I know why everything sucks...
...and it's because everything is fake
We are voting for fake candidates, who run on fake promises, inside a fake system that was never designed to fix anything.
We are raising kids in fake schools that teach fake history, fake science, which quietly produce fake adults who can't think for themselves.
Then they are getting fake college degrees that cost 4 years and six figures that teach fake education and they get fake jobs.
We are eating fake food, with fake ingredients, funded by fake research.
We are scrolling through fake lives, with fake relationships, who take fake, curated vacations to promote brands that make fake products.
We are watching fake news, about fake crises, produced by fake journalists, for fake outrage.
We are borrowing fake money that was printed from nothing, to fund a fake economy that would collapse in an afternoon if people stopped pretending it was real.
We are buying fake organic food that's just a paid label, and drinking fake juice with two percent juice in it, and putting fake cheese on cheeseburgers that's just "cheese product" on fake burger meat.
We are donating to fake nonprofits where the moeny never makes it to the people and then funding fake foreign aid that buys real weapons to prop up fake governments.
We are going to fake therapy that teaches fake coping skills instead of telling you hard truths.
We are buying fake furniture made of fake wood that's actually compressed sawdust and glue that looks like wood, ships in fourteen boxes with instructions written in a fake language that isn't quite any language, requires tools it doesn't include, takes 4 hours to build, wobbles on day 1, and is totally destroyed in 6 months.
We are downloading fake "free" apps that charge a subscription after three days for AI features that don't work, hidden behind a paywall we didn't see, protected by a privacy policy we didn't read, buried inside Terms of Service written by lawyers specifically so we wouldn't read them, that we agreed to by tapping a button the size of a thumbnail, that gave a company we've never heard of the right to sell our data to companies we'll never hear of, to build a profile on us we'll never see, to influence decisions we'll never know were made.
IT. IS. ALL. SO. FREAKING. FAKE.
And we all yearn for what was once real.
Don't you remember? Did you forget?
There was a time with a simple handshake between men was a contract.
When bread went stale because... well, that's what real bread does!
When kids played outside all day until it was dark, and nobody tracked them.
When a family could live off a single income.
When music was made by people who LIVED something real and you could feel it.
When schools was HARD... and that was the point!
When doctors knew your name and your family, they even came to your house,
When you bought something once... and it was yours forever.
When the chair your grandmother bought once lasted 70 years and she passed it onto your dad.
And now nothing is real, and that's why everything sucks.
This should definitively prove that throwing money at things does fuck all except make NGOs filthy rich.
If it only took $6 billion to “solve” world hunger why does $26 billion change nothing?
“Charity” is the second biggest scam in the world, just behind the government.
I haven't played WoW and this story to me on the surface is like "another lie exposed" but when I read more about it and what I've heard what has happened from Asmongold's POV, I find the people who perpetuated these lies to be profoundly evil to the core, I can't say "just because of differing ideologies" no, just the act of defaming people just because they didn't fit the world view these people wanted so these people resort to any trick in the book to essentially remake the entire company, even when the company was doing fine and was successful because it served it's players. Idk, I can't pinpoint what it is or how the evil just corrupts everything it touches, it is unbelievable regardless. I was shocked after hearing about this, about how many lives this negatively impacted because Asmongold isn't the only one who has changed after WoW got worse. I'm also guessing there is a historical event that happened similar to this and I don't know about it yet.
This is the OG WoW team.
Journalists and grifters really did them dirty.
This is the real story.
This was not a "frat house run amok" as they want you to belief.
I should know. I was the Team Lead. Every HR incident would have to cross my desk. (I'm on the left, holding out the champagne bottle from the launch celebration).
None of them were SA or even "Frat Boy" style incidents (we did have one GDC drinking binge that ended up with flooding a hotel room and getting the company banned, but there were no women involved nor anyone harmed). So many articles were written that claimed Blizzard was a haven for some kind of "wild" and out of control environment. They are wrong.
Instead what we were was a group of geeks, many of us socially awkward, all of us with a passion for games and absolutely driven to make the best game we could.
"Frat Boys" would have stuffed us in lockers and given us swirlies.
We worked hard, we were gamers, geeks, nerds. Many were married, with kids, or starting families. Many others were extremely shy, and introverted. We worked really long hours, but that's kinda what it takes to accomplish the exceptional.
I know it's popular to paint OG gamers (and even DnD players/creators) as some sort of toxic group that pushed out women and minorities. But that's a lie. That's the narrative they use to explain why teams were majority men back then. They were men because women wanted nothing to do with games (until it became popular in culture).
We would have loved to see more women interested in what we were doing, and we would not cared if they wanted to join the team. There was only one requirement: You had to be a gamer and passionate about making games and have the skills to back it up.
We were the quiet, awkward nerds who were driven to excellence.
It is such a terrible wrong to paint this team as some sort of menace to women. It's sad that this is the legacy people want to force on not just Blizzard, but all the OG teams from other companies that defined the IPs that carry gaming even today. They were all attacked. They want to destroy the past, tell a false history, so they can supplant it with their modern agenda (and people).
It was done for clicks. It was done for money. It was done for clout.
But when you point that out, they just call you a "woman hating grifter".
All they do is lie and project.
Thank the Lord. Discord has so graciously bestowed this gift upon us. The gift of uploading files but doubled their size. Oh thank the heavens I was suffocating with this one.
Discord users will soon get a new file upload limit!
Discord has completed closed beta 15/20/25 MB variants testing for new free file upload options to replace the current 10 MB limit.
According to the latest datamine, code within the app confirms that the new free limit will be set to 20 MB.
When AI phone scammers call, you don't hang up, you break their prompt matrix until they start chanting "Albuquerque, New Mexico" on an infinite loop. 💀🤖
@Kitboga is doing God's work messing with AI scam bots.
#Kitboga#AIScams#DDW#ScamBaiting
@jillciminillo@realDonaldTrump The biggest threat to America isn't Hamas, Venezuelan gangs, or violent migrants
It's upper middle class primarily white women who would import all of the above to destroy the country in order to satisfy their suicidal empathy
@AkiraToriyama I see no difference between this and Senua's Walking Simulator. Maybe these people are trying to tell me that I should go out and touch grass rather than paying for their bs.
After Restore Britain wins I want to see Philomena Cunk criticize Islam because when the last time she tried to do it, she was abruptly cut (for comedic purposes) by the producer. I'd like to see the radical and unfiltered version if it happens. Please make it happen @RestoreBritain@RupertLowe10