reddit

https://old.reddit.com/r/Chiraqology/comments/1hpqhhx/yns_got_flame_throwers_now/

insta

He's raised $20 for his $1M bail

https://instagram.com/p/DEKlTsJROMc/

flamethrower

you can buy one for $700 https://exothermic.tech/

@QuadNarca

@Grue

Whose alt is this? They've got some serious baggage.

The social accounts of Internet personality ‘Woah Vicky’ are claiming she has been kidnapped with a $1 MILLION demand for release. pic.twitter.com/Bdn4r1WlDr

— Pop Base (@PopBase) December 29, 2024

UNVERIFIED: Woah Vicky reportedly kidnapped in Nigeria. And a ransom demand of $1 million has been made by the perpetrator via the American's X account pic.twitter.com/flOsMuANyY

— keneci News (@Kenecifeed) December 29, 2024

She was last seen at a church and is suspected of being abducted right after

https://tiktok.com/@ohitssje/video/7453871394644905259

The kidnapper took her phone and went on TikTok Live!

https://tiktok.com/@munkeybizz/video/7453653594613583134

https://tiktok.com/@munkeybizz/video/7453842558121266462

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And turns out she was just. bored!

UPDATE: Woah Vicky says she started the false rumor that she was kidnapped in Nigeria.

“I was just bored forgive me y’all,” she said.

Her fans and critics were not amused however, with many slamming her for spreading such rumor using a country that kidnapping actually happens… pic.twitter.com/bJISJ4v0kJ

— keneci News (@Kenecifeed) December 29, 2024

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As one can assume the reaction from the Black community went from "Please, keep her" and "This is obviously fake" to "Darnit, we wish she was really kidnapped"

but they're still mad at her for being a racist b-word

The tone is dark, even angry.

"The situation is getting worse every day."

"We don't see the goal. Our land is not here."

I wrote multiple times that Ukraine is holding Kursk territory in hope that they get to exchange it for something.

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That what they roughly lost since they hold Kursk territory

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Kursk territory is more zoomed as you see on marks and there is literally nothing there except Sudzha had 6k people so no more than 10k lived in territory.

Kursk oblast has 36/km2 people and 2200/km2 in Kursk

Donetsk oblast 160/km2 its most populous oblast in Ukraine (Kiev is not oblast tho)

And metallurgy wise Donbas is like super important to Ukraine

Russian now reached shevchenko that means just a bit push to north and this will happen:

Oleksandr Kalenkov, head of Ukraine's steelmakers' association, said the loss of the Pokrovsk mine, the only domestic source of coking coal, could cause steel production to slump.

"We could make up to 7.5 million metric tons of steel by the end of the year and, for next year, we saw an increase in production to over 10 million," Kalenkov told Reuters.

"But if we lose Pokrovsk, then ... we will fall to 2-3 million tons."

It's very big deal because during conflicts, since metal and coke is used to produce weapons so wiping out 70-80% of your enemy metal production is big deal

"We don't know where to get coal if Pokrovsk is seized," he told Reuters. "It is difficult to bring it in by importing; today it is not so easy to bring it in by sea."

Ukraine produced more than 4.3 million tons of rolled steel products in January-August 2024, of which 66% were exported. EU countries accounted for 72% of the volume exported, according to the steelmakers' union.

So as you see it becomes costlier to support Ukraine. Now not only EU won't buy cheap steel from Ukraine but they also will need to support Ukraine with steel so they could produce weapons and it will be a b-word to do.

And Ukraine got in such situation because they decided to send all their elites to Kursk. Probably to capture the nuclear power plant because Ukraine also has problem with electricity so losing coal is extra damage. They failed at it, logical move would been to pull back when it was clear they won't capture it. So when best Ukrainian units were banzaing in Kursk oblast. Pokrovsk front got wrecked.

Almost four months after Ukrainian troops launched a lightning offensive into the Russian region of Kursk, text messages from soldiers fighting there paint a dismal picture of a battle they don't properly understand and fear they might be losing.

They speak of dire weather conditions and a chronic lack of sleep caused by Russia's constant bombardment, which includes the use of terrifying, 3,000kg glide bombs.

The first week Ukraine lost tons of AD including multiple patriots. Around March Russian got new lancet drones that had more range than patriots so pulling AD close to the front line is easy way to lose it. So Ukrainian are in Russian territory literally without AD. So strategically Russia had no reason to rush pushing Ukrainian out. And that story about NK ended up being fake and only genius like @pizzashill believed in it. Reason for NK story was that west is running out of ammo and SK had tons of it so khohols politician who are clearly r-slurs and don't understand Asia thought story of NK would push SK supporting Ukraine but they recently closed all help to Ukraine and told them hard no.

@pizzashill here another shit you'll believe

They're also in retreat, with Russian forces gradually retaking territory.

"This trend will continue," Pavlo wrote on 26 November. "It's only a matter of time."

Legendary high moral.

Pavlo spoke of immense fatigue, the lack of rotation and the arrival of units, made up largely of middle-aged men, brought directly from other fronts with little or no time to rest in between.

To hear soldiers complain - about their commanding officers, orders and lack of equipment - is hardly unusual. It's what soldiers often do in difficult circumstances.

Ukraine now losing in every front including Kursk and they pulling men out of other front much more important than Kursk. To hold some field in Kursk.

Also important note, this year was very green (grassy) so Ukrainian used the forest to attack Kursk oblast but during wonder leaves falls so they can't really hide or build fortifications.

Some questioned whether one of the operation's initial goals - to divert Russian soldiers from Ukraine's eastern front - had worked.

It absolutely has, pull more Ukrainian soldiers from all other fronts

The orders now, they said, were to hang onto this small sliver of Russian territory until a new US president, with new policies, arrives in the White House at the end of January.

"The main task facing us is to hold the maximum territory until Trump's inauguration and the start of negotiations," Pavlo said. "In order to exchange it for something later. No-one knows what."

I'll comment about it later because it's just a bit to much of a

President Zelensky indicated that both sides had the change of US administration in mind.

"I am sure that he [Putin] wants to push us out by 20 January," he said.

You know the beautiful part about Zelensky he always says that Putin want to capture X by some date

Also he told about bakhmut and etc.

When we didn't got even a single time confirmed by Putin.

In an effort to help Ukraine thwart Russian counterattacks in Kursk, the US, UK and France have all permitted Kyiv to use long-range weapons on targets inside Russia.

It doesn't seem to have done much to lift spirits.

"No-one sits in a cold trench and prays for missiles," Pavlo said.

Wrong Redditors are praying from their desktop trench

In October alone, Russia was able to occupy an estimated 500 sq km of Ukrainian territory, the most it's taken since the early days of the full-scale invasion in 2022.

In November they took more

And high chances that December will be even more since 3 key cities are going gg

A recent report states that Russian forces seized the entirety of the Toretsk central mine and the three adjacent terykons. The Toretsk mine is one of two main Ukrainian strongholds in the city, with the other one being the rest of the city centre. pic.twitter.com/i6lXtR9TOM

— AMK Mapping 🇺🇦🇳🇿 (@AMK_Mapping_) December 3, 2024

Toretsk is as good as gone

Toretsk, Ukraine.

The plague of Russian fascism is coming. pic.twitter.com/sXw4BjUv1c

— Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 (@IAPonomarenko) December 4, 2024

This is also a good proof since every time Ukraine is about to lose a city they crying about the city being destroyed

Russian already captured Komar so Novasylka now has no roads leading to that city (western road is also cut)

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦The situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is critical: The Russian army has taken Stari Terny and is squeezing pincers near Kurakhove!

▪️Ukrainian military analyst and propagandist B. Miroshnikov publishes another alarming report on the new successes of the RF Armed… pic.twitter.com/DnqEbBaYCx

— ⏳Towhee 🌏☮️ (@amborin) December 3, 2024

The fight in Kurakhove is now in the power plant so at the outskirts of the city.

And despite weeks of reports suggesting that as many as 10,000 North Korean troops have been sent to Kursk to join the Russian counter-offensive, the soldiers we've been in contact have yet to encounter them.

@pizzashill where are north Korean troops ?

🇬🇧🇺🇦🇷🇺‼️🚨 BREAKING: DAILY MAIL PUBLISHES FAKE ABOUT NORTH KOREANS!

I added the original picture. pic.twitter.com/uNDloeVBde

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) December 4, 2024

"I haven't seen or heard anything about Koreans, alive or dead," Vadym responded when we asked about the reports.

The Ukrainian military has released recordings which it says are intercepts of North Korean radio communications.

Soldiers said they had been told to capture at least one North Korean prisoner, preferably with documents.

They spoke of rewards - drones or extra leave - being offered to anyone who successfully captures a North Korean soldier.

They treating North Koreans like call of duty kill steaks

"It's very difficult to find a Korean in the dark Kursk forest," Pavlo noted sarcastically. "Especially if he's not here."

@pizzashill

Veterans of previous doomed operations see parallels in what's happening in Kursk.

From October 2023 until July this year, Ukrainian forces attempted to hold onto a tiny bridgehead at Krynky, on the left bank of the Dnipro River, some 25 miles (40km) upstream from the liberated city of Kherson.

The bridgehead, initially intended as a possible springboard for advances further into Russian-held territory in southern Ukraine, was eventually lost.

The operation was hugely costly. As many as 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers are thought to have been killed or gone missing.

The ironic part it was UK who planed this mission

🚤🇺🇦 Great Britain convinced Ukraine to start an operation on the left bank of Dnipro river in Krynky in 2023, — UP

❗️The maximum task was the departure of AFU to the border with Crimea. The minimum task was to expand the bridgehead on the left bank, cut the M-14 highway 5-7 km… pic.twitter.com/gvHnJFfi6y

— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) November 18, 2024

Military analysts insist that for all the hardship, the Kursk campaign continues to play an important role.

"It's the only area where we maintain the initiative," Serhiy Kuzan, of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Centre, told me.

They just at start of the article told Ukraine is losing ground in that direction and showed maps and this guy comes and says they have the initiative

And here comes the BEST PART

You see Zelenskyy assumes Trump will come on January 20 and the whole front will freeze. He thinks Putin doesn't see Zelenskyy goal. But the reality is Burger politician basically don't work in December and January and then work very half assed in February. From January 20 to January 27 Trump will be just partying and receiving calls from different world leaders, then he will need to appoint a date to talk with Putin and Zelenskyy. Even if we assume Putin wants to freeze the conflict it will take MONTHS. But Putin don't need it and he has tons of buttons to prolong it and one important button is, Zelensky need to become legal before Putin would talk to him and that's not what Zelensky would want to play because there is huge chances he loses the power. So whole plan of holding Kursk territory to exchange it for something is giga low iq.

Zelensky was also angry last week at western media for saying Ukraine lost 70k men

More than 100,000 soldiers have been charged under Ukraine's desertion laws since Russia invaded in

So Zelenskyy is still suggesting that Ukraine lost only 31k and most are civilians while at same time having over 100k deserters

Putin sees this, everything shows Ukraine is in shit. Wisest move would been if Zelensky told today hey we giving those full 5 oblast including parts that are under our control to Russia for peace deal.

And giga jfl and ISW homos who were always telling us if Ukraine loses something that it ain't important and soon Russian advances will lose tempo

4/ Russian advances through Hrodivka will likely slow as Russian forces begin to fight through the settlement's more urban areas, and Russian forces may struggle to maintain their current tempo of advance as they attempt to advance further west to Myrnohrad (just northeast of… pic.twitter.com/s7CpOuInst

— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) August 21, 2024

6/ ...although Russian forces may struggle to maintain their current offensive tempo into the future if Russian authorities conduct additional redeployments from reserve forces in Donetsk Oblast.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, Sept. 13, 2024: https://t.co/SEKJTxxS1R pic.twitter.com/ydW78gWisn

— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) September 14, 2024

This how Redditors now coping while

This is the reality. But Zelenskyy needs nato but nato don't want Ukraine so nato is thinking about alternatives like making Ukraine like Germany during Cold War or bringing peace forces into Ukraine.

Those all are fantastic ideas but they are coming from homosexuals that planned the isolation of Russia and strategical defeat of Russia on battlefield.

So they don't realise Putin started it because he don't want Ukraine in nato or any nato soldiers in Ukraine. He survived the majority of EU hardware, giving Ukraine 600 Taurus won't do shit or Tamohawks

Russian even planning to cross dniper.

🇺🇦⚔️ Ukraine’s allies have shifted their focus from seeking a victory to trying to put Zelensky in the best position to counter Russian advances or negotiate a possible ceasefire, - Bloomberg

❗️The discussion includes the kind of security guarantees that would protect Ukraine,… pic.twitter.com/c9AtHbIemq

— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) December 4, 2024

This what homo that for 3 years been posting Ukraine is winning

And seems like Biden team r-sluration didn't stoped with 11 years of pardon to Hunter

They want to give Russian frozen assets to Ukraine that's literally stealing and giga low iq move. US is showing the world that its banks can't be trusted and they can change rules at will. But they ain't planning to do it they just want to sell bs to US citizens. They saying they giving that money as loan to Ukraine. In other words that's not Russian money, Biden team just gives Ukraine 50 billions as loan. Ukraine will never pay back and US citizens will be forced to pay Russian back.

This is also good example why mobilisation won't work. Ukraine doesn't have many young boys and statistics like this always try to paint a more favourable picture for Ukraine.

Also do you remember how happily you were when Ukrainian women were refugees telling how they bring young women and children ?

We got more Ukrainian 35-39 post wall roasties than 18-30 year old foids and if we count 30+ post wall roasties it will be multiple times more than all younger groups. And you know what those roasties bring ? Economical damage. An average or below average 35 year old Pier, Pedro, Peter can easily get foid his age. So we got more goods that was already offered more than it was demanded

Rightoids cant fathom that it requires great collective sacrifice to maintain their preferred racial makeup of their town.

https://old.reddit.com/r/EUGENIACOONEY/

Eugenia Cooney is that obviously severely anorexic cosplay girl who has somehow managed to stay alive for a decade

She has one of those hate reddit subs. I don't really know why. Recently she did little Tiktok dances asking for Trump to save the app, so now they're saying she's pro Trump (and obviously this inspires more aggressive )

https://old.reddit.com/r/EUGENIACOONEY/comments/1i5bbdu/here_we_go_with_the_i_told_you_so/

I've always just thought she was some weird morbid curiosity but they REALLY hate this chick

Did I miss something

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Most importantly and hilariously they frequently talk about how they want to "slap her", "punch her", etc. !reportmaxxers

https://old.reddit.com/r/EUGENIACOONEY/comments/1i58nut/comment/m830f2d/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/EUGENIACOONEY/comments/1i5qwrf/comment/m865135/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/EUGENIACOONEY/comments/1i5qwrf/aaaand_shes_back/m883r2r/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/EUGENIACOONEY/comments/1i60jhf/comment/m894nr5/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/EUGENIACOONEY/comments/1i55hxr/comment/m81b7l6/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/EUGENIACOONEY/comments/1i5bbdu/comment/m82ytpl/?context=8

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I thought at first this might be natural biofoid cattiness until I saw all the "punch her in the face" comments. Many of these accounts have rainbow shit. There's also some thread about her and some other internet person being "anti trans".

https://old.reddit.com/r/EUGENIACOONEY/comments/1i64atw/is_jeffree_star_antitrans/

So I'm pretty sure these are men with Y chromosomes talking about how they want to beat the shit out of some mentally diseased skeletal twig woman !transphobes

Most of these accounts have 90% posting history in this sub. They obsessively monitor when she's live

They apparently have dreams about her

https://old.reddit.com/r/EUGENIACOONEY/comments/1g3joqg/i_dreamt_about_eugenia_last_night_and_she_came/

I wonder if they dream about beating the shit out of her

!nooticers

Canine beauticians, DJs and pilates instructors are among the categories of overseas workers eligible to apply for UK skilled worker visas, an Oxford academic has found.

As the government promises a white paper later this year to slash the numbers entering the UK to work, a list of specific and in some cases unusual "middle-skilled" jobs to which foreign workers can still apply has been identified.

Analysis of Home Office data over three years to March 2024 shows that 334 visas were granted for "animal care service occupations", which include dog groomers, dog walkers, stable hands, kennel assistants and veterinary nursing assistants.

Over the same period, 167 fitness and wellbeing instructors, who include pilates and yoga teachers and lifestyle coaches, were given skilled worker visas.

Keir Starmer is launching an immigration policy drive amid a poll surge by Nigel Farage's Reform UK party.

The list of occupations also includes "costume interpreters" – the people wearing period dress who greet visitors at museums and National Trust properties.

The anomalies were unearthed by Robert McNeil, a researcher at the University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society. "Many of these roles may well be challenging and require particular skills, but they might not be the sort of things that are front of mind for most people when they imagine roles that are critical for UK employers to recruit from overseas," he said.

He found them among more than 300 designated jobs on the "eligible occupations" skilled worker visas list, after flitting past professions usually associated with visa applicants such as nursing, care work, the civil service, the diplomatic corps and banking.

In a blog post on Tuesday, McNeil said the jobs were on the list because of changes introduced after the UK left the EU. "At the same time as ending free movement, the government reduced the skills threshold to allow middle-skilled jobs to qualify for work visas. Previously, only graduate jobs qualified in the system that applied to non-EU citizens.

"When people think about such middle-skilled jobs, roles like plumbers, bricklayers or engineering technicians spring to mind. But defining what is actually middle-skilled is not straightforward," he said. "Some of the results are surprising."

The "middle-skilled" list also includes "air travel assistants" – cabin crew and staff who check baggage at airports. In the year ending March 2024, 869 visas were issued for these roles. Cemetery managers, homeopaths and cycling instructors are also on the list.

Ministers have promised to tighten the rules around visas after repeatedly saying they want to reduce overall migration. Starmer accused the Conservative government of conducting an "open borders experiment" in November after revised official figures showed net migration to the UK hit a record 906,000 in 2023.

The white paper is expected to be published in spring as part of Starmer's plans to see off the political challenge from Reform. Among the proposals included in the document will be moves to reduce legal immigration, including by linking migration to skills and ensuring more British workers are trained to fill jobs commonly recruited from abroad.

It is also expected to take into account a Migration Advisory Committee review ordered by the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, to limit overseas hiring by technology and engineering companies.

But Labour is also keen to show the UK remains open to high-skilled workers by reviewing visa routes. The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, told a breakfast event at the World Economic Forum in Davos: "We are going to look again at routes for the highest skilled people, visas particularly in the areas of AI and life sciences."

Home Office sources say that while the "eligible occupations" list is eclectic, applying for a visa is just the first step in being able to come to the UK to work. Foreign workers also need to be sponsored by an employer and most are required to be paid a minimum of £38,700. The required income drops to just less than £31,000 or lower if the applicant is under 26 or engaged in certain types of higher education.

Asked to respond to McNeil's findings, a government spokesperson said: "We are grateful for the work skilled international professionals do in the UK. However, it is clear that we must end reliance on overseas labour and boost economic growth. That's why, under our Plan for Change, we will publish a white paper to set out a comprehensive plan to restore order to the broken immigration system, as we aim to link our immigration, skills and visa systems to boost the domestic workforce."

They need to be hexed with 9001 Friedmans.

When Trump pulls this off, and the US is wildly, rich and wealthy again; unlike anything anyone alive has seen in over 100 years, it will be undeniable to even the most radical leftist that Trump's policies have been an overwhelming success for the United States, and he will earn his place on Mount Rushmore and as one of the greatest presidents in American history.

It sounds very reasonable but then some butthole who doesn't believe in Jesus/is a communist shows up.

don't get how it makes us rich. We import something like $3T of goods every year. Even if we somehow collected 100% of that, it wouldn't cover half of our spending

Mandatory spending was $3t in FY24, $2.1t was gibs for the elderly.

A king comes to the rescue explaining that daddy will be reducing waste

How do you not understand that Trump is going to cut all our wasteful spending and shrink the size of the government to historic lows?

If we cut the arms and legs off the old people we have a smaller volume of old people so can pay them less.

For those counting it would also take 12 years with zero spending to pay off the debt.

Or just abolish the IRS/completely strip funding, fire everyone.

This is called impoundment and was the subject of his first impeachment. Congress has the enumerated power to spend not POTUS, POTUS can't just decide he doesn't like what they want to spend on and reverse it.

Literally. Communism is 100% tax, I.e. 100% slave. We're about 50-60% of the way there.

Average effective rate is 16.4% but carry-on.

Don't forget property taxes. I'd like to see property taxes held at a certain rate that will not increase. People need to be able to budget their money without the government randomly raising taxes that could eventually force you out of your home.

Others paying for services for you sounds an awful lot like socialism to me.

We'll replace China as the number 1 exporter in both products AND oil/energy production and exports.

Also, it is as though the jeering lefties are unaware of the first hundred plus years of US history. NO income tax, tariffs galore, and they were a successful country.

I wonder what else lasted approximately a century?

So, this is a bit late, I celebrated Thanksgiving a week early so didn't have time to play, so let's pick up where we left off.

So it's well known that, at some point, this game was planned to be a live service title. You can see a bit of that in the faction areas.

You earn rep, there are rep grinds, and unlock rep tiers, to get new items from rep merchants. Kinda like Destiny.

The Veil Jumpers want us to find their missing remembers a check in on a town that's gone dark. All your current party members (4) come with, which makes me wonder why they reduced the party size to 3 . On the way to the village the game takes the opportunity to show case 1 of the only 2 thing your party members are good for. Puzzles, kinda, will get to that later.

I'll say this about the art direction of it really does take the bite out of the mysticism and grandeur of a lot of thrse places we've only heard about in the previous games [emphasis on games]. I guess that's an inevitability when it comes to AAA soulless slop

The blighted village segment is another talkie hallway, I guess they were trying to build atmosphere here m, but the lighting is too bright and the cringe writing prevents anything from seeming eerie like blighted infestation used to be.

It ends with what a lot of people are calling a moral quandary, it's not really as rook is hard coded as good in their background, but yeah you get to choose to either free the mayor or leave him to die.

We return to the Veil Jumpers to report that the mystery neighbors have control of and are spreading the blight. Nostalgia then makes a cameo

I saw a crow flying around throughout arlathan and suspected it was her. As one would imagine, since near not a darn thing carries over from the previous games her appearance boils down to "Remember me tis I Morrigan, witch of the wilds, I'm important!"

We're nudged to return to the ritual site to find a mcguffin. At this point the skill tree is made available to me.

It creates the illusion of depth, lots of increase by 5% and all that crap, not much in the way if actual abilities and what little there are pretty underwhelming, and doesn't nothing more than scratch the enemy. I suspect this is largely due to me playing rogue. I felt all the promotional materials leading up to the game and the stylistic choices when it comes to abilities were encouraging to player to play a mage. The mage, from what I've seen, seems to have the most thought put into it as well. You get 3 mage party members in this game though so frick that.

We encounter more new darkspawn, look how they massacred my hurlock boi. At this point enemies become more spongey, particularly the Hurlocks that engage in spear chucking. The bow is this game low key kinda shit. It's like a shitty version of the Kingdoms of Amalur bow, particularly because Veilguard combat is largely dueling, like stellar blade, where as Kingdoms of Amalur is more action packed and the bow is meant to integrated into combos with other attacks, same can't be said for the Veilguard which results in one-sided sniper battles. The ranged units aren't any softer upclose either, and the game's parry system shits itselfif a ranged enemy is compelled to shoot you point blank.

After traversing the rest of the ruins we finally corner the ghoul who to Solas' mcguffin. This boss fight was kinda tedious, not a fan of bosses dipping out for a bit and summoning henchmen to distract you especially in multiple phases. After the first phase Harding pick up the mcguffin and turn into bullshit. I DID like how she girl bosses you out the way though.

This is when the game introduces the only other feature that companions are good for, combos.

This pretty much the extent of the combat usefulness of your party members, which is what I suspected would be the case when I saw the companions didn't have health bars in the gameplay reveal. I really hated this aspect about thw mass effect games, squadmates by and large just felt like dead weight compared to party members in other RPGs and you have even less control over your party in the Veilguard, and not only that their abilities are a on a global cooldown as well, so you're resigned to watching the spectacle of your party member leaping around launching impotent attacks dramatically while doing something actually worthwhile once every 60 seconds or so. Rook's abilities are fortunately not constrained in this manner, at least on the rogue.

So we beat the boss, retrieve the mcguffin get a scene with tge mystery neighbors, which I got to say, Ghilan'nain looks pretty cool. With the mcguffin in hand you now can use it to emulate any unlocked companions unique puzzle power, making them even more useless We return to the lighthouse and I decide to change my Rook's hair.

Have another conversation with Solas and then set off following leads on the mystery neighbors around Thedas this leads us to the crossroads

which is a sort of hub area between the various zones in the game. It has side content of its own, which are mostly flashbacks of Solas' rebellion against the gods

He had hair back then. These are kinda shit, narratively, so far, they do really portray the world Solas described at the end of trespasser and as of now are only focusing on the two currently free mystery neighbors and not the rest pantheon. From the crossroads we can unlock Treviso and Dock Town for now.

Treviso is

Seems they didn't completely nerf the cake in this game The Qunari military has invaded Treviso for some reason. Antiva has now standing army, just the reputation of it's infamous assassin's guild, a reputation that's changed for the altruistic. This once pragmatic league of assassins have now take on responsibility of protecting the citizens from the qunari and disturbing le heckin' wholesome shelter and welfare.

The crows tell you of Lucanis one of their mage killers that's locked in a underwater prison. Like most underwater sections in my experience, this place kinda sucks, it's boring and tedious to navigate through (yes I'm aware it is a circle, but it's a lumpy disjointed circle. Lucanis doesn't preform any better as a melee character than the, thus far range party members I've been working with so far. The final boss of the area is the most bullet spongy enemy I fought so far and he's protected by a barrier which I'm apparently supposed to use my rubber band arrows against. After about 25 minutes of peppering this dude I finally beat him and get lucanis as a companion.

Next stopDock Town

I get Dock Town is a slum but it really doesn't live up to the hype of tevinter that the 2018 showed off with all the magical neon signs and such.

Here you help the shadow Dragons fighting off venatori and learn they can control the darkspawn courtesy of the mystery neighbors.

This mission ends in another mage boss fight, though thankfully not as bullet spongy, just henchman spamming. With these two missions complete the game opens up and let's you engage in side missions.

I decided to help out neve in Dock Town. This turned out to be another talkie hallway mission, and there's a pattern here, as all companion's first missions are like this.

Decide on ripping the bandaid off of the black character immediately, and went on the mission to recruit Davrin.

So far he's okay on his own, and I really like his interaction with shrimp fried rice, a good depiction of elves from the sane culture, but different clans and circumstances in life, for this game at least. I didn't realize however that recruiting Davrin would immediately railroad me into a major choice involving the fate of two major cities and the side quest with in them .

I spring for Neve's city and was confronted by the spongiest most bullshit boss fight thus far.

After finally chipping away at enough of this b-word's hp to trigger her retreat the gang heads back to Treviso to find it fricked up. Lucanis is surprisingly level headed about things, but leaves the party for a bit and is hardened. I'll pause her for now and hopefully pick up sometime later next week. So far the game suffers from the same slow start inquisition did, but doesn't have the mechanical depth or the filler to experience it in of that game. There are few plot hooks however the motivate me to keep on trudging along.

Malayan leaf frog pic.twitter.com/Y1jSBN0IyL

— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) February 1, 2025

Mass Effect trilogy, notorious for its uhh... male slop moments??? lmao

Mass Effect 5 just needs to be well written & not focused on modern themes/politics. Kinda simple really.

Complain about the game leaning into "straight males", but guess what? That's most of the audience. pic.twitter.com/T34ATl3xkO

— Michael (@LegacyKillaHD) January 31, 2025

JESUS CHRIST. A FANTASY GAME WHERE THE THIEVES GUILD DOESNT ACTUALLY STEAL BECAUSE ITS TOO PROBLEMATIC pic.twitter.com/CLvDOYerX5

— ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER (@ZODIAC_MF) November 8, 2024

I'm not fact checking this because it's really funny.

https://old.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/comments/1is2tp9/the_australian_nurses_the_problem_with_the/

https://old.reddit.com/r/BeneiYisraelNews/comments/1irmvw7/real_victims_50_muslim_groups_claim_nurses_are/

An old underground backup generator for Sweden's biggest airport. It's right outside the airport so while trying to find it I felt a bit suspicious.

I never use them and I'll give you 200.

about le heckin' travesty

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1hyu06r/mark_zuckerberg_orders_removal_of_tampons_from/

!familyman

""Oh don't worry these people always out themselves" - Mario1599" -Dramamine

Full comments. Some sweatys can't behave, so of course the thread is locked. The top comments are funny though

Finally some foreshadowing of /u/LiamJazeefa:

Prologue

**One humble redditor suggests an offsite where evil reddit admins can't get the wholesome libertarianrinos. Another tells them to get on their uwu Groomercord. This is all it takes for (unarchived) TRANSPHOBIA to rear its head** https://archive.is/g0kxb

Part 1

**As predicted, we get an entire backstory about how Lilam is actually the real victim in all this. Some relevant points made** https://archive.is/vBAGT

1. No stalker child, keeping tabs on male feminists and child predators is a bad thing because it only makes them want to r*pe more(?)

2. When Chris Chan got stressed, he did his neurodivergent stress sigh. When this person get's stressed, they just need a little CP, as a treat

3. Age bracket is 3+, but don't worry, Xe sometimes has to settle for 18+

4. Not aware of recidivism stats, even though this contradicts the previous message (my 1)

5. Unironically does the "aktually it's ephebophilia" when they're x-age or older" Relevance is unclear when they're still saying they're attracted to literal toddlers too.

6. Despite not knowing any criminology stats (see 4) they just know in their heart of hearts that most MAPs are non-offending because ???

Just for the record they're admitting to acquiring and jerking it to CP

7. Want a source? Um sweaty, you're talking to an intellectual. Be prepared to get peer reviewed articles and 90 minute lectures from The Science™. It might be too much for your feeble mind.

8. Lists some of the dangeous apps libertarians might be using to target children. Groomercord mysteriously not present

Part 2

**Now to the horrible stuff. TW: People are explaining why someone might not be sympathetic to someone who self-describes as a person who enjoys jerking off to children being r*ped.** https://archive.is/NBNtW#selection-1643.0-1650.0

Vivid_Wrongdoer_1662 (more like Bigot_Queerkiller_1488 am I right) makes this horrible point, but our intellectual has a strong rebuff to this nonsense.

• I don't have a time machine, BIPOC.

For some reason "I can't unfap to the r*pe of those kids" doesn't soften this heart of stone. Here comes the truth nuke. Total CP enjoyer absolution. Get ready to feel like a fricking fool all you woodchipper posters

• I'm absolved of my sins because

  THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAS EXPIRED

• something something therapy (that fixes everything according to reddit)

• People are being mean to me, did you ever think about that?

Yes, I wasn't punished, and I continue to be an unrepentant menace to children who is still attracted to them, but at least I'm not rude. Also you can't get me nah nah nah

Part 3

**Of course it wouldn't be reddit if we didn't try to use nu-terminology to try to de-stigmatize horrible behaviors act scientific and emotionally detached from our own horrible actions try to silence opposition by being a faux authority talk about this in a civil manner** https://archive.is/hPdkX

• all my critiques are ^^^ It's extreme copium and deflection

• I also like the random redditor trying to redefine porn on the fly because child porn was giving it a bad name or something: "You should use the better term, child sexual abuse material. Porn is consensual."

• Here's a few more redditors accidently telling on themselves.

-- They're just using harsh terminology to checks notes make child r*pe and CP sound bad:

-- Libertarian activists are so brave for sticking up for the stigmatized paraphilia community:

Certified yikes sweaty moments

Part 4

**One last over the top cope for the road- you're literally sending death squads after me.** https://archive.is/IiXqC

• The true victims in all of this are those that see mean words on their screen. Do you have any idea what it's like to be told to keep yourself safe by a stranger over the Internet (the answer is yes, it happens all the time, grow the frick up). This is what avoiding signs of victimization is, btw- minimize all your horrific crimes against children and then cry about mean words from pseudo-anon accounts you'll never interact with again.

-- "Go sit in a corner for three hours and imagine people saying these things to you every single day for 10 years."

counterpoint: Xe doesn't even need to do this, just stop telling people how much you enjoyed child porn. Stop telling people you find toddlers attractive.

• Fear of Doxing. I will once again remind you that NOBODY ASKED and you just volunteered about your attraction to 3+ year olds. If you did this on an account that can be connected to your real name, you should also be in jail for being fricking r-slurred.

• The famous Internet death squads are coming for the wholesome libertarians (God I wish that were true )

Epilogue

. There is a twitter account with this same username- https://x.com/lilamjazeefa. The most recent tweets are from 2016 directly \@GovGaryJohnson and \@GovBillWeld... the Libertarian candidates for the 2016 election... Some jokes just write themselves.

Libs ownership status: pwnd

has no threads abput this lol

Edit: as per note

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1iqwbok/defense_stocks_drop_after_trump_says_pentagon/

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1iorzko/defense_stocks_drop_after_trump_says_pentagon/