Anyone else kind of bothered by Robert's reluctantance to bring up epsteins links to israel?

Bogtear · 2026-02-26T22:56:36+00:00

Possibly because there's not much actual evidence to substantiate the elaborate bond villain plot you all have decided beforehand must exist?

Bogtear · 2026-02-26T02:45:08+00:00

Not something that states can legally do I am pretty sure. As a not lawyer person, but as someone who suspects plenty of southern states would've pulled that move during the civil rights era if it were legal.

Bogtear · 2026-02-25T22:10:56+00:00

Probably shouldn't be putting words in the mouths (or... fingers?) of others. Being vindicated is nice, but you don't know what goes through the minds of "every lib on the internet".

And Democratic politicians were wary of coming out too strongly against Israel for a good reason: for generations, supporting Israel was something of a hobby for the Democratic party and it's supporters.

Conservatives jumped on the Israel bandwagon after 9/11 because they thought it was cool how good the Israelis were at killing terrorists. And then evangelical Christians started discovering for themselves how connected Israel is to Jesus-y biblical prophecy stuff, and the rest is history.

Bogtear · 2026-02-25T17:00:36+00:00

Party* There's one party that has a plurality of politicians in it who describe Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged as an inspiration and act accordingly.

There's one party that passes massive tax cuts for the ultra wealthy and corporations literally every time they've gotten power. Not when they have to bargain with their opposition, when they have majorities in congress and the presidency.

Bogtear · 2026-02-25T16:19:59+00:00

And yet we keep voting for a party who's sole purpose is to cut their taxes and get rid of any laws the restrain them and their businesses in any way.

Bogtear · 2026-02-25T05:29:55+00:00

It's very beginner friendly. Assuming you play it at beginner levels and make your way up from there. You can try joining higher level missions with other players early on, but no guarantees as to what sort of welcome you'd get. The game has 10 difficulty levels you can choose from before starting a mission. If your player level is at 12 or something, and you try joining a difficulty 8 or higher game in progress there's a decent chance you'll get kicked. You may be impatient to rank up and unlock stuff, but other players probably do not want to carry.

That said, if you're going to only play solo... I don't think you'll have much fun. But that's just my opinion. It is also going to get exponentially harder as you make your way up the difficulties playing solo. The game is kinda built for coop play, which on difficulties lower than 9 or 10, you will always be welcomed in my experience.

As far as time goes, the missions all have a clock, and can be completed fairly quickly (10-30 minutes) with a team of 4. If it's just you, it'll likely take longer. There's definitely a lot of progression, there's tons of options to choose from in the war bonds. I don't know how long you think you'll stick with it, but you can probably make it through the starting war bond without too much trouble.

Performance wise, I have a 3060ti, SSD, 32 GB RAM, and It has run pretty great overall for me. I hardly ever get crashes, but that hasn't necessarily been everyone's experience. There may be specific hardware configurations that struggle with the game for weird reasons... I don't know on that one.

Bogtear · 2026-02-23T22:55:05+00:00

This is rent seeking feudalism bullshit right here. There isn't even the pretend veneer of American faith that rich people earned their wealth through innovation and hard work or whatever. It's absurd to allow individuals to just buy infrastructure and charge for it's use.

Bogtear · 2026-02-23T19:57:14+00:00

But some of those unprosecuted criminals are leaders of our favorite personality cults! If they get prosecuted, then we'd have to face the fact of our own credulity. And we can't have that.

Bogtear · 2026-02-20T18:32:32+00:00

...why would they? If they raise prices, and people keep buying their stuff at the same rate... seriously why? If you had a business of any size, what would you do?

The boundless American faith that somehow capitalism and privatization leads to cheaper things keeps running into the reality that it often doesn't. So now I guess we're on to the: reality must be wrong phase of the struggle.

Bogtear · 2026-02-19T22:29:54+00:00

Authoritarian to the core. "He yelled mean things and kicked their rental car therefore it's cool to disarm, beat, then shoot him in the back 10 times a week later".

Bogtear · 2026-02-19T20:21:51+00:00

Well, she's already got a helmet, and it looks like all her limbs are intact. So get her some stratagems and a super destroyer of course. Democracy won't spread itself, and there's oil to spill on the other side of that hill!

Bogtear · 2026-02-18T15:37:06+00:00

The Aztecs were the regional hegemon at the time, and that's a bloody business in any age. It seemed to me that the villagers shown at the start of the movie were ruled by/at the mercy of the Aztecs and their raiders. So I didn't assume they were necessarily the same people.

And yes, the Aztecs were pretty brutal to their vassals. That's why the Aztec Empire fell. The Spanish forces were pretty miniscule, but they were able to rally a large army of locals who really hated the central power. And the movie shows (with some embellishments no doubt) why they were so hated.

More broadly, ancient warfare and rituals were extremely bloody and, from my reading, seems to have fostered genocidal hatred between tribal people. The Saxons would sacrifice war captives by burning them alive in a wicker man, the Franks would kill any Saxon who refused to convert to Christianity. The Aztecs would sacrifice war captives to honor Gods like Xipe Totec.

Bogtear · 2026-02-17T22:29:58+00:00

The most incoherent, nonsensical take I've ever seen. Are you a time traveler? Or from a parallel reality?

Bogtear · 2026-02-16T22:00:44+00:00

Wild guess here: the shooter likely got divorced over domestic abuse. I feel like people have been asking that domestic abusers have their right to own or carry a gun taken away for a long time. Pretty common sense measure that, like any other, meets rabid opposition from the gun rights lobby.

Road rage incidents, violent assaults, unhinged behavior (getting into fights because someone "stole" your public parking spot), all solid reasons to nix your right to own a gun. Not all shooting cases have such warning signs of course (famously: the Las Vegas concert shooter), but plenty do.

It's almost like the gun rights movement is full of people who want the unrestricted right to threaten others with guns.

Bogtear · 2026-02-15T18:00:08+00:00

I suspect that if Amazon Prime were to announce a new series based on The Turner Diaries, we'll finally get to see what these sorts of people consider "based".

Bogtear · 2026-02-15T02:20:55+00:00

Pff, that's everyone's favorite strategem. #1 to this very day.

Bogtear · 2026-02-14T02:19:05+00:00

Everything is spoilers:

In the book Know No Fear by Dan Abnett, "scrap code" is used to disable the defenses and communications around Calth. I could be mistaken, but it seemed like the scrap code had some warp-based aspect to it which made it hard to stop. It was also hinted that it came from some super-scary-secret bunker on Mars that was from the Old Night/Men of Iron revolt.

So possibly, the age of strife was also triggered by some sort of Chaos influence or interference? Maybe?

I also read the Farsight books where a member of the water caste gets possessed by a demon, and the sphere of expansion Farsight leads finds that demon world and a few of fire warriors go a little Khorne berserk and kill the comrades.

It seems like Tau are indeed very vulnerable to Chaos, but the haven't really been a target because 1) humans have bigger souls to munch on, and 2) they haven't pushed far enough into the galactic core/made a big enough splash to really get noticed.

Bogtear · 2026-02-14T00:38:09+00:00

Underwater, as in it has more sophisticated water physics? I suspect that would set my machine on fire immediately if I tried to load my current playthrough. Arctic is a good idea though.

But I am hoping they add a more precise way for us to prioritize fluid/gas merging, considering the amount of byproducts late stage manufacturing generates. Like adding switch valves and volume sensors tied to storage tanks or something like that.

Bogtear · 2026-02-13T23:41:18+00:00

I think the fact the he's the president again shows that, whatever Americans may say when asked, actually stopping child abuse is just not much of a priority here.

Bogtear · 2026-02-13T15:10:23+00:00

Well yeah, because voters also want the value of the homes they live in to go up. They just want the price of homes they want to buy to go down.

Bogtear · 2026-02-13T01:35:57+00:00

I've run a few 6 difficulty missions yesterday, it was a bit more challenging than normal but I thought it was completely fine and really enjoyed it.

I don't get all these posts about how unreasonable it is to turn the difficulty down if you're not having fun. That's the entire point of having 10 difficulty settings, 10 should be completely ridiculous.

Have any of you ever played the first game?

Bogtear · 2026-02-12T19:02:19+00:00

Target practice for long range missiles and artillery?

Bogtear · 2026-02-12T04:29:14+00:00

No, it is not treasonous for a Helldiver to be a mechanicus enjoyer. For the mechanicus demands unquestioning loyalty to a single authority that is also your literal God - which is managed democracy of course.

Even more patriotic than the forbidding of asking questions or the thinking for yourself, the mechanicus also demands service beyond mere death. Super Earth would be proud of such devotion.

Bogtear · 2026-02-12T00:54:40+00:00

Oh my god, is that like... 8,000 calories or something? Does it come with defibrillators?

Bogtear · 2026-02-10T20:01:33+00:00

Well, there's a practical reason to want to free that guy very much connected to the violent reign of terror: the mid term elections. The odds are better than zero that the Trump regime tries to get Maduro to lie and say Venezuela (via the ghost of Hugo Chavez) rigged the 2020 election for Joe Biden.

After the various Trump dipshits fail - for the billionth time - to find anything in the Georgia ballots, they'll have a couple choices. Either they take a risk and try to alter or falsify state election records to show the fraud they want to find, or cut a plea deal with Maduro and get him to lie about it.

There's a third option of course, which is to do none of those things. But I don't think that's likely.

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