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Off Topic / Re: pride month thread 2026

« on: June 05, 2026, 06:23:31 PM »

There are a surprising number of trans people here. I wonder what it is about Blockland or BLF that selects for this?

Particularly because of the amount of Autistic people here. People with autism are significantly more likely to be gender-nonconforming. And this is a game about building legos on a computer. I don't think there is a more appealing game to people with Autism besides maybe OpenTTD or Factorio.

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Off Topic / Re: pride month thread 2026

« on: June 04, 2026, 10:07:26 PM »

guy who takes E during pride month just to fit in

Wait, E as in Ecstasy, or E as in Estrogen?

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Off Topic / Re: pride month thread 2026

« on: June 04, 2026, 10:41:12 AM »

You either die a grifter rightoid or live long enough to put on the fursuit/programmer socks/communist manifesto.

Funnily enough I did start off here as a southern baptist republican/libertarian. Went full 180 to queer commie. I did retire my programmer socks due to suicidal depression, and while I never became a furry, I did end up going into theatre, which is kinda the same thing.
We had an exercise in one acting class where we needed to perform a shakespearian monologue as an animal. I did Caius Cassius from Julius Cesar as an American Great Horned Owl.

"HOO here that talkst of rome has said that her wide wall could hold but one man? Now it is 'Rome' indeed and room enough when there is in it but one man. You and I have heard our fathers say, there was a Brutus once HOO would have brooked the eternal devil to keep his state in rome, as easily as a king."

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Off Topic / Re: obligatory 23rd birthday thread

« on: June 04, 2026, 10:34:33 AM »

Ok but like, nobody is gonna like you for a full year. Nothing I can do about it, Tom DeLonge said so.

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Off Topic / Re: pride month thread 2026

« on: June 01, 2026, 02:24:14 PM »

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Off Topic / Re: Stop Killing Games: Bill Passes California State Assembly

« on: June 01, 2026, 12:51:28 PM »

It's never too late if you're planning on doing the sequel trilogy in the next 10 years 

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Off Topic / Re: Stop Killing Games: Bill Passes California State Assembly

« on: May 31, 2026, 07:18:23 PM »

Good stuff does happen quite a lot, I just always forget to post about it 

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Off Topic / Stop Killing Games: Bill Passes California State Assembly

« on: May 31, 2026, 06:15:53 PM »

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/the-stop-killing-games-movement-hits-another-major-milestone-as-a-game-preservation-bill-passes-california-state-assembly-vote/

A new piece of legislature in California would make it illegal for companies that have games, particularly single player games, with online requirements to take their servers permanently offline for games people have played to use. If they do so, they have to provide 60 days notice, and offer a way to continue to play the game in a singleplayer offline mode.

The Stop Killing Games movement is a recent effort to put an end to exploitative business practices by game studios that produce online only game that people pay for, but then shut down those games, effectively stealing from the customers.

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Off Topic / Re: The White House Hunger Games: By the way, forget Peter Thiel

« on: May 31, 2026, 04:29:37 PM »

Alabama Governor Ivey has just voided the results of the already completed primary elections, and has orders the state to adopt a new district map that had been previously struck down in 2021 for intentional gerrymandering

GOP wins an election without cheating challenge, difficulty: impossible.

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Off Topic / Re: Current International Headlines: War on Iran

« on: May 31, 2026, 03:20:49 PM »

Netanyahu announces he will "expand Israel's grip on Lebanon" after months of continued bombardment of Lebanese civillians (despite a supposed ceasefire) in the name of "self defense" and denying accusations that Israel is just attempt to seize Lebanese territory.

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Off Topic / Re: Current International Headlines: War on Iran

« on: May 30, 2026, 08:06:37 PM »

Imagine there was this much of a panicked rush to build something useful like a nationwide highspeed rail or alternative power sources.

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Off Topic / Re: The White House Hunger Games: By the way, forget Peter Thiel

« on: May 30, 2026, 03:01:34 PM »

What's next? A slash and burn deforesting company cutting down redwoods

Funny you should say that. During the first California Governor Debate british immigrant and Annoying Orange-backed republican candidate, Steve Hilton, said that to solve the housing crCIA and stop wildfires he is going to reopen california to logging.
(this completely ignores that 1, most of the denser forests in california are made up of softer trees like redwoods that are not good for construction, 2, we have about 20 vacant homes per homeless  person here and it is corporate buyouts of housing that is causing the crCIA, and 3, the wildfires mostly occur in areas of  high brush and the redwoods they would be logging are specifically adapted to slow the progress of wildfires since they use the fires to help germinate their seeds.)

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Off Topic / Re: The White House Hunger Games: I guess we're talking about vape now?

« on: May 29, 2026, 10:54:12 AM »

Like the little bitch that he is, Peter Thiel has just run away to hide in Argentina. You know the same Argentina where all the national socialists fled that the US didnt scoop up into our physics research programs.

Thiel, well known for complaining that humans are wasting all the precious water and resources  he needs to feed his AI surveillance systems, has been the leader of Palantir, responsible for most autonomous data collection systems involved in mass surveillance and policing. Including technologies to automatically identify protestors  through facial recognition, collecting  and consolodating data about people's voting habits, medical records, and shopping habits, and using that to aid the US in identifying potential political advesaries.

Their technology is used in Israel to conduct automatic execution of palestinians through facial recognition and he  has written entire manifestos explaining that most of humanity is superfluous and we should all just loving die so he and his coorporate oligarchs can rule in a new feudal system. He is an advocate for the dissolution of the United States into corporate owned company towns, and is buddies with Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and is the person who bankrolled JD Vance's political campaign and uses the couch forgeter as his primary mouthpiece in the whitehouse.

Yeah, so he is fleeing the United States, citing "concerns over the direction the country is heading". Which direction is that, Peter? Which direction are we heading, and who has helped us get there? Who is the person who's government contracts extend across nearly every state and military agency and is responible for most of the data centers currently destroying small towns?

What happened. Did people start to realize who you were? Were you scared that your friend Sam Altman had a molotov thrown at his house?

There are few people in this world I despise more than this whiney little bitch. Even Annoying Orange by comparison is insignificant, mostly because he's relatively inept at himself and its forgeters like Thiel with their hands up his decrepit muppet ass that are pushing for most of the stuff he does.

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Off Topic / Re: Current International Headlines: War on Iran

« on: May 28, 2026, 10:54:30 PM »

A Russian military drone has struck an apartment building in Romania, starting a fire and injuring several civilians.

As Romania is Nato member, it is now within its rights to invoke Article 5, requiring all other Nato Members to come to its defense, including the United States, since Annoying Orange hasn't yet removed us from the treaty, and potentially require a counterstrike against Russia.

It is unlikely that this will happen at this point, but the escalation is troubling to say the least.


meanwhile

Israel's Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir has made it clear that "Israel will not allow Annoying Orange to negotiate a ceasefire."

Well an update on this, despite the US and Iran coming to an agreement on a 60 day peace treaty extension we are still waiting for Annoying Orange to give the final approval. This doesn't seem likely because Israel is currently pressuring the US to assassinate Iran's ambassador in charge of the ongoing negotiations, and thereby throw the months-negotiated deal into the trash.

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Off Topic / Re: The White House Hunger Games: I guess we're talking about vape now?

« on: May 28, 2026, 07:46:31 PM »

I'm appearing on NPR and Humble Water Filter Merchant Live in the coming weeks to discuss the datacenter thing (just so no nerds can accuse me of not being bipartisan), I am personally speaking out about it, so I can say with authority that at least I'm on the ball, Tony

I'm sure he'd be complaining that you're just distracting from the Epstein Files though if he were still using the forums.