If you have, does it actually work? I can't decide whether I believe it, or if it's just some peepeelet hopium propaganda.

You know what that means? Time... To... GOON!!!

I got a mild tummy ache but I'm still going to GOON because I'm too lazy to go take a shit but I'm not too lazy to GOON. Sheeit it's the weekend so I can GOON all night and then SLEEP all day on Sunday. If you're tryna GOON and you need some COOMpacks hit me up (Whatsapp only).

It turns out, I wasn't the first to think of this shit. And the lil GOONERS have perfected it. I can COOM easy knowing that this time honored tradition will be upheld by future generations.

Ready to GOON with no headphones.

r/50501 is planning a mass protest at every state capitol tomorrow (2/5/25).

Members of the subreddit are idolizing Luigi Mangione, discussing martyrdom, and calling for revolution. pic.twitter.com/hvdYjQcBSd

— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) February 4, 2025

theyre not going to use those coins anyway

I hope we hit back so fricking hard it gives Trump a stroke.

Just go to the search bar and type in

"When I was 13"

"When I was 14"

"When I was 15"

"When I had s*x"

"I lost my virginity"

"I weighed around"

And sort by oldest

!metashit !dramatards

Thanks for that story carp

!chuds !trump2024 !trump2028

!bookworms last week GRRM wrote an update on the new HBO schlock adaptation of his Dunk & Egg novellas.

Did I just read the words "Finish" and "Winds" in the same sentence? Am I dreaming? George? Are you promising me personally that WINDS OF WINTER will be complete by end of fiscal year 2025? In time for the holidays? Did you say that? I'm just going to go around believing that now.

OMG, A TWOW MENTION

I can feel some new year optimism from George. I'm super excited for the Dunk and Egg adaptation, it looks good.

THIS TIME FOR REAL GUYS

https://old.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/1icwbb4/am_i_crazy_for_believing_grrm_about_twow_spoilers/

No. The super-cynical posture some people take here that he's not working on it at all, is some kind of fraud, etc. is just a perverse form of copium. It's just a way for people to not get their hopes up. It's pretty obvious that he's trying to get it done but he's slow, it's hard, and he has a lot of other things going on. But it's pretty obvious that he's been working on it and probably has a ton of material at this point. What that means about him being close to an actual release date or anything like that is less clear.

Asoiafbros, will Dany finally leave Westeros? Will Ser Robert Strong kill the faith of the cucks champion? Is Aegon fake? Is the pink letter real?

1/ The Russian media has reportedly been ordered by the Kremlin not to cover Donald Trump positively because his agenda is seen by ordinary Russians as better aligned with their own interests and values than that of Vladimir Putin. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/2YRqX1eWP5

— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) February 5, 2025

1/ The Russian media has reportedly been ordered by the Kremlin not to cover Donald Trump positively because his agenda is seen by ordinary Russians as better aligned with their own interests and values than that of Vladimir Putin.

2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports what a source has told it about a new directive suppressing Russian media coverage of Trump:

3/ "If the policy of the previous US administration easily created an image of an enemy for the average Russian citizen in terms of values, then now Trump, as president, meets the demands of Russian citizens better than Putin himself:

4/ "– a family man with an open large family, information about which is not classified by special services (although the security issues of the Trump family are no less acute than those of his Russian colleague);

– became a billionaire before he even came to power;

5/ "– firmly defends the interests of US citizens in matters of migrant crime and relations with their countries of origin (the recent case of Colombia with Trump's strong rhetoric and Russia's unconvincing cases with Azerbaijan and Tajikistan);

6/ "– promotes tax cuts for its own citizens and businesses while imposing tariffs and duties on foreign countries.

7/ "Whereas Russia is increasing taxes (on profits, VAT, personal income tax, scrappage fees, tariffs of state monopolies in housing and communal services) for its own citizens and businesses, and constant concessions, forgiveness of debts,…

8/ …reduction of supply prices of resources for foreign countries.

The domestic policy of the United States now absolutely coincides with the values that the Kremlin previously made "unique" for Russians.

9/ "A strict command has been given to all media outlets to stop any material on the positive aspects of Trump's domestic policy, and to reduce all news items from the US only to the growth of domestic national and class tensions.

10/ "It is obvious to the Kremlin that Moscow will no longer be able to compete in the field of traditional values with Washington; the mainstream in the Russian media must urgently be changed.

11/ "As one participant in a meeting of a government working group joked: we can lift the ban on LGBT and start supporting transgender politics by introducing it into Russian culture…

12/ … in order to maintain the agenda of global confrontation and an "alternative path" against the Americans.

13/ "Against this background, it is increasingly difficult to explain to Russians why their 'friends' are Turkey, Iran, North Korea and China, which have completely different and in many ways unacceptable cultural values for Russians…

14/ …(and the latter country is also taking advantage of the situation by sucking all the profit margins from Russia into its economy)

LET US ENABLE TOTAL REDDITOR DEATH AND TOTAL ZIGGER DEATH AT THE SAME TIME

#MAGA #MUGA #MIGA #TRD #TZD

!trump2024 !trump2028 !the_donald !project2025 !chuds !accelerationists

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

BREAKING: Tesla now provides a discount of up to 10% on Tesla Insurance for customers who frequently use FSD (Supervised)

"The more you drive with FSD (Supervised) enabled, the bigger the discount is on your insurance premium." This new policy is currently only for Tesla… pic.twitter.com/Fjh0GT2fCB

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) February 2, 2025

This totally won't backfire lol

https://www.tesla.com/support/insurance/fsd-discount#available

Related discussion:

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/tesla-insurance-now-offering-10-discount-for-owners-who-use-fsd-for-50-or-more-of-driving-miles.35591/

Starting now, the more you use FSD the less you’ll pay for Tesla Insurance.

Essentially Tesla is covering part of the cost of insurance when you use FSD https://t.co/Q7QT07PZkf

— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) February 2, 2025

Another gigachad with perfect genetics (5' tall fat Asian man with autism)...

Darklands Series

1 - Darklands LP Part I

2 - Darklands LP Part II: Charles Bronson Edition

3 - Darklands LP III: Nuns and Coins

4 - Darklands LP Ep IV: Introduction to Equipment & Combat

5 - Darklands LP Part V: We finally briefly go out into the dark lands

6 - Darklands LP VI: We actually start a quest!

7 - Darklands LP VII: We reach our destination

8 - Darklands LP VIII: Raubritter confrontation & learning how combat works

9 - Darklands LP IX: I'm not giving you my goddarn alchemical materials

10 - Darklands LP X: We actually do some alchemy!

11 - Darklands LP XI: The Main Plot

12 - Darklands LP XII: Halloween Edition

Episode XIII

Welcome back. I know it's been a while. I apologize. Last time we slaughtered the Satanists at their sabbat (at least the ones we couldn't save) and found out where their base is. We now have a clearly defined mission: Assault the Fortress Monastery in Denmark and break the next seal. (Or Schleswig-Holstein or something, I'm not opening up that can of worms.)

That means hiking across the entire Empire from Teschen nearly at the border of Hungary all the way to Denmark. No doubt we'll run into a few adventures along the way.

At least that was the plan until we had to make a detour.

Long story short, I had written a whole episode but I was wondering why my guys were suddenly getting hurt so bad in fights. It turns out their armor had burned up. For most of them, it was down to very low quality. Poor Nathan was completely naked. This has got to be from the potions that the witches threw at us at the sabbat. They didn't do much immediate damage but they've derailed our plans for months. Now we've got to make enough money to replace that armor. Which means I have to grind.

All the stuff I've showed you about how the game works, I gotta go back and do more of that. Kill bad guys, make potions, travel around, learn about new saints and alchemical formulas, trade. I'm not complaining. I love doing this. But in this episode we won't be following the main plot and hitting the Fortress Monastery yet. So instead I'll focus on the random encounters.

Did I ever mention that about half of the game is random encounters? These pop up when you're traveling on the world map. There's, I dunno, at least a hundred of them. You never know which one will hit next which is what keeps you on your toes. That's why "grinding" never gets boring. I haven't mentioned many of them yet because each episode was designed to teach about specific gameplay mechanics and it would be distracting. So I guess this is going to be the episode about random encounters and the smaller less important places you run into on the map. I'm still cutting a lot out and just including the more interesting ones.

Our new goal: Go wander around and do Darklands stuff until we've got a lot of money and then go back to Dresden and buy high-quality armor for everyone.

Let's Go!

Uh oh. Looks like we pissed off the wrong people. The Wild Hunt isn't a DLC for some game about a dour gray man collecting s*x cards, it's what the witches send to hunt you down when they identify you as a threat. Those b-words are pissed off about what we did at the sabbat. I guess we'll have to deal with them eventually.

Well I'm not gonna let this sod hut just sit there looking sinister at me. Let's have Yuna ask St. Dorothy of Montau for some insight. She lived in this region, dying just recently in 1394 as an anchoress in the land of the Teutonic Order. She'll know what to do.

Well that's pretty bad. I don't consider even Yorkies and Cavaliers to be "slavering hounds from heck" but they can come pretty close when they want attention. Time to kick down this door.

She has some potions, so she might be some threat. But as we've seen before, wolf teeth can't penetrate chainmail. Sure enough, her alchemy degrades our abilities a lot but the wolves aren't able to take advantage and she goes down fast.

What would Satan not want us to do? What would really piss him off? We're going to forgive her.

Let's hope this works out better than every time I've ever tried to save a woman from herself IRL amirite.

We come across a cave. This is one of those sites where somebody sent us on a fetch quest long ago. Nathan uses his agility to climb up a cliff and throw the rope down to bring the rest of the party up. Now we've got to deal with the dwarf who has the item. I got 16 gold florins, which is a lot more than we'll get paid for the quest, but who cares? It will give me a little bit of fame which is worth more to me now. If I need money I've got a bunch of dead guys' armor and surplus alchemical potions.

Redactor is making some serious fricking money at this point. He can reliably make potions and sell them at a profit. The only problem is that the materials required are scattered all over the country so I've got to keep traveling to keep him supplied.

Ugh, one of these guys. He seems pretty sketchy to me. In the past we had to pay these guys off because they really will curse you if you don't and you can't just kill a friar because you think he's bullpooping you. But not this time, pal. You're a Dominican? Let's see what St. Dominic has to say about this.

We get out of paying him a little bit. More importantly we may have saved his soul. This guy has been led pretty far astray but hopefully they can get his shit sorted out down in Rome. (You can also pray to saints who specialize in calling out liars with the same effect except the text is completely different. In that he admits that his curses are from the power of Satan, not God.)

Against the Wild Hunt we all gotta stick together. My party is pretty weak at Woodwise and especially Stealth, so I have no confidence in our ability to use subterfuge here. We are really good at fighting though. I'll just take them on head-on.

Bigfoot is from Oregon, so this is just my ordinary day to day life. We defeat the hellhounds and rescue him of course.

I've got a hunch that this fruit will permanently increase someone's strength by a few points. Who to give it to? Both of the girls are at 32 strength (we already upgraded Sasha this way) and I'm at a mere 31. This is an intolerable situation. Girls can't be stronger than me. Redactor gets the apple and a bump up to 35 strength.

I go to Prag and ask if the King of Bohemia needs me to do any quests for him. This is Wenceslsaus (Vaclvav) IV, a really important guy. Prague had a golden age when his father and him were ruling. Both were also the Holy Roman Emperor and made it their capital. This is when the famous Charles University was founded for example. But soon the situation will spin out of control. He was deposed as Emperor a few years ago. Disputes about religion, nationality, and plain old factionalism are debstabilizing the kingdom and he is barely holding on to power. His death in 1419 will be the start of the Hussite Wars.

A Hussite wagenburg. Wagons were lashed together into a defensive wall and defended by guys with crossbows and guns. Apparently it was a pretty effective tactic because they repeatedly defeated the combined forces of all of Europe.

(One part of the game that never ended up getting implemented but still has vestigial traces of it in the data files is the Hussites. They're suspicious of you because you're German, but if you can talk them down from violence they'll warn you about the Knights Templar. I guess we're all on the same side after all. The game's designer told me that there was supposed to be a lot more regional content like this but they didn't have enough time to include much of it, so the whole game world is pretty much based on the mythology of western Germany between the Rhine and the Elbe. It's too bad. There's so much more you could do with this setting.)

Anyway, the Emperor's aides at least consider giving me an audience before telling me to frick off. I guess at 123 fame ("slight reputation") it's hard to get a face to face meeting with one of the most important people in the world.

After a lot of grinding I get, I dunno, maybe 100 florins from quests and selling dead people's armor. Back to Dresden. It's enough to finally get everyone fully fitted with 34-quality chainmail. Nathan is even strong enough (barely) to wear partial plate armor without encumbrance penalties, at least if he's not wounded. I've got some backup armor in case ours gets burned up again.

We can carry that around because while Darklands has harsh penalties for weighing down your people with equipment too heavy for them in battle, outside of combat you can carry as much as you want. I routinely end up carrying around 30 sets of armor after a jaunt through the countryside killing a few people as I go along. It might seem surprising that this is allowed given the extreme attention to detail and realism in other parts of the game, down to measuring the time of day using medieval units instead of hours. But I'm not complaining.

Compare it to Bethesda games. In Bethesda games I spend probably 1/3 of my time either hauling loot back to the store to sell or deciding which loot is worth picking up. And of course you can't just go directly to the store. You go to the city and then walk down the same goddarn street you have a million times before to go to the store. Why? What in God's name would justify wasting my time like that? Why can't I just walk up to a city and immediately access the trading screen? This isn't cutting edge technology. Betrayal at Krondor came out a year after this. In that when you reach a city it switches from 3D mode to a picture of the city and you just click on the shop and bam, you're there. Why can't that evil little leprechaun Todd Howard do the same for us 30 years later?

Meta

Anyway, I think we're ready for the Fortress Monastery now. TBQH it's been many years since I actually played the game to this point. (It's taken me something like 50 hours to get this far.) So I can't remember how tough the Monastery is, but I believe it's supposed to be mid-game content.

There's a couple big mid-game quests that I wanted to show you first, but they only spawned in distant places like Aachen, so if I tried to go there it would probably have disappeared by the time I got there. I guess I'll do those after the Monastery.

BTW I am playing pretty much optimally here using every trick I know. I'm trying to go into everything way overpowered because if I lose it means I have to savescum and that wastes a lot of time. There's a lot of stuff that I'm skipping over because the game has so much content and so many features that I'm afraid I'd die of old age before I got to the end. My plan is that after I win I'll go back and show you this stuff, at least if @kaamrev badgers me enough.

Standard AI responses:

DeepSeek Response:

How about a different protest?

Edit: interestingly there seems to be a soft block on other topics, where it writes out an answer but post-generation it is deleted again. I would guess Tiennenman is a hard blocked word though. Example, Uygur Muslims where it changes to the short answer after it's done generating:

Edit2:

Ok this thing was made to run PR defense confirmed…

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Men have always had a choice on when and if they married. Women were the ones who were sold and traded as property (106)

Nonsense. Women provided protection, dowrys, and largely married & procreated. They passed on their DNA. Men much more disposable, and many did not. With female empowerment, hypergamy on full display. (-23)

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You work hard because the struggle is the reward. Do you remember that part of LOTR The Two Towers where Legolas complains (in elvish) that everyone in Helm's Deep was going to die? Because of the enormous orc army waiting to kill them? And Aragorn says, "Then I will die with them!", really showing Legolas up for being a whiny b-word? And then later Legolas seeks forgiveness, saying, "I was wrong to despair". Aragorn shows him that the fight is all there is. Legolas was wrong to despair then, and you are wrong to do so now. Don't despair! Life is challenge. Life is struggle. The climb is all there is. Climb, pilgrim. Do not give in to bitterness and resentment. Climb! (2)

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If you're poor you're more miserable. If you can't afford food, can't afford heat, can't afford the things you like, can't afford a car, and depend on society to sustain you, that's misery. Being rich and alone isn't a great life either, but being poor and alone is worse. There's a reason they have the term "poor and lonely" as being a really bad pathetic thing. (2)

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No, not all. But they do make up a strong base, to be fair. (4)

No they don't. I'd hazard to guess that most incels are democrat voters. Conservatives believe in working hard and following traditional morals and norms. Whether or not they adhere well to that is something else, but they certainly aren't attracted to sitting in their mothers basements complaining about how bad they have it, that's what leftists do. In fact, the entire ideology is antithetical to incels. Heck, one of the things that made Jordan Peterson famous was the notion that men need to get their shit together and clean their room. It was to stop blaming everyone around them and instead work to better their lives, something that the left widely rejects. I would be shocked to hear this person voted for Trump. They would want more hand outs because apparently the world is impossible to survive in while eating regularly. This post was a monologue of a loser. And incel losers are usually whiny, spoiled, entitled, leftists. (-11)

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the United States shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation.

It is difficult to juggle the domestic herd and the three quarantined girls at once. Sheila has completely re-bonded with her babies. The boys eat wet food with their sisters so they're bonded.

!animalposters !cats

Women's idea of romance is cheating