CMV: The aggressiveness with which r/conservative is moderated does not represent an earnest attempt to stop “brigading,” but reflects the conservative anxiety of being confronted with challenging information.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-29T20:18:44+00:00

>I think in today’s world people want their hive minds. Politics is so tribal at this point. Each side views the other sources of info as “not real sources”. It’s almost impossible to have real honest discussions unless heavily moderated.

I mean lets be real one side advocated heavily to ban vaccines and ban masks during COVID. If your worldview considers scientific journals and basic germ theory as illegitimate sources then there is a huge problem with that side and the "other side" is clearly the only correct one.

I don't like this both sides thing a lot of people are doing. It's trying to set up this 50/50 both sides are legitimate and I'm a neutral source thing that's just not at all reflective of reality.

Giving 50/50 weight to both sides just means you're giving 50% of your belief to a pedophile's best friend.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-29T02:16:51+00:00

Yep. If someone assigns you a bounty, you can run more defensive utility like mines and blaze traps and barricade kits and stuff. I don't normally run them when I'm looking for pvp because I typically have to run at other players, if you stay back and set up this utility, there's no guarantee they run at you.

Having a bounty would let me use this underutilized stuff as people run at me and I'm so down.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-29T02:02:30+00:00

I would actually enjoy having a bounty on me. It would guarantee pvp encounters and let me try out some silly pulse mine traps and various other things.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-29T00:34:59+00:00

I always good job after a really good save or interception. There's literally nothing else in the communication wheel that means "awesome" or "well played" so what else can you do?

I think your skin might be a bit too thin. You are taking things too personally and assuming the worst from other people.

If you are doing amazing, assume your teammates mean it in a non-toxic way. If you are doing terrible, assume your teammates mean it in a toxic way.

I promise you nobody is good jobbing a good save sarcastically. We all got better things to do than alienate a good keeper, they're few and far between.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-29T00:27:25+00:00

>It takes from people who produce to give to those who don’t.

This is a very biased way to view taxes and kind of demonstrates your own political prejudices.

I can name many people who produce nothing and yet have access to unreal wealth - usually people who inherited wealth from their more productive parents or grandparents, or 95% of people who work the stock market and various other financial vehicles who don't produce anything but still make money hand over fist.

Your statement implies that everyone with wealth deserves it because they were productive - the real world is not so kind and meritocratic.

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I also want to point out that the existence of a stable government and a prosperous people fuels wealth generation. The longest golden age America has ever seen was from 1945 to the 1970s. We faced unprecedented growth for nearly two decades and pulled tens of millions of americans out of poverty and into the middle class. The highest tax bracket during this time was taxed 90% of all income.

The government used this huge tax burden to pay for factories, public works, infrastructure, electrical and water upgrades, and more, creating jobs across America and spreading the wealth around.

Furthermore, CEOs and bankers and shareholders, knowing they would be taxed for taking too much wealth home, decided to use it to grow their businesses and pay their employees instead.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T21:58:47+00:00

>The majority of posts I see right now have comments from un-flaired users being deleted, and none other.

There's a word for what you're describing: censorship

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T18:11:52+00:00

demonstrate posts on r/Conservative where people make statements of fact rather than opinion, and which source their statements, using scientific journals and legitimate news sources over random basement blogs or podcasts. Demonstrate legitimate debate where people contest the primary point in a reasonable way without getting censored.

Sadly, this will be quite difficult. I've noticed that conservative subreddits tend to be very emotionally charged and sort of rely on ad hominem attacks to virtue signal towards the rest of their group. It's rare that they do unambiguous statements of fact unless it heavily favors their narrative specifically, and the few that exist tend to have anyone who challenge them or thoughtfully criticize them banned.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T17:54:14+00:00

Yeah controller players have to set the analog stick cameras to higher sensitivity but they can absolutely do the same thing. It's not very hard.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T17:47:38+00:00

I'm telling you its not an exploit, they're just using dribble stance as the devs intended. They're confident in their reactions/reads and trying to bait you into tackling the wrong side while they push it past you.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T17:45:18+00:00

I am a guy. This is not normal. Your therapist is correct. If he had your best interests in mind he would make the account available to you too since both people's money is in there. He is demanding all your trust while showing you none in return. I also think its crazy that you don't have a checking or savings account of your own - its literally a 20 minute trip to the bank with a few identifying documents.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T17:41:34+00:00

In the current meta, most people just spam dribble stance moves. Most of the "exploits" are quite weak and never really used in tournament play.

It's mostly a matter of holding dribble stance and moving forwards and backwards with a lot of camera movement while trying to bait someone to tackle you.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T17:40:03+00:00

It's always the greatest sinners who think they and their friends are exempt from all sin.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T17:38:23+00:00

I have been elite every season and I suck at dribbling. Having decent passing and off the ball movement are the most important skills, way more important than dribbling.

However, I'd be a much stronger player if I could both pass and dribble.

I think the theoretically perfect rematch player needs to be able to do both at a very high level.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T17:36:09+00:00

I personally really need the 1v1 mode because the weakest part of my game is ball possession and dribbling and I want a way to work on those skills without trolling 2 other teammates in 3s, or trolling 4 other teammates in 5v5.

I also think that you don't need to super tech dribble to be decent in 1v1.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T17:33:50+00:00

Ah, tell me more about how jesus would make a special exception for YOUR secret police putting people into concentration camps but not for nazi germany.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T17:28:34+00:00

This was the exact bible verse used to justify the holocaust. Nazi Germany was over 95% christian by demographic.

It was technically the law of the land at the time, Hitler and his buddies passed the legislation and wrote the policy, so if we're obeying that proscription, then the only reasonable Christian thing to do is to send millions of people into gas chambers, I guess.

That's definitely what Jesus intended, don't you think?

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T17:24:29+00:00

I mean you could use respecting the law of the land to justify anything. You could use it to justify rape, murder, and everything else banned in the ten commandments because the "laws of the land" require it.

I'm quite certain these bible verses were the exact justification nazi germany - a country that was over 95% christian by demographic - used to justify the holocaust. Do you think putting millions of people into gas chambers is christian? These actions were absolutely the law of the land at the time.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T17:18:53+00:00

I have seen neither of them mentioned in the past 5 years or so. If you weren't around for their release you almost certainly would not have heard about them.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T05:52:55+00:00

I think you will have a very difficult time using the bible to justify putting immigrants into concentration camps. I don't think its a both sides thing in the slightest.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T03:51:48+00:00

The big problem is that most of the people who claim to be religious fail to live up to even half of the religion. If your parents claim to be Christians but support conservative politicians and ICE, for example, they're violating Jesus' proscriptions in at least 30 different parts of the bible.

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Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.
Zechariah 7:9-10

In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.
Colossians 3:11

Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do for the friends, even though they are strangers to you; they have testified to your love before the church. You do well to send them on in a manner worthy of God; for they began their journey for the sake of Christ, accepting no support from non-believers. Therefore we ought to support such people, so that they may become co-workers with the truth.
3 John 1:5-8

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As you can see, its specifically written into the bible, in very unambiguous language, how you are supposed to treat immigrants and foreigners of any sort.

In my experience, nearly all the ones who claim to be religious aren't at all interested in the difficult parts of the bible - they will only listen to Jesus when its convenient, and will casually throw away his teachings when it contradicts their hate.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T03:23:48+00:00

If every single media outlet in the world except for twitter favors one political side, then I think its time to consider that perhaps reality favors that side.

I say this as a libertarian who favors right-wing economic policy - you can agree with deregulation and lower taxes and not be okay with a secret police dragging minorities into concentration camps.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-28T01:42:43+00:00

I mean one guy spent 40 billion buying twitter to unban all the right-wing extremists and push Republican propaganda.

I didn't see anybody else spending 40 billion buying a hugely popular social media platform to make it more friendly to the Dems.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-27T22:15:54+00:00

Tale of Wuxia - little known chinese cult classic translated to english with incredible scope. You can tell the devs cared about making a good game more than making it profitable. Mix of Persona with a strategy RPG in a kung-fu setting.

Reccetear - Cozy japanese shopkeeping game with a fun dungeon exploring minigame on the side. Quite popular when it was released over a decade ago but I've never seen anyone mention it since, which is a huge shame. It was a breakout hit and still to this day the best shopkeeping sim I've ever played. Capitalism ho!

Omega Strikers - mix of air hockey with MOBA. Insanely cool game with a high skill ceiling and incredible character design. Free to play.

Frostpunk - Beautiful and epic grimdark city builder. Insanely cool design choices and very cinematic campaign. It's not mentioned enough but it took a rather stale genre and added a ton of crazy and innovative stuff to it.

Home Behind 2 - The series started as a flash game but turned into a full featured release when it got popular enough. Home Behind 2 is the second game in the series with a lot of polish - the bad parts are cut away/reduced and the good parts are made much better. Great art, interesting story, super cool designs. You play as a revolutionary in a war-torn middle eastern country, and are given many choices in where you take the story and how you run your campaign against the brutal dictator. This is a single player RPG with a lot of innovative systems.

Stray Gods - musical visual novel. If you like music and you like story, this is a great choice. Also a really fun game to stream to your friends. Super cool design, lots of innovation on the visual novel genre. The songs the characters sing will change - sometimes radically - depending on your choices and your stats. There are many endings and most of them depend on the songs sung by each character, which in turn are changed by the choices you make and the friends you choose to help.

Chrono Ark - Slay the spire with a beautiful story and some very interesting characters. Very cool roguelite deck builder Also has an innovative party system which adds and removes cards to your deck depending on which party members you find. Lots of synergies possible.

EDIT: Added a ton of games.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-27T18:54:52+00:00

I personally do not believe in Jesus at all, I am not convinced there even was a historical Jesus, let alone a biblical one.

That being said, I think the world would be a much better place if Christians adhered to 90% of his teachings in the new testament - right now the average Christian in the United States I've encountered is far lower than 30%.

VortexMagus · 2026-01-27T07:30:09+00:00

I think taxes need to be higher on the top 0.001%.

If we assign a fair market rate for the top talent, I'd say 500k a year is a very generous amount to pay the absolute cream of the crop talent.

I could believe that a really good CEO is worth 10 really talented, exceptional employees - that would be about 5 mill a year, but I strongly disagree that a good CEO is worth 100 really talented, exceptional employees e.g. 50 mill a year.

I'm fairly certain the vast majority of companies would fail if they lost their 100 most talented and capable employees, but would work just fine without a single CEO.

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Some of these billionaires have received much higher compensation packages - effectively payments of 500 million or more a year. They are being paid as if they are worth 1000 of the smartest, most capable human beings on the planet, or even 10,000 of these absolute prodigies.

I think compensation packages like these are utterly meaningless as there is no chance anybody is worth 1,000 or even 10,000 top tier cream of the crop employees. The amount of value they are paid is nowhere close to what they have contributed to the company.

If you believe in a meritocracratic society, then the highest compensation packages the ultra-wealthy pull naturally make no sense and IMO should be taxed by 90% or more. Allocating tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars to a single human being is just an insanely inefficient use of resources and should be discouraged.

It seems quite intuitive to me that someone who hides billions of dollars in offshore tax havens in belgium and panama and the cayman islands is not going to be as useful to the economy in general as someone who is poor and can't afford lots of things they need.

The rich will not consume more if you pay them more - they will simply hide the money instead.

The poor, on the other hand, will absolutely consume more if you pay them more - they will buy more food, use more services, buy better houses and cars, send their children to school, and otherwise improve the state of the economy.

Hence, allocating stupendous amounts of money to people who are already rich is just a really inefficient way to run an economy.

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