23
PatrikStar24 23 points ago +23 / -0

On one hand, it should be higher. On the other hand, I'm surprised it is that high at all.

by Lethn
5
PatrikStar24 5 points ago +6 / -1

No, just China. I don't know how else to convey the scale we are talking about here, but Chinese cheat in games disproportionately in the same way US blacks commit crimes disproportionately. It's not even close.

by Lethn
16
PatrikStar24 16 points ago +16 / -0

The least intrusive solution is region locking your games

Specifically, region locking China, the part of the world where cheating is a normal part of their culture (thank Chairman Mao for that). But that is the one thing that devs won't do because the Chinese video game market is still far too lucrative even after further restrictions by the CCP, and they would rather keep sucking up those sweet Renminbi Yuans than even begin considering the possibility of appeasing their domestic audience.

Just about every big multiplayer game (whether PUBG, Fortnite, CoD, you name it) has this problem.

10
PatrikStar24 10 points ago +11 / -1

The entirely black staff of the real estate office she found was more than happy to show her which houses on her list were in unsafe neighborhoods and help her find something better.

Chris Rock put it best, and it's really no wonder why he never used this segment in his career afterward.

7
PatrikStar24 7 points ago +7 / -0

Christians are so cucked now that you have to point out that their religious leaders are subversive heretics.

I go to a somewhat conservative SBC church (theologically, culturally they are walking a fine line in my eyes), and I also attend a midweek men's group there (I'm the youngest there by a mile despite being 30). The other men have a surface level recognition of something being wrong with society (LBGTWTFBBQ being the most common issue brought up, there has also been the occasional commentary on Israel's actions in their war with Palestine), but they truly have no idea just how deep it goes OR how close it is to encroaching on their church (the SBC narrowly failed a vote to uphold "no female pastors" at their most recent conference). Not to mention Presbyterians (PCUSA) and Methodists (UMC) being completely taken over by the left (LGBT "pastors" are the rule now in those denominations, essentially)

How does one convince a room of naive Gen X-ers, Boomers, and a couple Silent Generation that their entire way of life is in danger without sounding like you are having a mental break? My heart breaks for them all.

Edit: Clarification

12
PatrikStar24 12 points ago +13 / -1

doesn't start flamewars with users.

I beg to differ. Like, seriously.

Dom needs to go, not just for his bad moderation, and more recently his general behavior, but for his extended vacations while negligently letting pedophiles shit up the board unopposed.

Several long time users (i.e. those of us that can trace their activities to the beginnings of KIA1) have volunteered to take up mod positions if only to clean the place up, but Dom it seems would rather go down with the ship than do anything to fix it.

7
PatrikStar24 7 points ago +7 / -0

Imp would be far more crass than this. He would say that all the jewswomen want to genocide the white racemale sex, and then drop something about the "more feminine way" (a quote from former UK PM Boris Johnson).

This handshake by comparison is quite moderate.

5
PatrikStar24 5 points ago +5 / -0

Flash was a security nightmare in its prime. How do I know this? I got ransomware on my dad's laptop because of a banner ad on YouTube. I never clicked it, simply having it loaded in the background was enough to deliver its payload. This would have been around 2010.

Thankfully, the ransomware was nowhere near as advanced as today, so we were able to remove it by toying around with Windows' shutdown process.

10
PatrikStar24 10 points ago +11 / -1

Guys, we got ourselves another one.

Early life and education Kristol was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of non-observant Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, Bessie (Mailman) and Joseph Kristol. [snip] In college he was a member of the Young People's Socialist League and was part of a small but vocal group of Trotskyist anti-Soviets who later became known as the New York Intellectuals. It was at these meetings that Kristol met historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, whom he married in 1942. They had two children, Elizabeth Nelson and Bill Kristol. [snip]

The Wiki power editors bickering over whether to keep this type of information in the articles of certain individuals kind of ironic, in a way.

5
PatrikStar24 5 points ago +6 / -1

If you don't have the money or knowhow to setup a NAS or a secondary drive for your PC, there are other ways to find movies2watch.

Off-topic, since it is in the image: I tried watching one of the more recent Super Sentai series in the past (Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger (王様戦隊キングオージャー)), but the way the Japanese dialogue was being spoken sounded more in line with what you would hear from a Shonen anime. In isolation, that is not much of an issue, the show is rated for younger audiences anyway. But combined with the fact that it was live-action, and that the actors were essentially LARPing Shonen character mannerisms IRL (as well as bad CGI), it just took me out of it and I bailed out after the first episode, regardless of whether the rest of the plot was good or not.

On the other hand, I have better things to say about an older Super Sentai series (Chojin Sentai Jetman (鳥人戦隊ジェットマン)), even if I didn't get far there either. Long story short, all the problems listed above are nowhere to be found, or minimized.

9
PatrikStar24 9 points ago +9 / -0

I strongly suggest everybody download the video while you can, because I've seen Dom take videos like these down in the past (i.e. Rabbis telling the truth of what really goes on).

4
PatrikStar24 4 points ago +4 / -0

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican Congresswoman from Georgia's 14th District.

2
PatrikStar24 2 points ago +3 / -1

Looking at that list, I've got it. Just give everyone who's been here at least 2-3 years mod powers.

As much as that would give me something to do during bouts of insomnia, I don't think I would make a good mod. I'm satisfied being the occasional essay poster. Edit: That said, I would begrudgingly accept the position just to help with cleanup for a few weeks, and then step down.

15
PatrikStar24 15 points ago +15 / -0

Ignore him. He's part of the ongoing pedo brigade.

11
PatrikStar24 11 points ago +13 / -2

I'd take at least one that isn't a complete fucking retard like the current one that spazzes out at words on a screen because [snip]

He's gone beyond just your regular freaking out and entered libeling territory prior to his second to last absence. A whole week of unchecked pedos later, he shows up to ban them only to turn around and double down on everything (His double down comments are toward the bottom, my response is toward the top).

Now he's gone again, and at this point, barring intervention by the scored(dot)co admins, I don't see Dom doing what is right for the long term health of this board.

2
PatrikStar24 2 points ago +2 / -0

I've found that Ghost Archive is better for preserving long Twitter threads post-Musk.

8
PatrikStar24 8 points ago +9 / -1

But yet there are churches all over the Islamic world especially Syria, Lebanon and Palestine.

Because they were there before Islam, as part of the Byzantine empire. Plus, it is explicitly demanded of Muslims that non-Muslims be subjugated, if not outright conquered, so Lord knows how many churches were destroyed under Islamic rule. The ones still standing have probably been paying the Jizya (non-Muslim tax in exchange for not getting Aloha Snackbar'ed). Case in point:

"Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allah, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."

4
PatrikStar24 4 points ago +4 / -0

Dom, you really have lost the plot. Did National Socialists:

  • Turn my hometown into Mexico Del Norte?
  • Run entire cities into the ground resulting in high crime, homelessness, trash, etc?
  • Ventilate my grandpa (and tens of thousands more)?
  • Fling the southern US border wide open to allow any Sanchez, Chang, Mohammed, and Tombutu to waltz on through?
  • Send untold billions of American taxdollars to foreign conflicts that we have no business being in, to the benefit of those foreign powers (not even their civilians, just the politicians)?
  • Convince congress to pass a law prohibiting criticism of them based on an extremely broad definition?
  • Sell out just about every type of job where you could get somewhere in life to India and China?
  • Use their influence to shut down figures and websites criticizing them on the internet or modern public square?

The answer to every single one of those questions is a resounding NO.

I'll repeat myself one more time: Hire more mods, and then step down, DomitiusOfMassilia. Several people in this comments section have already expressed their desire to volunteer as mods, but you (the only person who can add them, barring admin intervention) have intentionally ignored them. If this place gets shut down in the future, I am willing to bet that you and you alone will be to blame. Because, this time, we were invaded by pedophiles, will they start posting CP next? I don't want to have to find out.

6
PatrikStar24 6 points ago +7 / -1

Curious that you don't even address most of the points made.

I haven't been rounding out how I enforce Rule 16 or 2

That's not at all what I said. I'm saying that your recent usage of Rules 16 or 2 (but mostly 16) is not only extremely excessive, but you are using flimsier and flimsier reasons to enforce it, and it didn't used to be like that. You used to be far more even with which rules you enforced (and how you enforced them), even if I had disagreements.

The only thing that got me after October 7th, was the fact that the NatSocs and Islamists somehow saw themselves on the same side.

I've seen plenty of Islamist activity (considering they started the conflict in the first place), both here and outside this board. But as far as National Socialists (aka nazis, aka people the left doesn't like, etc), outside of a few calls for actual genocide here and there which are easily nipped in the bud (on this board), it seems to me that you are just chasing ghosts.

And speaking of chasing ghosts...

He also says people here want to murder him and his family.

Yeah. The NatSocs would do that. That's why I don't respect their claims regarding free speech, or oppression, or discrimination, or any such thing. It's obvious hypocrisy to everyone else, but they see it as an extension of the friend-enemy distinction. Anti-moral things done to anti-moral people are always moral. So the more evil it is, done to me and mine, the more good it is. It's a simple calculation.

Other people have argued against this point already, so all I can ask at this point is what the actual fuck is wrong with you? Not only did you falsely accuse someone of wanting to kill you and your entire family, you now double down and conflate actual National Socialists with (presumably) most of the users here?! This is beyond the pale! Yes, they exist. Yes, they have a blood-soaked history (but not as much as Communism, or Genghis Khan, or Islam). They may even have become more active outside of this board, but you are acting like there are Neo-Nazis around every corner here!

Next...

What is the message of this comic? Pretty straight-forward: In the inter-temporal race war of jews against all civilization, the republican party exists to serve jews and jews alone.

I stand by this. This is the message of the comic, and it is the message of the NatSoc users. We both know that it is true.

I seriously want to know which circles you heard this gobbledygook from, because that is not at all what the comic said, not by a long shot...

I must ask:

Did you take Alex Jones' "interdimensional vampire goblins" clip, and then combine it in your head with the manufactured "goblins=jews" controversy from that Harry Potter game? Because that is the only way I can think of that makes what you said even remotely sensical. I've been in conspiracy-oriented circles for years and not once heard anything like what you just (falsely) described. The closest I've heard anything remotely close to what you (falsely) describe is a bunch of NSFL "Eyes Wide Shut" type of stuff (ie. the elites partaking in occult or otherwise satanic activities).

Finally...

Apologies. I was sick and unable to get online at all.

That might explain this one time. What about all the other times you've gone MIA for as long as a week or 2 at a time, averaging 5 days? I would be somewhat more understanding if you are currently dealing with something like cancer or some other debilitating disease, or maybe you are working 60+ hours a week.

But barring that? Hire more mods, and then step down, DomitiusOfMassilia.

This last outbreak of trolls was the last straw for me (and others as well, I imagine). This was possibly the worst outbreak I've seen since the creation of KIA2win, and this isn't the first time that this has happened under your watch.

19
PatrikStar24 19 points ago +20 / -1

Even before his recent outbursts, looking at Dom's history going back to the beginning of the year shows him enforcing Rule 16 almost exclusively, with a few sprinkles of Rule 2 here and there, and doing so heavily. Maybe once in a while you saw him use a rule that wasn't #16 or #2.

In fact, after digging further, there is a noticeable shift in his overall behavior starting after the 10/7/23 Hamas attacks. Prior to that point, his enforcement of the rules was more "rounded" (for lack of a better word), disagreements and minor wigouts aside. It wasn't like now where he uses rule 16 to silence his personal critics, while letting obvious trolls and bad-faith participants run rampant.

And now he has been disappearing for a week or 2 at a time on top of that? Something has got to give...

Just as an aside, I can tell my prior comment to this one inspired this post. I don't put full stock into the "Dom's alts" theory either (I said as much, then), but the mere appearance of something going on is what made me pipe up.

4
PatrikStar24 4 points ago +4 / -0

the things that I could do with $200 million alone, I would take over this industry.

For $200 million, I would fix Derek Smart's entire lineup of mainline games (Battlecruiser 3000AD and Universal Combat), pay him off just get started (because of his ego), and have enough money left over to remaster the original MechWarrior trilogy (that is... if they weren't stuck in legal hell), Jane's Flight Sims from the 90s, or the many MANY games that are otherwise stuck on Windows 98 or late-era DOS (Most games from the Windows XP era onward generally work today on Windows 10 with some tweaks).

19
PatrikStar24 19 points ago +21 / -2

You know... could it be possible (not accusing here) that these handshakes are Dom's alts because he got sick of all the Noticing™, and that he has gone rogue in an attempt to shut down the board? It would at least partially explain his last couple of schizo rants that resulted in more BS bans being levied (#FreeTheImp), as well as his extended absences from mod duties.

It's very unlikely overall, but that I ask this at all should tell you something.

2
PatrikStar24 2 points ago +2 / -0

When I go to the store, it's just wall to wall juice

Sorry, I just can't resist.

12
PatrikStar24 12 points ago +13 / -1

Covid lockdowns and 2020 insanity.

That fueled my deep hatred for Democrats more than anything else, being forced to live through that in one of the worst states to implement it (California), not to mention my grandpa getting ventilated because of their policies.

<Inhales deeply> I'm going to stop myself there before I get Rule 2'd.

view more: ‹ Prev Next ›