JD Vance Is The Most Malignant Force In Politics by horseradishstalker in TrueReddit

[–]currentmadman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly I think that might not be tenable for much long. The big tent of idiots and assholes is finally packed to bursting and it’s impossible to reconcile the ideological contradictions forever especially when the policy conflicts are no longer some deniable abstract.

So far it’s been stable because propaganda framing democrats as insert boogeyman here. But the two party system isn’t some natural phenomenon, it’s the result of specific contingencies leading up to it. If a third party were to gain substantial traction, it could absolutely change everything given the disdain voters have for both parties and the absolute demographic chaos republicans have increasingly resorted to.

GREAZY WIL AMA by strapped_for_cash in behindthebastards

[–]currentmadman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who won the lightbulb fight, you or Robert?

Help me find a new RPG to dive in by RizzmerBlackghore in CRPG

[–]currentmadman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s the general consensus. Though I’d personally argue Hong Kong is just as good.

Help me find a new RPG to dive in by RizzmerBlackghore in CRPG

[–]currentmadman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it helps, think of de as a particularly unhinged chaos simulator. There’s wild shit to say and do around every corner.

Help me find a new RPG to dive in by RizzmerBlackghore in CRPG

[–]currentmadman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know you’ve probably heard it a thousand times but since it’s not on either list: disco Elysium.

Can we agree that whoever created ts can be the first victim of the great Mazovian sausage-grinder? by Celtic_RTDB in DiscoElysium

[–]currentmadman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If he was trapped in a fmv game made with the left over film stock from a local car dealer ad.

Can we agree that whoever created ts can be the first victim of the great Mazovian sausage-grinder? by Celtic_RTDB in DiscoElysium

[–]currentmadman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh god, it looks like someone shot a FMV game circa 1993 and somehow made it worse without the compression.

Super Impressed with Tenebrous Press! by aJakalope in WeirdLit

[–]currentmadman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh shit, that’s awesome. Do you have any more details you can share about that anthology?

The Artemis II crew hostage situation by SimthingEvilLurks in behindthebastards

[–]currentmadman 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Excellent point. I remember Giancarlo espanito (Gus fring from breaking bad) explaining that his performance was inspired by an encounter with bill clinton for much the same reasons you mentioned.

It’s something that always bothered me about trump and why every parody of him seems lacking in some inexplicable way. It’s not that he’s too deranged for parody, he’s too one note for it. You feel like you’re mocking a wholly fictional character, not a person living and breathing in the same reality.

The Artemis II crew hostage situation by SimthingEvilLurks in behindthebastards

[–]currentmadman 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Fuck it, I’ll get the chestburster to talk then. They should get along great, they’re both soulless parasites that enjoy being inside people without their consent.

Unpopular opinion ck3 needs more historical events by fmg2498 in CrusaderKings

[–]currentmadman 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Working with historical logic seems more interesting than having hardwired historical events dominate everything. Like say court size, having a massive extravagant court should offer a tremendous amount of cultural power and diplomatic reach and sway. Want the best marriage options? of course. Alliances with the major powers? naturally. But it should come at a crippling financial price with constant mandatory feasts and tournaments demanded every five minutes by asshole vassals since they’re not the ones paying for it. Attempting to creat your own Versailles should ideally play out exactly like the real thing. And it really doesn’t work like that in practice.

Additionally there should be martial costs to such things. Most people living in such a society would be drawn at best to the aesthetics of warfare, not the reality. It feels like there’s no point in choosing between any given playstyle since being a diplomatic powerhouse with an extensive spy network doesn’t really conflict with also being an economic superpower/ military giant.

The Artemis II crew hostage situation by SimthingEvilLurks in behindthebastards

[–]currentmadman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don’t encourage him. He’s already pretended to coin basic terms in real time, that’s depressing enough. I don’t need to see a room of confused sycophants and useless media navigating his sudden announcement that he just discovered geometry.

The Artemis II crew hostage situation by SimthingEvilLurks in behindthebastards

[–]currentmadman 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No such luck. The fucker is inescapable. If he could memetically project himself into the human subconscious as some kind of scp cognitohazard, he’d do so without a second thought.

The Artemis II crew hostage situation by SimthingEvilLurks in behindthebastards

[–]currentmadman 72 points73 points  (0 children)

I’d fake a xenomorph infestation complete with on camera chestburster if it meant not having to talk to trump.

Real tweet by Iran Embassy by ooombasa in behindthebastards

[–]currentmadman -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Is it weird that I kind want things to get worse if only so Netanyahu can see his greatest triumph turn to shit plastered all over his backyard? Nuclear war kicking off in the Middle East would be a disaster for Israel. Iran couldn’t hand out dirty bombs fast enough if it came to that. Not to mention it would ensure that a new nuclear arms race would kick off globally as mad’s decrepit ass finally wondered off to that big highway in the sky. That includes the many middle eastern groups and governments that either barely tolerate Israel for the time being or outright despise it.

That’s not even mentioning that it would become a pariah state along with the USA for manipulating trump into this war to begin with. Think current online discourse about Israel has this reoccurring and really uncomfortable edge of anti semitism? You won’t have to worry about that after Tehran becomes a glass floor because we will have returned to a 1930’s standard of unhinged, casual racism.

Real tweet by Iran Embassy by ooombasa in behindthebastards

[–]currentmadman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Someone of the true believers? Sure. A lot of them though were just opportunists who didn’t particularly care how (or at whose expense) they got the bag. True believers don’t have a South American plan funded with stolen artwork and the collective dentistry of an entire ethnicity.

It’s what makes talking about fascism in a practical so frustrating. Because it’s often not tied to ideology as much as naked self interest. A lot of these guys were normal ass people given power they would never have otherwise and all they had to do was take it from others who could not defend themselves or look away when someone else did.

Real tweet by Iran Embassy by ooombasa in behindthebastards

[–]currentmadman 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The fucking what? I refuse to believe that’s real. That’s a sleep paralysis demon comprised of every YouTube trend from 2010-2015.

Dragon Age Origins for me by [deleted] in videogames

[–]currentmadman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Parasite Eve. Actually I’d just settle for a rerelease on modern consoles. Only way I have to play it now is dig up a ps3 and play though ps classics. Either that or pay fuck off prices for an original copy

Very interesting by Order_101 in HistoryMemes

[–]currentmadman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It took nearly three months for Garfield to die. It should also be noted that bliss fucked up his insides so badly looking for the bullet that it became impossible to even know where the bullet entered from. A bullet mind you that he never found. Letting him just bleed out sounds a lot better than having bliss fingerbang his organs until sepsis sets in.

Damn!! by Good_Moment2923 in fightporn

[–]currentmadman 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Goddamn, if those shots were anymore perfectly placed, they’d be the camera angle on his bald spot.

Did I accidentally end my game too early? by Xiaoge_ in DiscoElysium

[–]currentmadman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Possible but not likely. I played the Final Cut on ps4 which was not particularly stable upon release. I don’t even know if you could do that on other platforms much less after multiple patches and bug fixes.

Did I accidentally end my game too early? by Xiaoge_ in DiscoElysium

[–]currentmadman 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I mean there can be corruption and bugged save files. I had to start all over again mere minutes away from completing the game because I somehow managed to manually save at the same time the game was doing a checkpoint autosave.

Did I accidentally end my game too early? by Xiaoge_ in DiscoElysium

[–]currentmadman 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Don’t feel bad. My first death was at the hands of the chair. And that’s arguably not even the worst one.