https://old.reddit.com/r/Africa/comments/1iezval/the_battle_for_africa_is_happening_congo/machlny/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/Africa/comments/1iezval/the_battle_for_africa_is_happening_congo/mac96so/?context=8

it's literally just a screenshot of the steam page lol

sizing check

with text

You'll also notice that I've forcibly reenabled the cursor Marsey for everyone. This is so you can appreciate the adorable cursor kong by @Elias_Acorn. You are welcome.

So I met up with this off Grindr and fricked him.

mtf, stereotype, communist, neurodivergent, type shit

Dude was rambling about some nonsense, and I just nodded along, waiting to get it over with. About an hour in, we got down to business and I fricked his butt (with a condom, obviously).

Tbh I felt kind of disgusted, but you know, neighbors just gotta take what they can get

It is what it is.

To find the mystical true femboy (biological male that passes as female with the exception of the peepee)

But as it turns out, they don't really exist or at least, they're so incredibly rare they might as well not exist

It's like finding a cryptid, but at the same time, trying to find that true femboy is almost addictive...

It's like gambling, trying to hit the jackpot.

"Maybe the next one... maybe just a few more profiles..."

Darn

Trans QUEEN in question. Dilapidated room , dirty carpet and greasy pikachu plushy an all!

!chuds lost another soldier in the r-slur war.....

!nonchuds !chudmoment !g*mers !goyim

>That's curtains, th-ACK!

>Pretty much. That is literally the dogshit writing dream te-ACK!

>Sucker Punch, insomniac, naughty dog and Santa Monica were some of my favourite studios. It's crazy how they have all fallen. I miss when gaming wasn't main stre-ACK!

ON THE LAST EPISODE OF THE GREAT NIPPONCAUST OF 2024-2025:

https://rdrama.net/post/303041/effortpost-culture-war-chimpout-cwc-32769

Florence Spurling is a moderately popular knitwear designer who made her Scout Shawl pattern in 2021. It uses different color work designs "patchworked" together to form a shawl.

Earlier this month a smaller designer named Susan Chin released her Quilt Star Scarf pattern. It has a similar shape and patchwork construction to Spurling's design.

This has lead people to accuse Chin of plagiarism, which Spurling addressed in an instagram post see above and below

(I can't link to the post because Spurling later deleted it)

The scarves obviously have some similarities, but they also have some differences. Here's a list of what's the same and what's different that someone else wrote, speaking of plagiarism :

Both objects use Intarsia and Fair Isle/Stranded colorwork.

Both patterns have multiple blocks in different motifs, joined together as the finished object is worked.

Both patterns have colorwork charts. (Scout > Shawl is in full color; Quilt Star is in greyscale)

The border is not indicated on either pattern's chart.

Suggested Gauge for the two patterns; Scout Shawl suggests 28sts x 30rows for 10cm, using 3.5mm needles. Quilt Star suggests 28sts x 27 rows for 10cm using 2.5mm or 3mm needles.

Finished size for Scout Shawl is 181cm, 37cm deep

Finished size for Quilt Star is 150cm, 35cm deep

Scout Shawl relies on 5 colors and makes suggestions as to the color contrast if you don't use the same palette as the pattern. Color 1 is the garter stitch border.

Quilt Star relies on 8 colors. No contrast is suggested, only the colors recommended in the original pattern. Color 8 is the 1x1 rib border.

At least one motif in Scout uses 3 colors.

Each motif in Quilt uses no more than 2 colors.

Cast on is 8 stitches for Scout.

Cast on is 4 stitches for Quilt.

All sections on Scout meet at 90 degree angles.

Some sections on Quilt meet at diagonals, at ~45deg ish.

Scout has 10 distinct blocks and patterns.

Quilt has 7 (?) distinct patterns. There seems to be an error in the charts. I'm not sure my count is correct based on the charts alone. But it is certainly fewer.

Increases on Scout are M1L, Decreases are k2tog

Increases on Quilt are kfb, decreases are k2tog.

Scout's finishing has no special bind off for the remaining 8 stitches.

Quilt uses a seamed bind off for the 6 remaining stitches.

Motifs for Scout appear to be floral.

Motifs for Quilt appear to be star-them

Source

VERDICT: they're different patterns.

This didn't stop people from stirring shit, because obviously you need to have an MFA to be inspired by patchwork, and only one person is allowed to be inspired by a thing.

People (Spurling suck ups) went on social media to b-word, including leaving comments on the Ravelry page for Chin's scarf. (Ravelry is like letterboxd for knitting and crochet, and also a platform that many designers use to sell their patterns)

Source, but you need a Ravelry account to view

This lead to Chin taking the pattern down for sale. Satisfied with the results, Spurling deleted her post . And so ends another chapter in the ongoing saga of insecure designers accusing others of plagiarism.

A few I remember from the last year:

A designer put out merch with "Knit Club" on a baseball caps. Well some other pattern designer has a community by that unique name and also has baseball caps merch (but none that actually say "Knit Club"

Source

"Only I'm allowed to be copy 1950s dresses!"

Source

"omg why are you so obsessed with me, stop copying me" macrame. Except her product looks like something posted earlier by someone else on TikTok. (If they look similar it's because there's only so much shit you can make with macrame and there's probably patterns for something like this in a book from the 70s)

Source

One French company accused another French company of copying their, um… tailor clappers, test squares and pointer cowtools (these are pretty common cowtools that have existed for a long time, this like Milwaukee accusing Makita of stealing their idea of the hammer)

Source

I forgot to add that while I agree with most of the commenters on the craft snark thread, look at this b-word trying to turn it into a race thing

source

Chudmisa strikes again. No lives matter until chud lives matter.

Second clip

!animalposters !cats

Woke up at 3 am, drove two hours and then walked three miles there and back to see this little neighbor say six more weeks of winter.

!eurochads I was told that EU would ban and overregulate Ai...

What the frick is going on?!i

I’ve said before and I’ll say it again: the problem with Rory and people like him is that he has an IQ of 110 and thinks he has an IQ of 130. This false arrogance drives so much elite failure over the last 40 years.

— JD Vance (@JDVance) January 30, 2025

Context is the heatmap meme about differences between liberals and conservatives (oikophobia vs xenophobia)

!chuds !sneed he's IQ-poasting

So recently there was a post that got removed from /r/RPG about how punching nazis is a great thing so you should buy my stuff and I'll give 5% of the money to a good cause. You know, the anti-capitalist way.

Well, that post got jannied; only the jannies were very keen for the sub to know that while they do it for free, they didn't do that for free - it was done by the admiggers who, unlike the jannies, get paid to mop. The jannies of /r/rpg then pinned the seethepost to the top of the sub to ensure everyone knows that they do it for free.

This then caused a bunch of extra virtue signalling nazi resisting to pop up, including:

Remaking the post under a "cleverly" reworded title

https://old.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1idsqfk/physically_resist_a_specific_brand_of/

Someone just linking to the bundle and going "updoots to the left" in possibly the laziest poast

https://old.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1idr5tw/bundle_of_holding/

A post linking to a "game" that isn't a game, just a political screed. Most egregiously, it lets you play as a jo*rnalist.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1idum5h/survive_the_tyrant_an_rpg_about_resisting/

And finally, another re-linking to the bundle but this time with even more seething about the admins

https://old.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1idtaov/since_it_appears_that_reddits_admins_love_nazis/

One comment on that thread is promoting the game Eat the Reich which is... not good as notepad anon summarizes:

needless to say /r/rpg has put them at the top of the thread

and a bonus opportunity for ban evasion!

https://old.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1idtaov/since_it_appears_that_reddits_admins_love_nazis/ma2h5n6/?context=8

There's also this post that also promotes ETR in the most safe-edgy way I can think of

https://old.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1ie0lpm/eat_the_reich_clarification_humor/

And while we're on the subject of "antifascist RPGs that you have to buy for some reason" don't forget to check out @MayflyAlt-98's post about the hilariously bad SIGMATA: This Signal Kills Fascists

https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/203355/sigmata-this-signal-kills-fascists-marseysal

Top Drama

Relative Drama (takes into account the size of the subreddit)

autodrama: returning jobs to dramneurodivergents. Ping HeyMoon if there are any problems or you have a suggestion

it begins anew!

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/viral-trend-sees-humans-simulating-bizarre-ai-video-glitches/

!asians !aichads !fellas !kino

Instead of using a steam deck like a normal person, some people need to soy out and get OFFICIAL nintendo switch controllers to use with their machine that already has controllers built in. Not only that, they're also tying it to the headrest of the person in front of them (because frick the rich people who have the privilege to fly). Thankfully the top comments were able to escape the circlejerk of the subreddit and realize that this probably isn't a nice thing to do nor impressive. The funniest part is that he has a tray table right in front of him AND a custom case which has a kickstand.

I NEED CONSTANT STIMULATION YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND FRICK YOU