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Uh, nah, never mind. No point.

Fake news!

Oh, and by the way, before anyone remarks on it: I meant no value judgement of Kingdom Come: Deliverance with my post. As I said, I never played it, and I probably never will, because everything that made the game stand out are things that I am glad modern games left behind*, and any sort of realism is not what I am looking for in a combat system. It is probably a good game that deserved its success in the same way Pretty Woman was great (presumably, at least) and wildly successful romantic comedy. I just don't like romantic comedies. *Hilariously enough, you just need to look at @Sven_'s posts about what he likes in games (sue me, I just assumed gender based on the user name being male ) to find out what I don't enjoy at all. There are things made to make a game more immersive that are dealbreakers for me. Like not having a map that properly helps with navigation. In real life, ever since the advent of affordable GPS navigation systems, I have never once thought back to the good old days of having to buy ginormous maps to plan routes well ahead of leaving home and thought: "Man, that used to be great, I should do that again." Finding places in the game world based on descriptions by characters is just something I don't care for, and in the worst case, is frustrating. The first thing I installed when playing World of Warcraft Classic was a UI mod to tell me where to go for questing. There's enough in this game to waste my time, avoiding them whenever possible is good for the experience. There's a whole bunch more that I don't like, that many players consider good game design, like NPC schedules and timed quests - basically anything that makes a game feel less like a game, and more like a simulation. I already deal with NPC schedules and timed quests almost every day in my life: it's called work. Somehow, I don't care for it in my break from reality, and I cannot understand why people would want that in their games. But that's okay. I don't really have to. De gustibus non disputandum est, after all.

I am confused. Since when is Sky News a globalist media mouthpiece? Since Murdoch stepped back at Fox News? I thought the globalist elites are the leftists. Can someone please tell me who I am supposed to dislike now. If Sky News is party of the libruhl woke agenda now, do I also need to stop watching Fox News? I... A little help? Anyone?

So, like, Waltzhisface from Groper Cleveland's entourage said that he thought Jeffrey Goldberg would be someone else when he added him. Do you guys think that might really be the case? Maybe he wanted to add Jonah and simply picked the wrong Goldberg. All them joo names be so confusingly similar. Also, Trigger warning: completely dumb, even by MTG's low standards.

So, I, like, never having played Kingdom Come: Unwoked Incline, just went and looked up Theresa, because @BruceVC has kept mentioning her for a while now. I had certain expectations going into this image search, mostly because the aforementioned poster said that Veilguard did not cater enough to the horny incel core audience of these games. Now, to make this comparison properly, here's one of these character models from Veilguard that doesn't cater to the horny incel core audience. Probably because of her rack size, but that I do not know for sure, because said poster refused to actually tell what it was about that game that made it unappealing for horny incels. This is Neve in her civilian attire, i.e. in non-combat locations. Take not of the lack of anime style giant boobies. Now, before looking up Theresa, here's what I thought I would get: That's how Neve should look, I guess, to make the incels happy? And this is Theresa, apparently. At least according to a quick googling. Imagine my surprise when Theresa turned out to be a plain country bumpkin, completely unremarkable. Normal, one might say. Certainly less catered to horny incels than Neve was. This is so confusing.

Having had some spare time at my hands I re-watched parts of the MCU and ventured bravely forth into the multiverse era, which I so far have avoided. To put it bluntly, I probably should have continued avoiding it. Alas. Films I have rewatched: The Avengers Captain America: The Winter Soldier The Avengers: Age of Ultron Captain America: Civil War Doctor Strange Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Endgame Rewatching the films did not really change my opinions much, with two exceptions: Doctor Strange I didn't dislike as much as I did when watching it at the theater. The CGI's still terrible and the ending was and always will be utterly predictable and boring, both of which drag the film down immensely. Still, I guess not having to watch all of it at once helps with some films, right? I also disliked Endgame a lot less the second time around, but it is still so much worse than Infinity War. Still not a very enjoyable experience, but being able to ignore the extended CGI battle bonanza at the end because I already watched it once helped. Almost all of the films after The Avengers (except the Doctor Strange origin story, obviously) suffer from a lack of proper setup (watching them back to back makes this even more noticable), with Age of Ultron more or less taking the cake, being a completely incoherent mess of ideas and concepts thrown into a blender, basically the Star Trek: Into Darkness of the MCU. Civil War will always be dreck, but the film cannot really help being based on the comic storyline. Things I watched from the Multiverse: Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness Thor: Love and Thunder Plus some bits of WandaVision and Loki, but I am not finished with the series. I am somewhat willing to ignore the complete lack of sense that the Doctor Strange movie made and simply hope that the ending of WandaVision will explain what the hell happened with Wanda. If it doesn't, then that is another negative. It speaks volumes of what I think of WandaVision that I so far have not managed to finish a nine episode series. That sitcom gimmick became so old so fast that even I stopped watching and moved on (and I sat through all of Rings of Power so far). Eh. Loki's first season was fine, but it left me with no real desire to continue with season two - I'll watch that eventually though, of course, just like WandaVision. Looks like they brought Short Round to Loki, which... I guess could be a plus. Thor: Love and Thunder though, yikes. What the hell. I love surrealist reinterpretations of a series as much as the next guy (the Darin Morgan episodes of X-Files were top notch entertainment), but that just fell completely flat. The goats were fun. Everyting else? Uhm. Nope.

We have always been at war with Eastasia. Incidentially, Natalie Wynn just released a video essay on the abject state of US politics. Sort of.

Arcanum really is in dire need of a remaster. A remaster that makes it playable. I have no idea how you guys can stand "playing" that game.

Finished It Takes Two. We needed ten hours, and it started to drag in the middle. The ending was decently paced. Odd to say that the game started to drag while it was only 10 hours long, but I guess that's partially having to play it with a 12-year-old whose interest is in doing everything but what he's supposed to. On the bright side it wasn't gutter level trash like Human Fall Flat or a sandboxy make your own adventure like Wobbly Life.

All the false penguins listed in a neat video:

I found that the best way to avoid such experiences is to simply mimic their behaviour. Just breathe through your mouth and mutter to yourself while walking around in public and people will avoid you.

Well, more like scientific discoveries note made because of the Annoying Orange.

The 'Murican rah-rah-ing about having guns to oppose tyrannical government instead of shooting up schools is just silly talk. It'll be *crickets* from the gun nuts, or else they'll sign up to help with the invasion. Eh, honestly, order the Rafale from the French, that would be more fun. Also... Yeah, there are also no NSA backdoors in operating systems and American hardware, that's just online misinformation.

So how long until Trump renames Rosa Parks Day to Uppity Bus Rider Day?

That was called Stargate Universe and nobody liked it, so it got cancelled.

Even for those 3%, the actual infection they get if they are exposed to measles post-vaccination is often a lot less problematic. I was one of those kids where the vaccination did not take fully, and I got sick from my brother, who could not be vaccinated due to ongoing and chronic pulminary tract infections as a kid, and brought it home from kindergarten: some unvaccinated child with stable genius parents. He almost died from it too, while I just had the usual rash with a slight itch and super explosive diarrhea. Needs diapers at the age of six because getting to the toilet in time is impossible sort of explosive. Fun fact, measles has a potential side effect in the form of Dawson disease, which is basically a time bomb planted by the measles infection that will go off in your brain, killing you without recourse. Fun disease, don't forget to bring your unvaccinated kids to a measles party. The dumbest thing of it all is though that the distrust of the measles vaccination goes back to faked paper by Andrew Wakefield who wanted to discredit existing measles vaccinations to sell his own. The same sort of idiots who still cling to his disproven lies are the same ones that tell everyone that big pharma is just trying to make us sick for profit, popping sugar placebos with a 10000% price markup in the form of homeopathy. If it weren't for the harm done to kids who are not to blame for their dumb parents, I'd be happy to see RFK stopping vaccinations entirely. The world's way too full of people anyway, and if some of the worst offenders of wasting resources want to off themselves in a terribly painful way, who am I to argue. Just go and die. Alas.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-canada-doubles-tariffs-national-emergency-electricity-rcna195810 I'm beginning to think that it's not RFK who has the brain worm.

Kinda like how Steve is doing TL;DW segments of his videos upfront these days. The TL;DW basically being that it in gaming, it is performing equally to a 9800X3D - which is a bit of a change as last generation's 16 core pards with 3D V-Cache usually had scheduling problems, and in production it is pretty much equivalent to a 9950X, give or a take a couple of percentage points. So, if you're like one of the three people on the planet who do heavier duty production workloads on your personal computer and some gaming on the side and can't live without the best gaming performance possible, this is the best CPU for you. Is it the most optimal? Eh, not really. I mean, it's not like a 9950X or a Core 285K will fail in gaming and still has the same or very similar production power - for much cheaper. Cheapest prices I could find for my region for the 285K was 610€, with the 9950X costing 680€. The 9950X3D's MSRP is set at 750€ (yeah, right ).

One of those days where one realizes that the vast majority of people working in IT are basically naught but trained monkeys.

Steve also said in that video that certain MSRP cards just don't make money, or at least they didn't for EVGA, and that was before inflation and TSMC's monopoly on modern process nodes. It really does stand to reason that AMD doesn't have the clout to do that beyond an initial launch window or with subsidies they probably don't want to afford. Still hoping - probably beyond reason - that Intel can get their heads unstuck from their asses and make their new nodes work. Would be a lot better if someone else than the silly Tangerine in Chief would be at he helm. Not to drag politics into the tech forum, but TSMC is sitting on a powder keg and we have no idea when it will go off. They understandably also said that the newest nodes will remain in Taiwan, which makes sense. It's the one thing stopping Winnie Pooh from bringing them home into the Reich. The Tangerine, meanwhile, doesn't get that setting up tariffs is not going to make factories and fabrication plants appear magically. Not for steel or aluminum or car assembly, and even less so for bleeding edge chips production. We already had a taste of what happens when TSMC stops producing microprocessors for a while, and it was not pretty, and for all their faults, Sleepy Joe and the Democrats at least realized that. Granted, I don't exactly know how effective the Chips Act subsidy was, but The Tangerine and his cronies look at the situation and say: "This is fine, companies should bring their production plants back to America because they have to, not because they're being paid for it!" As it stands, we better hope China doesn't catch up with modern process nodes before someone with a little more strategic foresight is back at the helm in the US, assuming that is at all possible once the Tangerine's done ruining the country. I am somewhat baffled that for all his tech bro advisors, no one seems to have told him yet how much hangs in the balance of his good friend Winnie playing nice.

The North American Economic Union is a part of the NWO agenda (and also includes Mexico, generally), by the way. The conspiracy theory usually goes that this would be done through free trade and negotiations, but adding Canada as the 51st state would work just as well. As we can see Trump is doing NWO work, even though we elected him to oppose the NOW and the Deep State. It is all very frustrating for me. They really rigged the system. Who would have thought that someone who has been part of the elite his entire life isn't fighting against the elites in a way he claimed he would be? I am very disappoint.

Andrea Dworkin might have been onto something when she said the right wing conservatives (men and women alike) define womanhood through the ability to whelp. Since trans women are by definition unable to do so, they're basically a threat to the definition of womanhood, and through that, women - wich means for the conservative men that they threatened their women, who no one else is allowed to threaten their women but themselves. That's a bit like why conservative Christians dislike Muslims even though they basically want the same thing: for the womanfolk to stay at home to cook, whelp and rear their children. Since they cannot deal with the cognitive dissonance, they don't even notice or double down on their viewpoints. Hilariously exemplified in one of the interviews I saw with an avid MAGA cultist who stated, on camera, that he's with President Trump on the Muslim ban, because Muslims don't respect American women. All the while wearing a t-shirt with Hillary Clinton's likeness on it, reading: TRUMP THAT BITCH. Meanwhile anti-trans thought also finds purchase in feminist circles because they're seen as men threatening what they fought for. This is history repeating itself insofar as feminists originally tried to exclude lesbians because they were seen as a bunch of butch dykes and feminists did not want women who look and behave more like men than women to be part of their group. Ultimately, even modern feminists still struggle to define womanhood outside of what tradition dictates. Sure, the more radical elements have their girl bosses, which are basically women who adopted toxic masculinity, which is an incredibly self-defeating solution for a movement of a gender suffering immensely from toxic masculinity, hence the rise of various counter-definitions (including the tradwife, which loops neatly back to traditional role models). Then you have, of course, the elements who chafe under homophobia no longer being acceptable in modern society and simply supplanted theirs with transphobia. That is why you get exactly the same arguments against transgenders as there were against homosexuals (and lesbians). Verbatim, even, at times. They make all our children gay when they're allowed to teach. They pollute the children's minds, making them want to transition. Now that we have accepted homosexuality, there's suddenly so many of them. Now that transgenderism gains acceptance, people identifying transgender suddenly tripled. Now you might want to say: but, but, but @majestic, you only talked about trans women, what about the trans men? Yeah, what about them. They get caught in all the negativity and anti-trans legislation, but let's be real, it's the trans women who are the targets. They tickle fears of being trapped in conservative men, they are visible reminders of the self-loathing of conservative men who wank to shemale porn and are ashamed of it, they're seen as a threat for women and they're the targets of feminists who see them as encroaching on what little they can agree on that defines a woman, and by extension, that also garners the attention of the moderates. I mean, honestly, if a lot of well known women like J.K. Rowling think that trans women are just men wanting access to women's toilets and locker rooms to rape them, there just might be something to it, no? Meanwhile the trans men, they're seen as what? Taking the girl boss a little too far? At worst, they're targets of more radical feminists who see them as traitors to their gender.

I have, uh, on occasion, posted strange music videos in this thread, but what YouTube suggested to me right now is, and this isn't the usual @majestic hyperbole, I would say, like, probably, totally, like... I mean, there's no way around this, this is worse than anything Scooter made. Excuse me while I'm trying to stem the blood flowing out my ears and gouge my eyes out.