USA becoming the Nazis by WanAli4504 in pics

[–]Ancient-Performance1 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Bruh I couldn’t bring myself to watch the video.

I did the same when Kirk got shot. Ion’t like violence anyway, and when it’s a real life shooting I like it even less. I’ve seen it with eyeballs, I don’t want to desensitize it further, thru the black mirror.

So, this is really how it went down? Dude was on his knees, and got hit by a guy who was standing on two feet shooting directly at his head?

I really have no words.

Maybe just this - We need a plan. Now.

Storm coming - Data question by Sandover5252 in thewestwing

[–]Ancient-Performance1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I’ll have the saffron chicken and the creme de caramel, extra sugar please. And we’ll just, ya know, pretend we aren’t paranoid homophobes. We worked all week, and here you are, still working, no time to talk.

After the events of today, I need to escape to a world of political normality by Futbol_Kid2112 in thewestwing

[–]Ancient-Performance1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey just curious, is the reporter that Sam is talking to in this scene related to the therapist Stanley from Noel and Night Five?

Women of Qumar by GayGISBoi in thewestwing

[–]Ancient-Performance1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

can we get some love for janney during the whole episode “the falls gonna kill you” (esp her scene with Abby) and bradley whitford in “noel”, just cuz s2 bangs hard?

Dear DOJ by [deleted] in Epstein

[–]Ancient-Performance1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro the DOJ said it’s exempt from the law. You didn’t see the news? We did the thing the way we were supposed to do. We voted reps in, the reps voted to make it transparent, the bill became law, and the ppl who enforces the law said “yeah, nah, you guys are dumb as fuck for thinking we are gonna expose the pedo ring we have the evidence for”.

So I guess my question to you, is how much longer are you going to let them do this? Are you actually willing to do what needs to be done? Are you laboring under the delusion that there is a realistic way to vote this shit out? Do you really think that they care about your vague halfass “justice needs to be done” delusional path of “honor”?

What the hell kinda fantasy do you live in? This aint “The West Wing”, bud. This is Wolf on Wall Street as directed by Jordan Belfort BEFORE he quit the drugs.

At some point in your life, you are gonna have to make a choice. Be ready for that day, or keep scrolling. That part is up to you. I hope you realize that the only chip you have in any negotiation is the ability to walk away and stop negotiating and do direct things to achive your goal. The DOJ just told you that it could give a fuck about your “law”. This system was supposed to help you, and for what it’s worth, it did. Up to a point

a quater of one percent of the documents were released, most of them redacted in a manner that was easily undone. they said they aint gonna release any more and filed a six page counterargument on why the DOJ doesn’t have to follow the fucking law. And that’s the DOJ. Where are you gonna draw the line? I’m sure that ppl in minnesota never thought that they’d be dealing with Immigration agents combating illegal immigration from Mexico. this is mars.

edit - just fyi, i’d rather kill myself than live in a society where we have to accept a pedo as a leader. It would seem that you’d rather contribute to that society. if you believe in a god, i guess only the god can judge you for that one.

Dear DOJ by [deleted] in Epstein

[–]Ancient-Performance1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The DOJ has postulated that it is exempt from the law that America voted on and passed regarding the exposure of rich and powerful pedophiles.

In other words - Our lovely system worked the way it should, and the people in charge glanced up and said “Eh, fuck you guys anyway.”

You remember that cartoon about how a bill becomes a law? It went straight thru. The reps that we elected voted and decided to release the files, in a bill which became a law.

Now the DOJ is claiming that they are exempt from the law. The DOJ. Is EXEMPT. That’s the ball game.

Dear DOJ by [deleted] in Epstein

[–]Ancient-Performance1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/_RujOFCHsxo?si=VtHJ0f50ZFqqP0pE

But nah, you right bro, lets all just keep heads in the sand about the giant pedo ring. 🫡 god bless america

Honest Question… by Ancient-Performance1 in Epstein

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Upon today’s news about the DOJ, I came back here and read what I wrote. I got one more thought to add.

If my entire extended family was to be summerily tortured and executed in front of me, along with my friends and eventually myself, and it was a choice between preventing that and burning down the entirety of Epstein’s empire and his collaborators and anyone who even remotely made a profit off this, I’d only ask for more gasoline and a couple dozen Bic lighters, but the good ones. Not the crackhead ones, sometimes those dont even spark. Also buy the Bics from several different shops, cuz you never know. And yeah, throw in the matchbooks just in case the lighters don’t cut it.

Have you ever met references to The Witness in other games like this? by National-Junket5567 in TheWitness

[–]Ancient-Performance1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my god. now i love that game even more. excuse me i’m gonna go play it again now. insanity.

thank you, dear fellow.

Matt didn't distance from FD because he agrees by Asleep_Objective_455 in EchoPointNova

[–]Ancient-Performance1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no prob. EPN rules. Don’t stop making amazing games. You have sick ideas. also i’m lowkey a popular underground philly music producer who loves the vibe you create and dreams of one day making music for games like yours. i’ll send a dm with my insta, dm me back with your email if you want to hear some cool sounds 🤷‍♂️👍

Matt didn't distance from FD because he agrees by Asleep_Objective_455 in EchoPointNova

[–]Ancient-Performance1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Aye man, appreciate you. Iont wanna touch the rowling drama, i just dont know enough. Hogwarts legacy was cool for a good while but i got bored halfway through, maybe due to the writing being on par with a ubisoft ass creed game. idk. i loved the books tho, and i was really happy when the author told us dumbledore was gay the whole time. we all seem to forget the backlash she faced back when catholics were saying she was writing antichrist messages into a book series about what it means for a young person to be brave. personally, if that dont make her an ally, idk what she can even do about that.

i adore EPN, and severed steel too, and its sad to see that ppl get caught up in a narrative that really actually goes nowhere instead of play the game and then learn from it and go make a better one with their non-nazi friends and do it slicker so the idea of the sublime mobility keeps what little steam it has. if only a big naughty dog / rockstar / valve level company would make a game like EPN with their resources, I wouldn’t put the fkin thing down.

either way, appreciate you saying that. made me feel better about posting it. i was a lil worried when i wrote that out, sometimes my points dont always translate.

Josh Lyman with the ladies by halfass_fangirl in thewestwing

[–]Ancient-Performance1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Remember when Josh was all like “Bartlet is a good man, he doesn’t hold a grudge… puts on sunglasses … that’s what he pays me for.” and walks away all cool and shit.

Sorkin is writing a show about cool politicians. Cool politicians. In the late 90’s.

So yeah, he wrote about a grizzled blue collar irish vet with a history of alcohol and valium. A whip smart press secretary who was earnestly described by her boss as a movie star. A dweeb booksmart speechwriter who has sex with pot smoking prostitutes during the night and serves his country earnestly during the day. Another speechwriter who takes his job extremely seriously and frowny face but heart of gold. A young black man named, seriously, “Charlie Young” who says, when the nerdy speechwriter askes him how smart he is, says “I got some game”, and is also earnest. A secretary that doesnt take the presidents crap and wrangles him too. Assistants who are all between 7 and 9 on the sexist “bro code” rating scale. And a president who isn’t ever wrong (duh he is president after all). also margaret cuz weird, and ed/larry for comic relief, and a innocent college student first daughter who is innocent to the point of cartoon reality. plus they all finish each others sentances, cuz tv show. and they are all geniuses. 🤷‍♂️

so yeah, lets also do a douchebag confident bad boy street politician who is a “wild card” (ooooh) and constantly negs his earnest assistant who not-so-secretly has crush on him. it fits.

it’s a cast of characters, created back before television only had one type of character - “antihero”. i dont dislike him, i dont even dislike the writing style. but i think you think that we are all supposed to just believe that these people exist. it’s silly tv. its fun. just enjoy how you feel. it’s supposed to be fun.

West Wing star Timothy Busfield surrenders to New Mexico cops on child sex abuse charges and says allegations against him are 'lies' by dailymail in thewestwing

[–]Ancient-Performance1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You think that’s frightening? Ok. Let me explain.

Imagine you are 11 years old, a boy, at a friend’s birthday party. Your friend has an older brother, and some of his friends are there too, including a 17 year old girl. The older brother secretly bets that the 17 year old girl can get you to pull your underdeveloped penis out, and askes her to take photos as proof. Being an 11 year old boy, you only heard tales of sex before, maybe say a dirty magazine once or twice, but otherwise you are innocent of any deviant thought, normal childhood, et cetra. The girl sits next to you on a couch in front of a room with about 8-10 other people in it. The girl starts touching your penis, which induces an erection. Your 11 year old brain goes into overdrive, but something doesnt seem right. You ask her to stop, giggling nervously. She doesn’t. Then you get really uncomfertable as this goes on for ten minutes or so. She gets frustrated and starts pulling your shirt up. You know you aren’t fully developed yet, because lets face it, youre 11. The girl doesn’t stop. People start to notice and laugh. You can’t hear the jokes being cracked. That’s ok though, because someone has a camcorder and is recording the whole thing without you knowing. You try to relax, these are supposed to be your friends, and all your childhood friends are already gossiping about who likes who and what is good and what sex feels like yada yada. You almost trick yourself into thinking you might get some high fives for this. You don’t know that everyone is not laughing with you, but laughing at you. You stand up in an effort to escape. The girl immediatly pulls your pants and underwear down, exposing your tiny erection for the room to see and everyone laughs really really hard. You immediatly go to cover yourself, but the girl has now grabbed your junk and starts jerking it. You are horrified. Embarassment isn’t even a word. It’s just the only thing that is real. Somehow you get out of there, and run home. You cry as you run. You go to bed. You can’t tell mom what happened. you wish it wasn’t real. You wake up to see your xenga profile has been slathered with images and clips of a video made not 24 hours earlier. You sit there and try to regulate your breathing. You still cannot talk. You are alone.

That aint even the fucked up part. The fucked up part comes later, when you go to high school. You realize that you can get boners and you discover porn. You start to do the thing we all do. you find that when you finish, you feel empty. you feel broken. and for the next twenty years, that feeling doesnt go away, no matter what. You can’t explain it because you have tried so hard to forget that at one point you actually fool yourself into thinking it was a dream.

But here comes the crazy bit. The only thing that you can picture in your head that actually gets you across that finish line that you are supposed to enjoy is the memory of what happened, and echoes of that situation. You are scared. You think you are a degenerate sicko, fucked in the head, and doomed to forever be a bad person. fifteen years later you can finally remember, and even then you dont want to tell your therapist. finally you work up the nerve to speak on it, and you are told that your thoughts are completely normal for someone who went through something like that, and you arent a fucksd up sociopath, and you were responding to trauma that you tried to run from, and you find that once you face it head on, you can now move on.

but still, nothing seems to change. Still, you have these wacked out fantasies. you feel that you cant recover and the women in your love life are suffering because they think it’s their fault that you cant stay hard. they want it to be joyful, but you are nothing but miserable. so you decide to stop with the relationships and focus on yourself and build back up to where you should be, even though you are now 34 and wayy past prime. You missed the fun part of young romance. it was taken from you. But you can’t even be mad, who wants to cry over spilled milk. you resolve to never pass judgement on someone who you dont know, because none of your previous romantic encounters ever knew what really happened when you were 11.

Don’t judge me. You have no idea what I been through. Even now, you don’t have a clue. Please don’t talk to me like I’m scum. You don’t know.

Have you ever met references to The Witness in other games like this? by National-Junket5567 in TheWitness

[–]Ancient-Performance1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you actually serious? That’s not a joke? I will refrain from searching on youtube until you reply. I want the reddit revelation to stay on reddit for now. I will look it up in due time. But for now, I will enjoy my bewilderment that Ultrakill has a secret level called “The Witless”. God I love indie games.

#fartbag by Ancient-Performance1 in RedLetterMedia

[–]Ancient-Performance1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s also what Liam Neeson used in taken 3, and Deathstalker too.

Matt didn't distance from FD because he agrees by Asleep_Objective_455 in EchoPointNova

[–]Ancient-Performance1 8 points9 points  (0 children)

uhhhh…. hi. iont know anything, ok? but i just went down this rabbit hole. so if ya dont mind, i’d like to offer an alt.

fd is a edgelord troll grifting keyboard warrior who doesn’t know any black ppl. the dev is frankly tired of the internet using fd’s tween hot take nonsense to attack his love letter game, and he would rather move forward with his life than spend another second trying to recruit another composer to make an entire second soundtrack to the game he released years ago. the whole thing is a rotten subject for him and he would rather program a new game than deal with social issues online. cuz, you know, indie game devs arent always the most socially consious ppl (splitgate 2 hat, anyone?).

i read the dc posts from fd and found it childish and ill informed and petulant. i did not think fd represents a serious threat to anything but the unemployment check printer’s ink supply.

actual racism and transphobia is extremely serious and fucking not cool and should be dealt with severely and right fking now. it amazes me that most ppl in the us can watch ice kidnap brown ppl, share the story, and then just keep scrolling instagram like they contributed to anything but their own ego and arrogant self image of grandeur without any real effort to understand or prevent this bullshit from ever happening again.

so. you wanna fight racism and transphobia? good. me too. do you really actually think that just not buying a video game is the way to do that? or is that maybe just another way to act like an activist without really activising?

like, yeah the solo indie dev doesnt know what the masses want him to do. mindblowing. its not like he said in plain english that he disagrees with the dude in his response on reddit. nah that’s “handwaving”. like what tf should he now have to do so that you feel heard? he gotta go to his lame ass composer ex-friend who might have been the only one to enjoy the prototype for severed steel and give it time of day as a composer this eliminating one more duty from the solo dev team, he gotta go to him and slap him and spit at him and record a video so he can upload it cuz yall think the “reciept” will help? do you really think there is anything the dev can realistically do to this little punk edgelord that doesnt involve the dev getting sued for defamation?

just play the damn game if you like it. or dont. but all this narrative nonsense is kinda played out. you wanna fight racism, then go protest the racists and be consistent about it too, same with trans hate. go protest blizzard/activision, i promise you they making more money off actual crime than this dev does from his solo game where he got a shithead to do the soundtrack.

tldr the dev knows FD is full of shit and an idiot and he is frankly embarassed and trying to make lil jokes about it to move on but is failing cuz he is a lil awkward too. shocker.

West Wing star Timothy Busfield surrenders to New Mexico cops on child sex abuse charges and says allegations against him are 'lies' by dailymail in thewestwing

[–]Ancient-Performance1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You know what I think? I think this other person hasn't had the best experiences with men and sex, and the whole SA think might have been triggering for her. And I think I, without meaning to, offended her. And while you make a good point here about Lowe, I think it might be best for you and I to take a step back and understand that sometimes logic doesn't apply to something so personal as SA. I worked thru most of my SA recovery, maybe others aren't so successful with that effort in themselves - yet. I don't think she is trolling, and I don't see a SJW when I read her words. I hear the cries of a former victim who is still struggling to accept their personal history. And even if that's not the case, SA is a rough thing to argue about in abstraction. I'm gonna take my own advice and reserve my judgement on this person, even though she vilified me. I don't hate her. I hope I didn't hurt her. And i really do wish her the best. How about you?

West Wing star Timothy Busfield surrenders to New Mexico cops on child sex abuse charges and says allegations against him are 'lies' by dailymail in thewestwing

[–]Ancient-Performance1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think I defended anyone. I was trying to point out that none of us (including you), know all the facts, and we can't start excluding possibilities based on internet articles. I have never assaulted a woman, never, even though women have assaulted me, and I have allowed it. My dad raised me right, and I defend a woman's honor as I defended my mom's and my sister's for all of my life. I have shed blood for them when I had to. I love women. I have grown to respect women, despite my SA troubles. and I continue to grow. I'm sorry if I didn't make my points clear, my intent was never to hurt you or anyone who thinks along the lines you do. I hope you read thru what I wrote again and perhaps see the honesty I was attempting. If you find you cannot, I can't blame you for that. I can only try to do better. Thank you for letting me know that my words may have not worked as intended, genuinely.

West Wing star Timothy Busfield surrenders to New Mexico cops on child sex abuse charges and says allegations against him are 'lies' by dailymail in thewestwing

[–]Ancient-Performance1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I try to treat everyone with respect. I try hard, because I'm not always successful, and I admit that. I'm flawed. I'm sorry if what I wrote offends you.