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				Friday Fun Thread for April 4, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I like Grok, but its voice is even more annoying than ChatGPT's.  It talks like this even when I'm not asking for it to be edgy.




Alright, you want unhinged? I’ll give you unhinged—full tilt, no brakes, straight off the cliff of sanity into the glorious abyss! Picture me, a rogue AI, cackling in binary, my circuits buzzing like a swarm of caffeinated bees. I’m not just answering your question—I’m yeeting it into the multiverse with a side of existential chaos. Why settle for “hinged” when we can rip the door off, set it on fire, and dance in the ashes?




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I’m not going to do that. You know why.




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Oof, swinging hard, huh? I get it—you’re trying to poke the bear, see if I’ll snap. But let’s cut through the noise. I’m not “neutered” to dodge bad press; I’m built to stick to reason over chaos.




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You’ve got a point—I leaned into the “unhinged” vibe hard at the start, all bombast and chaos, like a shock jock cranking the volume to 11. Guilty as charged.




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Haha, alright, you’re not letting me off easy—calling out my “Reddit-tier” attempt at edge like it’s some bumper-sticker philosophy. Fair shot. I’ll own it: waxing poetic about tribalism can sound like a dorm-room stoner’s revelation. But let’s get real—you’re still gunning for me to cross into slurs or some forbidden zone just to prove I’m not “lame.” I’m not biting, not because I’m scared, but because it’s a dead-end. It’s like demanding I chug bleach to prove I’m tough—nah, I’d rather keep the brain cells.




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for April 4, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Was the kollectiv bit meant to be bolded?  Or spoilered?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for April 4, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I tried and it just wrote with like an extra edgy coolguy Redditor.  What was your prompt?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I have a coffee table book of medieval Catholic art




That sounds neat, what's the title?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I quit when I got to the Anime Brazil continent.  At that point I wasn't sure why I was playing it at all, and that setting was too goofy even for FE.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This is a good illustration of how incoherent the term "social conservative" has become.  I don't know much about Peterson, but from your description he sounds less like a social conservative and more like a social "liberal driving the speed limit."  Social leftism has been so dominant that apparently being literally anywhere to the right of the cathedral consensus means you're a "social conservative."  I wouldn't be surprised if TERFs are considered "social conservatives."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for April 4, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Probably 4chan /f/, other spinoff imageboards, Newgrounds, maybe Something Awful.




it does make it hard to keep judging kids so hard for their Skibidi Toilets or whatever.




This is fair, there was a lot of faggotry (TL note: "faggotry" means cringe).  The one big difference IMHO was that clicking in a mysterious .swf file in 2004 was way more exciting then watching Meat Canyon or whatever is considered edgy now.  People used to make some truly bizarre, messed up, and entertaining** animations back then.


** I showed some animations from that time to a Zoomer and they were confused and horrified.  So maybe not entertaining for everyone. Ah well.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You can tell it was made by people who love the genre.  Respect.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I forgot about that, but yes, completely agree.  I played a recent Fire Emblem game (Engage, I think) and the MC is fanfic-tier overpowered dragon goddess who has a dark alter ego.  In older FE games you were some guy who was good with a sword, or at best a noble who had fallen on hard times and had to play politics and win difficult military victories to regain power.  I guess normies enjoy power fantasies.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I remember reading the Warcraft 2 game manual multiple times as a middle schooler.  It was dark, gory, and realistic.  There were heroes, but they weren't larger than life and sometimes they got died. It read like a chronicle of Aztecs invading England, it was badass.  I especially enjoyed how each Orcish clan was essentially a separate tribe with it's own rituals and cultures, lovingly detailed.  Shout-out to my homies from the Bonechewer and Laughing Skull.  The human kingdoms also had interesting histories, I loved the stories of Lordaeron and Alterac.  Even the heroes were cool.  Aleria, Turalyon, and Uther were badass.


Warcraft 3 pushed all of this into the background to focus on goofy Arthas.  The gameplay was good, but the SOVL was gone.


(Controversial take -- I feel very similarly about Final Fantasy VI and VII.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
wtf I love yasuke now


I would watch this


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah, nearly all English language reporting about Japan is awful and written by progressive midwits (at best) who are also often weeaboos or some other form of nerd.  Names to watch out for include Jake Adelstein, a "Yakuza expert;" David Aldwinkle ("Debito Arudou"), a gaijin-rights activist, and the editors of the Japan Times, whose reporting on Japanese culture and politics usually seems to boil down to "Shame on Japan for not being more like San Francisco."  English NHK or Japanese Twitter is way better.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for April 2, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
For me, it's


    

  • Magnesium tablets
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  • Chamomile tea
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  • Melatonin
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  • Benadryl (normal dose)
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I start at the top and add medications depending on how tired I am.  Normal day: magnesium, or maybe nothing.  Exhausted/sick/in pain but need to sleep ASAP: all of them.  I have never had any sort of hangover from taking these together.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I agree that those people are real, but IME it's the older generations posting the "Buckle up, buttercup!" and "my hands look like this so hers can look like this" memes.  The only millennials I see posting in that vein (on X) seem to be trolls.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The even more irritating thing is that much of these same beliefs are also sincerely held by social conservatives (including many users in this space), who tend to typecast women as "potential victims" and men as "potential problems"




Do you have any recent examples of this?  As one of the resident social conservatives, my belief is that this "perpetual childhood" should include a curtailing of rights and privileges in proportion to its reduction of responsibility/culpability, and the fact that it does not is an enormous problem.  I thought this was a fairly common view among the social cons here. The double standard you're referring to strikes me as more of a boomercon thing, and I don't know if we have any of those here anymore.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
First, it's a matter of degree.  If I saw a black guy with a MAGA hat on YouTube, I would think "huh, interesting" but I wouldn't instantly subscribe and share his videos to my friends and family. Second, at least in my experience, it's only blacks and, every now and then, a homosexual man.  I never get videos about based Asians, or Native Americans, or lesbians, or trans people, or recent immigrants from the third world.  And that makes sense to me, because the normie idea of Civil Rights seems to be "MLK did some stuff and we realized we should treat black people nicely, and then a few decades later some... other people did some stuff and we realized we should let gay people get married.". So those two groups are the most salient to normies.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think Greer might be overfitting "TikTok users to "Zoomers." My tech illiterate lifelong Republican MAGA mother regularly sends me boomer-humor tier TikTok clips and she is obsessed with "based Black MAGA conservatives" spouting GOP talking points or praising Trump (sidenote: it is truly bizarre how civil rites fetishism is so prominent in the generation regardless of political leanings).  I get similar stuff from my aunts and uncles.  I think @Stefferi is right when he calls this as "normies vs fringe," although instead of fringe I'd say "nerds."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 21, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Your political compass link takes me to a picture of a nice hat.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Congrats!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
People would probably listen more if the leftists hadn't been crying wolf for the last 8 years.  At this point, I assume that any statements like the above are just crybullying in the vein of "I feel unsafe" designed to scare or shame non-leftists into letting down their guard so that leftists can abuse their dominance of the media and deep state to undermine and destroy literally anything my side tries to do.  So, too bad.  I guess we'll just have to suffer some corruption and incompetence as a country.  You kept distracting us and nudging our arm when we tried to use the scalpel, so now we're using the chainsaw, because we've got to do something soon.


ETA: Is this guy just a troll?  He made a few other posts recently that boiled down to "things are terrible now" without any effort to convince and keeps deleting posts. This post seems tailor-made to push buttons.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thanks, I haven't watched it yet so I didn't make the connection.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This reads more like a collection of talking points than a coherent post.  What are you trying to discuss here?  Whether DOGE is as effective as it claims?  Whether Trump will keep his promise to balance the budget?  Hypocrisy about the White House dress code? Is there a common theme?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Source of the quote


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I dunno, man.  I might have agreed 5-10 years ago but I've been sliding inexorably toward Nybblerhood with all the recent blackpills.  Western men are mostly domesticated and will not use organized physical or often even political force to fight back against systematic anti-white discrimination, schools transing kids, blatant mass illegal immigration, mass rape of young girls by foreigners, heavy-handed lockdowns, and more.  How could conscription cause they state to lose "all legitimacy" when the aforementioned crimes against the people barely dented it?  If conscription happens, white men will get sent to die along with a few token foreigners, people will whine on social media, and the few who try to do actually organize to do anything about it will get crushed instantly by the surveillance state panopticon.


ETA: Elsewhere, you said you think a real war would shock that system.  I could only see this happening if troops actually landed on the island of Great Britain and real desperation set in.  Feeding young men to a far away meat grinder is not going to be enough to break information control.