https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1iefxfa/blade_shop_owner_in_texas_refuses_to_repair/

https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1iefxfa/blade_shop_owner_in_texas_refuses_to_repair/ma7avj3/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1iefxfa/blade_shop_owner_in_texas_refuses_to_repair/ma7c4w5/?context=8

few links but mods also seem to be removing people calling out the terrible title. It's a very heavily moderated sub who will just instant ban anyone

Anyway, lots of upset Germans and drama

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1ieb2av/farright_afds_win_on_asylum_vote_rocks_german/ma6mm5n/

Context:

German parliament recently voted for a motion calling for stricter borders and less asylum refugees. This in and of itself was not a huge shock, but rather that the German conservative party (CDU) broke the 80-year "firewall" agreement to never work with a fascist party (in this instance, the AfD) to win a vote that wouldn't pass otherwise. This is despite the fact that their leader Friedrich Merz was elected on the promise that he would not break that tradition. To quote OP's words:

Let me explain this to all the non-Germans in here. The actual motion that passed is not really the thing that’s bad. From the genesis of the new formation of Germany after WWII we have had something called the Firewall. It’s basically the understanding that no party will ever work with any fascist or anti-democratic party full stop. It was understood that the ends never justify the means and that these parties will never be involved in any political decision EVER!

The last party that touted the fascist and anti-democratic the AfD is pushing now never was involved in any political dealings even when they had seats in the parliament. However this firewall has been breached successfully. It’s some of the “never again” things we as a nation swore to never ever do again because we know what it led to.

Especially because this was set in motion only a few days after we remembered the victims of the holocaust. It’s just all in very bad taste and gives the AfD the legitimacy that they do not deserve

This has led to some people arguing that sometimes you need to work with fascists in order to achieve your conservative goals, leading to many arguments in reply:

You forgot to add that the left refuses to help enact stricter immigration rules despite popular support for such, hence why the concervatives tried to get the extra votes from the far right.

These are people like you and me you are talking about. Not some faceless, nameless blob. Show a little humanity

• And respectfully how is that the average German’s problem?

• Respectfully, I don't give a shit.

• Oh boo hoo. And to give you a serious answer. Neither this discussion, nor my comment is about helping people and you know it. The Discussion is about immigrants or asylum seekers, who come to another country and cause trouble, refuse to integrate and live off social welfare.

they are an official party. they are allowed to exist. a broken clock is right once a day. just because you might not agree with their overall standpoints doesn't mean that they can't have some points in common.

• Yesterday on rmoderatepolitics someone made a really good point that I think goes along with this. If the people want immigration reform or elimination due to cultural issues then give it to them! This is the best solution to preventing extremism.

• Glad someone said it. Illegal migration really is a serious problem especially when it’s like a flood and known serial criminals are in the mix

So basically, ”theres a good decision that needs to be done, but we can’t do it because nazis happen to also want the same thing”?

More like "there's a good decision that needs to be done, but we can't do it because nazis are the only other people that want the same thing in the way we're trying to do it"

Nazis are allowed to be right sometimes, too.

Bryce Mitchell is a UFC fighter whos currently ranked 13th in the world in the featherweight division. Mitchell has been known for a long time in the MMA community as a conspiracy theorist, voicing his belief that the COVID virus was created in a lab by the government and deliberately released, that the government stages mass school shootings to push a gun control agenda. Additionally, he is also a Flat Earther and believes that gravity is a hoax. He has also stated that he wants to homeschool his son because he does not want him to be a Communist, to worship Satan, or to be gay. Here are a few more of his beliefs: Link. Finally, he has also tore through his scrotum by himself using a power drill before. So yea hes known as a pretty wild guy.

Recently, Mitchell on episode 1 of his podcast called the "ArkanSanity Podcast", came out praising Hitler while on a topic point about the recent Elon Musk arm salute controversy.

Link to Podcast Timestamp: 1:18:05

The clip goes on for about 5 minutes so below is not the full excerpt, but the notable quotes.

“Here’s what I say about (Elon) heiling Hitler, heiling the Nazis. I really don’t think that he was, because I honestly think that Hitler was a good guy based upon my own research, not my public education indoctrination" Mitchell continues to claim, "I really do think before Hitler got on meth, he was a guy I’d go fishing with. He fought for his country. He wanted to purify it by kicking the greedy Jews out, that were destroying his country and turning them all into gays. They were gaying out the kids. They were queering out the women. They were queering out the dudes. Do you know where the first tranny surgery ever was? Happened to be in Germany before Hitler took over. You know the books that everybody makes fun of Hitler burning? You know what the books was? Queer books! Hitler burned queer books because Hitler didn’t want a bunch of queers destroying his nation. They can’t produce children."

Bryce Mitchell further adds “When he got on meth and he turned on Russia, I believe that’s when he kind of went full nutty. And I don’t think that he was just like the best dude ever. When I say I’d go fishing with him, I’m not saying he was the most trustworthy dude, or I’d love him or whatever. But at some point in Hitler’s life, I don’t think he was that bad of a guy. I really don’t. Now, was Hitler perfect? No, but he was fighting for his people, and he wanted a pure nation.”

He then continues by commenting about the Holocaust "When you realize there's no possible way they could've burned and cremated six million bodies, you're gonna realize the Holocaust ain't real".

This has sparked massive controversy across MMA subs like r/UFC and r/MMA along with r/MMAPoliticsAndCulture, a smaller subreddit used to discuss politics regarding the MMA sphere. Oh yea just to note the main thread on r/MMA got deleted.

Highlights across the threads

• Wanted to read the context…in fact the context makes it worse
• Lmfao come on dude. CTE would be an improvement at this point. “I’d go fishing with Hitler” and “He just wanted to get the greedy Jews out” are crazy fucking lines lmao.
• At first I thought it was engagement bait But now I think this guy is full blown retarded.
• He has a bachelors degree in economics.
• Growing up is realizing the modern right wing man loved everything about the nazis. They just didn’t want to speak German.
• Face reaction meme of his podcast co-host
• I’ve heard UFC fighters say wild shit, this is the craziest shit I’ve heard and it’s not even close
• If he was employed by any other corporation this might end badly for him, but with the UFC I do not think this will have any effect on him

Downvoted comments by redditors

• The UFC actually allows free speech and doesn’t censor their fighters or make them participate in groupthink, even if their opinions are complete dogshit like this
• He’s too far gone. Dude needs a bullet between the eyes
• Bryce literally criticized Elon in this interview… Don’t get me wrong Bryce is stupid and extremely wrong and stupid on his beliefs here no doubt but like cmon dude he literally said Musk is worse than Hitler in the article…
• no, dont you understand? we need to make anyone who has opinions we are afraid of to be fired from their jobs and cast out of society that's never backfired before, surely
• The type of things sheep say when they want their free speech taken away. People like you deserve to be silenced if that’s your mindset, just don’t drag the rest of humanity down with you, not everyone is a sheep like you.
• Being a Christian has nothing to do with this.
• I hope he doesn’t get cut. People aren’t taking him seriously, why should he lose his career, because his unscientific opinions offend you?
• Go see what’s going on in Gaza and start some deep and honest research and you will be shocked to know many things you didn’t know before.

Additionally, UFC President Dana White, another controversial figure in MMA has come out condemning Mitchell's comments. However, Dana White chose not to punish him under the guise of "free speech". This has come after Dana has previously cut fighters, like Miguel Torres for similar controversies.

• To everyone saying free speech, Dana has already cut fighters for what they've said before
• This is good news. I don’t think real fans want an organization that throws guys out cause of opinions. Like he says, you can watch him get his ass whooped instead.
• I thought this was going to turn into a "Jon Jones is the GOAT" meme halfway through
• What did Bryce say about Hitler? I'm out of loop because I dont follow flat earthers
• I mean what a dumb fucking stance. Someone can be as ignorant as they want and just wave it away as free speech? Is he implying if a fighter was openly using racial slurs he wouldn’t be obligated to punish them? Just so fucking stupid. I hate that mma allows any of this.
• What he said was terrible but he shouldn’t be punished… free speech…
• People will hate him for that, but this is what free speech truly means. For a lot of people it's "free speech as long as I agree with it". I think Bryce should have the right to say this, just like everyone has the right to call him a fucking dmbass (wich he is) for it. J
• Do people need to be punished for speaking their mind? As ignorant, stupid and vile as it may be. Society has gotten so off kilter, well at least social media. Not everyone in the world thinks good, happy, positive things, live with it!

In an /r/AskReddit thread asking "Do you know (of) someone who ruined their life in just a matter of minutes ? If so how did they do it?", one of the highest-voted answers talks about someone's friend who got a bit touchy-feely at an office party with someone they considered their "work wife".

Of course, the idea of the work spouse implies that it's the person you probably spend the most time with at your place of employment, practically the yin to their yang, the Sonic to their Tails, etc.

Anyways, as people discuss the ethics of the work spouse, some people are pretty open in saying that it's "a baffling concept to me" and "foreshadowing for cheating", that if "any time I hear that and one of them isn't gay I just assume they're cheating", or even the one poly person (because you know that they just have to announce they're poly) saying "I'm literally a polyamorous dude and "work wife/husband" is fucking wild to me. especially when monogamous people say it".

Another feels that it "opens the door to flirting at best", and then there's also the one foreign guy who says "it's an american concept just like hall pass or whatever it's called when people select one person they can fuck other then their partner. Oh, America!

Of course, one other guy says "my girlfriend and I get dinner with my work wife and his girlfriend every couple of weeks. This week, it's hotpot. She thinks he's great :)", which brain-breaks the next guy saying "your work wife is a man, and you're a man? Can I read? Kinda proves there's nothing more gay that loving your (implied) wife, I guess.

As people begin to understand (or lack understanding), one guy gets a bit too defensive, saying "mind your business stay in your own lane. Can't handle being a damn adult", to which the immediate reply was that it "sounds like you want to fuck your work wife buddy". Another tries to tell them that "they aren't your friends, they are nice because of work", but the defensive one isn't really having it.

Further slapfights ensue over the terminology throughout, and most people are either chill or not very chill. Obviously "for a lot of folks it's a joke. It also may have some real meaning, while being entirely harmless.", but not everyone's getting the memo and kinda assumes that it's baby steps to cheating and unfaithfulness.

Is it really that bad of a term? Is everyone just trying to fuck? Are people just really grumpy over the seemingly-forced and clearly corporate family dynamics of a workplace? Hell, did you ever have a "work spouse" of your own?

Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z!

EDIT (3 hours since post): So uh... round 2's started out right here in the comments, so I think I'm fit to call this thread the Reddit work spouse marriage counseling venue. What the hell.

https://www.reddit.com/r/zelda/s/LmGo5qbFAB

People are either roasting op for getting a face tattoo, and/or for the quality of said tattoo. Op doesn't take it to well at times and gets massive downvoted

https://www.reddit.com/r/zelda/s/nGkAbB0V6n

Some people think the artist is is equally to blame for this as op

https://www.reddit.com/r/zelda/s/oGS8dp8VHG

Op having a tantrum

https://www.reddit.com/r/zelda/s/a7K989oHz8

Former mod of the bone collecting subreddit was banned for repeated stalking and harassment then made numerous posts in various subs over the last two days insisting he was banned over a single innocent post about ethics.

Truly wild even for Reddit that an established mod of one of the larger subreddits would think people would believe they would get canned for one innocent post.

One of the not yet deleted posts

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/2buMQhTlR4

Drama thread here

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/aJlPH0widQ

Comment 1:

Of course the people having children with their first cousins are the ones with highest fertility rate. Because what the world needs is more inbred humans with the IQ of a toaster

Side comments

so true, no one wants to admit

Hey, it's not nice to talk about Trump voters that way.

Main thread

Comment 2:

How is this not racist???

Hello??? He just looked at a map and called them inbred and IQ of toaster.

Comment 3:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12346199/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC392897/

https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-cousin-marriages-create-high-risk-of-genetic-disorders/a-60687452

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289608001608

Careful! Science is racist.

Ironically the Pakistani community in the UK is so into marrying first cousins that even after the UK government passed a bill forbidding first cousin marriage - because they were becoming responsible for the vast majority of the stillbirths in the country - they just stopped marrying legally but still kept popping out inbred babies.

Note that they love using the NHS while not respecting the laws

Comment 4:

Wow so immediately generalise the entire fucking east asia , middle on basis of a singular country

Side comments

If that is what you understood from his comment you need to work on your readjng comprehension skills.Idk maybe they only start teaching that in highschool? That would explain it...

I really meant Pakistan and Afghanistan, since in the context of the map they are the ones with highest fertility rate, but I do see how it can be misinterpreted. I was to be married to a very brown Indian, so I promise you racism is not the issue here

Main thread

Comment 5:

I reported him and moved on. He looked at a map and started cussing. Normal people dont do that.

Comment 6:

Im pretty sure I checked the map, used my brain (which is definitely not a toaster), and drew on my prior knowledge to make a comment—backed by actual scientific data—about the correlation between countries with the highest fertility rates and those with the highest occurrences of inbreeding.

As for the toaster comment, you seem like a smart fellow so just draw your conclusions from here

The reported correlation between IQ and consanguinity as a percentage of marriages seems robust to differences in decision rules concerning the way in which the data are correlated. The trichotomization analysis specifically indicates that the correlation is highly robust to imprecise estimates of percentage consanguinity, which indicates that highly precise estimates of percentage consanguineous marriage are not required in order to establish the reality of a strong correlation with IQ.

source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289608001608

Sue me for telling you facts you dislike. Maybe because Allah told them it is fine we should just respect the "cultural difference".

I leave you with a quote from Brazilian Playwright, Journalist and Thinker, Nelson Rodrigues:

Idiots will take over the world; not by their ability, but by their numbers. They are many.

Hope you can look past my toaster remark. If it offended you, I apologise and hope you can look at the actual point

Edit: Looks like someone here reported the top comment and it for deleted.

Context: Since 2022 Xbox has started bringing their exclusive titles to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5.

Now Xbox announced Forza Horizon 5, the biggest modern racing game is coming to PlayStation 5. With Halo likely following soon.

The r/Xbox subreddit didn't take well:

The Master Chief Collection blogpost is gonna be the final breaking point. People gonna hold out until the bitter end

Guys, new Xbox logo just dropped 🔥 

We waited more than a decade for Xbox to figure shit out and this is how our patience is rewarded.... Things seemed so promising just a year and a half ago.

Phil, Sarah and Satya killing Xbox in front of our eyes. Most Game Pass subs are on console yet they're killing consoles. PC has been getting priority treatment over console for years and now the competition consoles are getting special treatment. Hardware sales are down, they finally start having good First Party games and give up on exclusivity. Xbox One sales sucked, now Series consoles selling worse. Next gen sales gonna hurt and bring announcements of "difficult decisions". People are cheering for short term gains at the clear cost of long term survival.

Welcome back, those who loves internet drama. This is an update to my last gacha post https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1hvir4v/the_ntr_drama_has_finally_come_to_global_as_girls/ , a few weeks ago. I planned to do the update a week or so ago, but instead posted the much more juicy TikTok drama that most of you saw, judging by the comments. Therefore, I have considerably more time for this segment and included various other dramas in the gacha community over the past year with the same theme, rather than this being solely about GirlFrontline, it all ties together.

Context - Gacha games are usually F2P live service video games, typically mobile with some PC versions where you "pull" or roll for characters like you would a slot machine. Costs can very from 50 cent a "pull" to 5$ a pull for some of the spendy gachas. Typically you pull for "waifus" or girl characters in the popular gachas, some games have transitioned as they found people would usually only pull for female characters. Then some added romance.

In my original post, it is regarding the release of "Daiyan" to the global version of Girls Frontline 2, which as I covered extensively in the above link, involves Chinese players getting outraged to the point of death threats, harassing the Voice Actress, commissioning NTR hentai to spam Daiyan fans, and almost causing the game company to shut down the game, resulting in a steep decline in userbase as the communities of other gachas, most notably Snowbreak clowning on the GFL community as being cucks. The reason for being, the character talked positively about a male character in an event story (full dialogue and transcriptions in the og post).

This is alot to unpack, so take your time to digest this info and read the aforementioned links before diving in. This will be a post split into 3 segments, featuring 3 gacha communities and their relation to the event. I do not expect you to read all of this drama in one go. I just had extra time cause of my last post.

Prologue : Aftermath of GFL2 and r/girlsfrontline - Short segment

• Voice Actress was replaced after harassment campaign and apology statement -https://weibo.com/7367502517/P599xdxbe You can read more on that in og post. For voicing the character, she apologized, but gone quiet and the studio cannot contact her. AFAIK and from numerous posts, she is done with that side of the community. https://www.reddit.com/r/GirlsFrontline2/comments/1i3fs2y/so_chat_whats_overall_opinion_on_daiyan_on_global/

New events are unvoiced as they transition voice actresses.

• Storyline was finally rewritten 3 times. First by changing the male character to a girl, then removing the character entirely, then removing the entire terrorist plot.

• While NTR nsfw content was spammed, CN users who participated in trying to kill GFL2 in the west stopped after realizing western audiences don't care and some enjoyed receiving free porn.

• Snowbreak released a story update. The MAIN point (some ppl will say there is more to it and I WILL GET THERE), is in the story a shapeshifter shifts into one of your pullable girls, and sleeps with the bad guy. Your girl does not sleep with them, a shapeshifter shifts into her and sleeps with them. This sparks SEVERE backlash by the community within 24 hours (12 hours really).

• The devs had an emergency livestream, where they profusely apologized for the update - https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2F03gj1a2rgpzd1.png%3Fwidth%3D668%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D33963d2a0876da671d3e04217075f6d9eb80d860

• People in CN and the West threatened a boycott and chargebacks regarding the game (comments will be posted after summary)

Part 1 - Snowbreak Controversy - I will put the comments at the end of the segment.

Context - Snowbreak devs initially participated in the harassment and mocking of GFL players and devs https://t.bilibili.com/888491075582296064 - There are dozens of posts on weibo/billibilli etc. To Summarize, the devs went, "We would never do this to our players, etc etc". So their userbreak harassed GFL players calling them cucks/greenhats.

Drama - However, last month, after the initial harassment of GFL players, they had their own controversial NTR/CUCK drama https://t.bilibili.com/888491075582296064

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1gm8ojk/heavy_cringe_warning_translation_what_went_wrong/ - Main HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY Cringe warning.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1gmobsk/recap_of_the_snowbreak_developers_livestream/

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1fye16l/snowbreak_will_no_longer_work_with_cosplayers/

I could link from the snowbreak sub, but uh. There is too many NSFW links there.

Summary or key drama points

• Snowbreak Originally was LESS horny at launch (still horny) - After a player breakdown/survey in CN and Asian communities they found that a very sizable and comedic % of their playerbase was single males ( It was in the 90%, ppl meme it was probably 99%). Their metadata also showed that a majority of their purchases were towards female characters. So they pivoted hard into the horny side.

Part 1.5 - Male NPC extinction Event

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/ - So Hard, they began replacing male characters with female characters - Yes, almost every male NPC since then are slowly being redesigned to be female. (This segment is 1.5 as there are just too many juicy comments relating to this drama that I'll include it here, but skip if you don't care)

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3nf0g/

Im more surprised people are surprised this is a thing, have you played Snowbreak the past few months? We went from having chubby astronaut suits that covered characters from head to toe, to half ripped schoolgirl outfits, its very clear which demographic this game is targeting.

This "coomer bait" doubled their revenue. (There's even a post about it on this very subreddit) Ever wondered why games like Nikke are so successful in the first place? Surely for its gripping story and male characters no doubt

Coomer bait prolonged it's life, but after Katrina dropped, it started going back on a downwards trend. String bikinis can only carry a mid tier product so far before people start realizing how mid it is and drop it for better products.

Ever wondered why games like Nikke are so successful in the first place? Surely for its gripping story and male characters no doubt. Ass might bring in the players initially, but almost every Nikke fan I've seen also gush about the story, music, and the gameplay in harder modes. Also, my opinion, I'm not a player; however, as an avid enjoyer of lewd, Nikke's designs have style and soul, and are actually attractive in ways that go beyond emphasizing sex appeal. Snowbreak's designs in contrast, look like desperate cringe levels of fanservice designed by people who've only ever looked at low tier Nutaku games for examples of sexy women in fanservicey outfits.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx6wet7/

if pure coom is enough to always draw a crowd, H-gacha would be among the most resilient gacha out there. As it stands people also want to play a good game (RIP Magicami, you were good, but not good enough). Turns out even the horniest coomer experiences post nut clarity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx9euns/

Have they given Caroline her Purple G-String back? I'll go back if they did.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3lsva/

I play snowbreak but it is ridiculous

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Yea this is hitting extreme territory now. The changes before were means for the game to continue. Now it looks like they are fostering a toxic degen community. Rip my hopes for techwear skins

That’s because they’re main spenders are CN and you saw the GFL2 drama.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx4d00f/

Man.. so the player character is the only male there, then?

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3ruoe/

I don't blame them at all. They are saving their game. People should've supported it the way it was before if they're going to act like this is such a crime now. Money talks and prude grandstanding doesn't.

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It's prude grandstanding to have male characters?

More GFL2 related comments

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3ni6p/

It's not that, I believe. It's more like they don't want to attract the attention of the "crowd" that was attacking GFL2. Unlike in bigger gacha games, if Snowbreak takes a hit from those trolls, they might not be able to mitigate its effects. Hell, even Arknights decided to make art changes in response to the Korean ppsmall emoji outrage that took place not too long ago.

Good, it shows that protests do work, I'm sick of these fucking incel woke losers wanting fat chicks and gay shit in our games

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3l8hq/

Another schizo outbreak from CN players?

Angry replies (there are comments in support, but this is drama)

insecure whackjobs who think all women should be slaves to them basically any sign of a normal, human interaction between characters in a story might as well be Shakespearean NTR in their eyes if said characters are male and female, not a pure wahmen interaction that isnt them sucking up to the MC, aka them

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This is abit extreme of a take. l would almost call it personal.

Calm down simp

I'm curious to know why you believe the word "simp" is applicable in this situation.

Poor simp madge at the truth ;(

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3qzk1/

"we cant make the game better so we'll just go full degen and milk these idiots for everything theyve got"

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gacha in a nutshell all gacha gamers are idiots including f2p who gladly waste their own time away

I would gladly play a game like Snowbreak for free. Better than those $70 AAA woke trash.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3lzkx/

Stuff like this makes me want to drop a game because it shows the devs have no vision and will just give in to every silly player demand because of weird player insecurities. It's genuinely embarrassing to even want this as a player I can't imaging being this pathetic

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When mihoyo axing hi3 events, manjuu retcon their character designs, did you bitch this hard? Fucking unalive yourself incel trash and leave us alone. We don't want to see smelly fat bastards in our games.

Good long comments and replies

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx3xro9/

People here just lack background knowledge. The gender war in cn gacha community has been a thing for a long time. Male and female players used to play different games and the gacha community was in peace. Then genshin came out, which dragged both communities and was a huge success, then the gender war begins.

Male players complain that the gacha companies make the most profit from them (which is likely true) but keep trying to attract female market by making hot male characters and ignore male players (for example, the infamous 0 female limited 5 star for an entire year incident in genshin), and the female gacha players are the loud minority that ruin the game (they are more outspoken in social media like weibo and complain about the game releasing too many hot girls, and even report those games to ccp to censor them, for example a hot female character in ptn was pulled off because of it).

Also, the success of genshin makes other game companies to make similar games (nicknamed ‘mixed gender toilet games’), which make the male community more angry.

Finally, after the gfl2 raymond incident, they realized even games with only female playable characters are not safe (it’s kinda funny but this was 100% dev’s fault. Imagine ur azur lane shipgirl gets a npc boyfriend in al2). So they start to riot, become more outspoken, and try to force the devs to cater one gender only.

This is where we are now. The games have to choose one side: male only, female only, or the ‘mixed gender toilet’, and the devs need to be very clear about it and stick to it. This is why azur promilia had to announce they have only female playable characters and why snowbreak chose to replace their male npcs (which is a bit of an over-react, but I blame this to gfl2)

I just think it is so unfair for people here to judge and criticize the cn players without the context. Also, it is not that they hate those mixed gender games. They just hate the devs being unclear with what they cater to and force them to choose a side.

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Gender war: it is deeply related to the gender war outside gacha. It is a big social problem in China now. I absolutely hate this bullshit but blaming this to snowbreak devs and players is unfair. GFL2: The leader of gfl2 devs is a female dev called ‘star’, who pushes the narrative that ‘dolls have their own life’ in gfl2 and the raymond incident is just an example of it. I absolutely support women right but pushing this narrative with a ntr incident in a game that is 100% targeting male player base is beyond stupid.Snowbreak: if you look at this separately, it is kinda dumb (which I admitted in my original reply), which is why I provided the context, because the gender war is no joke, and snow break just uses this as a tool to claim their side to comfort their player base (which is 99.9% male anyway)

What is their opinion about mixed gender games? Will they play them? How did they survive the year of Genshin without new female characters? How do they deal with the fact that about 30-50% of future AAA gachagames will not be for them? All future AAA gachas will be mixed gender, except for Azur Promilia. Will they just ignore all the other AAA gachas and only play Azur Promilia?

We all know those so called mixed gender games cater to men. Hyv treat their female player base as second class citizens.

I simply won't play a gacha with male characters, they are disgusting and yes, they are second class citizens

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1bqns7c/snowbreak_is_replacing_all_male_logistics/kx5nm3z/

The anti male sentiment recently within gacha disgusts me

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There are male only games out there. Go play those. There are also some that mix it up. Try them as well. No need to be disgusted by something not meant for you.

Why does it disgust you? You just aren't the target audience for these titles. I don't get disgusted when reading about otome game launches. There are so many games in the space right now that cater to female audiences and mixed gender audiences and everything in between. Why can't you live with there being a large cohort of the market that wants heavily male-coded entertainment?

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Because it's fucking pathetic. There's nothing wrong with a harem game, but the people that are so fucking sad they can't even handle NPC men existing or interacting just completely ruins a game's story, worldbuilding, and entire sense of logic. People didn't freak out over HI3 having Otto, Kevin, Adam, etc (ok, Adam is hit or miss sometimes). No one loses their mind over the biggest tiddy game of them all right now, hell people simp for Andersen as much as they simp for the Nikkes. Even for your otome game example, all of them at least have numerous other women fucking exis

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Why do you care? Just play the games you like and ignore the games you don't. You aren't a paying customer of Snowbreak, why do you care what those customers want? Those customers aren't asking for every game to meet their preferences, just the very narrow slice of titles that they bankroll. Why not just live and let live?

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don't care, cause you're right I don't play Snowbreak.

I do care about this movement as a whole, because as an avid Girls Frontline lover for years these stupid beta fucks are doing their best to drag Mica into a ditch and probably keep GFL 2 from even launching over here, and you better believe it pisses me the fuck off. From one of the best written and complex political dramas in the genre to "M-muh DaIyAn GoT A KeyChAiN FrOm A Man!!11!!!1!" Fucking pathetic.

Thread continues, just read that link

Other choice comments from the thread and r/snowbreak before we end this segment

That was the reason why Azur Lane CN players became hostile to any kind of game with male character especially when the Developer of their game Manjuu even have a slightest chance to make another AK by themselves not just some publisher ties like Yostar. Also AK CN "Silverash fans" crying over his skin with the boys because the Yume (husbando lovers self insert players) felt Raymond'ed from Silverash with that skin.

Good and based. I don't understand how gacha devs don't understand their fanbase. We don't want to see ugly men in our games. If I wanted to see y'all I'd go on Reddit.

Its a fucking Waifu game, there shouldn't be men, that's why modern gaming is failing.

Anyone who criticizes this decision is a fucking loser cucklord. They are our girls, we don't want them to be corrupted like what MICA did with GFL. I'm glad as it reduces the chance of a rogue feminist writer coming in and cucking us

Back to the main topic - So as you can see, the community 10 months ago, started to chance as devs started to pander to the "gooner" community or people who love their female units. They started doing romances, marriages, waifus, and entire romance storylines in game. Also ALOT of fanservice in trailers. Boob physics, the works. And it worked. The game became VERY profitable with revenue being higher than ever. The con is the community went from a small niche community with some people obsessed with the girls and mostly enjoyed the gameplay to being all about the characters and storyline and the sex appeal. It like pivoting from selling white makeup to clowns, then realizing you can make a better profit by selling it to Juggalos. Now your community is 1% clown, 99% Juggalo.

The community APEshit over the patch, leading the game to be taken down THAT DAY for maintenance. Not only that, but in the CN community on their forums rabid fans were demanding more drastic changes, or male extinction. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F3px14uuaelzd1.png (image of the events)

They

• Found out that 01 refers to Male NPC in closed beta, and they started saying any image or text with "01" should be banned/removed from the game - https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/

Choice comments

https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcnkvmt/

It's so weird that women who don't like the fanservice of SB still complain about it? Like are there dudes who complain about fanservice in game like Love and Deepspace? Just play what you like and ignore the one you don't like, it's not that serious :51468:

It's a recent trend in gacha games I have noticed after Genshin's popularity. It's a similar issue in shipping wars where m/f ships are criticised to hell just cause they prefer the m/m or f/f ship more. As a woman, i genuinely don't understand this mindset. These people are ironically the biggest hypocrites, they'd be surprised how many women artists there are who draw these sexy revealing designs and enjoy them

https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcngrqp/

Yes basically according to what he explains it is something similar.

this is an "easter egg" as I understood from his publication, there was a male character called Lingyi, according to what i read in bilibili, in short, is a character from the beta with drama like Raymond from GFL2, which is because this character was eliminated from CBT1 a year before the game was released.

the number 01 is Yi in Chinese, the logistics in principle had 01 and 02 as he places in the images and the dude in charge of the art placed this "easter egg" with the aim of making cn players uncomfortable and he placed in both logistics "01" it is like a kind of indirect wink, sometimes they cannot be detected if you do not know the complete context or you don't know the native language of the game, very similar to blue archive in the West where Korean players are mostly the ones who detect it.

but well, i will never understand the bitter desire of trying to put together these dramas at the expense of your work,

https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcnktz8/ Good comment and replies lmao

I'm from SEA, and the comments from some of the Western bros is disheartening. You say it's overreacting, well, take a look at your own gaming landscape see how it's going for you guys. What's are some big games in the Western sphere that's worth a damn. Starfield? Suicide Squad? Skull and Bones? Spider-man 2, where every other mission is LGBT whatever theme and Black Cat is in lesbian relationship and MJ has square jaw? Horizon 2, where the main protag is played by Nikocado Avocado? What about upcoming games? AC Shadows? That Star Wars game where you play a butch woman? Fable, the game where you play a butch woman? Or that new Overwatch-like game where you have pronouns on the tittle screen? Or the new Dragon Age: Fortnite Edition? What about outside of gaming? How's that's new Star Wars show going? How's that new Doctor Who show's going? What about the Witcher TV shows? The Lord of the Rings? Is the MCU still good? Holy shit, you let your own huge media franchises be mutilated and desecrated and now you have the gall to say CN overreacting, while being over here playing a Chinese made game. You are too occupied with being virtuous that you would let people gaslight and walk all over you. It's sad.

Western bros, I used to look at you guys with eyes of admiration and inspiration, but what I'm seeing right now to the Western sphere is possibly the closest thing to seeing the Roman Empire fall in real time. And you're just gonna take it?

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The West is mostly a bunch of beta cucks who sit back as everything gets stolen from them. I'm not speaking hypothetically -- just look at all the woke shit going on. It's literally happening because Western males let it happen and/or are complicit. This cultural cancer is literally why China bans the alphabet pronoun squad from its games. You don't tolerate cancer. You cut it out.

This comment is real btw - https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcnlibd/

Just keep on fighting the good fight Eastern bros and don't mind the stuff reddit says.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcndutk/

Soo, CN bros were chipped away with small things a lot and now SB is the last bastion of boiz being horny and happy for it. Sheeesh

https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcnh9ih/

So, u mean your chinese male ego is so fragile, that by simply putting mention about DELETED MALE CHARACTER mock u and u go to Battlefield for this? XD What a horrible day for male gacha gamer in China. XD oh lord.

THIS PART COMPARES 01 to SLAVERY

https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcndllo/

u call it silly?

look at the debauchery of Yasuke the [slave] samurai drama happening now frm AC series the whole point is not giving an inch tat escalates into a mile.

Break - Most of you probably need a little break at this point so here's my take before we dive back in.

There is more really unhinged takes from the official Snowbreak Sub, but most of them are very very very unhinged, and I need a better word for racist as being called racist/Xphobic is a disservice to actual racists as its just THAT bad over there. Like the KKK would say, chill over a FICTIONAL girl. Again, look at the upvotes on the official Snowbreak sub vs gacha. They are upvoting some of the unhinged takes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcnjudb/

I like how the entire post is "THIS WAR WE HAVE TO ENDURE FOR OUR CAUSE AND IDEALS! WE WON'T BACK DOWN, WE WON'T SURRENDER" and the actual context is two mentally deranged groups of different genders caring way too much about pngs. I wish I had your problems, CN bros

https://www.reddit.com/r/SnowbreakOfficial/comments/1e0k9k1/why_we_cn_bros_are_so_crazy_you_will_understand/lcndnhh/

I'm impressed by how pathetic this is. I'm an S tier degen and even I feel mildly vicariously embarrassed.

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Because you're not living there and right in the middle of a culture war between 2 sexes. Where one side is doing petty "haha gotcha" type shit just to tally up to their side as a win against your side. "We don't like your game, we don't play your game, we hate you, but we got something put in your game that you didn't like, to show we have influence over it" it's that simple.

... Who the fuck cares?That's the whiniest little bitch energy shit I've ever read and I've been on Reddit for over a decade.I'm fuckin American, the Republicans make actual legislation just to 'own the libs'. I'm still not going to cry as hard as these losers did over a number. So yeah I already am well aware of what it's like to be in a cultural war. This is still fucking embarrassing.

Back to the main point

• Began speculating that since the female shapeshifter can shift into any character, the boss was probably fucking all of our females and since shapeshifting is 1-1, the boss knows more of our females' sexual weaknesses than we, the protag does and therefore can cuck us at any moment leading to a "mindbreak".

• An NPC called one of our females who is named Yao, "Sis Yao" which in Chinese sounds like "prostitute" and she pushes the protag away when he tries to kiss her, a big no no as the writer wrote her to be "ungrateful"

Warning, more racism

• The devs officially delays NITA due to the events to next year, as she is a light dark skin character which is bad (those who play Hoyo games know where this goes). https://snowbreak.fandom.com/wiki/Nita to appeal to the gooner crowd. She might be made more light skin later.

Dev Response

• took the game down for maintainance

• Held an emergency livestream with face reveal to profusely apologize for several minutes (the face reveal is important as they have never shown themselves before, but this incident was so large, they had to put a target for ppl to see)

• Fired Most of the people "responsible" for the event https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/

Comment Time

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/lvybk3m/

The contentious shift in direction turned the game into a culture war icon. This results in both more drama, and every snowbreak drama getting a post here, while other game's dramas mostly stay contained in their own communities.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/lvx7x7y/

Game director is the most toxic in the industry right now. Dude is lying out his ass and pointing fingers for his own failures. Naturally going to cause drama.

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he claimed the shanghai cliche (mainly mihoyo) is running feminism DEI themed campaign against their big boobed game.

Bro is just saying words at this point, if Mihoyo actually had a DEI department people wouldn't be invoking the white pharaoh anytime a new region dropped

It is just an excuse for their offensive behavior. The ESG activities of CN companies are mainly environmental protection, which is very different from DEI in the general context

imagine just merely being mixed gender gacha means DEI campaign to them... these people nuts

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/lvy3ml2/

till mad cuz he insulted your precious Jen shine

Bro is fighting WW3 in the comments, lmao

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When WW3 happens I hope you get cucked as much as we did today. I hope you know the pain of seeing your loved ones ravaged in front of you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/lvy33tr/

"Let me briefly explain why CN SB community is angry with the new main storyline. The new main storyline has the following issues:

The interactions between Yao and adjutant are very strange. Inappropriate timing for kissing from adjutant and Yao‘s resistance to adjutant contradict the previous story.

The villain engages in sexual intercourse with the enemy which can transform into someone else‘s appearance(it transformed into Fenny and Lyfe in 2.0). This is meaningless and disgusting.

Using derogatory homophones to address Yao. The writer even recognized this and emphasized it in the story.

The villain kills child in the story. Also meaningless and disgusting."

Basically things a normal person (that isn't a 14 year old that soypogs on Reddit over unnecessary character deaths because of how GriTTy™️ it makes the story) would justifiably be upset about.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1glugsm/seasun_snowbreak_fires_some_peoples_responsible/lvxmobx/

Is it just me or is it kind of in bad taste to just publicly announce you're firing your employees here? It's like, you think throwing a few guys under the bus is going to fix things? All this is showing me you've got a toxic culture in your company

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to the CN players this just basically sounds like they have captured the infiltrating "spy" from "enemy army" and kicked them out, yeah they treat this like a war unironically I realize this sounds bad, but you lack context

That I can agree, I just admire one aspect of their behavior because this comment section is full of cultists trying to attack them.

You admire the fact a bunch of online crazies managed to bully an employee out of a job while their bosses remain unaccountable?)

Edit for the snowflake: why aren't they firing the people who approved the "undermining the Kingsoft"? Because they found a scapegoat to point a finger and avoid any kind of responsibility. Again

End for Now, I almost hit the word count limit on Reddit for this, so there will be a part 3 and maybe part 4 as I WAS going to include what I had written about another game related to the NTR drama, but its also long. I will post more next week or the week after, unless something big happens.

Preview of next post - Porn Gacha who criticized the GFL drama changes core mechanics after most of the players choose to play Male Units (the loser in a pvp match gets their units RPED, so everyone uses male characters to not let their girls get ravaged, leading to a very gay game).

Hey that’s me😂😂 still in the US and living gooooooddd!

Wait until he finds himself at Gitmo

When can I expect my ticket there??

Lol he thinks because he works hard they won't be racist to him

They haven’t, lol

Seems like deportation has started happening bigly.

I mean yeah, for criminals

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Edit: cant believe no one mocked me for my title typo. Have no idea how i went with deportions, its clearly deportations* and i can't fix it, thank you.

More Nazi drama. This time in r/dota2!

Thread

A guild in DOTA2 was revealed to have the Nazi-style Swastika as their guild icon, a poster encountered them and posted it to Reddit, stating it shouldn't be allowed.

This has caused replies for and against it.

Upvoted:

Poster translates what Akhond means

Poster brings up free publicity angle

Poster brings up recent explanation for behavior related to Elon Musk

Poster sates "Fuck fascism", causes fighting in comments

Controversial:

"Just a propeller, why everyone mad?"

Poster brings up DOTA2 having racists, League of Legends is mentioned

Poster claims its ragebait

Downvoted:

Poster translates Akhond, gets downvoted and causes fights

Poster claims it's fine for DOTA2

Poster claims it's just normal for conservatives

Ukrainian Nazis are brought up

Flairs!

Elon Musk Nazi Fangroup

WWII was won by ignoring Nazis

DOTA2 is the degenerate's choice

PCM and 40k, iconic combo

Answer: Yes, he is stupid.

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It’s kind of laughable that you think other men from other races are gonna be any better. And yes, this all is internalized racism.

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Yeah you might wanna address this with a therapist sib. The whole “turn women into single mothers” is low key some dog whistle racism…total maga talking point.

Men of all races turn women into single mothers.

Black men do it more so on average. Anyway, it's just a preference

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Hurts, as a black man who’s married to a black woman 5 years now with two children, to read you write off an entire group based on some bad experiences of the few. I’d be kinda mad you lump me in with the others but if I was single you woulda just missed out on a great guy. Do as you will but I would take each person individually to judge them and not predecide they are like the others simply because of the color of their skin.

You should focus on your wife, my choices do not affect you at all.

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This is what happens when white feminism seeps into our way of thinking. White feminism seeks to separate us from our own race's men. Separate us from our culture and paint it as uncivilized and uncouth. This is internalized racism. There are bad black men and there are good black men. My partner is white but was raised by a good black man. There are good men and bad men in every race. I think you should look into the problems of white feminism and see how it affects you.

White feminism aims for white supremacy. They separate us from our culture and our men. They think women of color are below them but they want us not to procreate with our men. I ended up with a white MtF partner. I have always dated white. But that was because, and big surprise, internal racism.

I am not black. I am a mixed race woman. I am white and Native American. My father was a native father stereotype. But in my family I have seen amazing fathers to daughters. They married within the tribe. They have good marriages and happy families.

What I'm saying is. You are stereotyping black men. Do some people live up to stereotypes? Yes but that's not all black men. Men abandon women in white couples too. My father abandoned my mother. Race has nothing to do with abandoning women when they get pregnant.

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If a white person said this they would be accused of racism. So yes, you are wrong to judge people based on their race.

No, it's statistical fact...

Only because they are statistically poorer. DEI will fix this.

White people have said that. I’ve seen a few videos of white & asian men addressing how black men treat black women, and the comments were in agreement.

Even white people who hate Black people will agree that Black men treat Black women badly and tell other races negative things about us.

Girl stop. Stand on your on two feet and stop dragging others into your commentary to bolster your statement. You said what you said

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Preferences are fine, discrimination is not. Your generalized prejudices and judgemental mindset are your problem. How would you like to be grouped into the negative stereotypes of black women and discriminated against for no reason other than belonging to that group?

That already happens, ironically most by Black men.

So if you can’t beat the internalized racism, join it?

Why not just refuse to date the Black men that are racist against Black women?

Or I can just not date any of them?

White men are famous for their racism, I guess you can't date them either?

Since you think all back dudes hate black women...You must think all white dudes hate black people, right? Or do they get a pass?

Who mentioned white men? Some of them don’t like Black women either and that’s fine with everyone. Why do I have to give Black men access to my body just because we’re the same race?

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All these comments not a seeing deleted post about want to bleach her skin is so funny for me. Stop hating yourself girl. You are who you are and date and love whoever but first love and accept yourself.

Full Thread - Discussion on if Allergic Uber drivers have to accept a Service Dog.

https://www.reddit.com/r/legal/comments/1icsxvq/are_rideshare_drivers_allowed_to_discriminate/

OP argues that someone allergic making their car a private space makes them required to be around Service Dogs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/legal/comments/1icsxvq/comment/m9thenw/

User says that a service dog in the back seat and the allergic driver in the front seat is being in different areas of the same room.

>You in the driver seat and the dog in the back passenger side. You're not in direct contact with the dog and that is considered a different area of the same room, i.e., car

https://www.reddit.com/r/legal/comments/1icsxvq/comment/m9vxv71/

OP amps up the Service dog vs Allergy debate in response to parent with an allergic child

https://www.reddit.com/r/legal/comments/1icsxvq/are_rideshare_drivers_allowed_to_discriminate/

User says if you have a severe allergy, you shouldn't be an Uber Driver.

https://www.reddit.com/r/legal/comments/1icsxvq/comment/m9tlv2w/

Background: NVidia recently announced their new Gpu line up (A pc part used to display output, and is that most important part for performance) and their high end models release soon the RTX 5090 ($2000+) and the RTX 5080 ($1000+). Now Microcenter is a store famous among pc builders for what I believe is their fair pricing and stock as for high ticket items you have to go in store so bots can't get it. There's also the fact that there are few locations and it's only located in the U.S..

r/Microcenter is an unofficial subreddit which is mostly for questions and updates on store locations from what I seen. It is usually chill, but with the release of the new high end models and high demand people have flocked to wait outside of Microcenter. This is where some folks have taken issue.

This is my first Drama post in a while and it has to do with one of my favorite stores. Hope it's interesting

Drama:

Despite what may be a novelty of standing in line for a release posters have taken issue and expressed their frustration with the people who have chosen to camp outside.

If you click on the post the comments should be sorted by controversial

Post: One poster calls for a lottery to stop camping

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Get in line and stop whining

Nah. Whoever gets here first and is willing to wait should get it first.

How can you defeat which has no life?

Or else what? You will boycott Micro Center? Or boycotting 5090? Is like no one is buying 5090?

Post: This poster mocks those in line

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OP is a sex offender, certifiable.

If you are at my store I’ll have you removed for loitering and trespassing

You’ll have to catch me first 🤡

Micro Center should take pic of these people's faces. trespass them on the day of release and ban them from the store for 7 days. lol

Post: A post of people having a line cookout

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Dude in red shirt looks like the type that is about to spend all his money on something he doesn’t need because he can’t control his habits.

That’s pretty fucked up to just judge someone like that

Good to see 300k+ years of homo sapiens evolution got us to here...basic greed or lack of impulse control...

They're either filthy rich or just dumb. Why stand in line for days to make a few hundred bucks of profit if you could earn a ton more by just working instead? (Suggesting scalping)

I'd imagine most of them are using PTO. Also doubt they are all scalpers. Or even most.

Post: This one mocks Microcenter discouraging camping

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This is such bullshit. I wish I could do absolutely nothing and sit on my ass for 3 fucking days.

Who cares? These people are loosers who can't even pay rent if they don't scalp that card for double what they paid... personally I can afford a 5090 if I want one... hell I can even afford to laugh at these fools as I pay them their pathetic $1000 scalper markup...

Quite the story you made up in your head.

Recently, a meme was posted on r/Vivziepopmemes, a subreddit dedicated to memes about the community surrounding the works of Vivienne "Vivziepop" Medrano, about how absurd it is that there are homophobes in the fandom considering how queer her shows are. The post caused a big controversy, but not for the reason you'd expect. The meme used the abbreviation "HH" for Hazbin Hotel, Vivziepop's flagship series, igniting a big controversy because HH can also stand for "Heil Hitler."

Did not think I would have to follow up so fast to but here we are. Fresh off the defending Elon’s “heart goes out salute”

Previous post

Today, mods announced a 3 day ban for anyone that insults depending on context. Sounds fair enough right?

Here are some of the thoughts from the userbase.

“But Can I call people jerkoffs to people celebrating their ability to suck themselves off?”

“As long as I can call people fuckers that is good”

“Seems like mods are unemployed and have too much time in their hands”

Here is where the drama begins

“Doesn’t this give trolls a benefit to seek reactions out of people?

Mod at -47 responds: “block them, don’t reply to them, if they don’t break the rules it’s fine. The problem with censoring trolls is that they have different opinions”

User responds “what is the point of this rule? Seems like a power trip” mod responds “ there are more insults than usual, the spam report is longer than usual, there are alternative accounts going on”. Proceeds to post a screenshot of a ban evader (according to reddit’s automod) writing “please….”.

User responds: “at least that is a valid reason, thanks”.

A user writes: “this sub is no longer cool, my time here is done”

Mod responds with “we will miss you” (sarcastically)

Here is the one you came in here for:

User says “Love that for this sub. But can we still insult Nazi sympathizers?”

Mod responds “No”

Users respond to the mod via “WTF” And “bro what”

User says “How else are you gonna insult the mod that made this post?”

Another person asks if we can ban a right wing troll that has been spamming troll posts for the past year (and has negative karma in almost everything).

Mod replies: “why? What rules did he break?”

A user replied but post was removed, the mod replies saying: “we are done with your spam and insults and hate, to the ones that use alternative accounts to avoid bans we will ban you permanently “. Mod posts screenshot of removed comment (?) with a user saying “please…”.

Another user posts “this sub has turned to shit”

A user says “so free speech is censored? OP when he posted threw a sieg heil”

This drama is fresh and ongoing. I personally stopped posting in the sub until the situation is resolved. It’s just not enjoyable anymore. There’s more good stuff in there but translating is too much work.

OP makes a post about one of India's best known leaders, SC Bose, from the Indian Independence movement, suggesting he is insufficiently venerated.

It is pointed out that he is in fact, very venerated.

"lost in history'? Half the streets of Kolkata are named after him, his statue is in front of India Gate"

OP reveals himself to be a conspiracy theorist (there's evidence of a plane crash and Bose's death in 1945 but some believe the leader in question is alive and roams the earth).

Someone else chips into support the conspiracy but cannot prove it

whoever said that i don't know read it in wiki somedays ago.

Another person is more pragmatic.

[there are many questions whether he was alive after the plane crash in 1945, but now I don’t think if he would be alive though.

](https://old.reddit.com/r/IndianHistory/comments/1i7vqlp/23rd_january_1897_birth_anniversary_of_subash/m8ojidk/)

Someone brings up the fact that Bose collaborated with Japan during WWII and then also flew to Germany to unsuccessfully seek Hitler's support for Indian independence. A calm and reasoned discussion on whether Hitler would have been better for India than the British ensues.

who went to berlin via a fake passport to ussr and had a meeting with wehrmacht officials?

I'm pretty sure Hitler didn't have colonial ambitions.

Strange that a man who idolised Mahatama Gandhi ended up siding with Hitler and Imperial Japan.

Someone points out that siding with Hitler and Japan in WWII was strategically unsound - but not for moral reasons

it was also a very poor choice in hindsight considering Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were the losing side

A reasoned evaluation of Churchill and Hitler, Britain and Nazi Germany.

Churchill had killed 3 million Indians via starvation in 1943. Brits were the same as Nazis.

Churchill didn’t kill three million Indians

He (Bose) also said that anti semitism should be part of Indian liberation movement. This all happened before bengal famine.

Bose wasn't anti semitic, he was pragmatic

Debates on methodology and whether Gandhi was an antisemite follow

Stop learning history from youtube shorts

it's funny you say this, its a very NPC response....

A wild Iranian appears! A discussion on the Iranian revolution descends into a spat about when lashing (whipping) is permissible.

in islamic law, there's no sign of lashing for showing of the hair; it is only used for fornication and grapes.

Ah so we should only lash adulterers, so progressive /s Gtfoh

And finally one helpful user chips into say, apropos of nothing

Gandu (asshole) is my d***

Clip for context: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2366108716?t=463s

For those who can't watch it: Asmongold floats the idea of dressing up as Ash Ketchum from Pokémon to watch illegal immigrants get deported for content.

In general, the folks at /r/livestreamfail are disgusted by this. But his substantial fanbase doesn't really see the issue.

LSF is full of criminal loving scum

Would you house an illegal immigrant in your home?

This sub is full of far left nutters

The right wing grift is so easy

Main Thread: 

https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/1iaqp9q/sams_take_on_elons_nazi_salut/

Comment Thread 1: 

https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/1iaqp9q/comment/m9czgf2/

“ For those too lazy to read the article, this is not the complete commentary on Elon

Sam Harris: 

Predictably, Elon’s response to the ensuing controversy was merely trollish and amoral. And yet, what might he have said if he really didn’t want to lend any support to the Nazi cause? Perhaps something like this:

“Whoops! That was definitely an awkward way to show my love for the crowd. But rest assured that I have no sympathy for Nazism, white supremacy, or any other form of racism. Note to all racist assholes: Unfollow me!”

Of course, that would have been too sane and well-intentioned to meet the mood of the moment. We now live in the age of insincerity. Move fast and break things—even your principles!—and your fans will love it…” (Main OP)

“Only sane response: Elon is an idiot, troll, and if it wasn't he would have set the record straight on this.” (Comment)

“World’s richest man is an idiot? I think you may have mistaken who the idiot is here. He DID set the record straight.” (Comment)

Comment Thread 2: 

https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/1iaqp9q/comment/m9c9u0g/

“At this point we're just arguing about the intention behind what he did. There's no way we'll know what exactly was going on inside his brain when he did it, so arguing about that seems unproductive.

The gesture clearly resembled a seig heil and the fact he (or anyone defening him) has acknowledged that fact is the main problem here. I couldn't just turn up to work get up on a soapbox and put 'my heart out to everyone'. 

The Nazis are such a sensitive subject that even acts that unintentionally mimic the most potent imagery of that era (the hand gesture, the moustache, the swastika) are highly taboo and tend to require an apology from the offender, regardless of their intent. 

Our political landscape is so fucked now. “ (Main OP)

“WHY ARE WE ARGUING ABOUT THE INTENTIONS OF NAZIS

It's a fucking Nazi salute. Since when do we debate who does Nazi salutes? WE KNOW WHO DOES THEM GUYS my God, please wake up everyone, please.” (Comment)

“Again, I’ll probably get downvoted for this like my other comment in this sub, but he has since said that he did not mean it as a Nazi gesture and that the media was running with it. If intentions matter then what he says has to hold some weight. And even on the most shallow level, do you think he intentionally made a Nazi salute, causing a mass sell-off of his Tesla stock? He’s lost millions upon millions of valuation for no reason. I just don’t think we have to look that deeply here.” (Comment)

Comment Thread 4: 

https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/1iaqp9q/comment/m9cfj3w/

“Sam's wrong and right. There is a third posibility that he doesn't seem to take into account. That it is a Nazi salute but that Musk is not a neo-Nazi.

I think Musk did a Nazi salute but he did it as a "Screw you libs" kind of move. Not because he is a neo-Nazi.
I think him thinking he's an edgelord and being high all the time is a shitty combination.

That's not an excuse though. I think it was so irresponsible for someone in his position to do on stage that it should qualify as a hate crime.”  (Main OP)

Comment Thread 5: 

https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/1iaqp9q/comment/m9c5qmk/

“It was really the second one that does it for me. It's even more of a salute in speed and motion, not a heart goes out gesture. It was also like, the first one could've been a slip up and he could've corrected it with a more obviously not sieg heil gesture the second time but he didn't.” (Main OP)

“When will you guys finally realize that Sam Harris is a fucking idiot? Of course he thinks “probably not” with an action anyone with half a brain recognized as an unambiguous Nazi salute. Performed twice.

This is the dipshit who thinks you can’t be labeled a racist unless you’re literally caught on a hot mic yelling out the n word in hatred. Because then it’s “mind reading.” He minimized the Christchurch mass shooter as an internet troll, because of a few memes in his manifesto.

Harris is a fucking idiot. This is a guy who will screech anti-semitism about college protesters who don’t think Palestinians should be obliterated, but go out of his way to excuse an effective cabinet member doing a 2x Sieg Heil behind the presidential seal. He’s a more eloquent Joe Rogan.” (Comment)

“I appreciate Sam's work in the space of meditation, but his takes on global politics are usually god awful in my opinion. He's taken the gender bait hook, line, and sinker, and would rather argue about that til he's blue in the face and say radical leftists are destroying Western Civilization than face reality. Reality being that ultra wealthy, high influential people in the USA are doing everything in their power to rig the game more and more in their own favour while fucking over the rest of us.” (Comment) 

Comment Thread 6:

https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/1iaqp9q/comment/m9c4hox/

“Charitable from Sam there. He did what he did and he knew what he did, and he likes that he did.” (Main OP)

“Classic centrist appeasing take from Sam” (Comment)

“Two years ago in a tweet that Elon has since apologized for, he said it was "the actual truth" that Jews hate white people, and that they bring hordes of minorities into Western countries.

And now this same individual has performed a seig heil that is *literally* identical to the salutes of neo-nazis and even Hitler's. I'm sure you've seen the video comparisons on Reddit by now.

Why should anyone give Elon the benefit of doubt? Why are you?” (Comment)

“If those were the only two things Elon had ever done, that might be a good case. But he also spoke to a European Jewish Group recently with Ben Shapiro, and, in the past few weeks, criticized the Republican Party for having too many anti-immigrant racists, pissing off Steve Bannon. So it's plausible that he's inconsistent, on drugs, an immature troll, etc., rather than that he's 100% proven to be a proud National Socialist.” (Comment)

The original postis just the first tweet of a thread from February 2018 where a student learned her blood type was incompatible with her parents and discovered her biological father was actually her step-uncle.

A mention of a incomplete study from The Third Chimpanzee immediately drives readers insane.

[I once read a book about human evolution called "The Third Chimpanzee". The book is dated now (came out around 1990), but I remember the author (who is an evolutionary biologist by training) tell a story in one chapter about how an MD colleague of his in the 1950s was doing studies on newborns from a hospital to try and uncover how genetics worked.

He ended up quietly stopping the study and never publishing the results when he accidentally discovered that 10-15 percent of the babies he was studying were fathered by someone other than the mother's husband.](https://www.reddit.com/r/sciencememes/s/bY4UKl1pop)

But now we have easy and cheap DNA test to know with 99.99 or whatever percent who the father is. It is time to shed primitive traditions and move towards a better future.

In response

I did and everyone should but most won’t because that would start an argument from hell which is why just make it mandatory. If signing a birth certificate locks you in for life and it does legally we should be damn sure before it happens.

The one perspective missing here is patrilineal inheritance. It’s not just psychology, but economics. That child is going to inherit your wealth.

Agreed. I like to point out that women have been intentionally impregnating themselves without intercourse for centuries for many reasons as well.

Without intercourse? How?

How about the example of a friend of mine who was dating a really wealthy producer. They used condoms. She took the contents of the condom he left in the bathroom trash rubbed it inside of her and was pregnant with his child. Any fresh ejaculate anywhere a woman can do the exact same process and become pregnant. It's not as effective, but entirely probable. Especially if she decides to use a treatment to increase her fertility.

Anyone opposed to this tornado of facts and logic is downvoted

Wow, hey. That's some anecdotal evidence there. If 10-15% of all people don't have the expected father, then that means, right now, that about 35 million Americans are perfectly happy with the situation, and its a non-issue. Maybe women just love one man, but he needs a pinch hitter for reasons beyond anyone's control? As long as every kid has two loving parents, what's the problem? Like, do you think society is a eugenics experiment and you're concerned about the integrity of your data?

r/NotHowGirlsWork is going to lose its mind

https://old.reddit.com/r/agedlikemilk/comments/1iceh5a/reminder_donald_trump_and_elon_musk_are_loweffort/

as of ~5:45pm CST, the mod deleted the post

Leaving behind this pinned comment now from the generic mod team account:

In lieu of the amount of comments saying this is not a good move, we're currently going to work on a poll post to ask you, the community, what topics we will be adding to rule 1, and taking away. Stay tuned for that post - will be coming in the next hour or so.

#Update as of 6:30pm CST: A second post has hit the subreddit.

#It’s a poll that’s poorly worded and confusing everyone and with plenty of confused replies saying as much.

Update as of 9pm CST…

#….And it’s gone

read deleted poll thread here

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Mod replied links from original now removed post before the poll thread was made:

Aged like milk… our democracy and the willingness to discuss its decline.

Mod reply: You can discuss it other places. This is not the place. Read the whole post, please.

“Low effort topics”. You afraid of running out of internet disk space?

Mod reply: This rule has been in effect for some time. Here is some of the rule's text for you:

Aged like milk just aged like milk

Mod reply: Both Trump and Elon have been on the list for some time. I fail to see how reiterating this changes anything.

How's that boot taste?

Mod reply: I wouldn't know

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More links on original mod post:

lol this is some fascist enabling, enlightened centrist shit.

Woah, what's that funky smell? Oh. Just the mods, aging into a fine, boot-flavoured milk.

Aged like milk? More like aged like piss.

OP/mods, you still have time to walk this back.

These butthurt comments are the cherry on top. Please take me to -1000, children of Reddit

I don't hate this rule as politics have overrun the subreddit but maybe there can be a /PoliticsALM

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the OP mod replying to automod in disagreement with their own Automod

Context:

r/youtubedrama is a sub used to discuss different drama between many different variety of youtubers and culture on youtube in generaland is pretty much a snark page at this point. r/h3h3productions is a sub dedicated to Ethan Klein or H3H3, a long time youtuber who has been very controversial figure on youtube for a long time now. His content revolves around his podcast dedicated to politics, pop culture and usual drama stuff.

Recently, there has been plenty of posts on r/youtubedrama between the still ongoing beef between Hasan Piker and Ethan Klein. Basically, Hasan and Ethan used to host a podcast about politics called 'The Leftovers' and due to issues like the Israel-Palestine Genocide and just other stuff, the podcast basically split and they are now feuding. H3H3 has been teasing a "content nuke" on Hasan Piker for about a month now and most people on r/youtubedrama have been quick to be against Ethan's side regarding this beef. Here are some examples of posts regarding this drama: Post1 Post2 Post3.

The drama:

The alleged brigading started off with this post where Ethan Klein decides to criticise Markiplier a pretty popular youtuber: Ethan Klein and his wife go on an unhinged rant diagnosing Markiplier of being a psychopath and "faking his voice" later revealing it is because he apparently unfollowed Ethan on social media. Many r/youtubedrama members are quick to criticise Ethan Klein for attacking Markiplier.

There was a lot of brigading from r/h3h3production members on this post as alleged from the mods

• This post is now locked due to brigading from members of the h3h3productions subreddit. We have tried to resolve this with the mods of that subreddit, but they are choosing to not follow the moderator code of conduct.

Examples of the brigading

• Yeah jokes are scary aren’t they. BOO
• Hey snarker, ever heard of a joke?
• Markiplier is fucking annoying and I’m tired of pretending he’s not
• I’m a fan of markiplier too but the guys voice is remarkably deep I think it’s obvious Ethan is joking. So many ppl in the comments are so thin skinned I thought h3 segment was funny. There are worse things to be insulted by… it’s like making fun of someone for being tall by creating a conspiracy theory he’s been on stilts for years loool
• hes not going after markiplier, two seconds after this cut off he went on a rant talking about how nice and creative mark is and how hes only joking. Hes making a joke the entire time. its, a bit. these comments are so cirngey because hes LITERALLY making a joke. "hes been faking his voice for 20 years", cmon, u know they dont believe that right? right?
• Protect all the sensitive, deep voice creators. You are doing the lords work. Pat yourself on the back buddy!
• So this stays up but not the video of Ethan being emotional about Palestine because he said some mean (and true) things about your friends. Also, its sad how much this sub doesn't know what goofing around looks like.
• It’s a fucking joke bit, Jesus Christ I know not everyone watches him but he’s know for this stuff he’s not being serious
• The snarkers have taken over this sub. Not just h3s snarkers but in general. Mods need to do something about this terrible content
• It's a JOKE. H3 is a COMEDY podcast. Why do people suddenly pretend not to recognize jokes when it's someone you don't like making them?

along with many different comments from r/h3h3production members basically saying its a joke to refute the criticism against ethan just sort by controversial and there are tons

Today, a post from the r/youtubedrama mods dropped a post alleging brigading from r/h3h3productions members. Heres a link to the post: Temporary Measures Due to H3-Related Brigading

Basically, the mods are noticing that r/youtubedrama has become a place for H3 supporters and H3 criticisers to argue with each other. They basically that the sub a place to discuss drama, not to BE the drama. So they implemented two new rules to solve this

Heres the basic excerpt from the mod: "Recently, we implemented two rules to help curb this sort of meta-attention by stating we do not accept crossposts from Snark subreddits nor do we consider a post about a chud having chud views to be drama. Take it from me, many have tried to ignore both of these rules and the posts have been promptly dealt with. If it were up to me, even more posts would be deleted and Ethan himself would probably fall under the chud label."

"With this influx of traffic and lowbrow posting, we are implementing temporary measures to issue temporary bans to users that frequent either the h3 sub or the h3 snark sub. We will allow the post of Ethan's supposed content nuke when it comes through simply because it is drama and relevant, but we are really trying to prevent this sub from becoming a place where fanbases can manipulate and sway public opinion."

This post caught some heat for the mods from r/youtubedrama members

• TF you bitching about? This shit is the same as LSF. You reap what you sow.
• This is ridiculous, an attempt by Hasan to censor the fallout of the nuke, internet janitors want to feel powerful lmao, time to move to a better sub people
• Seems like you guys have been creating this YouTube drama yourselves?
• I mean if this is a "war" then this subreddit has clearly chosen the side of the snarkers, which is embarrassing in and of itself lol, ya'll are nuts.

Some r/youtubedrama mods are quick to try and remain neutral in the h3h3-hasan beef:

• Hilarious cause I hate Hasan
• I firmly believe that left wing guys like Destiny, Hasan, and Ethan just doing their normal thing is also chud behavior. And I’m pretty far to the left. We crafted rules for these situations but it has seemed to not triage this issue. Also your downvotes say a lot about why I have the flare I do hahaha I’m allowed to not like Hasan guys. Chill out

A casual user of the sub decides to then give his take on where r/youtubedrama as a sub is going. Heres the post: A casual user's thoughts on the direction of this subreddit

Here are some replies this poster had to others under his post

• I appreciate your comment. I'm glad to hear the ban is temporary, but it is my hope that the bans will be loosened a little bit once the Nuke is actually posted so that a real discussion about it can be had. You mods have a tough job no doubt, so I appreciate you taking the time to take criticism and share your perspective
• I'm not sure I entirely agree. Reading comments on recent posts (particularly regarding the H3) drama, the comments seem almost entirely one-sided in opinion. And while I find myself agreeing with the majority, I think we are worse off for not allowing dissenting viewpoints on the issue. I'm not seeing diversity in expression when I read those comments. I am certainly not saying that the mods should just open the gates and allow people to run willy-nilly. Just that maybe they can tolerate more dissent than what they've currently been allowing

Heres also a post on r/h3h3productions basically discussing how r/youtubedrama talks about Ethan Klein: Snarkers brigading, crying and pissing their pants, that's who they are.😒

• I mean, I'm not here for the Mark slander either but it was obviously a joke. They're starting to sound like right wing media the way they warp what Ethan said
• I got downvoted to hell when I commented that he was just joking lmao
• “Ethan Klein admits to doing 9/11 and causing the extinction of the dodo bird!"

Original video post:

A woman callously mocking the families devastated by current immigration policies: "I find you guys to be subhumans"

The TikTok video in question has two username watermarks due to this video being a screen capture repost from another TikTok user. It appears the PublicFreakout hivemind mistook one of the two visible usernames as the Karen instead of the innocent screen recorder's account.

Users go on a witch hunt which goes against the sub's rules on doxxing. Moderator then stickies this comment:

"Chill out with the witch hunting on this post. We are issuing permanent bans for it."

The mod then posts a video of a woman, who does not at all look like the other woman shown in the original video post, that was apparently falsely accused of being the 'mocking' woman in question. She says, among other things, that she got death threats on the phone, Facebook, and texts, hit with negative comments on her business page, and was suspended from TikTok.

The PublicFreakout mod writes:

Rule 1 of this subreddit: why it exists.

Today we have a thread up featuring a nasty Nazi woman calling people subhumans, laughing at their plight.

We understand this is very upsetting to see, however, what that lady said doesn’t make it okay for you all to go after this random unrelated woman. We banned many people for violating the no witch hunting/no doxxing rule, and some of yall were pretty damn rude about it in modmail.

Look, we love this subreddit, we love exposing bigots and Nazis here, if you participate in a witch hunt you are participating in attempting to get this subreddit shut down. If we allow witch hunts the subreddit will be banned. So just don’t do it.

On top of the folks who participated in putting this subreddit at risk for banning, ya’ll are relentlessly harassing and facilitating the harassment of an innocent woman.

I can’t say I’ve seen many examples of Reddit getting it right and targeting the right price of shit. You all mean well but you ruin people’s lives.

The Boston bombing debacle should have taught you all a lesson but it seems it did not.

______

UPDATE:

The moderator of PublicFreakout just posted in this SRD thread a great write-up with more info on what happened, including clarification on how the mods dealt with the original video post (which is now locked), the video of the innocent girl that was targeted, and the extent of the witch-hunting which went well beyond Reddit as it turned out.

As a bonus, the mod also posted an anonymous user report on the "Chill out" comment which is rather fitting for this sub:

Fuck your permanent bans. You all would ban Anne Frank for outing a Nazi you losers. We live in a new era. I'm sure you feel utterly fantastic patting yourself on the back for doing such a great job keeping horrible people anonymous on the internet.

OP’s mac n’ cheese post

OP posts to /r/mildlyinfuriating 2 pictures showing the difference in ingredients for Annie’s stovetop macaroni and cheese:

Annie’s made their Mac n cheese “cheesier” by replacing milk and butter with corn starch and lactic acid

[ingredients from the pictures transcribed below; bolded ingredients are the focus]

Left box (original formula): organic pasta, dried cheddar cheese, whey, butter, nonfat milk, salt, sodium phosphate, silicon dioxide (for anticaking)

Right box (“same quality, now cheesier”): organic pasta, dried cheddar cheese, whey, salt, corn starch, sodium phosphate, lactic acid, silicon dioxide (for anticaking)

Users check the cheesy sauce

cheese is cheese:

The second ingredient is cheese in both. It's possible this is still true. Neither milk nor butter are cheese. Cheese is cheese. I'm guessing the corn starch is to give a creamier mouthfeel though. But if you remove two ingredients that aren't cheese and add smaller amounts of two other ingredients, the resulting mixture will contain more cheese by weight/volume.

OP: They swapped it out because it’s cheaper. It’s shrinkflation [downvoted]

Wouldn't the claim of shrinkflation cause the box to weigh less and be charged more for the same product?

They just changed ingredients to make it cheaper for them to produce. That's not shrinkflation.

OP: Replacing ingredients with cheaper substitutes is a form of shrinkflation [more downvotes]

That would be more labeled as skimpflation.

As in they are skimping on the quality or nature of ingredients in the product.

OP: Omg whatever why are redditors always like this [downvoted more]

You double downed on "shrinkflation" even though that's the wrong term. Somebody corrected you and you had the option of accepting you were wrong gracefully or getting upset over it.

[to OP] Dude… you’re wrong by definition and suddenly default to “whatever why do people feel the need to correct me when I’m wrong?!?” when corrected like a child throwing a tantrum… please touch grass.

[also to OP] Always like what? Correcting people to avoid misinformation on the internet as much as we can? Oh no the audactiy!

Calling something like this misinformation is peak Reddit. It's not that deep dude. [downvoted]

Is it incorrect information? Yes. Therefore its misinformation.

Its as simple as that. Its not deep indeed but guess what? People ignore such small stuff and then end up also ignoring the actually important stuff.

It doesnt matter how important the info is. Misinformation is misinformation. ♡

That's how we end up with buzzwords that don't actually mean shit. Everyone is dogpiling OP and completely ignoring the point of the post, for the sake of Reddit upvotes and getting their "gotcha" comments in.

Telling someone their comment/post is misinformation should be saved for ya know, actually pertinent information. Using an incorrect term isn't deep enough and you're detracting from the point at hand to make dumb semantic arguments. Just.. focus on the actual context of the post instead of hyper focusing the one misused word in the comments next time?

comment chain continued here

It’s not shrinkflation:

That is not shrinkflation. Shrinkflation is when a product gets smaller but the price remains the same or more. The net weight is 6oz for both boxes.

who actually gives a fuck whether it is "technically shrinkflation" or not.

Getting caught up in semantics only distracts from the main point that the consumer is getting screwed. That's why we're here.

use your energy on something more productive. [downvoted]

Says the guy who is also arguing about Mac and cheese.

[to the downvoted comment] OP: This guy gets it

Yeah bro, y'all are gonna change the world. 

It’s more cheesy:

The little footnote beside "now cheesier" says "compared to previous formula". So it's possible that the new version does in fact have more cheese powder (as the second ingredient) than the previous version even though they removed the whey and butter.

OP: It’s probably that the lactic acid makes it taste “tangier” [mega downvoted]

You do realize lactic acid is in cheese, butter, and yogurt right? It’s literally part of it

it tasted tangy before. it tastes creamier now. i just had the new stuff the other day.

OP: Fwiw I tried them back to back and to me the new one tasted more acidic [more downvotes]

Confirmation bias detected. Time for double blind study with placebo on no less than 100 individuals and a full peer reviewed report to ensure objectivity on the perceived level of acidity.

Annie’s and organic:

I thought this brand was all about being super organic?

corn starch and lactic acid can't be organic?

How do you make lactic acid, apart from working out? You can use some microrganisms to create it through fermentation, but it would be very costly to refine it. I guess you can just pick it off the lactic acid tree. [downvoted]

Lactic acid is considered a "minimally processed" food additive because it's naturally produced by bacteria rather than needing to be chemically synthesized. You take a vat of bacteria like Lactobacilli, add some food waste or biodiesel byproducts (fermentable carbohydrates) to the vat, wait for the bacteria to turn it into lactic acid, and filter it out of the fermented broth.

OP: I’d rather just have milk and butter [also downvoted]

lol, lactic acid is literally used to make butter.

ITT people afraid of words they don’t understand. I bet you guys are scared of acetic acid (vinegar) too

Singular takes

So what part of it is organic?

I thought food labels were fairly common knowledge but this post just proves that some people can’t read.

Lactic acid is not on the same plane as arsenic, crack a book bro

I’m allergic to corn and Annie’s was the only box mac n cheese I could have. This makes me really sad.

Really? Organic mac n cheese. Lmao this is why Americans are fat.

Full thread with more cheesy organic takes here

Reminder not to comment in OP’s thread!

Edit: formatting

On the subreddit r/nottheonion (which has been getting a lot of traction with recent political events), a survey stating that more young Canadians believe the Holocaust is exaggerated is posted. Some Redditors theorize why this could be the case.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1iamz3j/survey_says_more_young_canadians_believe_the/

The majority of the drama happens in one thread, caused by one user's comment:

People don’t really want to talk about how Israel calling every criticism of their atrocities “antisemitic” and trying to tie the actions of their state to the Jewish identity is fueling this phenomenon.

Responses to the comment are mixed:

If the atrocities committed by the Israeli government make you more open to holocaust denial/revisionism, then you’re either dumb as dishwater or just looking for an excuse.

Its not just that Israel is committing atrocities, they are also downplaying their atrocities while exaggerating Palestinian ones. For someone growing up in the current zeitgeist the idea that Holocaust was exaggerated for sympathy doesn't seem like an implausible possibility.

Kids these days already had to learn to distrust authority figures to resist Israeli propaganda, it is unfortunately not that much of a leap to distrust other authority figures about WW2.

"Israel made me antisemitic" is really a wild thing to say.

Can the US make people against the west?

TLDR "Jews r to blame for antisemitism." Seriously?

Change "jews" to "Israel" and I think there's a lot of truth to that.

No one becomes antisemitic to "own" the Israeli government, these people were always antisemitic and would have been even if Israel didn't exist.

The objective reality is that people all around the world are leaning towards antisemitism thanks to Isr*el.

I have become antisemitic only during the last year, exclusively due to the actions of Isr*el and its widespread support from Jews all around the world. I had very neutral feelings before that.

This comment serves as an example of the delusions your people have to put themselves through in order to not have to deal with the consequences of your own actions.

"It doesn't matter that I openly support genocide, you would've hated us regardless!"

The objective reality is that people all around the world are leaning towards antisemitism thanks to Isr*el.

Jesus fucking Christ you're part of the problem

No u

People also don't want to talk about how closeted antisemites weaponized the term Zionism and use it as a dogwhistle to spew their vile agenda.

That’s because you made that up

You’re literally doing the thing I’m talking about lmao

Redditers out there who are reading his and obviously see the antisemitism line is Bullshit: please don’t think antisemitism isn’t a serious thing just because folks with a vile and violent agenda are making light of it and wielding it like it’s a weapon. I promise these horrible people don’t represent all Jews, the majority of them are peaceful and oppose the actions of the apartheid state of Israel.

Prepare yourselves this is a long one, the current drama is at the bottom (FRESH CURRENT DRAMA).

Context

The sub /r/puertorico has had a mod problem since its start. The sub has had multiple dramas (most recently a user that would post food reviews and became a mod then got called out and deleted his account) and mod changes since it merged with /r/puerto_rico. Last year, new mods were added to help with users being tired of the same crap. The mods were announced without any context as to how they were selected. Ever since, there have been a few dramas with people complaining about one specific mod.

The subreddit has had a few MAGA trolls, one in particular coincidentally was created around the same time as the mod announcement. Users complained about this user but the mods guaranteed a free speech sub so they were not banned.

Elon Musk Drama

Most recently with the Elon Musk controversy, the users of the sub, overwhelmingly wanted to remove all X links. In now removed posts, users were overwhelmingly calling out Musk and wanting X links to be banned:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/s/MWmsN4XE3Z

https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/s/pn25MfITXp

(sorry since they were removed I can only link the ones I commented on).

In response, the mods completely ignored what the community wanted and instead implemented a “God Mode” where every post about Musk would be removed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/s/PY9vnyzAUC

At 0 upvotes, the community expressed that they want to talk about Musk since he has relevancy in Puerto Rico due to Tesla (batteries and solar panels were huge after Hurricane Maria) not to mention that he now has power in federal funding for the island. At -30 a mod replied that musk has been discussed enough and to keep discussion there (those posts were removed).

https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/s/O9MAx50KrY

Another user replied “that it’s good to know that here we suck up to elon” to what a mod replied “ so what’s the plan? Post memes and hate until his death? He loves it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/s/c1Te1gm3qw

Another user replied with a meme and said “what a pathetic post can we change mods again? Asstorque (making fun of his username) is the only one that can be kept” to which the mod replied “ No, I am nazi, trumpist, conservative, I found out today”

https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/s/szPHpqlzCt

In response to this, the mods continued their musk suppression by creating a megathread and directing all Musk discussion to it

https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/s/UQ0ZW2lSQL

In a deleted comment a user said “censor the topics the mods dont want? Of course here the mods love musk, free speech on what they want”

https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/s/GwEMB8F5f6

In the thread a user posted a justification to defend the musk gesture with someone replying with a gif saying he was trying to do a heart gesture. One of the mods replied defending the gesture saying: “Exactly but it is herd mentality to call everyone that allows X links a nazi” then proceeds to post an X links to give context into the gesture

https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/s/gWCeGxPGXy

FRESH CURRENT DRAMA

Fast forward a week and things were calming down until someone drew a swatziska over a puerto rican flag in Iowa

https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/s/CU4m2kOA7o

Completely unprovoked, one of the controversial mods proceeds to say (with a screenshot from facebook) that these are the actions of one person and doesn’t represent all americans (fair enough). https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/s/2jDr6dreIM one user calls the mod out on trying to whitewash this and continue to defend the behavior. He proceeds to reply with a teletubbies gif. Another user asks if this is the mods opinion or the sub’s. The mod avoids answering, deflecting asking if all americans are nazis and that by their logic, all puerto ricans are corrupt since they vote for corrupt people. Other users call the mod out saying “your true clothes are showing”, “ why do you keep defending nazis and americans”.

Another swatszika was posted over a puerto rican flag, this happened in 2017. The mod proceeds to clarify this https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/s/tOW4IpDeo1 the mod proceeds to defend that it is one person doing this and not all americans. Other users call him out saying that now it’s 2 and continue asking him why he keeps defending nazis.

And now the cherry on top. Users are getting frustrated, one posts this long post asking about what the hell is going on calling out the mod and wondering why has the sub twisted into a pro right wing place by the mods.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/s/W50X4Okpll

Mod in question starts his reply with the following: “ Hello, first a summary for those that aren’t aware, recently we had this happen in the trump inauguration (links to X video). There are those that say that the gesture of putting his hand over his chest and raising his hand to say “my heart goes out to you” is taken as a nazi gesture and that Elon is now a fascist and nazi and there are those that say it’s a drama by the media”….then proceeds to give an explanation of how the mod queue and spam is being posted and that they removed the irrelevant ones. He then says that his opinions are his and that they don’t interfere in his job as a mod. The evidence is in the comments that talk trash about him like this post that he approved. He then proceeds to say that he did not ban X links to allow discussion. He ends with saying that the irony being that OP asks for a space to discuss everything but then wants to censor the mods comments and opinions. He then links both swatzika posts about his opinion and saying it’s enough to disregard all trash that was spoken about him. He then says he won’t delete the post. The ends with the following in bigger font: “THERE IS PEOPLE THAT WANT TO SINK THE SHIP ONLY BECAUSE THEY CANNOT BE THE CAPTAIN”.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/s/APcHhnZR0y

Users reply saying “to read the room” and that your first sentences are again trying to defend the gesture, “that you should not be a mod”, “‘that you are right and it’s not worth explaining your position” to which the mod responds “ thank you”. Another user in the main post responds saying “ mods are egocentrical that need power to feel good, good luck”.

Sorry for the wall of text, translating is a bitch, this drama has been brewing for a while. I was hoping someone else would post it but I cannot let language be a barrier for you guys not to enjoy. Drama is still ongoing and doesn’t seem to be ending.

Full disclosure: I was invited and joined as a mod for one of the multiple alternative subs created/revived from the Elon drama. I resigned since they didn’t really need many mods too quickly.

Context: The Trump Administration reinstated military services members who were discharged after refusing the COVID vaccine. OP posts a link to the news in r/navy, and it does not go well.

The whole thread is great, but here are my favorite bits.

full thread

Bunch of cry babies.

Nobody said shit about the millions of shots we get at RTC or before deployment, but because Trump politicized this one because it made him look bad, all of a sudden this one was an issue.

OP: No, it BECAME an issue when healthy people started having heart attacks and getting myocarditis!!

Refused the COVID shot, accepted the combo butt injection.

What a world.

OP: Were you ever in the Military? The immunizations we were given were PROVEN safe. Not like the jab!

Please define how the COVID-19 vaccines were "not" proven safe.

OP: Yale study reveals insights into post-vaccine heart inflammation cases | Yale News

Did you read your own article?

"Lucas noted that, according to CDC findings, the risk of severe forms of myocarditis is greater in individuals who contract the COVID-19 virus than in those who receive vaccines. She emphasized that vaccination offers the best protection from COVID-19-related disease."

OP later in r/Conservative

Got trashed in the Navy sub for posting this and defending those who were discharged!!!!!!!!!!!!