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TheMerleOfHaggard 3 points ago +3 / -0

There's a speech is violence section (paraphrased later on too). Complaining that the participants as well as the judges should be able to call out 'violence' when they experience it.

You'd think debate club would be the last place the 'I win because feelings' would pervade. How did they win that argument? Debate is over now, just say trans.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 8 points ago +8 / -0

Why is their logo a baby sphincter? Nevermind. I don't have to ask.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 17 points ago +17 / -0

It's like an allegory for most Americans as a whole. Never learned that actions have consequences. Participation trophies. Participation university. Participation career.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 3 points ago +3 / -0

The Shenmue games inspired the Yakuza games. So I would play them instead. Yakuza: Like a Dragon is much different than the rest of the series. Completely different play style, but honestly my favorite so far.

Fist of the Northstar: Lost Paradise is a bit similar.

For musou, if you don't mind aging graphics, Warriors Orochi 3: Ultimate Definitive has a fucking huge cast. Lots of Dynasty Warriors heroes in there. It's like an ensemble of 4 different musou games.

If you have a Switch, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is fast and fun, and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes combines a musou and like a Final Fantasy Tactics job system into one game. I liked it a lot. It's got 3 different play thrus as well.

I like the One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 and 4 games. Both musou. They each got their own charm and strengths. Though, 3 is getting a bit long in the tooth now, and 4 feels DLC grabby. Check them out on sale or the high seas.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 7 points ago +7 / -0

Women, have some self-control, keep your body count low, and you will have more negotiating power. Dudes don't want to share every facet of their finances with whores.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 26 points ago +26 / -0

The nerve to say this after every streaming show, comic book, and game in the past 4 years.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 10 points ago +10 / -0

Pretty much. They had to do it in secret because they knew it was the wrong thing to do. No matter how my truthing and lived experiencing they did. Because, rationally, where do you draw the line? Who gets to decide what gets destroyed anytime someone is offended?

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TheMerleOfHaggard 12 points ago +12 / -0

Man.. remember when corporations used to protect their branding? You spend a billion to license a character/franchise, you paid a continuity/expert/enthusiast to protect your investment, or the licenser demanded you followed certain guidelines. Like Tom Shippey from the LotR property. When Rings of Power axed him because he was standing in Mary Sue's way, you knew the show was in trouble.

Now it's like no one is protecting their branding or IP. It's a race to the bottom to out virtue each other, and the characters and properties get fucking wrecked in the process.

I don't care if a danger hair doesn't like Dungeon and Dragons or Warhammer. Just part of your fucking job is being a good steward to the thing that the fans love. They are the only reason the property got large enough to hire your untalented ass.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 10 points ago +10 / -0

Rich city elites unable to cope that they lost some precious rungs of the progressive stack. They gotta try and claim some victimhood back, or they will become 'far right' as the purity spiral moves pretty fast.

We are oppressed too! Don't shut us out! Puhhleeeeeeeaaasseeeeeeeeee I'm not getting as many likes on Twitter. Trump bad, the very baddest! I'm like yououuuuuu. Is how I interpret this.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 29 points ago +29 / -0

This leftist warping of language needs to be stopped first, to combat this at a more root level. This whole 'assigned at birth' shit is legal weaselese.

Gender isn't assigned at birth. Sex is observed at birth.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 17 points ago +17 / -0

Hmmm.. Murder has a very loose definition. Almost like woman or insurrection. Sophistry is fun!

The cops murdered Saint Floyd, first of his name, by failing to stop his suicide by fentanyl. Got it. May he watch over the dank streets of Minneapolis, and protect the sacred Dindu tribe.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 32 points ago +32 / -0

Eating bug chitin long term is deadly. First manifests as inflamed airways and asthma onset. We'll probably see all kinds of law changes so you can't sue these global bug pushers.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 15 points ago +15 / -0

The plan is prob as govt snatches up these courses, eventually it'll be owned by Blackrock/Vanguard. 5-10 years from now (maybe... 2030 gasp) these cities will sell to 'create equity for marginalized inner city trans youths who are at risk for self harm due to colonization' or some excuse, but really just unloading these huge swaths of land to corporate overlords for budget prices. 15 minute cities goooooooooo!

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TheMerleOfHaggard 4 points ago +4 / -0

These writers, I say that very generously, are so fucking retarded and insulated in bubblespace, that their life experience is a literal hinderance in storytelling. They don't know shit but their Tumblr tripe, and the way social media is, they'll never get out of that bubble.

Secondly, editors should be pushing back. These are superhero comics, not food blogs, activism pamphlets or whatever the fuck this is. The editors now are just paper pushers. They can't create either. Nobody is shepherding these 80-100 year old IPs, or protecting these (once) billion dollar brands. It's just corporate drones, unqualified for this space, making garbage. They ran all of the actual creatives out, hired their whisper network comrades, all hoping to get in on some quick Netflix pitch money, and break into Hollywood.

They don't read comics. They never read comics. I'm not counting webtoons gay fanfics as comics.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 4 points ago +4 / -0

Streets of Rogue (I'm looking forward to 2), Rogue Legacy 2, Death Road to Canada have been what I've been playing lately. I got a lot less time to commit, so these are easy to jump in, jump out, but there's investment over time.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 10 points ago +10 / -0

Well. Pretty good reason to disregard him going forward. I'm never gonna get aboard the collective guilt train. Even if it's just for the simple reason that it will never be applied remotely equally.

You want reparations? You've already gone way past the amount you could possibly claim whitey owes with decades of 13/51. You already got it. We're talking collectively, right? Yah. You already got reparations, black America.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 2 points ago +2 / -0

I didn't buy Miles Morales because it was a BLM themed cash grab. No way I'm buying Spiderman 2 Activist Edition. It's a shame, because the gameplay in the first one was pretty fucking good. The open world shit got real repetitive, but brawling and doing those gang lairs was pretty fun.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 11 points ago +11 / -0

Isn't this the muppet that said that there was no inflation for 3 financial quarters? Then 'there might be a little bit... we miscalculated..' (paraphrasing)

Why should geriatric Fozzy be trusted on anything?

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TheMerleOfHaggard 5 points ago +5 / -0

They need the huwhite supremes narrative to keep their cognitive dissonance under control. They can be the most horrible people in their ivory towers as long as an imagined Bo and Luke Duke are out there rampaging in their racist gas-powered cars.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 7 points ago +7 / -0

Good thing the words weren't fatal. That would be scary. Deadly words are everywhere. He's lucky he survived the reading.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yah 'Kurp' is great. He writes a lot of the comedy on Kyle Dunnigan's channel. Some good shit on there. I like that he keeps stuff more casual on the show, instead of letting things feel too newsroom.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 12 points ago +12 / -0

Like out in the wild, at least in Tampa, I haven't seen Ukraine or Israel flags. I have seen some 'stand with Ukraine' lettering on church signs, but it makes sense as they are Orthodox churches.

It's mostly just the boutique Blue No Matter Who genre in yards around here, and the umbrella stuff under that.

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TheMerleOfHaggard 4 points ago +4 / -0

Well, like I said above, he's ok. I do give him a lot of credit for going out there boots on the ground and talking to locals. Also championing some of the East Palestine, Ohio stuff.

My gut tells me he'll fall into identitarian traps every step of the way if there is some kind of populist revival / revolution.

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