One of the first guillotine victims, his execution reportedly failed initially due to a poorly fitted lunette (headrest) and a dull blade, requiring multiple attempts and hacks to finish, according to historical reports.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
That has to be one of the worst guillotine designs I've ever seen, send this child back to school.
This thing is gonna paralyze the guy, send the blade flying into the crowd, and cause a slow bleed death (if any)
it's bc CEO didn't pay for Premium Guillotine(tm). CEO also had to watch 5 minutes of unskippable ads before being decraptiated.
One of those tip screens pop up before the blade comes down
don't judge school projects too harshly!
besides, you've described a great are performance, with a MESSAGE
I fail to see the downside
We haven't got all day!
A good guillotine? In this economy?!
Besides, it's probably way scarier to die from improper cut.
Nicolas Jacques Pelletier
One of the first guillotine victims, his execution reportedly failed initially due to a poorly fitted lunette (headrest) and a dull blade, requiring multiple attempts and hacks to finish, according to historical reports.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Jacques_Pelletier
I would like to subscribe to guillotine critiques.
Because of inflation its cheap ☹️
Well shit, I was hopin' you'd say that.
Donny!
Got a job for ya!
You mean the CEO gets to suffer before they die? Bonus points!
That kid is going to turn into a real John C. Woods, and I'm here for it.
I'm out of the loop. What's this?
a joke about gamers being the most oppressed minority
may have started as a ridicule of gamergate
Thanks!
It's a joke about abuse and the kid taking out the person who started the abuse train. Fuck are you on about gamergate?
I was not referring to the post, I was referring to the comment i replied to.
If I wanted to react to the post itself, I would've commented on the post
The slogan started during Gamergate and got bigger with sjw crap.
What slogan. There is no text in any of the panels.
In the comment chain that you ….presumably read before replying to.
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded. Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
First they come for the rat poison drinkers. Second they come for strawberry apron wearers. Then they come for the gamers.
Never forget the prophecy.
This made me feel better about my day.
Im glad to hear that. Though I wish we could see it happen irl.
Call me American, but I prefer the TF2 engineer approach:
... I hope Luigi has the best Christmas he can.
Uh oh
I posted that before I saw this on the front page... 👀
hmm I hear some dudes yelling outside my door and telling me to "open up", brb let me see what that fuss is all about...
Gamers rise up!
Shaking my society
Classic cycle of abuse. The abused becomes the murderer. Sad, nothing else.
Nah this is a happy ending. Kill your masters.
I mean it's not like the kid killed a random person. In a sense he's the only character doing any kind of root cause analysis.
There is nothing sad about the death of a tyrant.
Poultry politics I call it