No, it wasn't. It was a deliberate act by the proto-clique that would become GJP and aGG: https://8chan.moe/gamergatehq/res/323200.html

Or catgirls. I hate what FFXIV turned into, and I still miss my FFXI Mithra sometimes.

Magic isn't boring but it takes a shitload of work.

The two most fun Skyrim playthroughs I ever did were a Bosmer thief and a Kahjit mage, both on Legendary survival mode. For the thief run I had a "no magic or enchanting" rule so there were many times early on I literally had to steal to survive, and even in lategame spotting an NPC with a good enchanted ring or whatever make him an immediate mark. Cobbling together paralysis poisons to have a chance vs bosses, but by lategame I was more invisible than visible and killed everything with a dagger, including the Emperor. I loved that run.

For the mage though, it was an ironclad rule that I could never pick up a bow. Not even to sell. I had to force my way through early-midgame with staves, shitty magic, and weakass potions. But once I got to level 40ish and had Alchemy capped he became death incarnate. Fortify Destruction potions + high level destruction magic. When I got tired of fucking around I could pop a potion, hold down the triggers on Unbounded Storms, and kill an entire dungeon while standing in the entrance room. Or use Become Ethereal to buy the time to launch Master level destruction nukes.

Not for a whole lot of us. "Establishment MAGA" grifters have turned into a fucking Trump cult. Us guys on the ground in real life and are fucking seething at him over this shit with Iran. I voted for the orange nigger three times and I am furious beyond words. There's no fucking "plan", he's let his "Israel Good Jews Chosen Iran Bad Cuz 1970s TV told me so" boomer fucking mindworm take over his entire body. EVERYONE I know in real life who supported him alongside me feels the same way.

I don't even think they have Epstein dirt on him, I think he's doing all this because he wants to and that somehow makes me even angrier.

Again, look where they are. Your employees are all Hairdye Hitlers who think criticism is violence and they have a Union with friends in the media. How do you propose to get them to work faster than a lazy, token, punch-clock effort without them bringing your studio to its knees with "controversy"?

Its not as hard as you think when you realize where these faggots all live. In the bay area if you're making 100k/yr you're almost poor because the cost of living and taxes are so insane, and then you break it down.

100 devs x 100k = 10million/yr just paying the team. Then you have the facilities, the licenses, the equipment. If your team is 200 people, you take 5 years, and add in misc costs (even before advertising) you hit ~120 million real fucking fast. 160 million at 7yrs. Then make sure the fags at the top are pocketing their personal 10-20million each and now you're at a quarter billion.

Its turning around. Most of us remember the bad parts of the 80s and 90s and Trump betraying us on Iran is a sticking point. A little bit of GenX is starting to throw off the slacker mindset and realize that we were made "the forgotten generation" on purpose. Because the boomers wanted to live to ancient old age while keeping power, never passing the reins to our generation. The establishment intentionally skipped us, and skipped most of the millennials too.

Maybe it'll cover the timeskip between 2 and 3. I dunno if it could do well enough to salvage Rebuild from "utter dogshit status" but there would be plenty of ground to cover.

This always happens. Some well-meaning, tech savvy doofus thinkgs he's gonna step up and be a hero with no legitimate idea of the shitstorm he's in for. I'm 100% sure that if you tried to warn them ahead of time they'd scoff, because in their minds all those other people deserved it, but not him. He was gonna do it right!

This shit's why our 8chan survived. We might not be heroes but at least we knew and honestly admitted what we were in for, and planned for it (and worse) from the start.

"Jake Skyjacker"

Its getting close. Theyre doing some sets based on RL movies and shit too. Jurassic Park for one and there's another one coming. The Walking Dead and Doctor Who got sets. Plus Transformers and My Little Pony already got sets. As a former Magic whale, the state of the game is basically humiliation+trannies+Fortnite.

Rosewater was big on Tumblr when Tumblr was at its worst. He still keeps his main personal blog there. Is anyone really surprised?

Only after they murder a couple hundred million of us. You sure you want to roll those dice?

You guys are losing it.

We implemented crypto captcha on 8chan clear back in 2021. Its set at a mid difficulty that takes a low end PC or IOT about 5 minutes to pass where the average user gets through in about a minute. It stopped about 90% of botspam, with only the hand-guided turbo autist spammers still getting through.

I miss Al Jazeera America so much. Their news was boring. Literally "thing happened in America today, at place involving people." No spin, no emotion, no manipulation, just boring ass facts with some digging into details. It was the purest news I ever read in my life. So of course they had to kill it.

And yet if they had, the Korean war would never have happened and China would never have become a communist superpower. The bad guys really did win WW2.

My favorite is when a throwaway villain has such aura or memes that they becomes popular out of nowhere. See also: The Condiment King.

It is technically a "new" design in that there was no P250 micro to convert, but in the end its still just a shrunk down P320. Its utter garbage. If you want a gun in that size class that is good, the Glock 43X or even the Hellcat are better options. Hellcats have accuracy problems though. I'm no Glock fan, but the 43X really is a fantastic little piece IMO.

Give the right brass and politicians a good cock polishing and enough money and they'll be too "dumb" to notice an elephant crawling up their asshole. The worst part is, Sig Sauer is a godtier maker and those faggots at Sig ARMS have literally slathered mud all over their good name. Not that Sauer didn't do it partly to themselves, as from what I know it was their idea to grant Sig ARMS the use of the Sig Sauer branding for the M17 contract. They thought it would boost their prestige to take credit and it fucked them over instead.

Sig ARMS has only ever made a single good gun. The SP2022. And it was only good because Sig Sauer designed it for them top to bottom and just let them build it to earn some rep in Europe.

Gun dealer here. We need to talk.

I'm gonna give you the actual, real, firsthand history of this fucking boondoggle. Let's go.

First thing to know is that there are TWO companies called "Sig." First you have Sig Sauer, a conglomerate of a Swiss watchmaking company called SI Gruppen and Sauer and Sons firearms who've been making guns in Germany since the days of flintlocks. They make high end, expensive, steel framed guns with all the precision you would expect from a team made of of anal Swiss watchmakers and anal German gunmakers. See also: The P220, P226, P229, RH970.

The second company is called Sig ARMS. They're out of New Hampshire and started off in IIRC the early 1990s as a mere import office and assembly line for Sig Sauer to be able to assemble some of their guns in the US to get around import taxes. Its these assholes who are the problem.

In ~2008, Sig ARMS went to Sig Sauer and said "we want to make a gun all by ourselves and get some of the Glock plastic gun market." They pitched a pistol called the P250. It was light, cheap to make, and was designed with this "modular frame" system where the guts could be swapped around to change the size and even caliber of the pistol. Sig ARMS hyped this as a billion dollar innovation, Sig Sauer bought the idea, and Sig ARMS became a full on factory and made a million of the fucking things.

They were a disaster. The guts were stamped sheet metal with exposed coil springs and no tolerance for dirt, and the triggers were a 50 mile long double action only that make accuracy impossible. The frames weren't ballistic polymer like Glock frames but cheap shit you can literally crush with your hands if you try real hard. Fit and lockup were unbelievably sloppy. They charged early adopters 800 fucking dollars for these turds and they flopped hard. Sig ARMS invested all that money from daddy Sauer and the guns wound up gathering dust in warehouses. In ~2010 they pulled them off the market, only to reintroduce them shortly after as a "price point" gun. At 400 dollars with any two caliber change parts kits you wanted. And they STILL wouldn't sell because their reputation was that bad. Sig dropped them again.

But fast forward a few years and Sig Sauer was getting pissed. Sig ARMS wasted all that money and the guns were still rotting in warehouses. Daddy Sig told them "find a way to fix this bullshit and get us our money back!" and Sig ARMS had an idea. While the P250 had a list of complaints a mile long, the worst and loudest was about that awful trigger. So they developed a super cheap little striker fire conversion block. It actually fits into the channel where the dorky double action hammer used to pass through, and very cheaply converts a P250 into a striker fired gun with a much better feeling trigger.

I need to segue a bit here. Sig has for decades had a set naming system. A gun with a model name that comes out with a striker fired variant should have had an -S appended to the model name. So these striker converted guns should have been called the P250-S. But Sig ARMS knew the P250 name would get immediate rejection from the market, and decided to run a scam. They ground off the model marking on the P250 slides and renamed the gun to the P320. This is why P250 slides are square and P320 slides are beveled. They literally filed the numbers off.

Then they bribed all the big gun reviewers and sent them special, hand fitted examples to demo. This got them enough positive coverage to get into the Army's pistol trials, where Sig ARMS was an American company and could compete unlike German Sig Sauer. Except they gamed the system. The law requires the government to take the cheapest gun that meets the minimum requirements, and Sig ARMS offered the P320 up at fire sale prices, seeing a chance to get rid of all that backstock at once and get the contract locked in. It worked.

And once Uncle Sam was buying, suddenly everybody wanted one and now the fucking things are everywhere.

because we don't passively consume, we drive the games we play. We act. Just with our thumbs and/or keyboard, but action nonetheless. Our whole thing is making the world that we're engaging with go the way we want it to. That should scare the shit out of anyone who thinks we should be dragged into political bullshit.

I quit TV back in like 2008 because of the realization that I was paying 60 bucks a month to watch three channels (sci-fi, history, and cartoon network) because each was part of a separate package. I just cut the cable and never went back.

I have a few thoughts on ways this all makes sense.

Option 1: Trump is in the pedo files and he's covering his ass. I don't buy this, because he was 100% gung ho for getting them out there and was all but personally resposible for the efforts at doing so. He wouldn't have hyped it if it implicated himself.

Option 2: They have "the files" but they've been edited, altered, and replaced. The original files are nowhere to be found, and the only files they could present are doctored into a Christmas list of right-wingers that the deep state (who had custody of the files for years now) would want crucified. Trump's trying to bury the forgery because he knows it would still cause a riot if it ever got out.

Option 3: The files implicated Israel out the ass (we all know they do) and Netenyahu went to Trump and said "these are all fake you can't release them MUH HOLOCAUST HABBENED and Mossad says its all lies" and Trump's jew-sucking boomer ass believed him and decided to do them a solid by burying the lede.

Option 4: The files implicate Israel, Trump realized this, and decided to play coverass for them. Which would make him, in light of the Gaza slaughter and unprovoked Pearl Harbor on Iran, one of the most evil men to ever sit in the oval office instead of just a kikewashed 90s Democrat.

Option 5: The files are so awful, and so damning, that the literal end of the world is threatened over their release. Like you have the leaders of 3-4 nuclear armed nations all telling Trump via the backdoor "you release these and we fire everything at the USA, damn the consequences. You can shoot back but you can't un-nuke your country, and we'd be dead if the files got out so we literally don't fucking care. Bring it. #yolo." Or something like a weaponized COVID strain with a 100% mortality rate that they're threatening to release in the US.

Option 6: Trump, Patel, and a few key others have been replaced with body doubles. This isn't quite as sci-fi as it sounds, because we know that clear back in the 2000s Hillary had the State Department collecting DNA of important members of both our government and as many foreign governments as she could. With no explanation ever given as to why. So a body double could pass a DNA test?

I honestly think its likely option 3. He ignored our own intel on Iran and did his big bombing run because he trusted Israel more than our own people. And bragged about it.

Edit: I guess I should add the Hopium Option too. That Trump has the files and decided a better use of them would be blackmail against the deep state. So he needs to keep them quiet to get some major X Y and Z done behind the scenes. And for whatever reason he never expected to be doing this, so he's really regretting hyping the files so much beforehand.

So what? Japan did the exact same thing. They researched the bomb and all the pieces, and made and set aside the raw materials required. And then sat on it all, never building or testing even one bomb, because they don't like, want, or need nukes. But in the event of a war, they could put those pieces together and start producing bombs in a week, just in case. I can't fault Iran for taking that same exact path, in fact I'd think they were dumb if they hadn't.