The first time I watched this movie I gradually went from "this movie is so fricking butt" to "man this movie rocks." Bravo Frank Dux you r-slurred hack

KUMITE KUMITE KUMITE

DISCLAIMER: I don't mean non-consensual or obligatory s*x at all. Men do not have a right to a woman's body just because you're in a relationship. I am a woman and I do think of myself as a feminist.

I was just wondering what people in general think about the idea of having s*x even if you don't necessarily 'feel like it' for the good of the relationship because you love your partner.

In my experience, my s*x drive isn't that high and I don't get an impulse to initiate s*x very often. It's not because im not attracted to my partner or don't enjoy s*x, I think im seriously just lazy and need to overcome that to keep my relationship strong. It's like, when I do have s*x with my partner I almost always enjoy it, the idea of it just doesn't sound good beforehand. Separately, I also notice that if my partner and I have not done it in a while, our relationship gets worse and we argue more, etc. So when I realize it's been awhile and I see an opportunity, I'll just initiate even if I don't really want to in the moment. Or if he initiates and my first instinct is no, I'll think about why im saying no before I respond. If there is a legit reason beyond me being lazy that I don't want to have s*x, I say no.

When I read dead bedrooms posts or talk to friends in bad relationships who tell me they haven't had s*x in 3 or 6 mos or whatever I've wanted to bring this up and ask if they've ever thought about it like this but I worry this is some weird internalized misogyny or patriarchy thing that im just trying to justify. What do the people of rsp think?

@treehollows this is like your question

In;b4 "le heckin sportsball sucks!!!"

The embargo for reviews of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has lifted. We don't have a review on the site here at Polygon. This is not an editorial decision; we had hoped to review the game. On Jan. 2, Polygon requested a code for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 from Warhorse Studios, the studio behind the game, and received no response. On Jan. 7, we reached out to the PR firm working with Warhorse, who told us they were "not able to provide access. We'll let you know if this changes." We reached out to parent company Plaion on Jan. 9 as well — no response. On Jan. 10, we saw our peers publishing early previews for the game. We re-upped our request and were again told we would not be given access.

This was very unusual. But this was the situation that transpired with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. It can be difficult to tell when a studio's decision to withhold a code from a publication is intentional and personal. That's due in part to the fact that the process for getting advance review codes is about as rote and administrative as it gets. Sometimes, PR firms working for studios send us codes unsolicited in hopes we'll cover the game in question. Other times, we request codes from the game's representatives ourselves, several weeks ahead of the release date, and we get those codes when and if they are available.

As part of our final request for code on Jan. 10, Polygon's editor-in-chief Chris Plante contacted Plaion and Warhorse's PR firm to get a comment as to why we were denied advance access to the game. He stressed in his message that our hope is that this decision wasn't due to any personal bias against Polygon, nor motivated by any of our previous coverage of games made by Warhorse or any other. In short, we wanted to know: Was Polygon being blacklisted?

On Jan. 10, we did receive a response to this request stating that we could get one code for the game on launch day, Feb. 4. We did not receive any clarification as to how this decision was made. Nor did we receive the requested clarification on why the developers of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 declined to provide Polygon access to the game.

Because we will not receive access to this game until its public release, our review is nonetheless forthcoming but will not be published in time for its release date. We look forward to telling you more about this game in the weeks to come.

KIA Gloats

And now, for the why. From Charlie Hall's review (12 February 2018)

https://archive.is/WqcZl

"The game is also not without its controversies. Warhorse is a team of more than 150 people, but the game's creative director has gone out of his way to rationalize his support of G*merGate, a loosely knit hate group that has devoted time to harassing women, people of color and journ*lists in the past. So outspoken is the studio's leadership on cultural issues that they have found it necessary to work with a German outlet to publish anti-fascist, anti-sexist and anti-racist statements prior to their game's launch."

Thank you for that completely unnecessary bank-shot that turned a poor review into a politically motivated hit piece. And you wonder why they weren't lining up for more of that?

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1igwh0w/polygon_whines_about_not_getting_prerelease_code/

!g*mers !chuds @kaamrev its G*MER GATE REVENGE TIME!

The #Groomer is trying to turn our children into freaks. https://t.co/o92QlF8E1o pic.twitter.com/sitBzuEVfi

— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) April 23, 2022

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/darrin-bell-freelancer

anyway lets look at the works of his that won the pulitzer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrin_Bell

BREAKING: Democrats just elected David Hogg to be the Vice Chair of the DNC.

Hogg is touted as their face of masculinity to help them regain the young male voters they lost in the 2024 election.

I HONESTLY CAN'T BELIEVE IT! pic.twitter.com/MS4bV0fv79

— George (@BehizyTweets) February 2, 2025

So my wife (29f) and i (28m) have been together with the exception of a long break when we were 18 and 19 for 10 years. (She left me for another guy) and every year or two since we've been back together i keep finding things on her phone. The first was a fetlife account where she was chatting with multiple men. The second was a coworker she was speaking explicitly with. Third she asked a random neighbor out for coffee in our apartment complex in a flirting manner. And finally this. I found nudes of her that I'd never seen before, and looked in the deleted pictures on her phone and found pictures of another man's nudes.

We've had some rough patched with my finances and depression as well as hers. I must admit I was feeling sexually frustrated last year and went to a "massage parlor" but didn't go through with the end part. And she found out. She's insists that nothing has become physical any of these times and would leave if she were going to go through with it, because she did when thats what she wanted.

Our relationship is great except for this horrible bi annual ritual of her seeking attention. She makes the money In the relationship and I'm very limited in my capacity to support myself for any sort of trial separation. I don't want to leave. I love her. But I feel I need to advocate for myself despite my own wrongdoings. I feel so trapped and hopeless.

Came across this amazing post. But what's even funnier is if you visit his profile and see the only other post he's made:

This might be the dumbest man on Earth.

Oh, he's from Portland? She's not cheating on him; he's just unknowingly in a poly relationship.

Elected Republicans are pure evil https://t.co/jsx6Wzun6f

— Jessiah (@thepondering_) February 8, 2025

Since this is being discussed more lately thanks to a thread was started on the less fun site that is worth a read to avid trainspotters.

Here is some info i could scrape together on this story to rival alpacashwitz :

The leader

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/ziz-jack-amadeus-lasota-zizians-sinceriously-fyi-wip.210782/

The Cult

https://zizians.info/

https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509

Their Victims

https://openvallejo.org/2025/01/27/suspects-in-killings-of-vallejo-witness-vermont-border-patrol-agent-connected-by-marriage-license-extreme-ideology/

https://openvallejo.org/2025/01/27/man-killed-in-vallejo-was-main-witness-in-upcoming-murder-trial/

The Site's Archive

https://sinceriously.blog-mirror.com/

https://sinceriously.blog-mirror.com/glossary/

These have in no particular order:

Impaled a landlord with a katana

Got shot for impaling said landlord

Got arested for threatning a rationalist meetup in guy fawks masks

Started and abandoned a houseboat fleet to avoid paying rent

Induced schizophrenia transness and other trough sleep hemispheric deprivation and mind hacks

Plotted to kill some random spegs for reasons i can't be botherd to look into

Organised murder of a members parents for being abusive (telling them to get a job)

Faked their death certificate to evade enemies

Extra:

Google doc IP GRABBER!!! containing detailed info (probably, )

https://xcancel.com/kenthecowboy_/status/1884393311827550716#m

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RpAvd5TO5eMhJrdr2kz43dxT3nNm0XtuPcaW9kBIZL8/edit?tab=t.0

Interview with someone who is part of the cult (but totally not they pinky promise )

Screenshot of the thread for the accountles

!gaystapo !gayporn

Ye has now made an “HH” swastika shirt, likely standing for “Hail Hitler.”

Yeezy sales have nearly doubled since Ye returned to X.

Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/48AK8zEnRz

— AF Post (@AFpost) February 8, 2025

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/viral-trend-sees-humans-simulating-bizarre-ai-video-glitches/

!asians !aichads !fellas !kino

#BREAKING: The UK just ordered Apple to give them access to all encrypted backups worldwide, including Americans, allowing British authorities to spy on any user.

— Insider Wire (@InsiderWire) February 7, 2025

Enter BetTikTok will be sold to an American company and continue operating. - 59 bets

Enter BetIt will be sold to a non-US company and @hACAppy_2025 will win at slots, namaste - 11 bets

Enter BetTikTok will be kill - 89 bets

Enter BetTim Apple will bravely refuse to remove TikTok from the Apple store, in bold DEFIANCE of the kkkorupt kkkapitalist kkkrooks running the so-called "United" States - 9 bets

Enter BetIt will be sold to and promptly renamed TixTox - 3 bets

!remindme 24 hours "close the toktik"

!bets !goomble !goomblers !goombling !asians

Closed.

Wildcard Thread, Divisional Thread Regular Season MVP betting is still open.

NFC is Commanders @ Eagles Sunday Jan 26 3:00 PM Eastern

AFC is Bills @ Chiefs Sunday Jan 26 6:30 PM Eastern

Of the earlier bets we had 14 teams and 7 teams have been trimmed down to 4 and 2 options

For the 14 team free for all bet for a pot of 186 bets/37,200 coins

AFC for 88 bets/17,600 coins

NFC for 115 bets/23,000 coins

pings: !mensfootball !goomble !goomblers !bets @BILLYBIGBOLLOCKS @Freak-Off @Drippo @SpudsMackenzie

I know, that's a lot of losers! However, here's a bonus chance to recuperate some of those loses or for winning chads to double down on their sports wisdom. The 5th bet here & 3rd bet in the games below is just for me to add bonus money. If you click it you are throwing your money away and/or are a self-less patron of gamblers.

Of the 4 remaining teams Who will win the Super Bowl

Enter BetChiefs - 171 bets

Enter BetBills - 91 bets

Enter BetEagles - 93 bets - WINNER!

Enter BetCommanders - 59 bets

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closed

Please destroy reddit inshallah

You probably didn’t plan to learn this, but this is what a deer roaring championship looks like

The competition among hunters took place recently in Dortmund, Germany. Participants battled for the prestigious title by imitating the roar of a red deer as accurately as possible.… pic.twitter.com/HtSlHOngT1

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) February 9, 2025

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1ii0o9g/us_government_department_to_tie_funding_to/

>Biden offers increased child tax credit to encourage people to have kids

>Drumpf offers more money to cities that encourage people to have kids

Florence Spurling is a moderately popular knitwear designer who made her Scout Shawl pattern in 2021. It uses different color work designs "patchworked" together to form a shawl.

Earlier this month a smaller designer named Susan Chin released her Quilt Star Scarf pattern. It has a similar shape and patchwork construction to Spurling's design.

This has lead people to accuse Chin of plagiarism, which Spurling addressed in an instagram post see above and below

(I can't link to the post because Spurling later deleted it)

The scarves obviously have some similarities, but they also have some differences. Here's a list of what's the same and what's different that someone else wrote, speaking of plagiarism :

Both objects use Intarsia and Fair Isle/Stranded colorwork.

Both patterns have multiple blocks in different motifs, joined together as the finished object is worked.

Both patterns have colorwork charts. (Scout > Shawl is in full color; Quilt Star is in greyscale)

The border is not indicated on either pattern's chart.

Suggested Gauge for the two patterns; Scout Shawl suggests 28sts x 30rows for 10cm, using 3.5mm needles. Quilt Star suggests 28sts x 27 rows for 10cm using 2.5mm or 3mm needles.

Finished size for Scout Shawl is 181cm, 37cm deep

Finished size for Quilt Star is 150cm, 35cm deep

Scout Shawl relies on 5 colors and makes suggestions as to the color contrast if you don't use the same palette as the pattern. Color 1 is the garter stitch border.

Quilt Star relies on 8 colors. No contrast is suggested, only the colors recommended in the original pattern. Color 8 is the 1x1 rib border.

At least one motif in Scout uses 3 colors.

Each motif in Quilt uses no more than 2 colors.

Cast on is 8 stitches for Scout.

Cast on is 4 stitches for Quilt.

All sections on Scout meet at 90 degree angles.

Some sections on Quilt meet at diagonals, at ~45deg ish.

Scout has 10 distinct blocks and patterns.

Quilt has 7 (?) distinct patterns. There seems to be an error in the charts. I'm not sure my count is correct based on the charts alone. But it is certainly fewer.

Increases on Scout are M1L, Decreases are k2tog

Increases on Quilt are kfb, decreases are k2tog.

Scout's finishing has no special bind off for the remaining 8 stitches.

Quilt uses a seamed bind off for the 6 remaining stitches.

Motifs for Scout appear to be floral.

Motifs for Quilt appear to be star-them

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VERDICT: they're different patterns.

This didn't stop people from stirring shit, because obviously you need to have an MFA to be inspired by patchwork, and only one person is allowed to be inspired by a thing.

People (Spurling suck ups) went on social media to b-word, including leaving comments on the Ravelry page for Chin's scarf. (Ravelry is like letterboxd for knitting and crochet, and also a platform that many designers use to sell their patterns)

Source, but you need a Ravelry account to view

This lead to Chin taking the pattern down for sale. Satisfied with the results, Spurling deleted her post . And so ends another chapter in the ongoing saga of insecure designers accusing others of plagiarism.

A few I remember from the last year:

A designer put out merch with "Knit Club" on a baseball caps. Well some other pattern designer has a community by that unique name and also has baseball caps merch (but none that actually say "Knit Club"

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"Only I'm allowed to be copy 1950s dresses!"

Source

"omg why are you so obsessed with me, stop copying me" macrame. Except her product looks like something posted earlier by someone else on TikTok. (If they look similar it's because there's only so much shit you can make with macrame and there's probably patterns for something like this in a book from the 70s)

Source

One French company accused another French company of copying their, um… tailor clappers, test squares and pointer cowtools (these are pretty common cowtools that have existed for a long time, this like Milwaukee accusing Makita of stealing their idea of the hammer)

Source

I forgot to add that while I agree with most of the commenters on the craft snark thread, look at this b-word trying to turn it into a race thing

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