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Post Title: Neighborhood in Moscow, Russia
Image description: a still image of Barad-dûr from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.
/c/badposting
Post Title: Neighborhood in Moscow, Russia
Image description: a still image of Barad-dûr from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Lol, I'm so mad.
Alright so a month ago I installed The Elder Scrolls Online onto my dedicated gaming SSD. Played half an hour of it, haven't touched it since, it's a 110 GB game so I decided to uninstall it to make space for whatever I end up buying in the summer steam sale.
So I decide to use the ESO uninstaller, which is sitting in the top level folder of my drive (I didn't put it there, ESO did when I installed it). I have three folders at this level: Steam, GoG, and ESO. So I click eso_uninstall.exe or whatever it was named and a wizard pops and it works for a second and then I notice my GoG folder disappears, then ESO, then Steam.
At first I thought it was a bug with the windows file explorer, and in a state of disbelief I try to launch a game from steam, which doesn't work.
The fucking ESO uninstaller is apparently programmed to just wipe out whatever folder it is installed in. I google it and this has been a known issue that they just haven't addressed SINCE 2014. Thank god I didn't have it on my main drive, or have anything important on my gaming drive. I haven't lost anything, except 800 GB of games I'll need to redownload. Which with my internet speeds should take about 5 days.
I haven't even really been playing them as of late so it's no real loss, but I was planning on playing some the next couple days. Ah well.
I feel like, roughly coinciding with Mamdani's win last week, my For You page on Twitter is just crawling with reactionary slop. I mean, Twitter always has been, and there was a noticeable uptick when Elon first took over of overtly fash accounts, who neither I nor anyone I follow seemed to interact with in any way, showing up in my feed. But the last week or so I've gotten just a ton of like goofy racist stuff. Maybe I interacted with a few bad posts and the Twitter algo has decided I should be served this content. Or it's possible that when Tucker Carlson was running rings around Ted Cruz that a few of the accounts I liked making fun of Cruz were these right-wingers. Whatever.
In the last half hour I've seen a video where the post said "beware where you get your takeout" and you could see the video was in a kitchen. I figured it was going to be some slighly slop-like content where inspectors go into a kitchen and find roaches or something so I click the video. And it's some British guy who barges into a kitchen and is mad that migrants work there. There was another one of a guy walking through some sort of market in Rome, and he was the only white around, and he was bemoaning the fall of the West. I saw a post from a veteran claiming that Muslims are evil savages, and we can't let Mamdani take New York.
I spend a lot of time doomscrolling Twitter and the sudden proliferation of this stuff (and I'm getting a lot of slop and video content that isn't relevant to me in my feed generally, not just this shit) might be what finally gets me to quit Twitter.
A school district recommending its employees actively combat government agents trying to abduct children is pretty grim stuff.
https://xcancel.com/PerversePossum/status/1882206298089087094
It would be so easy to win a national election against Trump. Watch. "I, your democratic candidate, pledge to fight the supermarket, pharmacological, and healthcare cartels that are artificially inflating consumer prices for their own gain."
But democrats don't want to do that.
I spoke to a conservative family member the other day who said they didn't like Walz because "he's a total socialist." I know words like socialist don't have much meaning to most Americans, but what the hell is that supposed to mean?
I asked that, in nicer terms, but didn't get a meaningful response. I called Walz a moderate, and said that he hasn't even called for any New Deal style programs to be added to the democratic platform, much less socialism.
Think they made Walz turn down his rhetoric because they want to run a center-right campaign to attract would-be Republican voters that are put off by Trump? If that's right it's got to be one of the worst electoral strategies, maybe ever.
Hearing and reading libs says shit like "See, Dick Cheney knows that Trump is even worse than he was, that's why we have to vote blue" is infuriating. How can't they see what's really happening here?
THEY’RE ARGUING ABOUT THEIR GOLF GAMES!
I don't know about this one chapos. I mean, can you imagine what it would be like to live under a dictatorship? They'd probably do crazy shit like ban bodily autonomy, ban protesting, make it illegal to criticize regimes that are in league with the dictator, ban mass communication platforms, crack down on immigration, allow friendly corporations to operate their own mafias they'd use to kill whistleblowers, and just generally crush poor and working people. I wouldn't want to live under a rule like that.
John Bolton must be in an insane blood-rage today. Hope he never gets what he wants.
There's this self-pubbed Fantasy author who made a very bad critique of a Kojima character named Fatman going around on Twitter. Someone posted the first page of his book, and it's very bad, and for the last day and a half a good portion of my timeline has been relentlessly mocking this.
On the one hand, it seems like this dude has it coming and also the first page of book is very bad. On the other hand, as a wannabe SFF author I am seeing someone live out on of my nightmares. Having this happen to you is like showing up for work and realizing you have to give a presentation you forgot about, and you're naked, and all the teeth fell out of your head.