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The Outer Worlds Pre-Release Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]
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rusty_shackleford
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weird how such a small group of people manages to hold such a sway over western culture to the point of erasing holidays that have been observed for centuriesHanukkah is over and Kwanzaa is a forced meme no one actually cares about, so at this point in December, Christmas is really the only thing to discuss.
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Are you talking about what christians did to Saturnalia?weird how such a small group of people manages to hold such a sway over western culture to the point of erasing holidays that have been observed for centuriesHanukkah is over and Kwanzaa is a forced meme no one actually cares about, so at this point in December, Christmas is really the only thing to discuss.
rusty_shackleford
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The holiday you're looking for is Yule.Are you talking about what christians did to Saturnalia?weird how such a small group of people manages to hold such a sway over western culture to the point of erasing holidays that have been observed for centuriesHanukkah is over and Kwanzaa is a forced meme no one actually cares about, so at this point in December, Christmas is really the only thing to discuss.
imweasel
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It is the 21st of December, it is okay to wish everyone a Merry Fucking Christmas. Jeez.
Who the heck is their social media manager?
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fobia
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Me too. Here it is thought to encompass new years eve for example. Because you usually don't see anybody that isn't family or close between christmas and the new year.
Religious or not, you have to be a real moron if you make an issue of it.
Happy Holidays everyone!
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It is the 21st of December, it is okay to wish everyone a Merry Fucking Christmas. Jeez.
Who the heck is their social media manager?
Someone who understands that the concept behind the Outer Worlds is that everything has become corporate branding nonsense and decided to play off that by phrasing their holiday tweet appropriately?
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Sailor Woedica
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That art is soo good! I’m getting legit Norman Rockwell on an alien planet far from home feelings (btw thank you Lana del Rey and ‘Venice Bitch’ for introducing me to the artist so I could even make the reference)
Happy holidays!
Happy holidays!
FeelTheRads
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It is the 21st of December, it is okay to wish everyone a Merry Fucking Christmas. Jeez.
Who the heck is their social media manager?
Not saying it's not just Obsidian being PC, but that tweet is also supposed to be a fake corporate message, so...
But yeah, christards butthurt about "happy holidays" and their made up "christmas" are hilarious. Yeah, not everyone gives a shit about your made up holidays, cry some more.
I come from a predominantly orthodox eastern-european shithole and even there the term "happy holidays" exists and it's used to cover all the winter holidays, typically used towards people you're not seeing often enough to be able to give them a specific wish for each holiday.
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FreeKaner
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Merry Christmas!
Wait, what day was it again?
Wait, what day was it again?
Did Obsidian wish profitable Hanukkkah and jihadious Ramadan when it was their turn, though?
It has very little to do with actual religion just like celebrating Christmas has little to do with Jesus getting his jewish birth certificate and thus not being able to run for president in USA. Huge majority of people who celebrate Christmas in west do it for cultural and culinary reasons. Not respecting your own, domestic culture (Obsidian is american company after all and without west and western cuckstomers they'd go the way of dodo) is in pure power politics terms an act of submission, betrayal and cuckoldry.
And so let me do what Obs is too afraid to do:
MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY NEW INCLINED YEAR!
It has very little to do with actual religion just like celebrating Christmas has little to do with Jesus getting his jewish birth certificate and thus not being able to run for president in USA. Huge majority of people who celebrate Christmas in west do it for cultural and culinary reasons. Not respecting your own, domestic culture (Obsidian is american company after all and without west and western cuckstomers they'd go the way of dodo) is in pure power politics terms an act of submission, betrayal and cuckoldry.
And so let me do what Obs is too afraid to do:
MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY NEW INCLINED YEAR!
Sannom
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Chinese, I presume? The "holidays" in "happy holidays" also refer to the New Year. English just happens to be cursed with names that all reference religion for some reason, Christmas, Holidays, Godfather, Godmother, etc.
Generic-Giant-Spider
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Christmas is the only relevant holiday at this time of the year.
Even godless heretics celebrate Christmas still because Christ is too top tier to deny the power of. They'll talk shit but they'll be wrestling with their big pine tree in two weeks time when they need to throw it out.
Even godless heretics celebrate Christmas still because Christ is too top tier to deny the power of. They'll talk shit but they'll be wrestling with their big pine tree in two weeks time when they need to throw it out.
TheImplodingVoice
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FreeKaner
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Considering it's an European tradition and predates Christianity it's no wonder. Even the Church figures found it very meaningful and valuable.
Not that this is something against Christianity, bible doesn't exactly shun local traditions.
People today celebrate neither the winter solstice nor the birth of christ anyway, when they celebrate at all, so who cares.
Deal with it.
I'm going to wait until I see some real gameplay before I judge on this one. Tim and Leonard have the ability to do really awesome FPS stuff (see Bloodlines). And the fact that they've been working on this for so long says to me that there's a good possibility of it being a good game.
Quoting Bernanos to buttress this statement is… odd, to say the least.
The whole book is about how automatisation & globalized economy turns people into tools and puts the machine in charge. Left without even the time needed for meditation & introspection, the modern slave is cut from God.
Modern christmas customs (or easter, or halloween... yet other calendar celebrations of our cosmos recuperated by the church) is a sheer reflection of this acute analysis.
I'm not saying there's no place for a traditional approach of this special communion that Christmas is (next time I'll add "most" in front of "people" if you want), just like it was still very much possible to celebrate the sun in the Vth century, in Rome, bastion of traditional polytheism.
Still, there's an observable mutation nowadays. It transpires through these celebrations which are, yet again, recuperated by the rising system of beliefs. Or rather absence of beliefs. Whether you accept it or not weighs as much as the intransigeant resistance of the city of Rome towards the amazing popularity of christianism.
Maybe this quote specifically felt unrelated, and it probably is, but I just really like it.
Modern christmas customs (or easter, or halloween... yet other calendar celebrations of our cosmos recuperated by the church) is a sheer reflection of this acute analysis.
I'm not saying there's no place for a traditional approach of this special communion that Christmas is (next time I'll add "most" in front of "people" if you want), just like it was still very much possible to celebrate the sun in the Vth century, in Rome, bastion of traditional polytheism.
Still, there's an observable mutation nowadays. It transpires through these celebrations which are, yet again, recuperated by the rising system of beliefs. Or rather absence of beliefs. Whether you accept it or not weighs as much as the intransigeant resistance of the city of Rome towards the amazing popularity of christianism.
Maybe this quote specifically felt unrelated, and it probably is, but I just really like it.
Zer0wing
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New Year is the only relevant holiday that marks end of the year, not the juedos merely 25th December.
Generic-Giant-Spider
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New Year is an excuse to get drunk and remind your family why they excommunicated you for five years.
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