Which I dont think gets appreciated enough by a lot of people.

You see people show up who look nothing like you, arriving on what for all you know are moving islands, wearing what look like turtle shells of a material you dont know but makes them extremely difficult to attack, with swords made of the same material which is just as sharp as your obsidian without breaking as easily, with sticks that shoot smoke and fire and kill whoever they point it at, as well as much bigger fire sticks that can even destroy a building. And they have come speaking a new language but you eventually gather they want your gold and to have you worship their god.

And your first reaction is to run to them and beg them to kill the Aztecs, and you will worship them as gods if they do it.

Just how bad are the Aztecs to make that happen?

And now we have SJW's and Leftist trying to say that we should respect them and saying that Hispanics should identify with them instead of whatever else they identify with. Which I have found is just another stick being added to the camel that is "Fed Up Hispanics joining lockstep with Right Wing Populist", because they have far more in common with the Conquistadors than the Aztecs (almost like Hispanics are descended from this or something).

It's from the latest DLC I think.

It is. The newest DLC added the three things.

1. The Stock Exchange, which I would argue is not nearly as broken as it seems here (Spiffing gonna' Spiffing after all).

2. Banks, which will send armored cars to business in your city, and will reduce the overall crime rate for areas they are covering.

3. The "Financial Offices" specialization for Office Districts, which will provide a significantly higher amount of taxes (even more if built in a radius around the Stock Exchange) in exchange for a happiness malice applied to people who work in the zone.

Maybe with the "older" crowd, but most people I know of who of Reddit think it is either unhinged to the Left or unhinged, period.

Which sucks, because I like to use it to keep up with some of my hobbies, but the SubReddits that are actually chill and open to discussion are few and far between.

If the list of concessions that has been floating around is real, they more or less have his balls in a vice grip and can squeeze them at will.

Everyone is talking about the return to the Jeffersonian rule on Speakers where it only takes one member to call for a vote of confidence in the speaker. But some of the other rumored concessions (at least showing up in the MSM, so probably with some reasonable inside scoops) are as follows:

1. MacCarthy-aligned PAC's stay out of primary races.
2. Debt ceiling hikes must be paired with spending cuts.
3. Appropriations bills moved individually instead of Omnibus.
4. Freedom Caucus members given seats on various committees. Apparently, there will also be 3 FC members on the Rules Committee, which gives them veto authority over a significant chunk of House matters.
5. Discretionary spending capped at 2022 levels.
6. 72-hours required to review bills before they are allowed a floor vote.
7. Make it easier for members to offer amendments to bills.
8. Creation of a "Church"-style committee to investigate corruption and weaponization of US agencies, especially, but not limited to, the FBI.
9. Restoration of the "Holman Rule", which allows for the defunding, firing, and even outright elimination of bureaucratic positions and departments without having to follow traditional appropriations rules.

If that is true, then the Populist have a huge amount of power because they grabbed MacCarthy by the balls and decided to ride the tiger instead of backing down. But hey, he seems happy since he has his precious little gavel. Which I suppose is the one good thing we have over MacCarthy compared to the likes of McConnell. MacCarthy is just a stooge who will ride with whoever will give him the power he wants. And if that means giving some significant concessions to the FC so he can think he has power, then so be it. And if he starts having second doubts because he has his buttboy Frank Luntz whispering in his ear, just squeeze his balls until he says uncle.

This has been floating around for about a year now (or at the very least 8+ months). And I can assure you that, based on what we have heard through mostly rumors of the live-action ATLA, it is not going to be that bad.

...It's worse.

It will be set in the modern day real world, they will all be high school students with no powers (except Aang). Their titles and roles will be changed to match the setting (IE: Ozai is now a powerful CEO instead of a king/emperor, etc). And most of the plot will revolve around typical YA high school drama stuff. "What does any of this have to do with Avatar?" I hear you asking. And the answer is.......well.......they have the same names, I guess?

Whatever is actually true, it was so bad that, after it being advertised that "We have the original creators on board for this project!", they left and put out a message saying effectively "Whatever hellspawn you end up seeing, just know we had nothing to do with it!" They are now working on actually adapting into animation the graphic novels they wrote that take place between the original series and Legend of Korra, which will probably be much more faithful and on brand.

Meanwhile, we have a family friend who is a black guy and fairly high ranked in a local security force. And due to his interactions with these sort of blacks, he strongly and unironically believes the old "Black People vs. Nigga's" distinction laid out by Chris Rock back in the 90's.

Two things from what I have found:

1. Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations. Most SJW's and Leftist activist really do believe the best a black person can aspire to be is a violent thug little more advanced than an ape. So when they act out and do their thing, you just need to leave them alone, get out of their way, and let them burn themselves out until it is safe to be around them again. They usually believe this sort of stuff because...

2. They are actually, unironically, as racist as they claim the average person is. Which feeds into the feedback loops that the Left keeps creating of believing the stuff they do because they are best of Humanity (they said so), and if they are that racist and bigoted, imagine how much more the lesser normies must be! And the blacks in their ranks think whites must be a bunch of people who behind closed doors still treat it like it is 1836 and it is the White Man's job to civilize them. After all, the white Leftist say that, and they are the good ones (they said so), so just imagine how much more racist the average normie must be!

Also worth pointing out that "900 miles of of unprotected border" is unprotected because it is effectively impassible terrain. Its all swamp, bogs, and taiga forest. Even reindeer dont move through there. The only part of the border that matters is the one near Karelia, just like in 1939.

Same. The ones I have been to have always been fairly straight forward and nie. And while the food is nothing to write home about, I have had far worse. So it's at least a good "We know it will work" restaurant.

Yes, they are. Which are very good (if very basic) kids movies, with no really unreasonable messages. There is a reason the newest Minions movie was one of the only movies to make more money than Top Gun in 2022.

So if Illumination is indeed working on an animated Legend of Zelda, I am...cautiously optimistic.

For me, I have kind of just became a-la carte on my Star Wars. If something is good, like Andor, I will watch it, and I will skip anything else and do my best to pretend it never existed.

Which admittedly results in me having a very....strange Star Wars timeline (Episode 1-3, Rogue One+Andor, Episode 4-6, the good Post 6 stuff taking place in the far reaches of the galaxy where information travels difficult, then instead of Episode 7 we go into the original EU a few years late).

As for Thrawn, so far he has only been animated and shown up in Rebels. But he is rumored to be in the Ashoka series, and either way their VA nails the role, at least IMO.

The fun thing is, he is technically right...If and only if we count Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau as the entirety of Lucasfilm.

It is absolutely no coincidence that the more free rein he has had, the more "Star Wars" the series have been. He basically had a blank check when making Season 1 of Mando, as well as a lot of leeway in Season 2. He did most of Star Wars Rebels, which was a pretty good entry and finally introduced Grand Admiral Thrawn to the Disney universe (you have no idea how much I would pay and/or Kill to have the Thrawn Trilogy on video). He has free rein of The Bad Batch, which I think is pretty good even if it kind of flies under the radar. And apparently he has free rein with the upcoming Ahsoka series, and there have been rumors he is going to finally put into canon his "eject" button in case Disney ever has a moment of sanity and decides to fix Star Wars.

Star Wars would be infinitely better off if those guys were in charge of it. We will see what will happen. Because now it is starting to come out in sources that are usually accurate with their dirt (instead of just mere rumor mongers) that Kathleen Kennedy is out of Lucasfilm after Indy 5 is release. On terms that will make it sound like the leaving of the conquering hero, of course, but still. The optimist in me hopes Filoni gets the big chair at Lucasfilm, even thought that probably wont happen because Disney Gonna Disney until they literally cant anymore.

I dont doubt any of that. But then why throw his own fellow travelers under the bus by court martialing them for doing exactly what he was doing, right down to still serving the goal of "getting" Trump.

I am sure there would be a strategy there. Unless, like you said in another comment here, that he really is just the Turbo-Retard version of McClellan.

One of my fiancés favorite things to do whenever she has an SJW try to tell her that all of these sort of characters are just there for the "male gaze" and "sexualizing women", she tells the SJW's "How dare you oppress bisexuals like me!" It has actually caused some of them to bluescreen because they dont know how to respond to on of their groups they claim to speak for going against the message.

As for myself, I am actually not a huge fan of the super skimpy look, and I generally prefer my female characters more along the lines of this, where it is a nice balance of femininity and modesty, and when I want something a bit more "enticing" I prefer that same sort of balance (another example).

But obviously, even that is fairly far removed from what modern Western entertainment has become, where it really does seem like they try to make every woman hyper-masculine while also making them butt ugly.

If we go by what the usual problem is, the creative types who live in LA probably only see black women who look like they are in terrible shape, with ratty hair and messed up skin, and that "This is a black woman." So that becomes all of them, and all of the ones who look normal dont exist.

Milley said he was concerned about politicization of the military

BUT THAT WAS YOU!!! YOU DID THAT YOU ABSOLUTE BABOON!!!!!

I swear to baby Jesus, these people are about 5 IQ points above being legally retarded, and it swings depending on the day.

The answer is that it is probably 3/4 of women that she knows fuck dogs. Because they all congregate together and then convince themselves that it is the norm, when most actual normal people think they are freaks.

With the Christian comments in the 3rd image though, I think she is just a straight up schizo though, because There is nothing else to imply she is Christian and she is getting the Bible wrong on multiple fronts and verses if she thinks that is true.

Even when they were bad, they could be made great. Through Razorfist, I discovered there was a cartoon of Battletech/Mechwarrior made in the 90's. It was absolute ham, completely over the top, didnt really fit the tone of most Battletech lore, and there were a lot of other non-canon things that happened with it. So the show only lasted for one season and then was ended.

BUT, the Battletech lore owners decided to run with it, and made the cartoon canon. Not that the cartoon story was canon, the cartoon itself is canon to the Battletech world. In lore, it was made as childrens propaganda for the Inner Sphere, which is why it portrays the Clans so over the top.

I just thought it was a fun way of sidestepping a bad product, and you would never see modern Hollywood think up something like that.

And now you know why there was so much seething and gnashing of teeth over Elon buying Twitter.

I came for the funny rocket man letting me make memes again.

I discovered an international web of corruption and oppression of the American people, as well as the free people of the western world.

I suppose one one good thing (at least hope) is that Elon getting his hands on Twitter and getting rid of all of these brainwashed Leftist and their Security State handlers is that, if Twitter continues to speak freely because of Elon, it will be that much harder for them to pull this shit off. Especially because they have made Democrats/Leftist so depending on getting their NPC updates through Twitter by destroying all competition (oops...) that it may make it the bots get stuck in a loop.

Netflix in general is something I have a very love-hate relationship with. Obvious, they are terrible for all of the race swapping shit.

But at the same time, they have a great Anime library (Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Vinland Saga, etc), and a lot of more niche movies are some of my favorites I have ever seen. Specifically, Wheelman, The Highwaymen, and The Irishman. All movies that feel like movies used to, but just so happening to be on Netflix. I also generally like their documentaries.

Still probably not going to have it any time soon though and will continue to account share with my parents. But we will see what the future holds.

Agreed. The second I heard the article say that the "anime" this girl was watching included pedo and incest stuff, I was about 99% sure it was hentai. Almost no mainstream anime has those sort of themes (save for cousins due to weirdness in Japanese law/customs), and the anime that does you generally have to actively seek out because it is hyper-niche. Hentai though? That shit is rampant.

I dont normally care about porn like some has started to, but I can see what they are getting at with how warped some hentai can be.

I also have Dune on my wishlist. The Starship Troopers one is definitely very fun, but I will say that it is less of a "strategy" game and more of a moveable tower defense game. Since all of your strategies are about setting up strong gun lines and then letting the bugs to come you.

The Engels-2 Air Base was also just droned, again.

Insert Spongebob "It's even funnier the second time!" meme here

For Anime, it has been SpyXFamily for more lighthearted stuff, and Eight-Six:86 for more heavy themes.

For general Youtube channels, it has been a lot Black Pants Legion (mostly Tex, naturally), TheRussianBadger, Max0r, and GrayStillPlays, all of which are just straight gaming channels. With the last three focusing mostly on more meme-y styles. I also second OP on Solus Astoria and Templin Institute. And yes, I also watch V-Tubers because I am nothing if not a weeb.

For more serious non-political topics on Youtube, I enjoy Drachinifel, who goes over stats and designs of Age of Sail up through World Wars warships, but much like The Chieftain for tanks (which I also watch him), he takes a more serious look at the ships and their abilities, which leads to him actually looking at their abilities instead of just stats (ie: He constantly dunks on the Bismarck-class for being a hilarious inefficient design that in some cases had worse fighting ability than ships that weight 5,000-10,000 tons less than it and were years older in design).

On the gaming front, I have had absolutely no shortage of games, with my top ones for the year being 40k: Darktide, Victoria 3, Starship Troopers: Terran Command, and Elden Ring. Here on New Years Day, I was actually going to be making a thread of what people are looking forward to for upcoming, because my list is way too long (which is why I dont believe anyone who says Gaming is dying).

The last unusual but fun thing is that, with having moved into my own house now, I live on the side of town that has the trailhead for a biking path around the city, so I started riding that from the Spring to the Fall just to start working out. By the time I was at shutting it down because it was getting too cold, I was able to get through the whole 30-ish mile trail in about 40 minutes. So now I have a goal to beat come next summer.

I definitely wouldnt say no.