A selection of woke snippets for your perusal from Cian Maher, walking anti-GG cliche (whose current job is using Witcher 4 as a clumsy vehicle to BTFO the chuds):

In a thread from May 2022, he wrote, “Unfriendly reminder that anyone who responds to calls for diversity with ‘How is this fair? Hiring should be based on skill’ usually has no skill whatsoever. If you claim you can't get a job because you're straight and white, I'm sorry -- you can't get a job because you're s***e.

Concerning Rings of Power, he wrote in 2023, “Tolkien fans obsessed with ‘accuracy’ are so f***ing weird. ‘Nobody cares about this adaptation’ — why do you care about any adaptation then? The only reason you're upset about Rings of Power is because ‘critiquing’ it allows you to pretend your vitriol and bigotry have value.”

To no surprise, he’s projecting as in his next post he claims that Sam has brown skin, “What's also funny is that most of the loudest Tolkien ‘fans’ online constantly tell on themselves You've read the books, yeah? Cool, so you know Sam has dark skin. How accurate was it to cast Sean Astin then? What's that? Speak up please, I can't hear you — where are you going?”

In September 2023, he wrote, “If you are an adult who loses their mind at the concept of pronouns, which everyone, everywhere, throughout all of history has used every single day, there is something wrong with your life but it's not what you think it is. The Wokes aren't out to get you. You're just a clown.”

Maher wrote, “I wonder if they realize that by harassing trans writers who have rightfully and justifiably critiqued Cyberpunk 2077’s haphazard and sometimes harmful representation of trans people, that they themselves are the exact kind of people that cyberpunk is designed to destroy: fascistic, unempathetic, and depraved proponents of a regime designed to foster irreversible and indiscriminate misery in technophilic dystopia.”

another link from the same blogger with similar info: https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/cd-projekt-red-franchise-and-lore

I absolutely loved Birdman but it's really like nothing else. With your topic it sounds like you're searching for movies that feel momentous and have some kind of universal appeal, and as much as Birdman's brilliant it's also kind of off the wall.

Cool, thanks for elaborating. I like a lot of those movies too. You should watch Boorman's Excalibur if you haven't, although it's less 'fun' than any of those. Also has a lot of classic British and Irish actors before they went on to other things.

Funny enough some of your criticisms of LotR sound a bit like the way Tolkien himself sometimes gets criticised - overly stiff and stuffy, impersonal, more focused on the grand scale in a way that's a turnoff for some people... I seem to remember some modern author - can't remember which - saying 'Tolkien's landscapes have more character than his characters'. Which I don't agree with but I can see where the criticism originates, even while liking the books and movies. But it might be a mark of Jackson faithfully adapting the spirit of the books, if they evoke similar criticisms from those who don't click with it.

Not trying to twist your arm to get you to like LotR, but I'm curious what fantasy movies do you like if not LotR? The genre was practically dead for years until LotR came along and jolted it awake. You like darker stuff like Excalibur? Or Jim Hensoney stuff like Labyrinth/Dark Crystal?

Depends if you classify moody character dramas as 'classic Hollywood', but since I'm a Coens fan I do, so 2007 was a good year with No Country For Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James and There Will Be Blood. Can't think of much I've liked after that... maybe The Dark Knight in 2008? That qualifies as pretty classic Hollywood I think. Funny enough the iPhone was released around then so it was also the turning point where the internet died... lot of good things came to an end right around then.

I've enjoyed some directors like Eggers and S Craig Zahler in the years since, but they're pretty oddball, hard to call them classic Hollywood.

This doesn't even require an assumption of political posturing, what you said is pretty much how shonen writers scrabble from deadline to weekly deadline anyway.

Disclaimer for errors since I never read/watched MHA, but I know there was a doctor character who was called 'Dr. Maruta', translated 'Dr. Log'. Mostly (exclusively?) Chinese grievance farmers raised hell because 'maruta' was the term used for test subjects/victims of Japan's brutal Unit 731 in WW2. The claims of if being a direct reference became inflated, to the point that people started saying Unit 731's entire project was referred to as 'Project Maruta' (it wasn't; closest claim I could find is that the unit might have called the project Holzklotz internally, german for 'log'). It is also just the extremely common term for wooden logs - if you've ever played an MMO in Japanese, you've probably collected 1000 'marutas' at some stage.

Regardless, the creator acquiesced to the outcry and changed the name.

The manifesto releases themselves are questionable because there is confirmed fuckery going on either way. She seems to have been on an edgelord discord server, unless everyone involved is lying. The one who released this excerpt (in OP) is someone from the discord, who has access to unwatermarked versions of photos that Ngo and others are circulating. Someone else is faking DMs from this first person (1, 2 ). The intent could be variously to erase any connection to eceleb 'RadFemHitler', to incriminate the first person or else just fuck with people.

In any case the source of the bulk of the manifesto (Slatzism) is sus since the account holder is acting like an attention whore ('I would release it all but TOS uWu') and making definitive assertions which can't be supported, eg. connection to radfemhitler is 'confirmed fake', shooter is 'not non-binary' (yet she used the screen name 'Crossixir' and They/Them pronouns ). Basically troublemakers are involved in the evidence chain already and no proven non-retards have picked up the slack.

Chris Martenson at Peak Prosperity piqued my curiosity about the power and energy demands of AI. In Ireland, at a time with energy bills rocketing for the average citizen, datacentres now consume 21% of all electricity output, surpassing the amount consumed by urban households. Zuckerberg's AI datacentre concepts supposedly would require several new nuclear power stations to operate.

I wonder if part of the reason the average person is being psyopped into accepting a lower standard of living - as dictated by climate alarmism and carbon neutral goals etc - is to reserve all this extra power for AI systems. And since limits on energy restrict how many serious AI competitors can even exist within the industry, the govt wants the only ones in existence to be its own controlled and weaponised pets.

Wow, crazy, I've missed so much SP. But there you go, it's a further effort to erase the failure of tokenism. Not that Stone and Parker are progressive allies, but they're uncomfortable being anyone's serious enemy.

The entire reason that DEI/ESG/whatever has had to undergo several rebrands is that 'tokenism' - which it is - is a well known negative term, a poisoned brand from the 80s and 90s. If Trey Parker and Matt Stone hadn't preserved it in the zeitgeist with 'Token Black', progressives would have an easier time trying to make people forget that tokenism is a disgraced practice, which they're constantly struggling to do.

To us it's a confession, to him it's a boast.

Even during better times, when the corporate world was not a consensus-driving ideological monolith trying in futility to mind control normal people, it still lagged behind the zeitgeist. These studios live in a layer of abstracted reality, where many of their employees will have suffered mental trauma and physical ailments from the shock of a brown woman failing to be installed as their puppet of worship. They are still larping as if their preferred reality played out, while their works in progress all have a momentum of their own as well. They are fiddling nervously while their Rome burns.

It's too predictable to get annoyed at. I'm more curious at how normies are reacting. So far it's hard to get a gauge on how much they're either rejecting the industry pills or else manufacturing their own happy consensus of excitement, to soothe the cognitive dissonance.

I'm unaware of the book lore, is there even a single precedent for an adult to undergo the Trial? In the lore of the games, the only example we have of witchers' secrets being used on adults were the Salamandra mutant soldiers from Witcher 1. Oh hey, maybe I just wrote the lore for Ciri being a butterface now...! You're welcome CDP.

Intuitively it feels like the reason they take witchers as kids is because the trial only works on kids, when it works at all. Genetically altering an adult, who has already undergone all their physical development, doesn't sound like it would make the trial easier, instead it sounds impossible.

If witcher schools could witcherfy adults, even adults with magic capabilities, there should be no good explanation for witchers dying out.

EDIT: also, since it just occurred to me - are we supposed to celebrate the fact that she's sterile now ('And That's A Good Thing...!')? Or will they dodge that uncomfortable implication with convenient plot armour or strategic non-discussion?

Because it's a product in the skinsuit of a beloved story, literally no other reason. No point torturing your head.

The MC has to be Ciri because of member berries, feminism, and the alternative being a white male in 2024. The MC in a Witcher game has to be a witcher or else people get mad plus half the lore and gameplay mechanics are gone, so she has to have done the Trial of Grasses. Any further fake explanation of 'why' is going to be totally post hoc, in fact consider it subject to constant internal revision right up until release.

Trash. She looks like she's had bad cosmetic surgery. She casually does witcher stuff like chugging potions despite never having undergone witcher mutations. Tryhard ladyboss voice acting. Finally the theme of the trailer itself is retarded and goes against the nuance you'd normally find in the Witcher games.

I think we're all tired of reddit-atheist tier ideas, but the theme of 'ritual and sacrifice is... le BAD' is especially moronic in games where ritual and sacrifice have established power, and there is a confirmed spiritual world beyond the material. Terry Pratchett used to play with this idea in Discworld, where magic and gods were practically a mundane presence so that the concept of rational materialist characters come across as extra goofy, even though it might seem the more intuitive stance for the reader. Modern writers, especially lefty woke women ones, can't seem to grasp this though and so they come up with shit like this trailer where they're obviously just using the iconography of sacrifice as a rallying cry to say 'look, it's some bad people'.

In the witcher world it is thoroughly established that humans make mutually beneficial pacts with magical forces all the time, even if it's not exactly what they think it is. Someone will shelter a werewolf, a dragon, a vampire, or whatever, in exchange for allowing the monster to indulge itself in secret. A witcher like Geralt will often allow it to continue if he considers it the lesser evil. There's a scenario almost exactly like the one in the trailer in Skellige in TW3, where a village has a traditional coming-of-age arrangement with what turns out to be a Leshen. They send their young men out to test their strength against it, which often results in their death. Geralt can choose to undergo the test of strength - indulging the monster, essentially - or opt to side with the anti-tradition faction in the town and destroy the monster. In witcher fashion, there's no glorious ending either way, but killing the monster tips the balance of power in the village and results in an unavoidable massacre. It also reveals the anti-traditionalists to be perfectly fine with sacrificing women when they feel a tangible benefit (because one choice on this branch is to kill a woman the Leshen has marked).

Any sign of that nuance in this trailer? No, just 'sacrifice bad, women most affected'. The dialogue literally goes:

"I have to save them... save the village!"

"Save yourself!"

So maybe it's six of one, half a dozen of the other, in a split between anti-traditionalism themes and autopilot feminist simp mode, which I discussed in another reply a while back:

Whenever there is a dire set of circumstances facing a set of characters, or even an entire species, if the solution to the scenario involves trampling women's rights - or even one female character's rights - then writers will immediately swing all narrative sympathy towards the oppressed woman rather than the group. If you are, as we say, 'based and also redpilled' then it's easy to see the seams and limits of feminist ideology, but normalfag simps and feminists are fundamentally incapable of writing from the perspective of men facing existential doom, when there is some crying pussy around.

Friends linked me to a high seas version because they wanted me to watch the Warhammer one. I decided I'd watch the whole lot since I was bored, then noticed the Amazon logo with trepidation.

First ep was a BG3-esque take on a short DnD scenario. A party rescues a mysterious magical prisoner and goes to see a dragon with him. There's not a white male in sight and it's like something that would be cooked up by a DEI-slop AI - mohawk dyke half-orc(?) paladin, jamaican dwarf, etc...

Second ep was based on the game Sifu, just kind of meh in all respects. Shading style was like a Telltale game which was extra off-putting.

The first white men show up in ep 3. It's an arrogant muscular beefcake monarch (and suffering manservant), who gets washed up on a strange island with nothing but conquest in his empty brain, but keeps death-resetting for some reason. I was shocked to hear Arnie's voice and assumed that I really was being exposed to AI deep-fakery - but no, I looked it up and it was supposedly really voiced by him. The makers said they wrote it specifically for him and the concept for the short was 'what if Conan was all talk??' Cool, so a humiliation ritual and a dismantling of cultural idols, then.

After watching Arnie's char lose gorily and clownishly in both a battle of skills, then wits, to the real king of the island - who looked a bit like what a narcissistic Jew might see when he looks in the mirror - I turned off the show and decided not to watch any more. I might not even watch the WH40K one for fear of losing respect for my friend, although apparently the guy who made the 'Astartes' fan vid worked on it. That one was very good.

I can see both sides and agree with the Christians on an abstract moral level but think they're being stupid on a practical level. The argument over the morals of gratuitousness in media is really a separate one from the one we've been fighting with moral authoritarian infiltrators, who are not opposed to gratuitousness in and of itself. They are simply opposed to the idea of being free to enjoy whatever you want to, particularly if you're a white heterosexual male, plus they'd love to destroy whiteness and the concept of traditional masculinity, conceptually. Captured content is often gory and sexual, if that provocativeness helps to undermine traditional values somehow.

Freedom in media has to be the watchword and 'moral media' is meaningless if it's a top down model, imposed by anyone other than me (j/k). Until this conflict has an outcome, any discussion about the moral degenerative effects of lurid content in gaming is pretty pointless, because normal functioning heterosexual archetypes are still being suppressed here. I think there's a discussion to be had about the value, or dearth of value, of games that wallow in lurid trash, but to the extent that the conservatives in this side-discussion are presenting themselves as maybe wanting to ban that content, all over again, then they're setting themselves up as puppets in a psyop. Then again, so are the ones screaming 'reee fucking christcucks' and repeating 'woke right', the gayphrase of the week.

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A sharp-eyed plucky 82 year old, no less, and now the question of her being able to claim her reward is more drama tinsel for cat-brains to swipe at.

One key thing to remember is that even if a convenient 'pandemic' materialises right on their threatened schedule, to undermine Trump and RFK, it won't mean there really is one. They gain massive amounts of power and money merely from the appearance of a pandemic, an appearance they can create just by having the MSM announce one then having politicians lie about statistics. The extra level of expertise and competence it requires to actually create a pandemic-capable supervirus is not something they've ever demonstrated they have, certainly not during covid, nor do they actually need it for their schemes.

One article I saw seemed to suggest they've traced his post-shooting movement's as far as Central Park which is a few blocks away. Possibly he ditched or changed the hoodie on the way, since the shoes and backpack description do fit.

They should let him wield a machete on the pitch too, just as long as they have coppers there to guide him to drop it off at the mosque afterwards like a good lad.

Nobody's talking about Hunter fucking his child niece and half the attitude even on our side is already 'it's just Biden doing Biden things'. I think I shall sleep through this whole one.

If the narrative they're going to run with is 'I'm doing this because of ebil Drumpf' then it's actually the most obvious and logical next step, albeit from a completely dishonest premise.

If they ever updated it to remove Denuvo on the Steam version, there's no sign of anyone saying so. The Steam forum even still has a post stickied from some random shill talking about how awesome and necessary Denuvo is, full of retarded arguments. The curator 'Games That Hate You' still lists it as having Denuvo and that curator has been pretty reliable for me in tracking games that have it removed post-release.

Even if I had it still installed, I wouldn't know how to check for Denuvo implementation. I played it on an older rig (gifted from a friend, since I hate Denuvo) but didn't notice any of the stutters or huge loading times that sometimes make Denuvo's presence obvious. Or if I did, I attributed them to that ageing rig, before I later learnt the game had Denuvo.