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AI generated images - Gommunist Edition

Post your AI generated image collection. Also by the way the new midjourney v5.1 update has made realistic image making more easier. Good time to be alive for communist aesthetic lovers !
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AI news shit general

The other thread hit bump limit and I'm addicted to talking about the birth of the ̶a̶l̶l̶-̶k̶n̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ the biggest financial bubble in history and the coming jobless eschaton, post your AI news here

Previous thread: >>27559
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Fantasy Thread

Elf edition.

Since a bunch of the old threads were basically nuked with the server transfer, I wanted to revive some of them.

General discussion of the fantasy genre.
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Western Animation

A general for "western" animations/cartoons.
Gonna start off with a recommendation to watch The King and the Mockingbird the 1980 version especially, absolutely comrade-pilled movie.

Good torrent sites (massive pop-up warning, put on an adblocker):
https://kimcartoon.li/CartoonList
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=movies
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=2;18;41;49
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Does leftypol play minecraft? I have no friends and wanted to start a new lan world
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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO AJURICABA
"Ajuricaba foi um importante líder dos povos indígenas da Amazônia. Este cacique dos indígenas Manáos liderou as tribos do Rio Negro na guerra contra os colonialistas portugueses na terceira década do século XVIII"
"Preso, ele seria conduzido a Belém para julgamento. Mas, mesmo acorrentado, lançou-se nas águas do Amazonas, para resistir à prisão."
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>12708
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Would Satan be a marxist?
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/lsthg/ - Leftist Sonic the Hedgehog General

Welcome, comrades! Here we discuss everything Sonic the Hedgehog.

/lsthg/ #1 - Free as the Wind Edition

NEWS
>Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Accolades Trailer
https://youtu.be/C6BSu_x0gcE

>Sonic Rumble arrives this November

https://x.com/Sonic_Rumble/status/1978491359452364988

>Sonic the Hedgehog 4 to release on March 19, 2027

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sonic-4-release-date-march-2027-1236280697/

RECENT SEGASONIC GAMES
>Sonic Rumble (Nov 5, 25)
>Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (Sep 25, 25)
>Sonic X Shadow Generations (Oct 25, 24)
>Sonic Dream Team (Dec 5, 23)
>Sonic Superstars (Oct 17, 23)
Roblox
>Outcome Memories
https://www.roblox.com/games/14608970270/Outcome-Memories-v0-1
>Classic Sonic Simulator
https://www.roblox.com/games/130793019/Classic-Sonic-Simulator-V13-2
FAN GAMES & ROMHACKS
>Sonic World DX
https://sonicworldfangame.com/
>Sonic Hacking Contest
https://shc.zone/
>Sonic Amateur Games Expo
https://www.sagexpo.org/
RE/DECOMPILATIONS, REMAKES, & PORTS
>Sonic 1 Forever
https://teamforeveronline.wixsite.com/home/sonic-1-forever
>Sonic 2 Absolute
https://teamforeveronline.wixsite.com/home/sonic-2-absolute
>Sonic CD RSDK Decompilation
https://github.com/RSDKModding/RSDKv3-Decompilation
>Sonic 3 A.I.R. (Angel Island Revisited)
https://sonic3air.org/
Animated Shows
>Sonic SatAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IoDD96l9_0&list=PLuR4vBEgABYgCRdpGEZPMMmgnfh7tfKhK
>AoSTH
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8IitAAlElX4&list=PLySo2SlSHPSOOGZM3_2Qun52hCaRNYW9y&index=1
>Sonic X Dub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CGih4gMRlk&list=PLfj-YRBUe2qHutE9Rx_DsqEVq21FQZW5n&index=1
>Sonic OVA
https://youtu.be/FAgrQn8m_XM
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>but muh marx

Apple just launched a new revolutionary product that completely changes how you can use your phone. Will bernd get the $149.95 version, or the $229.95 pro version that comes with a long strap? It's even compatible with icky green bubble androids.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-pocket-a-beautiful-way-to-wear-and-carry-iphone/
>ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket. Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,” its singular 3D-knitted construction is designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.
>Born from the idea of creating an additional pocket, its understated design fully encloses iPhone, expanding to fit more of a user’s everyday items. When stretched, the open textile subtly reveals its contents and allows users to peek at their iPhone display. iPhone Pocket can be worn in a variety of ways — handheld, tied onto bags, or worn directly on the body.
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Greatest conspiracy film since They Live

Easily the greatest conspiracy sci-fi film of 2025. 10/10
Watch Bugonia.
Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
No spoilers.
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There are some things I don't understand about transphobes:

Why is it that when a man displays an attitude or behavior that isn't typical of his sex/gender, he's immediately treated as an incomplete man or a sissy, but when it comes to trans women, they immediately say he's a man, a complete man trying to deceive society? I mean, either do you believe that one can lose their status as a man or a woman, or do you believe that biology is absolutely binary? You can't believe in both (I mean, a eunuch should be as masculine as The Rock, but these idiots wouldn't see it that way).
Another thing I've been thinking about is this:
On the one hand, they tell a trans person that they will never be the sex they were born with, mainly because of their genes, but on the other hand, they don't care about those same genes when it comes to unnatural body modifications, like steroids, breast implants, etc. I mean, if a trans person isn't a man, then I, who am bald for example, and get a hair transplant, would cease to be bald phenotypically but not genetically. The funny thing is, if I went to a meeting of bald people, they'd kick me out even though I'm genetically bald. Unless you're a Lamarckian, the argument doesn't hold water.

By the way, many TERFs say that trans women invalidate women's suffering. This reminds me of when deaf people say that those who use hearing aids invalidate their suffering. And let's not even talk about conservatives who claim to protect children from mutilation but remain silent when discussing circumcision. KEEEK
pd. sorry the syntax im not anglo
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Tomoko thread… why? Because I like the character… and other reasons…
Post lewds (spoilered), memes, edits, pics and anything else related to the subject
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Reactionary songs

I start
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Kill la Kill

Just finished this show and it has become one of my favorites. On the surface this anime appears to be trash anime packed full of fan service, but on watching it the so called "trash anime" is brimming with substance. excellent character design, badass soundtrack, and one of the satisfying endings I have seen in a long time. This show can make a scene of a butt naked woman running around killing enemy's with nothing but her toe nail feel empowering and not at all exploitative and fan servicey. What are your guys opinion on the show?
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Reminder that hisoka (Blondie to the right of the cross dude) is actually handsome and has insane fashion potential.
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What are you playing general

Post in this thread every time you play a new game and rate it, I'll start, currently playing Dread Dawn, pretty jank and honestly not that good but I'm desperate for more zombie games to wait until PZ 42 comes out. 6/10.
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Hazbin Hotel

How do you feel about it (and its creator)?
also please spam Charlie pics
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/cl/ - Chile General

El mejor thread de Chile

No se si hayan muchos compañeros chilenos por estos lares y menos que quieran hablar de la telenovela que es nuestra política, pero no creo que haga daño tener un hilo para hablar de ello, o realmente de cualquier otra weá que tenga relacion con nuestro país.
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/gaygen/

lefty gay general - boyfriend edition

How do we feel about our bfs /lgbt/? I love mine lots and lots and can't wait till he gets home from work personally.
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On The Transgender Question

https://hidwehproject.nekoweb.org/pages/blog/posts/2025-10-04-On-The-Transgender-Question.html

theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTojZzKi9V8

im just leaving this here. some of the stuff written here might be useful for some of you
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how can trans men be lesbian?

help me out here /lgbt/. I was hanging out at the local anarchist book club the other day and, because it has a high concentration of trans people, there was a discussion about trans issues. since I don't really care I was just listening
one of the people there, who is a trans man, was talking about how they're a lesbian. it's at this point that I feel like an immense boomer, because in my head lesbian = women fucking women. can someone please enlighten me how this is supposed to work? does gender stop existing when SEX is involved? or is it just calling a spade a spade?
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(MGSV) The Phantom Pain

i feel like i've been denied everything the moment i was born
my father was the least favorite of his known (and unknown) brothers, that much he says.
my family always treated us like others,

growing up with FARC stories and named after a communist hero i always wanted to be a soldier.

going through my teenage years i tried so hard to fit in a mold that wasn't made for me, i got to associate femininity with bourgeois behaviour due to me getting bullied out of my own feminity

i used to stare at quinceañera dresses daydreaming of my own quinceañera party

i wanted to be a mother, to be a woman, to be a soldier, everything i've ever wanted has always been denied to me.

and then my mother who kept stopping me from joining military school kicks me out for wearing a skirt.

i see my cousins who my grandfather loved more achieving all of this and the only thing i have left for me is violence, all i have is the dream of one day taking my enemy's life

i can barely pretend to be an adult by ignoring my cousin who just got gifted a Switch for christmas while we had no christmas that year.
acting like i'm not salty.

I can only imagine the lives i was denied and it hurts like i had a chance at it.

I can swear i feel it, being a mother, being a soldier, being loved.
the friends i've lost, the body i lost, the battles i've lost.
won't stop hurting… It's like they're all still there.
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sales

how do I sales? the tech market is fucked so it seems like sales is safer now, a bot can't automate selling right?

I don't know how to even begin developing that skill to land a sales job.
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Post left-wing redneck music.

Rednecks used to be based, I used to call hogs Rednecks before I learned of the origin of the term “Redneck.” During the Battle of Blair Mountain which was the biggest labor uprising in American history the striking West Virginian coal miners wore red paisley patterned bandannas around their necks so the cops and national guard members called them “Rednecks.” So we must Make Rednecks Based Again by posting their music from before they became chuds.
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What is the consensus on Girls und Panzer?
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Draw Alunya 3

Alunya Art thread
(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)
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Mexico Gral

No encontré el hilo anterior así que hago uno nuevo porque es necesario

que con todo y todo Estados Unidos no ha parado de intentar meter las narices en el país y me esta empezando a cansar y mas si en el 2030 planean poner otro titere de mierda en especial si es el puto de Salinas Pliego que planea ser literalmente un Milei Whitexican.

Alguien seguia la campaña de Manzo?
Que opinan de Morena en pleno 2025?
Que nos queda por hacer?
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/Esp/ HILO DE ESPAÑA

Lo siento me siento excluido no se si hay un tablon dedicado a europa pero me gusta hablar con gente que sabe español coño bueno si alguien es de españa que opine o hable en este hilo y si no eres tambien puedes participar.
Pueden hablar del franquismo la republica o pueden hacer incluso un what if… y coño si hay alguien nazbol que hable.
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"Anti-Woke" Gaming Review Site

Rightoids: Oh no, we got banned from Steam forums for hate speech. We must create our own review site!
Die Site: https://deiwatchdog.com

Looks inside: Anonymous reviews. No account required.
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Art Trade Thread v2.0

/leftypol/ has been nuked Edition (Remade the thread because of it)
I draw on occasion, mainly my OC Zhenya (aspiring femboy with black hair, when he transforms it's pink) and sometimes Dina (his tomboy classmate and first real friend in this bitch of a conservative school)
This is an art trade thread, so exchange doodles or full-blown drawings, or just share what you've drawn, even though this is more of a personal art dump :>
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Tech field

Anyone regret being in this porky hellscape
>spend all day every day learning a billion different tech stacks
>by the time ur caught up 30 new technologies to learn
>constant boom and bust cycles that leave u jobless
>workers are greedy gusanos that just came here to make money
>no solidarity at all, techbros happy to step on u to keep their job
>eyeball retinas are just deepfried
>have to produce some shit datamining sw
>grind ur way through 4 years of theory just to fail some shitty coding autism score test
>work under h1b immigrant managers who force u to work all day so they dont have to go back
>get outsourced anyways
>PIP factories to keep ur penis in pain
>get attitude from FOBs who think theyre hot shit because they make more
> the smell
>daily stand ups and justifying ur existence
>oversaturated field because learn2code propoganda
>no jobs headed the way of finance
>threat of AI and dumb managers who cut workforce

Why tf am i still doing this bros
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Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
<vid
CLASS WAR DECLARATION MIX FROM THE THAI LABOUR MUSEUM STORAGE ROOM
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todd in the shallows

in a single breath he compared the pressures of being a popular youtube content creator with the pressures of being a refugee, humblebragged his viewcount on-screen for everyone to see, and actually admitted that he bases his self-worth on his social media metrics. i also heard him say in another video that "creep" is the best radiohead song.

it's like american psycho or something. how does someone get this fucked in the head? is there any hope for them or are they too far gone?
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> yeah bro, my games universe has magic, paranormal stuff, and mysticism that normal people interact with daily
> oh but magic, yeah that’s some elite stuff that only a conveniently select few type of people know about
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JPEG XL

Why isn't it widely adopted yet? It's much better than AVIF since it's actually designed for still images, and Apple supports it natively on Safari and Photos. What's Google's endgame by killing work on support for it in Chrome?
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White transexuals

why are white trans women such petty pieces of shit?
you'd think being slightly more marginalized despite being in a first world country would make you at least a bit less of a bitch but it's like ya'll really just wanna fit the annoying white woman mold so much it's unreal you still wanna act like you own the queer community.

i don't want to believe in optics, but ya'll legitimately make being a transhumanist in the third world so much fucking worse in every way.

and no wonder /tttt/ thrives with how fucking milquetoast a bunch of you are yet go around with radlib talking points with next to no sense of class consciousness.

seriously the 2 sides of the white transexual are either annoying r/traa radlib or racist r/4tran grifter?

it has legitimately made me rep at times and it hurts, and i'm not even in the US.
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One piece 1165 is a breath of fresh air

This shit would’ve had me in tears if I read it a few years ago when I was less jaded about life. Shits fucked and I’m so upset rocks got done so badly man. Good job oda, you cooked.
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What's the tackiest handgun I could buy?
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The amazing digital circus

Whilst we are waiting for episode seven, i see no reason why we should not discuss what we have seen already.

I personally enjoyed the show, and the symbolism of how the characters personalities in relation to their bodies was quite interesting.
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This shot always stood out to me

How the vast the sea stretches from Mother Base. You can feel the absolute loneliness that Venom Snake is experiencing at this moment, after having to kill all of his comrades.
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/lang/ - language learning general #1

Choosing a language edition

I do not know why we do not have an active language learning thread, so here you go.
If you got other links you think are worthy of being on here, do mention them.

>Language learning communities

r/languagelearning
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/

Language learner's forum
https://forum.language-learners.org/

Linguaholic's forum
https://linguaholic.com/


>General resources

r/languagelearning's list
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/wiki/resources/

>Bonus and misc

Omniglot: Omniglot is a compendium of linguistic knowledge and the different writing systems used to represent language.
https://omniglot.com/

HTLAL's archive: A nice website which housed a number of interesting things, such as the life of cardinal mezzofanti, a list of languages and some details about them, a list of resources and a forum.
(latest working snapshot)
https://web.archive.org/web/20250629150605/http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/index.html


Today's questions:
>What language/languages are you learning?
>What is your level currently?
>Why are you learning them?
>What is your plan for improving?
>What tips can you share with someone who also has your TL?
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/CHARTS/ THREAD

Post charts.
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my grandma, a lib, believes in ancient aliens
my father in law, a MAGA, believes in ancient aliens
it's the one thing they can bond on

I think it's a fake and anti-materialist hypothesis with lots of evidence against it

but someone told me the show ancient aliens is a fed psy op to shitcoat the plausible hypothesis with bad arguments.

I remain skeptical

counterarguments?
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Horse Racing General

- Games about Horse Racing,
- actual Horse Racing,
- Your favorite horse,
- related media, etc…

## Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_racing
https://umamusu.wiki/Main_Page
Admittedly don't know much about horse racing myself so if you got more links feel free to share.
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Film Thread II

Hola filmfags, last thread was full so here we are. I'm thinking we also could use this thread as Films You Just Watched edition 3 as traffic is low.
Here's the list of the first thread I very subjectively added some shit to.

&ltS Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre
>Kubrick: 2001, Barry Lyndon
>Shane Carruth: Primer

&ltA Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
>De Sica: Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.
>Pontecorvo: Battle of Algiers
>Cocteau: Orpheus, Blood of a Poet
>Godard: Breathless, Band of Outsiders, The Little Soldier
>Kurosawa: Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Ran, High and Low
>Mizoguchi: Sansho, Ugetsu
>Kobayashi: Seppuku, Human Condition
>Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, M
>Bunuel: Discreet Charm, Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel
>Kieslowski: Dekalog
>David Lynch: Anything, including Twin Peaks old and new.
>Ki-duk Kim: Spring, Summer…
>Gilliam: Brazil
>Kubrick (pt. 2): The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, FMJ
>Villeneuve: Incendies, Arrival

&ltA- Tier - Entertainment
>Cronenberg: Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers
>Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three, Sunset Blvd, Witness for the Prosecution
>Becker: Le Trou, Touchez pas au Grisbi
>Melville: Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge, Bob le Flambeur
>Clouzot: Diabolique, Wages of Fear (the ultimate languagefag film)
>Bresson: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket
>Renoir: The Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game
>Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant, King of NY
>Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre
>Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Alfredo Garcia
>Woody Allen: Annie Hall. All the other old-and-good ones too.
>Carpenter: The Thing, They Live
>Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
>Scorsese: Kind of Comedy, Taxi Driver. The rest can kinda fuck off.
>Hitchcock: Pretty much all of them.
>Don Coscarelli: John Dies at the End
>Villeneuve (pt. 2): Sicario, Dune

Also:
First thread >>>1660
Films You Just Watched 2.0 >>>24481

Let's talk about movies, then.
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Hey, /leftypol, do you blame Ryuk or Light more for… y'know, ~130000 dead lumpens, a few dozens dead glowies&cops, a dozen dead porkies, one dead Anime George Bush (accidentally based?), couple of dead exploited orphans and a wave of worldwide fascisation?
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/Lang/ Thread here?

So i remember a while back, while i was lurking, that we had a language learning thread here too.

Personally i think it is better suited in /edu/ but i understand how it is a hobby for some folk too, so here is the thread.

https://leftypol.org/edu/res/25414.html
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Fanmods, total conversions, and independent projects

I was kind of intending this thread to be a storehouse of replies for

<hurrr but who would work without profit motive???? you ever thought about that commie?


where fans have for one reason or another put in a great deal of time and effort to maintain or recreate digital experiences.

For example, I stumbled on some videos for a fan recreation of TIE fighter which, from the clips of it, looks really neat. It seems like video related is a mod based off of another mod for the million year old X-wing Alliance engine. I need to look further into it and see if it's built off of the original game, or its own standalone deal meant to mimic it.

Then there's also Tamriel Reborn that seems like it isn't just a remake of the original, but actually expands on the original Morrowind, I guess to add back in all of the content that had to be cut. Apparently they've been going at it since 2001.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKyrzZRo-O0

Then there's DOOM, which has just had an insane amount of work done on it and with it since it was released. It's actually pretty amazing to see what people are capable of doing with it after so long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3bwKzHEpbA
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/swoletariat/ #4

Since nobody has made a new one and people keep asking for it I made the next one.
Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide, aka "the /fit/ sticky" - http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html

Swole-Soldiers Edition

Previous threads on >>>/alt_archive/
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HILO LATINOAMERICANO
EDICION MURO PROPIO
Terminamos el año con una victoria mas de los socialdemocratas en Uruguay y con Pepe Mujica en modo espectro alentando a los jovenes a militar
¡A Darle con Todo!
Para luego buscarlo en el catálogo:
Latinoamérica, Latin America, LATAM, /lat/, latinoamérica, latino américa, hispanoamerica, /ñ/
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Stopped HRT for about half a year, started again

couldn't have been more than half a year but I started back recently and have just now upped to around my original dosage, 12mg injections every 5 days, 150mg bica every 5 days

I'll post a pic of me before, and me now, and how long until you guys think i'll be able to achieve getting back to the before pic?
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HoI4 + HoI4 modding thread

Operation Deep Sneed edition

Made a new thread since the other one is full. You know the drill folks, gather here to discuss and/or complain about Hearts of Iron 4 and all the alt history mods that make the game relevant. From green natpops to sicko mode Savinkov we've got a lot of exciting stuff coming in the next Kaiserreich update, one which will make the LKMT look like pre-rework Germany by comparison. But dont worry TNOomers, you're getting some new content too! After a year and a half and three focus trees that only last for four years, we finally have something new and that's…

…three years of fucking Antarctica
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Darling in the FranXX: Japanese anime series about fighting for the survival of humanity

>Darling in the FranXX: Japanese anime series about fighting for the survival of humanity

>Darling in the FranXX is an original Japanese animated (anime) television series that aired between January and July 2018. It includes 24 episodes and was created by Studio Trigger under the direction of Atsushi Nishigori, who was the character designer for the popular series Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagannin 2007. The series is now available on the streaming service Crunchyroll, which specializes in East Asian media.


>The series takes place in a future dystopian world where humans live in self-contained, glass-domed cities, defended by young teenagers who operate the FranXX—giant robotic weapons (mecha) that require a pair of pilots, one male and one female, to operate. The children defend the cities from klaxosaurs, a mysterious race of beings who live underground and regularly attack the cities.


>The children themselves are indoctrinated in regard to the history of humanity and the overall circumstances surrounding their service. They aspire to be “adults,” a number of whom live in the center of the cities, but with whom they never get to interact. The people in power are collectively referred to by the children as “Papa,” and they pray to them, as though to a deity, before each meal.


>The series’ main protagonist is a young pilot named Hiro, who once showed great promise, but in recent years has found himself unable to operate the machinery with success. The operation of the FranXX is associated with the onset of puberty, with the male and female crew members assuming positions within the machines that are overtly sexual.


>The principal aim of the show’s creators seems to be to examine what it means to be a human. (But how enriched and developed is their conception?) We learn that the society’s “adults” are humans who underwent a process whereby they could become immortal at the expense of their reproductive systems. They live in an advanced state of unchanging age, but no longer have interactions with each other and live sterile lives where they do not even speak.


>Anime is a complex medium, with many divisions and subdivisions. Its roots in Japan are generally traced back to the early twentieth century, but it was not until the 1970s and 1980s that the form became a part of mainstream Japanese culture. This was no doubt a contradictory phenomenon.


>Japanese anime no doubt has mobilized considerable skill and even artistic brilliance. But like other artistic forms that emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s, it inevitably bears the stamp of the cultural and social problems of the time. The receding of the radicalization of the late 1960s and early 1970s (which had been very intense and explosive in Japan) had consequences. No matter what its admirers may say, there is an element of escapism in anime. That doesn’t disqualify it, but one has to be honest. It cannot be a coincidence that the rise of anime coincided with the collapse of the Japanese cinema as a serious intellectual force. One of the greatest national cinemas of the postwar period, Japanese filmmaking has produced almost nothing enduring or penetrating about the reality of life in that country over the past several decades.


Get the full article at https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/08/20/frxx-a20.html and other important insights, of the ICFI.
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The Catholic Church's Stance on Gays (Jesus Christ)

Gay, starts many ways, and ends many ways.

But any gay male, ends in death on pain, and has the same moment at the middle, narrowing.

They strike a man, for a woman.

It's the famous "widow bride"; killing the husband, no matter what he does.

I avoid doctors, I was framed by a dentist that became a Rabbi.
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Encounters With Belgian Defense Forces (Ba'athist Europe)

1992: Lacerations post-circumcision on base of phallus, and reattachment; blood used per "Redbull" energy drink, having imbibed shrimp and pork prior to wounds; age 7. Shrimp compatible formula, per Aryan Brotherhood, to join Jewish people; the Mormons and Unitarians.

1999: Death of mother accused per self, by "Hitler" rumor per Hitler's invention of marijuana and butter mixture, per chocolates or cookies, as having killed mother; actually medical error, per medication reapplied, per recovery from espionage career; planned by British draft, given to Israeli attorney's board.

2004: Application of Wellbutrin, a methamphetamine compound, mixed with a psilocybin catalyst (own patent, permanent imbibement); per chain smoking induced, through marijuana given and granted by French External Intelligence; a psychopathic breakdown, like Timothy McVeigh.

2004: Catch of IED devices, roadside explosives, in Van Meter dormitory; proof of psychic genome, in 252 Van Meter, through own badge as a police informer, and CIA cadet; multiple embellisms discharged into foes, and savior of COIN operatives; arrest warrants served, per anti-war movement.

2006: Print of "Chico Muerte", Ciudad National Intelligence formative work, Mexican intelligence, as per American cop of Latin or Native descent; Satanic worship, the intent of the Church, with Saints worshipped as criminal, the intent of the Vatican prior to formation as Christ given torture of anus, back, and arms; per rape of women, after theft from men, to sell as prostitutes; forbidden under American codes, through Catholic clergy and tradition of children raised in Vatican Catechism; Sunday School, Catholic Catechism Doctrine.

2009: Castration ordered, for claiming Dr. Joshua Golden, responsible for Sandy Hook attacks, after catch of Eric Frein through police resources as CIA agent on call. Joshua Golden, sued and given public article, and in private, his organization, the Israeli Defense Forces, disingenuitied per trust of American police forces.

2014: Print of "Gotham", however through Robin Lord Taylor insisting as character played as queer; converso Jews, Jewesses marrying male Catholics at stomped glass wedding, slurred as under Torquemada laws; cat ownership by Muslims, dog ownership by Jews, and refusal of pork to Jews and Muslims, and alcohol by Jewish rules; alternately, psychics, witch hunters, as given medicines; syphilis outbreak of Spain, post-Reconquistda.

2018: Defection from American armed forces, at Trump hacking computers and acting through gay rights, offensive to United States soldiers; through US Navy, placed under US Army Reserve investigation as having cooperated with North Ireland; held as violent terrorists, to Britain, Canada, Australia, and Ireland as a separate state.
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The A-Team of Terror ("Confessions of a Dangerous Mind")

Target: Bellevue Sanitarium, Israeli Defense Forces; supported through "Law and Order", and related prints and shows; "British Intelligence", a better's parlor for defense attorney arguments per politician on televised ballot.

COIN: "Allie"; major undercover operative against Theraveda Jainist school, in Van Meter dormitory.

Echelon: "Mariska", witness to bets and calls per CIA agent in psychotic break; instead of neurotic, "Autism Speaks"; Down's Syndrome diagnosis, per falsely taken career on prank or plant of drugs; teacher.

ONI: "Ozzie", the Penguin's Daughter; always ready for a hot fight; disappointed that it was a "bug hunt", a hunt for civilians; not the "hot war", as a radio veteran; the family's best achievement, the "U2" radar array.

HUMINT: "Dave the General", personally requested by David Masouz; the finest pot dealer, politician, and writer, produced in Hopkinton's nearest history; "Market Garden", as the Afro-Nubian pathfinger; "the NIG".

Freemasonic Society: "Lincoln Stinks", the Lincoln family; the connection to South Park, own written show, in the 1990s; as an elementary school student; the self-executed Mary Jo Bergman, Snow White and Liane Cartman; a checkered register, as "James Bond".

The Jackal: Specialist in remedial, disabled, and mentally ill personality disorders; otherwise deployed to the NAACP, Brazil; assigned to counter Lutheran Israeli movements, against Afro-Brazilian slaves. "007".

EON: "Cherna", the alias of "The Brocolli Sisters"; license to players in military and psychiatric wardens, and actors, actresses, and playlists related; Daniel Craig's "James Bond", "HUMINT", licensed per "Lazlo Valentin"; others held under Arizona Health Officer insurance, to keep free of New York Police Department; brother department with IRA, Boston Banks; the O'Neil kid.
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In Russia it's not gay to suck a cock of your superior. It's trad and Orthodox.

Semen is a bodily fluid and spermatozoid is basically a body (cell). So by swallowing semen of your superior as a Russian you are swallowing bodily fluid and eat body of your superior. Which is basically the same as Holly Communion. in Orthodox Church. In communion you drink bodily fluid (blood) and eat body of Jesus Christ who is your Lord. Lord is your superior.

So when privateer sucks cock of an officer and then swallows it's the same situation as during Holy Communion.
Therefore it's not gay as Holy Communion is not gay.

Q.E.D.
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Harrison's Gentleman's Parlor (Counter-Bets, United States)

Albert Gore: Claim of "exercises", as compulsive jumping; per genius mind, capable of separating Jewish and Gentile logic.

John Kerry: Attempt to take "blue cheer" Jordan River Valley "fractal", LSD, to face Bush as if incumbent.

John McCain: Campaign depending on Martha Coakley numbers out of Massachusetts, "Krispy Kreme" donut; hypnosis, from Clear Channel, on donut's trek per Jewish Star of David and related advertising dependence.

Mitt Romney: Support of 41 percent poorest, doctors and nurses; removed and refused, per single-payer health supporting legal marijuana in Greater South; per labor, outside of draft per conscript, draft, or conviction.

Hillary Clinton: Attempt to use hospitals, television, and delivery schedules, combined with coverage per television and family schools, to achieve votes; removed, per report to Elizabeth Warren of voter's fraud through starvation clinics; "Heaven's Gate".

Donald Trump: Voter's outreach, through slave families through Israeli manufacturing and related families; standing against MI-6 and Catholic Church, accusation of Papacy per homosexuality among priests; actually Jewish police officers, retired to be Vatican advisors to mothers per child; Vatican, Anglican, and Chinese.

Kamala Harris: Private security company through Chris Hansen and "Star Trek", on stolen documents per plea bargain of abused child from parents; given credit as abuse, towards multiple self defending parties; "plea bargain".
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/wydna/ - Kantbot, Pseudodoxology, Tankerpills, and Wydna

Seems like there are a few people on leftypol interested in this subject so I thought I'd create a thread dedicated to discussing the Wydna collective and Pseudodoxology podcast
>What is Wydna?
Wydna is a research collective dedicated to reading history through a unique lens. Taking inspiration from Marxism and Accelerationism, Kantbot and other members of the collective dedicate themselves to uncovering the conspiracies, traditions and ideologies that circle the elites of the British and American Empires. Through their podcast, they discuss secret societies, scandals, and factions of the deep state in a fashion considered unconventional to our current interpretation of history.
>That sounds great, where can I learn more?
Their episodes are paywalled, so that's why I'm making this thread. I will be uploading some of their more noteworthy episodes on request here for those who aren't interested in paying the 5$ a month on patreon.
You can listen to their most popular episodes for free on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/45p4IYDT96zuulXl1oH5wW?si=4uuH0B85RjWbbqdEmnwQkw
And I will be filling this thread with links to episodes I consider noteworthy.
I'll start by uploading their episode on the history of political economy, which is 7 hours, so I'll be breaking the audio up into several parts. This post, OP, contains the first 3.
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!BREAKCORE!, !JUNGLE!, AND !IDM!

>Are all made up genres :)

Discuss shitty music made from a late young-adults basement consisted of splintering breaks, bleep(s) and bloop(s) of the early 2000s and DB ear crushing diarrhea straight from satans asshole. Self-Shills allowed, pack sharing encouraged.

>Soulseek rooms: Breakore, Communism

(I doubt anyone uses these nowadays)
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Hetero moid here. I came to conquer your board. I want all your femboys and transgirls. Kneel in a circle around me. You will each get your turn on my cock. I‘m here to enact violence and you will love it.
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stalking trans women okay.

>be on E for 5 years
>gets sexually harassed at work by being asked "have you had the surgery" and being stalked by lower rank coworker.
>talk to same rank level coworker about it.
>doesn't give a shit.
>then tells that same rank coworker that a cisfem heard his sexual discussion, and she told predator coworker to stop. Then predator-chan got all mad and said "what is her issue"
>Broski gasped for air like that was her daughter and was apauled that cissyf went through that.
<mfw sexual assault is okay to do to me because dik n ballz
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Trans people and communism

I've noticed for a while now that trans people on average are much more likely to be communists or socialists. I've never really thought about it, but why could that be? I've had this image saved since early 2023 (when I started noticing this) and have seen a lot more trans communists since.
I mean, I guess it could be the hiring discrimination they face, but you don't need to change economic systems to introduce anti- discrimination legislation.
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Leftist Argument copypasta general /LACG/

Post Copy pastas, videos and books which debunk common Fascist, Liberal talking points which are repeated often.
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Right Wing music

post conservative and rightoid music of any genre.
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I love italo disco
I love pretending I'm snorting coke and having sex in an 80's nightclub while operation gladio is bombing me body be THIS BODY BE TOO SHORT IS THERE SOMETHING I CAN DO FOR YOU
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I have been continuously paranoid since years about corporations and the government. I am an active militant and I like very much to keep my head low although sometimes I can't escape getting in the fray and involved with the media or the police. So my big threat vectors are the police, the government and to a lesser extent the media and the little fascist groups of my western European country.

Now I got windows out the way, I'm running arch and I wipe my laptop and desktop computers once or twice a year. I have Tails on a USB drive for critical operations, I have a riseup account but I never use it because I feel it could be a honeypot so I prefer Proton which is less political.

I used lineageOS build on my last phone but now I have a pixel with Graphene, Obviously I never post on leftypol without using a VPN or TOR.

Can I get better than that? I thought about using a 8 numbers pin on my phone on which I set up a reformat code if I'm forced to enter something but it fucking sucks to type so much each time I unlock it, I feel I'm not high profile enough to justify the hassle. And no I am never giving my digital print to any device.
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/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread (leftypol edition)

(Copypasted from a previous 4chin /g/ thread as a foundation to making these generals on leftypol)
Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.

* Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread *

Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.

If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.

Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.
*Many free software projects have active mailing lists.

$ man %command%
$ info %command%
$ %command% -h/–help
$ help %builtin/keyword%

Don't know what to look for?
$ apropos %something%

Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):
https://wiki.archlinux.org
https://wiki.gentoo.org

/g/'s Wiki on GNU/Linux:
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Category:GNU/Linux

>What distro should I choose?

https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
>What are some cool programs?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://suckless.org/rocks/
>What are some cool terminal commands?
https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
https://cheat.sh/
>Where can I learn the command line?
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/
>Where can I learn more about Free Software?
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
>How to break out of the botnet?
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux
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/lolg/ league of legends general

Anyone still playing the game? For me swiftplay kinda saved it. Only fun mode to play right now, wish they would just return twisted treeline.
What champs and modes do you guys prefer?

Anyway, alk about the game
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/mu/ - Music General

What do you listen while you wagecuck, anons?
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PDF/EPUB post outage thread

drop them PDFs, we will rebuild edition
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Como lidar com essa moda de viralatismo que está contaminando os zoomers de todo o país?
Sou auxiliar de sala de aula numa escola e todo dia eu escuto Bostil pra ca, Merdil pra la, um estudante já escreveu num trabalho valendo nota pro bimestre.
Ontem um professor advertiu que essa investida dos estadunidenses de querer classificar as facções como terrorista e só pra dar brecha para justificar uma intervenção aqui e os fedelhos riram.
Um disse que se bombardearem os prédios dos três "foderes" ele irá agradecer a Deus, outro disse que se tiver guerra ele se juntaria ao lado inimigo, não importa se e os estados unidos, China, Rússia ou a Venezuela.
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what's the deal with 4chan transgenders?
i don't know much about 4tran4 im not trans, what kind of stereotype do they have and why are they extremely into looks and passing?

also at this point i don'tknow what a hon is and i need to get it
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Cold War forum game

There's going to be a turn-based, text-based simulation of the world starting at the beginning of January 1981. To quote from the rules, "Players join as countries, parties, cabinet members, army officers, guerrillas, individuals, or most any other position they can think of."

Here's a link to the thread explaining how it works and what roles are currently taken: https://eregime.jcink.net/index.php?showtopic=21199
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Europa Universalis 5 Thread

How are we feeling about it?

I am cautiously optimistic from the all the gameplay footage released. It genuinely looks like it will be a fun multifaceted game.
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/tv/ thread #2

🎭📽🎬📼📺
>Argue about dvd commentaries, Post your thesis on King of the Hill, Reminisce about a tv show you used to watch but don't quite remember it's title. Just about anything related to shows. Post your highscore on those Ben 10 CN flash games. Anything goes.



OLD THREAD
>>3012
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Add to this list of annoying tropes

>cool powerful villain/side character doing nothing for the majority of the plot
>fight scene that ends after one or two moves are used
>exposition dumping instead of a flashback scene
>x minutes before some big disaster hits (those minutes last multiple episodes)
>main character saving all the side characters at the last minute when they’re losing
>forced romantic subplots that go absolutely no where (god I fucking hate these in particular man)
>women being useless to the plot
>monologuing and chatting when there’s a disaster/fight going on
>skinny ngas with glasses being comedically OP
>will they won’t they drama for several hundred fucking chapters
>chosen one schtick (man I miss when the power of friendship and teamwork was more commonly used by lazy writers)
>mandatory tiddy and panty pics at the end of each arc
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/ Networking /

<Computer networking is the practice of connecting two or more computing devices to enable data exchange and resource sharing, using either physical cables or wireless signals. Key components include end devices (like computers and printers), media (cables or radio waves), protocols (rules for communication), and networking devices (such as routers and switches). These networks range in size from small Local Area Networks (LANs) in homes to expansive Wide Area Networks (WANs) that span the globe, like the internet

Thread to discuss computer networking. I thought we could use one because networking has an unusually long shelf life for IT skills, unlike programming and even linux to an extent, networking hasn't changed (at least very much) because its basically the physics of IT.
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Watched Evangelion with my mum

I just finished watching Evangelion with my mum and dad (well my dad sat in the room with us but refused to even look at the telly and instead scrolled football forums instead on his laptop). I basically told about every production quirk and lore detail all the time it was really fun. She liked it but didn't think it was that deep, and she said it repeated itself too much towards the end and she liked the beginning more (a very interesting opinion imo). She hated the last two TV episodes and also didn't seem to care about Kaworu that much.

She liked the elevator scene a lot, that was the standout part for her. I think the character she was the most invested in was Asuka (maybe because I am a bit like Asuka). Lastly she liked End of Evangelion but didn't love it that much, she thought it was just repeating what the show said and didn't think it was the most artistic film ever or anything. She liked the mech battle the most.

I think my mum likes fight scenes more than wierd abstract character moments and she doesn't really understand the intricate parts of animation. This is all very interesting to me tbh as someone super into anime since it shows what a normal person thinks of it.
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Roosterteeth productions

what do you think about RWBY as an anime
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MAGA Pedos on Dark Web Plotting against LGBT

I have come across the most insane and disturbing thing. It's a screen recording on I found on another imageboard, buried somewhere deep with no traction or replies, of a deepweb forum called "The Playground".

The contents are extremely disturbing. People are freely discussing child rape, trading children, and discussing child murder. And beyond that, it seems like there's a whole christian fundamentalist pedo agenda ("Creating a Future for Child Lovers"), where based on some biblical stuff, child rape is normalized, and which is actively fermenting outrage against LGBT in order to prevent sex education in schools - all so that raping kids becomes easier, like it was in the times before Sex Ed. And even more disturbingly, it seems these people are in powerful positions, extremely affluent and have a lot of access to power.

The insane thing is that these are the exact people who are spreading the pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies and hysteria, and several right paramilitaries seem to be involved, eg. Oath Keepers (one guy even posts that they were acquitted for January 6th) and Proud Boys, offering human trafficking services on this board.

There is a lot of mention of the MAGA figures, Bondi, Hesgeth and Tulsi Gabbard - in her case there's even a thread ostensibly containing some sort of videos of her. There's talk of Heritage Foundation and their president Jim DeMint. There's mentions of Silicon Valley figures such as Curtis Yarvin, Musk and Sheryl Sandberg (her supposed "personal collection"). There are several references to Orban and trips to Hungary are advertised. This is just scratching the service of everything that can be seen in the screen recording, which was anonymously uploaded to archive.org by a woman that found this page open on her father's computer.

The leak seems pretty recent, dated to March 2025. I did some searches, but I can't find anything else on it, so it must be extremely secretive. It seems that this has gone completely under the radar, so I'm bringing it here for your consideration. And frankly, I'm scared, because I do think it's real. This is too far out there to be fake, I don't think anyone has an imagination wild enough to come up with this.

Here are the links to the screen recordings and screenshots of the board. There's no graphic content in the videos but a lot of graphic discussions.

https://dump.li/a/29c72d#x

https://archive.org/details/dark-web-playground-child-abuse-forum-leak-censored-posted-endchan-03.18.2025

Have I gone completely insane? Is this some sort of an elaborate prank/troll? Help me make sense of this please, I'm literally stressed the fuck out and starting to doubt everything. Are these the people in power in the US?
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/ML/ Machine-Learning general

Machine Learning general. So anybody here actually do any ML programming? I just installed PyTorch yesterday and actually started training some shit. It was pretty easy to get working. But… I am a dumb dumb, so I am going to go back and learn all the basics I think, because I have delusions that maybe I'll be able to do something interesting with it, but I know unless I'm really knowledgeable about it, the probability is less than zero.

I know that thread about bitching about ML is the most popular thread on /tech/ but I thought we should have a separate thread for people actually programming it.
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dumb question

really really retarded question but it’s whatever

is it true most of the LGBTQ+ community are now filled with middle class individuals or not? i remember when i saw a reply mentioning that on /siberia/ and now im wondering if its true or not
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>Metroid Prime 4 is open world with a motorcycle
Literally everything is open world slop now. Even a series that named the genre where you explore intricate interconnected levels.
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Writing and Fanfiction General

Thread for those who like to read and write including fanfiction. Share drafts, look for beta-readers, ask for writing advice, give recommendations and do all that other cool jazz. Just remember to not bully anyone else no matter how shit their taste might be.
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>In 1983 the video game industry crashed, plunging from an estimated global market value of $42 billion in 1982 to only $14 billion in 1985. It was catastrophic for what had seemed an unstoppable industry and, like most economic crashes, spawned many myths about its causes and outcomes.

>The popular imagination blames the crash on a combination of poor-quality games (most famously, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), the rise of home computers, and the increasing number of video game consoles for consumers to choose from. These myths have largely been accepted and perpetuated by historians, social media personalities and popular culture.


>Fast forward to 2025 and the video game industry seems to be going through another crash. Just this year alone, according to the website GamingLayoffs.com, the industry collectively has laid off 3,563 game developers. Gaming website Kotaku reports that Virtuous Ltd, the studio behind one of the biggest successes of the year with The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered, is laying off three hundred employees.


>What the crash of 1983 and the ongoing crash of 2025 have in common is that in both cases, most media, historians and social media influencers have muddied the waters on the cause and source of the crisis.


>In a way, the gaming industry is a canary in the capitalist coal mine. Video games are a sort of luxury goods – nobody ever died from not being able to play Donkey Kong Country or failing to grab the latest Call of Duty game. What this means in practice is that the capitalists who own and run the industry can be as greedy and rapacious as possible, above and beyond what they think they can get away with in more “serious” industries.


>Going back to 1983, Atari’s home version of Pac-Man – considered one of the worst games ever made – still managed to sell a total of seven million copies. Subjectively that’s an eye watering sum of units to sell; objectively it was the highest selling game the Atari console would ever sell. But despite this, Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 console reveals one of the unspoken truths about capitalism: it’s not enough to be successful. While Pac-Man sold seven million units, the corporate executives had banked on selling twelve million – that target would have required every single Atari console owner, plus another two million people, to purchase a copy.


>Now, fast forward to 2025. The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered sold nine million copies according to the parent company, Bethesda Studios. Many of these units were sold online without the company having to pay for manufacturing and distributing a physical game disc. Despite this and the fact that it opened up to universal praise from critics and players, the studio who did the bulk of development is being hit with mass layoffs.


>Back in 1983, Atari lost money on Pac-Man and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial partly because, in that era, developers were financially responsible for buying back unsold games from retailers. But that wasn’t enough to crash the industry – the problem wasn’t with retailers or gamers, but with the executives. In 1982, Atari’s parent company Warner Communications projected that revenues would only increase fifteen percent, down from fifty percent earlier in the year. This prompted a panic among investors, who sold off their stocks and withdrew investment money.


>Video games are capital intensive and require a skilled workforce to produce, with the average game developer needing a bachelor’s degree in computer science or software engineering. Many developers experience what’s called “crunch,” a time when mismanagement by corporate executives causes workers to go through mandatory 60-hour to 80-hour work weeks, often without overtime pay or sick days. According to Jason Schrier in the New York Times, at least half of industry employees have gone through crunch and, as a result, have experienced serious physical and mental health problems such as ulcers, memory loss, severe anxiety and PTSD.


>When we are children, we love playing games in which we are super spies, Italian plumbers or magic heroes on a quest. As children we’re also taught that capitalism is about being successful and making money.


>Gaming journalist Stephanie Sterling once said, “Games are not too expensive to make – executives are too expensive to pay.” The people who make all the money in the games industry don’t do any of the actual programming, writing or art behind the games. They assume none of the risk and their whims and projections are based off of nothing but gut feelings that can destroy the lives of thousands.


>The lie of capitalism, which the video games industry lays bare, is that it’s not enough to be successful. Even if you make money, you and your job will be destroyed because investors will forever expect astronomical profits, and mass layoffs are the only way to give the illusion of eternal growth.


>E.T. didn’t kill Atari – capitalism did.
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Tarot readings for free

Doing tarot readings to grind divination EXP points and because I'm bored as fuck.
Post any dream you remember having (ex: "I dreamed of a giant lady tied upside down to a tree in the middle of the ocean") and a picture you like.
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If the price of something is determined by the amount of human work that goes into it, how does one explain the price of luxury items or artworks (which only require a little bit of work but are overpriced due to the supply/demand imbalance)?

It might seem like a bunch of impertinent exceptions that could be overlooked but
- the luxury industry is far from being marginal
- if the premise that the value of something is determined by the amount of human work that goes into it isn't true in every context, then the whole law of falling rate of profit doesn't hold true in every context either

(It's been 3 years since I last read Das Kapital and I'm too lazy to read it again)
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>Just centralise the whole decentralised internet under like three critical providers, bro. what could possibly go wrong. It's brings economy of scale, bro.
How do socialists answer to this?
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Windows admins are the fucking worst

They're always some fucking reactionary manbabies with 0 knowledge on anything that isn't *clickclickclickclickclik*

And whenever their work sucks and fails they'll try to explain how it isn't their fault really, without ever fixing the issue. I hate windows but their fucking """"powerusers"""" are worth less the dogpoop
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What job can I get?

I need money but I only have an associates degree, 0 experience (except for like a week at target back in hs), and I have a back injury that makes it to where I can't stand for long periods of time. What kind of job would be a good fit? I've been looking around but most seem to require standing or tons of experience, I'm considering lying on my resume to try and get a data entry job but surely there's a better option out there. Let me know your thoughts and thanks in advance
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Who was the worst teacher you've had?

>My Geometry teacher would every Friday pretend to be Oprah and the entire class would ask her for help with their “life issues.” She would write the tests and I would get the right answer but she’d mark it wrong because she didn’t understand it (and this is legit, my dad’s an architect so he confirmed it). Then, on one test a lot of kids got one particular question wrong and she couldn’t seem to understand what they didn’t get. So, I raised my hand and said, “Oh I think everyone is confused about cross multiplying with binomials.” I was promptly kicked out of class and my parents called for “spreading nasty rumors and making false generalizations” because there was a person in the class (me) who got the question on the test right so the statement didn’t apply to everyone
>Pre-Calc is just a train wreck. My teacher told us she studied Early Childhood Education in college and has never had math past Alg II/Trig. Whenever I ask her questions, she doesn’t know the answers and gets super mad at me. Then, during one of her random observations where the principal comes in to observe I’d asked a bunch of questions that she actually answered. Then, I promptly got my seat moved and lost 10 points on participation because I intentionally tried to ruin her observation and get her fired
>Bad math teachers just don’t like me. Seriously, I’ve never had behavior problems except for those two teachers. Math at my school is terrible. Ugh
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SERIOUS ECONOMICS BOOKS THREAD

So, before the site went down there was a thread about serious, rigorous, economic books about socialism, and economics in general, so, not "pop economics", anyway, any good recommendation of serious economics books?
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3I Atlas

Is it a comet or alien spaceship. It is most likely a comet, but the anomalies are a bit sus. The acceleration beyond what was predicted was minor and the nickel and iron content anomaly was debunked. The anti tail is weird, but unless it drastically changes trajectory its most likely a comet.
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/arg/ - Argentina General

SANTUCHO EDITION

El thread con más copas del mundo™

Ahora que tenemos nuestro propio board, es hora de tener nuestro propio hilo también.

Bienvenidos.
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Big 2d booba #2

Electric boogaloo edition

ITT: lovely anime tits but the thread isnt full anymore

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Got this in my recommended

Aww the precious wholesome bourgeois trans people, who we NEED to train our voices, have been harmed terribly by an evil moid who dared to split off, threatening their business.

Us leftists must show uncritical support to our bourgeois community members! Where would we even be without them? We can only survive under the guidance of our bourgeois grifters and the video essayist vanguard! Follow the shining path of Philosophy Tube, who is the leader of transgender socialism.
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Steam Hardware

>updated Steam Controller
>Steam Machine
>updated Index now called Steam Frame

So they're making a console but they are calling the machine and frame "PC" because they run steam OS, and calling it an "open ecosystem."
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Nuclear defence

Are there any methods for defending your country from a nuclear strike? So far it seems that nuclear war would lead to everything on the planet being wiped out, but could there be a way to neutralise the threat of nukes altogether?

I’m not a scientist or weapons expert or anything but hypothetically, could it be possible to create some sort of defence wherein the nukes are disabled before impact by neutralising the warhead with some sort of force field?