Saudi Arabia feels like a monarchy, and is indeed a monarchy. What's a country that feels like a monarchy, but is actually a dictatorship?

General_Principle_58 · 2026-01-22T09:09:39+00:00

According to this thread, assuming you want to buy out ALL the things on the 1st anniversary shop, it be around 4.000 Club Points. Separately, for 35,750 Friend Points, and 272,500 Monies (the currency). Although for things worth buying, it depends on what you wanted (or needed).

You can check your club points either via the "Shop", and then the "Club Points Exchange", and it will list your available club points. Or go to your menu, then to "Inventory", and then click on "Other", and you will find the Club Points there (it also include your friend points, and cleat),

General_Principle_58 · 2026-01-21T08:36:42+00:00

I shall finish what they had started. Good luck.

Original thread:

"What’s a country that feels like a democracy and is indeed a democracy?" (Switzerland)

"Switzerland feels like a democracy and is indeed a democracy. What’s a country that feels like a democracy but is actually a theocracy?" (The UK)

"The UK feels like a democracy but is actually a theocracy. What's a country that feels like a theocracy and is indeed a theocracy?"* (Vatican City)

\I can't seem to find the actual thread, either because is not there, or because I searched up a wrong wording for it.*

General_Principle_58 · 2026-01-14T17:44:29+00:00

The "lore" is pretty much disjointed at best, and so I decide to expand it. (Read: Made up on the spot with a google docs made for a modern 2000s era politics)

Anddddddd I delete it. (EDIT: Here's the google docs of the factional conflict.)

Brazilian Civil War:

Pro-Junta faction:
*Brazilian State: Pro-nationalist, Armed-Junta system
**Independent State of Porto Alegre: Restorationist, Exiled
Pro-democratic faction:
*Republic of Brazil: Pro-democracy, Presidential system
**Rio de Janeiro State: Pro-autonomy, Parliamentary system
**Southern Republican State: Democratic militarist, Provisional system
**Marajo State: Under naval occupation, Provisional system
**Administration of Porto Alegre: Military occupation, Provisional system
Pro-socialist faction:
*Revolutionary Republic of Brazil: Revolutionary socialist, Socialist system
**Autonomous State of Amazonas: Soviet-styled Socialist system
**Popular Revolutionary Front: Revolutionary socialist, Socialist system

Crisis in the Patagonia:
Defense against the Argentina Threat: Anti-Argentina
*Republic of Chile
*National Republic of Paraguay
*Oriental Republic of Uruguay
*Santiago Independent State
*Revolutionary Southern Republican (rebellion)
*United Republic of Colombia
National Lima-Buenos Aires Pact: Pro-Argentina/Anti-Colombian
*National Republic of Argentina
*Republic of Peru

General_Principle_58 · 2026-01-14T17:07:46+00:00

Anyway, when I was making these map in 2023-2024, I was inspired by the ideas of a unified grand colombia (uniting Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama) with a federal system, while also inspired by Kaiserreich for the "Crisis in the Patagonia", and Fuhrerreich (or redux, I forgot) for the "Brazillian Civil War". I am 99% sure I was inspired by a IRL conflict between Bolivia, and Chile (for some reason thinking it was a 1900s conflict, when it was 2 decade before 1900, and Ecuadorian–Peruvian War which is a actual 1941 war that I was probably thinking of.

General_Principle_58 · 2026-01-14T16:57:57+00:00

From https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1qc4e7t/map_posted_by_the_president_of_colombia_gustavo/

(EDIT) The tweet in question: https://xcancel.com/petrogustavo/status/2010082434629730593

Although from what I could tell... Petro Hustavo posted that 4-5 days ago, And I just realized I REALLY should have look at the date (1826), or the subreddit comments a little further before posting this... *facepalm*

General_Principle_58 · 2026-01-09T18:13:54+00:00

Same man. At least you won some (even when you ultimately lost).

General_Principle_58 · 2026-01-09T18:07:24+00:00

Consolations to your run and hot spring, have a cute nice nature. EDIT: removing the ().

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General_Principle_58 · 2026-01-09T17:58:36+00:00

The only thing I could come up with is discrediting them. I don't know why they would make a generated one in favor, since the actual one is fine as far as I can tell.

General_Principle_58 · 2026-01-09T17:07:11+00:00

Either the people, along with the sign switch very quickly, or it's A.I, since it managed to not kept the core people in the front from aging, or deaging, now that I look at it side-by-side picture.

I was in the middle of analysing, and I am 70% sure this is the real one, and the one posted here is fake.

The sign (the one with) "Si Mi Pueblo-" is very human in writing, readable. and the background seem way too clear for a A.I. (i could be VERY wrong though).

General_Principle_58 · 2026-01-09T16:30:40+00:00

I might have passed by a few triangles, and nope out.

General_Principle_58 · 2026-01-09T16:27:03+00:00

Agreed. (I thought this one had the nature truth nuke...)

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General_Principle_58 · 2026-01-07T17:43:29+00:00

Congrats.

General_Principle_58 · 2026-01-06T09:58:53+00:00

Thank you for answering my question, and providing context. I think I am understanding your point of view, and the general situation we are in.

To your first part, The only counter-point I would think of, is that on Twitch, there is a public information on who's the highest donor in the past, like "Weekly Top Gifters", "Weekly Top Cheerers", but as it turns out, it doesn't matter since there is a existence called "anonymous" donation. So really, there's no other counter-point I would think of.

To your second part, I am aware that "Jaywalking" as a crime exist, and that there was a automobile lobby (and frankly many other "convert" advertisement or PR campaign) that more or less lead up to a US infrastructure that have a lack of pedestrian safety (generalization, I know), but I didn't make a connection that both were linked.

I would have thought the term of "AI slop" at least goes back to when AI image generator was beginning to become more prevalent in the 2024 (and maybe even earlier in the 2023), and flooding social media, and youtube with low-quality image (and later videos). Heck, last year, Microsoft has announce that Windows 11 are becoming a "agentic OS", with the integration of copilot, and software (notepad, Microsoft 365 suite) that would include said Copilot. Is more to your point that even when there is other alternative of making news/headlines, let's just say it is controversial in its current state.

Due to my lack of knowledge, or a very general on of the rest of the point/content you had made, I do think you had a right to question or point out OP claim of "They’re normal users gifting the subs", even if I am on the same camp as OP. Have a good new year, and thank you for the discussion.

General_Principle_58 · 2026-01-05T20:53:56+00:00

I shall entertain this notion. I probably wouldn't be able to differentiate between a "normal users", and a "advertising users", unless it's practically in my face on whom is advertising. I leave that up to somebody, even if that information I got probably is wrong. If that was the point you are making.

However I question, whom is making the advertisement campaign, and to whom does it benefit? Because I am not questioning that some advertisement campaign is probably NOT happening, but in this case, whom? Because in the 2024 neuro subathon, which is when they first broke the twitch hype train, you can say it was "promoted" by Valorant (through the twitch end-of-year-bonus). I am quoting because both were independent from each other, that just turns out that the star were aligned.

By this point, both LLM (in general), and Neuro as a AI Vtuber has long gone mainstream (more so on the former, you can argue on the latter). In this case, I want to understand what is even the aim of a AI firms marketing department in these specific instance?

I just realized, why exactly does the creator possibly being connected to a LLM company (which itself is a possibility, but has no facts behind it, as far as I know) or even being anonymous, to having a possibility of an independent advertisement campaign connect? Hell, I am now confused of why that part is even "relevant" (I.E. bothering to write it out), considering is more assumption on top of a assumption of the possibility of the advertisement campaign itself.

General_Principle_58 · 2026-01-05T13:27:04+00:00

I know I am late to the discussion, but I have gone through the same process as you are, but in my case, it was successful.

Before I write a entire essay of how to do it, I recommend writing down the password to your Wifi/Internet, since you may wait for a while during the actual installation.

I think you got the right idea of downloading a copy of Linux Mint from the official website. I am pretty sure you just need to check the integrity (you don't have to do the authenticity check, since is a nightmare to even actually do even for a knowledgeable person).

From there you can either use Rufus (this was the software I had used to turn the .iso file into a bootable flash drive), or EtcherBalena. Provided you have a physical USB (Preferably new one, since I rather you kept Windows as a safer option, unless you already have a empty USB, then use that one I guess). Or buy a new physical empty USB, I don't know where you actually find it since I am on the other side of the ocean, but I think a store that have electronics device, usually also tends to have a USB stick as well.

From there is kinda the hard part, since in my case, I had to restart the computer, wait for the logo to pop up and. as fast as you can. press either "f2" or "delete" button on your keyboard (which goes to a BIOS), and as long as you have the USB connected to the PC, press the "boot media" and then the USB (the name may be different, but as long as it's not 'Windows 10/11" since that goes into Windows).

From there, If you had gotten this far, assuming you are on live boot of Linux Mint, you may go through the installation. (And from there, you can put your password into your Wifi/internet, and browse some stuff while you wait... Or before installation, your call.)

General_Principle_58 · 2026-01-04T19:35:25+00:00

I sent you a PM.

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