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I’ve Been Kicked From Better Discords Than This!

 

For a tl;dr, think the scene from Burn After Reading where John Malkovich is sacked by the CIA.

 

“This is political, and don’t tell me it’s not.”

God Burn After Reading was such a good movie…you should really watch it if you haven’t.

 

I can’t really get an answer to why I was nuked since I’ve gotten the whole un-person treatment. I’ve been kicked, blocked, removed, etc. I can’t even send a message to ask for a reason. But I can make a guess as to the reason. I’ve made fun of pride month on twitter, and this is the boss of the Collective of Heroes.

 

Yeah. It’s kind of easy to guess the reason. But I can’t rule out that being right-wing and pro-Trump in general was the reason, though I was vetted for like, a month before they finally let me join. There’s a big Gab button below the search bar. If general politics were the problem, someone did a really bad job vetting me. Really, just spend a minute on my twitter. Or just thirty seconds.

 

Oh well. I’m a firm believer that if you don’t have some people hating your guts, you’re not standing for anything. People liked by everyone don’t have anything to say.

 

I got kicked from the G1 Death Battle blog because I trashed Yang from RWBY and I came back stronger. Prediction wise, I made G1 the Washington Generals to my Harlem Globetrotters.

 

I really should tell the story about me and G1 one day, it’s pretty funny.

 

I got kicked from the Collective because I trashed pride month, and I’ll come back stronger.

 

…Now, what am I going to do with all the banner stuff I made? I’ll think of something…

 

Otto Trashes Pride Month

 

Shaney doesn’t like people making fun of pride month, so I’m going to spend the rest of this post trashing on pride month.

 

Ah, pride month. I am not entirely convinced it wasn’t invented like Mother’s Day for nefarious corporate purposes, probably to sell skittles. It’s quickly becoming one of my favorite months. Was pride month always this goofy, or have I just never noticed it until now? It seems like we’ve reached some sort of sell-out singularity. The government subsidized crony-capitalist archons that run the world aren’t even trying to hide it anymore. Part of me thinks they’re even in on the joke. When you see stuff like Warner Bros. freaking out that Poison Ivy was the focus character of the Injustice 2 mobile game (Not because their face for pride month was a crazy woman that feeds people to plants, but because you had to beat her up to get bonus points. Celebrating LGBT through sessile-based homicide is fine, stopping it however, is not), Royal Dutch Airlines not-so-subtly implying non-hetero relationships are dangerous, “Groom with Pride” by Everyman Jack, and skittles that Stormfront would get a kick out of (I told you this was all probably a ploy to sell skittles), it’s hard not to think of Uncle Pennybags kicking back in his penthouse and having a belly laugh over how he can, all at once, commoditize, mock, and profit off an identity. It’s like the theory that the archons keep changing redheads to Blacks in stories as part of a big corporate joke about how you can rearrange “ginger” to get a very different word. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was true. 

 

You’d think pride month would be like Black history month, a time to look back on the contributions LGBT have made to the world at large, a time to celebrate Oscar Wilde, Keith Haring, Alan Turing, Aleister Crowley, etc. Instead, it’s a time to celebrate corporations placing rainbows on products and gleefully rubbing their hands together at the incoming profit increase–unless their products happen to be sold in the mid-east, then for some mind boggling, inscrutable reason the rainbow decals come off. I can’t imagine the reason why.

 

Remember how I said earlier that if people don’t hate you, you don’t have anything worth talking about?

 

Yeah. Exactly.

 

Pride month can be a frustrating reminder that we’re living in a cyberpunk dystopia with less neon and more insanity, but if you’re smart, it’s also a time to laugh. And I like to laugh. Archons hate laughter, it undercuts everything they imagine themselves to be.

 

Of all the things I’ve found to laugh at about pride month, I think video games take the cake. Usually you’re trying to kill someone in a video game, or are trying not to get killed by someone, so when you hold up an identity to celebrate in a video game, you’re putting representatives of an  identity within an environment where they’re either murdering or getting murdered. It’s like, “Here’s this new homosexual character for our fighting game, have fun kicking the tar out of him!” So the Ivy example I just gave, but there’s one game that goes way beyond that. If Ivy was cringe level 10, I got something that’s cringe level 100.

 

Ever played Dead by Daylight? You know, that asymmetrical multiplayer game where one guy plays as a slasher villain against a team of four that drop pallets on his foot while trying to escape? They’ve got characters and content from Left 4 Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street (unfortunately, only the crappy Jackie Earl Hayley version), Saw, Stranger Things, Silent Hill, Ghostface (as in the costume from Scream, but not any characters actually from Scream, it’s complicated, but worth looking into if you’re interested in IP weirdness), Ash vs The Evil Dead, Crypt TV, and now Resident Evil. It’s sort of like a Smash Bros. made out of horror media, think Terrordrome but not a fighter and it has to dance around IP crap.

 

Dead by Daylight went HARD this year on LGBT. How hard? There’s a free pride flag charm–a little cosmetic doo-dad you can put on survivors or killers, LGBT staffers are being invited onto the blog to talk about what Dead by Daylight means to them as LGBT (I like slashers because I’m gay?), and the Into the Fog twitch livestream is renamed Into the Rainbow (yes, really).

 

So it sounds like Dead by Daylight cares a lot about LGBT.

 

So, who are their LGBT characters?

 

Well, if we’re going strictly by just their original characters…they got one, maybe. The Clown, who as his name would suggest, is a psychotic clown who drugs, rapes, kills, and eats the fingers of his victims. It’s implied in one of his add-ons that he targets men as well as women.

 

Outside the psycho clown…there’s no explicit LGBT characters in the original cast of Dead by Daylight.

 

Does it get any better if we include licensed characters?

 

Well, there’s Leatherface, a crossdressing cannibal, and Freddy Krueger, a child molester who has a box of child porn as an add-on.

 

So no, no it does not get better.

 

So Dead by Daylight’s LGBT representation amounts to a cannibal and two psychos that derive sexual gratification through violence…so yeah, not exactly celebrating the best and brightest of the LGBT community…

 

But wait, there’s a multiverse in Dead by Daylight, you see, and there’s the little pride flag charm. If you stick it on your heroic survivor, you to can pretend that they’re gay, bi, trans, whatever you want! Somewhere out in the multiverse, you to, are gay. Yes, you! Want Left 4 Dead’s Bill to swing for Francis? Want Ash to hail to the Queen, baby? Want David King to be Gayvid King? Want to make sure that neither Jill nor Leon will continue the Redfield bloodline? Just put on the flag!

 

Remember, identity is nothing but a flag, nothing but a symbol to take on and off.

 

Just put on the flag and you to can be brutally murdered by one of several psychopaths!

 

Have you ever wanted to play a game where you hunt down four pride flag wearing innocents like animals, traumatize them, place them on meathooks, and sacrifice their souls to a magic spider? It’s like something /pol/ would dream about developing.

 

Remember what I said about the difficulties of being down with the wokeness in video games built around homicide?

 

It doesn’t help that several of the killers are perfect for living out /pol/ fantasies. Just look at:

 

The Nurse, a eugenicist from the early 20th century who wants to “mercy kill” the “defective.”

 

The Deathslinger, a bounty hunting cowboy from the 19th century (look up 19th century sodomy laws).

 

And my favorite, the Doctor, an electrically powered psychopath and psychologist on the CIA’s payroll. He drives survivors to madness by electrocuting them again and again.

 

Dead by Daylight is the closest you’ll ever come to playing Conversion Therapy: The Game.

 

You think we’re going to get a Mike Pence skin for the Doctor? Maybe next year?

When you next think about pride month, think about Dead by Daylight. I will.