roidhun
Wanderer
Ironic, self-deprecating nerd and geek extraordinnaire.
Posts: 78 
Favourite Gamebook Series: The Legends of Skyfall (Yes, really!)
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Post by roidhun on Aug 15, 2023 20:32:05 GMT
A friend of mine who shares my love of gamebooks, but is as poor as a church mouse, recently tried to save himself some money by downloading pirate copies of Shadow of the Giants and Secrets of Salamonis from a dodgy Russian website. (Yes, he felt guilty even before he began.)
He was absolutely disgusted to discover that both downloads had been bundled with a copy of the latest demented ravings by the repulsive celebrity lunatic David Icke. This regurgitated his usual racist, anti-semitic bollocks about how the world is secretly ruled by devil-worshipping, paedophile, shape-shifting, vampire lizard people, who (in their assumed human forms) include all Jews and all African-American social justice campaigners. It also claimed that COVID is a hoax. And that Fighting Fantasy is intended to somehow brainwash us into despising normal humanity as weak and wanting to make ourselves strong by selling out and pledging our allegiance to the secret reptilian rulers of the world if we’re ever offered the chance.
My friend erased this loathsome garbage as soon as he discovered it. At his request, I’m passing on his warning not to download anything FF-related from dodgy Russian websites, if you don’t want to be left feeling that your computer, your mind and your very soul have been defiled by exposure to something utterly unclean.
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Post by slloyd14 on Aug 16, 2023 5:33:55 GMT
I am writing an online course about conspiracy theories. I have wondered a long time about how people who rave on about billionaires sticking microchips in vaccines and people in power secretly being reptilians actually get paid. There doesn't seem to be a lot of money in coming up with bizarre theories.
I hate to get meta, but I think they were probably funded by hostile powers to break apart democracy.
Anyway, wake up, sheeple! Island of the Lizard King is not a metephor for mind control and lizard people running our society.
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roidhun
Wanderer
Ironic, self-deprecating nerd and geek extraordinnaire.
Posts: 78
Favourite Gamebook Series: The Legends of Skyfall (Yes, really!)
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Post by roidhun on Aug 16, 2023 8:35:08 GMT
I am writing an online course about conspiracy theories. I have wondered a long time about how people who rave on about billionaires sticking microchips in vaccines and people in power secretly being reptilians actually get paid. There doesn't seem to be a lot of money in coming up with bizarre theories. I hate to get meta, but I think they were probably funded by hostile powers to break apart democracy. Anyway, wake up, sheeple! Island of the Lizard King is not a metephor for mind control and lizard people running our society. All too plausible. Me? I'd rather have a Gonchong stick its proboscis in my brain than have to bow and scrape to the likes of Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping or Kim Jong-un. At least the Gonchong has the honesty to look like the inhuman monster it is! |
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Post by CharlesX on Aug 16, 2023 8:44:31 GMT
There tend to be viruses even downloading seemingly legal movies and books from all but the most reputable sites, which is another reason not to. I'm kind of wondering somewhere about whether this is more than a bit hypocritical, even coming from a foreign country. "Fighting Fantasy is intended to somehow brainwash us into despising normal humanity as weak and wanting to make ourselves strong by selling out and pledging our allegiance to the secret reptilian rulers of the world if we’re ever offered the chance." Which is why you can download a number of them for free here.
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Post by CharlesX on Aug 16, 2023 9:03:58 GMT
I am writing an online course about conspiracy theories. I have wondered a long time about how people who rave on about billionaires sticking microchips in vaccines and people in power secretly being reptilians actually get paid. There doesn't seem to be a lot of money in coming up with bizarre theories. I hate to get meta, but I think they were probably funded by hostile powers to break apart democracy. Anyway, wake up, sheeple! Island of the Lizard King is not a metephor for mind control and lizard people running our society. They are at least partly paid by the same kind of idiots who believe the moon landing wasn't real, or in this case, perhaps that Russia's war wasn't (yes, that's a real thing). There's like 10-20% of people in US, UK and Russia who don't believe in the moon landing. I'm no Amerophile and there are a lot of American idiots, but just as many elsewhere, unfortunately. |
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roidhun
Wanderer
Ironic, self-deprecating nerd and geek extraordinnaire.
Posts: 78
Favourite Gamebook Series: The Legends of Skyfall (Yes, really!)
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Post by roidhun on Aug 16, 2023 9:58:40 GMT
There tend to be viruses even downloading seemingly legal movies and books from all but the most reputable sites, which is another reason not to. I'm kind of wondering somewhere about whether this is more than a bit hypocritical, even coming from a foreign country. "Fighting Fantasy is intended to somehow brainwash us into despising normal humanity as weak and wanting to make ourselves strong by selling out and pledging our allegiance to the secret reptilian rulers of the world if we’re ever offered the chance." Which is why you can download a number of them for free here.
Russian rulers going back to the days of the Czars have always held the idea of honesty in government and foreign policy in utter contempt. To them, the truth is whatever the current tyrant in the Kremlin says it is. Chinese rulers since Qin Shi Huangdi have always been dedicated to ensuring that the sacred principle of government of the masses, by the elite, for the elite shall not perish from the face of the Earth. North Korea is a schizophrenic failed state which is officially atheist but which promotes the worship of the Kim family as living god-kings. You really think any of these would feel the slightest guilt over engaging in hypocrisy??? |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Aug 16, 2023 15:12:25 GMT
A friend of mine who shares my love of gamebooks, but is as poor as a church mouse, recently tried to save himself some money by downloading pirate copies of Shadow of the Giants and Secrets of Salamonis from a dodgy Russian website. (Yes, he felt guilty even before he began.) He was absolutely disgusted to discover that both downloads had been bundled with a copy of the latest demented ravings by the repulsive celebrity lunatic David Icke. This regurgitated his usual racist, anti-semitic bollocks about how the world is secretly ruled by devil-worshipping, paedophile, shape-shifting, vampire lizard people, who (in their assumed human forms) include all Jews and all African-American social justice campaigners. It also claimed that COVID is a hoax. And that Fighting Fantasy is intended to somehow brainwash us into despising normal humanity as weak and wanting to make ourselves strong by selling out and pledging our allegiance to the secret reptilian rulers of the world if we’re ever offered the chance. My friend erased this loathsome garbage as soon as he discovered it. At his request, I’m passing on his warning not to download anything FF-related from dodgy Russian websites, if you don’t want to be left feeling that your computer, your mind and your very soul have been defiled by exposure to something utterly unclean. Well this is just tremendous news. Here we are worrying about whether Fighting Fantasy has long to live, and yet it's getting taken seriously by purveyors of lunatic antisemitic conspiracy bullsh*t, which is the trendiest thing in the world right now.
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roidhun
Wanderer
Ironic, self-deprecating nerd and geek extraordinnaire.
Posts: 78
Favourite Gamebook Series: The Legends of Skyfall (Yes, really!)
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Post by roidhun on Aug 16, 2023 16:58:45 GMT
A friend of mine who shares my love of gamebooks, but is as poor as a church mouse, recently tried to save himself some money by downloading pirate copies of Shadow of the Giants and Secrets of Salamonis from a dodgy Russian website. (Yes, he felt guilty even before he began.) He was absolutely disgusted to discover that both downloads had been bundled with a copy of the latest demented ravings by the repulsive celebrity lunatic David Icke. This regurgitated his usual racist, anti-semitic bollocks about how the world is secretly ruled by devil-worshipping, paedophile, shape-shifting, vampire lizard people, who (in their assumed human forms) include all Jews and all African-American social justice campaigners. It also claimed that COVID is a hoax. And that Fighting Fantasy is intended to somehow brainwash us into despising normal humanity as weak and wanting to make ourselves strong by selling out and pledging our allegiance to the secret reptilian rulers of the world if we’re ever offered the chance. My friend erased this loathsome garbage as soon as he discovered it. At his request, I’m passing on his warning not to download anything FF-related from dodgy Russian websites, if you don’t want to be left feeling that your computer, your mind and your very soul have been defiled by exposure to something utterly unclean. Well this is just tremendous news.
Here we are worrying about whether Fighting Fantasy has long to live, and yet it's getting taken seriously by purveyors of lunatic antisemitic conspiracy bullsh*t, which is the trendiest thing in the world right now.
To slightly paraphrase a certain well-known (but non-FF) grumpy old wizard: "But there is nothing that Sauron David Icke cannot turn to evil creepily insane uses." |
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