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The Black Culture Thread |OT14| Ruthless: The So Well Spoken Story

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Prototype Viktor

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DarkConfidant said:
Where you're from - Detroit
Where you live - Detroit
What is your age? - 24
Your cultural heritage, lineage and genealogy - African American, with Puerto Rican in half of my dad’s side
Do you know your roots - No farther than my grand parents. Sorry LeVar Burton.
Favorite musical genre - Hip hop.
Your profession/major/career interest - Linguistics, and also IT.
Your religious affiliation - Christian
Hobbies - Games, photography, beer making
KFC, Popeye's, Churches, or Bojangles? - We don’t have Bojangles up here, so Popeye’s wins by default, though I like our local places much better.


Really glad we have this thread. This is my first time venturing out of Gaming-Discussion after being on GAF for years( a lurking for a decade at least), and I guess I assumed there were no black people on GAF, as this is still a part of that old 90s/00s face-less Internet. Why I assumed so is probably a deep subject in itself, but I am glad we have this.

Sup everybody?
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Welcome see our leader the white man Sub-Zero :p
 
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Secret Fawful

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FeenixRising said:
In Fuckery news today:

The Coli thread about Tyler Summitt has me dying. First the OG thread title and posts, then the update, then the thread title update ������
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Glad I read this thread just for this gif.

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Also, for this Instagram I'm beating Malyse to posting GOOD GOD DAMN HOLY FUCK(NSFW and not a scary page like last time).

Also, https://www.instagram.com/p/6waISqNxo1/.(NSFW)
 
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andthebeatgoeson

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DarkConfidant said:
Where you're from - Detroit
Where you live - Detroit
What is your age? - 24
Your cultural heritage, lineage and genealogy - African American, with Puerto Rican in half of my dad’s side
Do you know your roots - No farther than my grand parents. Sorry LeVar Burton.
Favorite musical genre - Hip hop.
Your profession/major/career interest - Linguistics, and also IT.
Your religious affiliation - Christian
Hobbies - Games, photography, beer making
KFC, Popeye's, Churches, or Bojangles? - We don’t have Bojangles up here, so Popeye’s wins by default, though I like our local places much better.


Really glad we have this thread. This is my first time venturing out of Gaming-Discussion after being on GAF for years( a lurking for a decade at least), and I guess I assumed there were no black people on GAF, as this is still a part of that old 90s/00s face-less Internet. Why I assumed so is probably a deep subject in itself, but I am glad we have this.

Sup everybody?
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What up, doe?

10 Cloverfield was good. Lots of tension. Had me real uncomfortable. They did real good setting me on edge.

And had my first solo uber. Never really paid attention to them in the past; way too drunk. Unless it's surge pricing, why would I ever get a cab again? Fuck cabbies, racist fucks.
 
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Crocodile

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bobbychalkers said:
Your allowed to have your own opinions on the matter but the main crux of the issue is that Miyamoto himself has stated that Link is the avatar for the player. Over the span of the last 25 years of the series existence, Link has picked up certain character traits and somewhat of a defined look among drastically changing art styles but that doesn't dismiss the character from being an avatar. Link has always just been the vehicle for the player to save Hyrule in. A character like Samus has a defined backstory but Link has character traits. His origins change game by game. None of Links traits are specific to males. A female Link could still: don the green tunic, take on a great evil force, be heroic, pick up the Master Sword, terrorize chickens and break into peoples homes to ruin their pottery. I don't think giving the player a choice really changes anything about Link or TLOZ lore in the long run.
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I never have and I never will argue that heroism is a uniquely male trait. I'm only stating my personal stance on Link's "avatar" nature, where I'd prefer the series to move in that regard, that I think "swapping" is the "lazy" way to improve representation and that the hero of the game doesn't have to be Link.
 
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Professor Beef

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Plus the very design of Link is that he's a completely different person from game to game with a few exceptions. Having a different version, be it gender or race, isn't out of the question entirely.
 
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Professor Beef said:
Plus the very design of Link is that he's a completely different person from game to game with a few exceptions. Having a different version, be it gender or race, isn't out of the question entirely.
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Wish i could have him as a created character
Already name him stupid names and act out like that
 
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User 73706

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Ironfist Sect said:
Wish i could have him as a created character
Already name him stupid names and act out like that
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GTAO actually tackles this to an extent, with your character being a mute avatar that can take any number of forms, and virtually all permutations of the "GTAO Avatar" character are considered unique individuals in-universe running missions for characters like Martin Madrazo a few months before the game's story mode, which is partially why some of these characters are in power in the mainline story: mob bosses' prior mooks were GTAO characters, which are player-controlled angels of death! In cutscenes they don't say a word but the characters they interact with are typically chatty (and are visibly off-put by the fact that you're completely silent).
 
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Shy

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DarkConfidant said:
Where you're from - Detroit
Where you live - Detroit
What is your age? - 24
Your cultural heritage, lineage and genealogy - African American, with Puerto Rican in half of my dad’s side
Do you know your roots - No farther than my grand parents. Sorry LeVar Burton.
Favorite musical genre - Hip hop.
Your profession/major/career interest - Linguistics, and also IT.
Your religious affiliation - Christian
Hobbies - Games, photography, beer making
KFC, Popeye's, Churches, or Bojangles? - We don’t have Bojangles up here, so Popeye’s wins by default, though I like our local places much better.


Really glad we have this thread. This is my first time venturing out of Gaming-Discussion after being on GAF for years( a lurking for a decade at least), and I guess I assumed there were no black people on GAF, as this is still a part of that old 90s/00s face-less Internet. Why I assumed so is probably a deep subject in itself, but I am glad we have this.

Sup everybody?
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Hello to you new fam. Hope you enjoy your time here.
 
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Sub-Zero at a Starbucks said:
GTAO actually tackles this to an extent, with your character being a mute avatar that can take any number of forms, and virtually all permutations of the "GTAO Avatar" character are considered unique individuals in-universe running missions for characters like Martin Madrazo a few months before the game's story mode, which is partially why some of these characters are in power in the mainline story: mob bosses' prior mooks were GTAO characters, which are player-controlled angels of death! In cutscenes they don't say a word but the characters they interact with are typically chatty (and are visibly off-put by the fact that you're completely silent).
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Wouldn't mind having this. You created the character and are in his shoes (if you created yourself or some celeb). Goes deeper but with Link i don't know if i should be playing as him as his own guy and i am just controlling him or he is just an avatar in game i happen to control and see the world through. At the same time wanting to have a custom character of my own creation but the tools not being there. Went with the third
 
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Slayven

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CEWKlMNl.jpg



I remember following the wii u release thread on Slickdeals, the scalpers was losing their minds. Niggas was selling systems for less than retail like a day after release
 
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Slayven said:
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I remember following the wii u release thread on Slickdeals, the scalpers was losing their minds. Niggas was selling systems for less than retail like a day after release
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Xbone fuck up helped the PS4 shine brighter
Maybe the Wii U fuck up will do the same for NX. If they learn from it and play to their strengths that is
 
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Merc_

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The way I see it is if they are going to let me change Link's gender, then I should be able to change his race too. Fuck this white feminism bullshit.
 
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TheFlow

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Angelus Errare said:
Oh he's coaching the Gonzales twins!? kuijfmi87098r34 nkopafnjk!

All because he's Patt Summit's kid!? BRUH....wut...the...fuck.

Also those twins were wild when they were like 18. Tinychat...all I'm sayin.
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bruh send the links through my pm. let me in fam. DONT HOLD OUT.


looked up their pic..damn might be the hottest twins in the game. shit
 
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Massive Duck. C.M.

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On Link-I don't really think having female Link as an option is something Nintendo is doing with representation in mind; it's just something they feel like doing. Devs over here are a lot more stubborn about changing something based on external feedback especially if it's not related to core gameplay. While people in the US might talk about lazy this or PC that, it's not even that deep. They probably just like how Linkle turned out and are deciding to give people more options.
 
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