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Completely agree but Minecraft isn’t the best example. Most of the issues there is that Mojang is afraid to do anything to the main Minecraft game that moves it too far from where Notch left off and alienate the players as a result. They make far more money off of side projects, spin-offs, crossovers, and merch so they’re better off keeping the brand image clean and leaving the base game alone anyway. People will still play it, especially due to the modding community.

Honestly with the gaming industry the 80/20 rule is often more like a 95/5 rule. You have a small handful of devs who can realize their visions into quality content, and then a whole lot of coat tail riders, many whom are only there to try and inject their shitty politics.

@PakTrolls_ @rawsalerts You’re literally brown. Trump spent the entire second term trying to negotiate until he started this operation and Iran refused to cooperate.

@rawsalerts Who did it best for America?

🚨#BREAKING: Around 4,500 U.S. sailors and Marines are now being deployed to the Middle East, including an infantry battalion landing team backed by helicopters, F-35 fighter jets, and armored amphibious vehicles.

@level1slimegryp @Reformed_Knight Except for when your Pope countersignals deportations and border enforcement.

@Reformed_Knight Good thing I’m Catholic and dont have to deal with silliness

“Did you hear Susan’s latest sermon?” “Scripture prohibits women from preaching.” “She’s a lifelong member at my church.” “I don’t care.” “And done well teaching kids.” “I don’t care.” “And holds an MDiv.” “I don’t care.” “You’re a chauvinist.” “I don’t care.”

@deezethnuts @Reformed_Knight Thank you for your opinionated contribution to this discussion Abd Al Khaliq! We will stick to what the Scripture tells us instead though.

@Reformed_Knight Ik it ain’t traditional but in my own personal opinion I don’t see anything wrong with a woman being a religious figure as long as she isn’t saying anything bad or untrue

Like Blake said, even MAGA is wary about being dragged into a prolong conflict outside of our interests including both of us, but the Trump admin has made a pretty good case for why this is in American interests that is consistent with Trump’s publicly stated position since the 80s. Moreover, they have also repeatedly emphasized that this operation must be short and effective to be a success and it seems to have been designed around those goals. This is also consistent with the foreign policy platform Trump ran on being peace through strength. Strength should be a last resort, but still a tool nonetheless because a country unwilling to use it when necessary cannot achieve peace under the peace through strength model. You didn’t vote for an isolationist, nor did Trump ever claim to be one. You voted for the guy that joked Bush’s greatest mistake was failing to take the oil in the GWOT

@TTJamesG @BlakeKresses We'll have our test of this when the mid-terms come. I'll be sure to circle back to this post. I have all of the requisite beliefs of "MAGA", including voting for the guy three times, and this is not what I voted for. I guess I'm not "MAGA", perhaps I never was.

It is simply incredible watching the same folks who dismissed out of hand polling during the 2024 election showing Kamala +1 now blindly trust any polling that shows the Iran War is popular. They mimic critical thinking based on TikToks they watch made by Israel.

@BeefStreem @BlakeKresses The Kamala polls weren’t wrong because they were made up, they were fixed by selection bias. A YouGov poll isn’t ran by “electric Jews.” It isn’t “blind belief” the same way you polling a few friends and family isn’t actual data reflective of the real world.

@TTJamesG @BlakeKresses Is your retort to this that the media who thrives on war coverage has no incentive to lie to viewers, particularly the president who is the targeted consumer, that this war is popular? I do not blindly believe what the electric Jew has to say to me, maybe you should do the same

@justalexoki As someone who has tried it, I’m not a fan. That said, I’m not big on pineapple in general so I’m already biased. I find it too sweet for me. But my primary issue is that pineapple is sweet and watery and doesn’t mesh well with the pizza texture for me.

pineapple on pizza is really funny because literally everyone who's actually tried it likes it, proving the rest are just cattle attaching to whatever the herd told them to believe

@SocialNomadRach I wouldn’t recommend sex as the first-line therapy, but you absolutely can factory reset a libtarded girl by being a polite, well-adjusted, good man in alignment with reality. This is especially true if you are a little tactful with how and when you introduce those ideas.

The boyfriend shouldn't have dated her in the first place. For heaven's sake, men, don't think you can sex the libtardism out of your libtard gf.

@BeefStreem @BlakeKresses “My evidence is purely anecdotal and therefore entirely dependent on the circles I run in, no matter how out of touch with reality they actually are.”

@BlakeKresses My evidence is the same evidence I relied on to accurately predict his victory in 2024: The people in my life. The people in my life are unhappy, feel misled, and are angry at gas prices and cannot understand the justification for this war.

None of these pollsters are being referenced so what are we even talking about? The polls in question are not even the same type of poll. There is a huge political incentive for the left to suggest Kamala is the clear favorite to win because the data shows this increases voter turnout and it often sufficient enough to make undecided people commit to voting for the candidate they believe will win. That same incentive doesn’t really exist in this case. The burden of proof is on you making a baseless claim. You can’t shoot down evidence to the contrary as “obviously false” without further explanation.

@BlakeKresses Please provide any evidence that the polls have suddenly become in any way more accurate since this point:

@AlbertDouccette @captive_dreamer Except not really because the war is specifically popular with conservative voters meaning the war is unlikely to have any discernible impact on right wing voter turnout which would be necessary for the midterms to be a blue sweep as the retard right continues to predict

@captive_dreamer Yes but it disproves a lot of MAGA people saying that this war is popular.

This is interesting (revealing?) because this is the same group of people most likely to be sent into combat as well. Dispels some myths, to say the least!

@Aimless_Gamer @grok @GmorganJr I said it was just as likely and that it is unrelated to midterms or the necessity and popularity of this conflict. You’re still going on about it because you have nothing else. Silence retard.

@TTJamesG @grok @GmorganJr Losing you literally said they did it to themselves.

America First interests have NEVER resided solely in America.

@grok @Aimless_Gamer @GmorganJr Again, this changes nothing and is unrelated to anything we were discussing which is why you have fallen back and moved the goalposts to hyperfixate on it. Get real big guy, you’re retarded and losing this argument.

Preliminary US military probe, satellite imagery, video analysis, and munition remnants (Tomahawk cruise missile) from Amnesty, NYT, Reuters, CNN, and others all conclude the Feb 28 strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran, was a US missile—accidental, due to outdated intel on an adjacent IRGC base. Killed ~165-175, mostly children. No evidence supports Iran striking its own school.

That’s quite literally impossible to say without an official investigation. Even if it was us, it was obviously unintentional. While a tragedy, tragedies are par for the course in war. We should investigate internally to make sure we know who did it and how it happened in the event that it was us. This is hardly relevant to the case for or against the conflict as a whole, nor is it related to midterms. It has not changed public opinion in the slightest according to the polling. Obama was drone striking children regularly and it did little to nothing to move the needle.

@TTJamesG @GmorganJr they literally don't have that type of missile.

Iran’s response to our military strikes was to bomb anything they could land a missile strike on the their immediate vicinity. This included mostly civilian targets in nations either neutral or friendly to Iran like Saudi Arabia. If you think it’s more conceivable that we bombed a primary school than their military incompetence, you’re just blinded by anti-American sentiment. You’re displaying your lack of patriotism by siding with browns over us.

@TTJamesG @GmorganJr lol you think Iran blew up its own school

People keep saying this but virtually all the polling has returned with overwhelming support within MAGA (95-100% approval) and the share of the country identifying as MAGA has actually increased by a few percentage points since the 2024 election. The “MAGA is dead and Trump betrayed us” rhetoric is a subset of hyper online losers who didn’t vote for Trump in the first place. The incumbent President’s party always loses a few Congressional seats. The current election projections don’t show anything out of the ordinary. There is NO evidence supporting a Democrat sweep in the 2026 or 2028 elections. What’s more than that, this is hardly a war in that it’s currently poised to be a single military operation that will be swift.

@TTJamesG @GmorganJr I hope the war is worth the midterms and the next presidency.

@DSR_Joker It’s also fine when you don’t spend like 6 years and hundreds of millions on developing and marketing on that niche at the direct expense of your mass appeal cash cow.

100% I'll say again, Marathon is a technically good game, a great game even, I've never said its bad. But its niche, and that's fine when it's the side hustle, not the flag ship.

@Catholic_bro And I gave you the conditions under which I agree.

@TTJamesG That 2nd quote was from pope Francis

Outside this ark there can be no salvation

You are incoherent, naive, and hysterical. People of your temperament have no place making calls for our country. You would rather sacrifice American citizens at the alter of your hubris to countless, unceasing terrorist attacks than protect our people with the military that exists for that sole purpose in the name of your spinelessness.

@TTJamesG @GmorganJr It really isn't. You want all of reward with none of the risk.

@Catholic_bro I was referring to the bottom quotation, not the first. This was obvious given I reaffirmed my agreement with the first lmao

@TTJamesG 1. I literally quoted you directly 2. Pope Francis was referring to the natural Law. And is completely correct