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				Tinker Tuesday for April 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What fashion or stylistic choices are you making to avoid a fate of becoming the next Tron Guy[1]?


[1] https://tron.fandom.com/wiki/Jay_Maynard


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for April 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You have to pick a board and immerse yourself in its subculture. 4chan isn’t exactly monolithic. Engagement is more nebulous, you could try to tripfag but anons generally hate that and a small minority have scripts to block/mute trips.


/lit/erature was good, but I haven’t bothered reengaging with them in years. There is news, /int/ernational, and some more like /his/tory and humanities in which you might find something worthwhile.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for April 25, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Part II is doctrinaire progressive, Part I (excluding the DLC where the staffing took a turn), is mostly unmolested by wokeism.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for April 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How would you get it to manage a virtual tabletop with visual/spatial elements like Owlbear.rodeo?


Does it track turn and initiative state for example?


I had an idea to write up some MCP tools tied together for this.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 14, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No. There are no .gov addresses. There are a few .edu, but not from any particularly connected institution AFAICT. I can DM you the dump list, but it is publicly available. Most addresses are Gmail and even Outlook, with a smattering of ProtonMail.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
$700? You can almost buy a new MacBook Air M4 with that. Why not upgrade?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for April 4, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
4chan.org/f/


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
We all know why. His name is as American as the name “Muhammad” is German or French - that is, not at all.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No. There will be plenty more “innocents” lost in this initiative. All roadblocks should be removed or run over.


His last name is Araujo. He isn’t American and he doesn’t belong here.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No. Why would any right thinking person without suicidal empathy have any?


It’s easy to see that she should have been expelled in 1997. She doesn’t belong here, and is playing the system at our cost to delay the rightful inevitable for decades. She posts cartoons of Trump getting scalped among other agitprop.


Her children should also be denaturalized and expelled.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
These are “or” statements, and the operative one is “predatory incursion” - which you call bad behavior. It is also backed by the actions of the Venezuelan state facilitating the movement of these gang members to the U.S.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for February 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I can be your couples therapist. What’s wrong?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 2, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What upset you?


Why can’t you leave your posts up so threads you participated in make sense? You didn’t use your real name.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Don’t copious amounts of diet soda help?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How do occupational licensing boards have any authority? Do I just declare myself and my fellow… rodent groomers… an authority and start handing out paid licenses, and the state will back me if I fine someone $10,000 for combing a hamster without my approval?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for February 12, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I was freezing my ass off out there trying to execute The Fock and the jerk didn’t even show up! You owe me @SkookumTree!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for February 12, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Didn’t Cormac McCarthy follow the same mindset? Thought he got himself a wife.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 9, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
All my groceries seem to have “best by” dates, what happened to actual expiration dates? The wife wants to toss everything after the best by date, even when it’s obviously fine for consumption.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It’s Divinity: Original Sin III with a Forgotten Realms skin suit.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It was Vavra, and I’m sure it is right that most of them are atheists. But by that same token, it can be said that there is nothing more Jewish than an atheistic Jew.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Please. Is that what the developers said? They’ve could have added greater and more compelling cathedrals, or what have you, with all the AAA resources being thrown at it, as the game is literally titled Kingdom Come, and this robustly funded successor could have provided more awe-inspiring Christian architecture to appreciate. Why, they could invent it if they wanted to, out of thin air like the synagogue. Why not? But it doesn’t have that, those aspects are absent and that exclusion is very out of key with the original title. Instead it gets gay sex and black lecturing, yada yada, and all signs point to that not being accidental.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t believe this is contrary to what I wrote, please let me know if I’m mistaken.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You defend a synagogue (which never existed historically) in melee against “antisemites” perpetrating an invented pogrom as part of a quest which the main plot is dependent on for advancement. Musa, the jarring negrolatry insert, is your forced companion.


Oh, another thing, the developer couldn’t bother to introduce interiors of churches and cathedrals that were strongly present in the first game (not enough time he says? But he had enough time, manpower and money for Musa and all the other crap detailed above), but he certainly did for a synagogue.




“ I would love to, but we just didnt have enough time to do it as good as we would like to.”




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
BG3 also did not exactly have the opportunity to plainly slander White Christian Europeans (unless they somehow made their way into Faerûn). It also did not vandalize the prior titles in the series with woke retcons.


I blindly (nearly zero prior review on social media or otherwise, because I enjoyed BG1/2 very much and decided to dive in blind only if a trusted friend could vouch it wasn’t woke goyslop) played through it on recommendation from a friend who didn’t find it catering directly to modern audiences in his own playthrough (unlike recent Ubisoft titles). I believe now that he was wrong and is not sensitive enough to know he is swimming in woke waters.


It’s mostly fine, but it isn’t real time with pause, the writing is poor but serviceable for the gameplay. The problem is aesthetics - everything is undifferentiated morality choices, spiritually genderless with no alignment system. All races are strictly equivalent, and would-be evil races are turned into sympathetic humans with some devilish window dressing. At some point in the third chapter, the designers’ jarring preference for girl bosses become impossible to not notice, everything has a sterile-feminine bent. It’s not done well. There’s apparently a whole lot of degeneracy that is avoided by not engaging with it - after I beat it I was surprised by some scenes on YouTube I never saw in game.


Much of this could be predetermined by the edicts of the 5th edition D&D rules however, which is why I never use that rule set in any tabletop setting.


It has some good moments, and the tactical gameplay loop is there, so it is worthwhile but it isn’t any sort of Infinity Engine game. There’s no successor to those.