!kino Ne Zha 2 might actually make over 2 billion dollars and be a strong contender against Avatar 3 later this year.

https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1iqwxwa/in_china_ne_zha_2_grossed_an_incredible/

Have you heard of Cleo?

Cleo was an account on Math Stack Exchange that was infamous for dropping the answer to the most difficult integrals with no explanation...

often mere minutes after the question was asked!!

For years, no one knew who Cleo was, UNTIL NOW! pic.twitter.com/wbvYMSVnHG

— Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D. (@iScienceLuvr) February 17, 2025

I made a Longpost about Age of Empires 3 long ago about how the then upcoming AOE3 Definitive Edition was controversial because of perceived wokeness, like reworking Native Yank factions, because the original 2005 game was antiquated and racist by depicting Indians @Sphereserf3232 dancing around fires, and seen as offensively stereotypical.

These changes were controversial because it was seen as part of the wider wokefication of remakes, like Dead Space 1 remake, alongside the general perception of chuds that SanFran types had completely infiltrated gaming studios in American modern AAA gaming development.

AOE3 devs even went so far as to actually bring in Native yank advisors to tell them how to depict the 3 big factions, and what was no-no, so that when AOE3 released to an even more buggy state than any of the modern Definitive Edition Remakes by MicroSoftest, the perception was wide that focusing on culture-war type shit was what the majority of the budget and efforts had been focused upon, much to the jubilation of chuds

https://rdrama.net/post/195059/drama-2-years-ago-about-the

In all fairness, the AOE3 definitive edition did bring about many technical and gameplay improvements, conveniences and quality-of-life mechanics. But all of this was overshadowed by the poor release state, in which the fabled reworked indian civs had been very badly balanced, since the Indian civs in the eye of the drama-maelstrom had gotten the short end of the stick, gameplay-wise because the firedancing mechanic had allowed Indians ingame to turbo cuck European civs, by summoning super-powered high tier units - the absence of the fire-dancing mechanics made the Indian civs bottom tier upon release.

This was in conjunction with the promotional Youtube material for AOE3 DE was like 70% focused on cultural self-flagellation and 30% focus on gameplay, compared to the promotional advertisements for AOE1:DE, AOE2:DE & AOE4:DE. It didn't help that compared to the other 3 games, AOE3:DE was during the colonial era, and thus for minorities to be salty about it, and wokes to soy about it.

So battle lines between Soys-VS-wokes had already been drawn, but since it was released in 2020, it had released JUST before the great GaymerGate Zeitgheist from 2021-2024, where large amounts of AAA slop, often riddled with extreme progressive views would release and tank within months. But as the last 5 years passed, with games like Saints Row 2022 and DA Veilguard appearing to have failed financially, a lot of wingcuckery have taken positions for both chuds & soys

Soys want AOE3:DE to be a success because it is perceived that chuds hate it, and the inverse applies to chuds. Thus even in threads on /r/AOE3 where no cultural war is explicitly mentioned, there has always been an element of powder keg between the 2 autismo factiosn.

This week /r/AOE3 has learned that Microsoft has in all but name, shitcanned AOE3 support, and even cancelled much expected DLCs, which included much anticipated factions, like Polacks

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ic7u56/the_dlc_has_been_cancelled/m9ogo5u/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ic7u56/the_dlc_has_been_cancelled/m9p5ww0/?context=8

Users are understandably upset.

Most peeps are not upset Microcucks will not continue to support AOE3:DE with updates forward, but would have been able to make peace if they had just released the DLCs, and then finished support :marseybea

nannoyed: which is understandable.

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ic7u56/the_dlc_has_been_cancelled/m9onr9y/?context=8

Even in fiction Polacks are eternal cucks

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ic7u56/the_dlc_has_been_cancelled/m9oi3f4/?context=8

Some peeps are taking it personally

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ic7u56/the_dlc_has_been_cancelled/m9ok721/?context=8

There's also inter-community infighting between all the other different games, like AOE1, AOE2, AOE3 &AOE4, because there is often the belief that the Real-Time-Strategy genre is already so small, that the userbase is fractured between them, and thus shitflinging occurs in a blame game between communities, like AOE3 blaming Age of Mythology Definitive Edition (AOM:DE) for "stealing their userbase" and thus making AOE3 (which is certain g*mers' favorite of the bunch) less financially viable and likely to be serviced by MicroSoft longer term

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ifj4hb/this_is_just_sad/magoklw/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ifj4hb/this_is_just_sad/maglzq3/?context=8

Here's a "whale" (whatever the frick that means) of AOE3:DE posting his

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1if12vi/i_just_need_to_vent/

But by far the most cryposting in AOE3:DE is because in the same week as AOE3 got this super duper bad news, literally all of the other fricking AOE games (AOE2, AOE4 & Age of Mythology) are all getting new content, updates, DLC and support

Which as you can imagine makes our poor souls in /r/aoe3 really livid

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ihu0un/im_sure_there_was_no_budget/

Even the shit mobile game is getting updates and support

"THIS IS OFFENSIVE TO THE AOE3 COMMUNITY"

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ihrolq/this_announcement_is_offensive_to_the_community/

Some users tell OP to grow the frick up

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ihrolq/this_announcement_is_offensive_to_the_community/mazj90v/?context=8

Some strags tell everyone to sign a petition, this will FORCE Bill Gates to revitalize AOE3 support!!

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ihrolq/this_announcement_is_offensive_to_the_community/mazyf0z/?context=8

But most r-slurred of all is that AOE3 has a weird rivalry victim mentality, where they have this perception that the other AOE communities/subs are laughing at the expense of their misfortune? which is not the case at all, especially since there is often sympathy for them, even from the much more "successful" communities like AOE2, and especially since the chances of gaymers playing/buying one of the AOE games (AOE1,AOE2,AOE3,AOE4,AOM) are extremely likely to buy some or all of the others, even if those specific gaymers have a favorite between the current 5 main Microsoft titles.

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ihrolq/this_announcement_is_offensive_to_the_community/mb00zy9/?context=8

Lol this troll didn't even use the word sheep

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ihrolq/this_announcement_is_offensive_to_the_community/mazssdz/?context=8

User gives these crybabies some wedgies

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ihrolq/this_announcement_is_offensive_to_the_community/mazz9kn/?context=8

!g*mers @realKongDick

Worst case of toxoplasmosis I’ve ever seen. She’s developing whiskers pic.twitter.com/NVLFt8ZFsm

— Ætheric (@3TH3RIC) February 17, 2025

From the makers of New Vegas, comes this.

We really need to stop making games that look so insanely repulsive too pic.twitter.com/v4Q0THE8XI

— Party Monster Stoatley (@MatthewTheStoat) February 13, 2025

Fricking r-slurs. They made a green vitiligo butch lesbian with broccoli zoomer hair.

You won’t believe what score IGN gave avowed. 😂

Go on, guess… pic.twitter.com/EIdwhcxgAA

— Grummz (@Grummz) February 13, 2025

Avowed Art Director. pic.twitter.com/bq257IdU3p

— LearningTheLaw (@Mangalawyer) February 13, 2025

Jason Schreier weighs in continuing his historic streak of always being on the wrong side of history

Jason Schreier's opinion on Avowed. pic.twitter.com/t8D6Sanmkr

— Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation) February 13, 2025

Anyways I'm hopping back into KCD2

Bonus for my halo fans: the concord devs are joinng the halo team

Three developers from Firewalk Studios (Concord) have joined Halo Studios:
•Jason Shifter: Senior Matchmaking and Systems Designer (Led Concord’s multiplayer team and gameplay design for Apex Legends Mobile)
•Travis Treadway: Senior VFX artist (Created VFX for Concord and… pic.twitter.com/NEz2mK68C3

— Rebs Gaming (@Mr_Rebs_) February 12, 2025

I slept with 600 men in 2024 — now I’m looking to settle down and find love https://t.co/2DD0JSJyvJ pic.twitter.com/3qHnawZPnc

— New York Post (@nypost) February 17, 2025

redditors - actually this is a good thing as the ai is leaning towards just being a good person

fun fact, I was joking about this before reading the thread, then this is the 2nd post

https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1iq0jic/study_finds_that_chatgpt_one_of_the_worlds_most/mcw6nk6/?context=8

Faux News drama in the comments

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1imit4g/trump_instructs_treasury_to_halt_penny_production/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1im9gpd/trump_orders_treasury_to_halt_minting_new_pennies/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1im972o/trump_takes_aim_at_wasteful_government_spending/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1im6dei/trump_directs_treasury_secretary_scott_bessent_to/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1im4m7z/trump_orders_treasury_secretary_to_stop_minting/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1ilxn7n/trump_orders_treasury_secretary_to_stop_minting/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1ilxi38/trump_says_he_has_directed_us_treasury_to_stop/

President Trump's order to freeze penny production is a perfect example of what makes this administration different.

Penny production has been pointless for years. Everyone knew it, but nobody else cared enough to actually act. Sure, it's "only" $179 million a year. But looks at…

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 10, 2025

🚨REPORTER: "The penny is gone, is the nickel next!?"

Trump's reaction is great 💀 pic.twitter.com/6lo0DBpBgq

— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 11, 2025

President Trump has ordered a stop to penny production. Good!

I covered the stupidity of government losing money to make pennies years ago: pic.twitter.com/GreLFnVU7e

— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) February 10, 2025

Trump's "pragmatic" argument for ending penny is a trial balloon for his technocrat billionaires who want to take us into a de facto CBDC

"CBDC" label doesn't matter
Transactional financial privacy does

Digital "money" is a surveillance trap, but it's fine if Trump does it

— David Knight Show LIVE 9am EST, M-F (@libertytarian) February 10, 2025

https://scored.co/p/19AKhfFazc/getting-rid-of-the-penny-introdu/c

https://scored.co/p/19AKhfFK8v/trump-orders-an-end-to-the-penny/c

https://scored.co/p/19AKd8oBf6/make-no-cents-trump-orders-end-t/c

https://scored.co/p/19AKd7gc9m/for-far-too-long-the-united-stat/c

https://lemmy.world/post/25412503?scrollToComments=true

https://lemmy.ca/post/38873950

https://lemmy.world/post/25409964?scrollToComments=true

https://lemmy.world/post/25378488?scrollToComments=true

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996537

How about you don't drive a literal nazi car, chud?

Swasticar if you will, heh

Gay sticker or else

We're the rational side, can't you see? Wait why is no one taking our nazi accusations seriously??

At least most are dunking on this

https://old.reddit.com/r/unusual_whales/comments/1iotq92/antinazi_group_vows_to_inflict_physical_damage_on/

Today is the anniversary of the bombing of Dresden

America and England firebombed the entire city deliberately killing up to 250,000 civilians

The vast majority were women and children since all the men were off fighting a war

Germany never deliberately bombed civilians

— Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) February 13, 2025

A day that will live in infamy.

!historychads

!eurochads !chuds

I just wanna say, I called it. @stclairashley @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/Mv23YyuKZi

— Mr. Teen Crypto 2015 — e/acc⏩ (@elonconomy) February 15, 2025

"His biceps are as big as her thighs" he says about an obese man with zero muscle definition

2023: Shoots and kills dad in Oklahoma. Claims self defense. Gets charged with murder but eventually the charges get dropped because the DA said they couldn't disprove his self defense claims.

2024: Stabs mother in the neck to death. Again claims self defense. Had previously been arrested for domestic battery against her after she took his video games away. Warned cops while in custody that he had no self control and would kill her. Before his self defense claims he'd said in his 911 call that it was an accident and his mom had fallen on the knife. Witnesses reported seeing him dragging his mom by the hair into the house and his mom repeatedly screaming "let me go."

He got away with murder twice. This kid is the luckiest motherlover in the world.

So who is he most likely to kill next?

His grandma took him in so her.

!foidmoment !moidmoment !burgers !zoomers why is the Burger justice system so terminally neurodivergent?

Have any of you heard of Unknown 9?

If you haven't- I don't blame you. I haven't either. Apparently it's a 4-month old game developed by Reflector Entertainment who also made... uhh this game and it's DLCs.

This screenshot gives a lot away but fear not, it was published by Bandai Namco, the guys who made the Dark Souls^TM of videogames These guys know a good investment when they see it, and at 50 eurobucks (USD to EUR is almost 1:1 at the time of writing !eurochads), a price comparable to that of God of War 2022 (50 EUR, 95% rating), HOI 4 (50 EUR, 90% rating) and Mount & Blade: Bannerlord II *editor's note: why are there so many MLP emojis when querying 'horse' (50 EUR, 87% rating(should be 100)), it is sure to deliver the same experience, right?

Well, from the screenshot you might have noticed that the ratings are mediocre: 49%. But that does not tell the whole story.

Unknown 9 currently has 7 concurrent players , 11 player 24-hour peak and a 285-player all-time peak [1]. This means it is mogged by the likes of Gollum 2023 at 758 all-time high [2], 6 year old rockstar game Red Dead: Redemption 2 at almost double the rating [3], a 2023 unity slavshit game Contraband Police at almost double the rating and half the price [4] and absolutely mogged by LEWDAPOCALYPSE, which has double the concurrent players, double the rating, and 1/50th of the price [5].

IGN gave Unknown 9 a 9(-4) rating [6], so is it really that bad?

Looks pretty bad, but is this the lowest we can go? Just some failed garbage from an upcoming studio, but is that it? Can't we do worse?

Heck no! It was in the works for at least 4 years, and was supposed to be a tans-media project, "including video games , film , and books (!bookworms), for example. Unknown 9 was conceptualized as an ongoing series, spanning podcasts , comics , and even a web series , many of which have already been released." [7]. So you've been laughing at Concord for having an Amazon episode despite being a dead game- well, you've seen nothing yet kid. This shit was supposed to be massive, at least according to the cited source (I didn't check further (yes how could you tell, I work in academia )). It was supposed to be the next fricking star wars by the looks of things, expecting to bank on their notoriety to create the equivalent to Netflix's Witcher [7] (which is not something to be proud of tbh). While we have no numbers on the project costs, one might imagine that a AAA game with massive marketing like that would've cost a lot. While we do not know how much exactly the project did cost, it is hardly believable that some unknown studio with 0 releases might have funded it. Indeed, the studio is owned by the publishers- Bandai Namco, who can probably afford to throw money around [8]. Looking at their website and LinkedIn is pretty funny as well, considering that they have announced that they will cease support for the game [8].

But you don't have to trust me, you can view the official gameplay trailer posted on Playstation's account and come to your own conclusions:

The lore/narrative trailer, which is just as stupid, can be found at

TL;DR?

Well, it's about a brown woman with supernatural abilities . Kind of like Forespoken from 1 2 years ago if anyone remembers that.

"Unfortunately, part of Hoerdt's statement confirmed several staff members would be made redundant, including back-office employees, and given severance packages, further health benefits, access to counseling services, and "proactive" career planning support." [7]. Lmao imagine getting free counselling from a company that fired you. I would probably take that as an insult, equivalent to one of those "reddit cares" messages . One might accuse me of using a chuddy source, but the same website compliments Unknown 9's use of "stepping powers", which states that "Stepping is the ability to project one's mind into the consciousness of another, by way of the Fold. While Stepping, one has access to the weaponry, strength, and intellect of a given vessel, and may fully control their actions." [9]. A totally true statement which has never been done before.

Here's Cr1tikal AKA Charlie AKA penguinz0 explaining it probably better than I do (it's the weekend and I've had several drinks already ):

He quotes the investment value into the IP at 100 million $ [citation needed]

In conclusion: 1) gaming in 2025 is dead, do not bother. 2) Nominative Determinism is true- the game was titled Unknown 9, and it remained unknown. For anyone running any sort of business- watch what you name your product.

@Ninjjer @Losercel please ping !g*mers

!kino

Here we spot wild Bardfinn Bluesky activities.

Be valid and ping ! bardfinn for something worthwhile or create a new thread.

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1iotw5t/the_obs_project_is_threatening_fedora_linux_with/

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1iowjh2/fedora_gets_threatened_with_legal_action_over/

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43042985

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/104331408

OBS Threatens Fedora Linux With Legal Action #Linux #YouTube https://t.co/fvqcmZtDqQ pic.twitter.com/wtyKk0OqlU

— Brodie Robertson (@BrodieOnLinux) February 13, 2025

Young men in New Zealand are all done with the rainbow parades.pic.twitter.com/q3NG2uhUqV

— Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) February 15, 2025

!nooticers

Bragg is back! I just signed a memorandum reversing the naming of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. pic.twitter.com/EGgZNHK72x

— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) February 11, 2025

Oh well. It'll trigger reddit BLM types anyway.

Erasing our history won't erase us. Transgender people have always been here — and we always will be.

— ACLU (@aclu.org) 2025-02-14T00:24:16.388Z

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fcinemacultist.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3li47aqjcks2r

The boys love being under the sheets where it's warm

!animalposters !cats

!bumpkins woke up yesterd no fricking water pressure

well tank had another blowout

decided I might as well fix the old one while I was at it, a screw jammed in there with putty had held for years

but the new one was a 1/2 inch monster, putty wasn gonna work anymore

so I brought out the harbor freight welder and a portable battery

turns out its really hard to weld a pressure vessel when there's nowhere for the steam ur boiling to vent but the tiny hole ur trying to close.

and the fricking electrod keps shocking me standing in the mud

so it kept turning out like this. after 3 tries I said frick it it was leaking before

so I boogered them up and they turned out like this @ 50psi

no worse than they've been leakign for a decade