I wish my life was so comfortable and privileged that being told I'm not allowed to kill a baby seemed "draconian" to me. Imagine living a life so devoid of challenge that you stop maturing at the age of four.
That's the thing. HFW already has things like that. There are doors that need to be pried open for no reason other than because prying takes extra long, thereby giving the game more time to load what's behind it. So someone at that company understood the concept. But I guess not everybody.
I'm relatively tall and the lifting thing is real. My shoulders disintegrate into a fine powder if I try to do anything with them because the center of gravity is farther away from my body due to my orangutan arms. The shorter your arms, the more mechanical advantage when it comes to lifting. To a point, of course. It's simple physics.
"Why does it still have this problem? The industry solved this YEARS ago!"
Horizon Forbidden West. It has major issues with not loading chunks fast enough when you open a door, leading to you falling through the floor or objects spawning on top of you.
Solved at least as long ago as Metroid Prime, where sometimes doors would take extra long to open because the areas behind them needed more time to load. This is like game programming 101 type shit and they still somehow forgot to implement it.
Half a mile? It takes ten minutes to walk half a mile. And that's if you're walking at a very casual pace of 3 mph. If you can't manage 3 miles an hour for ten minutes once a week, you're either so fat that lack of access to food is an objective good, or you have some horrible disease and no amount of proximity to grocery stores can help you anyway.
I live in an uncomfortably blue state, although thankfully nowhere near the festering hives that are the cities which act as the DNC's vital organs. I do have to go closer than I'd care to on a regular basis. Still, I've only met a couple legitimate NPCs. The kind who react to proof that CNN lied to them by getting mad and simply re-stating the narrative over and over until you stop trying to force them to think.
Bona fide NPCs are actually quite rare. The overwhelming majority of true believers aren't NPCs, they're useful idiots. They can think, they simply choose not to because it's easier to just do what you're told. It's the same way nearly all dogs will take abuse day after day rather than attempt to fight back. The abuse may be bad, but fighting back means you have to decide that today is the day that you either die or go free. It's a scary concept. Breaking out of the cycle of blind obedience is the same way. They have to be forced to leave their stupor, because they're comfortable where they are and have no reason to live any other way.
I thought the Kill Whitey Riots would have woken a lot of them up, but no. They have to experience the violence and degeneracy themselves, personally. And even then, many will choose to stay asleep.
They don't trust other women. They just trust men even less than other women. Removing men removes the primary threat and leaves them with a lesser threat to take care of later.
With women, the hierarchy goes self, women, men. With men, it goes women, self, men. Men are always on the bottom no matter what.
I genuinely had no idea it was supposed to take place in 2002 until after I watched it and read the Wikipedia article. The only real hint is that the kids all had candy bar and flip phones rather than smart phones, and that the main character had a Tamagotchi, but both of those things are still sold in exactly the same form as in the movie, and the idea of a bunch of 13 year olds not being given expensive smartphones was just taken for granted by me.
They didn't actually reference anything that happened in the early 2000s. The only way you'd ever know is if you paid really close attention and connected all the vague one-shot references together.
It's a forced meme among the left. Some guy (Mr. Enter, whoever that is) said that the movie doesn't address 9/11, so now the NPCs are forcing themselves to pretend that the right wing is mad that the movie wasn't based solely around 9/11.
Here was his deranged alt-right rant:
This film takes place less than a year after the September 11 terrorist attacks. I bring this up because it radically altered the culture of the time in ways that make this movie feel exceptionally ignorant of the time.
Yes, that's the entire thing.
He's not entirely wrong. It's all people on this continent were talking about for years to come. It would be a little weird for a kid's movie to address it, but this isn't a kid's movie. It's a movie for thirtysomething Asian women disguised as a children's movie.
"If I lose followers for this, so be it", he says while parroting NPC opinions to fellow NPCs.
If there's one thing more annoying than being an unthinking establishment drone, it's pretending that being an unthinking establishment drone is some dangerous and revolutionary act.
I'm about as right wing as you can get without stepping into "whispering bible verses to my rifle in a bunker" territory, and I'm a total environmentalist. Conserving the planet is a right wing position.
Of course, for me that means ending foreign aid, ending global supply chains, no more business with China, India, or Africa until they sort their shit out. You know, things that would actually matter big picture. Things neither the DNC nor the GOP would ever do because it'd be unprofitable.
I do know what you mean though. Half-assed virtue signals about "going green" are often a red flag for woke beliefs. The question is, are they doing it for ass pats or because they actually care?
E;R, as always, is saying exactly what I thought. It could have been an okay movie, but it was way over the top with the spelled-out metaphors and the sexualization of a 13 year old girl.
He's also the first person I've seen that noticed how skeezy it was to have this girl making money by selling "panda pics" (actual terminology used in the movie), where the panda is an allegory for puberty and/or womanhood. I don't know if the creators were just too stupid to notice how they're basically having their main character selling child porn or if they did it on purpose, but either way I really can't believe how few people even noticed let alone got upset about it.
It's from SomethingAwful. SA users call themselves goons. Trans SA users called themselves troons. Trans + goon.
Eventually that word became a slur because the troons were, unsurprisingly, obnoxious and universally reviled. It is also unsurprising that SA had so many of them that they felt the need to invent their own word for themselves.
It's a GameJournoPros kind of situation. The propagandists all receive a letter telling them what kind of language to use, they do it, and the brainless idiots following them all start obediently and automatically repeating the new phrase, just like they've been programmed to.
The puppetmaster is the megacorp that owns these journalists, which we already knew.
Twitter results for "shoe leather reporting", 4-18 to 4-19: one
They really are NPCs.
Disclaimer: Many of the results for the second search are people mocking the sudden explosion of the term "shoe leather reporting", but at least half are unironic uses of the term.
Because Obama said it. It's that simple. They're like children who want to be like their favorite cartoon character. Whenever a leftist says "folks", you should imagine a child saying "paw patrol, let's roll", because it's the exact same mechanism.
The only hope I have left for this country is a handful of states going full anti-federalist and creating safe havens for people who want to live without a boot on their throat. DeSantis seems to be willing to do this for Florida. If we had another 20 of him in various states across the country, we might be able to balkanize this dead country just enough to create a semi-amicable national divorce situation.
The only other options are a night of long knives or full on civil war, and not many people want either of those.
Gee, he hates the south, is bisexual, and says things like "HMU if LA is the vibe"? We've got a unique free-thinker here, people. A real rebel who makes his own roads.
Also, age at birth of first child is higher than it's ever been in human history. Teen pregnancy exists almost entirely along racial lines at this point. You know what else goes along racial lines? Having two parents who take an active role in raising their kids. Parental involvement reduces teen pregnancy. Government involvement increases it.
But I shouldn't be surprised that a Redditor lives in crazy fantasy world where everything is the opposite of reality.
Only because you were young and weren't paying attention back then. We've been experiencing the same city-destroying race riots, college students protesting whatever the media tells them, propaganda disguised as news, and Hollywood subversion for at least 60 years now.
The left has always been the exact same rancid flavor of evil. You've just refined your palate.
They are NPCs who literally believe that the bill makes it illegal to say the word "gay". We're dealing with a level of complacency and brainwashing humanity has never seen before.
Think of how pretty that would be. Miles and miles of glass, the ocean on one side, redwood forest on the other. People would fly in from across the globe to see it.
I think we should seriously consider this course of action.
It started out as the former and for a little while was the latter.
Yep. It all started with The Simpsons. Not to say the Simpsons is (was?) this specific kind of "adult cartoon", but it was the first of its generation to appeal to people other than kids and it gave Seth MacFarlane the idea of "what if simpsons but edgier". And then someone copied him, and someone copied that person, and so forth. So now what we have is a bunch of identical, exaggerated Simpsons homunculi where someone thinks they're being clever because they made a cartoon say "fuck".
Around the time of Big Mouth, they just stopped caring and are making things purely for money laundering purposes. It's no coincidence that a bunch of pedophiles chose a show about pedophilia to let everyone know that they no longer need an audience.
They rolled out the propaganda way too hard. They went from "oh no, war" to "the russians are using secret nazi symbols to communicate that they want to literally destroy the entire world by nuking chernobyl". It got too fucking crazy too fast even for normies.
Some amount of media hysteria is expected, but they need to learn how to keep some of the more exciting stuff for later acts. You can't just dump all your exposition immediately and expect people to keep tuning in after the story grinds to a halt.
I don't care if she went from white to black or black to Asian or Hispanic to Martian. The customer paid for something and they changed it to something else. Offering refunds is the objectively correct thing to do.