I agree. Choosing not to use mods is easy for me though, because I'm playing on a console and can't implement mods even if I want to. Usually that's a major disappointment for me - some games I won't play because I think the ability to use mods with them is a major piece of the enjoyment of the game.

But for games like Silksong, I'm actually kinda glad the option to mod just isn't there for me because when I get frustrated, I know it would be a temptation. I want to play the game at full difficulty, as intended by the developers, but there are still times when I keep dying to a maddening boss fight where I would be itching to use something to make it easier, so I didn't have to keep banging my head into a wall. I'm always glad when I finally get through it that I accomplished it without aid though. Like I'm really glad I threw myself at the Sister Splinter boss enough times to beat her before the devs did that update that nerfed her a bit.

I do kinda regret doing the Courier's Rasher the way I did that was a bit cheesy, but I justify that for myself since the way I did it is part of the game as it was originally made, using the systems put in place by the devs (not someone else altering it as with mods). All of that said, I absolutely don't begrudge anyone who does use mods and I'm glad mods exist that allow people to play the game as they choose to.

I actually did the Courier's Rasher before I had double jump and even before I had ~~silkspear~~ clawline, just cling grip and drifter's cloak (float). I was impressed with myself because after doing it, I looked around and couldn't find any video of anyone making the run without at least clawline. But... I also did it in way that is probably considered rather cheesy. I'm sure others have realized it too, it seems pretty obvious to me, but after I did it, I searched around to see if any guides or tip posts mentioned it and none did, at least that I could find. It takes a bit of prep, but if anyone reading this is having serious trouble making it to the kitchen in time, but you just want to get that damn timed mission out of the way, here's a cheesy method that could make it a lot easier for you:

I think he is assuming Halo was a game where the grunts were good guys and only the elites were evil enemies, you know, because in real life the elite are always so persecuted and made out to be the bad guys by all the lazy poor people. Thats why he says "grunts vs elites," not realizing they were both antagonists as members of a religious zealot alien empire (which was actually coded in such a way as to at least somewhat play into Islamophobia) being fought by the righteous American special-forces-coded protagonist. Seriously I bet he thinks it was a class war styled video game and he's "guessing no one wanted to be an elite" because he thinks they were probably the baddies, made that way by woke game developers to malign the hard working ultra-rich job creator class who the dirty proles will call "elite" as a pejorative.

Or I dont know, maybe I'm way off and that's not what he's saying, but knowing how this bootlicking wannabe-intellectual chud has presented himself in the past as a warrior for the persecuted rich, it seems to fit with this word salad of ignorance and cringe.

Same here. I was on the CTH sub pretty consistently in 2018 and 2019, then wasn't on the internet at all for a while due to life circumstances, but came back just in time to see it get banned in 2020. Somehow I ended up on chapo.chat only about a week after it started. But when I try to think of exactly how I found it, I just can't remember. There was probably a "where are all of the chapos going now?" post in one of the tangential subs that hadn't been banned yet where someone shared the link and I was lucky enough to see it before the comment got removed.

Are they STILL banging the "criticism of Israel is antisemitism" drum?

That rhetoric is foundational to the Zionist project. It will never not be a drum they bang on.

So fucking tired of being called antisemitic for suggesting Israel should stop doing genocide.

- "tell me about it."

I feel like Trump operates on the assumption that no one will react to counteract whatever strategy he implements.

Well, when his greatest domestic opposition is the democratic party, it's been a correct and winning assumption. The logic becomes "What's anyone gonna do, impeach me again?" On top of that, when most of the vassals fall immediately in to line when he says so, being good dogs for the US, and the strategy keeps working even with foreign policy, there's not much incentive to do otherwise. Fortunately China is not the Democrats nor are they Europe.

Similar to what others said, it is about control. The US state has complete control over how the "algorithm" feeds people the narratives that the US wants to feed them when it comes to the major social media platforms. But not with TikTok. It is not a national security threat in the way they want people to think it is, but it is a national security threat in that they can't force their curated propaganda through it as they see fit, like they can with the other platforms. It's a propaganda liability.

So you appear to be one of those dorks who thinks that all political positions exist only as a binary, falling somewhere on a spectrum between liberal and conservative. This is fucking stupid. It's not entirely your fault, since that's all that's allowed to be officially acknowledged in , but really you should know better by now. Hell, you should know better simply by virtue of the fact you're posting your ignorance on a communist website. So apparently I'll be the first to inform you that both liberalism and conservatism are very similar rightwing ideologies, with conservatism being essentially another branch of liberalism. This is recognized by most of the rest of the world, even many other "LiBeRaL dEmOcRaCiEs." As communists, anarchists, leftists in general, we wholly reject liberalism and that includes conservatism (conservatism itself still subscribes to almost all liberal doctrine such as worship of private property). See, learn something new every day. :new

No prob! I get a kick out of reading the modlog and was kind of in awe when I saw this massive line of bans filling a page-height with what amounted to "Nakoichi BANNED for being an EVIL TANKIE!" Naturally, I was curious what heinous, egregious thing you had said, but I couldn't find any removed comments of yours in the log. I thought it must be some new mod with an old grudge or something. Then I happened on that post to see that your great unforgivable sin was to mention that the BBC didn't consider Tiananmen Square to be a massacre.

How dare you?!

Then I laughed. Tbh, I thought about posting it to the dunk_tank, but 1) I figured it would probably get removed for being low-hanging fruit, and 2) I wasn't sure if you wanted attention called to their dipshittery but regarding you. Glad to see that wider hexbear gets to point and laugh at them too now.

Meanwhile, what is it that actually makes it to the front page of that shithole copaganda site?

I'm not sure where the lines are in these definitions, or how much the difference really matters but I'm hoping he will be remembered not just as an enabler but as a direct accomplice, which he is. He could have chosen to stop it at any point, instead he has goaded it on and knowingly, unhesitatingly provided the material means to perpetrate it.