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Canadian here. Not sure if this is PreperIntel worthy but just reporting something I've honestly never seen in my life. Canadians woke up today feeling super patriotic. And super pissed. Not that we aren't usually patriotic but we aren't a bunch of flag wavers. It's more a quiet patriotism we keep to ourselves. And we are generally a polite and reserved bunch in general.

Not today. Holy... the mood in Canada is ... PISSED.

Most of the anger is aimed at your current head of state but also at your country as a whole. Not so much individual Americans. You will be perfectly safe traveling through Canada or visiting. But there is outright anger directed at any product with a "Made in the USA" flag. Every store in Canada is going around with maple leaf stickers marking the "Made in Canada" products. Consumer boycotts are springing up organically across the country. The talk is really sort of ... ugly.

I get the sense there has been significant damage done to the US Brand in Canada. And I don't think it's confined to Canada. I have friends in the UK who say the same. They are also just frankly pissed beyond all reason. I expect it's the same across Europe.

Hopefully it dies down. It's absolutely non-productive and unCanadian. America and Canada have been ride or die BFF's for a century or more. I live in Arizona 1/2 time and I love LOVE it here. I have yet to personally meet an American I didn't genuinely like. You are good people. You do not deserve any of this.

Unless of course you voted for this. In which case... hope you get everything you voted for and then some.

also RIP to /r/prepperintel, it has turned into just another 'Drumf le bad' subreddit

!g*mers !chuds

the maymays said musk was gonna make genetically engineered catgirls why he makin the eggs cost more

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Respectfully, if you’re a proud gay man, why did you pretend to have a wife? https://t.co/Cv4uokZGI2 pic.twitter.com/bEKdDMepbm

— TheDoog (@doogle990) February 19, 2025

Who had this on their 2025 bingo card? https://t.co/CoONU1LOEE pic.twitter.com/J84ptCNbGq

— Garbage Human (@GarbageHuman24) February 19, 2025

So... turns out this degenerate is into pup play...

... dude... you can get off this dimension!

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— Joshua Ek (@JoshuaEkOnX) February 19, 2025

Rawsalerts is ALSO into nappies and shit like that!

In an advanced and respectful society, you'd be put down like the sick dog you identify as!

What a degenerate!

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— Joshua Ek (@JoshuaEkOnX) February 19, 2025

"Imporntant" bro gooning as he wrote this whole statement https://t.co/ng4L3A6GUt

— Cynic (@FreeRoamMode) February 19, 2025

Now THATS how you conservatism in 2025. Uwu

The lesson here is don't scan through comments reading the first line and pressing 'like', which is what I did.

I'm fully aware Substack makes your 'likes' public. I just read through e.g. 'Congratulations' and pressed like.

Calling Jewish people the "new master race" is…

— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) December 20, 2024

Owen Jones, Leftoid journ*list, wrote a big long Substack article on Israel and Palestine's coverage by the BBC. But he liked comments of a hmmmmmmmmm nature and got found out on X. Owen pleads ignorance that he only read the first line before liking. Others hmmmmmmmm at this.

A Labour UK thread on it: https://old.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/1hil0c0/some_interesting_activity_on_owen_jones_substack/

A classical Greek tragedy about hard work, big egos, and French culture.

His fanatical attention to detail, frenetic work ethic, and discerning palate, propelled him to the top of his profession, and earned him a knowledgeable and loyal, but unforgiving and demanding clientele.

In the late 1990s, a new form of Asian-inspired "fusion cuisine" swept France, catering to an international corporate class and pleasing trend-driven "foodies" (a neologism of the movement), which Loiseau resisted.

Loiseau was downgraded from 19/20 to 17/20 in the Gault et Millau guide and received a strong negative media review from the gastronomic critic François Simon in the newspaper Le Figaro, but he still had his three stars in the Michelin Guide. Criticism continued to pour in and the media speculated about a possible future loss of a Michelin star.

But on February 24, 2003, the chef finished his lunchtime service, rolled up his apron and drove home. Telling his ten-year old son – one of three children – to go and play outside, he went upstairs, locked the bedroom door and shot himself in the head with a hunting rifle, a present from his wife.

After his death, three-star chef Jacques Lameloise said Loiseau had once confided, "If I lose a star, I'll kill myself".

Derek Brown, Michelin director at the time, said: "The idea of telling him about the concerns we had about some of his cooking was in order to give him an opportunity to consider whether he wanted to do something about it, which he did, as it turned out."

All in all, a messy story sparking many debates about whether reviewers should really be brutally honest, and if they are unfairly harsh. Perhaps it inspired Ratatouille (2007)?

The Ancestor (and Academic from 2) was one of the greatest vocal performances of all time. I can't imagine a Darkest Dungeon without him. The Inhuman Bondage DLC for DD2 just came out, I think it's his last work.

🚨 NEW: Kamala Harris just abruptly cancelled her planned trip to California and “raced to the White House,” per reporters

Biden also just returned to DC, after being expected to stay in Delaware until after Christmas

Is something going on? pic.twitter.com/bDVBOpco1q

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 20, 2024

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A lot of people just don't have the mental bandwidth for subtlety.I lived in California for about ten years, and I still keep an eye on what's going on there because I love the place, have a ton of friends there still, and am seriously considering moving back in a couple years. I've got a few criticisms of Newsom, but all in all I do think he's a relatively decent person (especially compared to politicians in general) and I think he's done a pretty good job as governor of California. (347)

Are you kidding me.He has allowed his commission that he appointed to raise our pg&e rates not once but 5 times last year. It's disgusting! 24 billion dollars disappeared for the use of combatting homelessness no accountability of how it was used gone with no results of the money. Now the gruesome just used his cabinet to pass a law because he took 20 billion from the feds for stimulus checks and social programs. He had a massive budget surplus that just disappeared and now 20 billion is due so the law say's he can attach every working Californian 21 dollar's a paycheck till this 20 billion is paid back. So come on back and join the party because it's going to get worst. Oh ya I tried to buy a gas generator just a small Honda generator no big deal. No small gas motors sold in California anymore no weed eaters or lawnmowers that are gas powered anything gas powered banned. This is me talking Frick California now I have to drive to Nevada to buy this generator. (6)

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The frick you say? Newsom is a decent man? Whats decent about him?! This is why reddit has become stupid. - was it his light on crime?- was it him fixing homelessness with 24 billion dollars? - was it how he handle the forrest? - maybe it was how he always looks good evening pinning his emergency coat to speak on tv while theres a god darn wild fire buring in LA- maybe watching a distraught woman begging him for help and him lying sayi g he is o. The phone with the president right now and when she asks to hear and or speak with him he doesnt have service. Say all the mean shit about trump but dont glorify newsom while families have lost homes schools and businesses while he was warned by all the gdarn isnurance companies, that left california, that this was going to happen. (1)

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Karnataka INC Govt announces 15% hike in bus fares from 5th January.

— News Arena India (@NewsArenaIndia) January 2, 2025

Husband paid for both in any case. Now state is her hubby.

>tfw I get a cab home from dalli airport for cheaper than bhangiloreans get a bus

THE INCEL REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED

Don't believe your lying reason chud

You didn't give them water for 6000 years chud REEEEEEE

Wait was that the right one?

Chamars steal seats without paying in unis and femoids steal seats without paying in public transport. Vishwaguru

Protest the Incel Tax

Down with the apartheid

lol at him trying to grift /r/Savannah and /r/RVA at the same time.

Give me money and I will make Savannah the most important place in the world after I get my $200 for my highway junk car

Give me money and I will make RVA the most important city in the world after I'm not homeless

This lady has made vids about her prison scroteoid for years and he apparently just got out. The Tr-mp hat really brought it all together

She has hundreds of posts like this lol

I guess she probably made a fair amount of money from this schtick though so.. slay I guess?? You better hope he doesn't have a !moidmoment and kill you though girl

A germoid married some Amerikkkan prison man

Girl he better be emotionally available!! What else does he have to do all day???

Not the pickmeisha mom!!

Meanwhile this is what y'all's m*n are doing while they're in prison

Related Goldberg article:

https://moonmetropolis.substack.com/p/when-did-trolling-become-inextricably

@BooMetropolis

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

Prologue:

Before I can talk about Bungie's current bed-pooping I have to give you the context of yesteryear's bed pooping. During the thirdish quarter of 2023 the full weight of Bungie's massive screw up by releasing one of the dumbest, anti-climactic, and poorly written game expansions (even by destiny standards) had been realized. This gave Pete Parsons the CEO of Bungie, you're going to be seeing a lot of seethe surrounding this guy, the justification needed to start layoffs in the company.

https://bungie.fandom.com/wiki/Layoffs_2023

On Monday, October 30, Bungie laid off a sizable chunk of its staff in departments including community, QA, audio, and more. According to a report from IGN, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons cited Destiny 2's declining performance in 2023 as a cause. A report from Bloomberg noted that Bungie's upcoming projects were internally delayed as part of the move, with The Final Shape quietly moving to June 2024.

That underline section is going to be important later.

In an internal town hall meeting addressing a Monday round of layoffs that impacted multiple departments, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons allegedly told remaining employees that the company had kept "the right people" to continue work on Destiny 2.

This tone deaf remark caught Pete a lot of flak, as if he would give a shit, and he was criticized for not taking a paycut to prevent the layoffs. He instead chose to purchase 2.4 million worth of Antique cars and offer to show his female employees his collection.

https://kotaku.com/bungie-pete-parsons-layoffs-classic-cars-sony-buyout-de-1851610196

Speaking to multiple current and recently laid off employees, IGN has confirmed reports that Bungie took responsibility for the layoffs, rather than laying them at the feet of parent company Sony. Parsons told employees that the layoffs were largely due to underperformance of Destiny 2 over the last year, as well as lower-than-expected preorders for upcoming expansion The Final Shape.

As it so happens Lightfall was actually Destiny 2's best performing expansion. The newest expansion The Final Shape failed to break the previous expansions poulation record on steam (although that could also be sttributed to the amount of server issues during the release of TFS. Despite this the expansion still technically "underperformed" because bungie had likely over-promised Destiny 2's performance after releasing expansions during the height of the pandemic when everyone was trapped inside playing videogames.

Employees were also told that Destiny 2 player sentiment was at an all-time low. Sources tell IGN that this issue had been flagged to leadership repeatedly for months prior to the layoffs, with employees begging for necessary changes to win players back.

One former Bungie employee recalled that they were repeatedly assured following the 2022 Sony acquisition of Bungie that there would be no layoffs, and cited an item from a Sony quarterly report that claimed $1.2 billion of the $4 billion acquisition was going explicitly toward staff retention. Multiple employees confirmed that money was distributed to employees who were fully vested, with money split into multiple payments over time and varying based on discipline and seniority.

>t-there's not going to be any layoffs r-right Pete?

>yeah yeah sure, could you pipe down I'm trying to order more ferraris.

Of course since then there have as of now been 2 rounds of layoff. womp womp!

The first round of layoffs targeted those who had stock in the company cutting a lot of senior workers including the lady that designed the flipping Halo logo and Michael Salvatori the composer of pretty much the entirety of the music of the 10 year Destiny Saga ever since they canned Marty O'donnell. Around 100 workers got axed, some very high notoriety, and this isn't even including workers who got shifted into sony positions.

Today's Crisis

https://old.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/1egpwx6/the_new_path_for_bungie/

As of writing this 3 days ago another hundred or so Bungie employees had found out they had just been uncerimoniously laid off in the same darn community update that any redditor can read for patch notes. This time the layoffs were centered around shuttering all projects that weren't Destiny or Marathon related. This means those projects that were delayed in the underline section before were all cancelled. This time around a lot of leadership roles had been hit as well. Mark Noseworthy and Luke Smith, two guys known for almost killing the game at least 3 times, and one of which had been with the company since before Reach, had been let go. These guys were responsible for side projects and bringing Destiny into other mediums such as T.V Shows. With them gone there's nothing left in the works besides Marathon.

https://old.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/1ehxulq/mark_nosesworth_and_luke_smith_are_said_to_have/

Bungie shrank from 1300 to 850

Sony's Bungie is shrinking from 1,300 people to 850:

• 220 laid off

• 155 moving to Sony

• ~75 to a new studio

"We were overly ambitious, our financial safety margins were subsequently exceeded, and we began running in the red," says CEO Pete Parsons

https://x.com/jasonschreier/status/1818674500013097178

On top of the layoffs the annual plan for the release of Destiny content has been alterd, and the consensus is looking like future releases are not going to live up to the previous standards. In other words this 7 year old game might actually die this time, for real...maybe. Idk tbh.

https://old.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/1ehuabx/liz_from_d2_leaks_posting_new_info_regarding/

This leaves Marathon, as the sole entity for Bungie to rest its future on. Bungie has to hope an extraction based looter shooter, a reputably anticasual gaming experience. As well as a hero shooter which have become comically despised by gaymers in the current day (see Concord) will be enough to save them from complete collapse.

This is all that exists of Marathon right now. If I'm not mistaken the studio behind these cgi trailers and cutscenes for Bungie got shutdown too. Little else is even known about this game.

Could be worse though. They could be DICE.

Tl;dr

*Bungie got bought by sony in 2022

*Bungie released a shit expansion, and had a round of layoffs in 2023

*Bungie released a good expansion, and had another round of layoffs in 2024

*Bungie's current cash cow Destiny 2 is being put out to pasture

*Bungie has no other projects in development right now besides Marathon

*The future of this studio lies in the fate of an extraction based hero shooter

*Pete Parons like cars

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