Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004...

On 11/27/2024 1:53 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 07:30:03 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
 

On 11/27/2024 1:59 AM, JAB wrote:

On 26/11/2024 15:25, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 11/26/2024 12:27 AM, JAB wrote:

On 25/11/2024 19:22, Zaghadka wrote:

On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:09:49 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
JAB
wrote:
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I've
never played the game but I saw a talking head on YouTube saying it's
woke (whatever that actually means) crowd.

>
"Woke" means, "You're tickling my well orchestrated cognitive
dissonance
coping mechanisms. Stop that!"
>

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I just find it weird that people can be so rabidly anti something
when they can't really explain what it is beyond things I don't like.
See also labelling something socialist, or even Marxist, when they
don't even know what they are.
>
We even had our last government try and get in on the act when judges
were ruling that a country doesn't just become classed as safe
because the government say it is no more than they can pass a law
that says the moon is made of cheese. That's not how laws work but
that only cost £750mil so not a problem really.
>

"My <insert deity of choice> says 'That's Wrong!'"
>

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  From the woke detector Steam Group. Honestly I'm just not sure whether
it's an elaborate prank or not.
>

At least in the USA its not a prank.  Here all the "Anti-Woke" "Culture
War" shit is based on religious beliefs with a dash of wishing for a
society based on the imagined version of 1950s America, complete with
massive racism.

 I really debated whether nor not to get involved in this conversation,
because csipga is sort of my 'safe space' from that sort of
nonsense... but yeah. The entire anti-woke movement --and what's going
on in America in general-- is extremely dismaying. What is now called
'woke' used to be called common sense, fairness and social
responsibility, and to see an entire nation turn their back on that
ideal... it's heart-breaking. Terrifying and enraging too, but mostly
heart-breaking to see a country turn its back on what it used to stand
for.
 But while I really didn't want to get into another discussion about
the topic --and especially not here-- neither did I want to sit on the
sidelines saying nothing, implying you're the only one upset about it.
 That's really all I wanted to say.
 

I understand fully and I actually do try to minimize my ... commentary, but what I see happening to my country makes me very angry.
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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.