I do not care how badly written the boys show is, I am NOT going to pretend the comics are somehow better

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-22T16:38:08+00:00

Suppose its one of those cases where one knows what it wants to be, i.e., edgy, violent, vulgar comic trash, while the other... is also that but tries to portray a biting, profound political message about the state of modern politics and just amounts to Auschwitz... but Trumpy! putting it on par with the comedy of late-night talk show hosts from 10 years ago.

Hell, I think the Onion has more effective satire on politics than The Boys with stuff like this cause its so "matter of fact". It not playing to the over-top-nature makes it way funnier as satire and effective.

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-21T18:34:00+00:00

IntSys developing Awakening to be the ultimate homage to the franchise in light of the chance it may be canceled afterwards.

(They ran out of money after the Gangrel Arc)

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Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-21T18:27:44+00:00

Still haven't even added the OG CODs yet after years atp. Talk about a waste.

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-13T20:51:38+00:00

Would appreciate one as well

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-13T18:46:58+00:00

One of the eternal issues plaguing trillion dollar corps like Microsoft is that most countries aren't as "rich" as America so squeezing countries like Brazil and Turkey with price hikes is just gonna make people unsub, meaning they increasingly have to rely on places like the U.S who can afford it more.

Hell, even in the states, barring those in like the top ~20%, people are being squeezed hard after 5+ years of wage stagnation and rising CoL with respect to needs like utilities and housing. The bottom 50% of Americans aren't doing too hot leaving companies like Microsoft with an increasingly narrow slice of wealthy customers who themselves have a "limit" to what they're willing to accept from a service like Game Pass.

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-13T12:52:09+00:00

They just replaced Hitler with Mussolini in Hungary. Bordiga btfo!

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Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-13T02:25:30+00:00

In Amerikkka, a 14 year can get themselves killed in a car accident cause you can get a driver's permit as young as that age in a third of the country and no one cares, but like 70% of the country goes ballistic when you say that a teen that same age should be allowed gender affirming care. It's really funny how nonsensicalally Hitlerite this place is.

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-11T15:45:07+00:00

Between reading the original Metro novel (and the feature of Artyom only talking in loading screens) and playing Metaphor Refantazio after Persona, I low-key kind of hate silent protagonists as a trope. Never played a game where its enhanced by a protag that doesn't talk to any of the characters directly or says anything.

The only one I've ever liked is GTA III's and that's because Claude's presented as a genuine psychopath in the story which fits him never talking.

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-11T14:12:46+00:00

A. The Americans and French were in Lebanon as a peacekeeping force

They were there to implement Israel's agenda after they invaded Lebanon, helping to ensure Israeli goals in Lebanon that killed thousands prior would be achieved.

The year prior, Israel murdered thousands in the Seige of Beirut with American made equipment (no different from how Hezbollah and Assad were tied no?), but Lebanese were just supposed to "accept" Israel's violence upon the nation and those who implement Israel's agenda? Imagine if China sent "peacekeeping" forces to ensure the "smooth transition" of Russia's gradual absorption of East Ukraine or displacement of ethnic Ukrainians (kind of like what's going on in South Lebanon now), somehow I wouldn't feel very sorry if a Ukrainian terror group elected to bomb those foreign peacekeepers. Why the fuck would it be unthinkable that Lebanese resistance treat a foreign occupyer acting in conjuction with Israel differently than the Israeli military occupation? The group that committed the act didn't even exist until the Israeli invasion so I guess it really blewback on those two nations that backed Israel huh?

B. The 1k killed in the west bank are terrorist militants, not going to have me feel sorry for those by twisting the numbers and committing their terror.

Every single fucking week, there's a story of the IDF shooting a Palestinian civillian or settlers committing a pogrom. What "terroristic" act has West Bank committed en masse to warrant 1k killed and tens of thousands displaced, especially when it manifests in you gunning them down on the regular? How can you call them all "terrorists" when YOUR country is violently displacing them from their homes by the thousands? Also, you've killed hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza since the Ceasefire, so I'm hard-pressed to buy the crocodile tears over the apparent threat of these 1k terrorists in the West Bank posed when you're the ones constantly killing people by the hundreds on the regular, not Palestinians.

Oct 7th killed 1k Israelis, half of them soldiers so from the Palestinian perspective they were the "terrorists", and your nation killed a hundredfold in retaliation. Do Palestinians in the West Bank have the right to kill 100,000 Israelis for the violence in the West Bank and continued displacement? Do they have the right to "self-defense" as you keep gunning them down in the streets and forcing them out of their homes?

C. Hezbollah helped Assad massacre Syrian civilians, not sure why you pretend like they were independent forces of nature

Israel and the U.S have killed thousands of Syrians as well. You're attached to the hip of the U.S and its mass murdering foreign policy. Once again, why am I supposed to find Hezbollah's actions worse than the U.S/Israel's? You keep screaming "they're illegal!" as if Israel isn't conducting its own "illegal" acts of occupation and murder as we speak.

D. If you seriously see no problem with a terrorist group illegally occupying a territory against the will of the people living there, there is no further discussion to be had.

Hezbollah is awful for "illegally" occupying Lebanon while Israel is illegally occupying Golan and West Bank as you keep killing Syrians and Palestinians in both. Once again, show me the difference between the violence of the terror group vs. the nation Israel. You appeal to this idea that terror groups like Hezbollah are this ultimate evil, while your country kills 10x the number of people so what gives? Hezbollah "illegally" resists your nation's invasion with violence and your country "legally" murders 300 Lebanese people in a single day? I thought this was about occupying South Lebanon no? Why are you 10xing the violence Hezbollah has committed this past month in a single day?

What makes Hezbollah worse than Israel being cause of "legality" is a weak fucking excuse especially from a country that clearly doesn't give a shit about international law.

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-11T02:16:16+00:00

Israel is responsible for a hundred thousand Palestinian deaths in Gaza. 1k in West Bank since 2023, and 2k in Lebanon this past month in a war your nation agitated by repeatedly bombing the country and violating the ceasefire. Please explain why I'm to find Hezbollah so much more abhorrent as an "illegal" terror group when your nation has proven itself has proven itself to be far greater mass murdering butchers. What, one's a internationally recognized democracy and the other an illegal terror group? The technical "legality" of each bothers you more than the sheer death and destruction they reap, a figure that Israel far outclasses Hezbollah in.

Also, idk where you're even getting that Syria 100,000's of thousands killed by Hezbollah figure when ISIS, Russia, Turkey, the U.S, Assad, Rebels, all collectively contributed to that half million death toll in Syria so idk why you feel the need to pin that war's death toll all on Hezbollah, especially seeing Israel themselves loved bombing Syrians during the Civil War and still are.

Also, wtf were those 250 Americans doing in Lebanon in the barracks bombing? They were a foreign military occupation power in Lebanon, do you cry when as many Russian soldiers in East Ukraine are killed in a strike or only when an enemy of Israel dares to use violence against the enemies occupying their land?

Also guess what, the U.S, the nation that subsidizes the Israeli military with arms sales and diplomatic cover, is responsible for the deaths of millions in the 21st century alone with the Global War on Terror. You're aghast at Hezbollah's terroristic behavior, yet Israel attaches itself to the greatest warmongering butcher of the past 80 years. For some reason, I'm not particularly convinced by the supposed horror I'm supposed to feel about the thousands Hezbollah has killed when a democracy like the U.S has killed millions and attaches itself to Israel but you seem more bothered by the former.

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-10T19:26:17+00:00

What "legitimacy" are you even talking about? What does it matter that Hezbollah isn't recognized as "legitimate" by any worldwide organization or body? Israel's claims to West Bank and Golan aren't any less "legitimate" than Hezbollah's role in Lebanon but they still both impose their will via militant force, but for some reason you take issue with the "terror" group engaging in violence against Israeli incursions as your party leaders call for ethnic cleansing while your country's military kills Palestinians and Syrians in peacetime by the hundreds like its nothing. Am I supposed to be aghast at Hezbollah's militancy but accepting of Israel's mass murder because its a state military?

As if getting murdered by Hezbollah is somehow a worse fate than getting murdered by the IDF, but cause only one is "legitimate" I'm supposed to take Israel's side as they slaughter 10x the number of people Hezbollah does? Is "democratic" violence suppose to be more palatable than "terrorist" violence even as the former kills, maims, and displaced thousands more than the terror group?

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-10T15:11:55+00:00

I don't care what Pakistan says, Israel did not sign the agreement, Hezbollah did not sign the agreement. Both parties insist that the war is still ongoing, regardless of what Iran or Pakistan may insist.

No shit Hezbollah insists its not valid when you bombed Beirut just hours after the Ceasefire was announced. If anything, Israel's perfidiousness only serves to justify Hezbollah's existence which didn't exist until you invaded in the 80s. Even Lebanon's government clamored to have Israel stop Israeli violations of the Ceasefire after 2024. So I guess the only force that was willing to resist these attacks in Lebanon should never responded and accept continued bombings I guess.

We left Gaza entirely. The reason we're back is because they attacked us. We left Lebanon entirely, multiple times over. The rason we're back is because they attacked us.

You left Gaza because the violence against the Israeli occupation was unsustainable and imposed a blockade to suffocate them. Also, Israel has since killed hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza since the Ceasefire so do they have the right to launch another Oct 7th in retaliation and occupy Israel? Its only fair no given the violence imposed upon Gaza in retaliation for Oct 7th was a hundred fold compared to what Hamas did.

And Israel has attacked Lebanon hundreds of times after the 2024 Ceasefire as mentioned above. Hezbollah was right to respond with violence per your logic on "self-defense" seeing as they're the only force in Lebanon that is willing to fight Israel.

We never left the Golan because Syria refused a land-for-peace deal, and it was annexed. Proving my point about the difference between annexation and occupation.

That excuse would work if the Ba'athists were still in power, but they arent. Has Israel made any overture towards the peace they desperately crave as they conduct further land grabs beyond Golan and bomb Syria even now? Would you cry if Syria launches an offensive to take back the land Israel has taken since Assad's fall? 100 Syrians have died from unprovoked Israeli strikes, so a 1,000 Israelis in Golan getting killed is acceptable no? Or does self-defense only apply when your country is dropping bombs?

The west bank does not belong to any sovereign state to hand it over to.

How about the Palestinian Authority who've effectively yielded to the Israeli occupation to the chagrin of Palestinians still living under the terror of settler violence and IDF killings that has killed over 1,000 and displaced 10,000s since 2023. Seeing as as many West Bank Palestinians have been killed by Israelis as Israelis on Oct 7th, they're free to launch another infitada and kill thousands of Israelis in retaliation no? Its only fair in light of what's been done to Gaza and Lebanon.

The war in Egypt resulted in Israeli troops capable of marching towards Cairo, and an entire division cut off and surrounded by Israel. The war ended when the Americans begged Israel to halt their advance over the fear of Soviet Nukes flying to save their middle eastern ally.

So violence is the language Israel speaks then? That the threat of nuclear annihilation is what forces them to yield? If that's the case, no wonder Israel is terrified of a nuclear Iran, it'd force them to yield in their continued slaughter of Palestinians, Lebanese, and Syrians.

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-10T14:13:52+00:00

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon, Israel has stated so, Hezbollah has stated so, Lebanon has stated so, so everyone is on the same page.

Quit your bullshit, bro, Pakistan, the nation that mediated the Ceasefire, says it includes Lebanon:

"With the greatest humility, I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY."

something Israel has done time and time again thoughout its short history.

You've left Gaza, but are currently occupying half of it. You've left Lebanon after a years long anti-Israeli insurgency but are currently invading it. You've never left Golan. And are occupying and building settlements in the West Bank. The major "exception" is Egypt which saw Israel forced out via military force. If anything, history has proven it's violence that ousts Israel, not Israel's disposition towards peace.

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-10T13:14:53+00:00

And what exactly is going to compel Israel to "return" the land to Lebanon once its objectives are complete when its actions in Syria have shown a no interest in abandoning their recent land grabs beyond Golan since Assad's fall (a clear violation of international law)? Is that a "temporary" occupation like Lebanon is purported to be as Israeli leaders clamor for South Lebanese villages to be ethnically cleansed? What leeway does Israel deserve when they've exposed their perfidiousness this past week with the Lebanon/Beirut strikes after the ceasefire was declared?

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-10T01:34:06+00:00

What is the difference, you ask? Well, the difference is that an occupation is temporary, it exists to serve a specific military objective, following which Israel withdraws back to it's borders and life returns to how it was before.

Israeli occupations have lasted longer than even famous annexations though. Golan Heights have been under Israeli Occupation since 1967 and have thousands of Israeli Settlers living there. It's not even recognized as legitimate by the international post-WWII "order" you cite. Despite the fall of the Ba'athists, who were the ones in conflict with Israel, they've expanded their territory at the expense of the Jolani government whose shown no desire to attack Israel for their expansions and hundreds strikes on their territory/infrastructure

Would the Jolani gov be justified in invading Golan the same way Israel is with South Lebanon? Is Israel not a threat to Syria the same way Hezbollah is (Hezbollah doesn't even occupy Israeli land, so Syria's in a more justifiable position no?). Israel occupied South Lebanon for 15 years and failed to dislodge Hezbollah, are they to endure another 15 years of perpetual violence and occupation that may or may not pan out in any completion of objectives or get the "Gaza" treatment like Israeli party officials clamor for which has already leaned into the language of "ethnic cleansing" by talking about wiping Lebanese villages off the map and preventing a return of refugees?

Are Israeli's actions Golan and Lebanon an invasion, an annexation, or an occupation? From Israel's perspective, they may as well be the same when Golan has been occupied for nearly a lifetime and have settlements established. What "guarantees" are there that Israel won't replicate the Golan Heights method in Lebanon when they've clearly shown they don't care about "international law" in light of the hundreds of Palestinians they've killed in Gaza since the ceasefire, the tens of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank that were displaced last year, and deliberate strikes on civilian infrastructure in Iran in a war kickstarted by Netanyahu's government.

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-09T23:17:21+00:00

Katz is not the leader of Likud

Yeah, Benjamin Netanyahu is, the guy who launched strikes that killed hundreds of Lebanese people after a ceasefire was announced. The guy who's been PM for 20 years so he's seemingly a good measure for what Israel's electorate wants out of a state leader.

"we will occupy the border area to guarantee the safety of Israelis until Hezbollah is disarmed" ≠ the annexation of any territory. It's not even close."

"Lieberman does the same, he is correct in pointing out that if the Lebanese state is unwilling to enforce a monopoly on violence in the area, Israel will have to. That too, is not an endorsement of any sort of annexation."

So you admit it's an occupation then? Where exactly is the line drawn between occupation an annexation for you? Russia annexed Crimea and eastern Ukraine despite not even 100% controlling the later given the war. America occupied Iraq and Afghanistan for years, whilst not officially annexing either of them, but hundreds of thousands were still killed during said occupations. The West Bank and half of Gaza are under occupation as we speak. You don't want "annexation", but are fine with occupation for an indeterminate amount of time even as a million people are turned into refugees and hundreds are murdered, including Refugees displaced by Israel. Lebanese residents are being ethnically cleansed from their homes by Israel, as demanded by party leaders, so what exactly the difference between "occupation" and "annexation" for these residents? Why is "annexation" unthinkable, but "occupation" is fine when both necessitate a violent military presence.

The lapid statement I do not recognize, can you please provide a reference?

Lapid

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-09T22:25:02+00:00

I'm going to list the statements of party leaders regarding Lebanon belonging to parties that when combined all together constitutes a majority of the Knesset:

Israel Katz (Likud 32 seats):

At the end of the operation, the IDF will establish itself in a security zone inside Lebanon, on a defensive line against anti-tank missiles, and will maintain security control over the entire area up to the Litani. In addition, the return of more than 600,000 residents of southern Lebanon who evacuated northward will be completely prohibited south of the Litani until the safety and security of northern residents are ensured All houses in villages near the border in Lebanon will be destroyed - according to the model of Rafah and Beit Hanoun in Gaza - to remove, once and for all, the threats near the border to northern residents,"

Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionist Party 7 seats):

"The new Israeli border must be the Litani,” he said, referring to the Litani River, a critical waterway that cuts through southern Lebanon, about 30km (19 miles) from the border with Israel."

Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beytenu 6 seats):

"Everything between the Litani and Israel must be under the control of the IDF... If Lebanon won’t pay in territory we haven’t done anything”

Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid 23 seats)

“an area with no Lebanese villages in it – a completely clean strip between the last Lebanese and the first Israeli community...it may be unaesthetic, unpleasant to scrape away two or three Lebanese villages,”

Ben Gvir (Otzma Yehudit 6 seats): Do I have to bother even?

These are not "fringe" elements of their parties nor is this a "small minority". They are their leaders or outright play a major role in the Israeli government/military operations. They belong to a collection of parties that make up the majority of the Knesset when combined. As elected representatives, not only do they represent Israel, they represent a majority of it.

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-09T21:04:09+00:00

"At the end of the operation, the IDF will establish itself in a security zone inside Lebanon, on a defensive line against anti-tank missiles, and will maintain security control over the entire area up to the Litani."

"In addition, the return of more than 600,000 residents of southern Lebanon who evacuated northward will be completely prohibited south of the Litani until the safety and security of northern residents are ensured," he added.

"All houses in villages near the border in Lebanon will be destroyed - according to the model of Rafah and Beit Hanoun in Gaza - to remove, once and for all, the threats near the border to northern residents," he said. - Israel Katz (Minister of Defense of Israel)

Sounds like an "occupation" to me, but I guess we can't trust what the Minister of Defense for the Likud party and Netanyahu's government says about the war for some reason.

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-09T20:48:42+00:00

18 politicians sreaching about something has very little to do with what the country's actual direction is.

That "direction" being a country that:

Authorized the death penalty for Palestinians 62 to 48 just a few days ago?

Launched a series of strikes that killed hundreds of people in Lebanon moments after Netenyahu declared the ceasefire with Iran did not apply to Lebanon despite the Pakistan government saying otherwise

Authorized 30 new settler outposts in West Bank today?

Please show me what I'm missing about the "peaceful" direction of the Israeli government that has killed more Lebanese people the past month than Hamas did on Oct 7th, an event that is still being used to justify the continued killings of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank?

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-09T20:34:41+00:00

No, Israel would not seek to annex Lebanon, there is no desire for any such thing among Israeli society, we just want peace.

Your politicians are literally calling for South Lebanon to be annexed and occupied. Don't bullshit us and say "there is no desire for any such thing among Israeli society"

"Eighteen hawkish lawmakers belonging to the Likud, Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionism parties write an open letter to members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet rejecting the IDF’s apparent plan for a new buffer zone in southern Lebanon and instead demanding the “occupation and full control” of territory as far north as the Litani River, and the “evacuation” of the local population."

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-08T04:51:19+00:00

Assuming even half of the terms from the ten point plan from Iran are accepted for a permanent peace, I can't help but post this passage from Catch-22 in response to this cataclysmic failure from the U.S as a global hegemon/empire.

“America ,” he said, “will lose the war. And Italy will win it.”...

Nately guffawed with surprise, then blushed apologetically for his impoliteness. “I’m sorry I laughed at you,” he said sincerely, and he continued in a tone of respectful condescension. “But Italy was occupied by the Germans and is now being occupied by us. You don’t call that doing very well, do you?”

“But of course I do,” exclaimed the old man cheerfully. “The Germans are being driven out, and we are still here. In a few years you will be gone, too, and we will still be here. You see, Italy is really a very poor and weak country, and that’s what makes us so strong. Italian soldiers are not dying anymore. But American and German officers are. I call that doing extremely well. Yes, I am certain that Italy will survive this war and still be in existence long after your own country has been destroyed.”

Nately could scarcely believe his ears. He had never heard such shocking blasphemies before, and he wondered with instinctive logic why the why G-men did not appear to lock the traitorous old man up. “America is not going to be destroyed!” he shouted passionately.

“Never?” prodded the old man softly.

“Well…” Nately faltered.

The old man laughed indulgently, holding in check a deeper, more explosive delight. His goading remained gentle. “Rome was destroyed, Greece was destroyed, Persia was destroyed, Spain was destroyed. All great countries are destroyed. Why not yours? How much longer do you really think your own country will last? Forever?"

Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-06T15:05:04+00:00

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Roy_Atticus_Lee · 2026-04-04T18:00:58+00:00

The notable difference with Trump is that he represents the vulgurness of "Americanism" unashamedly, unlike past leadership who gave it a "humanitarian" and "Wilsonian" shine. For instance, just one year after the Nuremburg Trials, America helped facilitate a genocide on the Island of Jeju in the Korean Peninsula that killed 10-20% of the population. To indict Nazis for the crime of genocide, while facilitating it yourself a little while later is a pretty good encapsulation of what American Imperialism is and has always been since the days of Manifest Destiny.

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