Disco Elysium feels like one of those games people play so they can feel intellectually superior to all the people who are playing games like Skyrim and actually enjoying themselves.

Tonight, for the first time in more than three decades, the Blue Jays are in the World Series. We #WANTITALL.

Nothing is real to MAGA, that's what you need to understand. Everything can be true or false at any time, or even the same time, depending on what they need to believe in order to feel catharsis. They have created vast, insular social environments for the purpose of endless emotional indulgence.

"You are the one from my dreams," the Emperor said. I guess nightmares are a "kind" of dream...

I love flying the MiG-21 *because* it's so terrible. - Landing gracefully? Not with those puny delta wings. You gotta come in *fast* - Radar cooled by alcohol - Forgot to return landing gear handle to neutral after takeoff? Oops, all pneumatic pressure for braking is gone!

Now now, let's not besmirch poutine like that...

Flaccid Flanker

Fun fact: I distinctly recall someone on Twitter saying that a dislike of passive protagonists in fiction is "colonialism" because people preferring active protagonists was a result of their 'colonizer ancestors" wanting to murder indigenous people.

Today I wrote a long piece on political violence and online radicalization, as well as what to do about it. It's for patrons only, but can also be purchased. www.patreon.com/posts/139011...

So what does work? Not giving them any platform. It's why the right AND the media hated "cancel culture" so much. It's why the media stays complaining about BlueSky. Because when you say "i'm not debating you, i'm just gonna cut you off" now they gotta deal with consequences for being a shit human

“I suffered and so must you” seems to be at the core of so many of these people and their followers.

Just unbelievable how badly Covid destroyed so many people on the Right. I hope I never see another pandemic again because if one comes soon these people will be even more unhinged they'll easily kill another million people while whining about it the whole time.

On the topic of “our” duty to persuade abusers, a tale: —— THE FINGER-TAKER’S SON Whenever the king became displeased with one of his subjects, he would send out his soldiers, and before long the offender would find themselves in the basement of the king’s finger-taker.

One of the worst things about making YouTube videos are the people who will go absolutely feral in the comments if you don't acknowledge every single caveat. It's pancake-waffling all the way down.

It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses

There was one social critic (Morris Berman, I believe) who said the notion of the "elite" pulling the wool over people's eyes is false, because for most Americans, the wool IS the eyes, and that "Main Street" and "Wall Street" more or less converge.

fwiw, that "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" quote from Steinbeck is apocryphal, but the actual quote ("temporarily embarrassed capitalists") is still a humdinger

Did we learn nothing from psychotic freaks like RequiresHate?

Me: Hmm, why does playing Cyberpunk 2077 remind me of high school so much? *looks up the dumb shit my friends in 11th grade computer science were into* Me: Oh....OH GOD:

every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards

Exactly! Sometimes people are "outcasts" or "exiles" because of their diseased views on the world, or their utterly repulsive personalities!

Jordan Peterson and his consequences His stupid, stupid, stupid consequences

James Dobson dying is a staring into the middle distance type of event. You have likely directly suffered bc of him. Few have done more to harm humanity at large in the past few decades. A principal architect of our current nightmare. No redeeming aspect. He was a rat made entirely out of plague.

New video is up! And the channel is back under the old name: youtu.be/5IxZ8G-RVKk

F Trump, F Putin, F russia🖕 Donate to ZSU, war won’t be over anytime soon, don’t even hope, because russia won’t stop. It is all a stupid game to avoid additional sanctions. Help ZSU, this is the only way how to stop this war.

I’ve said it before and let me say it again: The fundamental breakdown of contemporary politics, the feature that has given birth to our new authoritarianism, is how modern digital media has inculcated the expectation that everyone is entitled to live in whatever reality feels most validating.

Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless. Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.

Every news station in America should run Trump grinning and clapping for Putin side-by-side with Trump tearing into Zelenskyy

Two things can be simultaneously true: 1: Life today is much better than it was in the past. 2: Life can really, really suck for some people.

the human mind... perhaps the most powerful weapon. second only to the "GUN" I regret to inform you that I have discovered Cyberpunk 2077's photo mode.

Also, I don't know if there's a name for it, but there's a kind of fantasy that's like, "Well, um, ACKSHUALLY knights in shining armour didn't exist; medieval knights were really just thugs and rapists and-" To which the only proper response is, "Shut up, nerd."

Three months? How much did you drink, sir?

“They’d say, ‘So-and-so has a big farm and they may not even use the library,’” he recalled. He would tell them, “Well, I don’t have children and never use the school.” With that sort of mentality, he said, “no one will do anything.” this is the mindset of a consumer not a citizen, and it is evil

Wooden Maiden

500 shots. This could have been a massacre. The shooter wanted a massacre. It's time for RFK Jr. to resign. He has incited this violence for years with his anti-science, anti-vaccine, anti-public health rhetoric. abcnews.go.com/US/suspected...

No matter the circumstances, keep calm and #StandWithUkraine

Look at the saga of RequiresHate for a prime example of this.

Where I live, driving the speed limit will sadly result in someone invariably hanging off your bumper. Sometimes these people are cops! Maybe that's why I see cars with bumper stickers that say things like "IF YOU'RE GONNA RIDE MY ASS AT LEAST PULL MY HAIR."

No, there are not “rules of the road” that exceed the law. Drivers are *not* responsible for “staying with the flow of traffic” when others are speeding. This is gaslighting and self-justification from people whose drivers ed instructors lied to them.

❗️We still see, and it is obvious, that the Russians simply want to buy time, not end the war. President 🇺🇦Zelenskyy had a conversation with 🇨🇦Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney The situation on the battlefield, the vile Russian strikes on civilian objects and ordinary people testify to this.

I like how the guy filming this never pans to the third ship, so it looks like it came out of nowhere. Pure comedy.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll talk about engagement farming: a cynical social media tactic to rack up likes, shares, and comments. From rage farming to AI-powered outrage factories, engagement farming is reshaping online discourse and turning division into profit. 1/23

It's true. Crime is so out of control in Washington DC that a violent mob stormed the Capitol, tried to hang Mike Pence, and attempted to prevent the certification of the election.

This is behind nearly every derangement in nerd culture: never moving on from high school: perpetually shaking your fist at everyone who made fun, desperately clinging to a sense of intellectual superiority as a way of repairing the shame and humiliation of being bullied.

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Three words: 'Come, come milady."

I recognize there would be have some collateral damage but if we had humanely executed everybody involved in the production and consumption of the anime waifu aesthetic around 2010 or so the future would have been a lot brighter.

The defining feature of modern politics is that everyone gets to live in a totally fictionalized universe that justifies all their beliefs, bigotries, and resentments 100% of the time.

Online right wingers can't tell if someone is hot without breaking out a large set of calipers and a calculator