Another day, another MTG and Warhammer controversy. Today's episode actually begins with some YouTuber on a one man crusade to destroy Kotaku. Some jurnalist took issue with this and the YouTuber started making fun of her. In a reasonable escalation of the situation, the jurno tracks down the Tuber's wife and starts DMing her. They go back and forth slinging shit at each other and of course the j*urnaloid can't help but claim harassment. This is where the story proper begins:

Paul Scott Canavan, a MtG and Warhammer artist tweets the following:

This is absolutely the play - we should be doing this with all these weird creeps. Track down their significant others and mothers and string them up.

Surely, this was posted in good faith. Unfortunately, bigot chuds took issues with his tweet and Paul doubled down until bravely private his Twitter and Instagram.

The following threads have some good redditard discussion on it. /r/freemagic will likely go on a campaign to get him fired, and even /r/mtg seems to largely denounce his behavior.

https://old.reddit.com/r/freemagic/comments/1cnants/how_is_this_okay_with_wizards_mtg_artist/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/mtg/comments/1cnl4yd/magic_the_gathering_and_warhammer_artist_paul/?sort=controversial

Some choice comments:

Guess this guy has never heard of a slippery slope.

What a loser.

He meant proverbially. Like held accountable.

His wording was flagrant. But I do t think he actually meant to hang people.

It's hyperbole I believe.

It's another episode of the words we say don't mean what they mean!

I am not one for cruxifying people for their opinions, but holy shit threatening peoples family because they don't agree with this jerk offs opinion and ideology is a new fricking low.

That's not what happened here, though. If you look at the context, what he was saying is that if someone is harassing women online their actions should be shown to the women in their life.

He's not saying kill the families of online trolls, the title of this post is really misleading.

"Track down their significant others and mothers and string them up.”

That is verbatim what his tweet said. How is the title misleading?

Several other redditards crawl out of the woodwork to explain how Paul is defending women, so his calls for killing are good, actually.

I believe unfortunately he has a history of sketchy behaviour. He is the one who posted sales of his artist proof cards and then ghosted people and scammed them out of some money.

Hmm, maybe this guy is based after all…

I think you are perpetuating a bad faith interpretation of a poorly worded tweet.

“Bad Faith! Bad Faith! Bad Faith!” say the line, redditor!

Anyways, place your bets on whether or not this brave woman defender will keep his role as a Magic and Warhammer artist. Personally, I hope he gets fired because he already seems like a schizo. Losing his job would likely make him even more deranged.

Seriously just read this comment:

The Boys is such a weirdly horrible show…

…and that's exactly why I can't stop watching it.

The thing that bothers me most about the show though isn't the s*x or hyperviolence, it's the fact that there really are people out there who actually would idolise Homelander, and that's worse than any gore-soaked murder-fest the show will ever depict (and they've shown some seriously twisted stuff already).

Imagine unironically writing that. Other comments include:

Rick And Morty is another good example. Rick Sanchez is not supposed to be a role model, you Joker-loving freakazoids.

watch another cartoon

Butcher and Homelander's characters are horrible in a truly delectable way though, and both are brilliantly inhabited by their actors.

For me that's what takes The Boys from a 7.* to a high 9.

delectable is one of those Redditor words that makes me cringe.

Yesssss! Antony Starr's portrayal of Homelander is streets ahead. June 13th can't come soon enough.

You might think "this is a clearly astroturfed account and this comment will have been downvoted to heck by the astute, intelligent users of Ars Technica". You'd be wrong, it's one of the top comments and the user has had their Ars account for 23 years.

Let's see the most unpopular comment just to balance things out:

super - yawn

The desperate attempt to be different from other series with <whatever others don't dare to do/show> gets boring very quickly. If you don't have a decent story, even extra violence won't help (as 'The Boys' impressively demonstrates - season 3 was already just a collection of confused story fragments pasted together with violence).

Heroes, zombies, detectives with superhuman cognitive abilities, but with social abnormalities, extra violence, time travel stories with maximum arbitrariness, the 1,000th series variation of a once successful film, with ideas that have long since become stale (Star Trek, Star Wars, all superheroe movies & series, ...), ...

How boring! Mental fast food for people who prefer not to deal with anything.

One of the replies to it:

Unless you're in a private group of friends and been given the 'ok' to do so, nobody likes someone who sarcastically shits on things other people like because they're bored, either in public socialization or on social media.

You have to have a functioning, actual specific critique as to why production on the show may have been a waste relative to something else or the critique falls out as being 'that guy', bored and being a shithead for the sake of it.

dramacels in shambles.

Mark Laita runs Soft White Underbelly, where he interviews and photographs people generally from the seedier side of life. Some interviewees are cops, excons, mentally ill people, etc. but he also tends to offer random people on Skid Row a few hundred for their stories. Sometimes/occasionally it's very interesting, often it's just a rambling junkie.

Mark found the Whittaker family in a <1000 pop town called Odd, West Virginia when he asked a cop about interesting local people. Their family tree is a clusterfrick with far too many overlapping lines, with the bulk of the children coming from two cousins of identical twin brothers.

They are severely inbred to the point they look like cartoonish caricatures of inbred hicks, some of them are nonverbal and have the minds of children. Mark's first video of them is here, I won't spoil it but it's worth watching until the end. Ray, who doesn't talk outside of grunts and barks, shows that he understands what people around him are talking about.

As described in the video, when he first tried to photograph them one of their cousins Jason who lived nearby threatened him with a shotgun and told him to stay the frick away from them. Eventually he was able to talk him down and later interviewed him - he's a career criminal and drug addict with sexual assault charges against a minor.

Based on the positive response from the first video, Mark had more follow-up videos with the Whittaker family and they began a very wholesome chungus relationship with him buying them groceries and taking them to the state fair.

The follow-up videos started to include a gofundme link where people could donate to the family as they apparently needed a new home.

With money and attention coming in, some other vulturous soytuber clickbait cute twink took it upon himself to visit Odd, WV and the Whittakers.

Timestamped is when he starts talking about Mark and the Whittakers. He says that over $77k was raised on just one GoFundMe and they should have funds to buy a $139k house in cash. When asked about the house Betty Whittaker squawks that she doesn't know anything about any house and that Mark said there are no more funds available. Their caretaker says she doesn't seem to understand either. This guy creates another gofundme for the Whittakers.

Mark responds and explains that the Whittakers kept asking for money from the GoFundMe. Since it's their money, he couldn't really refuse. He has receipts that he's sent a bit over $100,000 and they've pissed it all away with no house to show for it.

Although Mark was supposed to have washed his hands of the family after this, tragedy struck later in the month when BJ Whittaker reported that her father Larry had died. She called him emotionally sobbing and crying. requesting $800 for help with funeral expenses and a little over $250 for clothing for her and her family. She said the service would be on Facebook Live.

Betty confirmed the death on the phone, but Mark, seeming to smell something was off, flew across the country that day and showed up to the house to attend Larry's funeral. Larry drives up to the house in his truck about 13 minutes in.

Mark confronts BJ and Betty, who despite typically answering any question with something akin to "Ah dunno" was apparently lucid enough to play along with a lie about a family member dying. Apparently Betty also gives cash from the "family funds" to Larry's grandson Brandon (seen here in the back).

Mark had a followup with Jason the other day. Most recently, Larry asked for cash to try to get BJ help and out of state away from the family, being the worst influence. She, of course, didn't go anywhere, and the Whittakers who are capable of communicating in words were all able to stay consistent on another lie that got them money.

The shotgun toting felon chomo who originally threatened Mark agrees that they're actually untrustworthy and he probably should no longer try to help them.

Moral:

DO NOT TRUST WHITE """PEOPLE"""

A true leftist. https://t.co/MDJpTVSxr5

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) May 6, 2024

Looks like a little girl playing princess

>i can't breed

>many people watched a 7 hour nazi propaganda video

Who won?

- 120 votes

- 5 votes

Here's a list of 100% true facts* from a lot of different areas etc that make certain r*dditors very angry. Feel free to use to bait r-slurs 🤗🤗🤗 i probably forgot a bunch so I might update this list but idk

Violent video games increase aggression and desensitization, and decrease empathy.

Vegetables are healthy.

Red meat is unhealthy.

There are reasonable concerns about adverse health effects from MSG.

There's no evidence that seasoning a cast iron pan creates a layer of polymerized oils.

"Hydrogen oxide" is just as correct as "dihydrogen monoxide".

Eating meat is immoral.

Moral relativism is false.

Non physical experiments (like models and computer simulations) produce the same kind of evidence as physical experiments.

/r/nihilism's stickied explanation of nihilism does not explain nihilism correctly.

Anki spacing algorithms are not the most efficient algorithms for longterm retention.

Word cards lead to implicit word knowledge.

Gender is a social construct.

Clathrin mediated endocytosis does not significantly contribute to synaptic vesicle recycling under physiological conditions.

Sam Harris is neither a neuroscientist, nor a philosopher.

All the popscientific debunkings of the Kalam cosmological argument fail.

Jesus existed as a historical figure.

Wage increases only very rarely don't at least match inflation.

The wage gap exists.

IQ differences between races for the most part aren't genetic.

Youtube pianist Traum's videos are heavily manipulated.

* 100% true fact in this case means there's a robust consensus among the relevant experts. This works less well with r*ghtoids since they will just call the entire field libtard propaganda brainwashing or whatever.

!animalposters

A zoo in China sparked all out panda-monium after they dressed dogs as pandas because they didn't have the genuine artifact, as seen in viral photos.

The fake pandas, unveiled May 1 at the Taizhou Zoo in Jiangsu Province, were actually Chow Chow dogs — a big-haired breed from Northern China, Jam Press reported.

Zoo officials reportedly trimmed their mane and dyed their faces black to look like China's iconic bamboo-eating bear.

They then put the so-called “panda dogs” on display in an enclosure every day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., attracting throngs of people despite the obvious bamboo-zlement, per the sanctuary's staffers.

When asked why they had the canines engage in panda cosplay, a rep explained, “There are no panda bears at the zoo and we wanted to do this as a result.”

Dr Hilary Cass says the issue of puberty blockers has become "almost totemic".

"It has stopped us looking at other ways of managing young people's distress..." pic.twitter.com/TuaQQ9B1Sx

— Holyrood magazine (@HolyroodDaily) May 7, 2024

Needless to say, there is no evidence that SSRIs treat gender dysphoria in minors. But if you watch the video, she calls these treatments "evidenced-based".

so what did she mean by this?

Presumably, she means there is evidence they treat depression. Which would only be relevant if one believed gender dysphoria was not a real diagnosis.

Any credibility she or the NHS may have had on the international stage after releasing the embarrassing Cass report is completely shot.

Of course, that won't stop the Bongs from torturing their own kind for amusement, a Bongish pastime that they never grow tired of. What silly rules and regulations will they think of next?

Drake's OVO store in London was vandalized

Someone spray painted "They not like us" on the window pic.twitter.com/jLzyWiQzHA

— DailyRapFacts (@DailyRapFacts) May 7, 2024

For those who didn't know, drake is half white. Kendricks latest diss track "They Not Like Us" highlights this and he's not welcome in the culture.

In fact the whole song has become a rallying cry for FBAs saying that white people don't belong in their space anymore. Notice something about all these white people though? Like this guy, DJ Vlad.

Oh heck naw dis yt boi tryin get a black woman fired!

Yeah that's it 👍. It's only been 40 years since Jerry Heller buck broke eazy-e out of his contract. I'm sure this community will start noticing soon though.

https://twitter.com/Akademiks/status/1787862588660814161

!africans

The aesthetic:

You will be attracting a certain type of scrote:

The smell of that sweet snatch(female):

!fashion

PC G*mer Link: President of Xbox asked about the closure of Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, spends close to a minute saying almost nothing

@ 4:00 is the question

>Then Bond is asked about Tango Gameworks, and fires back an answer that seems both off-the-cuff and completely deflective.

>"One of the things I really love about the games industry is it's a creative artform, and it means that the situation—and what success [means] for each game and studio is also really unique," Bond begins. "There's no 'one-size fits all' to it for us. And so we look at each studio, each game team, and we look at a whole variety of factors when we're faced with making decisions and trade-offs like that."

>Bond adds: "But it all comes back to our long-term commitment to the games we create, the devices we build, the services—and ensuring that we're setting ourselves up to be able to deliver on those promises." That's it, next question. No elaboration.

It's painful watching the video. It's 17 minutes of spitting out buzzwords fed to her by her team. There's nothing of substance or iota of care about gaming. She's clueless about the industry she makes executive decisions on, the livelihoods of thousands and the passions of millions. I had no idea of her background and the caricatures are true - she really is a Harvard MBA.

Edit: I watched the video again. If you pay attention really closely, she's just whispering under her breath the words “shareholder value” for 17 minutes.

I wonder does she talk in this way in all parts of life, because conversation with her would be impossible.

Imagine being her husband and asking her "How was your day, honey?" and then just getting bombarded with buzzwords and corp-speak that says absolutely nothing, let alone answer the question.

Bonnie Ross vibes (who?? )

its this everyone of these guys from Xbox are MBA drones on $500k or more none of them are g*mers, none of them have ever picked up a controller, all of them have a placeholder Xbox g*mer account with token acheivements etc. yusuf mehdi, mr. tv tv tv tv - they're all the same.... slick slimy advertising buttholes and this is why xbox is always going to be #3 i think at least nintendo and to some extent, playstation has some dedicated folks at the reins... ie. mark cerny seems to be a great h/w person and theres people like Kaz Yamauchi.... truly... savants and yet if you look at other MS alumni like Panos Panay, I'm not sure its better if you throw it to them... was it different with peter moore j. allard behind the wheel? well yeah. the current staff going back to mattrick makes me not want to spend money on xbox

She's the president? lol. Xbox is fricked

McKinsey word salad

some good fighting among redditeurs

They really have no idea what they're doing

If only they had experts like the ones in reddit, theyd be successful.

If only they had more white knights like you to guard them

I'm not claiming to be an expert, but when a studio releases Hi-Fi Rush, it receives insane reviews, great sales, and GOTY nominations/awards, is praised by the publisher, then is immediately shut down, then the publisher comes out and says "we need smaller games that win awards"... I mean yes like I said I'm no expert BUT COME THE FRICK ON. They clearly have no idea what they're doing. I'm no expert but I know that Nintendo doesn't just fire a bunch of people after their game sells like crazy, and that company has been making games WAY longer than Microsoft. It doesn't take an expert to see that Microsoft has no idea how to manage game publishing.

Did it have great sales tho? It's not like it was an indie game that cost nothing to make and it was only sold at $30.

It's hard to find hard numbers on it because it's digital only but according to the wiki it has had over 3,000,000 players between both sales and Game Pass and it's now releasing on Playstation and Switch. I'd say it's been a financial success.

I seriously doubt it had “great sales”. It probably had the opposite of that for Microsoft to shut them down. I seriously doubt Microsoft were like “this studio is making us truck load of money let's close them”. Great user and critic reviews isn't going to save a studio at the end of the day if no one bought the game. And this is not the first game that underpowered from them. Ghostwyre Tokyo failed financially too and that was marketed by Sony and launched on Ps5/PC.

Over 3,000,000 players across sales and Game Pass. And even if sales were low that falls on the publisher for not advertising the game correctly. When all the critics and fans say the game is a 10/10 then the developers did their job flawlessly. Microsoft should've advertised it more if sales were down.

3m players doesn't tell us much. I am making this up but let's say 90% of them have played the game for 1 hour on gamepass. Then that fails in generating gamepass engagement and low sales and you have a game that just underperforms. We don't know the revenue, costs and profit of the game. Microsoft does know that. There is no world in which the game makes them truckload of money and they shut it down. You guys yourself said it - they care all about the bottom line. Advertising the game heavily costs money. Which you then need to make up through hopefully higher sales and end up being ahead. I suspect Microsoft didn't think it's worth doing it. Some games are more niche and inevitably have lower sales. Hi fi rush is likely one of them. We have seen this time and time again with great games undeperofmring financially. Nothing new here. This was the case with HI Fi rush and their previous game - ghostwire Tokyo which was promoted by Sony.

goes on and on

>Bro she was basically fondeling investor balls the entire time. Someone gave her the wrong script and she had bing summarize it for her.

!g*mers

@neoconshill

Happy mothers day @MetroBoomin

— Soulja Boy (Draco) (@souljaboy) May 12, 2024

For further context: Metro Boomin's mother was murdered by her boyfriend before he also killed himself less than 2 years ago.

Metro was unbelievably close to his mother. She bought him his first laptop at 13 because he wanted to start making beats and used to drive him 8 hours on weekends to collaborate with artists when he was in highschool.

This is in response to a 2014 tweet from Metro saying: “My phone rings to come to the studio with Jeezy. Yours rings to send SouljaBoy a pack of beats. Sit Down.”

More Tweets:

• I'll beat the frick out you @MetroBoomin and @21savage sign the boxing 🥊 contract since u kitty n***** so tough!!!

• You sacrificed your own mom @MetroBoomin you a puppet

• All the streams, sales, money, and fame not gone bring your mom back @MetroBoomin was it worth it? I can say frick this money and fame shit and still be a boss can you?

!bardfinn