Horrifying Things That Are Viewed As Normal

[llllIllIllIIIIllI]

People who defend DLC or "expect it" to be there in video games before the game is even released. "Ok it's a shit game right now but it will be fixed and saved with the DLC!" That you have to pay $29 for and then get left out of multiplayer after they force everyone to stick to segregated groups because to render the shit on your side, you have to have the content. I've seen games that they completely fucked up even in teaser videos, you could tell they were missing some key character or mechanic and you see idiots saying something like "Can't wait for them to release that as DLC!"

DLC should be released at least 1 year after the game, cost $1, and add a shitload of high quality content, it should basically be like a mini expansion pack. DLC that is basically required to bring the game to a balanced, playable, or fun state is instead "updates". Day-1 DLC is also not defendable.

In 2006 you were laughed at for offering DLC and as of 2012 or so it's like "expected" to be part of the game. Just about 7 years.

 

[Jarolleon]

Being overweight is seen as healthy and being clinically obese is seen as overweight. Being super morbidly obese a la my 600-pound life is seen as true obesity. But when you have a healthy BMI you are totes anorexic.

My aunt is giving me grief about my anorexic BMI of 25 when I am still dieting and intermittent fasting. Like WTF. I am like 36% body fat. The last time I checked petite, small-framed Scandinavian women should not weigh 125 pounds. My family and coworkers (cuz who wants an anorexic bitch for a friend) give me so much grief for having a BMI of 25.

It's gotten so extreme that fat women in ads are "realistic body proportions". People don't want to be reminded that it most people used to be thinner, they want to believe it was nothing more than trashy magazines using photoshop to turn young girls bulimic.

I live in the heart of the South and I have never heard anyone talk like that. The last time I heard people talk about Chick-fil-A as being based over something was about the whole spicy chicken sandwich feud with Popeyes and never before or since that, even when the dude that runs or ran Chick-fil-A said he believes that gay marriage is a bullshit proposition (which it is). I unironically heard people on /pol/ say that when that was popular and never before or since. Hell, I never hear about troons except from this site and I have had classes with trans students. I don't know where you are coming with this over the top caricature of the South, which is generally boomercon conservative rather than /pol/ schizo right wing.

IMO it's because people think culture works as a linear progression towards whoever is dominant at the time rather than alternate evolution tracks. People assume that Southerners are just behind the times because they haven't gotten their way in politics for decades, and since /pol/ edgelordism is what Yankees used to believe in the 1920s they conflate the 2. IMO HP Lovecraft is the best example and due to his enormous literary influence probably a contributor to the /pol/ worldview. He turned the fears of his era up to 11 and his Boston Brahmin family background really does show in his work if you look into what old-school New England Puritans were like, he's essentially an 18th century Puritan came to believe that his God was dead.

 

[Historical Figure]

Is it just me but am I the only one that remembers when it was common knowledge NOT to use your real name on the internet. Now everyone put their full name, where they live, where they work, where they went to elementary school, high school, university etc. It's maddening that it's so easy to learn so much about random individuals based on all the private info they willingly put out there.

Fair point but, then again, the feds will find you sus if you don't have profiles online in your own name. The trick is to use your own name to make banal comments on FB and YT while maintaining anon accounts on sites where you can freely call anyone and everyone nigger faggots.

I've lived in both and much prefer suburban life. Everyone pretty much keeps to themselves and if you need anything, you don't have to drive an hour to get it. There are benefits to living out in rural areas (nature, bigger yards, etc), though. To each their own.

Sure, enjoy your mouse utopia, brother.

Yep, sex is fun and feels amazing. No idea why people wouldn't want to be having it.

There's a limit to how many strangers you can fuck before it starts getting old, at which point you've pretty much ruined the experience for the rest of your life. But again, mouse utopia etc etc.

 

[Jarolleon]

Shit like this is what started to redpill me on liberalism. They have these high-minded goals but when it comes down to brass tacks who gets stuck with the extra work? That's right, you do! Now get crackin' on that Duolingo, we have more Somalians to dump on your head. What do you mean they should learn English first? Do you even know how xenophobic you sound right now?

My current position is I support whatever you want up until the point it requires me to do extra work on your behalf. No free labor, fucknuts.

It fits with the classic lefty MO of "Give people who are good at school more power in society while pretending it's about something else". Now you need HR to figure out how to square all their customs with corporate policy and then make you actually do it.

 

[supremeautismo]

The loss of religious belief in the United States really bums me out.

I’m not religious myself , but knowing that the world (or at least the view of it) has gotten so dire that people have literally turned away from God is demoralizing.

Of course, forced religion throughout history— and currently— had/has disasterous consequences for any dissidents, and pretty much every religion I can think of has blatant evil allowed or even codified (looking at you, Religion of Peace .)

However, it seems to me that a lot of the rise of depression and anxiety comes from a lack of a belief in a universal good and afterlife, and instead a meaningless void.

Depression is currency now; who’d want a cure?

 

[Netizennameless]

Circumcision. I know my take won’t be welcomed by all, but it must be said.

I had a coworker once who was pregnant and for some reason she was already talking about when she planned on getting him clipped. Like Jesus, lady. Let the poor kid take a breath first. Not Jewish, even…Just one of those southern white girls.

It always amused the shit out of me when feminists would scream at men "what do you know about genital mutilation!?"

 

[The Last Stand]

"Defund the police" has worsened police reaction and trust. God forbid there's a school shooting, cops would literally just stand around while children are getting killed.

Meanwhile, ghetto culture is enabled to act obnoxious and dangerous with little repercussion. Thanks.

 

[BlaireWhitesBottom]

There exists cities with careless rampant drug usage like it's another day. Even worse, used needles on the sidewalk contaminated with God knows what. I cannot imagine working around that, let alone WALKING THROUGH it.

this is literally 5 minutes from where i live... its bad bro like "drug dealer sells drugs out of corner stores which are fronts and not even a business" bad

 

[EnemyStand]

The loss of religious belief in the United States really bums me out.

I’m not religious myself , but knowing that the world (or at least the view of it) has gotten so dire that people have literally turned away from God is demoralizing.

Of course, forced religion throughout history— and currently— had/has disasterous consequences for any dissidents, and pretty much every religion I can think of has blatant evil allowed or even codified (looking at you, Religion of Peace .)

However, it seems to me that a lot of the rise of depression and anxiety comes from a lack of a belief in a universal good and afterlife, and instead a meaningless void.

Depression is currency now; who’d want a cure?

It seems it's slowly but surely turning around. Churches seem to be getting more parishioners at a slow but steady rate these days at least. You can only fill the hole in your heart with booze, vidya, weed, and junk food for so long.

 

[Naturally]

The normalization of lying. From faking empathy or concern for things to seem like a good person, to lying about difficulties in one's life or work to get sympathy or possibly reward. Also the normalization of publicly (and privately!) pretending lies are believable, in order to influence onlookers, presumably normies, whose very existence I am skeptical of at this point.

 

[The Last Stand]

Being fat is considered "progressive" but ONLY FOR WOMEN. Unhealthy living is supposed to be accepted.

 

[Cow-Lovin' Fool]

The loss of religious belief in the United States really bums me out.

I’m not religious myself , but knowing that the world (or at least the view of it) has gotten so dire that people have literally turned away from God is demoralizing.

Of course, forced religion throughout history— and currently— had/has disasterous consequences for any dissidents, and pretty much every religion I can think of has blatant evil allowed or even codified (looking at you, Religion of Peace .)

However, it seems to me that a lot of the rise of depression and anxiety comes from a lack of a belief in a universal good and afterlife, and instead a meaningless void.

Depression is currency now; who’d want a cure?

I'm a Pagan and given a choice between dealing with Christians or dealing with Atheists I will choose the Christians every time.

Christians still have hope, humanity and spirit to them. Even the preachy ones are mostly just trying to help the poor and save souls as they see it.

10/10 of the Atheists I have ever dealt with online or off, are absolutely ice cold and full of dark vibes. Their personalities are usually terrible. Mean spirited, hypocrites, pseudo intellectuals, mood problems galore. The mildest of them are just arrogant, the worse ones I honestly think could be genuine sociopaths. Never met a single one who seemed to be happy or kind to others.

 

[The Last Stand]

Outrage culture is now the law of the land. You say something somebody doesn't like, you risk getting attacked, canceled, or fired for your speech.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Being fat is considered "progressive" but ONLY FOR WOMEN.

They need to stand up and crush the patriarchy (with their enormous ass).

Even the preachy ones are mostly just trying to help the poor

No one in the west is religious (and that includes Bible-thumping rednecks in Pennsyltucky). We have no sense of modesty, shame, or discipline at all.

Gonna sound like a broken cd, but I simply cannot buy original sin, eternal Hell, "life at conception," that the true Pope is a man named Boniface X with about twenty followers in Florida, or any of the other bullsh*t they preach.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

Lucas and Fatrick

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

The loss of religious belief in the United States really bums me out.

I’m not religious myself , but knowing that the world (or at least the view of it) has gotten so dire that people have literally turned away from God is demoralizing.

Of course, forced religion throughout history— and currently— had/has disasterous consequences for any dissidents, and pretty much every religion I can think of has blatant evil allowed or even codified (looking at you, Religion of Peace .)

However, it seems to me that a lot of the rise of depression and anxiety comes from a lack of a belief in a universal good and afterlife, and instead a meaningless void.

Depression is currency now; who’d want a cure?

A lot of people, myself included, think the idea of a god is just completely bogus.

My pet peeve: People who, when at the grocery store, put their cart in the middle of the aisle and walk at a snail's pace

 

[Captain Syrup]

A lot of people, myself included, think the idea of a god is just completely bogus.

The rapture is an Anglo-Burger invention unique to Evangelicals/Baptists/Pentecostals, so that's one point.

There's a massive enthusiasm gap across all denominations. The churches near me are either filled with 70 y.o. attendees or run by some schizo pastor ranting about the Constitution in a repurposed warehouse. Have you ever wondered why church attendance is on the decline? Because older Christians have a lot of clout.

Unfortunately this mass exodus has left the churches full of fundamentalists.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

The rapture is an Anglo-Burger invention unique to Evangelicals/Baptists/Pentecostals, so that's one point.

There's a massive enthusiasm gap across all rhe denominations. The churches near me are either a filled with 70 y.o. attendees or run by some schizo pastor ranting about the Constitution in a repurposed warehouse. Have you ever wondered why church attendance is on the decline? Because old Christians have a lot of clout.

Unfortunately this mass exodus has left the churches full of fundamentalists.

My whole point about it is that too many bible thumpers ruin religion for me.

That and the idea that this all powerful being is so insecure that he won't give any proof he exists, yet is super insecure so he sends people to hell if they don't believe in him unconditionally. If he really wants to be worshipped, just appear in the sky over the white house or something. That and the whole starving people, enslaved people, children with terminal illnesses, etc... thing.

Like if he wants me to believe in him, just show me he exists other than appearing in schizophrenics' dreams and having conmen preach about him

 

[Xanen]

This could just be me being a shizo retard but in all honesty the fact that people are so widely accepting of plastic surgery. We've gotten to the point where vanity corrupts pretty much everyone. Like I'm no expert on paleo-anthropology but I doubt Grugette was exactly worried enough about other tribeswomen being more attractive than her.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

Mine has do with how troons are blatantly tolerated in the middle east which given this is the same place where there was a shitfit in kuwait after one of the us embassies raised the pride flag ( also the same place where irrc the government investigated two cops for raping a troon ) i mean do most of them know the meaning behind the T in LGBTQP