"The American Flag gives me the ick"

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXPreppers/comments/1igugaw/the_50501_protests_are_looking_more_and_more/mas4hph/?context=8

Even if it isn't a trap, ya know what? POC think I'm one of those white people and white people have, unequivocally, down to a one, every single time thrown me under the bus first. Sometimes just for funsies. My husband, who was just calling me hysterical not too long ago can pout all he wants that Mommy won't take him to The Protest. Frick no, I won't go.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXPreppers/comments/1igugaw/the_50501_protests_are_looking_more_and_more/massx7c/?context=8

Horsefrickers in Wa. find excuses not to go outside:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Washington/comments/1icmujl/50501_protest_lets_do_this/

take:

https://old.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/comments/1ieon3k/american_witches_join_r50501_if_interested/

The Jannies of the South explain why this particular pile of shit ain't worth mopping (i.e. reddit tier organisation):

https://old.reddit.com/r/Georgia/comments/1igeqfz/50501_advertisement_posts_are_temporarily_not/

/r/Antiwork asks why they aren't protesting?

https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1i9lshc/why_arent_we_protesting/

Answer:

SO EVERY TIME THE FAKECELS OF !INCELS REJECT MY APPLICATION I CAN INVITE THEM TO !FAKELARPERCUTE TWINKCELS

hi rdrama

I got a few pings after people shared places I posted my most recent article, and that made me remember I've been neglecting to share them here lately.

can't have that. so here's my latest Drama

you may have already seen it but now you're seeing it from me, here

https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1iir4uu/newegg_just_restocked_5090_via_6000_bundles/

Not only JewEgg selling a $2K card for $6k Bundles

The AIBs have decided to join in the scalping game

MSI

https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1iii706/msi_just_raised_all_5090_prices_on_their_website/

And ASUS

https://old.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1ij34aj/msi_and_asus_increase_nvidia_rtx_5090_and_rtx/

And CaseKing

https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1iioc0s/caseking_still_no_supply_but_raised_the_prices_by/

!g*mers are currently

Me with my 4070

No, I'm not telling you who

Amazing thread attempting to create a narrative with 40k upkongs and just 900 comments, so you know it's legit.

Comments are mostly as expected: Yeah, but Amazon is cheaper, ships faster, and has ez returns.

Note: Amazon doesn't make much on it's retail ops anymore, so they probably dgaf if people shop there or not.

Notable zero-pointers

2 weeks later no package arrives, no answer from support, regret not using reliable Beszos

Amazon is Amazon for a reason

Yeah but usually there products are marked up 25% compared to the Amazon listing so bezos gets my money🤷.

Nah I usually want the shit I ordered faster than 1-3 business months

The Pivot attempt and rebuttal

The main difference is Amazon offers free shipping and free hassle free returns. Other retailers charge you to return products you order from them and usually charge you shipping to get them

fyi hassle free returns = products go directly in the garbage (cheaper than sorting through the products) and Amazon bakes the cost into higher prices for everyone due to the high volume of returned items

FYI the exact same thing happens when you return it to the manufacturer.

The only difference is that it's substantially easier to return a product to Amazon vs most manufacturers.

Which means more of rdrama's official(but least favourite) wargame: culture war!

https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/337159/inspired-by-the-trench-crusade-stupidity

https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/339725/trench-crusade-comes-up-again-so

• Haters

Haters gonna hate.

Antitheist

Atheist

Nerd

Hates: religious people and religions

An Internet atheist still mad at his parents

Woke antitheist

Atheist

Woke

Deviant

Groomer

Hates:religious people and religions

A variation of the standard internet atheist who believes in woke ideology

Enlightened Nietzchian nazi

Atheist

Antisemite

Homophobia

Deviant

Nerd

Nazi

Racist

Hates: religious people and religions

An idiot who read Nietzsche and thought he'd endorse nazism.

• New trait: atheist

Atheists cannot benefit or be harmed by miracles or magic.

For context, if you use the progressive stack award, your posts are (temporarily) treated as if they have 2x their actual upkongs. This was thought of as so powerful by the jannies that it costs 1500 coins for just 6 hours. Now, if you make a post that gets 140 upkongs, and at the same time someone makes an effortpost that gets 30 upkongs, or chud ragebait that gets 50 upkongs, your post will actually be below them on the front page. In fact, since upkongs are basically normally distributed (getting 30 upkongs is pretty average, getting 90 makes yours one of the top posts of the day, getting 150 would make it the top post of the day), any sort of multiplier would change the content of the front page immensely, let alone a multiplier so large it treats mediocre effortposts and slightly above average chud ragebait as superior to the actual top post as chosen by users.

The fact that /h/chudrama is blocked by default is irrelevant, because most active users have it unblocked, so even if you block /h/chudrama every post you make is still effectively being deranked. And besides, there are plenty of people who want to read /h/chudrama and not have it be literally the only thing they see on the front page

!nonchuds

My great grandpa (maternal side) is Czech and he once told us of how during the rise of the Nazi Party in neighboring Germany, but there were many in Czechoslovakia as well who were sympathetic to the Nazis, Hitler and their ideals, as truth be told, many Czechs saw the Germans as "equals", thought that the Nazis hatred of Jews, Roma people or Slavic people somehow didn't apply to them (Czechs who saw themselves as "Germanic" and/or sympathized with the Nazis).

Meanwhile many of those who opposed and/or did not sympathize with the Nazis also downplayed the threat the Nazis posed by saying things like "Oh, what's happening in Germany won't happen here", or "Hitler won't make good on his crazy threat to invade us", "Oh, it probably won't get that bad" or some other way of saying that we (those who are raising alarms over the danger Hitler actually posed) are overeacting.

When Hitler's forces invaded, a number of Czech people actually welcomed them giving Nazi salutes to the columns of invading Nazi troops or tearing down the Czech flag from buildings themselves to replace it with Nazi flags.

However, my great grandpa saw the danger the Nazis posed, the repression, violence and death they'd bring and lo and behold, when the Nazis did actually occupy Czechoslovakia, turns out the Nazis weren't just oppressing the Jews, gay people, communists, liberals, Czech nationalists and academics, but also extended their oppression of ordinary Czech people, including those of Germanic ancestry. Turns out, the Nazis didn't see us as equals after all and many of those Czechs who welcomed the Nazis had a "why are the leopards eating my face, I supported them?" mentality when the Gestapo came after them as well.

This is basically an oversimplification of why my great grandpa told me but yeah, the reason the Nazis (and fascism in general) was able to rise the way it does was because people either underestimated its danger or downplayed it for years, treating them like a joke until that joke wasn't funny anymore.

10k up votes we're going to hear about drumph until the universe ends huh

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it's amazing how people will shill terrible design choices like this, and then project that you are being a special snowflake for wanting beauty and consistency in your art. (86)

What makes it a terrible design choice. Women who are mma fighters look like this and she is supposed to be a badass so why wouldn't she look like this. Also it's fiction and the way they look is constantly changing why would you compare for just her when the Witcher himself has changed drastically over the games (-25)

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Still ignoring my point of Geralt being 100 years old but doesn't look like his facial features have changed (besides the hair) yet Ciri is the exception I suppose? (6)

Have you seen what Geralt looked like in Witcher 1? His face changes every game 🤣 (-6)

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I think people are getting way too caught up with small differences in a cinematic trailer. Geralt looked different in TW3 cinematic trailers. Heck, he looked extremely different on a game to game basis...https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fb6v7kyeebl6e1.pnghttps://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fciri-from-the-witcher-4-reveal-trailer-v0-pj8n7j3gml6e1.png%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D6d144b369afc36a63315b8d8291a26534520c22aFrom other angles, she looks pretty darn similar to me...like you can't tell me she doesn't look like herself in these shots. People are hyper focusing on some weird shots that were meant to be high fidelity but ended up uncanny, and proceeding to catastrophize.Game is years away and CDPR probably didn't even make this trailer. Calm your tits. (39)

People getting hung up on bullshit like cheekbones.The core issue is that a bunch of dudes don't necessarily want to roleplay as a woman. I don't think there's anything toxic about that.Action movies' and video games' main customer is dudes. It can work ... but it's a risky move to create a video game and/or action movie that doesn't cater to your main customer base. If design decision 1 is "let's make it harder for our our primary customer base to engage with our main protagonist", it may be worth considering if that decision is worth the risk. (-8)

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That's not lying. That is not by any means what lying is, nor am I lying. If you want a breakdown of the witcher series I can not tell you much besides It started as a book series, then it got taken in for games, and the games went like this1 was good2 was considered bad3 at launch was mixed but after a few patches to fix some issues people had it overall became the best one.The first 3 games lead into geralts full conclusion with ciri being established as a possible follow up to geralt.Comes witcher 4 which was now announced, and ciri is older. Witcher fans KNEW ciri had potential to be the new lead and she became all powerful with her magic. Now she is a supposed witcher and everyone wants to know how. And people are having mixed feelings on her looks, but not really cause this is the first time I have seen this sentiment show up.We been past that topic man, you seem a little lost. Want to sit down and talk slower about it?Edit: it is very abundant you are a troll or someone who i... (2)

How to lie with statistics. Using misleading data sets is one of the first methods.Oh so you don't actually know? How unexpected.I can vouch for the fact that I think her looks are fine. The assertion they "uglified" her is absurd and can be tossed out of hand for its absolute absurdity. I suspect those goofballs are only being used as a weak man (strawman's little cousin) as attempt to cover up the real gripe ... guys don't choose to roll female characters when they have the option not to. Stands to reason they might not buy the game because it's not an option.But you still haven't explained it to me. So I'll keep asking until you do. Why does not preferring to roll a female character in an RPG indicate a lack of empathy?I am not trolling at all. I'm having an open/transparent discussion. I'm merely pointing out all the dishonest accusations and bullshit you're trying to pin on me. There's no reason to get so upset over someone merely disagreeing with you. You stretching so hard to... (1)

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No one says "who cares" to someone and not expect it to be taken offensively. If you find that to be a perfectly sound, civil answer, then I must say you really are the kind of person you're being accused of being, and any further discussion with you would only serve as more evidence.So let's chat, shall we?What's your problem with her reply? Why did it upset you so?You have received exactly zero attacks before I descended upon you sword in my hand. You did dish a few out yourself, though, and plenty of accusations, especially regarding other people's presumed feelings. It seems you really do believe that your opinions are factual. So, you not only seem to lack empathy, but you also don't seem to be the sharpest tool in the shed.And besides, I don't care about you enough to become upset. That doesn't mean I won't call you whatever I believe you are. For me, calling people out for their true selves and watching them writhe in refusal is a twisted form of entertainment. And you don't ... (1)

Attack my stance with dishonesty, personal attacks, and/or snippiness and I have no qualms returning the favor.There's no correlation with empathy and what kind character you prefer to roll for a RPG video game. Duh? Implying otherwise is nothing more than toxicity with intent to sow divisiveness. Ironic huh.I was accused of being weird and lacking empathy many times in this thread.That has been the core question from the start. You and the other jackasses in here have been trying to manipulate it into something else from the start. You get upset when I point out your manipulation.You seem oblivious that they do care. At the end of the day ... if this was your only gripe with my post... we would've acknowledged our difference of opinion/speculation and moved on with 0 hostility. That's how adult conversations work.This thread only got hostile once the accusations and personal attacks (toxicity, lack of empathy) were launched. (1)

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I'm one who probably won't buy the game on day one. I doubt I'm literally the only person on earth who feels this way. My purchase is at risk. For context ... this is one of my favorite gaming series (only 2nd behind Mass Effect) that I've played since W1 in 2007.It's anecdotal ... as someone who's played RPGs in various forms for decades, it's hard to not notice that most people roll characters of their own gender when given the option. Take away that option ... and there's a risk folks will be less inclined to buy the game.You should be aware ... saying there's a risk doesn't imply any specific outcome is inevitable. So I'm not entirely certain what you think I'm here to "prove". (1)

I mean, I won't either, but my reasoning is that I simply don't trust in any game's quality before seeing plenty of reviews from actual players. Is your reasoning primarily centered around Ciri being the protagonist? It has to, otherwise it wouldn't really serve as a point in this argument.Except that the literally don't. Girls tend to roll male character more often than you think, and it's a pretty well known mantra among guys that they'd rather watch a girl's butt for 100 hours of gameplay. You're ignoring everything but your own experience. Which makes for a rather weak argument.Fine, I'll give you a hint. Prove to me that games in the past have achieved less success for the sole reason of having a female protagonist. The important part being "for the sole reason". Failing while woman is not enough, you gotta show to me that it failed because of woman. Cause, you know, if you claim there is a risk, there must be precedent to warrant that risk. Obvious, isn't it? (1)

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A lot of porn subs getting the mop.

rip /r/cocaine and /r/drugs

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/r/modsupport in shambles

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Once you accept the Bible as the final and only authority you're going to end up cargo culting Judaism

/u/sadsardine

Guy posts a screenshot from usaspending.gov of the overview for Politico and then asserts

Politico spent years masquerading as an independent news outlet while secretly being propped up by USAID, a taxpayer-funded slush fund. Now, with Trump and Elon pulling the plug, the charade is over. No paychecks, no propaganda. This isn't journ*lism—it was state-funded narrative control, designed to protect the regime and attack its enemies.

Politico had a problem with their payroll today and the chudspehere is convinced it has something to do with USAid. Naturally the chuds lap it up except if you scroll immediately below the overview you get this

It just means that other agencies are acting as fronts for USAid clearly. I wonder what they were paying them for? I hope its something juicy.

Print and internet subscriptions. No, thats just code for attempting to destroy Trump.

R-slurs go even further

Edit 3: 9 mil to Reuters

🤨 https://t.co/R32kbLTeTW

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 5, 2025

Edit 4: Associated Press

It's not just Politico. The Associated Press has been raking in millions of dollars in government money for years.

The AP's bias also makes perfect sense. pic.twitter.com/RrH5JPykvY

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) February 5, 2025

Reuters & AP are paid as wire services. US law requires agencies to publish via the register and wire services when they make administrative changes, its how people find out what they are doing. Multiple agencies (particularly state & DOD) also pay for wire subscriptions as its a cheap intelligence source.

It also stops with trans while I was referring to Transactions 💀💀

TLDR: Parish councillor rigs explosive trap for cat. The townsfolk seem reluctant to even speak about it