When I hear 'doctor' I stop listening, it's an even better strike rate.
Haven't heard of this guy and he sounds reasonable and intelligent. Will try to remember to check him out in future.
"I heard a fire beep- a fire alarm"
The moment all the cops hit X to doubt.
Interesting. This is not the first time Metro 2033 has been free and I picked it up from such a deal many years ago. I checked to see which version it was and it turns out it's the original which has been de-listed. Guess I got lucky, but thanks to the philosophy of endless remakes, everyone else gets stiffed or they have to pirate.
What happened to DignifAI? Seems like if AI edits cut too deep then they get hobbled quick.
If you can get over the reddity/geek & sundry -esque cringe to the whole performance, Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinneman is a surprisingly good listen. 'LitRPG' is what the kids call the genre, I believe... Basically a dungeon game/isekai-esque scenario with a Douglas Adams/Pratchett-adjacent tone - considerably less tongue in cheek than those authors but with the same kind of slightly ludicrous world setting used as a backdrop for more serious character moments. The setting boils down to sci fi since the starting premise is essentially Hitchhiker's Guide, but rather than turning Earth into a hyperspace bypass, aliens turn earth into a dungeon survival reality show instead. However the dungeon in the story is so vast and flexible it may as well be an isekai too.
A friend sent me their copies and I listened grudgingly, because I'm mostly allergic to anything that smells of video gameplay systems in story form - isekais, quest-based adventures and such, basically all modern anime. Around the end of book 2 I was having to ditch the idea that I was listening grudgingly or annoyed by the tropes or the hit-or-cringe voicing any more. Instead I was consistently entertained by the high stakes buildup and payoffs in the absurd scenarios that the dungeon keeps spewing out. There's 7 books out now with around 20-30h of listening in each.
If you like British humour, I recommend the in-character autobiographies of Alan Partridge, written and voiced by Steve Coogan: 'I, Partridge', 'Nomad' and 'Big Beacon'. Matt Berry has done a similar book from the perspective of his character Stephen Toast from the series Toast of London: 'Toast on Toast: Cautionary tales and candid advice'. It's a touch more surreal and absurd than the Partridge ones, but if you've seen the show you'll know what to expect. If you haven't, it's a kind of absurdist parody/satire about British actors, on a similar level to Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.
We don't have a neutral society with fanatical interlopers any more. It's the other way around, we've been infiltrated too deep. They've irradiated the bedrock. In the same way they can no longer just print what their enemy says - they have to headline it 'bad man claims (without evidence)' or completely fail to report it - they also can't risk just showing different eras and value systems unaltered, because people might like them. We're living in commie totalitarianism.
Her message seems carefully crafted too, likely to make it less nauseous to her voters but possibly even to make it less nauseous to her. There are multiple gay pride flag overlays - but no mention of gays and trannies in her mealy mouthed message, just lots of babble about multicultural harmony, human rights and cooperation while taking care to insert the trojan word 'diversity', as yet undefined.
Also in the middle of all this she drops in 'children's rights', then fails to elaborate any further. Since I'm not awake long, I'm ashamed to say I heard this then spent 2-3 seconds thinking 'oh well maybe she's not all bad' then realised this is staking out ground to poison for later - 'children's rights' means either the right for feminist mothers to mutilate their kids' genitals or it means anchor babies. The definition will come at a later date, while all the women and terminally slow political retards are still nodding at 'children's rights', but by then it will be too late to disagree with whatever definition this mayor and her handlers come up with.
I can't imagine being supposed alt media and still being too dumb to identify basic elements of narrative craft and infowar. The only reason a journo should agree to an unquotable meeting with heads of state is if they think they can get useful info out of them. Tim essentially went along and just asked Bibi 'isn't online anti-Israel sentiment just, like, anti-semitism?' and got the reply 'idk, guess so', then he bragged about this interaction. What a retard.
Looking more and more like a limited hangout. More than a few insiders must have known what trash the covid jabs were and how much blowback they would cause for vaxx orthodoxy in general. Who better to install as a way of limiting damage to faith in existing vaccines, but an 'anti-vaxxer' who once spoke against them...?
Good game, too simple to contain any real politics, but I did notice that one of the Challenge Deck runs is called '15 Minute City'. The concept of a 15 minute city is itself a WEF buzzphrase, using the idea of convenient amenities and public transport as a trojan horse to soften people up to the idea of atomised communities who don't have full freedom to use their own vehicles. The devs have either regurgitated it uncritically or they're actually useful idiots who like the idea.
Japanese stuff, sure. Western games, not so much.
Currentyear lefty politics are monolithic and you only need to sample them being vocal on a single topic to immediately know where they stand on all the others like vaxx, immigration, Ukraine, Israel, metoo, BLM, muh tariffs etc. Although they might repeat and repost stuff thinking the sentiments are genuinely all their own, they've arrived at their positions through a uniform and formulaic narrative-crafting effort by the Powers That Be.
So it's no surprise you can feed all their posts to a robot and it will tell you that this shit all smells the same. The consistent denial of reality which prevails over these people can only be arrived at by pulling on very similar levers: either you co-opt a moral authority and feed them conclusions through that, eg. in the form of an emotional anecdote about trans genocide or whatever, or you co-opt a technical authority and feed them conclusions in the form of facts from a bought-out 'expert' source. In the absence of any other guiding principles, it's very easy to go to the root of all their decision-forming and control the entirety of their outlook. All the types who would have been sucking off Chomsky years ago don't particularly care how their own consent is manufactured, apparently.
This is also why they're so aggressive in attacking what they identify as the equivalent sources on the right: Tate, Brand, Alex Jones, Grummz, whoever... Because they think all opinions on the opposing side are formed in the same way that theirs are, so if they can just block up the source, the river will stop flowing.
Past a certain point it stops mattering if the things they're reposting are genuinely held opinions or calculated attempts at manipulation. The manipulated soon become the enthusiastic manipulators of eachother inside their feedback-looped cliques. The substack authors, or whatever they are, might just be other progressives in an earlier section of the loop. This is why 'mind virus' is an accurate term because it takes on a momentum of its own, although that term still doesn't tell anyone very much about what to do to counter it.
A further question is when was the last time we were free of faggotry in RPG romances, since it was still obtrusively present at least as far back as New Vegas. That leads to IMO a better question which is 'are RPG characters exclusively bioware-sexual now?' As in, is every romanceable character now bisexual as a result of making the player character a blank slate projection? Because if the answer is yes then you can never escape the faggotry - all the male chars in your game canonically suck dick, making them faggots. But if the answer is no, and there are still games containing characters of realistic pre-baked sexual orientations - as opposed to ciphers from commie propaganda who depict eternally flexible sexuality - then at least you have the option of straight characters in straight relationships, even if the game does contain others who are gay.
This is what makes KCD2 so egregious. KCD1 was explicitly the tale of a fixed main character, with certain immutable characteristics, interacting with other fixed characters. It was obviously this, and for those who are too retarded to differentiate between what I just described and blank slate writing, the devs also went on record and described it the way I have. There should have been no question of bioware-sexual interactions because of the nature of the story - but Warhorse went ahead and gayed up those established characters anyway in the sequel. It is far worse an example of sexual political propaganda than anything in any game made by or for the woke clique.
And I guess what KCD2 means for your question is that no, you're never free of faggotry any more, even when the very nature of the prior established canon means you should be.
Yes.
The release of two-tier treatment in black and white text appeared to make it official, but Kier Starmer "saves the day" by claiming they will fast track legislation to overturn the new guidelines.
I thought this while reading it. The idea that the British govt is somehow outraged by two tier sentencing guidelines proposed by a faceless third party 'sentencing body', and that the main resistance to two tier judgement is coming from Pakistani minister for justice and marvel superheroine SHABANA MAHMOOD...! ...is laughable. It's straight from the Blairite spin playbook.
"You see, whiteys? There is no '''''''''''two tier''''''''' system - but maybe there would be if it wasn't for pakis saving you from it! Aren't you ashamed now, conspiracy theorists??" Bollocks story.
Speedrun trannies absolutely BTFO forever.
A ban on all foreigners is just as cowardly. The problems are overwhelmingly coming from non-white tourists. It's not the average Q-boomer family with cameras who are 'stealing, smoking and spitting', it's almost certainly the Chinese. There's no point growing the balls to discriminate but not enough to narrow it down. For our part, white people have to stop accepting that we should automatically fall into any discriminated-against basket as soon as anyone else starts restricting along racial lines.
Judging by the clip you can tell the calculation works. You just need brown skin and a negro cadence to your voice, then say whatever you want like a sassy momma and significant numbers of people are conditioned to whoop along like it's a signal to party.
That seems pretty definitive. 両性の合意のみに基いて成立 - 'established solely on the basis of consent between both sexes'. There should be no constitutional way around this. Gay marriage would be consent between one sex.
The classic feminist pitfall of trying to protect muh wimminz from everything but being unable to avoid enshrining traditional concepts of gender at the same time.
Downvoters might think you're joking (and maybe upvoters too?) but certain japs and jews agree:
He had a magic ingredient in his early comedy which was the sense that he was completely unafraid of a crowd to the point where he was eager to court their discomfort and spite. On the extreme hostile end, this gave birth to such great moments as his rant against the heckling crowd in Philly. With a friendlier crowd, it enabled him to do routines on their sacred cows like feminism and female behaviour, while keeping them on-side with his down-to-earth dumbo schtick. The latter also gave the illusion that he was some kind of champion of common sense standards in an increasingly insane world, or that he was a pro-male voice or whatever...
In retrospect - and this realisation came to me at some point as a shower moment - all of this just comes from the fact that he's a deeply prideful, resentful, insecure guy, who likes the freedom to give one-sided rants on shit without anyone being able to blow him up for them. All his faux-dummy 'don't listen to me, I don't read books' type disclaimers in his acts are a folksy diversion because he secretly believes he's the smartest guy in any given room and hates when he gets any kind of pushback on a serious issue: see the 'let's not start this Joe' line in the vid, when Rogan asks a serious question about how far Burr wants to take covid masking. He seems constantly on the verge of weird vendettas or sulks with anyone who rubs him the wrong way or who applies pressure on his fragile worldview.
As he's gotten richer and more comfortable his perspectives have been more and more divorced from 'common' sense and his outlook has revolved more and more around validating his decision to marry a negress. It's easy to see why progressive delusions are increasingly seductive and comforting to such a guy, same as they're seductive to the average lefty - because he doesn't really believe in anything in the first place, and championing anti-racism or parroting the wokeshit of the month gives him a moral anchor and makes him feel like the good guy, the guy who made the right choices. And he parrots these things in the same tone that he used to deliver obvious scathing takedowns of feminist canards.
In short everything that used to make him funny was an act of compensation for a flawed personality. Now those same mannerisms highlight the flaws instead of cloaking them, and make him nauseating for me to watch or listen to.
Imagine making it to 2025 and still not realising that corporatocratic malefactors are equal players in the global censorship scheme. Why even talk about Shadows as if it falls into the category of being a real game? Sure, it is technically one - some amount of man hours and corporate money have gone into constructing a game around it - but its main purpose for existence, in its final form, is to be a performative gesture of negro-worship and cultural subversion.
So nobody actually cares about the freedom of the game to exist as a piece of free artistic expression. Not even Ubisoft. What are the odds they're not 'scrambling' at all and started lining up a patch at the first sound of grumbling from Japan's national heritage types? In fact weren't there rumours that Ubisoft execs themselves were worried about the optics of the physics demo? It's a bit fishy that these temples made it into the final game in trashable form in the first place... As if they shed a single tear at 1 location in their propaganda piece being off limits for fucking with physprops.
For whoever pitched Yasuke in the first place, as long as the player has to play as either a woman or a negro in the Japan game, they're laughing. Any sacrifice made in exchange is tolerable, even perhaps sacrificing Ubisoft itself. These enlightened centrists larping as Voltaire are just jacking themselves off and missing every meaningful issue.
Maybe what you meant is that fair use is an affirmative defense...? It will win a case for you, but if a rights holder is determined to take you to court over it then it won't immunise you from the hassle of a court battle and most content platforms will acquiesce to the takedown in the meanwhile. This has all supposedly changed a lot in the last 10 years with hosting platforms being asked to 'recognise fair use' more, although idk exactly what form that has taken. I don't think it's been tested much since devs have mostly stopped worrying about it.
The YTer considers the Luminar CEO his buddy. Presumably he didn't mention this? IDK since I won't be watching his shit.
It doesn't need to be paid promotion, it's already GG-style non-disclosure and nepotism at best, potentially insider trading too.
There are only so many ways to declare open race war without just shouting 'kill whitey' (which some of them do anyway). At some point you have to stop being impressed by the brazenness and just accept the situation in front of us.