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League of Legends, World of Warcraft, MTG and funny things. If you want to play games with me battletag: Zen#1136 and LoL name: UncleZen. Message me on here first. 

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

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[latineslytherin]

Love people comparing a game from a non triple a studio, to games from giants (Nintendo and Square Enix) in the gaming industry. As if that’s remotely even equal in terms of scale or history of game creation experience.

Also like pixel art, linear storylines, turn based combat, polygon graphics and text based dialogue/quests are a little (read a lot) easier to code and take up less space and hardware than dynamic combat, realistic graphics, branching storylines, two options for voiced dialogue, and customization of character appearance beyond “boy/girl” and “name”.

That tweet is comparing an apple orchard to a cherry.

[daughter-of-sapph0]

seven people worked on the first final fantasy. at the time of its development, it was so underwhelming that it was assumed it would be Sakaguchi’s final game, as he considered leaving game development altogether

pokemon red and green were seen as the b movie equivalent of role playing games. they were practically programmed on duct tape and glue. even the update blue version and the international releases are filled with glitches. the first generation of pokemon games being playable is a miracle.

both these game series were seen as jokes when the first game was released. yet they became international bestselling franchises and some of the best rpg series of all time. because these games with dev teams of less than a dozen people from 35 and 25 years ago are better than a modern game made with modern technology by a team of hundreds of modern developers.

yeah, in today’s game industry, pixel art is easier than 3d modeling. that’s why every single triple a modern game released in the last decade are all 2d sprite based, right? call of duty, breath of the wild, horizon forbidden west, elden ring, god of war, those are all pixel games, right?

honestly, if you managed to make a 3d game thirty years ago on the nes or gameboy, I’d be impressed.

there is one thing you’re correct about. you are comparing “hairy potty and the protocols of the elders of zion” to games from decades ago made by smaller teams on underpowered hardware by people who had less than a decade of combined game development experience. and the hilarious thing is that pokemon red and green and final fantasy 1 are better. you are comparing an apple orchid to a cherry. and the cherry tastes way better

so I’ll give you a fair challenge. go ahead and compare the antisemitic wizard game to modern games. I’ll even give you a fighting chance. compare avalanche software, a studio that has developed a shit ton of licensed games going back over two decades, to indie studios and teams of less than a dozen people.

hollow knight. undertale. Celeste. stardew valley. cuphead. all of these games are indie games made by either one person or very small studios. and as far as I can tell, there is no antisemitism or racism or transphobia in any of those games.

so go ahead. compare your shitty wizard game to those indie games. or admit that your rotten apple orchid is worse than a single apple tree.

of course I wouldn’t expect some bitch with “slytherpuff” in their username to understand. you are so obsessed with a series that’s filled with blatant homophobia, racism, antisemitism, fatphobia, ablism, classism, and transphobia, that you’d rather deny the reality of everything around you and alienate yourself from everyone you care about, rather than just admitting that you’re a sad adult and the nostalgia you feel for something you grew up with is not worth the bigotry that comes with it.

but you won’t admit that. I know you won’t. because you care more about a racist antisemitic series than you do about actual real living people.

you drive away every single person you meet. you are incapable of making connections or forming relationships, because all normal people are mature and socially aware enough to know that hairy potty is not immune to criticism. you’re so deep down a pipeline of bigotry and love for a shit series, that the only people who you are capable of talking to without them being disgusted by you are terfs and fascists.

you’d rather live in a false reality saying “it’s not fair! those games from 35 years ago made by seven people are way better than this modern game made by hundreds of people! you need to be objective when judging this game!”, rather than admitting that the glitchy mess of a game with graphical issues and clipping and shit story and bad mechanics and missing features and a plot that involves LITERAL BLOOD LIBEL MYTHS is bad.

grow the fuck up

[high-quality-tiktoks]

GLAM KITCHEN💄🔥👄Puré de papa🥔 ✨here I am once again giving you my talents for free even though you don’t deserve any of it

[silly-jellyghoty]

Oh no, she hurt herself 😟 BAD POTATO WATER!

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

I need mental intervention bc I’ve had this fake arctic monkeys song stuck in my head for like five days now

[anonymousalchemist]

Sometimes ur 6 and talking about Pokémon with ur cousin and sometimes ur 26 and talking about Pokémon with ur cousin time is a flat circle

[anonymousalchemist]

Me and this guy 20 years ago: playing Pokémon

Me and this guy now: also playing Pokémon but now we cuss

[ourhasretgultekin]

[thevisualvamp]

Rack ‘em up

[gaysemiotics]

I could do that if I tried 🙄

[skittybot]

was that kiryu kazuma

[fuckadietcoke]

Someone: how have you been doing?

Me, hanging on by a thread:

[cumaeansibyl]

I feel like I should just queue this to post once a week but at random times

[cavernario-galindo]

"you're just racist"

[loth-catgirl]

when the Final Girl has an adhd infodump moment

[tiktoksijustthinkareneat]

[kingofdoma]

you a little too DUBIOUS for me

[funny-tik-toks]

[draconpyrothayan]

I know this is a "Jo Momma" joke, but her name was "Jocasta", so it works on the double

[ampervadasz]

Unmute !

[mewi-archive-deactivated2024061]

when you post a finished drawing and notice some mistake after people reblogged your post

[modern-politics111]

I was going to include every tweet, but I realized fast it would be far too long. There are 55 tweets. Read them all here

[modern-politics111]

Wrote up a full list:

Government/Health Spending

1.9T American Rescue Plan

$1400 stimulus checks for adults, children, and adult dependants

1 year child tax credit expansion - $3600 0-5, $3000 6-17, removed income reqs and made fully refundable

One year EITC expansion

$350 billion state and local aid

$130 billion for schools for safe reopening

$40 billion for higher ed, half of which must go to student aid

Extended $300 supplemental UI through September 2021

Expanded eligibility for extended UI to cover new categories

Made $10,200 in UI from 2020 tax free

$1B for Head Start

$24B Childcare stabilization fund

$15B in low-income childcare grants

One Year Child and Dependent Care credit expansion

$46.5B in housing assistance, inc:

$21.5B rental assistance

$10B homeowner relief

$5B for Sec 8 vouchers

$5B to fight homelessness

$5B for utilities assistance

Extended Eviction moratorium through Aug 2021 (SC struck down)

2 year ACA tax credit expansion and ending of subsidy cliff – expanded coverage to millions and cut costs for millions more

100% COBRA subsidy through Sept 30th, 2021

6 month special enrollment period from Feb-Aug 2021

Required insurers to cover PrEP, an HIV prevention drug, including all clinical visits relating to it

Extended open enrollment from 45 to 76 days

New year round special enrollment period for low income enrollees

Restored Navigator program to assist with ACA sign up

Removed separate billing requirement for ACA abortion coverage

Eliminated regulation that allows states to privatize their exchanges

Eliminated all Medicaid work requirements

Permanently removed restriction on access to abortion pills by mail

Signed the Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act to fund increased ALS research and expedite access to experimental treatments

Rescinded Mexico City Policy (global gag rule) which barred international non-profits from receiving US funding if they provided abortion counseling or referrals

Allowed states to extend coverage through Medicaid and CHIP to post-partum women for 1 year (up from 60 days)

Judicial

42 Lifetime Federal judges confirmed – most in 40 years

13 Circuit Court judges

29 District Court judges

Named first openly LBGTQ woman to sit on an appeals court, first Muslim American federal judge, and record number of black women and public defenders

Infrastructure

$1.2T infrastructure law, including $550B in new funding

$110B for roads and bridges

$66B for passenger and freight rail

$39B for public transit, plus $30.5B in public transit funds from ARP

$65B for grid expansion to build out grid for clean energy transmission

$50B for climate resiliency

$21 for environmental remediation, incl. superfund cleanup and capping orphan wells

$7.5B for electric buses

$7.5B for electric charging stations

$55B for water and wastewater, including lead pipe removal

$65B for Affordable Broadband

$25B for airports, plus $8B from ARP

$17B for ports and waterways

$1B in reconnecting communities

Environmental

Rejoined the Paris Climate Accords 50% emission reduction goal (2005 levels) by 2030

EO instructing all federal agencies to implement climate change prevention measures

Ordered 100% carbon free electricity federal procurement by 2030

100% zero emission light vehicle procurement by 2027, all vehicles by 2035

Net Zero federal building portfolio by 2045, 50% reduction by 2032

Net Zero federal procurement no later than 2050

Net zero emissions from federal operations by 2050, 65% reduction by 2030

Finalized rule slashing the use of hydrofluorocarbons by 85% by 2036 – will slow temp rise by 0.5°C on it’s own.

Set new fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks, raising the requirement for 2026 from 43mpg to 55mpg.

Protected Tongass National Forest, one of the world’s largest carbon sinks, from development, mining, and logging

Revoked Keystone XL permit

Used the CRA to reverse the Trump administration Methane rule, restoring stronger Obama era standards.

EPA proposed new methane rule stricter than Obama rule, would reduce 41 million tons of methane emissions by 2035

Partnered with the EU to create the Global Methane Pledge, which over 100 countries have signed, to reduce methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels

US-EU trade deal to reward clean steel and aluminum and penalize dirty production

Ended US funding for new coal and fossil fuel projects overseas, and prioritized funding towards clean energy projects

G7 partnership for “Build Back Better World” – to fund $100s of billions in climate friendly infrastructure in developing countries

Restoring California’s ability to set stricter climate requirements

Signed EO on Climate Related Financial Risk that instructs rule making agencies to take climate change related risk into consideration when writing rules and regulations.

$100M for environmental justice initiatives

$1.1B for Everglades restoration

$100M for environmental justice initiatives

$1.1B for Everglades restoration

30 GW Offshore Wind Plan, incl:

Largest ever offshore wind lease sale in NY and NJ

Offshore wind lease sale in California

Expedited reviews of Offshore Wind Projects

$3B in DOE loans for offshore wind projects

$230M in port infrastructure for Offshore wind

Solar plan to reduce cost of solar by more than 50% by 2030 including $128M in funding to lower costs and improve performance of solar technology

Multi-agency partnership to expedite clean energy projects on federal land

Instructed Dept of Energy to strengthen appliance efficiency rules

Finalized rule to prevent cheating on efficiency standards

Finalized rule to expedite appliance efficiency standards

Repealed Federal Architecture EO that made sustainable federal buildings harder to build

Reversed size cuts and restored protections to Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monuments

Restoring NEPA regulations to take into account climate change and environmental impacts in federal permitting

Extended public health emergency through at least April 15, 2022

Covid & Health

$50B in funding for FEMA for COVID Disaster Relief including vaccine funding

Set 100% FEMA reimbursement to states for COVID costs, retroactively to start of pandemic

$47.8B for testing

$1.75B for COVID genome sequencing

$8.5B to CDC for vaccines

$7.6B to state and local health depts

$7.6B to community health centers

$6B to Indian Health Services

$17B to the VA, including $1B to forgive veteran medical debt

$3B to address mental health and substance abuse

Over 500 million vaccine shots administered in a year

Established 90,000 free vaccination sites

Raised federal reimbursement from $23 to $40 per shot for vaccine sites

6000 troops deployed for initial vaccination

Cash incentives, free rides, and free childcare for initial vaccination drive

400 million vaccines donated internationally, 1.2 billion committed

$2B contribution to COVAX for global vaccinations

Funded expansion of vaccine manufacturing in India and South Africa

Implemented vaccine mandate for federal employees, contractors, and employees at healthcare providers that receive Medicare/Medicaid funding.

Implemented vaccine/test mandate for large businesses (SC struck down)

Invoked DPA for testing, vaccine, PPE manufacturing

Federal mask mandate for federal buildings, federal employees, and public transportation

Implemented test requirement for international travel

Implemented joint FDA-NIH expedited process to approve at home tests more quickly

Over 20,000 free federal testing sites

8 at home tests per month required to be reimbursed by insurance

1B at home tests available for free by mail

50M at home tests available free at community health centers

25M high quality reusable masks for low-income residents in early 2021

400M free N95 masks at pharmacies and health centers

Military medical teams deployed to help overburdened hospitals

Rejoined the WHO

Civil Rights

Ended the ban on trans soldiers in the military

Reversed Trump admin limits on Bostock ruling and fully enforced it

Prohibited discrimination against LGBTQ patients in healthcare

Prohibited discrimination against LGBTQ families in housing under the Fair Housing Act

Prohibited discrimination against LGBTQ people in the financial system to access loans or credit

Justice Department declared that Title IX prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in education.

Revoked ban on Federal Diversity Training

Instructed the VA to review its policies to remove barriers to care for trans veterans

First Senate confirmed LGBTQ Cabinet Secretary

First trans person confirmed by the Senate

Extended birthright citizenship to children of same sex couples born abroad

State Department allows X gender marker on passport for non-binary Americans

Banned new contracts with private prisons for criminal prisons

Justice Department reestablished the use of consent degrees with police departments

Pattern and Practice investigation into Phoenix, Louisville, and Minneapolis

Banned chokeholds and limited no-knock raids among federal law enforcement

Initiative to ban modern day redlining

Doubled DOJ Civil Rights Division staff

Increase percentage of federal contract for small disadvantaged businesses from 5% to 15% ($100B in additional contracts over 5 years)

Sued TX and GA over voting laws. Sued TX over abortion law. Sued GA over prison abuse.

Signed law making Juneteenth a federal holiday

Signed EO to use the federal government to improve voting access through federal programs and departments.

Signed COVID-19 Hate Crime Act, which made more resources available to support the reporting of hate crimes

Signed EO for diversity in the federal workplace

Increased federal employment opportunities for previously incarcerated persons

Public Security

Banned ghost guns

New regulations on pistol-stabilizing braces

First annual gun trafficking report in 20 years

New zero tolerance policy for gun dealers who wilfully violate the law

Signed COPS act, ensuring confidentiality for peer counselling for police officers

Signed Protecting America’s First Responders Act, expediting benefits for officers disabled in the line of duty

Signed bill making it a crime to harm US law enforcement overseas

Student Loans

Student loan freeze through April 30th, 2022

Changed criteria so an additional 1.14M borrowers qualified for the loan pause (retroactively forgave interest and penalties)

Forgiven $11.5B in student loans for disabled students, students who were defrauded, and PSLF

Fixed PSLF so that it is much easier for previous payments to apply. Determined that the paused months will apply to PSLF

Student loan debt forgiveness is tax free through 2025

Immigration 

Ended Border Wall emergency and cancelled all new border wall construction and contracts

Repealed Trump’s Muslim Ban

Set FY 2022 refugee cap to 125,000, the highest in almost 30 years

Prohibiting ICE from conducting workplace raids

Family reunification taskforce to reunite separated families. Reunited over 100+ families and gave them status to stay in US

Granted or extended TPS for Haitians, Venezuelans, Syrians, and Liberians

Lifted moratorium on green cards and immigrant visas

Ended use of public charge rule to deny green cards

Loosened the criteria to qualify for asylum

Changed ICE enforcement priorities

Re-initiated the CAM Refugee program for Northern Triangle minors to apply for asylum from their home countries

$1B+ in public aid and private investment for addressing the root causes of migration

Ended family detention of immigrants and moved towards other monitoring

HHS prohibited working with ICE on enforcement for sponsors of unaccompanied minors

Got rid of harder citizenship test

Allowed certain visas to be obtained without an in person consulate interview

Rescinded “metering” policy that limited migrants at ports of entry

Foreign Relations

Ended the War in Afghanistan

First time in 20 years US not involved in a war

Ended support for Saudi offensive operations in Yemen

Airstrikes down 54% in 2021 from 2020.

Issued policy restricting drone strikes outside of warzones

Restored $235M in aid to Palestinians

AUKUS defense pact with Australia and UK

New rules to counter extremism within the military

Signed law funding capitol police and Afghan Refugees

EO on competitiveness to write consumer friendly rules, such as right to repair

EO on improving government experience, incl

Social Security benefits will be able to be claimed online

Passports can be renewed online

General 

Makes it easier for low-income families to apply for benefits

Increase telehealth options

WIC recipients can use benefits online

$7.25B in additional PPP funds

Signed PPP extension law to extend the program for 2 months

Changed criteria to make it easier for small and minority businesses to qualify for PPP loans

$29B Restaurant Recovery Fund to recover lost revenue

$1.25B Shuttered Venue fund

$10.4B for agriculture

30 year bailout of multi-employer pension funds that protects millions of pensions through 2051.

Pro-labor majority appointed to NLRB

Established task force to promote unionization

Restored collective bargaining right for federal employees

Negotiated deal for West Coast Ports to run 24/7 to ease supply chain

Signed EO to secure and strengthen supply chains

Investing $1B in small food processors to combat meat prices

Extended 15% SNAP benefit increase through Sept 30, 2021

Made 12 million previously ineligible beneficiaries eligible for the increase

Public health emergency helps keep benefits in place

Largest permanent increase in SNAP benefit history, raising permanent benefits by 27% ($20B per year)

Made school lunches free through for all through the 2021-2022 school year

Extended the Pandemic EBT program

Largest ever summer food program in 2021 provided 34 million students with $375 for meals over the summer.

[seymour-butz-stuff]

bUt bOtH pArTiEs aRe tHe sAmE

[kaelio]

Saying "voting doesn't matter" might reach your younger peers online but it certainly hasn't reached Clangus Hargbarg who was part of the kkk in 1951 and still sends in his ballot. He hasn't missed a one.

[wordhord]

Vote, gdi.

[yeahiwasintheshit]

Ugh I have a bad feelin about this midterm

[finalgirl-nihilbliss]

Electoralism isn't a cure all. It won't end corruption or clean the oceans or find the One Great Soul capable of righting the course for a sea of frothing madness long glutted on The Spectacle.

But, christ, if you can't vote for you, vote for the prisoner or the felon who's been disenfranchised. Vote for the poorest in your community, the most vulnerable, those who feel the cruelty hardest. You may not unseat a supreme court justice, but you might fund a community health clinic.

It won't fix the big problems, but it's something.

[sar-kalu]

Full fucking offense to the yanks on this website

But Australia, with it's mandatory election emrollement at 18 and voting until you die, is PROOF that your vote matters.

Last election, we had SUCH a swing from our local consevative party who had been in government the past 8 or 9 years, that they couldn't even form an opposition.

Think that through.

This is a party that 3 years ago acheived not just enough of a majority that they were elected, but so much a majority that they were almost unchallenged in the Lower House.

But this election. This fucking election, they failed to even make majority enough to be a single opposition party - instead, they basically share the cross-bench with the very far-left Greens party and a coalition of left-conservative Teal Independants.

It was unheard of. Absolutely stunning to witness.

You want to know who was responsible?

Generation Z and Millennials.

Because of us, not only was the "evil" defeated so soundly it's still weeping from the bruising, but also several left-wing candidates from "the radical left" were elected to a place of relative prominance.

Now I will admit, it's not perfect. Nothing ever is. But it's a start. It's something important.

Voting matters.

Your voice counts.

Stand up for your rights, because if you don't, no one else will. They have their own problems to wrangle.

If you want change, you're gonna have to do it yourself. Change starts in the community and there's not much more community based than voting FOR the people who will do right by your community.

[jedimasterazeroth]

Voting is so important that companies like Walmart are willing to pay you to go fucking vote if you have to work Election Day. They want you to take the time and go vote. It’s that important.

GO FUCKING VOTE!

[zdf-deactivated20251121]

[prokopetz]

I realise this meme is like half a decade old at this point, but I keep running into folks who are only familiar with the screaming cowboy part of Kirin J Callinan’s “Big Enough”, and you… really, really need to see it in context. I promise the context does not diminish it.

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

I feel like the video raises further questions

[prokopetz]

I dunno, I think “ex-rival gunslingers falling in gay cowboy love as a metaphor for world peace” is a pretty straightforward thesis.

[mywickednight]

This Halloween costume is freaky 😱😱😱

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[dimestoretajic]

Important update:

[barbwritesstuff]