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Deceptichum, to 196 in are you a rule?
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We basically are. We’re biological pattern recognising machines, where inputs influence everything.

The only difference is somehow our electricity has decided it’s got free will.

Deceptichum, to games in Suicide Squad’s $70 price tag slashed by 40% just a month after launch
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They came out because the rise of the Internet made it possible and companies found new ways to make more money.

Horse armour wasn’t about recouping costs.

Deceptichum, to tenforward in Bad faith actors putting on a performance about their hate for new Trek (or anything progressive)
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When disco fucked off to the future I started enjoying it more because it felt like it no longer didnt fit in with the timeline. And then it got to the cause of the big explosion thing and decided I hated it again for such a stupid cause.

Zero interest in Picard, feels too edgy grimdark.

LD/SNW by comparison have been enjoyable since day one.

Deceptichum, to world in Historic Portrait of Lord Balfour Slashed by Pro-Palestine Protestors
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What’s the money collected going to do when Israel isn’t letting aid in?

Deceptichum, to games in Suicide Squad’s $70 price tag slashed by 40% just a month after launch
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Wasn’t Diablo 4 kinda trash as well? Just looking on steam and it’s rated mixed, with people complaining about the monetisation of the game.

It’s a shame what Blizzard has become, because they used to make amazing games.

Deceptichum, to world in Historic Portrait of Lord Balfour Slashed by Pro-Palestine Protestors
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All the while that old man will stress that we must support you fully, and that he’ll never stop supporting you.

Deceptichum, to world in Historic Portrait of Lord Balfour Slashed by Pro-Palestine Protestors
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It’s from the 20th century, and of the guy directly responsible for the mess in Palestine today as well as his shit in Ireland.

I’m about as outraged about this as I would be a Jew slashing a “historical” painting of Hitler.

I wonder if in a hundred years people will be upset over Trumps portrait getting ruined?

Deceptichum, to world in Historic Portrait of Lord Balfour Slashed by Pro-Palestine Protestors
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Billions in aid and weapons?

Deceptichum, (edited ) to games in Suicide Squad’s $70 price tag slashed by 40% just a month after launch
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I’d say anything under 30% is simply a reflection of how high the profit margins are for sellers. Seeing as 30% is the industry fee tacked onto titles by storefronts.

Star Wars, Starfield (Not a good game at all), Resi, and Persona are all ‘free’ on GamePass. So they’ve most likely already made their expected profit from sales if going that route was the more profitable decision. That really just leaves SF6, which these days isn’t that strong a franchise and fighting games are niche.

Videogames are the largest entertainment industry in the world, dwarfing books, film, and music. The industry is seeing record profits year-on-year. Add to that gaming being one of the most resilient entertainment forms during economic downturns due to its price-to-hour ratio, I don’t see these discounts being a reflection of market difficulties.

Deceptichum, to games in Suicide Squad’s $70 price tag slashed by 40% just a month after launch
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massively popular

Pretty much every bad game discounts early

We’re saying the same thing. Bad games drop in price early.

Deceptichum, to games in Suicide Squad’s $70 price tag slashed by 40% just a month after launch
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Any massively popular titles being discontinued heavily and early that you can think of?

Deceptichum, to world in Western Australian Man Charged with Aggravated Assault for Using Cable Ties to Restrain Children
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In the US he’d have shot the children and been made a national hero.

Here he’s going to gaol and vilified by his community.

Deceptichum, to games in Suicide Squad’s $70 price tag slashed by 40% just a month after launch
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A sign of a bad game?

Deceptichum, to politics in President Biden Delivers Fiery State of the Union Address, Drawing Election Battle Lines
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The statement marks an apparent reversal from what Biden said Friday. While at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, the president was asked, “Do you regret using the word ‘illegal’ to describe immigrants last night, sir?”

“Well, I probably — I don’t re — technically not supposed to be here,” he responded.

Funny how he used illegal, doubled down on it, got negative press, and regretted it the second time he was asked if he regretted it.

Almost like it’s insincere.

Deceptichum, to politics in Grisham on Trump’s meeting with Orbán: ‘He wants to be a dictator’
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The agreement — signed by Amy Dacey, the former CEO of the DNC, and [Clinton campaign manager] Robby Mook with a copy to [Clinton campaign counsel] Marc Elias— specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised,” Brazile wrote in the story under the headline “Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC.”

Brazils added of the deal: “[Clinton’s] campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.”

The Clintons outright took control of the DNC, hardly conductive to a fair primaries.


“I have an apology to make to @BernieSanders,” Phillips wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “I had long dismissed his complaints about the rigged Democratic Party primary system.”

“But you know what? He was right. And I apologize, Bernie,” he added.

Other D’s ageee


After hacked emails published Monday by WikiLeaks appeared to reveal Brazile, during her time as a CNN commentator, giving advance notice to Clinton’s camp about a debate question,

They further gave unfair advantages to benefit Hillary


In the emails, DNC staffers derided the Sanders campaign.[28] The Washington Post reported: “Many of the most damaging emails suggest the committee was actively trying to undermine Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign.”[8]

The leaks show the DNC was weaponised against Bernie, they colluded together to find ways to smear his campaign, even suggesting antisemitism.


Etc etc etc. I’ve done this song and dance a million times with you people and if I was still on Reddit I’d go back and find my long perfectly sourced post that I’d trot out every time.

You’d end up saying “wahhh it’s not technically illegal so it doesn’t matter” and I’d go on with my day not wasting any further time. So enjoy me randomly copying stuff from the first 3 links I clicked on Google, you can be a big boy and go search those exact quotes to find the corresponding pages I got them from if you want to read more.


tl;dr: Hacked emails and admissions from DNC chairpeople all point to the same thing, the DNC was rigged to give Hillary an unfair advantage over everyone else. Democracy was subverted through this bias, and as such we will never know how Bernie would’ve failed.

What we do know is that Hillary tried her best to game the system and lost. So it’s not like Bernie could have done any worse.

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