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Background
With the start of the upcoming thirteenth season of Riot's classic MOBA game League of Legends tomorrow the community is split upon the argument if Riot is even actively developing new content for the game or rather dragging the game over the line relying on the success of their other popular games namely Valorant and Wild Rift or on the fantastic animated series Arcane. As recent developments in League's history featured a trite pre-season, a new provider for the very important SEA region and the departure of a beloved host (not sjokz so doesn't matter) of the LCS coupled with switching the schedule of the aforementioned professional league to a completely inaccessible time slot in the afternoon, people are concerned about the future of the game in the west. It's hard to gauge actual facts as Riot doesn't release their numbers but from the eye test alone you'd immediately come to the conclusion that League of Legends is heading south. While many people (casual and professional g*mers) have said this for a long time now, the recent developments have made things much worse and I'll tell you why:
Not officially announcing the start of the season until a couple days prior
While this tweet offers a timetable of the season start for each major and minor region you'd think it's kinda weird for a game of this size to not have a concise and clear answer until 2 days before the season start. Players had to figure out the exact date for the start of the season for weeks prior relying on vague he-said-she-said information on twitter or other inherently unreliable sources.
The fact that we have to find out like this after deducing the fricking SEASON START like Hercule fricking Poirot is utterly ridiculous
again we have to look for it on twitter, nothing in the client etc. its so fking disgusting
Is the new events tab we got for no reason (that is entirely more clunky than the event rewards page being in your rewards tab) not enough for you? You think they could somehow manage fixing the client and adding useless shit no one asked for at the same time lol? Nah, they only had the manpower to shift the events page to its own clunky tab that you can barely see more than 2 rows worth of cosmetics in.
Just be thankful that useless new events page didn’t end up breaking the client further, we could have lost the entire runes page as a result of adding that new tab.
And the official insta has a countdown with 12h in their story, some say the new ranked season already started in Korea. I just don't know anymore...
For some reason Riot already started the season and Korea and had to reset all already played games (see here for example).
Not following up on their promises
This headline is intentionally chosen to be opaque mainly due to the fact that I am incapable of finding all broken promises but here are some prime examples of Riot failing to deliver:
Removing Smurf Queue: SmurfQ was a method Riot used in the previous season to combat the menace of smurfs (stronger players playing on new/stolen/friends' accounts against weaker players) in ranked games although they failed to figure out how to remove previously inactive account from this queue meaning if you were a returning player (or any other player with a high discrepancy between your MMR and your rank) you'd end up in full smurf lobbies which was an absolutely miserable experience over and over again. Some people claim it took them tens if not hundreds of games to finally be out of smurf queue and play against people on their skill level. As this was obviously not fun for either the returning players or the plethora of next Fakers in smurf queue Riot decided to just remove the system making smurfs appear in regular ranked matches again. See here or here for further discussion.
Failing to release the new VGU: As League of Legends is quite old now a lot of the older heroes are not capable of keeping up with the power creep of the latest releases making them obsolete and quite frankly incredibly unfun. Riot combats this by updating older heroes to new standards either via a visual or a gameplay update; sometimes even combining both of them for a visual and gameplay update. As a token of goodwill Riot offered players the choice of which hero gets this desired upgrade and the community voted for Skarner who is as one-dimensional as Salvador sperging out about the Ukranian-Russia war. I think he won the poll about a year ago but nothing has been done and the community is quite sceptical about Riot failing to deliver yet again here
From the sound of it they still haven't decided what visual design road to take him in, which sounds really odd at this point.
But we don't know when this was recorded so maybe something changed since then?
I legit think they didn't expect him to win so they didn't even have any plans made.
Honestly I feel like they have no idea how to tackle him which iirc that’s why they didn’t rework him before either
This article talks about an update for this long-awaited VGU that's planned for Skarner but it's still mind-boggling how Riot is simply incapable of doing this in an acceptable time frame.
Other hero updates: Some announcements of older heroes receiving 'ASU', 'midscope' or other minor updates to make them more accessible received mixed reactions and I'm frankly too lackadaisical to write about that here but if you're interested Jax, Rell and Ahri are some of these.
Balance issues: Insert some g*mer seethe abour role/champion/item/team/region being too strong/too weak/too unfun/too fun/too hard/too easy see here: Recently people have come to the adc subreddit and demanded evidence and facts, and with Phreaks tweet., here: Riot Phroxzon follow up comments from the videos (includes ADC satisfaction, healing outliers and more) or here: Isn't the amount of damage riot lets tanks do a bit excessive?
ARAM changes; All Random All Mid is a fun mode in all MOBAs in which players are assigned random heroes to battle it out in a straightforward lane without any depth or strategy. Basically the mode for casuals or people who just want to relax. However Riot updated the mode to make it incredibly unfun and players are NOT happy at all:
The update didn’t ruin ARAMS, you just forgot what the gamemode is all about. [600 comments]
The current state of ARAM balance is an absolute mess. [680 comments]
ARAM Champion specific buffs are borderline insane [600 comments]
ARAM is dead to me [1500 comments]
The game most just feels so awful now. The aram balance adjustments feel awful and the new tower falling/death times feel terrible as well. One of my favorite champions, ashe, is forced to not go adc, while Leblanc gets broken modifiers because iron players suck at her. No aram adjustment should go past 5% in my opinion. Yes some champs will be better than others but at least I don't have to scroll down a list every pre game to see what champs are currently neutered. I can't believe we didn't get nexus blitz so they could further ruin this abomination of a game mode. Goodbye aram I'd rather play weakside top lane then waste another minute wallowing in the filth that is ARAM.
ARAM seems less "for fun" with the recent changes [800 comments]
The failure of the 2023 cinematic
The absolute bomb Riot dropped was the travesty of the newly released cinematic. Despite releasing a couple of hours prior to this post it has already gathered more dislikes and negative comments than all other cinematics combined:
On Youtube:
Alexcx: the cinematic perfectly depicts the state of game: uneventful and below expectations [+15100]
Maple: I can't help but to feel sad about this, honestly. Cinematics were the only thing that NEVER disappointed from riot, yet here we are... [+2000]
Tren Status: After the 2022 cinematic, I can't even begin to explain how DISAPPOINTING this year's is [+6500]
On Twitter: (a lot of people working in the league bubble are disappointed)
https://twitter.com/LeagueOfLegends/status/1612736707220369408
https://twitter.com/viennavtuber/status/1612738189206376448: Darn :/ after last years "The Call" which was the certified banger of all bangers I really feel like yall gave up on League 😞
https://twitter.com/Nanal0l/status/1612769755429015553: I thought this was the riot mmo trailer 😞 dont feel the league hype energy from this
https://twitter.com/YamatoMebdi/status/1612786317003493377: Nah this better not be it
On Reddit:
Is that it?
1 year for the intern to drop their realistic render of the rift and voice a few lines
Fantasticaly underwhelming. I hope this is the biggest dissapointment I'm gona suffer this year.
I admit, after last year "The Call" my expectations were high as heck but witnessing this shit that was goo in 2012 at best probably summs up the issues the game faces and probably make community realises why the voices calling the game "maintenance mode" are louder than ever.
Pre season was already dissapointing enough with core gameplay issues around itemisation is still unfixed ever since new system from S11.
Feels like everything I/WE loved about this game slowly getting tossed aside by every year. :(
It has 8.1k dislikes and 2022 cinematic with 143 million views has 8.3k lmao. Took 1 hour to get the same amount of dislikes.
If this is the future of cinematics for league, I just hope they stop doing them at all. This was so cheap and disappointing wtf. Dislikes are deserved imo.
It's so bad I'm confused - it quite literally looks like a Riot cinematic from 10 years ago, complete with the odd plasticky graphics, and focus on the Summoners/Summoner's Rift instead of the actual world of Runeterra
My personal opinion? Worst cinematic ever. 0 Lore progression, 0 Hype. I don’t know what they thought creating this. After the call, this is probably the painful awakening. It feels like Platin Peter‘s motivational speech to his duo mate, that they will win dia promos this time.
Dash got sacked to make more budget for THIS???
Lil Nas X catching some strays:
The shit that happens when you blow your entire budget on lil nas x
Except the 2023 budget is supposedly the biggest yet so there’s no excuse
his music isn't even mid
why did they even pick him?
the worlds song sucked so fking hard and now this?
Why did they pick a gay black singer to design a skin for a gay black character in a season in which they're trying to promote inclusion?
Summary and further discussion
Go to the League subreddit and I bet you that at least 75% of all posts are complaining about something. It's also honestly fascinating how some posts on this subreddit with millions of subscribers are on the frontpage with less than 100 upmarseys. Some further threads that complain about the state of the game:
Where has Riot's passion for League gone?
'Events' nowadays are just an excuse to get players to buy an event pass. We're lucky if we get a visual novel with it.
Riot's skin philosophy seems to have shifted to "quantity over quality". This is apparent when looking at the Zenith Games skins, Battle Boss Bel'Veth, and skin lines that champions have been forced into like SG and SB.
Champion teasers are something we have to ask for nowadays. I guess Riot doesn't really care about hyping up players for champion releases anymore. But why would they if everything gets leaked anyway nowadays, right?
This year's season start cinematic was terrible. No champions, no nothing, just a render of Summoner's Rift.
Is this the same company that released K/DA, the Annie: Origins cinematic and TFT as passion projects? The same company that made event gamemodes like Odyssey: Extraction and PROJECT: Hunters?
The same company that decided to focus on champion reworks for like a year because they realized that a lot of champions are outdated? Now 'midscope updates' are the new hot thing.
Valo, MMO , project L.. Riot has new favourite child/children.
This is called corporate complacency and is a well known cycle in every industry. It's an issue fundamentally of profit-focused business management culture prioritizing revenue milking over the fundamentals of their original success and consumer unwillingness to punish this behavior.
I nominate the Pokemon company and game freak if you want to see the worst example. 100 man team for game dev reusing assets and can't make a triple a game on a modern console, massive profits. By comparison a game like Warframe has 500 employees.
Do we have to be scared? Are they reducing the budget of League so much?
Ahri took 300 years and she looks identical
Skarner is still in the early CONCEPT stage
Champions are getting post-poned left and right
No new events announced for 2023
Valorant getting better cinematics for a SKIN BUNDLE
Wild Rift getting so many exclusive (and high quality) skins
THAT SORRY EXCUSE FOR A "CINEMATIC" FOR SEASON 2023
What is happening to League? Are they reducing the budget of the game so much? Are we going towards some kind of maintenance mode or something?
I know it seems soon to cry wolf, but all these things together made me really worried for the future of League.
As a former Heroes of the Storm player, I must say that this feels very familiar.
League is the older sibling and the parents dont care about them anymore. All the younger children is getting the attention now.
That's how life often works. Times change.
League is basically running in a skeleton crew compared to 2015-2017.
I mean I remember the gangplank event. the OG Oddysey event and a bunch of stuff like that. the mass reworks that even if annoying af made the game fresh.
anyone who says otherwise its just willfully ignoring facts.
we have gotten the same content the last 2-3 years that we woulve previously gotten in 1 season.
Idk how most ppl don't realize this. We been running on fumes for a while now. I feel like anybody with a shread of wanting to do something diffrent went to TFT.
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All of their best people are on other games. Valorant, TFT, and Runeterra are all fantastic. I'm sure they've got all of their resources pointed at the MMO, too. I guess they figure that League can take care of itself while they flesh out their portfolio.
My guess: Most of LoL Devs moved to the MMO. LoL now only exists to fund the MMO so there will be huge budget cuts while trying to make as much money as possible (thats why there are 2 season resets now, they want us to play nothing but LoL and buy lots of skins).
Personal opinion
'No king rules forever and the times they are a-changin' said the preacher. It's all vanity in the end, isn't that right?
Also please try to NOT make fun of me for writing all of this I'm sensible o-okay 
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So the show has released, and as expected by anyone with a brain, it sucks. However it seems to have sucked more than anyone could have predicted. This might legitimately darn Bethesda lmao.
First, here is a comment from this thread explaining how they absolutely butchered world building (this show is canon btw):
So, in summary, if I understand correctly, these are the major changes:
- Shady Sands got cratered in 2277
- NCR vertibird downed on the strip
- The Strip barricades are gone
- Vault Tec seemed to have caused the Great War
- The Boneyard is no longer a thing
- Shady Sands is in place of the Boneyard
- NCR Rangers are gone
- Aradesh is no longer the founder of Shady Sands (more speculatory)
- Somehow the Brotherhood seemed to have overran the NCR in 2277
What I can't believe is that they actually retconned the original two Fallout games and that nobody won New Vegas. Even more egregious is the lore change with the BoS-NCR war, which retcons THE ENTIRETY OF F:NV. This has to be a new timeline at this point.
TL:DR is they literally retconned the 3 games they didn't make, and then replaced the factions from those games with very special factions they made from the 2 games they developed themselves. This is like a bad fanfiction lol.
People predicably, are mad. Some seethe:
Jesus. I genuinely can't believe I was actually letting myself be excited for the future of this franchise before this release. Completely retconning the original games is genuinely fricking so sad man.
When is it said aradesh is no longer the founder of shady sands?
Also when do we see the ncr vertibird crashed on the strip?
Vertibird: https://i.imgur.com/a/5ygLxmK
What even is a Shady Sands? Has anyone else wondered why they named the first game Fallout 3 by the way? Wacky Bethesda xD
That's not a nuke crater, that's a "Borg scooped up the settlement" crater. This is dumb.
I knee it.
I just knew it.
I prayed it wasnt the case but at any opportunity they had, Bethesda tried to retcon New Vegas and now their efforts... went nuclear.
Hate it. HATE IT. HATE IT.
New Vegas is the Canon version of events. Not some Amazon show.
I fricking knew Todd would frick it over to create their version of Fallout artificially. I fricking hate it. I was fine with a scenario where the NCR loses in Vegas, but to just extensively rewrite the lore of Fallout 1, 2, and New Vegas to jerk off the BoS even more? Fricking dead to me.
Says you, but Bethesda owns the franchise and this is the direction they took. They entirely retconned the fallout games they did not make, and they've succeeded. Next season they'll go and show New Vegas as a dead husk bereft of anything that made it special. Enjoy!
Also, they do not care anymore. They are owned by Microsoft now and exist to make xbox and live games.
So I will need to ignore Bethesda to keep the correct Canon? Boo f#₪#^ hoo. They didnt get even a passable game out in the last 12 years!
I walked the Divide for the NCR, I can ignore Bethesda for them as well.
Haven't watched the show yet as I sail the high seas but this ending sounds very, very annoying. Seems like the show starts off well though but if what I'm seeing here is the case I'll be pretty fricking ticked that they essentially made the West the same as the East in terms of development and that they made NV mean nothing.
It's not laziness. It was a deliberate choice.
Its funny because there is a meme that Bethesda is spite driven because obsidian made a better fallout game than bethesda and the metacritic score 83, 85 thing FNV being retconned is funny knowing the meme
The NCR was written out as a society entirely. The writers I guess just learned about shady sands and went 'oh its the capital so if we blow it up then the NCR will collapse.'
The NCR was such a good faction, it was the only one that actually grew, that had a familiar functioning postwar society. And what did they do? They nuked them out of existence to show off the brotherhood and a dead, empty New Vegas.
Why, why would they do this.. they could have made it right after the nuking not decades after. They pissed all over the legacy of my favourite game.
I blame Lonesome Road and Chris Avellone.
To me, Fallout stood apart for being a post-post-apocalyptic story. Just nuking the NCR not only strips away one of the most interesting aspects of the setting but does it, to my eyes, entirely unnecessarily. If you wanted to tell a wasteland story, you could have:
- Set it between Fallout 1 and 2, or even before Fallout 1
- Set it in one of the vast regions of America that are untouched by the games thus far
But no. Fricking why?
then went 'oh there's this group called the NCR, I think they're from shady sands or something, you can blow them up for shock value it'll be fine. There's also this big place called New Vegas you can turn into a dump too who cares lmao.'
"heh heh heh that'll teach 'em to like obsidian's game more than ours*
somehow palpatine returned
So what did house predict then if it was vault tec who dropped the bombs. So Mr house knew the nukes where coming and still couldn't shoot them down or get the plat chip
The entirity of FNV was fought over a dam, water and power.. Now the BOS has infinite clean and renewable fusion.. the NCR doesn't exist either.
So they're using the facade of 1, 2 and NV as a backdrop for more BoS shenanigans from Bethesda's mainline games.
Maaaaan
This is what I was afraid of. A good show based in world building that I think is fundamentally uninteresting.
I'm probably just gonna separate it out as its own thing in my head, no matter how canon Todd says it is.
This is what everyone paying attention was afraid of, but they got shot down as alarmist for daring to suggest the brilliant creative minds behind Starfield might provide a shite backdrop for worldbuilding.
Did he not read the memo?
: I was able to almost accurately predict a nuclear war and I have set the pieces for my rise to power after I come back online
Tv show Mr House
: Shieeeeeeeet I ain't reading all that I'm just gonna pretend I read this
To everyone saying the NCR is totally collapsed.
I highly doubt it. It seems after Shady Sands was nuked the NCR was a bit scrappy but pulling itself together to keep everything afloat, with the BOS destroying the HQ and the view of the NCR leader using the Cold Fusion to power the entire city at once, it shows the civilians of the NCR are still existing at least throughout the entire ruins in some way.
I imagine next season, we're gonna see the BoS biting way more than it can Chew, and something with New Vegas as well, and with the father constantly mentioning something about "Meeting your Creators." How much you wanna bet Mr House is technically still alive? Just New Vegas went into dormancy??
Im excited to see potentially the NCR Regrouping or like Scrappy NCR rebels, and Desert Rangers in the Mojave. I highly doubt the NCR is done and over with from what we saw.
Whatever your opinions on it, retconning NV out of the timeline (which is exactly what they've done) frickin sucks.
Hello fellow spoiler fiends who went straight to the end and saw the New Vegas tease. Also, from what I gathered skipping around, the MC's father was a Vault Tec guy who nuked Shady Sands because her mother went there and was having a great time (missed a bunch of dialogue skipping through so that might not be right). The Brotherhood has cold fusion now and the guy in charge seems like a peepee so presumably they will butt up against whoever is now in charge of House's technology.
Dude wtf happened to the NCR? Didn't they say they had most of California pretty much colonized? I'm only on episode 4 but complete radio silence while it takes place near the boneyard and dayglow??
Episode 8 covers it.
It's not pretty.
About 5 years after New Vegas, Lucy's Mom left vault 33 to see if life was back on the surface, taking Lucy and her brother with her, and made her way to Shady Sands, which teleported to LA at some point. Her dad, who was a Vault-Tec executive came after them, stole the kids back, and use Vault-Tec's secret supply of nuclear weapons (The ones they launched to start the great war) to destroy the NCR, as they were a competitor to Vault-Tec.
Also, the ending credits show a destroyed New Vegas, with empty streets full of shattered Secuiritrons and a destroyed NCR Vertibird.
I also wanted to mention this specific comment, because I found it funny:
They also technically retconned FO4 since Kellogg mentions the NCR election.
Note that I'm not cherry picking comments here, basically everyone hates this garbage. Of course the critics love it, but the actual Fallout fans think it's terrible.
As one of the comments already mentioned, they really shouldn't have set this in the West Coast. They should have set it somewhere new for numerous reasons:
New factions and threats to add a sense of tension and mystery as the viewer wouldn't know anything more than the main character
Avoid having to retcon or step on the toes of the games
Keep it in a region that is less advanced so you can have your apocalypse fantasy
Set the show up as a prequel for Fallout 5, building hype for it even if it's years away.
Expect this thread to be updated as more seethe is posted, this is developing drama. In a few hours we will probably see the hitpieces from journ*lists calling the haters bigots, so keep an eye out for that.
Edit: here are more threads with tons of seethe in them:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Fotv/comments/1bt7fzx/fallout_spoiler_master_thread/?sort=controversial
https://old.reddit.com/r/Fotv/comments/1bt7fzx/fallout_spoiler_master_thread/?sort=controversial
https://old.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/1c17tyn/spoilers_about_the_ncr/?sort=controversial
dear god this one is maximum cope: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fotv/comments/1c185mn/my_theories_for_season_2_and_possible/?sort=controversial
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First, let me tell you their motive:
Their motive was to psyop as a religious Karen on Facebook. Influenced by the legendary manlet known as @Landlord_Messiah, they formerly used to troll with him on twitter with the usernames ellie3kellie and figabig/abigafiga. With the untapped potential to troll Facebook r-slurs, they have found it very fun and entertaining.
Preamble:
First off, this isn't the first time they decided to troll unsuspecting facebook 
s. By posting in a Moms support group by larping as a middle-aged lady, they were able to bait r-slurs by MAGA posting. Examples include calling baby formula a sin (GhostArchive Link), frogs in ice cream (GhostArchive link), debate about jesus being black (GhostArchive link) and puberty blockers for my daughter (GhostArchive Link). Check out their Facebook profile for even more hilarity.
Info obtained from here: https://rdrama.net/post/93680/started-a-dumpster-fire-on-a
Now here's the drama:
It started with a simple meme. ](/images/1663369416692063.webp)
Over 11k cooments of pure seethe just by posting a meme with a mermaid and a confederate flag (GhostArchive Link). And they were seething hard 
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Lots of 
in the above image.
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Snappy Quote?:
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Not even someone posting a link to the rdrama thread ruined it and it was eventually [removed]:
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Obtained from here: https://rdrama.net/post/105044/jump-in-babes-moms-support-group
Eventually, the drama reached TikTok, Reddit, and Twitter.
TikTok video For those without an account. Unfortunately, it looks like it was deleted or jannied 
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Obtained from here: https://rdrama.net/post/105213/update-on-the-facebook-ariel-post
It then reached subreddits like /r/therightcantmeme, /r/terriblefacebookmemes, /r/forwardsfromklandma, etc.
...your heritage as a fricking fish person?
Do not make fun of fish people. Mermaids are okay. Sugarians are okay. Whatever the frick this post is isn't okay.
Don't ever mock 
again according to these people.
They're such crybabies over a Disney movie for little girls holy shit.
If Americans cared about one another half as much as they do about Disney's intellectual property this really would be the greatest country on earth.
Ariel was a slave owner?! :o
She was part of the undersea monarchy, same thing.
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheRightCantMeme/comments/xgpbna/im_confused/iot58v9/?sort=controversial
Fun fact about Atlantis, it was a myth specifically told to prop up white supremacy.
Atlantis is white supremacy sweetie. Some are questioning it.
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheRightCantMeme/comments/xgpbna/im_confused/iot35iz/?sort=controversial
This has strong "this is what they took away from you white man" vibes but unironnicly
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheRightCantMeme/comments/xgpbna/im_confused/iot6stf/?sort=controversial
Brought to you by the same people who say the flag is about Southern heritage and not race 🙄
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheRightCantMeme/comments/xgpbna/im_confused/iot27mh/?sort=controversial
This has to be a joke
Like, no one is that fricking stupid
I live in the South and uh, I've got news for you.
Noooooo
This has to be satire
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheRightCantMeme/comments/xgpbna/im_confused/iotauyz/?sort=controversial
Obtained from here: https://rdrama.net/post/105305/bussylovers-ariel-meme-continues-to-spread
This is the grand wizard of racist mermaid memes
https://old.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/xgm4j1/wow/iosk6sd/
My Uncle literally just shared this on Facebook
https://old.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/xgm4j1/wow/ioson9y/
Whats next? They make Obama black?
https://old.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/xgm4j1/wow/iosoadt/
There is a serious propaganda movement online radicalizing disaffected white people, i see it on reddit everyday. It is concentrated and intentional
Remember rdrama is a criminal conspiracy according to Bardfinn.
https://old.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/xgm4j1/wow/iosljnz/
I love this meme. It's hilarious.
https://old.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/xgm4j1/wow/iosm5hz/
Those who refuse to recognize and make peace with their history are DOOMED to repeat it. The Civil War happened. The confederacy happened. The Klu Klux Democrats happened. Tearing all the statues of General Ribert E Lee down and banning the Stars and Bars and canceling people because their great great great grandparents maybe owned slaves is only going to ensure that those awful things happen again, so.ehow, in the future to your children.
https://old.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/xgm4j1/wow/iosywo8/
black panther should be white
https://old.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/xgm4j1/wow/iotlszi/
Obtained from here: https://rdrama.net/post/105332/bussylovers-bait-got-posted-on-another
And if they're in Texas, FB can't delete it now
https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/comments/xgyktp/what_the_hell_facebook/ioukbcx/
I mean I don’t really give a shit , I think people should be able to express their thoughts freely even though I may not agree with them
https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/comments/xgyktp/what_the_hell_facebook/ioukv9k/
I’m disappointed in humanity, don’t engage in this controversy, watch Oldboy (2003) instead, Oldboy (2003) is something actually worth your time, this whole situation is worth shit.
https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/comments/xgyktp/what_the_hell_facebook/ioullu8/
Obained from here: https://rdrama.net/post/105353/bussylovers-bait-post-made-it-to
It also reached a popular twitter account
Obtained from here: https://rdrama.net/post/105370/bussylover-got-a-popular-twitter-account
Bait account threatened to call the police on anyone who threatened them on Facebook as the drama unfolded (GhostArchive Link)
Final update: https://rdrama.net/post/106375/final-update-on-the-facebook-mermaid
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- Holly_Jolly_Kong : Best post this week.
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Some background
When they're not busy designing pride flags the folx at Microsoft spend their time coding shitty software. Among these is the new Windows Terminal.
Casey Muratori is a programmer who, despite never releasing anything, clearly considers himself to be some kind of genius.
With that out of the way, here's the drama:
ACT 1: THE ISSUE
Frustrated with the slowness of Windows Terminal when printing colors, Casey submits a github issue. He even develops a benchmark application to accurately measure the speed.
After a bit of back and forth Casey starts to becomes frustrated:
Am I missing something? Why is all this stuff with "runs of characters" happening at all? Why would you ever need to separate the background from the foreground for performance reasons? It really seems like most of the code in the parser/renderer part of the terminal is unnecessary and just slows things down. What this code needs to do is extremely simple and it seems like it has been massively overcomplicated.
He receives this legendary response:
I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively. I am not aware of the body of work around performant GPU terminal emulation
Casey gets angry:
When we're at the stage when something that can be implemented in a weekend is described as "a doctoral research project", and then I am accused of "impugning the reader" for describing something as simple that is extremely simple, we're done. Consider the bug report closed.
After which a different Microsoft employee goes in on him:
You were overly confident in your opinion, but I hope [what I linked] helps you understand that it's actually really darn hard.
Basically the whole team agrees that what is being asked of them is extremely difficult. While Casey is insistent that it's trivially simple.
So who is right? A team of senior engineers in a trillion dollar company or a reclusive game dev?
ACT 2: A WEEKEND PROJECT
Casey tweets the following:
I take back literally everything I said about Microsoft taking an interest in fixing their terminal.https://t.co/K9ojvy1liX
— Casey Muratori (@cmuratori) June 17, 2021
And, over the following weekend, he implements from scratch a terminal that works in the way he proposed. It's ~100x faster than Windows Terminal:
(video timestamped to the part with the pretty colors, although the rest is fun too)
Twitter thread with some juicy questions from the audiance
Then this happens:
Afterward, the same dev [lhecker] also used a fake name to hang out on our groomercord and talk about Windows Terminal without telling anyone who he was. I figured it out and confronted them, and they failed to see anything wrong with that behavior. It's a really special team they have there.
— Casey Muratori (@cmuratori) May 6, 2022
ACT 3: MICROSOFT BENDS THE KNEE
Over the following months, there is an embarrassed silence from the Microsoft team. Eventually they release a blogpost basically admitting they were wrong, but don't mention Casey by name. Note that the person making the post is the one who snuck into Casey's groomercord.
Casey tweets:
When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided", being "somewhat combative" and am "impugning the reader". But a year later when they call the exact same thing "trivial", that is just, you know, them writing a blog post:https://t.co/AXrgZjvUPT pic.twitter.com/UTDrD9s0o6
— Casey Muratori (@cmuratori) May 6, 2022
And finally one of them makes a post on Hacker News seething about the whole thing. Quotes:
We get it, Microsoft sucks, we should all be fired, rah rah rah.-
Casey, I'm sorry. We made a mistake. I made a mistake! We didn't know what we didn't know, and thought we were clever enough to pass for it.-
I just don't know what else he's asking for here. Credit? Us to die screaming? The blog post is matter-of-fact, and Casey is right: however, he said himself that it was trivial to do this. Is it not acceptable that we use the same language?
Truly a new low for Microsoft.
Want more nerd drama? See the previous post in this series.
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Edit2: I'll categorize this list by activity and create sub-categories later today and probably add to it over time. I put it together so it'd be easier for people to find fun fringe drama or otherwise be entertained. Enjoy!
Please comment if you have others to add to the list. I bit off more than I can chew because apparently there's thousands of these, so I omitted ones that were boring, inactive, and/or redundant.
General or Misc Fringe
New Age
Paranoid/Classic
Religion, Politics, & Conspiracy (aka BORING)
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He then mentions the places he's getting interviews from... 
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Part 1 - He posts his resume
Highlight:
Car selling e-course
Design a online course educating students interested in selling cars.
Course was made using Groomercord software
Part 2 - He humble brags on reddit
I don't get why so many people struggle with getting interviews. I don't mean to boast, but I've only applied to about 10-13 jobs and I've already got 5 interviews in the span of 48 hours.
I'm curious what methods y'all use when applying to jobs. Do you just apply and wait? Or do you take initiative call them to follow up ?
What is this post even. Ok congrats? Darn. If you're genuinely curious you could have asked how are people approaching their job search, or read through the many posts. Or as others said, share your wise amazing interview-getting knowledge then?
Bros got interviews with Herbalife, Amway, Mary Kay, Avon, and Primerica
Part 3 - He brags on reddit about his 7 interviews lined up but takes the 1st job he interviews for
based on your recent posts; resume, lots of interviews, quick hire process etc. Sounds like you got a job at an MLM.
What is a MLM
Be careful though, research that the company is not an MLM or a devilcorp, they all advertise marketing jobs but it's essentially sales.
If I were you, I would still try to do the rest of the interviews.
I researched them, they are legit.
Check their name to see if it shows up on /r/devilcorp sub.
Not on there . And I'm playing shinobi striker rn
What company is this? Because honestly this seems really suspicious, particularly given the resume you posted recently that was full of copy-edit errors...
Green marketing group
Isn't that the group that puts people in Costco to sell electric service and whatnot?
Part 4 - We take a quick look at Green marketing group
https://www.greenmgroup.com/index.html
This is the shadiest website I have ever seen. They literally don't even list what the frick they even sell 
The "GREEN" in Green Marketing Group stands for growth. One of the founders quit making 80k a year with 401k and benefits to help start this company that now generates millions in revenue, shares 50% to 60% of the company's profit to employees and hires talented and ambitious people, while providing high-paying jobs, careers, valuable leadership skills, and entrepreneurship opportunities.
Isn't that literally just paying people 
GMG has the privilege to work with some of the top Fortune 500 Companies in the nation. Our exclusive clientele and partnerships is what separates us from other companies, while our proven marketing approach is why elite clients come to us instead of the competition and continue to do business.
We have a privacy disclosure with our clients...which means we can not disclose who they are or what we do for them publicly.
An employee doesn't have to pay us anything (except their time and effort).
"posts all the red flags about green marketing whatever"
Alright thank you. What about this other company called unlimited ad group
i know you're young but you have to be resourceful and help yourself. thats how you're going to learn. start by looking at their glassdoor for reviews. read their website, what learn about what they actually sell or do. dont just look at their pretty group photos, that means nothing. next just start googling and learning how to identify a good company from a bad one. within 2 min of looking at this company's glassdoor i would easily pass.
look i hate to be a downer, but theres a reason why the job market is bad. i know you're happy bc you got a lot of interviews, but they're at shit companies. Idk how you got them. these all seem to be very entry level, stand outside sales jobs. try to apply at actual companies that exist or if its a start up, then one that can actually tell you what the frick they do. and also look up what an MLM is so you avoid joining one.
you seem like you want to work in tech so why not apply for social media marketing positions, even if they are very low entry level.
or if you have time, study for Comptia A+ certs to help you break into the field. you can get that cert studying materials from udemy.com for like $15 when they have a sale, take your test and just search indeed "comptia A+" and there are actual jobs that can get you experience being technical support for a small-mid sized company
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My name @sneedman, but I have also existed within the dramaverse as
@acebarbieboy. I'd like to come clean today, explain how I utterly fricked up my life, and give a cautionary tale to any even vaguely thinking of walking in my footsteps. My life is so destroyed at this point that the only solution is suicide.
THE GENESIS OF A DREAMER
As a child, I've always loved literature and reading. It's something that hasn't changed much, and I still voraciously read. When it was time for me to enter university, I did what everyone told me the smart choice was - study computer science. But I was also studying English at the time and I loved it.
I ended up majoring in English and dropping computer science. I didn't know it then, but this was the beginning of the end. I studied with passion, and had my postgraduate studies funded through scholarships. After getting my Masters, I started my PhD.
It was at this point that I paid attention to the fact that I'd need a job afterwards. No problem, I'll just become a lecturer! So the job applications began :)
MENTAL ILLNESS
I should reveal at this point that I've struggled with anxiety and depression my whole life. I've been on and off antidepressants and I've got fricking degenerate self-harming coping methods. They come and go, and during the worst times, I can get very absurd ideas about life and reality.
Sometime in 2022, I had one of those moments. In response, I cut off all contact with everyone I knew online, moved cities in real life, and resigned myself to a life of complete isolation. I was not done with my Ph.D. yet, but I was in my final year (I thought), and I no longer needed to be at the university in person. I had a job too. It didn't pay much, but it was enough for me to support myself.
The plan? Save up money for about a decade, then retreat to a life of isolation in the woods after establishing a homestead that is fully self-sufficient.
ASEXUALITY AND INCELDOM
I am very ugly, extremely dark, short (5 foot 2), and socially awkward. During my time studying English, I learned about gender theory, feminism, and queer theory. It was wonderful to learn about asexuality. The label fit me perfectly, and for years I wore it without question.
It was only this year, after some distance from university, that I discovered the bitter truth - I am not asexual. I am a very lonely incel. Unfortunately, there is no escape from inceldom from this position. No woman in the universe wants anything to do with a 5'2 mentally ill poor black man.
AFTER DISASTER
After my "live in the woods" delusions wore off, I realised I'm looking at a life of the following: no wife, no children, no family, no love, no intimacy. The darn asexuality meme snatched my 20s away from me. I also have no friends and I live in a city where I know nobody. This is what I wanted, right?
PLEASE DO NOT STUDY ENGLISH
Here's the thing - lecturer jobs don't exist anymore. Less than 10% of PhDs will get academic positions, and the rates of tenureship are even lower. Even if you're a stellar student, the odds of you actually making it into academia are so low, you might as well aspire to be a celebrity. If you have mental illness, are a brainlet, are incapable of networking, then you're REKT.
During my year of insanity, I produced no academic articles. I also fricked off my supervisor and made no contact to build any academic relationships. The result? Countless job applications to academics positions to no avail. To be clear, the jobs themselves do not exist, and when they do exist, I am facing competition as stiff as a boner.
Here's the zinger - my fricking PhD thesis got rejected and now I have to spend an additional year on it. Of course, I have to pay for this additional year because I no longer have funding so now I am paying for a qualification I know will not serve me at all.
WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU STUDY ENGLISH
You will not become a lecturer. You will not become a famous writer.
You will be pushed to your limits emotionally to earn a useless qualification. If anything happens to you during your post-graduate year - let's say a family member dies, you fall ill - it's over. You'll fall behind in publications and YOU'LL NEVER CATCH UP.
You will be exposed to ideologies that will turn you into a firehouse of "social justice" and you will alienate people in your life with your self-righteousness. It will warp your self-identity, and you will struggle to develop normal relationships with women. You will be forced to write and say deeply racist things.
You will be poor. You will be depressed. You will regret it severely. Nobody gives a shit about your English PhD. You offer no value to the world.
I fricked up so badly. I was literally studying computer science. Had just one fricking year left. And I decided to switch to English. Now I'm a poor, lonely, shameful incel with no hope in life or reason to live. I'm so ashamed of the squandered opportunities I had, the sacrifices my parents made just for me to become absolutely nothing in this world. I can't show my face and I know what the next step is. I'm afraid of it - nothingness is so horrible - it but I can't bear life any longer either.
It's beyond over. The only choice now is whether to pick the rope or overdosing via trepeline.
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Tldr
Man buys over a million cds, Vinyls, and cassettes from a failed company in an attempt to start the company over again. Abandons his family and buys and moves into a warehouse in another state in one of the most violent cities in America. Spends over half a million dollars to get cockblocked by the city for zoning violations and gets robbed over 30+ times. He sneeds about the city and it's inhabitants on twitter documenting his journey. He's also trying to build a fusion reactor and a science museum in the city
MY CASSETTES!
Backstory
Murfie was a startup company that focused on the digitization of physical media into digital media. People would send their CDs, Vinyls, and cassettes, which the company would store in their warehouse and rip the contents onto their own platform for people to stream. Murfie even allowed people to buy and sell with other users on their platform.
During sometime during early November, the company asked all of it's current customers to make sure they renewed their current subscription before November 17th. No more than 5 days later, the company sent out an email to it's customers saying that the compnay was ceasing all operations including the website. This abrupt shutdown shocked everyone, that even that former CEO had one idea what had happened .
The situation only continued to spiral out of control. Murfies ToS had a clause that promised its customers that they would return all of their physical media in the case the company shut down (For a small shipping fee of course 
), but with all of their services down, customers had no way of getting back their cassettes and cds. In total, there were close to a million CDs, cassestes, and Vinyls left somewhere in limbo. Unsurprisingly, people were soying out about this:
They have my 100+ cd's and $1000+ dollars. nothing to be proud of if they leave people in a lurch.
At this point everyone had lost hope that they wouldn't get their stuff back. Until one determined man showed up.
John Fenley 
John Fenley is an investor, landchad, family man and an autist for music. When he heard the news of Murfie going out of business he stepped up immediately and offered to buy the remaining digital collection.
It wasn't his first venture into this type of busines. Fenley had a similar business that to Murfie that he started years ago, but was unable to find investors for his company. But this a second chance for him, because he knew what he could do it right this time. This was his white whale.
Shortly after, Fenley sold about 150k dollars worth of stock he received from another company and purchased an abandoned warehouse in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Before we continue let's discuss Pine Bluff for those unfamiliar with it. The only aspect you really need to know about Pine Bluff is that it makes third world shitholes look like a paradise in comparison. Let us look at some statistics to truly understand it 
Homicide rate:
Pine Bluff had 29 homicides in 2021. Pine Bluff had 23 murders in 2020 - a rate of 56.5 murders per 100,000 people. The national average was 6.5 murders per 100,000 people in 2020
Poverty Rate:
The per capita income for the city was $17,334. About 24.3% of families and 30.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 45.6% of those under age 18 and 13.7% of those age 65 or over.
Demographics:
A fairly dangerous city to say the least. But, Im guessing at the time Fenley didn't understand this and would come across many problems in his journey for his whale.
The journey 
Fenley has been documenting his adventure on twitter. These tweets are mostly in chronological order, but these aren't all of his tweets. You can check out Fenleys twitter account to see his full journey, but im just going to show some of the highlights.
Right off the bat, Fenley has issues with the Pine bluff city hall fining him for building violations:
He eventually meets with the mayor to discuss his future prospects but that ends up going nowhere:
I should mention too, that Fenley is also trying to turn the warehouse into a science museum and that he's attempting to build a fusion reactor 
Tragically for Fenley, the PineBluff goverment are a bunch of chuds that don't trust the science:
What kind of city government tries to prevent someone from opening a science museum?
Fenleys frustrations with the city government only continue to grow:
The downward spiral only continues for Fenley:
He does offer a $3 bounty to whoever catches those robbers 
Had over $20,000 worth of equipment stolen last Saturday. Putting a bounty on catching the crooks.
They never catch them lmao
Fenley also starts sneeding at the police for being shit at their job:
Despair grows inside Fenley:
I should mention that Fenley is also married and has kids that live in another state. It appears that he's somewhat abandoned them in pursuit of his dream.
7 days later... 
Several hours later....
Febley is also is his own security guard too. He'll often confront those on his property with a gun of couse:
Fenley called the cops on the guy in the above video, and the police actually arrested him! But the guy was quickly released from jail and came back to Fenleys warehouse:
And they let the guy go, and surprise, he came back again today.
Three kids seeing if they can steal stuff. Just another day in PineBluff.
The constant stress continues to pile on our neurodivergent Ishmael:
I should clarify that he's basically living at the warehouse fulltime to ensure that one is trying to rob it. At least one has ever tried taking his security cameras:
Can anyone tell from the sound what kind of gun I just heard firing shots outside my warehouse?
Fenley has been here for 3 years at this point and still hasn't been murdered somehow
Good movie reference!
Hopefully 2023 brings better luck to our hero
Its never going to get better for him
So far that's Fenleys entire story. An interesting one to say the least. Hopefully he doesn't get murdered so we can get more updates on his pursuit of happiness. Fenley doesn't look like he's giving up on PineBluff yet, since he's bought over 75 properties in the city so far. I truly hope he does catch his white whale one day
Thanks for reading!
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