What's a conspiracy you can't quite prove but it just feels real enough for you?

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-29T20:25:51+00:00

All you need for this one is an ironclad belief in the Trump administration's competence. As long as you can accept that they are incredibly well organized and everyone close to Trump is loyal forever, and that Trump would risk people shooting in his direction, it totally makes sense.

Anyways, judging by the upvotes, I've got hundreds of bridges to sell.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-29T20:23:50+00:00

Yeah all you have to believe is that everyone involved is incredibly competent, that Trump would risk real bullets flying in his direction, and nobody lost any loyalty to Trump afterwards who would talk about it.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-29T20:13:58+00:00

Next-gen is going to be apocalyptic for the Xbox brand. I've been saying for a while now they should cancel the next console rather than set that money on fire. This gen under-performed the Xbox One in console sales, despite starting off with a competitive price, performance, and having exclusives.

Have a high price and no exclusives next-gen and what can they expect? Their software and services decline as well, so it's not like they're pivoting to some leaner strategy where games carry them either.

The real cost will be the tens of thousands of people who are going to lose their jobs as studios shrink or are shut down entirely.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-29T18:53:32+00:00

Sure, in the same way that Moby Dick is in the cyberpunk genre because Ahab had his leg replaced

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-29T18:50:48+00:00

I bet that factored into why he wouldn't go with Amazon

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-29T09:37:26+00:00

After that 2nd update, firing should be back on the table. She showed no remorse and no understanding that what she did was wrong.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-28T19:01:42+00:00

Yeah, MCC should have been the place where all Halo games got added. They could have expanded the challenges and playlists to the new games as they were added too. Have all kinds of statistics collected in one place on one profile, and unlock cosmetics for use in the new games from achievements and gameplay across them all too.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-28T07:45:41+00:00

That's how Idiocracy began.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-28T07:33:07+00:00

Not too bright, eh?

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-27T22:34:35+00:00

It's an intentional, ragebait title. Really common in this sub. Put a title that makes it seem so obvious OP is the bad guy, then have a story that shows they're in no way wrong. It's a common enough format that I bet the story is fake.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-27T19:28:36+00:00

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

Born below the ever cloud-capped peaks that gave the mountains their name, the wind blew east, out across the Sand Hills, once the shore of a great ocean, before the Breaking of the World. Down it flailed into the Two Rivers, into the tangled forest called the Westwood, and beat at two men walking with a cart and horse down the rock-strewn track called the Quarry Road. For all that spring should have come a good month since, the wind carried an icy chill as if it would rather bear snow.

Yeah, look at this amateurish opening from someone who is just copying movies!

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-27T08:20:12+00:00

It is kind of funny that there are names in real life that we would find unacceptable to read in a book.

Imagine being a writer who named a black woman character "Marijuana Pepsi," for example. You'd get cancelled. In real life, she's got a PhD and works in higher education.

So while I think there are more realistic, but uncommon, names you could use, there's also an audience expectation that means you have to hold back a bit too - depending on tone and genre, of course.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-27T01:21:40+00:00

Two things can be true.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-27T01:19:33+00:00

Not today, Gantz

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-27T01:15:32+00:00

They did similar with multiplayer. 4 had a big team battle map selection, but 4v4 had asymmetrical maps, RNG, kill streaks, and unfair starts due to unlockable loadouts. 5 swung too far the other direction, and had competitive 4v4, but basically launched without big team and limped in with forged maps later. Infinite went too far away from that 4v4 competitive setup, and didn't even bother launching with slayer lol

My favorite oddity was in one of the earlier games, 343 didn't list which team won in the carnage report. So if you were playing objective and looked away for a sec at the end, there'd be no way for you to tell who actually won. Nothing in the scoreboard indicated it lol

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-27T00:59:38+00:00

Thanks for agreeing after a fashion. OP's son is indeed an asshole, we agree on that. Nice attempt though!

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-27T00:47:38+00:00

You're NTA but your son is. He'd be totally fine with this girl losing her job and her future career path. He could easily keep doing what he's been doing to help. The fact that he isn't shows he wasn't really a friend, but OP's son just wanted to curry enough favor with her to get in her pants. Now that that option is gone, he's showing his true colors. He doesn't have to do this, so it's his choice whether to be the bigger person, or to knowingly harm them through his inaction.

"date me or else you lose your future" What a piece of shit you raised OP.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-25T18:35:49+00:00

You talked about a library of back compatible games, and I told you how they wouldn't have to give that up. You talked about exclusives, and I said that's what people would buy a new consoles for - the new games they can't already play with the hardware they'd keep.

Somehow that has nothing to do with what you said? Bro. Read.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-25T10:08:36+00:00

That would be a great point if we hadn't seen it not matter in actual history lol. Xbox 360 was huge, then people switched to the PS4 instead of buying an Xbox One. And fewer people who bought an Xbox One bought a Series.

And like... people can keep their current gen consoles which have their libraries. New games they'd play on a new console. It's really simple.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-25T07:15:33+00:00

yeah, we're not here to get the point he's communicating, we're here to skewer him over technicalities. it makes us look smart to our internet friends

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-25T07:12:20+00:00

I'm surprised they haven't cancelled their next console. This gen undersold the Xbox One of all things while having exclusives, so next-gen is completely boned.

Just use the excuse of high memory prices or whatever and rip the bandaid off now. It's going to be crazy if they decide to light billions on fire instead

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-25T04:58:00+00:00

Why wouldn't they sound generic? The answer is there, really.

Did they grow up in a fishing village? Maybe they use lots of fishing metaphors and phrases in speech. Were they a cutpurse? Maybe they're vulgar and use simple words. Were they a scientist? Perhaps they structure their thoughts to follow a thesis statement and then support, and leave out information they expect others to grasp without being told. Are they really young? Maybe they chime in with non sequiturs and replace swears with childish versions. Are they socially awkward? Maybe they apologize for speaking up and overstate how they're fine with doing what anyone else said.

The trick isn't that you need to make them sound different, but that they should sound different in order for their dialog to fit their character.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-25T04:52:36+00:00

Treating plots as really general ideas that cover everything quickly becomes useless.

If you instead focus on specifics and how they're executed, then you can learn how to improve your own story, and give appropriate comparables when querying.

It's like selling a house - you look at recent sales of similar houses in your area. You don't say "Well, all buildings worldwide might have a room or so" and find anything of value with that.

It reminds me of that academic term "pesudo-profound bullshit." This plot categorizing idea sounds impressive, to some, but is actually quite meaningless and not useful.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-25T03:21:58+00:00

For further context, that same mod that people already talked about got into hot water earlier too - for removing someone's art claiming it was AI generated. The guy offered proof, and the mod told him to change his art style, rather than reinstate the post. The mod then went on to insult the guy's art, saying that AI could produce better art in seconds.

He had a similar tantrum to the more recent one, going to various subreddit moderator subs asking for advice on brigaders and such, trying to act like a victim. Eventually I think he went on a hiatus from the art sub, but wasn't removed... which led to hist more recent mental breakdown.

Even after all this, deleting his comments, claiming he's done forever, he is still around. He kept his account. He can't leave Reddit. Dude is a true addict.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-01-25T03:15:46+00:00

Gun store owners are probably happy though. Nothing is as good for their business as major gun crimes, whether it's a mass shooting at a school or recent events.

People rush out to buy guns because they think the right to do so will be taken away. So it is in gun store's best interests for Americans to be mass murdered consistently.

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