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people who do this never care enough to vet whether any of it is real and you should assume most or all of it is bullshit, but it is important to stress that even if someone could ensure with 100% certainty that every single instance of sexual violence listed actually occurred in exactly the way they presented it, the fact that they are choosing to present these accounts only because of what demographic committed them means that it functionally exists as propaganda against a demographic. it is incontestably a tactic for manufacturing consent for violence against a group of people.

thats what we call neo nazis and shitty conservative bros? or at least its what we used to call them? why are ppl calling themselves "chuds" affectionately now

what is happening

when you call yourself and your friends "chuds"

YOU

ARE

CALLING

YOURSELF

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> ask the people if it's objects or gambling

> they don't understand

> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is objects and what is gambling

> they laugh and say "it's a good collectible sir"

> look up how to buy a collectible

Labubus are blind bags but they're also blind bags with some of the most insane dark patterns stacked on top. The online store for them has a thing where they tell you what you got the second you order it online so that you can immediately try again if you didn't get the thing you wanted.

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.

It's why Fallout 3 didn't really do anything all that interesting on its own; it's a wadded up ball of Fallout 1 and 2 shoehorned into Oblivion With Guns. This was the safest move they could've made on their investment short of returning to isometric gaming.

Fallout 4 was also as safe as possible, a technical refinement of the gameplay and graphics of 3 where the setting has been kept as static as possible. Further removed from the original games, it had even less to say than 3 and filled the void with more nonsense. Centuries after the bombs dropped, people raised in a stagnant wasteland need you, a civilian from modern society, to tell them how to grow tomatoes.

Fallout 76 was the apotheosis of Bethesda's Horse Armor DLC. Every developer that sucks wants to launch a Live Service model game that keeps players coming back and spending money constantly via microtransactions (and some not-so-micro) in exchange for nothing, and Fallout 76 was determined to, if anything, receive maximum money in exchange for less than nothing. It launched with a fraudulent preorder scam, something that I still believe Todd Howard should've seen the inside of a jail cell over. The game itself was utterly broken slop. Still, though, Bethesda slowly fixed it to a somewhat playable state, because they knew in the end, it would be worth it. And they would be right; Fallout 76 is still active with thousands of morons dutifully paying them money for santa hats and other garbage while they play the exact same, phoned-in "just after the bombs dropped" crap.

"Oh I don't normally use AI, I just wanted it to plan my trip"

You lived on this planet for decades, you know what you like, there are hundreds of websites where you can type into any search engine " things to do in [area]" and have at least a hundred different options.

"Oh I only use it so I can figure out what to make during the week with what I have"

The most popular website as you type in "recipes" into google have sections where you click dinner- quick and easy and those usually rely on staples + 1 or 2 items. I found 30 recipes on chicken alone.

"I had a writing idea, so I typed a few sentences into Chat GPT and I was able to write 20 pages with it."