Castle Magus

"Hi. What is the value of watching confounding word wizard Jordan Peterson debate 20 atheists? What can we learn from the intensely frustrating experience of watching one of these Jubilee 'Surrounded' videos? We actually have an answer."

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Hmm, not sure if it's particularly timely for Some More News to put out yet another over-an-hour-long video about, specifically, Jordan Peterson, considering the overall trashfire state of the rest of the world right now. (Like, seriously, I probably would have never even heard of this assclown if it weren't for SMN.)

On the other hand, spending roughly 35 minutes and 36 seconds[1] watching Cody Johnston dunk on Jordan Peterson could be a "nice" "vacation" from all the other news in the world. So, I guess that's what I'll do. On to the video! Oh, wait, first let's drop that "middle-finger-worthy" tag down there, just to get it out of the way. This video is about Jordan Peterson, after all.

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So yeah, in the end, this video was indeed rather timely, after all.

[1] - Not counting the four or five times that that it took to create this post. (Actual time of hitting the "Post to" button: exactly 2:00pm EST.)

...it sometimes feels like everyone in DC believes that Donald Trump is some kind of political Anthony Fremont and are scared absolutely shitless that he will banish them to "the cornfield" if they slight him in any way, when he's really just an impotent manchild who only happens to be the SCROTUS IMPOTUS now because most of those same people stupidly believed it was a good idea to back his moronic ass in the first place. And the sooner they all realize that Trump does not have godlike power and is, instead, just a complete dumbass with terrible ideas who nobody in their right mind should pay the slightest attention to for any reason, the better off everyone would be.

"John Oliver discusses Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” what will happen if it’s passed, and what it has in common with Apple’s Terms and Conditions."

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... ... ... *weary sigh* Fine. I guess I can tolerate John Oliver shitting on Trump's "BiG bEaUtIfUl BiLl" for almost half an hour, but only because it's John Oliver.

Republicans: "Oh no, Obama's gonna do death panels!"

Also Republicans: "Well, if you don't work or you don't work enough or you don't have the time to do all of our extraneous, superfluous paperwork to prove that you work because you work too much or you can't do the paperwork because our systems are shitty and broken, then you don't deserve health insurance or food."

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump and Mehmet Oz and all the vile ghouls in Congress who are in favor of this horrible horseshit (or who are not in favor of it but who are going to vote for it anyway), as usual.

"The surprise announcement comes one day after Tillis opposed a massive bill for Trump's agenda in the Senate."

Man, fuck Thom Tillis. I'm glad his stupid ass isn't running again. And him trying to compare himself, even indirectly, to Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema is a load of horseshit. Manchin and Sinema were contrarian DINOs who regularly voted against their own party's interests and allowed the Trumpublicans far more wins than they otherwise would have gotten, and I'm glad their stupid asses are gone from the Senate, in Manchin's case, and no longer pretending to be a Democrat and also gone from the Senate, in Sinema's case. Unlike those two shitheels, however, 99.9% of the time up until this encrusted ass-end of his career, Thom Tillis has regularly marched in complete and total lockstep with all the other Trumpublicans, right up to Trump's distended anus to take some good long huffs.

After one of the rare few times in his goddamned life that he actually did something right, Tillis has bawwed out and decided to run away home, immediately after. Of course, fortunately, this particular turd no longer clogging up the toilet bowl that is the US Senate and, potentially, being replaced by someone who maybe won't be such a Trumpanzee MAGAt puddle of fecal matter is a good thing.

And seriously, pass or fail (and I sorely hope it's "fail," though that's probably unlikely), I am so fucking sick of hearing about the goddamned motherfucking "Big Beautiful Bill." There is not a single thing about it that is "beautiful," though it certainly has the "big" part down pat. And let's just hope that if the dogshit does pass, Tillis will be proven right in predicting it "costing" the MAGAts politically (though that's not the only or even the best reason to oppose it).

This video and the comments underneath either add or reinforce several dozen points to/on the big list of "Reasons why kane_magus never plays online multiplayer video games ever."

"Hi. The House of Pod's Kaveh Hoda joins Katy, Cody, and Jonathan to talk about Trump's decision to bomb Iran, the ceasefire, and his desperate desire to win the Nobel Peace Prize. They also discuss the Supreme Court's ruling that the administration can feel free to rendition people to countries they have never visited."

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Youtube auto-captionimg translated "sycophants" (in reference to the guest talking about Trump's sycophants) as "sick fans." I think that works, too.

Man, why can't Stephen Miller be excommunicated from the cult in the same way that Steve Bannon and Elon Musk and so many others have been? The problem with Donald Trump isn't just Donald Trump, but also that Donald Trump is surrounded by (has surrounded himself with) people who are arguably and possibly even worse than he himself is, and that's really saying something, since Donald Trump himself is literally worse than a wet, leaky sack of dogshit.

Also, if Donald fucking Trump ends up getting a Nobel Peace Prize, then that will just pretty much invalidate the entire concept of Nobel Prizes forever afterward.

And they're talking about Trump sounding tired and so done with this shit or whatever... well, just a reminder, this is what happens when Trump finds something to be too difficult to deal with and he just doesn't want to bother anymore:


Link, in case the embed goes to shit later.

RIP, Nexus Mods. Making Bethesda and Obsidian and other companies' broken games actually halfway playable, 2001-2025. I dread to see how egregiously enshittified your corpse inevitably becomes.

I do not have a 200 Canadian dollars life time subscription to Nexus Mods (or any dollar amount, Canadian or US or otherwise, unless zero dollars counts for the free account I have there), so Pat's issue doesn't directly relate to me, outside of tepid sympathy pain.

Also, Pat, goon/coomer mods are not just for RPGs. They're for life sims like The Sims, too, as well as many other genres.

"John Oliver explains why you've been seeing more AI-generated content online, the harm it can do, and – sadly – why it is threatening his marriage. Do you hear us, cabbage Hulk? Stay the hell away from John's cabbage wife."

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That chud claiming that most people don't enjoy the time they spend making music (as an excuse for why his AI music generator is "good")... that alone rated the "middle-finger-worthy" tag.

And I would say that all the people charging dozens to hundreds of dollars to explicitly "teach" others how to make money creating AI slop are even worse than the people creating the AI slop, except that they're the same fucking people. May they all be fucked by a sea urchin (perhaps even the same one).

In any case, it's not just silly bullshit, and it's not "just" artists having their livelihoods stolen, it's actively dangerous, as the bit about the first responders to disasters being distracted by AI dumbfuckery showed.

"And it's pretty fucking galling for the same people who spent the last decade screaming 'fake news' at any headline they didn't like to be confronted with actual fake news and suddenly being extremely open to it."

Also mentioned is the fact that people are starting to distrust real things because it might be deepfake bullshit some AI shat out, even when it actually isn't.

And the liar's dividend. (Something that Donald Trump, for one, has been benefiting from for decades, well before AI slop ever became a thing, but him claiming that real news about his bullshit is AI slop certainly doesn't help.)

"To summarize: AI slop can be somewhat lucrative for its creators, massively lucrative for the platforms that use it to drive engagement, and worryingly corrosive to the general concept of objective reality."

And at the end, spoiler alert, John Oliver unveils a real chainsaw carving, made by the guy mentioned in the video whose real life chainsaw carvings are being illegitimately replicated by AI slop, of the AI slop "purple cabbage man" that John Oliver mercilessly mocked at several points in the above embedded video (and also in the video description).

An evergreen headline for articles like these could simply be "RWNJ SCOTUS Justices Once Again Bend Over, Raise Robes, And Spread Cheeks For Trump."

Yet another 6-3 RWNJ-brainshart-empowering decision, of course.

The above is a bullshit clickbait headline for an article (actual link replaced with an archive.is version to reduce traffic to the offending site) I happened to see in my Google News app just now. I hate that kind of stupid shit.

No, Dave Sundstrom, Barney Rubble dressing up as Mr. Spock in a Cocoa Pebbles commercial is not a fucking Star Trek/The Flintstones "crossover." That's not what crossovers are. That's not how crossovers work. Simply licensing the rights to use the name and likeness of "Mr. Spock" (for $50,000 in 1992 money) does not a crossover make. For it to have been a "legitimate crossover," the actual Mr. Spock would have had to show up. It would be like taking some Halloween-themed sitcom episode in which some rando happened to dress up as Superman and calling that a "crossover."

And, yes, I did already know about this """""crossover""""" before reading the article, because I saw that shit on TV when I was 13 and thought it was passingly amusing at the time. I said to myself before going into the article that this better not be about the fucking Cocoa Pebbles commercial, but, sure enough, that's exactly what it was about.

I am rather irked by this. Perhaps unreasonably so, admittedly.