It’s finally over. The 2024 election has drawn to a close. There is a winner, and it was the most predictable outcome that there was in decades. Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election, and it was an undeniable blowout victory.
In the months to come, I expect the dead-enders, however few they may be, to convince us that the votes were tallied wrong, that Trump’s popular vote victory didn’t actually happen, and I expect leftists to pretend that they themselves are actually more in touch with the wishes of the typical American. This would all be cope, and a refusal to accept what is now an undeniable reality.
But for most of us, now that we got the outcome that we sought, it’s time for healing, it’s time to put the bookend on what was one of America’s darkest chapters, and it’s time to move on.
Now that we’ve won the victory, it’s time for us to make it count, which each of us can do in different ways. Many of us still have work to do, and many of us have goals that we’ve wished to accomplish in our lives. And we may now do so knowing that we can do these things in a land that is healing.
We know that the left had other plans, because we have seen them in action. Americans have seen tokenism. We have seen divisiveness. We have seen our heritage as it was being given to those who do not belong here. We have seen a bloated, bureaucratic state steal more and more of our prosperity. We have seen cities fall into disrepair. We have seen sexual deviants strut in the open without any shame. We have seen our children being indoctrinated. We have been called names. We have seen our national character being ruthlessly mocked. We’ve seen institutions weaponized against us. And seeing all this, we answered, “no”.
The halcyon days of the American republic are not behind us, they are ahead. And, at this point, what I’d like to see is for the American people to reconcile with each other, as we have largely begun to do as we came together to decide a clear winner just last night.
It’s time for the American people to celebrate. Well done.
Rich from ReviewTechUSA, as seen on his now-defunct YouTube channel.
Consider what it takes to be a dad. You might have thought of virtues such as strength, attractiveness, thriftiness, skill, discipline, conviction, and the intelligence to make a plan and see it through to fruition.
But what it really takes is finding a woman who will let you blow your load inside of her.
This becomes easy to see as one ponders the falling-off of Rich, also known as ReviewTechUSA, who has proceeded to throw his toys on the floor and stomp out of the room because he was designated a “lolcow”.
You can try searching for his YouTube channel, but you won’t find it, because he deleted it as part of his temper tantrum. Instead, if you were to look for ReviewTechUSA on YouTube, all that would be left would be videos from creators who criticized him, in many cases rightly so.
His image took a tumble, so rather than just shut up and course-correct, Rich instead ceded ground to all his critics, destroying a money-making channel with a following that took years to build.
What’s especially disappointing about Rich’s recent behavior for me is that he was one of my favorite gaming and tech world commentators when I was in college, back when he would rant about this, that, and the third as gameplay video of GTA would play. I didn’t always agree with him, but I did appreciate his viewpoints.
We could bring up the irony of the fact that his channel was called “ReviewTechUSA”, even though he hasn’t really reviewed tech as a focus since the early days of his channel. I suspect that this has a lot to do with the fact that he turned heavily tribalistic when it came to brands. He was a heavy critic of Apple, and if your tech review channel is just going to dump on Apple, don’t count on Apple to send you new iterations of their products for review.
It seemed that his early videos were enthusiastic about PC parts, which makes me suspicious that ReviewTechUSA was a means to write off a man’s PC gaming money trap, while raking in that sweet, sweet e-clout.
It didn’t help that he would sometimes spout off about some controversial takes. If what you have to say is controversial enough, tech brands might not want their products associated with you.
From what I’ve heard, Rich also went TDS. To risk alienating as much as half of your audience is highly inadvisable. That’s the risk that comes with approaching political content. It might be tempting to go TDS, considering that Trump supporters are more likely to be able to take a joke, but it’s a black hole. When your audience is composed of leftists, they’re likely to be hyper-sensitive, and willing to cancel you for saying the wrong thing at any given moment, and they’re not known for their forgiveness, even with profuse groveling.
With that framing, you might be wondering how Rich fucked up. Did he point out that men and women are different? Or did he go full Hitler and point out that different people from different parts of the world have different cultures?
Nope. He was a shitty dad. His little girl wanted him to put her to bed, but he declined so that he could continue his stream. Which, considering his typical routine, probably consisted of taking off his shirt and playing with a rubber chicken, while self-deprecating by calling himself a fat fuck (his words, not mine).
Naturally, this pissed people the hell off, because when you’re a dad, your first duty is to your family, and a shitty ass livestream doesn’t even come close to it. And because the current system is fucking over young men who have been trying way harder than their fathers and grandfathers before them to accomplish the same thing in a financially responsible manner, this is only upsetting young men all the more that Rich is not properly appreciating the family that he has, and which is his responsibility.
So, latest development, Rich has been branded a lolcow. But, as the tendency of lolcows is, he takes himself way too seriously, so he’s not leaning into it. Just the reverse, he was willing to torch his own paycheck to avoid confronting his critics, destroying a YouTube channel that could have continued to generate passive income for him if he were to just let it sit, doing nothing else with it.
But Rich took a blow to his pride, and he’s not handling it well.
Where he goes from here, I don’t know. Where exactly does someone go if they were once e-famous, but then deleted their own channel? Does he have a backup plan? Can his lengthy experience playing with his nipples in front of a camera somehow transfer to another career choice?
Considering that Rich has a little person who is counting on him, he needs to figure things out pretty quick. Unlike most young single men, he can’t just fall back on sleeping in a car when times are rough.
But we’ll see whether Trump working as a fry cook would discourage him at all from doing the same thing.
EDIT: Okay, so he has a plan. Rich says that instead of gaming commentary, he’s going to do “grown-up” things like comment on the news and politics.
First, it can be pointed out how this new direction would be catastrophic for a man in his mental state. Few people could get into that kind of content without it frying their brains. People who get into politics tend to become tribalistic, which tends towards people becoming so closed-minded that they refuse to see any virtue in a person in the rival tribe. What’s more, news commentary requires a person to have their finger on the pulse of current events on a near constant basis.
Then there’s his implication that games commentary is beneath his level of maturity. Rich was once one of the guys who argued that it shouldn’t be seen as unusual for a middle-aged man to play video games. And now that video games are no longer stigmatized, he goes and acts like playing them is for less mature people.
But if news and politics are how Rich is deciding to rebrand himself, let’s see how seriously anyone will take a man who played with his man-boobs on livestream when he fires off his mouth about current events, or what can be brought into the conversation about politics by a man who engaged in sensuous play with a cucumber, also on livestream (you could probably guess that there was a point when I lost interest in his channel).
But, if he insists, then he’s free to fire off about how he believes the rest of us should live, and the narratives that we should view the world through, in consideration of the exemplar of virtue that he obviously is.
I’m aware that this is one topic where, unless you were to choose your words with care, you’d be likely to come off as a raving lunatic. I’m also aware just how uncomfortable this topic has the potential to make people feel.
But here goes. I’m gonna try.
The idea I’m floating is that human minds might be influenced by parasites. And not a few, either. It’s possible that a great many people are making choices under the influence of tiny little worms which have the ability to influence the way that people think.
I know how crazy that may sound. It sounds like one of the many shots that Alex Jones might take, in the hopes that maybe a few happen to hit the mark.
So, in the interest in keeping this theory close to ground, we’re going to start with what’s been proven.
For one thing, we know for a fact that there exists a parasite that influences the thinking of mice. This parasite, known as Toxoplasma Gondii, is a single-celled organism which positively thrives in cats. But as for other animals, such as mice, not so much. It can live in mice, but it would rather live in cats.
However, Toxoplasma Gondii has a rather insidious adaptation. If it’s in a mouse, it’s able to manipulate the thinking of the mouse. If a cat eats a mouse, then the Toxoplasma Gondii that was in the mouse would find itself a preferable home. And to the end of making that happen, Toxoplasma Gondii will reduce the inhibitions of the host mouse, making it more likely to engage in reckless behavior. But that’s not all: While the scent of cats causes a fear response in healthy mice, in mice with Toxoplasma Gondii, the same scent causes sexual desire, resulting in a fatal attraction.
Basically, Toxoplasma Gondii really, really wants to be in cats, and if its host is a mouse, it will manipulate the mouse into being eaten by a cat.
So now, you might be wondering, “Can humans be infected with this, too?” And the answer is yes, and the resulting disease is called toxoplasmosis. Generally, it’s apparently asymptomatic, and for those with an effective immune response (most people), said immune response would eliminate the disease in weeks or months, and create an immunity. However, pregnant women are at particular risk, as toxoplasmosis could cause serious problems for the developing child. It’s because of this that doctors advise pregnant women who have cats to have someone else change the litter box.
Now, if it’s something asymptomatic and results in an immunity in a short time, then toxoplasmosis doesn’t sound that bad. However, a study does indicate that in individuals with an immunity to toxoplasmosis, and thus, a latent infection, continue to exhibit changes in behavior. The study indicates that people who previously had toxoplasmosis are less inhibited, more prone to risk taking, and tend to have poorer reaction time compared to people without the antibodies (indicating that they were never infected).
While there’s more studying that can be done, it’s interesting to think that there might actually be a scientific explanation for the “crazy cat lady”! To be fair, not everyone who likes cats is poorly behaved. But it would be great if there were more studies on the matter.
Now that we’ve established that parasites can influence human behavior, let’s make this discussion even more uncomfortable by throwing it out there that Toxoplasma Gondii might not be the only one.
Before continuing, I’ll point out that it should be pretty obvious at this point that this blog does not strive to be strongly politically correct. This post might be unsettling from this point forward, especially if you’re among the kind that is less predisposed than most to striving to understand the viewpoints of those outside your tribe.
Having said that, I’ll come right out and say it: Parasites might be making people gay.
I was started down this rabbit hole upon discovering the following screengrab, which was taken from 4chan. Yes, I know, it’s 4chan. But sometimes, you find the rare thing on 4chan that encourages intelligent thought, rather than destroys it.
If the idea of squinting at a screengrab doesn’t sound like a great time to you, here’s a transcript in blockquote:
Homosexuality is caused by parasites
Let’s take a look at my hypothesis for homosexuality. Right off the bat, there is no genetic incentive for homosexuality. It breeds itself right out of existence. Psychology tries to find ways to defend it as some sort of social mechanism, but this again runs into the brick wall of it going extinct almost instantly on evolutionary timescales. I do think, however, there is another explanation for homosexuality. >Parasites Yes, parasites. Take for example toxoplasma Gondi. When it infects rodents, it alters their behavior to make them more likely to be eaten by cats, where toxoplasma Gondi can then reproduce. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii
Homosexuals have an astoundingly high rate of infection by parasites. According to the national institute of health, 70% of all homosexual men are infected with intestinal parasites, as opposed to only 10% of straight men. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7437971/
This astoundingly high rate of infection by parasites might then explain why homosexuals have such an increased urge to fornicate. These intestinal parasites always need new hosts. Without a viable vector of transmission, the parasite dies. The incredibly high rate of parasitic infection amongst the homosexual population explains why they are so sexually degenerate. Their behavior is being altered in much the same way as the rat’s behavior is altered by toxoplasma Gondi in order to allow to parasite to survive.
This would also explain why the media is freaking out about ivermectin. Ivermectin is potentially the most effective parasite removing drug available. An anecdotal case in my family gives me strong suspicion that ivermectin might actually be a cure for homosexuality. My cousin was a homosexual, until he was prescribed ivermectin for covid. After taking ivermectin, he filled a toilet bowl with intestinal worms. Shortly thereafter, he lost all attraction to men, and found women sexually attractive. He was repulsed by his previous nature.
I know that some people might take issue with the idea that homosexuality is something to be treated and cured. But if the anecdotal observation of Anonymous holds up at scale, then we may have actually discovered a cure for homosexuality, in cases where it’s caused by a parasitic infection!
Let’s turn an analytical eye to the rest of the post. For one thing, the idea that homosexuality is self-defeating as a genetic trait in humans naturally suggests itself. One of the fundamental rules of natural selection is that any trait that inhibits reproduction would be quickly removed from the gene pool. And homosexual acts simply do not produce human offspring. This should be understood by any honest biologist without controversy.
The example provided of a mind-influencing parasite was Toxoplasma Gondii. We’ve already explored this above, with links to scientific literature. While the anon in this case can be criticized for linking to Wikipedia (which doesn’t suffice for scientific literature because anyone can edit it to make it say whatever they want), Wikipedia often does have helpful information that one can learn from. While the link he provided may have been informative, the links I’ve provided are more authoritative. Nonetheless, his assessment on Toxoplasma Gondii does hold up.
Anon then points out that 70% of gays are infected with intestinal parasites, compared to only 10% of the straight population. He does link to a study that provides the numbers, however, he only links to the abstract. Nonetheless, the page that links to an article with more data does bear this out, but the numbers provided are slightly different from those of the Anon. As the study found, 67.5% of homosexual males have intestinal parasites, which is jarring considering that this is just over two-thirds of all homosexual males! This is compared with 16% of heterosexual males, showing that the presence of intestinal parasites is far more infrequent in heterosexual males.
Generally, gays are in pretty poor health. A little while ago, as monkeypox (now referred to as mpox) was making the news, I heard just what it was that gays did for recreation. I’ll spare you the details. But I’ll point out that, for a long while, I thought that they just “aimed for a different hole”. From what I heard, their orgies are so disgusting that I don’t want to describe them. I’ll just say that they’re ideal as germ parties.
Now, if a parasite had the capacity to influence human behavior, then it stands to reason that it would influence behavior in such a way that favored its propagation.
So, why not heterosexuality? While it’s conceivable that parasites can be spread through heterosexual intercourse, that might not be favorable to the parasite, as it would find itself competing with a developing human child for energy and nutrients. Through homosexual acts, the hypothetical “gay parasite” could spread, without having to compete with a developing human life.
Now, if there is a parasite that influences humans into homosexual behavior, as there apparently is, then it would explain so many trends that we’ve been seeing.
It would explain why gays tend to be hypersexual, to the point of being as forward-facing with their sexual preference as they are, even to the point of advertising it on their clothing choices and in parades.
It would explain why child SA victims frequently go on to become offenders, even though they should know why that category of crime harms, through firsthand experience.
It would explain why, in the last couple decades, homosexuality has exploded into the public consciousness. If the parasite has been hyper-spreading, this would profoundly affect society.
It would explain why there is a strong overlap between homosexuals and those favoring the practice of abortion. Perhaps a parasite influences complex human brains in some surprising ways. It’s conceivable that a parasite that doesn’t want to compete with developing humans can influence humans into detesting pregnancies.
It might even explain the trans movement, which shows people changing their bodies in an effort to make themselves more appealing to those of the same biological sex.
It might even explain the irrational hatred of Jews that we’ve been seeing, lately. The Scriptural cleanliness guidelines that they follow would be ideal for halting the spread of parasites. Amazingly, these guidelines are thousands of years old, originating well before humans developed the means to observe microscopic parasites!
Like I said at the start, I’m aware of just how crazy a person discussing this might sound to someone who isn’t prepared to hear about it. But as I see it, there’s a lot here to think about, and topics that deserve to be studied.
But have fun finding the research team willing to study it. One reason being, because it would be a challenge finding anyone willing to fund such research in this politically-correct climate. The fact is, for research to happen, it must be funded. And the matter becomes more tenuous when you consider that nearly all institutions that can perform research, such as universities and government institutions, have become heavily politicized.
Here comes the implications of that: that some parasite that makes people gay may actually be in the process of supplanting humans as the earth’s dominant specie. And if that’s the case, what a whimper we’d be going out on.
The following is a video of J.D. Vance ordering donuts. According to the dead-enders, there’s supposed to be something wrong with the way that he’s ordering donuts. Let’s see if you can spot it.
JD Vance had a very awkward visit to a donut shop in Georgia earlier. Trust us, it’s worse than you even think. pic.twitter.com/Fnohh0bKUf
What I like about the phrase “it’s worse than you even think” is the admission that normal people wouldn’t see anything amiss, but this isn’t hateful enough for leftist self-supposed intellectual superiors. What they want you to find disqualifying is how non-specific his order is.
Give me some glaze, sprinkle-themed stuff, some of these cinnamon rolls … yeah, whatever makes sense.
Which is exactly how you’d expect someone to order donuts if they don’t eat the stuff, but are buying them in quantity for other people, such as for a major event. But when you understand how litigious the hyper-left is, then you’d understand why they’d tend more towards specifying exact quantities of each variety of donut, even when it doesn’t make much difference. After all, they’re donuts. Who the fuck cares?
In an apparent jab at Vance, VP candidate Tim Walz stated at a bake shop, “Look at me, I have no problem picking out donuts.”
Yes we have receipts, and here you go. Just be warned that the audio quality is not great, and you might have to turn your volume up to hear him. It’s at about 1:26 that the line comes, though you’re free to watch the rest for context.
Okay, did you see the donuts that he picked out? Me neither:
Those are whoopie pies. Tim Walz’s attempted pwn just proved that he can’t tell a donut from a whoopie pie.
I get that the hyper-left is so disconnected with the typical voter, and therefore don’t understand why anyone would vote for Trump. But that doesn’t mean that they should get so full of themselves that they could just nominate anyone in their party and expect an undeniable, slam-dunk victory. If they’re going to take campaign donations, they have a moral obligation to put their best forward, and Harris-Walz is not it.
When someone picks out whoopie pies, and seconds later proclaim their brilliance in their ability to pick out donuts, that should give you an idea of the kind of illusory superiority that we’re dealing with, here.
But it gets worse, as Walz’s fan base on the very same post are not much better, as illustrated by these cherry-picked examples:
It’s sobering to think that Tomer’s vote counts just as much as someone who can tell the difference between a whoopie pie and a donut. But on the bright side, he’d probably get lost on the way to the polling place, anyway. So he’s probably not going to have much effect on society, after all.
Prior to filming, he probably already knocked a few back. But how much would it take to not tell a donut from a whoopie pie? I once drank to the point of throwing up, but wasn’t that impaired.
Could never what? Mistake a whoopie pie for a donut? Is this really what H.A. Davis considers firing on all cylinders? Because if Walz were to call an alligator a gecko, that’d probably blow her mind.
Okay, now I know that these people are trolling. Just how many people out there would mistake a whoopie pie for a donut?
Do I have to spell it out?
If space aliens were to abduct a few of us, and then stick them in some simulation that crudely apes our culture in the same way that a hamster cage crudely apes a hamster’s natural environment, I’d understand if they’d make this mistake. However, for a human being that was born and raised on earth, to mistake a whoopie pie for a donut would be totally unacceptable, just like how it would be unacceptable to mistake linguine with ramen, or grape juice with pinot noir. If you’re from this planet, you don’t make that mistake.
Oh yeah, Walz knows his donuts. You know what? Screw it. I’m giving Phil the benefit of the doubt. He’s trolling.
Desperate for any amount of intelligence, I scrolled through the comments, and finally found some:
Why did that take so long?
I know what you might be thinking, “What does one’s ability to tell a donut from a whoopie pie have to do with how to run a society?” And the answer is, if someone can’t tell the difference between the two, the expectations aren’t high. To see a whoopie pie and think, “donut”, doesn’t suggest the ability to convey their economic philosophy beyond just saying “capitalism”, “communism”, or “socialism”. You might expect such a person to attempt to sell bicycles by insisting that they can do everything that cars can do. From a position of sincerity.
It doesn’t take a Rhode scholar to comprehend that something is wrong.
For months, you or a friend you know has been saying that the charges against Trump were politically motivated and not legit. Now, you get to say, “I told you so.”
The DOJ Chief of Public Affairs has admitted that the indictments against President Trump were, in fact, politically motivated, and that Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney, was motivated by personal ambition in bringing charges against the President.
And it was all caught on camera.
This fine act of investigative journalism was made possible by the Steven Crowder team. And if you’re only just now hearing about Steven Crowder, he’s someone who does what investigative journalists used to do.
Crowder’s presentation can be viewed here:
Crowder has also made the complete recording available.
Leftists are some of the most smug and self-righteous pompous assholes that I’ve ever seen, and I’d take great relish in seeing their carefully constructed denial of reality come crashing down. And now, it’s become harder than it ever has for them to deny the blatant corruption that is evident to anyone outside of leftism’s hermetically-sealed echo chamber.
Whether they’ve had fun or not as they’ve enabled the castration of children, the delusions of perverts, the murder of infants before they could breathe a breath outside their own mothers, and numerous wars to make the wealthiest among their own just a bit wealthier, and far more than these, the time has come for them to be knocked off their high horses.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s against a former President or some guy who does not have the means to resist, a DA that brings charges against anyone while motivated by either politics or personal ambition is not a legit DA, and is a disgraceful individual on top of that.
Alvin Bragg is an absolute disgrace.
It’s apparent to me the only permissible course to remedy this injustice. For one thing, Alvin Bragg should be promptly dismissed from his duties, and permanently barred from any office with any connection to the administration of justice. Also, all charges against Donald Trump should be dismissed, an act which is necessary to restore confidence in the legal system.
The next course of action would be more extensive, but also necessary. A commission must be formed to thoroughly examine every case Alvin Bragg has been involved in, in the interest of finding every instance of his mishandling of justice. This is necessary, as people may be in prison on likewise illegitimate charges. In fact, if Bragg is bombastic enough to bring illegitimate changes against a former President, it’s almost certain that he’s brought wrongful condemnation against many others.
I understand that the last course of action suggested would take a substantial expenditure of resources. But it’s called for, as the nature of Alvin Bragg’s failure is catastrophic to the justice system, and to confidence in it.
If you’ve been following the developments involving the illegitimate trial of Donald Trump, either as a Trump supporter or from a position of impartiality, the only thing surprising about this development is that an explicit profession from the DOJ Chief of Public Affairs was added to all the evidence and proof that the trial is not legitimate.
The people that I expect to be surprised would be centrists or the relatively-uninitiated who weren’t following closely, or those left-leaning who weren’t paying attention. But as for the dead-enders, we know that they’re going to divert their attention away, unable to face the reality that they’ve already been laboring diligently to avoid. They wouldn’t be able to spin this as anything other than what it is, and if made to face it, any honest assessment would be to interpret it as an undeniable defeat for their tribe.
I’ll leave this with one more thought: This isn’t football. It’s not soccer, and it’s not even women’s tennis. This is no game. Leftists literally are ruining this country, and the dead-enders among them are deliberately doing it because they hate one man who, among the current choices, stands the best chance of making things any better.
Okay, is anybody actually falling for this? Let me know.
What I’m talking about is a graph that started trending on X, which shows a bar graph of what is supposedly the most unattractive hobbies for men, “according to women”. The chart is as follows:
I ignored it at first glance, but seeing as people kept giving it attention, I’ve decided to take it behind the shed. Spoiler alert, it’s coming back with some teeth missing.
First of all, Online Trolling is listed among the hobbies. That should be a powerful indicator of what’s going on, here. Hopefully, I don’t have to spell this out. Okay, I’ll do it anyway, because no reader left behind.
It’s bullshit. Someone came up with this graph just to mess with people. And it worked.
But it’s not the first indicator that someone is messing with you. That would be the fact that there’s no citations. And if there’s no citations, this means that there’s no study, no survey, no polling, or anything of the sort. If someone wanted their study to be at all respectable, there would be a citation, so that a person could look into the methodology to ascertain that the data has any value. There’s no citation, so there’s nothing of value.
Instead, every indication is that someone just pulled all this information straight out of their ass, and posted it on social media knowing that it would push some buttons.
Notice something else about the data? Conveniently, every data point on the bar graph decrements by five. Sure, it’s possible that if you survey thousands of people, it’s possible for the data points, when arranged in the form of a bar graph, would form a neat decrementation by fives. But it would be strongly unlikely.
Having said all that, the point that really pushes people’s buttons is the one about playing video games. I call BS, because women I’ve met play video games. In fact, the last woman I was with played video games. She had a big stack of them. But she hid them from me, even though she didn’t have to, and I ended up finding them accidentally.
Look, I remember a time when video games were the pastime of hobbyists who frequented Radio Shack. Back then, I would’ve understood if someone regarded them as some nerd hobby. But a lot has changed since then, and now it’s something that pretty much everybody does. It’s been decades since it’s been regarded as a nerd hobby, and if anyone today said that they didn’t play them, I wouldn’t believe them.
It’s becoming increasingly evident that DEI is coming for anime, and it’s coming at a time when voice actors in anime-style games like Genshin Impact are threatening boycotts and meaningless online petitions (but I repeat myself), and manga localizers are crying foul because they could be replaced with AI.
Okay then, I’ll throw my opinion out there. DEI is really late to the party. I mean, really, really late. The party’s already over, everyone has already thrown up, and no one would have been interested in the Bud Light that DEI brought with them, anyway.
The anime boom is over. It has been, for a long time. Prior to it, it was the nineties, anime was really hard to get ahold of for cheap, because it had to cross an ocean to get to us, and translating it to your native language was not easy. Then the internet happened, and at that point, decades of anime started flooding over, and a person could easily go to Suncoast (remember Suncoast?) and pick up volumes of Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, Bleach, and lots of less mainstream stuff that’s been in Japan for decades.
That was the west’s anime boom. But then, releases of new anime slowed to the point of what was new to Japan. And, as it so happens, anime is something of a fringe hobby in Japan. So, in the west, anime is starting to settle down as a niche entertainment option, though not as niche as it was in the eighties.
I get that DEI might be going for anime to spite people like me who has long considered it an alternative to the polluted bullshit that western entertainment like Disney has become. I understand just how fun it can be to put a disproportionate amount of resources into what is basically just spite. It can be a fun sport. But oftentimes, it’s just a cynic’s quest. And in this case, the party is pretty much already over.
And what’s more, alternatives will pretty much always exist, and people will always tend more towards entertainment options that will take them away from the world’s problems, rather than remind them of those who are only making things worse.
At this point, there’s pretty much just one manga and one anime that I have much interest in. And if a bunch of astroturfed localizers set out to ruin it, then I’ll just seek out fan translations and perhaps even the Japanese versions, as they’ll be much closer to what the author originally intended when they wrote their story.
Even though I’m not Japanese, I understand that it’s the tendency of Japanese audiences to care more about the author’s original intent, than the agenda of a committee with creative control over the IP. And when you understand that, it will make intuitive sense to you why DEI is going to fail miserably to gain a foothold in Japan. When it comes down to it, while an American audience might not give much thought to the person or people who wrote The Powerpuff Girls, those who read Naruto are likely to care whether it’s the Naruto that Masashi Kishimoto wrote. Just the same, if creative control of Made In Abyss were taken away from Akihito Tsukushi, it’s easy to imagine that most of its fans would be done with it.
If the DEI investors were aware of this, and they’re probably not, then it’s hard to imagine that there’s anything behind their willingness to go after anime and manga than an attempt to destroy it.
But at this point, it’s too late for that. The best manga that has been made over the course of decades has already been localized, most of it about two decades ago. The boom is pretty much over, and the main stuff to go after would be new stuff that trickles out of what was a fringe industry in its home country.
Alternatives will always exist, and they will always be simple for people to find. And it will be because of the connected nature of today’s world, which was what caused the anime boom, to begin with.
When it comes down to it, the general population has a trait that the ideological dead-enders of DEI lack, and that’s the adaptability of mind that enables us to thrive in changing circumstances. The world is changing, fads come and go, and that’s exactly why DEI will eventually be a byword of times gone by.
It’s time for another dose of basic observation of reality. And today, it’s needed because a bunch of professionally-offended social media losers are throwing a fit over the creative decisions of a Chinese video game company.
Recently, the game company Mihoyo revealed a new Natlan setting for their Genshin Impact mobile game. It was recently revealed that the setting for the region has elements of inspiration from the African and South American continent, and even though the game is a few years old and has been played by millions of players, people are just now realizing that there aren’t any black characters in the game.
Even though the number of African tribesman who give a shit about skin tones in a game that they’ve never heard of is probably precisely zero, a bunch of Reddit and Twitter users have proceeded to flood Mihoyo with complaints, because that’s pretty much all they can do.
What they didn’t count on is that Mihoyo is based, and stated that Genshin Impact is just a video game, that any character can look the way that the game’s makers want them to look, and that, because it’s a work of fiction, nothing about Genshin Impact has any bearing on reality.
Basically, a Chinese game company told them what their parents should have told them back when their ages consisted of a single digit. They probably also quickly figured out what was going on by sorting complaints by IP address, and finding that hundreds at a time are coming from the exact same device. And, having been at this for years, they’re probably aware that, when you work in customer service, you’ll encounter a bunch of people with mental illnesses who hide behind sockpuppet accounts, and are so crazy that they think media contains hidden messages from the government/simulation intended specifically for them.
Ask me how I know.
One could easily point out that if there were black characters in the game, then the perpetually-offended will instead complain about cultural appropriation. One might even get the idea that one just can’t win with them. But you can win. When one of them starts getting offended on someone else’s behalf, just don’t engage with them. Let them bang their pots and pans together, where they’ll accomplish nothing.
And while you’re at it, savor the sad irony of the fact that, even though they are connected to the summation of human knowledge, if they had spent even half the effort that they put into being offended instead learning to do something useful, they might have self-taught themselves a skilled trade, and our generation may even have already cured cancer. Or at least learn how to make their own video games. Or even learn to draw in the anime style, so they can beat off to something which they drew, rather than relying on other people to draw it for them. Instead, they are actually dumber than they would be if they had never discovered the internet.
I don’t know what an African tribesman would think of Genshin Impact if they were to learn about it. It’s easy to imagine that such an experience would be their first brush with the technology needed to run the game. Their typical concerns would more likely involve whether a neighboring tribe would invade them while they slept, forcibly remove their genitals, then sell them into forced labor (something that a dumbass neighboring chieftain may attempt to do just because he had a bad dream). There’s also the question of whether they can get enough to eat, something that a person who is aware that mobile games exist probably never has to worry about. An African tribesman cannot possibly give a shit about the skin tones of imaginary characters in a mobile game that they’ve never heard of, and if they had somehow heard of it, they’d probably join the Chinese in wondering just what the hell is wrong with anyone who would give a care. To become offended on behalf of an African tribesman is supremely pointless.
Genshin Impact is just a game, and nothing about it has any bearing on the real world. In that respect, it’s like any video game ever. If you don’t have fun playing that game, your solution to that problem is to not play that game.
If Mihoyo is going to be based concerning this matter, I might just support them. And not just because I want to add Nilou to my roster.
Some voice actors came out against Mihoyo on this matter. This is pretty brave, considering that it’s easier than it’s ever been to replace them. Also, it’s probably true that they’re under contractual obligation to not lay a steaming, fiber-rich loaf all over their employer.
One of them went as far as to call Mihoyo’s actions “unforgivable”. I get that people use that phrase to be dramatic, but they should think about what that means. If someone calls anything that I do “unforgivable”, what they’re saying is that I cannot possibly be reconciled to them, I don’t see any reason to waste any energy trying to impress them.
I look forward to the contributions of the replacement VAs. And if Mihoyo goes the AI route, that would go to show how impressive that the technology has become.
You should be thankful that you’re alive, too. Because if things had gone just slightly differently, you’d be fighting for survival instead of reading this.
I’m hearing a lot of stories about what people think happened with the failed assassination attempt against Donald Trump. As less speculative information comes to light, the Secret Service and local law enforcement looks worse and worse.
But as bad as things might be for some of the most infamous dodgers of accountability in all the world’s history, if any of the bullets had hit square with the failed shooter’s intended target, we’d be in an entirely different country, right now.
Let’s talk about it. And be warned, this will get graphic.
If you really wanted to see something sad, then picture the immediate aftermath of any of the missed bullets hitting their mark. The assembled crowd and the viewers on live television would have been treated to an exploded head.
At that point, the tens of millions of people who voted for Trump in the last election would have thrown their hands up, and said “I guess we don’t have a leader anymore, or a cause.”, then go back home, where they would then just consume product, and decide to study Marxism.
Except that wouldn’t have happened. Not even close. What would have happened instead is that America would have exploded into unbelievable violence.
If you want advice on how you could survive in such a scenario, I could say this: stay inside. Hopefully, the food you’d have on-hand would be enough to last you a while. Prop furniture against the door, and don’t open it unless you recognize the voice of your family. And pay attention for the sound of alarms.
I know that this might sound like I’m describing the worst-case scenario for dramatic effect. But I think most people have no idea how bad things could have been. The number of people who voted for Trump in the last election numbered around 75 million. Imagine if even half of them decided to go door-to-door in a huge game of find the leftist.
There would have been unimaginable carnage.
Emergency services would not have been able to respond to all calls. They might only be able to respond to a few, thanks to the few remaining with sufficient normalcy bias. But they too would have families and a sense of self-preservation, so the police, ambulances, and firefighters would be largely out.
Stores would have been raided, and with supply lines disrupted, you’d have been left with whatever you have on hand. Would it be enough to last you for weeks?
Just based on that, large cities would have become real-life Battle Royales.
At that point, you’d probably care less who the president is, as government probably would have little impact on your life unless you lived in the few areas where martial law could be successfully established.
Then there’s what would have happened on an international stage. With the United States being preoccupied with its own affairs, rogue states would proceed to do as they please. Ukraine would be taken by Russia immediately, and Israel and Taiwan would likely be invaded, too. The world would quickly fall apart as the U.S. would lose any capacity to intervene. That some rogue states might have deployed radiological weapons would have been a possibility.
The question of how long it would be before the United States would have returned to being any sort of organized society would have been difficult to determine, but it’s possible that maps would have needed redrawn, and skylines could have changed.
And thankfully, we don’t live in a world where this scenario came about. This is because three bullets all missed as Trump moved his head to the side at just the right moment.
A fraction of an inch and a fraction of a second was just how close we were to a different world, one that would have been brought about by a defective boy who managed to elude an incompetent security apparatus.
It gets me to thinking that it’s likely that Trump benefited from divine intervention. If that’s true, we all did. Most of us might not have even considered how bad things could have been. We might have even gone from fretting over frivolous things like whether our shoes match our shirts, to fighting for our lives.
And when it comes down to it, there’s no telling when that might happen, anyway. The fact is, we live in a dangerous would, and our society might be hinging on a tenuous factor.
Interestingly, it was only days beforehand that current president Joe Biden was passionately defending his decision to stay in the race. In an interview on live television, he even stated that he’d remain in the race unless God himself told him to withdraw.
I don’t know whether Trump narrowly surviving an assassination attempt would have been the sign that he was looking for. But what I can say is this: if you’re going to invoke the greatest name in Heaven over something you might do, you’d better be ready to do it.
According to GameFreak, the makers of the Pokémon games, the Pokémon, named Yungoos, was not intended to bear a resemblance to Donald Trump.
Donald Trump, as you’re likely well aware, was nearly assassinated just days ago, the gunman only having succeeded in removing a chunk of Trump’s right ear.
Yungoos has an evolved form, named Gumshoos, which bears a stronger resemblance to Trump. Notice something about its ear?
Yeah, it’s got a notch in its ear.
To be fair, both its ears are like this, and some small mammals do have bifurcated ears. So, I feel inclined to say that this is just a coincidence. After all, why would GameFreak be able to see the future?
But I expect some people to point to this as evidence of the simulation glitching out.
