Narrative Warfare: Fire and Judgement In California

Yes, I know, 19th anniversary of 9/11 in New York City and even longer in Chile (the latter being the coup that put Pinochet into power), but this can't go without comment.

California: “Guys, I have a great idea. Let’s reduce the penalties for child rape and basically legalize pedophilia in the state.”

God: pic.twitter.com/1HMMGkzZvD

— The Dank Knight 🦇 (@capeandcowell) September 10, 2020

And, as is His wont, He often finds ways for those wanting to work against Him to serve His will.

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— John D Marvin (@JDMarvin) September 10, 2020

There is a method to the enemy's madness here, but also a fatal point of weakness. It presumes that Biden wins the Presidency and Democrats capture Congress completely. With that control, the Federal government can use Disaster Relief as a cover to bail out California and thus cover up the consequences of its own policies and its government. Then, using media narratives, paint all of those policies as successful and thus give cover to their rollout across the country.

That's what the enemy wants. That's not what's going to happen.

This? This is Judgement.

Sooner or later, a nation that turns away from God and continues to offend Him gets to feel His wrath. The fastest way to do so is to engage in sexual predation, especially upon the innocent, and to corrupt and invert the morality of a nation to do so on a mass scale gets it done fastest. Those scenes above should look familiar.

Don't mistake how it went down for a lack of Divine action.

As more and more of the scale and scope of the sexual predation worldwide gets out, and how much Hollywood in particular played a major role in it, expect more people to find their steel and be open to putting right this great evil. At its core is child sacrifice, and we're going to find out just how badly we've misjudged how evil it really is soon enough. These people are sick, they have given themselves over to it and become wicked, and as such they cannot be helped. The flames won't stop here.

Narrative Warfare: What You Can Do About Twitter's Censorship

Neon Revolt published a new article. It contained an actionable item, to flood the Department of Justice regarding Twitter censorship. You can find the link to that DOJ page here. Please follow up on that. To quote NR himself:

All my readers should take a moment to message the DOJ and remind them of their imperative to protect free speech online, and remove section 230 protections from Twitter now that it is clearly engaging in mass censorship on a scale never before seen online, and to such an extent that it’s now become a danger to our national discourse to ignore it

Now some of you will click through and balk at NR's talk about #QAnon. I will restate my position: I don't care if it's a LARP or not, and I don't care because it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because it is a psychological operation. Psyops are weaponized Rhetoric, Rhetoric is not Dialectic. Don't mistake corkscrews for drills, no matter how similar they may seem, because they don't do the same thing. Why? For the same reason that the complaint about #QAnon is erroneous: it's irrelevant to the point at hand.

The point at hand is performing useful, concrete action about Twitter's violation of Section 230 of the DCMA. Flood the DOJ with complaints, especially if they all look and read more or less alike, and the Feds will get the hint and move on it; the fiercer the flood, the faster the action. It's not like Trump isn't looking for excuses to hammer Twitter as it is, so do the God-Emperor a solid and give him one.

Jack--along with Big Tech elsewhere--wants to shape the online narrative against Trump. By banning #QAnon, despite the Streisand Effect, he is doing this. Most anons aren't going to be so quick to just ban-evade and resume on a new alt; these are Boomers and other not-so-savvy folks when it comes to social media and computer technology- we're talking the endest of end users, so Jack's calculations on the net effect of a ban are not without reason. The surest way to punish him is to get Fed heat back on his ass as fast as can be done, and that's by mass complaints to the DOJ followed by the FCC. I've done my part. It's your turn.

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The Business: Corona-chan Burns OldPub

That screeching sound is OldPub losing its mind over their paper pulp business burning up like a California wildfire.

(Click on the image to make readable)

Friend of the Retreat, and my editor, Brian Niemeier also has a post on this development today. He's been talking about OldPub really being in the paper business for quite a while now, and it is obvious that the aforementioned Facebook post is a confession that this is in fact true.

In a related corollary, the audiobook business just crashed; this exposed what many suspected about that market- it's base is people commuting to their bullshit makework fake jobs, which goes alongside a major percentage of users of streaming video and audio services, and OldPub has been as stupid about audio as they have about digital so this news just threw gasoline on the fire.

Daddy Warpig gets into the issue in this Twitter thread here.

Not just comics. TradPub is getting it right in the neck. Full post by a Tor editor below, but TL;DR is "we depend on paper from China to print our books, we be screwed".

But, like comics, this is actually their fault, not the Wuhan Fluhan Death Hack. /2https://t.co/WncMMmQWW2

— Daddy Warpig (@DaddyWarpig) April 6, 2020

And he's right. OldPub could have--should have--gone ahead of the curve on publishing technologies and business models years ago but stubbornly thought they could squash them instead and keep everyone on their paper pulp plantation perpetually, using that captive audience to then serve the Death Cult (as they have been) and ensure their own power just as perpetually.

Now it's come undone. Not "coming", "come"; there's no returning from this. All that remains is for the metal fatigue to hit the breaking point and collapse in a cascade that ends in the industry falling into an ashen heap. It couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch of bastards, and I won't miss any of them once they're gone. It's not like the actually valuable material they published won't find new ways to get published--even in print--once Corona-chan's come and gone.

Meanwhile, I get now how Alucard feels.

Because this is some apocalyptic shit going down, and man a lot of people are finally getting what's coming for them.

The Business: The Fragility In Corporate Media Is Real

Diamond, the distributor with a monopoly on American comics distribution (and handling boardgame and tabletop RPG, etc. stuff also), has ceased taken product. This includes DC and Marvel. The American comic shop scene, already on fire, just had gasoline poured on it.

I cannot care less.

The collapse being spoken of in the above video is a part of the larger collapse of the Western entertainment business, which is a rotten zombie corpse now experience a failure cascade as its putrescence reaches critical mass and body parts start falling off. What those bemoaning the collapse don't understand is that the ghettoization of American comics via comic shops has the same effect that killing the Pulps did in ghettoizing science fiction: it allowed ideologues to seize control and turn it into its current form, albeit in a process done in steps over time.

And that, naturally, has meant that the shops themselves became reflecting of what's sold in them over time. Don't tell me that it's not; I've been there and seen with my own eyes, so I won't have folks gainsaying me on this. Just as American comics generally have ceased to justify their existence, so has the infrastructure erected to sell them. Burn it all to ash and replace it with something that actually satisfies the audience and regenerates the culture again.

No, I won't miss the comic shops. They ceased to be fit for purpose a long time ago; it's only now that the inertia has finally worn down enough to bring it all to a stop.

That's not all I won't miss. First one of the Big 5 is in its death throws, now this, and maybe the movie theater business collapses also.

Narrative Warfare: Soon We'll All Be Apologizing To Alex Jones

Anonymous Conservative linked to this article explaining how the CIA set up a parallel network of part-timers to use as assets in ongoing operations- including on US soil. AC says the following in commentary.

Basically it is describing a Secret Society of CIA businesses that preferentially employs a Secret Society of CIA spies embedded in them, all living normal lives, and even moving into CIA for a bit, then moving back to civilian life, and then back to CIA. And the CIA makes sure “their” businesses win out over competitors which are not in the Secret Society by giving them CIA advantages as a reward for working for CIA. The only question is, how big is the entire thing?

Imagine if you started a business, but CIA never came to you, and your dreams were leveled because another business got the CIA hookup, CIA agents patronized it, CIA itself supported it, and with that help, it ran you under. And it was your tax dollars paying for it all. And that will be the most harmless part of the thing, when it airs out.

Also interesting is they are in DNA companies to the point they are altering the DNA profiles of CIA agents. Notice how many pieces of the big machine described on this site are peeking around the corners of this piece.

Of course, behind all of this, I see one massive intelligence operation, which Targeted Individuals report follows them across national borders. I see the followers in all the countries on google earth. One operation above them all, possibly just keeping the plebes in the Agency busy playing spy games against each other, blinded to the ultimate reality, even as they create the very covert machine in our society which Cabal needs in each nation to take each nation over – more than any other enemy they think they face ever could.

Narrative Warfare: The #KickVic Saga To Date

Taken from the blog of the Supreme Dark Lord, He Who Devours SJWs, who in turn heard from Bounding Into Comics. Hang on, because this is a long post.

Dragon Ball Super: Broly voice actor Vic Mignogna has filed a lawsuit against Funimation, Jamie Marchi, Monica Rial, and Ronald Toye.

Mignogna is suing them for defamation, tortious interference with existing contracts, tortious interference with prospective business relations, civil conspiracy, and vicarious liability. The suit was filed in Tarrant County, Texas on April 18th.

Mignogna’s lawyer Ty Beard claims in the lawsuit that the defendants defamed Mignogna and “knew these statements were false or made them with negligent disregard for their truthfulness.” The suit claims that the defendants’ “conduct was willful, fraudulent, malicious, and in wanton disregard for Vic.”

He points to a number of statements made by Ronald Toye, Monica Rial, and Jamie Marchi on Twitter. Those statements include accusations that Vic Mignogna engaged in “harassment or threatening behavior.”

The suit claims that “Ronald (a Funimation agent or employee) has tweeted more than 80 times that Vic sexually assaulted or assaulted Monica, more than 10 times that Vic sexually assaulted or assaulted three of his “very close friends,” more than 10 times that Vic has been accused of hundreds and possibly thousands of assaults, and at least 17 times that Vic is a “predator.” It also points to a number of tweets made by Rial and Marchi.

The Tortious Interference with Existing Contracts part of the lawsuit claims the Defendants “willfully and intentionally interfered with these contracts prxomiately causing cancellation, termination, even breach, of these contracts by the convention producers thereby causing Vic actual and consequential damages.” The suit points to a number of conventions canceling Vic’s appearances including Anime NYC, Ancient City Con, and others.

The Tortious Intereference with Prospective Business Relations claims, “There was reasonable probability that Vic would have entered into agreements with other production companies and conventions; however, the Defendants’ unlawful actions prevented these relationships from occurring.”

The Civil Conspiracy claims “The Defendants conspired and acted in concert to defame Vic, interfere with his existing contracts, and interfere with his prospective business relations, and each knowingly assisted an participated in the other’s actions.”

The Vicarious Liability claim notes, “At all times relevant, Jamie, Monica, or Ronald was Funimation’s employee and acting in the course and scope of her or his employment in the conduct alleged above or, alternatively, Jamie, Monica or Ronald was Funimation’s agree with actual or apparent authority to act on behalf of Funimation…or Funimation ratified her or his actions.” It notes, “Funimation is liable for the conduct of Jamie, Monica or Ronald.”

I've been following this situation since Nick Rekieta came on the scene. Below is the summary of events leading up to this law suit's filing on Thursday this week.

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/victor-mignogna-v-funimation-productions-llc-et-al.55556/page-16

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/weeb-wars-animegate-kickvic-vickicksback.53670/page-1097

Check the over 1100 pages of archived drama on the part of those bitches and cuckfaces in KiwiFarms.

It is worth every single page.

TL;DR:

1. A bunch of unfounded allegations started by ANN and Marzgurl in particular began to filter through Twitter that Vic Micnogna was a sexual predator. No actual proof, just pages of allegations, mostly unsorted. For those going "Hey, this sort of reminds me of ChangeTheChannel!" congratulations, you have a functioning sense of pattern recognition. The pair begin the #KickVic hashtag to get Vic fired. The timing of this is right after an ANN staffer got outed as a sex offender.

2. ANN goes to all their buddies to spread it around. Derek Padula does a write-up that "explains everything," by spending over 80% of said write up not discussing any allegations against Vic, several paragraphs comparing him to Bill Cosby, discussing Todd Haberkorn (for some reason), and basically doing anything but make a compelling case. Gizmodo gets in on this and declares Vic guilty in everything but name. Worth noting: Several of the claims made against Vic are patently ridiculous, such as calling him a homophobe for refusing to sign an unofficial yaoi book.

3. Jamie Marchi and Monica Rials declare that the claims are absolutely factual, again with no evidence. When confronted they sperg the fuck out, arguing they're being harassed when people do such unthinkable things as telling them provide proof or GTFO. They double down immediately, declaring everyone who dares disagree with them is harassing them by definition. Marchi in particular declares that Vic deserves to be castrated and/or executed.

4. Funimation allegedly "investigates' and fires Vic, as does Roosterteeth. Surely by coincidence, a personal acquaintance of Rials takes his place in all his VA endeavors.

5. ANN and friends continue to accost Vic in an effort to shut down his potential job offers. As many as 15 cons purportedly cancel his appearances. Vic becomes persona non grata in voice acting circles. Vic responds with remarkable candor, thanking his fans for his support and encouraging them not to engage Rials or Marchi directly.

6. People smell bullshit and ANN's involvement gets exposed, as does the fact that almost everyone involved with declaring Vic guilty at Funimation are people who have provably done worse. Monica Rials is #MeToo'd, though she denies it. Amanda Winn-Lee, apparently still sore from Revolution 60, declares that she hopes a female critic gets raped. More and more Funimation associates declare that if you support Vic, you're a harasser that hates women. No one cares at this point. Multiple culture war coverers (such as Hambly) begin to bring up the ongoing scandal and cover it in ways Rials and Marchi don't like. Anti-CG spergs immediately rally to the Anti-Vic crowd, further cratering its already leaking credibility.

7. Pensacon threatens attendees that anyone who shows up wearing a "Stand with Vic" shirt will be arrested and criminally prosecuted, if not reported to the FBI, and the account operator gleefully spergs about how much they want to see Vic supporters suffer. Their Twitter is publicly mocked until they lock it temporarily.

8. Weeby Gal, one of Vic's accusers, the most credible one up to this point, has her video evidence proven to be faked, as it had massive redactions. The full video is released and mirrored. Weeby Gal deletes fucking everything.

9. Nick Rekieta gets involved. Does an overview of the situation. Advises Vic to lawyer up because proving malicious intent and tortious interference is going to be piss-easy with these assholes. Vic does so and allows Nick to give some announcements on his behalf. Pants are shat when Nick is gathering evidence to give to Vic's case. Blood is now in the water and the internet's sharks salivate.

10. Pensacon claims to have recieved a bomb threat from a Vic supporter. Local spergs investigate and find no such threat occurred. Unfortunately for Pensacon, they were planning to host that event at a government building, which means the joint anti-terrorism task force is now involved because of this idiot blowing smoke. DHS, FBI, and DIA get involved, and start getting some information from the Youtubers who initially covered the drama (Yellow Flash, Hambly, et al). This entire shit-show just came to the attention of the US Government, however briefly, proving that weebery is, as some have suggested, serious business.

11. Samantha Inoue-Harte claims to have been SWATTed by a Vic supporter. The images she posts are traced and it turns out they come from a previous SWAT Hoaxing she did in 2016. Two hoaxes for the price of one! It turns out Inoue-Harte is a former Funimation staffer and IRL friend of Monica Rials. ANN puts up an article declaring she dindu nuffin. Unfortunately all the police reports show is that her door was damaged, not that she was SWATed.

12. Sean Shemmel believes this, only to realize he was in the wrong, retract his statement, then lock his Twitter. To chase this, Schemmel is also said to have hoaxed a SWATing from a vic supporter. Again, local spergs conacted police, discovred this was false. That is three hoaxed crimes by Vic supporters in under 2 days.

13. Vic announces intent to sue. Bricks are shat. Targets include Marchi, Rials, Saucedo, Chapman, and dozens of others. Funimation is HQ'd in Texas, which has Vice President Laws. Funimation, ANN, Gizmodo, and Roosterteeth may be liable for the shit their various staffers have said. Vic's GoFundMe hits $20,000 in less than a day. Anti-Vic elements try to slander Nick Rekieta and get the GFM shut down, but fail.

14. Marchi and Rials go poor innocent me routine and try to act like all is good now and nothing is ruined. No one is buying it.

In addition, KamehaCon had Vic back last weekend to huge success--floor to himself, hours-long waits in line, etc.--and he killed with with his attentiveness to his fans. The man showed his appreciation for their support by giving it back in spades. Anime Matsuri will have him back, and all of the aforementioned parties are dogging that con. Todd Habercorn has had a similar point-and-swarm job done on him, and he's reached out to Vic's lawyers for help; the SJWs have already gone at Ty once, doing the same futile smear job via filing complaints, that they tried and failed with Nick. In short, we're not seeing brilliant masterminds at work; we're seeing insane incompetents wreaking havoc. It's Gamma Rage and Entitled Bitch Tantrum all the way down.

They all need to be grateful this is only a civil suit. If this had gone down in Minnesota, they'd all be facing criminal charges.

Narrative Warfare: The Price Is Right (To Blacklist SJWs)

Today's topic comes courtesy of the Mombot, whom you should follow if you're on Twitter and you're not following her. Behold:

Jessica Price was interviewed by Polygon and called her former employer's decision to fire her "highly unprofessional". pic.twitter.com/NacKmfmaY3

— Best Mom Eva (@mombot) July 9, 2018

Remember the Three Laws of SJWs: They always lie, they always double-down, and they always project. In the Polygon puff piece, we see all three exhibited like a battle flag in a thunderstorm.

She calls herself a developer. That's a lie; devs code, and she can't. She's a writer, a basic bitchwork one at that, who's job (and history) is of doing bitchwork unskilled writing crap like flavor text and branching dialog lines. In short, she oversells how good she is to puff herself up. She puffs herself up due to status anxiety, classic r-selected psychology, which she also exhibits when she gets all mad and throws around BadFeel bullshit to shame her targets.

When called on her bullshit, she doubles-down; this article is her doing this in a big way, repeating her lies and compounding them to keep her scam going. If she wasn't well-ensconced in the Sea-Tac SJW Clique she would've been rightly blacklisted and run out of the business entirely years ago. (Even then, she managed to fuck up a sure thing with Paizo.)

And look at all that projection! "He's unprofessional!" "You're entitled!" Trump should draft this broad for the Space Force- as a Ground-To-Orbit Launcher. (She's actually have a job suitable for her talents.) She's been like this for years on end, and she's not stopping now because she's so delusional that reality might as well be a flavor of ice cream to her. No matter how hard she screws herself, she always finds someone else to blame for her failures and fuckups. She refuses to see reality as it is.

Everyone in the gaming world needs to know this woman's name and memorize her face. She's done nothing but cause unnecessary issues wherever she goes, costing her employers time and money while damaging their brand and reputation- excusing her unprofessional behavior entirely with her being woke and doing Social Justice. Blacklist this bitch already.

The Church excommunicates the unrepentant delinquents and reprobates, casting them out utterly and cutting them off. Why in the world would this not be done for more ordinary chronic offenders? It is necessary and proper to establish and maintain lists of folks who are nothing but trouble regardless of what they can do or who they know. (It's also already done by her and her allies, and they do not shy away from calling this a good thing.) While you're at it, take note of others like Price and put them on the list also.

No "But"s. You know damn well that these SJWs do nothing but start shit and try to steal employers from their owners Because Social Justice. It's long past time to tag them, nag them, and run them out of town- tarring and feathering optional. You have to do it to them because they will do it to you as soon as they get the chance. This is War To The Knife, Knife To the Hilt; purge them or get sacrificed to their demon god.

Narrative Warfare: SJWs Say We're Dead, Again.

Where have I heard this before?

'Star Wars fans don't have to be your audience anymore; Star Wars are over!' pic.twitter.com/FQLXUmRyRG

— Dan Wolfgang ✝️△ (@Azu_Rayn) July 3, 2018

Wolfgang's Twitter thread is an epic fisking of some shitstain SJW doing another Gamers Are Dead whinefest/hitpiece by the cuck that goes by "Film Critic Hulk". Go on, read the thread, it's hilarious and cringy.

It's also telling, because you do not go to this length unless the damage done is so severe that the leadership freaks out and goes Full Retard in response. This is word-salad trying hard to mask the REEEEEEEE going on behind the scenes, and once you see the tells you don't unsee it.

The pressure has to keep up, and ramp up, because the signs of brains blowing out under the stress are now appearing. This repeat of a failed narrative control tactic demonstrates that Culty Kathy and her fellow travelers have no plan to do anything about how they drove Star Wars into a cliff. They aren't even preparing for the inevitable firings. The delusion is so deep that they're acting out of nothing more than to make the BadFeels stop; rational thought has left the building.

In short, this is a sign that we're winning. Keep it up, fellow shitlords. Soon they'll burn themselves out and we can effortlessly take over.

Narrative Warfare: Exposing the Syria Gas Attack Hoax

Mike Cernovich is on the Fake Syria Gas Attack beat, and right now (as of this post) he's doing a marathon livestream session talking about it. Watch the man that shook 60 Minutes work it harder, faster, stronger than the hoaxing Establishment ever did. I can't add anything further with commentary.

Narrative Warfare: Cernovich's "60 Minutes" Appearance is a Power Play

Mike Cernovich broke the Susan Rice story regarding her use of the powers of her former office to discover intelligence useful to obstructing the God-Emperor. In short, she spied on Trump and is bald-faced lying about it. Meanwhile, the hoaxing Establishment is alternating between denial, deflection, and defamation in their response to it. (The "gas attack" hoax out of Syria could not be more suspicious in its timing.)

But that no one amongst the Establishment (other than Limbaugh) named Cernovich when reporting on it proves that his thesis going into that 60 Minutes interview--especially his using it to turn that Fake News narrative back on them--is correct. Further, it shows them as weak, afraid, and cowardly; this proves the second level of Cernovich's assertion which is that they want back supreme narrative control- something they know they lost.

That means that Cernovich is, once more, in a position to drive media cycles single-handedly. He knows he's got them shook, and he's going to keep demonstrating his capacity to do just that until they do the obvious thing and overtly censor him with too-convenient failures and other passive-aggressive measures using amenable SocJus cultists in ISPs and other end-user tech positions. That will backfire; he's expecting it how, so when it comes he'll document and expose them- turning it back on them again to his profit and their loss.

This is a game of optics and perception, and we should be watching Cernovich now because he's putting on a masterful display on how to play--and win--this game many of us are not inclined to foster competence. If you're at all concerned about Narrative Warfare, and you want to fight back, learning from an allied emerging master as his powers grow is a golden opportunity that should not be missed.

Legion Hype: WTF Blizz! The Patch 7.2 Changes Aren't All Good

On the Public Test Realm for World of Warcraft the development team has Patch 7.2 up for testing. Like others, I do keep track of what's being tested there so I can make preparations and decisions sensibly. I've seen the preview for the new dungeon, and I like what I see so far. The new open-world zone has grindy bits, but that's mostly for gearing alts and returning main characters who've been inactive for a while and need a hand. Flight isn't broken (yet). Nothing wrong with the content, so far, that I've noticed.

What I've noticed (along with plenty of others) is this utterly fucking retarded change to Artifact Power and Knowledge. This change has me wondering if the devs are all out to lunch, or if they've been listening too much (willingly or not) to the accounts or to Activision corporate (or both). The change? To end the current hard cap of 54 Traits to acquire in favor of a soft cap of 71 Traits and no hard cap. Artifact Knowledge had a hard cap of 25 Ranks; now it's 50, and the multiplier goes well past ridiculous, straight past retarded, and into fucking plaid levels of absurdity.

In short, instead of having a definitive end to developing one specific Specialization-defining element of a character's class we now have UN-FUCKING-LIMITED development. Since each Trait on a weapon directly increases the character's power, end-game content thereafter gets balanced around its acquisition, which means that the current You Must Be This Tall To Raid problem will only get worse.

World of Warcraft: Legion is the most alt-unfriendly expansion since Vanilla. The rate of burnout in Mythic Raiding is ridiculous, with World-First raiders (who do the content first, define the solutions, and write the fucking addons and guides) collapsing as a class into a group that can share a couple of rooms at the Hilton come BlizzCon. This is not good. The reason? The Artifact Power grind, something that must have a hard-as-the-mountain definitive end. Right now, it does; it's far too late for a healthy community scene, but it is there. The changes remove even that.

YOU FUCKED UP!

Games must have definite ends. For MMORPGs like this, that end is the hard cap of character progression. This hard cap gets people refreshing the game by playing other Specializations within the same class, or another class entirely. They play on the other faction. They play different Professions. They take breaks and don't play.

And it's that last one that's driving this change. Count on it; the fear of players cancelling their subscriptions for months at a time has been a known complaint within the WOW team for years. Finding ways to keep them playing has been an objective all this time, and since the team now has plenty of former Diablo 3 people on it they carried over plenty of D3 schemes with them. This is another one: unlimited "paragon" progression, with each point conveying power to the possessing character. That's tolerable in Diablo 3, since multi-player is limited to parties of four or less. For a MMO? That shit is cancerous, and cancer kills its host if it is not cut out and sterlized. That's happening right now.

The current hard caps for both Artifact Knowledge AND Artifact development, as they are on live servers, needs to be retained and maintained for the rest of the expansion. The current catch-up systems, in practice, are sufficient to get alts up to speed quickly and viable for end-game content; all that needs to be done is to normalize Artifact Power gains for dungeons at all difficulties so that Maw of Souls is not the only smart option, but rather to make any dungeon worth doing. The rest of the 7.2 changes should be scrapped, used as toilet paper, and then burned in an incinerator.

Games must END. Uncapped progression in a MMO is not that, and the damage already done will only get worse if this goes live. For the good of the game, the business, and the community playing it scrap this shit- NOW!

Narrative Warfare: The Hit on Milo Yiannopolous

So, Milo's been accused of being a pedophila.

Since this came out, we've learned the following:

• The original accusation comes from a NeverTrump org using Alinsky tactics.
  
• The hit had coordinations in the media on a private email list to coordinate media coverage.
  
• The "opposition research" used $250,000 to prepare this hit on Milo.
  
• The accusation consists of deceptively-edited video and audio files, and articles consisting of barely enough weasel-words to avoid a solid defamation case.
  
• The pattern of behavior exactly follows that of the Five Guys incident coverup leading to "Gamers Are Dead" hits and the start of #Gamergate.
  
• This hit came immediately after Milo's appearance on Real Time with Bill Mahar, where he played the panel like a master and made Bill concede just enough to get him on the shitlib hitlist.
  

Over two years, going towards three, and the lying hoaxing media still hasn't learned that lying and hoaxing isn't working like it used to yet.

I'm not buying it. This is Narrative Warfare.

The timing is the warning sign. All of this comes just as Milo's starting to break into the awareness of normies throughout the United States. The immediate follow-ups expose that this is meant to be an attack to cut Milo's reach down, and take him out; his invitation to speak at CPAC got rescinded, his book deal at Simon & Schuster got canned (reverting the rights to him, and making an opening for another publisher to do so), and the rumors of his position at Breitbart now at risk reveal what one of the objectives of this hit is clear as day.

The accusation is the other big tell, as it shows who's behind the hit (and why). By accusing him of pedophilia, they blunt his ability to present evidence of the international pedophila networks and their cartel of corruption and criminality to an audience (a growing one, with growing power) rightly horrified by it and willing to act to put it down. Just as news of massive arrests rolling up pedophile rings in places vacated by the Clinton Foundation just days before start to break media blackout containment, this comes in- and the use of Milo's own words reflecting on his past experiences with this stuff against him proves that those same pedos view him as a threat.

This pedo network includes the big players in the Muslim world, most notably the House of Saud that rules Saudia Arabia (and has it in for Iran, such that they'll work with Israel to get them; Syria is their proxy war.) Remember Saudi ownership of Twitter? Now you see one reason for why: use of ownership rights to effect censorship worldwide. Saudi money in any tech outfit will be used to the same ends.

And, as with the hit on PewDiePie, it will ultimately backfire. Milo's reach on Facebook increased. His reach on YouTube? It will increase- count on it. Breitbart's a secondary target (due to Bannon being untouchable), which is why the Never Trump cucks got on board with the hit and did the dirty work (giving deniability to the pedos, until Salon and others previously open about normalizing pedophilia whitewashed their archives and gave away the game) of doing the pieces. Good job, fucktards; you just gave substance to #PizzaGate and #PedoGate. I eagerly await your perpwalks, convictions, and executions.

My Life in Fandom: Razorfist's Back - Enter ELRIC of Melniboné - Razör vs. Comics

I see that Razorfist has a new video. Hmmm, it's about Elric of Melnibone. This has to be good.

This is why Razorfist got on the Hugo final ballot last year. This is why he deserves to be nominated for a Dragon if a suitable category can be found. He does better literary criticism and review than people who wasted years of their lives and tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to get useless degrees as credentials for this sort of thing, and he does so with a flare and feel for audience engagement that his more credentialed counterparts routinely fail to accomplish.

If you haven't gotten acquainted with him, now's the time. After you watch this video (and the one below), go watch his two videos going over The Shadow (which is what got him his Hugo nomination). Then subscribe to his channel and follow him on the socials so you don't miss his output going forward. I've enjoyed his videos and livestreams for some time now, so I am happy to spread the word when he does stuff like this; if you don't care for comics, try his stuff on games, movies, or music. (The "Mythos" series is fantastic, and often better journalism than folks who get paid to do it.)

As for his shots at The Witcher, this video should fill any gaps left by the video above on why Razorfist says what he says.

And I can't wait for his review of Hairbraned Schemes upcoming BattleTech.

Narrative Warfare: Polls Are Tools.

About polls:

Question: Why are Trump's approval ratings so low? Answer: Because they are filtered through people who want them to be low #FakePolls

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) February 5, 2017

That.

The ascent of the God-Emperor did such damage to the hoaxing media that the damage spread beyond that institution and hit the tools it uses to wage narrative warfare. One of them is the use of polls. We're told that these are the quantitative results of a random sample of the population who answered one or more questions put to them, and then that these results are representative of the population as a whole. They lied. Therefore, they use the tools to lie also, which means that the polls cannot be trusted; we don't know who they queried, what they asked, if the responses were genuine, if the responses got recorded properly, or if they didn't just make shit up.

Up to the election, the polls consistently spread claims of data intended to demoralize opposition to Clinton. Now they're being used to incite and sustain opposition to Trump. This cannot be unseen, and these polls are being used as fuel for the antifa riots now organized and executed with a speed and alacrity that cannot be emergent or organic (and it's not).

We've reached a point where nothing attached to the Establishment can be trusted anymore. This is dangerous, because without reliable intelligence the population cannot properly govern themselves and instead become susceptible to gaslighting by criminals seeking to manipulate the population into doing their bidding deniably. We need, and we're slowly getting, alternatives to these converged polls; until then, don't heed any poll used in the MSM. They're not informing you; they're gaslighting you and therefore not to be trusted.

The Antifa Riot at UC Berkeley: 2nd US Civil War Looms

Breaking: violence works. If these are the rules we're setting, no one is going to like the outcome. https://t.co/oWMZRU7dvP

— BringYourOwnAnarchy (@byoanarchy) February 2, 2017

That's an understatement worthy of a Minnesotan.

The riot--and it is a riot--has already turned into a mob. Of course, it's Antifa behind this riot. Inciters with megaphones ride heard on the mob, guiding them as best they can. Property's already damaged and at least one man has been beaten. The police have issues three dispersal orders, but have not acted, so the rioters carry on and taunt the police.

Sooner or later, the police will put down this riot with force. Then the lying, hoaxing media will spew sob stories about rioters getting injured by the police. I am all out of fucks for them, and I think it's time to stop pussy-footing with rioters, but this is in California and they are going have inside help.

UC Berkeley campus police issued stand down order - riots allowed! #MILO https://t.co/9HChA6Zg25

— Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) February 2, 2017

The idea behind putting that out there was to get the police to do their jobs, and it seems to have worked.

That's the power of Twitter! Now they have to show up. But they must be held to account by Feds. #MILO https://t.co/Kn5hOk91rL

— Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) February 2, 2017

Which brings me to the point: Civil war looms. This pattern of violence, rioting against targets believed (correctly or not) to be favorable to Trump, is not going to stop without the God-Emperor's intervention and direction of the F.B.I. (and other agencies) to collect and arrest these rioters and their backers. In addition to the obvious charges, conspiracy charges should be applied and sedition charges (as this is a clear pattern intended to undermine the government) should be attempted.

Because if this does not stop now, then the time of the cold civil war going hot comes sooner and the odds of it not going hot diminish rapidly to zero. This is not desirable by any sensible man, and if I cannot get this across then maybe Stefan Molyneux can:

If this goes on, civil war--hot, shooting, killing, massacring--becomes inevitable. The rabbits will lose once the wolves get loose.

Stop Cutting Down the Grove of Law

Dumb motherfuckers--including people I know all of whom should know better--are still excusing the violence last weekend thinking that invoking "NAZI!" is a magic passcode that makes it all right. No, dammit, it does not. Time to whip out the Sir Thomas Moore quote again, from A Man For All Seasons:

Did you get that? I'm not on your asses just because you're wrong, but because you are throwing away the very protection you routinely turn around and expect to be granted to you when you're on the business end of sucker punches, fire bombs, gunshots, and other violence against your or your property. You are throwing away the Rule of Law.

While it is not a suicide pact, neither is it to be clad or doffed at your fucking convenience either. You have the rules and thus the means to deal with true and verifiable threats to you, yours, and your own- USE THEM! Don't like what some other motherfucker says? TOO BAD! I've certainly sat through decades of your bullshit, and I still ain't throwing punches for the exact same reason Moore grants The Devil benefit of law- for my own safety's sake.

Especially those of you old enough to be my parents- STOP!

The Wild Ride Rackets Up Again - We Spiral Boys Now

If you thought the derangement from the globalist SJW death cult was bad last year, then you've seen nothing yet. Watching the speeches by the rising leaders of contesting Right wing parties in France (Le Pen), Germany (Petry), and the Netherlands (Wilders) shows me that--even if none of them win--they cannot avoid gaining more and more support in their respective countries (and across the West) because they're talking the sense that common people across the West know is true but aren't hearing from the quisling traitors running the governments.

And yes, the elites of the West--as a class--are traitors to the nations, countries, and states they are sworn to serve and rely upon for support. They are the 5th column without whom the ongoing invasion of "refugees" could not happen and would not persist, and every buried story of rape and murder by these invaders--aided and abetted after the fact by these elites--undermines their control and increases the odds of civil war in those countries (and a pan-European war to destroy the invaders).

The continued fraud and hoaxes of the West's Establishment media shows that they too are part of the treason, so the necessity to compel them to demonstrate their treason remains. The Meme Wars are not over. Get ready for the next round, folks, because now that the culture's shifting out of SJW hands (however that may be) the real shit's beginning.

And, to think, I got into this because I just wanted to play fucking games. Now I'm part of an epoch-defining moment in time. I'm believing in the me that believes in myself. Oh yeah, we Spirals now- time for the theme song:

Narative Warfare: Fake News Is Not New

Paul Joseph Watson has a nice little rant about #FakeNews and the hoaxing mainstream media. Have a look, and then I'll get on with it.

As the rant mentions, we've had #FakeNews going on well before the God-Emperor Ascendant won the general election and became President-Elect. What it doesn't mention in specific in that video, but Paul (and his associates at InfoWars) have gone into in the years previous, is that making #FakeNews is all that the hoaxing media does. They are there to control information, not provide it cleanly and clearly. They are the primary organ of Narrative Warfare.

The CIA's Operation Mockingbird got exposed in the 1970s--before many of you reading this were born, I suspect--and with it came the revelation that the CIA inserted many plants into the media establishment and used them to promulgate social, cultural, and political narrative favorable to the agency's interests. In short, the very propaganda operations authorized for use outside the United States had also been used inside the United States and with great success.

Not that Mockingbird had much resistance in the U.S., for Hollywood had long been a willing collaborator by then, and the media corporations in New York City (and Chicago, et. al.) before that; Walter Lippman and Edward Bernays didn't get their experience as propagandists in World War I from nothing. Public Relations (and therefore Advertising and Marketing) is nothing more than the same #FakeNews techniques employed specifically to shill shit people don't need to them by lying to them about that very fact.

Before that, we had the incident that coined "yellow journalism", the Spanish-American War and the destruction of the U.S.S. Maine used by the media to incite it. The contempt expressed by Mark Twain for the media did not come from nothing, and that should be telling for you as to just how long #FakeNews has been a thing- especially with the New York-based publishing world in the U.S. and its London counterparts for the rest of the Anglosphere.

This is not beyond their notice, institutionally; media literacy is something they actively discourage. Why do you think they are so desperate to establish and maintain themselves apart and above common people (despite being no better)? So they can tell is black is white and expect us to comply. Journalism schools as a credentialism scam, official sanction by the state, tight integrate with the state--especially the Deep State--and now yet more pushes to use state power against competitors all reveal just how vulnerable these #FakeNews hucksters really are. Time to get rid of all of them- and be our own media.

TL/DR: The hoaxing media's been lying and hoaxing for generations. We're only now getting savvy to it in critical numbers and are able to do something useful about it- and that has them scared shitless.

Narrative Warfare: FAIL! Gamers4Her & Incompetence in SJW Bullshit

So, just before the election a bunch of tabletop RPG and boardgame people started a last-ditch push to guilt gamers into voting for Crooked Sick Pedo Hillary. They called it #gamers4her, and you can read the Open Letter here.

Yeah, this went over like a lead balloon. The hashtag on Twitter got nuked from orbit immediately, and only the virtue-signalling morons (and a few others of that ilk) stuck around for more than a drive-by tip of the fedora. The push on Facebook dried up faster than an open canteen in the Sahara. Google Plus? Irrelevant, so whatever.

All they did was give us a list of Social Justice cultists to ban, boycott, pirate, and fork- both them as individuals and companies that sell their crap. We're sick of this bullshit, and pushing back is well within boundaries of reciprocity. (I'll return to this below.)

But then the God-Emperor carried the day, and these cucks and cunts went silent- until the whiny virtue-signalling resumed with the literal shakings and the literal fearing and the literally other-bullshit-meant-to-show-continued-allegiance spewed forth once more. The mockery that real gamers had, many of whom did not know who these people were because tabletop is so small compared to vidya--where the action is--that they just sat back and laughed. I actually had to explain, at Reddit and at YouTube, who these chucklefucks are; most assumed that they made shovelware that they got scammed on to Steam somehow.

This shit is comical in its hubris, and it comes down to a delusional belief in the position that their works are so important that they can't be replaced by an alternative who is just as good (or better) but leaves all this Social Justice crackpot quackery in the shitter (where it belongs). This means it's time to talk about the reality of tabletop gaming: tabletop games are ridiculously easy to fork.

In addition to the usual workarounds (only buy used, download free whenever and wherever, etc.), embrace the power of Fuck You and roll your own; you don't need to buy their products to play the game. You can write your own playable content, make up your own rules (or clone theirs; I've demonstrated both here previously), and enjoy all the tabletop gaming goodness for the rest of your days and never give any of these cultists your money ever again.

That's the goal here: to stop giving money to people who hate you, and thereby cut them off from the networks that sustain them in their parasitic manner. Time to remind these fools that you do NOT fuck with your customers and piss off your audience, especially when you're working in a niche that actually doesn't need middlemen like them at all for anything.

And no, tabletop gamers don't need any of them, at all, for anything- EVER!

This Ain't Even Yavin IV, Let Alone Endor

If anyone thinks this is over with the election, they are naive or delusional. The culture war in the United States cannot end with this election. It merely shifts from one post-election path to another, because this moment--while important--is not the death blow to either side. Once the results are in and get settled, the next front becomes drawn and the lines clash again there. It's a grind, not a one-round TKO.

So, win or lose, don't get your hopes up. It's not over yet. Not by a long shot.