Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Asmongold TV " channel.

  1. "It belongs in a British museum" Because the natives would most likely destroy it otherwise. Untold numbers of priceless and irreplaceable artifacts from Chinese history were smashed during the Cultural Revolution. In many cases, the only surviving pieces were taken by the British (and other Europeans) during the 19th century. If they really wanted a good spinoff of Indiana Jones, they would have had Short Round racing to save as many as possible.
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  2.  @sthsth2846  Propaganda is when you get paid to say what you're saying here, eh?
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  3. "It's not just this one company that's doing this" I think it's Midnight's Edge that has a list of like the top 10 companies that provide this service.
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  4. "The sanctity of centers of knowledge" Yup. This guy is just as religious as any Christian, it's just that his religion isn't Christian. Note how he's flipping out because his religion is taking flak.
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  5. Galileo discovered two things -- that there were shadow-casting mountains on the Moon (and therefore it was not a perfect orb) and there were moons around Jupiter (which would have pierced the crystal sphere that Jupiter supposedly rode on.) The Church was too committed to Aristotelian thinking, which insisted on a geocentric universe because in a heliocentric universe we would observe stellar parallax. Because stellar parallax is not visible by the n*ked eye, Aristotle concluded that the universe was geocentric. The Church allowed Galileo to publish his findings but insisted that he publish them as a dialog or debate. Galileo published it thusly, but named the man representing the Church's view "Simplicio", an Italian word meaning "idiot" or "simpleton". Galileo's persecution is based on this act of bad faith.
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  6. See an anime called Violet Evergarden. It's also about delivering mail to soldiers. It's a rip-your-heart-out sentimental look at what's in those letters, and what they mean to the soldiers -- all far from home, to which many would never return. But the Wokies look at that story, and make it all about them. Everything Woke turns to s**t.
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  7. "It's like it's 2012" Everything seemed to go to s**t around then, didn't it?
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  8. "They just don't respect the law" When the law is abused to go after people for their politics -- peaceful politics that everyone recognized as normal forty years ago -- people lose a certain amount of respect for the law, it's true.
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  9. "Slippery slope is a fallacy" -- No, it is not. It is a condition, dependent on whether there is pushback. This is textbook Controls Engineering. If you have pushback (a "restoring force") you have a pendulum effect, known as a "stable equilibrium". If you have no pushback, (absent or negative "restoring force") you have a slippery slope, known as "unstable equilibrium".
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  10. I'm old enough to remember when all they wanted was "civil unions". They said it was silly to think that marriage could be changed. Since then I've counted up the number of kids I knew who leaned that way, and counted up the number of them that were abuse victims, and came out with numbers that leave no shadow of a doubt that abuse is one of if not THE major cause. Oh, and since then I've also had some of them get in touch to try to fit back into society after going to prison for .pdf filing. Yeah, the trope "They don't reproduce so they recruit" is 100% true.
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  11. "If you could get a refund after they cancel the game, things would be fine" -- This "refund" idea is a non-starter, a blood-from-a-stone pipe dream. If they cancel the game because it's not breaking even anymore, where will the refund money come from? The money they already collected already went to dev salaries and paying off the loans they used to pay the dev salaries before they saw a cent of customer revenue. I think that the only plausible solution here is to have licensed private servers, where the license fee is enough to cover the costs of making sure anyone playing on the private server, legit bought the game in the first place.
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  12. If you want to watch a show about delivering mail to soldiers, try Violet Evergarden. If you're into rip-your-heart-out sentimentality, anyway.
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  13. "People only objected because you lied to them about it" Aaaaaaand this is how they win now -- when you say "oh we only objected because you lied" they say "oopsie" and get to infest your hobby with your approval, mission complete.
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  14. Atheism didn't have any answers worth having. People are turning back to older wisdom, realizing that the "Christianity" of the 1990s deliberately dumbed things down. Many are following that path all the way back to faith. Have a look Asmon, you might find some interesting stuff in there.
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  15.  @enzoarayamorales7220  Yeah, that hasn't been working. At all.
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  16. "These companies are future-proofing themselves from regulations" This is just making money through regulatory capture. Even if the laws are stupid. Especially if the laws are stupid -- making money in the stock market with this strategy depends on being right when others are wrong. The dumber the law, the more people will be wrong because they say, "A law that dumb would never pass". The ESG stock funds will say, "We have to pressure politicians to pass the dumbest laws possible, as long as we get advanced notice of them."
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  17. "Science is becoming more complicated, and therefore more difficult for the public to understand" It's worse than that. It's becoming more difficult for scientists to understand, and it's becoming absolutely impossible for computers to reliably model. Unreliable computer models are the real culprit behind our current climate change hysteria, although heavy biases in grant funding organizations has caused a great deal of trouble as well.
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  18. "These games take tens of millions of dollars to make. $25,000 is nothing." It's the size of a personal bribe. Seriously, the number hasn't changed much, adjusted for inflation, since Soviet spies paid a couple of questionable individuals to claim J Edgar Hoover was a cross-dresser.
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  19. "Convicted of 34 felonies, not a single change" Convicted of 34 bookkeeping entries that, in a sane world, do not rise to the level of this kind of label. It's more along the lines of, "the average American commits five felonies a day." If Trump clears out the sorts of people who bring prosecutions for this sort of bulls**t, he'll have done the country a service, including each and every person watching this video.
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  20.  @velho3942  Yes, it's a completely meaningless phrase, because it changes with fashions. The word "secular" itself is Latin, meaning "that which changes or goes away". Insofar as it has any basis, that basis is Christian.
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  21.  @velho3942  Populations are collapsing worldwide thanks to secular "values". Within your lifetime, we're going to see "secular values saying "oops, the 60s and 70s were a mistake" and going back to more Christian roots. By the way, you do know that the entire Bible is basically a story of freeing people from slavery, right? (Exodus, Philemon, all the Gospels, etc) not to mention it was Christian fanatics (Quakers, Wilberforce, etc) that ended slavery in the modern world? If your ethical education includes anyone insisting that Christian values involve slavery, you were badly educated -- you need to start doing some research of your own to counteract that foolishness.
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  22. "It costs $200 a night to hold an illegal in custody" As opposed to the $500/night hotels they have them in now?
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  23. Interesting to see how "smoking" is still considered a case of big-money silencing the truth. How many people smoke anymore? Out of those, how many do it in public?
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  24.  @karlsmith8113  I wouldn't be surprised if there was a difference between UK and US laws.
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  25. Asmongold, your "You do you" attitude got us here. You've surrendered basically morality, and wondering why you're drowning in sewage.
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  26. "Previous complaints of him kneeling on someone's back for 17 minutes" Please note the non-fatal nature of kneeling on someone's back -- someone considerably smaller than St Lloyd, it must be noted. Asmongold, someone pushed your emotion button, and you lost all ability to see evidence or logic here. See: the fact that you cooked yourself with your own argument.
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  27. They took the premise from Violet Evergarden and turned it into THIS. Everything Woke turns to s**t.
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  28. Dude, they started with a team of like five people. What did you expect the graphics to look like at first?
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  29. You know what's ironic about the January Committee destroying evidence? Well, you know the "disrupting an official proceeding" that they're charged with? That law was originally designed to prevent companies like Enron from disrupting official proceedings by.... destroying evidence. The hypocrisy is mind-boggling.
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  30. Remakes of old games are exactly the Tomb Raider premise, only worse. They exhume old artifacts (in this case, the game) to pervert them. At least the curators of the British Museum loved the cultures they brought to the world.
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  31. Doctors in Silicon Valley believe that prenatal exposure to canna*is can cause autism. That explains why it's become more prevalent these days.
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  32. "We take over other people's history and culture, and say we've saved them from themselves" Japanese militarism in the early 20th century was brutal, and if you want to see Japan's military culture today, watch Gate. The whole point of that anime, is that the Japanese military has basically modernized. (As well as pointing out that the West used to be pretty awful, too.)
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  33. "Why is this 'soft power'? Who would want to be like America, after America beat them in a war?" It's not even propaganda, it's a humiliation ritual, written accordidng to Cartman's Kathleen Kennedy principle. "Put a chick in it, and make it lame and gay." On the other hand, when America is awesome, EVERYONE wants to be like America.
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  34. "The names are too similar, but that's true of everywhere" Not at all. The Chinese themselves make jokes about how they only have "the hundred last names" to go around.
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  35. "That word was meant to keep us down, to degrade us, to make us less!" Yes, it's the "Unword" from Tropic Thunder, but it also applies to "con*piracy theorist", "r**ist", "N**i", and a host of other words thrown around to shut people up.
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  36. "How long has it been since I was actually sorry?.... I dunno, a long time ago" - Asmongold
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  37. "Antifa" is misspelled. It should be "Ante-fas*ist" -- i.e., "before fas*ism", as it was the dumbest political backfire in world history. It was formed in Germany between the two world wars. Its activities -- especially its "direct actions" causing chaos in the streets -- were a major driver of normal German citizens voting for the law-and-order fas*ist party. If it hadn't been for "Antifa", the national soc*alists never would have won.
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  38. "People are getting tired of emotional bla**mail" Yup. And we're a clear majority.
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  39. "This is an important topic" It was literally part of Weird Al's "UHF" movie, on the Jerry Springer / Geraldo spoof show.
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  40. "They'll want press coverage" Because they want people to self-deport. Historically, about 30% of immigrants to America -- even back when they were mostly from Europe -- went back home. Incentivize moving back (say, by showing deportations) and a lot of people will.
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  41. "Women have a lot more social structures to support them than men do" Yup. It's actively illegal for men to have support structures that are just for men. In a sane world this would be known as "systemic discrimination", but we don't live in a sane world.
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  42. "These jobs aren't coming back" Er, no. Strategically speaking -- as in, we can't have our geopolitical enemies making our stuff for us -- the jobs are going to be onshored again. More than that, companies are going to simply run out of cheap overseas labor to exploit. Plus, some jobs are always going to be local. If we just stop importing tens of millions of illegals, low-end wages would climb faster than inflation.
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  43. "This is a really big ad. They better be paying him a lot." Er, I think they begged him not to post it.
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  44. @melitajay There is no public evidence that they have any political clout whatsoever. Same with the group, "G*ys Against G**omers", leading reasonable people to question whether such ideas have any real support in that demographic.
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  45. "It's a result of scarcity of resources. Without scarcity of resources, all of these problems would go away" There will always be scarcity of superlatives -- by definition.
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  46. "Go back to the Netherlands, or Germany, or wherever your family came from" In 1941 when the Germans tried to go back to the steppes of Asia where their ancestors came from, all anyone else did was b**ch about it.
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  47. "People will respond to reinforcement" ... and that is related to sunk cost fallacy, which differs one person to another. The more willing you are to dump your time in with less reward, the less companies will give you. The more people who are less willing to invest the time, the more the companies companies will given them so they can can cash in on them. Isn't that ka-ching supposed to be a good thing?
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  48. "They are going to make Laura Croft show more respect for the communities she interacts with" She's going to be Belloq with the Hovito, then?
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  49. "All free updates" There seems to be no difference between what the lead developer did after getting a massive cash infusion from the initial release of the game, and what the lead developer would have done if he'd won millions of dollars in the lottery. He used it to bankroll his game development habit, and just made this into the best game he possibly could. It's a lot like what the Dwarf Fortress guys do. God bless obsessives, when they find something amazing to obsess about.
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  50. "Bullied into oblivion" Nah, just the first generation not to be allowed to fight back. Learned helplessness was taught once women went from just teachers, to school administrators and curriculum designers too.
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  51. "Just be normal, and there won't be any problem" Well, except for the times they go on to target kids. Which happens in something like one in three cases. Do "they all" do it? Maybe not. Maybe it's not even a majority (though maybe it is.) It's usually how they got that way. Ask yourself: how often do drunk drivers get home safe? A majority of the time, probably an overwhelming majority of the time. But they ruin lives often enough that it's illegal. Some careers, like medicine and education (I have personal knowledge of the kind of situations I've been referring to, in both professions) should be off-limits to them by law, to keep kids safe.
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  52. "If they had handled the coof right, Biden would still be president" If they had handled the coof right, Trump would have won in a landslide in 2024.
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  53. At least one in three always does, and they were always going to. They recruit instead of reproduce, after all. Certain professions where they have access to / power over kids, should be off-limits to them -- medicine, education, law enforcement.
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  54.  @coincollectorchase  At least one in three goes on to go after kids, and at least that many (probably more) are that way themselves because they were treated that way when they were kids.
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  55.  @Vex-Mythoclast  Only, they're not normal, by definition. We were going to get here eventually one way or another.
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  56. "Corporations will align with whatever social cause gets them the most money" Demonstrably untrue, unless you mean short-term financing at the expense of their playerbase.
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  57. "Immigrants don't live here, they're on the other side of I-35" You sure 'bout that, these days? Go to the grocery stores, see who's taking carts to their government-issued cars.
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  58. Of course they like those values more than money. If all they wanted was money, they wouldn't put any Wokeness in games in the first place.
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  59. "The French Revolution was nobles against royalty" Er, no. It really was the dregs vs. the royals. Louis XIV brought the nobility of France to heel with his Versailles culture. After he passed on, he was left with both an incompetent and defanged nobility and an incompetent heir. So, France collapsed.
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  60. Dude, look at the lighting. This is AI-generated
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  61. "They call it a sprint in software development -- it's not crunch, it's a sprint" This is an Agile term, for a period of time (usually 2 weeks or so) in which a set of tasking is to be done. It's basically a way of dividing up the HUGE work package that is a major game, into smaller and more manageable tasks, and to make sure you don't have 6-month deadlines leading to "walk for the first five months and run for the last month".
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  62. "Could Trump bring in a Lysenko?" After his experience with Fauci, he's more likely to fire the thousands of Lysenkos infesting our executive agencies.
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  63. "It's hard to imagine how to stop this" Easy. Anti-trust lawsuits. Big companies offer courses to their employees about how to avoid even the appearance of collusion -- it's a serious worry.
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  64. "Just common sense morals, not religious morals" If you live in the West, your common sense is basically Christian. See: Dominion by Tom Holland
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  65.  @enzoarayamorales7220  If the foundations of common sense vary, there's no way to form a coherent legal system.
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  66. So they leave their mopeds running while they do this? Why doesn't someone just steal the moped?
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  67. I'm surprised this hasn't had a SciFi "Tomb World Raider" spinoff, where she goes through no-survivor post-apocalyptic worlds, investigating why each civilization collapsed.
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  68. "We don't really need that many people" Yes, they do. Supermarkets around my neighborhood ALL had "Help Wanted" signs out. Had... except now, they have a bunch of new employees who don't speak English at all.
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  69. Promoting general science literacy would be great. This guy might be a bit taken aback by how many of his sacred cows would be hamburger, in this process. The core dozen or so vaccines (measles, mumps, polio, whooping cough, smallpox, etc) that helped drop child mortality rates from around 50% to less than 1%, largely about 100 years ago, are obviously useful. Their interactions if you give them all at once are a little less well-characterized, because that's just how complicated biological systems are. The dozens of medications that have been given the label "vaccine", sometimes inaccurately so they can enjoy the legal benefits (government mandates, immunity from prosecution)? Not so much, especially when they're given in combinations whose impacts are near-impossible to predict. In terms of climate -- do the math for the role CO2's opacity, in the incoming solar flux vs. Earth's blackbody radiation, and you'll find that its contribution to the greenhouse effect is less than 0.1 degrees. Look at the stochastic computer models used to support claims that some kind of runaway effect would occur, and you find that these models can't be used to scientifically prove anything about the behavior or impact of one of their inputs (or even combination of their inputs). In other words, climate activists who claim to know anything at all about catastrophic impacts from CO2, are deluding themselves, just like they were when they said we were due for another ice age. The climate narrative flip-flopped very quickly, by the way. As late as 1978, Leonard Nimoy was warning about ice ages, and as early as 1990, the BBC was claiming global warming would boost temperatures 10-15 degrees by 2020. If we had a scientifically literate population, we would not have either this proliferation of vaccines, or "climate change" hysteria.
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  70. Regarding autism -- Stanford researchers were able to predict whether babies would develop autism. The babies were shown videos of kids interacting, and researchers watched where their eyes were pointing. Most babies (by instinct, it seems) pointed their eyes at the faces of the kids on the video. Babies that would go on to show signs of autism, focused on whatever was moving in the video, basically ignoring faces unless they moved a lot. The less people watch faces, the more signs of autism they show. I suspect that autism is a syndrome -- a collection of symptoms. It may have a variety of causes, just like there are a variety of things that can cause a cough or a stomach ache.
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  71. "Let's get the really bad ones before we get the rest" Looks like the strategy is to get the rest, while we get the really bad ones. As a matter of fact, you have to wonder whether they're going to be willing to let the really bad ones slip through their fingers, for now, if they keep catching so many of the others with this approach.
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  72. "If a smart person votes one way and a dumb person votes the opposite way, it's like the smart person never voted at all." Not really. Search "The Wisdom of Crowds". (Then search "The madness of crowds" for a counterbalance, it's fun too.)
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  73. "Why put your knee on his neck? He said he couldn't breathe" If you can't breathe, you can't say "I can't breathe". He was huge, and he was agitated, and the knee thing was a restraint that doesn't suffocate anyone. It was the by-the-book thing to do as they were waiting for the ambulance that they had called to take care of him.
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  74. When women are included in combat roles, standards go down, because aside from outliers, women (even ones with training) are objectively weaker than men. Look at MIL-STD-1472, "Design Criteria, Human Engineering", which prescribes safe lifting limits for defense contractors to design to. These limits have changed from Rev F to Rev H. In Rev F, there are categories for "male" and "female". Developed to the limits of military training females are 30-50% weaker than males. In Rev H, those standards had been reduced to only the lower female levels. It bears repeating: Including women in military roles causes standards to go down.
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  75. "Maybe companies should offer better jobs, if their workers can't afford to live" Maybe they're operating razor-thin margins already, based on the rent, taxes, and other expenses the company has to pay. Maybe there's just an upper limit to how big, dense, and high-rent cities can be, to support a minimal standard of living. Maybe the fundamental problem people don't want to admit, is NYC is a mistake. It certainly doesn't say good things about the place when to keep its population, it relies on human trafficking.
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  76. They're just going to hand them to illegals.
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  77. "When you get into big business, you run into fiduciary responsibility" Asmon, you clearly haven't gotten the memo about how big businesses are pushing unpopular politics into their games to raise their "ESG score", which allows them access to cheaper financing.
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  78. "The culprit is not the scientific community" Except the "scientific community" is becoming just as prone to purity spirals and witch-hunts as the politicians who provide their funding. Scientists have become extremely politicized. This drives a great deal of anti-intellectualism, by the way.
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  79. "Gott mit Uns" was a German slogan reaching back centuries, it didn't start with the mid-century Germans. For them, the state was uber alles, including above God. This is why they persecuted devout Christians who refused to go along with the "scientific experts" of the state, who preached eugenics among other atrocities. An interesting side note: The biology textbook at issue in America's famous Scopes trial, which was condemned by devout Americans such as William Jennings Bryan and supported by the likes of H L Mencken and Clarence Darrow, included passages that made it crystal clear that it stood on the same side as the mid-century Germans when it came to eugenics. Any American of good conscience should want such books removed from classrooms and the teachers who push them on students, to be prosecuted.
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  80. Working in Integration and Test, asking programmers for a "first cut" by the end of the day, then leaving some time for iterations in case things go badly in Integration, is a good solution. Then you gradually tighten down on the iteration time, to find the best practices (and best people) who don't require a lot of rework. If you know you can provide a first cut at something in X amount of time, but you know you're not going to be able to get it all the way through the process in X time (in fact, the process will probably make it 10X the time), means you really don't want to promise that something will be finished in X amount of time.
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  81. "Companies celebrate in June to make money" Not exactly. They don't make any money from customers, in fact they lose both money and customers. What this does for them, is it allows them to maintain their short-term lines of credit. Say you have a AAA game company and you've got a 5-year development cycle, which you just had to push a year because the game wasn't done. How do you keep from closing your doors? You borrow that funding from people, who won't loan it to you unless you celebrate June. Once we get DEI out of banks and other lending institutions, it's going to be dead permanently. Less than 1% of the population ever buys rainbow merchandise, and that includes 5-year-old girls who have no idea it's political. It just doesn't sell enough to make a difference, in fact it turns off more people than it impresses.
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  82. "Don't go outside of the system to get a job" No, because clearly, only Asmongold should go outside the system by insisting that his work hours cannot compete with his gaming habits.
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  83. Companies want people subscribing consistently from one content drop to another. It makes financial sense to make sure people can experience the "point where the game is fun" endgame content no matter how much they actually play. This will always motivate companies to nerf drops for powergamers.
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  84. "Total GDP doesn't mean anything to the average person" Yup. What you want, is median homes to be affordable on the median income.
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  85. The "experts" are still driven mad, because all of their theorizing and speculating about a phenomenon will not give them as much knowledge about that phenomenon as some random person who has been standing next to it and living with it for all their lives.
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  86. "Tolkien was an officer. Still s(cked, but not as much." Unless you count casualty rates, which for junior officers tended to be 90%+ in some areas. You were expected to show a "contempt for fear", which meant walking manfully into the fire.
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  87. As always, it's worth watching the Internet Historian video on Sean (the lead) and No Man's Sky. It's an amazing story, told in a hilarious way.
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  88. "Amazon workplace raids have nothing to do with deporting dangerous criminals" You sure? Because the only guy I know who ever worked for an Amazon warehouse was a convicted pedo. Amazon does not have high standards for hiring.
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  89. And what do they mean by "rare"? That word can mean anything.
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  90. "Even if they don't get it right the first time, they get it right eventually" Well, if they get a completely unexpected windfall of cash from people who initially bought into the hype that their game absolutely did not live up to at first. They really need to get new writers, though. If their fantasy is as creepy-dystopian as their scifi, I just have to hope that their player-generated (mod) mechanics are good enough for people to provide their own stories. Oh, and I'm still looking forward to "No Man's Sky: Empires" where they completely revamp the economy along the lines of EVE Online.
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  91. "If only 3% of GenX is non-B and 15% of GenZ is, someone has to be lying" No, it's like back when they would told kids that being right-handed was great, and they would pressure and praise them for right-handedness, you got a much higher percentage of right-handed people. Teachers are gro**ing kids to be non-binary now, so you get a much higher percentage claiming to be that.
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  92. "If your religion tells you not to do something, don't do it, but don't tell me not to do it" Don't murder. Don't steal. Don't commit perjury. I feel fine making those into laws. I feel fine advocating for other laws from the same source.
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  93. They're naming an aircraft carrier after Dorie Williams, arguably the first man to fight back at Pearl Harbor. It's also the first aircraft carrier to be named after an enlisted man. I don't give a s**t what the Wokies say. We're doing better these days. We don't need nagging like this.
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  94. "Quadruple current rates" That's not actually very much. CBP employs 60,000 people now. Expanding that to 250,000 by reassigning local police (~500k sworn officers, ~125k civilian personnel, and about equal numbers at the State police level, ~1.25M total). FBI, ~40k. New IRS agents? ~90k. US military worldwide? 2.86M people. Amongst all those we could find the equivalent of 250k to all pitch in and help make this happen. If they're on the government payroll already, your taxes wouldn't even go up.
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  95. What's the background music for this video? (The first bit especially)
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  96. Asmongold: "Why does it matter that this information is coming out of China?" Also Asmongold: "The Chinese are toeing the government line, because of course they are" It's possible that this is the only game the CCP will let them play.
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  97. Amusing to see Gamer Jesus here taking on the Woke establishment.
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  98. "We spend X amount on child care" Women would have more children if we gave more credit to moms, instead of saying they weren't doing anything useful with their lives. If we spent ZERO on outside-the-home child care in this country, we'd be in a healthier, happier place.
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