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  • 'I haven't sat down to play the games, and I won't': Fallout's Walton Goggins says he 'not interested' in playing the RPGs his show is based on

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  • My mind's eye flashes to something like The Master and I'm bummed that's considered "gamey" by great actors. Not that I expect actors to go fucking play Fallout 1 with a Small Gun Crit/Speech build and go collect the Brotherhood's data and confront the Master in a battle of words... but if someone would like to show Goggins on their phone that kind of thing is in the games, that the games themselves strived very hard to make living, colorful worlds, I think it certainly wouldn't hurt the show. Hell if someone wants to show that scene to anyone currently at Bethesda I think it could positively impact the next game.

  • Liberals and discovering morality when their enemies do bad things, name a better duo

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  • I miss all previous presidents I have experienced prior to now and even Bush would be an improvement versus what we have literally now. They're all directly at fault for the present situation in some way.

  • I know you don’t want them to want AI, but…

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  • Regular, non-expert internet users find it interesting, or even amusing, to generate images or videos using AI and to send that media to their friends. While sophisticated media aesthetics find those creations gauche or even offensive, a lot of other cultures find them perfectly acceptable. And it’s an inarguable reality that millions of people find AI-generated media images emotionally moving.

    You're describing the internet equivelant of ignorance and figurative poverty, where people don't have the knowledge or the resources to make better choices (fast food deserts, faith healers, the PowerBall) because they are institutionally deprived. This is the same class of users/consumers that big companies look for those exact same qualities in to shill the exact same AI garbage to because they don't know anybetter. This article is suggesting Mozilla flood the streets of a poor neighborhood with their own crank because their crank is cut less. I see the argument as bad, I see the premise as evil, and I see the rhetoric as manipulative. Respectfully, no.

  • US immigration enforcers use Halo art to promote mass detention, while the White House and Gamestop swap Master Trump memes

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  • If Halo wasn't dead before it is now. Microsoft whored the Chief out. Considering the state the franchise was already in remaking its first game for a third time to milk nostalgia, I just don't think there'll ever be another Halo title that doesn't reek of tonsil stones and human ashes.

  • They’ve finally gone there: South Park lets rip at Benjamin Netanyahu

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  • "Finally"

  • Revealed: Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation

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  • I am perpetually haunted by a news story I saw circa 2018 showing footage of children being led around New York at about 1AM by a prim kindergarten teacher-type woman. News sources at the time said they came from the border. So what in the name of God were they doing in New York across the continent? I have had a rising sense of panic about this for ever and I fear you are dead on. Want a never ending goodie bag of slaves with no paper trail? Militarize a border.

  • Maps: Israel has attacked six countries in the past 72 hours

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  • All true, but the evangelical right don't care about that, that's all neocon power games and European stuff. The power driving how the admin behaves has nothing to do with longterm geopolitical thinking and everything to do with racialized religious intolerance, property deals, and people literally praying for the end of the world.

  • Maps: Israel has attacked six countries in the past 72 hours

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  • https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/gaza-war-evangelical-leaders-cheer-end-world-1234884151/

    I was begging people to listen. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are fucking failures but Harris, while still a milquetoast cop, would have at some point stopped supporting Israel because of optics. Probably after too many were already dead of course. But the actual theology of mainline Christianity involves prophecies where both Israel and everyone on all sides of her suffer inconceivably. Christians have reversed the causation so that by causing, hopefully, a nuclear hot war in the Middle East they literally think Jesus will come back. There is and was NO ROOM for Palestinians in this plan. Not a one. There is, in fact, no room for anybody but the sanctified corpses of Jews the Christians only used as pawns and their own selves just waiting on the smoking ruins for Jesus. This is WHY Americans support Israel and even the Democrats still sell them guns: They virtue signal being Christian for campaigning optics, and that means selling guns to God's chosen fall guys. I tell you with 100% certainty Netanyahu knows this very basic fact about the American Christian right and exploited it to stay in power and out of jail. Trump needed to win an election to stay out of jail. October 7th was perfect timing for them. The idiot "faithful" democrats had to virtue signal their adherence to iron age thought systems or the so-called moderate vote they believed in would completely evaporate. Well, they were never going to win that game if they were playing with conservative Christians in practically their home town of Israel Apocalypse stuff.

    Yeah this is why I argued what I argued. This is why I dealt with getting called an idiot, centrist, and a shill. The plan by our administration and the rich Israelis is to let Israel stir up a general war, maybe even a nuclear exchange, let all those pesky people in the holy land erradicate eachother. The more they do and the more violently and brutally they do it, the harder the ripcord of Christofascism is yanked. I'm not really looking forward to seeing what these people are like when they think they're literally all bit players in the Book of Revelarions.

  • Barely sustainable

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  • https:// allaboutlawyer . com /macdonalds-coffee-lawsuit-burn-pictures/#the-publics-misunderstanding-and-media-sensationalism

    I invite you to take a look at what the coffee actually did to her before you keep running your mouth. NSFL. If you would not like to look, I offer my services as a transcriber to describe it in depth for you. Whatever I can to make this awful lie McDonalds perpetuated to finally go away.

  • An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism

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  • The terrible title makes it seem like autistic people do not experience empathy. I would say there is a ten to one disparity in the capacity for empathy autistic people hold versus the capacity for empathy people are willing to demonstrate readily toward autistic people. Somebody brings up Republicans and that bothers you, here's a thought: are you sure your country has a conservative element that isn't following behind where American conservatives are leading with their increasingly openly eliminationist actions?

    Its like the fact that A LARGE SUPERPOWER run by IRRATIONAL NAZIS might come up in your day to day life as regards the rights and dignities of minorities as you use this PLANETARY INFORMATION NETWORK.

    Ohhh feddit.uk. My friend your LABOR party is practically synonymous with our conservatives at this point.

  • Jesse Watters on Cracker Barrel rebrand: “The only thing that could’ve been worse, if they had made it Blacker Barrel”

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  • If it was considered really bad to call hopped up white people crackers I have a feeling the term is about be seen in a new light because of this shit. This IS by definition cracker shit.

  • We now know just how much climate change supercharged Hurricane Katrina

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  • The people of New Orleans and humanity et al are not parasites. I hope you realize we're more like addicts being abused by the elite who purposefully stifle any attempt to wean off fossil fuels or reform society. The parasites in that state were in Baton Rouge decades prior and to this day letting the wetlands be eroded and building pipelines over them, practically letting the storm water in through the front door on a nice welcome mat.

  • Still waiting...

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  • I think they might have mumblemouthed it but you bastards have decided among yourselves that their mispoken statement cannot merely represent an ignorant and misinformed read of history but an intentionally violently racist viewpoint. The screenshotted user was I warrant correct in their historical analysis and absolutely fucking wrong to put words in the thread-OPs mouth, as if earnestly trying to alienate instead of persuade or fact check a damn thing.

    Like yeah, abolition wouldn't have happened without black people, from freedmen writers to rebelling chattel slaves, advocated for themselves. All the well meaning white people (on average rarer then anyway) wouldn't have meant much without black people wanting to be free and making it known.

    Why would you go out of your way to read a person's response in the worst possible way? Maybe I'm just a fukken airhead but I didn't see any dogwhistle that justified how you lot are speaking to them. You simply decided to tar and feather the fucker for being kind of wrong about labor history. Then you springboarded into a merciless bed of assumptions.

  • Why do conservatives write LIKE THIS?

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  • One can present a state of derangement independent of their normal mental health but which does endanger those around them while the state is ongoing. I hope you are not falling for garden variety concern trolling but even as a non-local user I wanna say I do appreciate your commenting (and that of the individual who filed the report) to prevent casual ableism.

  • Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules

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  • Truly we are one RFKJR blogpost on the White House page from somehow improbably making leprosy communicable and becoming the 'great leper colony' of Moore's prophecy.

  • Hiding the tankie donate box

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  • I don't know if I'd really call Tankie a slur just because "tankies" don't use the term. That's like saying Thatcherite, carpet bagger, TERF or brownshirt are slurs. You may not identify with the term but we have a long way to go before its a slur.

  • Hiding the tankie donate box

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  • It is a decentralized open source communication protocol offered for the public's use, which means people can modify their instances and generally do, say, or think anything they want in regards to the original founders of the project.

  • This has been a surreal 24 hours

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  • It sounds like you're where you need to be doing the work you were meant to do with a kindred spirit. Please stay safe Pete!

  • Is a NAS the ultimate goal? Which yes - which one?

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  • What the fuck?