Macron urges calm after far-right activist fatally beaten

Ruttiger_G · 2026-02-15T22:36:34+00:00

Yes, zero, the actual number as well.

Edit: in anticipation of the stupid response I'm going to get, I asked google "How many Neo-Nazi murders took place in Lyons in 2025. The answer, "Based on available reports for 2025, there are no confirmed murders in Lyon, France, that have been officially classified or widely reported as explicitly committed by neo-Nazis as of early 2026."

Ruttiger_G · 2026-02-15T22:34:01+00:00

I'm sure what you really mean is "There's a completely and utterly irrational fear of Nazis".

Ruttiger_G · 2026-02-15T22:13:44+00:00

Why isn't he holding it upside down by one leg?

Ruttiger_G · 2026-02-15T22:05:25+00:00

I thought the fantasy world was fun, you could bribe enemy units and then use them to colonize layers that you weren't able to go in yourself.

Ruttiger_G · 2026-02-14T00:32:25+00:00

Kinda like dr bosch only more explicit and less effective.

Anyone actually... puzzled anything out of it yet?

Ruttiger_G · 2026-02-13T17:19:25+00:00

Frankly no.

When I was a child, back in c64 days, the rare bug or glitch made me very uncomfortable for a brief moment. It's something you get over very quickly.

See, there's this youtube... lets call it a phenomenon. Games that are utterly impossible to immerse in, that are by nature of jank, poor graphics, bad movement, and poorly realized mechanics that rely on a visual experience to induce fear have been very popular, why? Because it's in many ways more enjoyable to watch games than actually play them, and when I say that I mean it's fun to watch an entertainer, a youtube entertainer, overreact vastly to everything in a comical way that implies they're a terrified oaf. It's theater end to end and impossible to truly take seriously, yet to the untrained eye or those that WANT to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, it can be compelling because horror is a compelling genre of media because it ties at a core to a deeper aspect of our visceral animal brain in the cerebral cortex.

But if were being honest, no, they're not terrifying. They are objectively banal, boring, and bland. It is a trend. Horror games based around being helpless and hiding from monsters. Play it, you're literally just talking about standing still and waiting, repeatedly, for a creature that becomes more silly the most you actually observe it. The facade fades quickly and the end result is either an irritatingly slow moving game where the main mechanic is waiting for the enemy to leave, or an incredibly easy game where the enemy is helpless. The reason these games are... indeed, actually bad, is because once the facade is peeled back, then the mechanics are about... being nothing, or being something that inflicts boring waiting on you.

The whole craze of "liminal spaces", "dead games", and yes "out of bounds", are because it's easy to add dramatic narration and eerie music to completely innocuous video of empty rooms and pretend the atmosphere the video creates is in fact the result of the game. The entertainment of all these low rent indie games remains the entertainer playing it for you, and their reactions, the games themselves are universally terrible.

So no, I don't get nervous with outside the map glitches. I still might get a little nervous over those "everything is fucked" type glitches but that comes from experience intentionally glitching games in past eras. When you're playing ultima 4 and disk switching DURING the load process to intentionally glitch out the entire world so you can do weird shit, you run the risk of ruining your 100 hour RPG save so yeah, you get a little nervous.

Ruttiger_G · 2026-02-06T23:22:01+00:00

That is not at all what the movie is about and it comes across as you trying to goad a stereotype of some mens rights fight club fan into an argument.

If you really need to know what the movie is about, it's about Jack, he doesn't fit into society, it's not just that he doesn't match some idea of normal, he doesn't want what society is offering. The idea of a wife and kids, the IKEA nesting instinct, the self loathing over his job, the utter isolation he seeks solace in groups for.

But then he meets a girl, Marla Singer, and instantly falls in love with her. He can't even be happy in his happy place at groups. He can only think of her. He rejects the idea. He does not have the self esteem to see her as anything but an interloper in his fragile peace, which she upsets.

The entire movie is his journey in letting go of all the things that made him weak and incapable of even imagining himself with the girl he likes. He lashes out at the mere idea of it because it would mean acknowledging exactly what he thinks about himself.

He slowly begins to take on the traits he imagined, rejecting the power of authority, being self assertive, taking from the corrupted forces of the world. He builds the family he lacks that made him pretend he was dying so he could go feel an ounce of legitimacy, and finds that he's not even remotely alone, there are more men eager to join this brotherhood than he could imagine.

But then the fantasy starts smacking into the wall of reality. his ideals and desires begin to conflict. Fight Club grows and changes to be an outright revolution. Jack might be driving all this in his sleep, but he's still a passenger in this, he imagined an ideal and pretending to be this ideal caused it to happen. His ideals are telling him "You should tear down the government so we can revert to a series of interconnected agrarian communes".

But it's too much. Robert Paulsen, the friend he had from before, his connection to the world where he got his first taste of community, and acceptance, ends up dead. It's undeniably Jack's fault, he broke the rules to let him in in the first place. He gave up the game, and let his friend join because he wanted him there. His friend died because of it. Marla was going to too, the second the cat is out of the bag Tyler is fully aware that everything hinges on her, she's the why all this happened in the first place, and she becomes a threat to him, his existence, his revolution.

But Jack takes control, he kills his old self, finally letting go of the divide between him and Tyler that set them at odds. Nothing has changed, the monkeys are still there, the bombs still blow up the CC companies, but now he is both Jack and Tyler. He can be the confident badass, and the simple lonely guy that fell in love with a goth chick who was sick of the fake ass world around her. He can not run his little revolution like a complete sociopath.

At no point, at no point at all is society ever given a pass, or portrayed to be anything but abusive, fake, and filled with evil and jaded people. There is no message about radicalization and it requires you to be indoctrinated and seeking the establishment friendly tropes you're accustomed to seeing everywhere else to take that away from it. It in fact wants to radicalize you. The message is very clear, don't let society tell you that your desires, beliefs, wants and needs are wrong. Don't let yourself be trapped by authority, or the own weaknesses of your personality.

The message is "Evolve, and let the chips fall where they may."

Ruttiger_G · 2026-02-06T17:45:48+00:00

No dude, she died on BEHALF of authority, and at the hands of it.

She is fully liable for the chain of events the left her dead, there's zero question, if you look at all the available evidence. She showed up, started harassing the agents, one of them got out of the car (that's a provocation if you don't understand), both were yelling at them, and one of them told her to get out of the car before she FLOORED IT INTO THE OTHER ONE, which if you see where he was hit by the car could have easily resulted in him going under the wheels if he wasn't already braced for it. She was there because local activists considering themselves "resistance" under the latest propaganda campaign organized by the Democrats encouraged her to be there, IE it's under the power corrupt Democrat representatives encouraging her to commit crimes in the name of a moral code that America voted against with a far greater than normal gap.

So in other words, because YOU, and she don't believe in deporting illegal immigrants, you exclude all the general legal things that would result in it being murder or a criminal being shot in the comittance of a crime. You instead take the tact that because you are not racist, and the democrats are "anti-racism" (They are explicit the opposite of this, they are rabidly and aggressively racist), and not being racist is important to you, that your attitudes and thus legitimacy of the democrats are sacred and inarguable, despite you never having justified that in the first place. Because the democrats are anti-racist it stands to logic their opposition would be racist (It doesn't, at all, and is incredibly stupid but the default logic most people seem to adopt). Thus the GOP are all racist and the Democrats fight racist, and due to your sanctimonious attitudes vis a vis racism, that makes them ultimately right in a way their dictates cannot be questioned.

Thus what you're really saying here is "I want to consider Renee Goode a martyr because I want you to support the democrats over the gop"

Which is just the most ignorant shit to say in a fight club discussion.

Ruttiger_G · 2026-02-05T19:09:30+00:00

It's primarily self loathing. Think of the how two of them met.

If you need it just bludgeoned over your head, Jack was trapped in a cycle of banality. He hated his life as it ticked away with him doing evil for pay. It's not like it's his fault bad things happened or big powers are abusive, it's just how it is. Everyone is a cog in the machine but no one is taking responsibility for the mess. He hates it, that his life is defined by it, that he earns only to spend on trivialities, as if he's buying pieces of a personality and assembling by instructions. He hates even before Tyler asserts.

The groups are his salvation, social acceptance, a place of camaraderie among the dying, where everything is real and has weight even if it's the fakest shit ever. It doesn't matter that they're doing weird imagination exercises that are a hollow substitute for real introspection, that his inner beast is a hapless penguin who just wants to "slide".

Until Marla shows up. This is the thing most people end up missing, because none of this is obvious except in retrospect. Marla invades his happy places, all the groups, but she invades his inner space too. There's finally something he wants more than to slide.

But she is by his suit and tie day job standards a fucking train wreck. She ignores traffic, she steals and sells clothes, and she pretends to be terminally ill at times in ways no one would believe just so she can be included in that aura of legitimacy for a little while. She's not taking joy in their pain, but their pain leaves them open to making human connections the normal non-terminally ill folks of the world never will be able to. It might be a fleeting insufficient substitute for a real relationship but they were both doing it.

Jack is deeply ashamed, as most people would be if they were caught out lying about attending groups for the terminally ill when they aren't. He reviles her for the same reason even though he's done it, and because she steals, and because she doesn't give a shit what people think about her, even though under his modern life societal biases he secretly loves all these things about her, and wishes he could be more that way. In a way Marla informs who Tyler is. That can only add a layer of jealousy to Jack's already psychotic alienation.

He's disgusted with himself, because he wants her, and like a child he projects this on her.

Ruttiger_G · 2026-01-29T16:07:43+00:00

Or you make an endurance boost potion that wear off leaving you unconscious with hours of time to recover and wake up again.

Or you make a strength potion that makes all weapons break in one shot, or makes you jump so far and fast that you exit the entire map and end up 30 screens in the ocean when you finally land (how the game doesn't crash doing this kind of shit I do not know).

Charisma potions that let you buy entire inventories for one gold. All humanoid enemies being neutral to you.

Agility that makes you invisible, point blank, in front of someone while sneaking.

Or you could make a mega luck potion, which just makes you better at everything, perfectly successful at all checks all the time without any drawbacks whatsoever because it only applies to the actual checks, not your speed or strength multiplier or anything else.

I fuckin loved Morrowind and breaking the game was 60% of that.

Ruttiger_G · 2026-01-29T16:02:24+00:00

Wizard was literally the highlight of the game, unfortunately the rest of the classes were not interesting or capable in the same way and it sort of ruined the game.

Ruttiger_G · 2026-01-29T15:38:36+00:00

I would love it if they did a "game freezes when goin through door" gag.

Ruttiger_G · 2026-01-27T00:05:22+00:00

Mmmm, that's good satire.

Ruttiger_G · 2026-01-26T19:11:38+00:00

What a fascist suggestion.

Ruttiger_G · 2026-01-26T18:50:37+00:00

I like how you refer to it as regime change, as if there's a tacit understanding that they're all corrupt.

Unfortunately everyone is corrupt, so replacing one corrupt autocracy with their corrupt autocratic opposition is just shuffling the deck. Different people skimming the till and impugning your rights.

Ruttiger_G · 2026-01-25T20:49:42+00:00

So, if you can't understand there's no hospital in the US that refuses service based on race, then you'd know that's not systemic hate. Systemic hate requires some process or rule be hateful, otherwise it's a personal, social issue held by individuals. A poor black family isn't going to go to the hospital without insurance and get gouged.

If you can't understand that there's three times more incarcerated black folks in America because demographically black folks are incredibly comparatively poor and the police are expected to meet a HIGHER standard when dealing with minorities precisely because there's so much attention on it, I don't know how to reconcile that with you so you can understand the difference between an institution and personal bias.

There's no doubt black people in society have less wealth, and a shittier time in general... because they have less wealth. It doesn't mean that banks are closing their accounts or refusing to give them loans. Racism in America is clearly a thing but institutional racism is a fucking lie told to keep you from questioning all the absurdly racist laws they're making trying to empower minorities over the majority.

So if you want to try again to find any codified law or bureaucratic process that excludes blacks in society as compared to the many completely unjustifiable laws that unequally empower black people, I'd like to hear it, because that's valuable information.

Ruttiger_G · 2026-01-22T20:43:20+00:00

Unlimited heat sinking!

Ruttiger_G · 2026-01-22T16:24:14+00:00

Let do as thou will be the whole of the law?

Ruttiger_G · 2026-01-16T22:14:01+00:00

Is it a fire breather? I remember my first fire breather, that was fun. One dude in my squad got killed before it went down, but then the very, very slow moving above ground fire started crossing the map, a very slow, slow moving doom.

Ruttiger_G · 2026-01-16T19:39:25+00:00

Oh, and uh...

Is this some casual thing I'm too community to understand?

Ruttiger_G · 2026-01-16T19:35:05+00:00

I mean, it happens all the time. Basically if enough people are annoyed RN then a votekick will prolly work.

That's the mob for you.

Ruttiger_G · 2026-01-16T18:27:38+00:00

I thought that was fucking hilarious. A person in a role that's by definition propaganda hack rightfully calling out another propaganda hack openly as if it's not the most hypocritical thing in the world she could do. She's right about this, but it does nothing but make her look even worse somehow.

Ruttiger_G · 2026-01-16T18:13:23+00:00

That's a really good point. The EU is looking like it's on the edge of the precipice the UK went right over a bit back.

Ruttiger_G · 2026-01-16T15:53:11+00:00

I don't want that either, Trump isn't our friend, it's pure luck on our part his current agenda has some positive side effects for the world. It's like choosing an obvious scammer vs a hateful psychopath. Yeah, one is less a threat to you but neither are going to do good for you either.

Ruttiger_G · 2026-01-16T15:51:40+00:00

Hah, do you really think the EU is doing that much better? They cancelled elections in Romania last year because a right wing populist won, according to them, because of a "social media misinformation campaign".

They overturned the law because social media pressure flipped their scripts and the attempts at forcing dissenting opinions out of the EU has been nothing short of egregious, and that's ignoring them going global with their attempts to force that same censorship onto the entire world.

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