Submission from @shrek2fanboy

🇺🇸US Special Forces members pose for a picture in Afghanistan, 2012.

Why do anti-wokies always claim some massive conspiracy is involved in ruining their hobby? Because progressive/Marxist ideologues told me so.

Bitchass locked the replies once immediately got reminded this wasn't 2020 and Sunny has had multiple episodes removed from streaming.

Video game journalists have always been mainly grifters. When I was at Microprose (1988-1993) gaming magazines were up front about it. They would literally phone us and ask for bribes for reviews. By the time I was at Ensemble Studios they were more circumspect. They'd say something like, "We plan to review Rise of Rome in November. Would you like to accompany it with a full-page ad?" Often with hints that failure to pay for the ad results in a worse review. We all need video reviews to know what to buy. Get them from people who grew out of fandom, and play the games. Like Sophia Narwitz, Josh Strife Hayes, Civvie11, GmanLives, or Matthewmatosis. Let the major review sites die as they deserve.

"Everything is political" *Same paragraph. Literally the exact same fucking paragraph: "These things are not political" Best example ever of Schrodinger's politics

🇯🇵 In 1972, Hiroko Nagata (27), a leader in the Communist Japanese "Red Army" terrorist group led 12 of her comrades into a mountain. They were beaten, tied to trees and left to freeze to death. Her reason? The men were too invested in attractive women instead of communism.

Many good contenders in the quotes but for me, it’s gotta be Sex Junk.

''nobody woke complained about Stellar Blade'' You guys lie as easily as you breathe

David Sedaris tells Bill Maher a drug addict’s dog bit a hole in his leg while he was walking in Portland. He wrote an essay, thinking the story would spark outrage. But he got a rude awakening when liberals blamed him and defended the addict. He couldn’t figure it out until Maher bluntly told him why: SEDARIS: “Nobody said how awful that you got bitten by a dog. They said, ‘What kind of a dog was it?’” [Maher laughs] SEDARIS: “One person said, ‘Did you get the names?’ And I said, ‘Oh, they’re fentanyl addicts… weren’t going to give me their names.’ ‘No, of the dogs, it would help to rescue them.’” “But if I had said, if I had said I was walking down the street and these tech bros… they’d be incensed.” “But because they were drug addicts, then everybody took their side. They felt like they couldn’t say that it was, they treated me like it was my fault. Or you just, ‘well, that’s the way it goes. You’re better off than they are.’” MAHER: “You get to, I think, what is just the heart of so much of our f*cked up politics.” “You say, ‘why is it so hard for people like me to say that it’s wrong for a drug addict’s dog to bite you?’” “And your answer is because then, oh, then you’re a Republican. Which is crazy because then it puts the Democrats in the position of the pro-drug addict dog biters.”

• Pointless busywork that only exists to make the game take longer to beat so you won't complain about it being short. • Handholding to make it accessible to even the dumbest people. • Deliberate tedium to entice you pay the microtransactions to skip it. • Diminished consequences for failure make progress feel unearned and unrewarding. • Trend following. • Prioritization of gameplay loops that provide quick and easy dopamine hits with diminishing returns.

The people who call anything and everything a "dog whistle" want you to believe the symbol on every SS officer's hat is so obscure that Graham Platner couldn't have reasonably known it was a Nazi symbol.

Daily reminder that Redditors "debunked" Starlink as "impossible" 8 years ago. Just in case you start thinking a phone scratcher has a better mental model of thermodynamics than SpaceX engineers.

Never forget that reddit used to be a great place for discussions and free speech until shortly after Trump won in 2016 The only reason reddit isn't filled with posts like this is because the mods delete them and the admins ban subreddits that aren't ideologically captured

Why do people keep acting like this thing that has been thoroughly proven and even verified by people who work in the industry is still a conspiracy theory?

The xey/xem calling you a fascist for supporting voter ID

They still try and call her a programmer, which is like me calling myself a plumber because I unclogged a drain once.

XBOX showed off State of Decay 3 today. That means today is a great day to remind everyone that Zoe Quinn was hired to work on that game as a Senior Narrative Designer. That's right. Even after all she'd done to damage gaming & her involvement in driving a man to k*ll himself, this place hired her. Absolutely disgusting. Be sure people know.

Feminism is the biggest scam in the world

it was a different time