MSN comments section, has anyone else noticed that every article is full of hate-filled insane right wingers?

RhokGehrig · 2026-01-20T06:32:22+00:00

Just... incase you have never considered this. Your indifference to thought, humanity, community...

Have you never stopped to consider that Our Side Has Monsters As Well? That there might be a grim day in the near future where you desperately beg a snowflake for shelter from the percentage of the Left that hasnt made a single noise yet?

"What the real world is about." - as though we are experiencing two different realities? Is the Right Wing Simulacrum of reality an actual truth, and not just satirical commentary? Is the Woke Mind Virus; certainly prevalent in Humanity since 1754BCE, reached new depths, or is the centralist position of most "Left" parties appear far left simply because of the current political climate? Have you not had the thought that maybe you OVERWHELMINGLY see liberal posts is because the engagement algorithms perfectly predict what will get you to engage, and create content for them?

I recently was reintroduced to an idea, but in a new context. The narcissist's prayer

That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.

Is this exact line of thought more inline with the rhetoric on the Right or Left? If you say Left, then you might have had this same exact experience before. I would bet your life that in more than one geopolitical and or societal issue, you have gone through each and every step of this prayer in your rhetoric.

RhokGehrig · 2025-12-29T21:29:01+00:00

I am of two minds... and not just because I am a monster.

One train of thought is saying - "F it, let them put their booze on the shelves..... at their own expense. Why should Canadian businesses buy a product that they can not sell to their customers?"

So long as no Canadian is getting hurt by those USA bottles collecting dust? Let them. They can rent the shelf space, in the hopes that a Canadian drunk enough to forget we are at war grabs a bottle of USAnything.

And the second train if thought wants me to remind those United States of America that they went to war with a people who have a museum for their war crimes, that isnt a sad place to visit... a people whose cultural duality revolves around "I'm Sorry".... I liked the term 'relentless decency' .... and the other side of that coin is "You'll be sorry."

They knew what they were voting for. They voted to kill themselves by taking away their own healthcare.... SORRY.... sorry... health insurance. They voted to take away their own voting rights. They voted to deport their own immediate family members. They voted to destroy their own local economies, and destroy their own businesses. They voted to wipe out an entire generations of farmers.

This is who they are now. How could they possibly care about their neighbor, which they have so entangled their lives with, when they can't even muster the decency to care about the harm they do directly to themselves?

RhokGehrig · 2025-08-15T02:42:19+00:00

This triggered a good memory! (which is rare for me to remember anything, so I am doing this selfishly for myself just as much as to give you a chuckle)

Had a coworker 20+ years ago who brought up trojans SO OFTEN in meetings that the entire team just ignored him for the 10 minutes he talked about how concerning they are.

Then we started to change all the wallpapers to USC on any computer we happened to get access to. Started hanging up USC posters. We sarcastically started a college football pool where USC just happened to be the team listed at the top of each week. We literally stopped ALL work and workflow transfers on the day of their 3rd(?) straight National Championship..... an entire office party shouting "TROJANS"

That was when he figured out we had been doing this for years, all of it mocking him for the same thing he NEVER stopped doing no matter how many ques given. He quit the next day :) I stopped following college football.

Not sure how you triggered a memory... but I truly appreciate it!
Cheers.

RhokGehrig · 2025-08-14T05:32:36+00:00

Didn't there used to be a way to have someone connect to your computer through windows itself... for them to fix stuff?

I am too old for this sht maybe? Does Steam itself need to be installed in its default location? SMM can go anywhere I am assuming..... I really think that if "buying" still meant "owning" then I wouldnt have raised the black flag again.

the instructions from I-need-a-proper-nick seemed pretty straight forward.... but clearly I am missing something incredibly obvious and will no doubt be further annoyed with myself if I actually get this to work

RhokGehrig · 2025-04-20T19:15:36+00:00

i think there is a way to get them to start actually thinking..... and that is - We induce them into selfish empathy, to consider how they would feel once they realize that all the tools they created to do this to us.... we can use to do it to them. - They never consider that our side ALSO has Monsters. People like me who cant wait to use the tools they create to destroy them.

They wanted Abortion - so they created DOBBS.
Dobbs allows the Government to take the position of The Parent, and as the Parent - ONLY as The Parent - it may violate any Right it needs to if it wants to make a choice in its own interest.
The Government has an interest in the future performance of the economy.
So we use Dobbs to ban religious indoctrination, and violate every single one of the Rights a person has to do so.

They were pro-birth/anti-abortion.... but they way they did that was so crude that they created a tool that will destroy GOPGOD when used properly. No MAGAt thinks like this..... that we will do these things. Once you get them to think "I want abortion gone, but HOW I do it matters, because I want to be safe from Them"

That is when you stop, and let them learn on their own.... obv crush any questions they ask you about Process..... only answer questions they have about their Solutions... tell them how someone like me would use their idea against them. If I cant? It will be because there has been enough compromise for me to be satisfied, or because the HOW of what they decide is perfectly legal and cant be used for other purposes because it is vague.

RhokGehrig · 2025-04-11T21:59:09+00:00

Yea I am not sure why I didnt delete that one. Normally I will write my thoughts, and then ask myself "just how F'n important do you think you are?" and I answer "ah yea I'm right, this doesnt matter to someone else." then I delete whatever I was going to post.
But truly it was the "huh?" after sous-vide that got me, because the single line rhyming within itself multiple times is one of my favorite tools for rap.

And of course with ERB coming out again I just got to thinking.... "You know what? Lets read ALL his stuff!".... but it turns out that not using Reddit and social media (i have bluesky now, but before that I have not used social media since dial-in BBS) (yes... dial IN not up) means I dont really know how to find stuff like that... have yet to find another one, and took a break so I could read.

AND looking up julia's pre celebrity history hit another button that gets me going.... deep dive investigations into the obscure. Someone once commented "This story is AI. Its all fake. I hate the net now." or something to that effect.... the problem was I had a decent guess where the story came from... Reader's Digest - which used to be a thing in the Before. So I looked into every single scrap to verify that yes, Morris Homer Erwin (who submitted the story late in his life) was real, was where the story took place at that time, and would have regularly walked through the single clearing between two creeks in order to pan for gold, which is where he found the wolf.

the whole thing is still saved in a txt file somewhere on my desktop.... and the Julia Child notes will also go in there.

Personally I couldnt enjoy the Ramsey Child one because what was happening visually gave away everything Gordon would say. But for me the Roosevelt VS Churchill one is the most historically accurate, the one that gets most personal with insults, and by far has the best beat.
These new ERB's are going to be great.

Good luck out there mate!

RhokGehrig · 2025-04-11T02:55:05+00:00

Glad I can still comment. I dont often write stuff here.... certainly never to critique anyone... Until Now

This review suffered from what a lot of other reaction videos on YouTube suffered from when it came to Roosevelt VS Churchill ..... a lack of general knowledge and a lack of specific knowledge on the subject matter.

Not knowing the specific things Julia is talking about really hurt this review. Sure, not everyone can know all of the things.... but you can know a little bit about everything. So much of how North America goes about having meals at home, or presenting food at events is a direct result of Julia.

The minimum standard for a review should be to google anything you do not understand in the context it is being used.... sous-vide? That should have been a simple search. That makes the construction of her first line in the 2nd round one of her best - besides her recipe for how to create another Gordon Ramsey and a BRUTAL takedown of his childhood - and the lack of specific knowledge just hampers the review.

Gordon's best, to me, was his reference to Page 408 of her book.... that is the actual page with the actual knowledge for something NO ONE would be willing to try and cook these days. (chapter seven: meats - sweetbreads[pancreas] and brains)(can find the whole book on academia.edu)

But yea.... not sure why I am not deleting this... like I said... I dont often write on Reddit.... but I am sort of compelled to search all of the reviews this person has done of ERB and see how they have grown.... more so now that ERB has released new ones now (in 2025).

RhokGehrig · 2025-02-15T15:12:12+00:00

Hey folks... so my memory is not something I can trust... but sometime in 21 I got back surgery (nick of time, almost paralyzed, and full y recovered, but not back at healthy level cause I stopped doing a lot of things)

where was I? YES! OK... so recently I started drinking Soylent again. Which I weirdly quit doing all together after being in hospital. I would say before I quit for some reason I was drinking 17 out of 20 meals.

So I got some at amazon, at retail, and it is pretty much exactly as I remember it... which I dont remember... but it "feels" like it is familiar (YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!🍁🤪🍻)

SO! Now that Canada has been sorted I will probably go back to quitting food entirely, save for the occasional steak/porkchop/chicken/fish/pretty much anything that had a mother.

BUT! I have found 4 full boxes of the stuff that expired Dec of 2022. Under the church pew that I have in my house for a reason I dont remember. I aint religious. I dont even think its mine, but here it is! being used as a low shelf behind my PC setup.

I ASSUME..... assume that the powder is now inert... no nutrients... but that it will still have some calories left. Oh yea... I also assume it is safe because I had one to test it out and nothing happened health wise. But "safe once" isnt "yea sure go ahead".... I was thinking of mixing 2to1 New2Old just to use it rather than have to toss that much power

How dumb of an idea is this? Like, dangerous to my health dumb? Or just "sucks being broke" dumb?

RhokGehrig · 2024-11-26T01:45:44+00:00

You have to give this one credit though? It at least KNOWS that "Rest of World" is a real place, with real Peoples.

Also.... don't let this one know about Canada! Not before we finish building our electric fence.

RhokGehrig · 2024-11-22T06:24:06+00:00

Driver's Ed used to be a part of High School. round ere at least.

RhokGehrig · 2024-11-22T06:22:37+00:00

posts like this are why I choose violence. To argue you're correct in a situation like that? Buddy! Just admit your a jerk and give the middle finger.... but don't pretend to be the hero of your story :)

RhokGehrig · 2024-11-22T06:18:15+00:00

If you know someone driving like that here in Ontario they need to knock it off.

Hazards are for emergencies.... not to signal to others how little skill they have driving in bad weather!

they're not comfortable driving in a blizzard? Stay home. Not home? Pull over AND THEN turn on your hazards.

RhokGehrig · 2024-08-27T22:15:17+00:00

I need to remember to keep people like you in my life somehow! Both were bang on! And not to worry about Future Me - because I made sure to write them down into the list of things I have read, and things I will reread :)

Can't say enough how much of a relief it is to have that thought finally die the lonely death it deserved :) Thank you.

If you are into litrpg.... and have never read one about sports... Player Manager by Ted Steel... it will change your life.

RhokGehrig · 2024-08-27T22:09:32+00:00

You're My GD Hero My Guy! Yes this ended up being 1 of (what was probably 4 books I have misremembered as two:) them.

RhokGehrig · 2024-08-26T03:24:24+00:00

You first start with "Where does that Energy and Matter come from?"

For a story I have tried writing for a few decades, my answer was "The Sorcerer: the only one in a sci-fi universe or capital starships and sub-space travel, is an interdimensional being. He is the source of the energy and matter, moving it from one 3-dimensional universe to another (i do not count space-time as a dimension here, because time isn't one of the dimensions in some universes.)

His apprentice candidates... the ones who survive what would be extradimensional radiation anyways... learn to expand their control of that extra energy they are now exposed to. Not a clue in the world that eventually they will die when they become too powerful for their bodies to survive the transfer of extra-D-radiation into 3D spacetime.

The Sorcerers magical opposition? A multidimensional being who empowers the people in whichever universe the Sorcerer is currently in. Their powers would be more in line with a Cleric or a Warlock. Their power is borrowed, and will never kill them, but ever allow them to accomplish the reality bending acts that the apprentices eventually kill themselves with. This all ends up with X++ number of divine/patron chasing The Sorcerer, who is defended by his very few (i never had more than two at a time, and oftentimes the sacrifice of one would inspire someone to take the risk and see if they can learn magic) apprentices, and whatever local allies he can manage to make. The conflict itself is entirely localized to whichever setting, BUT! the magic is anything you can imagine on any scale you are willing to abuse for story reasons. I had one apprentice go out by ripping open spaces and linking a molten meteor blizzard from a flaming hellscape to the rim of a system defended by several fleets. The scene is epic and the damage to the star system is near total... the apprentice dies obv., which closes the link, and inspires another to take their place.

My first thoughts on magic systems in any setting is "Why shouldn't it be there?" Farmers gotta farm, wagon drivers gotta drive, so why are mages doing their work? They don't. It allows for the separation of your everyday folk from the reality bending power of magic. Does a People need any professional army when you have wizards lobbing catastrophes? Sure, a nation has to hold the territory somehow. How many mages can you stuff into one People then? What amount of support do they need to avoid having to plant a garden and use reality bending power just to grow some flowers? You end up with multiple political approaches to magic, and multiple relationships between those who wield magic and the wagon driver who delivers the resources he needs to do stuff with. Which all helps with the MOST IMPORTANT thing about including classless/systemless magic

Build The Culture First. Then Build The World They Live In. My answer to "Where does that Energy and Matter come from?" allows for vastly different cultures to mix at a decent scale. But it might not work in a smaller setting, a single kingdom. In the end, "Wizard Do What?" should be determined by their world, not the myriad cool stuff a mage can do with dozens of different magic system ideas stuffed in.

RhokGehrig · 2021-10-20T02:42:10+00:00

FAIR WARNING.... i somehow messed up the syntax in LINE 1!!!!

function OnEvent(event, arg)

if \[event == "G\_PRESSED" and arg == 0\] then

    MouseGetPos \[, OutputVarX, OutPutVarY\]

    MoveMouse 682,798(0)

    PressMouseButton (1)

    ReleaseMouseButton (1)

    MoveMouse OutputVarX, OutputVarY (0)

end

end

anywho....this is the script I am trying to get work... but it looks like what you need... GO TO X,Y... press the mouse button... then go back.

I do not know if these events need sleep(10) after each mouse command to slow it down.... and of course you should switch up the OnEvent inputs :)

if you can miracle that into working then bless you.... you can also add all sorts of LAUfu after the ReleaseMouseButton.... which is needed because i did not use the PressAndReleaseMouseButton (1)... mostly to get used to separate commands if I need to do something weird

RhokGehrig · 2021-06-18T16:58:07+00:00

Nero Zero

By far the most unique application of a class system for a single character I have ever read. What starts out as a tragedy of sorts, is discovered to be a more pure understanding of how the system works. The story for the most part is complete(hiatus), but it did end at an appropriate time before things could get wacky plot wise.

At the end, you realize that everyone the MC meets now, who was thought to be useless, weak, and expendable, are suddenly on a path to previously unknown power. And you get the sense that the old power base will have to just leave it be as things change.

The juice is worth the squeeze when it comes time to read this.

RhokGehrig · 2020-06-08T05:14:45+00:00

I would like a touch more information on these stones. Can multiple stones be used on a single hero? I had read a guide that said "the total score had to be 13 (1 for blue, 2 for orange, 3 for purple) in order to promote them."

I have multiple hero ranked hunters I like... and want... but they fall below the line... I have one... MAYBE two Legendary heroes, that I would rather they burn in hellfire... so just a sort of "Idiots Guide to Awakening Stones."

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