This post is how I found out. That’s heartbreaking. The frailty of the human form is a cosmic crime.

AI, along with crypto, is getting to the point where even oil executives are like “dudes, the planet…”

Dr. Frankenstein ass reply.

Nope.

Random erections at the worst conceivable time, and Squishy Wilbert Syndrome when stiffness is actually required, makes me think my penis is haunted by a mischievous 11th century sprite called Lomtomp the Rascal.

There’s a “famous” gore video showing a Russian soldier being brutally murdered by Chechen rebels. Ya’ll probably already know what I’m talking about, so I don’t need to explain (and if you haven’t seen it or don’t know what it is, don’t bother looking for it, it’s not nice and does you no good to have it on your psychic hard drive). Since seeing that clip in ~2000, I’ve desperately wanted to know the man’s identity and the circumstances in which he was killed. I’ve had people swear to me that they also saw the clip, but the version they saw was quite a bit longer than the ~20-second clip everyone is aware of, and they describe some details that could well be useful in identifying him, but alas this alleged longer version seems to have vanished entirely, if it ever existed. The version we have is obviously heavily-edited, lots of quick cuts and time-jumps, so there is at least a version without all of that, somewhere.

Trust me when I say that I’ve looked into this issue on and off for the last 25 years, and I have heard many bullshit claims about who he is: they’re all wrong and provably so. I’ve watched hundreds (literally) of clips from that conflict that show barbarity of one degree or another, and in doing so I have identified the clips that specific reports and testimonies are alluding to when they claim to have identified the victim. None of them is our guy, it’s always some other video clip where some other Russian is knifed by a Chechen (there’re a lot of such clips).

There was a user on a gore forum who uploaded the Tukhchar massacre (safe click) video in full, and he claimed to have the full version of our mystery clip, but refused to post it and grew increasingly hostile the more people asked him for it, eventually taking his ball and going home by stating his intention to never post it because people were mean to him. He was obviously a bullshitter who had a few good uploads and decided to use that momentum to generate hype around this other ‘holy grail’ clip which he almost certainly did not have. Other than that one prick, nobody online has access to the full video or the identity of the man. At least, not on the English-speaking internet.

I’ve seen a lot of awful videos on the net, but there’s something about that one in particular that really energised me to find out who he is. I guess it being the first video of that kind I ever saw would probably have something to do with it, but it’s also just so fucking cold. You could sense the all-consuming hatred in the killers in the way they staged the scene and the matter-of-fact way they slaughtered him. Just pure inhumanity. There are “worse” videos, there are drug cartel videos that would make a Spanish Inquisitor lose his lunch, but man, that Russian dude is always lingering in my mind.

I recently made an Unpopular Opinion post about this (TL;DR I’m supportive of remakes/reboots if done with genuine passion for the material, just as I am with cover versions of songs or transplantations of stage plays to modern settings/Disney cartoons, etc.):

https://lemmy.world/post/35309322

The originals aren’t going anywhere (unless you’re George Lucas 😒), and there are new films coming out every week from all over the world, the reboots/remakes are like less than 1% of what gets released in any given year. Marketing and social media can make things seem bigger and more pervasive than they actually are. Having said that, I’d honestly be happier if the number was more like 5% (with the aforementioned caveats about passion, talent and quality).

But yeah, there are lots of remakes/reboots that are borne of pure cynicism and boardroom sociopathy. Fuck those. But they aren’t the only ones on offer. Baby/bathwater.

The Steam forums are the most repugnant and racist-filled psychotic right-wing shitholes I’ve ever encountered (and I once went to the Stormfront forums). Genuinely, Steam forums exhibit the most pure and concentrated anti-woke, “every single thought in my head was placed there by Ben Shapiro”, “blacks are the real racists”, x-phobic bigoted brain cancer on earth. I block them where I find them, report the ones that seem actionable, but it’s like trying to hold off a tidal wave with a tennis racket.

“He was actually an FBI informant against Epstein” seems to be the trajectory, per the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Michael “My Son Monitors My Porn Consumption Via a Special App” Johnson. The fact that it came from him and not some mushroom-infested 4channer makes it sound believable (if you’re already poised to believe such horseshit, that is).

Why is he like this?

The actors, along with people like artists and musicians, tend to be exempted from gamer rage when a game sucks or launches in a sucky state. Was that not the case with MindsEye?

Can’t whistle loudly. I can barely do it quietly. I certainly can’t do that badass thing where you put fingers from both hands into your mouth and blow.

I was an early adopter of No Man’s Sky (long before the shift in public perception), and I fucking loved it back then, and love it now as well. But admitting that in public a few years back was tantamount to saying that stapling your child to a rabid badger was a great alternative to hiring a babysitter.

I instantly and impulsively pre-ordered a special superduper collector’s edition of Lake Mungo for ~£80. I probably shouldn’t have done that. I love the film and will no doubt love the goodies and bonus features, but 80 fucking quid…

https://shop.umbrellaent.com.au/products/lake-mungo-2008-4k-blu-ray-collectors-edition

Arbitrary choice, but Wherever I May Roam by Metallica never gets old for me.

The locations of past atrocities (N. Ireland).

Not even joking. It’s a huge part of our tourism industry. It’s like those Jack the Ripper tours in Whitechapel. Living here, you barely even think about them, but visitors act like they’re meeting Taylor Swift when they spot a bullet hole, bless 'em.

Any non-cunts in the EV manufacturing space? Or is that a prerequisite?

The nihilist school shooters of the world are way more litigious than I thought possible.

The red part is the cum and the wee seeds are the sperms. Kewl.

It would make little sense for them to release a final version of this game, given that they’ve made Saudi prince money from a perpetual alpha and in-game assets you have to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars for. They’d never tie-off the areola on this big fat milker.