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      How can you tell ratio? I don’t use Xitter, and have no idea what those symbols mean.

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        I believe it’s likes (the heart icon) to replies (the chat bubble icon). Usually there are way, way more likes than replies: the ubisoft comment in the screenshot has 9,200/408 which is about 23. The middle comment has 2,400/318 which is about 8. Guessing that’s unusually low.

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        Musk’s tweet has about 200 retweets and 2.4k ‘hearts’ (likes), Ubisoft’s has 1.9k retweets and has 9.2k hearts. Therefore, nearly 5x the number of people have interacted with Ubisoft’s tweet. A ‘ratio’ of 5:1.

        Edit: Guess that’s closer to 4:1, regardless, ratio.

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    This dude is CEO of multiple companies, has like 87 kids, high level position in the government and still takes the time to get ratioed on his own platform.

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    Oh my god, a streamer shouldn’t advertise a mediocre game to get compensation for their work? Has anyone told the Raid Shadow Legends steamers?

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      A side comment, Ubisoft was promoted in a show on Apple, for a while, people did not like how propagandized it was

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        I like Mythic Quest… Then again, I’m a normal person that lives in the real world and could not care less about Ubisoft’s involvement.

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      The most scathing article he could find to reply with was one that says “its selling well but not as well as these two other games”?

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        He replies again with some game thats not even his and gets obliterated.

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        They’re absolutely getting fired, but that is one hell of a blaze of glory to go out in. The angry look on Egotistic Elon’s face is probably priceless, with that response getting nearly 10x as many likes as both his political shitposts combined.

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          Well they get paid for getting attention so I’m not so sure about that. Especially with how unpopular Elon Musk is.

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          I wouldn’t be so sure about that, Ubisoft is French and we all know how much they like to see shit burn.

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            They might be French, but they make the same stupid decisions as American publishers. I have little faith they would do anything other than acquiesce when Elon threatens to remove their checkmarks or ban them from Xitter.

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      I had no idea who the second guy was. He’s a racist/sexist ex-Blizzard employee.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kern

      Kern has become an outspoken critic of the company and criticized such environmental, social, and governance standards and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives effects on video game developers. In March 2024, he railed against wokeness, telling Fox News that there is a “coordinated effort to insert diversity politics into games”.

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        In 2016, Kern began seeking crowdfunding for Em-8er, a “spiritual successor” to Firefall. Kern did an interview with YouTuber Upper Echelon in Sept 2024, claiming that about 600K has been raised so far for Em-8er.

        This is specifically the part that they are getting his ass on.

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            I wonder if they saw the absolutely stupid way people shit their pants about Yasuke, and realized there was no winning with these losers.

            It’s funny seeing the about face - the controversy over “we don’t have female protagonists because they would be difficult to model” feels like another universe now.

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          Lmao that “our game is out” is quite the burn. I’m not supposed to root for ubi but I’ll root for ubi’s burn machine

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      Lmao. It doesn’t matter what articles spit, as long as your game is selling. Shadows is selling well, and it’s a fun game! It’s really the same old AC but now you get to actually have 2 different styles of play.

      Success brings out the haters and people LOVE to hate on Ubisoft.

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        I’m lovin’ it. It’s gorgeous, has way more verticality in the map than the last bunch in the franchise, and feels overall more polished re: animations, parkour, etc. But damn is it pretty.

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    3 of the worst public personae feeding of each other for relevance. A real human centipede type shit, shame Musk is on the beginning end.

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    Jesus Christ I’ve never cared about anything less than whatever is going on there. In fact, it’s horseshoe theory in action. It is so far from anything I care about I am actually annoyed it has reached my eyes, and I therefore do care about it. I didn’t think that was possible.

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      Elon streamed Path of Exiles a Diablo-like online MMORPG pretending he plays often.

      Everyone watching knew he didn’t know a thing about the game at all showing he never played it and likely bought or paid someone to level the account for him.

      Rich folk like Elon are envious of us regular/poor people. We dress better, are actually funny and do enjoyable shit. Whenever he tries to take part he comes out looking like a big fraud and a dumbass.

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      Hasan was paid by ubisoft to play the new Assassin’s creed on stream (which he was very clear that it is a paid promotion) grummz got mad and called him a “terrorist supporter” and claimed ubisoft supports terrorism (because Hasan is middle eastern and pro-palestine). Then Elon responded to grummz with this.

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        Hasan openly glazes Hamas and Houthis. He calls them freedom fighters and showing their propaganda videos while he calls them music Videos.

        I’m not into hating vallhalla for stupid reasons, but it’s a fact to call Hasan a terrorist supporter.

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            It’s not my cup of tea. Ive been following Hasan for a long time until it became too obvious he just wants to groom the viewers to terrorists.

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            Some more of that whataboutism please. Pretty low strategy to defend terrorist, rapists and murderers.

            You always stoop that low to defend evil?

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              Both sides of the conflict are terrorists, between IDF and hamas, hamas are the lesser evil

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              Pointing out common hypocrisy relevant to a topic isn’t a whattaboutism, and claiming it is is a pretty transparent attempt to dismiss valid criticism you clearly lack a rebuttal to.

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                I havent been a hypocrite, have I? Your defense of terrorists is by your definition though.

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                  I wasn’t calling you a hypocrite, they were, I am not them, we are not the same person. I was just pointing out that ‘whattaboutism’ isn’t a harry-potter-esque spell that when shouted properly makes valid criticism disappear.

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                Chances are they heard someone else use the term “whataboutism” and are just mindlessly parroting it without understanding what it actually is.

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          One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

          The founding fathers were terrorists, according to the definition the US government uses. They were fighting an occupying force using violence. We now call them heroes and patriots. It’s a matter of perspective.

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            Did they kidnap ship workers, woman and children to torture, rape and kill them? Did they parade naked woman through the street? Was their Slogan “death to america”?

            If you support that youve sold your soul and got nothing in return.

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              Was the slogan of the founding fathers of America “death to america”? Super hard hitting question.

              Also there was more than enough rape, murder, and genocide taking place on the part of the American revolutionaries, and it was being actively encouraged by the founding fathers.

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                This is like the seventh comment saying “but what about…” that I get.

                Is that the bar that makes you defend atrocities against civilians?

                You need a deep look into your self mate

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              Did they kidnap ship workers

              Likely yes

              woman and children to torture, rape and kill them

              Most of the founding fathers were slave owners so that’s a yes to that as well

              Did they parade naked woman through the street?

              Americans called it a slave auction

              Was their Slogan “death to america”?

              Of course not. They were America so why would they say “death to us”? It was more like “death to England and the tyrant King George”.

              Life isn’t black and white.

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                The whole encyclopedia of whataboutism in one comment. Respect

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                  How is this “whataboutism”? They gave instances for every one of your hypotheticals.

                  I do think that Hamas and Houthis are generally vile human-beings and that the West should not be cheering for the Shia muslim faction. But it is also true that they represent freedom fighters to some - especially those in Palestine currently being murdered (genocide) so Israel can have more living space

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                  Yeah, that’s not what whataboutism is. The person was asked several questions, and they answered them. They even quoted each individual question before answering it.

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              did you learn anything about early america? they absolutely did all that except the “death to america” part was really “death to britons”.

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              I’m sorry but if you can’t even remotely see from where Hasan (or the other commenter) is coming from then you’re literally no better than what you blame him to be. Israel has been terrorizing Palestinians probably longer than you’ve been alive and America has been supporting Israel since the beginning. Are you really surprised when the Palestinians, who have been terrorized their entire life, radicalize into Hamas and start shouting “death to America”?

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              That torture, rape, and murder stuff sounds nearly as bad as what Americans and Israelis do daily.

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          I don’t watch Hasan streams or anything, just sometimes catch the clips on yt afterwards, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen him “glaze” Hamas.

          Unless you’re saying that Palestinian = Hamas. Is that what you are saying?

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        (because Hasan is middle eastern and pro-palestine)

        Must be his pro-Houthi stances. That also covers ‘called him a “terrorist supporter”’, since plenty of people see the Houthi as terrorists, with them overthrowing the government, even though they do claim to want a democracy (just not one governed by a corrupt president).

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    heavens above how is elon so stupid and yet still alive? He should have mistaken sleeping pills for candy and OD’d by now or something.