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Huge surprise that a social media platform run by a billionaire cryptofascist who hired a Project 2025 member to run the site's public policy in the Southern US would let anti-government militias do whatever they want.

This meme is the funniest Napoleon Dynamite scene

Will have the "mature tone of the original trilogy".

Did we play a completely different original trilogy? Eg. framing Miranda's ass in every shot was super duper mature, y'all

My main nit is that Rogue Incursion is hamstrung by how well one can tolerate existing in a tense VR setting for extended periods of time. (For me, I felt insane after taking my headset off, like I hadn’t blinked once in 30 minutes.)

Yyyyeeeaaaahhh, I probably couldn't go 3 minutes 😅 I'm a big 'ol wuss and I just can't do horror games, even though I absolutely love horror movies and the Alien franchise – I get so immersed in games that survival horror stuff is just a nope for me

Literally the foundation of conservative "political ideology".

100% guaranteed she believes in a white Jesus and would go into apoplectic conservative rage if you pointed out good 'ol Jebus was brown

tOuCh GrAsS is the best you can come up with when you disagree with someone? You that far in the internet brain rot that you can't use your words anymore?

Requiring people to use their real name would take out a lot of the noise, the false and misleading info, and the unqualified opinions that people are blasting out into the ether, and then other people who don’t know any better find it and feel with their ape brains that their own malformed opinions and emotions are validated.

But requiring all internet users to identify (somehow, let's leave the implementation aside for now) would also mean that anyone living in a repressive regime would be even more fucked than they are now, and it'd mean that even people living in at least nominally democratic countries but with a nonzero amount of violent conservatives would be an easier target, since there'd be no pseudonymity.

As to your last point, we are definitely not cognitively equipped for what we have. Can we equip ourselves now, after the fact?

Frankly I doubt it. The cat is out of the bag, and I really don't know how we can unfuck this situation – at least without significant amounts of social upheaval and bloodshed in the interim

Oh yes it makes absolute sense, I just find it hilarious that reich-wingers will say "woke leftist commies are pro-Russia" like they think it's a bad thing while simultaneously idolizing Russia and Putin. I'd hate to drag 1984 into this, but it's just such a classic example of doublethink that it'd be amazing to behold if these fucks weren't in power

Right, it's only 2/4 "I can't believe it's not real fascism" + 1/4 "we'd be ok with concentration camps as long as they were privately funded" + 1/4 "we'd be ok with concentration camps as long as the signs are in Swedish and Finnish" which is much better. Especially the National Coalition Party is more or less indistinguishable from the Finns Party, and they've made it exceedingly clear that they're 100% fine with bigotry and many of their members are exactly as bigoted as the worst of PS / KD.

When the PM whines about how the opposition makes Finland look bad by talking to foreign press about literal fucking neo-Nazis in the fucking government, and makes several proclamations about how they won't stand for racism which is believable for about 4h until the next PS or KOK member says something incredibly racist, it's not exaclty going to inspire me to believe that the majority of people voting for those shitbags don't endorse this behavior as well

Yeah the democratic socialist party here in Finland that I vote for (The Left Alliance) has had some of the most vocal opponents of Russia for years now, even before Russia's invasion of Crimea way back when. Funnily (?) enough the right wing extremists currently in government say leftists are pro-Russian like they think it's a bad thing, while at the same time being explicitly pro-Russian – some going as far as visiting "~~Hitler~~ youth camps" organized by Russia some years ago and claiming they were doing super secret spy stuff when questioned about it earlier this year.

Ok, where did PugJesus say it could have been a socialist or progressive symbol?