Luckily I'm not allergic to them, so within an hour of being around them, I don't even know they were there.

I’m not positive it it is still that way, but way back when there was TheDonald.win and nothing else it worked like that here. I was arguing with someone about the dangers of modern online “stealth” censorship versus old school print censorship from the Soviet type days. They tried to pull some sort of smack down argument on me and block me, and I wasn’t allowed a retort. I actually discussed with the admin but and he’d talked about changing, but I’ve never tested again. Most people on these forums aren’t such pussies to use it anyway.

Yeah I don’t think bullying was ever a benefit in the traditional sense. The bullies were the apes of the school and were as small a group as the nerds. The reality with nerds, is the vast majority were passive on them at best, it’s just the few bullies that needed something weak to mess with. Modern nerd stuff being ruined is because nerd things were pushed into popular space and has nothing to do with a luck of bullies.

What we really need back is what I’ll call ostracizing. The people that the majority of the school sneered about. These were the slut girls, the fags, etc. When I was in school, no one liked these people. They weren’t necessarily bullied in the traditional sense, but they were the joke among almost all of their peers. Now, they are forced or brainwashed to accept those as normal.

“ Where’s your net!? ”, says the fat woman on a motorized chair. “I wear my mosquito net to protect you, you wear yours to protect me. You aren’t caring for my health!”

I attract mosquitoes almost comedically badly, and I would not be staying inside over a horse disease. They will soon have to change the name to E pox or something, because AOC will be offended for her horse face to be associated with this.

Whores are going to whore

I’ve never had an IQ test, so I’m just going to assume I’m stupid. Hey, all the more reason to push myself to learn more! Some have called me smart, yet others have called me smartass. Perhaps it’s both, or perhaps it’s neither.

Whether or not I care to be defined as “smart,” I will say I do have an uncanny ability to understand complex things as if they were simple. easily—machines, electronics, and the like. But I’m also not great with people in real-time verbally, meaning any of the wit I have when I have the time to think about a response is nonexistent, and it’s replaced with frustration. I also have about as much athletic ability as a rock. So, I mean take whatever aptitudes I have and decide for yourself if I’m smart or not.

Edit: Oh and I use my memory as a crutch. People around me know that when I say I remember something I AM right, always. There’s no ambiguity in my mind. Either I remember in detail or I don’t. Anything else, I’m lying. Yes, I often lie about things I actually remember, because sometimes the level of detail I remember would freak people out. Take my memory away, and I’m a shell of my former self.

parody vibe

I didn’t have the words for what I saw, but that’s it. At least a parody would be funny. I’m pretty sure this is supposed to be serious.

would rip their own balls off if it stopped Trump winning

C’mon, you know they’d do that anyway.

Satanists "struck" to be in the presence of Satan and argumentative and spiteful of followers of God. Fitting.

I'm not well versed in any of Star Trek lore at all so any bastardization of that will be lost on me. So all I see is absolutely dreadful writing, casting, acting, and music.

As soon as she finds one with enough money, she will toss aside her aversion for video games instantly for all but the most repulsive obsessed cucked men, which would be leftist anyway.

Oh and I find fake blond hair and horse face not at all attractive, so...

religion of Peace & Quiet

All the way up until they start blasting 5 minutes of dreadful moaning sounds full blast all across the cities five times a day.

Yeah, they didn't make anything worth buying and they can't admit it. I have no expectation of recreating the wheel for every game, but it's just so generic. I could download hundreds of ROMs that would be easy to run and likely offer a better experience.

You know how it is, it's none different than the demands to X from major governments. We demand you ban speech we don't like. It's not politics, it's banning Nazis. This is about human decency. etc.

They want Steam to not allow any negative discourse with respect to current thing.

My guess with AAAs is stock price manipulation and/or outside investment from the Blackrocks of the world. It's far too obvious to just send them a bribe, but to quietly imply that they will hire Sweet Babies or some other such firm or the cash inflow from Blackrock to their stock price will stop, that's all it takes.

I'm not so sure about any government payout to indies. The developers are just woke. I can almost see the office buttsex from watching the trailer. It's a game made by artists. I could make 2D character movement and projectiles in a weekend in Godot, and half the work is done and I just need some art. Much of the other things like parallax scrolling is built in.

I'm not even saying that is a bad thing for it to be a simple game. I like the idea. But it is missing the charm of what it aims to copy, particularly in the character design. They all look kinda just, gay. I've seen more than my share of pixel characters of old (and typically Japanese) and they don't.

justification for pirating our game

Not the right method in my opinion. Don't pirate the woke games, rather not play them at all.

Oh, and they should have just left pronouns out. It's not normal. Besides any avoidance of woke, pronouns are a red flag that the creators of the game are idiots and the game is shit.

Yeah, I haven't actually followed enough of the new stuff, I know I've seen some shades of "was the Sith really that bad?"

I guess my argument was more when it was new and not in George Lucas retrospective. There is tension in the original trilogy as a first time watcher, you expect good to win, but you don't know. Luke is about to be killed mere seconds before the destruction of the Death Star, and mere minutes before the end of the film. There's already been conflict and failure in the movie to keep you thinking, Obi Wan was killed, etc. It's so different from the "woo hoo, the hero is here to kick ass and chew bubblegum" from a Disney-Marvel. Of course with respect to Star Wars, if you've seen it a trillion times you know what will happen. But yeah, I didn't think it was the best example anyway, and it still pales in comparison to most of the Marvel stuff.

No, I'm implying that Disney turns them to shit without DEI.

I think they'd have cooked Star Wars even if the DEI wasn't present. They'd have Disney-Marvelled it anyway. Disney doesn't like ambiguity, it has to be binary heroes vs villains. The stories are all the same.

Star Wars isn't the best counter to that, but there was always lingering doubt. Was there good in Vader? Would Luke turn? Would the republic win? Yeah, in hindsight you know what happens, but in the moment there are questions.

Can't they see? That dog is brown. The other dog they mention outstanding in the article is black. They did not kill a man, they were merely sharing their culture.

I don't know a ton about it but I may check it out. I'd far, far rather read political commentary than videos. Most of the videos are too damn long and just repeat themselves.

We don't give them money. I always use Call of Duty as an example because it's something I know and it was not fueled by microtransactions. Not only do they out-sell previous titles, for example Modern Warfare 2 in 2022 broke all of their records, but then from reports I've seen they make $5 million per day from all the bullshit they sell. I believe it too, I played it a few months ago with my cousin on a "free weekend." My observation, 75% of players at minimum have a current-release cosmetic skin, which costs $20-$30.

Roblox is publicly traded, in the last 12 months their revenue was $3.16 billion. I have no idea how they don't make money. Talk to any < 13 year old kid and see how many Roblox gift cards they have gotten for birthday presents. It's a TON.

Then you come to someone like me, it pains me to pay $70 for a new game. I actually don't think I ever have. I rarely pirate, I take advantage of sales. Let's assume there's an annual release game that launches working and complete and I value having enough to spend $70 on every year. They have to sell 45 million copies annually to match that Roblox money. It's just not going to happen.

Edit to add for context: Nintendo games often fit that last model. As an example, Zelda Breath of the Wild has sold over 30 million copies. Being one of if not the most sold games on Switch. They would have to do that every year, and still come out behind.

I wouldn't be all that shocked by a subscription to play a game. I don't think they'd ever come out and say, this "you must pay us for anticheat." That would open them to legal liability, as cheaters are going nowhere yet you are paying to not have them.

It would be much simpler to make some spiel about "we charge monthly to provide you a great service we can't do with a free model, better servers, more monitoring for cheaters, blah, blah, blah."

I don't know how many players that would run off though. They make so much money off their skins and P2W things, should they not just focus on getting an additional $20 a month from players by selling them more garbage?

Well I'm still justified to have quit multiplayer, the future is kids who got a brain implant at 5 and spend 8 hours a day their whole life playing these games. It would be even less of a contest than it is now.