Running With Scissors Studios gives permission to pirate games

frogman [he/him]@beehaw.org to Gaming@beehaw.org – 651 points –

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"We've been told our games are too expensive in some countries but we've been using Steam's recommended pricing for a while. We trust Valve enough to not change this. If our games are still too expensive for you, you can pirate them until you have enough to support us."

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I'm getting old .. what does this mean and why is it objectionable? Google suggests it means they have strong character, which seems like a fair assessment.

What I understand this originates from is "not based on anything", so essentially bucking the trend or the norm. Doing things not because something or someone told them.

It's 4chan type of language, itself an alt-right cesspool.

Gotcha.. From reading all the responses, it sounds like the word and meaning itself isn't really objectionable, it's more the people that use it. Which isn't something a search engine tells you.. 😅

It's gone mainstream. I hear it in high schools all the time from many different students. I think it's pretty unobjectionable.

To a zoomer, based is the opposite of cringe (I'm told). This is the first time I've seen it mentioned in regards to alt-right, that sounds like they happened to be alt-right zoomers.

No, it's not the "opposite of cringe" and it's not an alt-right dog whistle. It just means the person or group is willing to do the right thing, above politics or greed. It's more comparable to Giga Chad, but it's more accurate to say that Giga Chad when used in memes is the representation of a based individual.

Also, "alt-right" is a dog whistle for "white supremacist", invented by a white supremacist to soften the language. Stop using it. Just call them white supremacists or fascists.

My understanding of "based" from years and years ago was that it was used as an exclamation when people essentially weren't afraid to speak their minds even if they're likely to get shit for said opinion.

That's why it's gotten associated with the alt-right because it was usually bigoted douchebags saying bigoted shit that other bigots would then respond "based" to. I feel like the terminology was associated with 4chan in its early usage and spread to reddit.

I believe your definition that is popular with Gen Z is a newer development.

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I've long regarded it as a red flag, since the first people I encountered using it were alt-right dipshits. Subsequently it seems to have been adopted wholesale, and I get the impression that most people don't see it as politically charged.

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