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smokeypanda PRO 5 points ago +9 / -4

In the mid 20th century, Egypt intended the Gaza Strip as a hostile geopolitical buffer to Israel. I'm not saying the modern Egypt has any obligation to house refugees, instead that the broader Muslim world (and CIA) has put considerable resources radicalizing Palestinians.

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smokeypanda PRO 1 point ago +1 / -0

Browsers have had password managers + generators since before t_d split from Reddit. Up your tech game.

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smokeypanda PRO 1 point ago +1 / -0

Long-running shonens aren't my thing, so I wouldn't be able to appreciate substantial downgrades from the source material. Except for Nami being a b-cup with a trendy haircut that will age like unpreserved bread. Just watched a clip, what the fuck is the unnerving cinematography they settled on?

I listened to a few clips of Nerdrotic when the algorithm pushed him onto my feed. Way too branded and formatted for Youtube profit. I'd rather have content that provokes the ordinary person in any given year, like American Krogan. Or obscurity, like a conference speech between the lead designer of OG Doom and the inventor of the first digital video game, who was also the first to implement a high-level programming, that only got 6k views in 10 years.

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smokeypanda PRO 2 points ago +2 / -0

COVID vaccines were dangerous because of the cult-mentality around their safety, and that half the world population was exposed to these shots. The jab is a societal contagion rather than a high individual risk. You can't flush spike proteins, so hopefully you can get by faking the shot. Learn to become an effective, egoless liar.

As other comments said, weigh in whether she's shit-testing and will find other nonsense to satisfy base human vices. If she's genuinely fearful of variant 7+, just take the shot, and ghost her when you've saved enough to pay deposit on your way out. Working two bottom-barrel desperation job for the next decade would be more demeaning than a relatively low health risk jab.

I was lucky enough to postpone the shot until employer absolutely demanded it when I had enough saved to move states. That happened a few weeks before I planned to quit anyways, for other reasons. Next employer backed down when they realized enough of their workforce was going to leave, plus that the pandemic was over spring of last year.

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smokeypanda PRO 2 points ago +2 / -0

In Germany, are those libertarian-socialists living alternate to reality or akin to UK's lib-dems where they've been disconnected from classical liberalism since our great-great grandparents were born?

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smokeypanda PRO 17 points ago +17 / -0

Toxic artist egotism. The audacity of the peasant viewer to to enjoy the work in their own way.

There's got to be at least one big game where the companion notes "oh, we're in a rush", then let the player character fail a hostage rescue because they didn't catch a helpful breakdown of the scenario. For that matter, most games don't have involved objectives like the first level of Dues Ex: HR, so the PC should have the option of just running ahead and skipping time.

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smokeypanda PRO 5 points ago +5 / -0

I've had a few ideas simmering the past 7 years to drastically overhaul online discussions and resist Eternal September. Now you've got be doubting whether this is a fool's errand...

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smokeypanda PRO 6 points ago +7 / -1

"Mah heckin basedrino EU and UK granting us USB-C iPhones and blocking Micro-Acti merger (no longer true)" - Crowd pandering dipshits

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smokeypanda PRO 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's what I meant, that we're too compromised to pull off such an operation. Not that true colonialism is inherently immoral, which it isn't.

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smokeypanda PRO 3 points ago +3 / -0

Imagine if The West dropped 2 centuries of leftist delusion and indulgence, to form actual crusader states in 2002. We have a supreme technological and educational advantage over the high medieval militaries, but a spiritual/cultural regression.

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smokeypanda PRO 3 points ago +3 / -0

A relative of mine pointed out the possibility that other staff were responsible for executing the philosophy and aesthetic of the Matrix, and that the Wachoski bros were always off their rockers.

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smokeypanda PRO 2 points ago +2 / -0

What platform(s) are you referring to? A few games like Zork were ported off their mainframe/minicomputer roots.

The App and Play Stores absolutely stink. I don't trust a market that can't be assed to put Newpipe or Vanced on their phones.

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smokeypanda PRO 1 point ago +1 / -0

Good art is good art. My presentation statement was aimed at newer gamers and clickbait journos who think Skyrim's animations are its biggest sin. Or that its prescripted NPC interactions are an undoubted improvement over Oblivion's; these people have no joy in their heart. 3d graphics from 2006 were enough, but woe to any mid-budget studio that doesn't want blow through its budget on visuals or lean on a gimmick (ex: fake voxels in Minecraft). Disqualifies you from most of the console market.

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smokeypanda PRO 2 points ago +2 / -0

Like corporate managers, lots of indies just follow the trending genres and mechanics, unable to go beyond 'going through the motions'. Lots of tower defense around 2011. Thankfully the market usually punishes this lack of imagination.

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smokeypanda PRO 10 points ago +10 / -0

Bush knew that Clinton's nation building was unpopular while campaigning in 2000; Youtube was great for casually educating on shit like this before ~2009. I get that the MI complex profits off it, but how many voters gave a shit about nation building in long disgraced Near East shitholes?

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smokeypanda PRO 4 points ago +4 / -0

Narcissism by low IQ. Normie's might be retarded gossipers and duckspeakers, but 99.5% of the players never encountered the controversy. Hate it when these fanatics assume everyone shares hperself's lifestyle.

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smokeypanda PRO 3 points ago +3 / -0

The author seems upper-middle class, but any family who lives within their means can achieve this. Now if the state would stop incentivizing dumb families.

I don't trust many private schools to be substantially better than public schools. Same flawed authoritarian and artificial premises; lousy parents, teachers, and admin that squanders students' potential. Shared educational facilities for difficult subjects make more sense than 6.5-10 hour days caged to a desk.

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smokeypanda PRO 2 points ago +2 / -0

I was expecting incoherent doublethink.

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smokeypanda PRO 13 points ago +13 / -0

Just stay off double-digit IQ social media. And, get out of third-world shitholes like London and Paris.

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smokeypanda PRO 1 point ago +1 / -0

Many of our enlightenment values are a continuation of Christianity and what came before. If the bible was too easy to interpret, it would lack depth or wouldn't persist across millennia. I don't agree with the parts that seem to be authoritarian social engineering, but I've learned to be very dismissive of malicious caricatures of the religion. Most of the bible isn't up to flimsy, wildly divergent interpretation.

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smokeypanda PRO 8 points ago +8 / -0

~1000 staff writers in 2021. This is in line with general economic trends, not a collapse of the big-name section of legacy media.

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smokeypanda PRO 7 points ago +7 / -0

They made the choice when they started immigrating in the first half of the 20th century. The retarded part is how Western governments got dragged into this ordeal.

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smokeypanda PRO 14 points ago +14 / -0

"December of last year, I got a notification from Reddit stating I was in the top 1% of karma earners on the site for 2022. Some people might see that as a positive thing, but I was embarrassed. I realized I needed to pull back on my use this year and I’ve done pretty well with it. I’m not off entirely (obviously), but I recognized it was an issue."

This type of person will never comprehend what a habitually people-pleasing douche heshe is. Even if shehe got off social media, it will forage until a social group that sufficiently duckspeaks is found. Note that this person still posts at least 2 comments every day, on bottom feeder subreddits.

Edit: Dude reached 1000 comments within 6 months, or an average of 6 a day. That's not as bad as some people on reddit who reach the 1000 cache limit within 2 months, but this ATIAH addict's words do not match perself's actions.

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