Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[HaughtyFrank]

First is that the metrics that determined the distribution of food aid would incentivize countries to stop growing their own food in order to receive the cheap grain available, while other markets who genuinely needed that grain were left out and thus experienced caloric shortages. Second is that the marketing surrounding USAID where countries were displayed as backwards, war-torn hotspots of famine decimated some countries' tourism sectors as well as their foreign investment potential. Both led to tens to hundreds of thousands of deaths every year, depending upon the surrounding political and climate conditions that may have been exacerbated by the so-called aid.

Is this even remotely true? I feel like I need to do several hours of research fact-checking every dumbfuck Nep post I read to eventually come to the conclusion she's full of shit.

Isn't it very funny that she's against USAID but then also says stuff like this?

You vote Democrat. Who cares? What have you done for your Black, Brown, and Indigenous neighbors inbetween the election cycles? You asking them if they're okay? You giving them money? Time? Supplies? You part of an organization? What are you doing? What are you building?

She also got mad when Mr. Beast was building wells in Africa. Fuck you if you help but also fuck you if you don't

[filler]

hottyfrank 

[benji]

First is that the metrics that determined the distribution of food aid would incentivize countries to stop growing their own food in order to receive the cheap grain available, while other markets who genuinely needed that grain were left out and thus experienced caloric shortages. Second is that the marketing surrounding USAID where countries were displayed as backwards, war-torn hotspots of famine decimated some countries' tourism sectors as well as their foreign investment potential. Both led to tens to hundreds of thousands of deaths every year, depending upon the surrounding political and climate conditions that may have been exacerbated by the so-called aid.

Is this even remotely true? I feel like I need to do several hours of research fact-checking every dumbfuck Nep post I read to eventually come to the conclusion she's full of shit.

Depends on what you would consider "true" because I think the specific claim she's making is not true in terms of an example of something that actually happened.

But I think a broader general claim she's trying and failing to articulate could be true. (It's simply a basic capitalist argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowding_out_(economics)) 

What's funny is that the mainstream places I can find that broader argument (although specific to certain types of food aid) is "far-right" pro-capitalist sources like the libertarian Cato or conservative Heritage:
https://www.cato.org/briefing-paper/cutting-international-food-aid
https://www.heritage.org/trade/report/how-american-food-aid-keeps-the-third-world-hungry

These criticisms specifically target a program that ships US surplus to poor nations, with the Cato article pointing out that the US is the only country that does this versus other methods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_for_Peace

Cato's argument certainly resembles Nepenthe's claim, although the critique targets the method and oversight more than the concept:

When the US government donates farm products to poor countries, it can undercut local farmers abroad and thus undermine the ability of poor countries to feed themselves. Foreign aid experts have long warned about this problem, but US policies have lagged reforms in other donor countries. CRS notes, “Many other major donors—such as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union—have converted primarily to cash-based assistance” from in-kind food aid.6

In recent years, the McGovern-Dole program has given thousands of metric tons of rice to Laos.7 But Laos is a substantial producer of rice—indeed a net exporter—and the US donation was small compared to the total Laos production.8 Using US taxpayer funds to ship rice across the ocean to potentially displace some of Laos’s production does not make economic sense.

A 2017 study examined 118 countries that received US food aid over 45 years to see if the aid affected local food production. It found that “doubling US food aid reduces cereal-grain production by 1.5%” in recipient countries, and that the “disincentive effect of food aid on production is particularly significant for sub-Saharan African countries, low-income countries, and regular recipients of US food aid.”9

Aid agencies and their partners are supposed to analyze whether food aid projects will disrupt local agriculture markets, but the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the agencies “did not consistently document that US commodities would not negatively affect recipient countries’ production or markets.”10

It is counterproductive to provide foreign aid in ways that interfere with poor countries’ efforts to achieve market-based growth. Thus, providing free commodities that may undermine farmers in recipient countries is not a good long-term aid strategy.

The article cites a paper at a capitalist academic institution (which Nepenthe has disparaged previously versus simply watching TikTok) which itself further states:

The most common criticism of U.S. food aid is that it crowds out the production of cereal grains in recipient countries (Schultz 1960; Maxwell and Singer 1979; C. B. Barrett and D. Maxwell 2007). Evidence supporting this critique, however, is meager (Tschirley, Donovan, and Weber 1996; Gelan 2007; Tadesse and Shively 2009). Empirical analysis is complicated by confounding events, such as natural disasters, that affect both food aid and production. Food aid sent in response to a disaster will be negatively correlated with cereal production because the disaster will cause cereal production to decline and cause the U.S. to send food aid. After the disaster ends, cereal-grain production will restart, and food aid delivered during the disaster will appear to be positively related to subsequent cereal production. Failure to address the “mechanical” relationship between food aid and production leads to biased estimates. Lavy (1990) and Barrett, Mohapatra, and Snyder (1999) fall prey to this source of bias by relying on time-series variation in a vector-autoregressive (VAR) model for identification. Abdulai, Barrett, and Hoddinott (2005) attempt to address this concern by conditioning on rainfall and disasters in a country-level fixed-effects VAR model for sub-Saharan Africa in 1970–2000. This control-variable approach, however, falls short if disaster affects production and food aid over multiple periods. 

To address the issue, we employ an instrumental-variables strategy to study the causal effect of food aid on production in 118 recipient countries over the period of 1961–2006. We instrument for food aid receipts with a three-way interaction term of U.S. wheat stocks, U.S. military assistance, and the recipient country’s alliance with the U.S. in the United Nations General Assembly (U.N.). This instrument significantly captures variation in the food aid variable, and the identification strategy provides unbiased and consistent estimates. We focus on U.S. in-kind cereal food aid given the dominant position of cereal aid over other categories of food aid commodities.

Notice the paper starts by saying "the most common criticism" which reduces Nepenthe's radical revolutionary position to the common wisdom of the academic economics profession with citations back to the 1960's. (Specifically a Nobel Prize winning capitalist of the Chicago School behind a theory she attacked in her AI rantings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Schultz)

But if you'd prefer something that seems more like what Nepenthe might actually read, I found a Substack packed with theory and liberation:

Even “project food aid” — food donated “free of cost” — came with its own strings attached. Cheap U.S. imported grains drove Majority World food prices down, crippling local food systems and economies and forcing them to purchase food from Minority World countries and corporations to feed their populations.

The USAID playbook for collapsing local food systems looks something like this:

First, flood local markets with cheap food until farmers can’t compete. Then, push governments to deregulate agriculture and import instead of investing in local production.

As a result, formerly self-sufficient communities are turned into buyers — not growers — of their own food, locking Majority World countries into dependence — and securing total market control.

The consequences have been devastating.

These are not isolated stories. They are part of a larger, ongoing project of colonialism — where aid is weaponised to systematically dismantle food sovereignty in the Majority World in order to sustain the flow of wealth and resources to the Minority World.

As anthropologist Jason Hickel reminds us,

“For every $1 of aid the global South receives, they lose $30 through unequal exchange with the North.”

The billions that flow in through USAID are funnelled back many times over — through interest payments, commodity exports, and access to new markets for American agribusiness. Aid is not a reparative transfer of wealth. It’s a mechanism for extraction.

Today, most recipients of aid are more food insecure than ever before, while Minority World countries have consolidated unrivaled power and control over global food systems and economies.

Over decades, the USAID has spread its tentacles into every aspect of the food system, to siphon off Majority World wealth and consolidate U.S. power.

This is the true face of aid: not a bridge to self-reliance, but a mechanism of submission. Countries across the Majority World have been systematically denied the ability to produce what they need — from seeds to life-saving medicines — through trade rules and intellectual property regimes enforced by institutions like USAID. When the U.S. pulls the rug out from under these countries, it’s not just funding that disappears — it’s food, healthcare, and survival. If aid were truly about justice, it would work to dismantle the systems that make it necessary. Instead, it reinforces dependency, erodes sovereignty, and ensures that even the right to live remains subject to foreign policy.

The fall of USAID exposes the fragility of the globalised industrial food system — a system so precarious that a single government shifting hands can entirely upend it, pushing untold millions into hunger and poverty. Aid hasn’t just been withheld — it’s been weaponised. Again.

What’s collapsing now isn’t just a global funding system — it’s the myth that it was ever meant to serve us.
The illusion that our oppressors could liberate us.
The fantasy that empire could feed us.

So no, we are not mourning the fall of USAID
We mourn the decades stolen from communities forced to rely on it.
We mourn the millions whose food systems were dismantled in the name of development.
We mourn the lives still at stake as this system collapses without a plan for what comes next.

But grief is not where we stop. Grief is where we begin.

...

So let us grieve.
Let us rage.
And then, let us get to work.
Because we plant our seeds in the cracks of empire.

What Inspired Us This Week
This interview, where Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao, former African Union ambassador to the U.S., critiques the role of USAID in Africa, describing it as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.” She argues that the agency fostered economic dependency and undermined African sovereignty under the guise of aid. Rather than a loss, she sees USAID’s dismantling under the Trump administration as an opportunity for Africa to pursue self-determined development, free from external control.

This book by Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America, is a powerful indictment of colonialism and imperialism in Latin America. Through lyrical prose and piercing analysis, Galeano traces how foreign powers—first European empires, then the United States—systematically pillaged the region’s natural wealth, leaving behind deep inequality and underdevelopment. Far from a neutral history, it is a passionate call to remember, resist, and reclaim.

This article from Jacobin traces how USAID and other Western development agencies have used humanitarianism and civil society programs to entrench neoliberal policies, open markets, and weaken grassroots movements across Latin America and the Caribbean. Rather than alleviating poverty or strengthening democracy, these interventions often reinforce the very systems that sustain inequality and dependency. The Trump administration’s suspension of aid, the article argues, didn’t disrupt this system—it merely exposed its true nature.

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Here's some more crap from that Substack:

Dear readers,

It’s been incredibly hard to open up this year’s Substack in a manner that addresses the developments of the global crises while respecting our current internal pacing, always grounded in serving you and the movement with care and coherence. We know we have been silent for a while, and we deeply appreciate the patience and support of those of you who believe in our narrative work beyond the rules and expectations of this fast-paced digital environment. As we gain more internal clarity, we feel ready and excited to continue building our Substack community in parallel to reducing our dependency on Meta platforms, a step that will take time but certainly feels aligned with our values and political stance.

With every second unfolds a new story, a new dilemma, a new win or loss to address. The more we wait, the more ground remains uncovered. While the world as we know it looks like it’s falling apart, it seems to be expected of us to treat every new horror as an insignificant drop in the sea of “normal”. If you scroll on social media, you’re constantly bombarded with nerve-wracking news, ads, coping humour, pop culture, more news, memes, yet another historical event, and so on. This is not accidental: information overload is being strategically used as a weapon. Silently, no matter how distressful, pacifying, or exploitative the information pushed on our brains is, it is slowly settling with concerning normality like pieces of a neverending puzzle after each scroll.

We’ve dedicated other entries to talk about how paralysing these ‘apocalyptic’ times can be, and today we won’t delve much into that—this fatigue doesn’t need to be overexplained.

Between wars, occupation, energy shortages, mass migration, decaying governance, we’re constantly being pitted against each other while the global tech-oligarchy surveils and plays dice with our collective fate. Data centers settle in foreign lands, cooled off by the water entire regions depend on for their survival. Illegal mining enslaves and exploits to gather resources for devices and “green energies”. In the fields, every piece of data is being extracted for so-called precision agriculture, with tools as controversial as pest-killing drones and cattle collars for mass control in the name of virtual fencing. But technology is political, and far from neutral. In collaboration with ETC Group, La Vía Campesina, and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, we put together the Autonomy in the Face of Agtech booklet. It presents strategies for identifying how popular narratives around technologies work, their impact and implications, what gives them power, and how we can take it back.

In the face of tech-oligarchy with its tentacular reach into every facet of our lives, we are reminded that there is no single issue anymore. AI is a food sovereignty issue. War is a food sovereignty issue. And just as AI rises despite its environmental and political implications, many are turning to the land with a veil of idealisation and a heavy dose of individualism. Off-grid living centred around self-sufficiency seems to be a current aspiration across generations, and it’s easy to understand why. The hyperconnectivity of this world, paired with the costs and damage of late-stage capitalism is detrimental to us and the planet in every way possible. It makes sense then, that more people are becoming aware of the privileges that “living off the land” brings—if you own the land, with access to water, energy, and the tools, techniques and support systems to grow pesticide-free foods.

Longing to shield oneself from the worst could be considered a reflection of our survival instinct, but agriculture is a collective intelligence. From Indigenous nomads to pastoralists to early agrarian settlements, entire civilisations were born from a deep understanding of land, ecology, and community. No fresh foods would reach our hands today without the restless work of the peasantry, and at its core is a historical struggle for territorial autonomy and collective liberation. A liberated future can’t be built by isolating ourselves, it demands we unite. The goal is not self-sufficiency, but also communal agency.

Food sovereignty demands that we organise, that we uphold the values that allow us to care for life, that we act collectively rather than individually, that we think long-term and on a localised, small scale, that we don’t do things for profit, but ecosystemic support. It is born from cultures of solidarity and mutual aid, not islands of well-being for the privileged. Food sovereignty also requires us to understand where else we need to be sovereign: entertainment, consumption, education. Sovereignty means challenging and perhaps rethinking our concepts of freedom. It means embracing diversity and questioning centralisation—of production, distribution, power.

Systemic transformation begins with local actions. What are the needs of your community? What are the injustices happening at your front door? What support systems can you map around you? Engaging in these conversations where you’re at can be enlightening, and cultivate a stronger sense of belonging.

[Let's Cyber]

Thank you, benji. 

But if you'd prefer something that seems more like what Nepenthe might actually read

Yeah this type of thing is probably close. I assumed there'd be a FD Signifier video essay shitting on USAID. There is very clearly a source for which this rich, creamy shit is spewing. 

You see, we need to cut these African countries off from the free food so they pick themselves up by the bootstraps and actually start supporting themselves. 

It's weird how similar some of these leftie arguments are to Reagan on Welfare Queens. 

But grief is not where we stop. Grief is where we begin.

Because now there is space for something else. Something rooted not in dependency, but in dignity.

Social movements and peasant communities have long warned us of the dangers of aid and shown us what’s possible instead: food systems grounded in sovereignty, where the power to grow, distribute, and decide stays with the people who feed us. And the reality is, communities have never waited for permission to reclaim that power.

This substack so resetera coded, holy shit. 

[Potato]

OP, I don't know if your limited worldview is the result of being terminally online, being in a video game forum bubble, or a case of arrested development. But human beings are complex and each come with their own baggage, lived experience, and views that aren't worn on their sleeves. To even suggest that being "possibly MAGA" and "kind" are mutually exclusive is an unfortunate symptom of equating the real world with scripted fiction.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ever-had-a-neighbor-who-is-likely-maga-but-treats-your-family-with-kindness.1528948/page-4#post-155374531

That whole post is   Resetera. It's got everything including highly specific examples which are very "that happened".

OP, how much of this is projection? People in real life aren't nearly as one-dimensional as characters that fit neatly in 22-min television series.

I remember a case of the reverse situation that this calls to mind. Young white dude at my former job while in school (cashier) was essentially a skin-head. Like he even had a swastika tattoo that could be seen under his white shirts.

This little elderly lady who was really active at the black church next door was putting up flyers on our door/bulletin-board (community was allowed to do that) and one of the boards was in the staff room. She was in there pretty frequently (few times a month) and one day walked over to the skin-head cashier who only ever ate a candy bar and soda for lunch. She said "I noticed you never seem to bring a home-cooked meal with you to work, and you must get so hungry. So I made you this etouffee and some fresh cornbread."

He now attends that church.

OP, I don't know if your limited worldview is the result of being terminally online, being in a video game forum bubble, or a case of arrested development. But human beings are complex and each come with their own baggage, lived experience, and views that aren't worn on their sleeves. To even suggest that being "possibly MAGA" and "kind" are mutually exclusive is an unfortunate symptom of equating the real world with scripted fiction.

[benji]

inb4 benji gets some disciple of milton friedman to use empirical studies to shit on the utility of microloans.

I've mostly only ever seen neoliberals be positive about them, even if critical of certain versions/implementations, it's the socialists/Marxists who are universally opposed to them or any type of lending. (Since all lending with interest is usury.)

But I do have caution about their value to the Global South considering the people I've seen most positive anywhere about microloans are the human expression despising ghouls of tech.

[simiansmarts]

It's a fictional character. Vegeta committed mass genocide. Darth vader did the same. People love Char and he wanted to kill basically half of the population. It's fiction

 dare I say based?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yujiro-hanma-baki-confirmed-for-tekken-8-early-2027.1529026/page-5#post-155377084

Now they just need to do women skins for the whole roster, so whenever you play as him it's lore accurate.

Let's not forget he's got so much testosterone that he sees everyone else as women.

ban incoming

I don’t exactly like the character but is funny to me how a bunch of ERA are fine with him because either memes or Baki being so over the top to take seriously beyond crazy fights. Any other fictional character that is just as half as “problematic” as Hanma and most of the glazers will try to cancel the game or shit on any thread about it.

I think it comes down to Baki being a very mainstream anime and having a recent explosion in popularity on Netflix so RE doing its usual “ermmm this character is problematic” schtick just makes them look even more out-of-touch with normal people. You still have the local freaks like Echos and ClickyCarl throwing a shitfit but they’re very much in the minority in this situation.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dave-filonis-vision-for-star-wars-future-dare-to-be-great.1529176/page-3#post-155382613

Don't get mad at me. It's reality.

I mean they can like the cartoons, even I do to an extent, and still think Ahsoka sucks in live action and find it confusing that Zeb is in a movie so much and is completely unnecessary.

Okay, that's not the discussion. It's the fact that his stuff IS reaching younger demos. Which the franchise struggles with currently.

it's bridging the generational gap in my relationship thank you dave filoni you've united a gen z and millenial pair of transsexuals around the power of star war.

genuinely we're just wathcing all of his era now and are loving it.

[simiansmarts]

BTW, isn’t the FGC always wishing to become a clean and friendly enough to become more mainstream? I know Baki is popular enough to be a hit on Netflix, but not mainstream enough to people care about the character that comically raped Trump and Musk. So dunno if anyone will care either way.

The FGC will never be mainstream because people HATE losing in games where there's no team to shift blame to. It's why whenever there's a fighting game that has a mainstream buzz (most recent example, Invincible VS) there's a ragequitting epidemic online where it's a coinflip as to whether you'll get to finish a match.

[benji]

it's bridging the generational gap in my relationship thank you dave filoni you've united a gen z and millenial pair of transsexuals around the power of star war.

genuinely we're just wathcing all of his era now and are loving it.

CourierV
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1mo ago
My gf and I are watching through The Clone Wars as a fun “smoking together and chilling” show, and it was a fun contrast between the Jedi there getting beat up in hand to hand and then watching the Acolyte later that night and watching them dogwalk people in hand to hand lol. They don’t train Jedi like they used to

CourierV
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26d ago

Big ups on putting out the good word like this and shouting out the Alabama solution. my parter was in the NY prison system for a decade and the stories she tells me (pre-transition time in a men’s prison) are fucking harrowing. mirrors a lot of the shit you said. the people who are supposed to keep people safe are the worst at commuting and enabling physical and sexual violence as well as drug abuse. it’s awful. she works in non profit work now focusing on abolition and legislative work to make things better and get everyone home.

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The-Female-Creature
OP
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1mo ago
"Haha clicker training" "Haha I sleep in a dog cage" SHUT UP!!! I know DAMN WELL the majority who post those memes have neither girlfriends nor the kink in question. Worse yet, there's never any joke or punchline. Hell, most of them aren't even GOONERBAIT!! 90% fail to even connect it to the concept of sex or anything remotely horny and just say "Haha dog collar clicker training". Worse yet is just the infantilization of trans women in general. It feels like I can't browse 90% of trans subreddits without connecting being trans to being a literal subservient stupid animal. "Haha you want walkies" I'M GETTING A COLLEGE DEGREE FUCK YOU!!


CourierV
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1mo ago
cackling eternally that i was like that until i got a stable relationship and laid consistently idk it just rewired my brain. love me wife

 

[simiansmarts]

CourierV
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1mo ago
My gf and I are watching through The Clone Wars as a fun “smoking together and chilling” show, and it was a fun contrast between the Jedi there getting beat up in hand to hand and then watching the Acolyte later that night and watching them dogwalk people in hand to hand lol. They don’t train Jedi like they used to

CourierV
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26d ago

Big ups on putting out the good word like this and shouting out the Alabama solution. my parter was in the NY prison system for a decade and the stories she tells me (pre-transition time in a men’s prison) are fucking harrowing. mirrors a lot of the shit you said. the people who are supposed to keep people safe are the worst at commuting and enabling physical and sexual violence as well as drug abuse. it’s awful. she works in non profit work now focusing on abolition and legislative work to make things better and get everyone home.

[HaughtyFrank]

Hey they noticed that one manga author getting harassed off twitter.

They're lucky they're in the OT though. Post this in a normal thread and you'll get hit with "dismissing concerns"

Dare I ask what this was?

Order of events are that some guy did a low budget cosplay of Jabber doing his dance, Urana found it funny and reposted it on Instagram, the problem is the cosplayer used leeks on his head for the dreads, that part fanbase found it offensive and they were already mad at her for promoting the Stage Play because it white washed the black characters ( Urana has already spoken out that she was against that decision and that there's not much she can do because of contracts, but those fans still don't care), they start to harass her, call her the KKK, and compare her to Gooseworx and Vivzepop which that's another can of worms, Urana apologized and deleted the post but they still kept harassing her, she then started to block people and that just pissed them off more, the drama then became about how she's "immature, ignorant and doesn't want to be corrected", and then she deleted her Twitter and Instagram, saying that it was starting to become a distraction that was affecting her work

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gachiakuta-manga-ot-class-divide-casts-a-boy-aside-the-angel-belied-his-patricide.1316167/post-155370496

[who is ted danson?]

[benji]

Looking at what first time crimes have 20 year minimums (so parole at 10 years) in New York, the answer is basically either murder or violent sexual assault.

[Snoopy]

Christopher Nolan thread

I saw the bit on him only using flip phones and stuff, honestly goals.

Tbh, I've been seriously thinking about doing that myself...

Shut up

[benji]

Looking at what first time crimes have 20 year minimums (so parole at 10 years) in New York, the answer is basically either murder or violent sexual assault.

Oh, guess they were a repeat offender instead, drug dealer presumably:

My partner spent 10 years inside, a victimless crime but they were a victim of our state's harsh sentencing laws. Saw a lot of bad, of course, but something they always highlight is the community that can form there, the people they met who helped turn their own life around on the inside, and the things we can learn from the people on the inside. "We're facing a fascist takeover, but these people have lived in a fascist state for a long time now. They have the keys to surviving and thriving in it"

Or perhaps, part of a murder, driver or something maybe:

My partner is part of a larger coalition trying to get felony murder repealed in NY right now. It's really opened my eyes to how bad the law is and how much its trapping people inside longer for crimes they only have tangential ties to at best.

The Last Week tonight on it is a really good primer.

[DavidCroquet]

someone alert Blueball that Benji is looking at websites again

[benji]

someone alert Blueball that Benji is looking at websites again

To be completely honest, I do it pretty much every single day. Usually multiple times a day.

[Propagandhim]

inb4 benji gets some disciple of milton friedman to use empirical studies to shit on the utility of microloans.

I've mostly only ever seen neoliberals be positive about them, even if critical of certain versions/implementations, it's the socialists/Marxists who are universally opposed to them or any type of lending. (Since all lending with interest is usury.)

But I do have caution about their value to the Global South considering the people I've seen most positive anywhere about microloans are the human expression despising ghouls of tech.

I deleted the post, but Kiva is a no-interest loan.  I wouldn't quite say its charity, but nobody uses the site to make money. There's an argument there that it might elbow out the local finance system to compete and grow, but I believe Kiva screens and targets areas where traditional banking fails (needing a credit score,insufficient collateral,too small for a conventional bank to bother underwriting etc).

[HaughtyFrank]

someone alert Blueball that Benji is looking at websites again

To be completely honest, I do it pretty much every single day. Usually multiple times a day.

[Let's Cyber]

I was almost triggered by the lack of Mass Effect 1 until I remembered it was originally a 360 exclusive. 

[Besticus Maximus]

Real talk, ninja gaiden and fear are the only actual good game there

[Let's Cyber]

Real talk, ninja gaiden and fear are the only actual good game there

Orange Box

If you actually care about gameplay, the PS2/GCN/XB gen was wildly superior to ps3/360

[Boredfrom]

 dare I say based?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yujiro-hanma-baki-confirmed-for-tekken-8-early-2027.1529026/page-5#post-155377084

ban incoming

I don’t exactly like the character but is funny to me how a bunch of ERA are fine with him because either memes or Baki being so over the top to take seriously beyond crazy fights. Any other fictional character that is just as half as “problematic” as Hanma and most of the glazers will try to cancel the game or shit on any thread about it.

I think it comes down to Baki being a very mainstream anime and having a recent explosion in popularity on Netflix so RE doing its usual “ermmm this character is problematic” schtick just makes them look even more out-of-touch with normal people. You still have the local freaks like Echos and ClickyCarl throwing a shitfit but they’re very much in the minority in this situation.

That’s what is funny to me. The lack of principles as long something is mainstream enough with their online social group. Half of the people in that thread celebrating the character were in other threads bitching about “problematic stuff”.

[who is ted danson?]

Should I take creatine? Have always been natural but think its time to get huge

[filler]

the bore geriatric autists need creatine for brain health in their old age tbh 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

someone alert Blueball that Benji is looking at websites again

To be completely honest, I do it pretty much every single day. Usually multiple times a day.

Such stamina!

[Besticus Maximus]

Real talk, ninja gaiden and fear are the only actual good game there

Orange Box

If you actually care about gameplay, the PS2/GCN/XB gen was wildly superior to ps3/360

Much agreed. I left orange box off cos the games was old at that point really. Same is true of ninja gaiden I suppose.

[who is ted danson?]

If you ain't played Beowulf the game, Jericho, or Conan (2007) then you can't be helped. I think Conanc even had hog but maybe I'm getting it confused with another conan game

[who is ted danson?]

We have more concurrent users than Marathon.