BREAKING: Donald Trump just said THE ONLY OPTION IS THE 51ST STATE.

Canadians would pay 50% LESS IN TAXES and get FULL U.S. MILITARY PROTECTION.

And where’s JUSTIN TRUDEAU? In PARIS.

HE’S 100% SERIOUS ABOUT THIS.
pic.twitter.com/B0Kisl7KJJ

— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) February 10, 2025

“With the stroke of my pen,” Trump says he can stop companies from manufacturing cars in Canada. And he says he could stop Canada from being a “viable country.” This is how he treats America’s closest ally. This isn’t just bullying, it’s economic terrorism. https://t.co/5SUuR3XDHm

— Gil McGowan (@gilmcgowan) February 10, 2025

Trump: We’re making our country larger, we’re making our country stronger. And in the case of Canada—if this should happen—I don’t know how they can do it without us. Because without the U.S., Canada really doesn’t have a country.

They do almost all of their business with us,… pic.twitter.com/0RN4lyJ5RV

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 10, 2025

Trump: The reason Canada doesn’t pay that much for military is they assume we’ll protect them… That’s not an assumption they can make because why are we protecting another country? pic.twitter.com/UYEnBluKge

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 10, 2025

Here bro. pic.twitter.com/HxjpsjmCqC

— Embodiment of Intellectual Prowess (@baldassnugget) February 2, 2025

Somehow he thinks this is normal. Some tvs have smoothing on as default. He didn't even know what it was. Zoomers are so brain rotted they think a normal ps5 can run rd2 which has a draw distance of like half a mile at 60fps. This is some ceiling bird levels of not noticing.

I think noticing should be a mandatory class in high school. A full second input lag would entirely unplayable for someone with a brain.

Subway just released a footlong Oreo cookie. pic.twitter.com/cPI17yULLH

— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) February 4, 2025

conservatards

Canada First buses on their way to Ottawa! 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/lfDycN5R5m

— Conservative Party (@CPC_HQ) February 15, 2025

libtards

A sign in the crowd last night said, “It’s time to build.”

I couldn’t agree more. pic.twitter.com/THDtt3BjO1

— Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) February 13, 2025

Thanks to @nuclearshill who first posted it here!

As you should be able to see, I started my post with a variant of the "Did Vaush just BTFO" copypasta (!soyteens you should recognize this), which was changed to be about Byron Hall, the creator of the infamous rpg FATAL, responding to a very critical review of his game. Byron's response did not disprove every claim in the review, but for the purposes of bait, I pretended that it did. Here is the copypasta I created:

Did Byron Hall just BTFO all of rpg.net's moralstrag arguments?

>https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/FATALReviewRebuttal

>Points out that Darren refuses to offer counter evidence against FATAL being difficult and complex; indeed, Darren also admits the game is difficult and complex as part of his "criticism"

>Points out that boss monsters such as Cerberus are still possible in FATAL

>Explains the origin of "where the dice never lie"

>Explains that Darren is overgeneralizing all of FATAL's possible gameplay when he calls FATAL the "date r*pe rpg"

>Points out that Jason's responses are more juvenile than the language used in FATAL

>Explains that FATAL has potential for much more varied gameplay than Vampire, and has more realistic combat too

>Explains that concepts like ether and physiognomy do not have to be accepted by the author of a role-playing game to write about them, just as a designer of a game with magic does not have to believe in real-world magic

>Explains that a woman can be nearly any class in the game, rather than only a prostitute as the reviewers claim

>Explains that FATAL's averaging rolling method emulates the normal distribution of real-world stats more accurately than games which use a single flat roll

>Explains that the standard deviation of intelligence scores is different between men and women, but changing the standard deviation does not require changing the mean

Where is YOUR evidence to back up your ridiculus claims about FATAL being the worst RPG? By all means, read the entire rebuttal, i promise you that you can't debunk it.

>inb4 I get told to shut the frick up by someone who hasn't read the review and is triggered

>inb4 someone posts the anal circumference chart without context as an "argument" and without an analysis of WHY Hall included it in his game

>inb4 someone uses anecdotal evidence

>inb4 someone says 5E is better

>inb4 someone defends Sartin & Mclellan's safe edgy humor

>inb4 someone links to 1d4chan

As you can see, this copypasta should be immediately recognizable as bait since it omits important information that was stated during the review, is a modified form of an already existing copypasta, indirectly defends one of the worst RPGs without directly praising any mechanics less generic than dice rolling, arguably lies about every claim being disproven, has intentional errors and, most importantly for both this copypasta which I created, and the original "Did X just BTFO" copypasta, It lists valid arguments in the inb4 section to prevent people from using said valid arguments. The copypasta also has 2 intentional errors which only users who care a lot about detail would notice, which are that I said "just BTFO" to preserve the original copypasta's title even though the rebuttal was made decades ago, and that I said ">inb4 someone links to 1d4chan" even though 1d6chan exists and 1d4chan is down, since many 4chan olds dislike 1d6chan removing content that violated miraheze's TOS, however in hindsight it would likely have been a better idea to reference 1d6chan for additional possible replies.

To give /tg/ credit, one poster immediately accused me of being a "contrarianist troll", but this didn't kill the thread:

https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/94402739/#q94403061

Nice baby's first contrarianist troll, but the game's only relevant worth is being a subject of mockery, plain and simple. And I can summarize why with one single sentence: When the simple act of making a character and playing the game is such an unbearably boring waste of time, then that alone is enough to condemn any game even before you get to the r-slurred and the shitty charts. Cause at least the autism in fricking GURPs serves some kind of purpose. FATAL is just unpleasant as a whole.

This reply would be expected when posting bait on 4chan, however the poster also included an anime reaction image, which may depict a character from 40k, but it is unofficial fanart outside of the style of the game. Another user called out this act of extreme oldery:

https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/94402739/#94406623

Consider the following!

anime reddit meme reaction image

No point of substance, just bitching about not liking character creation

2 other users replied back, one of them saying that 40k is board culture, however the user who replied replies again, dropping an off-topic about anime reaction images:

https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/94402739/#94407438

That's not 40k, it's some gay little anime fan image of 40k. Stop being disingenuous and misrepresenting your arguments to worm out of them.

Furthermore, you've yet to present any arguments that aren't complaining about your own personal preferences

This didn't seem to discourage other users from replying to me, Another user accuses me of being Virtualoptim, a namestrag best known for this image:

Another reply which I partially expected due to my inclusion of ">inb4 someone defends Sartin & Mclellan's safe edgy humor" was a response stating that Sartin & Mclellan's humor would have been considered extremely offensive, given that rpg.net underwent a similar transformation to somethingawful (in this case, rpgcodex is the obligatory SASS equivalent)

rpg.net btfo'd themselves. The cute twinks who did this review turned out to be total cute twinks themselves and if someone else were to post stuff like this in present day they'd have a meltdown over it and ban them forever.

I did try to interact with the thread to keep up the pretense of my bait, however this was unsuccessful. First, when another user (https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/94402739/#q94403095) said that the game can't calculate swing force, I immediately remembered that one of the only non-horrible combat mechanics was fulcrum range, which actually does calculate swing force, and replied stating the page number on the online pdf of the rules I had used a search function to find fulcrum range in. Unfortunately, the user I responded to was using a different pdf of the rulebook, and did not find fulcrum range on that page. Secondly, I tried to reply to a user stating that everyone who has played FATAL has hated it by linking to a Kiwifarms letsplay of the game, which I found from this post: https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/315746/fatal-and-kiwifarms-a-match-made, but I was banned from all of 4chan for 13 days since my post contained banned text (likely the kiwifarms link). This prevented me from correcting the error made by the user who could not find fulcrum range

The rest of the thread is relatively boring, but some users seem to be unironically defending FATAL as a response to users who responded to my bait, and one user, or potentially a collection of users, began rolling up a character just to prove how bad the character creation system is.

The thread theme, often described as sounding like "Cookie Monster chasing a drum set down a stairwell" is the greatest thing to come from the worst role-playing game ever.

I'm working on my magnum opus of foid hating. I'm going to be a little light on the rightoid patrolling until the work is finished. my days consist of getting wasted and finishing my work.

https://old.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/comments/1ic4bxy/israelsupporters_do_you_have_empathy/

Hamas

https://old.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1ic9ubp/the_current_fascist_panic_from_the_left_is_both/

Conservatives somehow find their butt

https://old.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1ic9ubp/the_current_fascist_panic_from_the_left_is_both/

https://old.reddit.com/r/suppressed_news/comments/1ic46ji/interesting_footage_has_surfaced_showing_

Redditards love their fanfiction

https://old.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/comments/1icpj3i/a_theory_behind_the_morbid_fantasies_zionists_of/

Gays go splat when they hit the ground

https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1icu87h/the_world_is_laughing_at_america/

Looks like Berlin needs more bombing

https://old.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/comments/1ic92rb/that_ratio_is_brutal/

Clever comebacks?

https://old.reddit.com/r/israelexposed/comments/1ic4sfm/interesting_footage_has_surfaced_showing_an/

A reminder that all redditards are low functioning psychopaths and should be sterilized so they won't molest their children

INSANE LORE UPDATE (not really)

WE TALKED ABOUT VIDEO GAMES AND SONIC FOR HOURS OVER TEXT. He's only here to get his math exam, then he's gonna graduate!! I'm not sure how old he is. Looks like a 20 and 30 year old at the same time.

He got a date with someone from class as a joke! I don't think he knows that the other woman is doing it for the bit... :(

I wish I had money so him and I could do nerd shit at a local nerd café in town. We both live like 10 minutes away from that place.

I take 2 exams this week!! I already passed my RLA (English) exam 2 weeks ago... FRICKING FAILED MY SOCIAL STUDIES PRACTICE EXAM... ITS NOT MY FAULT WE'RE COVERING SHIT I HAVEN'T GONE OVER SINCE 2018-2019. However, my friend is really good at history, and I'm really good at math!

IN OTHER NEWS:

I'm celebrating my birthday at a sushi place with another tranner I met in December. I STILL HAVE TO MAKE RESERVATIONS... NOT SURE WHY THAT NOTICE CAME UP ON MY MOM'S PHONE BUT NOT MINE. Someone remind me... even if it's mean....

Developing AI regulation before developing AI models and then bragging about it is the most EU thing ever pic.twitter.com/qyd6dgTxjE

— Lina Seiche (@LinaSeiche) January 27, 2025

please put a yellow star on the profile of every proven biofoid on this website along with classifications depending on the type of foid - for example Ted simp would be a class 3 bpd.

I wanna be the semi r-slurred midwit bf to an intellectual queen

millions must celebrate new years

Musty video:

Exposed as a Non-FBA

Reporting to ICE and Local Police

Sick Non-FBAs are truly a detriment to our great nation.

Should have twerked better and not worn them foreign shoes, sis

Jeff raises a GOOD POINT

She's part of a Demoncrat Psy-Op to import Tethers to make true and honest FBAs look bad!

The only person trying to put a wrench in this FBA-Trump alliance is some dusty butt groyper account that's getting ignored

OP is shockingly nice about realizing it's all fake and thanks the trains for their misguided support but decides to finally emerge from the void and become a man:

I'm 16 and funnily enough exactly 100 days ago today I realized I was trans. since then I've bought fem clothes, makeup, but I kind of hit a wall a while ago where I realized I'll never really be a girl I'm just ruining my life even more than I already had before I knew I was trans. I just need to putting more effort into being a guy for however long my life lasts. But anyways, thanks for all being so good to me your some of the nicest people I've ever known

His kindness is not reciprocated:

In the end it is up to you but I'm warning you, "Putting more effort" into being a guy wont make you happier, it won't be easier and it wont help your mental state improve

Another sperg trying to groom him back into it:

Hey! As somebody who is trans and who's also had a crashout similar to yours(I.e. see my comment history), I just want to stop here and say that no matter what path your journey of being transgender takes you, to please stay on it.  100 days may seem like a long time, but it's really just the start of a lifelong process.

I get how frustrating it is to try and put so much effort into being a woman only to be stuck looking like a guy.  I get the feeling of thinking that if I just become more masculine, I won't be trans anymore.  But that's just not the case.  Regardless of anything else, your brain's gender identity is that of a woman.  You are and always were a woman, even if you didn't understand at an early age. Trying to suppress that will just make you more unhappy.

Please remember that there is so much more to being a woman than passing as one.  Remember that regardless of how much it sucks to look like a guy on the outside, that physical appearance does not have an impact on your inner self, and your inner self is ALWAYS worth nurturing.

Look, if you need to stealth to keep yourself safe, then stealth.  But just remember that your true self is always worth showing in the end. Heck, even if you're not trans, then that's okay too! You're allowed to question as much as you want, and that's part of the trans experience as well.  I hope you find yourself and let your true self shine.  It's always worth it, friend :)

The commenters trying to drag OP's soul to heck:

!chuds

Video Games Can't Afford to Look This Good

The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market?

By Zachary Small

Dec. 26, 2024

One way to understand the video game industry's current crisis is by looking closely at Spider-Man's spandex.

For decades, companies like Sony and Microsoft have bet that realistic graphics were the key to attracting bigger audiences. By investing in technology, they have elevated flat pixelated worlds into experiences that often feel like stepping into a movie.

Designers of last year's Marvel's Spider-Man 2 used the processing power of the PlayStation 5 so Peter Parker's outfits would be rendered with realistic textures and skyscraper windows could reflect rays of sunlight.

That level of detail did not come cheap.

Insomniac Games, which is owned by Sony, spent about $300 million to develop Spider-Man 2, according to leaked documents, more than triple the budget of the first game in the series, which was released five years earlier. Chasing Hollywood realism requires Hollywood budgets, and even though Spider-Man 2 sold more than 11 million copies, several members of Insomniac lost their jobs when Sony announced 900 layoffs in February.

Cinematic games are getting so expensive and time-consuming to make that the video game industry has started to acknowledge that investing in graphics is providing diminished financial returns.

"It's very clear that high-fidelity visuals are only moving the needle for a vocal class of g*mers in their 40s and 50s," said Jacob Navok, a former executive at Square Enix who left that studio, known for the Final Fantasy series, in 2016 to start his own media company. "But what does my 7-year-old son play? Minecraft. Roblox. Fortnite."

Joost van Dreunen, a market analyst and professor at New York University, said it was clear what younger generations value in their video games: "Playing is an excuse for hanging out with other people."

When millions are happy to play old games with outdated graphics — including Roblox (2006), Minecraft (2009) and Fortnite (2017) — it creates challenges for studios that make blockbuster single-player titles. The industry's audience has slightly shrunk for the first time in decades. Studios are rapidly closing and sweeping layoffs have affected more than 20,000 employees in the past two years, including more than 2,500 Microsoft workers.

Many video game developers built their careers during an era that glorified graphical fidelity. They marveled at a scene from The Last of Us: Part II in which Ellie, the protagonist, removes a shirt over her head to reveal bruises and scrapes on her back without any technical glitches.

But a few years later, costly graphical upgrades are often barely noticeable.

When the studio Naughty Dog released a remastered version of The Last of Us: Part II this year, light bounced off lakes and puddles with a more realistic shimmer. In a November ad for the PlayStation 5 Pro, an enhanced version of the Sony console that retails for almost $700, the billboards in Spider-Man 2's Manhattan featured crisper letters.

Optimizing cinematic games for a narrow group of consumers who have spent hundreds of dollars on a console or computer may no longer make financial sense. Studios are increasingly prioritizing games with basic graphics that can be played on the smartphones already in everyone's pocket.

"They essentially run on toasters," said Matthew Ball, an entrepreneur and video game analyst, talking about games like Roblox and League of Legends. "The developers aren't chasing graphics but the social connections that players have built over time."

Going Hollywood

Developers had long taught players to equate realism with excellence, but this new toaster generation of g*mers is upsetting industry orthodoxies. The developer behind Animal Well, which received extensive praise this year, said the game's file size was smaller than many of the screenshots used to promote it.

A company like Nintendo was once the exception that proved the rule, telling its audiences over the past 40 years that graphics were not a priority.

That strategy had shown weaknesses through the 1990s and 2000s, when the Nintendo 64 and GameCube had weaker visuals and sold fewer copies than Sony consoles. But now the tables have turned. Industry figures joke about how a cartoony game like Luigi's Mansion 3 on the Nintendo Switch considerably outsells gorgeous cinematic narratives on the PlayStation 5 like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.