Because they never seem to get that brevity is the source of wit, and think that using a ten-dollar word when two two-dollar words will do makes them appear more intelligent. There's also the obfuscation aspect of it, where if they spew out enough buzzwords in a lengthy enough brain-dump, they can bury their true meaning and feelings in the depth of their screeching.
Narcissists and sociopaths do shit like this all the time. They flaunt their deviancy in the face of those around them, mainly because they think they are more intelligent than everyone else in the room and can get away with it.
Former Baywatch Actress
Inasmuch as she was in one episode of it. Same goes for her appearance on Married... With Children. I love how sites latch on to any point of cultural relevance and try to paint people whose fifteen minutes barely lasted five as being a celebrity.
That being said, this wokeist bitch deserves to be on a permanent no-fly list for her assault (I'm not even going to use "alleged" in there, because we have her on video), if only to keep other people from having to deal with her deranged, entitled ass.
I would posit that not only has this already happened, it is not a singular event, but rather a continuous process, whereby progressiveism notes that they have reached the point of satire so they immediately push the envelope further. Poe's Law isn't so much of an explanation for potential confusion of satire and the satirized, but instead is a barometer by which the woke know when they should try the next big thing.
While I generally don't have a beef with using a walkthrough for looking up stuff (especially if it's a game that features old-school adventure game logic like "use pineapple on doorknob to unlock the skylight", because my gaming time is limited and ain't nobody got time for that shit), sticking everything else in a game on EZ MODE and then claiming you "beat" it gets a "C'mon, son" from me.
Personally, if I were a game dev, I'd stick in difficulty levels that had the very bottom one be "Journalist Mode", but called something like "Minimal Mode" so it's not as obvious. Invulnerability, unlimited ammo or attack power, bosses with half health, etc, and then when they "beat" it, they don't get the ending cinematic. Instead, they would get a title card that reads "GIT GUD AND PLAY ON NORMAL".
The tyranny of the majority is something that used to be considered a bug of the system, now it is a desirable feature?
Only when the party in power is the same one as yours. Otherwise they flip their shit and pitch a bitch about not being properly represented. Hence why the left lost their shit when Trump took power because "Muh Popular Vote".
I'd slot Die Hard in the "Modern Christmas Movies" category, along with Gremlins, A Christmas Story, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and Elf. My wife still argues that both Die Hard and Gremlins don't count, but I figure if the movie takes place at Christmas time and there are Christmas elements that play into it, it's a Christmas movie.
My wife and I were discussing that the other day. She's never seen it and asked a similar question as to how it's a Christmas movie. I gave her the plot synopsis of: "It's only a Christmas movie because it takes place at Christmas. It's about how the dude wants to kill himself because he's all depressed about screwing up a bunch of people's lives, so the angel shows him how much more their lives would have been messed up if he'd never been around, convincing him to not neck himself by taking a gainer off the bridge. Doesn't fix anything else about how shit his current situation is, just shows him how everyone else's lives would have been worse, making him feel better about himself."
Her reply: "Jesus, that's dark as hell! This is a Christmas movie?!?!? Suicide rates are high enough at Christmas time, people don't need that shit!"
Yup. All things being equal, I'd rather go watch Miracle on 34th Street or White Christmas if I'm looking for a classic Christmas movie to watch.
My wife and I subscribe to a few streaming services at the ad-supported rates and I hear you there. While the WWF hasn't been hitting up the services we watch, I think I know the exact ad you're talking about for the anti-tardive dyskinesia drug. That one blew my mind, because it was like "Hey, we know that drug you're taking to keep you from killing yourself and others is giving you hella nervous tics, so try taking our stuff that'll mess with your mind chemistry even more!" Unbelievable.
Another one we saw on regular rotation for a couple weeks was for a drug that was supposed to lessen the chances of transmission of HIV. Apparently abstinence and barriers aren't enough for the people that managed to get AIDS, now they have a drug that can make it so they can bareback it with their partner - but still have a chance of transmission. The real kicker for that one was that during the obligatory warnings section, they literally said something about not being fully tested in "people assigned female at birth". They refused to say "women", due to wokeness bullshit.
We've also been getting state propaganda regarding ZOMG GET INJECTED TO PROTECT THE KIDS AT CHRISTMAS, which garnered an eyeroll from both me and my wife. She's usually fairly apolitical (albeit left-leaning on some topics), but she's started noticing that pretty much every ad for anything either has interracial couples, or gay and lesbian couples with adopted kids. When someone who hasn't been following the descent into wokeness starts noticing things, you know it's getting bad.
Valid. Most chick-lit these days (and a large chunk of female-authored sci-fi and fantasy works from the last decade and change, for that matter) is dumbed down to the point of being barely more than a Dick and Jane book. While her works weren't my cup of tea, at least it was at an adult level.
"White Christmas", as a song, will probably continue to be allowed unless some wokie decides that the "white" in the title refers to people instead of snow on the ground.
Now, if they wanted to really get up in arms they need to get all a-flutter over the entirety of Holiday Inn, the precursor movie to White Christmas, and the original source of the song. The film originated in 1942 and features some now cringe-worthy depictions of Der Bingle's black housekeeper (and her kids), as well as a musical number based around Lincoln's Birthday, where everyone in the production and the staff at the inn are in blackface.
This rule set is definitely worth checking out, and you can't beat the price. Basing it on the 3.5 SRD was definitely a good path for them to take, and I do like the fact that you can get hardcopy of it if you want to.
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At this point, if you're a tabletop gamer, just abandon any current-gen WotC or Paizo product. They've gone beyond drinking the wokeness Kool-Aid. Switch to something like OSR, Dungeon Crawl Classics, or anything that's not D&D or Pathfinder.
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Henry Cavill seems like the type of guy I'd love to sit down and have a beer with, while shooting the shit about tabletop stuff or painting minis. Dude definitely has that gamer bug in his soul.
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Splinter Cell used to be one of my favorite series, but they cocked it up, badly. Hearing that they were planning to reboot it initially intrigued me, but if they're going to turn it into more Ubi open-world bullshit then count me out.
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The less we have NFTs in anything, the better.
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Anyone selling out to TenCent is a bad thing. Full stop.
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Netflix still has an adaptation plan in place for One Piece and YuYu Hakusho. I doubt they'll fare any better than Cowboy Bebop did.
Used book stores are definitely your best friend when it comes to being able to test-drive an author's works, and if you end up liking it you can always replace the "reader" copy with a better copy later on down the line. Doesn't hurt that Rice's works were so mass-produced that paperbacks of them are literally a dime a dozen in the used shops.
I mean, I can get the concept of bleeping F-bombs or releasing edited versions of songs that are going on broadcast radio. If I were a parent I wouldn't want my six-year old belting out "Fuck you, and fuck her too" after listening to the unedited version of the Cee Lo track on the radio. Hell, I cringed when I heard my young nephew singing the hook to DMX's "Up In Here", and asked him where he heard it. Apparently he'd heard the radio-edited version of it, and while it's a catchy hook, the rest of the lyrics are not something you want a grade-school-age white kid signing.
That all being said, they edited out "Eskimo"? That's about the most spineless bullshit I've ever heard. The only reason it's considered offensive is because a bunch of woke, racist, white busybodies got their panties in a bunch on behalf of a native people.
I forced my way through Interview With A Vampire back when the movie came out. I figured if I was going to start reading her stuff, I should jump in with the original work, and everyone in my circle of college-age friends was gushing over it. I wasn't that impressed.
It helped to know when I read the book that Rice originally preferred Rutger Hauer for the part of Lestat when the movie was being cast, but it still felt like I was wasting my time reading it - and this is coming from someone who absolutely loves Gothic horror. Based as she may have been in her opinions of cancel culture, her writing just wasn't for me - but I'm not you. If you feel you must read her stuff, if only to say you have read Interview, give it a go, you might like it.
Got you one better. My Amazon account has been completely banned from posting any reviews and had ALL of my prior reviews removed because of "suspicious reviewing activity". My crime? Posting several reviews back-to-back on items that I bought, noting that the items were collectible and only available in limited quantities. Apparently that violated "community guidelines", so I received no warnings, no second chance, no nothing - they just straight up cut off my entire ability to review anything. My appeal has fallen on deaf ears, so I've just accepted that Amazon reviews are run by a bunch of crooks and Chinese shills.
A story about how worthless porn is:
When I was in college I had a class called "Logic 101", which was was an introduction to classical logic and argument. The instructor was a crusty old dude who didn't give a shit about other people's opinions and would talk about anything so long as it was tangentially related to being able to make an argument and logically defend it. At one point the topic of discussion in class ping-ponged over to porn and whether it was good or bad.
He started with the aforementioned argument that I posited, and backed it up with this example: When he was younger, he worked in a distribution warehouse as a forklift operator. At various times during his shifts, he said, you would hear a shout go out through the warehouse, and a majority of the workers would flock to whichever loading dock sounded the alert. Upon reaching the dock, you would see the men tearing into a skid of magazines, and passing around the latest issues of whatever porno mags were there. They'd all laugh and hoot about it for ten to twenty minutes, and then when they were done they'd just throw the mags on the ground and go back to their duties. At that point, he'd be driving over the discarded images of women showing off the airbrushed versions of what their momma gave them, which, while normally retailing for a decent sum, were obviously worthless. The men got bored with the pictures so quickly they didn't even bother to throw the magazine away, much less take the copy of it with them - and this was in the day when there was no Internet.
So yeah, porn, while an interesting distraction, really isn't worth it. Dudes should respect themselves more and go do something worthwhile, improving themselves and their lives, instead of wasting time with their hog in their hand.
Deconstruction time!
It cut out massive exploitative aspects
Read: It cut out the women having to fuck the skeevy porn director and blow half the staff at the production house in order to get the part in the video. It's still women exploiting themselves for money.
giving girls the majority of the money
Minus the cut that OF keeps for themselves for handling all the heavy lifting in the back-end of the operation. Exactly what is the "majority" cut out of $5.99, again? Yes, if you multiply that by several hundred it adds up, but that's just more money in the pockets of the hosting company.
choice of what they upload
This one she actually got right. It's all on the e-thot to decide which vag pic to upload today.
option to delete their feeds if they want to.
BWA HA HA HA HAAAA. Someone doesn't know that the Internet is essentially forever. Doesn't matter if the thot deletes her feed, some simp out there has saved the files. Hell, there's browser extensions that are exclusively built for scraping an OnlyFans feed and saving all of the content.
Let's get real: Yes, porn can provide a brief distraction, but in the grand scheme of things, IT'S BORING. There are only so many permutations of angles and positions that the human body can contort into, regardless of props and other things that get used. All OnlyFans does is provide a channel to get it to the simps quicker, while lining the pockets of the dude who runs the corporation that owns the site.
Are the crying ones supposed to kinda look like Rachel Dolezal? Because if it's intentional, that's funny as hell.
Only reason his white-hating, claims-to-be-communist-but-got-rich-on-LARPING-kids ass got the suspension (because let's call it what it is. Twitch "bans" are rarely permanent) was because he got mass-reported and if Twitch had done nothing it would have been an even bigger uproar.
Call us back if they ever permaban him, because there's no way Twitch is cutting the neck of this golden goose.
Hold on to that feeling, because the book doesn't really hold up to more than a couple re-reads. The nostalgia pops lose their kick and you start to notice that it's a pretty bog-standard plot.
FFS, the damn musical is a rip from the plot of Romeo and Juliet to begin with. Why the hell did they think they needed to "update it for modern audiences" and the like?
Spielberg's work has really gone to shit in his later years.
American Embassy: DAT'S RAYCISS
Japanese Government: LOL. LMAO.
Like they give a fuck if a few gaijin are detained and searched? Borders are closed, and they're doing what they think they need to do to keep health and safety under control. If US authorities weren't such pussies when it comes to dealing with race relations, maybe there wouldn't be 13 percent... well, you know the statistic.
Looks like '97 was the last season for it. From the notes I could find, when the show was canceled Fox didn't even bother to let the actors know, which was kind of a dick move, IMO.