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To a happy man a prayer is a monotonous composition void of meaning until the day when suffering deciphers the sublime language through which the poor victim addresses God #CountOfMonteCristo

Too easy The Hobbit > The Star Wars Prequels

@Dexerto Dude finally saw money in his bank account

The CEO of failed MMO Ashes of Creation reportedly spent over $40,000 of Kickstarter funds on Magic: The Gathering cards and private chefs

@C2Antiquity The guards when he realized Christ wasn’t in his tomb anymore

The Pascha Service was the most beautiful thing I’ve witnessed in my life. Christ is Risen! ☦️

@uscfan981 It’s not North Dakota

Say something nice about Ohio.

@SteveLovesAmmo That’s Joey Diaz

DARE commercials have gotten wild.

@Nerdrotics What pagan ritual is this

@Knights_Path …Griffith

@ImperiousGains i beat both prepatch radahns

I beat Consort Radahn pre patch…we aren’t the same

@cosyposter Are you really as good as they say you are Every once in awhile

16x the detail

@lotfgame Only if it can be done in invasions as well

Bug of the week. Do we keep it in?

@WhiteHouse This used to be a YouTube mashup videos in 2008

Touchdown

@gamestop @SoaRGaming Walking into that mall and picking up a 360 controller again youtu.be/4JEC08MUiqY?si…

1v1s on Rust are back. Beat GameStop in Atlanta to win an OG MW2 Edition Xbox 360. Snipers only.

@Devon_Eriksen_ I ain’t reading all that… I’m happy for you tho Or sorry that happened

Stop this. Don't you understand? They are not looking for sales. They do not want your approval. They hate you, and they want to humiliate and demoralize you so they can be socially ascendant and feel good and momentarily forget that they were weird theater kids in high school that no one liked. And so they can pave the way for a communist revolution that they imagine will put the theater kids in charge. In reality, they'll all be machine gunned into mass graves by thugs within the first 18 days after the fall of the old order, but they don't know that. So every time they hollow out another franchise and wear it like a skinsuit, they don't care if you buy it. They just want to hear you cry. So if you tell them you don't like it, you won't buy it, you're very upset, then you might as well be giving them a smoothie and a handjob. But you can't help it, though, can you? You see the death of your beloved Warcraft, your Star Wars, your Warhammer 40K, and you can't help but mourn. You think something precious has been destroyed. You're sad for what might have been, but never will be. You're wrong. You don't understand. You don't understand because you are an electrical engineer who designs high-voltage grid hardware, and reads and watches stories in his spare time. You are not a professional maker of stories. Well, I am. So I'm going to explain this to you. Star Wars, Star Trek, Cowboy Bebop, Lord of the Rings, Warhammer40K... these aren't stories. They are story ideas. And any professional author will tell you that ideas are the cheapest and easiest part of our whole job. That's not the hard part, or the part that requires talent and skill. The real work in storytelling consists of turning that idea into a complete, satisfying story that is ready to publish and be read and loved. I can come up with ten story ideas in ten minutes, but I dream of someday having enough control over my writing process to publish one good novel a year. The reason you loved all these franchises is that they were a garment worn by good writers, who were able to make you love the characters and situations. Now they are a skinsuit worn by bad writers. Good writers are always going to make stories you like, regardless of which characters and settings they use. Bad ones are always going to disappoint you, no matter which franchise you hand them the keys to. If all the good writers are kicked out of Games Workshop, they still exist and can write good stuff. And if they are not kicked out, but merely disenfranchised and overruled by managerial theater kids, but they have to stay for a paycheck, then it's because YOU give more money to Games Workshop than you would to all the independent projects they could start. You thinking you are fighting for the soul of Warhammer40K and Star Wars. But you are fighting against the people who own the copyrights, so you will always lose. The best you could ever do is to kill the franchise by rallying the customer base to defect. And you can do that right now by giving your attention to storytellers who don't hate you, instead. But you are attached to the familiar, to what you are used to instead of to what could be. So you follow franchises and intellectual properties instead of artists and writers. And you get so mad that there won't be more Star Wars that you reward critics like @TheCriticalDri2 for his tenth angry rant about how Star Wars sucks now. Sure, I could tell him to spend his time promoting good new stuff instead, but the only reason he is able to promote anything is because he has an audience, and you are that audience, and you are rewarding him for ragebaiting you, demanding that he ragebait you, because that's the only thing you tune in for. That's why there are so few good writers in your field of view who are making good new stuff that you like. Because you've never heard of the ones that exist, and if they're not attached to one of your beloved franchises, they can't raise any money. I would love to spend 100% of my working hours writing novels. I'd certainly finish them faster that way. But I can't. Because I have to be on Twitter most of the time, so I can pay my bills now. And I'm considered one of the fortunate ones, because the time I spend on publicity actually earns me enough money to do that. Most other authors, good storytellers who don't hate you, can't even quit their day jobs. Which means even less time and energy for creating. I know you loved these franchises when they were alive. I did, too, some of them. But you have to let them go. Because they are dead now. They are still moving, but they are dead. We're in the part of the zombie movie now where your son has succumbed to the infection, and you have him locked in the basement, feeding him raw meat while he lunges at the end of his chain, trying to devour your flesh. You're just too attached to let go, hoping against hope that you can hang on until a cure is found, but there isn't a cure, there's never a cure, and that isn't your son. It's pure evil piloting the husk of his body. The only thing left for him is a quick 5.56mm bullet in the head. Do you doubt me? Do you think you can win against the copyright holders? Well, tell me then, when have you ever won one of these? Name one franchise that fans have rescued. Not rescued from financial cancellation, there are plenty of those, but name one that was rescued from woke infiltration, and brought back to its roots. Well? I'm waiting. The truth is, wars are not won by being bold and resolute and surrendering no inch of ground. That's just a strategy for filling graveyards with your brothers. Wars are won by fighting the enemy where you are strong and he is weak. If every one of you gave an independent author, or artist, or filmmaker, or developer, one tenth the time and money you spend on overpriced plastic army women made by neomarxist feminists who hate you, then a lot more of them would thrive, and there would be just as many new things for you to love are there were old ones. You're not selfish, or short-sighted, or tight-fisted. You just loved too deeply, and you can't let go. But he who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in chains. Stop stalking your crazy ex-girlfriend who got fat and hates you now. There are younger, hotter, nicer women who would love to meet you.

@DOOM You can’t escape the Fortnite-ification of video games

Diablo IV x DOOM: The Dark Ages diablo.com

@MartyTheElder We need an Avengers level team up of ‘07 Bungie employees to help save current Bungie employees

On behalf of everyone at 2007 Bungie, thank you.

@charlieINTEL Didn’t God of War 3x its sales on PC?

Bloomberg: PlayStation will no longer release its single player titles on PC going forward Live-service games will still launch on PC, but games like Marvel's Wolverine and Saros will be PS5 exclusive

US government to the whole world right now

When you need to fart and cough too hard

@FightWithMemes youtu.be/0H6n1aK0ZSo?si…

I'll take your entire stock.