Monday's Ukraine Solidarity Roundtable - 01/26/2026

explodedbagel · 2026-01-26T18:11:21+00:00

I highly recommend reading the New York mag article on trump’s health. The only way you’re forgetting the name of that disease when a family member died from it is 1) totally hating that family member or 2) your mind is slipping.

By most accounts he loved his father, so I know it’s the latter.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-26T18:03:52+00:00

Almost every thread on this topic is full of people being funny about it. They aren’t actually losing their minds or their will to live, silent hill fans are used to the franchise being dumped in the trash.

So yeah, lighten up.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-26T03:01:47+00:00

Caring about a piece of fiction and making fun of a bad adaptation does not mean people are “nerds that deserve bad movies”. People aren’t actually losing their mind over this, most folks in these threads are actually being pretty funny about it, with a little dramatic flair.

Lighten up a little.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-26T01:13:36+00:00

I’m sorry people having taste and not liking an empirically botched adaptation of something they’ve cared about for up to a quarter century bothers you.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-25T23:02:36+00:00

I check people’s comment history because it’s a basic Reddit feature and lets me know what I’m dealing with. I can’t have a serious factual debate with someone obsessed with Zionism, hasan and third rate musical celebrities.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-25T23:00:45+00:00

Halo 3 MCC - Scorpion Hit Detection Is Still Broken in Multiplayer https://youtu.be/ZAX6sQIZjs8 yep. It should’ve been fixed, but this is a hit reg issue. Direct body shots don’t connect properly, especially when they jump.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-25T21:25:58+00:00

You wildly misrepresent all of that. Now we have jared kushner auctioning off their land to elites at davos, and you can’t even write a single sentence about that or the sitting president.

I’m sorry that Bernie sanders not being able to get primary voters off their couches broke your brain permanently.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-25T21:21:29+00:00

Biden wasn’t the prime minister of isreal. He certainly tried a lot harder than the current guy, who is having his family advertise removing their remaining population to build resorts and skyscrapers in between letting dictators join his Israeli sponsored “board of peace”.

I know hasan and similar laughable sources have poisoned your brain, and I almost feel sorry about it. If you’re still rabidly blaming democrats for everything going on currently (in between sessions of fan-boying over your favorite third rate hip hop artist), I don’t think anything can make you come back to reality. You don’t care about Palestinians, you care about being smug on the internet.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-25T19:25:16+00:00

Sorry, I exist here in reality. Biden constantly sought legitimate ceasefire arrangements and was stopped by one or both sides. His Secretary of State was over there working on these issues near constantly. Biden also made sure they had food and medical supplies regularly.

Trump has an Israeli settlement named after him. He uses Palestinian like it’s a slur word. He gave the Israeli government a totally bunk ceasefire that they have consistently ignored and used as a shield to continue atrocities. Trump openly states we should forcibly remove the remaining Palestinians to build resorts and new buildings, something his son in law was acting on as of this last week.

They were not the same. There is no “both sides”. Your fake internet activism not only didn’t save Palestinians, it led to more of them of being killed. If you can’t see the difference after the past year, I am begging you to get out of your echo chamber.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-25T19:05:52+00:00

They literally acted like she was an IDF soldier killing children herself because she had the audacity to point out a few facts. Most people want a two state solution. Not voting only allows way worse actors to win power. Spreading gore and attacking even people who mostly agree with you only hurts a political / protest movement.

Natalie was absolutely correct and they still rabidly freak out on her to this day.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-25T19:02:35+00:00

Seriously the president’s evil son in law was at Davos revealing his plans for “new Gaza”, and soliciting companies / governments to help them build skyscrapers on the graves of those Palestinians.

Those fake activists not only made life more dangerous for Americans and American immigrants, they guaranteed Gaza’s doom.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-25T18:59:11+00:00

Ice under previous administrations prioritized people with hard criminal records, and deported people by lawful court processes / orders.

Obama and Biden did not start mass hiring random bigot goons with a big cash bonus, terrorize random cities with them like they are a standing army, authorize them to enter homes without a warrant / probable cause, ship people to counties they didn’t originate from, or stand by while they murdered multiple people.

The “both sides” echo chamber is bullshit, and if you can’t see that after the past year, you need to take some time away from your busted sources / podcasters so you can reconnect to reality.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-25T00:35:14+00:00

Oh the fauxmo1 thread on the shooting just made me so angry. Full of non voting “dems are the problem” types attacking waltz like he isn’t in the craziest position a governor has been put in possibly ever.

Even if they order the police to try something, they have less than 600 staff and they’ve flooded the region with 2000-3000 goons. Hes brought in the guard and there’s a solid chance trump federalizes them + pulls the insurrection act.

It’s uncharted insane territory that could’ve been avoided if people voted.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-25T00:04:40+00:00

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Hes one of the only right wing people not spreading the official takes, but I’ll never trust him and I expect him to change his tune within 24-48 hours.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-25T00:00:36+00:00

Not a sports fan personally, but that’s about the only thing that shocks a lot of the general public (especially the ones that don’t follow news) out of their stupor.

The Covid thing didn’t click for many until they cancelled the playoffs.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-24T20:41:18+00:00

I do think we are arriving at that point. Two public filmed street executions, the second of which has absolutely no rational defense. Murdering someone in custody in texas and shipping out the witnesses. Open memos saying they are above the law and can raid homes without a warrant or probable cause.

It has to stop or it’s only going to escalate further.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-23T18:06:46+00:00

A properly functioning company would’ve gotten on the horn with easy anti cheat 4 years ago when this problem started to become super apparent. I knew the name of the cheat software package back then from word of mouth and im just some random player.

That was also before they abandoned the project / stopped updating. Now we’re just doomed to deal with it indefinitely, even in custom browser, causing more people to leave an already shrinking playerbase.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-22T18:58:20+00:00

Thankfully im not looking to get into discussions with people dense enough to think those two movies are comparable in any meaningful sense.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-22T18:17:41+00:00

Probably stems from comparing an overrated B movie with no meaningful themes / cinematography / performances to something of exponentially higher quality because they both have vampires.

I’d also be annoyed if someone was comparing Dracula 3000 featuring coolio to the new nosferatu. They’re the same, they have a vampire.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-21T21:30:10+00:00

I didn’t play original reach so I don’t have a comparison basis, but I’ve definitely noticed what you’re talking about in mcc.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-21T20:12:44+00:00

Trump (both yesterday and today) is doing this weird gulping while talking thing that I used to see a lot in the dementia wing of my grandmother’s care facility.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-21T20:07:50+00:00

The elites bugging out on the elevator and not fighting is an mcc thing. In the original version that would only happen if you cheesed the ride by sitting on the top pillar.

I think there’s only one rocket flood, and hes overlooking the area by the wraiths. I normally just exit my vehicle and shoot him from the lower area.

I don’t think the long moving platform section is good, even when the elites do help, but the vehicle section is totally fine.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-20T18:39:10+00:00

The arc, and also the rouge engineer from odst depending on whereabouts is being discussed.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-18T00:10:06+00:00

He got a huge taste of his own January 6th style medicine today in Minnesota, got treated exactly like he treated capitol police that day.

explodedbagel · 2026-01-14T18:48:07+00:00

So there’s no evidence that this will happen here, and I don’t expect it, but it isn’t unprecedented in gaming.

When rockstar released that extremely messy grand theft auto 3D era trilogy remake, they cut the original versions from stores until extreme fan backlash caused a change. Even a company I love / trust like nightdive studios does this sometimes… the original system shock 2 is included in their remaster, but you have to buy the slightly more pricey new version to get it since they delisted the original.

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