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The Newsweek reporter who lied about Trump on Thanksgiving got fired for writing fake news.

Called it. Told you so. Vindicated. MSM lying as usual.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/e358bn/fake_news_lies_about_trumps (space) _thanksgiving_while/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Anyone who believes a word of mainstream news is never worth interacting with. They do NOTHING but lie.
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GildedFool posted...

Ulti, your tweet doesn't prove you were there.

You do know that right?

Like, you probably were. But... it doesn't prove shit.

Imagine being this ignorant.

https://twitter.com/ultimaterializr/status/1192060599481573377?s=21

Taken the day of from inside the Park MGM, just to make sure people like you look extra dumb on this one.

Bro in the middle looking totally fab af btw.

@Drakeryn
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Remind us how many people were fired from Kotaku, Ulti?

"There is no possible way Ulti was at that Gaga show. That's what makes the BBC quoting him so hilarious."

https://twitter.com/Ultimaterializr/status/1185239806009204736?s=20
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Remember ABC News? You know, the folks who doctored Kentucky gun range video and pretended it was from Syria?

Turns out they had photographic evidence plus multiple witnesses ready to come forward and bring Epsteins ring (which included Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew) down for good. ABC killed the story entirely and ordered their staff to never talk about it again. This is unforgivable, and arguably criminal.

But go on pretending the mainstream media isnt lying to you 24/7, guys. Im just over here happily listening to what actual journalists are exposing. James OKeefe should be getting a nobel prize for his work if that committee was worth a damn.
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Dude I won $530,000 from that election after only betting 10 grand, You're damn right I rubbed that in. He was 53:1 the day he announced. Knowing election history as I do, I saw that speech and went "oh, yeah, he'll be a new Reagan". It was like 300k after taxes, but hey!

I like Elizabeth Warren a lot, so if it comes down to Trump v her I'm happy either way. I don't really care that she lied about ethnicity to get into law school. Good on her.
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LiquidOshawott posted...

Ulti Im pretty terrible and admit I havent even really gotten to touch most of the stuff youve given me (albeit Im in a situation where gaming is more limited)

Sorry bud

Bro I would have gotten you those games anyway, though at the time I truly didn't think I'd ever be a Legend player. It's funny how I just breezed to it a few times since. It's all good though. That's why the people who troll me about this are so funny to me. It's a good laugh, nothing more.

Legend has very little to do with skill, anyway; it's all deck selection and volume of play. If you pick a high tier 2 deck you enjoy and make 1-2 tech choices so it beats tier 1 regularly (aka, angle shots so you're almost guaranteed a 53+% win rate), anyone can hit legend. My crowning achievement was getting Keleseth, Acolyte, and Pyroblast more mainstream in Big Spell Mage. It crushed the mirror and did just enough to win against tier 1. You just need the time to play 10+ games per day, or around 350-400 per month, and to take a break if you're tilted. I tilt easily, so I learned to just quit for the day if I lost twice in a row. That's the "anyone can hit legend" rate. If you're really good like Firebat is (I'll never be at this level, nor do I ever care to be), you can just make your own deck and go on some crazy 29-4 run or whatever. I usually won around 56-60% of my games, which is really good but it's hardly some pro level.

Now if FD wants to pretend I'm outright bad at the game then he's just an ignorant. Yeah, ignorant as a noun, do not @ me. FD always has been and will be the guy who pretends he knows 100% about everything even though he is clearly not good at games. He just reads forums and such to pretend he is. You know how every family has the one know-it-all who thinks they know everything and offers unsolicited advice 24/7, yet somehow they're never successful and always blames everyone else for it? You know, like Charles Barkley sitting on TNT telling people what it takes to be a champion. That's FD in gaming. He never one time beat me in Dota, outside of one game where a known map hacker who was later banned was on his team (and FD did zero percent of the work in that game). I beat him in well over 15 games past that, because he is not capable of thinking outside the box. Of course a Faceless Void who maxes Backtrack first is a stupid idea. Of course Void should NEVER be able to win a lane 1v1 against Lesh. But I play crazy, and I win for it. Safe players cannot wrap their heads around that thinking, which is why they fall short. Safe swordsmen can't beat weird ones.

I never one time saw his advice work in League of Legends (I think our 3 man team was something like 0-9 listening to him). It's seriously embarrassing seeing him pretend otherwise. Hell, just read a mafia game he's in when he rolls mafia. It's REALLY easy to peg him. He'll make giant walls of fake content with no commitments, he cannot sway people to vote with him, he knows this is his big scumtell, and he continues doing it anyway. Again, it's always the safe play. Which would be fine, but the arrogance of pretending he's some pro in anything he plays while trolling people who are demonstrably better is too hilarious. I sincerely hope he gets some help, and I'm just going to leave it at that. I don't do below the belt personal crap anymore. He knows what's up.

As for the gift, I would have done it for free. Ask @greengravy294 or @Dark_Young_Link . I'm a generous dude for people I love <3
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Blizzard admitted on Chinese social media that this action was 100% done because they did not want China getting offended.

So anyone who says there was any other reason is just objectively wrong now.
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DoomTheGyarados posted...

A lot of people got real quiet when it was revealed both sides of the US Senate are condemning this.

I guess I am not so out of line after all, eh Ulti?

I.... never said you were? I recall a "Chris is 100% on point" post =p
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Xiahou Shake posted...

I damn near did a spit take at Democrats and Republicans actually agreeing this is a horrible look. With all that's going on right now they'd probably argue over the sky being blue!

We only seem more divided than ever because the media says so. Ask your older family members how bad things were during Vietnam.

trdl23 posted...

The firing of the casters is just indefensible. Thats the exclamation point to the reason this isnt cool not just hitting the offending player but also anyone related to the incident.

^^^^^^^
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LordoftheMorons posted...

You realize that theres a difference between doing business in China and actively censoring for the Chinese, right?

No i don't think they do

This same sort of thing happened with WWE and Saudi Arabia. Theres a difference between a company doing a show in a repressive country, and a company taking money from that countrys government to produce a show for them.

That was a massive deal. It's a shame wrestling is basically irrelevant and hated these days outside of the bubble (the Braun interview during Cubs/Cards was like 99% negatively viewed), because that incident deserved to blow up the internet just as much as this one.

You say that incident but its ongoing

The 4th out of the 20 planned Saudi propaganda shows is on the 31st

I haven't watched one second of WWE since Khashoggi was murdered and WWE went to that country anyway. I already thought they were garbage but that was a perfect reason to stop watching.

And given the ratings collapse (Smackdown won't last) I'm not alone in this one.
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Jakyl25 posted...

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LordoftheMorons posted...

You realize that theres a difference between doing business in China and actively censoring for the Chinese, right?

No i don't think they do

This same sort of thing happened with WWE and Saudi Arabia. Theres a difference between a company doing a show in a repressive country, and a company taking money from that countrys government to produce a show for them.

That was a massive deal. It's a shame wrestling is basically irrelevant and hated these days outside of the bubble (the Braun interview during Cubs/Cards was like 99% negatively viewed), because that incident deserved to blow up the internet just as much as this one.
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UItimaterializer posted...

Guys, read that rule. It says at Blizzard's discretion that you cannot offend a portion of the public. Do I even need to explain how awful that is?

A company that threw the tourney isnt allowed to make up the governing rules for that tourney? Interesting.

Go on.

There are many countries where being gay is punishable by death. Including parts of China, Russia, and the Middle East. Imagine someone won Blizzard's best of the best tournament (essentially what Grandmasters is), then got banned for being gay because China didn't like it. And two people recording the winning interview were also banned just because.

Like there is no legitimate counter argument here dude. Chris is 100% on point with this.
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Told you so about Blizzard this whole time guys.
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https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905181/blizzard-hearthstone-player-ban-marco-rubio-ron-wyden-china-hong-kong-protests-blitzchung

Blizzard managed to get the Senate to agree on something.
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Guys, read that rule. It says at Blizzard's discretion that you cannot offend a portion of the public. Do I even need to explain how awful that is?
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KokoroAkechi posted...

On like the actual Ban and not related to like China or anything

The grandmaster's rules are actually extremely strict from what I was told and like every player has certainly read all of them multiple times because of how easy it is to get certain infractions. So, I think the player in question 100% knew that what he was doing was going to be against the rules and that there would probably be repercussions. Although, I don't think he expected the prize money to be withheld. I can agree with like a ban for a year (maybe 6 months or something), but the prize money is a pretty big issue with me.

Now, the other thing is too, that this rule is like up to Blizzard's interpretation and it states this in the rules, and Blizzard interpreted as being offensive or purposely to bring the company into a bad light in the eyes of onlookers (in this case Chinese investors/owners). So, even if it was technically against the rules, it doesn't mean that Blizzard didn't even have an out they put in those rules to get around this.

The rule is moronic. "Can't offend a portion of the public"? A portion of the public is offended by literally anything.
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azuarc posted...

KingButz posted...

I don't think anyone is disputing that Blizzard is allowed to do what they're doing.

It doesn't make it any less cowardly, despicable, and chilling.

Let's pretend for a second that Blizzard is not a corporation, but rather than a single business owner who oversees everything and has the moral consciousness to make a stand for his beliefs. If there are awful enough things in China for that guy to even begin to consider damaging his financial interests in the name of "doing what is right," do you think that this event on its own would be enough of a catalyst to spur him into action? If you were that guy, responsible for literally billions of dollars, and have the economic and social foothold in China that you do, would you allow it to be compromised by one player's brief moment of hijacking your company's interests?

Even the most progressive, freedom-fighting business owners isn't going to make that call. They'll let it be a strike against China that they'll remember for later. They'll also remember how much pushback the company receives for what looks like bootlicking to some simply for not wanting to get caught in the middle. But the owner's not going to allow what happened on his watch. It is, in its own way, damaging to the company, even without considering the catastrophic damage that being banned by the PRC would do.

That's if one guy had to make the decision. A board would never. So please take your moral outrage elsewhere. Yes, China is awful. Yes, "something" should be done. But if you're going to attack Blizzard because they were shoved into a situation where it was made blatantly obvious that they don't want to make waves at this time, then you have to attack every other company that does business in China...which is basically every company that isn't some Mom-and-Pop operation. The only reason you're picking on just Blizzard is because an individual tried to make his little bit of "something" happen at their expense, and they made it very clear to him that it's coming at their expense.

Most 14th Amendment lawsuits were made by a singular corporation looking for the rights of a person.

So not only us your post laughably bad, its flat out ignorant.
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Peace___Frog posted...

R/hearthstone is pretty nutty right now.

Its glorious. The floodgates are open.

And red, that was BS. R/blizzard is locked as a whole and theyre banning everyone.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

More people defending blizzard here than I expected; pretty lame.

This is honestly WAY less people than I was expecting.
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China invested 150 million into Reddit last year. Reddit just locked r/blizzard.

Yeah thatll help guys.
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Blizzard, Steve Kerr, Adam Silver, the NBA, and two Rockets players are getting DESTROYED on twitter right now.
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There was a video on the news a week or two ago. China was marching about 600 people with shaved heads off somewhere, presumably to be killed or put in a labor camp.

This is what Blizzard has sided with.
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handsomeboy2012 posted...

There's no way Blizzard would ban him so quickly if he said something bad about Trump or waved around a rainbow flag (which also upsets a lot of people)

I'm sure the Chinese regime is pressuring Blizzard to do this, or that Blizzard knew they would get banned like the NBA and threw him under the bus before that happens.

It took them A YEAR to ban Roger, a literal confirmed cheater.
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There are three topics on r/all about this. Three.

For those here who dont use reddit, thats completely and utterly insane. This was a BAD idea by Blizzard, not that Im even remotely surprised.
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greengravy294 posted...

i can only assume the reason ultimaterializerx has not thrown down his opinion on blizzard since he is in quantum flux currently unable to decide what he enjoys more: hating blizzard or trolling people about hating blizzard

Ive already posted in this topic, and while Im happy the board is in agreement here I havent forgotten how multiple people who laughed at my Blizzard opinions in the past are now magically on my side.

Which fine. I dont care. It shows that Blizzard is SO AWFUL as a company that it got Board 8 to actually agree with me on something.

For the people who think this is political, it really isnt. Political implies two or more conflicting viewpoints with legitimate arguments to each. What China is trying to do in Hong Kong right now has no justifiable reason. This is quite literally Tianamen Square (Im sure I spelled that one wrong) 2.0. There are easy to find videos of Chinese soldiers killing protesters.

American politics are awful right now but there arent soldiers shooting civilians. Whats going on there is horrible, and its shameful for any American company to stick up for it. Doing whats right matters more than money.

Also, does anyone honestly think the guy gets banned if he says impeach Trump or expressed support for China? I doubt it. If you want to see the internet mid-explosion, the Hearthstone subreddits top topic is worth a read. Its on r/all, too. Thats how indefensibly bad this is.
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Its almost like I was right about Blizzard this entire time.

Called it. Told you so. Vindicated. Its also pathetic that they fired the casters, who did literally NOTHING wrong.
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Babyface Dimitri is such a bore. I want the boar prince back.
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Dedue posted...

Queen Elincia

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So glad someone in American media went there. So nice to see South Park have balls again.

And right on cue, China goes and bans any Houston Rockets games from being broadcast because their GM tweeted support for Hong Kong. Because, you know, this doesnt make communism look insecure at all.
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MrSmartGuy posted...

Alright, I made it to the top half for once. Time to get crazy.

Cardinals

MrSmartGuy posted...

Alright on second thought you know what I'm not that crazy.

Change to Bears

Jeez :(
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UltimaterializerX posted...

Let's tempt fate.

Minnesota Vikings.

I now forgive them for last year.
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.....even the cart is getting injured in Pittsburgh. Jeez.
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SmartMuffin posted...

I don't know that I've ever seen a team with as good of a QB as Watson be as mediocre as the Texans manage to be. Like, how is this even possible?

Hes very inaccurate on deep passes and holds on to the ball too long. O-line always gets blamed when QBs do the latter, but its on the QB. If you watch the film, Watson always looks for big plays and misses wide open checkdowns.

Hes a good player, but he needs to work on his film study.
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Im constantly amazed by how much smarter Zephrys is than a human being. I had druid at 10 health and he had a full board up. I played Zeph, thinking Twisting Nether was coming.

He gave Hellfire. Board wipe, Gladiator Longbow to the face, arrow. 10 damage. I love this card so much. Im half tempted to cut Siamat so sandbinder always finds him but thats just a dumb idea.
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This is the kind of stuff that makes Christians look awful, even though most of us act nothing like this.

That girl is in no way dressed inappropriately.
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By the way Dimitri is a savage death machine as a character and a unit. Dude is absurd as a wyvern lord. Im also glad I started custom goals right from the jump. Had multiple master tier units plus Felix as an Assassin right after the skip.
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Whatever protecting garreg mach is. I think its 14?
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UItimaterializer posted...

Am I the only one on the Raiders and Titans?

A few of us took one or the other but it looks like you're the only one with both

looking over it I'm surprised how groupthinky the picks were this week, most will be lucky to get half right

The Bears switch was just dumb of me but I didnt think Trubisky would get hurt. He should have been benched ages ago.
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davidponte posted...

Are the Rams not that good?

They havent been right since that Bears game last year.
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SUUUUUUUUUH

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If I knew Trubisky would have gotten hurt Id have stuck with the Bears. Chase Daniel should have been named the starter ages ago.
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Am I the only one on the Raiders and Titans?

Also, change to Vikings > Bears.
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KCF0107 posted...

I caught an error where I accidentally gave turbo and Ulti each other's selections, but that's fixed, and I hope everything is up-to-date and accurate.

I had Bears, changing to Steelers. Vegas knows something is up with that Bears game so Im not touching it.

If Andy Dalton knocks me out by actually winning in prime time, good for him.
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Meow1000 posted...

To say "don't trust the Rams" then change to the Chargers might be the ultimate "tempting fate" moment

The Dolphins play hard. They wont go 0-16.
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Sharps in Vegas are all over the Vikings and the line dropped. Something is up with that game and I no longer trust it. If Akeem Hicks doesnt play, the Vikings will actually be able to run the ball.

Changing to the Steelers.
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Jesus Christ almighty

F for respect.
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Woah! Not afraid of snakes but that would still be a huge shock.

Username checks out.
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Dont click if youre afraid of snakes.

https://twitter.com/virtuame/status/1178077844079026176?s=21
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