ElGosso

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

There's definitely a lot of SomethingAwful influence in our culture. /R/chapotraphouse, the subreddit whose banning spawned our website, had a ton of that energy too.

I'm 99% sure it was targeted at the CTH sub. They don't even have the rule against promoting violence anymore, they got rid of it at the start of the invasion of Ukraine. If you check the old subreddit it says it was banned for promoting hate.

Which we would all know if we read checks notes Stalin's "Against Vulgarizing the Slogan of Self-Criticism"

What, is Antarctica too good for rivers?

Same, people are like "omg you need to read all of the theory ever made to do a communism" and I'm just like

Hexbear when Henry Kissinger is finally on his deathbed

That's a dong that produces electricity

Godspeed

How's he holding up? I haven't heard much about him since right after the Bolivian coup.

It's 100% cost savings on Bethesda's part. I remember hearing about bugs in Fallout 76 that had been in the engine since Morrowind that would normally be handled by a community bugfix patch.

And they require such extensive modding to be playable that it just feels pointless to me to even bother. And it's such a pain in the ass too - oh, you need mods from Nexus, but you also need this other thing, oh and you have to run all these extra programs to make sure they don't explode.

These games are not fun enough to bother with all that nonsense.