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sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
There's a difference between being aesthetically pleasing and everything made out of diamond blocks or the equivalent. There is nuance between making everyone the same hot woman with minor variations and making everyone blobs. For the record, I think Hades II achieves that nuance decently.
Hyperpalatable aesthetics is the mcdonalds of art. I like some mcdonalds every once in a while, I don't want to eat it all the time. And not just because it's unhealthy.
mukokuseki
TIL the word for "basically white, or close enough that dark skin-fearing consumers won't raise a fuss".
In general, I think the amount of suffering the average male sex drive has caused for either himself or the people near him has been quite high, historically. Most of the gender difference in sex drive was filled with coercive sex work, malicious seduction, rape, or else with sexually frustrated men -- which are not great for stability of society, generally.
Technology has solved this problem. Today, that 30yo married guy can just bookmark the teen category on pornhub and jerk off whenever he feels like it, with about zero of the negative externalities of having an affair.
This bit here just seems like a generalized argument against letting humans breed at all.
In any event I'm sure the Third Worlders who inherit your senile decrepit demographically-imploded civilization will deeply appreciate your commitment to individual liberty. The future is an 85 year old transhumanist babbling about how a dynamic forward-thinking society could have solved this problem through technology, while being beaten to death in a slum.
FirmWeird
Randomly Generated Reddit Username
2d ago
I don't know why they're doing it that way. My only guess is that it feels good to them and it delivers quick cheap optics wins to serve to their base, because it feels good to many in the base as well.
My personal theory is that while the Trump base legitimately wants to put an end to illegal immigration due in large part to the economic consequences, those economic consequences are actually extremely beneficial to a lot of republican donors. When you remove illegal immigrant labor and force the farmers to hire Americans (legally) the price of everything goes up. Ultimately society and the economy would be healthier after this gets done, but the political consequences for Trump in the short term would be disastrous. "All basic staples are now twice as expensive, but in exchange your wages will improve permanently in 9 months" might be a great deal for his base in the long run, but it is suicidal for someone who has to care about daily opinion polls and work around congressmen and senators who are taking vast sums of money from the people who benefit from illegal labour.
Pongalh
2d ago
being qualified to carry a gun selects against "bottom feeders," a term I feel is more appropriate for say, fentanyl addicts. but it probably does select for people who are not well into the arts, i.e. philistines. That's a kind of bottom feeder for many.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2d ago
They were not just five random boys out for a lovely stroll at 10pm. Some were arrested for criminal behavior before the police even knew there was a rape victim.
But aside from their confessions there's almost nothing linking them to the victim.
I do think their confessions are worth something even if they're dumb kids under duress. Some confessed even with their parents present.
Sure is awkward that someone else confessed and DNA evidence links him to the victim though.
I don't think they're guilty beyond reasonable doubt, but it's definitely bizarre to turn around and conclude that they're heroes, which is how they're being treated by progressives (???)
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
2d ago
People come here to work. If they're not going to work, there's not much point in being here.
gattsuru
2d ago
It looks like ICE solved that one just fine.
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Shortly after Monday’s court hearing, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the other drivers who followed and boxed in agents.
An FBI statement says about 10 vehicles were involved in the chase that Martinez and Ruiz were allegedly part of in the 3900 block of South Kedzie. The statement also describes the “ramming” of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle repeatedly in the 3700 block of Kedzie, allegedly by the driver of a black Chevy Tahoe with Illinois license plate EM 62829. That driver is still at large, the FBI said.
Now, perhaps the defendant's lawyers claims of the ICE officers just calling someone a bitch and opening fire are tots honest -- stranger things have happened than an immigration-related lawyer lying their pants off, albeit not often -- and the ICE officers in that specific case will be going to jail themselves. We can review it in a week.
Either way, I can think of several reasons why local police department support would help develop these cases toward the results truth demanded, rather than whatever random coincidences and biases occur in a fog of war.
gattsuru
2d ago
Eh... DNA evidence proved a sixth person raped the victim, but there's a lot of evidence for the CP5 themselves being guilty too, of the crime they were convicted for. Maybe there's some doubt, but I don't think Reyes' confession is anywhere near enough to be certain or even very confident they were not guilty.
PreformancePertension
2d ago
(Source: some shit I saw on twitter but don't remember the exact account anymore)
I saw someone float the idea that gays now understand straight men much less well since it's easy to be out. A lot of gay men who work in Democratic politics have probably grown up in costal cities where being out has always been ok among everyone they interact with, and their social circles are either progressive men or other gay men. It seems fairly plausible at a glance but I wouldn't have much input beyond that.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
It looks like ICE solved that one just fine.
I don’t see why they’re entitled to local police escorts. Surely they can take care of themselves?
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
If you stop people from working, they are still in the country. If you disappear them, they disappear and are not in the country.
lurker
2d ago
This is just another instance of americans forgetting that other countries exist. There are places that ban porn. South korea is one such nation and as we can see south koreans are having lots of hot sex as the author of this article would predict. Gender relations are at an all time high too. While rates of sexual assault are at an all time low. With results like these I can't see why anyone would oppose a porn ban!
Tiber727
2d ago
The quibble is that if Jose is willing to work on a farm in California for what are shit American wages but still a better deal than staying home, the progressive view is that allowing Jose to stay is not advocating against our own interests or wealth redistribution, it's Jose contributing his labor to the economy and getting paid.
Progressives simply don't care that he had to enter illegally to get to this point because they'd rather immigration be expanded in the first place. I'd personally rather more expansive work visas that allow them to do this while still being vetted, and with better wage/labor controls. The conservative view seems to be that if we got rid of all the illegals farmers would pay more and Americans would do it, of which I am skeptical.
Sunshine
2d ago
The word 'men' conveys inherent dignity, and even saying the words 'white men' has become right-coded. That's why when the Harris campaign decided to make a Zoom call for every race/gender combo, the names were Black Men for Harris but White Dudes for Harris. Calling the white dudes 'men' would be too respectful in the mind of the politics-brained consultant who came up with it. They flinch back from it, even subconsciously.
Some day I will write an essay on the psychological fuckedupedness that the Western left has towards men.
When you look at the tenets of Liberalism you can see Trump is a liberal. A soft one, but one none the less. George Bush was also a liberal to a large extent.
Yes, not only are They doing the Great Replacement, but also they have picked immigrants which will reliably vote for the Democrats for the next 1000 years. Everyone knows that Latinos have the commie gene, after all.
Yeah, maybe in a 1000 years democrats will have figured out how to reach the youth? I mean, apologies for the snark but I'd argue that it's our more immediate circumstance that make this topic relevant. Also, as an edited side note, the genetic impact on political ideals relating to collectivism and individualism is very real.
In the real world, things are different.
How? The brown youth consistently vote democrat regardless. That cold hard election data year in year out, ongoing for what, decades?. On top of that, Middle Easterners who vote for a 'right wing' authoritarian in their own country vote left in the country they migrated to.
So yeah, maybe in a 1000 years, when the last white man in the world is dead and buried and can no longer act as the evil boogeyman, the brown folks, being unburdened by his white supremacy, can finally act in accordance with their true faith?
Also, in a two-party system, both parties will adapt until they are seen as a viable alternative by the median voter. For example, neither party is campaigning on repealing the 19th because that would be immensely unpopular.
Right, but considering our usage of ideological terminology like 'right wing' what does that mean? The republicans will need to appeal to the ever more brown voting base that wants things the democrats are promising them. So what will become of the Republican party? How can it pretend to be 'right wing' at that point?
I feel like this only underscores how ethnic replacement has been a winning democrat strategy.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
Sweet Sejenus
2d ago
Why is Lincoln keeping the federal military in the harbors of another nation? It’s obviously a performative provocation which his base is lapping up.
The guy doing the most to fan the flames of civil war is the President himself.
remzem
2d ago
What kind of resistance?
Ramming an ICE vehicle with a car multiple times while armed seems like a bit more than malicious compliance. Every single time a car leaves or enters the ICE facility there it needs riot police to stop protestors from throwing rocks and otherwise attacking the officers. Your post is complete propaganda.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
A significant percentage of people really believed the soft or hard version of the stolen election theory, such that they didn't believe Harris could lose. Similar to how many if not most Eagles fans thought the Chiefs couldn't lose in the super bowl, even when neutral analysts would give them the advantage at every position but kicker and QB. Some percentage of Harris belief was really "the election is fake" belief.
I thought Harris was playing for an honorable second from the assassination on. She didn't manage it.
orthoxerox
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2d ago
The action-adventure parts are very Jack London, that is, good. Characters are all painted with a mildly racist brush, that is, broadly true and not one-dimensional, but still superficial and somewhat uncomfortable to read in 2025.
haroldbkny
2d ago
Maybe. I remember some talk here about how the attempt won Trump the election, but I remember that being short lived, maybe a week or a weekend. I distinctly remember in this forum people being very fatalistic about Harris's victory up until the night of the election.
Rov_Scam
2d ago
I don't know what gives you the idea that an open door would not qualify. The statute makes no mention of doors, and only requires that you know that you're not supposed to be in there. If I walk down the street and see a house with an open door and I just walk in I'd be guilty of criminal trespass. If I opened a closed door a breaking would have occurred and the offense would be upgraded. The statute is specifically written to cover cases involving open doors.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
I think the CP5 were likely guilty.
They were not guilty of the specific charges they were facing (we know this because someone else was).
gattsuru
2d ago
If Democrats believe what they claim to believe, then their actions are in line with those values. ICE agents look like an angry paramilitary that a dictator would deploy against his populace. People believe what they see. Democrats are cherry picking, but the cherry picked images are still real images.
Does this rule apply to any other political cause?
Because we had a debate about a predawn raid where masked and unidentifiable men broke down someone's door and shot the guy in the head over some simple paperwork crimes -- complete with defiance of long-standing policy and only-by-the-text compliance with a warrant -- and people here defended it as all acceptable because He Broke The Law.
For some reason, the cherrypicked image of his ventilated skull wasn't a cause celebre nor a moment for deep retroflection on the costs of a cause; at most, it was reason Those Damned Republicans Should Want Police Reform (that won't apply here). Nor, for that matter, were the dozens of other examples going back decades, sometimes with far greater casualty counts, which, to skip the charcoal briquettes rant, did nothing to sate progressive efforts to The Cause.
Ah, well, nonetheless.
Perhaps there are clear examples of immigration enforcement that weren't cause celebres for the Left? The Nicer, Kinder, Cruelty Isn't The Point 2018 policies were not tolerated and accepted -- even when some of the outrage was based on photos dating to the previous Democratic admin, or entirely made up, it still became The Worst Thing Ever at the same time it didn't work, only for all of those problems to get shoved back in the box as soon as something was (D)ifferent in the Presidency.
orthoxerox
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2d ago
It's not this long. I've been playing it for 30 hours, according to Steam, and according to the other commenters, I have probably five hours of plot left.
when I see a JRPG (FRPG? EuRPG?)
It's "JeRPG". Well, mechanically it's pretty much a standard JRPG with a few "must keep the player engaged" changes that I'm not a fan of, the big draws to me are the setting and the writing.
Japanese games are much more adventurous with their settings, but even they are prone to defaulting to X-buts ("it's basically X, but...") these days. CO is completely alien and weird, it's like you're trapped in a surrealist painting. The only annoyance is the lack of structured exposition. You start the game in the middle of an important weird ceremony, and you have no idea what's going on. Your PC knows what's going to happen, everyone around him knows, but you don't. You have to piece everything together from bits of dialogue. I know the reason, but it's a cheap narrative trick, especially in a video game.
The writing is very... French. You know what beats an American story would have, what beats a Japanese one, you can peg the archetypes of the party members right after meeting them (with a few subversive X-buts in the mix). Well, not in CO. Well, partly. Sometimes a brooding guy with a deep dark secret is just a brooding guy with a deep dark secret, it must be a universal trope. But the way he's positioned in the overarching story is different.
No. It it has many other requirements such as the ability to hold a secret clearance, a background check, drug testing. Do you think 'randos' and 'bottom-feeder men with anger problems looking to get the high of having power over someone else' can qualify for a secret clearance?
The deportation officer role also requires 16 weeks of training which is less than the NYPD's 26 weeks in their police academy, but plenty for their specialised role.
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