I cannot keep up with this “Pizzagate” scandal, it keeps going off in weird directions and I feel like I missed a story piece.

I skipped 1, I adored 2 and played it to a harmful degree, I tried 3 and got bored after three attempts to get into it. There was a fourth??

I mean, the second game was basically setting the thing up for a MMO open-world, group-mission-running/loot extraction type game across a huge, cel-shaded world with open PvP areas and wild custom characters… and they dropped the ball on that?

Allegedly others around Epstein and Trump have done some truly medieval shit that I hesitate to even repeat. Trump is reported to have brutally killed a litter puppies for pleasure at Epstein’s estate according to the latest file drop. I didn’t read into details of how, I was already sick from the other parts involving children.

It’s all just reports, and some were deemed non-credible by law enforcement, saying some witnesses “had a history of mental health issues”, but I’m not naive and liberal anymore and realize that all the horror stories you heard about people in the ancient times? We’re the same fucking species, there are plenty of people right now around us every day who would delight in doing things to other living, innocent beings that would harm your mind if you imagined it, much less saw it happen with your own eyes, so yeah I think I would also have a history of mental health issues if I saw some of that shit.

I think i have problems now from reading some of those passages.

I mean, is it any more or less believable that Epstein had his X-box Live account banned right after he declined helping Bill Gates acquire surreptitious antibiotics for a STI he picked up from one of Epstein’s captive Russian girls?

I feel like we all get lost in the idea that the rich and powerful have some kind of life insulated from nonsense and bullshit drama that we all go through.

They’re just idiots like the rest of us.

They just have enough money and a complete lack of morality that they can dismember and eat babies and children and throw newborns into the sea without facing legal repercussions.

When I wrote this, the Middle Eastern conflict wasn’t happening

and noting the film is fictional

I dispute both of these claims.

AGAIN?!?

Nothing’s changed. The plan is the same.

The movie was written in direct call-out of both democrats and republicans enabling and supporting the genocide. Trump isn’t the only one supporting this, he’s just the least tasteful and most overtly evil in presenting his goals for the region. The rest of America’s political leadership is mostly fine with it and broadly want the same thing.

I guarantee private equity is circling them like a flock of buzzards smelling death. This is why they’re preemptively making the same actions that a private equity company would do after acquisition, layoffs, restructuring “bold new plans” and a bunch of lip-service to inflate value before divvying up any resources of value like licenses and senior programmers to form a new brand, and throwing the rest away.

I love it even more when they force their employees to return to office work, nothing makes me happier as a gamer than knowing the people making the games I love are miserable and the company has a much narrower hiring pool.

implementing cost-cutting, project cancellations, and a return-to-office mandate.

Yes, as a gamer, I cannot count the number of times I’ve thrown the controller down and screamed “WHY WON’T THESE EMPLOYEES RETURN TO THE OFFICE?!”

Yep, this is rage-bait or some sexual kink thing surfacing as a news story because the authors know it will get shared to hell and back. While I have absolutely no doubt that there are plenty of right-wingers with weird sexual hangups that they’re trying to make everyone’s problem, cousin-marriages are pretty low on the list of things we need to worry about. As long as everyone is adult and consenting I literally do not care what people do with their peepees.

This is a group of people who are almost entirely led by, or are themselves, incels who grew up and got attention for screaming about how bad women are and how everyone needs to be an “alpha male” to succeed. They’re not healthy. They are fascists, and every fascist movement has been the product of sexual insecurity.

There’s a Ven Diagram out there of conservatives who are obsessed with if people are trans, and men who are afraid to touch their ass in the shower to clean because it’s “gay” and those circles almost line up perfectly.

My favorite stage of fascism is when there are grainy newspaper pictures of the dictator’s body being paraded for the citizens to witness.

Not sure if we’ll get that, but a man can dream.

People broadly don’t think social issues are going to effect them personally and are real good at making excuses for stability and comfort. It’s not that American Asian women are broadly “self hating” in fact it’s usually the exact opposite, they are very strong, prideful people which is where the meme comes from making fun of incels for thinking asian women are submissive.

I don’t know what brings a couple like this together, I’m sure it’s complicated, but I have strong feeling that she’s filipina, and if I know anything it’s that she is haaaaating this media attention and social shaming, and as a result is making this dude’s life hell. It’s not nearly enough but I do delight in the fact that they’re both suffering together on this front.

None of it matters at all, it’s never been about race specifically, it’s about power and control and insecurity. These are the factors that turn people into murderers. Race is always just a convenient decoy they can point at.

Race is connected just in that most of these fucksticks are deeply insecure about someone of another race being more exotic and attractive to their girlfriends, and that sexual insecurity just manifests as this bottomless well of hate and anger, because that’s the only kind of emotion they think they can have as men.

But really, through all of history the people who persecute the people of different races or ethnicities have often also taken advantage of or been deeply attracted to those people as well, and it becomes this toxic well of shame and hate. Stephen Miller is jewish. Vance has to apologize for his wife being Hindu. The leader of the Proud Boys was hispanic. Don’t try to make any of it make sense, just understand that these are not thinking people, if they could think through their problems we wouldn’t be in this mess to begin with.

I knew exactly one BMW driver in my life, he was a marketing firm executive, looked like a character from Better Call Saul. I was in charge of marketing for a small company that I lied to about my qualifications and ended up a VP of marketing, so this guy comes roaring up one day and parks across two spaces in his BMW convertable, cigar in mouth, aviator shades, cheap suit and loud tie, he just always wanted to “make things happen.”

Absolute cartoon character. I have to say I kind of loved every interaction, it was like a recurring character on a sitcom.

Anyway, about all I remember was him complaining how hard it was to get the thing serviced and the wheels alone set him back the cost of another car.

I hated marketing, but I also hated the unemployment that followed when the housing market bubble burst and suddenly nobody had money anymore.

The BMW-driver stereotypes are real too.

This is already a shitshow of a comment section.

I wish people would stop debating “ages” of children and “cutoff points” and start talking how better to reduce suffering and trauma broadly.

Trump’s eponymous battleships will be armed with guns and missiles, as well as hypersonic weapons, electronic rail guns and high-powered lasers.

The lack of robots and sharks makes me worry he might be losing his touch entirely.

I’m pretty sure Tyson is just an old dude who wanted a check to retire on. He doesn’t seem to have the passion for fighting anymore, and I respect that. I don’t know if I would have lost to a giant asshole on international media for that check, but I don’t hold it against him for getting his bag.