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BandageBandolier 27 points ago +27 / -0

Gender lines are probably the widest differentiating factor among zoomers. Almost all the zoomer young women are some degree of insano but a very large number of young zoomer men are based as fuck. They're also incredibly black-pilled, down trodden and aspirationally hobbled though.

But if we can raise them up and give them back a chance to thrive, I think they might be the living generation most immune to pandering to feminist bullshit in the future.

by Lethn
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BandageBandolier 20 points ago +20 / -0

given the proxy war currently going on with Russia?

There are probably about half a dozen proxy wars going on within the US currently, not least of which is the deep-state against their own citizens' constitutional right to freedoms. The Russians probably shouldn't even rank in the top 3 infiltration concerns of a new media company.

Yeah you're right, smart people should be more careful about letting their company be subverted, but " 'cuz Russia" isn't the smart reason why. And there's yet to be any evidence that the money actually changed anything about their reporting, money alone is not proof. It could turn out they were still skeptical enough about the funding that they refused any strings RT tried to attach and Tenet's own independent desire desire to be contrarians to the US gov's own propaganda was enough to warrant RT funding even without gaining the means to directly influence it.

by Lethn
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BandageBandolier 22 points ago +22 / -0

As far as I can tell the indictment doesn't say the money was contingent on reporting a certain way.

The money allegedly was from someone from RT, under a fake identity posing as an independent publisher offering to bankroll their new start-up media project. Then separately two guys from RT also got employed as third party video editors after applying under fake identities and allegedly tried to influence the content from below the creators on the hierarchy.

Bear in mind these are allegations from the same intelligence community that fabricated Russian bed-piss stories from whole cloth and that is the most incriminating story they dare to imagine.

The only complaints I can see are that, one: they're allegedly pretty fuckin gullible by how basic these fake identities they believed were, but a lot of these guys already have a history of that. You practically have to be more dedicated than smart to be the willing face of any media challenging the status quo these days, given the likely personal outcomes. That's why I don't even like any of the Tenet opinion piece crap, dumb people annoy me too much to want to hear more dumb takes.

And two: they allegedly knew/suspected the money came from Russia, the country not the government, which if you care about the US' warhawking sanctions would be a no-no, but personally IDGAF about the Biden administration's perpetual hard-on for playing chicken with WW3, so I say fuck those bitches and get paid son. If it were the gov sure, but supposedly independent Russian citizens aren't someone I need to cut off.

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BandageBandolier 9 points ago +9 / -0

"Tom? Tom's gone. But after a quick consult with the wig sto- erm, recruitment center we have been able to fill his position."

"Let me introduce Tom's immediate replacement, Bonnie Fydeman."

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BandageBandolier 7 points ago +8 / -1

Also, blue laser eyes/red tint profile pics are gay.

Incredibly so.

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BandageBandolier 6 points ago +6 / -0

See that's because you're coming from the wrong perspective. You started with the negative of pants and just saw pants that went higher. Instead start with the positive of a loose shirt and see it as a shirt that goes lower.

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BandageBandolier 15 points ago +15 / -0

If not for the post timing there are several people this could be parodying, and that is concerning.

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BandageBandolier 5 points ago +5 / -0

Slim to none, they were already slipping pretty bad by 6 and they seem determined to dumb it down even further. It will have a technical depth that makes it play like animal crossing: embassy edition. And yet still the AI will be too retarded to play it

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BandageBandolier 2 points ago +2 / -0

Pretty sure that would be covered by "non-abrahamic" faiths?

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BandageBandolier 17 points ago +17 / -0

Technically the straight white atheist men are also verboten from the grant too

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BandageBandolier 50 points ago +50 / -0

displaced person, or living under apartheid

Hmmmm, I wonder which specific groups are excluded by omission on these forms and are currently being displaced from business in their own homelands?

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BandageBandolier 9 points ago +9 / -0

And most of them forced out more technically capable but less socially manipulative devs to get their mismanaged AAA jobs in the first place.

"Oh no, 100s of people might lose the things they stole!" Good. This is an absolute win. The only bigger win is if the excluded Devs were raking in the cash nobody is spending on Concord.

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BandageBandolier 24 points ago +24 / -0

It also includes a presidential candidate who looks like no other president in U.S. history

I do love it when we go full circle and "they all look the same" suddenly stops being racist because it's aimed at white men again.

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BandageBandolier 6 points ago +6 / -0

They're in luck then, incompetence is exactly what shitty box-ticking propaganda games development takes.

by Lethn
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BandageBandolier 1 point ago +1 / -0

Only just got in myself so not taken it for much of a test drive, just a tutorial and a couple of comp stomps, but it's alright so far.

First few matches were pretty easy to get into the gist of but I am slowly realising how much more stuff is going on in the background. There's no lock-on gimmick and so much movement going on that FPS ability is definitely a big chunk of your performance, but ttk is huge and positioning and engagement/disengagement strategies matter greatly for securing a kill rather than forcing a retreat, like in any MOBA.

Couldn't obviously tell where the balance of strategic power scaling Vs player tactical skill lay, there were no obviously unstoppable players or bots in either of my games but nobody got fed way more than anyone else either, and the bots were dumb so they got steamrolled regardless.

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BandageBandolier 5 points ago +5 / -0

It's got a playable demo on steam. I remember playing on a steam next fest a long time back but bounced off it before digging very deep.

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BandageBandolier 7 points ago +7 / -0

Hey, I think I remember playing gemcraft as a flash game on newgrounds like 15-20 years ago.

Yeah, that was a better game than Concord.

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BandageBandolier 24 points ago +24 / -0

All those open sores on the cast would be the most period authentic part of the whole show.

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BandageBandolier 28 points ago +29 / -1

Nonsense, this is the same vaccine that made polio extinct, one of humanity's great medical achievements and proof no-one should ever be skeptical of vaccine efficacy again.

Now let us in before all those kids catch polio, it's everywhere.

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BandageBandolier 8 points ago +8 / -0

Seems like it's just human nature when it comes to gossip and drama, everyone's favourite target is whoever is just one step lower on the ladder than themselves.

So yeah anyone that fascinated with DSP has to be at least a little bit unstable too.

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BandageBandolier 17 points ago +17 / -0

Well, I can appreciate when the autism comes with good grammar and a fastidious dedication to in defining terms. Of all the possible options, OP is the best kind of weird.

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BandageBandolier 1 point ago +1 / -0

That might be part of it yeah. I kept rewatching to pinpoint the explosion epicenter, which does seem to be on him, because the blast felt like it was further away from him. If it was a shaped charge and his headbutt tilted the drone to face the charge away from him that could explain the lopsided blast.

I also wonder if having his head down from the headbutt managed to place his helmet in just the right position to make it an impromptu full-coverage blast shield for his skull, just to take a fraction more energy away from the impact.

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BandageBandolier 6 points ago +6 / -0

Still need semi functional body parts for adrenaline to work on though, that his inner ear didn't get pulverised by the blast wave so badly he couldn't tell up from down seems like a small miracle alone.

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