CubitOomUS government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment
NarrativeBearLawsuit incoming…?
nfreakMicrosoft declining to comment may as well be a confession that they gave this shit the go-ahead
OmegaI 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.
jimmuxIt’s piss colored, and that makes it accurate.
They are literally trying to turn Americans into the Covenant tho. Religious warriors.
He would probably approve of their crimes against children.
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.
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Agent KaryoMicrosoft 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.
whenever theytry to make Pvt Bonespurs look “manly” it always looks so sad and desperate
mrmaplebarFlooding 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.
LucidlethargyI was just noticing this before I read your comment.
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.
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.
gndagrebornThe DHS equating migrants being deported to fighting the flood was surreal. I had to do a double take.
Whenever you think the Turd Reich can’t get more stupid and ridiculous they actually go and do it.
Jerb322Reminds me of this…
Just when I think you've said the stupidest thing ever, you keep talkin'
Damn, now I want a mod that replaces all Covenant enemies with these fascists, and replace all their voice lines with actual quotes they’ve said.
You could do Stephen Miller for the Prophets, Trump for the Elites, and maybe Alex Jones or something for the Grunts.
Avicenna
Chloé 🥕The suit is jacking him off
BigBenisIt’s another form of kissing the ring. They know it’s bad for business but there’s the implied threat that if they retaliate he could use the FCC to grind the company to a hault.
So it’s a way of reminding them of their loyalty, probably because it’s about to be tested much harder in the future.
I Cast FistConsidering how dependent on M$ servers and products the 'murican government is, Microsoft could easily push for a MAD standoff against them
RoseThere is still time to stop the key from turning.
tgirlschierke…So you separate children from their parents at the age of six and abuse them? Yeah, that sounds pretty accurate.
Lmao that fat fuck could not fit in that suit.
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
ThatWeirdGuy1001Nah 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.
AshtearStaff 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
Fuck! Fuck fuck fuck. I have SOOOOOO MUCH SHIT BLOCKED and I still have to see this invasive fucking shit fucking EVERYWHERE IN FUCKING LEMMY. fuck you fuck everyone fuck all this endless fucking fellatio you give this fucking twat. Just shut the fuck up and stop sharing the images and name and giving it attention. Holy fucking shit it’s god damn inescapable.
Get so fucking fucked fucking assholes!!!
Then don’t click on it, asshole! There is plenty of shit on here that I don’t care about, but I don’t bitch about it. I just scroll on.
Fuck you!
I scroll on 99% of the time and/or hide it.
Fuck you.