Yes.
The severity of the massacres was such that word reached Jewish communities in the Middle East, inspiring Messianic fervor.
'Inspiring Messianic fervor' is a curious way to describe the primary response to your people getting massacred. It makes more sense when you realise Jews, having given Jesus a failing grade yet seething at his popularity, were still itching to see the conditions arise for the coming of their Messiah, conditions which include tumult, war and persecution. Look up Jewish eschatology and the war of Gog and Magog mentioned in Ezekiel, which some Jews (and some of the more philosemitical evangelicals) believe is a favourable sign of the end times and will happen in Jerusalem.
On some level Jews become religiously excited about getting victimised. It might explain how some of the most obviously fabricated accounts of stuff like Oct 7 or other events are so exaggerated that it sounds like a prophetic fever dream from scripture. 'And yea, the demons under cloak of invisibility did steal into the promised lands, bewitching the protectors whose golden armour mattered not; killing no less than a dozen hundred and sparing not the innocent babes, wherefore the demons did cut off 40 of their heads; and unto the mothers of the babies, they did sever 80 of their udders even while defiling them also; and in such a manner did the Messiah's arrival grow near.'
you'd
The apostrophe d saves this post. It's a conditional 'would' describing conditions we are not living under.
This should not even be a philosophically controversial statement. The entire concept of national justice arose to stop families and small communities exacting justice themselves. One family might take vengeance on another, and vice versa, and you get generational blood feuds which work to the detriment of everyone. When the families involved were all homogeneous countrymen, rather than whites vs generations of imported economic units, it made sense to have a system that stopped this from escalating.
When the system warps itself to routinely pervert justice of its own accord, it becomes just as much your enemy - far moreso even - than the criminals it's supposedly judging.
Well the key factor in this principle is liability. 'Protect and Serve' is just market branding. It's already been legally established that US cops are not under obligation to protect anyone in the general populace (and the same principle probably applies everywhere across our neolib anarcho-tyranny). Since cops are the armed enforcers of the local economic zone managers, their main interest is simply avoiding liability, so our system can happily say that cops have no responsibility whatsoever for their countrymen or local citizenry, but they do assume heavy liability for any damage to the brown goods they are shipping.
Correct. It's utterly irrelevant what she's like or what she uses the money for. All that matters is that white guilt driven cancel culture is getting thrown on the bonfire. It's absurd how many snakes in the grass are dropping their masks over this because (even assuming good faith) a racism accusation is still an all-controlling lever in their psyche.
I saw Viva and Barnes contort themselves into complete pretzels on the weekend to figure out a way to disapprove of it all - Barnes because 'muh race grifters!' [insert candace owens and nick fuentes rant] and Viva because 'hmm, seems like a psyop it's just so weird, how could a white woman dare to say nigger like that? just asking questions, people. feels weird hmm'. Also interviewing the GSG CEO with very softball questions which avoided the issue of how he allowed racist comments on the Karmelo Anthony campaign for weeks and only turned them off when they started flying back the other direction through Shiloh (glorious community note on his post here).
I also stumbled on another 'anti-racist conservative' posting a twitter video of his based black homie's opinion - apparently white people should only call anyone a nigger if they have the capacity to violently attack you in response. Is this repressed homosexuality or something? I can't imagine the internal spiritual cuckery required, to fail to recognise and reject this as the obvious anti-white double standard it is, plus it's an excellent encapsulation of the level of casual violence white people can expect from niggers.
Hail Shiloh for kicking over this rock and showing us the creepy crawlies in our garden.
It's probably even worse than they're saying. Has the full voice recording been released yet? Last I saw, they had direct quotes of the exchange between the instructor and ATC, but when it gets to the exchange between the instructor and Lobach, suddenly it all just changes to a vague summary: 'he told her he believed that...' and 'she ignored'. Why no direct quotes any more? She probably argued or acted like a bitch and they don't want to include those details. If she stayed silent, well, for one that's weird, but that's also an opportunity for the press to spin it as 'may have ignored' or 'may not have heard the instruction', which they would certainly take if they could.
Yes, it's absolute cancer. I still remember accidentally agreeing to lower the difficulty in one of the original God of War games after dying too many times on a timed swimming sequence (which wasn't even affected by the difficulty iirc).
I don't even like outlevelling the immediate enemies in a souls-like, but I level up anyway because I have no way of knowing if the devs have crafted the fight around my level or something higher, and I see no point in making myself suffer if it's the latter. The inevitable power-creep in those games is a form of adaptive difficulty-lowering when applied to reattempts at the same level. It's why I prefer Sekiro. This was discussed a bit in the 'eternal struggle' thread.
Cool vid and nice to have a silver bullet for this obese werewolf, but a quick skim reveals Sarah Fields is some dumb tradcow trying to recover lost social media ground after coming down on the wrong side over Shiloh. I'm more interested in keeping track on that as a filter atm.
Though Mikiri Counter should be a default ability and not an unlockable. That is 100% a fault of the game that makes the very beginning very hard for no reason other than "you didn't know."
Among all the tough moments Seki threw at me, the one I spent longest on, and the only one that almost had me despairing like a real wall of difficulty, was Shinobi Hunter: one of the very first spear minibosses, whom you encounter in the hirata memory. He must have killed me well upwards of 20 times and basically the entire challenge in the end was... learn mikiri counter from the skills list and practice how to use it. I never suffered against anyone as much as against that guy.
Sekiro has a few iffy teaching moments, perhaps none more egregious than Chained Ogre being the very second miniboss you face. He teaches you about the importance of mobility, of staying out of range, of dodging and how prosthetics can carry you... lmao all atrocious anti-lessons for Sekiro, which it takes basically everyone several hours to recover from. Still love it, but it's hard to excuse that.
Agreed, Charmless is where the game becomes a real test, but it's also a natural and harmonious upgrade from the first run difficulty. There was a point somewhere in NG+ (going for the Shura ending) that I thought I'd hit my ceiling and that Charmless/Bell was too much for me and I'd have to throw in the towel. But I pushed through, tried to raise my game and then started enjoying the game even more in NG+2 Charmless (going for the finicky ending with the sakura branch stuff) - and even started having an easier time, despite the fact that you more or less hit a hard limit on attack dmg at that stage (besides expensive upgrades via dragon mask). I sometimes revisit the game for the boss gauntlets these days but never play it in anything less than charmless, since it feels like the most natural difficulty now.
Still, I have a tendency to talk about Sekiro in terms of its first run difficulty, because I know that's what everyone else tends to be talking about. A bizarrely low number of people ever seem to have tried or are talking about Charmless, even when they talk about Sekiro as if they've played it inside out. To me that just cements how unaccustomed most players are to real mechanical difficulty challenges. They just write Charmless off as some bonus mode, whereas what its really doing is kicking off the training wheels, as you say.
But imo rather than parry spam, the real training wheels in first run difficulty is ... blocking. When blocking you're immune from all damage from everything that isn't a rare piercing attack or telegraphed unblockable. Enemies are mostly quite bad at punishing a broken posture bar, as long as you recovery roll asap. And from block, a quick release and re-tap in response to an enemy attack becomes a successful deflect. Once you realise this it reveals itself as a massive safety blanket. I've thought about going back through Seki on NG and timing how long it takes for certain bosses to kill me if I just stand still, hold block, recovery roll after posture break and sprint away from unblockables, no attacking or healing. I suspect multiple bosses will find it literally impossible to kill me. Charmless takes all this away, as it should, but it's weird how so few players ever learn how safe they are in vanilla Sekiro if they just engage with the mechanics, plus the fact that the real learning experience is discovering how to fill every empty moment with pro-active attacking.
Sekiro feels like an outlier, even among Fromsoft games. The mechanics are so simple and pure that its kind of difficulty is closer to an indie platformer or racing game. I happen to be in the camp that thinks Sekiro's difficulty is overstated, but since there is no way to outlevel or RNG-hack its challenge, it developed a reputation as one of the toughest games ever. The masses really aren't comfortable with a game that doesn't adapt to their natural level of play and forces them to learn, react and rise to its level.
I'm playing through the Nioh games for the first time lately and I love them - maybe as much as I love Sekiro - but I can't help the nagging feeling that despite a similar reputation to Sekiro, they are... easy. And I'm not the type of person to use easy as a pejorative, I'm fine with not struggling in a game. I do die a fair amount in Nioh, sure, but there is such an absolute glut of ways to overwhelm, outlevel, out-equip and out-maths the enemies, that it makes the ways the devs have cooked up to make the game 'difficult' - mostly cynical and sadistic enemy placement, combined with high incoming damage - come across as comedic more than serious. There is such an abundance of options at your disposal at any given moment that the biggest difficulty is being spoilt for choice. Thankfully the gameplay, as deep as it is, is also incredibly fun as a result. But any challenge you fail to live up to in skill terms in Nioh, you'll soon compensate for and beat with the help of maths, it feels. That isn't as satisfying a feeling as I got from Sekiro... although mastery of the complex combat comes with a different sense of satisfaction to Sekiro.
It's not just opsec or trannifa spergs or useful idiot mercs we need to be worried about. Nation states will correctly characterise donors, particularly international ones, as the most politically energised and unapologetic voices against anti-whiteness. Payment processors will be eager to give this info to glowies - maybe they won't even need to be asked.
$500k is great and I hope it hits 7 figures, not least because a larger crowd gives better anonymity. I hope Americans really knock it out of the park. But for European donors I'm not sure the numbers are big enough yet to overwhelm the potential honeytrap. It's the only reason I haven't donated as it stands.
Uh... who gave the stormfags the keys to the time machine, amirite fellow gamergaters??
He's the worst kind of milquetoast fucking retard, the kind who doesn't have any underlying principles and only starts to behave like he has them out of spite, when called out on something. He defended KCD1 to spite his bad faith critics, not because he really believed in the freedom to make a 99% all-white game about an all-white area in an all-white period, but just because it annoyed him to be criticised.
Since he gets annoyed at being criticised, he didn't want it to happen again, so like you said he took the criticism on board even though he knew it was in bad faith - he straight up refers to it as 'the stuff they pulled the first time.' Obviously he then gets criticism for being a fucking sellout. And his reaction is once again spite aimed at his critics, and talking as if the second bunch of critics (who supported Vavra and the first game despite the bad faith smears) are exactly the same kind of people as the first. To Vavra, they are the same kind of people: his enemies, anyone who criticises him. Fucking insect-brained moron.
The bit at around four minutes is quite tragic. People rightly mocked Peterson for crying way too much...but at least he cared.
I'm not sure this is true, at least not for the clip featured. This was already late stage Peterson in Sept 2022, after whatever damage one may speculate he suffered from the benzos episode. Musk completed the Twitter takeover only one month later. By December 2022 Peterson was already ranting about 'anonymous coward troll demons'.
Whatever is making him cry here (and it wasn't the last time he spun some Tears For Piers) I think it's too simple to ring it up as pure empathy. Probably a lot of ambivalence and confusion which was making it difficult to know what to say or think. The deadpan 'sure. why not,' in response to Piers asking him whether he championed incels, felt like an unenthusiastic way to commit to that stance, so I think his stance was already changing.
It's because the concept of malice itself is useless in such a razor, by design. It's completely undefined. When convenient, shameless self-interest stops being 'malice', it's just someone looking out for themselves. Wanton disregard for consequences stops being 'malice', it's just a lack of care. The bad actor can just claim a lack of foresight or insight, thereby turning all their actions 'stupid' and evading the heavier punishment they risk for undefined 'malice'. Hanlon's Shield is what it should be called.
He such an NPC leader
Literally.
But then he can’t really say if he’s strictly an optimist or a pessimist and, no, doesn’t know if he’s an extrovert or an introvert, either. “I’ve never really thought about it. I don’t know what that tells you.” He doesn’t know what he dreamed last night – or ever: “I don’t dream.” Just hits the pillow at 11 and – “bang” – is out till around 5. He doesn’t have a favourite novel or poem, wasn’t scared of anything as a child. “Nothing. No phobias.” Hmmm, this is harder than I thought. What about his lovely heather-coloured tie, where is it from and who chose it? He takes it between finger and thumb. “Would you say heather? I had it down as slightly darker.” Quick-fire is perhaps not his format.
-Guardian, 'Keir Starmer’s most personal interview yet', 2024 https://archive.ph/fm96V
He doesn't believe anything, doesn't dream, get excited, love or hate. Total WEF robot. And this was from a Guardian puff piece of a journo eager to humanise him for the last election.
Way back when, I seem to recall Blair had a similar man-behind-the-mask feature on him from a journo who couldn't help but characterise him as a lying psycho robot once the whole thing was finished.
Similar journey here. I used to be some white male fantasy-spinoff version of myself all the time in customisable games. It definitely was a function of how invested I wanted to get in the world of the game. The woke culture warriors love to latch onto this as an example of how representation matters, except that those games also always allowed you to create women and blacks. In that era I had no problem playing as a fixed character that might be a black man (TWD) or a woman (as recently as Thronebreaker, 2018), in a story-centric game.
In the past few years I've pretty much written off the storytelling potential of newer games, so my investment on that level is zero. So in Nioh 2 recently I just made some redhaired, white woman eye candy, rather than a character with a more plausible aesthetic, as I would have done before. She functions just fine for the stilted cutscenes and text dumps of that non-story. Hand in hand with that, I now steer more or less totally clear of any game with a female or negro fixed MC, because I have no interest in propaganda which hates me.
This is feeling like the Peter Hotez moment in the sense of the establishment going all in to bat for a dead duck retard. Globalists sure don't know how to pick their horses.
Murray wrote in support of the Iraq war and he plainly stated in 2022 that Ukraine was going to win against Russia (good thread on his history here). He's been free to comment on plenty of topics and countries in the past despite having NEVUH BEEEAN (gasp). If expertise has to be held to a standard, Murray should be ejected from the convo before the starter pistol fires. But of course, as everyone really knows, this is a facade to declare some debates and debaters illegitimate.
Murray was quick to run to the other biggest retard on the internet, Sam Harris, to have his wounds licked the other day. I couldn't make it any further than Harris calling his efforts on Rogan 'fantastic'. Intellectual honesty is absolutely worthless to these intellectuals.
TBF I linked his sister in law, but I doubt his wife is holding up too well in 2025 either, even for fans of the curried meat.
On the offchance this liar is really serving up food and drink, zero chance she hasn't spat in some of it.
I haven't seen the episode in question, but is it much of a stretch for any random Guardian goblin to compare himself to Brooker? I stopped watching Black Mirror around season 2 because Brooker was a dead end in terms of media insight. I don't know if you've followed your opening sentences to their full conclusion. He used to 'produce the goods', then around the time he got married to his fat-titted Indian wife, he started putting out Guardian articles about the existential angst of keeping up with the latest Apple products.
Stunner of a wife too, and she's as sharp as a razor yet somehow kind hearted while snidey.
She is?! Any examples of her sharpness? How is it you can map Brooker's irrelevance perfectly to his association with her? To me he's nothing but an example of the complacency of the 2000s-era, fake rebel-wannabe journosphere. Probably raps along to Rage Against the Machine while raging against Drumpf's evil tariffs in his off time. Him and Stuart are likely brothers from another mother.
Edit: he literally married into the Labour party
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.
Good question. The answer of the police/courts is probably that they protect the public at large by protecting the system of law, but that takes the form of mere apprehension of perps after the fact. They don't have to physically stick their neck out to protect anyone, see eg. Uvalde cops cleared of wrongdoing for standing by while an active shooter went around executing kids.
The legal system is happy with this because law and procedure have been decoupled from any moral framework, freeing up the cops to act as low liability armed guards for #currentthing.