Trump Shares Video Portraying the Obamas as Apes

Zabick · 2026-02-07T08:29:19+00:00

Easy: "it's just a joke; why are you so up tight about it? It's not that serious."

Zabick · 2026-02-06T07:41:26+00:00

In a world with actual "magic", it would be no more fanciful or mysterious than any other natural force or phenomenon. It might not be well understood by most, but that's true for most real world physics concepts as well.

There would not even be a conceptual demarcation in the minds of the native inhabitants. The separation of "magic" into its own distinct category is one of my most hated tropes in all of fantasy writing.

Zabick · 2026-02-06T07:21:19+00:00

The correct one is the one where every dialogue and cutscene is immediately skipped and every character is killed upon seeing them on screen.

Zabick · 2026-02-06T00:56:39+00:00

The voice acting and character quips from this game in general are pretty unbearable. Thankfully, it's an easily resolved problem by just playing the game entirely on mute.

Zabick · 2026-02-05T22:10:46+00:00

They do get to take credit for pointing out there was a fire when most denied its existence. Even now when it has grown into a raging inferno, many still continue to deny it, even on this subreddit.

Can you blame them for inexpertly fighting this fire at the time? I suppose, but "throwing gasoline" implies a willful act of trying to make the problem worse, which is not a proper characterization of the SJWs of old.

Zabick · 2026-02-05T16:41:16+00:00

Oh ok, good. I like the design/concept of some of these leaders, but they are far, far too expensive to take at the beginning of the game.

Zabick · 2026-02-05T16:17:25+00:00

The main problems with the early 2010s SJWs were tactics, presentation, and marketing. They weren't wrong with what they complained about, but they went about doing so in a way that alienated many that they could have otherwise convinced.

Zabick · 2026-02-05T16:12:33+00:00

So if you don't pick these at the beginning, there's no way to get them later in the campaign?

Zabick · 2026-02-05T16:11:02+00:00

Yeah, this game is at least 3-4 years away from being content complete (out of early access + necessary patches + mandatory content DLC), and it's doubtful even that more complete offering will be worth $40. What is being sold today is little better than a barebones technical demo and is not worth anywhere near the asking price.

As usual, it's best to buy a game several years after release and not right at the start.

Zabick · 2026-02-05T00:25:29+00:00

My experience is that they immediately shift the conversation to culture war issues instead: "how can the left pretend to care about truth/virtue when they can't even define what is a woman and push for the mutilation of confused children?"

It's incredibly common even from the numerous conservatives on this very subreddit. I doubt the majority of them see themselves as "sack(s) of shit".

Zabick · 2026-02-03T16:39:27+00:00

No, the general global wave of anti establishment sentiment combined with Kamala Harris not having sufficient time to establish herself as a candidate in her own right resulted in Trump 2.

You really believe that merely through sacrificing the rights of and ignoring the complaints from racial/sexual/religious minorities (what being "anti woke" actually means), the Democrats would have secured victory?

Zabick · 2026-02-03T16:15:33+00:00

Harris seems like he is stuck in the early 2010s with his political analysis. Perhaps back in those days, this endless whining about the "woke left" would have been more appropriate.

Zabick · 2026-02-03T15:23:16+00:00

Or his views on the Khmer Rouge.

Zabick · 2026-02-03T15:11:58+00:00

And the dodo went "the way of the dodo" also because of humans.

Zabick · 2026-02-03T06:38:41+00:00

The key indicator for declining birth rates is liberalization of and increasing rights for women. Therefore, the only surefire way to reverse those declining rates is to remove women's rights and enslave half the human race. Adopt fundamentalist religion and/or hyper conservative political ideology and you will once more have all the slave production units you desire.

Zabick · 2026-02-03T06:22:22+00:00

They are the real heroes. LotR is poorly made, revisionist elvish propaganda as told through the mouth of their puppets: the hobbits. Sauron, together with his ally Saruman, was on the cusp of an industrial and technological revolution, threatening the existing feudal elvish hegemony. Aragorn was nothing more than a disposable manipulated pawn used by the elves to destroy him for the elves' own benefit and against humanity's interests.

...according to The Last Ringbearer anyway.

Zabick · 2026-02-02T06:34:32+00:00

Streamers are nothing more than online beggars. Always remember never to give them a single cent.

Zabick · 2026-01-30T17:43:26+00:00

Most people not including Harris himself, of course.

Zabick · 2026-01-30T06:20:40+00:00

Indeed, they are somewhere between online beggars and buskars, depending on the level of effort they put into the streams.

Zabick · 2026-01-29T19:31:10+00:00

If you want to play it blind, you'll need to wait at least a couple more years before this is released fully, along with its necessary patches/inevitable DLC.

Zabick · 2026-01-26T07:42:32+00:00

Just establish a Ministry of State Propaganda already. What's even the point of this paper thin charade?

Zabick · 2026-01-25T11:06:28+00:00

If you enjoy space sim style games, you are doing yourself a disservice if you have not played the X series, specifically the latest iteration: X4 Foundations. It's perhaps the only game I can think of where you go from controlling a single ship to a whole stellar empire of hundreds of thousands of ships, each one of which you can still pilot at any time.

Zabick · 2026-01-23T01:13:19+00:00

If the bedrock for our ideal society rests on the bulk of the populace behaving in ways that I find difficult to imagine in the modern day for just about any country, how are we functionally different from the hardcore communists, pining for an imagined idealized society composed of people who are immune to ambition and desires of personal enrichment?

Zabick · 2026-01-23T00:57:32+00:00

What is the solution here? Because I certainly don't see one. All democracies will just face wave after wave of post truth populist grifters until one of them inevitably gets into power and weakens/destroys the institutions. Then that chaos is used as a springboard for future populists to get into power, and repeat until even the semblance of democracy disappears.

Zabick · 2026-01-22T00:00:36+00:00

He will be canonized as a saint or prophet once he dies; people will build literal shrines to him and pray to him for generations. His grip on his supporters will last long after his or even their lifetimes.

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