https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1idisls/comment/m9zzfkr/?context=8

Inside job!!

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1idisls/comment/m9zyssb/?context=8

All religion bad, not just Islam!!! Islam is not to blame

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1idisls/comment/ma00d6f/?context=8

Mohammad peepee suckers trying their hand at spreading misinformation for the religion of peace

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1idisls/comment/m9zzr6d/?context=8

Muslims murdering people for Islam reminds me of Christians not being cool with abortion as birth control!!!

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1idisls/comment/m9zz874/?context=8

DAE BOTH RELIGIONS ARE THE SAME? As an atheist on Reddit, I am euphoric (x24)

Holy shit it is bleak. There are three Harry Potter books in there and two Hunger Games books in there in the top 10 best books.

Then you compare it to the best books of the 20th century ( still one harry potter book in there in top 10 but they are still doing way better than the 21st century.

How did the quality of the "greatest" works fall down so quickly. It is like humanity has forgotten how to write anything with any depth anymore and it is all at the level of quality of teenage story writing.

Is it simply over for the writing genre as a whole or is it that the best quality writing is actually no longer being recognized as the best because it didn't sell enough copies nor got enough appreciation from writing critics, or is it that there is a complete disconnect between what the average person considers enjoyable writing and what is considered actually good high brow writing?

I think it is a shift in medium where all the people looking for depth and high quality in their literary works moved on to movies and video games instead and all who are still hanging around the writing genre are those who will pick a random niche and the general books based on lowest common denominator which is teenage angst or teenage wonderment slop.

What this means is that the writing genre is going to keep going further down in quality over time and we need to look at the possible extinction of reading one day if everything turns out to be possible to be done by video because people are clearly getting worse at appreciating literature while getting a whole lot better at their expectations and appreciation of better video entertainment content.

Conclusion:

In terms of ease of entry into the writing department this is the easiest time period. In terms of making money from it, likely one of the harder time periods. We can expect the quality of writing meant for general audiences to have reached the lowest floor and never rise above it again this generation. The Zoom zooms are too r-slurred when it comes to quality writing in just a book.

Also if you still read Harry Potter books, READ ANOTHER BOOK!

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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.

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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!

Literally crying.

!animalposters !cats

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/vial-of-morphine-allegedly-found-in-bankstown-hospital-locker-of-sydney-nurse-ahmed-rashid-nadir-as-nsw-police-probe-antisemitic-video/news-story/15aea505cede20e4b0787856c8321116

Apparently the male also had drugs in his personal locker.

!jidf how long are we giving this rowdy buck

I just knyow in the nyear future there's gwoing two be a "say his nyame" campaign where the nyame has a few randwom digits and symbwowls nyobwody knyows hwow two pwonyounce

feel like that moment has well and truly passed, everyone I know has increased their meat consumption and takes collagen peptides now

https://old.reddit.com/r/CleaningTips/comments/1hp8ezp/everything_in_my_house_is_turning_green/

The tl;dr is a woman notices shit in her house is turning green and a r*dditor helps her find out it's because her husband is cheating with a woman that wears jeans.

NPReddit reports on it like it's in the news. All of the articles are slop just quoting the thread.

https://nypost.com/2025/01/30/lifestyle/a-woman-learned-of-her-husbands-infidelity-because-of-this-house-cleaning-mystery/

Most obvious reddit slop reddit shit I ever saw. Clearly trying to ape that ancient carbon-monoxide post.

Let's take a look:

• She found out he's cheating because she snooped through his phone and just by "chance" he had dm's on Instagram from a woman that "happened" to be wearing Old Navy jeans on her page. https://old.reddit.com/r/CleaningTips/comments/1i2htjj/update_everything_in_my_house_is_turning_green/

• She has nine fricking cats https://old.reddit.com/r/pacmanfrog/comments/1iag4zz/comment/m9azbwn/?context=8

• It's a woman.

• She looks like this: https://old.reddit.com/r/PlasticSurgery/comments/16k14fy/lipo_360_295_cc_breast_implant_one_week_post_op/

I'm sure parts of it are true but this is the gayest shit I ever saw.

Most of the comments are typical reddit (WHAT ABOUT INTERSEX PEOPLE HUH? HUH? HUH?) but there's one thread of sanity that surprisingly has upmarseys.

https://old.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/1icip3e/executive_order_protecting_children_from_chemical/m9rm976/?context=8

One person even dares to say the thing you're not supposed to nootice out loud:

https://old.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/1icip3e/executive_order_protecting_children_from_chemical/m9s5q6m/?context=8

Note the number of trans healthcare professionals in the comments here. I believe they are likely overrepresented in this thread in comparison to real life.

Go through the thread and you'll see loads of comments starting with "trans ___________ here"

!bookworms to discuss the 4th chapter of our book club choice Petersburg. I'm delayed and still in the middle of chapter 4 so I'll post on the following days or catch up by the next thread like I did last week.

Do you guys think Nikolai Apollonovich is like that because of inceldom?

reminder that a random no name company "accidentally" leaked every single American SSN to the dark web and hardly talked about it and no one went to jail/got fined. The SSN is literally worthless now especially if ur young

https://rdrama.net/h/mnn/post/292567/killherkillherssn-of-every-american-29-billion

they don't make kino like House anymore, everyone is so easily offended nowdays

no do not laugh over small pp jokes, in real life they should get a life sentence no parole. Imagine if the genders were reversed

https://boards.4chan.org/tv/thread/208713765#p208713765

!animalposters