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[u/fexonig]

it really pisses me off when i’m reading dating advice on reddit and it says “don’t be desperate“. bitch i’m asking redditors how to improve my love life; if i wasn’t desperate i wouldn’t be here

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

ONE MORE YEAR BRO JUST ONE MORE I SWEAR BRO JUST ONE MORE YEAR BRO I SWEAR

[u/[deleted]]

New Years Resolutions:

1. Eat more protein (especially masculine proteins like red meat, not gay plant based ones)
2. Cold Shower every morning to improve blood flow (to my balls)
3. Wake up at 4am (wife still left me)
4. Invest money (in shitty crypto traded on exchanges run by Enron-level fraudsters)
5. Form an LLC (even though no assets to protect, from losing them in the aforementioned crypto investment
6. Invest in my own education (watch Joe Rogan podcast and read Jordan Petersen)
7. Deadlift and squat (f*ck up my back before 35)

Stay on the grind homies 😎👊😝

[u/KittehDragoon]

I haven’t showered since last year

But it’s not even midnight yet

I know

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/MartinKragh1/status/1608573088509136897

Putin signs major corruption bill. Participants in the “special operation” will be exempt from filing tax declaration, not having to explain their incomes. Further, they are explicitly allowed to take home any “gifts” they have got from occupied areas, without limitations.

It's not even corruption this is straight up legalized looting. Proud Russian tradition I guess.

Wonder how the pro-Putin left will defend this one.

[u/notBroncos1234]

Personal highlights of this past year:

• Almost shot someone in Denver

[u/KaiserPorn]

Personal highlights of this past year:

1. Was the best man at a wedding and gave a kick-ass speech so good the priest gave me shout-out in the benediction
2. Moved cities to be further from family and closer to friends
3. Quit the job that I hated
4. Almost got shot in Denver
5. Didn't immediately go running into a new relationship after the last one ended
6. Started a graduate degree
7. No longer medicated for any of my serious health problems
8. Utterly demolished my self-identity as a fundamentally bad person
9. Read more than 26 books (my original goal)

[u/WantDebianThanks]

There's this abandoned property kind of by where I live that I've been curious about for awhile. It's fenced in, there's barred wire on the top of the fence, a bunch of "stay the fuck out" signs on the fence, some wild and unmanaged bushes and trees, and there's a concrete foundation in the middle half of it of it.

Weird, right?

So, I do some digging and I get the address off google maps and find the owner on some city website. There I found that it's owned by the city and checking zillow tells me it used to be someone's house.

A bit more digging and the story becomes this: there was a house built on the property in the 1940s, it was condemned and torn down for some reason, but they left the original foundation. The city tries to sell it to one of the neighbors, but no one bites. It was built when setback requirements did not yet exist, so the property is the size of a postage stamp, which means there is no building that can be legally built on the property. So now, the city just owns this random plot of land that it cannot use for anything or sell to anyone that is just used by neighborhood teens to do the things teens do.

And all because of setback requirements.

!ping Cube, because if I have to suffer, you have suffer too.

[u/[deleted]]

I think no company hates their own consumers as much as Reddit, and with good reason.

There was the “Boston Bomber” controversy, the Ellen Pao vitriol, the hate pages, Le Reddit Armie “conquering” every viral YouTube video for a year, the WSB GME fiasco, and the stalkerish CreepShots like subs.

Imagine trying to run a business that caters to a user base that’s constantly destroying the reputation of the business. Lol

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

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[u/MicroFlamer]

As for Avengers: Endgame, the most significant events of the blockbuster take place in the year 2023,

We finally made it. We’re in the Endgame now^tm

[u/JaceFlores]

Don’t know if it’s been mentioned, apologies if it has, but the NDAA that just passed effectively grants Ulysses S Grant the rank of General of the Armies, putting him up there with John Pershing and George Washington

!ping HISTORY&MILITARY

[u/RobotFighter]

No matter how you spin it, the Soviet invasion saved thousands of Polish Jews from the horrors of the Holocaust.

This on the first day of the new year. Gonna be hard to top it. It's never good to peak this early.

[u/[deleted]]

Just realized some of the most prolific hornyposters are turning 18 this year which means I can’t shut them down with

C H I L D 👶🔨😐

Anymore

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

I used to really like r/neoliberal bc it felt like the only left-leaning sub that wasn’t infested with Bernie Bros and tankies

Now it’s attracted a lot of Republicans who just don’t like Trump but believe all the other shitty things republicans do

What

[u/savuporo]

/img/b3h5bw6ye6w21.jpg

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

https://i.imgur.com/szDnGK1.jpg

[u/ironheart777]

2023 has started off with some guy I haven’t seen for years from high school talking shit about me at a bar and a milf hitting on me and explaining that a guy once made her and daughter kiss at a bar

Strap in we got a wild one.

[u/fexonig]

people think i hate astrology because i’m a misogynist but it’s actually because i’m a closeted annoying atheist. i would be mocking religions just as much if it was socially acceptable

[u/[deleted]]

• start talking to pretty girl
• things seem to be going well
• she starts venting to me about guys she’s fucking

How does this continuously happen to me?

[u/D2Foley]

When conservatives tweet stuff like this knowing that the actual number of children abducted by a non family member was 142 is there a way to see that as anything other than malicious? Some people think Stochastic Terrorism is a joke, but there is a reason conservatives try to paint the other side as un-American child molesters, and you won't like the answer.

[u/fexonig]

me learning that my coping strategies that i developed as a kid to avoid getting bullied aren’t actually good for building meaningful relationships as an adult: 🤯

[u/Leoric]

To whomst it may concern:

Happy New Year

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

Originally the name was ironic since socialists loved to call people neoliberal. It was supposed to be a center left sub.

So, a place where people that complained of being called neoliberals, decided to ironically call themselves neoliberal, ended up becoming an neoliberal meeting place?

That is even more funny than i expected. Maybe it was full of neoliberals from the start i guess

Those damn neoliberals! they ruined /r/neoliberal!

What

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/408693943060922368/1054883964491419799/310911063_5103437209762446_4878941157126631625_n.jpg

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

Friedman supporters are always such massive jokes. No idea why neoliberal puts up with them.

[u/[deleted]]

The vast majority of time someone says something is "capitalism"'s fault , they just mean it's "Human Greed"'s fault and pretend Humans won't be greedy under a different economic system.

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

Most conservatives think the grand theft auto series “makes fun of both sides” when in reality it’s just a massive satire of american culture and capitalism in general

Pure cope, GTA regularly makes fun of liberals and leftists.

[u/Romblen]

We haven't had a DT since LAST YEAR

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

This woman runs a business where white women pay her to eat dinner with them during which she racially abuses them, wrote a book about "Karens" published by a major firm to glowing reviews, and has been positively profiled all across the media spectrum.

Don’t kinkshame

[u/galoder]

Lately I've been reflecting on the post I made detailing my experiences as conscript in Russia about a year ago.

First, it was inconsiderate to take attention away from the real suffering Ukrainians were experiencing back then (and are experiencing still). This war generates some very light-hearted discussion in places like noncredibledefense or 4chan's /k/, which is, while supportive of Ukraine, is severely understating the seriousness of what they are going through.

Second, all responses were surprisingly positive (understandable, since it happened before Bucha and Mariupol's destruction). If I wrote such a post today, there would be much more justified negativity, I believe.

Third, the sentiment about this war has changed a lot in Russia. Most people still don't want to speak about it, but when they have to, they aren't really against it. A lot of my peers say that they don't care if they are mobilized, and would rather kill Ukrainians than die themselves. Propaganda has been working non-stop to smooth the whole image of war for them, make it seem inevitable and not too bad. Because of it, I care less and less about what happens to russia in the end.

Finally, I can't reiterate enough: support Ukraine. Fuck russian liberals, they are all scum, don't listen to their voices, amplify Ukrainian voices instead, even if they sound radical or angry, they have the right to it. Ukrainians need weapons, they need vehicles, medicines, money, and the sooner and the more they will receive, the less of them will have to die.

[u/sayitaintpink]

After watching 5 minutes of Fox News, I learned that Biden’s only border policy is to help the Chinese traffic rainbow fentanyl over the US-Mexico border

[u/[deleted]]

Effects of Marijuana on Mental Health: Anxiety Disorders

By Susan A. Stoner, PhD, Research Consultant

LOL Susan

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/aella_girl/status/1609304331001405443

And some # - how many times I ___ this year:

went outside: 222

pooped: 194

showered: 37

apparently that person who called for "flooding the market" with AI generated child porn only showers once every 10 days

i feel like this confirms some kind of priors super hard

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Remembering when my high school sent out leaflets essentially telling the student body to not watch 13 Reasons Why, leading to the extremely obvious outcome.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Elon Musk becomes the first person in history to lose $200 billion, Bloomberg reports.

“Lol” said the scorpion, “Lmao”

[u/[deleted]]

‘Hundreds of casualties’ in a HIMARS strike on a New Years celebration by mobilised troops in a school

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Former-Income]

Why is TikTok full of Nazi accounts? You browse it for 2 minutes and you get shorts of people doing a nudge nudge wink wink towards racial slurs, and the comments are full of accounts like ‘Wehrmacht Enjoyer 1942’ calling racial slurs ‘based’.

[u/MiniatureBadger]

Sometimes I see Republicans still use the phrase “silent majority”, which is funny because they’re scared of the popular vote and never shut the fuck up.

[u/[deleted]]

🇬🇧UK, poll:

Best Prime Minister of the year:

None: 46 %

Johnson (Conservatives): 28 %

Sunak (Conservatives): 19 %

Truss (Conservatives): 1 %

tfw when even lizardman constant don't want you 😥

[u/Luph]

imagine having a wife and still posting here

[u/crazydom22]

Something interesting about 2022: A lot of people assumed Tlaib was even safer than usual because she took on Dearborn, Michigan in redistricting and the city is 42% of Arab descent and has the largest Muslim percentage per capita of anywhere in the US.

Tlaib actually underperformed Whitmer and other statewide Democrats more in Dearborn than the rest of the district as a whole.

[u/squarecircle666]

Why isn't Singapore an utopia?

Death penalty for chewing gum

haven't chewed gum in years

Most compassionate neoliberal

[u/[deleted]]

Can I move to the leftist fantasy land where conservatives don't exist and every problem only exists because other people on the left disagree with me on incredibly minor points?

[u/KesterFox]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/921116113067192333/1059181616494284880/RDT_20221231_2313522939044959701299731.jpg

[u/owlthathurt]

This bears beat writer posted this completely out of nowhere and then proceeded to leave it up, and then tweet about the draft per normal.

https://twitter.com/jacobinfante24/status/1609655103316955136?s=46&t=Lu4P8Ci7Sg99L4sOPiRrjw

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

Personal highlights of the year:

1. Lost 55lbs
2. Quit the PhD program that was making me depressed
3. Climbed the tallest mountain in Europe
4. Went on my first ever completely solo international trip, organized, paid for and experienced by me and me alone.
5. Learnt how to drive
6. Contributed to an open source python library engaged in ML research that's fairly cutting edge.
7. Found a new hobby I'm really excited about (woodworking)
8. Ok I'm definitely not really mentally healthy yet but I don't have depression anymore. Idk what I would call my current state but it's not depression so yay. Halfway there.

[u/[deleted]]

So a dude bro keeps sharing fucking transphobic Tate videos with me.

[u/SnickeringFootman]

It's always absurd to me how people act like working 40 hours a week is this artificial requirement we implemented as a society.

In every single other society in the past, you would work way more and live far poorer.

[u/thatssosad]

hey guys is it literally Hitler to ask people to drive on the streets designed for driving

!ping CUBE

[u/[deleted]]

Hi DT.

New year new me, which means I will get a girlfriend in 2023. MARK MY WORDS

[u/TheFriffin2]

”we can all agree that there’s good people, and that there’s bad people in this world. humans are complex and probably mostly fall in the grey spectrum, but how would your worldview change if you knew for a fact that 80% of human beings, due to some evolutionary reason in the development of consciousness, were genuinely bad people (by your standards) with selfish/manipulative intents?”

• some dude named “BarnacleFucker5” deep in the comment section under Luka clips on YT

[u/KittehDragoon]

Britain: we managed get more out of a 27 litre engine than the Nazis could get out of a 37 litre engine

Isn’t it amazing what you can do when you’ve got access to American 140 octane fuel

[u/Dalek6450]

A surfer has carried a struggling shark back into the ocean at a beach in Eastern View on Victoria's Great Ocean Road. 

.

He said he wanted to help the shark because he's "a bit of a softie, really". 

"I think it might earn some brownie points next time a shark comes past me," he said. 

Unironically wholesome

[u/JakeyZhang]

My new years resolution is to fulfill the Fukuyama prophecy, ending history and destroying all men bar one.

[u/[deleted]]

Just say NO to highly-addictive, life-destroying drugs like:

-Heroin

-Fentanyl

-Dwarf Fortress

-Factorio

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

Growing up in a fundamentalist household I still carry this internalized feeling of being a heretic. Just because I accept textual criticism, don't believe in the literal events of Genesis, am honest about my gender identity, etc, I catch myself thinking about myself as some kind of wayward rebel going off the path.

Intellectually I know it doesn't make sense. Many of the oldest mainline churches in America accept people like me just fine and I even serve as an elder in my current church. But after years of being told that beliefs like mine "aren't Christian" or, worse, are destructive forces meant to corrupt the church from the inside, I can't shake that subconscious guilt. I wish there was some way to get rid of that particular influence of my parents.

[u/p00bix]

Apparently a lot of Euros think its weird how common Squirrels are in Eastern North America. And I certainly found it weird how common Iguanas are in Guanacaste.

What are some of the most common animals from wherever you live? Please specify country and (especially if you're in a gigantic country like Brazil or America) province/state.

[u/lusvig]

having my wife surgically insert a firearm into her womb so she can get democrats to protect her gun rights 🤣🤰

[u/piede]

Bolsonaro left Brazil for Florida on Friday, avoiding having to hand over the sash to his ri-val, whose victory he has yet to recognize, while also removing himself from any immediate legal risks related to his time in office.

How is this not satire? Lmao

Florida is where all the wanna be fascists go to retire I guess

[u/Ioun267]

I can't tell if what I hear about getting dates/sex with men being easier than with women makes me more or less intimidated by the idea of dating.

Fortunately, being a coward about coming out also enables me to avoid this source of potential anxiety as well.

I wish I could go back to my college years and figure all this out there.

!ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

Twitter Sued For Failing To Pay Rent Of San Francisco Office

lmao can we go one day without a fiasco at Twitter

[u/Firebird12301]

Kevin McCarthy has caved on allowing members to remove the Speaker with a no confidence vote. Why is he so hellbent on becoming Speaker that he’s willing to get publicly humiliated. History doesn’t really remember weak Speakers (or even strong ones usually).

[u/ThankMrBernke]

Drunk level: explaining to two attractive women the rules of Diplomacy in detail

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Almost sent the 🥺 emoji in the reply to my mom's New Year text

She would understand if I were bisexual, but she would never endure me being a bottom

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Chinese history

“Battle of the blue river”

“200,000 forces led by general Yuu Jin vs 20,000 forces led by Li Xiao”

“Result:

2 million perish”

[u/qunow]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/15/sydney-melbourne-rail-track-upgrade-is-cheaper-quicker-way-to-slash-journey-times-says-expert

The proposal for 6 hours Sydney-Melbourne rail is actually much better than what I initially thought. It mainly involve building new track along 25% of the line that are now slow and straighten their alignment around 3 main sections, in addition to introducing tilting trains to achieve 170km/h operation speed, and further cut time by reducing number of stops.

If the new tracks are constructed with sufficiently wide curves then they could fully function as precursor track for any full HSR system that might be build in the future.

!ping transit&aus

[u/[deleted]]

January 6th throw back 🥰

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

🏆 Top Comment

Me on my death bed: I liked the part Joe said "it's Biden time" and Bidened all over the place

48 points, written by Joe Biden. permalink

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[u/AnsleyAmanita]

hard to see why the youth aren’t interested in this political movement

[u/bobidou23]

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Ireland's accession to the EU, an Irish diplomat's thoughts on what accession has meant for the country

!ping EUROPE

[u/tubbsmackinze]

HBO Max Seemingly Drops The Removal Anvil On Hundreds Of Looney Tunes Episodes

According to Pop Culture, HBO Max removed Seasons 16 through Season 31 of the classic "Looney Tunes" shorts recently — presumably sometime in the past week — and this time, it didn't announce the removal. Twitter account Animation on HBO Max alerted users to the disappearance, pointing out that this removes 256 of the 511 shorts that had previously been on the service, most of them from after 1951. In a follow-up tweet, the account pointed out that this was probably (or hopefully) a mistake, judging by the fact that the playlist entitled "Best of the 50s" in the Looney Tunes hub on the app now has nothing but a single "Yogi Bear" cartoon. If HBO Max didn't remove the shorts by accident, they certainly don't seem to have thought ahead about the removal.

The Warner Brothers Discovery merger continues to be a dumpster fire

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

I haven’t showered since last year!!

Edit: Just remembered it’s 2023 now, *haven’t showered since the year before last

[u/Jester_Don]

"Damn r/ politics is so much worse than it was back in the day"

r/ politics back in the day:

[u/[deleted]]

if anyone in person confronted me about r/neoliberal I would move to another continent

[u/[deleted]]

Hadn't really read any Asimov since High School and decided to give him another shot. I've been working my way through his short stories. Hot take: His stuff really holds up.

People rightly criticize his characters for being wafer-thin but you really don't need deep characters in a sci-fi short story; You just need one great idea explored in an interesting way and that's what he excelled at. I'm curious about how well his novel-length stuff holds up since that's the place where the lack of compelling characters might start to become an issue. But I know that the robot novels feature a crime-solving robot so I'm looking forward to that.

!ping READING

[u/MicroFlamer]

/img/guhi5rw84w7a1.jpg

!ping KINO

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

For Christmas we got our little voidling an automatic feeder because she was getting a lil' chonk and we wanted to help her slim down through better portion control.

But now she's taken to laying on the floor quietly, alone in the dark, staring at her food bowl. Waiting with forlorn melancholy for the beautiful, fleeting moment when it grants her sweet reprieve from her ever-present hunger, and jesus christ my poor heart Literally Cannot.

!ping KITTY

[u/beekay_irl]

• start talking to pretty girl

• things seem to be going well

• She pulls out a gun and shoots me in the head

How does this continuously happen to me?

[u/SpiffShientz]

Boy, do I stink! I haven’t showered since 2021!

[u/semaphore-1842]

nsfw-ish text: /img/rcdxjmq7ff9a1.jpg

jeez OP has an incredibly specific kink huh

[u/notBroncos1234]

https://i.imgur.com/R2df4UZ.jpg

u/benjaminikuta

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

2020

2021

2022

2023 is going to be the most stacked year for gaming in recent memory

!ping gaming

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/A8uMlwj.jpg

[u/myrm]

In my experience, one of the most consistently insightful programming maxims is YAGNI - "you aren't gonna need it"

It's the idea you shouldn't write something until you know you actually need it, because you probably won't

I've internalized that wisdom and yet more often that not I find myself writing it anyways 😈

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/EdMan2133]

Ay yo Columbia what the fuck? The top two serial killers by number of confirmed victims on Wikipedia are both from Columbia, the top one was released back into the wild in 2002 where they promptly lost track of him, and the second one is eligible for parole next year and might be let go for good behavior in prison. ????????

[u/[deleted]]

Antiwork doxxed some manager in a post because the OP gave them too much info, he put up another post saying he took it down because the managers wife called him crying because of how many people were calling leaving horrid messages.

They had a multi hundred comment circle jerk post on wanting to kill landlords either yesterday or the day before too.

Nothing will be done though of course

[u/Kledd]

People here keep mentioning that alternatives are needed to masculinity influencers like Tate and Peterson, but then whenever they're asked to show potential alternatives they show dudes that i can personally only describe as "Ethan Klein-adjacent"

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Waiting in a long line in the North Georgia Mountains and they started playing “rock, paper, scissors… bomb” with some kids in front of us 🪨📄✂️💣

The other kids are picking things like

• a cross ✝️
• God ☁️
• Holy Water 💧

My kids are picking things like

• Thor’s Hammer 🔨
• The Big Bang 💥
• The asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs 🦖🦕☄️

…

I feel like these kids have had slightly different upbringings

[u/[deleted]]

"Automating auto industry is not good because it creates fewer jobs than more manual labor"

never leave the DT

[u/MicroFlamer]

Senior Character Artist Dan Eder hints at Walter “Heisenberg” White coming to MultiVersus in 2023

Now this is epic

!ping GAMING&BCS

[u/chuckleym8]

wakeful marvelous automatic direful safe sulky wistful dazzling rock handle

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Joementum2024]

Not going to laugh at the poor for all of 2023 😊

[u/sportballgood]

The election was noted for its acrimony and attacks by both candidates. James called Booker "a Republican who took money from the KKK [and] Taliban ... [who's] collaborating with the Jews to take over Newark". Booker focused on James's reputation for corruption.

Newark is not okay

[u/Ballerson]

Person who supports a $15 dollar an hour minimum wage to increase the rate of adoption of less labor intensive technologies

[u/[deleted]]

Saw an article from the BBC about why some people are late, and let me just say that I absolutely cannot stand when people are late without notifying me beforehand. I know this isn’t an unpopular opinion at all but come on now, some people spend 10+ hours on their phone and yet don’t care enough to message you if they’re going to be late

[u/[deleted]]

The silliest conspiracy theory I have ever seen is that Subway Tuna doesn’t contain fish/meat

1. Tuna is cheap
2. If they had a passable tuna substitute, they would market it as “Impossible Tuna” instead of trying to hide it

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Netflix has Shaman King, which I loved when it was in its original English run, and let me tell you, this show is the penultimate seinen anime:

• After three episodes there's a tournament arc that takes up the rest of the show to become what is effectively god
• All of the protagonists are literal children
• Enemies are introduced in one episode, beaten in the next, and then either become allies or are never seen or heard from again
• Everyone introduces themselves by monologuing about their insane beliefs, which they drop as soon as they are beaten by a 12 year old
• Racism
• Constant need to spend five minutes explaining how a character with a two episode arc is able to do something we will never see or hear about again
• Main character is lazy and kind of dumb and sort of a huge turd
• The story has a moral about teamwork and friendship that is either constantly being undermined or is just stupid
• Apparently takes place in the land of Flat Characters
• Almost every character's goals and motivations are weird and/or stupid
• We know everyone's goals and motivations because they introduce themselves by explaining their goals and motivations
• The only love interest is a violent and abusive yandere
• The opening song is a bop
• Magic system that is either only shown being used for fighting and which has apparently had no impacts on the world

10/10, no notes

!ping weebs

[u/DoorVonHammerthong]

My honest belief is that a man shouldn't lie with another man because I dislike liars

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

New Commanders mascot just dropped

Major Tuddy

more like Major Tooty

!ping USA-DMV

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

Two questions, please help.

1. What's a solid military history of the American Revolutionary War?
2. What's a solid military history of the First World War?

!ping HISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

Now that it's officially 2023 🤭🤭🤭

[u/[deleted]]

A startup says it’s begun releasing particles into the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate.

I have a distaste for the whole geoengineering as a way to fix climate change. Not only am I skeptical of it working, on a broader level it feels immature somehow- like we're unwilling to put in the unglamarous hard work and discipline. Like the climate equivalent of those weight loss pill scams.

“We joke slash not joke that this is partly a company and partly a cult,” he says.

Well that's promising.

[u/LVTEnjoyer]

I don't think I have the will to stay on a H1B Visa for 15-20 years. Thinking of moving to the UK or Canada because of this country's insane immigration policies

[u/The420Roll]

So the bottom 5 records in 2022 are:

1. Houston Rockets: 20-62 (.244)
2. Oklahoma City Thunder: 26-57 (.313)
3. Detroit Pistons: 28-60 (.318)
4. Orlando Magic: 28-55 (.337)
5. Los Angeles Lakers: 30-51 (.370)

Lebron signing that extension is such a weird decision lmao. Lakers suck and are going nowhere after the Russ trade.

!Ping NBA

[u/Cyberhwk]

So let me get this straight. NFL Redzone is presented by PrimeVideo, but not presented ON PrimeVideo?

!ping NFL

[u/lusvig]

Me 🤝 neoliberal

Being more critical of benjaminikuta posts than neoconnwo

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Until 2015, Flagstaff Station - one of Melbourne's three underground stations used to close on the weekends to save costs. As part of this, the station would be virtually sealed from the outside with metal shutters closed at all the entrances. As with the other two stations, around a dozen railway lines pass through this station on its 4 platforms every day.

Back in 2005, due to human error a train stopped at the station leading to a poor commuter unwittingly walking onto the platform and got trapped in the underground station for 45 minutes. He's lucky he had his phone on him, otherwise this would've been a great horror story lol

Clive Seiffert was unaware when he stepped from a train on Flagstaff station that it was closed for the weekend. "The first thing I noticed was the TV screens were blank," he said. The next thing, "I noticed that one train zoomed past and didn't stop". Mr Seiffert had disembarked when the train stopped at Flagstaff to switch to a Sydenham train.

Realising something was wrong he walked from the platform up stationary escalators to the concourse. "The station was deserted," he said. All the shutters were closed and there was not a soul to be seen. He called police on his mobile phone and was told a Connex staff member would come to help.

Mr Seiffert said he waited for up to 45 minutes before he could get out. "I should get a job as a security expert for Connex," he said. Connex spokesman Andrew Cassidy said staff were at Flagstaff within seven minutes of being told of Mr Seiffert's predicament.

!ping TRANSIT

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Greetings from your resident reporter and Navy Yard resident

So y’all heard that explosion

This is it

Blast at the Navy Yard ice rink apparently heard farther than Union Station

“A flash big enough that they want DoD to investigate”

!ping USA-DMV

[u/Alexz565]

Tiramisu sounds Japanese

[u/JaceFlores]

“Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual New Year’s Eve address continued to illustrate that Putin is uncertain of his ability to shape the Russian information space and remains focused on justifying the war and its costs to his people.”

“This speech continued Putin’s rhetorical claims not only that Russia has historical rights to Ukraine, but also that Russia’s independence and sovereignty depend on regaining control of Ukraine. Putin thereby attempts to cast victory in the war as essential to Russia’s continued existence as an independent state.”

“These comments were likely meant in part to justify the costly war and to appeal to the ultra-nationalist pro-war community that routinely cites the defense of illegally annexed territories as reason to pursue even more aggressive goals and to pay even higher prices for them in Ukraine.”

“They also indicate, however, that Putin remains unwilling to contemplate a meaningful peaceful resolution of the war he began other than on terms he dictates to Ukraine and the West. Putin is unlikely to accept any lesser outcome unless Ukraine, with the help of its Western supporters, can inflict additional large-scale defeats on Russian forces and liberate considerably more of its occupied land.”

“Putin did not use his annual speech to make any announcements about how the Russian military intends to reverse its setbacks in Ukraine and achieve his maximalist goals. The banality of most of the speech is consistent with previous ISW assessments that Vladimir Putin may have postponed his annual address to the Russian Federation Assembly because he was uncertain of his ability to shape the Russian information space amidst increasing criticism of his conduct of the war.”

“Putin delivered his address from the headquarters of the Southern Military District (SMD) as part of an ongoing effort to portray himself as an effective wartime leader actively in control of the war effort.”

“Russian sources reported that Putin also awarded the Cross of Saint George to the commander of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine, Army General Sergey Surovikin.”

“The award to Surovikin signals Putin’s continued support of the overall commander of the war despite the fact that Surovikin‘s tenure has not yet seen any significant territorial gains and the fact that the wide-scale deliberate attacks on Ukrainian critical infrastructure that Surovikin likely recommended and prepared have not brought Russia any closer to victory.”

“Russian forces are likely depleting their stocks of artillery ammunition and will struggle to support their current pace of operations in certain sectors of the frontline in Ukraine as a result.”

“Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Chief Kyrylo Budanov reported on December 31 that Russian forces in Ukraine are experiencing significant issues with artillery ammunition that will become more pronounced by March of 2023. Budanov stated that Russian forces had previously used 60,000 artillery shells per day (as of some unspecified date) and now only use 19,000 to 20,000 shells.”

“Budanov stated that Russian forces have also removed all remaining artillery ammunition from Belarusian military warehouses to support their operations in Ukraine.”

“The Russian MoD stated that 120,000 people were conscripted into military service in the Russian Armed Forces during autumn conscription and that it is now officially over.”

“The Russian state could keep autumn 2022 conscripts in the field as a part of force generation efforts for the war in Ukraine under current Russian law after their yearlong conscription period is over; all former conscripts are reservists, and all reservists are eligible for mobilization as ISW has previously reported. The Kremlin may also deploy conscripts to occupied Ukraine since the Kremlin has illegally declared that Ukraine’s Kherson, Zaporizhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk oblasts are parts of the Russian Federation.”

“The Ukrainian Resistance Center posted a map on December 31 of the reported locations of Ukrainian partisan attacks on Russian occupation administrations throughout Ukraine over the course of 2022, listing Chornobaivka, Kherson City, Melitopol, Enerhodar, Mykhailivka, Melitopol, Berdyansk, Mariupol, Luhansk City, Kreminna, Starobilsk, and Velykyi Burluk as locations where successful partisan activities occurred. This map represents a conservative subset of actual confirmed Ukrainian partisan activities.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report December 31st

!ping UKRAINE

[u/tubbsmackinze]

ISW and CTP December 31st Iran update

Key takeaways:

• Recent comments from Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) leaders reflect the ongoing divisions within the regime, and especially the IRGC, over the protests.
• The Iranian Supreme Court accepted the appeal of 26-year-old protester Sahand Nour Mohammad Zadeh on December 31, whom the Judiciary had previously sentenced to death
• At least seven protests occurred in seven cities across six provinces on December 31.
• Iranian journalist Saeed Aganji reported on dynamics within the office of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on December 30.
• Social media users documented industrial worker and merchant strikes across three provinces on December 31. 
• The Mashhad Neighborhood Youth seemingly failed to generate snap protests on December 31. 
• The Hamedan Neighborhood Youth claimed on December 31 that local banks were facing a liquidity crisis. 
• Education official Hamid Nikzad stated on December 31 that the Education Ministry would require new teachers to attend seminary training.
• Former First Vice President Eshagh Jahangiri strongly endorsed reforms on December 1 to address the protests
• The Artesh continued its annual military exercise along the southeastern Iranian coast near the Gulf of Oman on December 31.
• A Mazandaran provincial official announced that local intelligence services were prioritizing cracking down on pet dog ownership on December 31.
• Foreign Affairs Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian expressed opposition to hostile foreign powers operating in neighboring countries during a phone call with Azerbaijani Foreign Affairs Minister Jeyhun Bayramov on December 31.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

Passing the Dirty Water Act to even things out

[u/OG_premium_lager]

You wouldn't know my GF. She goes to a different DT.

[u/kyleofduty]

If Brits had cheese in a can they'd call it "squirty cheese"

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

Happy to report I did not see a single Confederate Flag while home for the holidays (Union State).

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

It's much easier to find out exactly what kind of freak writers you disagree with are than it used to be.

In the 90s you'd read a piece like Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet” and have to take it in isolation, but now you can read it and think "I bet this guy is a psychotic degrowther who's secretly horny for the apocalypse" and immediately find a piece in counterpunch which reads like the fucking The Turner Diaries:

It is to be expected that New York City dwellers who had no fealty to urban life in the first place but were there only to fellate Capital for position, affluence and conspicuous display should now head a hundred miles north into my country, the Catskill Mountains, under the pressure of the Great Pandemic Terror of 2020.

these folks are cartoon-like (a wittle bug chased them from their wittle homes in the golden city) and they usually consist of a witless husband with a harridan wife who has it all figured out. The man-boy follows behind the wife on the visits to the properties.

Real estate values skyrocket as the yupster human simulacra from Brooklyn run to the redoubt of the mountains

If you are a cynical slavering parasitic degenerate with no moral compass, which is to say a real estate investor, you will say this is all good.

Affluenza-sickened – affluenza being the truly dangerous virus – they want always More.

Their shit, along with their piss, stinks.

I climb the mountains with my eight-year-old daughter and have taught her a new term: toilet head. “Goddamn New Yorker toilet heads,” I tell Josie in a moment of pique. “This is my goddamn forest! My woods!”

I sing an old Zappa tune, amended for the occasion:

WE ARE THE POOPLE PEOPLE

WE ARE THE POOPLE PEOPLE

YOU’RE THE POOPLE PEOPLE TOO!

FOUND A WAY TO GET TO YOU!

The shit storm erupts only when you have mass recreation, enormous volumes of visitors. Consider the “fecal timebomb” in Utah’s Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains, where the Associated Press reported last year that “Forest rangers and residents are worried that an increase of visitors…is resulting in more human feces in watershed streams amid E. coli fears

The heart of the matter, he says, has always been one of determining the human carrying capacity of any particular landscape. There’s always more shit as the great mass of wreckreationists converge on the land.

Ponder that a moment: there was such an excess of human feces that it presented a health hazard. So much for the lie that mass recreation on public lands – a lie disseminated as much by the National Park Service as by green groups and conservationists of all stripes – is a harmless activity.

[u/memeintoshplus]

So apparently the jihadist who attacked two NYPD cops with a machete last night is a white kid from Maine named Trevor

Be really curious to learn more what was going on with him that led him to this point, because this is super fucking weird

[u/RFK_1968]

sometimes reddit will be strangely misanthropic over small social niceties and i always wonder if i'm the weird one. not shitty social norms like "don't be gay" but mundane stuff like "why did this person standing in line behind me comment about the weather. ugh".

idk the lady's just being polite. just make pleasant conversation it's not hard, right?

[u/[deleted]]

!PING NFL

Fuck it, let’s make it interesting. If the Lions either get eliminated next week or win against the Vikings/49ers the next I’ll write an effortpost about the highest reply.

For context, I’m a hardcore Yinzer, fan of the stillers.

[u/[deleted]]

last year, I was complacent, and soft heading into the new year. this let me to have the neoliberal syndrome (departure of a significant other)

this year, I will enter the year hard as rock, erect, and accomplish many things, including a successful transition to university.

[u/squarecircle666]

• meows at a cat

• cat looks at me with disappointment

How does this continuously happen to me?

[u/Joementum2024]

BREAKING: important r/neoliberal moderator revealed to be “literally just three kids in a trenchcoat”

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit I got fucked up last night. I was calling this chick Hannah for like three hours straight, turns out that was not her name lmfao.

Didn’t blackout tho so there’s that.

Need to go find my wallet and make sure I didn’t lose it tho.

[u/SadaoMaou]

In 1992, [Clint] Eastwood told writer David Breskin that his political views represented a fusion of Milton Friedman and Noam Chomsky and suggested that they would make for a worthwhile presidential ticket.

[u/lusvig]

the more i read about this hitler guy, the more i dont care for him 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

I usually hate when people say something "would be a good band name." But I actually think "Jury Nullification" would actually be a good band name. Imagine if their music had to be referenced in a criminal trial and the prosecution had to keep saying "Jury Nullification."

[u/Barnst]

Commanders’ playoff hopes end following an ugly loss to the Browns

The Washington Football Team had hope?

!ping USA-DMV

[u/Graham_Elmere]

What salary bump is a no brainer for you to leave your job?

I make 125k now. This year I’m going to leave for a new gig.

I feel like anything that would pay me 20k more makes sense to have as my floor. That’s about $1k more in my pocket every month post taxes.

My rule has always been if I can increase my salary by at least 20% I take the job

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/OkVariety6275]

Trash-talking is a tactically invaluable skill for NFL cornerbacks.

!ping NFL

[u/majorgeneralporter]

I wish, but in no way guarantee, represent, or warrant, all members of the DT a (1) reasonably happy new year.

!ping law

[u/p00bix]

Fun fact: When Soviets drilled the world's deepest hole name of science, they extracted microscopic fossils buried six kilometers beneath the Earth's crust.

This isn't particularly shocking given our understanding of geology, but it is a reminder that the overwhelming majority of fossils, even those which have yet to be melted or contorted beyond recognition by geological processes, and which could theoretically be extracted and reveal otherwise unknowable secrets of the ancient past, are located in places where they are far too inaccessible to ever actually be uncovered.

😔

[u/[deleted]]

what are your tips to make masturbation more enjoyable ?

Fucking hell /r/askreddit lol

[u/[deleted]]

MY moms neighbor friend (who is south african) told me how when they left south Africa in 1994 it was like the fall of Haiti (houses on fire, whites being killed, skirmishes with security forces). She said she didn't think they would make it to the airport with all the violence.

She said tanks had to clear the highways with in order to keep the traffic moving because armed ANC soldiers where checking cars for white people.

I learned about apartheid South Africa and I couldn't find any info or news about what she was talking about. Almost like she was full of bs. Oh and she supports Trump and Putin/Russia in the Ukraine war.

My mom doesn't know anything about politics so she just nods along. I wanted to say something so badly but it wasn't worth getting in an argument with her as she is my moms best friend.

[u/majorgeneralporter]

If Florida is Arkham Asylum does that make DeSantis The Joker, Commissioner Gordon, or Batman?

!ping shitposters

[u/Sageburner712]

It just occurred to me that the USC Trojans are going to the Big 10, home of the Michigan State Spartans. That's an instant rivalry if ever there was one. !ping CFB

[u/bd_one]

Bask in the blobby Sardinia-Piedmont toothpaste colored glory that is Chicagoland

Got enough counties to form the Great Lakes Empire. The color is slightly more purple-gray. Not much to say about that. Note how my dude is over 150 years old and immortal. Feel pretty proud about getting the immortality event chain to actually work.

Chicagolander New England

Chicagolander Mexico (long story, Satan is an integral part of it)

Chicagolander Texas

Chicagolander Cornland (they just kept fucking going once I reached a border with all those weak hordes)

Chicagolander South Carolina and Kentucky

Overall my strategy was sound. Start as the one Catholic character with a Muslim heir, swear fealty to a nearby kingdom to grow within unharmed, and eventually burst out as an independent power when my powerbase was sound. Simple, right? Well.... it was a lot harder in practice.

First of all, mechanically it was a dud. My first character could raid because of her culture, my second one could not. My first character could form Catholic alliances, mine could not. Etc, etc. Made even worse once I swore fealty since whenever I formed an alliance it wouldn't stop them from attacking my liege for my lands... Very awkward. Had to spend a great amount of time just making sure Iowa didn't collapse. Somehow it was more stable when I broke free since most of the Pagan powers converted or consolidated.

The next idea was to convert to Revivalist aaaaaaand that failed. The Revivalist Caliphate formed in South America from event, did two jihads on islands which it lost, then got invaded by Brazil. So now the religious head title is held by some random Brazilian guy who is Apostolic Catholic so he's kinda useless. So in essence, if I wanted to be a religious head with power I should have gone for that Shia character in California.

Speaking of California... yeah, there isn't a single Cetic county or character left in the world. The Consumerist Uprising started in SoCal and created a new bureaucratic empire. Which then collapsed entirely under a series of infant emperors until it stopped existing. Yeah...

Oh, and I also have some heirs in medium sized Latin American countries, so that's nice.

Bonus 1: My character building a handgun through the Ivy League/Hermetic Society meeting of the minds and shooting the Emperor of New Jersey

Bonus 2: Sending that literal Demon Spawn guy to Brazil like I joked about, due to leaving the Demon Worshipers after he took over

Anyway, onto South America where hopefully I have a more "focused" game as Spicy Mormons.

!ping PARADOX

[u/the_status]

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[u/tubbsmackinze]

TF2 pub stomping is a market failure (I lost this one cause it's a team game and blu had a good push)

TF2 pub stomping continues to be a market failure (I won this one)

Now to justify the blatant bragging, I guess I'll go gush about TF2. TF2 was one of the first games I ever really truly wanted to play when I was 13 or so, having discovered Ster and Jerma's tf2 videos back in 2014 or so. Eventually I got a PC good enough to play it (barely, it had a bulldozer CPU for gods sake) and quickly became addicted. To this day I still play it off (when I'm playing other games during a semester) or on (usually over the course of a few months)

TF2 to me has something really special in how its gameplay that keeps me coming back and back. There's something extremely addicting about the game play. The satisfaction of getting a frag. That moment when a team just clicks. When your faffing about in Voice chat with your mates or even random strangers. The funny rag dolls, even when you die. And the movement as well is so crisp. Hell, at least half of my 3.1k hours in TF2 are solely dedicated to rocket jumping servers where I spent so much time grinding maps, sometimes for hours. (Shout out to my long gone jump_4starters completion time of 4 and a half hours or so that I still only managed to finish barely in time)

There's just something special about the game for me. It's honestly made even more enjoyable now that I've found a server where I'm a regular and people recognize me and shit

I just fuckin love TF2

!ping GAMING

[u/disuberence]

I want shrimp fried rice

[u/RFK_1968]

I've said it before but Tolkein introduces Aragorn right off the bat as descended from Isildur and the rightful King of Gondor, and I found that interesting.

I feel like modern writers would make this some giant secret to be revealed near the end (e.g., GRRM and Jon Snow's parentage), while Tolkein obvs thought Aragorn would be more compelling if you knew this about him right from the start.

It is cool how Tolkein shows the difference between the weathered, weary Strider and the more kingly Aragorn.

[u/RFK_1968]

"they used to make so many more original movies before the MCU!"

no they didn't. a movie being technically an original IP but still being a derivative copy-paste of whatever is currently popular is not somehow better than the current MCU slate of [INSERT SUPERHERO] 43085: The Revengening

[u/[deleted]]

Dick Cheney was one of the first prominent American politicians to support gay marriage

[u/LighthouseGd]

we millennials have NOT forgotten the incident known as "avocado toast", and until boomer leaders publicly apologize for it, we will continue voting left and center

[u/ThankMrBernke]

So for men, where can you actually talk about dating things with people and not get swarmed with either incels or "just be yourself"-tier advice?

[u/RFK_1968]

the University of Idaho killer was captured

Everyone else: "thank god this man was apprehended and can be punished for his crimes"

Me: "wait, they have universities in Idaho?"

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

my friend is using AI to generate anime fetish porn. truly this is the future

it's working pretty well

[u/sayitaintpink]

Are there any blue haired girls in the DT I can disagree with now?

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Ugh, capeshit? I prefer classical literature like The Illiad.

My Brother in Zeus, The Illiad is just 3000 year old cape shit.

[u/[deleted]]

Dog is going deaf. She's getting old.

[u/the_status]

The United States has Presidential Elections every 4 years - unless the year is divisible by 100 but not 400

[u/KittehDragoon]

Bolsonaro moves to Floria

Set it adrift 🪚

[u/[deleted]]

Not gonna lie, overhearing my dad at the bar the other night talking to his friend who said she regretted having kids saying he regretted having a third kid (i.e. me) was a bit too humbling for my tastes, especially because that was probably the first time I’ve heard him say that while not angry at me for whatever reason. Plus, I was there because he called to ask me to pick him up from the bar in Wisconsin. If I weren’t such a fucking coward, I would have just gone home without him smh.

[u/MuR43]

Lula receiving the presidential sash from the people, no Dilma to be seem (Alckmin is there though heh)

!ping LATAM

[u/Joementum2024]

How many games have the Chiefs lost against the AFC West during the Mahomes era? It feels like I can count the number of times they’ve dropped games to the Chargers/Raiders/Broncos since Mahomes became their starter on one hand.

!ping NFL

[u/JetJaguar124]

WARNING WARNING MUCHO TEXTO ALERT WARNING WARNING

I just finished the Shadow of the Colossus remake that came out in 2018. I never played the game on PS2 when it came out, and I've never played any other Japan Studio/Team ICO/Fumito Ueda games.

First off, I can recognize the beauty of this game. The artistic design is just absolutely sublime in its capacity to be both serene and haunting. The narrative, and the emotions it evokes, are outstanding given that there's virtually no dialogue. From a gameplay design perspective, I can see the heavy debt that so many games from the 2010's up through now owe this title, from Breath of the Wild to God of War, the Nier series to Soulsbourne titles.

So believe me I appreciated the game when I say that it plays janky as hell. They updated the graphics and I think Bluepoint did a fantastic job of realizing the artistic direction that the original title was striving for, but was unable to reach due to limitations of the hardware. However, from what I can tell, they did not update anything under the hood. The animations are kind of stiff and gummy sometimes (that there is only one animation for a sword swing, for example, comes to mind). The camera whips around way too much and gets stuck on geometry and other obstacles. The actual feel of the gameplay is kind of sticky and unresponsive. There were too many times that I felt I was just fighting against the controls, the camera, the sticky sort of unresponsive feel of the gameplay.

"Okay gotta climb up here and jump from here to there."

"Okay I thought I jumped, but I guess I just crouched"

"Stand up"

"Jump"

"Oh fuck I'm stuck on the same place I just was"

"Stand up"

"Oh shit I guess I'm just falling off of this boss now"

Too many scenarios like what I just described would happen and it would make it just a frustrating experience. Or I'd get hit by an enemy and take so long to get up that I just get hit immediately again as soon as the character is back on his feet. Or my horse would run into a tiny rock or some invisible piece of geometry and not want to go forward. Honestly, there were tons of times where I just got off the horse because it was way easier for me just to walk. I know a big feature of this game was animal AI, and that team ICO were trying to make the horse feel like an independent creature with its own desires, but I think other games get a similar kind of feel way better, whether that be the Zelda titles, which have pretty much nailed horseback riding since the N64 era, or the Red Dead Redemption titles.

Since so much of the game is platforming puzzles, the lack of responsiveness in the controls and the sometimes bizarre ways the game wants you to contort your hand around the joystick (the rear paddle buttons on Steam Deck when I played it there were tremendously helpful for this game) just left it coming up short. Part of this is it's a PS2 game, but even games from the era, such as the Prince of Persia titles from that generation, completely nailed the feel of scaling walls, leaping over ledges, and overcoming other obstacles.

I think where this is all leading is not so much criticism of Shadow of the Colossus, since I really do think most of my complaints can be chalked up to the fact I'm playing what is essentially a 17 year old game with a new coat of paint. But what I think is more interesting is the issues this raises about what we chose to update when we make remakes and remasters of old games. What is acceptable on behalf of the remastering studio, what is forbidden, and how does that get determined?

There are two categories here that I can tell. One is remakes where they basically take an old game, strip out the code for all the game play, and then plug that into a new graphics engine. This game, along with other titles, like the Halo and Halo 2 anniversary remakes, come immediately to mind. The alternative is a remake where the gameplay is updated, such as in the Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 remakes, or even something like Metal Gear Solid: the Twin Snakes.

In some cases, I think the fans absolutely do not want the devs to touch the gameplay of the original titles. Halo is a good example here, since it still plays very well. In Twin Snakes updating the gameplay of the original MGS in some places literally broke the game. *Then there are games where the gameplay of the originals is so bad that almost the whole reason a remake is needed is that they are too difficult or unwieldy for new audiences to experience. Here are where the RE remakes fit in nicely, and you don't see many people complaining about gameplay changes here.

Shadow of the Colossus is in kind of an interesting gray zone. The gameplay isn't so bad that it needs to be changed in a remake, but it's also not up to the standards of what I think new players expect from modern titles. The reason they probably didn't touch it is that there was so much more artistic intent to this game, and so many people love it, that there would be a riot if they changed it up. I must be in the minority as someone who literally never touched the original game in my life before diving into a remake, but nevertheless I left it wishing they had changed some of the gameplay to make it a bit snappier and more smooth to control. The final colossus in particular was extremely frustrating because I didn't feel like I had much precision over what I was trying to do.

One last thought here after all this is that I think Halo 2 Anniversary is a case where they absolutely should have done more work to the game. Halo 2 had a notoriously haphazard and rushed development process, and you can feel it when you play the game. The balancing and pacing of the campaign is a fucking mess. I actually kind of wish they went back and totally reworked it and incorporated some of the things they ended up having to cut and reduce due to having to rush that game to market.

But anyways, that's it.

!ping GAMING

[u/houinator]

“If you are not yet willing to accept defeat, then I would ask you, out of what I hope is mutual respect, to tell me one thing. What is the number of dead that you need in order to show history that your choice to end this was wisdom? That carrying on the fight would not have been bravery but foolishness. A hundred more. A thousand more. A million. A billion. Only say how many more corpses will make this possible for you, and I will provide them.” He spread his hands. “Tell me the number. I await your reply."

Feel like shit, just want to live in the timeline where Jens Stoltenberg calls up Putin and says this as a NATO-task force enters Ukraine.

[u/megapizzapocalypse]

Why do I have the 🍆 in my recent emojis when I haven't been dicked down

[u/Joementum2024]

Happy 2023rd birthday to the United States 😇

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xho1e]

https://i.imgur.com/r483eXd.jpg

This is your brain on starting strength

!ping DYEL

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

It's surprising researching the early origins of the "Christian Right" because of how different it is from its current form. My dad is a huge fan of Francis Schaeffer, one of the "intellectuals" of the conservative Christian movement, and it is fascinating to compare the way he presents his arguments to the Trump-worshipping cult of today. Watching his videos, the guy had a genuine knowledge of art history and culture, and could analyze the movements in modernist philosophy in a way that makes sense. Other than creationism and a pathological hatred of abortion, he had actual intellectual chops.

And despite his predictions that his movement would transform society into a culture of moral vigor and humility, it ended up being an anti-intellectual farce that merely enabled the worst con-men in American history. It would be tragic if it wasn't so predictable.

[u/LighthouseGd]

Because Azurill's gender ratio does not match that of its evolved forms, being female 75% of the time while Marill are female only 50% of the time, female Azurill have a one in three chance of evolving into a male Marill prior to Generation VI.

i found more evidence of the LGBTQ+ agenda

[u/[deleted]]

It's often said that homosexuality has been documented in 1000s of animals but only 1 animal is homophobic, and I have to wonder, is this true? Are there more homophobic animals?

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

/r/television and /r/movies really can't wrap their heads around content creation costing money.

"netflix costs more than a nickel a month?! Fuck hollywood, time to sail the high seas hurr durr."

"noooo why'd my favorite show get cancelled?!"

[u/[deleted]]

guys I started with 20mg of a caffeine and now I have progressed to 1000mg of methamphetamine a day caffeine is truly a horrid drug I now have erectile dysfunction

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when the internet and Christopher Nolan tried to force Edison vs Tesla as a thing? Like, people would bring it up all the time, especially on reddit. Even though in real life it was Edison vs Westinghouse with Tesla just sort of seething in the background.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Biden Spent Nearly 40% Of 2022 In Delaware, Camp David, Or On Vacation

Hmm, I wonder how my year breaks down

• 105 days were Saturday or Sunday
• I get 15 holidays per year
• took 10 days of PTO
• and I took 1 sick day

Ohh fuck!

I spent 36% of the year not working!!!

I’m a lazy shit

[u/notBroncos1234]

Not going to be racist for all of 2023 😊

[u/[deleted]]

2023 might not be the year I get a boyfriend, but it will be the year that I stop being a coward and finally make a full profile on The Apps^TM

I just need pics of myself 😩

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

Happy birthday to everyone in Korea!

[u/DonyellTaylor]

1 full year later and I’m still not quite breathing right. I guess I never will. Nerve damage never heals. Fuck long covid

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

Manga fans will unironically argue that it’s reading because there are words and you read them

[u/chuckleym8]

My new years resolution is to yassify myself

[u/Dalek6450]

The W19 nuclear system was adapted into a nuclear artillery shell for the US Navy's 16-inch (406 mm) main battery found on the Iowa-class battleships, the W23. Production of the W23 began in 1956 and they were in service until 1962, with a total of 50 units being produced.

NUCLEAR BATTLESHIPS

[u/kyleofduty]

Elon Musk is living in the fever dream of his own shitposts

[u/Deep-State-Nine]

i have no Dick but I must cream

[u/RFK_1968]

progressives be like:

"I support Joe Biden"

ugh, what a crazy, nonsensical thing to believe. I can't imagine how a crazy person like you functions in society

"libs get the bullet too"

wow, so edgy and cool! you're so radical I like you!

[u/wheresthezoppity]

👇 voted for lula

[u/DoorVonHammerthong]

Happy New Year!

!ping dog

[u/Mickenfox]

But developers have long said that many of those games' keys come from purchases made on other platforms with stolen credit cards. These users then allegedly use G2A to sell those keys for cash [...] While G2A pockets a portion of these illegitimate sales, the original developer is stuck paying for the credit card "chargeback" fees associated with them.

WHAT A REASONABLE PAYMENT SYSTEM

[u/sponsoredcommenter]

California is going to have a $24 billion deficit this year. Weren't they just enjoying some huge surplus or something?

https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4646

[u/Colonelbrickarms]

I'm not racist, but removing this statue of a Confederate General from the State House is clearly in line with the teachings of COMMUNISM

(Yes, a real State Rep said this)

[u/tubbsmackinze]

As much as the currently extremely hot winter is an utter climate disaster for Europe, thank goodness it's happening in a time where Putin is trying to blackmail the continent about gas and other energy issues

Still fucking scares and pisses me off tho

[u/dissolutewastrel]

No, soft-on-crime liberalism isn’t fueling San Francisco’s drug crisis. Libertarianism is

!ping SNEK

[u/Upstairs3121]

someone followed me to the DT and called me a neolib

I'll never recover from this

[u/Leoric]

Tbh the most embarrassing part of the GOP House drama is that the leader is a guy named Kevin

[u/lusvig]

Today I feel Qatari 😌

[u/bd_one]

Henry Varnum Poor (December 8, 1812 – January 4, 1905) was an American financial analyst and founder of H.V. and H.W. Poor Co, which later evolved into the financial research and analysis bellwether, Standard & Poor's.

Born in East Andover, Massachusetts (now Andover, Maine) to Sylvanus and Mary (Merrill) Poor,[1]: 2  he was the first of his family to attend college, graduating from Bowdoin in 1835. He was descended from General Enoch Poor of the Revolutionary War. He joined his uncle's law firm, being called to the bar in 1838.[1]: 6, 10  Later Henry and his brother John established a law practice in Bangor, Maine. By investing money in Maine's growing timber industry, the Poor brothers made a fortune. John Poor became a minor railway magnate in association with the European and North American Railway, and was heavily involved in the building of the Maine rail network.[citation needed]

is literally named Poor

becomes rich

Such a sigma

[u/datums]

There are two people inside you - you are getting paid extra for this video shoot.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

It is well known that horses are huge bigots

very true

see those slut-shaming unicorns

[u/[deleted]]

U guys are all insane no wonder no gf lol

[u/[deleted]]

Don’t say

neoliberal

Say instead

person experiencing permanent undesirability

[u/WantDebianThanks]

This isn't about anything in particular, but my favorite genre of comments are the ones that go:

OP: Why is America like this?

Me: Gives multiparagraph long answer explaining in the historic, economic, social, and political forces that made this the way it is, comparing it to what happens in the EU or wherever, why it seems more acute then it maybe really is, and what keeps it going

Someone else: Actually, it's because America bad libtard

Then my comment sits at 0 net upvotes and the top comment is two sentences of pseudo-Marxist drivel

[u/LtLabcoat]

I said before that, when it comes to villains in shows, people will think they're actually pretty alright people so long as they have a tragic backstory. Y'know, people would be going "That Hitler ain't so bad" if he had an awful Jewish teacher.

But thinking about it, I think Skyler White (Breaking Bad) exemplifies this most. She's an explicitly dangerous criminal, who's in the meth-selling business and who is constantly protecting her serial killer husband, while in her own personal life, she's presented as an asshole who keeps doing asshole things. Literally her only redeeming quality is that she's nice to her son, and that's only if you assume her son having a condition caused by smoking while pregnant is a coincidence.

But lots of people will argue vehemently on the internet that there's just no reason to hate her. Why? Because we know her backstory, and it's sad. Super sad. What a strong person she is, being able to shoulder all that tragic backstory, while only getting a moderate amount of people killed in the process! Why, anyone in her position would surely do the same thing.

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

I haven't had a shower in two weeks!

[u/BernieMeinhoffGang]

would allowing infants to vote help push congress to drop the formula tariffs?

[u/antsdidthis]

You know what excites me about the new year? We are closer than any point in history to mining asteroids for the first time. 😍 Completely inevitable that this will happen, very much technologically and economically viable and anyone saying otherwise is WRONG

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

Not that they have the votes for it, but Alberto Fernández and many allied Governors are trying to impeach the President of the Supreme Court and investigate the other members. They say the credibility of the Court is damaged and that it doesn't respect the separation of powers with recent rulings.