https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/star_wars_the_acolyte#media-info

Disney paid them off again like with Captain Marvel and the Sequel Trilogy.

Joke of a website

They can do all they want. People are not going to watch woke trash anymore. People have had enough. They will fail where it hurts them most, in their pockets. Flop after flop, it won't be sustainable anymore. Wokism is dying

Not the first time they do this and won't be the last. They usually "fix" the audience score and fill it with bots reviews. It's in their interest to defend any woke show. Rotten tomatoes is owned by fandango media which is owned by Comcast. And Comcast largest shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc, BlackRock Inc., State Street Corp, Capital International Investors, etc. They are all cut by the same cloth and they want the same thing. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CMCSA/holders/

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What's going on?

• A handful of subs are collaborating to protest mass immigration in Canada on July 1st.

• The subs are /r/takebackcanada, /r/stopindianimmigration (lol) and /r/CanadaHousing2

• The first two have been banned from preddit (duh)

The pushback

• A bunch of currycels from /r/SouthAsianMasculinity created a sub, /r/MapleMaga, to mass report anyone talking about the protest

• They have been appealing to /r/canadaleft and other commie subs for support of their "movement"

• They privated /r/SouthAsianMasculinity after it was revealed that their sub was full of incels

Despite setbacks, the movement continues to grow

• Information regarding the protest was recently shared by True North journ*list Harrison Faulkner on xitter

• A counter-protest against the indian intl. students protesting in Charlottetown was organized by two guys and reposted by PPC leader Bernier

The opposition are shooting themselves in the foot

• Recently, in response to the success of protestors in Winnipeg, poos have organized in Browntown to demand extended work permits. Just because, you know, they want them.

• This has obviously not been well-received by Canadians who are experiencing the side effects of several years of increasingly unregulated immigration

• The response of many jeets to online criticism has been what one would expect of the typical ego-inflated thirdie:

I better see all of you kkklanadians out in the streets on July 1st.

Hi dramafrens!!

Have any of you heard of this obscure little indie game company called Valve? You may have heard of them from niche titles such as:

Half-Life

Portal

Only the biggest gaming platform of all time, Steam

But today we're talking about a game very close to my heart: Team Fortress 2! Valve's hit first person class-based team shooter is an iconic game, earning it a place of glory amongst all vidya and entrenching it in internet and meme culture, and even a somewhat recent meme trend depicting the TF2 characters as buff, totally heterosexual Wagnerite Ziggers has produced some of the shiniest gemeralds of all time

(video courtesy of @CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM_fan17)

It's really close to my all time favorite game and definitely my most played. Countless hours were sucked from my childhood as baby me learned to use my first slurs whenever I came across a particularly annoying enemy Demoman

Which is why it's all the sadder that I'm now talking about its spectacular fall from grace.

The Beginning of the End

Meet Your Match

TF2 had a reputation of being a quite regularly updated game, with a major content release happening around 3-5 times a year. Besides usual gripes from boomers these updates were pretty well received, and I certainly have held a positive view of almost all of them although that could just be me yearning for my teenage years.

However, on July 7th of 2016 the most controversial TF2 update to date released: Meet Your Match.

Before this update all TF2 players would play the game through a generic server browser. Valve ran their own public servers right alongside all the community made ones, and filtering for a server you wanted was incredibly easy and streamlined. You could filter by player count, full/empty, whether or not the server used the shitty Valve Anti-Cheat, whether custom decals were allowed, you name it. Everything was hosted on the server browser, it held everything from official Valve servers to servers run by the dregs of society. I fondly remember joining a server when I was about 11 running a map that had furry porn plastered all over the walls you never forget your first time, !furries.

So what did Meet Your Match change? Well, it didn't remove the server browser. Not outright. But it did take all official Valve-ran servers off the browser and move them into a shitty matchmaking system No longer could you filter for a specific Valve server running your favorite map, you now have to queue up for matchmaking in a party with up to five friends (no more just joining your friends through Steam or the server browser!), have a certain list of maps selected, and pray to god it lands you in a game within the next 15 minutes. Even worse, since the matchmaking system's job is to get you into a game by any means necessary, it could land you in a game with no players or a game about to end and switch maps to a shitty one you don't like. Additionally those official Valve servers got way shittier, due to the removal of the ability to switch teams, removal of sprays (basically the ability to plaster a custom image onto any surface you want ), and the increasingly outdated Valve Anti-Cheat system being easier to exploit by cheaters. Oh, and those five friends you get to party up with? They will only be on your team, meaning you can only have friendly competition with these friends if somebody gets auto-balanced (which remember is a necessity since you can't change teams manually to even the balance )

That server browser still exists, but it's been relegated to its own separate tab and no longer has any Valve-ran games on it. That would be fine if you don't like Valve servers, (and who would? ) but the average TF2 player is just going to hit “find game” and not bother with the server browser, leaving a bunch of half-empty, struggling community servers—not to mention that most of the community servers are shit themselves, but for other reasons; no way in heck am I downloading 13 trillion Touhou reskin mods just to play on a shitty weeb server!

The update understandably made a lot of people upset, me included! But we had no idea how much worse it was going to get.

Jungle Inferno, or, Pain of Neglect

Released on October 20th of 2017, Jungle Inferno was a pretty bog-standard update, as far as things go. A few new weapons, some balances, a few new maps which were mostly shitty, we've all heard it before. The problem? It was the last time Valve would do anything significant with the game. Any updates past Jungle Inferno were repeating seasonal events, and the last Saxxy Awards (the TF2 community's version of the Oscars, where people would create kino animations using Valve's Source Filmmaker) ever to be held to this date

“But Shelly,” you might ask, “you said there were still seasonal event updates! Surely stuff was being added then, right? ” Well, yes. But it wasn't Valve. Every Halloween and Christmas Valve would have some intern scour the top rated maps, cosmetics, weapon skins, and taunts from the community workshop. So surely game's health is in the community's hands, and doing alright, yes? Well…

All of this shit was just bad, frankly. Often times the skins had missing textures, the cosmetics were r-slurred and unwanted or even outright broken, the taunts didn't work, all things that could go weeks without being fixed. Besides, hats and skins don't affect the gameplay!

Well maps do affect the gameplay. But they were all shittier even than the skins! A prime example is Wutville, a community made Christmas map. I think I'll let this image of the first attacker spawn and the known bugs list speak for themselves.

So we have a map that is basically a long, sniper-heaven corridor with no flank routes, tons of bugs, and is a visual fricking mess to boot! And this is just one extreme example of many broken community maps; don't even get me started on Bread Space, which started the defending team out facing the wrong way, so half the team would obliviously walk the entire way back to their last point in the setup phase! It was obvious that Valve was not bothering to playtest anything they were putting into the game, let alone make it themselves.

Why was Valve refusing to work on such an influential title? Despite all their decisions the TF2 player counts were continuing to grow, almost suspiciously so… (more on that later ) surely if Valve put in the effort they could bring ever more players in and just get that much more money from anyone participating in its famous economy. It has a lot to do with their company work philosophy: on the outside, they claim to avoid “treadmill work” and prioritize employee freedom by letting them work on any projects they had passion for. Beneath this stupid pseudo-commie work structure however everyone knew Valve operated on the principle of “Do nothing and let Steam make us infinite money.” They didn't need to work on TF2 because it made them zero billions of dollars.

Attack of the Machines

The Sniperbots

In 2020, there was a source code leak, leading many people to fear the worst. A lot of rumors were in the air at this time, everything from exploits in the code being used to hack accounts to even in-game doxxing. While none of these ever really came true, there was certainly an opportunity for cheaters to exploit a vulnerability in the game. And exploit they did!

A bit of background is needed. Basically there are nine classes in TF2, but out of all of them none is more powerful than the Sniper. With two clicks he can instantly kill 5 out of those 9. In a game played by humans, the main barrier to playing Sniper is the human player's skill and ability to quickly land those instakill headshots. A good player can theoretically steamroll the entire enemy team only by playing Sniper, but nobody but the most turbovirgin autists could ever hope to reach the skill level needed.

A robot though…

With the game's guts on display for the world to see, people naturally quickly made programs that could run an account on TF2 playing sniper, which would proceed to walk straight into combat and land every headshot, wiping the entire enemy team but it wouldn't just be one, it would be five, ten, fifteen sniperbots with absolutely zero counterplay pooping up entire game servers. As expected, these bots were also equipped with the latest in slur technology and would frequently call votekicks on human players

It was a dark time, and still is. These bots are still running around, and the game is absolutely unplayable outside of peak hours. The bots don't stray outside of casual matchmaking so community servers are fine, but the same problems I already highlighted with those servers still exist today

Valve managed to “fix” the slur-spamming problem by removing chat permissions for all free to play players. I don't think I need to mention why this is a bad idea. In addition to that the bots aren't really fixed, they still flood casual servers and kick every human player out. To this day, it seems Valve has no intention of actually fixing this issue.

#SaveTF2

The problem eventually became Reddit's problem. /r/tf2 is the epitome of a modern day vidya subreddit, astroturfed to heck, filled with shitty memes and r-slurred redditors who think they can accomplish anything by making smug comments. Their solution to the bots, the content drought, and the general decline of the game? Be heckin' wholesome 100 about it, and start a hashtag

The SaveTF2 movement started with the general goal of getting Valve to fix their darn game. Get rid of the bots was the first priority, and after that people generally thought that Valve would notice TF2 as profitable with the surge of new players coming into a fresh, shiny, bot-free classic game! After all, TF2 was still reaching record numbers of concurrent player counts, () imagine what new heights it could reach from there!

It became fully Redditized incredibly quickly. Constant mentions of Valve and Valve developers on Xwitter, r-slurred “spread the word” posts all over reddit in unrelated subs, and getting the voice actors to go along with their shitty memes are just a few of the regular Keanu Chungus redditor actions you would expect from such a movement.

The Valve Response

In May of 2022, the TF2 Twitter account posted this:

https://twitter.com/TeamFortress/status/1529970640224018433

This lead many to rejoice in the triumph of the SaveTF2 movement. Honestly things were looking pretty… hopeful? Maybe the Reddit activism got to them? After years and years of total radio silence it looked like Valve might actually care about this ‘dead game' that continued to grow.

An update was promised and actually… delivered? In July of 2023, TF2 players got the Summer Update! What was in this update, you ask?

• Community-made cosmetics

• Community-made skins

• Community-made maps

Sound familiar? But hey, at least the wholesome reddit seal was added into the game! (No, I'm not joking)

This satisfied the redditors though, and the SaveTF2 movement gradually lost momentum, sputtered, and died. All the while, the bots still ran free.

The Coming of the VLTIMATE TRVTH NVKE

On April 30th of this year, a long time TF2 YouTuber by the name of ZestyJesus woke up and dropped the fattest trvthnvke ever made on the TF2 community:

For those of you who don't want to watch an hour long video, the TL;DR is that after scraping years of data from third party sites and even neurodivergentally collecting his own information, this guy came to a frightening conclusion… You know how I said that despite everything, in spite of the bots, the content drought, the shitty community made updates, in spite of all of it, TF2's player count continued to grow?

In the video, this guy provides pretty darning evidence that over 70% of TF2's reported players… are bots. But not those sniper bots I've been talking about previously! No, these bots exist specifically to sit in private servers with TF2 running in text-mode (no graphics to reduce RAM usage) and periodically receive item drops, courtesy of Valve's age old gacha system. These bots then sell these items for irl money, inflating both the in-game economy and the reported player counts. The actual player counts? Declining, and had been since Meet Your Match.

ZestyJesus took aim at the Redditors in his closing statements in the video, highlighting how much of a massive failure SaveTF2 was and what an embarrassment it was that the movement lost steam as soon as Valve threw them a bone that looked and tasted exactly like all the other bones they had been thrown for seven years.

So naturally, the redditors crawled out of the woodwork.

#FixTF2: The Redditor Strikes Back

Not taking any hints as to the actual point of the ZestyJesus, some clown by the name of WeezyTF2 releases this video:

Basically he's just saying the movement needs to start again with a different name. TF2 players, still stunned from the TRVTHNVKE fallout, have begun clinging onto this new movement as of late. It basically just involves a lot more whining, which at least does more than the reddit activism they were doing before.

Another YouTuber by the name of shounic, who mostly does explanations of the game's mechanics and code released this video a mere day ago, highlighting all the barriers to actually fixing the game and all the pitfalls this new movement could fall into:

And at around this time TF2 starts getting massively review bombed!!

At least reviews are an actual form of protest. But what about other Valve games? It appears that Half-Life 2 has also been the target of a few stinkers!

Surely this will go well.

Conclusion

Redditors suck and I hate them all. I hope Valve does something with my favorite childhood game but honestly I'm not holding my breath. I think Valve realizes they're probably going to make more money from their newest Overwatch-clone slop than they could ever make from fixing TF2.

And if they don't? They have the money. Steam will bail them out.

https://twitter.com/GeGeGek_/status/1800807003281150363

I know, must of you probably already know about it, but Jesus.

I don't think I've felt this much dread watching another person's suffering in years.

Hi friends, from #Melodi pic.twitter.com/OslCnWlB86

— Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) June 15, 2024

Okay so it might sound weird okay. But literally my (19f) mom wants me to have s*x. Like it's so weird. She gives me the okay to have s*x all the time. And then she thinks I'm a lesbian because I don't spread my legs for a man. She had me at 19/20. And I made a post like this before like her saying she wants me to have kids soon. But she called me yesterday and was disappointed when I told her I'm not focused on s*x. I want to have my own everything and be on birth control before I have s*x. Like my own car, my own apartment, my own money so that if I get pregnant I can take care of my responsibility myself. I don't want to have a struggle baby. And she was like that's smart but you're already 19 you'll be 20. AND?! Tf you mean I'll be 20 next year? Like I don't even care to talk to her anymore. I know she's my mom but I would never do my future kids like that it's just weird and wrong as heck. Should I tell her about herself or just stop talking to her? I always try to give her the benefit of the doubt cuz she's my mom but idk anymore.

Edit: also my mom knows I'm scared of both s*x and pregnancy but she just dismisses it and says that's silly everyone has s*x and that pregnancy is normal…like what??

Like it's the like truth of the like matter like like.

Edit: thank you to everyone that is commenting except the weirdos telling me to listen to my mom frick you. But to everyone else your comments are so so appreciated <3

Oh no did the mean redditors tell you it's not normal to be scared of s*x in adulthood?

She's jealous because you are at the same age as she got pregnant. She is hoping you fall pregnant secretly so you never become better then who she was

Or she's worried her child is showing signs of delayed maturity.

Don't fall into the generational trauma trap

Fricking child

You're growing up to be wiser than your mother. You don't have to cut all contact, but perhaps space out contact so you don't speak with her as often.

BINGO we have the "cut out the person trying to help you" comment.

Frick her, who care what she says or thinks. Do what is best for you in your opinion. Seems like she's jealous and wants you to go down the same path as her. Be strong. It's your life not anyone else's.

No she just doesn't want her daughter to throwaway her youth and "get into" dating at 30 where most men are no longer interested

Good lord. How did such a stupid woman raise such a smart daughter. You are 100% right in your thinking IMHO. There is any amount of things you could do in the next fifteen to twenty years before having children. She just wants you to validate her poor life choices.

She's not going to frick you

Now for the controversial comments.

I love when people post questions & then when they don't get the feedback they wanted, they get shitty about it.

Like did you want input or did you just want to be coddled & told you're right & everyone else is wrong? Sounds like a b-word to me, on behalf of all dudes, please don't sleep with us. Be gay.

Sensible comment very downvoted

Maybe because pressuring someone who clearly does not want to have s*x to have s*x is weird? Maybe she wanted to feel validated? It's not like she's just going to be like, "hey, yeah! Let me get on tinder and hook up with someone I don't even know just to do it!" because reddit told her to.

People need time for these things and would rather find someone they WANT to do it with. Heck, I didn't have s*x my first couple relationships because I didn't think it would be worthwhile and didn't want someone to only date me for my body.

So many people are writing things like "it's not normal to not want s*x 😵‍💫", say that to literally EVERYONE who ended up not having s*x until marriage. Sure its rare, but it's not wrong to do so, everyone has their reasons. FOH trying to be an asshat to someone who literally just does NOT want something rn.

It's very odd and a sign of some sort of issue

It's not that she doesn't want to have s*x, it's that she's scared of having s*x, which is not normal. No matter how many virtue signaling redditors tell her it is.

I'll talk to you never, see ya loser

Because it's painful? Which is also valid? Because many women are scared of having s*x because of the pain? I don't think I know a single woman who ** wasn't ** scared to have s*x for their first time because of the pain or the implications it had 💀 You likely wouldn't get it because you're a man lmfao

Every women I've talked to about it said "I was scared for like a minute and then he busted I relaxed"

You can see the Boer female arguing with a Kween

!nooticers

!kino

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https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/200017359/#200017359

https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1801285474440327393

Original post:

Microsoft deleted my Minecraft account. This is why I pirate

A surfer of the high seas makes a post about his Minecraft account getting locked because they didn't migrate their Mojang account to a Microsoft account.

Mods say:

Comments locked because it's just a battle of the "this was an easy thing to do and you had plenty of warning" crowd VS "you should be able to keep the game no matter what if you paid for it" crowd.

Both have merits, and yet everyone is now slinging insults and getting personal. Just ridiculous.

some threads:

-Strawman:

The way they rolled out this change out was super fair, actually. I think they gave people well over a year to migrate their accounts

They deny access to a game you have bought. That is never fair no matter how many strawmen you throw at it.

-Whiny idiot:

It's literally a simple web server, dirt cheap especially for a company like Microsoft. They just stopped giving a frick and realized legally they could get away with screwing over the millions of unmigrated players.

You could not be more wrong... They gave you AMPLE time to migrate your account... It just makes you a whiny idiot.

-Dumbshit:

They gave you a lot of time to migrate. they warned people multiple times that it would happen both in email and inside the launcher. if it took this long for you to realize this was happening, you deserve to pay the $30 again.

What if someone had quit the game and decided to come back to the game? Dumbshit argument

Don't ignore emails/the hundreds of reminders that were all over the internet?

-Pirating:

others already commented on whether or not ur reason is a good one but you really dont need to justify yourself. just pirate if you want to, theres not much more to it

-Peepeeriding:

The company peepeeriding here's very crazy. Sucks for you man! Maybe try sending them an email

Peepeeriding a company that gives you spyware for free on windows 11 insane.

Its not peepeeriding microsoft... Despite microsoft is a shit, in this case OP just cant complain, they warned a lot of times for ~2 years in diferent ways, and he realized like 1 year late. Dont blame microsoft for being lazy for years... Does OP want to pirate games? Go ahead, but dont use this to justify himself

If OP has a life, he would be reading their emails as their job probably needs them to keep up to date with it. It's not defending the practice, it's defending fricking common sense.

-Cuckery:

so much cuckery in replies on a piracy subreddit of all places

it's a digital game they can always ask for proof of purchase or something like that to validate a genuine customer

Comments are really split nearly 50/50, with highly upvoted and downvoted posts on each side. it seems like the juiciest ones may have been deleted, but the arguments and multi-paragraphs responses are strong with this one.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1deh5qe/comments_locked_as_users_on_rpiratedgames_argue/