Marcus Vance 🗡

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@DarkPit371 Can you name one movie or video game that did have a message?

@MarcusCVance I don't say that as an insult. I'm sure it's a perfectly fine game. But no single videogame is actually made to "critique" anything. Barely any movies are made with real messages anymore, let alone videogames.

"Being able to think about media doesn't exist and if it does it's bad"

@DarkPit371 I genuinly feel bad for you.

@MarcusCVance And you think about it too much. Helldivers was made because a corporation wanted you and a lot of other people to pay them $60. In this endeavor it achieved some measure of success.

Literally just hopped on Twitter while Helldivers 2 boots up. It's really easy to still enjoy it while understanding that it's a critique of the military-industrial complex (among other things). You (personally) obviously think about media after you consume it. Otherwise you wouldn't talk about it at all on Twitter. Otherwise you'd think it disappeared after you watched it like a toddler playing peek a boo. You just don't think of media as something humans made. As something made with intent. As something capable of eliciting feelings.

@MarcusCVance You can keep your "broadened understanding of media" the rest of us are busy having any fun whatsoever with the media.

@S_Brightblade Sure would be wild if there was even one instance of them teaming up with xenos and performing well. That'd be wild, right? Like... that'd upend your entire argument. Guess we'd need to actually read 40k material to learn about that, though...

Negative reciprocity is what you see every day in 40k; factions operate according to an absolute ideological logic, whether they’re Chaos, the Necrons, etc. You can’t tell the Necrons, “Let’s coexist in this world teeming with life,” because that’s not their fundamental objective. You can’t have Tyranids as pets or in a nature reserve for Tyranids. The problem with idiots like you is that you have this notion that there’s some kind of shared modus vivendi between existential enemies. The Nash equilibrium is the concept that a player has no incentive to change their strategy even when an alternative COULD (potentially) benefit them, since there are no concrete guarantees that ***the other player will be altruistic***. Your idea that you can separate local doctrine from the one you use with hostile external agents is a death wish. Yes, the empire is oppressive, but it is the result of a scenario of permanent siege. There is no democracy, nor people dancing among rainbows, in a scenario of permanent siege and conflict. If you’re interested, you have several thousand years of human history to prove it.

Una cosa interesante de esta gente es que no entienden el concepto de reciprocidad negativa y menos en términos militares. Todos estos son influencers que cada dia demuestran que leyeron muy poco. Incluso científicamente tiene nombre: equilibrio de Nash.

@esjesjesj @pmamtraveller @Pile_of_Things Rich people like novelties?

@pmamtraveller @Pile_of_Things @MarcusCVance plz explain

Flexible rapier made during the 19th century, Toledo / Spain

I am one of the tired ones

Wild how media people at @starwars pay for ads on TikTok while mangling the captions up with the description. Just looks super messy and is an easy fix.

@kitty_bit_games @PaulTassi And the core idea of each Warframe only having 5 or so differences that in turn make them all feel completely different

@PaulTassi Amazing dev team that personally connects with their audience, listens to us and builds on what we like. Amazing design team that stands side by side with Tenno and works out deals with them to make the best gear designs together. Music is perfect.. the voice acting.. it goes on.

how does Warframe do it

@StormOneActual @DavidJones66870 People who say "I'd kill for/die for X" not understanding that that's not impressive when they don't take other actions to help X is a common meme.

@MarcusCVance @DavidJones66870 You are making way too many assumptions about someone's personal life from one vague vent post.

"I would do anything for my family" Buddy, you obviously wouldn't.

@Kamp4u2 Not everything you don't understand is a strawman argument. This is me pointing out that you're failing to consider falsifiability in claiming that the Imperium is good because its extreme acts are necessary.

@MarcusCVance Will you answer the question or will you just go extremely narrow to the point you strawman my comment. When did I say EVERYTHING was needed? Secondly you foolish fool. It was still the Inquisition that went for the sterility camp and it WAS arguably needed becuase it was CHAOS

This is The Fool's position. Now you need to justify why every single action taken by the Imperium was needed for survival. Did The Inquisition NEED to kill that Chapter Master? Did the Administratum NEED to sterilize and enslave the Guard soldiers of Armageddon?

Used to wish for an AI "ship's computer" type deal in cars that can talk to you. Now it's just some big company wanting to squeeze money from you while also spying on you.

@WarNever777 Feel free to delete this comment and reword it. As is, you're implying that being quiet is not, in fact, being more civil. Logically, being quiet (not making random threats) would be seen as more civil.

@MarcusCVance Do you consider it to be a useful observation that people are usually more civil in real life? People like me mainly because people like you stay quiet?

@WarNever777 I would be very surprised if you ever made a threat like this to someone face to face.

@MarcusCVance Do you need your teeth?

@WarNever777 Do you need a hug?

@MarcusCVance Balding skinny fat retard says what

Do the people on the top of Hive worlds NEED to be so rich while the laborers underneath suffer? Every single instance needs to be justified in order for that stance to be true. Just a single shade of gray shatters it.

That's a fictional TV show. Assassins Creed is also fictional and has installments where you fight a magic Pope. I don't think anyone expects the characters be 1:1 historocally. Yasuke was a known historical figure long before the 2025 release of the game. Can you provide a firm example of changing the Wikipedia?

@MarcusCVance @AegonBIackfire @psycho_jackal I’ll give you two. Queen Charlotte being black because she is in Bridgerton and the actors from the show have stated that as a fact. Also, they changed the history of Japan to push the black samurai lie for assassins creed, even altering Wikipedia

Whelp. There goes another history account.

It was two posts down on your page... You misunderstand. It SOUNDS COOL to say "I'd die for my family"/"kill for my family". But it's EASY to say that when there's a 0.001% chance it'll ever happen. You feel GOOD for saying that but never need to back it up. What are you doing to show your family you care for them and love them during the 99.999% of the rest of the time? Obviously not listening to your wife's needs if you're dismissing the things she deems important.

@MarcusCVance Nope. Still would die for her. But hey, way to dig through my shit.