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[Dokurider @dokurider]

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[Dokurider @dokurider]

@HMBohemond @TheNicholasWolf Publishing back itself into this corner, don't give Martin so much credit

[🪶Native Patriot 🇺🇸 @LaNativePatriot]

There is a serious culture of everyone misunderstanding how communism takes power

It’ll never be them lining up across from you to fight in a fair battle

They pick you apart. They overspend your tax dollars, they make every process impossible for build, maintain, or create honest institutions. While free passes & tax dollars are given to their useful idiots furthering their degenerate agenda.

They allow crime to run rampant & if you defend yourself they’ll put YOU in jail.

They will target us one by one by painfully stupid but “legal” rules they created just to keep you from thriving.

Every food conglomerate & media outlet pumps out so much goyslop propaganda to poison & dull your body & mind

They flood your communities with illegals & utilize mail in ballots to sway elections

The mass deaths come after they gain full control of every level of your government. It’s cheered on, propagated, & championed by horrible women like this.

Your government will become so incompetent & lined with red tape once a curated crisis hits there won’t even be a pathway to avoid mass starvations

You won’t be fighting “communists” per se, you’ll be fighting against your neighbors looking for food while the communists are all in positions of “power” where they can direct the food & supplies to themselves

[Emerald Apple @AI_EmeraldApple]

Korea bans porn.
Lowest fertility in the world, high female workplace participation.
Japan has partial restrictions.
One of the lowest fertility rates in the world, and also high female workplace participation.

Sub-Saharan Africa and MENA, on the other hand, have widespread bans with very high fertility, along with almost no women's rights.

Almost as if porn has nothing to do with the fertility crisis... whereas the opportunity cost for women who have entered the workplace might be more of an issue.

Look at all the countries where fertility is dropping.
It all has a direct correlation to the gender equity index. The higher the wages women make, the lower the fertility... often in jobs that produce net zero or net negative economic output.

Whereas in countries with the highest fertility, women have almost no autonomous rights, are prohibited from employment, or are even punished for going to school.

"Fixing fertility" isn't a simple univariate problem of something like porn. Porn isn't even part of that equation. Cultural structure, women's rights, natalist viewpoints, and environmental propoganda all have an impact. Not porn.

It's an uncomfortable reality that no one wants to face, and people just fixate on something "morally defensible" rather than talking about the real causes of the fertility crisis.

[Kamu-chan @PurpleKuudere]

"Fiction explores ideas without real-world rules. Engage or skip based on preference"

[Rogue | Frontier Philosophy @RoguesPhilo]

Live long enough on horseback with nomadic herdsmen, and you'll realize most "primitives" are either too rich or too occupied with survival to care for anything like "progress".

Last week, a yak herder let me live with him overnight to survive a blizzard. He had well above 300 yaks, making his total net worth beyond $300,000.

At the exact same age of 30, my total networth today is a piddling $150,000. Mind you, I pay taxes to the American government, a nation where I haven't lived in 8 years!

Meanwhile, the herdsman has no government ID and lives so remote that it would be unimaginable for the government to find and tax him. He is, in all respects, a freeman able to survive solely by the means of his clan's production.

The closest neighbor (300km away via horse) had 2 wives, eight children, and a mountainside of sheep to support him. Meanwhile, the American has a divorced wife and a mountain of college debt crippling him.

You are not "wealthy" because you have rationalized your "goy cube" block in the prison of the city as an achievement. You are a slave with a new definition.

The 1800 - 1900s was the development of a global prison system that ethnically cleansed us with such severity that we now liken our confines to some bastion of unlimited "progress".

The average Westerner is taxed into poverty so that he can be raided by invaders. You are not free. You are not entering a technological utopia. You are tax cattle being bred for human sacrifice.

There was no need to progress or invent anything new because your family had land, livestock, and clan power for hundreds of years.

Now you have nothing, less nothing than literal third world farmers, but, sure, call it progress to cope. Pretend we're enlightened, high trust, high IQ. Subject yourself to constsnt infighting and fixation on the generation of luxury comforts. Do anything other than rebel or revitalize our frontier heritage.

[Dokurider @dokurider]

@07J_dennis Doto would never

[Dokurider @dokurider]

@nocontextmemes Have we tried a big rock yet?

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days.

Quake was overly ambitious technically. We could have done all the great multiplayer and modding work inside a Doom++ engine, allowing the designers to work with a more stable base instead of rug-pulling everything out from underneath them a couple times. The follow up game could have then brought in full 6DOF environments and characters.

I pushed everyone too hard. I didn’t appreciate how maturing companies need more slack, and that running people at startup intensity constantly will wear them out. Quake was also where I really had to accept my personal limits. I was working pretty much as hard as humanly possible, and I was still slipping past my goal points.

On all of the founders’ shoulders, our original corporate stock arrangement and buy/sell agreement was a mistake, and resulted in bad incentives. We wanted to ensure that all ownership rested in the hands of people working hard on current projects, but the Silicon Valley standard approach of vesting stock would have worked out better.

One real problem that I don’t accept the blame for is that we were insisting that level designers be not just game designers, but also have strong visual design esthetics. They needed to make things that not only played well, but looked awesome, and it got more challenging as the technology provided a richer palette. Romero covered that well, which set our company expectations early on.

We should have figured out how to pair up artists and designers earlier, but there was infighting among the designers, and the ones that could manage the visuals were happy to disparage the ones that couldn’t.

Sorry, Sandy.

[Dokurider @dokurider]

@OrwellNGoode Exploiting the nerd's need to correct people to get information is a time honored tactic.

[Dokurider @dokurider]

@PlotWeaver @AI_EmeraldApple Ehhh...not really

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

My favorite memoryholed Vietnam factoid is that more Canadians crossed the border to volunteer to fight in Vietnam than Americans crossed the border to dodge the draft. Since the US population was and is 10x larger, Canadian boys were therefore 10x more likely to want to kill commies even if they had to fight under a foreign flag than American boys were to be commies.

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

“Elon Musk killed 4.5 million kids”

“Uh that’s defamatory as hell, bud, see you in court.”

“Hey uh can we just talk I uh just want to talk about this stuff uh let’s not do the court thing please”

[Dokurider @dokurider]

@AtnsXBT Surprised that Gamefreak never bothered experimenting with a button mashing mechanic like that

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

Periodic reminder that men should absolutely talk about their problems & emotions but absolutely not with a therapist. Find a priest, a coach, a good friend. But don't take risks with psychotherapy until state boards start canceling licenses for these public displays of insanity

[Dokurider @dokurider]

@7HMOON @vividvoid @ne_wisp Really loving the pedantic bitchiness you bring to the conversation. Very constructive!

[taco belle is going to vc5 ✨ @animalologist]

“recreationally miserable” is going to spread, what a useful term she just coined

[Dokurider @dokurider]

@Cuddly49905741 @FakeTaxedBrass Its work, not a daycare

[Dokurider @dokurider]

@ShitpostRock Would be good as a wall with the right moves

[Possum A-ko @KaiserBeamz]

Rozen Maiden was one of those shows that was massive in the 00s that got completely obliterated from the cultural otaku memory once Sword Art Online dropped.

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

I stole this movie off the internet to watch it. I know who Uwe Boll is, and what he makes. I wasn't disappointed, but, I still wasted the money required to power the infrastructure to steal it.

First, let's get one thing out of the way: Citizen Vigilante is not the worst movie ever made. The worst movie ever made is an intensely competitive category containing thousands of entries, many of which were filmed entirely inside an abandoned warehouses and star people whose previous acting experience consisted of standing near a bus stop.

No, Citizen Vigilante is merely just "bad."

The movie's central premise is that Europe is being terrorized by violent criminals, the authorities are too timid or incompetent to stop them, and an ordinary citizen must take matters into his own hands. This is a premise that, depending on your politics, will either strike you as a brave warning, dangerous propaganda, or a rough draft for a Facebook comment section.

Politics aside, there's a much larger problem: the movie is boring.

This is actually a remarkable achievement. Uwe Boll has constructed a film built around vigilantism, revenge, social collapse, violent crime, public outrage, and angry people hitting other angry people, then somehow filled approximately 75 percent of the runtime with the cinematic equivalent of waiting at the DMV while someone explains why you filled out the wrong form.

The movie keeps promising that something dramatic is about to happen. It is constantly setting the table. Characters are angry. Threats are assumed. The audience braces for some kind of payoff.

For most of the movie, nothing happens. Or rather, something technically happens, in the sense that photons continue striking the screen.

There are only a handful of scenes that deliver the revenge-fantasy material the target audience presumably came to see. The rest is filler, just empty cinematic calories. This is the movie equivalent of opening a family-size box of cereal and discovering that most of the volume comes from strategic air placement. Most of the movies' contents settled during shipping.

What's especially impressive is that the film fails from every possible angle. If you're looking for an action movie, there isn't enough action. If you're looking for a revenge thriller in the tradition of Death Wish, there isn't enough revenge. If you're looking for a provocative political statement, the movie mostly consists of repeating its thesis while wandering around waiting for the final act. If you're looking for the anti-immigrant-crime revenge fantasy that critics accuse it of being, even that audience gets shortchanged. The movie spends most of its runtime winding itself up, then delivers what feels like about ten minutes of inadequate payoff before wandering off to the credits.

There is also, because this is a Uwe Boll film and apparently federal law requires it, a completely unnecessary sex scene inserted into the middle of the movie. It contributes nothing to the plot, character development, or human understanding. It exists largely to remind viewers that the fast-forward button remains one of mankind's greatest inventions.

In the end, Citizen Vigilante is less offensive than it is disappointing. Whatever you came to the movie looking for (action, politics, outrage, catharsis, exploitation, social commentary, or revenge) it provides only a small sample size before returning to its true passion: wasting your afternoon.

It's not the worst movie ever made, but it may be one of the few movies capable of making every side of an argument equally unhappy.