Dilbert Maximus Dunkley

I take precious water and Mtn Dew and convert it to piss. Sometimes I also take coffee and convert it to coffee flavored piss. I do not drink my own piss.

[Dilbert Maximus Dunkley @MaximusDunkley]

An exerpt from Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
By Yuval Noah Hariri

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

In a functionally competent civilization, a government does not need to deploy armed guards to prevent its own citizens from digesting a railway system into scrap metal.

The fact that South Africa must militarise its train tracks just to maintain basic structural continuity is the ultimate indictment of an elite class that lacks the baseline intelligence to secure its own foundational hardware.

The state inherited the most sophisticated, interconnected logistics footprint on the continent, over 30,000 kilometers of steel tracking designed to serve as the macroeconomic spine for freight economics and working class mobility.

Yet, through pure administrative negligence, vast swathes of this capital asset now resemble an active war zone. Stations have been stripped down to the bare brickwork, critical signaling nodes gouged out, and high voltage overhead lines chopped down to be sold by the copper weight.

This is not a regular crime wave; it is a total collapse of state asset preservation.

The catastrophic acceleration of this systemic hollowing traces directly back to a singular, brainless bureaucratic decree in late 2019, the abrupt cancellation of all private rail security contracts without a single contingency mechanism in place.

The state security apparatus deliberately walked away from its post, creating an immediate structural vacuum that organized criminal syndicates ruthlessly occupied.

When the subsequent pandemic lockdowns hit, the regime left its multi-billion rand logistical network entirely unguarded.

The consequence was immediate, mathematical, and brutal, over 80% of passenger rail stations were systematically looted and hollowed out in a matter of months.

The macroeconomic bill for this governance hubris is staggering. Rail vandalism strips close to R5 billion annually from the economy in direct asset damage alone, forcing Transnet and PRASA to continuously divert finite capital from infrastructure innovation to basic, repetitive disaster repair.

Concurrently, Transnet's freight volumes have choked down to a dismal 150 million tons when the broader industrial economy requires at least 220 million just to maintain basic equilibrium.

Bulk mining houses are violently losing global market share because they cannot transport commodities to deep water ports, forcing them to rely on thousands of highly destructive, carbon heavy road trucks that pulverize the national tarmac.

Worse still, the working class has been aggressively decoupled from cheap, reliable mass transit.

When terminal hubs like Dunswart or Kliptown are gutted, vulnerable commuters are violently displaced onto expensive, unregulated minibus taxi routes, hollowing out what little disposable income remains at the bottom of the demographic pyramid.

Now, the state has the audacity to engage in public relations theater. Ministers routinely tour recovered lines, bragging about spending billions in public funds to dispatch boots on the ground to protect newly rebuilt substations.

They are actively celebrating the reconstruction of infrastructure that they themselves allowed to be cannibalized.

This exposes the fatal pathology of the tenderpreneur state, a functioning, well maintained train station yields zero political kickbacks, but a destroyed train station creates a massive, multi-billion rand emergency rehabilitation budget to be sliced up and distributed among politically connected contractors.

You cannot run a modern, industrialized economy when your primary logistical architecture is treated as an open-air salvage yard.

Until South Africa implements ruthless, permanent protection of its industrial corridors and structurally locks out the illicit scrap-metal syndicates, service recovery is merely an expensive, temporary bandage on a terminally bleeding system.

If an administration cannot protect the physical tracks, it has absolutely no business trying to run the trains.

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

They've been showing signs they hate the franchise for 15 years, but for this particularly, if you've ever played Halo Reach, the mission Exodus singularly makes the player understand that the war with the Covenant is not really a war, and more of a genocide. Elites and Brutes were murdering civilians in droves, gleefully.

Jun was present during this event in New Alexandria, so he not only saw the brutality, but just pure slaughter of civilians by the Covenant. For them to have him restart Noble Team, and have an Elite on it, is not just insulting, but spits in the face of pure logic and cohesion of the overall plot.

343i has been desperate to make Humans and Elites be "best fwends", even if that makes no sense.

[TheNCSmaster @TheNCSmaster]

“GTA6 failing means investors would evaporate!”

[Cpt. Mucho Texto @CptMuchoTexto]

Plan to rewrite the system:
>Contribute nothing of long-term value to the system
>Become dependant on the system, when you inevitably run out of family to take care of you in your old age
>Have nobody left who cares about you enough to look past the burden you will ultimately be on the system
>Get cut loose, so that the system doesn't completely fucking cave in on itself
>Starve
>Be forgotten

[Ri§en ☦️ @Risen_SzN]

What did they expect?
Its a literal invasion.

[Perma Banned ထ🔨 @GiveMeBanHammer]

The OG lurkers of the internet.

[God Empress of Mankind @nuhre_]

Rockstar has lost its last marble. Trying to get my X account suspended for DMCA infringement when I've never directly posted or reposted a leak after it's been taken down.

All I've done, like thousands of people, it's report on them. Literally trying to silence people who are not even directly involved in the hacking.

No wonder they can't catch the guy. They are too busy trying to shut up everyone else.

Good luck with that.

[唯我独尊・宮内蛍 @real_hotaru]

Good morning

[Sparky 💊🔪 @Sparkpoodle1]

Leftists will forever be salty that they fumbled their cultural stranglehold from the Bush era all because they didn't like how nerd culture was male dominated and a way for men to have fun.

[BlockHead @blockhead4000]

Its been totally memory holed now, but in 2020 in a ton of cities the police just stood down and if you didn't literally man the door with a firearm they would just destroy and loot your small business and the state would do literally nothing to protect you.

[Retro Nation 👾 @RetroNationX]

What a tourist this guy is.

Gamers, if you protect your rights by all means available to you, you're indeed a gamer. Matter of fact, caring about preservation, ownership, and whether the games you buy will still exist 20 years from now is a strong indication that you actually give a fuck about games.

Remember: big content creators operate under different incentives than ordinary players. Access, relationships, sponsors, platform security and income can all shape what they're willing to criticize.

[Juun @JuunTV]

Don't let this guy gaslight you all. Investors leaving the gaming space is s good thing. Developers would need to bring out quality content in order to have a positive ROI.

With an investors market the enshitification will continue the most important thing would be pumping all the money into marketing and publicity to convince investors on a surface level it looks like a great game instead of just releasing a great game.

[God Empress of Mankind @nuhre_]

Oh, shut the hell up. You don't need investors to make a good game. You don't need to be a corporate lapdog waiting for the shareholders to tell you when to bark. This fucking slave mentality is exactly why we ended up here.

If corporations like Sony weren't constantly trying to monopolize and dictate the future of the industry, maybe people wouldn't be rooting for GTA 6 to fucking fail.

But the industry as it stands needs to be crushed into dust so something decent can be built in the ashes.

[Techopse @techopse]

Happy anniversary to the gayest flop in all of gaming history, time sure does fly when you're having fun (shitting on woke slop).

May it rest in the depths of the abyss alongside Highguard, Marathon, Fairgame$, Horizon Steel Frontiers and all other Јսԁаіc bullshit.

[Rock Solid @ShitpostRock]

Sony really hated how well recieved Ghost of Tsushima was amongst male audiences so they had to find the most grotesque spiteful female lead possible to play the protagonist in the sequel

[Wokal Distance @wokal_distance]

They want to borrow the moral credibility that comes with resistance to state censorship, so they pretend that parents thinking "Gender Queer is not an appropriate book for 4th graders," is the same as the Soviet Union making it illegal to print copies of "1984" by George Orwell.

[Donpachee @Don_pachee]

They're willing to front potentially 10s of millions for legal fees to hunt down this leaker, yet not put any into producing physical copies. Go fuck yourselves Rockstar. You're as low as EA, if not lower at this point. Scumfuck shit that deserves all this happening to them.

[Grummz @Grummz]

Hey folks.

This is one of the most important legal battles on censorship and wokeness.

They want to stop people talking about reporters who push political agendas and wrap it in “objective journalism.”

They want to say whatever they want about you, call you a racist, or worse, but if you ever push back, they want to silence you.

Smash won the first big round and got the case kicked out of New York.

Now they are trying it again in California.

Please help Smash in his legal fight to help protect free speech. He needs all the help he can get.

I almost never do this, but I’m tagging @elonmusk into this because it affects X. A precedent in this case would be a disaster for free discourse on this platform.

[thanos @jesseisdagoat69]

pedophiles dont get this much effort btw