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Benevolentdictator 5 points ago +5 / -0

It demonstrates that "just leave the bughive cities" isn't a viable solution against the globohomo menace.

Emo is a town of 1500 people.

The faggot lawyer inciting and persecuting isn't from the big city either. He's from a slightly larger border town that 99% of Canadians will never visit.

I'd never heard of Emo, ON before this story broke and I'm familiar with the area.

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Benevolentdictator 1 point ago +1 / -0

Watched some of March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) on TV the other night in Black & White.

Not even sure what to call it for a genre. Live action fairytale?

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Benevolentdictator 2 points ago +2 / -0

I watched it on Netflix a few weeks ago while away.

The host had to leave the room because of all the n-bombs.

I thought it held up pretty well.

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Benevolentdictator 2 points ago +2 / -0

My friends absolutely despised The Hateful Eight.

Might have been the last film I saw in theaters.

I think it was because it was more like a play than a narrative Tarantino movie.

Kinda like Reservoir Dogs tbh.

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Benevolentdictator 2 points ago +2 / -0

Still had Adam Goldberg hanging around.

At least he had a good death.

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Benevolentdictator 6 points ago +6 / -0

Doubtful, she seems like an abortion enthusiast.

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Benevolentdictator 8 points ago +8 / -0

She's like Leafland's Taylor Lorenz.

Except ginger and poor.

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Benevolentdictator 30 points ago +30 / -0

Rand woke this morning & chose violence (or stayed up too late).

Jeffrey Sachs in his Tucker Carlson interview last week about Israel mentioned that Paul was the only congressman he had any faith in to be independent (which made me wonder why he didn't include Thomas Massie).

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Benevolentdictator 1 point ago +1 / -0

The mechanism that opioids like Fentanyl kill addicts (and the opioid-naive) is through decreasing central nervous system respiratory drive and respiratory depression by decreasing the respiratory rate.

In general, this process is supposed to occur in a state of decreased level of consciousness.

I wonder how aware the addict is of this process if it were to occur while he's awake with the "I can't breathe!"

I don't have enough personal experience with the process to know one way or another.

But I would assume that the vast majority of overdose deaths occur without any awareness of the hypoxia on behalf of the subject.

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Benevolentdictator 2 points ago +2 / -0

I haven't played either of the recent 4x titles.

I'm surprised though how little buzz they both received considering how old Civ 6 is.

I still follow many of the Civ creators and they hardly mention Ara whatsoever.

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Benevolentdictator 3 points ago +3 / -0

I haven't tried it yet personally, but I've heard good things about Old World which was lead by old CIv 4 lead Soren Johnson.

It's supposed to be a 4X where Crusader Kings meets Civ but never progresses past Antiquity.

The problem with Civ going to shit is that there aren't many indie 4X titles to take its place.

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Benevolentdictator 11 points ago +11 / -0

The new iteration of Civ coming out in Feb has deemphasized leaders because they've completely overhauled the classic "Pick a leader/civilization to stand the test of time, going from the stone age to space" meta.

Now you pick a starting leader and a starting civ. The game goes through 3 canned historic eras with pre-scripted "crises".

They've tried to decouple the historic leaders from their historic nations.

At the end of each era, the player will have the option to "evolve" to a more modern civilization.

So in this version, you can't start as the Americans in the Stone Age, you start as someone like the Egyptians instead.

The initial example they gave was that the Ancient Age Egyptians would have the option of morphing into the Mongols in the Exploration Age if the player has access to horses.

Which isn't canon and is fucking retarded.

So since they've broken the whole " X historic leader leads Y nation", they've watered down the requirements of what constitutes a historical leader, claiming it doesn't have to be a political or military leader from history, it can be "anyone who made significant contributions to science or culture".

Again allowing them to shoehorn in more DEI BS.

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Benevolentdictator 4 points ago +4 / -0

Humankind had lots of hype while in alpha & beta, but flopped pretty much immediately upon launch.

Their dev team was woke as shit, but I don't even think that was the main flaw because the Civ community is also nauseatingly woke.

In the end, their game simply wasn't balanced or fun.

It launched at the end of 2020 IIRC, so it's been dead in the water for a long time. I do believe it's still supported at least.

Sega and Amplitude actually parted ways about a month ago over the fallout.

There have been a few other Civ clones to come out since: Ara and Millenia, that made no ripples whatsoever AFAICT. I believe one was even backed by Microsoft Studios.

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Benevolentdictator 1 point ago +1 / -0

I think some young-ish moms still use FB because it's more visual than X with the focus more on personal photos.

The women under 40 with kids I know use FB to post curated pics of their own crotch goblins for clout and to creep on the personal lives of their competitors that they mostly know as acquaintances.

I personally don't know any normies that unsolicitedly admit to using X. It's all Reddit, YT and FB.

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Benevolentdictator 32 points ago +32 / -0

Firaxis should make Watermelon as a Luxury Resource.

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Benevolentdictator 12 points ago +12 / -0

Yeah, there were too many obscure female leaders shoehorned into the Civ VI DLC like Lady Six Sky for the Mayans, Ba Trieu for Vietnam, Kristina for the Swedes, Seondeok for Korea, Wilhemina for the Dutch, Gitarja for Indonesia, Amanitore for Nubia etc.

But for the most part they were for non-Western civs so it wasn't so in your so in-your-face egregious.

The classic female historical figures like Queen Elizabeth and Victoria along with Cleopatra for Egypt were fine.

I've mostly been ignoring the new Civ 7 content reveals since I watched the first one where they announced they are doing a Humankind-style "change your nationality/ethnicity/culture every era" thing.

The Civ devs seem to ignore that everyone fucking hated Sega & Amplitude's woke Humankind & abandoned it immediately after launch despite it getting tons of hype and coverage as the next "Civ killer".

Even all the woke-as-shit Civ streamers all stopped playing Humankind within months of launch.

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Benevolentdictator 6 points ago +7 / -1

I'm probably projecting because of my own personal tastes (listened to Rogan's 1st 1000 episodes in order, then never listened to another full episode again when he left YT for Spotify), but I feel like Rogan's peak as a cultural icon peaked many years ago.

Leaving YT for dumptrucks full of Spotify money really took him out of the cultural zeitgeist at a key time.

It's not necessarily Rogan's fault. He's a repetitive arrogant meathead elite LARPing as an everyman.

Listeners reach a saturation point where they've heard all his anecdotes and hot takes so many times that they become grating memes. So the only thing keeping one interested is the quality of his guests and the hope that Joe's input is to a minimum.

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Benevolentdictator 4 points ago +4 / -0

Article I read this morning claimed she's keeping her seat and running again as of now.

I'd seen speculation that they would have her resign from Parliament as well to try to get Mark Carney in one of the few safe Toronto seats they have left in a by-election before Oct 2025.

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Benevolentdictator 2 points ago +2 / -0

Blonde's new podcast makes you appreciate Matt's Norwegian precision.

The content & her new co-hosts are interesting. But the technical production has been such a shitshow - no audio, deleted & restarted streams, poor audio balance, Starlink buffering issues, Powerchats interrupting, Powerchats not playing, etc.

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Benevolentdictator 4 points ago +4 / -0

Biden isn't letting out the scumbags.

He's just letting them Work From Home.

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