I read this the other day. I agree, the timing is certainly suspicious.
Having said that, I did have to wonder if this dude applied for workers compensation. Is "herniated disk from eating boss's pussy" a checkbox on the form?
Technical point, but I disagree. There's a reason some of the earliest known highly organized civilizations arose in semi-arid lands. Across Turkey, the Middle East, Egypt, Iran, etc., you HAD to have things like wells, irrigation systems, dams, or you were 100% at the whim of nature and you died if there was a flood or a drought. Canals, qanats, dams, locks, etc. are just vital to life in these areas.
The German historian Wittfogel termed these empires "hydraulic empires." The government controlled water and access to water, therefore the government controlled the lives of its citizens. He also believed this is why there was such a despotic and autocratic impulse in these areas.
My kids loved the Jumanji movie. THey were also less than 10 at the time, so not exactly a high bar.
I thought it was fine. I don't remember anything terribly objectionable, and I do like The Rock sometimes.
I did too! I thought they were great!
Then I made the mistake of going to the Kingkiller reddit and seeing how Rothfuss treats his fans. Not pretty.
If he comes out with the 3rd book ever, I'll no doubt come crawling back, but I am not, personally, a fan of Rothfuss.
Brandon Sanderson is my ideal of a hardworking author who treats his fans amazingly.
I quit after the 4th leveling quest where you help a gay male couple prove their love for each other.
Yeah, that was pretty cringe. I quit before the .1 patch. It might actually be my least played explansion of all time.
Yes, his books were very popular before the TV show. I got my start reading GRRM when Asimov's s.f. magazine published the Daenerys chapters from A Game of Thrones as a novella. The first three books were absolutely some of my favorite fantasy books, but, imho, GRRM fell into a great trap.
His novels are popular for many reasons, but one of them is that they are surprising. Good, well-liked characters die sometimes. Evil characters are rewarded sometimes. Etc. I won't get into spoiler territory (hah), but GRRM and his fans got addicted to Red Weddings, and, well, how do you do better than the Red Wedding?
Turns out that consistently killing off your best characters leaves you with a bare stable. Replacing them is not so easy. His original plan had been a large year skip to give some of the younger generation time to grow up. That was a stupid idea, and it failed.
AFfC and ADwD were just painful slogs, both literally (half the books comprises characters slogging through winter snows and getting nowhere fast) and figuratively.
He's written himself into a hole, the reaction to the later seasons of the show are terrifying to GRRM, and what does he do now?
He's still not as lame and gay as Patrick Rothfuss who shits on his fans left and right!
This is pretty on point, but I'm contrarian on two points.
I really liked Battle for Azeroth. By this point in my life I'm a filthy casual. I'm not running hardcore mythic+ or raids at their peak. I'm questing, pvp, collecting, hanging with friends. To this day I think the BfA zones, music, art, and world are on point. Plot kind of dumb (I mean, it's Warcraft...any time it deviates from Orcs vs Humans it basically gets dumb), but I enjoyed the faction warfare.
Dragonflight. People seem to like it, but it just never had the right feel for me. I didn't like the characters, the plot, the zones, the quests, the music, nothing.
In terms of time played I think my lowest time played is probably Cataclysm, then Dragonflight, then Shadowlands. I stuck with Shadowlands waaay too long and now just pretend it never happened.
So far, I'm enjoying War Within, but it's early days still.
Coddling the American Mind
By Greg Lukianoff, one of the founders of FIRE (The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression).
FIRE is great. They are old school free speech absolutists. They support students and faculty members who fall afoul of wrongthink or saying something that offends snowflakes. One of the few activist organization I would support with donations.
Hah, I was reffing for a middle school sporting event the other day, and this kid I've known since he was in 4th grade or so was calling some plays. He's right at that age where he is voice has deepened a little bit, it's on the verge of cracking, and he had that EXACT same uncanny valley tranny voice. I guffawed inside.
Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures....
Something something barbussy something something.
I'm at most a casual observer of Chris-Chan, but his mother is in her 80s and has dementia. If he fucked her, it was rape.
I know nothing about Kengle or onionfarms, but isn’t that exactly what Chris-Chan did?!
Good point, and there's a reason the "midwit" meme is so popular right now!
OP is a lazy faggot, so I have to pick up the slack
Keep fighting the good fight, brother. Screenshot posting is a blight.
Fair enough. My genX sensibilities don't understand the vtubers, and most of what I've seen has been the Hector Martin/Asahi Lina variety of vtuber.
Weirdo dudes and girls do twitch/youtube/tiktok/etc content using anime girls as their avatars ("rigs"?) and voice changers. Content ranges from cooking streams to karaoke to commentary to twitch game streaming, etc.
It's weird shit, I don't get it.
The important part is that Hector Martin, programmer of Asahi Linux (Linux for Apple computers), turbo-autist, tranny chaser, and possibly trans himself, does vtube streaming as "Asahi Lina." Watching a fat, middle-aged, autistic, balding, Mexican programmer code for the Linux kernel while acting like a giggling anime teenager ("teehee") is my idea of A+ content.
Here's Hector singing a duet with xerself/"Asahi Lina"
https://uploads.kiwifarms.st/data/video/5328/5328174-3b0c055876fcd3f38d53a3abd3d157d8.mp4
I was not prepared for the level of retarded boomer commentary from leftists and the police
Then you haven't been paying enough attention!
That's ok, most of started out the same way. There's a reason the right often uses the red pill language. For that matter, there's a reason the left used "woke" in a similar manner.
Normies are gonna normie.
No surprise. The official Muslim position is that the Qur'an is divinely inspired, that it was revealed to Muhammad bit by bit, and that the words of the Qur'an are literlaly god's word.
There were many Jews and Christian tribes scattered across Arabia. Muhammad was very familiar with both religions, and there is a huge amount of borrowing.
Basically, Judaism grew out of various polytheistic cults into one specific monotheistic variant. Jesus "forked" Christianity into a new branch with many of the same teachings, and Muhammad did the same thing again, borrowing directly from both Judaism and Christianity.
That makes me want to do a rewatch of Spoony's Ultima videos. Classic.
Jesus, Microsoft software quality has been a joke since, basically forever. They've had huge fuckups with their core OS properties. Windows ME. Windows 8. Windows 10. Windows 11 (which is STILL a hodgepodge of Windows 3.1 / Windows 95 / Windows 10 style administration programs).
If anyone expects excellence out of Microsoft products, they haven't been paying attention for the last 40 years.
Microsoft is good enough, relatively cheap, runs on anything, and has a lot of old business programs that will still run. That's it.
Today Microsoft is effectively the cloud business. Everything else is an afterthought.
You know they absolutely do exist and it's happening all the time. Simping, unfortunately, is widespread.
Even the slightest chance of getting your dick in some wet pussy is enough to make desperate men do nearly anything.
Please. No simp. This needs to be said so often, and young men need the message. There is nothing manly, or alpha, or strong about simping and white knighting.
Their Star Trek content remains A+++.
Oof!
Should've seen that one!