Until Elon bought Twitter, he would trend at least once a month. It went away for a while, but other leftists figured out how to game trending, or Twitter's got insiders again.
I've got another great Biden mini-article in that category:
Vice President Joe Biden is praising Jewish leaders for helping change American attitudes about gay marriage and other issues.
Biden says culture and arts change people’s attitudes. He cites social media and the old NBC TV series “Will and Grace” as examples of what helped changed attitudes on gay marriage.
Biden says, quote, “Think — behind of all that, I bet you 85 percent of those changes, whether it’s in Hollywood or social media, are a consequence of Jewish leaders in the industry.”
Biden says the influence is immense and that those changes have been for the good.
Biden was speaking Tuesday night at a Jewish American Heritage Month reception hosted by the Democratic National Committee. He says Jewish values are an essential part of who Americans are.
They already genuinely do. "Giving the right ammo" is a common NPC talking point, even those with enough processing power to recognize the left's responsibility in this shit.
They tried to call it "malinformation." You know, information that's true, but hurts the state, so it's basically as bad as lying.
Feminists attack porn from the angle of sexual objectification and how it victimises them and their gender as a whole. I do know quite a lot about this, they don't use the porn addiction argument. It's almost exclusively right wingers wingers that I've seen make the porn addiction argument.
True up until recently. There's a recent trend of leftist adults getting mad at artists who cater to relatively normal heterosexual men, and they attack by siccing minors on them. That crowd uses it as well, probably because most everyone they're going after have social media accounts consisting entirely of porn.
it turned out the "kid" is 18. Doesn't change that most of the Redditors thought he was (significantly) underage and were still upset he couldn't play their homo fetish game, but it is worth mentioning.
I'm guessing OP got sucked into some kind of concerning prog shit as a teen, and this game is the first concrete thing his parents have had some measure of control over. He certainly comes off like a Discord addict.
Either that or it's fake. Libs have been making up stories about their Christian parents being radicalized by Fox News for longer than most of that sub has been alive. It's part of their mythology at this point.
You know the whole bit about "Women have to turn characters into themselves?" Well, HQ is already that character, on account of being BPD on legs.
I was gonna bring this up. You don't get to keep your horny self-insert in a corporate product this long if you're not owned, somehow.
You ever notice that when somebody uses a supernatural being to refer to trannies, they call them demons or skinwalkers?
You're right to recognize TNG's Trill as a tranny allegory, whether or not it was intentional. That one was a body-snatching monster. It wore people like a skinsuit, and discarded them when it was done. It was unable to understand why actual humans were repulsed by it.
That's closer to what a tranny is. They're not just "somebody who once lived as the opposite sex." If that's all it was, you wouldn't find them nearly as disturbing. There's something more to them than that. They're more of a suicidal self-rejection. They cope with it by inventing a new identity, rejecting the old one completely, to the point where they mutilate their own bodies and erase their past self.
That's why they say "Mike was always Michelle, she just didn't know it yet," not "Mike became Michelle." That's why they kill themselves once the delusion breaks. That self-hatred, and the body-snatching by the delusional identity, believing itself to be the "true" identity, is what transgenderism actually is.
DS9's Trill are the complete opposite of TNG's Trill, so they're a rejection of what transgenderism actually is. DS9's Trill don't erase the previous life. The current life doesn't become a previous one either. There's never a moment where Jadzia says "Actually, Kurzon was always Jadzia." Kurzon was a whole person who lived a full life. Jadzia was a whole person (though "full life", maybe not). Dax is a non-sapient mechanism to scientifically justify past lives.
In order for trannies to be represented by DS9's Trill, they'd have to accept that their previous selves were complete and worthwhile people, which they can't do. It would require they face themselves. Most of them can't even do that in a literal sense; they get agitated by mirrors. If they were capable of that, they wouldn't be trannies in the first place. It's acceptance, not denial. They're complete opposites.
And you might say that it's supposed to be transgender allegory, if not a very good one, but they're so far removed from each other that I just don't see it. I find it far more likely that the Trill were just meant to be a sci-fi take on reincarnation, and trend-chasing parasites (Ira Steven Behr) latched onto it twenty years later.
You have opened a two-gallon can of worms, I hope you know. The only reason I don't have a blog is because I'm too inconsistent.
I have the relatively unpopular opinion of not liking Picard S3 or SNW. They're not as overtly political, and sometimes even countersignal the left, but they're still sloppily-written and acted by overgrown theater kids playing themselves, instead of career men and military officers.
Of course I get it. Picard S3 and SNW aren't nearly as overtly political, and coming from the "Make the Empire Great Again" era of NuTrek, it's a breath of fresh air. The show isn't screaming about how much it hates me. But I'm gonna largely ignore that here, because it's a subject all its own.
That said, Picard S3 might be art of a kind, even if it's not especially good as a piece of entertainment. It's just hard to parse, and I haven't spent a lot of time with it. The problem is, it's so sloppy that it's frustrating to follow. I don't know what's intentional and not, or what's entertainment, commentary, or reflection, because I have to turn my brain off to avoid getting frustrated with the writing.
There's a moment in Picard S3 that poetically illustrates Picard's writing as a whole. They end the Grody Bitch Changling arc by flushing her, and her subplot, out an airlock. As soon as she's out, the show becomes something entirely different. Now it's a Borg episode, except somewhere along the way, it completely forgot that one of the last season's shizophrenic subplots was that the chubby girl became the Borg to save them with love, or something.
Granted, chubby girl Borg was a fucking stupid subplot and we'd do our best to forget it ever happened, but making the Borg the secret antagonists of the very next season only draws attention to it.
I can point to that moment as one of the most blatant examples of the show possibly rising above its station, but it's all over. For instance, Picard and Riker play big roles as sad, frustrated old men. They're then given an opportunity to rise to the challenge one more time, as their adult children all flounder, having been raised under their substandard care, into a world they bungled.
How much of that is the plot, and how much of that is just Stewart and Frakes being sad old men? Is there some subconscious recognition of their failures? Is that why it abandoned its shitty political messaging? If so, how the hell is the actual plot, the connective tissue, so dogshit? You don't have that kind of self-awareness, and then think the shit with the red door is clever.
As entertainment, I don't have a lot to say about it. Watch Q Who, Tapestry, Best of Both Worlds, and Family instead. As potentially unintentional commentary, it might be the best finale to NuTrek (even if SNW and STD aren't over yet), if you can possibly make sense of it. I'm sure there's something of value in there, I'm just not equipped or motivated to dig it up.
In the not-Mirror Universe arc they did, evil Seven married a short dude and forced him to be her secretary, which is probably the most in-character thing Seven did in all of Picard.
gender-fluid/tranny Dax?
It's a special kind of retarded to believe Dax is a tranny allegory, but at least trannies have the excuse of being insane. I have no idea how you got there while not being one yourself. Dax isn't a tranny, it's obviously reincarnation in sci-fi flavor. It's not even debatable, previous hosts are called "past lives." For fucks sake, there's even an episode where they do some wacky seance thing so the crew can be possessed by ghosts of her past lives.
Redux, which is alright. The HD stuff is hit or miss, but it works properly on modern systems, which is all you can hope for at this point. Ironically works better than BZ2, which is a great game to try if you want to experience DOS-era mouse troubleshooting on your modern OS in 2024.
Great soundtrack too. It's got that unique dark sci-fi feel you just don't get anymore.
Battlezone 98, a vehicle shooter-RTS hybrid, in which the Cold War goes hot, but in space. The sequel is more popular, but I don't think it's nearly as good. No coop, even in the re-release, so it's harder to introduce to friends. I don't think it originally even broke 100k copies sold.
All the hardware in the world and the military today can barely hold ground against medieval peasants. Remember that meme of the Syrian dude or whoever who blasted his friends with the back end of his RPG? Imagine our military made up of those guys. I have no idea if you can break a Phalanx badly enough to fire on your own barracks, but I'm sure they'd find out.
The sex pests have a lot more institutional support, for reasons that should be obvious at this point. If lesbians can't even have an internet forum without getting invaded by necromorphs, political outsider gays certainly aren't allowed to counter signal.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The closet wasn't oppression, it was safety.
In the moment, I'd be more worried about having a couple dozen aggravated, entitled nogs in my store. There's really nothing you can do when a large pack of them show up.
Speaking of OoT rando, it does have one "undroppable" quest item: Ruto's letter, taking up a bottle. It's not actually relevant in vanilla, being so close to where you turn it in, but it might be in rando, since you can theoretically find it without access to King Zora.
Even then, probably not all that relevant. I don't remember if you can get blue bottle off of it, but if you can, then that's 90% of the use of a bottle right there.
I don't recall if the acorns were originally undroppable, and I can definitely confirm they're droppable now. With only a handful of exceptions, all items in Baldur's Gate are droppable. Most important items (quest or crafting) are protected with a critical item flag, which prevents them from being despawned under normal circumstances. Items that lack the droppable flag are companion-specific equipment (Edwin's necklace or Boo) and effects implemented as items, like "unarmed" attacks and various enemy immunities.
This is really just a problem for Bethesda, whose UI designer should be flogged. In fact, as of Oblivion, their quest items are weightless. Any shown weight for undroppable items is just for show, it doesn't actually affect you (and in fact, is sometimes exploitable), at least until the quest is cleared. Aside from the UI, their problem is that quest stages often don't get set properly, so (still weightless) items can remain in your inventory as clutter. Occasionally you even have spawned but unimplemented quest items, like ink in Fallout 3.
Quest items should be sortable or highlightable, but they're not always entirely separate and unusable. A unique sword or a mundane ingredient can both be quest items, as can some random one-purpose gadget, usually in the same game. The problem is devs are just fucking lazy, so any series with a "misc" or "other" item category will inevitably turn it into the junk drawer.
And with how many washed-out career women hold middle management positions in every institution, you've got the perfect intersection of true believers and cynical power to create the incel scare.
Going after incels politically aligns the feds and near-wall women. It means means opposing the feds also means opposing near-wall women and their neurotic fears and outrage. Not only is that a difficult big-picture social hurdle, many of them individually hold power of you, and will vindictively use it.
Paying for one agent to control one position in one institution is expensive, and you run the risk of being exposed or betrayed. Same goes for bribes. Alternatively, paying for these studies and going after lonely men (the least sympathetic demographic) is buying millions of sympathizers for $1 a pop.
My theory is, the hate against "incels" primarily comes from older millennial women seeing the wall on the horizon. Notice that they don't complain about "nice guys" anymore. Being called a worn-out whore was funny for women in the late teens and early 20s, when they could brush it off. Now, it hits closer to home. Lonely men didn't suddenly become more dangerous, but women feel a lot more threatened by them now than they used to, not for being dangerous, but being honest. That translates easily into making lonely men a domestic enemy. And with how many washed-out career women hold middle management positions in every institution, you've got the perfect intersection of true believers and cynical power to create the incel scare.
These goofy cunts, I actually laughed.
You can get any version YT has uploaded. If you just pop in a video without specifying, it'll get the best version it can find.
They try pretty hard not to expose it, but it does seem to pull the same basic trick. There were still a few words (mostly irregular demonyms) that didn't trigger the 'no person' patch, and you could get them to generate signs using words to describe them. Naturally, "diverse" was a constant.