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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 9 I'm Harry, joined by Josh.
	Hello!
	And today is the 22nd of August, 2024.
	If you're wondering why we're giggling, it's because as he was counting us down, Samson was dying into the microphone, so... Prayers for Samson.
	Yep, thoughts and prayers for Samson.
	He might be dead by the end of this podcast, but no fear, we can carry things on without him.
	It's absolutely fine.
	Can we?
	I can.
	Alright.
	Have some confidence in yourself, Josh.
	Yes, Harry.
	Anyway, today we're going to be talking about Sweden's re-migration plan, and you've got some revelations about it that I've not heard many other people speak about, so that should be interesting.
	I'm going to be talking about how the DNC is a complete freak show.
	Yes, I know, you all could have guessed anyway, but let's take a deeper look, and also we'll look at GamerGate 2.0, the WOCAG edition.
	Yes, and this one is thanks to Samson, by the way.
	He sent me loads of links.
	Fresh thincies.
	Yeah, Rip, the late Samson, sent me loads of links for that segment, so thank you to him.
	So it's not really your segment, is it?
	I put it together.
	I've got a narrative thread and a perspective.
	Thank you very much.
	Yeah, alright.
	Excuses, excuses.
	Alright, half a job, Josh.
	Anyway, let's get on with it.
	Sure.
	So everyone knows that Sweden hasn't got the best political reputation amongst the right and I've got an article here from the 17th of November 2017 from the BBC.
	A failed Swedish flag hoax shows the decline of the extremist 4chan message board.
	Obviously lots of things wrong with that headline.
	Also the notion that 4chan has declined Since 2017.
	It's just wrong.
	But they tried to fool people into believing there was a push to change the Swedish flag to the Islamic crescent.
	4chan has managed to fool people of more ridiculous things.
	That is true.
	And this petition is kind of hilarious.
	Sweden has improved!
	Please consider changing a fence of national flags.
	Sweden has improved.
	Time to improve our flag with a diverse group of people holding the The new Swedish flag, the same colours but with a crescent moon.
	A familiar image on it.
	You know, in right-wing spheres and online, Sweden is often used as a bit of a political punching bag because of what they have inflicted on what was a nice country.
	You know, Swedish people, lovely people.
	They can create a nice civilization.
	And that has gone downhill!
	And what has changed?
	Well... Migration, mainly.
	So, Sweden has actually done a lot of good things recently.
	So they're floating lots of ideas.
	I don't know whether they're going to necessarily follow through with some of this, but we're just going to go through some of this quickly.
	It's not necessarily the focus.
	So Sweden may start paying foreign-born Swedish passport holders a thousand US dollars, obviously they're not paying them in dollars, but the equivalent of for leaving Sweden, which I think is a good idea.
	I think more countries should do this.
	Just, hey, I know you've got our passport, but you're not from here, we'll give you some money to get lost.
	It's like in the Trailer Park Boys where he says, I'll give you five dollars to F off.
	Um, basically that.
	And I think that that will work.
	I mean, it's kind of annoying that taxpayers have to pay for it.
	Well, there's- there's two things with this.
	One is that the headline says- includes a word that I've not seen many other people include.
	A lot of people were saying that this was already a done deal, but it says, May.
	Mhm.
	So they've not started doing it, they are considering doing it.
	Yes.
	The other thing that's a worry with something like this is that it will only get a few very short-term opportunists taking this measure, and then what is there to prevent these people from coming back?
	Because yes, you can offer them $1,000 in the short term, and a few of them might take it.
	You'll get maybe a very small percentage of the bottom rung people who just really want their money right now.
	I think a lot of people are going to stay in Sweden anyway, just because of the fact that Sweden as a country offers much higher living standards from anywhere else they may go.
	And also, them leaving Sweden, here's a third thing, does not necessarily mean that they're going back to their home country, it may just mean that they go across the border to Norway.
	Mm-hmm, that's true.
	What's to prevent them from just migrating across each European country, and if each European country offers a similar scheme at some point- Yeah they can hop around collecting money and if there's nothing to stop them coming back well then you're just funding them even more.
	If this is to be done, there's got to be lots of caveats.
	Like, you've got to renounce your passport.
	You can't move to any other neighbouring European country.
	So it needs to be a pan-European thing, basically, which I don't see happening, for it to work properly.
	But I like the sentiment.
	I think that were this the norm in Europe, perhaps, where it's like you're leaving Europe, pack your bags, going back to, I don't know, Africa, the Middle East, somewhere like that.
	There's also this one as well, which I'm amazed isn't a lore already.
	This is obviously the Guardian whinging about it, but the general idea is doctors, social workers and librarians are among those in Sweden who have sounded the alarm over a proposal being explored by a government-appointed committee that would force public sector workers to report undocumented people to authorities.
	Why this is not the law already, just, you should inform the authorities if you think there are illegals trying to use public services.
	That should be the law already.
	Yeah, if you are a public service worker who knows and can be proven to know that there are undocumented people claiming benefits, claiming all sorts of things, and you don't, you should not only be fired, you should be charged and fined.
	Works for me.
	I mean, if you're working for the public, in the public interest, there are certain standards you have to uphold.
	And if you're, you know, not serving the taxpayer, and you're serving foreigners who are in your country legally, probably, likely criminals because they moved to your country in a criminal way, then you're not helping anyone.
	You're helping your own political ideology normally, I would imagine.
	So, There's also this one as well whereby this is September of 2023 it's worth mentioning because although the moderates are in charge they're a minority government and they're sort of in coalition with the right and so the moderates have been dragged a little bit rightwards to placate that aspect of the coalition.
	As I understand it I don't really follow Swedish politics too closely so if you are Swedish please do correct me in the comments if that's not the case.
	But here And I'm directly quoting here, work permits will only be made available to those labour immigrants in Sweden who earn a salary of at least 80% of the Swedish median salary, which is a start.
	It's a start.
	Still too low.
	It should, if you're going to be having these people, it should be about, I would say, 120%.
	Well, they're clearly an asset, right?
	Well yes, you would want them to be clearly an asset and clearly capable of actually being a net tax gain for the country.
	Because this is what The Economist found when they did the data, was it Denmark that they were looking at?
	We'll be looking at some Danish data soon.
	Yes, and they were saying that with particular populations of migrants, particularly the Menapts, Middle Eastern, North African, Pakistani and Turkish, in no part of their lifespan are they an average net contributor to tax.
	They are always a drain.
	A perfect example of that in Britain are Somalis, where they're disproportionately represented in crime, welfare claimants, social housing.
	All of the things that you don't want people in your country to be doing, they're disproportionately over-represented.
	So I would say it would be pretty safe to say, actually, no.
	No Somalis, please.
	They're not contributing.
	You know, Donald Trump did the Muslim ban for terrorism.
	Why can't we do other things like that?
	Also, we've got this as well.
	Why is it not scrolling down?
	Wait.
	There we go.
	Well, I've got the power of mouse.
	So Sweden to make tougher rules for family reunification.
	Is that the one?
	Yes that's right.
	So the government is, this is a direct quote again, is exploring options of introducing further DNA testing to confirm the identity of people because people are lying about their place of origin and they're testing their DNA because actually we have pretty good Um, ethnic DNA mapping.
	We can tell where someone is from pretty reliably based on their DNA.
	Um, this would particularly apply to cases where the family relationship cannot be established by paperwork alone, particularly when it comes to children.
	So basically, the sort of family chain of one person gets their foot in the door and then about 20 people are living under the same roof.
	All a family, apparently.
	Just lots and lots of cousins.
	We get that a lot in Britain as well.
	Living above barbershops.
	That's right, yeah.
	And here we have another one which is also not scrolling down for some reason.
	This is part of the political pact with the right, as they're saying.
	Here we go.
	This is an interesting part.
	This is something that's been doing the rounds online.
	Quite a few people talking about this and we'll go over who has been saying this.
	People leaving Sweden will exceed immigrants in 2024.
	So this is touted as a success of, well, Sweden's done all these things to deter migrants and now actually they're leaving more than they're coming here.
	This is great and it's perhaps not what it seems.
	Well, I noticed that this is a DW article, who are not, as far as I'm aware, on our side.
	And so that this might be some kind of fear-mongering article on their part, because of course they're going to be on the side of, no, we need to get as many in as possible!
	Presaged my next point here.
	We've got the Guardian here, from open hearts to closed borders, behind Sweden's negative net immigration figures.
	And it talks about asylum seekers and hate and oh, they had a warm heart to the downtrodden and now they're evil and mean and far-right.
	You get the idea, we've heard it a thousand times.
	With no reference to countries like Sweden now becoming the rape capital of Europe.
	Yes, we will be talking about that as well.
	I'm just guessing all of the points here.
	Stop being so knowledgeable, Harry.
	So here we have a graph of basically a measure of how prejudiced people are, I suppose, if this is how you would measure it.
	I think it's a relatively reasonable measure.
	Who would you not want to have as a neighbour?
	And it says immigrants slash foreign workers.
	Sweden is right at the bottom with three percent.
	And then you've got Iran at the top there with 42% and Russia 32%, Japan, China, Greece, Morocco, you know, and all the way down at 3% Sweden.
	But a lot of the countries are at like 40, 30%, perhaps even higher than Reported there, some of them.
	And then, people of a different race, Sweden is at 1% would not want them as a neighbour.
	So I think it's safe to say that Sweden is about as un-racist or un-prejudiced, however you want to frame it, as humanly possible, right?
	Do you know when this survey was taken?
	Uh, there's a date at the bottom?
	There isn't a date at the bottom, it just gives the source.
	Because I wonder if this is a relatively old survey.
	It may well be.
	Although of course you can still vote for anti-immigration policies without expressing those kinds of views.
	I'm not making that point.
	The point I'm making is that...
	This basically has allowed Sweden to be taken advantage of.
	They, at one point, had attitudes like this.
	It doesn't matter what time it is, really.
	It's previous to all of this stuff being passed, I think.
	But, I feel like, my understanding of the situation, at least, should I say, is that Sweden was very, very welcoming, they're very open, in a sort of naive European sense of, well, we're friendly with, you know, other European countries, why not open the door to more people?
	But then they realise, oh wait, actually, European people are perhaps a lot less likely to commit crime than other people and we can see that from this sort of thing so they've got the second highest crime rate gun crime rate in Europe after Albania which of course exports criminals that is their main export And this is from gang violence?
	Uh, mainly, yes, I think so.
	It must be all those Viking clans.
	So, look at that.
	Albania, um... Bloody hell on Albania!
	...sandwiches Bosnia and Herzegovina between Sweden.
	I said that the wrong way round, but you get the idea.
	Sweden seems like an anomaly in the top three there, because it's sort of, uh, you know, Balkan countries, Adriatic countries, that you might expect it from.
	Muslim countries.
	And then, and then also Northern Ireland, which...
	Has some history.
	Yeah, well, there's a lot of firearms around that part of the world, aren't there?
	And so, it's also worth mentioning this isn't in the Guardian article.
	55 people were shot dead in 2023 in Sweden, and between Norway, Finland and Denmark combined, there were six.
	And Sweden only has an official population, and I say official, of 10.5 million.
	So it's quite a small population relative to, say, the United States or the UK.
	And relative to how big the country is as well.
	Although I'm sure they're all condensed in a few population centres.
	I think it's weighted heavily down the southern side, isn't it?
	And so you can get figures like this number of homicides in Sweden and you can see a general trend towards it increasing.
	If you were to draw a line from 2013 to 2023 over that 10 year span there's an obvious trend here isn't there?
	And of course what is the main shift in Swedish culture?
	Well there are less Swedes is what's happening and now there is more crime.
	So there's obviously a problem here and of course there is The much sought after Swedish crime data that breaks it down by rough ethnicity here and I've... so...
	Here we have the African countries, obviously disproportionately represented, as they are in all European countries.
	And also you've got, I think South America here, Central America, and then you see US and Canada.
	These are all over-represented relative to the native population, and I think that's the countries within the EU.
	And then look at... What is the difference between the darker and the lighter line?
	So, it explains it here.
	So, darker colour shows the native-borns with two foreign-born parents, i.e.
	second generations, while the lighter colour shows foreign-borns.
	So, whether they're, you know, second generation or first generation... So most of them, the second generation, are actually more likely to be violent.
	Yes, they're not integrating, they're doing the opposite, in fact.
	They're becoming more violent, not less.
	Except for Central Asian, for some reason.
	Just one anomaly.
	But also, you've got more data here.
	This is only foreign-borns, and this is talking about various adjustments.
	I think it's for Age, sex, and disposable income and education.
	And you can still see that Africa, Central Asian, I think West Asian, and then South American, lots of them are over-represented relative to European countries.
	And an easier body of data that has been translated into English is the Danish data, which reflects similar things.
	I think that in the Swedish data, obviously, there's a greater over-representation of Africans, but there was still a massive over-representation for Middle Eastern countries, and that's reflected in neighbouring Denmark as well.
	I'm quite surprised that Kuwait tops it there, and this data's not adjusted for age or sex, but Kuwait, Tunisia, Lebanon, Somalia, Jordan, Uganda, Morocco, Iraq, Algeria...
	Those are some of the top countries.
	You've also got Ethiopia in there.
	You start looking at these darker blue countries, these are the western countries, all down here, so orange is Africa, red is the MENAPT thing.
	Japan is right at the bottom with barely registering any figures whatsoever.
	Yeah, United Kingdom, France, Finland, all sort of grouped together, all these European countries, Croatia for some reason off next to Brazil, but, you know, Russia and they've even got data for the Soviet Union there, so they've even got old data included here, so this is, hang on a minute, 2010 to 2021, and they've got the Soviet Union, what's going on here?
	Maybe it's just their country of origin, so they came from the former Soviet Union, but You get the idea right?
	I was going to say because it's got Yugoslavia up at the top as well.
	It does yeah.
	So I'm guessing it's people who'd moved there that still claim that ethnicity but you get the point that in Scandinavian countries this trend is mirrored and across all of Europe really because this mirrors the same sort of trends that we get in the UK as well and Sweden's crime rate is now the highest in Northern Europe just overall.
	And so this was, I think, yes, 2023.
	There's a camera in the way so I had to shift around.
	You can ask me, I've got a nice clear view.
	We're very professional here.
	And let's actually talk about the reality because of course We've obviously outlined the problem.
	We've outlined some of the things that they're doing and this notion that they're now re-migrating foreign-born people.
	Do they have an actually net negative migration?
	No.
	So here's an article that talks about it.
	It is in Swedish but I have translated it into English and I'm going to read a little bit from it.
	The fact that Sweden had a net emigration between January and May does not necessarily mean that there were more emigrants than immigrants in those months.
	Statistics Sweden's press officer Johan Claris told the outlet.
	Sam Nietzsche.
	Yes.
	The reason is that since last summer the Swedish tax agency has been cleaning up its population register in order to deregister people who are incorrectly registered in the country, something the Minister of Migration also addressed during his press conference.
	So this totals 18,695 people and if I scroll up here, where has it gone?
	We can have a look.
	There's a nice little graph here looking at each quarters, I think each month.
	It seems like those figures could account for this because the number of people being struck off the register is from June of last year to the current date.
	And they're being included in emigration figures I'm assuming?
	Yes.
	So it might be relatively close and it does seem to have disincentivised asylum seekers because they're making it harder and potential immigration as well.
	But the problem's still not solved.
	People certainly aren't leaving at rates that are being claimed.
	That much we can say for certain.
	But it seems to me that there's a rather significant number of people being struck off and that is what is accounting for this in the first place.
	And it's difficult to know exactly because you need a better breakdown of the data and I can't access that in English.
	Lots and lots of people actually talked about this as, yes, this is a great victory, this is proof that these policies work, and I'm going to name and shame them.
	But, you know, many of these people I like, so no bad feelings.
	it's understandable if you didn't end up going to a very specific Swedish website that had those kinds of figures and that information.
	And when most of the English language coverage of it has been on the leftist side, fear mongering saying typically, because of course the leftist perspective is not, we need to help these people.
	It's, we need to just stuff them all in as quickly as possible so we can utterly destroy the culture of this country because that's the underlying reason for So they're just fear-mongering so they can try and get more immigrants in as quickly as possible.
	Exactly.
	So, here we have...
	National Conservative talking about this, saying now there's net immigration and it's not true.
	So because we at Lotus Eaters do our research we can we can report on fake news even better than the BBC because I think they talked about it as well.
	Paul Joseph Watson did, Steve Laws did, Zuma Historian did, Peter Sweden did, he's even got Sweden in his name!
	And also some outlets that I quite like did as well.
	The Publica did.
	The European Conservative did.
	Although they did issue a retraction.
	So they said, well, hang on a minute.
	Not so fast.
	Actually, it's a clean-up of the population register.
	I do think to try to steel man some of these positions, obviously some of the information that they were reporting on turns out not to have been quite as positive as they first thought.
	The very fact that Sweden is making these moves, putting these ideas out into the public, is in and of itself a positive move.
	I was about to say that exact thing.
	You've read my mind for like the millionth time now today.
	We're just on the same wavelength but overall I think actually you know Sweden's doing a relatively good job of moving in a good direction and sort of leading Europe in a way to sorting out these problems because there's no doubt that Sweden is suffering the most from mass immigration out of a lot of European countries looking at the crime rate and you know Swedes are very civil civilized people
	This wouldn't be the native Swedes necessarily although I don't doubt that the presence of foreign criminals encourages Swedes to join in at a higher rate.
	Sort of the broken window effect if you will.
	So hopefully there is some more tangible ...sort of movements towards re-migration, I would like to see that and I think that some of the policies being floated, although none of them I feel like sort of that will definitely work, that's great, that's going to really help the country, they're all signalling a good direction and of course it could be a similar situation where...
	You know, you've got the Conservative Party in the UK where they signalled about, well, we're sending people to Rwanda to process them and getting rid of them.
	Well, it's all just a PR ploy.
	Maybe things will amount to that, but I don't know.
	But I think certainly keeping an eye on what's going on in Sweden is going to be very important because I think once one European country does something, it makes it acceptable for other European countries to do it.
	We saw it in Covid.
	If they follow through.
	Yes.
	And we saw it in Covid, we saw it in lots of other different policy decisions and so I think that that's how a lot of European politics functions.
	It's sort of, there's a prime mover and then all of a sudden it's a bit more acceptable to do these things and hopefully Sweden sort of spearheads this because they have the most to gain from solving these problems.
	All right.
	Mouse!
	Would you like the mouse, Matt, as well?
	Yes!
	Go on then It worked That was like a really cursed Thing of The touch of God Thank you.
	Oh, I've just given the editors so many stupid faces.
	Oh, I'm waiting for... Lotus Eater's out of context.
	Hello.
	One moment.
	Gotta have a little Pepsi break.
	Sponsors, if you'd like... Like we're gonna get sponsored by Pepsi.
	Pepsi have decided that they're taking a radical new direction with their branding.
	Coca-Cola can make Fanta for the mid-century Germans.
	Pepsi's new catchphrase, they have to go home.
	With every Pepsi, we send a migrant home.
	Oh, make it happen.
	Anyway, all right, so surprise surprise, you don't need me to tell you this, but the DNC, the Democratic National Convention happening right as we speak in Chicago, I think today is the last day, is a... rousing success?
	No, it's a complete freak show, that's right.
	Everybody who's going to be attending, has already attended, has given a speech, is supporting it monetarily, seems to have something wrong in the head.
	No way.
	I never would have guessed this.
	I know.
	I know.
	So I thought I'd go over a little bit of the information of what's been going on.
	I want to point out, obviously Stelios covered a bit of it on Tuesday, some of the ridiculousness.
	I wanted to go over a little bit of the ridiculousness and then some of the news coverage of what's been happening and some of the speeches that have been given.
	So first, just to confirm everything, yes.
	Harris is the official nominee now.
	She was nominated after about two weeks since Biden dropped out.
	So she is the ticket, as is Walls.
	I don't know if we'd said that explicitly on the podcast, so I wanted to make sure that it is said explicitly.
	Just in case you've been hiding under a rock, yeah?
	Yes, Harris is the nominee and there is some criticism of what her policies might look like, what Kamala Harris's America might look like because there is a rebrand going on right now of the campaign.
	The way that they had to pivot and say that no we're not doing Joe Biden anymore we're doing Kamala Harris is interesting because now they're trying to make Kamala Harris both look competent, intense and serious.
	While also being cool, hip, relatable, personable.
	A person that you could run into in the street and get along with and have a normal conversation with and not a shrieking awful harpy.
	Have you mentioned the fact that there was a report, I believe it was leaked to the press, of lots of Democrats were encouraging Kamala not to release her policies until after the election?
	I'd not seen that.
	I thought you were going to talk about some of the reports that were coming from within her own campaign and within her own offices that she'd worked out while she was in the vice presidency of people saying that she was an absolute nightmare to work with, swore at everybody constantly, was incredibly rude and difficult to get along with.
	I could never see that.
	I mean, not our Kamala, no way.
	Not our Kamala, no way.
	Not our Aris, no.
	The way he said that.
	No, I've not been made aware of that.
	To be fair, what are her policies?
	Well, she stole one from Donald Trump, didn't she?
	No tax on tips.
	Yes, because I've seen some criticism from The Economist of what her foreign policy and what her economic policies might be that say that they threaten to be even worse than Joe Biden's economic policies.
	What's she doing?
	Just going around torching factories deliberately?
	How could it be worse?
	Possibly stealing change from the homeless?
	That's not going to improve the economy.
	That would win your vote, I know.
	It would improve the economy, yeah.
	But she is saying that she's going to be tough on the border.
	There was a recent advert at the beginning of August saying fixing the border is tough.
	And so is Kamala Harris.
	Which completely ignores that while she was border czar, she let in 10 million illegal aliens.
	That's no small number, is it?
	I mean, it- it- I mean, there was 2 million in the entire time of Trump's presidency.
	And she also- which is the exact same number as Kamala Harris' known getaways.
	So, I presume these are people they may have picked up, and then they somehow managed to evade being put back.
	America's a big country.
	Yes, but one of the things that's really funny to me, so obviously she's trying to be tough, she's trying to be serious, she's going to be the president that America needs to get it back on track, she's going to be the president that the country needs to make them serious on the geopolitical landscape again, which is what we were told that Joe Biden was going to be, but then he came out and was a dribbling, senile old man.
	Mm-hmm.
	So I don't know how that affected America's international standing, along with the Afghanistan disaster, of course.
	Well, I suppose it does show that no matter who's in office, the government still runs mysteriously.
	It's almost like the president is not that powerful.
	He is still president, let's not forget.
	Mm-hmm, that's true.
	What's he doing?
	They've basically admitted by having him drop out of the race that he's not fit for the presidency.
	Mm-hmm.
	So he's still president.
	Why is that?
	He's filling a lot of diapers in his bed.
	That's what keeps the economy going, is Joe Biden cleanup.
	So they've been posting weird videos like this, and yeah, I'm gonna say the weird word because yes, these people do come across them, it's very strange.
	Their whole tactic has been trying to call JD Vance and Donald Trump and all of the people around them as being weird and trying to Turn the conversation around and say that, oh, these are the weirdos who are trying to put politics in your living room.
	These are the weirdos who are trying to... Well, of course it's projection, because, I mean, look at this.
	This is the sort of videos that they're putting up.
	Oh, Doritos acquired, I got you.
	Can you take corn nuts over there, too?
	Oh, yeah, that's the best.
	There you go.
	Can you take corn nuts over there?
	Now there's nothing inherently wrong with something like this.
	Well yeah, they're pretending to be friends, they're pretending to be normal people going to a supermarket and passing each other crisps.
	But it's the fact that it's so phony.
	It's so fake.
	It's so disingenuous that these are just normal people we're just normal just like you we could be friends with you look at how normal and cool we are comes across as well as again fake.
	I think that also going for that style of campaign just doesn't work because as you can see in the background wherever they go they have a massive security detail you you can't walk into a room And the atmosphere not change if you come with a bunch of suited and armed people.
	A big posse.
	Yeah.
	And they've done it before this is this is basically a repeat of videos that they've done so this seems to be a specific tactic they're going for to try and make themselves look normal but this one's even worse because You can see the entourage and people filming them going, we like eating snacks just like you do.
	Hello fellow Americans, aren't we normal?
	Are you going to be voting for us?
	We've got Doritos.
	Do you like Doritos too?
	Well then you better vote Harris.
	I like your favourite seed oil snack.
	Same as you.
	Vote for me.
	Again, it comes across as fake, corporate, phony, whatever you want to describe it as, but it's very strange to me, but that's politics.
	All politics is fake.
	It's all people who probably hate you in secret, trying to be your friend, and then, you know, once they've got your vote, they'll stab you in the back.
	Trust your gut.
	As they always do.
	This is one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen, which is the vice presidential nominee, Tim Waltz, talking about how the Democrats are going to get politics out of your living room.
	Some of us who have less hair and are old enough can remember when you could go to Thanksgiving, watch a Steelers game with your relatives, and not complain about politics the whole time.
	Not be on each other's necks.
	Because you shared a commitment to democracy, a commitment to personal freedom, a commitment to public education, a commitment to infrastructure.
	Who's not committed to infrastructure?
	It's very strange these talking points like you'd be sat at the dinner table talking about your commitment to infrastructure together and your commitment to democracy like they're all sat around the dinner table and obviously a typical American conversation is you're all discussing the particularities of democracy in America by Alexa de Tocqueville.
	That was the average- You're there, there eating your, you know, your Thanksgiving dinner, and you're just like, so, big fan of the sanitation system in this city.
	It's lovely, isn't it?
	Oh, I love it.
	It's great.
	I love that the toilets flush.
	Do you remember when the toilets didn't flush?
	Oh, it was a nightmare.
	Thank God for the Democrats.
	Under the nasty Republicans, the toilets never flushed.
	It was basically New Delhi down here.
	And, um, yeah, it's very ironic and very strange, again, that that sort of talking point would be coming from a Democrat.
	These are the people who have been flooding your country with illegal immigrants for years at this point.
	These are the people that are very eager for your dinner table to be filled with a conversation of how your son is about to be your daughter, about how your son thinks that he might like pee-pees, actually.
	All these sorts of strange, uncomfortable conversations...
	And schools more generally as well.
	Yeah, pushing politics in schools, how your son has come back from school and he's six years old but he went into the local library at the school and found a picture of people performing fellatio on one another.
	These are the people who wanted to put that in but they're trying to flip it around and pretend that they're the normal ones, that this is just how politics has always worked in the country.
	It's the same tactic that Schmidt and other people have pointed out, that in the democratic conversation they want to present some subjects as being settled.
	Mm-hmm.
	So that they're beyond the touch of normal conversation.
	In politics, almost nothing is ever settled.
	That's sort of the realpolitik of it, is that nothing is sacrosanct in politics.
	Everything is subject to change, which is one of the problems of politics really, isn't it?
	Well, it's all about the competing vision of how you should live your life, the governance of a particular area, and that, at the base of it, can descend into violence, essentially.
	Two existential threats to one another, facing off, committing violence to try and assert their vision of the world, and so politics is basically the polite facade that you pop on top of that.
	And this whole method is saying, no, no, no.
	We've settled this.
	Put it aside.
	You don't want to talk about this at the dinner table with your weird uncle, do you?
	So don't worry about it.
	We've got it, guys.
	But, again, these are the people who want your son to know that it's okay for him to chop his winky off, because at seven years old, he's more than capable of knowing whether he's a girl or a boy.
	And Waltz himself is a strange figure because he seems to be somewhat of a compulsive liar.
	I've seen him make a lot of claims that people have fact-checked about very small things here and there that don't seem to matter as much, but the big one I've seen people point out that I didn't know when I was talking about Waltz before was that he has been accused of stolen valor through his claims regarding to his military career.
	So...
	He served in the National Army Guard for 24 years, but he retired from his artillery battalion and abandoned more than 500 men under his command two months before it deployed to Iraq in 2005.
	Now, from reports that I've seen who spoke to the people who were under his command at the time, it was a bit of a what-the-hell moment when they were all about to be deployed and he's like, anyway guys, bye!
	See ya!
	Hope you don't get blown up!
	Yeah, that's the last thing you want in someone ruling, you know, over, what, ruling over?
	No, commanding, sorry, 500 people.
	So, I mean, I'm kind of glad for the people he was commanding that he wasn't there, because if he's craven, then it's better for everyone he not be involved.
	But he should also never be able to escape that reputation, if that's what he wanted to do.
	Especially because there has been a lot of misreporting and, as they say in here, him misspeaking during his first run for statewide office in 2018 when he claimed that he'd carried weapons of war in war and he'd earlier implied during his congressional races that he deployed to a combat zone such as Afghanistan when in fact he had deployed to Italy briefly as part of Operation Enduring Freedom before leaving the National Guard.
	So he has done some service, but not the service that he was implying.
	He wasn't... I know Italy can be a bit dangerous sometimes, especially if you're driving, but it's not a war zone.
	Maybe it was when he was there.
	Who knows?
	I don't know.
	I'm not an expert on geopolitics.
	So yeah, that's very strange.
	Should immediately mean that a lot of people don't trust him because if he's willing to lie by omission, lie by ignorance, then that's not a great sign, but then again he is a politician.
	There's also this incredible Rolling Stone tweet that they put out.
	That's the genius work of this one small bit of Harris-Waltz merch.
	The camouflage hat reclaims the rural and southern identity that mainstream Democrats have long ignored with this one woman in a Waltz-Harris camouflage hat.
	So more hats equals more votes.
	Isn't that a relative of Kamala Harris?
	It might be.
	Was it her niece or something like that?
	It kind of, she has the weird, um, artsy girl tattoos that her relative had.
	I don't know.
	But if it is a member of the Harris family, it makes it funnier.
	That's the... But it says that Dems are finally embracing country music fans.
	What, by having a camouflage hat?
	By having a single camouflage hat on sale.
	I've listened to a fair amount of country music.
	I don't remember many country musicians wearing Democrat Party camo hats.
	Now again, if you want to talk about Southern identity, I mean, these are the same sorts of people along with many other mainstream Democrats who were cheering on, pulling down Robert E. Lee statues, probably very, very happy to have you harassed for having a Confederate flag outside of your house or on your window or something.
	But... They got camouflage hat on.
	Come on.
	They got camouflage hat.
	Can you say no?
	Can you say no?
	Yes.
	Yes, you can say no.
	And the only tactic that they really have against somebody like J.D.
	Vance is calling him weird for pictures like this.
	He's weird.
	J.D.
	Vance poses with three high school girls in a boy's restroom as they pretend to use the Uranus as he plays out the Democrats' vision of America.
	Right here, women at the urinals while a man watches on.
	Yeah, he does look a bit goofy and a bit funny in this picture.
	But this is, I mean, he's in high school.
	Yeah.
	This is what they can do.
	So Tim Waltz basically lies about his military record.
	JD Vance has fun with girls in high school.
	Now there has been some theories that they might just be jealous that JD Vance evidently knew women in high school and was friends with them, which many Democrat voters can't say that they had the same they usually like to become them they like to become the women you are correct but then again that also is part of the sting because they're thinking god that could have been me standing at that
	so that the whole weird tactic that whole campaign where they're trying to call him weird which was started by waltz really comes across as untrue disingenuous mainly because i'm they're freaks they're dysgenic weirdos this the These are lyrics to Creep by Radiohead.
	It's the new extreme version that I'm going to be writing and covering.
	But let's go over to the DNC right now.
	So one of the things that Stelios reported on earlier on this week is that Planned Parenthood were providing free vasectomies and abortion pills during the Democrat National Convention.
	And the pop-up care aligns with Kamala Harris's adamant abortion platform.
	Democrat nominee is in favor of legalizing abortion nationwide, so completely disregarding state's rights, putting it as part of the Constitution, probably signing it into the Bill of Rights, previously calling it a fundamental freedom in an MSNBC interview.
	Now, I'm somebody who thinks that abortion is demonic.
	I think you are killing children.
	I know that not everybody agrees with me on that, but I also have to be pragmatic and, um, and, uh, yeah, pragmatic when I say things like this, which is don't interrupt your enemies when they're making a mistake.
	On some level, wokeism, leftism, is a, uh, a genetic phenomenon.
	Shall we say.
	So if these people want to take themselves out of the gene pool, as sad and as awful as I think it is, I'm not going to stop them.
	Because there is nothing that I could do to stop them anyway.
	Obviously it's evil that these children are being hurt in the process of doing so, but there's nothing that I can do to help those children, and these women being evil enough to do that...
	means that maybe they shouldn't be having children in the first place and you can tell how evil this whole thing is because they've got this abortion truck where apparently 25 have already been performed and that was as of yesterday morning so there'll have been more probably double that since then but i think actually James Kirkpatrick has an excellent tweet in regards to this because Uh, let's see.
	Jack Posobek went around asking these people, how many abortions have you had today?
	This woman screeches about it.
	And, you know, we on the right, we turn around and we say, haha, we really showed them.
	But let's be honest here.
	As James says, the attempt to shame these people or reveal true beliefs to them doesn't work.
	He says, good clickbait, but I guarantee she felt virtuous and high status afterwards.
	The only way you can actually challenge their self-image is a deadpan response like, I think it's good people like you kill their kids.
	Now that's a bit too nasty for me.
	It's not for me, I approve.
	I know, not for you.
	But for me now, when it's people who are saying, I'm never gonna have children, you shouldn't have children, children are evil, children are bad, I will be turning to them, and this is something I've thought for a while now, and saying, good.
	You shouldn't have children.
	You'd be a terrible mother, you'd be a terrible father, you would neglect your children, you'd raise them to believe in the sick, disgusting things that you do, and it's better off that you completely take yourself out of the gene pool.
	But when it comes to the welfare of children, I think speaking very bluntly to people, Who might potentially be parents who aren't suited to it and just say yeah I don't think you're good enough to be a parent.
	It's a brutal thing it's very cutting I think it cuts at a sort of almost biological level because mysteriously that's you know one of the things we're you know deeply programmed to do and so saying these things might be unpleasant but I think we should start saying them that yes if you believe in this insanity if you believe in all of this nonsense that you can do and you know You can change biology by merely thinking, then yeah, you shouldn't be a parent.
	Absolutely.
	And if you advocate and support abortion for everybody, if you think that killing your unborn children is a good thing, then yes, I wish that you hadn't got pregnant in the first place, because you shouldn't have been having children.
	Maybe you should have just been more careful.
	What's happened is tragic, but it's best that you don't pass your beliefs on to others.
	Of course, then you get to the other problem, which is a lot of these women are probably in care roles, probably in teaching roles, and at that point you get to the discussion of, well, you shouldn't be influencing other people's children to believe those things either.
	Stay away from my kids.
	That should be the policy, generally.
	Yeah, and that's a policy question right there.
	Carrying on, there is the comedy coming from here, including these women who start the national anthem just a little bit too early, and it leads to this.
	They're not great singers in the first place, apologies.
	You can hear in the back the track starting.
	I haven't even got a knife, I'm gonna go full Van Gogh and cut off both ears.
	You're gonna go double Van Gogh.
	That's right.
	Times two.
	Uh, so... Yeah, I don't think they forgot the lyrics, but they did start too early, so... Very funny.
	Funny that people who hate America can't even sing their own national anthem.
	I'm not all that surprised, if I'm honest.
	There were these people standing around outside the Democrat National Convention who basically said, yes, we want- we want the Great Replacement, if it could happen right now, it'd be amazing.
	I have my choice!
	In my perfect world, every Republican is out of the country, and all the immigrants come in.
	That's what I want.
	Never gonna happen.
	That's what I want.
	But we're all immigrants, we all came from somewhere else.
	Right, right, so...
	What's the qualifying for all the immigrants?
	Who's all the immigrants?
	This is the whole world.
	This is that opinion that people put forward that basically everybody's an undocumented American somewhere down the line.
	Everybody's just an American in waiting.
	The country's big enough to take the entire population.
	If you crush them down into tiny particles and put them in an enormous blender, then America can actually fit trillions more people inside of it.
	So we should invite everyone, the second- Are you an AI?
	The second that Martians arrive, if the aliens finally descend, as they supposedly did in Mexico, but everybody ignores that because it was obvious BS.
	The second the aliens arrive, well, congratulations, you're an American.
	Except for the Republicans.
	Then we can have boundaries on what does and doesn't mean American.
	The way things are going in Britain, I might have to cross the southern border at this rate.
	You probably have more luck than trying to apply legally.
	Then again, maybe not.
	Maybe not.
	There were people going up and giving speeches repeating the bleach lie that during Donald Trump's presidency during the COVID period that he said that people should inject bleach so that they could cure themselves of COVID.
	That's nothing that Donald Trump said, but these people lie.
	And a lot of the speeches seem to be harping just on Donald Trump.
	There doesn't seem to be much discussion of how America is going to be better under the Democrats.
	Just saying that Donald Trump will literally come to your house and murder you and inject you with bleach into your eyeballs.
	So vote for us.
	Because we're normal.
	We eat Doritos just like you.
	Yeah, well guess what?
	Donald Trump eats McDonalds.
	Far more American.
	Far more American.
	People saying that Donald Trump would be able to weaponize the Department of Justice.
	More projection.
	This woman giving a little, um, poem?
	Should we listen to the poem?
	Sure, go on then.
	We gather at this hallowed place because we believe in the American Dream.
	We face a race that tests if this country we cherish shall perish from the earth, and if our earth shall perish from this country.
	It falls to us to ensure that we do not fall for a people that cannot stand together.
	Cannot stand at all.
	I'm sure it sounded great when she was practicing it in the mirror.
	Didn't she mean hallowed not hollowed?
	Hallowed and yes.
	What does the earth and if our earth shall perish from this country?
	Like the United States is going- The soil disappears overnight!
	The United States is going to untether from the planet and float off into space!
	Like Borderlands 2, where the city levitates.
	You know, Bioshock Infinite, perhaps.
	Yeah, maybe, maybe, I mean...
	I don't know.
	Like it takes off into the skies.
	They're not sending their best.
	No.
	I think we can all accept they're not sending their best, although this isn't to say that, trust me, I saw some of the clips coming from the RNC, there was a lot of cringe coming from there as well.
	American, big American political conventions are non-stop cringe fests and it doesn't matter which side of the aisle you're on, you are not immune to it.
	It's the same over here as well, whenever you get the big Labour meeting each year, which I'm sad I don't think that we had any edit of it this year.
	We didn't, no.
	No, they're always horrifying and cringeworthy, but funny!
	My favourite moment was when they said, Comrade Chair, and they panned to a guy in a wheelchair.
	That never failed to tickle me.
	Here's my favourite one though, here's my favourite one.
	This, this funny looking gentleman, here we go.
	As a redditor, gamer, entrepreneur and swifty from the free state of Colorado.
	I'm excited by Kamala Harris' vision for protecting and expanding our personal freedom, internet freedom, and economic freedom.
	Democrats welcome weird, but we're not weirdos telling families who can and can't have kids Who to marry or how to live our lives.
	These Project 2025 people like Trump and Vance are not just weird, they're dangerous.
	They want to take us backwards.
	But we aren't going back like ever, ever, ever.
	I wouldn't let him near my children.
	I'm surprised I even got the Taylor Swift reference, but that is the lamest thing for a man of his age to reference.
	you What about Connor's age?
	That too.
	Connor's gonna have to revoke his Swifty card after that one.
	So he's a Redditor, gamer, and a Swifty, so someone should be checking his hard drive.
	Anyway, what's the reporting been saying about this?
	Well, Oprah, Oprah Winfrey, who... I still don't understand the appeal of Oprah, I don't understand why she is such an icon in America, but she gave a speech there, and she described herself as a political independent who always votes her values.
	Her values... It just so happens that they're always Democratic, aren't they?
	Yeah, it just so happens they always toe the Democrat party line.
	According to the Washington Post, Winfrey offered a largely apolitical speech.
	You can't talk about politics in an apolitical way.
	So the Washington Post is towing the line with this new Democratic Party line of, we're normal, we talk about the things that are normal, our policies are completely business as usual, it's the Republicans that are the extremists.
	Whereas the Republicans oftentimes Outside of and maybe even including Trump are, as always, still Democrats five years ago.
	That's how these things always operate.
	I was very critical of the RNC, how they had an OnlyFans model, get up and give a speech.
	I don't think that the Republicans, if they want to actually stand for any values, should be promoting things like that.
	I also don't like that I've been seeing clips of Donald Trump Saying that when he's in presidency, they're going to increase legal immigration to rates never before seen.
	He's going to pull back the illegal immigration, protect the borders, but also increase legal immigration.
	I don't think that's good.
	I think, again, that's demographic replacement through a different means that the Democrats do it.
	So I don't think the Republicans are entirely without criticism.
	I think they should be heavily criticized for a lot of what they do.
	But seriously, the Democrats are awful.
	You're not going to get any better, and it will in fact be worse under the Democrats, especially given that these are the people who are insane revolutionaries who want to upend your life and change everything about the way that you are able to live your life, and then present it like it's always been the normal thing.
	But...
	Winfrey carried on to say that she was, um, calling for joy and decency and emphasized common sense over nonsense.
	Let us choose the sweet promise of tomorrow over the bitter return to yesterday.
	We won't go back.
	We won't be set back, pushed back, bullied back, kicked back.
	We're not going back.
	And she described at times of having been on the receiving end of racism, sexism, and income inequality.
	Oh, income inequality.
	One of the richest women to ever live, whose wealth and luxury would put European kings and queens to shame, and even potentially her political influence through her media career, says that she's been the victim of income inequality.
	This is what we mean when we say that these people come across as disingenuous liars.
	Nobody is going to be convinced by Oprah Winfrey getting up and sa- well actually no, I'm wrong.
	I'm sure plenty of absolute retards are convinced by Oprah Winfrey saying, Saying, I've been through hard times.
	I know what it's like to not get paid as much as my male colleagues.
	She says, dabbing her tears with hundred dollar bills.
	Sat on a pile of gold bars.
	I like as well that she used the word joy, which has been used by all of the left-wing press.
	In everything.
	And she's also clearly picked up that memo as well.
	It's probably that gender euphoria that they're supposedly experiencing when they take that first hit of testosterone.
	And if you could, you know, throw some my way, need some gains.
	Anyway, And they also had the continuing worship of black women, as is the Democrats' real party mantra, which is we love our black women.
	They had Michelle Obama, who recently, if I drew a picture of her that was 100% accurate, I would get arrested for.
	In the UK.
	Just to say that.
	She was standing before an adoring crowd and she was referencing the parallels between her black American story and Kamala's person of colour immigrant story.
	Now it seems that the New York Times has decided to pull back on her being a black American quite as much because Donald Trump's been quite effective at going, I thought she was Indian.
	A few years ago she was saying she was Indian.
	She was campaigning on being Indian but now she's black?
	Which one is it, Kamala?
	She said, her mother is like mine, and they say if you trust Michelle, you can trust Kamala.
	So I can't trust Kamala then.
	That was the gist.
	Most of us will never be afforded the grace of falling forward.
	We'll never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth like Donald Trump.
	Black Americans complaining about not having access to affirmative action?
	Are you kidding me?
	Also, the former first lady of the country, one of the most influential people in Democratic Party politics, part of the family that was one of the big linchpins as to why Biden isn't running for this next campaign, says that, oh, I'm so oppressed.
	Also, it just sounds pathetic to the rest of the world.
	I know this is an outside perspective, but Black Americans have one of the highest standards of living in the world, so when you're talking about being all this poor, impoverished thing, no, you're not.
	You're just resentful of people that have more than you, which is a human thing, but also stop whining.
	Yeah, and on the stop whining point, that's all I had to go on.
	So, Democrats, please stop whining.
	Nobody thinks you're normal.
	You're all a bunch of freaks.
	Stop it.
	On the topic of freaks, here we have a selection of- Oh, we got a Rumble Rant.
	Oh yeah, we'll go through a few of these.
	That was such a good segue, I've been blue ballsed.
	Keep that, keep that in your head.
	So, $5, thank you very much, Threadnaut says, I like to say, your kind shouldn't be allowed to breed anyway.
	$2.
	BaldEagle1787 says her new tax policy is class warfare.
	They want to tax unrealized gains on capital gains on top of an increasing the tax on unrealized gains.
	If that gets passed, the US will become a third world country.
	So how many times is that same dollar being taxed again and again and again?
	Yeah, that's ridiculous.
	Of course you're going to push people who are part of businesses and corporations, even though I'm not a fan of big business or corporations, but my God, you're going to push them away.
	I didn't see Drunk Harris.
	Did anybody see Elsie Drunk Harris?
	She reminds me of Chandler Bing's girlfriend, Janice Lipman-Gorlnik.
	I didn't see Drunk Harris.
	Also, I've only watched Friends two or three times, so that is a very deep reference for me.
	And Threadnought for $5 again says, Congratulations, Harry, on The Exorcist.
	I didn't know Josh was able to perform one.
	It's a little known fact.
	I can also shoot electricity from my fingers.
	Oh, well, you are an evil Sith Lord after all, so that makes sense.
	Also, I was thinking, before you start, you should probably actually get the mouse back.
	Oh, thank you, Harry.
	It's a great honour.
	Here you go, Josh.
	Reverse sexicism.
	No, you took the demon back.
	You gave it back to me.
	There we go.
	So there's been an epidemic of ugly women in video games and here I have a collage of lots of prominent examples.
	I didn't make this, this has been going around online and you can just see some of the strange things that have been inserted into video games to push basically diversity, equity and inclusion and I don't know where in that ugliness comes into it but apparently you can't have attractive women anymore, they all have to look weird.
	It's the hatred of beauty as a principle and also most of the people pushing this DEI will themselves be horribly ugly women.
	Yes.
	And so they can't have women in the games that they're making that are more attractive than them.
	It's that old chestnut isn't it of stabbing the more attractive one in the back.
	Yep.
	Even if they're not real.
	Even if the models that they use for these games are normal attractive looking women.
	We'll be looking at some of those examples.
	They've got to make them ugly.
	So we've covered Assassin's Creed, recently.
	In fact, me and Harry did.
	Harry and I. And yes, it offended lots of Japanese people.
	And I wanted to compare... I'd forgotten about this thumbnail!
	That's a good thumbnail!
	Assassin's Creed Tower Rome.
	Anyway...
	There's a game that has succeeded where Assassin's Creed and lots of other games have failed.
	Black Myth Wukong, which is a Chinese made game, had 2.3 million, almost 2.4 million concurrent players on Steam in a 24 hour period.
	One and a half million playing as of two hours ago.
	Yes, this is the Steam Charts here.
	This is a pretty huge release for a game that sort of came from the outside.
	I'd never heard of this before, I didn't even realise it was trying- all of a sudden on my YouTube recommended there was just a load of people, normal Let's Play gamers, playing this game.
	Yeah, and it does look like fun.
	It reminds me a little bit of Sekiro, because it's being touted as a Souls-like, but I don't think that's quite right.
	Sekiro's my favourite, along with Bloodborne, so that's a good comparison.
	And it's very well received as well, and people have been comparing it to Assassin's Creed with this one.
	I can finally return to Monkey!
	It's just like, yes.
	The men would rather play the game with the monkey man.
	It doesn't matter necessarily who the character is.
	If the game is good, they'll play it.
	And of course the game's based on Chinese mythology and is, you know, tries to come up with some interesting adaptations of it.
	Doesn't try and push political messaging.
	It's just supposedly a fun game.
	I haven't played it yet.
	I'm gonna wait until it goes on sale.
	It is very interesting to me that after the complete disaster that was the Cultural Revolution, China trying to actively destroy any connection to its cultural past, since then there's been a definite attempt by the government to reclaim that cultural past and pay respect to it.
	Well, they realised that you need some sort of animating principles to keep people bound together.
	And they're selectively picking parts of their past and overlooking others that might undermine the CCP line.
	So they're sort of cherry-picking it, which isn't ideal, but... It's still better than what our government does, which is cherry-pick all of the worst parts of the history and then ONLY focus on that, yeah, and misrepresent it.
	So, um, it's worth mentioning this tweet from Ian Myles Chungus, probably one of the few tweets that he hasn't stolen and actually wrote about because he was originally a video games journalist, um, where he is summarising... The picture is the big Chungus Bugs Bunny with Chung's face!
	That's exactly what I was going for.
	But yes, um, he steals tweets.
	Um, He's talking about Sweet Baby Inc, which isn't a shell company of Jeffrey Epstein, but a company which, as he says, is responsible for a lot of DEI and wokeness infecting video games today.
	And this is one of his few tweets that are actually good.
	They're a DEI sensitivity reader consultancy group that ensures your game is very woke.
	Many studios are now shutting down because of it, as gamers are rejecting this cancer.
	They're responsible for the woke disaster that are Saints Row, Spider-Man 2, Gotham Knights, Forspoken, and making Angraboda Black in God of War Ragnarok, which I still haven't played, even though...
	I played the first one, not playing Ragnarok.
	Yeah, that one was very good.
	I still haven't completed it, because I'm terrible at completing games.
	Still haven't completed Elden Ring.
	You still haven't completed Elden Ring?
	To be fair, I've not played Shadow of the Ur-Tree yet.
	Nor have I. I'm playing through it again for like the millionth time.
	I've seen a very mixed response to it.
	I'm thinking of going back through Witcher 3 again, you know.
	I've been debating that as well, because they had the graphical remaster recently, didn't they?
	Yeah, chat, you can clear me up on this.
	I know that they're remaking the very first Witcher game, and they're also doing Witcher 4, and they've said that Witcher 4 will be coming out first, the remake will be coming out afterwards.
	I'm worried, because I remember back in 2015, Witcher 3 got in trouble with all of the usual suspects because it had no representation of people of colour.
	Big shock that a Polish game made by Polish people about ...Polish history and Polish folklore would include no people of colour, but I'm worried that they will now pivot around and try to push it in.
	It could happen.
	Or they could say, go play, you know, CD Projekt Red could say, go play Cyberpunk.
	That's a game for you.
	You can modify your face in that game to look like a freak.
	They could do that, but please, please somebody in the chat, I need cope, please tell me they're not going to do that to Witcher 1 and Witcher 4, please.
	But anyway, carrying on with Chungus' tweet, they push woke nonsense, disjointed writing and basically responsible for injecting DEI into every recent high profile video game through the inclusion of progress pride flags and BLM art and messaging.
	So yes, that's actually quite a good summary of what they do.
	I still love the suicide squad supports trans rights.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	Interesting messaging there.
	Even, you know, mainstream press has picked up on this company and people pushing back against it.
	So they're talking about Alan Wake 2, which we'll touch on later.
	It is worth mentioning that this Chinese game that's come from a mobile developer that's never made a PC or console game, that has sort of been a bit trad, has got more concurrent players than all of the Sweet Baby Inc.
	games combined.
	Jeez.
	By a significant margin, as well.
	Even then, Suicide Squad killed the Justice League, made by Rocksteady, formerly a very well-respected company, made one of the best video game superhero trilogies ever in the Batman Arkham games, still the all-time peak is only 13,500.
	Remarkable drop.
	It is, yes.
	And it's also worth mentioning as well, Warner Bros.
	Discovery reports Game Division saw 41% decline in revenue as Suicide Squad killed the Justice League has lost over 98% of its players.
	They're hemorrhaging players because they're woke.
	No one wants politics shoved down their throats, they just want to play good games.
	That's it.
	That's what Gamergate was about.
	Listen, Reddit gamers are not the audience.
	They're very loud on Reddit.
	They don't buy things.
	They don't support things.
	Certainly not deodorant.
	Definitely not deodorant.
	Or sun cream.
	No, this is the problem that the comic book industry ran into, is that it suddenly got taken over.
	By Wokists, and it was entirely pivoted to cater to Wokists.
	Same with the MCU and other things.
	The problem is, those people, they post about it on social media, they say, OMG I'm so glad that they support my values, they don't actually buy anything.
	They don't support you.
	No, they don't.
	Also, Activision Blizzard, of course responsible for lots of big games, have lots and lots of interesting initiatives.
	Here's a really long list, but just to give you a flavour of a few, this is a quote.
	DEI are woven into the fabric of all our efforts, serving as the cornerstone of our planning process.
	And they've got an inclusion strategy map and all sorts of stuff.
	Yeah, AI voice chat moderation to enforce DEI compliance for players.
	You've got this long list, it's in the reading list if you want to read it all, but there are lots and lots of things, lots of Western, well, you know, Blizzard I think is not necessarily Western, but, you know,
	Lots of Western adjacent countries are doing and it's not really helping and what is happening is that these Asian countries, South Korea, Japan and China are pushing back against the wokeness because it's not nearly as prevalent over there and installing sort of trad values.
	See here on the left a Korean made game with an attractive female in armor And on the right, an American-made game, which is Concord.
	I think the one on the left is Descendant.
	Look at that tank.
	Look at that thing.
	Look at that beast.
	That absolute unit.
	There's nothing feminine about that.
	Nelson Mandela needs me!
	Deep cut right there.
	Here's another one.
	Mecha Break, which I think is a Chinese game, on the left.
	And then, on the right, this is the sort of Trad vs. Soy Asian Deathmatch here.
	You knew how bad things really are.
	That's great.
	See, I've said it Oh well, Samson approves of MechaBreak.
	Samson is simping for MechaBreak, I wonder why.
	You are simping.
	He's played it for the gameplay.
	He's been playing it with one hand.
	Poor Samson, not very well and he's twisting the knife there.
	I've spoken about the whole facial thing over the past year or so since the original trailer for, what is it, Fable 4 came out, and it had the reveal of the main character who's hideously ugly, and I think it's down to two things.
	One is, yes, there is definitely an effort to make these female characters in particular uglier and uglier.
	You can just see that in the change between, what is it, Horizon Forbidden Dawn and the sequel, where they actively went out of their way to make the main character uglier in the sequel.
	Then she was in the original and she wasn't even attractive in the original.
	I do also think that part of it is down to the fact that some companies...
	Really don't use this new facial capture technology very well, the way that they'll translate character, people's faces from the model to the video game.
	Because sometimes even people like, what was it, Richard Ayoade, in the Fable 4 trailer, looks weird.
	Looks like a weird version.
	And I think that's not down to budgetary issues, I think that's down to the fact that these people are hiring people who aren't good at their jobs.
	Because it'll be DEI hires.
	That's true.
	But it is worth mentioning, you know, as a caveat, some companies like Square Enix and Capcom, which are sort of captured by the Western ESG DEI thing, or BRIDGE these days as it's known, they're susceptible to this as well, so not all Asian games are created the same.
	Yeah, I mean they're Japanese companies, but they also have Western divisions, so what you'll see is that a lot of these games that have these features in them will be from the Western divisions.
	So, here's another comparison between Mecha Break and Concord.
	Here is the all-time player count.
	Over 10,000 there, all-time peak yesterday, and then all-time peak for 20 days ago, 2,388.
	That's not very many!
	Turns out people don't want weird units, you know?
	I don't understand what even they're going for here.
	It's just a freak show.
	They're going for big muscle woman.
	And the funny thing is, there was a survey done by Capcom that is quite revealing.
	This is their audience.
	Count other under male.
	That's true.
	But to look over the camera here, male 82%, female in a significant minority there, so it's almost like your audience might have to shape how you make your game.
	Well the funny thing is with this as well, as far as I can tell, The actual attempts to try and make it more marketable for women have not worked.
	Most women do not play video games, and the women probably included in those figures were probably already playing video games before there was a push to try and make them more accessible to these women, and are probably just as annoyed that, hey, I just want to play video games because they're fun.
	I don't want this politics pushed in my face.
	Most women I know that play video games actually play good video games as well, like Red Dead or, I don't know, Elden Ring or things like that, right?
	Yeah.
	So, here's what people want in their audience.
	Exhilarating gameplay in the world is ranked number one, and in Japan, unique and attractive characters is number one.
	However, that's still second for the world, and exhilarating gameplay is second for Japan, so they just swapped around.
	I mean, unique and attractive characters only won by seven points.
	That's true.
	It was rigged.
	It was a neck-and-neck battle there.
	But people want unique and attractive characters.
	People want their characters to be attractive.
	And also, favourite character, Dante from Devil May Cry, and the favourite title is also Devil May Cry 5.
	Amazing game, everyone should play.
	Everybody should play all of the Devil May Cry games, except for the second one.
	Second one's terrible.
	But yes, it's being pushed in spite of what the audience want, because Dante there, not a weird amorphous black woman unit, mini-fridge, mega-fridge actually.
	He is a man that looks kind of cool.
	That's what people want in video games.
	He's also fun and wears a silly hat and dances and eats pizza.
	He's a ninja turtle, basically.
	Essentially.
	That's what happens if you take the shell off the turtles.
	So let's look at some more examples of Western games being lame because it's funny to see them fail.
	So here, this is from Star Wars Outlaws, that is the model that was motion captured and here is what the character looks like in the actual game.
	I'd be insulted.
	Very attractive lady on the left, undeniable.
	Freak on the right.
	That's a plastic surgery botch on the right there.
	It looks like someone's made a weird sort of clay version and given her a massive... You know how in Team America they had Matt Damon and they made the clay model and it melted in the oven, which is why they made him Down Syndrome in that film?
	That's what's happened there.
	Melted clay Down Syndrome model.
	Did they put this in the contract?
	Is it part of the small print that, by the way, will make you hideous?
	Because if so, I wouldn't sign on.
	No, it's sort of unfortunate they had such a nice thing to work with and they went with that.
	Yeah, that's got to be on purpose.
	And the good news is that Ubisoft, who I think most people who actually care about good video games and art more generally, are glad to see the back of, they were of course responsible for putting Tyrone in Assassin's Creed and also Star Wars Outlaws being weird and strange.
	And yes, they've started cutting devs from 45 from American offices?
	Whatever.
	They're cutting devs, that's the main thing.
	And also, Samson called my attention to Dustbourne.
	Oh god, I saw this.
	I'm going to torture you all.
	I'm very sorry, but here is a clip from the game.
	You bastard.
	We're the refugees.
	We walk among you.
	We're right behind you.
	Such gripping gameplay.
	This is a horrible layout for this as well, because it's difficult to tell which symbol is actually closest to the marker.
	But you've also got to look at the whole screen, rather than the Guitar Hero style.
	Well, yeah, because it's off-center of the screen, so you can't really pay attention to what's happening in the same way.
	I am actively trying to fork over this to try and save our audience without even listening.
	Wait until the song's over.
	This music is also dreadful.
	Yeah.
	Rock, rock the frost.
	These weirdos.
	No one thinks this is cool.
	Everyone looks... It looks like a... Oh, there we go.
	You make a living doing this?
	You always have to have a fatty as well.
	We're a bit rusty, and it's been...
	A long day.
	Yeah, sure thing.
	By the way, that song can be considered offensive in the Republic.
	This isn't Pacifica.
	People here don't like politics with their entertainment.
	It's so on the nose, isn't it?
	It's a fair point.
	That's the opening of the game.
	That's the title card drop right there.
	Ooh, doesn't it make you want to play more?
	Are you excited, fellow gamers and Redditors?
	Just after the man in uniform puts them down for being lame.
	And there's no rebuttal whatsoever.
	Even in their fantasies, they're still downtrodden.
	Do you get to play as the state destroying these people?
	Because then I would play the game.
	Yeah, so you're playing a totalitarian state cracking down on freaks.
	Oppressing on cringe leftists.
	That's the game I'd play.
	It's worth mentioning, the game released recently, and look at the player count.
	Who's gonna play it?
	18 in game.
	Who are the developers of this game?
	Funny you say that!
	Let's have a look at some of the funding.
	Norwegian Film Institute!
	Co-funded by the Creative European Media Program of the European Union.
	It's Quantic Dream.
	This is an EU-funded game.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	This is... That's why the bad guy's saying, get the politics out of our entertainment, because obviously there is political money behind this, pushing this stuff.
	Let me just double check this, Quantic Dream, yeah.
	Okay, yeah, the Detroit become, they're the Heavy Rain.
	This is the David Cage Company!
	I mean, they were never amazing games to begin with, but... It's a bit of a left-of-field turn, isn't it?
	Carry on.
	I've blown your mind here.
	There are also other examples, so you may remember Pokemon Go from all those years ago.
	I remember the summer of 2016.
	Yes.
	They changed the character models to make them more inclusive but less feminine.
	So, they made them hulking great beasts, from on the left to on the right, weird Thomas the Tank Engine style faces now.
	So, on the left, feminine, girly, and then that.
	The difference, just hulking great mass, weird face, from the sort of Melanie Gurley.
	Yes.
	I remember now actually, there was a few posts a few months ago when this first went on of people posting their Pokemon Go avatars going, what did they do to me?
	So, from this to this.
	I don't even know- that's like a purply skin tone.
	I don't even know whether that can happen in nature.
	But if you're about to die, maybe this person's being suffocated by that turtleneck.
	Maybe.
	So there's another example here.
	This is a game made in 2004.
	I can't see the best bit because the camera's in the way.
	But very different representation Good god.
	I was aware of Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines.
	It's one of those games that I want to play.
	It's one of those games that people say is... You have to mod it a lot to play it properly, but it's one of those underappreciated gems of its time, and I knew they were remaking it.
	See, this is what I'm worried about with Witcher 3.
	Sorry, with Witcher 1 Remake.
	What is wrong with this feminine posture?
	Are they going to do this to Triss?
	She's gonna become a hulking great.
	She'll be a hulking great mass.
	I just heard Discord down, that's prophetic, but real ones go for Yennefer anyway.
	Well, of course, but you don't get Yennefer in the first game.
	That's true, yeah.
	Yeah, it's Triss up until the third game and then you can neg her as is appropriate and get with Yennefer.
	I found that it was very jarring to have American accents in a sort of medieval setting so purely on that prejudice alone.
	Well it works with some characters because the characters with American accents tend to be Geralt, the other witches and some of his close friends and everybody else has European accents.
	That's true to be fair.
	And, uh, finally, Ready at Dawn, the final female character they created before closing, looked like this.
	Ready at Dawn, by the way, made some of the earlier God of War games, and Okami, where you play as a wolf.
	Nice.
	I remember Okami.
	Yeah, it looked like a really cool game.
	I never played it, but it looked good.
	I played it back in the day.
	Was that not, um...
	P.S.
	2, wasn't it?
	Yeah, no, it was P.S.
	2.
	Was that not a... I thought they were a Japanese company.
	I've forgotten the name of them now, but they turned into Platinum Studios.
	So wait, that company also morphed into Ready at Dawn?
	Yeah, they went down, and their final character before they did was this thing.
	I'm not sure what it's meant to be.
	Oh, they did a Wii port of Okami.
	It looks kind of like a middle-aged man's trying to look like a teenage girl, but hey, you get the idea, right?
	And yes, it's good to see that there are consequences for these games, they're just not being picked up, they're not being played.
	We're hurting people in their wallets.
	The good games are getting played, and it's nice to see a bit of meritocracy, at least in video games, where you can't get it elsewhere, so well done.
	To those who actually do their due diligence and research games, make sure they're good and buy the ones that aren't trying to force things down your throats.
	It seems to be working.
	The bad studios are laying off.
	All of their developers, more or less, and the good ones are succeeding.
	So, there's a good carrot and stick here to actually get ourselves some good media, and it's... Video games are still a sort of safe haven from all of the nonsense that has infected the rest of the world, and hopefully it remains so.
	You have to be very selective.
	Just to clear it up, Clover Studio developed the original Okami, and also they developed one of the best games ever made, God Hand, which is stupid and ridiculous, but fun.
	Very, very fun.
	Headed by the guy who did Resident Evil 4 as well.
	There you go.
	Nice fact to end on.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Oh, we've got a bunch of Super Chats here.
	So, uh, blimey, look at all these.
	Okay... Don't worry, we will have time for comments.
	We'll be able to overrun, right, Samson?
	All right, lovely.
	We've got approval from Samson.
	So, Democrats have nothing to run on, so they push these ideologies to cause division.
	It's all very Marxian and Maoism.
	If I'm not mistaken, BlackRock is now pushing these ideologies into Japanese anime.
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	That's more your domain, I think.
	I feel bad for today's youth that missed out on classics such as Halo and instead must suffer through slop-like femgroid adventures.
	Dustborn.
	Femgroid adventures.
	They are.
	Just compare the dev team pictures now and the Witcher Trilogy dev team.
	Oh dear.
	I've been looking for it quickly while I've been on this and I can't find the pictures.
	If you could tell me which... It's probably on their Twitter account, isn't it?
	I'm going to be so depressed.
	Also, I used to work in AAA gaming and have now gone full indie to escape the commie infesting the industry.
	Hoping to release before the year's end, expect some Lotus Eaters Easter eggs.
	Oh, that's cool.
	Cool.
	Oh, thank you.
	So, is that tank from earlier going to be sent to Ukraine in an aid package?
	It looks like she could possibly break through the front lines on her own.
	Possibly.
	Uh, Ruben Langdon, uh, was the VA for Dante and was fired over his statements about being peaceful and respectful to right-wing groups or Trump supporters.
	I was- Oh yeah, I do remember that!
	Not aware of this.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I- I vaguely had that in the back of my mind.
	And if so, that's really depressing because he's been the voice of Dante, and as far as I'm aware, the motion capture as well, ever since the third game, and even was the voice of him during the anime that they did in the late 2000s.
	Just saying, to be respectful and peaceful.
	Gets you fired.
	If he was fired over that, I was not aware of this.
	If they do a Devil May Cry 6, what, are they going to completely change the voice actor, completely change the VA?
	And the motion capture, that means it's not going to be Dante anymore, and that's going to be really depressing for me.
	Okay, I suppose we've got video comments.
	Oh, apparently he's been blacklisted from Street Fighter.
	Dear, dear.
	Alright.
	What's going on?
	What the hell was that?
	A Gentleman's Observations of Swindon, Chapter 23.
	In 2014, the housing stage of Tadpole Gardens, built on the site of the former Tadpole Farm, was opened to the public, and in 2017, the parish of Blundsdon, St Andrew, was divided into the eastern parish of Blundsdon and the western parish of St Andrews.
	In 2021, Mill Lane was closed as a road, accessible only by cyclists and pedestrians.
	The following year, the first section of West Witchell, known as the Orchards, began construction.
	In East Swindon, a green folk development known as New Eastern Villages is underway, with its eastern boundary being the River Cole, and its plan including an extension of South Marston, and a new area to be known as Ruber.
	over.
	The expansion of Swindon is one of those concerning things, that eventually, Swindon will just take over all of the UK, like a sort of cancerous tumour.
	No, it'll become part of Greater London.
	That's true.
	It will be consumed.
	It will be swallowed up by Reading, which will be swallowed up by London.
	It'll be just a great big belt of city that you've got no choice but to cross.
	Yuck.
	On yesterday's podcast, Harry Miller made an important point that cannot be stressed enough.
	When the police are encouraged and promoted based on ratting out their own for wrong think, It erodes that sense of camaraderie and brotherhood that is so necessary for law enforcement and for the military.
	Without it, the stress becomes maddening, and you really have to know that the guy beside you has your back.
	More political humor tomorrow.
	No, I did think that was a prescient point as well.
	Yeah.
	Again, my friend who's a police officer in Stoke and Staffordshire area, he's leaving.
	Partially because of that stuff.
	Lots of police officers I know are very upset about the way policing's going.
	Well, he's upset about that as well.
	Apparently I'm only one, uh, one degree of separation away from that guy who was the put your weapons in the mosque video.
	And, uh, yeah.
	They're pushing out all the good officers and replacing them with those types.
	Given the present kerfuffle in Ukraine, I think it's worth remembering the historical context.
	After the Second World War, Stalin very deliberately redrew the Eastern Bloc's new borders, specifically to engineer in an ethnic conflict, so that any regional power that might challenge Moscow would forever be marred by local ethnic conflict.
	And where this conflict cannot be engineered, Stalin simply imported a vast Russian population to forcibly create it.
	I say this to elucidate our present situation.
	And given that recent emergence of the 39% number, it is with the utmost dread I say that Yugoslavia is our future.
	That's a very good point.
	Yes, I think it was, what, 1954, I think?
	The Crimea came under Ukrainian administration.
	It's interesting, isn't it?
	Well, the one bit of silver lining that I can take from that is that in the end it didn't work.
	In the end, the Soviet Union still collapsed and these countries asserted themselves.
	Of course, then NATO came in and bombed them and said you're not allowed to do that, but either way.
	I think a lot about the Combine from Half-Life recently and how they are very similar to the current UK government.
	Stop me if this sounds familiar.
	They are a government of human quislings serving alien masters and are basically strip mining the planet to send off world while at the same time sterilizing and poisoning the human population that remains.
	Then they have wall-to-wall propaganda of well-groomed, well-spoken administrator types telling us that this is all fine, you're crazy for thinking this is bad, and the aliens are here to help us, and we should be grateful for all they've done.
	I see no parallels between this and our present situation.
	I hope that's sarcasm.
	I really like the Half-Life games as well.
	They're very interesting games, and I always had a lot of fun with them.
	I played a bit of the second one in the orange box back on PS3 but mainly played Portal on that.
	Good game.
	Played the hell out of that.
	In keeping with my pain and torture posting, the following is a calf and foot stretch.
	That's fantastic if you spend your life sitting down or in your shoes.
	If you do this at least one minute every day, your feet, your calves will be softer, you will walk straighter, and your stride will be longer.
	I still like that there's ripping guitar solos going on under that. - Nice.
	Relax to the shred.
	No.
	I do.
	I think that's actually quite helpful, because I've been doing a lot of walking while I've been away, and my feet are still killing me from it, so I might actually have to do that one, thank you.
	Yeah.
	Well, we should have seen this coming.
	As far back as the US Patriot Act.
	Western governments have been emboldened to ratchet down on enemies of the state.
	And now we have Keir Stalin, the two-tier queer, who has decided that anyone that speaks against him is an enemy of the state.
	And then meanwhile, in the US, we have our up-and-coming Commissar Kamala, who will do exactly the same thing.
	Andrew Tate has an advantage.
	He, at least, is a Muslim.
	That is true.
	Keir Starmer, if you're watching this right now, please know that some of those insults were from an American, and we do not necessarily support them.
	Although you probably will try and extradite them, you tyrannical dick.
	Well, that was Josh.
	That was all Josh.
	Please don't arrest me.
	Should we go through- You've got nothing to lose.
	Yeah, should we go through some of the written comments?
	Sure.
	So, Fairpar says, uh, Denguild worked well in history.
	Yeah, basically saying paying them off doesn't work.
	Justin B says, paying the Dane Geld never works.
	Oh, we got a theme here.
	All you do is attract more people to come to collect the Geld.
	Harry's car, aka the Shag Wagon, So Sweden went from being fully accepting of migrants to be glad they're leaving all in the space of a decade.
	I wonder what could have happened to possibly cause such a drastic change of mind.
	Yes, it's amazing what a long history of crime can do to a country.
	Sophie Liv says, here in Denmark you are not allowed to access public services unless you've been working as a net taxpayer for 10 years.
	That is great isn't it?
	I wish we had that.
	We wouldn't have half the immigrants in this country otherwise.
	Yeah there's a reason all the illegal immigrants have skipped Denmark and gone straight to Sweden and yeah Sweden looks to us for inspiration for this.
	Yes Denmark is like a sort of beacon for migration isn't it?
	Great data, great policies.
	If I'm ever in financial trouble then that's what I'm doing.
	It's like a glitch in a video game, isn't it?
	Infinite money glitch.
	Found IRL.
	bought from lefty cucks except a thousand euros give it back leave get in a dinghy for sweden if i'm ever in financial trouble then that's what i'm doing it's like a glitch in a video game isn't it infinite money glitch foundirl infinite sweden glitch um brian tomlinson says young male islamist Socialists give them EU passports.
	Zakir wants free movement with the EU for under 30s.
	Young male Islamist heads to the UK.
	More young English girls and children are stabbed and murdered.
	Yes, that is basically the blueprint for it.
	Yeah, if that is what ends up happening, I don't think that's a situation that will go on forever.
	Eventually, old customs reassert themselves.
	That's what I'll leave it at.
	Arizona Desert Rat on my segment says, don't know about the UK, but stolen valor is taken pretty seriously in the US.
	Some states even have laws against stolen valor.
	What's stolen valor?
	That's lying about your military services for clout.
	Probably appropriate.
	Also, there are lots of places in America that offer discounts for veterans and things like that.
	And so there's an incentive to be dishonest and therefore they have to have these harsh things.
	And of course, in America, it is held up a lot higher than in a lot of other countries, particularly in Europe.
	Yeah, well of course there is a great deal of honour in all cultures that comes with being a soldier, particularly a soldier who's actually seen frontline combat because you have braved some of the worst experiences that humanity has to offer.
	So therefore, if you are faking that, then yes, shame on you.
	You should be punished.
	Harry's car again saying the DNC is a freak show, the Labour Party conferences are also a freak show, but which is better?
	There's only one way to find out.
	Fight!
	Harry Hill is commenting on our podcast now.
	Arizona Desert Rat again says, 1.
	I don't think the hyena laugh will help the US on the world political stage.
	You don't think Kamala Harris is going to be able to navigate tricky geopolitical situations?
	I don't know.
	2.
	Technically the VP doesn't really have any power or duties, but Harris has been an epic failure with the southern border.
	Why would anyone have a kind of confidence in her?
	Because they're paid to.
	And who seriously likes corn nuts?
	Bleh.
	Yeah, this is what I was watching, seeing all the clips that get put up, and then clicking on a few of the speeches themselves.
	Yeah, this is what I was watching, seeing all the clips that get put up, and then clicking on a few of the speeches themselves, obviously some of them for only 5 minutes.
	And the only thing most of these people were talking about was, Donald Trump's gonna rape and murder you.
	Donald Trump's gonna personally come to your house and he's going to strangle your cat in front of your baby's eyes and then traumatize you all.
	You wouldn't vote for that, would you?
	So vote for us instead.
	What are we gonna offer?
	We're not Donald Trump.
	Yeah.
	It'll be worse than that.
	We won't come round your house and stare and call you a cat.
	We'll just come round your house and chop your son's dick off and tell you that it's for his own benefit.
	It's worth mentioning there's a quick comment that's come in saying, in the UK we have the Walter Mitty Hunting Club shaming the Stolen Valour people.
	That's true.
	Oh good.
	Just calling them waltz is normally what people do I think.
	Excellent.
	Omar Awad, in the same way a literal representation of the average man and his two and a half kids doesn't exist, I think the Democrats don't have an audience.
	They have an agenda and a playbook but you can't focus test for the average voter and be authentic.
	If you campaign for every demographic you aren't capturing any demographic.
	Trump works best in front of an audience because he plays to them not at them.
	That's that's a good point.
	Well it's the same with with things like music isn't it?
	If you make music to be popular It doesn't have legs, it'll be forgotten.
	You know, if you're making music for everyone, then it's music for no one.
	Same thing with politics.
	If you're trying to appeal to everyone, you're not appealing to anyone.
	Yeah.
	FuriousDanPSA, do not take the bait, do not scramble to defend yourself from the Democrats' ridiculous accusations.
	Only remind them that the border is defenseless, the economy is in shambles, schools want to groom kids, and it is all their fault.
	Do not dance to their tune.
	And similarly, again, tell them I'm so glad that you're not breeding.
	I'm so glad.
	Please, carry on.
	If you can go to your friends, tell them they shouldn't breed either, that'd be even better.
	Anyway, let's go to the last set of comments.
	AZDesertRat says, if a girl slash woman wants to play a game, she wants to play a good game, not a lame game, and for the most part they don't have a huge investment in whether or not the main character is male or female.
	That's true.
	It doesn't really matter as much, I think.
	There's more of a strong preference amongst males, but then, if we're gonna play a female character, we want them to be hot.
	That's basically it, isn't it?
	Yeah, if you're going to be staring at the backside of a character for a long time over the course of eight plus hours, you want it to be a nice backside.
	Just to say, Threadnaughts sent two dollars in saying, I once got accused of stolen valor on Facebook after I posted the Navy Seal copypasta.
	That was funny.
	Good man.
	I love that copypasta.
	You say what, you little shit?
	It gets used so much.
	It's so good.
	Warlord Wututai says the infestation of video games with identity politics will prove to be a massive mistake by the left as it has radicalized thousands of young men who otherwise would not have been radicalized.
	Also great episode today lads, well done.
	Oh that's very nice of you.
	Thank you.
	Sophie Liv says I think also is the video games women play are often different than what men play.
	Women are more likely to play JRPGs, farm simulators and comfy games, while FPSs are 99.9% men.
	Well, I think that it's very sort of twitchy and quick and it's sort of... Based on reaction times?
	It is, yeah, and also FPSs, it's just completely male, isn't it?
	Well, except modern Call of Duties that have women in, which are lame, but hey, A female, black, disabled Nazi is a historical fact, okay?
	Don't look it up.
	It's a fact.
	Oh well.
	They're getting shot all the same.
	Zelda is the only game franchise I know where the gender split seems to be 50-50, and yeah, I play games, Witcher 3 is one of the best games ever made, and the next one is going to be a disaster.
	Uh-oh.
	Yeah, somebody else has said down here, Justin B, don't pin your hopes on the Witcher's future.
	CDPR have confirmed they'll be updating the Witcher 1 remake for modern audiences.
	Another buzzword describing something that doesn't exist.
	Who are modern audiences.
	Modern audiences means sort of, you know, put a woman in it and make it gay from South Park.
	I mean, I could understand that they would probably take out the sex cards that you got in the first game where you sleep with particular women and then you get a saucy card of them.
	I can understand that they probably weren't going to be bringing that back, but they're going to ruin everything else, aren't they?
	And they also say, and what they have been saying in interviews does not bode well for four either.
	Second, I saw that they were having Ciri as the main character in the fourth one, rather than Geralt again.
	I I know that Geralt's story is done by the end of Blood and Wine.
	It's literally a heartfelt and send-off to the character.
	But I thought to myself, they're going to make her a girl boss, aren't they?
	Which is not really what she was in the third game.
	Yeah, well, she was sort of struggling to survive.
	I liked that dynamic of it.
	It didn't seem false.
	She was sort of magical, but they also sort of posed the, well, you've been trained by people who are still better with a sword than you.
	Yeah, she was overpowered, but it made sense with the lore, and it was done right, because she didn't really know how to control her powers, she was emotional, she wasn't prepared to use them, so that added a nice dynamic that meant she wasn't just a Mary Sue.
	Yes, exactly.
	Michael says, bring back tabletop actual role-playing games.
	We'll generate characters with dice to make real cyberpunk adventures with a band called the Dustborn as a serious hardcore death metal band.
	That sounds a lot more appealing than the actual Dustborn, that's for sure.
	And to be honest, Dustbawn's not a bad name for a band.
	No.
	It's a shame that it's associated with that now.
	If it's like a sort of heavy, desert-psych band, that sounds like a great band to listen to.
	If it sounds like Caius, that's a good name for that style.
	Mm.
	And, uh, Harry Dante cosplay when?
	I have considered it in the past.
	I need to get back into shape and get my abs back, but when I do, I will be doing a Halloween cosplay.
	I could cosplay this quite accurately right now.
	When I've got my abs back, I'm definitely doing a DMC3 Dante cosplay.
	And the final thing, Tom Gordon, for Horizon Zero Dawn she looked well enough like the actress but for the sequel Horizon Forbidden West they deliberately made her way more ugly and put the LGBTQIA++++ flag in as a tribal war paint.
	And with that, I think we've gone over well enough and we've read through plenty of your comments.
	Thank you very much for commenting.
	We actually really enjoy the interactions with you.
	You've got some great things to say.
	they had all these colored paints back then i know and uh with that i think we've gone over well enough and we've read through plenty of your comments thank you very much for commenting we actually really enjoy uh the interactions with you you've got some great things to say and thank you for dashing all of my hopes on the witcher 1 remake and witcher 4 because if anything it just is one less thing to be excited about and And there's one thing I hate more... There's nothing I hate more than getting on the hype train and being disappointed.
	So thank you for letting me down gently, folks.
	Anyway, we'll be back again tomorrow for Podcast 985.

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