People don't like hearing it, but it's actually true, and I have the numbers (and personal experience) to back it up.
Think about what you consider the best the game industry ever was. You're probably thinking somewhere between the SNES/Genesis era and the PS2/Gamecube era, right? Games were way, way more expensive back then. A high profile PS2 game was $50 new back in the early 2000s. Adjusted for inflation, that's $80.
"But what about DLC and microtransactions!" you argue. Oh, you mean like expansion packs? Warcraft 3 was sixty dollars in 2002, which is a hundred bucks today. Add in TFT and you're looking at nearly 200 dollars. Were you complaining about that? Why was Warcraft 3 totally worth it when today the exact same thing is a cynical, corporate cash grab?
How about Street Fighter 2? That game had three different versions on the SNES alone, and they were no different from DLC today. Street Fighter 2 was a hundred fifty dollars in today's money, and that's just the first version which had a whopping eight characters. If they released a fighting game with eight characters for $150 today you'd be rioting in the streets.
Most of you are going to get mad about it, but you know I'm right. The only reason you remember games as being a "better value" is because your mom used to buy them for you. Unless you were an adult in the early 2000s, you don't get an opinion on whether or not games are too expensive nowadays, because they objectively are not.
EDIT: Gonna get this out of the way before anyone has the chance to even bring it up. No, I'm not saying Calla Duty 41: War of Wars is worth $100. But I am saying that modern masterpieces like Elden Ring, Breath of the Wild, Doom Eternal, etc. are. I was willing to pay a hundred bucks for a fantastic game back then, and I still am.
Let's put it this way: Why was the content of Final Fantasy 6 - the actual game itself - worth $150 dollars, but Final Fantasy 15 is only worth $60 despite having a hundred times the complexity and content?
I think when he mentioned being buried alive he was speaking literally. No divorce necessary.
To be fair, it used to be true before 2012. The propaganda has gotten to the point where even adults are inundated by it 24/7. Nobody matures any more because they have Daddy Government keeping them in a mind prison forever.
Won't work. Leftists live in TV world, and in TV world there are literal Nazis around every corner. Showing them the truth in reality is irrelevant to them because they don't exist in reality. You might as well be showing them a parallel dimension.
I can't tell if he's just really good at pretending to be mad at le heckin transphobia or if he's mad at me risking revealing our power level, but he's definitely not happy when I do it.
He's also in a position to lose much more if he gets unpersoned, whereas I'm really not. There's no way he's ever going to be open with his beliefs, at least not while troons are the de facto priesthood class.
>experience pain
>voice immediately drops an octave back to normal
Reminder that "voice training" doesn't actually change their voice. They're constantly expending mental and physical energy keeping up the act, and as soon as they lose focus they sound like men again.
It doesn't matter if more than half the people agree with me. What matters is if the people in power do, and they don't.
I don't approve of it, but I do understand. All it takes is being caught on camera saying YWNBAW and you're unhireable in almost every field for at least a couple years. We're both in comp sci, which is riddled with trannies. If word ever got out how I really feel about them, my only option would be to learn Chinese.
I mean, all you really need to do is work on your post titles. Keep it brief, leave the commentary for the comments section. Then you'd merely be as autistic as the rest of us.
Step 1: Send all your strong young men to die overseas in war after war for nearly 100 years
Step 2: Fill all leadership positions with the remainders - weaklings, women, and people with PTSD
Step 3: Weimerica
In public, my friend goes along with the narrative 100% and gets visibly angry when I speak heresy. In private, he makes fun of trannies and uses their real names and pronouns.
It is absolutely a defense mechanism for almost everyone who isn't a woman under the age of 30.
Security guards at the museum, which houses the Wright Flyer, the Hubble Space Telescope's twin, thousands of other artifacts, and celebrates American achievements in aeronautics and space, kicked the students out of the taxpayer-supported facility earlier this month. "This was an aberration and not reflective of Smithsonian values and practice of welcoming all visitors regardless of viewpoint," Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III said.
Sounds like some piece of shit IRL janny overstepped his bounds and kicked them out illegally. Hopefully xhe got fired, although left wing activitists can get a job basically anywhere these days.
I was 100% sure that empress was a man, purely based on my past experiences with "female" coders.
I'm still not convinced. This may be an example of someone who's so deep into the delusion that they look down on people who are only mostly deluded. Almost no troon actually believes they're female. You can tell by their behavior. So one that truly believes he's female would act the way empress is.
For the record, yes, I am a genuine Sperg, got my gub mints diagnosis,
I don't say this to be insulting, but...
that explains so much
Virtually all trannies are autistic, if you exclude people who are simply pretending for the clout. The explanation is quite simple: many, if not all, autistic people naturally feel uncomfortable and "wrong", especially around puberty when the natural discomfort gets amplified by the autism. They also have a tendency to be extremely gullible because they have a harder time detecting ulterior motives.
Predators take advantage of this by telling them that they're not just uncomfortable, but that they have gender dysphoria and the only cure is medical experimentation and sexual mutilation. And unfortunately, many believe it because they're desperate to feel "normal".
This is one of the most boomer things I've ever read
Even got the extremely dated muh Nazis reference in there for maximum out of touchness
I propose the term "fool's girl"
the voice of Mario himself,
OH SHIT CHARLES MARTINET IS GONNA BE THERE? LET'S-A G-
Chris Pratt,
😐
Protesting only does anything if the establishment already wants to use your cause as a way to increase their own power. The past three years have demonstrated this fact time and again. It's a waste of time and, at best, gets you put on a list.
No, the real way to get what you want cannot be expounded upon here or anywhere else. But I will say this: BLM managed to bring the entire country to its knees - literally - in just a few months. Use their behavior as a guide.
So a bunch of enemies of the state are going to say "Please stop making trillions of dollars and spreading your cult's ideology across the globe"? Can't wait for this to accomplish literally nothing.
The exact same drop happened in America at the same time. The sexual revolution also took place during this time.
We recovered slightly and temporarily, but only because the religious right managed to de-shittify society for a couple decades. Japan hasn't had a unifying religion in probably a century, so there was nothing to stop its women from becoming trash that no man would want.
The whorification of the first world will be its death.
Stevia has only been shown to reduce fertility in rats at doses that would make most humans throw up. People who drink 12 diet sodas a day would probably be affected, but we don't want those people procreating anyway.
The reason for Japan's low fertility is its anti-male culture. Men are supposed to work 80 hours a week until they retire, at which point they're useless and should have the decency to die. Nothing is expected of women, so they spend their days sleeping around and complaining about the largely mythical train groping issue. Japanese men don't want to raise families with entitled whores, so instead they just nope out of society.
Accelerate to what?
Civil war and/or balkanization. They're the only possible outcomes at this point. It is impossible to peacefully reconcile now that they've removed the mask and are openly hostile to white people. They hate us, they want us dead, and they don't care who knows.
Games have never cost under $60 if you factor in inflation. Not even $50. Unless you mean you never buy anything but indie budget titles, in which case I actually agree somewhat. I buy like two AAAs a year these days, and only the ones that are just about guaranteed to make it into my favorite games of all time. I'm too old to be putting in 100 hours on a new game every month like I used to. Give me something I can drop into and out of in the blink of an eye, because that's how life is when you have a mountain of responsibilities.