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  1. Why doesn’t Kamala campaign with a ceasefire agenda when it’s so obvious that’s what the majority of voters want and it would greatly boost her numbers?

    I don't fucking know.

  2. What is your preferred artistic medium to experience horror in? Movies, games, books, whatever

    none, am babby

    (most manageable these days is movies)

  3. you said on twitter that you got recommended three "black pill" songs in a row. What the heck are "blackpill songs"? Is it a fascist thing I don't understand yet?

    "taking the black pill" means suicide. it was three CONSECUTIVE SONGS about suicide attempts.

  4. Mary, Kate, Ash, or Lee?

    I think we're all in on Eliza and Beth now, right?

  5. (District Attourney) Very telling that this is more effective than Google.

    in response to how to find sex parties near me

    (there is no Jenna and André, I'm not sourcing sex party attendees from curious cat anons. sorry to crush your hopes and dreams.)

  7. Diff Anon:
    Telling on myself here, but I've definitely been an enabler of behavior that ended a relationship. Not even the narcissist "you-did-it-to-yourself" thing (which a different someone also tried) but legit, "I-am-trying-to-be-supportive-and-I-cannot-articulate-or-realize-that-this-bothers-me" enabling.

    in response to Did that end the relationship

    yeah that's a real dynamic and I've dealt with it myself, but I promise this particular girlfriend found this particular foible charming

    true love is indulging each other's hyperfixations

  8. Idk, but I just double checked, his patreon (the one that's linked in his yt videos) says "This page has been removed."

    in response to I hope he's still working too, and he can take all the time he needs, but a few months ago, he shut down his patreon, which is a bad sign. If he does want to quit, I wish him the best, but an update of whats going on would be nice.

    dang, yeah, he's not showing up on my subs list. I thought he was just not charging lately. :(

  11. fastest way to touch female breasts consensually without paying for a sex worker

    go to a sex party

  13. I hope he's still working too, and he can take all the time he needs, but a few months ago, he shut down his patreon, which is a bad sign. If he does want to quit, I wish him the best, but an update of whats going on would be nice.

    in response to Is Carlos Maza still doing YouTube?

    did he?? I thought I was still getting updates...

  16. When works for you?

    in response to Is Carlos Maza not white?

    a few years ago. scroll down far enough on this here site and you'll find it.

  17. You white?

    in response to Is Carlos Maza not white?

    emphatically

  18. are there any pieces of tutorializing in games that really made you think "wow that was a really neat/elegant way to teach the player something"

    also please don't just say "all of portal" because like, yeah we know

    I liked how, in the original Spelunky, all the RNG rules applied to the tutorial level, so when it told you how to open chests there was a nonzero chance it would be booby trapped. the very first chest you opened in the game might explode and kill you.

    good at teaching you what a cruel mistress the roguelike is.

  19. What is your most irrational reason for disliking a piece of art?

    several years ago I decided it was time to play Twilight Princess, which my then-girlfriend owned on Wii. but I couldn't play it on Wii. I had to play it on GameCube. the only way to play the GameCube, at that time, was at her apartment, using my CRT that I didn't have room for at my own apartment. also the CRT only had a coaxial input, so I had to plug the GameCube into an old, broken VCR that took RCA cables and could output to coax. also neither of us owned a copy of Twilight Princess on GameCube and they were hard to come by and very expensive. she finally got me one for my birthday after I'd spent the better part of a year trying to find one for a reasonable price; I don't wanna know how much it cost. so I could only play it a few hours at a time, at her place, using a Byzantine setup, the many pieces of which took nearly a year to get aligned.

    why? because I insisted on a left-handed Link.

  20. Is Carlos Maza still doing YouTube?

    in response to Is Carlos Maza not white?

    I hope he's just taking a long time to make long videos, like Harry does. he hasn't announced anything about quitting.

    also you can recommend a body of work by a creator even if they are no longer actively producing

  21. If you were to be canceled, what would you want to be canceled for?

    being too handsome

  23. Simple Dog or Helper Dog or Neighbor Richard?

    in response to Allie Brosh?

    Pile Dog

  24. Actually, I think it's a slang term for pegging.

    in response to You ever heard of UpTube

    "and then I let her go uptube"?

  25. Is Carlos Maza not white?

    in response to Diff Anon: Ignoring the question of why is it that the folks deciding what is "LeftTube" tend to ignore or under-promote non white folks (and, like, wasn't "BreadTube" the word that The Poets came up with to describe the "well-promoted" and white sections of LeftTube?). Just ignoring all of that. Who and/or what channels does the pearleacent (don't care. That spelling is correct this time) Ian "InnuendoStudios" Danskin want to invite to the LeftTube cookout in the year 2024? Or, if you don't want to promote non-white creators, please share your reasonable, articulable concerns for not doing so?

    I'm not doing "are Latinos white" discourse today

  26. You look the kind of person who likes Elvis Costello, am I correct?

    wow, I'm not sure why but that feels like a burn

    I am familiar with Allison, I Want You, and I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea, because my sister put them on mixtapes for me in high school. that's the entirety of my Elvis Costello knowledge.

  27. You ever heard of UpTube

    in response to Why is LeftTube so white?

    nothin much tube what's up with you

  28. Diff Anon:
    Ignoring the question of why is it that the folks deciding what is "LeftTube" tend to ignore or under-promote non white folks (and, like, wasn't "BreadTube" the word that The Poets came up with to describe the "well-promoted" and white sections of LeftTube?).
    Just ignoring all of that.

    Who and/or what channels does the pearleacent (don't care. That spelling is correct this time) Ian "InnuendoStudios" Danskin want to invite to the LeftTube cookout in the year 2024? Or, if you don't want to promote non-white creators, please share your reasonable, articulable concerns for not doing so?

    in response to Why is LeftTube so white?

    this was a weird and seemingly antagonistic way to ask "who are some good POC video essayists with lefty politics?" you could've just asked.

    FD Signifier
    Yhara Zayd
    Princess Weekes
    Kat Blaque
    CJtheX
    Broey Deschanel
    Carlos Maza

  29. Are accusations of apartheid in Israel specifically about the West Bank? Because the Israeli Arabs that live in Israel proper have the same rights as regular Israelis afaik.

    I think you mean Palestine, not the West Bank.

    the fact that Israel has complete control of Palestine but Palestine does not have rights or representation is, yes, apartheid. Israeli Arabs are, primarily, Palestinians who applied for citizenship. that is the only way for Palestinians to have equal rights under the government that controls their water, electricity, and movements, and Israel intentionally approves very few for citizenship.

  31. Why is LeftTube so white?

    fans invent label

    fans apply that label almost exclusively to white people

    fans ask the white people to explain why they're white

    Black people making relevant videos keep getting ignored

  32. is 65% European ancestry enough to be considered white (asking for a friend)

    where did you get that number, I don't think ancestry can be an odd number

  34. (DA) That's all modern first person shooters besides Doom, period. *Every* modern shooter has ADS.

    in response to lately I’ve been craving an fps where you aim down the sights a lot, but I haven’t been able to think of any good ones aside from bulletstorm. any others come to mind?

    well, "has" is different from "has a lot of." Supplice and Selaco both have ADS but you only use it occasionally. I recall those military shooters being heavy on the ironsights, though.

  35. Last time you went to court?

    moral support for someone trying to get a restraining order

  36. As a straight cis man have you ever struggled with feelings of shame for not living up to patriarchal standards of manhood & how did you overcome them?

    it may shock you to hear that I was bullied from a young age. my experience was, from very early on, that patriarchy didn't want me. I was never, ever going to be an acceptable man. I was scrawny and nerdy and people assumed I would die a virgin. the first time girls ever started to notice me, it was when I did very non-masculine things like wear a Rainbow Brite hoodie and bleach my hair and paint my nails and wear colorful sunglasses.

    I felt a lot of hurt over the way cis male culture treated me, but I don't think I ever felt SHAME for not being more manly. it wasn't something I had failed at, it was something I just WASN'T. it didn't seem like something I could even attempt.

    I get that some people, when they're bullied, they wish that THEY could be the bullies, but I feel like it never occurred to me. maybe because it was clear that would never happen. (tho I was kind of a shit to the small handful of people lower in the pecking order than me, sometimes; I'm not pretending I was perfect.) but I didn't struggle with the whole "be a man" thing. if normative masculinity didn't want me, I didn't want it.

  37. Allie Brosh?

    Allie fuckin Brosh

  38. lately I’ve been craving an fps where you aim down the sights a lot, but I haven’t been able to think of any good ones aside from bulletstorm. any others come to mind?

    wasn't that, like, all the military shooters from the mid-00's onward?

  42. Any thoughts on EFAP's return?

    joy

  44. "There are 206 bones in the human body, 207 if I’m watching _______"

    "my nemesis shove a chicken bone down my throat"

  45. Genuinely curious about this because I want to see where this is sourced in case others ask me: where does the "Federal Reserve requires some amount of unemployment" come from? I agree just wanting to know; Google is trash and is mostly just AI explaining the concept but not really giving a citation. Is that a political assessment from somebody or like a written bylaw?

    it's called "maximum employment" and the Fed will change interest rates to provoke layoffs if unemployment gets too low. happened a couple years ago: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fed-interest-rate-hikes-unemployment-increase-layoffs-inflation/

  46. i knew you were a freak, REAL ones pick Armageddon every time

    in response to Fortnite or PUBG?

    I didn't like that Armageddon had worm selection turned off by default, I'd put so many hours into 2 that I couldn't adapt

  47. Now most of the games that you showcased in your “who shot Guybrush Threepwood” video have come out do you think you’d a follow up video?

    I wrote a draft of one for CO-VIDs but it was boring

  48. Fortnite or PUBG?

    Worms 2

  49. I’m surprised you went for the "motives are more important than results" route. You could beat them at their own game by saying that fascism started the deadliest conflict in history and the only industrialized genocide.

    in response to You didn't offer a rebuttal. Why does "never again" apply to the Holocaust but not to the man-made famines that happen in socialist countries?

    when genocide is the motive, that is the only result you can expect. the premise of this argument was implying that fascists could try to "avoid" genocide the way I recommended socialists try to avoid famines. but there will never be a fascist state interested in avoiding genocide; genocide is a primary means of maintaining fascism. genocide is in the best interest of fascists.

    famines are not in the interest of socialists. genocide rallies fascists to the cause; famines turn people off of socialism. I am literally arguing with someone who is turned off of socialism by famines. a socialist state that has never had a famine would be held up as a prime example of socialism succeeding; a fascism without ethnic cleansing would be seen by fascists as an abject failure.

    I'm all for consequentialism but use your fucking HEADS, people!

    also I will gladly argue about whether famines are endemic to socialism as soon as someone provides evidence that famines happen at a higher incidence in socialist states than capitalist ones. seems like a question that keeps getting begged.

  50. You hoping Silksong will be in the Direct tomorrow?

    I keep my hope for Silksong at an ember, never a flame

  51. How often do Anti-semites accuse you of being jewish?

    every time I show up on camera

  52. been unemployed for like a month now and it fucking sucks but it makes me think:

    the awfulness of the job hunt: is it a feature of capitalism or a happy accident? obviously it’s good for capitalists if looking for work, and therefore being unemployed, is shameful and demeaning, but is it set up to be that way or is that just how the chips fell?

    I would call it an emergent strategy.

    though it's worth keeping in mind that capitalism falls apart if being unemployed ISN'T miserable, and the legal system takes steps to make sure unemployment is punished, and the Federal Reserve takes steps to ensure there is always a portion of the population out of work.

    so the emergent strategy has been recognized and structurally enforced.

  54. Thoughts on senator Markey?

    he a'ight

  55. Israel isn’t an ethnostate though, 1/5 of its population are Arab excluding the occupied territories.

    in response to Why do conservatives like Israel so much?

    it is a self-described Jewish state

  57. "I Got A Feelin'" by The Black-Beaned Burgers

    in response to Black Bean Burgers?

    McGruff, "Live Like You're Dyin'"

  58. Do you think Harris will lose the election if she doesn't start supporting an arms embargo by November? Moreover, should she lose if she doesn't do that?

    I don't predict the future. last time we thought the Dems had it locked up, look what happened. I think she could win without an arms embargo, but it is ludicrous not to pursue one anyway. like, how do you sell yourself at a representative for liberal voters if you are refusing to do what the huge majority of liberal voters demand? just nonsensical.

  59. Reverse psychology worked!! I finally found out your favorite Beatle let's fucking go

    in response to favorite beetle

    no my favorite beetle is a scarab named George

  60. Why do conservatives like Israel so much?

    they like ethnostates and hate Arabs

  61. Have you like any other farming sim games that make you think you’d get hooked on Stardew?

    in response to I know you're joking but can you not enjoy it in moderation?

    not that specific niche, no. I just know what I get like when there's a core loop you can fuss around with for hundreds of hours.

  62. What’s wrong with evolution over revolution?

    wherever evolution is successful, it is generally preferable. the flaw is in assuming it will always succeed.

  63. Did Mussolini gain followers by promising to ethnically cleanse Libyan, Ethiopians, and Albanians?

    in response to You didn't offer a rebuttal. Why does "never again" apply to the Holocaust but not to the man-made famines that happen in socialist countries?

    IIRC, in the early going he mostly promised to purge socialists, and villainized Libyans and Ethiopians once in power to justify invading their countries. fascists are always promising to purge *someone*, but the target moves around depending on the circumstances.

  64. If Trump had a divine revelation and realized everything he's been doing has been bad, how much work would it take for him to redeem himself?

    more years than he's got left

  65. favorite beetle

    George

  66. Is conservatism a thing in socialist countries like China?

    I dunno. I could fill a warehouse with the things I don't know about China.

  67. Black Bean Burgers?

    yeh

  68. Would highly recommend you give it another shot! No shame in looking up where to go if you get stuck, especially with the Chozo artifacts you need to reach the final area.

    in response to (DA) Did you play Metroid Prime Remastered?

    I got what I needed from it

  69. I know you're joking but can you not enjoy it in moderation?

    in response to Do you like Stardew Valley?

    I can, but I won't

  70. Which is more important to have, democracy (as opposed to authoritarianism) or socialism (as opposed to capitalism)?

    fam, I'm a democratic socialist if I'm anything. I don't believe you really have either unless you have both.

  71. Do you still use old Reddit?

    I never used Reddit

  72. (diff anon) Took 69 years for the soviet union to collapse and transition to a Market economy. I think "It is possible to change the system" isn't a great metric.

    in response to New dealism is better than socialism give me your best argument against this.

    even if the comparison were just "New Deal America versus the Soviet Union," the USSR has the New Deal beat by 29 years. but you're comparing New Dealism with all of socialism, and the USSR is the *only* example of a socialist state collapsing and reverting to capitalism.

    I don't think you've set yourself up for success here.

  73. which games of the "boomer shooter" renaissance would you consider your favorites?

    I love love love love love Supplice

    Prodeus, Project Warlock, and Turbo Overkill are all great as well

    Ultrakill deserves its fanbase, that game is really something

  74. You didn't offer a rebuttal. Why does "never again" apply to the Holocaust but not to the man-made famines that happen in socialist countries?

    in response to "I would recommend any fascist movement look at the causes of the Holocaust and the Libyan genocide and avoid them"

    it is not the goal of socialism to starve their own citizens. you do not recruit people to socialism by promising famines.

    ethnic cleansing is the goal of fascism, and Hitler absolutely recruited people by promising to kill the Jews.

    you fucking dipshit.

  75. Any advice for building a reading habit?

    if you're out of the habit, it's okay to start small with novellas and short story collections

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