Escape From Tarkov is an extraction shooter developed by Russian studio BattleState Games (BSG). It's somehow been in "beta" for 8 years. Players enter a game, find loot or kill players/AI and take their loot, then if they can exit the map they keep the loot.

The game has a weird monetisation model. The developers promised no microtransactions, no pay 2 win, the usual stuff that makes gaymers smile. Instead the base edition is $50, going all the way up to the Edge of Darkness edition at something like $150. What do you get for that? Basically extra space to store items between games and a season pass for all future DLC.

A few months ago BSG stopped selling Edge of Darkness and suggested they'd offer the features to other players as microtransactions instead. G*mers were less than pleased, but it all blew over in a few weeks.

Arena

Meanwhile, BSG released a seperate standalone game called Arena, which is basically a Team Deathmatch mode for Tarkov aimed at being an esport. Like most "esports ready" slop it flopped, probably because Tarkov doesn't do balance. There are good guns and shit guns, it's ultra realistic. Guy with the better gun and better bullets always wins.

So, 8 years after initial release BSG dump their money into a new, failed game. It's given out for free to Edge of Darkness owners as a "DLC" but still fails. People suspect that this might mean that BSG is running out of money.

PvE

Perhaps the biggest thing the players want is a non-PVP mode. A big part of this is because the game is hard and most players suck, but to be fair Tarkov also has a massive cheater problem.

I mean massive btw, cheaters can see every item in each game. If you enter a raid carrying good gear, the 3-5 cheaters in each map will immediately charge you down for it without fail. BSG supposedly bans these players but does little to stop it, probably because most cheaters sell rare items for real world cash and use the profits to buy a new copy every week. That said, it's been worse in the past. There were times when cheaters could just teleport all the loot in the game straight to them. Fun.

So naturally, players really want to get away from the cheating and play offline. BSG insists it's not possible, although somehow modders were able to reverse-engineer things and create their own Single Player Tarkov (SPT) mod. Someone is lying there, I can't tell who.

Unheard Edition

This week BSG announced a new edition of Escape from Tarkov - Unheard Edition. In this you get all the Edge of Darkness features plus a special knife, woo.

Just kidding, alongside the knife you also get a character with bigger pockets to carry more stuff in game, extra gear and a bunch of other utilities. Naturally gaymers are mad about these more blatant Pay 2 Win features. It's not too bad though, right?

To sweeten the deal these paypigs also get access to a new coop pve mode. Yay! The devs insist that this isn't DLC, but a unique game mode. Edge of Darkness players don't get it.

Oh, and they get a special item which makes the AI not shoot at them.

The best part? The new edition costs

$250

Cue rage.

Drama

The Reddit jannies open the flood gates and promise to be less neurodivergent than usual. Just don't use naughty words.

The devs have been caught repeatedly editing the website to remove promises they just broke. At this point you can just look at /r/escapefromtarkov and see a dozen threads full of seethe.

Highlights:

Big seethe thread

Lawsuits incoming

The devs give in and offer Edge of Darkness owners a 6 month trial of PvE mode. Redditors even madder.

The lead developer gives an interview where he shits on all the complainers, apparently "True Believers" will buy the new version.

Oh, and you know how Edge of Darkness players got a "season pass" for DLC?

"No dlc planned"

This is ongoing. Will BSG give in or let it all blow over? Only time will tell.

even if I had ONE family member who wasn't an andhbhakt sanghi, my life would've been so much better and less isolated. Even siblings closer to age are so blinded that it's not even funny anymore, alienation and hopelessness at home - nothing else

— epcita touched the grass (@leftitcita) April 26, 2024

The CHVD genes will overpower the feminine lib genes in your progeny

Just genuinely insane femcels lol

Bombay Shaving Company does a full page ad for Prachi, The UP board topper, who was being trolled for facial hair.

Haven’t seen something this desperate.

This message goes to their own TG, not to the people who bullied her, hey pls remember to buy our razors while you shed a… pic.twitter.com/YWBDwgd6LU

— Gabbar (@GabbbarSingh) April 27, 2024

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Context: Grade 10 schoolgirl scored the highest marks in the state-wide annual school exams. She went viral because she's very hairy and her parents and her don't seem to care about her appearance. They should have at least given her a shave/wax to make her presentable before publishing her photo or appearing on TV. Why even print the photo or appear in an interview if you only wanted people to celebrate her achievement? The problem is Indian parents and boomers don't believe taking care of your appearance and health is important.

https://twitter.com/ians_india/status/1781640786641088524

Incels have been making fun of her and femcels have been defending her:

No way that's a girl..no way..

Atiq Ahmad

Atiq Ahmad was a notorious gangster that was recently killed.

Those haters mocking her probably couldn't even score as high as she did,lol !

Mithai na khilao as a celebration pehle waximg Karao iski

"Don't feed her sweets as a celebration, wax her first"

Queen Prachi Nigam 👑

Another copium post. Tbh it comes of as sarcasm. The caption says "laugh all you want but some days later you will be my driver and your bank balance will laugh at you". The user speaks as if she's landed on Mars. Bruh, she still has to complete her Grade 12 exams, not to mention heaps of other exams that land you a government job or enrolment in university.

This is UP board topper Prachi Nigam and she scored 98.5%. She should focus on grooming herself as well

Guy makes a good point but could have worded it more politely. Foids and simps seethe in replies.

The topper herself/himself responds to the trolls:

"Trollers can live with their mindset, I am happy that my success is now my identity......what will ultimately matter are my marks and not the hair on my face": https://www.siasat.com/up-topper-prachi-nigam-shuts-up-trollers-over-her-facial-hair-3014157/

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Now, a shaving company does a full front-page ad on her on India's most read newspaper (A.I.R. stands for All India Rank (exams)):

Their intentions may have been good, but it feels like they're making fun of her lol

https://twitter.com/GabbbarSingh/status/1784091111793008767

Poor girl , hope she and her parents learn to care about her physical appearance.

Per Capita Income is a Fraud Index

A person earning $25,000 in Bharat 🇮🇳 is more rich than person earning $1,00,000 in United States 🇺🇸

Pic Source - me 😇 pic.twitter.com/x98sjZRK5n

— InfraStory (@marinebharat) April 25, 2024

!antibharatiya !bharatiya

https://twitter.com/shejwal_kiran/status/1783537403648700524

https://twitter.com/unknowner4545/status/1783546415467360421

https://twitter.com/KeshavOnWeb/status/1783684229454581849

https://twitter.com/lkjhgfdsa5791/status/1783940787849576680

https://twitter.com/Utkala_Kalinga/status/1783667782217064931

Even most of the Indians aren't buying it

https://twitter.com/darshilvshah/status/1783541889641402846

https://twitter.com/vedantmanore/status/1783713488306905129

https://twitter.com/Ayush90588474/status/1783676861744079176

https://twitter.com/kanth_mayur/status/1783727231354687842

https://twitter.com/Rohan25855496/status/1783843931064537474

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1cdqd3m/lessons_learned_after_3_years_of_fulltime_rust/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1cdqdsi/lessons_learned_after_3_years_of_fulltime_rust/?sort=controversial

Article is too long to copy & paste, so here's the link https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/.

!codecels

SHIFT UP's action game Stellar Blade is a day away from release and there's already been some controversy that isn't sexual for a change, as Sony says it will remove in-game artwork that shows ‘hard R' due to unintentional racism.

In Stellar Blade, there's an ‘R Shop' referencing the information broker Roxanne. There's also ‘Hard' graffiti that can be found in numerous parts of the game. However, there's one instance in Stellar Blade where the graffiti and R Shop are shown next to each other, showing what appears to reference a racist slur, which Sony claims was “unintentional.”

Sony provided a statement on the matter:

“The placement of two graphics near each other in Stellar Blade resulted in an unintentional objectionable phrase. Shift Up had no intention of creating offensive artwork and will be replacing the graffiti for the Day 1 patch.”

When asked if there are any plans to remove the art from the physical games as well, a PlayStation representative said that it “Should be removed for all users in the Day 1 update.”

The patch has since gone live and the ‘Hard R' artwork has since been changed to say ‘Crime' instead:

Seethe in the comments:

All of you fricking idiots were warned! But no “It's going to be uncensored”, “It's a based game guys!” Bunch of stupid fricking weebs, weebs are fricking laughing stock.

If you're a weeb, then you're calling yourself a subhuman who has no spine whatsoever.

Where's the lie?

You cope too much cute twink. KEEP YOURSELF SAFE you cuck

Ibought two copies because i have tons of money to spend unlike you, you born poor and will die as poor lmfao enjoy working 7$/hr at fast food

America is a mistake.

The corrupt West deserves to be nuked and obliterated completely.

Eastoids still bussyblasted at a lil' bit of nuke correction.

And the idots were attacking you for stating the truth. This is why weebs are cucks. They live in their own little world like a filthy basement dweller.

!nonchuds I will remind you all that the reason why 4chan stays alive is because Hiro gets paid by research groups who want to study the link between anime and rightoid extremism.

>jewish chadslayer101

Rightoids are beyond parody

And here's another article whining about Stellar Blade.

It's the usual over virtual cleavage so not gonna' bother with a write up.

While we're talking about Shift Up let me bring up their now dead gacha game Destiny Child. I really liked the OST the game had

A village in south bihar is way more cleaner than Rajdhani Delhi. (London banne chale the 🤡) pic.twitter.com/x86FatReL3

— Guddi (Kohli ka parivar) (@mishraverse) April 25, 2024

Even in my father's village which is also quiet poor the houses at least have colour. Imagine showing this literal slum off with pride and wtf are those lanes if you're living in villages also like in your dalli slum then wtf is the point.

We can live freely in individual houses but we choose to live together in hovels I seriously don't get this pattern of houses in a village at all !bharatiya is this what villages in your states look like? Bengali villages typically were a home surrounded by some kitchen garden land and a pond. Because of safety reasons it never was homesteads in the middle of farm land but why would you live like this where land is dirt cheap?

>Then stay there

>There's no money here

>Even Jaipur's sewage canal is better than this

Ooga boogas kanging now

So true

>All the Biharis are in Delhi of course Bihar will be clean

Brootal

ah yess freedom is measured by laws on your sexuality🤡having laws on your sexuality&having to show it off is whats actually oppressive💀.No one care about your sexuality. Just keep it private cause its intimate. u can be gay just dont start being a sponsor n a woke preacher.

— Hamza (@Hamzah96AJ) April 26, 2024

This may have been too far lol

Screenshots of the entire thread in case I get ban hammered

Of course Europe has demons on their euro currency... pic.twitter.com/4HPBbB7aaj

— GBH 🦁☝️ Remilio | ᚱᚹᛟ (@xbtGBH) April 22, 2024

Are all chuds mentally ill?

I'll never hold civilian protester chants to the same degree of seriousness as Israeli state officials statements on international television. Somehow I'm less phased by college kids and moms chanting “burn Tel Aviv” than I am Israeli government representatives telling world organizations that they're “proud of the ruins in Gaza”.

Kind of seems like trying to compare civilian protest to one of the most well funded militaries in the world, and that's just a flat out silly thing to try to do.

That might be the case but shouldn't we be concerned about people making these chants? They might not represent everyone's beliefs on the pro Palestinian side but it would be dumb to just shrug it off like it's nothing. [-52]

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1cdiz2p/protestors_shout_burn_tel_aviv_to_the_ground/l1ct4f5/?context=8&sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1cdiz2p/protestors_shout_burn_tel_aviv_to_the_ground/l1cu7x4/?context=8&sort=controversial

These are not Columbia university students. They're outside of the campus

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1cdiz2p/protestors_shout_burn_tel_aviv_to_the_ground/l1c5juw/?context=8&sort=controversial

The people shouting that are terrorists and should be as such. [-9]

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1cdiz2p/protestors_shout_burn_tel_aviv_to_the_ground/l1c9g6w/?context=8&sort=controversial

this is hate speech not free speech [-10, deletemaxxxed]

https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1cdiz2p/_/l1cdwyp/#comment-info

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1cdiz2p/_/l1cdwyp/?context=8&sort=controversial

As a trans man, I am getting kind of sick of whacky clown-like trans women making shit up like this and discrediting the whole concept of being transgender in the eyes of most people.

No, it is not your "time of the month". You do not have a womb, hence no womb-lining to shed.

Trans men have periods. Cis women have periods. Trans women do not.

A bit of rationality goes a long way towards winning acceptance.

We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.

If you want more real, honest, and politically INcorrect stories that’ll have the media gasping,… pic.twitter.com/bKhpUkchHV

— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) April 26, 2024

I grew up on a farm but luckily it wasn't Kristi Noem's farm or otherwise I'd be dead in a gravel pit.

I'm not making this up when I say she brought a happy tail wagging 14-month-old puppy to a gravel pit and then murdered it in cold blood and threw it into a shallow grave rather than find it a new home. Everything I just said is true and something she admitted to thinking she would get votes.

She literally wrote this into a book and it's not the only animal she murdered in the story lmao

This is the puppy btw:

Thanks to the libtard municipal government policy decriminalizing homelessness and defunding police in the past year, it has become necessary to resurrect this project by rigging up a new broadcast unit for the first time since 2021, to blast directly at a new homeless encampment on the other side of the property boundary.

I learned a lot from the original version of this project, so the new broadcast unit will be faster to set up since I have a refined design. I think I will start tomorrow and try to have the broadcast going by the end of the day. Also I have learned how to do some basic audio editing since 2021, so now I can add boost the volume/equalizer on music tracks that I previously would have excluded due to having too many quiet parts.

I will try to keep the new playlist relatively meme-y, but I cannot risk including any music of the 1933-1945 and 1861-1865 persuasion. During the original version of this project, I was able to shrug off most of the questions about that type of music from the local Karens, but it's more risky these days with moral busybodies and whiners.

But I feel confident in getting away with subversive music, especially if it's not in German or English.

Pakis are some of the most annoying ppl

— 🇮🇶🇱🇧علي (@incheb212841) April 24, 2024

Well he said men not boys

>Neckbeard

@ThatHoeOverThere @ReKonger0 thots

@911roofer get fricked by my 10 inch Somali peepee you Zionist obsessed white trash hamplanet.

!r-slurs !BIPOCs

Codecels are

Archaeopteryxes are about the size of a blackbird and are flying creatures that are considered the evolutionary ancestor of modern birds. They have two wide wings they use to fly and glide. However, unlike modern birds, archaeopteryxes have bony tails. They have beaks with sharp teeth which they use to tear flesh, for they are carnivorous. Prey is killed using their hyperextended second toes that hold a large claw.

We're not going to be talking about this extinct species. Instead, I'll be talking about three public freakouts. Your job is to decide if it is justified or not.

Who will clean your pottys?

This is a favorite of mine. It takes place om The View during a fierce debate surrounding Trump's anti-immigrant stance. In a bid to prove Trump's racism, kelly osborne makes a racist statement herself. She asks "if you kick every latinx out of this country, then who will be cleaning your potty Donald Trump?!" Her comment immediately elicits gasps and the camera hilariously pans to one of the latinx hosts who admonishes her.

Do you think she was being racist, or was she making a good point?

father spanks children for stealing

In this video we see a father whip the shit out of his kids for stealing. This is an ineffective form of parenting. As wikipedia tells us:

>Numerous studies have found increased risk of impaired child development from the use of corporal punishment. Corporal punishment by parents has been linked to increased aggression, mental health problems, impaired cognitive development, and drug and alcohol abuse.

It looks really sore and I'm sure those kids will never forget it. Imagine the damage that's been done between parent and child when violence is introduced.

Do you think the father did the right thing?

Look who's leaving

There's some sort of awards ceremony going on at a high school. It's clearly been going on for too long and some parents are leaving. The principle says "look who's leaving, all the black people!". This causes an uproar which then does cause all the black people to leave. In a subsequent interview, the principle blamed the ordeal on Satan.

Do you think she was making a fair observation, or was she being racist?

Conclusion

I think I got rejected by the same person twice. I'll write a long-winded post about it soon. Oh well, I think I need to learn to get over it. She doesn't have feelings for me, and that's the deal. Tune in next time when we discuss the DC Snipers.

To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan. Before you do, steel yourself for what's to come: A normal person could easily mistake his rambling train wrecks of thought for a crackpot's ravings, but influential Silicon Valley billionaires regard him as a genius.

“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I've ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the V.C. firm Andreessen-Horowitz, in a blurb for Balaji's 2022 book, The Network State: How to Start a New Country. The book outlines a plan for tech plutocrats to exit democracy and establish new sovereign territories. I mentioned Balaji's ideas in two previous stories about Network State–related efforts in California—a proposed tech colony called California Forever and the tech-funded campaign to capture San Francisco's government.

Balaji, a 43-year-old Long Island native who goes by his first name, has a solid Valley pedigree: He earned multiple degrees from Stanford University, founded multiple startups, became a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz and then served as chief technology officer at Coinbase. He is also the leader of a cultish and increasingly strident neo-reactionary tech political movement that sees American democracy as an enemy. In 2013, a New York Times story headlined “Silicon Valley Roused by Secession Call” described a speech in which he “told a group of young entrepreneurs that the United States had become ‘the Microsoft of nations': outdated and obsolescent.”

“The speech won roars from the audience at Y Combinator, a leading start-up incubator,” reported the Times. Balaji paints a bleak picture of a dystopian future in a U.S. in chaos and decline, but his prophecies sometimes fall short. Last year, he lost $1 million in a public bet after wrongly predicting a massive surge in the price of Bitcoin.

Still, his appetite for autocracy is bottomless. Last October, Balaji hosted the first-ever Network State Conference. Garry Tan—the current Y Combinator CEO who's attempting to spearhead a political takeover of San Francisco—participated in an interview with Balaji and cast the effort as part of the Network State movement. Tan, who made headlines in January after tweeting “die slow motherlovers” at local progressive politicians, frames his campaign as an experiment in “moderate” politics. But in a podcast interview one month before the conference, Balaji laid out a more disturbing and extreme vision.

“What I'm really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore). Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts. “And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. “You're a fellow Gray.”

The Grays' shirts would feature “Bitcoin or Elon or other kinds of logos … Y Combinator is a good one for the city of San Francisco in particular.” Grays would also receive special ID cards providing access to exclusive, Gray-controlled sectors of the city. In addition, the Grays would make an alliance with the police department, funding weekly “policeman's banquets” to win them over.

“Grays should embrace the police, okay? All-in on the police,” said Srinivasan. “What does that mean? That's, as I said, banquets. That means every policeman's son, daughter, wife, cousin, you know, sibling, whatever, should get a job at a tech company in security.”

In exchange for extra food and jobs, cops would pledge loyalty to the Grays. Srinivasan recommends asking officers a series of questions to ascertain their political leanings. For example: “Did you want to take the sign off of Elon's building?”

This refers to the August 2023 incident in which Elon Musk illegally installed a large flashing X logo atop Twitter headquarters, in violation of building safety codes. City inspectors forced him to remove it. This was the second time Musk had run afoul of the city in his desire to refurbish his headquarters: In July, police briefly halted his attempt to pry the “Twitter” signage from the building's exterior. But in Balaji's dystopia, he implies that officers loyal to the Grays would let Musk do as he pleases (democratically inclined officers, he suggests, can be paid to retire).

Simply put, there is a ton of fascist-chic cosplay involved. Once an officer joins the Grays, they get a special uniform designed by their tech overlords. The Grays will also donate heavily to police charities and “merge the Gray and police social networks.” Then, in a show of force, they'll march through the city together.

!clinklickers MOAR WORDS...

!grillers

I been waiting till I had a few of these built up to do a drop !birdposters !furries

seeing as I might become employed soon I'll no I'll never stop I'm on that grndset fr fr

posting in the marsey hole idk where else these'd go I can't post in furry bc i'm facing housing difficulties

you'll find a selection inspired by some of my favorite marseys as well as some originals

I have assimilated into the marsey artstyle

I need to do more albeit