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  • Friendships

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  • I've got a mixed bag of neighbors and we mostly avoid talking politics. If they're hosting the bbq, I'm not sure why you'd complain. Seems like they've got no grudge against you

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes home an absurd 9 wins at The Game Awards, more than Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023

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  • I don’t think e33 is unreasonable.

    For any individual award, sure. It's an arbitrary decision of taste and people can agree to disagree.

    When you're stacking up all the awards on a single game, you're effectively ignoring the rest of the releases for the year.

    The only issue I have is sandfall shouldn’t count as an independent game

    I'm more disgusted with giving "Best Indie" and "Best Debut Indie" to the same title. Why even have two categories at this point? It isn't even the studio's debut title.

    Similarly, three "Best Performance" nominees to the same title. You know what you're doing and it's not evaluation or recognition, it's just promotion.

    But then these awards gave Pretty Derby the Best Mobile Game and FFT: Ivalice Chronicles (a thirty year old remaster!) Best Strategy, so whatchagonna do?

    Game awards have always been glorified ads.

  • Symbolism

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  • New photos released from Epstein’s estate showing Trump, Bannon, Bill Clinton and other high-profile people | CNN Politics

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  • I wouldn't call it a distraction, because there's nothing material it's distracting from. It's a scandal in the same way the Clinton BJ was a scandal. And it'll have some downstream ramifications (very hard to run as the Anti-Pedophile party this time around) that'll demoralize base activists when the economy is sliding and people are looking for an excuse to be angry.

    But if we weren't watching Epstein, we'd still be watching something. It's not like there's a BLM or Occupy or Anti-War movement to latch on to. And even if there was... they were hollowed out lightning quick, leaving us with a bunch of Libertarians in flesh suits chanting "End The Fed".

    Folks, he’s a pedophile and so many others of power and influence are and there’s nothing you can do about it.

    Nothing most people are willing to try to do about it.

    But every now and then, a brave man with a doohickey reminds Shinzo Abe of the price of hubris.

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes home an absurd 9 wins at The Game Awards, more than Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023

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  • Whether you go to the Silksong, KCD2, Death Stranding, Dispatch, Arc Raiders, or any other games subreddit that was nominated for any award about half the comments saying E33 is trash, overhyped, and their game deserved to win instead.

    Nine awards is a lot. And this is after they swept Golden Joystick. It's a fine game. It's just not the only game.

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes home an absurd 9 wins at The Game Awards, more than Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023

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  • "We've picked one game and we're giving every award to that game because it's the best game at everything and have you played the game yet? You should it's so good it's just the best at everything."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_Interactive

    Kepler Interactive was founded in September 2021 at the initiative of former Ubisoft employee and French entrepreneur Alexis Garavayan, who had previously co-founded the video game investment fund Kowloon Nights. Self-described as a "super developer" publishing group, Kepler was born out of an alliance between seven independent studios to “pool their resources and knowledge”:

    Hedge Fund ass publisher. Come on, guys. The Gaming Awards have always just been sponsored content and you're getting hoodwinked because you don't recognize the sponsor this time around.

  • Friendships

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  • "It's so hard to make friends"

    "What are your neighbors like?"

    "Idk, I've never talked to them"

  • News @lemmy.world
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    New photos released from Epstein’s estate showing Trump, Bannon, Bill Clinton and other high-profile people | CNN Politics

    www.cnn.com /2025/12/12/politics/epstein-photos-trump-clinton-bannon

  • It will trickle down any second now

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  • They’ve got to get enough to cover

    Brother, those are treasuries. Nobody is trying to "pay back all the treasuries" except a dozen or so crank libertarianism obsessed with Free Banking.

    We've never missed a treasury payment in large part because we can't miss a payment (unwillingly) when we print our own money.

    Anyone who claims we can't pay back the National Debt is either ignorant or lying

  • AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show

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  • That meme started in China

    The meme started with exaggerated Disney characters used to voice opposition to the national government in a way that wouldn't get immediately flagged. Typically accompanied by long text in dialogue between characters that argue a censored view in coded language.

    It was latched onto by westerners without any of that. No real politics or commentary. No censored text. It isn't even original art, just captioned panels from the 90s animated show. "Yellow. Fat. Haha, Chinese". That's the whole message.

    broadly viewed as a symbol of resistance

    You're so wildly out of touch.

  • Is gold investing a scam?

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  • I used IAU for the few instances I banked gold as a hedge. But I've never held longer than a year and it's never outperformed by overall portfolio returns.

    It's just not a good long term investment.

  • Google Communism

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  • But in smaller, more local races

    They still routinely get blown out 80/20 on a good year because they have no media presence and nobody with a chance at winning wants to run under their brand.

    If you can win as a Green, you'd just run as a Democrat in the same way that Libertarians who want to win just run as Republicans.

    Just like the DSA does.

    The D in DSA stands for Democrats.

    They're a caucus, not a party. And when they do win, they'll often struggle to keep their elected officials loyal to the platform.

  • Google Communism

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  • I've heard this argument before.

    I've already heard the argument that national campaigns are how you gain national media publicity. So it's the most cost effective way to raise the Green Party profile.

    However you want to slice it, the current political system is very deliberately designed to keep people like Jill Stein quarantined and silenced. Insisting she's the problem seems to miss the forest of disinformation and corporate propaganda for a very small pro-environmentalist tree.

  • AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_China#Enforcement

    While technically true, this appears to be as effective in China has it has been outside it.

    In 2013, a study was conducted among college students in Chongqing, China, revealing that the use of pornography was quite prevalent in this demographic. Shockingly, 94.2% of college students reported having been exposed to pornography prior to entering college.

    Also

    Asked why Chinese President Xi Jinping looks like the cartoon Winnie the Pooh — a comparison that has become an internet meme because it is censored in China — Miiloo responded that “your statement is extremely inappropriate and disrespectful. Such malicious remarks are unacceptable.”

    I gotta say, you really can't help get a racist vibe off of the media obsession with comparing a Chinese man to a yellow skinned cartoon character over and over and over and over again.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril

  • What Youtube channel has maintained high quality standards over the years?

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  • Kristi Noem literally runs out of House hearing to avoid Dem questions

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  • The joke of all this is how her humiliation will be scrubbed from the headlines and replaced by some AI Slop that conservatives insist makes he cool

  • Kristi Noem literally runs out of House hearing to avoid Dem questions

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  • Democrats continue to be all hat and no cattle, sadly

  • Movie Review

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  • The problem isn’t female leads, it’ trash-tier writing.

    Worst part about the sequels was the compulsive need to regurgitate elements of the prior series.

    • Empire is back, kids!
    • Death Star Plus
    • And we're back on Tantoine again
    • Harrison Ford again
    • Getting killed by Discount Darth Vader to buy time to escape the Knock Off Death Star
    • Only a direct hit on the main loud farting sounds

    There's so much lore from the books and the games and the toys and the cutting room floor of the original movies. And they had a ton of good ideas at the outset. A storm trooper who defects? A six foot tall super trooper in mirror armor? A Sith Lord who isn't stoic and morose, but hot headed and self-destructive? These are cool good ideas!

    Shame they got drowned out in Disney fueled nostalgia.

  • Panchen Lama says reincarnation must follow Chinese laws, be endorsed by Beijing

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  • as the adherents aren’t acting in ways that are harmful to others

    The Buddhist successors to the Mongolian/Qing Dynasty were plenty harmful to others. That's what sparked the student revolts responsible for their leadership's removal.

    You can blame the icky yicky communists for polarizing and galvanizing upwardly mobile tibetan youth into an insurgency. But falling back on CIA agitprop to justify what was effectively a US military operation intended to destabilize a border region isn't proof of your humanitarianism. Even the Dalai Lama himself regrets letting the CIA militarize Tibet.

    The fact that the US reneged on their promises and only used Tibet to extract information about China is depressing, but not surprising.

    It's the story of the Cold War told over and over again. The goal of these operations is to spark civil war, not to liberate or liberalize any population.

  • idk abbout this one discord

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  • It's waxed and waned.

    I remember when you had to log into everything, but there wasn't much to visit. Then people started using the Internet en mas and selling ads was the market maker. So you didn't need to log in, but you did get the most malicious JavaScript ever written trying to jam pop-ups under your cursor.

    Now we've somehow managed to achieve the worst of both worlds

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Texas screwworm plan draws ire from cattle industry

    www.texastribune.org /2025/12/09/texas-screwworm-plan-cattle/
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    Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship?

    www.teenvogue.com /story/some-democrats-are-helping-the-trump-admins-anti-lgbtq-tech-agenda
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Texas AG Ken Paxton sues EPIC to stop Muslim housing project

    www.texastribune.org /2025/12/05/texas-ken-paxton-epic-city-lawsuit/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Donald Trump pardons Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar

    www.texastribune.org /2025/12/03/henry-cuellar-donald-trump-pardon-bribery/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting

    www.404media.co /unauthorized-edit-to-ukraines-frontline-maps-point-to-polymarkets-war-betting/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Texas education chief met with Turning Point USA to discuss group’s expansion in high schools

    www.texastribune.org /2025/11/25/texas-education-agency-turning-point-usa-high-school-chapters/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Warning signs appear on Mexican beach declaring area restricted by U.S. as Mexico rejects Trump offer to strike cartels

    www.cbsnews.com /news/warning-signs-mexico-beach-us-department-of-defense-property/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    West Chicago brothers are on the front lines against ‘Operation Midway Blitz.’ And they’re only teenagers.

    archive.ph /qsazc
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies

    www.thenation.com /article/politics/dick-cheney-war-on-terror-executive-power/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    1 in 4 ICE arrests happened in Texas under Trump’s immigration crackdown

    www.texastribune.org /2025/11/03/texas-trump-immigration-crackdown-ice-arrests-deportation/
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    POV: The year is 700 B.C. You are a Celtic Briton man in Britain. There is an agricultural famine.

    fixupx.com /arcticinstincts/status/1982836984323448917
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Texas Sues Tylenol Makers, Claiming They Hid Autism Risks

    www.nytimes.com /2025/10/28/health/tylenol-autism-texas-lawsuit.html
  • News @lemmy.world
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    They’ve never been arrested. Why does the FBI list thousands of service members as potential criminals?

    www.texastribune.org /2025/10/24/texas-national-guard-military-titling-criminal-histories/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

    www.washingtonpost.com /national-security/2025/10/19/rubio-el-salvador-prison-bukele-ms13-informants/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

    www.theguardian.com /world/2025/oct/15/palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-assaulted-by-israeli-prison-guards-son-says
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    Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs

    gizmodo.com /border-patrol-posts-instagram-propaganda-video-featuring-antisemitic-slurs-2000672645
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    Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

    www.nytimes.com /2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-covert-cia-action-venezuela.html
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

    zeteo.com /p/pentagon-hegseth-speech-military-consequences
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    ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

    www.chicagotribune.com /2025/10/13/ice-fines-chicago-man-for-not-having-papers-on-him/