I am moving for a promotion. Just a couple hours away, not a huge move. I am remaining in the same state, same relative distance from family. I am leaving the area but I will probably be back down the road. Might be back in six months to a year when my contract ends. Up to God not me. People are acting like it is the end, like I will never see them again. It's really not that far away... At least I don't think so.

For context, I live in WA. For our foreign posters WA State is about half the size of Germany and a third the size of France. Bigger than England but smaller than the sum total of the United Kingdom.

I drive a couple hours every other week to visit my family. Once upon a time a lot of my friends and family made similar drives to visit each other but this seems to have died post covid. Am I a modern outlier, or do people just not travel anymore? Even to visit friends or family? Is this just a byproduct of the Covid lockdown, increased expensiveness of America and anti social nature of this country (the Bowling Alone phenomenon)?

SparkMandrill83 asked what happened to the orange vests protesting in a different thread. That got me to thinking, for a while there a bunch of different Western countries had protests by various farmers, truckers, orange vests, etc. France, Netherlands, Canada, etc. Whatever happened with those protests? Did the states crack down on the people, did they just disappear? There is so much unrest and crap going on it is hard to keep track of everything.

I was originally just going to make this post about TV shows that are hard to watch now, but decided to include all media. What I mean by hard to watch is it's either super dated due to what has occured in the world, seeing what used to be is painful ("the world you grew up in is lost" meme), or seeing old media one can now see the progression of leftism and what was slightly obnoxious then is now understood to be the beginning of something much worse.

An example of the latter is Burn Notice. I love that show, but the serious daddy issues and pointless drama is a little hard to stomach nowadays, and I can't stand Fiona's proto girl boss crap. She even has the botoxed/ heavy makeup face of modern thots. Or Dukes of Hazard had an episode which featured the blue pill storyline of love. Two lady drivers come into town and show up the Duke boys in every way. Then their evil exes show up and the Duke boys have to save the fair maidens, despite them being better than them in every way. Only once the boys beat the exes do the ladies show their love towards them... An entire episode geared towards white knighting/ simping, with the women both being super independent are more awesome than the men and super damsels in distress in need of protection from bad men they used to date.

Commentary on the post about Brazil and X about South American governments not even lasting 20 years before insurrection led me to posting this question. There has been discussion in the past about which countries are less woke and would be good fall back options if the progressive left started up death camps and we based folk were forced to flee White Army style. Time for an update on that list: which countries or areas inside certain countries would one fall back on if shit hits the fan?

The old manosphere was great for comparing notes on what was going on. But the old red pill sites are mostly gone and have been replaced by a great deal of astro turf. Lately, I have noticed people aren't very friendly in public anymore. Asked around to some of the locals and they have told me no one goes out. Have to search to find people.

Also, I was talking with a younger dude who spends his summers going up to Alaska to work. I have known guys who have done that but didn't realize there was an extensive network of guys who do it. From what I gather a good chunk of these guys don't have wives or girlfriends, most are in their twenties but not all. The guy in question is tall, good looking, a very hard worker and a very nice guy. He made it sound like he didn't expect to get a girlfriend anytime soon, and didn't really expect to meet one. I have also known military guys who basically just dropped out of society and traveled. Also nice dudes. And then there was all the gym bros who dropped out after the Tiktok gals started harassing people at the local gyms.

How many young guys have just dropped out of society? I mean, all the dudes I cited are fit, good looking dudes. Just gone. It's hard to tell with the red pill videos as a good chunk of those guys are salesman selling their product, but how bad is it really now? Especially post covid. How many men just dropped out altogether? I'm getting the impression from this anecdotal evidence that it's getting worse, as there is always guys who drop out... But the majority didn't used to be dudes in their prime who were fit and good looking.

Horizon is a glorious western, a diamond in a sea of shit that Hollywood has produced. Gritty, beautiful, an ensemble of stars in a throwback film to the good old days of western tales. More than three hours long, but worth it. Go see it. Give Kevin Costner your money personally. That man is one of the last actual creative types left in Hollywood.

For my fellow Americans, as soured as we are living in this fake and gay empire have a happy fourth of July.

With all the problems occuring for Boeing planes and the airlines that use them, as well as the effects of having diversity enforced upon airlines, which airlines that run in the US are the least affected? Are airlines that use Airbus, for example, also having planes fall out of the sky?

I am thinking of visiting some family cross country. Road trips are expensive nowadays due to the price of gas and lodging. Just curious if there are any airlines/ airplanes that aren't as badly afflicted by progressivism. While we are at it, how bad are modern planes and airlines? As bad as the jokes of "planes falling out of the skies" make it out to be?

Pentagon denies Taylor Swift is an asset. All mainstream media immediately marches lock step to denounce "MAGA types" and "conspiracy theorists" for suggesting such a thing. Will post a bunch of archived links in the comment section, but if one wants to look for one of the many, many articles themselves just type "pentagon denies taylor swift is an asset" into a search bar.

Edit: Wayback Machine wasn't working for me. Glitching hard, eternal saving circle loading over and over. Some of the vast media apparatus that reported on the "conspiracy theory" are the Mirror, Forbes, the Guardian, Billboard, Politico, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Wonkette, Newsweek, the Hill, and Chicago Sun Times. All of them are ragingly passive aggressive.

Just beat the story campaign for Tekken 8, and played several character episodes and some arcade matches. Granted, I haven't done everything yet but I have seen enough to give a review. Don't worry, I won't spoil any of the story mode.

The graphics are amazing. Big step up from Tekken 7. The story has some phenomenal fight scenes and has some moments that tie up the whole Jin vs Kazuya storyline that has been going on since Tekken 3. The story does focus almost exclusively on Jin and Kazuya though, but every character gets a brief moment in the story for some high jinks. It is a Tekken game so it has its humor and over the top fighting.

Namco took a page from Capcom and inserted an easy combo system that one can turn off and on. It doesn't simplify the controls so one still has to have an idea of which buttons to mash and control stick to spin, but some juggle combos and the new "heat"l mode" to use the rage arts and amplify attacks are easier to use when the system is turned on.

On to the negatives. Like everything else nowadays, dlc and battle passes are a thing. The fan service the series is known for has been dialed down hard. The men all have shirtless costumes, while most of the women just have nice dresses or shorts. Only the new gal, Azucena, has a swimsuit. She is clearly the Ms Fanservice for this game, at least for now (go modders go). The item options for character customization are much smaller than previous games, but I am assuming that will be taken care of by the aforementioned dlc and battle passes (as well as the lack of fan service).

I would say, if you are a Tekken fan like I am, get it. If not, wait till more of the dlc gets released then make up your mind then.

Out of curiosity, I searched for "nude Taylor Swift AI pics" and similar variants on both bing and google. Didn't get anything nude at all on the first couple pages. Looks like X isn't the only thing that has been censored. The tech companies appear to be working together to censor everything. Whoever posted that this "incident" will be used to justify censoring the whole internet appears to be on to something. Anyone else seeing the same thing?

Edit: Just tried again and got one nude deep fake image on bing.

I have been thinking about finally upgrading to a PS5 or Xbox Series X. However, consoles usually only last 5 years before the next generation comes out. Granted, the 8th lasted 7 or 8 years, and the 9th was hurt by the COVID lockdown... But the 9th Gen consoles came out in 2020. If the consoles follow the past pattern then there is only 1 more year till PS6 and Xbox whatever comes out. Hell, the Switch came out in 17 or 18 and I have heard rumors that Nintendo is getting ready to unveil the Switch 2. Has there been any word of Microsoft and Sony developing their next consoles yet?

This is a thread for everyone to post their favorite conspiracy theories, whether they be true or unproven. Mine is that pasteurized milk is a means to harm others by Lord Rothschild. Pasteurization kills the nutrients in milk and causes cardiovascular disease. No idea if true or not.

Been looking at getting some new games or grabbing some older games to play. Got a Switch, Xbox One and gaming laptop. Figured might as well make a gaming post since it's been a while since this site has had one.

Is the First Descendant any good? How about the World War Z video game? I heard that one was a lot like Left 4 Dead. Also, any good beat em ups coming out soon?

There is a recent push for red light therapy as some sort of miracle cure for a lot of ailments. Bad skin, wrinkles, hair loss, muscle soreness, gum problems, allergies, etc. This appears to have been building for some time as I found reddit posts on is it bullshit or not from a couple years back. A couple of local gyms have replaced some of their tanning booths with red light booths, and the house I live in now one of the previous tenants replaced a regular light with a red light for therapeutic purposes.

I have found various articles, scientific (for whatever that means nowadays, I am looking at you COVID, climate change, and "green energy") and otherwise that state various benefits for red light therapy, a few that state some possible negative side effects, some that claim nobody has any real value what red light does, and various articles anf posts in between. Has anyone here dug into this and found anything tangible, truly scientific to back or dispel some of these claims? I sincerely doubt red light therapy is the miracle cure some people claim it to be, but how beneficial is it and what are the possible side effects?

It was brought up on my previous post that I had touched on a very critical subject. The destruction of western social life and isolation of modern westerners, especially men. How does this play out overall, what can be done, and to help this fit into this general site's theme, how has this affected gaming?