kelpie_returns
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- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 1 day ago:
30+ years and im still waiting for all systems to come online tbh. Any day now…
- Comment on Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation 3 days ago:
Imagine sending someone hatemail because they like rocky road while your favorite is salted caramel. Who cares whats in their bowl? Why care? Eat your own fucking ice cream, losers.
- Comment on They Wylin' 5 days ago:
Hell ya. Thanks!
- Comment on They Wylin' 5 days ago:
They unfortunately do not make bleach for your mind’s eye. This is a weight we will all have to carry, kin.
- Comment on They Wylin' 5 days ago:
You got this without the text? I like silly cats
- Comment on Mario Kart DS was released 20 years ago today on November 14th, 2005 6 days ago:
I have played it recently and you may be misremembering. There was one on 3ds too iirc. Might be the one you’re thinking of
- Comment on The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard 6 days ago:
A lot of the propaganda they’re fed does certainly dehumanize people, but they are still not all receiving the same information. That is what some are receptive to. Others would never have it if they knew that was the truth, which is why they have so many other avenues for selling this shit in every color and shade you can imagine. Gaia tv, prager u, countless woo-woo “woahhh dude” influencers, tradwife influences, ‘moderates’ who jsut like playing devils advocate but will hear nothing of this racism, good sir! And just on and on and on. Everybody is not tapped into the same internet.
There are people that simply never hear the racist stuff because that is the whole point of the operation; to obscure reality in order to be sure that as few people are acting on good information as is possible. They are plugged into the kinds of propagandic feeds that best suit their values, and pushed further and further down that tract. They get pavlov’d into knee-jerk reactions to the people pointing out the racism (among other things) that they are so artfully removed from, which turns into this self-feeding loop, pulling them further and further from reality.
And thats not even getting into what they did with the spanish speaking community; literally giving them incorrect translations of speeches and policies that make it all sound safe, standard, and sane. Not everyone has access to the same information as you, and not everyone is information-competent enough to even recognize what makes that difference, especially not after being taught to learn fear of the idea of challenging their beliefs.
I think you are severely underestimating the breadth and long-con of this project, as well as what kinds of people have been brought in and how. Though I do agree with you on how to solve the problem. Fine details may vary, but it’s clearly time to try something different.
- Comment on The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard 6 days ago:
This assumes that we’re all receiving the same information about what all’s going on, which is very definitely not the case. Literally watch 5 minutes of fox news and compare what you hear to the actual events they’re contorting. The difference is basically immediate and painfully obvious. That is only one of a countless many arms in what is one of the most wide-spread and thoroughly controlled propaganda campaigns in history.
We all lived through the first term, but some devious steps were taken to ensure that different groups were receiving very different coverage. This is getting harder for them to do now that the consequences of their lies are starting to outwiegh the lies themselves, but many of these people were and are still being fed bold-faced lies right along with the same kind of propaganda that literal cults deploy. The sort of mind ganes that are used in order to prevent their victims from ever individually coming to the conclusion that something is very fucking wrong. They are running near-every inch of an information ecosystem that traps their victims by making them completely repellent to the sane, effectively isolating most of them from the people that could otherwise help them see reason.
Many of them understand whats actually happening and are going along because of the hate within them. But many others are being manipulated through well tested and well documented means, which are being deployed in a novel way (via these high control/high volume digital ecosystems) and on a scale that we have not yet had enough time to learn how to properly combat.
They are basically breaking people down, isolating them, and driving them into a useful simulacrum of insanity, if not outright madness. It is a mistake to forget the shades of grey and the humanity that underlines every decision made, both among the perpetrators and the victims alike. If the goal is to do what’s right rather than punish anyone and everyone who wasn’t perfect to your standard, then these distinctions really and truly matter. Some of them need rehabilitation, and others need the full brunt of what these rotten choices should earn them. They’re just not a monolith.
- Comment on The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard 1 week ago:
*Some of these people. Many have been outright deceived, and many others (people living in trailers, I mean) are and have long been fully opposed to all of this lunacy.
- Comment on the dog that poops rocks is my favourite Fire Emblem Engage character 1 week ago:
Your sn inspires trust so that seals it. Am I a 90s hacker rn cause I’m in
- Comment on the dog that poops rocks is my favourite Fire Emblem Engage character 1 week ago:
So it’s like the dragon-girl in Fates but it actually does something worth doing? Sounds fun enough and is cute, but holy shit does it look so not what I’d expect of this series.
Glad to hear they did another ‘look at all the cool gals and guys we done made’ after Awakening cause that was a blast (maybe my favorite in the series even?) and even gladder to hear they moved back to more of their older gameplay. I liked Three Houses well enough, but it just wasn’t the one for me. The characters were great and the split paths thing was fun, but the mechanical changes just did not hit the notes I want from FE in enough ways that I got burnt out enough on run 2 that I just never tried for a 3rd. I still have no clue what Claude’s story looks like lol. Been putting off Engage for that reason, so it’s nice to hear they’ve moved back into form a bit. Will probably be getting a copy after all :)
- Comment on the dog that poops rocks is my favourite Fire Emblem Engage character 1 week ago:
I started playing when Sacred Stones dropped and Engage just happens to be the one title I haven’t tried some version of yet. Fire Emblem has changed.
So uhhhh…wtf am I looking at?
- Comment on How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"? 1 week ago:
In a better world it would
- Comment on Grocery shopping. "Please have courage." 1 week ago:
Anyone know the source?
- Comment on If Naruto was an American show it would be about a cowboy named Hammy McBurgers 1 week ago:
I am slain. You have slaint me.
- Comment on If Naruto was an American show it would be about a cowboy named Hammy McBurgers 1 week ago:
It’s just Naruto lore but with the Japanese flairs swapped for Americana. I did very little work outside of swapping some words around just tbf lol. And I’ve heard of these titles but have never looked into them. Thinking I may change that if this is the sort of flavor they’re offering tho
- Comment on If Naruto was an American show it would be about a cowboy named Hammy McBurgers 1 week ago:
As someone who really enjoyed Naruto as a child; gotcha fam.
Hammy McBurgers is a young bounty-hunter-to-be training in the capital city of his homeland; Hidden Pine Valley. His parents died long ago while protecting their city from one of the nine fierce wild west spirits; the great and terrible Thunder Bird. This spirit was trapped and now resides within the boy, as this was the only way that total catastrophe could be averted. While not a great student all around, Hammy’s connection to Thunder Bird lends itself to a certain devastating “rain of bullets” type technique that splinters his ammunition like thunder branching through the skies. This innate edge along with his hard-headed affect and unstoppable will to survive will carry him a long way through the troubles of his changing world.
There are other great spirits residing in 8 other people including the Jackalope, a cunning and world-wise spirit, the Sasquatch, an unstoppable engine of raw physical strength, the Oofoh, a strange conglomerate of small grey-green blokes with magical knowledge unrivaled, and the Chupa, a deviously wicked and constantly starving entity who keeps its host perpetually exhausted and in a state of constant desperation.
Among Hammy’s classmates, the two he gets to know best early on are Blossom, his one-sided crush who is a dedicated worker with a bit of a sweet-and-sour disposition, and Davey C, who is exactly as snobby, lame and one-dimensional as Sasuke. Him and Hammy end up holding hands at the very end and it’s kind of what the whole plot revolves around in a really, very long-winded way.
A mysterious organization of outlaws known only as El Amanecer (that’s supposed to be the “the dawn” but my Spanish is far from perfect, so I could be mistaken) seem to be quietly trying collecting and manipulating the nine great spirits, and nobody is certain why. Our young hero trains in the arts of brawling, marksmanship, and magic alike, but will his training be enough when Thunder Bird’s name is next on their list?
- Comment on I miss him 1 week ago:
Kyle MacLachlan tho. What a mensch, that fella.
And you and me both. Maybe I’ll even actually finish it this time!
- Comment on I miss him 1 week ago:
S01 was exactly the strange vibe I was hoping for from it, but, by the time I got up to the agoraphobia plotline, the vibes had shifted so significantly that it just felt like a different project altogether.
I later learned that Lynch had very little influence over that portion of the story, which made me feel a bit relieved. Every other Lynch piece Ive seen has made me feel something strong in one way or another, so finding out that he didn’t actually miss on s02 kinda made me feel like all was right in the world (or at least in this one tiny corner of it) again, silly as that may sound lol
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 week ago:
Whoma is dat?
- Comment on I miss him 1 week ago:
Same. I hear season 2 is a bit of a rough watch (for tonal reasons) but worth it for what comes after and how it all adds up in the end.
- Comment on If Naruto was an American show it would be about a cowboy named Hammy McBurgers 1 week ago:
I would not be at all surprised if Fujimoto dropped a copy of Hammy McBurgers vol 1 into the background of Chainsaw Man. Hell, I wouldn’t be all that surprised if that was his next project once csm wraps. The boy’s wild, I tell ya
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 1 week ago:
The only path left is combat. Tonight, her iron shall be re-cast…in blood.
- Comment on Killing SNAP benefits now is demanding a Blue Congress next election. 1 week ago:
Very few people are hopelessly and entirely stupid and many folks who don’t seem too bright can be quite cunning in specific fields and through certain lenses. A person might not be able to multiply double digits and yet still have an innate understandings of stuff like leveraging social currency, speaking in a way that makes others want to listen, or even more mundane things like intuitively taking to carpentry or specific artforms.
I see her as an odd combination of generally dull, socially clever, and desperately self-centered (which appears to be a boon to her abrasive but surprisingly effective social skills, because ofc it does and we are living in 🤡🌎). Regardless of whatever tf goes on in her haunted head, she is a very weird and frustrating lady. That much is crystal clear.
- Comment on Killing SNAP benefits now is demanding a Blue Congress next election. 1 week ago:
Sometimes we only learn better by first playing out our stupidest ideas. It’s not common, but I personally know a couple people that were raised to hard-headed racists, but later grew into self-reflecting, socially-concerned types. Minds can be changed if you encourage the right behaviors in the right ways.
I don’t see any reason to think this change will fully follow through on her, but she has been one of the loudest advocates for all this insanity, so hearing her change tune is kind of an uncomfortable w. Lots of women living the gop life know exactly how hard it is to be in that culture while not also being a man, and she’s starting to speak up on that bullshit. People are going to be reconsidering things about their lives because of her recent choice in words, and that is a good thing.
She should not be trusted or welcomed into the fold or anything like that, but this recent strain of behavior should definitely be welcomed. Encouraged, even. Even if not for the good it could do for individuals in this cult, then it would still be worth encouraging for the simple fact that accelerating the splintering of their base helps to clear the path toward moving past all this nonsense. Disillusioned gonna disillusion, as has always been the game.
Tldr; she can’t be trusted, but it seems likely to be a net positive to encourage this behavior, and only this behavior.
- Comment on WAKE UP, SHEEPLE 2 weeks ago:
Only men are allowed to run for or win office. Then, either when their term is up or after they fuck up hard enough to warrant it, another election is run to replace their seat because women kill and then fucking eat them. Rinse and repeat.
This keeps the power perfectly balanced between the big two genders and also has the added benefit of being totally rad and fun
- Comment on WAKE UP, SHEEPLE 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the market
- Comment on WAKE UP, SHEEPLE 2 weeks ago:
Poop economy kinda goes tho. I’d be (hopefully not literally) rolling in it!
- Comment on Soulja Boy is selling video game consoles again, and he's already being accused of ripping off an existing handheld: "He does not have permission to rebrand our products and sell them as his own" 2 weeks ago:
How disappointing :(
- Comment on Feminism.... Not even once folks 2 weeks ago:
Ai slop being used for paper-thin fear mongering? How thoroughly shocking.