Bob Saget, Maon Kurosaki and Heather MacDonald.
Scientismo vaxxweasel is still using the language of 'most vaxx good, honest!' and 'right-wing bad, rurr!' in the hopes of getting his cushy Harvard job back. Despite stating that vaxx mandates are essentially religious dogma, he doesn't question any of the bogus data that he leans on for his continued simping for certain vaccines, such as the one he does like (J&J).
They smell the tide turning. Termites like this are looking to exploit the trust vacuum created by our institutions imploding, by saying 'the bad ones are humiliated now, time to trust ME!' Had the powers that be crafted a narrative that wasn't quite so abrasive to this guy's cognitive dissonance or, more likely, had they allowed him to feast from the same Pfizer-funded trough, he would have been among their silent cheerleaders or even their vocal crusaders. Indeed many of these born again dissidents WERE like that back in 2021, berating the vaxx hesitant on TV and in news columns, like Aseem Malhotra and Angus Dalgliesh (those 2 in particular have said nothing about what cunts they were back then).
This is what the Harvard guy said as part of the op-ed that got him pushed off the CDC panel, for arguing against a pause to the J&J vaxx:
"The COVID-19 vaccines provide excellent protection, and we cannot afford more such (sic) unwarranted vaccine skepticism."
I don't care that this guy pays lip service to the unethical nature of mandates, because I can see the wide open backdoors into his psyche that are still open to exploitation by the next psyop. Neither he nor his former colleagues should ever have any social or political power. Fuck this guy, fuck doctors, fuck academics, no exceptions.
Can't be a coincidence that 'extremism' becomes a manufactured talking point again in the UK and US at the same time. Just once it would be nice to get a story tracing the puppetstrings upwards. It's not like we even have real governments any more.
"Down with gender roles! We demand liberation from traditional concepts of male and female! All differences in social outcomes for men and women are the results of PATRIARCHY! "
"...wow look what MEN did to the concept of gender identity! They better fix it for us!"
No sympathy for terfs of any stripe until they openly admit the feminist responsibility for trans madness. Until then I hope they tear eachother apart.
AI false-flag-posting will become more prevalent.
MSM sees trend it doesn't like -> floods with AI generated shit to support it -> 'you idiots! you think you were supporting this thing organically, but in fact there were 6 TOES in the propaganda that radicalised you! Checkmate'
SBI is not that different to Silverstring Media (and as it turns out, is closely connected to it), so ever since GG it's kind of presumptive that there are groups like this around. It's just that everyone but us has vacated the space for those who could call this shit out. Even the YT grift circuit is only talking about it now because of the sheer numbers involved with the Steam curator story. SBI should have blown up months ago, eg. I said 3 months ago about Yahtzee's reinvented channel that 'Uncastrated Yahtzee might mention how Alan Wake 2 was co-written by SweetBaby', whereas instead he was using his newfound freedom from The Escapist to celebrate Jim Sterling's 'pregnancy'.
The antibaby steam group is already getting contaminated with threads by dumb tail-chasing normies suggesting 'hey we have to prove we're not racist: list examples of GOOD diversity'.
It's literally just us left (and occasional guys like Kabrutus who pick the right time and idea to break viral). /v/ isn't going to pick up any slack on this kind of thing ever again. Dicksaw server raids and janny shills won't let it.
Got to watch the game more closely, friend. That ghoul smeared him in her statement about his death (by referring to sexual assault, as if he was guilty of it) and was apparently one of the last people he talked to before suicide. You can imagine how that went.
Anyway, HOUSE! where's my vivian plushie
If everyone outside of Israel and Palestine can at least agree with those two fronts
Welp, guess I'm out. The reality of Oct 7 is so different to the ridiculous narrative that it's more accurate to say 'it' - whatever it was - didn't happen than to say it did. Moreover there is no onus on 'everyone outside of israel and palestine' to agree on anything for the benefit of Israel. Why don't jews sort their own shit out, and do it without the money, sympathy and manipulation of 'everyone outside of Israel and Palestine'.
NP, and since I couldn't resist staying up late to check if it all still works and installs easily enough, here's a screengrab to prove it does. Scaled to fullscreen 1080p and 60fps courtesy of Lossless Scaling on Steam.
In case you or anyone else want a version that isn't the Beamdog EE:
https://1337x.to/torrent/635398/Dungeons-and-Dragons-Anthology-The-Master-Collection/
This is the D&D anthology which includes BG1&2&expansions, Icewind Dale 1&2, Planescape and Temple of Elemental Evil. All isometric WRPG classics in case u/Smith1980 wants a look too. This anthology used to be the best way to buy them (frequently $5-10 for the lot online) before the cancer Beamdog version replaced their availability in every storefront and torrent.
Can't remember if I ever used used 1337x, but it's the same torrent as one on TPB with a few different trackers included. Took a few reannounces before it started for me but it DLs at a good speed.
Look for easytutu or BGtutu for mods to play BG1 in a way that's basically the same as the EE enhancements (widescreen mod also ), minus more convenient multiplayer and the shitty additions. The good thing about getting BG1&2 together is that tutu uses the BG2 game files to improve BG1's front end.
Yes. In fact there was enough info available to know this to a certainty in 2020. They are comfortable with us knowing this now. The reason they are comfortable talking about this now, even to the extent that the chief of the FBI said it was a lab leak at this same time last year, is because there is absolutely no beneficial consequence for us to know and pursue it now.
Whatever they did in 2020 - and notice that the framing of a 'leak' always neglects to mention the possibility of a deliberate leak, which a leak can be - they got away with it by squashing discussion of it for 3 years. At a certain point, dwelling on this becomes misdirection (usually away from clotshot discussion), and it plays perfectly into their scaremongering over the need for international medical treaties and a strengthened WHO to protect us from rogue GOF viruses, which is their current major project.
Chasing down the lab leak at this stage is like trying to snipe a guy escaping over the horizon while his buddy has a knife at your throat. It's a limited hangout.
Below are some non-specific wafflings - for the man who has everything, what can anyone offer other than an orbital snapshot of all the spiritual wisdom in the universe:
Know thyself.
Nothing too much.
A pledge is a curse.
All existence is consciousness. The universe creates purpose (although not in the gay retarded way that figures like Harris and Dawkins believe). We're not the authors of meaningfulness. We're as much a channel for timeless objective values to materialise into the universe as we are creators of value. The Christians here might rephrase that as 'we are made in God's image'.
What do you value, in terms of your moral outlook? Why? Why really? If you can get past that question satisfactorily, how do you bring about a world with more of it, however little? I'm not asking so that you answer for me, this is just rewording 'know thyself' in different ways.
As for practical ideas, have you tried thinking smaller? Others mentioned innawoods type stuff, what about something along those lines but more manageable like a plot of vegetables, a flowerbed or a window garden. How about beekeeping? Some kind of tactile re-engagement with life to bring yourself closer to how it works at the smallest level and build back up.
Currently my own biggest moral headache is a rotting dead cat a few blocks from my house, by the side of the road. Despite hundreds of people passing by on foot for weeks, nobody has seen fit to move or dispose of it. None of the dozens of closer residents have seen fit to even put it in a bin. Now I think it's fallen on me to bury it in the nearby grassy patch somehow, because I believe it's an insult to life to let a probably cherished house pet become such an ugly spectacle. I get no satisfaction out of playing the community janitor and I'd prefer to ignore it, but I'm compelled by a sense of purpose to right what I see as a small thing wrong with the world. Maybe I'll feel good after, maybe I'll feel sick, maybe I won't get around to it at all and I'll continue to feel lame - the outcome and feeling good is not the point. The purpose is there regardless. Don't you have anything like that? Can you in fact identify a whole matrix of things like that, unified into a moral whole? That would be your life's purpose.
I don't listen to it, but I stumbled on Alan Averill's small channel a while back. He's the vocalist of Primordial and collaborated with the Revenge/AoA guys so he's probably a bit based. Seems like music discussion takes a bit of a back seat to his general thoughts.
Oh yeah I forgot I stumbled on this guy too. No idea who he is but he seems a cool guy. And it just so happens he has 666 subscribers right now... surely it's fate that I introduce him to you. But I can't fully vouch for him because I don't watch him lmao.
Personally I just have no interest in watching anyone talk about music. To the extent that music-focused channels ever interest me, it's usually just ones that curate and post new obscure albums in their entirety, eg. Odium Nostrum or Black Metal Promotion. Not sure if there's a death metal or other genre equivalent of those BM-focussed ones, but maybe the algorithm will send some your way if it sees you checking those out.
Wokies write with a lot of nihilist mean-spiritedness and have no problem with making stuff gory and violent if it aligns with their values, which usually involves a subversion of traditional ones. The Boys is another example. Or take the graphic eyeball removal scene in ST Picard, for a character whose former actor had defied the MeToo movement. Grittiness, gratuitousness and moral greyness was an interesting twist on hero stories for a while, then it became a meme, then became a tool in the service of a new moral order.
Someone in the other thread said it's not in the PC version for some reason.
Exactly, but GG never would have caught fire without the DMCA of Mundane Matt, the reddit comments graveyard, the Gamers Are Dead articles and the censorship of 4chan, etc. At that point it was obviously bigger than one slut or a few bad apples.
Don't know if you've seen this thread but the twitter thread it links to is a good reminder of how it's all limbs of the same octopus, or else snapshots at different stages of the same cancer.
Feminists absolutely created this cesspool. Radfems lost out to intersectionalist feminists running the movement, but the only real difference between the two is that radfems enjoy destroying everything by way of demoralising men, while intersectionalists enjoy destroying everything through eternal feminist rebranding. The feminist rebranders and marketers (intersectionalists) have obtained temporary market supremacy, while the radfems, outside the spotlight, now have a lot of cognitive dissonance over the fact that feminist concepts are causing girls to cut their tits off (spoiler: they blame men).
This gets forgotten. Even the Quinn stuff is over-emphasised - Quinn was hypothetically a side note in the controversy except for the massive circling of the narrative wagons in her defence, and the controversy would have been just about the collusion across the games press and the internet censorship, were it not for the fact that she kept inserting herself to help orchestrate all this (and victimise herself). This was the point of 'Literally Who'.
Sarkeesian was several degrees further removed. She was Literally Who 2. At first the only connection in general was that the entire games press and industry suddenly turned into berserk feminists and LW2 had previously been the loudest feminist with regards to video games. Nothing else. She managed to make 'GG attacked me' true only by repeating it, wishing it to be true and brute forcing it into the zeitgeist. The rumours that any dev listened to her direct input even seemed weak until around the release of Mirrors Edge 2, two years deep into GG.
The guy commenting on 'horny old guys' seems to be an expert, since his handle is the guy who bragged about fucking his adolescent daughter, in pop song form and his pic is of the two of them.
The only thing they said they were 'disappointed' in was the 'lack of professional discretion' so this is entirely accurate.
Don't need to read any of that. It's published by Gearbox. If you had high hopes or were thinking of paying real money, you were already doing everything wrong.
Often not true
You can go further and say piracy has the opposite of the claimed effect, the overwhelming majority of the time.
When the RIAA and BPI tried to construct their anti-napster/etc narratives about this in the 2000s, they invariably found that the groups which pirated the most also bought the most, according to surveys. This is reflected in how the BPI celebrated all-time high album sales in the winmx/soulseek/suprnova/kazaa era (2001 to 2005-ish), sometimes year on year. There was a sales blip in 2002, which they used for scaremongering propaganda, but that was because 2001 had been a year of historical high sales. They broke 2001's record in 2003 - and then 2003's record in 2004, and I think the same happened in 2005 (not sure, then I stopped tracking after that) - all at the height of the biggest normie acceptance of piracy.
I recall an anecdote of some label PR goon trying to make a failed point by telling a student group to raise their hands if they had recently pirated something, then raise their hand if they had recently purchased something, and all the same hands went up.
I'm sure there are people around who do nothing but pirate and never buy anything, and moreso with gaming which is a bit different to music, but there's nothing to suggest they're anything more than a fat unicorn. Remember the notorious analysis from an indie dev which found they had to prevent 1000 illegal downloads to create 1 sale:
"Though that doesn’t make a 92% piracy rate of one of our banner products any less distressing, knowing that eliminating 50,000 pirated copies might only produce 50 additional legal copies does help put things in perspective."
Such a round, vague ratio of piracy to lost sales, on an obscure indie game, coming from a dev whose focus was fighting piracy and not arguing for it, suggests such a weak relationship that I think it was merely the best thing he could pull out of his ass. For all he knows, reducing piracy decreased his sales. Denuvo, etc. are total industrial snake oil for retarded corpos.
"Gang rape is a democratic process."
Sam Harris serves two big purposes and not much more. One is that his dumb, wrong takes are simply funny. I could listen to a 2 hour Harris montage of wrongness, just for comedy purposes at this point.
The second is a terrible indictment of the doctrine of materialism. He is possibly the most fanatically motivated, angry man on the globe, despite having no clear basis for his moral postures. Remember he said that he would be happy to collaborate in Hunter Biden's hypothetical killing of children, if it helped prevent the next Trump presidency. His basis for this madness is...
ATOMS TOLD ME TO DO IT
all hail comedy
I believe and it's a fact that there was no widespread phenomenon of people suddenly collapsing, in such numbers that it became a talking point, prior to 2021. The evidence is called correlation. Heather MacDonald after her collapse even ruminated publicly about her similarity to Bob Saget's case and polled her twitter followers asking them what they think caused it.
It should frankly be impossible to have less introspection than a female stand-up comedian, but somehow some of you manage it. Truth hurts.
And let's be really real, the mainstream press believed that Maon Kurosaki died from the jab too, which is why they reported her cause of death as 'complications of an ongoing illness' and not the reality which was 'she smashed her head when collapsing live on stage in Sept 2021 and never recovered'.