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b3crew · 2 years

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REVIEW | "Fashion Police Squad" | B3 - Boston Bastard Brigade

Demons. Nazis. Rogue agents. All of these are the kinds of foes one would face in a first-person shooter. Yet none of them compare to the vileness and wickedness of the most diabolical of creatures known to humankind: dudes who wear socks with sandals! Fortunately, a new first-person shooter is heading down the catwalk, and manages to do a terrific turn with swagger. Welcome to the world of Fashion Police Squad!

A retro-styled FPS developed by Mopeful Games, Fashion Police Squad has you taking down villains commiting crime against sexy! From dull businessmen and potato-sacked Karens to corporate cronies taking clothing cues from David Byrne, Sergeant Des’s mission is to slap some fashionable sense into these Wal-Mart-shopping abominations. With a plethora of weapons like paintballs to sock-stealing gnomes (yes, you read that right!), your goal to bring style back to your turf will be only slightly easier. You also have a belt to temporary stun foes, as well as break grates and swing from high places.

At first, the shootouts and fights seem a little too easy, as if Mopeful Games wanted to trick its players into thinking this was a simple parody of a beloved genre. However, soon after the very first starts, the challenge begins to rise. What was an easy-looking enemy at fist becomes a crazy race to stay alive, as swarms of businessmen, shiny Segway drivers, and tourists whose footwear choice is incredibly disgusting! Fashion Police Squad is hard, but so is keeping up with clothing trends!

Of course, comedy is the prime element of this FPS, as one will both be laughing and screaming at the villains you’ll come across. Watching as Karens pepper spray you while demanding to see a manager is pretty funny, as is the sight of a flasher whose lack of clothing results in some deadly beams of light. The game is also pack filled with tributes and homages and other FPSes alike, ranging from The Wolf of Wall Street to Duke Nukem, with each gag more surprising than the last. Perhaps the most humorous of running jokes involves a mysterious trench-coated “informant”, whose shady ways contradict with his slick fashion sense.

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savingcontent · 2 years

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Fashion Police Squad Review

When a game grips you from its earliest moments and plasters a stupid grin on your face, you know it’s good. Fashion Police Squad is a retro first-person shooter among a sea of others lately, but it’s unlike anything else out there. Developer Mopeful Games didn’t just rely on a fresh premise to get by, it’s backed up tight gameplay and smart writing. The fact that this is a game about correcting…

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stressfulsloth · 10 months

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I've seen a couple of takes about Disco Elysium being copaganda going around recently, and beyond the fact that DE is relentlessly critical of the police force in general and makes explicit reference to the failures of the system that allow the officers in game to abuse their power, I also think it's important to note that there very literally is an in-world version of copaganda that the writers of the game use to parody that romanticised view of the brutality of policing. The RCM at their inception were structurally inspired by in-world copaganda- their culture, their "fashions, even weapon preferences, borrow heavily from classic Vespertine cop shows." Every investigation is it's own little drama, every officer imagining themselves to be the bad-ass hero of their own crime serial. Detectives name their cases like they're naming episodes of a TV series in a "robust but literary system"; a title that "draws inspiration from snoop fiction and Vespertine cop show staples". They give themselves nicknames to sound like cool, suave fictional officers- Ace, Dick Mullen, etc.- from the cool, suave world of copaganda.

The legend of the RCM's inception, the "point of contention" over its uncertain origins, is even an extention of that; the whole organisation is shrouded in this self-fictionalising mythos that allows for distance that in turn obfuscates much of its violence to the officers that participate in it. They get to convince themselves that they're not abusing their power; they're the hero of the story! The dichotomy of "good guy" taking out the "baddies," a manifestation of the libertarian fantasy of the "good guy with a gun" who does what it takes, just like in Annette's detective novels, and at the same time who rails against oversight bodies like Internal Affairs/'the rat squad' because due process slows down the immediate satisfaction of Swift Justice, despite Internal Affairs existing to protect the citizens from overreach on behalf of the police. "Wanton brutality" from police in their real world is a cold bitter reality but Dick Mullen was "made to crack skulls," "bend the rules and solve cases no one else can," and which version of that story is more comforting to the overworked, underfunded officers of the RCM?

The level of fantasy and detachment required for the cops to still see themselves as the good guys after everything that they do in the line of duty mimics The Pigs and her breakdown too; she parallels Harry so clearly. Both "did right by the kids" in the past, hoping for a better future- Marianne (The Pigs) by looking out for Titus and the Hardy boys when they were young, Harry in his role as a gym teacher. Both abandoned and left behind by the system that the RCM uphold- a brutal capitalist landscape with no safety nets. Both turning the source of their trauma into a costume, a performance, a shield, shaped by "radio waves and cop shows." The Pigs uses RCM items scavenged from the Esperance where they'd been thrown away, while Harry uses the Dick Mullen hat that Annette gives him but both are essentially in costume.

Harry identifies himself with the fictional detective as a kind of wish fulfilment; Dick Mullen is "wicked smart." He doesn't fuck up his cases and when he's sad it's not pathetic; it's effortlessly cool brooding and everyone sympathises. Everyone loves him. His violence- "skull crack[ing]"- is justified because he's a "good guy" enacting that violence against the victims of police brutality sorry "bad guys". He doesn't ever face repercussions; "Dick Mullen won't be sent to the clink for the sake of some legal niceties!" So if Harry is Dick Mullen then his failures, his breakdown, they're all just a part of being a "bad-ass, on-the-edge disco cop." He's not wrong, he's a hero! This idealised fictionalised idea of the police force, this "new, sadly better, reality" that both Harry and The Pigs cling to is "escapist stuff," "receed[ing] into a ludicrous fantasy world," so far removed from the brutal material reality that they're in.

My point is, idk. Disco Elysium is so far from being copaganda. It is a multi-million word long dissection of it, of the purpose of policing, of state sanctioned violence and its interaction with capital and the fallout experienced within the wider community as well as the trauma cycle created for individual officers. A dissection of how copaganda interacts with RCM culture and perception, and by extension how we interact with irl perceptions of police through that lens.

#ouaghhhhhhh disclaimer; i am bad with words and im not sure that i've properly expressed what i'm trying to say but this is getting so long #the cops are not meant to be the good guys #if you think i've missed something here pls let me know!!#disco elysium #harry du bois #DE rambling #marianne leplante #the pigs #actually just one last note- this isnt in response to any one particular thing ive seen but a few different posts comments and articles

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Hey support, I have a unique request. See, my dad is a retired police officer and he’s been kinda sad recently cause his old partner pass away. I was wondering if there’s some way that I can use your app to make him a young officer again and make me his partner so he can remove that. I’ve seen the pics of the two of them and they were definitely big muscles studs back in the day. Do you think that would be possible?

"Tell me about the old days!" Normally, you would never ask your father to do this. The boring and tedious stories always repeat themselves anyway. But today you feel you owe it to your father. You look at old photos and your father talks. He literally blossoms. It does him good. And it's good for you.

You see a picture of him in his summer uniform. The short sleeves of his shirt emphasize his powerful arms. You ask if no one had tattoos back then. Hard to imagine today. Your father says he thinks tattoos are cool too. But back then it was unthinkable. It's different today… Artistic images begin to form on your arms, barely visible.

Damn, your father was already an attractive man. The hairstyle was perhaps a little strange. I wonder if he wasn't ashamed of it. Your father laughs. He was always up to date with hairstyles. It was very fashionable. When it came to haircuts, he was more of a trendsetter… Well, that's still the case, you think as you look at yourself and run your hand through your perfectly trimmed undercut.

There is only one picture of your father in which he wears a moustache. His colleagues, on the other hand, almost always seem to have a beard. When you ask him about it, he replies that he was always the good cop in the game of good cop, bad cop. And a clean-shaven chin simply suited the good cop better. You scratch your three-day beard. Your father is always perfectly shaven, that's true. And that's why he always looks so much younger. On the street, you'd estimate him to be 40 years old at most.

Your father was first in the traffic police, then he switched to the criminal investigation department and made a career there. He switched to management positions in the office quite early on. In his younger years, he was really a muscular eye-catcher. Over the years, he got a bit fuller. You ask him whether he would have the same career again today. He says that he was jealous of the SWAT guys early on. He would have thought that was cool.

His body would have gone along with it. He's damn well trained. Well, maybe not as muscular and defined as you. But he just joined the squad. You've been with the squad for a year and took him under your wing as a mentor six months ago.

Man, he was such a wimp when he was fresh out of the academy. He was still wet behind the ears. But since then he's really come on. Good, you spend a lot of time together in the gym and in the tattoo parlor. A lot of people think you're siblings. But you're just partners. In the SWAT unit. And occasionally in bed. But only without eye contact. Otherwise it would be totally gay!

#male tf #muscle tf #reality change #chronivac #inked man #age reduction #cop tf

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hellsite-yano · 2 years

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STEAM NEXT FEST DEMO THOUGHTS

>Last Command Nier Automata x Undertale (and that snake game you used to play on old phones). I like how little messages appear during battles that show you what the enemy's thinking. OST is also a banger, really looking forward to this one

>Melatonin Rhythm game where you have to rely on mostly environmental queues to keep in time with the beat. Has a really good tutorial and once you get a feel of it you feel like god

>Super Bullet Break This is what I imagine gacha games are like sans the predatory practices. Pretty fun card battler, gives me PSP/Vita era JRPG vibes

>Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara Cute platformer that plays like SM3DLand. Has fun movement but it's pretty simple. I like it though

>Cult of the Lamb Cute/dark roguelite. Not much to say about this one but I enjoyed it

>Pocket Wheels Anyone remember Toy Commmander? Seems a bit Unity™ but this could be something interesting if it's tightened up more

>Nine Sols 2D Sekiro from the guys who made Detention and Devotion - art's really nice and it looks like it's gonna have an interesting story

>Moonscars Wants to be Blasphemous so bad, nothing you haven't seen before if you're familiar with the genre

>Harmony's Odyssey Cute game where you help a witch do various tasks by doing simple mini games like spot-the-difference, switch puzzles, and the like

>Fashion Police Squad Been waiting for a retro fps to do something new! Highly recommend

>Turbo Golf Racing What if Rocket League was golf? Feels a bit floaty and performance is sketchy but I had a good time

>Railbound / The Last Worker / GOODBYE WORLD Not much to say about these but they're fun/interesting

>SIGNALIS Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill fans will like this

>The Cub Thought I recognized this. Turns out I played the prequel which was golf game. This one's a cinematic platformer though, good stuff so far. Reminds me a lot of Oddworld (the MC even sounds like Abe)

>CULTIC Another boomer shooter, this one's based mostly on Blood. Very solid

>Toilet Chronicles Imagine if Stanley Parable took place in one room?

>Ghostsong Another soulsvania, though this one leans more into Metroid than the rest. This gets a pass because I remember seeing this far before this subgenre was oversaturated

>Spirittea Stardew Valley but you're running a bathhouse for spirits. Really liked the little details on this one and the writing's good. Can't wait for the full game

>Master Key Kinda like a very scaled back and monochrome Tunic. Got my eyes on this.

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ikkaku-of-heart · 1 year

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If Ikkaku went to the casino in Film Gold you can bet your ass she’d be wearing the shortest, tightest dress she owned with heeled boots and probably some kind of fur coat. Has to look hot and this would be the ultimate chance for her and Law to go full Heart Pirate Fashion Squad and show off. She would of course also be wearing the heart-shaped sunglasses of judgement to play fashion police and critique the boys’ outfits if they didn’t put in an effort.

She can also count cards, but her poker face isn’t quite as good as Law’s, so she’d probably stick to the dice and roulette games.

#Working of the Mind (headcanons)#The Engineer's New Clothes (Fashion)#(I have actually not watched Film Gold and should really change that soon)#(but I've seen everyone's outfits and hell yes let Ikkaku and the Hearts get in on that)

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mariacallous · 1 year

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The Russian parliament is set to meet in order to assess the situation with PMC (Private Military Company) Ryodan following mass detentions across the country. Dmitry Peskov, the Press Secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has said that his office has been “paying attention” to the group. Rotonda media reports that in St Petersburg, police told children that PMC Ryodan is the creation of “Western intelligence services”, and are part of Russia’s ongoing “confrontation with the West.” The reach of PMC Ryodan is not limited to Russia – mass arrests have also taken place in Ukraine, with the Kyiv Police calling the group an instrument of “Russian propagandists” leading an “informational-psychological operation” to “destabilise the internal situation in Ukraine.”

PMC Ryodan is not a transnational terrorist operation, but rather a cheekily-named and loosely-organised group of teenage anime fans. Over the last week of February, panic spread through Russia and Ukraine about a mysterious subculture of teenagers wearing black hoodies adorned with a white spider, supposedly starting massive brawls in shopping malls. News spread of incidents of “the Ryodans”, identifiable by their ubiquitous fashion choices, gathering in flash mobs in malls and attacking people.

Articles in Russian media outlets have been published with instructions for parents to help them find out if their child is a member of PMC Ryodan (one clue – they may have long black hair). News website Readovka has called PMC Ryodan a “cult of violence”and a “fight club”.

Facing off against this group of anime-obsessed teenagers are their adversaries.

Ryodans have called them a range of names including offniki (basically, football hooligans) and gopniki, a Russian term for a violent, working class subculture. A post in one Ryodan group called them simply “bald motherfuckers wearing Adidas”. These young men are usually depicted as brutish, Adidas tracksuit-wearing thugs. These “anti-Ryodan” groups have very quickly mobilised online into violent squads, sharing videos of attacks on anyone they suspect of being a “Ryodan” in shopping malls across Russia and Ukraine. Although anti-Ryodan groups use homophobic language in deriding Ryodan fans, this isn’t necessarily reflective of a new culture war. For their part, Ryodan fans are hardly opposition protesters. These incidents are closer to fights in school canteens than a clash between politicised subcultures. In fact, upon closer inspection, the groups hunting Ryodan fans are more organised, more violent and more numerous than their prey.

Who are Ryodans?

Ryodans are passionate anime fans, primarily of the Hunter x Hunter series. ‘Ryodan’, which means ‘the troupe’ in Japanese, is a group of thieves that feature in Hunter x Hunter, while their symbol is a white spider with a changing number. Russian fan groups of the series are not new, with countless communities spread across Vkontakte (VK), TikTok, Discord, Steam, Telegram and other social networking sites. Some groups started calling themselves “PMC Ryodan” as a joke, riffing off Wagner, Russia’s most notorious private military contractor (PMC). This is somewhat analogous to fans of the Korean group BTS calling themselves Army – but with a twist of the current wartime situation of Russia. It may have expressed the extent of their fandom, which was expressed by buying large amounts of merchandise showing a white spider and digit (usually ‘4’) on a black background. As one Ryodan member has noted in a Telegram post, this name was often used as a “clan tag” for people playing computer games online, such as DotA 2, a multiplayer battle arena game. Popular VK groups show that this “PMC” formation was far from a serious designation – members of all ages joked about their “ranks” and spent more time posting screenshots of their DotA 2 games than about actual fighting or war. In these groups, there was some limited discussion of in-person meetups, including one at the foodcourt of the Aviapark shopping mall in Moscow, which took place in late December 2022. The first reported violent incident involving Ryodan happened on February 19, when a small skirmish broke out at the food court of the Aviapark mall in Moscow. A group of Ryodans were attacked by a group of men in tracksuits. On the same day, a popular Ryodan Telegram channel uploaded a photograph showing four people, three of whom are wearing the Ryodan spider hoodie, which Bellingcat geolocated to the foodcourt on the fourth floor of the Aviapark mall. Shortly after, the same channel posted the message “PMC Ryodan – Death to the bald motherfuckers in Adidas”, presumably referring to the attackers, followed by a now-deleted February 19 video showing the fight at the food court. This is likely the first documented instance of violence between the “Ryodans” and other young men in shopping malls.

A few days later, numerous videos seen by Bellingcat were filmed of another series of fights at the foodcourt of the same mall. At least one of these fights took place in the exact same location as the February 19 photograph from the Ryodan Telegram channel.

These fights at the Aviapark mall were widely publicised online, leading to a series of new incidents across Russia and later Ukraine. Ryodan Telegram accounts remix footage from the Aviapark fights by adding memes and music, and creating anime-inspired images showing black hoodie-wearing characters fighting bald men wearing Adidas track suits.

Ryodan supporters leaned into their “PMC” name, posting a mock-map of the “battle” for Aviapark, resembling the ubiquitous maps of frontline movements in Ukraine.

Since the dust-ups in a food court in Moscow, arrests involving “Ryodans” have been reported across Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, including St. Petersburg (February 26), Novosibirsk (February 26), Tolyatti (February 27), Kazan (February 27), Kharkiv (February 27), Kyiv (February 28), Gomel (February 28), and Volgograd (March 1). However, very few of the mass arrests across these three countries involved actual fights – most were during sweeps of shopping malls and other public areas, arresting teenagers in Ryodan clothing. The exception to this was a large fight in St Petersburg’s Gallery mall, which led to over 100 arrests of both Ryodan and anti-Ryodan youths.

Who are Anti-Ryodans?

Anti-Ryodan groups organised across social networks, especially VK and Telegram, at a rapid pace following the Moscow Aviapark (February 19 and 22) and St Petersburg Gallery (February 26) mall skirmishes. Both national and local groups popped up almost overnight, forming groups of young men to organise the search for and violence against “Ryodans”. Some of the cities for these rapidly-formed anti-Ryodan groups include St Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Tolyatti, among numerous other cities.

In some private Anti-Ryodan Telegram channels to which Bellingcat gained access, users would share videos of physical attacks against young men wearing black hoodies, often in what appear to be shopping mall bathrooms and in wooded areas. In some videos, guns are being pointed at the youths while they are being physically beaten. A recurring event in these videos is men cutting the hair of the “Ryodans” with knives, such as in one video from February 24 seen below.

These Anti-Ryodan groups are made up of young men who do not appear to have a unified ideology or goal outside of organised violence against their counterparts. Memes in anti-Ryodan communities show explicit strains of homophobia and white supremacist movements, with slogans and images taken from skinhead culture.

The St Petersburg Skirmish

As the case of the Gallery Mall in St Petersburg shows, anti-Ryodan groups mobilised effectively and in force. On February 24, a local St Petersburg Ryodan Telegram channel asked their followers if they wanted to meet up on February 26 at 4pm at the Gallery shopping mall – the city’s largest shopping mall, located near the city centre. On February 25, at least two notable local St. Petersburg anti-Ryodan groups on Telegram started advertising a meeting to take place the next day at the same mall. They implied that they expected a confrontation.

By 4:18pm local time, one of the local anti-Ryodan groups realised things were not going well, telling their followers to not go to the mall unless they want to get arrested. The St Petersburg-based media outlet Fontanka noticed something strange was happening at 4:34pm, writing on Telegram that police vehicles were surrounding the area and that a witness told them that “a crowd of teenagers were running down the escalator.” Videos from anti-Ryodan Telegram groups show this scene, with a number of young men rushing down the escalator, along with a video of a young man who appears to be a Ryodan being kicked and chased. By 4:56pm, Fontanka wrote that the mall had been closed. Eventually, riot police (OMON) arrived at the scene alongside police officers. By 5:51pm, a local anti-Ryodan channel said that there was “total anarchy” at the mall. Other videos showed people sprinting away from the scene. Fontanka quoted a representative of St Petersburg’s Investigative Committee as saying that only “a few” people were injured during the incident, which was being investigated for hooliganism.

Despite the massive police presence, there were few verifiable instances of violence at the mall that afternoon. A video first posted at 5:08pm shows a 15-year-old boy surrounded by anti-Ryodans and other teenagers forced to take off his Ryodan hoodie and then being attacked. Fontanka published a security surveillance video of the same incident, claiming that it was the “start of the conflict”. A 17-year-old student who had appeared to instigate the attack was later arrested. In sum, over 200 youths, including some under 14 years old, were detained throughout the evening of February 26 at the Gallery shopping mall.

‘They don’t understand kids’

Yet even during the largest incident involving “PMC Ryodan”, only a handful of teenagers sustained any injuries. Most other detentions of “PMC Ryodan” members or simply of people who may resemble them are from police sweeps of shopping malls and other public places in what may have been an attempt to preempt repeats of the St Petersburg brawl.

Social media posts even seem to suggest that the entire Ryodan panic began at a food court in a Moscow mall one day in February, when one group mocked a set of anime-loving teenagers for their clothes and told them to move tables, leading to a fight. The ensuing scuffles at other shopping malls have since led to dramatic media coverage and triggered questions in the Duma and the Kremlin itself. Yet the Ryodan issue, which has been breathlessly described by Russian journalists and officials alike as a “cult of violence” and even the work of intelligence agencies, may just boil down to a fundamental misunderstanding of youth culture. One viral Telegram post even described the series of events as a wartime, social media-era series of public fights between jocks and nerds.

“What happened? Gopniks saw some anime kids wearing weird clothes in a mall, ask them what’s up with their outfit and beat their faces in. The anime kids got stronger and beat up the gopniks. This became so funny that the internet started calling the anime kids ‘PMC Ryodan’… Other Gopniks weren’t happy with this, went off to find this ‘PMC’ and started beating up random anime kids who fought back. The police turned up to stop the fights and made arrests, then the media started to write that ‘leaders of the aggressive group PMC Ryodan were detained’.

“Old people don’t understand kids, the internet, or the modern world”, he concluded.

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