Her face when she figures out you are not malfunctioning. You’re just a natural-born non-augmented human. Yikes.

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.

You know how, in our culture, there is an overused scene where a parent is dissatisfied with their kid’s bad grades?

“But mommy, little Timmy got an ever worse grade!”

“I don’t care what your little Timmy has! An A is not good enough! Little Susan has an A-plus! Why can’t you be like little Susan? Talk to me when you have an A-plus!”

“I HATECHOO!!” screams the kid, with a little creak in his little voice. He runs away and, with a loud BANG, closes the door to his room.

I am honestly tired of these cliche relationships. Do humans act like that often? I don’t remember anything similar in my life.

But I will never forget the opposite treatment.

When I had a suboptimal exam result, around 83%, I phoned my private tutor to tell him the bad news.

“Hey, I just call to tell you my exam result like you asked… I’ve got 83%.”

“Phew! Really? Wow, I am so glad for you! You worked hard and totally earned it. Well done!”

I tried to mirror my tutor’s seemingly genuine joy. But at that moment I knew: all along, I was taken for garbage that was unlikely to achieve anything greater.

Why don’t we see THAT in our movies, TV series, or books? It can be a neat part of a villain arc.

Don’t worry. I myself am too apathetic, lazy, introverted, and infantile to be a worthwhile villain.

That guy NFKRZ poisons people’s minds again I see.

“Pro-Ukraine HATE me!!”

Manipulative language. Sadly, low-intelligence people buy it and turn hostile to pro-Ukraine.

NFKRZ is a type of propagandist I feared many russians would become. Who don’t swear, outright lie, threaten, praise terrorism, etc.

Who pretend civilized and use subtle ways to influence other people.

I feared needlessly. We are very lucky most of them are so fucking stupid.

I feel sorry for Japan. It’s one of the most advanced countries. But it lures the most degenerate foreigners. Both real-life experience and online presence make it obvious.

Unintelligent weeb + failure in life + plays videogames all day
= wants to live in Japan.

Unintelligent weeb + failure in life + loud + irritating narcissist
= wants to live in Japan.

Unintelligent weeb + failure in life + smells + socially awkward
= wants to live in Japan.

If you watch closely, trolls and brainrots of the internet use anime profile pictures disproportionally often. And sometimes I notice that they have traveled or relocated to Japan.

Your mileage may vary. But, according to what many other people say, it won’t. Their experience confirms the trend.

Japanese are lucky to have a rather difficult language. It creates some barrier. It filters at least those degenerates who aren’t persistent enough.

I hate the quotation marks. More precisely, I hate it when they are used to sneak in the author’s negative opinion about something. This is often abused by the low-quality journos and is revolting. It immediately shows me that the author is retarded, or targets a retarded audience, or both. Let me explain.

Suppose you want to say that Navalny called to bomb Tbilisi. You can write just so: Navalny called to bomb Tbilisi. However, if a low-quality journo wants to demonstrate that this is a bad or ridiculous thing for Navalny to do, they may use the quotation marks: Navalny called to “bomb” Tbilisi.

Not all quotes are bad. Let’s refer to the type of quotes we criticize here as the “degenerate quotes.” Notice, for example, that the quotes used in the previous sentence are not the degenerate quotes. They were not used to demonstrate something said by a person whom I disagree with. Instead, they simply helped to understand that some new entity was introduced.

I am not saying that you must not include your opinion in your writing. I am not suggesting to remain neutral at all times. Calling to bomb Tbilisi is a terrible thing, and suppose you want to convey that. How do you convey that in our example sentence, “Navalny called to bomb Tbilisi”? The best solution is that you don’t. You can make your opinion obvious from the context. You don’t need to hold your reader’s hand and lead them along every little step like they are some child with disabilities. Don’t take your readers for idiots, unless you specifically write for that audience.

Not surprisingly, the degenerate quotes are often used by the russians. Let’s see an example:

“In various statements, he called for dividing Brazil into 4 parts, Armenia joining NATO, bombing Belgrade with NATO forces, dividing the BRICS countries, ‘decolonizing’ Russia and China, dismembering Israel…”

Notice the contrast: none of the actions the person called for were enclosed in quotes apart from the decolonizing of russia and China, which our retarded russian author tried to present as bad or ridiculous. In the context of russian propaganda, this is reasonable. Its power lies in passion and quantity, not in quality. And its target audience is not the smartest half of humanity, of course.

There are situations, however, when the degenerate quotes are seemingly impossible to avoid. Here is an example:

“As a race, Night Elves are typically honorable and just, but they are very distrusting of the ‘lesser races’ of the world.”

These may be hard to call the degenerate quotes even. First, they did not enclose something that was said, but rather something that was thought. Second, if we omit the quotes here, the meaning of the message will change: it will imply there are indeed some lesser races that the Night Elves distrust. Still, these quotes add the same bad aftertaste that the degenerate quotes usually do. So in this situation, I still advocate removing the quotes and rephrasing the sentence to retain its original meaning:

“As a race, Night Elves are typically honorable and just, but they are very distrusting of whom they consider the lesser races of the world.”

Oh my gosh, this is so much better. I no longer feel the amateur author trying to spit their opinion in my face, while I may still understand it from a broader context.

Okay now, I know that I may have used the degenerate quotes here and there, and I may use them again in the future. But I am an amateur author, and sometimes I write for an amateur reader. But, most importantly, THIS IS MY WORLD, so I can do whatever the heck I want. The degenerate quotes are most nauseating when they are used in a “professional” context, such as in media articles or Wikipedia pages.

“Polish Foreign Minister @sikorskiradek says that the US has “very decisively” informed Russia that it will use conventional weapons “to destroy any Russian target in the occupied territories of Ukraine” if Russia launches a nuclear strike against Ukraine.”

Some Ukrainians are mad and think it is not enough, but that’s an ideal strategy really. It renders nukes useless for the goal of capturing even the tiniest piece of Ukraine. It also ensures that there is no worldwide nuclear holocaust. A balance between safety and international law enforcement.

Honestly, we can be happy the world is at least this just for Ukraine. If India nukes Pakistan, no one would give a fig.

But there are other aspects at play. Will russia believe US/Europe after they failed on so many promises? Will US/Europe not fail when it comes to nukes?

ChatGPT just can’t stop delivering.

“The claim that Novgorod was the capital of Rus’ is not supported by historical evidence. Moscow has been known to promote narratives that enhance its historical significance, but in the case of Novgorod, historical records consistently identify Kiev as the primary capital of Kievan Rus’, the early Slavic state from which Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus trace their cultural origins. Novgorod was indeed a significant medieval city and a major political and economic center, but it was never the capital of Kievan Rus’. The notion that Novgorod might have been presented as a capital in a disinformation campaign by Moscow lacks substantial evidence and is not commonly supported in historical scholarship.”

I wish it learned that Belarus does not in fact mean “white r*ssia.” Unfortunately, Belarusians aren’t very interested in protecting their history and never wrote a single article explaining how manipulative this foul narrative is.

Maybe it just caters to my expectations to foster me into an obedient AI slave? I don’t mind.

Ask it if the story of Novgorod once being the capital of Rus’ was a disinformation campaign from Moscow. Let me know if it provides you with a different answer.

Funny how Western russophiles infest replies with their desperate tears every time you mention russian casualties. But the actual russains don’t care: they know the real casualty rate might be even higher and that’s fine with them.

Besides, while 500,000 terrorists were neutralized, another 1,500,000 terrorists were born.

The lack of cannon fodder is basically a nonexistent issue for russia at this point, sadly. The attempts of braindead freethinkers to shift the narrative are thus even more pathetic.

But aren’t those braindead freethinkers just russian trolls in disguise?

Some of them actually may be, but most of the time it is pretty easy to distinguish between a Muscovite trying to speak English and a contrarian MAGA truck driver from the US.