Needs more context. Could be like the Waukesha guy who was innocently thinking up rap lyrics about reparations when his racist car decided to run over an entire parade of white kids. Maybe this guy was running from racist police and lost control of his knife, it happens.
Reminder that they don't conduct placebo controlled trials of vaccines because they claim it's 'unethical' to have any group of children grow up without their jabs, but they have no ethical problem pumping kids full of trannification meds for years without caring a damn for the long term effects.
Fuck studies. This is just an attempt at retroactively rubberstamping their mass castration strategy. At best it will be a limited hangout, ie. 'we identified these minor problems, so once we make the performative tweaks to fake-solve them, the anti-trans faction can no longer complain.'
This is a disappointing showing for KIA2's Waffen Schpelling-Schtikler division.
edit: oups I notice xhe deleted the tweet lol
for anyone who didn't see, it was Marisa Duran - a VA with pronouns, non-binary babble, lgbt flags and the whole schebang in profile
It's just the fact that she doesn't know the difference between 'pouring' vs 'poring' over something, yet puts herself forward as someone who has anything to say about 'quality and accuracy'. If this is the standard they get to after countless hours of work, then their industry deserves to collapse, and that's before even factoring in the ideological activism side of things.
Bzzt, nope, the verb is 'pore over' not 'pour over'. Your suggestion is interesting too, but the fact that the slap in the face is figurative probably means it's fine to say that it can be directed 'to' someone.
Check out this pronoun warrior localiser chiming in in support.
This decision is a giant slap in the face to every translator who spends countless hours pouring over their work to ensure quality and accuracy.
Anyone who can't spot the error which makes this hilarious is kicked out of the Grammar Schutzstaffel.
they keep changing ''sumimasen'' to something totally different
In fairness, it can mean 'thanks' as well as the more common usage of 'excuse me' and 'sorry'. Somebody using the polite form is probably attempting to convey a more apologetic meaning, but it's not out of the question.
You missed a big data point in The Terminal List, a Prime show which is very much in the same heroic, conservative vein as the other unpozzed side of the bracket. So yes it is confusing.
The thing is, swashbuckling tales of adventure are just kind of what people default to when there's less of an agenda involved. There being less of an agenda involved sometimes does not mean there is no agenda involved overall. At the same time, there being an agenda apparent sometimes, does not mean that publishing less obviously woke stuff is somehow part of the same agenda.
Uncontaminated stuff creeping through is either a calculated move or uncalculated. Uncalculated could mean laziness (ie. lack of a strict ideological filter) or innocence, but Amazon are obviously not innocent based on the totality of their output, so you're left with laziness as one option. If it's calculated then it either means they're not fully invested in woke concerns yet mostly follow them anyway for some reason, or else their un-woke content is a way of making shows specifically for conservatives to placate them and keep them onside. Honestly, anything besides laziness (occasional slackening of agenda enforcement) seems too convoluted to me.
I'm reminded of a thread here about the show The Continental, on NBC's streaming platform. There was a smear article bitching about Mel Gibson's character in it. For my part, I'm going to assume that everything on an NBC streaming platform is pozzed - I'm just not going to watch. But someone on the production of that show must happen to be uncommitted to the culture war to the extent that they're happy to cast Mel in the first place. Yet their audience is fully committed and they want 100% message, 100% of the time - and so you get seething articles about how The Continental is problematic and Gibson's char is the worst part.
Your only hope for media in this era is that these producers are lazy enough to allow a whole show go unpoisoned. Weirdly, on Amazon it seems like you have a non-zero chance of this. I still wouldn't get my hopes up for any single show.
Totally, glad I'm not the only one who feels trapped in a time warp when exposed to these idiots.
Not that I notice. That might have been a thing when internet communities were more atomised and organic, so young newcomers and discordant participants were easier to spot, but the net has been re-engineered along principles that break apart online communities and centralise everything for at least 10 years now. I don't know how you would notice.
If anything, a teen or zoomie driven by innocent curiosity and the goofy impulse to post dumb shit is far more tolerable than the average adult riding the latest currentthing social media narrative. The latter post just as dumb shit but do it while driven by ideological malice. By far the most annoying people on the net are 35-45 yo libshits stuck in the internet of 20 years ago, who never spared a thought for the real reasons OWS ended, still seething at the irrelevance that is Fox News, all still good feminist allies, who still think Rage Against The Machine is edgy and rebellious, and distract themselves from their arrested development by living out their good vs evil fantasies online. And they are EVERYWHERE, 24/7/365.
That's about the limit of my recommendations myself. I loved Revelation Space and enjoyed the others in the series but found that the more I checked out Reynolds beyond that series, the more hit and miss he got. It's been years since I finished a new fiction book.
Stone by Adam Roberts is an odd story that hints at an AI element as it goes on. Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan is a bit 90s-woman-pretentious (a heroine called 'Kalypso Deed' who loves jazz - nuff said) but has some themes of communicating with a greater alien intelligence. I enjoyed both but read them absolutely yonks ago in my teens, when I was much less critical, so I can't promise either one is a recommendation that stands the test of time. Neither's really about the god-like sprawling entities that Vinge plays with, either.
Someone else here mentioned Blindsight by Peter Watts and I know that deals with post-singularity consciousness somehow, but I haven't read it.
EDIT - oh I forgot The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, as a classic depiction of a doomsday strong AI awakening scenario. Read it online many years ago so it inhabits a different part of my mind to paper novels. Some edgy degenerate shit in it on reflection, plus the ending was absurd to me, but it's a well known, well done technological singularity idea if you haven't already read it.
Way back in the mists of time I also started and never finished Lady of Mazes by Karl Schroeder, because I lost the book. I think I was drawn to it by some sci fi AI elements, but not having ever finished it, I can't say if my instincts were right.
Nope, thanks for the rec. I see Niven mentioned a bunch, so worth a try for when I finally buy another novel.
Hard sci fi that attempts to deal with the implications of greater-than-human intelligence. Not in the sense of 'shucks this blue-head alien temporarily outsmarted us!' but more along the lines of extra-terrestrial strong AI, godlike entities, tech singularity, matter being optimised for consciousness and such. Stuff like Iain M. Banks Culture series (which I actually can't remember very well), but my favourite treatment is by Vernor Vinge in A Fire Upon the Deep, (Vinge being the guy credited with coining the term 'technological singularity' in the first place).
I feel like the more that one's thought experiments veer off in this direction, the more interesting the ideas become for the technological implications for consciousness. This correlates with Vinge being exceptional for writing different-to-human intelligence and aliens who think and see things differently to humans too, eg. in Fire, a race of dog-like pack-mind aliens who only reach human-like sentience when they assemble as a pack of 4-6 doggos. They do this as part of their natural development and each pack is treated as a separate functioning individual. When writing from the perspective of this race, it's as if it's just an unremarkable story that could be from any human's perspective, until elements of their difference leak into it, such as the way they manipulate tools; the impact on their consciousness of losing a pack member; the living status of pack discards and packs with too few members; and the existence of controversial eugenics-like science on their world where packs are torturously pruned and reassembled to create super-soldiers, or where others engage in multi-generational pack incest in order to preserve the pack consciousness.
a foul mouthed but wise pajeet grandma politician with her soy husband
strong independent mongrel women
Expanse was one of the last pieces of popular media I very, very grudgingly admitted to liking (I watched the series; they included everything you mentioned), but you're not wrong. It was clear there was a forced diversity agenda and cringey feminist ideas of assertive heroines. This seemed to get worse as the show went on and I couldn't be bothered to watch the final season.
Still, earlier on, it does have something going for it. Hard to pinpoint what it is. I kept telling people how lame I found it and mocking it, only to find myself watching through it attentively season on season for a while. In the end I gave up and accepted that I kind of liked it (until I gave up watching). Regardless of how clumsy and cringe the low points are, I think it's one of the few pieces of popular TV to ever treat sci fi concepts fairly well. The Eros incident towards end of S1 and the return to Eros in S2 were very memorable, conceptually and visually.
Sci fi literature is, generally speaking, 100x better than sci fi TV or cinema even on the low end. Still, if it's a candidate for Netflix adaptation in the first place, chances are it's a mid novel as novel series go. Try Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep if you haven't.
6.2 million peak. They seem to be trumpeting this as a triumph, meanwhile the smear machine all over the internet is claiming that last season of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here (reality show) was a disaster because it peaked 7.8m and 'only' averaged 6.1m, because Farage aka Brexit-man-bad was on it. The nature of narratives.
This is exactly what they're trying to do in Ireland. There was recently a scandal about a presenter on the state broadcaster's channel being paid an absurd amount, with a followup narrative about how maybe it's time to scrap the concept of the TV license. This was pushed in headline news on all TV and radio, for weeks.
If they are pushing the topic, they are comfortable with it. They would not be comfortable with it if they did not stand to profit from the secret alternative they have lined up. If dropping the TV license really hurt them, they would memoryhole all discussion of it, like they do for anything else uncomfortable.
I'm honestly amazed they released the footage of these cars and continue to run with images of multiple dented, crushed, yet obviously unburnt cars in their articles. It's either colossal arrogance, or else an economical assessment of the minimal level of effort needed to program zionist shills with a new false currentthing script. And they might not be wrong in the latter, judging by the credulity of the usual suspects here.
Either way, the cars are incredibly damning to anyone with a functioning synapse so it's no surprise at all that they're getting their own mass burial. Albeit yet another example of outrageous chutzpah.
The directly bereaved is indicted and censored for being 'unhelpful' or 'far right', because he's a white male.
This represents an existential question for this very forum. I don't think I or most people can make a worthwhile statement about this journalist woman which is in compliance with the forum rules. What then is the point of kia2.win, really?
I guess it serves as a prison shaving mirror for the white male identity to watch itself, as it gets raped. If it's to serve as anything else then I think an .onion address or at the least a rules discussion sticky are warranted.
the symbol is more about women signaling their allegiance to an evil cult than it is them giggling "hehe tiny peepee".
To echo this, here's a clip of various koreans demonstrating that they know the gesture is recognisable enough to be worth avoiding.
Downvoted the community note for irrelevance. Ireland is in the process of implementing hate speech laws that put the UK to shame.
Doesn't make sense to me. They just broke free of a supposedly stifling system and they're free now, riding Yahtzee's dime. This is ep1 of a new podcast they named and made themselves. They are hostage to nothing. This is willing.
This is the first episode of the new podcast from the oh-so-based Escapist survivors. This is what Yahtzee does with his new editorial freedom. Tranny mode pregnancy-claiming Jim Sterling is their chosen 'special guest'. What more needs be said.
I also have a soft spot for The Mayfair Set. From Curtis' perspective, his account of British magnates trying to revive or hold on grimly to the last vestiges of British empire is condescending towards them, yet you can't help but feel that he sympathises more with them than with the growing force of international finace they were up against. In fact I only just learn that The Trap, Curtis' docu which in large part concerns neoliberalism, shares its exact title with James Goldsmith's book about neoliberalism - James Goldsmith being one of the magnates featured in Mayfair Set and dealt with less than sympathetically, at least on a casual viewing.
So it's fair to say that Curtis' views are nuanced, or at least they have been across the years. I actually just watched the opening of Ep1 of The Living Dead; the first 10 minutes are a dispassionate and unjudgmental recounting of the Nazis' view for rebuilding Germany with their policies, against the backdrop of the disorder the country had descended into. It also essentially lambasts Nuremberg as a show trial. The latter part of course can't help but mention national guilt and the holocaust, but in any case it's a million miles from the kind of genuflecting, performative virtue posturing you have to go through when mentioning nazi history in the mainsteam nowadays.
Brexit and the Trump presidency happened against the flow of expected order, so they were chaotic events to the ruling elites (and their normie cheerleaders) in that sense. Mass immigration has chaotic effects for those of us much lower down the chain. I presume that he's listing political phenomena that are chaotic and uncontrolled, from some perspective, to anyone anywhere.
Watch enough Curtis and you can catch enough glimpses that he's a leftie, but he hasn't put out enough in the modern era to confirm a diagnosis of TDS or EU-Remainer seethe, yet. He certainly knows enough about the history of the British left-wing to know Corbyn's relationship to Brexit and also know that the left had anti-EU campaigners in the 70s, when the UK joined. Point being, I would be surprised if he had been dumb enough to be terribly taken by surprise by Brexit or Trump, so it's more likely he's being a universal narrator in that passage.
But like I say, until he puts out his own thorough take on Biden or the scamdemic years, it's hard to know if he's managed to keep his brain between his ears. His most recent 6 parter was in 2021 and it had hints of the perspective of a leftie in denial, rehashing many of his older takes and not saying a great deal new. Hypernormalisation was 2016. I find his older stuff like Century of the Self, The Trap, Pandora's Box and The Living Dead to be interesting regardless.
It's just impossible for me to tally. Besides the consoles I've owned and the games I've played at the houses of forgotten friends in childhood, I also grew up in the arcade era and floated around waggling the sticks and bashing the buttons on tons of games. Even setting a 1 hour minimum play-time would keep a lot of those in my total, but the ones I played for less than that still gave me a lot of entertainment at the time so it feels like a shame to discount them.
I have 225 played games on Steam and probably over 200 of those have at least 1 hour in them. I also played a shitload of games on PC before Steam was a thing and continue to play a lot outside Steam - GOG (mostly without Galaxy, so no stats), emulation, obscure Jap shit, VNs, piracy... So that added to my gaming childhood has to put me at at least 500, but it could even be something as nuts as 7-800 or even 1000.
I've just completely lost track. My problem is the amount of games I actually beat is a ridiculously small fraction of the larger total. Just this year I have hundreds of hours in several JRPGs and some miscellaneous Steam purchases, but I didn't finish any of them. The only games I finished this year were Arkham Knight, Rance 2, Yakuza 5 and Ys 2. Ironically I probably got more enjoyment out of most of the games I gave up on than these four, every one of which I forced myself to beat for some or other ocd-style reason.