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this is so fucking funny

i can't stop thinking about this. this kind of shit is not like milsim plane nerds with their own super-expensive desktop cockpit recreations. that kind of hardware makes sense to exist.

this does not. they're playing world of tanks which is like the "call of duty" of tank games (casual, players only slightly bad-smelling). it also doesn't have support for tank peripherals. no game does. no trainers do afaik. which means that (assuming this isn't just a video editing) all of that shit they are fucking with translates into mouse/keyboard inputs that the game understands. that's weird/hard and perplexing, uh, and considering that "tank peripherals" aren't a thing that exist i can only guess they built them theirselves

which is fucking hilarious because why are they so good. why does the fucking cannon breech have a little dry ice smoke effect when the breech opens like they just shot a shell. what. manual turret traverse crank?? did they build a fucking ready rack!! they're even using the correct phraseology which means one of these mofos read a PDF file

great news everyone

they're at it again, boys

y'all have watched the pt 2 of megalag's honey doc that just came out, right?

holy shit yeah... hopefully all of my followers uninstalled this app or extension when the previous exposé by this researcher went viral almost exactly a year ago, but in case you were wondering if Honey, PayPal's "money saving" app, was still up to STRAIGHT UP FRAUD... the answer is yes, and it's gotten worse.

(if you remember the influencer-centered shenanigans MegaLag revealed last year, watch the below; if you want to catch up I recommend watching these for some background on this scam: Part 1, Part 2)

TL;DW bottom line - you should probably IMMEDIATELY stop using/uninstall anything Honey-related off your devices, and also I'd just stop using "discount code" or "coupon code" apps all together, given the sketchiness this researcher has uncovered about how the whole ecosystem works, otherwise you may UNINTENTIONALLY HURT THE CREATORS YOU'RE TRYING TO SUPPORT! 😥

This is really, really remarkable — look how clean the (tens of? hundreds of?) thousands of Chicago 'No Kings' protesters left their protest site yesterday:

Contrast: attendees of Charlie Kirk's "memorial"/political rally who "camped" outside the stadium hours before the event, left the streets of Glendale, AZ like this:

(Now, in fairness, security for the Kirk memorial had a 'no bags' policy so I suspect many people felt they had no alternative but to abandon their trash, but when I saw the Chicago video today the contrast in optics to what I'd just seen weeks earlier really struck me.)