say, hopefully lockdown gives you the time to look around and get involved here 😄 Hope you enjoy your stay, Kimmi.

Lol I went snowboarding yesterday, took a sick day.

The pronoun mafia are some of the most toxic of all the Twitter clowns - basically they go around celebrities profiles 18 hours a day asking them why they don't have their pronouns included in their bio and if they aren't willing to include it within 30 minutes, they are branded transphobic homophobes and nazi extremists. Almost as laughable of a situation as when a series of black celebs on social media were deemed right wing racists if they didn't include the BLM hashtag in their posts when the protests aka riots were going on. I am so happy I don't use the cesspool of social media. Whenever a story pops up like this, it's usually supposed anti-fascists fighting non-existent fascism they've created with their own brand of fascism or social justice warriors looking for anything to make them angry and then make a song and dance about it until someone buckles and they get their way. Basically anyone with a blue checkmark on Twitter that you haven't heard of is usually a cunt. Anyone with pronouns has either been forced to do it to save their career or they are one of those toxic progressives.

In a country where so many people refuse to wear face masks, not sure why you want to laugh at that but fair enough. But that wasn't the point, as you well know, just an example of what I understand people have been complaining about. I think jumping on outrage bandwagons about cancel culture is possibly another side of the same coin. I've never heard of any of these people, Pedro who? Leave me out of all that bollocks lol. Still, my my mate who can't get employed as a chippy because of past union activities can go spin, not glamorous enough I suppose.

She's said a lot of things over the last year or two that have riled people up, including laughing at the use of face masks. She's had people complaining about her for all sorts of things.... but didn't get 'cancelled' until she compared her situation to the holocaust. I think think the cancel culture thing is a bit reactionary and blown out of proportion personally. Black balling in various industries is endemic and has been for a long time and I never see anything about that. Just these emotive social media wars letting people fight among themselves as usual.

It's not like there are any double standards when browsing social media posts these days are there🤔

Game sold 1m copies in one week!

Huge Dragon Age fan here. But, honestly, I did not dig too deep into the lore. I played Origins about a year after it came out. Shale is one of my favorite characters. Also, seeing the character arcs of Alistair and Cullen over the whole series was truly intriguing. Funny thing about Origins for me was that I played the entire game without actually bothering to understand the runes or apply them until the final boss haha. I really hope they don't tank DA4, but the BioWare we grew to love is long dead. I want to see what Tevinter is like. I want another fantastic story. I want to know what's going on with Solas!

So I know I have been here for about a year but only met maybe only a quarter of you. Lee might have mentioned it to maybe a couple of you or you have seen that I have recently built my first pc build. Coming from console after 13 years back to pc gaming is a hole different world. I'd love to chat and game with some of you guys on pc in certain games. As of late I have been playing hallow knight and the new call of duty. I also made a thread a week or so ago about outriders and playing that with people if they were interested. I saw a topic on the game valheim and the game looks very interesting and up my alley, also talked to Lee about maybe getting into 7 days as well. I'll post my info and from what I understand it's more in game friend request then just steam friend request so I'll just post my steam friend code at the bottom if anyone is interested in maybe getting some games in or chatting about other games as well. Im also In the discord so feel free to hollar at this ohio hillbilly im sure ill message ya back. Friend code: 1147067361

Do Black Flag first - Origins is an horrific grind after the 20 hour mark where you are level-gated and either have to do the same old mundane side quests over and over to progress, or pay Ubisoft for boosters where you proceed without playing the game😂 Christ I miss AC how it used to be. Thankfully Origins doesn't have any dance emotes😎

I see quite a few people on Cold War MP with store items. Money is still getting spent. But compared to MW and BO4 it's nowhere near the same numbers. They fairly milked BO4 with the lottery type loot boxes and pay to win weapons. Personally myself I don't spend real life money on the store. As James said a yearly cycle. Got better things to spend money on. I buy the game and grind whatever is available for free.

Well then, as a welcome to the newer PC players, here's a list of games for which I have Steam keys. If any of them take your fancy, let me know and I'll PM the key. VALKYRIA CHRONICLES 4 COMPLETE EDITION TRINE 4: THE NIGHTMARE PRINCE ANCESTORS: THE HUMANKIND ODYSSEY OVERCOOKED! 2 + TOO MANY COOKS GENERATION ZERO TROPICO 6 SUNLESS SKIES + SUNLESS SEA

I think you'll find that the PC gaming world hasn't changed drastically. It's all just better hardware. Okay, maybe more awesome monitors that I could have never dreamed of when I was only PC gaming, but still... it's like riding a bike. @GazzaGarratt - maybe let's add a subchannel in our Discord under Strategy and Survival? @FallenDark200 - you're better than I on being open to games that are dated and not graphically amazing. I swear, it's why I can't get through Elder Scrolls.. and why I won't play the Witcher series... and way it honestly took me so long to play Dragon Age and Mass Effect... which was actually a good thing for me lol. Let's get this Valheim stuff going!

I'm not a huge fan of survival games especially those that are in early access and didn't really understand what was so appealing about this one either looking at it, however I picked it up a few days ago as a punt and I have to say it is absolutely exceptional! Only played about 10 hours so far solo but everything in this game is on another level from the general mechanics to the fantastic crafting system. The building is really well implemented albeit a bit finicky on uneven land but the world is so intriguing and beautiful. Every aspect of this game so far feels spot-on and the potential is crazy - you really get the sense the developer knows exactly what they are doing and how to do it which is rare for this type of game. I hear the co-op also works really well and is tremendous fun! It's just a pleasant game to play that keeps on surprising with some great attention to detail and progression aspects tied to the crafting. I think this will be the best survival game of its kind if it isn't already and I've experienced zero bugs or issues so far. It feels so polished and really puts other games in this tarnished genre to shame.

@FallenDark200 On a serious note, nice thread, and I always welcome a new PC player over to the light🙂 I'll friend you on Steam after work. Just started playing Valheim on Sunday and plan to get back on with @GazzaGarratt and @tronic44 when we're all free. It's a great game.

Ha ha snap. Have it from Ubistore but never installed andshould really try and give it a go. The same with AC: Origins🙄😅