As someone who regularly questions gay conspiracy theories, you people are infinitely more shitty and angry. No question.

I can't even get Sandy Hook Truthers to own up as to why Dear Wolfgang has a certain incredibly obvious, wildly blatant lie about how much ammo Adam Lanza had on him. And it's not a "misspeaking" error, it's what can only be described as pure fabrication.

Conspiracy theorists will find 1% of 1% of something that seems weird and build a conspiracy around it, but their theories will be like 40% fabrications and they just fucking ignore it. I can't even tell you how many times I've seen that meme posted about the Vegas shooting that says Paddock "removed" the "hurricane proof glass" (which isn't even a thing) and they leverage that into making people go "woah hold up, how did he do that???" They ignore that the glass was clearly smashed apart from multiple photos inside and out, and inside the hotel room was clearly visible a mallet or splitting maul he used to do the deed.

They just lie like that. And nobody can tell me why.

Like goddamn tell me what a BB-18 fuse holder is. Can you? Because it's central to many 9/11 troofer arguments.

Dude most conspiracy theories are retarded.

There's a reason the demographic who falls for them the hardest are like fat idiots who fry food and drive trucks, and aren't, like, physicists.

The biggest doubt is how if you were to accept their theory as true (about anything) there should be more avenues for investigation. Like let's say you believe explosives were planted in WTC7. Okay... squinting at pixels isn't an investigation. Nor is snipping one sentence from a news broadcast. An investigation would be:

• How did the whole building get rigged for explosives when that would involve a lot of clandestine work?

• Is there evidence of heavy maintenance or renovations being performed? Invoices, anything like that?

• Is there evidence of heavy amounts of trucks and labor being performed on the site in the weeks leading up to it?

• Have companies that supply demolition explosives been investigated to see if they were selling explosives to fake companies for demolition work that was never performed, which would be how they were acquired?

• Did any employees in there get questioned and say anything about large amounts of construction noise and whole floors being closed off?

I mean, that's what the fuck an investigation would entail.

Instead they literally just squint at videos and talk about "free fall", even though that doesn't make sense by their own logic. They never actually investigate. They don't do lab tests or try to acquire physical evidence for testing. It's just fat rednecks too poor to leave their trailers.

I've had multiple people claim that the Curiosity rover isn't on Mars, but some island in Canada. Okay so did any of them buy a plane ticket and rent a canoe and go find the island? Nah. Not a single fucking person could bother to make the trip even though it would prove everything.

Why not?

The "best" they did was that one guy running a "simulation" on his home computer that looked like Donkey Kong and wasn't even a model of the actual building.

Conspiracy theories never stand up to questions either. In fact the visceral reaction from them is worse than any reaction you get from "questioning" the "official narrative".

This excuse is boring copium, it's not just one or two moonbats crowing about this stuff it's a fuck load of people and it's all over the right.

I could write pages on this.

In short I have an incredibly low opinion of conspiracy theorists on that kind of shit. They're really stupid, they genuinely know next to nothing of facts (and I think that's by design, I genuinely think they outright reject any material that could cart doubt on their bullshit and pretend the evidence doesn't exist), they will outright lie to you, and worst of all, if you simply treat their theory to the same inquiries they claim they used against the official story, they get really REALLY fucking mad.

Every "debate" with a CT ends with them screaming insane insults and pulling out Ol' Reliable: "I bet you believe CNN/I bet you got boosted/STFU fed shill."

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Conspiracy theory makes sense when you realize not one of these people analyzed a story and came to a unique conclusion. They literally come up with a conspiracy first, then try to find "evidence " that proves it. Which is why they will scour 900 photos of something, pick out one that maybe kind of sorta looks weird, and delete the rest and pretend they never saw it.

If you show a Pentagon Missile Theorist the main landing gear assembly wedged in the rubble they just declare it a fake. If you show them the light poles they say it is photoshopped. If you show them the debris and ask how it got there they invent really stupid explanations like "everybody ran out of the Pentagon and threw it in the grass".

The worst is the moon landing hoaxers. They say the Van Allen belts prevent humans from leaving low orbit.

Except:

1. They don't know what the belts actually are.

2. They have never measured them.

3. They only "know" they exist because space agencies say so, and so they believe the belts are real because they say so.

4. When those same agencies say the energy levels aren't dangerously high if you go through them fast enough, or go around them, suddenly they don't believe them.

You can't explain that except "cognitive dissonance" on a level that may be untreatable. That is insane. NASA says a belt of radiation exists, and the CTs believe NASA. NASA says the radiation levels are low enough to traverse, they then don't believe them, even though not one single CT has ever measured the belts themselves.

Only tangential but I like the idea of color-coded tools, so you can buy a set of all one color theme and you always know which tools are yours. Obviously can't work well with thing like a socket but still.

The problem is women lack the part of the brain that can process cause and effect so they will never "get it".

Did it make those irritating noises fox make?

He'll be the strongest and toughest on the commune and end up conquering them all.

Kudos to the one guy saying he just likes work and a simple life and will do hard labor. Presumably the only laborer for the three hundred social workers who are all watering the garden.

Not when it's a bloated or diseased, unless you want to feed it to Haitians.

Use those shredders with the rotating wheels. They literally put whole horses and engine blocks in them.

I also think it's funny how they always depict the main character wearing the vault suit all the time when almost nobody has ever worn it in any game long term. I think Fallout 1 you're trapped in it for the whole game, but you aren't even a Vault Dweller in FO2.

Or a rifle from pre war sitting on a skeleton out in the fucking rain and weather and shit and it works just fine.

In Bethesda Fallout games, it's always set 200 years after the war and yet people are still living in houses made of literal trash with skeletons in their kitchen.

"community managers" used to actually do shit like arrange convention booths and stuff like that.

Now nobody cares so they don't bother.

This is dating me considerably but I was definitely was soured on the 'casual/hardcore' idea from back in the day where very loud multiplayer playerbases functionally demanded that every game copy Counter-Strike in every way, because the only thing that mattered was competition, and the only thing that could count as 'skill' was if every single game had bunnyhopping and some kind of AWP or shit like that.

I saw plenty of games and mods with interesting ideas basically give them up for the 'hardcore e-sports experience', and 'casual' was a slur for any game that didn't cater to the raging assholes of the multiplayer community who would shit up your servers and bicker endlessly about rules and 'how we do things in CAL'.

I learned to basically hate clans (thankfully they're basically dead now) and competitive players. And I blame them for Natural Selection 2 never getting off the ground, because they functionally built the game exclusively to only appeal to the long-extinct "competitive" playerbase of NS1. Instead of making an interesting game using the ideas they had, the devs were obsessive about trying to make it an e-sport title and they made the game like it was still 2002. Nobody played it, the game balance was trash and wildly swung back and forth because they obsessively tried to balance win/loss ratios without actually understanding the gameplay, and did nothing with the interesting setting, instead choosing to just copy-paste most of NS1 into a new engine and thought it'd work.

In a lot of ways NS2 had the same flaws and died for the same reason Evolve did.

Americans worshipping the dollar more than anything - their religion, their country, their culture - was only ever going to end one way, and we're there now. You can't have "muh free markets muh capitalism" and also prioritize employing Americans, because someone somewhere might make more shekelbucks than you by not hiring Americans, and you gotta 'win' capitalism at all costs, right? So fire all the Americans and import slaves. Don't worry bro, the GDP is up so like, that definitely means something to someone.

I think it was 12 people or something but yeah somewhere around there.

They must clear profit on every free update and expedition. It's a good model.

Despite how fucked the release was honestly kudos to Sean Murray for making it right.

FO4 is fun if you simply disregard the setting and simply use it as an apocalypse sandbox shooter that you transform with mods. It's an utterly terrible Fallout game.

The problem is investment money.

Go back to the days of rolling past profits into future ventures.

Instead they have an addiction to VC cash. He's right about perpetual growth, because everybody is leveraged to hell and if you make money and turn a profit a new round of investors buy in and now you need to do better and bigger. It's not enough to tread water because you will just break even paying back the investment.

This didn't used to be a thing.

The industry practically operates on the premise of taking out a second mortgage so you can improve your house and then use the higher valuation to take out a third mortgage to pay back the second one, robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Every game now costs $600 million to make and has to sell $4 billion to pay everybody back, and then they need $800 million for the next game so they borrow it and need to sell $5 billion.

To be fair Starfield may be accurate. Space is probably really boring. Most rocky planets and moons in our solar system are airless dead gray rocks. Even Mars doesn't have a lot going for it except it's dead red rocks.

The fact that No Mans Sky is like ten years old and has never charged for any content, and is still going strong is what's really impressive.

Pretend it's not a Fallout game but just a post apocalyptic shooter in a weird setting. Load up with mods like Horizon.

This is Evangelicals you retard.