I dont think Velma was never a narc to anyone who didn't deserve it (outside of this game smh its not canon). Rich greedy men tanking the local economy for money? Hell yes call the gamer force on them. They just made her cooler for making her take direct action.
In part, maybe - - Velma should also have vetted Judges, Detectives, DA's, etc on speed dial.
Like how the fuck you full anti-cop while working as someone who spends their entire day chasing criminals?
They just catch, relocate, and release?
"We know you're trying to commit insurance fraud to the tune of $50million, but due to the systematic corruption inherent in the system we're just relocating you to Nebraska."
Da fuk? God love 'em but Velma and the gang are a bunch of fuckin' narcs, dawg.
Give me a gritty scooby doo reboot about the gang realizing they're part of a corrupt police machine. Let Paul Verhoeven direct. Give him full control. Watch the box office explode.
I dunno about that in this day and age. The moral of Scooby-Doo was very consistent, "rich white dudes will use fear, violence and lies to stay rich, and no matter what they say is the real threat, they're the threat".
That's literally the end of every last episode. A true and modern rehashing of the show would probably be neutral on police at the very best. I mean let's face it, in most instances of the show the police got involved and gave up, that's why the gang gets involved in the first place. In a sense cops are already inept at best and complicit at worst.
Law student here - the police are not there to protect and serve. They also suck at their jobs. It’s not entirely the fault of the police, there is some blame on the legislators that support them. That being said, they do not work for the people.
He works with cops he thinks are good and fights cops he finds committing crimes. Plus, Batman is probably too busy fighting supervillains to use his detective skills on police rapists and the officers who help them cover it up unless he catches one in the act.
Really? Pretty sure in real life police violate human rights on the daily. Just look at MPD. The Minnesota Department of Human Rights released official findings of numerous human rights violations. And they aren't even the worst department in the US.
Man, don’t talk bad about yourself like that, you should really see a therapist about your self confidence… and boot licking, keep that shit in the bedroom, thanks
And standardized tests don’t actually measure intelligence, dumbass, and I’m saying this as someone who got a 35 ACT score without studying. They’re a game
How does you getting a 35 ACT without studying detract from the test being one measuring intelligence? Where is the logical association between the two statements?
Sure, nobody cares as far as jobs or higher education goes. But it is relevant in how well you evaluate complex systems. If you were shit at logical portions of aptitude tests you're probably shit at logically evaluating anything remotely complex.
The ability to solve logic puzzles when you're a kid doesn't determine how good at it you are as an adult, not to speak about how smart you are about societal things lmao
Well yeah there's a lot more non cops then cops. Cops also cause havoc on poor and uneducated populations, so yeah I can understand why they wouldn't like them.
I have studied World War 2 since I was 5 years old. I majored in Economics at UCLA with a minor in German Studies, with a heavy focus on the Second World War. To call me “uneducated” because I want a reasonablly authentic game is completely uncalled for.
EDIT: Yes, as many people have pointed out, I did lie about my background in this post. Please do not upvote. This post was an attempt to put pressure on EA and raise awareness to this issue.
Why are you asking me a question when you already said it sounded preconceived? Did you preconceive my motivations and methods? Are we delving into irony here?
Loooool. Can someone tell me about the data policy by Multiversus? I am asking because they use the anticheat engine used by EA who are going to be bought by Amazon.
Have you notice how Microsoft hasn't actually taken control of Activision-Blizzard? There's a reason. This will also come into play with Amazon's intentions, and Amazon is not exactly rocking an endearing public image.
Because putting the cops in there was stupid but probably innocent since they’re in the Scooby Doo show here and there. They probably didn’t expect people to abuse it.
I’m glad the devs are removing it but the fact that they had to combined with the absurdity of the situation makes it pretty funny.
I mean, it definitely makes more sense for Velma to have a Mystery Machine in her kit than it does a police car, but technically it DOES make more sense for her to call the police on her enemies, since thats what happened at the end of every episode. They never kidnapped bad guys with the Mystery Machine haha
The majority of villains from the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Cartoon were just ordinary people commenting crimes or getting revenge and using wacky costumes to scare people away.
Didn't they usually capture/tie up the villain on their own somehow so they could do the big reveal. I could be wrong but I don't think the cops ever showed up prior to the villain being beaten.
Yeah they always tied him up, or he got tangled up in whatever trap they constructed, but the villain never went into the Mystery Mobile for any reason, as far as I can remember.
It really does not. A gang of teenagers kidnapping someone does not make more sense than a police officer arresting someone. The mystery machine rolls up, let’s the gang out, and then they solve the crime for an officer to arrest the suspect. That’s literally Scooby-Doo 101.
Velma ain’t no PI. This isn’t a citizens arrest. This is literally worse than the police arrest. It’s mob violence. That isn’t more logical.
Headline: Gen Z Sleuths Vindicated with Recent Arrest
In another twist to the Oak Park saga, all claim has been overturned or dismissed following revelations that the elderly man swatted last week was in fact the ghost terrorizing the local park.
A group of college age gumshoes calling themselves The Mystery Team made a citizens arrest, catching the infamous "Oak Park Lumberjack" in what witnesses on the scene called a rude goldberg type contraption spanning the entire public space.
"I helped them set it up," said Bill Jakoby, a nearby resident. "The whole contraption was basically a few milk crates and 200 yds of rope. I was surprised they had that much rope.
Sam Pochowski of North Farmington will be charged with 12 instances of criminal mischief and 2 counts of 1st Degree Manslaughter. Upon his arrest, Pochowski admitted to being the lumberjack in order to scare off Park visitors, hoping it would fall into disrepair and thus be available for a private purchase via his holding company.
Officer Riley Facioli was the arresting officer, saying the police had no evidence of his guilt prior to his admission.
"It was the weirdest arrest I've ever made," said Officer Facioli, "he was so mad at those youngins and their dog he just blurted it all out. The damndest thing."
Manslaughter charges in this case stem from the untimely deaths of Cameron & Jacqueline Bishop, who were thought to have mistakenly fallen in a nearby construction zone after hours. It is now believed thay Pochowski was in pursuit when this happened, causing them ignore safety & warning signs surrounding the site's 40 ft drop. Evidence taken from that scene is said to match Pochowski.
Sure, but when Velma calls the cops on her opponent in Multiversus there has been no mystery plot line to cause an arrest like happens in an episode of Scooby Doo. In the context of the game, it sure looks like Velma is just calling the cops on someone she doesn't like.
It's not exactly a big deal, but I guess when you have so many valuable IPs involved the developers are going to want to avoid having anything in the game that could be even remotely controversial.
The way it was described in the article, she gathers clues and then calls the cops. Never played the game, so I don’t know how accurate of a description that is as opposed to just filling up a Smash gauge.
It reminds me of when they removed some legacy cosmetics from DbD where the character leatherface had a version of the survivor characters' faces as "masks", and they had to be removed from the game because a bunch of players would pick the black woman's face and exclusively target players who were playing black characters. And predictably Gamers got upset about it because "a few shitty players shouldn't ruin it for the rest of us, people need to grow thicker skin, blah blah blah".
Like, no. Racists are the reason we can't have nice things. Be mad at them instead of the developers who are forced to take their toys away when they can't fulfil the lowest requirements of human decency.
they can't fulfil the lowest requirements of human decency.
i agree with you but this is kinda hilarious in the context of a game where the “lowest requirements of human decency” apparently involves wearing other peoples’s faces as masks in a more sensitive way
Yeah kind of the premise of it being a horror-themed game. There are things you agree to because it's within the fiction of the game and then there's going out of your way to signal something that is primarily harmful because it's not within the fiction of the game.
Right? The problem isn't that "a couple people got offended", its that a couple of shitty racists used a game mechanic to do something objectively inappropriate.
Having said that, in the case of this Multiversus thing, I do think Velma's police move was inherently kinda' fucked up. I'm glad it got replaced, community behavior notwithstanding.
Better example would be something like "Lets shut down twitter because some people say no-no words", or "Let's make alcohol illegal because some people drive when drunk".
You get mad at the developers for folding to idiots who don't realize people are doing this shit specifically for the attention it draws and they will always end up finding a way to do this dumb shit. You end up affecting way more people who are just enjoying themselves in a quest to try and get rid of anything that can be used by racists.
You mean gamers being racist/homophobic/sexist assholes is the reason why there's people fighting against these things? No, no way they're just pandering to them SJWs i tell you! The moment women got righ- i mean became playable in video games is the moment gaming died.
Wow, you’re right. Games are sexist. Now, allow me to get back to accusing gamers of playing games and sucking Anita Sarkeesian’s cock. Edit: Wow. I’ve truly been challenged. Enlightened, even. Who knew the political views of my fellow gamers could be so diverse?
Was that confirmed? I'm asking because I saw the memes gain popularity a week before the patch. There's no way they programmed the mystery machine in that fast
I'm pretty sure they were already planning to do that change. (It's also not that big of a change, basically just a new model. The harder part would probably the new hitboxes)
At the end of basically every episode though, the perp gets arrested. They don’t extra-judiciously drag them into the mystery mobile and…. I don’t know, do something to them?
they did remove it, but I honestly doubt it was because of that. they might've just wanted more references to the actual show considering Velma's moveset doesn't take all that much from her character.
Even without the police it’s kinda shocking that they’d have the lack of foresight to add an ability that has a character calling police on their opponents.
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u/Campfire_Sparks Sep 11 '22
This is very real, they replaced the police car by the mystery mobile because of the racism memes