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Lord_Avu 10 points ago +10 / -0

Let's be fair another potential explanation is that once they realize they failed as mothers they go crazy (this is refuted in the article though). Or even that there is some external factor to both that cause both mothers and kids to go crazy.Yet another is the same genetics that made the mother crazy get passed to the kid that make him crazy. But yeah most likely it's crazy women troon their kids.

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Lord_Avu 3 points ago +3 / -0

He was an intelligent capable competent white enough male so of course they had to character assassinate him. He's basically the patriarchy.

Oh and you need a certain level of intelligence to be able to write intelligent characters where would they find that among the woke?

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Lord_Avu 5 points ago +5 / -0

There was one summer during early high school where I was playing Might and Magic VI but I had a pirated version with the music ripped off so it fit some scene release rules or who knows why but it was a common thing back then. It was also the year I won 10 music cassettes to be chosen by the winner on the inside of the bottle cap of Sprite this was before they turned all such winning into u must send this code through text messaging bla bla. Anyway my dad chose some of the music and I chose some. I ended up playing M&MVI and listening to Roxette on my stereo (dad picked that one). There will forever be an association between those two things in my head. I've also been a lifelong fan of Roxette since then. My Might and Magic /HoMM fandom didn't survive the demise of New World Computing though I did try to like the russian stuff.

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Lord_Avu 20 points ago +20 / -0

If Disney is any model and I think it is the goal seems to be total destruction of anything the enemy enjoys now and forever and we're the enemy. If they lose money on it it's fine by them (the system will just print more) the objective is achieved either way.

Popular franchises and hobbies superficial as they may have been brought people from different backgrounds together and it didn't matter if they were white or black or asian or straight or gay or whatever because they were all trekkies or star wars fans or collected mtg cards or played fighting games or whatever. They could see that despite the powers that be fucking each and everyone one of them in the "real" life they still had their corner of escapism and the friends they met in their hobbies.

The goal behind the goal seems to be twofold. On one hand is removing any last avenue of escape, you either join the sheeple or you become a depressed black pilled husk at best. On the other hand is ensuring that the only groups allowed to form are based on identity groups which by definition cannot coalesce into something that could oppose the system. After all championing rights that are good for everyone so also outside the group is a betrayal of the ingroup. This is compounded by the system propping up the weak, the unpalatable identity groups (blacks, the various sexual freak groups) and undermining the dominant capable one (whites and mostly male, sometimes asians) which makes sense because if you want your enemies to fight each other you better make sure one side can't just obliterate the other.

So what does it matter (to them) if some once beloved gaming or movie studio dies as long as it took down with it the entire fandom, bonus points if some fools were brainwashed by the message too?

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Lord_Avu 2 points ago +2 / -0

Joe Abercrombie's First Law trillogy has a bunch of good ones. Logen Ninefingers/ The Bloody Nine: The noble barbarian who is good and noble and heroic except sometimes when in the middle of battle when he gets possessed by an evil spirit/ has an split personality that surfaces / just plain old bloodlust. This alter ego comes with its own name and it's unclear what exactly it is but it can end up from plainly killing the target enemy, to killing noncombatants, allies and up to children of allies. By the end of the book it turns out his friends fear the shit out of him and most support the "villain" that "betrayed" him and are much happier with him gone.

Bayaz The first of the Magic: The kindly old wizard who takes the heroes on an around the world expedition for the greater good and a quest to make a king. Turns out he is probably the most evil person in the world compounded by the fact that he has true power to back it up. Has extreme lifespan and keeps control of entire nations over history through useful idiots and pawns just so he has a big enough cudgel to hit his enemies with. He's so bad that you realize his nemesis the one you're led to believe is the evilest man in the world (and he is pretty damn evil) ended up the way he is just to try and stop Bayaz. And the way he is a cannibalistic mage in charge of a bunch of other cannibalistic mages + a turkish like empire of which he is the high priest of (it's ok though the hypocrite Bayaz has his own cannibalistic aprentices). Oh and he uses a dirty bomb like magical weapon in the middle of the capital city to defeat his attacking enemies. Cancer like symptoms kill a bunch of people including probably the only good guy in the entire books.

Jezal the foppish noble would be hero who gets manipulated by Bayaz to end up king. He starts an idiot and ends up a slightly aware one at the end when he realize that yes he is king he has power and wealth and adulation but he is nothing but a puppet to Bayaz and Bayaz's actual man in charge the Head Inquisitor, and there isn't anything he can do because he's just an insect and Bayaz replacing him would be just a minor inconvenience. And the former princess his wife? Well sure she's beautiful and everything Jezal wanted in a woman except she's a lesbian and hates his guts.

Sand Dan Glotka former champion of the nation, dashing good looks ladies man captured and tortured by the enemy empire during a military campaign. Released as an ugly cripple forever forced to use a cane, constantly plagued by pain attacks (he considers stairs as his archenemy). Ends up working for the inquisition as he's useless as a fighter now and he hardly wants to remember his old life. Its his job to torture criminals and innocent alike to wring out confessions and hidden truths which he uses to outmaneuver his bosses and colleagues just so he can stay alive in a life he hates living. He ends up in charge of the kingdom, the minder of king on behalf of Bayaz, married to a real beauty who was once infatuated with his old self but wouldn't spare a second look now if not for the fact that she'd be the center of a scandal as the pregnant unmarried destitute with no family left noble (father of the child being the new king).

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Lord_Avu 9 points ago +9 / -0

Even Tolkien's dark elves are white that is because they are elves. The corrupted versions that have a different color are called orcs.

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Lord_Avu 1 point ago +1 / -0

Blizzard was dead to me the moment they put real money auction house in Diablo 3. I was a huge Diablo 2 fan but after that I never touched any new Blizzard games and hopefully I never will. Luckily they are making it rather easy.

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Lord_Avu 10 points ago +10 / -0

You do realize Mercedes the car was named after a girl? Also Mercedes was the main characters fiance in the Count of Monte Cristo a famous novel published almost 180 years ago... but I guess not famous enough....

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Lord_Avu 4 points ago +4 / -0

With a vaccine that actually prevented infections they couldn't use the already vaccinated as peer (or worse) pressure to force the others to get it. Humans are weird like that, once they take the jab vast majority become full time followers and many enforcers; the alternative would mean they did something stupid or even dangerous and everyone is the hero of their own story and heroes aren't stupid now are they. Add in the fact that the media can point out the filthy unbelievers, I mean unvaccinated, as endangering the believers and it's a perfect solution. So in the end you have your fellow neighbor, workmates or even family that are now demanding you do it and this massively lessens the perceived government authoritarianism after all they forcing you is just doing what the people demand well what the people they manipulated demand... So I'm pretty convinced the partial efficiency is a feature not a flaw in the eyes of those that push it.