The Ideal Desk, by Joshua Humphries (1997)

[Editor's note: Ugh.] pic.twitter.com/D15va4I5t2

— Old-School 3D Renders (@Old_School_3D) January 2, 2025

People have opinions about OP's opinion

People have opinions about the image itself (because it's pretty frickin' rad)

s show up to comment on how they're not upset by people being upset by OP's r-sluration

TL;DR

I had a dream last night where I had a boutique that sold shit like this and other super high end audio stuff and I had a super cute wife that worked there too and would sit on my face whenever I wanted. Then I woke up to my normal bullshit.

CONTEXT:

https://www.eurog*mer.net/dragon-age-the-veilguard-wont-have-an-arachnophobia-mode-because-it-doesnt-have-a-single-spider

Apparently the uber soys working on DA4 deliberately avoided the use of spiders as enemies, in order to avoid offending the sensibilities of those with arachnophobia.

The news of this going along the grapevine is just many tiny titbits of news, making even the most braindead slopconsuming DA fans hesitant about being excited regarding the upcoming Dragon Age 4 in less than a month - especially since 3 months ago, Bioware had released a trailer which garnered a large amount of dislikes from people for a myriad of reasons.

The reason for the backlash or dislike or lack of positive feedback are many, including the great fracturing of the fanbase - but most of it was also to due with the context within which the DA4 trailer was released. For the past 2 years gaming has seen spectacular mega-blockbuster game failures from AAA developers and publishers, stuff like Redfall and GOllum, Forspoken and Suicide Squad and Skull and Bones, Saits Row 2022 reboot and so on.

ALL of these uber AAA games had immediate uncertainty and pushback upon their trailers, Saints Row 2022 reboot's trailers back in 2020 & 2021, had immediate backlash from the core Saints Row fanbase, whom had gotten used to the dark humor and morally abhorrent but likeable protagonists of the series.

The student soyboys protagonists of the reboot, left many with uncertainty as to the quality of the rest of the game, if the developers could seemingly miss the previous tone of the series so badly to SUCH an extent. Even Saints Row 4, the batshit insane matrix alien invasion parody title, held the dark humor and moral abhorrence of the protagonists to old standard, even if Saints Row 2 fans hated the zany story.

Instead it gave the fanbase a fear that the developers of the Saints Row 2022 Reboot legitimately hadn't actually played the games, or legitimately didn't comprehend them and their themes.

In the ensuing months past its release in 2022, the /r/saintsrow sub was a perpetual battleground, where shitlibs wokes and soys tried to gaslamp everyone into believing the game was good or even of acceptable quality - yet this time, the spectacular critical and financial failure vindicated the detractors of the Reboot, in that their fears all the way back in 2020 were well founded - in that if the developers could not even hold the same writing tone of the previous titles, whether through incompetence or agenda pushing, then there was very little chance that the other aspects of the game would be up to par.

A similar phenomenon had occurred in the trailers, and pre-release period of many uber high profile failures. Forspoken to Gollum, to Redfall. And although a bad trailer is never a guarantee of a predictor of the quality of a game, these specific high profile failures, each so close to each other, each vindicating detractors from teh moment the trailers dropped, demonstrated that much could be inferred by veteran gaymers or even normies ESPECIALLY negatively if the writing tone of specific series was different, if woke girlboss or woke seeming modern contemporary politics were present within the trailer, like a canary in the coalmine,

or just corpospeak and obvious trendchasing. The now infamous Concord failure was another such prediction by detractors as much as 2 years ago, since many Hero Shooter genre corposhit trendchaser soulless games have already lost millions for their demented out-of-touch CEOs. In fact Concord WILDLY exceeded even the worst predictions of failure as we now in the present know with hindsight.

I had an exchange with @Losercel 3 months back (can't remember the comments) where he exclaimed it was foolish for dramatards and other detractors to already be so negative with regards to a game still 4 months away, and I espoused that in isolation this might be true, but within the context of so many high profile failures, the negativity was warrented.

ON SPECIFICALLY THE PUSHBACK ON THE DA4 BIOWARE TRAILER:

Again many reasons for the negativity, but basically 3 months ago, the pushback could be boiled down to 2 main factors.

Many peeps immediately despised the artstyle of the trailer, declaring it too be "too cartoony", and appearing to be targeting the zoomer or Fortnite or Hero Shooter fandom.

With an additional 15 years worth of build up disdain for Marvelesque dialogue and writing

Additionally peeps decried the tone for being waaaaaay offbeat, too similar to Disney/Marvel or too light hearted, in comparison to the previous entries of the series having been relatively grimdark in tone type Dark Fantasy, with certain portions of of ALL 3 games having had sections which were borderline horror in tone and theme. (The Broodmother quests in Origins, the female Frankenstein quests in DA2, and the MINDRAPE quest or Fade in Inquisition) Even inquisition could have many dark moments despite its more colourful palette compared to its progenitors

"This is what Tevinter Magisters saw in Golden City."

Anyways it's just a whole comment section meming and lamenting the fear that the feel of the game was too different from its predecessors.

Additionally since 2019-2024, another phenomena had occurred, a relative mainstreamification of chudtubers and anti-woke media critics on Youtube, for example the most infamous currently being guys like the Critical Drinker.

Born from many chuds, to eventually even normies having had no outlet to voice their discontent of modern Hollyweird woke slop from both Disney and Hollywood greater, in which race-bending of white european characters from traditional medieval periods, to disliked girlboss chars, to the perception that modern contemporary politics had found its way into escapism fiction.

These anti-woke critics/youtubers still wouldn't sway any liberally minded peeps, and their reach was still only a fraction of normies, but even IRL in my real world experiences, around the office water cooler, or worksites or between trusted friends or family, I have noticed explicit anti-woke sentiment or talking points espoused by peeps i would consider super normie and apolitical, with regards to modern Hollywood media

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/star-wars-lord-of-the-rings-bridgerton-toxic-fans-hollywood-response-1236166736/

Even Hollywood writers have actively written that detractor fandoms have started to have an actual word-of-mouth effects upon their bottom lines! With many blame being laid upon the feet of the myriad of anti-woke or chudtubers which had sprung up.

This exchange between @SpookNarca and @eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee best sums it up.

https://rdrama.net/h/vidya/post/307335/sweet-baby-inc-purged-its-client/7151111#context

https://rdrama.net/h/vidya/post/307335/sweet-baby-inc-purged-its-client/7151188#context

NO SPIDERS!

Back to the no Arachnophobia thing

Basically in the past 3 days Biowarefans have been slapping about how this is totally a non issue maaaaaaaaaaan, to this is another straw on the camel's back in terms of redflags

"On it's own, the lack of spiders is not an issue. The problem is quickly becoming all these small things that wouldn't really be an issue "on their own", they add up. No more spiders, only 3 choices (this is an issue on its own), only 2 companions, can't control your companions etc etc etc... DAV is quickly becoming unrecognizable."

"It's a sign that this game is going to have no teeth to it; it's going to be modern Marvel levels of Slop"

"Exactly, people like this would piss and shit themselves if Sten was a companion, or other character like Javik or Regill"

"I'm scared of spiders like most people but this is weird. This reminds me of a mod that replaced spiders with mabari. But they still spawned in by coming down from a web which is way FRICKING scarier than a spider doing that lmao"

<insert eyerolls="" here=""> </insert>

"I'm afraid of water. REMOVE THE OCEANS!!"

"To me this sort of thing raises concerns. These sort of changes feel more like "what we can do to appease the audience" whereas I don't think anyone who is creating a very good story would be worried about that because they know the game/story itself is enough that people will be a part of it and enjoy it regardless. Or it's just one less piece of art they have to design which would be in line with the Keep changes and scaling back scope."

This is especially noticable as ingame characters have joked at the amount of ingame spider enemies killed!

I am not strong or wise enough to survive here anymore. I wish you all the best.

Yesso scallop #gijinka #cute

— The Careful Buggy girl❤️🧜‍♀️ (@carefulbug.bsky.social) 2025-02-14T15:17:38.942Z

BREAKING: Republican Senator Jerry Moran just announced that he will oppose Donald Trump’s efforts to gut USAID. The aura of invincibility surrounding Donald Trump has just been burst.

— Democratic Wins Media (@DemocraticWins) February 8, 2025

A Republican. https://t.co/7fs7R9d1rM

— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) February 8, 2025

Everything under Trump must be blamed on him, just like what MAGA did with Biden. I don't make the rules. pic.twitter.com/yW6p357Ynv

— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) February 7, 2025

Donald Trump is going to HATE the new cover of TIME magazine pic.twitter.com/CZuPRUwozb

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 7, 2025

A federal judge—a Reagan appointee—blocked Trump’s “blatantly unconstitutional” executive order this week, stating that Trump sought to “navigate around or simply ignore” the rule of law “for political or personal gain.” And yet, it’s barely mentioned in the news, drowned out by… pic.twitter.com/qiKdRlwYUQ

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 7, 2025

Top image

Bottom waiting for hostages

/r/stupidpoll

!anticommunists

Babies are 6 MONTHS OLD TODAY! We are tired and proud!

!animalposters !cats

So peep this. I wake up one day with a smile on my face. I ready to GOON hard and hustle COOMpacks to my homies off the street. Gay, straight, all genders and nationalities, I don't discriminate when it comes to selling legal and illegal COOM to those in need.

I was try to watch a LIVE CAMGIRL SQUIRTING HARD PULSATING CLITORIS and the stream went off! Shit sucks yo, but I was EDGING like mofo and I held in my COOM. I tried to browse pornhub and all my favourite videos were GONE! I researched and found out that FEDs are trying to shut this shit down.

Nah fam PornHub don't die that's Town Square for gooners. We use VPNs round here AND we got our shit downloaded fam.

I dug deeper into this shit and I discovered that the Latter Day Gooner Cult is behind some of this shit. They claim to be about that GOON life but it's clear they're trying to restrict GOONING talmbout "holy GOON sacraments". Nah I GOON when I want. Which set you rep?

Sheeit, I was reading up and it turns out this schism in the GOONING community has been going on for eons. All throughout the years, there has been tension between the younger GOONERS who are trying to GOON fast and hard, and the older gooners striving for a subtler, but longer-lasting goon experience. Me? I stay with them young bucks. I goon too wild to be shackled by coom calendars and shit. I believe my set GOONs the hardest.

So yeah, the gang war has begun and we goon on cultists all day every day on site. A lot of GOONERS are gonna CATCH CASES, SSDs CONFISCATED, and INTERNET ACCESS RESTRICTED by FEDs while on probation.

Yes, I said all didn’t I?

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) January 29, 2025

Sheila has been vet approved to chill with other cats the boys have had majority contact. Mostly positive, but the size differences piss Sheila off!

!animalposters !cats

Unseen Footages of 2020 India China clashes....
3 🇮🇳 vs 100+ 🇨🇳
(1/n) pic.twitter.com/5MTFs4Cjq1

— War & Gore (@Goreunit) February 19, 2025

The answer is no. Unless you want a divorce or to be miserable. There are small differences that are fine but you're talking about major values and that's a big no no.

You can disagree on the best NFL team (Go Birds 🦅) but for fundamental things, you must be on the same page or, as you mentioned, there will be lots of fights and resentment in the future.

You can disagree on stuff like sports teams, restaurants, vacation locations. As soon as your disagreements reach "Human rights", then you're in a major issue. You will be with someone who believes some people are destined and deserve eternal punishment for the love they show being different. Take that how you will

Another interesting thing, Ukraine replaced some general.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/14/europe/lutsenko-ukraine-replaces-commander-russia-intl-latam/index.html

The new general:

I tried to find Reddit cope but seems Reddit ignored it for more important topics like

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1he7uz8/medical_marijuana_is_set_to_become_available_in/

Veterans will certainly be once they return home and can deal with PTSD with a joint instead of copious amounts of alcohol.

Although legalizing psychodelics would probably be better.

Why are Redditors such junkies ?

Lord knows they need it

Drugs are literally haram in all Arabic religions.

If you consume drugs at least know it roots your brain, don't cope with lord or you are not better than those who call them self Islam brothers and consume alcohol and drugs thinking not eating pig is enough and asking for forgiveness later. Deliberately committing a crime with idea to later ask for forgiveness is evil, only a jin would act like this.

Also most people that bought illegal weed did so because illegal weed ain't clean, it's mixed with strong shit

So

Why the replacement of the general is important, because it shows that Ukraine expects from new general to hold Pokrovsk at all costs like they held Bakhmut. It would be naive to expect in now because he lost Avdiivka and that's the reason Russian are now inside Pokrovsk. Pokrovsk ain't Bakhmut with multiple rivers and hills or avdiivka that was extremely fortified. On top of it Russian now have shit tons of fabs and Ukraine doesn't have that much bodies to throw holding Pokrovsk.

Also Russian already captured more territory than in November

First November

Today and as you know live map now copes hard so that thing below Kurakhove don't exist + Ukrainian left Kurakhove yesterday.

So when I told Russian gaining exponential more ground every month since June I wasn't lying. Just telling brutal truth

So no wonder that r-slurs like @Christmas_Commander are mad at me but you see he politely asked me to tell him when Russian reach pokrovsk. They guy called me hoi4 player I toke it as compliment because he is low IQ so all his insults against me is prove of him being delusional about his IQ. He thinks Ukraine is equality distributed with Ukrainian soldiers and that Russian would move same speed always. Now that corned parrot will scream "rent free" because that's peak of his IQ and he is proto pro khohol.

But I am like giga surprised that Redditors didn't reposted khohols official proofs of NK soldiers:

Thing is Kursk wasn't that snowy the past days and those videos ain't geolocated and it's just soldiers.

So giga impressed Redditors realised this is no proof.

More from Kursk region 🇰🇵🐜 pic.twitter.com/QVFrr6Y5xE

— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) December 15, 2024

See its North Korean soldiers there is flag on top of them

⚡️Soldiers of the 🇷🇺Russian and 🇰🇵North Korean Armed Forces in the Kursk region, situation pic.twitter.com/2G7nRAt4s7

— 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@front_ukrainian) December 15, 2024

Look more Korean

They don't even ask how is that possible. To collect those bodies Ukraine needs to move forwards. They won't have time to put those in formation anywhere close to the front so it's just photoshot or photoshop somewhere far away from the front and no proofs it's NK

The new prokhohol cope is this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1het6jr/ukraines_volodymyr_zelensky_delays_critical/

Zelenskyy wants to give its resources away.

The thing is 80% of Ukrainian recourses are Donbas and Dnipro. And Trump ain't r-slur to buy Donetsk city resources that Zelenskyy wants to sell to him

This is the only correct approach. I don't care that he doesn't deserve it or that it isn't fair, I care about the results. Americans can go protest him or w/e, abroad the only thing to do is try to win his favor

Trump doesn't deserve things that are not under Zelenskyy controls ? Like when foods saying you don't deserve me at my best when you don't want me at my worst ?

Estonia (I am leaving it here for you to have better picture)

Americans must be thinking now, "OMG, he is a real boss, he owns all of Europe, everyone is afraid of him, everyone has to respect him."

Meanwhile...

United States

Americans by and large do not care what happens in Europe.

Estonia

If we are swallowed by Russia and China, which I don't think will ever happen, but if that does happen, the US will lose its economic and military power at the speed of light.

The last time they pursued the "America First" policy, we know what happened.

EU

And the American government by and large doesn't care what Americans think, which is why Americans don't matter in foreign policy.

Why are Redditors so low IQ like imagine a guy wakes up at 6 every morning to reach his job at 8/9 then works till 16/17 then comes home at 19:00 buys a kebab because he lives alone and is tired, falls a sleep at 24:00 in front of his TV holding ps5 controller and so 5/7 a week if you come to him and tell Ukraine needs the money and his kebab will soon cost more for sake of Ukraine. He is going to say Frick Ukraine and there are millions people like this guy in Europe. The help for Ukraine reached such lvl that averagecels starts asking tha frick we help them that much ? People virtue ain't unlimited.

Zelensky needs to swallow his pride and be pragmatic, if cosying up to Trump and stroking his ego is what helps the war effort, then it needs to be done.

Redditors are so bad at business no wonder they so poor. They don't follow the story up to date. Republicans are only interested in shit in far west of Ukraine. They also not interested in shit from ultra unpopular guy whose legitimacy is also questionable and that's why they suggesting election. So why would Trump need Zelenskyy deal if he can find him self an Zelenskyy successor and help him get rid of Zelenskyy and get even a better deal ?

Characters

Hi, I'm Nick Offerman, the not-so-subtle stand-in for Donald Trump. I'm a little expensive these days, so you won't see me again until the end of the film. I'm unambiguously evil, and that's about all the writers could trust you with.

We're the most boring fricking characters ever put to film. I literally skipped all the scenes where these two have heart-to-hearts

ay mang i'm the cool self-insert, I have literally no character development whatsoever nor do I ever drive the plot. I played pablo escobar that one time

Worldbuilding

A civil war in america? Wow, lots to play with here, one can only imagine the vast array of characters, factions and locations you could have, not to mention the deep political commentar-

b-word you thought. There's just one faction called 'Western Forces', that's it, that's all you'll ever know about them. Also they're California and Texas, cos frick you, they famously agree on everything. trust me tho that president is a real bad hombre. Here's a pointless scene of me buying a hat. There's also something called the 'Florida Alliance' which I'll mention once but then forget about despite my being from there.

Oh, you wanted some exposition on how this thing started? That would be a little political sweety, can I interest you in a timewasting scene where we watch two guys snipe an unseen third guy?

Plot

being a journ*list is heroic, brave, and real. We literally never lie or act like cowards. I'll put this gay platitudinous message like a pill into the cheese of barely-passable action scenes in the hopes you'll lap it up. I'm gonna tie these action scenes together with a poorly written string of roadtrip sequences so it seems like a film.

then there's this shitty scene where the characters learn the power of love and friendship in some godforsaken hippie commie pinko liberal commune, by this point the nausea had reached a fever pitch

oopsie spoilers! The film ends with a brave black QUEEN shooting the Trump Stand-in. She's all like. "y'all crackers don't season yo chicken" And then pops two in him. Everyone claps, racism is defeated. There is no denouement despite the pseudo-main character, played by a tremendously post-wall Kirsten Dunst , dying at the end.

The Good

This guy was awesome. I think he was an allegory for chuds and was supposed to appear kind of stupid or bumbling but was pretty menacing. He shot a and a

There's an unintentionally funny scene at the beginning where a bunch of water priestesses and lunchtime rowdies are screamin bout dey stimulus cheqs, they're going 'WHERES MUH WADDAH' 'WHERES MAH FOOD' and they all get fricking blown to kingdom come by a . I think the libshit writers imagined this would be some heavy-hitting 'woah this film is the real deal' moment but it literally played like comedy, stonetoss could've written this scene

What are you playing currently?

!g*mers

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Game to Discuss?

Goat Simulator. I truthfully forgot about this game from the moment I last closed it (around 7 years ago) til about a week ago, when I'd forgotten whatever it was I'd originally wanted to say about Satisfactory. I have just under an hour of play time, representing a single playing session, and half-memories of the madcap mixture of genres, outright bugs, "bugs," and attempts at humor which probably come off as dated, even to the erudite and learned rdrama dot net. I guess there's also somehow a remaster of the game, which is if nothing else an indictment of our culture's inability to make anything new, instead preferring to "remaster" (theoretically) intentionally bad games. Discuss below, and vote in the pinned comment.

Future Games To Discuss

February 9: Synthetik

February 12: Braid

February 19: Disgaea

February 26: Bloons TD

carp capy geto ninjjer donger losercel rwby elfy pin please

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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.

the dejenerate podcast - bad things happen to bad people 9:53

• This has been amusing Jinxthinker all day. Basically Jim Cornette's dog died (I assume this has something to do with wrestling because he's on /pw/). He got energy drinks and jelly beans from the shop, and the shop guy was new.

• 1:00 it's okay to be mean to Jim because he's just getting his just deserts. We look at /pw/ comments. Right right right.

• 1:50 He responds "one less b-word but he's still got his wife who also probably has fleas & is more filthy than his dog, she's unkempt, fat & less hygienic"

• 3:10 AI navis are back. Jinxthinker has been fiending for alien c*nt because it's superior or just as good as emo women.

• 3:50 The libertarian crew is messed up, right? Jinxthinker is a heroine addict for adult women.

• 4:20 Jinxthinker is unsure what day it is. It might be friday or saturday.

• 4:50 Jinxthinker "cuts a promo" on Jim

• 5:10 There was a person that went undercover on a Columbian or Argentinan child s*x trafficking site

• 5:40 what would happen if Jinxthinker started sieg heiling and swasticking

• 6:00 Jinxthinker will stick to adults, thank you. If he took a screwdriver and fricked up his brain to become a libertarian, he'd be 2nd only to Hitler.

• 6:40 No dogs, no children, no pokemon

• 7:05 Jinxthinker the first time he saw an emo girl at school.

• 7:40 According to science (a tv show) said that the peak age of women is either 23 or 27. Talks about Liv Morgan and other wrestlers.

• 9:00 It's cheesecake city the way people are getting their just deserts. Jinxthinker ated burgers today with doritos crumbled up on top. Tomorrows dinner will be different or maybe Sunday's dinner will be.

!jinxthinkers you probably have fleas and are more filthy than your dog, you're unkempt, fat & less hygenic

I'm going to be real, probably a 2/10 jinxthinker vlog.