I live in Michigan, I have been spammed texted to the tune of hundreds of texts at this point over the past few months. At least 5 a day. What’s even more sad is some of these troglodytes are even dumb enough to reply back. The trolling has been glorious.
The NFL went far left to get female viewers and play games in Europe to expand the market after alienating their male fanbase. They have not recovered ratings or viewership since 2015 which was the year before krapdick. Their actual viewership peak was 2006, which they almost replicated in 2015 but were still short about ~1.6 million viewers. They’ve been bleeding ratings trying to pander to a new audience and college football has been cleaning up sticking to the basics.
This is kinda like the rage bait I use to mock gay leftists. “Either being gay is biological and therefore curable or it’s sociological and therefore dismissible”. There’s no scenario where you can logically have tit scars in a magical world unless you want them because of validation in your actual life. It’s inherently immersion breaking and intentionally writing something to be immersion breaking is a terrible way to write a FANTASY story. This game is going to be the “Nanette/ Last Jedi/ Witcher/ The Boys/ Rings of Power” of rpgs, where “suck it chuds” is the only coherent plot device.
Oh my friend mocks the entire thing, but 10k a year doing minimal effort and eBay selling is a nice paycheck bonus. He even shows me the buyer demographics of a lot of these cards/ collectibles, it’s almost entirely apartment renters in cities buying $200+ dollar cards. The eBay bidding addiction is real, I’ve seen people outbid his buy now price by $50+ a few times now.
Seven years ago, Colin Kaepernick was in the same space on the opposite end of the spectrum. He was asked about kneeling during the national anthem at NFL games. When he was asked about it, he didn't run from it. He stood on everything he believed in. He lost his job because of it. He wasn't afraid of the consequences. He didn't care what people thought. He just did what he thought was right. At the very least, even if you didn't agree with how Kaepernick protested, you had to respect at least his message and what he was willing to sacrifice to ensure everyone received it.
So wearing a hat is the same as intentionally disrespecting the national anthem over something that statistically impacts white people more per capita? Krapernick lost his job because he was a horrendous QB who took zero risks to maintain a nonsensical QBR (which doesn’t account for things like intentionally throwing a safer short pass on third down, guaranteeing a completion AND a turnover) and subsequently torpedoed every opportunity the NFL tried giving him because being a pariah was more profitable.
He’s making about 10k a year off collectible selling on eBay and the like. His younger brother has about 50k worth of collectible cards just sitting in boxes in his mom’s basement according to him. Imagine being able to pay off a good chunk of a house today just from Pokémon and yugioh cards.
This reminds me of my best friend. Growing up he played yugioh, to the point he made it to nationals in Chicago and got invited to play in japan. He would min max a deck with cards that are “banned” now and would make the morbidly obese manchilds rage (like the ones in this article) he probably made over 2k just playing local tournaments which was good money for a 13/14 year old and he’s been selling old cards lately for even more.
“I think she’d be great, because she’s open-minded. She’s not ideologic, she’s not dogmatic. She wants to get input from everybody,” Cuban said.
That’s the exact opposite of her actions, then again, he’s essentially calling her a controllable vacuous whore
If you want the sad actual science, the “blank slate” ideology (tabula rasa) ,which accounts for the majority of government “spending”today, has repeatedly been found to be pseudoscientific. This is on every spectrum from race, gender, to even extreme targeted examples like neuroplasticity. This was so thoroughly documented by the late 90s/ early 2000s that only a mass wave of societal/governmental pressures (cunts, coons, and troons) forced scientific research to run with their tail between their legs or lose all funding and be blacklisted.
Mononoke was the first one I ever saw and was captivated. Howl was a close second because the artistry and story were superb