doublepepperoni [none/use name] @ doublepepperoni @hexbear.net

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I had it pretty bad for several days, having to purge the cache several times but I saw no pop-ups yesterday or the day before that. Hoping that's still the case today

In Europe it's the Autumn of Capitalism

Oh, definitely but it's shockingly bad when using YT without logging in

Yeah, as good as Youtube's algorithms are at pushing hardcore right-wing content on completely fresh accounts in like 3 clicks, my accounts have been around for so long that my recommends tend to be on the money most of the time.

I discover multiple new channels each month from my recommends whereas 10 years ago I'd occasionally check a channel that a friend recommended or was embedded on a forum post

They're just being dicks considering how tiny the Firefox userbase is

I fully expect to have to be fingeprinted, DNA tested and retinal scanned to access cOnTenT in a year or two

Yup, I'm pretty sure tons of liberals believe this completely uncritically and don't even think about it

These guys sound awful but if they gotta harrass somebody I at least hope it's Evangelical tourists

Not sure how things are in Austria but where I live fast food is really expensive for someone strapped for cash

Apparently American Reddit has been plastered with ads from a billion-dollar Evangelical Christian campaign for months and Jewish, LGBT amd atheist users have been especially targeted

Religion and Politics were categories you could not opt out of

"If these bozos are willing to pay for some of Youtube, they'll probably pay for all of Youtube"

This was 10+ years ago, but I was surprised by how many Brits hated Top Gear when to me and a lot of other non-Brits it was just the funny British banter car show with the three cartoon characters

If I'm not in a hurry, aimlessly wandering the aisles is weirdly relaxing

I think there's some sort of divide between specific kinds of rightoids and which side of the war they fall on

Take off that moomin profile pic mr. "New Viking"

I also just get insane whiplash seeing these guys think Russia is the soy gay antifa country when a couple of years ago people like this were praising Russia for being the last bastion of white Christian Europe and Putin for standing up against the "globohomo menace" or whatever

It really is just this meme except it's not even their blessed homeland

The cheerleading from these gamer chair warriors is pretty sickening

It's not a standard evil Rooskies plot. In the prologue Big Boss goes in to extract a formerly defected Soviet rocket scientist, Sokolov, whose defection is actually the real reason for the Cuban Missile Crisis in MGS lore. The US handed him back to the Soviets to end the crisis but Big Boss (called Snake at the time) is sent to get him out after it turns out they are making him construct an advanced nuclear weapon.

The rescue goes wrong and a renegade Soviet colonel (who has lightning powers because MGS) steals Sokolov's weapon and blows up the research facility with a US-made Davy Crockett portable nuclear weapon that was given to him by Snake's former mentor who defects to the Soviet Union and promptly kicks Snake's ass.

Kruschev is furious about an American nuke detonating on Russian soil and demands the Americans go clean up their mess or WWIII is on the table so Snake is sent back to take out the renegade faction, Sokolov's weapon and his old mentor.

Of course, there's more plot twists and double crosses but it's not an average Hollywood dastardly gommulists affair

Because he wanted Big Boss infiltrating the Soviet Union

I think Kojima simply wanted to make a Cold War spy adventure but ALSO had his mind set on jungle survival elements and just... did both.

A South American or South East Asian setting would have more sense and he did eventually pick Nicaragua as the setting of Peace Walker. Guess he just really wanted to have Russians in MGS3

Wait, which side was pressganging unwilling men into its military again

How do you explain the jungle in MGS3