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WaterMage wrote: September 20th, 2024, 05:00


Thanks to ESG, Polish man are being discriminated in a company created by Polish man...
This sort of **** goes way back. When I was in college I remember posters on the walls of the rooms about getting girls into programming. Scholarships, essentially a "free pass" to get into a course and jump the queue etc. And I remember thinking "Just what ******* barriers are stopping females already?". It was already illegal to discriminate by then, the 50s mentality was well over. Literally ZERO barriers stopping women getting into I.T, games and many other professions yet "to make the numbers up" we have to ban men?
Clearly it is a matter of interest or capability, not actual barriers. There's literally NOTHING stopping a female going and applying to be a game dev and taking on the tests just as a man would.
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CD Projekt is The Witcher. That's it. Anyone who expected anything after Witcher 2 only has themselves to blame.
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They should've gotten the vocalist of Refused (the real band they hired to perform the in-game band Samurai's songs) to voice Johnny Silverhand. Keanu might be a wholesome chungus of a person, but he's **** at regular acting, nevermind voice acting where he has to rely on his vocal performance (something he's famously fuckawful at). The Refused vocalist couldn't have been much worse than that, but at least there would've been consistency between the Samurai Vocalist Johnny and the Brain Tumor Johnny.
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Despite being a trannyfucking weirdo, he and Johnny were good from start to finish.
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Oyster Sauce wrote: September 26th, 2024, 21:21
Despite being a trannyfucking weirdo, he and Johnny were good from start to finish.
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logincrash wrote: September 26th, 2024, 21:19
They should've gotten the vocalist of Refused (the real band they hired to perform the in-game band Samurai's songs) to voice Johnny Silverhand. Keanu might be a wholesome chungus of a person, but he's **** at regular acting, nevermind voice acting where he has to rely on his vocal performance (something he's famously fuckawful at). The Refused vocalist couldn't have been much worse than that, but at least there would've been consistency between the Samurai Vocalist Johnny and the Brain Tumor Johnny.

I really dislike celebrity VA since many of them are so phone in it accrued long distance charges.
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BosanskiSeljak wrote: September 22nd, 2024, 22:15
CD Projekt is The Witcher. That's it. Anyone who expected anything after Witcher 2 only has themselves to blame.
Still wondering what witcher 2 had besides supersampling :scratch:
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BosanskiSeljak wrote: September 22nd, 2024, 22:15
CD Projekt is The Witcher. That's it. Anyone who expected anything after Witcher 2 only has themselves to blame.
But I liked Witcher 2.
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Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: September 28th, 2024, 01:02
BosanskiSeljak wrote: September 22nd, 2024, 22:15
CD Projekt is The Witcher. That's it. Anyone who expected anything after Witcher 2 only has themselves to blame.
But I liked Witcher 2.
Because you're a consoletard from reddit it's not surprising
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BosanskiSeljak wrote: September 28th, 2024, 03:02
Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: September 28th, 2024, 01:02
BosanskiSeljak wrote: September 22nd, 2024, 22:15
CD Projekt is The Witcher. That's it. Anyone who expected anything after Witcher 2 only has themselves to blame.
But I liked Witcher 2.
Because you're a consoletard from reddit it's not surprising
Well every man is entitled to there own opinion.
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Where is bad spelling button here?
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BosanskiSeljak wrote: September 28th, 2024, 14:14
Where is bad spelling button here?
it existed for like a day then rusty got rid of it for some reason :sad:
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Manny V wrote: September 28th, 2024, 15:47
BosanskiSeljak wrote: September 28th, 2024, 14:14
Where is bad spelling button here?
it existed for like a day then rusty got rid of it for some reason :sad:
I didn't realize we already decided to not go ahead with it when I added it.
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BosanskiSeljak wrote: September 28th, 2024, 14:14
Where is bad spelling button here?
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Kronus wrote: September 28th, 2024, 00:20
BosanskiSeljak wrote: September 22nd, 2024, 22:15
CD Projekt is The Witcher. That's it. Anyone who expected anything after Witcher 2 only has themselves to blame.
Still wondering what witcher 2 had besides supersampling :scratch:
- Incredible C&C.
- A hardest difficulty which actually made you feel character build choices.
- Excellent pacing
- A Geralt who isn't pussy-whipped, and a "romance" where you bend the fit buxom wench over in the baths, then crack on with your job.

Brilliant game.
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Falksi wrote: September 28th, 2024, 17:51
Kronus wrote: September 28th, 2024, 00:20
BosanskiSeljak wrote: September 22nd, 2024, 22:15
CD Projekt is The Witcher. That's it. Anyone who expected anything after Witcher 2 only has themselves to blame.
Still wondering what witcher 2 had besides supersampling :scratch:
- Incredible C&C.
- A hardest difficulty which actually made you feel character build choices.
- Excellent pacing
- A Geralt who isn't pussy-whipped, and a "romance" where you bend the fit buxom wench over in the baths, then crack on with your job.

Brilliant game.
1. "incredible" is a stretch. There is choice & consequence, and it's the best part of the game, but its lazy. It's the same problem Witcher 1 had with its C&C but at a larger scale. Things change, drastically, but a lot of it is contrived (the differences). I.e. if you replay with different choices, it's as if you're playing in a parallel universe where things that change don't happen logically based off of your choices.

2. Witcher 2 has **** combat and **** character building. They tried (and failed) to make bland action combat. If you actually examine it, there's issues that go deep and don't make sense from either an action or tactical standpoint.

3. lol, the first half of the game is a complete slog, and the ending is rushed. The only good pacing in the entire game is near the end of flotsam into the next chapter.

4. Geralt is already a simp for Triss (no matter your choices in Witcher). Geralt is already turned into some hollywood version of himself. Sex cards traded for gay cutscenes with 90% less whores to ****. I guess if you're gay and enjoy seeing ****** cutscenes of hollywood Geralt's body it's good for you.
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I didn't care for witcher 2 because I don't like games that are designed to be replayed. I want to feel like I got the full game when I'm finished, even if I missed large parts of the game. Witcher 2 doesn't really feel like that.
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Witcher >>> Witcher 3 > Witcher 2
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Co-CEO of CDP is copin' hard

Seems we live in times where anyone can record complete nonsense and make a story out of it. CDPR talent leaving? We have the lowest rotation of people in recent years. DEI-driven recruitment? We hire based on merit and talent alone, just as we make games driven by artistic vision alone. Why did we choose UE? Because it enables us to work on our games more efficiently and we remain cutting edge tech-wise. The Witcher 3’s director left? Well, yeah, more than 2 years ago… Now, can we stop looking for conspiracy theories and go back to making cool stuff?
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Had to stop using redengine because the people who knew how to maintain it quit.
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Roguey wrote: October 12th, 2024, 01:23
Co-CEO of CDP is copin' hard
Seems we live in times where anyone can record complete nonsense and make a story out of it. CDPR talent leaving? We have the lowest rotation of people in recent years. DEI-driven recruitment? We hire based on merit and talent alone, just as we make games driven by artistic vision alone. Why did we choose UE? Because it enables us to work on our games more efficiently and we remain cutting edge tech-wise. The Witcher 3’s director left? Well, yeah, more than 2 years ago… Now, can we stop looking for conspiracy theories and go back to making cool stuff?

I don’t understand how the CO-CEO is pretending that the DEI push isn’t thing when the information is publicly on there site, social and YouTube channel. Like who is he tying to fool here?

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Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 12th, 2024, 11:15
Like who is he tying to fool here?
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Good Point. You would that they would hid it better to avoid the PR nightmare that subject brings when game devs are caught using it. Especially the case since the reputation of CDPR has been damaged from the Cyberpunk 2077 disastrous launch.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: October 12th, 2024, 01:33
Had to stop using redengine because the people who knew how to maintain it quit.
Thanks, I was about to say it too. CDPR hiring based on merit and talent yet have to switch to UE5 because apparently the devs can't work with REDengine even though previous teams had no problem making Witcher 2 and 3 with it.
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Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: October 12th, 2024, 11:25
Good Point. You would that they would hid it better to avoid the PR nightmare that subject brings when game devs are caught using it. Especially the case since the reputation of CDPR has been damaged from the Cyberpunk 2077 disastrous launch.
They really did a good job changing the perception of CP 2077. I still think it's trash. It was never about the bugs. The game itself is empty and soulless.
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Endymion (YouTuber) is really giving the game industry wokies an aneurysm lately, along with SmashJT (another YouTuber exposing their ********).
Whatever you think of them, the industry scum backing DEI are losing it over their videos, and I love to see it.
You may as well not bother replying to my posts if it's to argue anything except concrete facts or your personal opinion. I still probably won't see it.
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I used to subscribe to this guy: 



But unsubscribed because he advocated for DIE insanity. At 7:55, he said that because CDPR gets more sales than Warhorse Studios, the idea that someone will quit CDPR to work in Warhorse Studios couldn't be true. This couldn't be more false. We don't know if, for example, Warhorse studios offered money. If a talented Polish game developer can make more money and not have to deal with incompetent diversity hires creating bugs and problems for the team in another studio, why should he even care if the studio is smaller? Many people historically leaved big corpos, started small business or helped smaller business to grow and become wealthier.

The guy who said that they hire on merit is lying. They have scholarships only for women. A company funded by a Polish man is openly discriminating against a Polish man. And where did this "inclusion of historically oppressed" work? Transformed South Africa electricity from the cheapest and most stable electricity in the world into the world champion of blackouts. Russia hypersonic missiles did less damage to Ukrainian energy production than Diversity did to SA. 

At 10:42, he claims that death and merit aren't exclusive. WTF?!

IMO, everyone who champions for diversity must be given diversity hired doctors, diversity hired ground crew and pilots when traveling on planes, and most importantly, If you, as an activist investor, pushes diversity in somewhere and the diversity hire kills someone, you should be punished by manslaughter. If your diversity hire in charge of a nuclear power plant creates another Chernobyl tier insident, you must be punished by genocide.

When RPG studios fired Chris Avellone over a false allegation and treated him as guilty even after proven innocent (something worse than Stalin purges and witch hunts) and putted a lot of Sweet Babies in his place, did the writing improve or not?

15:36: He says that whites can benefit from DIE ideology. WTF!?

The reality is that DIE destroys other groups. Asians in the US were critical in the US Supreme Court declaring affirmative action unconstitutional. 

17:20: He says that CDPR is a bad example. 

He mentions Cyberbug.

Cyberbug was launched in such a buggy state exactly because CDPR became more awake. 

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Tankies and Baizuos really hate it, but the reality is that people are not equal. Every time that someone somewhere tries to bring equality, or "equity,"  the result is the same ****. A race to the bottom. Lysenkoism is now being applied to humans, not plants but didn't died...

EDIT: Great video

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WaterMage wrote: October 15th, 2024, 05:53
But unsubscribed because he advocated for DIE insanity
He should mention that CDPR was forced to switch to Unreal engine because they lost the people that designed and maintained their own engine, and that the diversity hires had no clue how to use. It's not a stretch to assume that a large reason why Cyberpunk 2077 released in the state it did, and suffered through so many development problems, was down to the fact CDPR lost their best programmers.

Also, CDPR has been one big revolving door of talent for years now, and the stories that come through the grapevine paint a pretty grim picture of a completely mismanaged company with leadership incapable of providing a clear direction for their employees, constantly chasing trends. I guarantee you there's so many clothing items and other apparel in 2077 specifically because CDPR's goal was always to make the multiplayer portion of the game a looter shooter or something in that vein.

Then there's all the dangerhairs we've glimpsed during development exposés, plus that they've moved the development of Cyberpunk 2 to their American branch, likely filled with even more dangerhairs, and that we're already hearing the devs kvetch about the importance of highlighting social issues with the game this early in development.

Then again, hilariously, the CEO got humiliated online when people quote the official webpage of his own company back at him, clearly proving that CDPR doesn't hire based on merit and that they are pushing an agenda with their product. The interesting part in all this is that the CEO actually felt the need attempt to disprove the allegations. It was either profound retardation on his part, or the Fink bucks are drying up/are not worth the loss in revenue and he is getting nervous about the bad publicity the company will garner if they get labeled as a woke slop shop.
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I really hate this DIE ideology. Once, I participated in a bootcamp where the prize was a scholarship to conclude my graduation in the USA and an internship in a company. I was the top performer, and they refused me due to this BS. I did TOEFL, did all tests, and in the last moment, they chose a more "diverse" candidate. Sucks, but my suffering is nothing. Imagine how much someone who lost his mother and became an orphan due to incompetent diversity hires in an airline must feel about this DEI hiring.

And seriously, CDPR becoming woke is very sad.
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WaterMage wrote: October 15th, 2024, 05:53
I used to subscribe to this guy: 



But unsubscribed because he advocated for DIE insanity. At 7:55, he said that because CDPR gets more sales than Warhorse Studios, the idea that someone will quit CDPR to work in Warhorse Studios couldn't be true. This couldn't be more false. We don't know if, for example, Warhorse studios offered money. If a talented Polish game developer can make more money and not have to deal with incompetent diversity hires creating bugs and problems for the team in another studio, why should he even care if the studio is smaller? Many people historically leaved big corpos, started small business or helped smaller business to grow and become wealthier.

The guy who said that they hire on merit is lying. They have scholarships only for women. A company funded by a Polish man is openly discriminating against a Polish man. And where did this "inclusion of historically oppressed" work? Transformed South Africa electricity from the cheapest and most stable electricity in the world into the world champion of blackouts. Russia hypersonic missiles did less damage to Ukrainian energy production than Diversity did to SA. 

At 10:42, he claims that death and merit aren't exclusive. WTF?!

IMO, everyone who champions for diversity must be given diversity hired doctors, diversity hired ground crew and pilots when traveling on planes, and most importantly, If you, as an activist investor, pushes diversity in somewhere and the diversity hire kills someone, you should be punished by manslaughter. If your diversity hire in charge of a nuclear power plant creates another Chernobyl tier insident, you must be punished by genocide.

When RPG studios fired Chris Avellone over a false allegation and treated him as guilty even after proven innocent (something worse than Stalin purges and witch hunts) and putted a lot of Sweet Babies in his place, did the writing improve or not?

15:36: He says that whites can benefit from DIE ideology. WTF!?

The reality is that DIE destroys other groups. Asians in the US were critical in the US Supreme Court declaring affirmative action unconstitutional. 

17:20: He says that CDPR is a bad example. 

He mentions Cyberbug.

Cyberbug was launched in such a buggy state exactly because CDPR became more awake. 

_______________________

Tankies and Baizuos really hate it, but the reality is that people are not equal. Every time that someone somewhere tries to bring equality, or "equity,"  the result is the same ****. A race to the bottom. Lysenkoism is now being applied to humans, not plants but didn't died...

EDIT: Great video


Saw the video as well which was surprising since he advoids these types of discussions.

Not surprised he supports it I’m disappointed that he would make political video in non political gaming channel which is why I liked his channel in the first place . Not ready to unsubscribe.... Yet since this can be a one off but if he wants to turn future videos into a leftist gamin news channel I’m tapping out.

Just a bad video with poor points and factually inaccurate . Oh and the comments saying “muh both sides” There not part of the problem THERE ARE THE PROBLEM.
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