I am an Elder Scrolls enjoyer from way back (the very first game from the early 90s!) and the lore’s been built up for decades, hit or miss, elegant and sloppy. Todd Howard’s bumblefucking makes the lore interesting in spite of his executive decisions.

most of the community love for the AD comes entirely from Razum-dar being such a charismatic and memorable character

Yeah, he’s Khajiit CIA with all the propaganda-driven “super cool Adult In The Room that pragmatically murders enemies of the regime” vibes that entails.

The expansion packs gave us some decent characters, including some Altmer that didn’t like the Altmer nazis to the point of making their entire island disappear from them (but now cooperating with them in the present because fucking liberalism again).

I remember textbooks in my formative years bringing that up as a bad thing to show how “fake” the elections were, not tolerating meaningful dissent away from pre-selected leaders.

I know that all three alliances in Elder Scrolls Online (clumsily kitbashed due to map convenience as they already are) are supposed to be “both good and bad” but by the Divines the Aldmeri Dominion is a sus ethnostate. I’ve had struggle sessions with some ESO guilds with some that claimed, I kid you not, that Ayrenn was “the only Adult In The Room” (their words that time, not mine) during the Three Banners War because… she said some snippy snarky MCU talk during the Daedric attack on the summit at Stirk instead of “childish” things the other leaders did like grieve for their dead soldiers.

When I brought up Shadowfen and asked whether Ayrenn was in on a literal genocide attempt against the Argonians or if she was just incompetent or uncaring enough to delegate to genocide-enjoying generals, what I got back was “war is hell” and “well all three alliances did bad things to each other” (none of those other bad things were direct fucking race-specific genocides!).

Because pirates raiding a coastal town with a letter of marque is equally as bad as murdering Argonian children before they hatch on a generational scale and poisoning their spirit-trees to try to prevent future generations.

And all of this is before later games showing the Dominion wanting to retroactively erase non-elves from existence using time fuckery.

Emoji concepts you can hear.

When King Bazinga foams at the mouth about those damned illegal immigrants

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Rakata

He’s done self-inflicted errors for years and one of them was firing what PR team he had because he started believing in his own marketing hype.

I must atone now.

Joe Rogan Endorses Trump

How is this even news? The only surprise to me is that the meat-sweating drug sponge took this long to make it official.

He is the very smartest; all the people that kept their jobs around him leave that belief unchallenged and his cult bolsters that belief as well. No one was there to explain to him that what he was showing was a demographic defeat.

Was the covid part of the deep end dive because of the temporary closing of his magic car factories?

That’s how gambling can be both illegal in Japanese prefectures but also pinball parlors are mysteriously across the street from special vendors that will offer cash for the pinball prize items.

Sophistry was such a hated practice in ancient Greece that sometimes sophists got stabbed and the local authorities would just look the other way because their bullshit artistry was that repulsive.

I’m confused. Did he just post this because it’s a meme or did he post it because it makes sense to him?

I think both; there is no sign that I can tell that he really does much introspective or layered thinking. He likes something, therefore it is good. He sees himself as smart, therefore what he likes is smart as well as good.

I’ve seen his glazers make claims on his behalf, and the number jumps around depending on how hard the glazers are glazing, and all has to do is reply with a few words and let the beliefs stand.

It’s a measurement of adherence to western hegemony, so of course he likes his (presumed) big boy score in it.

Chuds want the cops to have limitless privilege to inflict violence, but those derned regulations bad!