I’m not going to lie. One of my old reddit accounts had 88 in its username. Not because for malicious reasons though. It was a random number I came up with since the username I wanted was already taken. I got banned from r/comicbooks for that despite proof that I was NOT connected with any racist content.

That’s one way to annouce your intentions.

As a Skyrim-first Elder Scrolls fan who only played and beat Oblivion for the first time this year, I feel happy for you Oblivion fans. This remaster was long overdue.

Boob politics. We truly live in a society.

Is that Asahi I see there? Nice setup, btw.

You starting to sound a bit like a 1930s German Bobby boy.

Angry German Kid and Downfall parodies were my era’s brainrot. Can we turn back the clock, please?

You’re welcome. Here’s to a return to more of those mellow times!

I could be wrong but I think it’s the end result of hyper-competitive free market capitalism and social media algorithms that boost outrage content. The rise of neoliberalism and globalization in the 90s led to a rise in high-paying executive positions in the corporate world. Just one problem: there’s only a finite amount of those positions to go around. This creates a environment of competition and many don’t make the cut. Business education is expensive and connections are hard to come by. This left many talented men unable to get not even decent paying, let alone high-paying, jobs that would allow them to advance in life.

The rise of mainstream social media platforms in the 2010s also gave a voice to misogynistic and reactionary content. Men who wouldn’t have been exposed to such content otherwise were now inundated with creators telling them (falsely) that the world was against them. At first, it wasn’t much of a problem. Take fitness Youtube for example. It was mostly educational content about things like growing a certain muscle group and increasing one’s 1RPM. Think of guys like Scooby1961 and Scott Herman. Rarely was there outrage content associated with fitness content. Guys like the Hodge Twins and the more overtly right-wing Golden One were the rare exemptions. Little did we know that the rare exemptions would be the progenitors of the ‘manosphere’ (i hate that term). Sometime during the late 2010s and early 2020s (I forget we’re halfway into the decade), ‘gym bro’ content merged with reactionary content. This meant that any guy who was looking for content to help them with their physical health and physique were suddenly recommend videos by the likes of Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan. Couple this with my previous paragraph, a decrease in critical thinking skills and media literacy and you have a perfect (shit-)storm.

There were also two smaller factors: Gamergate and increased mobility of women in Western, liberal democracies.

I’m not to rehash the entire history of Gamergate here but, needless to say, it brought out a lot of ugly characters. Carl Benjamin, Rageaholic and Thunderf00t being prime example. Bogus yet widely believed conspiracy theories like Cultural Marxism were touted as being responsible for all of society’s ills.

As for women’s increased mobility, this actually predates the internet. Women were taking birth control, pursing education and careers, having more causal sex and thus were less focused on domestic affairs and institutions like the church or the mosque. But with the rise of misogynistic/sexist and anti-feminist voices online, women’s freedoms were caught in the crosshairs.

Ultimately, you have to remember that Andrew Tate and his ilk insert themselves into otherwise innocuous content (gaming, fitness, self-improvement, etc.) and exploit a volatile time in our shared history. They want to create an environment of discontent. They want us direct our anger and disillusionment to the wrong target. Whether they’re true believers of their own output and simply grifting, I don’t know but it’s had devastating consequences.

I’ve never seen them live but I their kind of music doesn’t bode well with live performances. Contrast that with something like metal which is inherently high intensity music and the bands have a higher incentive to give a good performance. One example I can give is when I saw Exodus live. Their prerecorded material that I had heard prior was no match for their live performance.

Thanks for this! Might come in handy for missing metadata from “alternative” sources!

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If you have the technical-know-how and the patience, you can install LineageOS on unsupported devices. It might be unstable but, again, if you know what you are doing, you can get around many of the issues.

Give the franchise a fucking break! No more shows based on some obscure lore! No more blatant monetization of an already dried up IP!

Wait, what’s that? It’s too profitable? Well then, how about that’s both profitable and worthwhile like a decent mainline trilogy and investing in good expansion material? KOTOR is dire need of continuation and a remaster.

Freshly harvested organs.

Wholesome story featuring a consensual romance but the two characters just happen to be the same sex?

Nein!

Two nudists frolicking through a garden with a peeping Tom snake, dude butt-fucking his own dad, two daughters having sex with their drunken old dad, patriach creating an entire ethnic group with his half-sister and a side chick to boot, king sends one of his best men to die so he can bang his wife, deity has child with mortal woman and even convinces her husband that it’s OK and that child becomes a leader that gets executed?

Ja!

I don’t think I’ll ever see gas down to $1 ever again for the rest of my life. E-bikes (and well designed Euro cities) here I come!

Well, I was an Amiga user.

Based. But on a serious note, what machine did you have/use? Could you install Linux on the classic Amiga machines? I’ve always thought about buying an Amiga 1200.

Libre Office.