Whenever theytry to make Pvt Bonespurs look “manly” it always looks so sad and desperate
It serves nicely as an opportunity to remind onlookers that Trump avoided military service using his supposed ‘bone spurs’ as a reason he was unfit, though. Nothing like reminding these idiots that their tough guy is that tough
Flooding the zone too stronk
Even if I support the message: Fuck AI
Firework isn’t consistently in front of the letters or in the background and switches between the two.
I was just noticing this before I read your comment.
They are literally trying to turn Americans into the Covenant tho. Religious warriors.
The Covenant might be religious fanatics but they’re actually capable of working with other religious fanatics, in mutual cooperation.
MAGAs are more like Species 8472, utterly hostile to anything that doesn’t conform to their very narrow and ill informed worldview, even to the point of being hostile to potential allies, thus alienating them.
Nah. They showed the capacity to change and grow from their experiences and interactions.
Yeah, the Boothby 8472 was pretty chill. They just wanted to be left the fuck alone.
Also the SPARTAN program was pretty fucked, so this just looks bad in every way IMO.
He would probably approve of their crimes against children.
Microsoft is a criminal organisation that thrives on corruption (no real action being taken with respect to anti trust proceedings is still relevant today).
Crime isn’t only about someone stealing your phone, extracting many billion of dollars via oligopolistic methods of limiting competition and leaving people with no other option than to use their products (irrespective of price or feature considerations) is also criminal activity.
They are not going to fight the US administratorion on this.
Where the Trump-as-Master Chief post is merely cringeworthy, the Homeland Security message is flat-out dangerous. Comparing immigrants in the US to a parasitic alien life form that infects and annihilates advanced societies is not deeply offensive, it’s also rooted in the worst of human history: As seen in the untermenschen of the Holocaust and “cockroaches” in Rwanda, to name a couple recent examples, dehumanizing the “other” so you can more easily inflict cruelty, injustice, and horrors upon them is hardly a new technique, and the US government’s messaging was not subtle.
You might think that using imagery from one of its best known videogames in a call to “destroy” immigrants would prompt Microsoft to action, or at least to express some small modicum of disapproval. For now, at least, you would be wrong: Rather like Nintendo, which eagerly picks copyright fights it knows it can win but kept its mouth tightly zipped when Homeland Security used Pokémon to promote violent immigration raids, a representative told PC Gamer that “Microsoft does not have anything to share on this matter.”
Unexpectedly good political commentary from checks notes PC Gamer
Also if Trump is any Halo character, he’s the Prophet of Truth
Nah truth was actually well spoken and was a decent leader. He’d be regret.
In Contact Harvest, Truth learns of a new species that has been discovered, and apparently the old Forerunner scanners say the humans have a lot of holy Forerunner artifacts that are indicated by this symbol:
Truth goes to talk to the old Forerunner AI kept prisoner in the basement and says “You guys didn’t provide a legend with your scanners, what’s this thing?”
Mendicant Bias the Forerunner AI explains, “Oh, that’s the symbol for Reclaimer. Reclaimers are the people my old bosses chose to inherit our empire after they all kicked the bucket.”
Truth says “Wait, you’re saying this is a planet full of demigods?”
Mendicant Bias is like “Yeah, haha, I guess if you insist on worshipping my creators as gods, then you’d better start worshipping these people instead from now on. They’re supposed to be your new bosses.”
Truth says “No, absolutely not. I worked much too hard to become a space pope and I’m not letting the second coming of Jesus get in the way of my plans. I’m going to declare a space jihad against these new aliens so nobody finds out they’re demigods.”
Anyway, the new species were humans and the Covenant declared a holy war and nearly wiped humanity out. Truth also ordered a genocide of the Sangheili after the Sangheili generals started asking a few too many tricky questions like “why are we having a space jihad against the humans they seem nice”
Honestly PC gamer has been pretty solid lately. Not sure why. Almost makes me nervous.
Staff shake-up last year. Phil Savage and Tyler Wilde have really stepped it up and let their writers sound off.
Like any of the major sites though, the news side still has its share of articles generated from one-liners sourced from interviews ran elsewhere.
Good to know! I’ve just been having regular encounters with high quality content from there, rather than being a regular reader, so I haven’t had any awareness of anything in the background. In a world full of “gaming journalists have no place in an era of AI” this is really heartening to hear
How many Microsoft executives are on the Epstein files?
Gates is on it for sure, i believe melinda split over something similar. and his shitck of trying to reinvent his own image, so the epstein files dont bite him in the end. his vaccine iniative is nothing more than scheme, since african countries has considered the vaccine as part of vaccine colonialism.
They said Microsoft executives though, which Gates is not.
Microsoft are a bunch of pussies also release the Epstein files!
Microsoft declined to commentMicrosoft was completely OK with this
of course they are. they aid genocide abroad, why wouldn’t they do it at home too?
It’s piss colored, and that makes it accurate.
lmao they didn’t even try to color correct the piss filter
…So you separate children from their parents at the age of six and abuse them? Yeah, that sounds pretty accurate.
Instead of Mexican Joker we’ll have Mexican Chief
Lmao that fat fuck could not fit in that suit.
Microsoft declines to comment
More like ‘Microsoft approves of this imagery’
Silence is consent, be it from approval or cowardice, the outcome is the same.
I understand your outrage but silence is not consent. It is fear. Apply that phrase to any other situation where consent is required and that would be considered victim blaming.
Now M$ COULD be fine with this, we truly don’t know, but they could also be afraid of how the administration would retaliate against them if they spoke up. I do agree with you when you say these companies are cowardly.
Lol, they willingly work with this fascist regime and others around the globe. Their silence is implicit consent, because a multi billion dollar company doesn’t get to cry fear in the face of the governments they willingly work with.
Stop defending corpos, they’ll gladly sell you to the government and tell your family they’re suuuuuper sorry you got nabbed but there’s nothing they can do.
They provided some insight to why they think MS didn’t comment. Then agreed with you. I don’t think they were defending MS.
I would threaten to not buy any more Halo games but I haven’t bought one in like a decade so I recognize there’s not much bite there.
Lawsuit incoming…?
From who? They funded the Epstein Ballroom.
Microsoft declining to comment may as well be a confession that they gave this shit the go-ahead
I don’t know what’s worse, that Microsoft may have given them the go-ahead or that they did it knowing Microsoft would be too scared to say something.
We all know they didn’t ask permission.
Can you imagine if MS did say something, and Trump immediately decided to replace all their products in government with Apple alternatives? You know he would.
Equally disgusting tbh. Boycott for life for sure.
Probably. Trump will probably sue Microsoft for stealing his battle suit for video games.
It’s another form of kissing the ring. They know it’s bad for business but there’s the implied threat that if they retaliate the FCC will grind the company to a hault.
So it’s a way of reminding them of their loyalty and extending the president’s influence beyond it’s legal limits, very common tactic during the 1940’s of a particular country’s history.
Considering how dependent on M$ servers and products the 'murican government is, Microsoft could easily push for a MAD standoff against them
