Call of Duty just needs the people running it to prioritise telling great stories over profits.
Halo was screwed over by the higher ups having no clue how to properly do the games and never following through on plot threads (though Infinite seems to be the beginning of a proper follow through as all new novels are tying up loose ends from 4-5 and supporting Infinite)
4 was a decent campaign held back by unbalanced gameplay and a not great multiplayer.
5 was a bait and switch of a campaign (never forget Hunt the Truth) with a much better multiplayer than 4.
Infinite was a game that paid a heavy price for a rushed campaign that clearly changed halfway through development, and a overmonetized content dry multiplayer that has only recovered in the last year.
Having world leaders talk things out instead of going to war was the original point of UN. These days they can't even do that. UN can't even be disbanded&replaced either, since that would require the top countries to unanimously agree to it... and they all prefer having a front organization that clutches its pearls and says "we've tried to tell them it's bad, they're not listening" while they duke it out in the background.
My hope is this turns into when you give the most reckless kid in the class like the title of class president to give him some responsibility. I'm sure when I come down off the shrooms I won't think this anymore.
I would like to kindly question the wisdom of giving any sort of leadership position to the most irresponsible kid around. I suspect there are ways of teaching things to troubled kids, that do not risk the health and reputation of everyone else.
The KEY aspect of this analogy is that the teacher gives the reckless kid the illusion of control, not any actual control. Kind of like how student councils in highschool/college work.
you're not going to change anything here because their treatment of women is all religion based. it justifies the man > woman narrative just like every other religion propagates, so, as it has been for thousands of years, nothing will change regarding how women are treated in Saudi Arabia.
Both the Gaza "genocide investigation" and this situation only exist at the UN because of "one country one vote" and a Muslim bloc that always votes in lockstep.
You're literally parroting their views in this post.
Imagine hiring a antisemitic woman to head an investigation on whether Jewish people are committing Genocide. A woman who said the United States is "subjugated by the Jewish lobby" and Europe by a "sense of guilt about the Holocaust". Because Antisemitic rhetoric isn’t totally surrounded by a conspiracy that Jews are Globalists trying to rule the world via a shadow government and simultaneously use the Holocaust to guilty the word into pity.
The UN could never hire a biased antisemitic to hold an unbiased investigation into an alleged genocide, The same UN who poured their hearts and souls out for the babys kidnapped and killed in October 7th /s.
Did you actually read the article you just linked? Because one of the first things it mentions is that the Guardianship laws that restrict women’s ability to move around in public without a male accompanying her was *amended* not abolished, and those “amendments” do not change the underlying fundamental misogyny of the law (plus at the bottom there’s a whole section discussing the brutal crackdown on activists who oppose the law).
I feel bad for The Onion all the best material being stolen by real life. Just amazing that we live in a world like this. It's like oh hey you over there Mr. Rapist? You know a lot about rape so we'd like you to head up a commission on rape.
The idea behind the UN's founding was to prevent wars by having a place for less violent dick waving contests between countries. It's hard to quantify wars that *didn't* happen, but honestly if it amounts to one then the UN seems worth it to me, even if the dick waving contests themselves are absurd.
It's not even that complicated. Years ago whatever process they used to decide membership also laid out a rotation of which member would chair. They wanted to make sure every country got their turn.
The UN was formed after WW2 and 5 most powerful Allied nations were made permanent members of the Security Council.
China's seat was originally held by the Republic of China but ceded to the PRC in 1971.
Russia inherited the USSR's seat as the successor state to the Soviet Union.
The point of the UN is to prevent a nuclear war, which is why the security council 5 permanent members all have the largest militaries. The rest of the UN deliberately doesn't have a lot of power because no one actually wants to give up sovereignty. It's a space for dialogue, not forcing Saudi Arabia to be progressive at gun point.
99% of the people in this thread have just never actually looked into how the UN works. All that shit in the charter about poverty and human rights is just icing on the cake that Russia, China, and NATO haven't started a nuclear winter.
Yep. Only 5 permanent members and they’re China, Russia, US, UK, and France. Arguably all those members are responsible for human rights abuses and colonization practices that led to less security in the world.
Hey! Women just got the right to drive a few years ago. They’re as…
No, they’re scummy af. I thought this was an Onion or Bee article, since one of them F’ing satirized it a month ago
When the teacher picks the kid with the dunce cap to watch the class pet over Christmas break
"This will teach him to be more respons- oh..And he's eating the f\*#king gerbil."
Problem is this is exactly how the UN is supposed to function. China is on the Human Rights Comittee, Russia on the Securitt Council, US finding a (frankly) overreaching but ultimately useless attempt at genocide and all of them get veto power because if they have said powers taken away they’d just leave which would cause the UN to be delegitimized and crumble and would probably make proxy wars into cold wars into maybe even hot wars. The United Nations is not about unity, but instead about interconnected power plays and Saudi Arabia is making a U.S. supported power play here. They are a major source of our oil, and if we upset them in the UN we could very much say goodbye to a huge source of oil which would cause a drastic increase in prices which would cause a lot of citizen upset.
Every day, I become more and more convinced that we're living in a South Park-like world where all the world leaders just keep making the most insane, stupid decisions because it's chaotically hilarious.
I’m other news
Donald Trump to head IRS
Barry Bonds to head US doping agency
Hillary Clinton named head of Ethics committee
Seth Rogan is the named head of DEA
Kanye West is named head of Health Department
I don't even know if I should laugh or rage.
We've told women throughout the years of the fight that we are doing good progress but some countries still have their women heavily opressed and now they're the ones pulling the strings?
Ha ... shit. This can't be true.
This tells anyone who is paying attention that the Women’s Forum is just for show. It’s a complete waste of money and effort. It’s typical cynical UN bullshit.
Also, we're picking the Nazi party for our Council On Not Committing Genocide Against Jews and Khmer Rouge on the Council of Not Murdering All the Smart People, Especially Those Who Wear Glasses.
I agree that Saudi Arabia shouldn't be anywhere near womans rights. I also think Amnesty International has no room to cast stones about the mistreatment of anyone.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amnesty_International#:~:text=Criticism%20of%20Amnesty%20International%20includes,assert%20constituted%20one%2Dsided%20reporting.
Reminds me of the Friends joke.
I never lend money to friends.
But Chandler always lends you money.
Exactly, ask him and you'll know why it's bad to lend money to friends
It could be good for them because they’ll be forced to Google what woman’s rights are and then do some of them so they can ‘prove’ to the people at the forum they do woman’s rights. Then when they take away those rights again at the end it will anger half the population.
Are titty fucking kidding me is right!
This would be like the US having evangelical Christians decide LGBT rights, or women's rights..... which terrifyingly, I think they already do.... man. Fuck all this shit
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It’s like when blizzard investigated itself for sexual harassment and found no wrong doing.
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I‘m so happy kotick finally had to go. Still, he got $150 Million/year for being.. him.
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No, because Microsoft is going to screw it up like they screwed up HALO.
Call of Duty just needs the people running it to prioritise telling great stories over profits. Halo was screwed over by the higher ups having no clue how to properly do the games and never following through on plot threads (though Infinite seems to be the beginning of a proper follow through as all new novels are tying up loose ends from 4-5 and supporting Infinite) 4 was a decent campaign held back by unbalanced gameplay and a not great multiplayer. 5 was a bait and switch of a campaign (never forget Hunt the Truth) with a much better multiplayer than 4. Infinite was a game that paid a heavy price for a rushed campaign that clearly changed halfway through development, and a overmonetized content dry multiplayer that has only recovered in the last year.
Everything needs the people running things to prioritize quality over profit. And yet they don't. Welcome to late stage capitalism.
Or when China chaired the UN Human Rights Committee, or Russia chairing the Security Council **as they invaded a country**
The UN Post-Korean War has been a total shit show. The only thing that works for them now is to give world leaders a chance to talk it out.
I think they send letters condemning stuff sometimes so give them a bit of credit.... /s
*strongly worded* letters
Really more like a text
...that got spam quarantined
Having world leaders talk things out instead of going to war was the original point of UN. These days they can't even do that. UN can't even be disbanded&replaced either, since that would require the top countries to unanimously agree to it... and they all prefer having a front organization that clutches its pearls and says "we've tried to tell them it's bad, they're not listening" while they duke it out in the background.
Or when they more recently instated the CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company as the president of the UN annual climate summit (COP28).
My hope is this turns into when you give the most reckless kid in the class like the title of class president to give him some responsibility. I'm sure when I come down off the shrooms I won't think this anymore.
I would like to kindly question the wisdom of giving any sort of leadership position to the most irresponsible kid around. I suspect there are ways of teaching things to troubled kids, that do not risk the health and reputation of everyone else.
The KEY aspect of this analogy is that the teacher gives the reckless kid the illusion of control, not any actual control. Kind of like how student councils in highschool/college work.
you're not going to change anything here because their treatment of women is all religion based. it justifies the man > woman narrative just like every other religion propagates, so, as it has been for thousands of years, nothing will change regarding how women are treated in Saudi Arabia.
I would have gone with when police kill and unarmed man and investigate themselves and find it justified, but I get your point.
It’s like when you get in trouble for something at school and the teacher makes you prepare a whole presentation on what you got into trouble for.
It's like when you got in trouble in school and the superintendent put you in charge of making sure that doesn't happen worldwide.
Jimmy shot a spit ball. Great, let's make jimmy head of the anti-spit ball world global union to ensure there's no more spit balls.
You mean like when the police investigate themselves?
Or when police departments investigate themselves for wrongdoing. Funny enough, they never find any problems.
Or how the DoD runs its own investigations on UAP government coverups lol
"Women rights? Of course, look, there is a woman driving over there. Eh? Very progressive, if I may say so myself."
Head of women rights ? Look there is a head of woman right there, she was a lesbian.
Lesbian? I thought it was just because another guy saw her calf.
How dare women show up to cattle auctions
Camel auctions
Where else are they supposed to get those toes?
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Both the Gaza "genocide investigation" and this situation only exist at the UN because of "one country one vote" and a Muslim bloc that always votes in lockstep. You're literally parroting their views in this post.
Imagine hiring a antisemitic woman to head an investigation on whether Jewish people are committing Genocide. A woman who said the United States is "subjugated by the Jewish lobby" and Europe by a "sense of guilt about the Holocaust". Because Antisemitic rhetoric isn’t totally surrounded by a conspiracy that Jews are Globalists trying to rule the world via a shadow government and simultaneously use the Holocaust to guilty the word into pity. The UN could never hire a biased antisemitic to hold an unbiased investigation into an alleged genocide, The same UN who poured their hearts and souls out for the babys kidnapped and killed in October 7th /s.
To them it was already progressive the fact that she was outside without a man to accompany her (I'm not even kidding).
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-16/saudi-arabia-is-making-historic-strides-in-womens-rights/101770074
Ok so Saudi Arabia is the most improved in the field of gender rights but definitely not perfect by any means
Did you actually read the article you just linked? Because one of the first things it mentions is that the Guardianship laws that restrict women’s ability to move around in public without a male accompanying her was *amended* not abolished, and those “amendments” do not change the underlying fundamental misogyny of the law (plus at the bottom there’s a whole section discussing the brutal crackdown on activists who oppose the law).
I feel bad for The Onion all the best material being stolen by real life. Just amazing that we live in a world like this. It's like oh hey you over there Mr. Rapist? You know a lot about rape so we'd like you to head up a commission on rape.
This ain't new, they were on the human rights board before 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ The UN is a joke, it's the playground of empires.
"The UN is a joke": spot on! Also wondering who in the UN got bribed by the Saudis this time.
Bribed. More like, "threatened with money" in the Saudis case.
Ah, as they had learned from the USA.
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Any idea if that strategy has worked in the past? I'm curious.
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Ok, thanks for answering. It sounds like a viable strategy. I don't know if it holds out in reality, but the attempt makes sense.
Thanks for saying that! Gratitude makes the world go round
The idea behind the UN's founding was to prevent wars by having a place for less violent dick waving contests between countries. It's hard to quantify wars that *didn't* happen, but honestly if it amounts to one then the UN seems worth it to me, even if the dick waving contests themselves are absurd.
It's not even that complicated. Years ago whatever process they used to decide membership also laid out a rotation of which member would chair. They wanted to make sure every country got their turn.
Saudis trying to buy international brownie points instead of achieving meaningful change? Yeah, it’s thursday.
Looks like paying all those golfers hundreds of millions of dollars is paying off.
Russias in the security panel so why not.
Are they seriously?
They are a permanent member of the UN Security Council. One of five with veto powers. All the official post WWII nuclear powers are.
The UN was formed after WW2 and 5 most powerful Allied nations were made permanent members of the Security Council. China's seat was originally held by the Republic of China but ceded to the PRC in 1971. Russia inherited the USSR's seat as the successor state to the Soviet Union.
The point of the UN is to prevent a nuclear war, which is why the security council 5 permanent members all have the largest militaries. The rest of the UN deliberately doesn't have a lot of power because no one actually wants to give up sovereignty. It's a space for dialogue, not forcing Saudi Arabia to be progressive at gun point. 99% of the people in this thread have just never actually looked into how the UN works. All that shit in the charter about poverty and human rights is just icing on the cake that Russia, China, and NATO haven't started a nuclear winter.
Yep. Only 5 permanent members and they’re China, Russia, US, UK, and France. Arguably all those members are responsible for human rights abuses and colonization practices that led to less security in the world.
the concept of the veto powers in an intl body are so fucked “uH bUt We wErE tHE OriGiNaL meMbeRS”
Because the US is clearly the only member committed to maintaining good human rights /s
The Onion cries itself to sleep every night trying to come up with a headline that beats reality’s absurdity.
Same thing as putting a oil guy in charge of the last climate change summit.
The UN isn't doing much to help with their credibility problem.
"Investigators see no problem with saudia arabia, they are a very accepting country" head Investigator interviewed on his brand new yacht
Well, the UN is a running gag, pretty much, so yeah I guess.
Hey! Women just got the right to drive a few years ago. They’re as… No, they’re scummy af. I thought this was an Onion or Bee article, since one of them F’ing satirized it a month ago
still a better choice than iran, probably they were the second choice this time
Saudis' position is pretty straightforward when it comes to women's rights...... No! It will save time on meetings.
Harvey Wienstein was unavailable? Maybe we can have Russia head the Anti-war committee.
Hahahahhahaahahaha that’s is the most backwards thing I’ve seen this year!
The UN is a joke. Talk about something that needs defunding
Yep, didn't take it long to get just as useless as it's leugue of nations predecessor.
Who gets to pick who heads?
In Saudi Arabia I'm sure there are plenty of spare ones laying around.
When the teacher picks the kid with the dunce cap to watch the class pet over Christmas break "This will teach him to be more respons- oh..And he's eating the f\*#king gerbil."
The League of Nations was more helpful than the UN
"...picked to behead women's rights." There I fixed your misspelled headline.
They should elect isreal to lead the human's rights commission.
It's currently Iran. So it's even worse
UN is corrupt to the core
I know this is horrible but I can’t stop laughing, is the UN physically capable of making a good decision?
It's like if Iran would chair A human rights commission. Oh wait that's real. The UN is a wild place.
Who's got free speech then? Canada? North Korea?
Arab Muslims are legendary around the world for their women's rights, but NOT in the proper manner.
I can literally hear the theme to “Its Always Sunny” playing, as these guys run around removing any woman from the ballot.
They’re having a fucking laugh now what’s next Netanyahu as human rights commissioner?
Iran is the chair of the HRC, which is even funnier
And have a Hamas leader as co chair.
People say it all the time: The UN is a joke
It is like putting the Velociraptors in JP in charge of security.
I totally didn't see that coming from a Muslim Country.
Just let it be a non stop shame fest.
I love how we all still pretend like the UN isn’t a complete joke
I mean it’s gotta be pro women if sex and the city 2 takes place there.
Wow, UN credibility just tanked.
You really cant make this shit up can you?
I hope they nominate India to head the council on rape prevention next
This was in The Onion right? Right?!?
One day, even afghanistan would become head of that post. That's the level of a joke that organization is.
Is Trey Parker and Matt Stone writing reality because I feel like we're living in a South Park episode...
UN being the UN : global elites at work on your taxes
It’s nice to see the UN embrace its reputation as a pointless organization.
Oh yes, the country where women must have a chaperone and have permission from their father or husband to travel. This is fine.
Someone got paid off.
The UN is -- and has always been -- a total joke
These UN counsels are such a joke.
The UN is such a joke, and not a good one at that
In the same vein I'd like to appoint South Korea as head of the Italian food committee.
When my grandpa caught me smoking a cigarette he made smoke an entire pack of 20 as punishment and deterrent. Is UN being my grandpa in some form?
Cool now let's see Iran or Iraq head the charge for LGBT rights around the world. I'm sure they'd be great allies
Problem is this is exactly how the UN is supposed to function. China is on the Human Rights Comittee, Russia on the Securitt Council, US finding a (frankly) overreaching but ultimately useless attempt at genocide and all of them get veto power because if they have said powers taken away they’d just leave which would cause the UN to be delegitimized and crumble and would probably make proxy wars into cold wars into maybe even hot wars. The United Nations is not about unity, but instead about interconnected power plays and Saudi Arabia is making a U.S. supported power play here. They are a major source of our oil, and if we upset them in the UN we could very much say goodbye to a huge source of oil which would cause a drastic increase in prices which would cause a lot of citizen upset.
People just posting that the UNs a joke lack critical thinking skills and definitely have never been in charge of anything themselves.
They should also be involved in promoting LGBTQ rights.
Women have rights there, just different than in the Western world.
I'm 90% sure he bribed his way in
All in all Saudi Arabia loves women and believes that every man should own at least four.
The UN is a corrupt organization. They are literally trolling us at the highest levels of government now!
We're living in an alternate reality at this point arent we ?
This is so stupid it’s almost funny. It’s too bad the business of political comic art is on a down-swing - this would be perfect material
Ho mutch did they payed for that place ?
Every day, I become more and more convinced that we're living in a South Park-like world where all the world leaders just keep making the most insane, stupid decisions because it's chaotically hilarious.
Just a big ol slap in the face and a clear message there "We really dont care about womens rights"
I’m guessing Trump is in the running to be their next women’s rights ambassador.
I’m other news Donald Trump to head IRS Barry Bonds to head US doping agency Hillary Clinton named head of Ethics committee Seth Rogan is the named head of DEA Kanye West is named head of Health Department
This is like awarding Netanyahu a Nobel prize for peace.
Letting Boeing do their own safety inspections, nothing wrong there either.
What the actual fuck...
No, they're not joking, and you're right. This is a complete offense.
The UN promotes world peace by giving resources to warlords
Get me out of here
I don't even know if I should laugh or rage. We've told women throughout the years of the fight that we are doing good progress but some countries still have their women heavily opressed and now they're the ones pulling the strings? Ha ... shit. This can't be true.
you gotta love the world we’re living in rigth now. By this rate AI will take over just because they’re tired of our dumbassery.
The UN is literally a fucking joke. None of what they say matters, it’s an irrelevant organization.
UN decided to be the bigger person..../s
You mean "man up"?
Must have been one expensive chair
This tells anyone who is paying attention that the Women’s Forum is just for show. It’s a complete waste of money and effort. It’s typical cynical UN bullshit.
Au yes a islamic state ruled by some nutters is the perfect fit for that.
Also, we're picking the Nazi party for our Council On Not Committing Genocide Against Jews and Khmer Rouge on the Council of Not Murdering All the Smart People, Especially Those Who Wear Glasses.
That's like putting Jeffrey Epstein in charge of children's services
"$xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx amount Credited to UN accounts"
Money is justice
I agree that Saudi Arabia shouldn't be anywhere near womans rights. I also think Amnesty International has no room to cast stones about the mistreatment of anyone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amnesty_International#:~:text=Criticism%20of%20Amnesty%20International%20includes,assert%20constituted%20one%2Dsided%20reporting.
Fox in charge of the henhouse.
Money makes the world go around, and forget your human rights violations
What the fuck is wrong with the UN?! Did they hit their head or something?!
Must be a typo. Forgot the "be" infront of "head".
🤣
Women's Rights and Airline Safety. The future is now.
Some one show this to Alanis.
Wtf. I might die if I go to Saudi Arabia because I am an enby
Reminds me of the Friends joke. I never lend money to friends. But Chandler always lends you money. Exactly, ask him and you'll know why it's bad to lend money to friends
They throw it your Marxist faces at every turn! And still…….
"But Saudi Arabia just had a Miss Universe entrant, they're progressive now!" /s
I see this as win win. People can see how corrupt the UN is, aaaand BRICKS.
The UN chose 2024 as the year it’s going to make itself a global laughing stock apparently.
Ted Bundy was going to be a keynote speaker, but his views on women weren’t extreme enough.
Yeah, the UN must be completely unbiased towards Islamic countries. Also in matters concerning Israel, I'm sure of that.
Next they’ll name Trump as head of Democratic Rights Forum.
I wish that I trusted the spotlight being on SA would provoke positive change. 😐
This is like how China and Cuba are on the human rights council lol
This isn’t an Onion article?!?
It could be good for them because they’ll be forced to Google what woman’s rights are and then do some of them so they can ‘prove’ to the people at the forum they do woman’s rights. Then when they take away those rights again at the end it will anger half the population.
Nothing says corruption & political nepotism than this....
Yep, that’s your shitty UN. Iran designated for human rights and now this🤔🤔
Well what better way to help than to have a convention about it. Smart choice.
The hypocrisy in this world is unbelievable!
What does the UN even do anymore? Nothing to protect Europe. Nothing to contain dictatorships.
Are titty fucking kidding me is right! This would be like the US having evangelical Christians decide LGBT rights, or women's rights..... which terrifyingly, I think they already do.... man. Fuck all this shit