X sold very well, the best of any game in the series. Well enough to get a special edition and sequel. This is a franchise that has been going since the mid 90s.
Looks like 1.8m sales for X over 10 weeks. While DOA5 was 2.2m over 10 weeks. Nothing on DOA6 yet of course. X is probably the best selling of all MK titles, and that's because it became a very big thing in the semi-pro and pro fighting game circuits, especially since DOA5 is very dated.
During WW1 the feminist movement in the UK was pacifist and campaigned for an end to the fighting, supporting those who chose not to participate. It actually got a few of them threatened with charges of treason by the government for helping men make the conscientious objector applications. Many of those men were illiterate or at least had little chance at the tribunal on their own.
So, why did the white feather movement start there. And why did it become increasingly popular with the various feminist movements of both WWI and WWII.
Thanks for `splainin that. I hope your legs were the maximum distance apart as you typed that.
From Ford, GM, Chrysler, and AMC pulling a "fuck you plebs, you'll buy what we make" in the 1970's, to New Coke, to movie studios attacking their audience when a movie flops hard today, their point is right.
Of course, it takes a special kind of sexist to make a comment like that in the first place.
Far Cry 5 had similar controversy and ended up the best selling entry in the series. It's not the SJWs ruining things, it's the BF3 launch all over (minus the worst of the bugs).
I seem to remember the main complaints were SJWs complaining that it really wasn't a "time to shoot racists" simulator full of backwards Christians in KKK regalia(instead it being a drug-running cult), and then went out of it's way actually portray Montana as really not a racist shit hole. Montana still being partly shit is up for debate. You can find the mainstream game site complaints on that on sites like Polygon or RPS if you really want.
Strange that Mortal Kombat sold well then. The women scream a lot as you hack their limbs off and burn the skin off their faces. They are mostly wearing pretty sexy outfits too, really going after those male hormones.
Think you're talking about DOA. Mortal Kombat has had moderate sales over the last few titles.
Actually they opposed the draft for everyone.
That's why those groups supported things like white feather campaigns. That sure makes sense, for those that are historically unaware. That was a feminist attempt to label men who refused the draft, or where "on the home front" instead of the front line as cowards. You can find plenty of news articles from both WWI and WWII where feminist mobs attacked men, or instigated near riots trying to shame men, including a few high profile cases where men were on leave and/or receiving medals and they tried the same bullshit too.
Later feminists in the US tried to get it stopped by arguing that women must be drafted too, and took it all the way to the supreme court where the predominantly male judges ruled against them.
1981 is a far cry from 1917 or even Korea and Vietnam.
Kinda funny that people who haven't studied history are complaining about the historical accuracy of a Battlefield game.
Yeah that is kinda funny. Reminds me of all those progressives complaining about Kingdom Come: Deliverance and screeching about "there really was black people in 13th century Bohemia."
Reminds me of when they complained about black Romans in Doctor Who, only to have it pointed out that A) there were black Romans in that part of the world and B) it's a cheezy sci-fi show where Churchill employs Daleks.
Strange, I thought it was because you've got people inside your universities trying to push pseudoscience as fact, and that was just a long string in absolutely stupid things in order to try and "make things diverse" while pissing all over actual history, with no actual proof to back up their views. Not even pottery shards at that.
And that's still the first impression, what it was marketed as, and so on. And when people said "wtf" they attacked the people that they wanted to buy the product. Hell why do you think Overwatch has had such a massive drop-off in people buying into the whole esports bit?
I'm confused. It sounds like you're hating on SJWs while simultaneously being outraged at the historical misrepresentation of various groups of people. Isn't that how SJWs react?
It's not hard to understand why you're confused. They want to play their product that's tailored to what is has been previously, and keep playing it. SJWs want to change the product to suit them, and not play it.
Need an example? Look up Rimworld, where it catered to the market and the people that were the audience, but SJWs went out and attacked them but "transphobia" and so on.
The bloody miners nabbed all the best cards and it's been hard to get anything decent. Recently, Dell RAN OUT of 2080 Ti's and literally conldn't supply a machine with one.
You mean it has nothing to do with the fact that nvidia was all-in on the crypto mining market, misread it, are sitting on assloads of devalued GPU's and OEM-PCB's, that were optimized for mining. And they were so all in that they cut GPU's to non-reference makers like evga, msi, and asus. And with multiple shareholder lawsuits, and prior to the holidays their stock had dropped 49% that they're trying to recoup lost valuation prior to the end of the 2018 fiscal year and show shareholders that "they really haven't fucked up" by raising their current gen card prices or anything like that?
Just remember, that in the pre-manufactured market cards are bought in allotted amounts at x price. Dell could have bought more cards through a 1st tier distributor like Ingram Micro or Supercom, but that would have likely driven the end-price up by 30%
Can you tell me how many black females with amputations and prosthesis were fighting in WWII on the front lines? Cause that's the message EA was trying to push with BFV. Give you an example of proper marketing. If I'm playing The Witcher 3, the story may be about Ciri but it's driven by Geralt. If I'm playing Metro, Anna may play a key part but it's driven by Artyom. BFV is not driven by the tiny minority of people that had lost limbs. If so, a better representation would have been geriatrics post-cataract surgery sitting on the English shoreline and watching for Morse-UV flashes from operatives in France.
Or, you know... it's just not a very good game. Couldn't have anything to do with it, though, no - it's just those SJWs getting their just desserts! Of course!
Yes, I knew that. All the more reason for Kenyans to learn Mandarin.
Not many people do especially since it doesn't get much play in western media. It'd be better for them to learn English as well, even in China they've made the same decision as Japan, S.Korea and Singapore to have dual-language classes fully through high school.
As far as I know, Google keeps that data for their own use as well, unlike other services such as Facebook and, it sounds like Bell, who happily sell it.
We don't suffer from a lack of data. Analysis by analogy is appropriate when speculating, but not when we have a full data set right in front of us.
Try again and confine your remarks to the matter at hand.
Apparently your inability to read that data is the problem. Remember it was California factory farms complaining about crackdowns on illegals because it would "cost them too much" to pay otherwise. Go hit the LA times or SacBee for the articles.
Likely very little. Going to a vocational school usually sets you up well for a job right out of the gate, either because you have hands-on training via co-op programs, or because you work part-time with a company/shop/etc and get hands on experience. There's a lot of companies that directly hire via these types of programs too. Those normal universities though? That's where your debt is. The people protesting student debt, are the ones complaining that they can only work as a barista at starbucks with $120k in student loans.
Don't forget those sweet, sweet tailored ads, popping up on every screen you lay your eyes upon!
Funny thing about that, Bell Canada was busted by the CRTC for illegally manipulating and throttling traffic(of their and TPIA's) among other things by using Sandvine boxes back in 2008/2009. Don't trust them, not at any point. Especially since they also manipulated the news for their own benefit(2015), and were caught doing it.
The problem is, we only have 2 viable choices in Canada, Bell and Rogers (where most of my services currently are). They usually mirror each other step for step, so if Rogers follows suit, there is no way to "Just say no" without foregoing telecommunication services completely.
Not true. Check out TPIA's like Start, Teksavvy, E.box, or execulink. Canadian ISP gives you a list in your own area. There are other "last mile" companies like Telus, Videotron, Shaw and so on too. But if you're in Ontario it's pretty much Bell and Rogers, or Shaw if you're in Hamilton, or one of the areas that had multiple competitors before the big "buy up" back in 2014ish.
Mind sharing what is that wonderful ISP you found?
Check Canadianisp.ca there are a lot of TPIA's(Third Party Internet Access) as they're called up here, which is basically owning their own equipment but leasing the last mile from from incumbents.
I'm biased towards Teksavvy, Start and Ebox. Only because they were the ones leading the way back when Bell and Rogers were trying to impose punitive tariffs on those ISP's, that would have driven a 5/1Mbps price from $33/mo(200GB) to $129/mo, while they charged $59/mo for the same service with a 30GB cap for residential customers.
You might want to save yourself the trouble and look by state, because A.Syriaca is considered a noxious weed as well. Along with other varieties again varying by state. NY, MI, MA, W.DC, MI, IN and so on. They've only been rolled back in the last few years, the fundamental point that put them on the list was mentioned before.
We're still left with your claim that environmentalists put it on the list.
Sure, just dust off the government regulation hearings back in 2002ish and you'll find it quickly.
I must say that having been a pesticide applicator when young, including getting a (BC) ticket in forestry, Ontario does seem to go crazy with their noxious weeds. Here they're pretty well invasive weeds rather then ones that upset farmers
Milkweed aka A.Syriaca is the type we're talking about here, and is a primary plant for monarch butterflies that range from Canada in the east. But Ontario listed ALL Asclepais varieties as a noxious weed. The type mainly in BC is Asclepias Speciosa, and was also under the restriction of the noxious weed and invasive plants act.
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X sold very well, the best of any game in the series. Well enough to get a special edition and sequel. This is a franchise that has been going since the mid 90s.
Looks like 1.8m sales for X over 10 weeks. While DOA5 was 2.2m over 10 weeks. Nothing on DOA6 yet of course. X is probably the best selling of all MK titles, and that's because it became a very big thing in the semi-pro and pro fighting game circuits, especially since DOA5 is very dated.
During WW1 the feminist movement in the UK was pacifist and campaigned for an end to the fighting, supporting those who chose not to participate. It actually got a few of them threatened with charges of treason by the government for helping men make the conscientious objector applications. Many of those men were illiterate or at least had little chance at the tribunal on their own.
So, why did the white feather movement start there. And why did it become increasingly popular with the various feminist movements of both WWI and WWII.
Thanks for `splainin that. I hope your legs were the maximum distance apart as you typed that.
From Ford, GM, Chrysler, and AMC pulling a "fuck you plebs, you'll buy what we make" in the 1970's, to New Coke, to movie studios attacking their audience when a movie flops hard today, their point is right.
Of course, it takes a special kind of sexist to make a comment like that in the first place.
Well a user review score of 3.3/10 is accurate in this case.
Far Cry 5 had similar controversy and ended up the best selling entry in the series. It's not the SJWs ruining things, it's the BF3 launch all over (minus the worst of the bugs).
I seem to remember the main complaints were SJWs complaining that it really wasn't a "time to shoot racists" simulator full of backwards Christians in KKK regalia(instead it being a drug-running cult), and then went out of it's way actually portray Montana as really not a racist shit hole. Montana still being partly shit is up for debate. You can find the mainstream game site complaints on that on sites like Polygon or RPS if you really want.
Strange that Mortal Kombat sold well then. The women scream a lot as you hack their limbs off and burn the skin off their faces. They are mostly wearing pretty sexy outfits too, really going after those male hormones.
Think you're talking about DOA. Mortal Kombat has had moderate sales over the last few titles.
Actually they opposed the draft for everyone.
That's why those groups supported things like white feather campaigns. That sure makes sense, for those that are historically unaware. That was a feminist attempt to label men who refused the draft, or where "on the home front" instead of the front line as cowards. You can find plenty of news articles from both WWI and WWII where feminist mobs attacked men, or instigated near riots trying to shame men, including a few high profile cases where men were on leave and/or receiving medals and they tried the same bullshit too.
Later feminists in the US tried to get it stopped by arguing that women must be drafted too, and took it all the way to the supreme court where the predominantly male judges ruled against them.
1981 is a far cry from 1917 or even Korea and Vietnam.
Kinda funny that people who haven't studied history are complaining about the historical accuracy of a Battlefield game.
Yeah that is kinda funny. Reminds me of all those progressives complaining about Kingdom Come: Deliverance and screeching about "there really was black people in 13th century Bohemia."
Reminds me of when they complained about black Romans in Doctor Who, only to have it pointed out that A) there were black Romans in that part of the world and B) it's a cheezy sci-fi show where Churchill employs Daleks.
Strange, I thought it was because you've got people inside your universities trying to push pseudoscience as fact, and that was just a long string in absolutely stupid things in order to try and "make things diverse" while pissing all over actual history, with no actual proof to back up their views. Not even pottery shards at that.
Don't know about that but it ain't in the game.
And that's still the first impression, what it was marketed as, and so on. And when people said "wtf" they attacked the people that they wanted to buy the product. Hell why do you think Overwatch has had such a massive drop-off in people buying into the whole esports bit?
but that was cut hard and fast.
As in that was the in-store cutout they were using at Walmart and EB Games?
Too bad Squeex already beat them to the punch, it was called Deus Ex: The Fall
I'm confused. It sounds like you're hating on SJWs while simultaneously being outraged at the historical misrepresentation of various groups of people. Isn't that how SJWs react?
It's not hard to understand why you're confused. They want to play their product that's tailored to what is has been previously, and keep playing it. SJWs want to change the product to suit them, and not play it.
Need an example? Look up Rimworld, where it catered to the market and the people that were the audience, but SJWs went out and attacked them but "transphobia" and so on.
The bloody miners nabbed all the best cards and it's been hard to get anything decent. Recently, Dell RAN OUT of 2080 Ti's and literally conldn't supply a machine with one.
You mean it has nothing to do with the fact that nvidia was all-in on the crypto mining market, misread it, are sitting on assloads of devalued GPU's and OEM-PCB's, that were optimized for mining. And they were so all in that they cut GPU's to non-reference makers like evga, msi, and asus. And with multiple shareholder lawsuits, and prior to the holidays their stock had dropped 49% that they're trying to recoup lost valuation prior to the end of the 2018 fiscal year and show shareholders that "they really haven't fucked up" by raising their current gen card prices or anything like that?
Just remember, that in the pre-manufactured market cards are bought in allotted amounts at x price. Dell could have bought more cards through a 1st tier distributor like Ingram Micro or Supercom, but that would have likely driven the end-price up by 30%
Can you tell me how many black females with amputations and prosthesis were fighting in WWII on the front lines? Cause that's the message EA was trying to push with BFV. Give you an example of proper marketing. If I'm playing The Witcher 3, the story may be about Ciri but it's driven by Geralt. If I'm playing Metro, Anna may play a key part but it's driven by Artyom. BFV is not driven by the tiny minority of people that had lost limbs. If so, a better representation would have been geriatrics post-cataract surgery sitting on the English shoreline and watching for Morse-UV flashes from operatives in France.
Or, you know... it's just not a very good game. Couldn't have anything to do with it, though, no - it's just those SJWs getting their just desserts! Of course!
No, they went out and catered to the SJW's then told people that "if they didn't like the agenda. To not buy it." So it looks like people didn't buy it. Then the guy who pushed it "left" the company. No no, it wasn't telling people to fuck off that cratered sales. It was just a bad game...or a combination of it was a bad game and telling their market to fuck off.
Yes, I knew that. All the more reason for Kenyans to learn Mandarin.
Not many people do especially since it doesn't get much play in western media. It'd be better for them to learn English as well, even in China they've made the same decision as Japan, S.Korea and Singapore to have dual-language classes fully through high school.
It is bound to be a lot more useful to those kids in a global commerce environment than Swahili.
China is doing this because they own significant parts of Kenya along with their debt. Kenya is behind on payments too, bet you really haven't heard much on that.
As far as I know, Google keeps that data for their own use as well, unlike other services such as Facebook and, it sounds like Bell, who happily sell it.
Google does it too, and to one of the biggest credit card companies around. Mastercard sold a datalink for it's customer data to Google. Google correlated it with their own data, then shared it back to mastercard.
Whoever rated this troll must not be from Canada.
Well Bell Canada does pay astroturfers to "fix" it's reputation and so on, so maybe paid shill?
We don't suffer from a lack of data. Analysis by analogy is appropriate when speculating, but not when we have a full data set right in front of us.
Try again and confine your remarks to the matter at hand.
Apparently your inability to read that data is the problem. Remember it was California factory farms complaining about crackdowns on illegals because it would "cost them too much" to pay otherwise. Go hit the LA times or SacBee for the articles.
You don't like the reference, don't point out the errors. You're not qualified.
Post a citation that refutes the numbers.
It's right in the article you linked(and in the linked study). Did you even bother to read it? If you did you wouldn't have made that reply.
Likely very little. Going to a vocational school usually sets you up well for a job right out of the gate, either because you have hands-on training via co-op programs, or because you work part-time with a company/shop/etc and get hands on experience. There's a lot of companies that directly hire via these types of programs too. Those normal universities though? That's where your debt is. The people protesting student debt, are the ones complaining that they can only work as a barista at starbucks with $120k in student loans.
Don't forget those sweet, sweet tailored ads, popping up on every screen you lay your eyes upon!
Funny thing about that, Bell Canada was busted by the CRTC for illegally manipulating and throttling traffic(of their and TPIA's) among other things by using Sandvine boxes back in 2008/2009. Don't trust them, not at any point. Especially since they also manipulated the news for their own benefit(2015), and were caught doing it.
Archive, because Globe and Mail is paywalled for old articles.
Original link here if you're a G&M subscriber.
The problem is, we only have 2 viable choices in Canada, Bell and Rogers (where most of my services currently are). They usually mirror each other step for step, so if Rogers follows suit, there is no way to "Just say no" without foregoing telecommunication services completely.
Not true. Check out TPIA's like Start, Teksavvy, E.box, or execulink. Canadian ISP gives you a list in your own area. There are other "last mile" companies like Telus, Videotron, Shaw and so on too. But if you're in Ontario it's pretty much Bell and Rogers, or Shaw if you're in Hamilton, or one of the areas that had multiple competitors before the big "buy up" back in 2014ish.
Mind sharing what is that wonderful ISP you found?
Check Canadianisp.ca there are a lot of TPIA's(Third Party Internet Access) as they're called up here, which is basically owning their own equipment but leasing the last mile from from incumbents.
I'm biased towards Teksavvy, Start and Ebox. Only because they were the ones leading the way back when Bell and Rogers were trying to impose punitive tariffs on those ISP's, that would have driven a 5/1Mbps price from $33/mo(200GB) to $129/mo, while they charged $59/mo for the same service with a 30GB cap for residential customers.
You might want to save yourself the trouble and look by state, because A.Syriaca is considered a noxious weed as well. Along with other varieties again varying by state. NY, MI, MA, W.DC, MI, IN and so on. They've only been rolled back in the last few years, the fundamental point that put them on the list was mentioned before.
We're still left with your claim that environmentalists put it on the list.
Sure, just dust off the government regulation hearings back in 2002ish and you'll find it quickly.
I must say that having been a pesticide applicator when young, including getting a (BC) ticket in forestry, Ontario does seem to go crazy with their noxious weeds. Here they're pretty well invasive weeds rather then ones that upset farmers
Milkweed aka A.Syriaca is the type we're talking about here, and is a primary plant for monarch butterflies that range from Canada in the east. But Ontario listed ALL Asclepais varieties as a noxious weed. The type mainly in BC is Asclepias Speciosa, and was also under the restriction of the noxious weed and invasive plants act.