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THQ Nordic Group (parent company of THQ Nordic, Deep Silver, etc.) to be renamed as Embracer Group
- Thread starter Mass_Pincup
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But Koch/Deep Silver, for example, is based in Bavaria. That's not very Nordic. And they may want to acquire more companies that aren't from that area. That being said, I'm sure they could come up with sth better than... this.
their publishing arm will still be called thq nordic, right? this is just the parent company?
if so that's a good idea, causes less confusion.
if so that's a good idea, causes less confusion.
Reminds me of how cancer peddlers Phillip Morris changes their name to 'Altria', sounds altruistic, dunnit?
That's an unfortunate name change if I ever saw one.
I will not forget their association with 8chan.
I will not forget their association with 8chan.
embrace group! ? what are they embracing?? child porn?? the Great replacement?? mass shootings?. eyyy
The justification for not letting it go is absolutely clear, righteous and logical.
Why have you let go? Why should anyone?
I'm assuming you're referring to the fact that this is the parent company and not the company who did the AMA, but considering no consequences has come of the whole affair, the parent company's hands aren't clean in the 8chan matter.
I didn't namedrop any sites. If they have taken action (other than "jeez, ok, we won't do 8chan AMAs anymore"), it should've been publicly, clearly & strongly communicated.
I didn't say you personally did. I mean that we as a community have though. You can see it in this thread even.
It's a bit of a ridiculous notion, though. Should we also not use the word nazi anymore in fear of promoting nazism? 8chan is never mentioned in a positive or neutral way on this site, so there's no promotion going on.
Someone ought to make a photoshop image of their new logo with two arms stretching from both ends to surround names of other alt-right/neo nazi websites like 8chan, stormfornt, daily stormer, 4chan and NeoGAF.
Considering how bad their track record has been I don't see that changing
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I think that's a little different than unintentionally promoting a website for people to look at with way more than just Nazi rhetoric on it
one could argue that we have done a better job promoting that site than THQ Nordic has
that's what everyone was trying to do before you came in here with this "8chan is voldemort" shit
Voldemort implies we fear it. Not giving something the time of the day is not the same as fearing something. A website and an entire hate group are actually quite different. we were promoting the website internally unintentionally while having good intentions.
I'm not saying don't discuss it, let's simply reminding people here in our little echo chamber can't be the answer either. I've stayed in a few times and if we want to see real change we need to do something about it beyond discussing it internally.
I've never told people to forget what the excluded I have said we can move past it because we can but for places like that website and Nazi groups there are other stances we can take and ways to fight it beyond what we're doing here.
I don't treat that website and hate groups as the same because they're not even if they share some of the same messages. Each problem has a different solution
We just have to be careful not to battle one extreme with another
As for THQ Nordic it's okay not to let it go like I said. they are a large corporation that will make money regardless of what we do and say and
They thrive with controversy even more. If you really look at it they're AMA drama did no harm to them in the end. If you want to damage a company like that is the hardest thing you can do to them. I know some people here have taken active approaches to avoid their product and that's fine and dandy that is one form ignoring them. give them no coverage right to websites like IGN to not give them coverage speaker
message in another way.
If you really want to make them pay and you're really pissed make them irrelevant. Send a message to every website that covers them. Cut off their exposure. I promise you they would take action then publicly.
Edit additionally you can find every company that advertises in their games and appeal to them as well to stop advertising in their games which also hurts their revenue
... That's what happened. That's what you were saying is a bad thing to do.
What I said was bad was constantly advertising the website in here..
In what world has "just ignore it" ever worked? Never. This is that whole "if we don't talk about racism, it'll just go away" nonsense. Please get this out of here.
I suppose that will create less confusion.
Still not buying a goddamn thing from the newly rechristened "Embracer Group."
Still not buying a goddamn thing from the newly rechristened "Embracer Group."
Corporations websites and racism are not the same. Not promoting something doesn't mean you're ignoring it.
Please don't simplify what I'm saying
Don't mischaracterize what I said.
When a corporation is openly supporting a hate-fueled cesspool of the internet that embraces mass murderers, I think it behooves us to call that corporation out by name. (And this applies to 8chan and THQ Nordic) It does no one any good if you try to hide the name under some false pretense of "it just advertises them." It doesn't, it provides a contextual reference as to why that corporation is a disgrace. You used Trump as a direct analogy, and it's also misplaced. The "stupid things he says" have actual effects on people, and trying to just ignore it does a disservice to those people, as well as others who may not know how those words affect people.
What a stupid fucking take! The whole "Just ignore it and everything will solve itself" shit has been proven bullshit since 2016 and that hasn't changed.
That you're more concerned about people talking about THQ than for what they actually did tells me you're one of those "Gamers" who "Just wants to talk about games!".
How pathetic.
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it's not advertising, it's the way you achieve what you were talking about.
Look everyone I know you're all concerned that Trump is turning America into a fascist state but everything would solve itself if you just ignore everything that he's doing!
I am very smart
I am very smart
Is this a bot or script that runs when a thread has THQ in the title sis? Literally this entire thread has been about this subject lmao
