This is an interesting take. I always figured the accuracy bullshit in XCOM was a deliberate mechanic concocted by lazy, idea-deficient devs who couldn't think of a more creative way to make the game challenging.
Either way, for a gamer like me who values story every bit as much as mechanics, it was always immersion-breaking. Supposedly the soldiers recruited to the XCOM project are the best of the world's elite special operators, yet they can't hit a barn with a barn-seeking missile.
Regardless of the reason for it, it's extremely frustrating. Not in a fun way, either, like games with a good problem-solving element can be frustrating, but also force you to find another solution. In XCOM it never mattered how good your strategy was or how well you maneuvered your troops. Getting the drop on the aliens never made a difference. You're supposed to be leading an elite military unit, but even your seasoned veterans can pop out from behind a perfect piece of cover and shoot at an alien point blank, only to vaporize a tree and end up getting cut to pieces. It's stupid.
I want to hire everyone who worked for Blizzard back in the 90s and have them remake Diablo 3, Diablo 4 and Starcraft 2.
The Western liberal language of "human rights" has been hijacked by all of the forces in the world that don't believe in those rights and refuse to uphold them, but use them instead as a weapon against the only peoples who have ever cared about them.
The UN, comprised of corrupt, oppressive third-world governments, shrieks about "human rights" whenever any Western country says they're going to do something about human trafficking and illegal migration, so they can continue to use the prospect of emigration to the West as a means of diffusing political doscontent at home. George Soros and the WEF will crackle about "human rights" whenever you propose depriving them of their legions of cheap slave labor. The Israelis and the Arabs will both unironically use "human rights" as an excuse for continuing to massacre each other. The Climate Change Cult will cite "human rights" as justification for insisting we de-industrialize our economies and destroy our own standard of living. And Justin Trudeau will preach about the "human right" to not be exposed to a virus, something utterly impossible to protect people from in the first place, as a reason to deprive 20% of his own populace of their human rights.
That language at this point is so utterly pozzed that I'm not sure it's salvageable.
Personally I hate it because I have always hated the manga/anime art style
Last time the Brazilians protested the government responded by threatening to have their version of social services take the protesters' kids away
Some of them will be turned off, some of them will be bullied back onto the reservation. Notice the MSM-wide hit pieces being published about RFK now. "He's a felon because of the bear thing. He's a felon because of the whale thing. He betrayed his family. Do you really want to support a guy like that?" It doesn't work as well as it used to, but it still has an effect, especially on Boomers.
r/piracy has a megathread with updated links. They're usually pretty good.
I just had to go take a gander at r/piracy over on feddit. There's some funny shit on there right now if you're interested.
Fav comment so far is "I'll fucking force myself to read books before I subscribe to your shitty overpriced streaming service."
This is why parents all over the West need to relearn how to tell their daughters "no."
Not just anime. Some of the biggest general film and TV streaming sites have gone down in the past few days as well. Fmovies and all of its related sites went down a couple months ago, and now there's another wave.
M * A * S * H. The film is still great, but I grew up loving the TV show. There is still a lot about it that appeals to me. Not just the anti-war message, but the entire premise of a bunch of misfits thrown together in a crucible-type situation who manage to make themselves into a sort of family.
But I can barely stand to watch it now. It could be that I'm projecting too much current year onto it, or maybe just that I've grown more conservative as I've got older, but they really did lay down the progressive themes pretty thick in that show (much to Richard Hooker's chagrin) and I find it harder to ignore it now.
The writing on Frasier was top notch. One of the only sitcoms I've ever actually found funny.
"And if it doesn't, we'll make sure it does."
Were any of the ones who are attacking him actually alive when JFK and RFK were around and running? Because Jr was.
Feminists and women in general created this entire mess. They've effectively broken two entire generations of men. Not just through their infestation of every institution from government to health care and especially education. Not just through all of the bullying, shaming, denigrating and demonization that men and boys endure from the moment we reach self-awareness. Not just through their poisonous gender ideology, which paved the way for tranny extremism by insisting for decades that gender is not linked to biological sex and that there are no fundamental differences between men and women. They have shrill demanded the creation of a society that demonizes men for being men and rewards women just for being women, and then they get upset when some men are so broken by the insanity they've unleashed that they want to become women.
No, women made this happen. As many pervs and simps as there may be in the tranny movement, their mental illness has been engendered, enabled and encouraged by feminists and by the legions of ordinary women who cheered them on. I have zero sympathy.
39% of Brits think that line had already been crossed.
Substack is great, but it's UI isn't the most accessible for casuals. I actually somewhat enjoy their deliberate efforts to keep from turning into a news-aggregator type of site, but the microblog and social-media obsessed Average Internet User would probably be turned off by their format.
George Lucas has always been adamant that the good/evil dichotomy in SW is stark. Light side = good, Dark Side = bad. Jedi = good, Sith = bad. He wanted that hero-villain dichotomy as unambiguous as possible, which is why Palpatine was so cartoonishly evil.
KK and her pet directors like Cryin Johnson and Headland are the ones trying to muddy the waters by attempting to rehabilitate the Sith and throw shit on the Jedi. That was the whole point of the Acolyte, and a big part of the reason it failed.
The term you're looking for is "struggle session."
Again, assuming you actually believe a single word you're saying, your fixation on Israel blinds you to all other factors. The idea that the Israel lobby is the sole and only entity responsible for mass immigration, or even that it's the one with the most impact, is simplistic in the extreme.
You are not in a position to accuse me of sidestepping anything, nor do you have the standing to accuse (without evidence) the Zionists of trying to direct anti-immigration sentiment at Muslims only when you're the one whose only response to any nuance is to chant "The Jews are the only problem!" ad nauseum.
Most take no position in the I/P conflict
Good.
Of those that do, pro-Palestine outnumbers pro-Israel 3 to 1
And you will insist that those who hold that view are your ideological allies, in spite of the fact that most are anti-white communist indoctrinees and degenerate freaks who would just as soon see you dead as look at you.
Trump isn't perfect, but he isn't uniparty either. The OP of this thread, who has frequently espoused TDS approaching stratospheric levels, has still voiced his willingness to vote for Trump anyway, despite not getting everything he wanted from the Trump administration. It's the groypers, with their Israel obsession, who are so unwilling to conscion voting for a Trump ticket that they actively promote left-wing politicians and talking points instead, despite those same leftists' avowed desire to continue the destruction of Western society.
People like you are the reason the right loses. Your insistence that the only way to save white societies is by retreading the same failed ideological missteps of the previous century is reductionist, simple-minded and irrational. Your talking points are so toxic that they drive away interest in right-wing spaces and in right-wing movements. Your puritanical fixation on the Jews above all other concerns will ensure that you remain impotent, ineffectual amd inconsequential. You will continue to labor in irrelevant and forgotten corners of the internet, and nothing you hope to achieve will ever be accomplished because you are your own worst enemy.
Once again, my argument is that your fixation on Israel and Zionists will never win over the majority of the people you hope to convince. You have said nothing to dissuade me from that belief.
As far as supporting Trump over actively spouting pro-Kamala talking points as Fuentes is doing, I won't apologize for still thinking that we can vote our way out of Globalism. I won't apologize for thinking accelerationists are stupid for clinging to the infantile belief that they're the ones who are hard enough to survive the collapse of the West they're so ardently working towards. And I certainly won't apologize for hating Muslims, or for having enough of a sense of proportion to correctly view them as a more significant threat than Israel.
There is a difference between criticizing the Israel lobby and hysterically opposing the election of the ticket that will actually do something about mass immigration because you'd rather be flooded with ten million more third-worlders and have billions of your tax dollars spent on propping up Israel than just the latter.
And my point in the above comment stands. If the ultimate goal is a revitalization of white racial consciousness, you are never going to convince the white working class to realize that goal by impotently railing against the shadowy Semitic cabal you insist is responsible for their problems before they address the groups of people who are actively poisoning their communities and undermining their way of life. Not only will that fail to convince anyone who is not already the kind of keyboard warrior who only steps away from his monitor long enough to practice goose-stepping across his mommy's basement, but it actively kills momentum. Which is the point, because half of you are feds.
What's completely insane is turning to the English working class, who are now in effectively open revolt against the idea of multiculturalism, and telling them that the the Muslims who are infesting their communities, raping their daughters, assaulting their sons in the streets, burning down their churches and demanding the implementation of Sharia law in Birmingham aren't the real problem and expecting them to focus their anger on a 2000-miles-distant microstate instead.
To be clear, the BSW is only nominally anti-woke. They're an astroturfed "left-wing anti-immigration" party that was planted by the establishment as a spoiler for the AFD.