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Lawsuit incoming....?
I hate this fucking timeline.
I used to be a Halo fan, Microsoft ruined it.
I used to want to travel to the US, MAGA ruined it.
I used to have ambition for the future, a bunch of crusty old fucks ruined it.
I used to enjoy life. This incessant hatred and uglyness ruined it.
Feel this 100% as an American though.
I was about to rebut the "visit the US" thing, but people really should wait until immigration no longer looks at peoples' phones or social media. I think I can still refuse as a citizen on 4th amendment grounds, but until that's extended to visitors, I recommend holding off.
Slight clarification to your last sentence: the Border Search Exception that allows the searching of non-citizens' digital contents equally extends to US citizens re-entering the country. (see: US v. Ramsey 1977, US v. Montoya de Hernandez 1985).
Whereas the 4th amendment does protect those within the US regardless of whether they're here legally or not (see: Wong Sun v. US 1963; INS v. Lopez-Mendoza 1984).
Find your thing, mute the rest.
Big wisdom in this.
Don't assume it is "checking out" from society or taking the easy way out. The news will find you, don't worry. Plus maintaining focus on your thing is something that can take significant effort.
I have noticed that the smaller I make my world, the happier I am. My free time goes into my family, friends, hobbies, and pets (which I guess is a big subset of the hobbies). I think a big part of the benefit is not just focusing on the people who can have the biggest effect on my life, but focusing on the people whose life I can improve the most with my involvement.
Our brains evolved to keep tabs on our clan or our village, not to monitor the events of the entire Earth in near real time, as if we're going to do anything with that information. In fact, I think that "need" to be informed is often just an addiction manufactured by the need to drive engagement to validate 24/7 news as a business model.
Probably because Trump gave them a $12 billion dollar tax break…
Edit: Billion
Fuckin hell
Where the Trump-as-Master Chief post is merely cringeworthy, the Homeland Security message is flat-out dangerous. Comparing immigrants in the US to a parasitic alien life form that infects and annihilates advanced societies is not deeply offensive, it's also rooted in the worst of human history: As seen in the untermenschen of the Holocaust and "cockroaches" in Rwanda, to name a couple recent examples, dehumanizing the "other" so you can more easily inflict cruelty, injustice, and horrors upon them is hardly a new technique, and the US government's messaging was not subtle.
You might think that using imagery from one of its best known videogames in a call to "destroy" immigrants would prompt Microsoft to action, or at least to express some small modicum of disapproval. For now, at least, you would be wrong: Rather like Nintendo, which eagerly picks copyright fights it knows it can win but kept its mouth tightly zipped when Homeland Security used Pokémon to promote violent immigration raids, a representative told PC Gamer that "Microsoft does not have anything to share on this matter."
Unexpectedly good political commentary from checks notes PC Gamer
Honestly PC gamer has been pretty solid lately. Not sure why. Almost makes me nervous.
Staff shake-up last year. Phil Savage and Tyler Wilde have really stepped it up and let their writers sound off.
Like any of the major sites though, the news side still has its share of articles generated from one-liners sourced from interviews ran elsewhere.
~~Microsoft declined to comment~~
Microsoft was completely OK with this
Bootlicking cowards.
Draft dodger say what?
Also, that flag would only have been valid for a week in 1889.
Lmao that fat fuck could not fit in that suit.
Confused, it was a reply to celebrating Halo on PS5, where does the ‘destroy immigration’ part come in?
Several hours after the White House post, the Department of Homeland Security put up its own Halo image with the message "Destroy the Flood," and a link to the ICE recruitment page.
Comparing immigrants in the US to a parasitic alien life form that infects and annihilates advanced societies is not deeply offensive, it's also rooted in the worst of human history: As seen in the untermenschen of the Holocaust and "cockroaches" in Rwanda, to name a couple recent examples, dehumanizing the "other" so you can more easily inflict cruelty, injustice, and horrors upon them is hardly a new technique, and the US government's messaging was not subtle.
Weird not to include that image, thanks.
The image and text are both in the linked article
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025
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