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				Friday Fun Thread for August 21, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean, I'm pretty sure a lot of Tom & Don's filler videos have their scripts heavily written by AI.  But they also frequently go off script laughing at how retarded the script is, so I can't exactly hold it against them.  The script just serves as the launch point for them to start clowning on whatever the script is talking about.


Also, Space King 5 at the end of the month, praise be.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Why didn't Candace Owens just join the Left?




Her incomprehensible Gamergate origin story was that she had developed a service that would unmask sock puppet accounts, to fight harassment.  Then Zoe Quinn anonymously contacted her, threatening her if she went forward with it.  And this cemented in her world view that leftist were pro-harassment.


Even then she was obviously a retarded liar.  There were no details as to how this sock puppet unmasking service worked, not even a whiff of a hint that she was remotely capable of creating such a service, or even outsourcing it to people who were.  The utility of such a revolutionary technology has not diminished in the least, and yet it has still yet to materialize from her now that her grift has moved so far past anyone even remembering her fantastical origin story.


And yet, somehow, she has still managed to embed herself in the ecosystem of online right discourse.  Frankly it's astonishing.  She's like some sort of meat LLM that has gradually learned what mouth sounds to make to secure infinite attention, with little understanding of what any of those mouth sounds really mean.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The line between retarded and crazy is thin.  But the point I'm trying to make is still that Candace Owens had to actually hone her craft as a professional liar in the open marketplace of ideas lies.  She had to develop soft skills, coping mechanisms, how to navigate the ecosystem and network.  How many times has Owens been caught peddling bullshit?  How many times has she lost her patron and had to find a new audience?  I think she might be the singular personality from the Gamergate era that is still keeping up a grift.  It's honestly astounding, and speaks to a reserve of grit and work ethic that is rather impressive, being a crazy/retarded liar aside.


Compared to Ardey who never failed in his life, no matter how outlandish his lies were, because he was being kept as a pet by his betters.  Then suddenly he encountered the real world despite their best efforts, and the shock was too much for him.  It was cruel to gas up a retard that much.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Man, affirmative action for professional liars is a real bitch isn't it?  Normally professional liars have to build up resilience.  They have to grow thicker skin, develop substance abuse problems to cope with the shame, get better at gaslighting, or do some good old fashioned mean girl networking.  And when all else fails, shit, this wasn't their first time around the block.  They lay low for a few years, and come back a better liar than ever.  Maybe throw a good ol' heel turn in there for the other tribe, pull in some people who aren't familiar with their bullshit yet.  I mean Candace Owens is clearly a retarded liar, and she manages well enough.


It's gotta be tough on a retarded liar who actually thought all his lies were working his entire life.  Who never had to actually get good at lying, or received the sort of feedback other liars get about how to get better at lying, or what to do when your lies fail.


Truly a tragedy.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't know why you'd assume that after all the other fantastical lies the press repeated about him uncritically and without any evidence.  Why would they start fact checking now?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It just shows how little grit younger generations have.  An experienced boomer, gen-x or even elder millennial grifter would have white knuckled it through, and just reinvented themselves in a new grift a few years later.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No children, loved ones or friends?  Sounds like the exact demographic that gets euthanized because of depression long before their health starts to irreversibly decline.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I find myself lacking the vocabulary to describe my growing sense of unease




The word you are looking for is "evil", and I to struggled to put into words what I saw happening in the world around me, or develop any sort of causal explanation, until I reached for that word.  There is a reason there has been a generational project by progressives in education to put that word out of your cognitive reach.  You should take it back, and use it often and proud.  Because evil is real, and that's exactly where your "unease" is coming from.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The fact that even the left-wing of the Democratic Party is campaigning on health care, tax policy, and Palestine instead of racial humiliation is a big deal.




This is called lying, not winning.  The Democratic Party is lying.  Rest assured, when they win, all that's really going to happen is more racial humiliation.  It's quite literally the only thing they are capable of.  Even if they wanted to something else, they can't.  I doubt they really want to.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for August 11th, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I've continued noodling around in my side project.  Improved execution time of a unit of work down to about 1/8th what it was.  I experimented with an OpenGL synchronization context that I can fire off tasks too for GPU work, but there was too much overhead somewhere for it to be an improvement.  LLM summaries pointed the finger at poor resource management in the context, and the overhead of creating new rendering targets, marshaling the resulting data back from the GPU to the CPU, marshaling that data out of the thread, etc, etc.  I'm not interfacing directly with OpenGL though, I'm using a SkiaSharp canvas, so there is probably ample room for improvement there if I wrote my own shader and really did all my own GPU work.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I enjoyed Battletech slop for the longest time.  Then at some point the embezzlers at Catalyst Game Labs decided the only way to keep not paying authors was to lean into turning Battletech in a gay brand, and the rest has been history.  Now the IP I've been a 30 year fan of is fake and gay at it's root source material.


Piranha Games doing a bang up job on the video games not withstanding.


The most depressing part about being a fan of anything male coded, is that for reasons that are beyond my ken, activist feel the constant need to invade the space and smash your toys right in front of you.  The He-Man Woman-Haters Club or NO MA'AM aren't going to somehow seize the reigns of the Twilight IP and start "subverting" it by having Bella eventually chucked onto the street in the reboot for being a washed up ratchet whore, and dying of an overdose in the gutter.  Only to be replaced by some boring new submissive eyecandy that raises the male main characters children while they go off on adventures to space.


And yet that is precisely what has happened with virtually every male coded IP, ever?  I'm drawing a blank, truthfully.


I would love to support slop I can trust.  I would love to have an IP I could point my little boy to, that I know won't break his heart around book 4 (or 40 RIP Battletech), when the crazies took it over and humiliated and murdered his favorite character.


Alas.  They'll even pillage the estates of dead authors, just to keep the humiliation ritual going.  Poor, poor Tolkien.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


MGTOW knuckledragger faked his CV and is actually secretly a stay-at-home husband for a muscle mommy female CEO.




I didn't realize there was another kind of MGTOW internet personality.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Oh no, I'm not living up to expectations a jannie on a board for turbo autist has of me.


Better go beat my wife some more in frustration.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Weekly Finance Thread - 2026-08-08
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Supposedly the bond market rates are rising, fed target rates be damned.  I've seen predictions that the fed won't raise rates because the bond markets will have defacto raised rates for them anyways.  So the question is actually, will the fed launch into more QE to take the edge off the bond market?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah, it's basically the gender flipped version of chud.  Which means it needs to be used almost 1000x more often to achieve parity.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I would if she stopped deserving it.


/sarcasm


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No epistemic humility required.  Those are literally the only two outcomes physically possible.  You think you can never be humbled?  You ever meet a person who refuses to ever have been humbled their entire life?


You're a clinician, what does a person who always thinks they are the greatest, and is always correct about everything, and reacts aggressively when their ego is challenged sound like?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well, you tried.  It's hard to rescue a young man from his own arrogance, when he's first feeling the flowering of his agency and ability.


He'll either get humbled in a few more years and give what you said a second thought, or turn into one of those monsters in management who's "never wrong" and lashes out at people, destroying the institution from within.


Shit, we got on the topic of UK institutions in terminal decay once again!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Quality Contributions Report for July 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I downvote when I see the same tired and repeatedly proven wrong arguments trotted out for the 100th time.  Especially when they are deployed as thought terminating cliches purposely deployed to sidestep a point that was made.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Probably the way he rephrased everything we said back at us in the interview, and then asked for confirmation.  Or the way he excessively narrated everything he did before he did it.  Or the glazing and "You're right, I'll fix that" whenever there was a mistake.  Apparently that's called a "Sycophantic Opener" in the realm of LLM verbal tics.


I donno man, watch any comedy sketch where a comedian is doing an LLM impression.  It was like that.  I think KRAZAM has done a few here and there.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You think that's bad?  I interviewed a candidate for a job about 2 months ago that spoke and acted like an LLM.  It was like that's how he learned to socialize.


This younger generation is cooked.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I played a little more Doom: Dark Ages.  Got to some giant robot level where the major mechanic was dashing to dodge, triggering a special attack opportunity.  Since it'd been so long since I last played, this completely overwrote all the reflexes I'd built up playing the first 2 levels.  Along comes the fourth level, and now I'm trying to get on foot Doom Guy to dash.  He can only block.  I keep dying repeatedly because my reflexes have been hacked.


Randomly this game Thronefall came across my vision, and I figured it looks like a good game to play to relax.  It lived up to my expectations.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Quality Contributions Report for July 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Whenever female accountability comes up, or lack thereof, I'm always reminded of that old IBM quote.




a computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Someone did point out this vulnerability was discovered shortly after one frontier model or another was released.  But then again, there are new models every day, so who knows.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for July 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I saw Doom Dark Ages was on sale.  $32 for base game and new DLC.  I know a going out of business sale when I see one.


I don't hate the first two levels.  Also runs fine for me on Linux with and RTX 4070 Super.  Get about 70 fps with DLSS, path tracing, and medium settings besides that.


We'll see how it goes.