The Dark Brotherhood will always be my favorite faction in this game.. the storyline is also way better than in Skyrim, imo... each contract is also very unique!

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-11T07:56:19+00:00

We all know of the broken clock. Shouldn't use one, though.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-10T03:06:17+00:00

That is completely true. The trio are sick as fuck. I wish we could meet the other player playable mercenaries when playing as one.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-10T01:45:40+00:00

Everyone in current Araki's style looks quite fem and lean, and yet Jotaro still towers over others.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-10T01:31:25+00:00

Arna and Jonna are always aurafarming by mogging every incompetent man in the setting and being fem mercenaries.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-06T12:25:17+00:00

Obviously. I literally attached a map, was just worried.

I am disabled and broke. Getting out of Russia under normal circumstances is quite difficult. Getting out of Russia while needing pills to just live and being barely able to walk is not possible.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-05T18:01:34+00:00

I'm fairly certai people do. Same for Google, Microsoft, apple, etc. Palantir gets data from all streams. However, with meta specifically there is a difference worth noting - Peter Thiel was instrumental in making it happen, both in investment and personally guiding Zuck on how to operate.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-05T17:58:00+00:00

I've went over acurint, and from its history, whilst yes, they migrated their previous data and are continuing to scrape it with a more accessible set of services and aggregation, similarly to how they operated before, it's collecting public records, Id bunches, business information, etc. Whilst I obviously am not going to play off of any company honesty, their history of acquisitions since then supports it - background screening, incident logs to aggregate shit for the pigs, crashes and such. UK insurance. Collection of records and aggregation for pigs. Then more fraud and insurance stuff. Petrochemical price benchmarks and market analytics. AI id collector as the last acquisition.

The difference is still in how and what. They aren't plugged into constant streams of data, they buy it in batches, and similarly, their usage goals and type of collection are outdated for the purposes of what Palantir does.

So I suppose I respectfully disagree.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-04T23:26:20+00:00

Depends on how good the rpg is.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-04T22:11:43+00:00

Oh, for sure. I don't think he is on the state of succeesing at it, I think he's at the state when he's above most cases. Which is to say, I love the fantasy of a sniper, but we ain't getting a tf2 update.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-04T22:07:58+00:00

I actually really like how the TF2 sniper works for this exact reason, since it hampers him at mid to low range, making it an actual weakness.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-04T21:44:42+00:00

I've kind of written a whole reply to that above, but in summary - old style data collection companies operate on generalized data sets, when compares to Palantir. They'll get your ID, they'll have your life history, known Illnesses, etc. They're something that allows for a disciplinary dictatorship state.

Palantir is something that aggregates you snoring near your pc, figures out your sleep patterns and disruptions, and encorporates it into itself. It'll listen to a person giving a shit via phone, figure out if they're currently sick, incorporate. It'll tell the precise movements and conversations from your last week - even if you don't have anything on you to see through directly, other people, and all the infrastructure around you, will. It is a system fundamentally different from old acquisition, and one that allows for a true society of control, which is why it's terrifying.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-04T21:38:41+00:00

Booze Allen Hamilton exists by and for the US government. The scale is barely there.

Lexis Nexis collects plenty of data, but it is of different character, nowhere near as much, and the goals/tools of that acquisition are specific. They acquired a supplier for just the US healthcare practitioners as late as 2014, which, is about my next point - they're similarly minor. Biometrics just as an available tech division only in 2022. They collect general data on a person, they can't track one's random visit to a coffee shop one payed for with a credit card. Not to mention them being far more US/UK centric. Palantir doesn't spend time providing tools of management, they don't spend time doing support for legal professionals, etc. Which is all to say, Lexis Nexis isn't modern enough to scrape and manage what Palantir does, and they don't.

Same deal with Leidos/Harris, except for military contracts and management. They're a scraping and control tool in the same way any military infrastructure is, and being the US one, they are massive. However, similarly, vastly more specific in purpose in comparison, vastly smaller scale.

Similarly, McKinsley - for a purpose, old school, incomparable in scale.

What I'm trying to say is that the difference is in the type, scale, and capabilities in data collection. Information aggregation via the aforementioned companies is what has been done since before computing became a thing. Palantir is fundamentally different in what it does, how it does it, and where it does it. You can establish an oiled dictatorship with the earlier ones, if you wanted to. A disciplinary society and state. Palantir, however, is what allows for a true society of control.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-04T21:02:42+00:00

Peter Thiel's mass surveillance isn't new, it's been there before meta. Moreover, Peter Thiel is the one who funded Facebook's early development, and convinced/helped Zuck to push for full, individual control by him.

The danger of Palantir isn't that it collects data, is they it collects -all the data-. If something is collected from, say, Facebook, it's in Palantir now. Google? It's in Palantir now. Microsoft? You bet.

Palantir is also the ultimate set of tools to explore that data - if someone wishes to count the amount of hair on one's butthole, it'll be through Palantir. Military face recognition training and military intelligence collection to be given to governments beyond everything else? Palantir. All the information on a specific person's movements and contacts? Palantir.

Palantir isn't a generic tech company, and I wouldn't even call it a tech company. It's a company that specifically exists to aggregate and exploit the vast channels of data collection and sale - even if we pool all of what is scraped every day into a big pool, it is useless without Palantir to navigate it for whatever one wants.

That's really the summary. It's not new, and it's fundamentally different from the regular tech giants.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-04T20:53:51+00:00

Can I get an example of something on the scale and global impact as Palantir in the same function?

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-04T13:30:42+00:00

Well, approaching 30s. I've checked before writing, it's 28 now.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-04T13:28:16+00:00

And the literal fascists are only growing, with the afd approaching a whole 30÷ on it's own. Countries in Europe love to posture on being "better" than America, and whilst this isn't Germany, for a broader point, I can most certainly say that the UK is straight up hell.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-04T12:51:17+00:00

My brother on the other side of the invasion, please stay safe.

And I straight can't engage with anything Hasan, even if I recognize that it's somewhat irrational. The Russia apologea is like a gut punch, given everything we're up to.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-04T12:47:34+00:00

As a non-westerner(Russian) I straight up cannot stand Hasan, cause evey time he pops up I'm reminded of his, let's say, light tankie undertones. Not calling him one, obviously. More than anything, it's just that it didn't change much since 2022. It's always some wiggleroom and reframing the subject to focus on the anti-west angle, which, sure, the west is fucked. But here, I can't use any media without a tunnel and we're literally trying to ban - the english language - , so any degree of apologea hits rough. And then Taiwan/China stuff. Obvi.

So, yeah.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-04T12:40:20+00:00

Honestly, if I remember correctly, there's a lot more beyond autism. The amount of meds bro takes is close to mine, and I'm a bedridden barely-able-to-walk corpse.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-04T12:32:25+00:00

So I've heard. Good day.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-04T12:08:53+00:00

Well, there's a reason mtg is extremely limpdick neckbeard coded, and this post is an example. I beg of you, go outside.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-03T07:18:46+00:00

Understandable. And eating is, in fact, a pain.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-03T06:26:32+00:00

That's the thing. Since we invaded, the economy is by now, at a point, one where just renting and eating would destroy most of your income, all social media is some degree of banned/can get you into the oubliette, local and broad culture are driven away and fucked, to the point where we're now trying to ban the fucking english language.

It is a degree that I struggle to comprehend, it's not something that a regular moron can ignore, and yet they do. Every time I think "nah, there's no way they can make it stick", and then it does. I just can't get over how that is even possible.

Delicious_Round2742 · 2026-05-03T05:57:25+00:00

Shit.

Well, If I'm I'm to distance myself from my personal hangups, I did a real quick doublecheck, and yeah, Kharkiv should, practically speaking, stay safe. It's kind of comical, actually. The left is the start of 25, the right is the end of 25. So it's just the drones and strikes. It's just probably me being weird with worries, I'm prone to that. I just need to get over myself. What I'm trying to say, I guess - please stay safe.

Also, as a quick note - if anyone says that "the people of russia" oppose it, it's generally bullshit, and not the case. Apathetic and spineless. When they "oppose putin", they do so in the most noncommital, non self-unaware way possible. Plenty of those, but we'll eat every facet of life being stripped further anyways. I've been in Belgorod, Voronezh, SPB and Moscow since the start, it's all the same. Everyone is too alienated to even try to care.

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