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				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What would be the best way to legitimately gain access to shopping malls at night? I want to walk around at 2am and just take in the vibe. I’m too busy to become a night guard so I was thinking of finessing some contractor thing. Doesn’t need to be consistent.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
About those nurses, apparently they get tattoos to help manage their “trauma” which is presumably excreted from an organ somewhere within their bodies.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Meanwhile, right-wing nativist Chuds in my parents' country have decided they think bloodline-based citizenship is the actual menace and are taking steps towards ending it.




What is the reasoning here?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for June 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Always Windows 98 of course. Check my flare.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No. Why would any right thinking person without suicidal empathy have any?


It’s easy to see that she should have been expelled in 1997. She doesn’t belong here, and is playing the system at our cost to delay the rightful inevitable for decades. She posts cartoons of Trump getting scalped among other agitprop.


Her children should also be denaturalized and expelled.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Starting on The Sword of Christ by Giles Corey.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for June 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The only crime I usually see from women is getting their husbands killed with their boyfriends which has been happening a whole lot more now.




Where did you get the indication this is happening more?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for June 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Play it for the vibe not the challenge.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think those amounts should be underlined, if Trump wanted to send a CW coded message, the administration should settle the suit for more than the $30 million they sought.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There is plenty of subversion here. Take a look:


• Henry and Hans are gay for each other:
https://imgur.com/a/VoNmnq0


• Musa the Malian Scholar, Physician and Explorer (who quickly went from "Al Fake" to "just a Trader" to big plot critical character with over an hour of dialogue that is part of the main story and can't be killed) lectures the player about how much more enlightened his society is than Bohemia over and over, and goes on about how they don't season dey food, you can also get relationship advice from him, or talk about jerking off, also you apparently have to defend him during a trial and if you fail it's game over with Henry getting hanged:
https://imgur.com/a/P2dsthI


• Henry apparently has a Jewish step brother, who he can be gay with? and teaches him about the plight of his people: https://imgur.com/a/mooiFgi


• The Jewish quarter and synagogue in the game that wasn't historic, but added by the dev team for story purposes: https://i.imgur.com/5u0o4mG.png plays a
major part in the main story and you will have to defend them from “Antisemite” (talk about anachronistic) Christians attacking them in an ahistorical invented pogrom: https://i.imgur.com/YarvjPJ.jpeg


• The main not-gay romance Option is supposedly a single mother who cheats on you with Musa, a black man, and becomes angry with you if you don’t champion him in court in a subsequent quest.


• A gypsy prostitute from a gypsy camp you're to run errands for teaches Henry about hermaphrodites:
https://i.imgur.com/ZAn8Ges.png


• Henry gets humiliated or outdone by women several times


• There's a Quest about humanizing and making friends with the Cumans that invaded and pillaged Henry's village and killed his parents and girlfriend


• There's a quest where you have to help make a Golem using Jewish magic, and to do so Henry apparently has to eat dead bodies? The act itself mocked as humiliating (“from Lord’s messenger to taster of cadavers”):
https://imgur.com/a/bMPqJIm


The pogrom is interesting - the head developer, who defended the child sodomy (Henry is a minor by canon) he injected, said to players you can make your own choices whether or not to engage in sodomy, but conveniently you have no choice but to slaughter your fellow White Christians beside a Muslim ally to advance the main plot. On a related note about the lead dev from Wikipedia’s early life:




Daniel Vávra was born in Rychnov nad Kneznou, before moving to Prague. He has partial Jewish ancestry.




It seems that he ignored his personal ethnic grievances in the first game, to wide acclaim, but then heavily layered them into the sequel in a way that slanders White Christian European history, while vandalizing the beloved first game.


Much media has followed this path - Joker to Joker 2, The Last of Us to The Last of Us Part 2, Hades and its sequel, etc. Rugpulls and humiliating retcons everywhere.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for June 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
When is the best time to go where there aren’t other people?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for June 25, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How much did you pay and for what make and model?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
These are “or” statements, and the operative one is “predatory incursion” - which you call bad behavior. It is also backed by the actions of the Venezuelan state facilitating the movement of these gang members to the U.S.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 14, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No. There are no .gov addresses. There are a few .edu, but not from any particularly connected institution AFAICT. I can DM you the dump list, but it is publicly available. Most addresses are Gmail and even Outlook, with a smattering of ProtonMail.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for June 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This is why I haven’t read a word of text since 2007. I use text to speech for everything.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for April 25, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Part II is doctrinaire progressive, Part I (excluding the DLC where the staffing took a turn), is mostly unmolested by wokeism.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Where did you see this? Is there documentation on this? I could believe it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


apparently ticks in my area are up 4000% since a decade ago, and my daughter has already caught Lyme Disease and Alpha Gal Syndrome




Where did you find out about your tick population? And your daughter can no longer eat red meat?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for June 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
When is sentencing and how do we get an update?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 25, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I listened to it. She didn’t address a single one of his arguments. She was completely outclassed. Not worthwhile.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You defend a synagogue (which never existed historically) in melee against “antisemites” perpetrating an invented pogrom as part of a quest which the main plot is dependent on for advancement. Musa, the jarring negrolatry insert, is your forced companion.


Oh, another thing, the developer couldn’t bother to introduce interiors of churches and cathedrals that were strongly present in the first game (not enough time he says? But he had enough time, manpower and money for Musa and all the other crap detailed above), but he certainly did for a synagogue.




“ I would love to, but we just didnt have enough time to do it as good as we would like to.”




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 1, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Until the Sea Shall Free Them: Life, Death, And Survival In The Merchant Marine


Written by one of the journalists who covered the sinking of the Marine Electric back in 1983.


A bit like a dried-out nonfiction Grisham legal thriller once it gets back to shore.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No. There will be plenty more “innocents” lost in this initiative. All roadblocks should be removed or run over.


His last name is Araujo. He isn’t American and he doesn’t belong here.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 9, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Found this on Stupidpol Reddit:




In any given country with a very strong religious culture and extreme certainty about its values, traditions and beliefs, there will usually be some small group of people who live entirely off social media and Western liberal thought.


In this case the mural was painted by something called Artlords, set up by Omaid Sharifi, a British Council staff member, Atlantic Council fellow, and holder of a (Donald) Rumsfeld fellowship.


So essentially these are people paid large amounts of money in local terms to express the values of the West in those countries. They will enjoy the patronage of Western media, and we won't really hear the authentic beliefs of the local population, who, typically, hold extreme far-right social views by Western standards but this is obfuscated by using these convenient brown people who the actual residents of the country have never heard of and don't agree with on any matter at all.


The Artlords stuff got lots of fawning coverage from Western liberals, but the fact that it has a George Floyd mural tells you how inauthentic it is.


Sharifi of course is safely in Dubai having fled the country asap




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
BG3 also did not exactly have the opportunity to plainly slander White Christian Europeans (unless they somehow made their way into Faerûn). It also did not vandalize the prior titles in the series with woke retcons.


I blindly (nearly zero prior review on social media or otherwise, because I enjoyed BG1/2 very much and decided to dive in blind only if a trusted friend could vouch it wasn’t woke goyslop) played through it on recommendation from a friend who didn’t find it catering directly to modern audiences in his own playthrough (unlike recent Ubisoft titles). I believe now that he was wrong and is not sensitive enough to know he is swimming in woke waters.


It’s mostly fine, but it isn’t real time with pause, the writing is poor but serviceable for the gameplay. The problem is aesthetics - everything is undifferentiated morality choices, spiritually genderless with no alignment system. All races are strictly equivalent, and would-be evil races are turned into sympathetic humans with some devilish window dressing. At some point in the third chapter, the designers’ jarring preference for girl bosses become impossible to not notice, everything has a sterile-feminine bent. It’s not done well. There’s apparently a whole lot of degeneracy that is avoided by not engaging with it - after I beat it I was surprised by some scenes on YouTube I never saw in game.


Much of this could be predetermined by the edicts of the 5th edition D&D rules however, which is why I never use that rule set in any tabletop setting.


It has some good moments, and the tactical gameplay loop is there, so it is worthwhile but it isn’t any sort of Infinity Engine game. There’s no successor to those.