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New Rage Alert - Spiderman video game has Spidey helping the cops!
Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:08 am
Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:08 am
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Sony released a heavily anticipated Spiderman video game this week. Here's snippets from one person's review.
Oh boy....
Icky NYPD!
I'm willing to bet you didn't imagine the author of this piece looking like this:
Sony released a heavily anticipated Spiderman video game this week. Here's snippets from one person's review.
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The new Spider-Man video game came out for PlayStation 4 last week, and I was eager to spend a chunk of my weekend playing it. Some things I immensely enjoyed during my few hours of play time: web swinging, jumping off buildings, web swinging, whispering “whoa, that looks just like the real Empire State Building,” and web swinging. One thing I definitely did not enjoy is how the game turns Spider-Man into a friggin’ cop!
Oh boy....
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Granted, I am only a few hours into the game, but so far the primary objective boils down to Help The Cops. Not just any cops, either, but the NYPD specifically, because the game takes place in a true-to-life rendering of New York City. It’s dumb to expect video games to be responsible reflections of real life, but it is also impossible, for me at least, to not feel some ickiness about the game forcing me into cahoots with even a fictionalized version of the NYPD, an organization that routinely oppresses some of the most vulnerable residents of the city I live in.
Icky NYPD!
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I’m not grasping for as many straws as it may appear. Spider-Man doesn’t just help the cops by catching armed robbers and putting deranged super villains in jail, he helps them maintain a high-tech, citywide surveillance network. One of the ongoing missions in the game is to have Spider-Man repair NYPD operated (and Oscorp-constructed) surveillance towers that stand atop various buildings throughout the city. When these towers are repaired they allow the NYPD to monitor all citizens within a certain radius of the tower, and for Spider-Man to get real-time updates on happenings within the city via an uplink with the towers.
I'm willing to bet you didn't imagine the author of this piece looking like this:
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Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:10 am to indianswim
Yep, I imagine he hasn't even come close to getting laid... Well, unless he takes it up the arse...
Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:11 am to indianswim
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Granted, I am only a few hours into the game, but so far the primary objective boils down to Help The Cops. Not just any cops, either, but the NYPD specifically,
It's like he's new to the entire concept of comic book heroes.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:12 am to indianswim
aside from fake 'black leaders' like shaun white and whoopie goldberg are any blacks actually outraged about cops or is it all a bunch of fricked up white people?
Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:13 am to indianswim
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Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:14 am to indianswim
Even better is the GIZMODO article linking the NYC elites to Palantir (CIA tech front)
But he's mad about the cops, not the elites that are the problem...much less the Clowns selling dystopia
Damn airbnbers making scratch, villains!
But he's mad about the cops, not the elites that are the problem...much less the Clowns selling dystopia
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When Bill de Blasio took office in 2014, he doubled down, and paid Palantir $907,413 for 24 “Gotham” server cores and licenses for the Department of Finance. Later that same year, the City paid $20,000 to provide 10 inspectors from the Office of Special Enforcement (OSE) with Palantir’s mobile technology, connecting them to everything the city knows about every place within it. The tech has been used, among other applications, to crack down on illegal Airbnb rentals. “Thirty percent more work with the same exact staff,” Elan Parra, the office’s acting director, told WNYC in 2015. “I guess maybe you could call it Moneyball for quality of life violations.”
Damn airbnbers making scratch, villains!
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Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:14 am to indianswim
Its fricking spiderman. Although it would be better if you could choose the cops or take the venom route...
Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:15 am to IceTiger
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Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:15 am to indianswim
This almost reads like an Onion article.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:16 am to indianswim
I'd much prefer the character be Spiderxe. A gender queer, feminist, black character who hunted down white supremacists and cops at night while working for the Huffington Post during the day
Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:17 am to Fun Bunch
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This almost reads like an Onion article.
The left reached absurdity a long time ago
Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:29 am to indianswim
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Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:31 am to NIH
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Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:41 am to indianswim
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One thing I definitely did not enjoy is how the game turns Spider-Man into a friggin’ cop!
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the NYPD specifically
Has he never read a Spider-Man comic or seen a cartoon/movie with the character? Of course he helps the cops.
And exactly which department did he expect to be portrayed in New York City other than the NYPD?
That part is insanely idiotic.
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he helps them maintain a high-tech, citywide surveillance network. One of the ongoing missions in the game is to have Spider-Man repair NYPD operated (and Oscorp-constructed) surveillance towers that stand atop various buildings throughout the city. When these towers are repaired they allow the NYPD to monitor all citizens within a certain radius of the tower, and for Spider-Man to get real-time updates on happenings within the city via an uplink with the towers.
This I don't have much of a problem with as a complaint.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:43 am to indianswim
It has been decades since I read a Spidey comic, but I seem to remember that the NYPD did not like him very much. Weren’t they always trying to arrest him as a vigilante?
Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:49 am to AggieHank86
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It has been decades since I read a Spidey comic, but I seem to remember that the NYPD did not like him very much. Weren’t they always trying to arrest him as a vigilante?
There have been different versions. Spidey goes from loved by the cops to having to run from them depending on the storyline and character arc.
Hard to believe someone got triggered because he helps the cops!
Also, great work Fox Mulder. Some of those screen shots are awesome.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:51 am to Bard
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It's like he's new to the entire concept of comic book heroes
He'd better not watch the old Christopher Reeve Superman films. He really would be triggered. Superman delivered Lex Luthor directly to the prison in a couple of the films.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:55 am to NIH
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I'd much prefer the character be Spiderxe. A gender queer, feminist, black character who hunted down white supremacists and cops at night while working for the Huffington Post during the day
Dude. You'd make a killing on kickstarter turning this into a parody comic.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:56 am to Sasquatch Smash
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This I don't have much of a problem with as a complaint.
It's just a plot device in the game for you to be able to establish the map and where all the collectibles and side quests are located. It's no different than in the batman arkham games.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 11:57 am to AggieHank86
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It has been decades since I read a Spidey comic, but I seem to remember that the NYPD did not like him very much. Weren’t they always trying to arrest him as a vigilante?
This changes from time to time with every super hero in comics.
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