You Know You Are All-in With The Game When You're Still Trying To Hit It On Top Of A Sarcophagus. That's

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I got both my kids with this one. Dad score!

Thanks OP, whoever you are...

Nice money dog, nice pup...

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Where do these people come from? Is there some hole in space that vomits forth moronic, race-baiting douche canoes, whose entire existence hinges upon them "connecting all the dots" to make everything about race? Hey, if you want to change things, then start having conversations and interactions with people while neglecting skin pigment. Focusing on skin pigment is wrong any way you look at it. People should be recognized for the value they possess, not their ancestry. When you rant about race and "take up the cause" for others who did not necessarily ask you for those things, you are truly mocking them and shoving them into controversy. Let it the fuck alone! Do some good ok, instead of adding to the bad...

Something I think a lot of fantasy roleplaying fans don’t pick up on is that the reason many games’ depictions of orcs and other “monstrous races” get criticised for being racist isn’t just because they’re dark-skinned and evil.

I mean, yes, there’s that, but it’s also that a lot of the tropes that are associated with orcs and such in fantasy RPGs are literally eugenicist rhetoric – and, more specifically, anti-Black eugenicist rhetoric – with the serial numbers lightly sanded off.

Like, you ever notice how common the following elements are?

Being capable of using complex tool and weapons, but relying on raiding and pillaging to obtain them, not because they’re incapable of making them, but because they’re simply too congenitally lazy to do so

Having an intrinsic drive to despoil and corrupt the fruits of civilisation, and in particular, taking pleasure in destroying beautiful things specifically because they’re beautiful

Being treated as childishly superstitious for believing in evil spirits, even though such treatment makes no sense from a worldbuilding perspective because they live in a fantasy setting and evil ghosts are objectively real

Reproducing rapidly and reaching sexual maturity quickly, typically at an age when a human would still be a child, with great emphasis placed on the danger of them “outbreeding” civilised peoples if left unchecked

Lusting for the women of other species, resulting in all manner of twisted half-breeds; “heroic” members of their kind are typically drawn from these half-breeds, who must struggle constantly with their base natures

Seriously, a lot of this stuff is copied and pasted directly from 19th Century eugenicist screeds about the intrinsic inferiority of the Black race – they basically just scratched out the n-word and wrote in “orc”.

(And no, you can’t pass it off as folks imitating Tolkien without realising what they were doing. While Tolkien’s orcs undeniably employ racist imagery and stereotypes, there it’s mostly anti-East Asian stuff, not anti-Black stuff. The incorporation of explicitly anti-Black tropes into fantasy fiction’s depiction of orcs is a more recent development, and at least some of the folks doing it absolutely knew what they were up to.)

Retailers are disabling NFC readers to shut out Apple Pay By Dante D'Orazio, theverge.com

There's a lot of hype around Apple Pay right now, but not everyone is on board with the new mobile payments system. In fact, a significant number of merchants, including heavyweights like Walmart, Kmart, 7-Eleven, and Best Buy, are in outright…

The War of Greed begins...

I heard/read it again: grunge...

I'm perplexed by that most meager of words that has been usurped by a crowd of folks that has little to no actual experience in getting grungy. Let's set the record straight: Grunge means you've been exposed to the dust of third world, real dirt. Not glitter, not metaphor, not a slight dusting of soil. Real dirt, real grungy shite, genuine grime. Grunge is the stuff of daily, ugly, exhausting toil and hardship. Life for the grungy is a battle, a war waged in solitude, against a world bent on breaking its targets. So if you don designer clothes; if you drop piles of money in a trendy coffee bauhaus; if you overuse the words 'literally' or 'legitimately' (let's just forget that you have no concept of usage and acceptable vernacular, if you do...); and if you've never gone to bed hungry, cold and dirty, and clinging to slim hope that tomorrow will be better than all your yesterdays, well then you have no idea what grunge is. True grunge, and the music and atmosphere it spawned, is a soulful thing, brought to life by people whose only refuge in the world was hard-bitten poetry transmuted into lyrical rollercoasters, grinding guitars and bone-jarring percussion. Kurt, Eddie, Chris... they were the Purveyors of Grunge. They bled and breathed against the grain, exhaling oxygen for the world to inhale, and in doing so, taught most of us to fucking care about those who usually went unnoticed, were spent up by an otherwise uncaring world. They were celestial in their grasp of God, humans, and struggle, and their starshine was earned and never contrived... unlike those who try to usurp the word 'grunge' to peddle their shite, their plastic baubles, their angled politics.

Note: if you managed to wade through this monologue but have not even an inkling of meaning in this prose, then I submit the notion that you need to step back and reassess just what the fuck you aim to achieve by casting about the term 'grunge'...

The Inquisitr

A ‘Dark Matter Hurricane’ Is Headed For Earth And Will Batter Our Planet For Millions Of Years

This remarkable cosmic event could lead to the first detection of the elusive dark matter particles. A “dark matter hurricane” is barrel

So, basically, we're setting up to sift through a drifting cosmic debris field and our best scientific minds (yeah, that part is arguable...) hope to find something useful. In essence, that makes our human race the equivalent of The Scavengers from TWD. So glad our readers go forward this type of stuff...

If you doubt that fascist Leftists are at work everywhere in the US and most of the rest of the world, here's the best argument.

I have nothing against anyone in the transgender world, but this is wrong. And I love how these insane progressives toss out the phrase "Follow the science" to force upon the world their wasteful climate change schemes that just make them richer but do little to affect rising temperatures, soil depletion, and devastating drought (gotta protect Big Food Corporations, right? ), but refute the science of biology when it comes to this new special interest that they are going to milk for votes, funding, and agenda. This is a travesty...

Suspended for telling the truth!

Truer words are seldom spoken...

Another year, more disappointments. Live keeps moving whether you're living it well or poorly. Birth, death, friends lost, hopes faded and hope rekindled. Do you feel neglected? Abused by reality? It's easy to blame others for your lack, but that doesn't overcome your misery. The answers to your life are within yourself. You won't find them if you don't risk the search. At least pretend to be a famous explorer and go deep into the jungle that is you soul. If you seek, you will find things, and even if they aren't what you think you want, consider them more deeply, and you will find clues to what you should be searching for.

Jack

Death is on the move, greenlighted by the government in all its infinite, unwavering wisdom and intelligence. Remember: you can run, but you can't hide... Actually, you can just walk and you're probably elude these stormtroopers. Tip: just head for some stairs...

Don't we kinda already have Yogi Bear as President? Maybe Pence isn't exactly Boo-Boo Bear, but Trump IS always flying in the face of The Ranger (ahem, Pelosi and Schumer...), and he's quick to snatch the nearest picnic basket, as long as it gets the job done...ish... So, yeah, maybe, Yogi Bear for President!

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Ummm, now I've gone and confused myself...