SHIFT UP's action game Stellar Blade is a day away from release and there's already been some controversy that isn't sexual for a change, as Sony says it will remove in-game artwork that shows ‘hard R' due to unintentional racism.

In Stellar Blade, there's an ‘R Shop' referencing the information broker Roxanne. There's also ‘Hard' graffiti that can be found in numerous parts of the game. However, there's one instance in Stellar Blade where the graffiti and R Shop are shown next to each other, showing what appears to reference a racist slur, which Sony claims was “unintentional.”

Sony provided a statement on the matter:

“The placement of two graphics near each other in Stellar Blade resulted in an unintentional objectionable phrase. Shift Up had no intention of creating offensive artwork and will be replacing the graffiti for the Day 1 patch.”

When asked if there are any plans to remove the art from the physical games as well, a PlayStation representative said that it “Should be removed for all users in the Day 1 update.”

The patch has since gone live and the ‘Hard R' artwork has since been changed to say ‘Crime' instead:

Seethe in the comments:

All of you fricking idiots were warned! But no “It's going to be uncensored”, “It's a based game guys!” Bunch of stupid fricking weebs, weebs are fricking laughing stock.

If you're a weeb, then you're calling yourself a subhuman who has no spine whatsoever.

Where's the lie?

You cope too much cute twink. KEEP YOURSELF SAFE you cuck

Ibought two copies because i have tons of money to spend unlike you, you born poor and will die as poor lmfao enjoy working 7$/hr at fast food

America is a mistake.

The corrupt West deserves to be nuked and obliterated completely.

Eastoids still bussyblasted at a lil' bit of nuke correction.

And the idots were attacking you for stating the truth. This is why weebs are cucks. They live in their own little world like a filthy basement dweller.

!nonchuds I will remind you all that the reason why 4chan stays alive is because Hiro gets paid by research groups who want to study the link between anime and rightoid extremism.

>jewish chadslayer101

Rightoids are beyond parody

And here's another article whining about Stellar Blade.

It's the usual over virtual cleavage so not gonna' bother with a write up.

While we're talking about Shift Up let me bring up their now dead gacha game Destiny Child. I really liked the OST the game had

Escape From Tarkov is an extraction shooter developed by Russian studio BattleState Games (BSG). It's somehow been in "beta" for 8 years. Players enter a game, find loot or kill players/AI and take their loot, then if they can exit the map they keep the loot.

The game has a weird monetisation model. The developers promised no microtransactions, no pay 2 win, the usual stuff that makes gaymers smile. Instead the base edition is $50, going all the way up to the Edge of Darkness edition at something like $150. What do you get for that? Basically extra space to store items between games and a season pass for all future DLC.

A few months ago BSG stopped selling Edge of Darkness and suggested they'd offer the features to other players as microtransactions instead. G*mers were less than pleased, but it all blew over in a few weeks.

Arena

Meanwhile, BSG released a seperate standalone game called Arena, which is basically a Team Deathmatch mode for Tarkov aimed at being an esport. Like most "esports ready" slop it flopped, probably because Tarkov doesn't do balance. There are good guns and shit guns, it's ultra realistic. Guy with the better gun and better bullets always wins.

So, 8 years after initial release BSG dump their money into a new, failed game. It's given out for free to Edge of Darkness owners as a "DLC" but still fails. People suspect that this might mean that BSG is running out of money.

PvE

Perhaps the biggest thing the players want is a non-PVP mode. A big part of this is because the game is hard and most players suck, but to be fair Tarkov also has a massive cheater problem.

I mean massive btw, cheaters can see every item in each game. If you enter a raid carrying good gear, the 3-5 cheaters in each map will immediately charge you down for it without fail. BSG supposedly bans these players but does little to stop it, probably because most cheaters sell rare items for real world cash and use the profits to buy a new copy every week. That said, it's been worse in the past. There were times when cheaters could just teleport all the loot in the game straight to them. Fun.

So naturally, players really want to get away from the cheating and play offline. BSG insists it's not possible, although somehow modders were able to reverse-engineer things and create their own Single Player Tarkov (SPT) mod. Someone is lying there, I can't tell who.

Unheard Edition

This week BSG announced a new edition of Escape from Tarkov - Unheard Edition. In this you get all the Edge of Darkness features plus a special knife, woo.

Just kidding, alongside the knife you also get a character with bigger pockets to carry more stuff in game, extra gear and a bunch of other utilities. Naturally gaymers are mad about these more blatant Pay 2 Win features. It's not too bad though, right?

To sweeten the deal these paypigs also get access to a new coop pve mode. Yay! The devs insist that this isn't DLC, but a unique game mode. Edge of Darkness players don't get it.

Oh, and they get a special item which makes the AI not shoot at them.

The best part? The new edition costs

$250

Cue rage.

Drama

The Reddit jannies open the flood gates and promise to be less neurodivergent than usual. Just don't use naughty words.

The devs have been caught repeatedly editing the website to remove promises they just broke. At this point you can just look at /r/escapefromtarkov and see a dozen threads full of seethe. Highlights:

Big seethe thread

Lawsuits incoming

The devs give in and offer Edge of Darkness players a 6 month trial of PvE mode. Redditors even madder.

The lead developer gives an interview where he shits on all the complainers, apparently "True Believers" will buy the new version.

This is ongoing. Will BSG give in or let it all blow over? Only time will tell.

Of course Europe has demons on their euro currency... pic.twitter.com/4HPBbB7aaj

— GBH 🦁☝️ Remilio | ᚱᚹᛟ (@xbtGBH) April 22, 2024

Are all chuds mentally ill?

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That has never ever been stated. Genjutsu works on ANYONE. Even itachi and sasuke. It's a matter of SKILL in genjutsu that determines if you're not affected by one. Not by just having a dojutsu. It's why Danzo can still gett affected even though he has shishui's eyes. Why sasuke and itachi can still affect each other with genjutsu as well, even though they will quickly see through it.Izanami doesn't need help from another person. What are you talking about?Bro there's so much wrong in your post, I don't know where to start. (1)

Genjutsus can work on another sharingan depending on the strength of the users, but the rinnegan has the ability to negate all visual genjutsus.It is stated when madara does the infinite tsukuyomi (probably the strongest genjutsu ever) but sasuke doesnt get affected by it, and black zetsu says something along the lines of: "his rinnegan... can even negate this technique". So if the rinnegan can negate the effects of the infinite tsukuyomi it can surely resist any of itachis genjutsus. (-4)

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Wtf are you on. The whole shinden shows how itachi played obito.And please tell me how obito wasnt threatened when flowing teen itachi after getting dewth threats or admitted in his inner monologue he would die. No the closest was when a kid threatened him and followed his ultimatum while admittong he cant kill him and if he would even find out he isnt madara and thete isnt w secret about his " immortality " he would.be dead already lmaoAnd again kishimoto himself stated itachi is the strongest in akatsuki in thr authors note.Itachi >teen itachi >/= om obitoCanon shinden, manga facts and atate dby KISHIMOTO himself.You , nah bro its not true, source: trust my headcanon Obito snd madara fanboys are thr most delusional clowns. You literally atgue against a clear statement by kishimoto himself lmao (3)

And the canon manga shows how Obito played Itachi like a fiddle. The manga is the primary source of canon.Post the page in question. (-4)

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Pain wins in any case:Genjutsus dont work on painAmaterasu has counters from 2 of 6 pains, and they can help the rest.Itachi has not large amounts of chakra and cant mantain susanoo for long.Izanami needs help from another person so he cant do it.Pain can always use chibaku tensei and thats a KO for itachi. (4)

1: Genjutsu does work on Pein, as shown with Jiraiya's Frog Song genjutsu.4: Izanami only needs a set of events to happen multiple times to set up. (-3)

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Not a single person in Naruto fights to lose. Except maybe hiding, cause that's also his wincon. (-1)

.... Are you reading with your eyes closed? People fight for different reasons. Abilities have drawbacks.Gai can fight Kisame and want to kill him, but not go to 7 gate or 8 gate because it will hurt him significantly or kill him.In character - Means they fight how they would in manga. Some people don't go straight to their strongest attack and abilities. Eg Orochimaru - They fight based on how pressured they are.Others do.This is a KNOWN vs debate condition - https://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/1srxxd/questionwhat_exactly_does_bloodlusted_mean/Arguing that Gai would go 7 and 8 gate immediately , Literally at the START of any fight, is stupid and no incharacter for his personality. The fact that you don't know this and are arguing this point so adamantly, I have no idea why you're in a powerscaling community reddit. (5)

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I literally just linked you the manga scans of it growing to protect against attacks. In the manga Itachi doesn't move in any capacity. He just slices the hydra. You are watching the anime, which isn't canon. Go look at the thread I just linked and get back to me (0)

There is a difference between it can and it does. Basically like any susanno armor or chakra cloak, Itachi can modify the shield to cover different parts of himself, as in the manga, his sides. Can, but it's probably not automatic given that Itachi has to manifest it with his Susanno and how it began relatively small. He has to consciously grow and control it. The ability to change the shape or defense properties of a shield doesn't take away the fact it isn't an 360 degree aura. It's still a shield. An ethereal and stretchy shield, but a shield nonetheless. But let's assume Itachi starts the fight with some perfect 360 yata aura shield that he extends through his chakra/will to cover his entire body, including the ground beneath him. He's invulnerable to physical and chakra attacks, though it remains unseen what percent of an attack the shield nullifies, absorbs, or reflects. He used the blade to kill the hydra snake/orochimaru so the shield didn't send the snake repelling back whe... (2)

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I don't think Itachi beats Pain, mainly due to matchup advantage but I don't think that Idea is that ridiculous really...“Like... Pain had a pretty long fight against a sannin and even ends up praising him and says that Jiraiya could've killed him if he had intel. 14 year old Itachi beat a sannin by looking at him once.”Pain was nerfed in his own village not to mention you're trying to use ABC logic.Pain was running away from a version 2 Jinchuriki. Edo Itachi was actively coaching Killer Bee (Perfect Jinchuriki) to make sure he doesn't get folded instantly when he fights Itachi.Pain had Naruto beat beforehand and wasn't allowed to kill him. Bee didn't need itachi's help he broke out of his genjutsu and kept him on the defensive. (1)

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We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.

If you want more real, honest, and politically INcorrect stories that’ll have the media gasping,… pic.twitter.com/bKhpUkchHV

— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) April 26, 2024

I grew up on a farm but luckily it wasn't Kristi Noem's farm or otherwise I'd be dead in a gravel pit.

I'm not making this up when I say she brought a happy tail wagging 14-month-old puppy to a gravel pit and then murdered it in cold blood and threw it into a shallow grave rather than find it a new home. Everything I just said is true and something she admitted to thinking she would get votes.

She literally wrote this into a book and it's not the only animal she murdered in the story lmao

This is the puppy btw:

I'll never hold civilian protester chants to the same degree of seriousness as Israeli state officials statements on international television. Somehow I'm less phased by college kids and moms chanting “burn Tel Aviv” than I am Israeli government representatives telling world organizations that they're “proud of the ruins in Gaza”.

Kind of seems like trying to compare civilian protest to one of the most well funded militaries in the world, and that's just a flat out silly thing to try to do.

That might be the case but shouldn't we be concerned about people making these chants? They might not represent everyone's beliefs on the pro Palestinian side but it would be dumb to just shrug it off like it's nothing. [-52]

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1cdiz2p/protestors_shout_burn_tel_aviv_to_the_ground/l1ct4f5/?context=8&sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1cdiz2p/protestors_shout_burn_tel_aviv_to_the_ground/l1cu7x4/?context=8&sort=controversial

These are not Columbia university students. They're outside of the campus

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1cdiz2p/protestors_shout_burn_tel_aviv_to_the_ground/l1c5juw/?context=8&sort=controversial

The people shouting that are terrorists and should be as such. [-9]

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1cdiz2p/protestors_shout_burn_tel_aviv_to_the_ground/l1c9g6w/?context=8&sort=controversial

this is hate speech not free speech [-10, deletemaxxxed]

https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1cdiz2p/_/l1cdwyp/#comment-info

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1cdiz2p/_/l1cdwyp/?context=8&sort=controversial

Source

https://old.reddit.com/r/fantasyromance/comments/1ce2lw3/reading_what_lies_beyond_the_veil_and_this_bugs_me/?sort=controversial

Reminder that economics is not a real science and econ professors deserve it.

!anticommunists

Thanks to the libtard municipal government policy decriminalizing homelessness and defunding police in the past year, it has become necessary to resurrect this project by rigging up a new broadcast unit for the first time since 2021, to blast directly at a new homeless encampment on the other side of the property boundary.

I learned a lot from the original version of this project, so the new broadcast unit will be faster to set up since I have a refined design. I think I will start tomorrow and try to have the broadcast going by the end of the day. Also I have learned how to do some basic audio editing since 2021, so now I can add boost the volume/equalizer on music tracks that I previously would have excluded due to having too many quiet parts.

I will try to keep the new playlist relatively meme-y, but I cannot risk including any music of the 1933-1945 and 1861-1865 persuasion. During the original version of this project, I was able to shrug off most of the questions about that type of music from the local Karens, but it's more risky these days with moral busybodies and whiners.

But I feel confident in getting away with subversive music, especially if it's not in German or English.

To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan. Before you do, steel yourself for what's to come: A normal person could easily mistake his rambling train wrecks of thought for a crackpot's ravings, but influential Silicon Valley billionaires regard him as a genius.

“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I've ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the V.C. firm Andreessen-Horowitz, in a blurb for Balaji's 2022 book, The Network State: How to Start a New Country. The book outlines a plan for tech plutocrats to exit democracy and establish new sovereign territories. I mentioned Balaji's ideas in two previous stories about Network State–related efforts in California—a proposed tech colony called California Forever and the tech-funded campaign to capture San Francisco's government.

Balaji, a 43-year-old Long Island native who goes by his first name, has a solid Valley pedigree: He earned multiple degrees from Stanford University, founded multiple startups, became a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz and then served as chief technology officer at Coinbase. He is also the leader of a cultish and increasingly strident neo-reactionary tech political movement that sees American democracy as an enemy. In 2013, a New York Times story headlined “Silicon Valley Roused by Secession Call” described a speech in which he “told a group of young entrepreneurs that the United States had become ‘the Microsoft of nations': outdated and obsolescent.”

“The speech won roars from the audience at Y Combinator, a leading start-up incubator,” reported the Times. Balaji paints a bleak picture of a dystopian future in a U.S. in chaos and decline, but his prophecies sometimes fall short. Last year, he lost $1 million in a public bet after wrongly predicting a massive surge in the price of Bitcoin.

Still, his appetite for autocracy is bottomless. Last October, Balaji hosted the first-ever Network State Conference. Garry Tan—the current Y Combinator CEO who's attempting to spearhead a political takeover of San Francisco—participated in an interview with Balaji and cast the effort as part of the Network State movement. Tan, who made headlines in January after tweeting “die slow motherlovers” at local progressive politicians, frames his campaign as an experiment in “moderate” politics. But in a podcast interview one month before the conference, Balaji laid out a more disturbing and extreme vision.

“What I'm really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore). Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts. “And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. “You're a fellow Gray.”

The Grays' shirts would feature “Bitcoin or Elon or other kinds of logos … Y Combinator is a good one for the city of San Francisco in particular.” Grays would also receive special ID cards providing access to exclusive, Gray-controlled sectors of the city. In addition, the Grays would make an alliance with the police department, funding weekly “policeman's banquets” to win them over.

“Grays should embrace the police, okay? All-in on the police,” said Srinivasan. “What does that mean? That's, as I said, banquets. That means every policeman's son, daughter, wife, cousin, you know, sibling, whatever, should get a job at a tech company in security.”

In exchange for extra food and jobs, cops would pledge loyalty to the Grays. Srinivasan recommends asking officers a series of questions to ascertain their political leanings. For example: “Did you want to take the sign off of Elon's building?”

This refers to the August 2023 incident in which Elon Musk illegally installed a large flashing X logo atop Twitter headquarters, in violation of building safety codes. City inspectors forced him to remove it. This was the second time Musk had run afoul of the city in his desire to refurbish his headquarters: In July, police briefly halted his attempt to pry the “Twitter” signage from the building's exterior. But in Balaji's dystopia, he implies that officers loyal to the Grays would let Musk do as he pleases (democratically inclined officers, he suggests, can be paid to retire).

Simply put, there is a ton of fascist-chic cosplay involved. Once an officer joins the Grays, they get a special uniform designed by their tech overlords. The Grays will also donate heavily to police charities and “merge the Gray and police social networks.” Then, in a show of force, they'll march through the city together.

!clinklickers MOAR WORDS...

Bombay Shaving Company does a full page ad for Prachi, The UP board topper, who was being trolled for facial hair.

Haven’t seen something this desperate.

This message goes to their own TG, not to the people who bullied her, hey pls remember to buy our razors while you shed a… pic.twitter.com/YWBDwgd6LU

— Gabbar (@GabbbarSingh) April 27, 2024

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Context: Grade 10 schoolgirl scored the highest marks in the state-wide annual school exams. She went viral because she's very hairy and her parents and her don't seem to care about her appearance. They should have at least given her a shave/wax to make her presentable before publishing her photo or appearing on TV. Why even print the photo or appear in an interview if you only wanted people to celebrate her achievement? The problem is Indian parents and boomers don't believe taking care of your appearance and health is important.

https://twitter.com/ians_india/status/1781640786641088524

Incels have been making fun of her and femcels have been defending her:

No way that's a girl..no way..

Atiq Ahmad

Atiq Ahmad was a notorious gangster that was recently killed.

Those haters mocking her probably couldn't even score as high as she did,lol !

Mithai na khilao as a celebration pehle waximg Karao iski

"Don't feed her sweets as a celebration, wax her first"

Queen Prachi Nigam 👑

Another copium post. Tbh it comes of as sarcasm. The caption says "laugh all you want but some days later you will be my driver and your bank balance will laugh at you". The user speaks as if she's landed on Mars. Bruh, she still has to complete her Grade 12 exams, not to mention heaps of other exams that land you a government job or enrolment in university.

This is UP board topper Prachi Nigam and she scored 98.5%. She should focus on grooming herself as well

Guy makes a good point but could have worded it more politely. Foids and simps seethe in replies.

The topper herself/himself responds to the trolls:

"Trollers can live with their mindset, I am happy that my success is now my identity......what will ultimately matter are my marks and not the hair on my face": https://www.siasat.com/up-topper-prachi-nigam-shuts-up-trollers-over-her-facial-hair-3014157/

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Now, a shaving company does a full front-page ad on her on India's most read newspaper (A.I.R. stands for All India Rank (exams)):

Their intentions may have been good, but it feels like they're making fun of her lol

https://twitter.com/GabbbarSingh/status/1784091111793008767

Poor girl , hope she and her parents learn to care about her physical appearance.

I will soon be finishing my undergraduate degree. My university has requested my "preferred name" to display on the diploma. I think it would be funny to submit "[my name], King of the Rats". I also intend to apply to law school within the next year. I have 2 questions:

Are diplomas submitted in law/graduate school applications, or just records containing GPA and the like?

If yes, is it a real concern that doing this might hurt my prospects? I personally feel it is a harmless bit of self expression, but I could see the possibility that a recruiter considers it a sign that I'm not "serious".

What could go wrong

Pakis are some of the most annoying ppl

— 🇮🇶🇱🇧علي (@incheb212841) April 24, 2024

Well he said men not boys

>Neckbeard

@ThatHoeOverThere @ReKonger0 thots

NEW AD: Trump says football is “boring as hell” and “nobody cares” about it.

So we’re airing this during the NFL draft for football fans to see. pic.twitter.com/KpimgYvLru

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 25, 2024

Kristi Noem killed her 14 month old puppy simply because it annoyed her pic.twitter.com/SFguJiJ50I

— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) April 26, 2024