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I remember years ago when I was getting into the game I found MTGO, and it was the most janky client I’ve ever played on. The way you bought cards was like, topping up an account with credits and then opening a trade with some random bot and trading for the cards. Then a friend was like “you can just play with any cards for free” and showed me Cockatrice lol. Same thing happened when a group of us wanted to play D&D during covid lockdown so we all got tabletop simulator, downloaded the rule book pdfs and played that way.

A friend of mine plays warhammer and just 3D prints all his miniatures because fuck paying hundreds of dollars for what is essentially like 50 unpainted army men.

i love having strong connections to the Disney brand

if that’s actually a comrade that would be a really funny bit

Okay I haven’t really paid attention to whatever the hell Truth Social is other than it’s some kind of twitter clone, but are the posts on there really called Truths? lmfao

I remember when Genshin first came out people thought it was Japanese, and once they realized it was Chinese they tried organizing a boycott lol. Seems like it didn’t work considering the mountains of cash that game brings in now.

I was watching a video from a channel whose content I really liked and he brought up this game, which led to him making a China/winnie the pooh joke and my eyes rolled back into my head. There were some comments that were pretty similar to what you see on this video. It’s such a bummer when I find an otherwise cool channel and then they say some stupid shit about China/USSR/socialism/whatever and I’m reminded “oh yeah this is still a thing.” Feels like the channels I can stand watching are dwindling by the day.

Semi-related: it’s hilarious reading threads on reddit about this game breaking all kinds of concurrent player records and seeing all the insane levels of cope from redditors regarding China. So far I’ve seen people claim the players are actually all Chinese bots, Chinese people are only buying it to spite the west because they’re nationalists, and there’s also quite a few people just bewildered to learn that Chinese people are allowed to play games at all. lmao

That sub is probably full of actual neo-nazis.

It is for sure. I remember someone posting a screenshot from tankiejerk in which one of their users was asking why there were so many “far right opinions” there lol

like “hmm I wonder why this anti-communist sub I’ve joined has so many nazis in it. 🤷‍♂️ It’s a mystery”

man someone in my neighborhood bought one of those ugly things and every time I see them drive by my street I can’t help laughing. it’s such a goofy ass vehicle and I can’t respect anyone who drives one

linux gang stays winning

it really betrays how shallow these people’s understanding of geopolitics is that they are constantly making these stupid charts; constantly trying to convince themselves that the world is as simple as “this side good, that side bad” like some kind of marvel movie. And the worst part is they’re so smug about it. They post these in their communities and everyone nods along like haha yup this is freaking epic bacon sir

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I have known people like that, in their worldview, being blocked means he “won” and is automatically correct about whatever the debate was.

yeah when I block someone it’s because I don’t want to see their stupid shit in my notifications, not because I’m too scared of all their facts & logic lol

can’t wait to see libs get mad about this, completely missing the irony

it genuinely makes me happy to know how mad liberals are that it didn’t work lol. like you can hear it in how they talk about it. they fucking hate that China is powerful now

what I have learned from skimming that thread is that the average redditor thinks we would only lose such a war because “the rest of the world has more bodies to throw at us.” Literally just the “Russians haven’t lost yet because they use human wave tactics” excuse but applied to the entire world lol.

was speaking to a family member who mentioned her coworker talking about “standing with Israel” which sent me into a full blown rant about how fucking evil Zionists are and how Palestinians are 100% justified in their attacks on Israel and I think my indignant rage kinda shook her a bit lol.

I feel like I’ve had this anger boiling just under the surface for so long and I finally opened a release valve and just went off about how Israel and the US are unequivocally evil. I ended up apologizing to her because once I cooled down I felt bad about blowing up on her but man it felt good to finally just release all that anger. I need a better way to channel it though

that comment reads like a teenager who just took their first civics class and has everything all figured out now

My friend’s girlfriend is Chinese and when I first met her we talked about China for a bit and she later told him that she wasn’t used to people talking positively about China. He told me she sometimes lies about her ethnicity to avoid people being racist. made me want to punch a wall

it’s so ridiculous how that’s even possible; baffling how anyone can think this country is a democracy

lol I haven’t worked there in years but I believe the actual degree I put down was psychology. I think they were just desperate to fill the position because at the time their IT dept was like 2 people