Wake me up when Eternal September ends.
I 'beat' Diablo when my wizard blew the fuck out of a warrior hacker using level 20 fireballs (16 cap, +Thinking Cap, +Naj's Light Plate, +a staff that also boosted fireball). He may have had 200k health, but the fireballs did 1k+ a pop. Teleport, 4-5k worth of flaming death, teleport. repeat.
Selling his 'Godly plate of the whale' was endgame.
The name of the character involved is: Itsjustbusiness. #notthebee
He streams his whaling on people to make money; so when the MMR system bones him for going 350-3 and doesn't match him with new victims, his business fails, and his 'investment' in Immortal as a streamer is wasted.
It's also the case that the social media uproar about this has caused Blizzard to move on fixing the issues keeping him from MMR-based match making-- not because it's broken, but because it's a PR nightmare. Think about it: not only can you spend 100k on their game, but when you do pay-to-win, you can win so hard that you no longer can play.
It's actually kind of impressive. This guy's 'solved' a pay-to-win game. He paid. He's won. He's finished playing.
Here's the fun part:
The depp v heard ruling uses the language 'willful intent and actual malice.'
Judgements resulting in debts that are caused by 'willful intent and actual malice' are not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
It's the type of social science that gets you defunded, so no.
I think I read about the ingroup fear in some pop-evolutionary psychology I caught in the manosphere. It's deeply politically incorrect to point any of this out, though, so hard studies and proper sources are rare as fuck.
You aren't wrong. That is part of the dark half of their nature.
Women are terrified of being in the out-group. They want the in-group's authority to protect them. That failing, they want to be on the in with the new authority, by any means necessary.
I don't fault them, really. Often the only way to survive an invasion was on your back and by being a bootlicker.
The job of men in society, conversely is to be the 'boots on the ground,' and strong enough to keep their women (safe? satisfied? 'on the plantation?')-- any way you cut it, this is a task most modern western men fail at.
The innocence of children is derided and targeted as part of "white privilege."
I shit you not. In parallel to broader attacks on "white privilege" are explicit attempts to breach children's innocence to turn them into "allies" against white supremacy and "heteronormativity."
They. Are. Coming. For. Your. Kids.
“He disliked nearly all women and especially the young and pretty ones who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party the swallowers of slogans the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.” -- Orwell, 1984.
It couldn't be the ideological adherence, which is more severe in women. It has to be the women, themselves, right?
The rotation between media, regulatory agencies, and academia needs a term like The Iron Triangle for the cross-pollination and seat-hopping that occurs.
I think maybe brass triangle, because it's brazen?
The one thing the alternatives don't seem to have is penetration into international markets.
Rippa, for instance, didn't want to use paypal, and got burned using them, because he has a large contingent of international buyers.
I'd say that his case gives everyone considering using them a million+ reasons not to-- but until the parallel economy goes international, there are few alternatives.
It's a real condition, with its own pathology. "Manic-Depressive" was a descriptive name.
Depression goes beyond just sadness.
Mania goes beyond just happiness.
It's not just the 'happy-sads,' as you put it in another post. It's the brain literally burning itself out feeling emotions too intensely-- which is an honest-to-god pathology. You don't treat it and dampen your emotions, and the mood swings get worse and more intense over time, leaving you a gibbering lunatic or a lump of useless melancholy.
It's a mercy you aren't familiar enough with the disorder to know what the hell you're talking about.