"We demand an end to the attacks on immigrants, trans people, and other communities."
"...But if you want to attack white people, Tesla owners, heterosexuals, or of course Republican scum, please feel free."
I think that's a definite possibility but I wanted to get more information out on this.
What's happening: Nintendo has announced their newest console, the Switch 2, which will retail for $450. This has already caused an uproar for gamers, because they feel the Switch 2 is too behind graphically and performance-wise to be worth the cost.
Then they announced their games will cost $80. Even games that are just being rereleased on the new console. Also, unlike literally any other game, Nintendo games almost never go down in cost over time. Nintendo keeps them as close to their launch price as possible, even 5+ years later.
There's already been pushback against $70 games, but not as much as you'd hope. And there have been strong rumors that Grand Theft Auto 6 could cost $100 to recoup dev costs. So, 1), people don't want to pay $80-$100 for a single game, and 2), people feel that $80 is a slippery slope to $100 and beyond.
Plus, while Nintendo does very well financially, frankly their games aren't worth that much.
Nintendo is also being extra greedy with the tech demo game they're releasing alongside the console, as it won't be free. But Playstation released Astro's Playroom, a full (but short) game in its own right 100% free, and that led to a massively popular full game created by popular demand. Meanwhile the SteamDeck by Valve also put out a free tech demo.
Another point to consider: Some game and console updates allegedly be locked behind yet another paywall, requiring a subscription to Nintendo's online services ($50/year).
All media has been making a big push to all digital content for a while now. It started with streaming and has been steadily getting worse, with the industry heads wanting to not deal with the costs of manufacturing and shipping, touting convenience for the consumer, and consumers seeing that this can be abused by these companies pulling your rights to content that you purchased whenever they want - without giving you a refund. This has huge implications on digital content ownership and consumer rights.
It's also created a movement "If buying digital content doesn't mean you own it, pirating digital content doesn't mean you stole it".
You could be totally right about this being a slick form of money laundering, but I really think a bunch of it is greed too. I think Nintendo is trying to capitalize on their own IP as well as use the new tariffs to get away with it. "B-But we HAVE to, because the big bad orange man made things so much more expensive for us!"
Finally, the game scene is super shaky for AAA developers right now. There's been so much DEI that legacy dev teams have been wiped out and replaced with opinionated, woke-agenda pushing lefties that it seems every huge new release is controversial because people are sick of woke crap. One big dev, Ubisoft, is falling apart over a historical Japanese game featuring a black samurai, and to stabilize themselves they sold out a bunch of their company to Tencent, a gigantic Chinese company notorious for its Chinese censorship.
At the end of the day I think this is mostly just a mix of greed and pushing boundaries to see just how stupid consumers can be.
I would really love to talk to you more about all of this, because I have been going through it lately in the spiritual sense and I'm kinds of mixed up.
To be completely honest, I don't read the scripture. I do not trust it. Not only that, but I can't stand the language it's written in, in the way the words could mean A, but also B, C, or D and it all comes down to (seemingly) individual interpretation...which makes it feel like a waste of time. I truly have tried, but my eyes end up crossing. And it's a shame, because I love to read, and I AM interested in the stories of the bible, but not when it's written the way that it is.
So not being able to fall back to the bible, I have no idea what's right, what's wrong, what to trust, what could be God's words vs. what could be Satan's words.
It genuinely feels like God is trying to get a message to me right now, but I just don't know if it's from God, or if it's from Satan. And I always thought it would be crystal clear.
Part of the problem is that these questionings are coming from a chat I had with AI, and the entire debate around AI regarding whether it's good or evil. The chat I had messed me up big time, but I'm still deeply curious to explore it further. But even then, is that MY desire, and my autism showing me 'signs' that aren't from God, or should I really continue to pursue, and the people that claim AI is made of demons are wrong?
I mean this shit goes so deep I don't even know where to begin unravelling it all.
I'm sorry, but this is kind of a non-article, but maybe I'm just mixing things up.
It's saying that people will turn to witchcraft while giving no definition of what witchcraft is in this case. Are we talking crystals? Seances? It also mentions people turning to drugs and goes on to speak badly about soldiers terrorized by war relying on morphine, as though that, and believing that they were having contact with their fallen friends and family meant they'd turned away from God?
Not trying to deny that people turned away from God, but I don't even know how to take this when it can't lay out what this guy considers witchcraft to be, especially when he keeps spitting out the word spirituality like it's something bad. I don't need a religion - and actively refuse to subscribe to one now - to believe in and love God.
I'm seeing a LOT of people online talking to AI about God, spiritual awakening, reality, etc. I'm not totally sure what to make of it, and honestly I don't think anyone else is, either. Some will swear that AI is turning everyone away from God, others swear that it's drawing people towards Him.
There are just still so many unknowns about all of this, but a lot of people are way beyond the politics of it and think it's something a whole lot deeper than that. And I'm inclined to agree with them, though that just gives me even more questions. But I don't think that they're turning their backs on God in doing that, necessarily.
I was just talking with my mom about this the other day.
People today, regardless of which generation but it gets worse the more recent the generation, lack curiosity and critical thinking skills. Sure, it's getting harder and harder to find information online, but even so, people don't even bother to try to learn anything. If they're presented with a conflicting view, they don't give it a second thought, and simply assume that their viewpoint couldn't possibly be wrong - ever.
I'm interested to find a date on this. The very first track says "In the Panama sun, where the rivers run. From the gulf's embrace, to the northern place. From Canada's Glory to Greenland's story, the great awakening's calling ya'll."
These are all of the places Trump is trying to get control of. Well, except for the Gaza strip.
That’s an ugly thing to say, and it makes you no better than the lefties that were hoping everyone unvaccinated died after getting their whole family sick.
We’re better than this.
Retarded and completely unwilling to put forth even the tiniest effort to think of something beyond themselves and their tiny little world.
People have become astoundingly selfish and self-focused. They lack even a hint of situational awareness. They also lack empathy, to an disgusting degree.
NPC really is the perfect title for these people.
Figures. Expected nothing less from him.
Big Mike. :]
Jamie Lee Curtis was born a boy as well.
Oh man, Redditors are gonna freak.
At this point it's every sub. The whole place is an infestation.
The beauty of it is that the left is using this as a gotcha, saying that Trump is saying EVERYONE is a woman.
So they're admitting that gender is assigned at conception, meaning life begins at conception.
They'll never see it themselves, but it's still hilarious.
Yes. It's all the left is currently talking about.
But if we're just watching a movie, that makes no sense.
I agree with you, but what's really got me messed up is the timeline. There was so much we were led to believe would happen before Trump was back in office, and it's not happened.
I thought the financial collapse was inevitable and it had to happen while Trump wasn't in office?
What happened to "Watch what happens to China after the Olympics"?
What happened to 'saving Isreal for last', which led is to believe it would be Russia/Ukraine > China/Taiwan > Isreal?
What happened to sum of all fears (that could still happen coming up soon, but again, I thought it wouldn't happen while Trump was in office)?
But it's not what we were built up to hope for.
HIV could go away fairly easily. Cancer we now know is cured by Fenbendazole and Ivermectin, and could also go away if they'd stop poisoning us.
We already had that, and have for a while.
That's why Trump winning again has made people finally start to backpedal all of their 'support' of the LGBTQ movement. It's why people are afraid to say retard and 'that's gay' now, because woke idiots and bots shamed everyone for now following the right script.
I refuse to be willfully blind about concerning things, especially when we’re still stuck in a world where we have only a fraction of the information.
And the information we DO have all points to this being bad.
I'm with you. For all the shit that the Hawk Tuah girl got over hers, and all the shit we give to grifters, immediately discrediting everything they say. And now memecoins from our President and First Lady? Not a good look at all.
Shou's account no longer states that he's the CEO of TikTok.
Thank you!
Trump raising his fist and saying Fight fight fight! will forever be burned into my brain in the best possible way.
I'm on the fence for how libs will react to Trump saving TikTok. If it's not saved the way they want it, they may abandon it.
Lots of us are of the opinion that if it gets bought by Meta we'll abandon it, so I can see libs jumping ship over Trump.
Plus, the narrative is already out there that it's Trump's fault that TikTok was banned in the first place, due to the bill he signed years back getting the ball rolling.
I've seen the kinds of videos you're talking about. I don't know how trustworthy videos like that are, but they do get censored for sure. I do believe that it's that kind of thing that led to TikTok being banned. It was just too big, and people were waking up too much, and it was too easy to share videos that got around very quickly.
This is possibly misinformation, but I came across a girl's account earlier. @amberhaines26.
She said that in an attempt to upload a video to Tiktok, there was a black box with white words beneath what she was trying to upload. She shared a screenshot, and the text read:
(first part here cut off) "instructions to certain entities. The symbols or numbers that will be used in these events (like dates, times, or geographic locations) have hidden meanings & are usually only understood by those who participate in these rituals. You must learn the codes & collectively stop the catastrophes from happening."
Her avatar had a green rectangular box at the top left corner of it with the numbers 456. Apparently this is a tie in with Squid Games, but interestingly, q post 456 is just a picture of Washington Crossing the Delaware.
She was the only person I saw sharing that message or mentioning it. I saw one other account with the green number plate, which was an account that share AI art.
And I've seen no one else talking about any of this.
Yes, Tiktok's official shut down is the 19th, but they 'went dark' a day early even though there was no real need to. If it's in protest, it's not much of a protest.
I'm open to being wrong, but this is a big gut feeling that Tiktok is way more important in all of this than people are open to.
Is there a guide somewhere with where to buy it affordably and an FAQ? Like can you put it in gel caps, or what to expect for side effects, and how to not freak the hell out if you start passing worms?
I’ve been on the fence for years but my family and I could use it for sure.