Meta is successful because … of the algorithm. Because people can get their news inline with their family photos.

From what I’ve overheard, that’s exactly what everyone hates about Meta

Disagree, but regardless it’s so much worse now

Panera fell hard too

Optimus Prime was a real shock for sure. For me it’s any animal death.

• Artax from The Neverending Story
• The dogs from Where the Red Fern Grows
• There’s a scene in the Sci-fi novel Armor where a puppy falls in a well and its owner, a child, unable to rescue it ,has to kill it by dropping stones on it to spare it drowning. I read that a long time ago, probably in the 80s, and it still haunts me.

Sturm Brightblade, in the second book _Dragons of Winter Night _

During one of the ending episodes (there were two or three different ones) but not the final scene in any of them

It’s been a long, long time, but I don’t recall having the impression that any of the so-called harem actually desired him at all. Rei was apathetic toward everything, I don’t recall Asuka showing anything but competitiveness, disdain, and occasional grudging respect, and Misato treated him like a kid brother. And yeah everyone needed therapy!

Whatever. I collected and watched Evangelion on VHS back in the 90s. Maybe “incel” isn’t quite accurate, but Shinji really was quite a pathetic wimp of a protagonist.

Btw she was hospitalized after a savage defeat while piloting a mech where the pilot feels all the damage as if it’s happening to them. Her mech was ripped apart and devoured by a pack of hostile umanned mechs.

Edit: it was heavily hinted throughout the series that the mechs also have a consciousness and the source of that consciousness is yet another layer of fucked up

I sort of regret watching it myself and never rewatched

The whole movie, even the whole series was pretty fucked up like this.

I believe it’s a recreation of a scene from one of the endings of Evangelion. My hazy guess is the movie “End of Evangelion.” Asuka (on the GPU) lies unconscious in a hospital bed. Shinji (incel protagonist) stands over her. He shuts the door to the hall and breathes heavily for a few seconds, then this shot with white instead of gray.

Oh good, FREE SLOP FOR ALL!

Well, not those belonging to the one in the cover picture. Those would be some gloomy, depressing tits. Like two deflated balloons hanging from a slab of jerky.

It is and I love it. I bind the fifth action to L3 (stick click)

I used to be an index fingers only guy, until Returnal. You really need fingers directly on like 5 actions at all times to keep up with the action sometimes. So now I use index and middle when the game calls for it.

FWIW Brave search lets you disable AI summaries

A true hot take, one that I don’t share but take my upvote for your candor

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation.

George Orwell, 1984

I was talking about this with a friend not long ago and he floated the idea that Tucker Carlson could maybe replace Trump. He does have a fan following. The idea worried me.