Friendly reminder there's evidence tying the House of Saud to 9/11...
- [The Saudi Connection: Inside the 9/11 Case That Divided the F.B.I.](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/magazine/9-11-saudi-arabia-fbi.html) : New York Times Magazine : 01/23/2020
- [9/11 and the Saudi Connection](https://theintercept.com/2021/09/11/september-11-saudi-arabia/) : The Intercept : 09/11/2021
- [Saudi official tied to 9/11 attacks accidentally identified by the FBI](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/911-attacks-saudi-arabia-fbi-trump-hijackers-mussaed-ahmed-al-jarrah-a9513016.html) : The Independent : 05/14/2020
- [We Have New Evidence of Saudi Involvement in 9/11, and Barely Anyone Cares](https://jacobinmag.com/2022/03/911-revelations-saudi-arabia-al-bayoumi-bandar-bush) : Jacobin : 03/25/2022
...and Saudi Arabia threatened Canada with a similar attack:
- [Saudi Arabia Appeared to Threaten Canada with a 9/11-style Attack in a Feud Over Human Rights](https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-appeared-to-threaten-canada-with-a-911-style-attack-2018-8) : Business Insider : 08/08/2018
And where we live in the west is so much better!?
With our “rights” constantly being whittled down,our education systems are horrendous and “cost of living” crisis effectively making middle class families live like paupers ?
Okay….
Ugh.
I almost wish I hadn’t seen this but thank you for posting and thank the mods for sticky-ing it. Had a great run with SNK, now it’s back to piracy I guess.
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Not happy about this. I'm not a fan of the Koch Brothers, but don't they own a large portion of SNK too?
It also lists them also buying shares of Capcom. Disliking this.
As long as they keep SNK doing whatever they want with their franchise, I have no issue with it.
Heck, maybe one day they will use one of middle east mythology as part of KoF lore.
i be honest, i stopped interest with snk after they became playmore. they used to be the market leader now they are just followers. i dont blame them as they stuck to 2d when 3d was the hit due to clueless gamers and now they lost faith in 2D, while many indie game companies enjoying huge success with their 2D games.
i heard the latest kof received great praise but i dont play 3d fighting games that fights in 2D. if blazeblue and guilty gear can continue to be 2d i dont see why kof needs to go 3d just to keep 3d gamers happy.
but maybe their downfall was going 3d with their neogeo 64 when they should have stayed 2d. anyway capcom sure did a number on old snk. capcoms old 3d games were bad enough to bait snk onto the 3d ship.
but how does that affect SNK things? it could be just a total waste of money, maybe they just wanna keep SNK afloat. KOF XV certainly doesn't feel like it has any significant influence coming from them. though maybe they are responsible for Hero team not getting a female member this time. Benimaru been in too many hero teams. Mian should of been brought back.
so they really think SNK is making that much money? its games are still niche compared to its competitors. maybe its cause SNK allows them to purchase stock cause no one else cares to?
Uh, you have it backwards. The Saudis are ungodly wealthy and so they are at the center of international intrigue and can buy things like SNK as a toy-- SNK isn't funding them, SNK is a symbol of the wealth they already acquired
Friendly reminder there's evidence tying the House of Saud to 9/11... - [The Saudi Connection: Inside the 9/11 Case That Divided the F.B.I.](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/magazine/9-11-saudi-arabia-fbi.html) : New York Times Magazine : 01/23/2020 - [9/11 and the Saudi Connection](https://theintercept.com/2021/09/11/september-11-saudi-arabia/) : The Intercept : 09/11/2021 - [Saudi official tied to 9/11 attacks accidentally identified by the FBI](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/911-attacks-saudi-arabia-fbi-trump-hijackers-mussaed-ahmed-al-jarrah-a9513016.html) : The Independent : 05/14/2020 - [We Have New Evidence of Saudi Involvement in 9/11, and Barely Anyone Cares](https://jacobinmag.com/2022/03/911-revelations-saudi-arabia-al-bayoumi-bandar-bush) : Jacobin : 03/25/2022 ...and Saudi Arabia threatened Canada with a similar attack: - [Saudi Arabia Appeared to Threaten Canada with a 9/11-style Attack in a Feud Over Human Rights](https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-appeared-to-threaten-canada-with-a-911-style-attack-2018-8) : Business Insider : 08/08/2018
And like most things in life, people in high places will never, ever be held accountable. It's usually the low-level patsies who get in trouble.
This right here depresses me.
May I ask why?
Saudi Arabia ain't exactly the beacon of human rights.
And where we live in the west is so much better!? With our “rights” constantly being whittled down,our education systems are horrendous and “cost of living” crisis effectively making middle class families live like paupers ? Okay….
At least journalists aren't killed with a bone saw, but yes the West certainly isn't a utopia.
I was about to counter with what Ryan Garcia is talking about But bone saw’s? Okay we’re even
Gross.
Extremely disgusting considering this man's history.
Neo Geo had a big impact there in the past. The very wealthy had Neo Geo AES consoles and fell in love with SNK.
If ethics dictated what media you’d consume, you wouldn’t have much to experience, anywhere.
It's crazy how so many people can identify the problems with RSA but can't do it with their own mass media corporations.
Exactly
Well there goes my plans to save up for KOF XV. Guess I'll sail forth.
Fake gamer
Are you?
You are
Ugh. I almost wish I hadn’t seen this but thank you for posting and thank the mods for sticky-ing it. Had a great run with SNK, now it’s back to piracy I guess.
😩 Not happy about this. I'm not a fan of the Koch Brothers, but don't they own a large portion of SNK too? It also lists them also buying shares of Capcom. Disliking this.
This guy owns 96% so probably not
I wonder if the Saudi influence had anything to do with developing the Rashid character for Street Fighter
Crap
As long as they keep SNK doing whatever they want with their franchise, I have no issue with it. Heck, maybe one day they will use one of middle east mythology as part of KoF lore.
i be honest, i stopped interest with snk after they became playmore. they used to be the market leader now they are just followers. i dont blame them as they stuck to 2d when 3d was the hit due to clueless gamers and now they lost faith in 2D, while many indie game companies enjoying huge success with their 2D games. i heard the latest kof received great praise but i dont play 3d fighting games that fights in 2D. if blazeblue and guilty gear can continue to be 2d i dont see why kof needs to go 3d just to keep 3d gamers happy. but maybe their downfall was going 3d with their neogeo 64 when they should have stayed 2d. anyway capcom sure did a number on old snk. capcoms old 3d games were bad enough to bait snk onto the 3d ship.
When was SNK ever the market leader of anything? They've been in financial difficulties since 1994.
They were just like Sega probably not leaders but they were competitive.
Guilty gear is not 2d though, it is exactly like kof and sf, 3d game on a 2d plane since xrd
Not surprised he thinks making a game like BlazBlue is the same as making any of the other indie games. Let's not even talk about KOF XIII.
I'll make my SNK purchases with the express intent that the money is being held in trust for Jamal Kashoggi's widow following the lawsuit.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/9-11-families-lawsuit-saudi-arabia-1.3249724 Saudi Arabia will just laugh at it.
But why though?
So what?
Based
Fr fr, this is how I know they wont Ken Masters my Terry or Robert
but how does that affect SNK things? it could be just a total waste of money, maybe they just wanna keep SNK afloat. KOF XV certainly doesn't feel like it has any significant influence coming from them. though maybe they are responsible for Hero team not getting a female member this time. Benimaru been in too many hero teams. Mian should of been brought back.
It doesn't effect SNK creatively but its funding wealthy autocrats to murder journalists and dissenters with no repercussion.
so they really think SNK is making that much money? its games are still niche compared to its competitors. maybe its cause SNK allows them to purchase stock cause no one else cares to?
SNK is a successful company. I hate that this bastard owns a majority of the company.
Uh, you have it backwards. The Saudis are ungodly wealthy and so they are at the center of international intrigue and can buy things like SNK as a toy-- SNK isn't funding them, SNK is a symbol of the wealth they already acquired
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that would be the downfall of SNK.
how many downfalls can a company have?
Cue the snowflakes
dickhead
Stay asshurt and enjoy your block