You can actually see how many different AV streams exist for a particular video with ytp-dl. Somebody posted a video above and I popped it in just to illustrate, and there's about 10 audio files, and 30 video files (YT's player combines them on playback, presumably). I don't know if the IDs it reports represents a standard list, but if it does, it means Youtube supports at least 600 different preset combinations of formats and settings. It's hard to imagine, but YT is actually a pretty impressive machine, underneath the garbage front-end and the megalomaniacal social engineering.
Hot take: DST is good and right-wing, because it opposes modernity (where modernity is sunrise at 4:30 AM).
Clocks are just tools. Very useful tools that make industry possible, but ultimately nothing more. There's really nothing about 5:30 AM that makes it 5:30 AM, other than that it comes five and a half hours after we started the day's timer. Likewise, there's nothing special about midnight that makes it midnight, other than that it's when we started the timer.
Tools should work for us, but in modernity, that's not usually what happens. The clock is the most obvious case of this. Industry requires that we put the world on a schedule, and that means we have to obey that schedule too. That's the trade we made for modern technology.
DST is one tiny bit of control we still have over that tool. The timer that runs our entire world can be started just a little early or late, if it suits us. And it does. Plenty of places in the continental US would see 4:30 AM sunrises, or 4 PM sunsets, if we decided a mechanical timer was the final arbiter of our time. Any power we can hold onto over our tools, we should.
I remember a line they had about there only being fifteen or so confirmed cases of fraud in a century. So, what, they had twelve times the fraud of the entire country over a century, in a single city, in a single election? How could you not vote blue when they're such amazing overacheivers?
Well-executed horror is always right-wing, and that's why Lovecraft still gets ripped off to this day. A monster is a foreigner and a raider. A ghost is an unattended past. They're breaching your day-to-day existence and bringing a new order onto it. In leftist thought, foreigners, iconoclasm, and revolution are all good things. That's why their horror feels so fake.
How many haunted house stories begin with a family that has some fracture that isn't being addressed, and the ghost is banished when the family is mended?
I haven't seen Don't Breathe, so I can't comment on that specifically, but it sounds like a rape thing. Feminism tends to be classified as left-wing since it allies with leftists and uses a lot of leftist strategy, but it's really just some combination of opportunistic and schizo - there's a reason why it's considered the politicization of women's neuroses.
There's a Jekyll and Hyde dynamic between feminism and patriarchy. They believe the "patriarchy" (the powers that be) are okay with rape. So, they demand (and are granted) that men/the state/institutions take even more responsibility for women's safety, rather than taking on any for themselves, and in doing so, make themselves less safe. Then, as women are now less safe, and have no agency of their own, the patriarchy is enabling rape, and feminism is the one fighting it, when they themselves are the one making themselves less safe.
All that's just to explain how feminists believe that they, solely, are against rape, and that depictions of rape as bad are therefore feminist. That's one of two reasons I sometimes hear for horror movies being feminist, and the only one that fits what I'm guessing you mean.
Because it works on most people, which is all that matters to them, and they don't have the capacity to feel shame for their own dishonesty.
Wiccan and new age is pretty much all women, simps, and trannies. Neopaganism is much more male. The two get conflated all the time because they're both fake. I've only known one neopagan who observed any serious rituals, and while I don't think he believed sacrificing a chicken would actually accomplish anything, if you're willing to trudge through the woods, in the nude, in winter, to sacrifice an animal, I can at least recognize the effort.
The pathing is actually worse in BG2EE over oBG2, and a mixed bag for BG1. The reason being, Beamdog simply changed the parameters, setting node counts much higher and delay between path checks lower, because modern PCs can handle pathing a bit more often than your Pentium II. Problem is, the existing pathing system worked better tuned down.
Whenever your party tries to fit through a narrow space, with the overclocked pathing, the guys in the back immediately think they're blocked and try to find an alternate path, which usually just means going around the entire fucking map. In oBG2, the longer delay meant the guys in the back effectively waited for the guys in front to get out of the way.
In BG1EE, the pathing is better in most places, oBG1 being a bit of a clunker, but it's such a disaster for the narrow dungeons that you're actually better off soloing or duoing them than trying to get your full party through.
As they say, the Q in Beamdog stands for Quality.
I'm sure his next victim will be glad he at least had table manners.
Needing to be pro or anti-(broad category) is a boomerism that needs to die. Workers sometimes band together to stand on equal footing with their bosses. Mobs sometimes seize power, collective or bureaucratic, for themselves. Politicians sometimes (usually) sleep with mobsters to each others' benefit, at our expense. All of these things happen under the category of "union."
Democrats have the leeway to make these grand, ridiculous gestures. We don't. Take the rail union incident from a few years ago. By all rights, the guys handling freight should be our guys just by the nature of their work, and that shouldn't be hard to achieve when the "pro-union" Dems raped them for the sin of wanting more than one sick day.
What mongoloids would miss that opportunity because they see the word "union" and immediately made up their minds? Thankfully, not many of us, but it's a pitfall to watch out for. Living in clown world means the more extreme position is often the more sane one, but it's not always, and we can't afford to miss opportunities.
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-deploys-troops-to-border-to-stop-texas-from-securing-border
So what exactly is happening in the video? State troopers letting them in? The video is too blurry and too far away to see.
Never get high on your own supply.
I don't fully understand the post-SS-applause debacle. I try to keep track of what the bots/astroturfers are saying, and there's more than a handful of them working against the MSM narrative - trying to talk this guy up as a war criminal, while the MSM tries to downplay it.
My best guess is that individual Canadian politicians are so useless to the globalist project, it really doesn't matter that all their ducks aren't in a row. There's probably thousands of equally (in)competent liberals and controlled-op "conservatives" ready to take their seats, in a nation whose population is largely broken, so what does it matter if there's visible in-fighting? If anything, it makes the system look more legitimate, since look, there's obviously multiple competing factions, even while the system's failures are incapable of damaging it in any way.
But it could also be any number of things. Finding bots is easy enough, but unlike most MSM stooges, it's basically impossible to track their associations. They may really be independently operated, and just not on the same page as the visible institutions, or maybe it's just complex damage control. It's a tough one.
And evidently they were right to, because as soon as Sherman got done slaughtering those belligerent, rural whites, he went out to slaughter those belligerent, tribal natives.
You are trying way too hard.
There is absolutely 0% chance localizers don't split the difference and call Vivian a "they/them."
You know, at least with antisocial men, you could theoretically throw them in a labor camp and get something useful out of them. Man-hating dykes? That's a negative value human no matter how you cut it.
Greek colonists had gone east and founded towns in central Asia before the kingdoms proper had managed to get out that far, but most of the Greek influence came after Alexander conquered the region. Prior to that, the Persians held power, and they took it back a couple hundred years after his death.
That's not anxiety, that's just your resting heart rate.
There are a lots of impressive maritime feats all over, but you do have to give this one to the Polynesians. They more or less topped colonization via sea until the European empires practically conquered the oceans.
If you want something the Greeks don't get recognized for in popular culture anymore, it's just how far their reach extended. Some people might be vaguely aware that the Greeks went east, but I don't think many know they made it as far east as India.
Though coincidentally, the Norse do give the Polynesians a run for their money on colonization distance, if not purely by sea. Seems like every few years, there's evidence of Norse contact deeper and deeper into Canada. That would have been as much by rivers, coasts, and land as open sea, but still noteworthy.
Our aim is to completely remove carbon from the atmosphere
I first heard this not too long ago and thought it was a strawman. Nope, it's fucking Apple.
If nothing else, liberals could not have made a better example of how they've idolized black women. They've literally deified this arrogant, fat bitch, and scrambled for her approval.
I was thinking this might have something to do with the subscription services, since they've also ballooned in price recently. I'm not sure how their model actually works, and how devs get paid, but I always figured it was pretty shit. Unity, being even farther removed from that deal, would then be getting a fraction of shit.
I don't think Unity would be large enough to successfully negotiate with Microsoft and Sony. Pricing based on installs would allow them to bypass those deals entirely.
Of course, it still looks like stupid business. Another thought I've had is that it might just be corporate sabotage. You almost never actually hear of it, but it definitely exists. This is suicidal enough to make me suspicious.
In the manga, Zoe was originally referred to as a woman, before being retconned into being "ambiguous." It's faggotry and parasitism, as usual, and whoever you're arguing with is a waste of good fertilizer.
Also, AoT turned out to be garbage pretty early on, and your first clue to never interact with an AoT fan should have been how many she/theys and fujos love that emo fag commander who looks like he's about to fall asleep.
Vocally? Continuation of their line, mostly. Women start learning how to be social terrorists when they're like six years old. It's just not the kind of shit you want to start. The best you can reasonably do is find a woman who isn't politically involved by choice.
That, and women got the 19th without the 19th. Repealing it would be like trying to fix morbid obesity by hiding it with more flattering clothes.
My number one response to when they say, "Why are you so triggered over pronouns?!"
It's... "Because you're trying to defy reality to accommodate delusions."
Then they'll point to the word "you're" and laugh you out of the room. I didn't make that up, that is their current method of attack. It's just one example of how their language hacking is so insidious.
The problem with direct attacks is that normies exist. They're both valueless cowards who would literally rather kill you rather than be ostracized, and also make up the vast majority of social power just by sheer numbers. With lefties, for all their hand-wringing about bigotry, they love a bigot. There's nothing in the world they love more than having an excuse to go on the attack. As soon as the lefties attack en masse, the normies notice, and they side with the mob 100% of the time.
You know what scared the shit out of lefties, and got a lot of normies perking up? Superstraight. There's an inherit conflict between transgenderism and consent in the "transwomen are women" dialogue that normies could always see: If you identify as straight, and transwomen are women, not sleeping with a transwoman solely because she's trans is bigotry.
Superstraight didn't create the conflict between the tranny identity and sexual consent, it just found a way to embed it within itself, being implicitly obvious without being stated outright. Normies knew that conflict existed, but always had to talk around it. They didn't have the language to address it directly, not without fear of becoming a target.
There was no way for lefties to confront superstraight without either invalidating sexual consent, or invalidating trannies. So they didn't. They freaked the fuck out and shut it down as hard as possible. As long as it existed, the normies could speak truth without fear, and that would ruin the power trannies had over them. So leftists didn't take their time "playing" at righteous outrage. They didn't go after people's livelihoods or relationships for the sadistic glee. They just stomped it out as fast as they could, and hoped it wouldn't take root.
Superstraight made it to the front page of Reddit within a day or two, and "suck the girldick, bigot" never has.
You might call what I want to do language hacking, or you might call it meme magic. Our handicap is that we have to be truthful, and we don't have the same mechanism to enforce language as our enemies. But if it didn't work, they wouldn't be afraid.
You know sex is real, because you can look at a man or a woman, and see masculinity or femininity. There's obviously something real and inherent there. On the other hand, noon isn't noon because we've recognized some "nooniness" that exists only at noon. There's nothing in reality that can be objectively pointed to.
Pluto is similar, but that's about categories. Categories themselves are somewhat arbitrary, but they're still based on observable qualities (ideally, anyways).
One of the pretensions of modernity is that our scales and measurements are real things, not tools we use to measure real things. We've granted these tools more legitimacy over reality than we ourselves have, even when they fail to represent reality as we're actually living it.
We have other tools that we serve, rather than the other way around. They're not measurement tools, but they're still tools. People live as mouthpieces for something they heard on television or social media. We bring phones with us out of the house, and they act like leashes held by whoever you can't get away with ignoring. And god forbid a fucking adult walk somewhere - That's really gonna fuck millenials and onwards when, come old age, and the age distribution being what it is, we're gonna be far more reliant on our own health to take care of ourselves.
DST is just a minor thing, but our culture took baby steps to get where we are now. Every tiny denial of modernity counts, and I'm planting my fucking ass on this hill.