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What about those weird warnings that you get with mirrors? It's written really litely in tiny print on the clear sticky film that you tear off so I never noticed them until recently.
Caution: Broken shards may cause bodily harm. Do not bend. If your reflection is not 100% accurate, please walk away slowly and do not make eye contact. Call the manufacturer immediately to request a replacement. Shipping service not available to the following States: HI, AK, NJ.
Like, what the frick? Who doesn't ship to New Jersey?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbzkpb/gps-blamed-for-sending-trucks-crashing-into-this-tiny-arkansas-town
I haven't seen that specific sign, but I've definitely seen heavy road damage and huge rocks in the middle of the road next to "falling rocks" signs. Super comforting to drive next to those cliffs IN MY CONVERTIBLE
As someone trapped on TERF island definitely ominous, disturbingly specific.
The "Vivid" and "Done with this shit" section reminds me of the notorious Star Citizen fandom-originated copypasta for the "Sad and Sickening Truths of the Stimpire," specifically a part about "the worst kind of electricity" (CW: extreme violence, gore, death, torture)
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In the last 500 years, the Fourth Stimpire has dominated four systems, which it has united into one starzone, Stimsis. The Fourth Stimpire has origins from the Ten Empire War in which 10 of the United Stimpires revolted against each rules. All empires except for the fourth swore freedom upon their citizens. There is no free speech in the Fourth Stimpire, and all self-controlled transportation has been made illegal without undergoing painful medical verification methods, in which arteries are severed without pain resistant, operated entirely by machines. The way they work claim to be the most hygenic and healthy way possible, but these machines often rub against pain points, causing great deals of pain to patients. The heart is then extracted from the body and placed into a glass grinding machine. Various energy centers are also dissected and replaced with dangerous transplants. After the painful, 52 hour surgical procedure, patients will then have to use a fused guidance tool, which pumps painful resistors into the body every 2 hours. The pain they have caused is so bad, the victim would freeze in a tense position. They would then collapse afterwards.
Sexual stimulation in any way within the grounds of the Fourth Stimpire is strictly prohibited, and anyone detected even touching their sexual organs will be subjected to a penectomy or if the offender was a female, they would then have a razor inserted into their ovaries. They would pump a blue solution into the womb until the stitchings burst. Offenders would also be forced to show their operated areas in public, and they would always harass and punch them to a pulp, against their will.
Otherwise, offenders would be tazed with the worst type of electricity in the systematic district, causing so much pain, the victim would scream and flail in madness. The pain would also triple every second, but no death would be incurred. This is also used in combat against enemy units, which is why all UEE forces must wear the upgraded suit to block this effect.
However, enertainment is also questionable in UEE grounds. Sporting events end with the losing team being rounded into a grinder and shredded on live television, boxing matches end with the loser having their hands removed without anasthesia, flight races would end with the losers having their arms and legs removed, then being injected with insanity, for entertainment. People are also forced into these events, by undergoing a painful 127 hour procedure which involves tweaking the muscles so they will not listen to brain commands, and then having a painful drug injected which also causes madness if the player is not sporting. This is all for entertainment, and anyone not watching any of it during sporting times and cheering for the winning team, they will be imprisoned into galactic camps.
Snuff films are also broadcast, and actors are actually murdered just for entertainment. Stealth droids also guide these forced actors into behaving exactly as the director dreams, otherwise they will be punished by being placed into a macerator and having their execution written into the film. Any film that does not feature someone being murdered will be burned and the entire crew behind it will be executed in the most grotesque way possible - vivisection.
All executions are broadcast, and anyone who misses even a millisecond, even by blinking, will be executed. All citizens must boo to the person being executed, and the family is gathered to be injected with eternators, which cause pain forever, making them immoral but feeling the pain tenfold every millisecond. They cannot pass out, but they will feel like it forever.
Conquests by this Stimpire end in the planet being razed, and all the citizens being executed in the same way as their citizens are. The planet is then destroyed and all remnants of it are removed, and any memories of it will be erased instantly from civil minds. People who are also killed are also erased from memories, and all memories of them, including toys and pictures, are destroyed.
Prisoners undergo 40,000 years of relentless and endless labor, and anyone not complying is sentenced to the eternator injection. All prisoners injected with eternators are placed into capsules and launched into far space, then the room is closed tight to ensure maximum insanity. Some prisoners are also subjected to the removal of blood, the lungs, the liver, the genitals, the skeleton, the muscles, the eyes, and even the injection of pressure. Prisoners sentenced to pressure chambers are locked in until they are inflated to a high level. The decompression is then stopped to make sure they are inflated and uncomfortable.
Children born on the 14th of July are subjected to the removal of their skeleton and an implant of a silver liquid to replace it. The nervous sysem is also injected in various parts to ensure it is five times more sensitive than the average.
Restaurants also are ordered to serve civil meat, and anyone attending must give themself up to be cooked into a grotesque meal. They are cooked alive, undergoing extreme pain, and are then subjected to industrial grinders and blenders. The Stimpire orders at least 1 million citizens to be dispatched every day, as they are afraid the population may overthrow them. But only one planet is cared for, and the rest are banned from eating, drinking, talking, using technology, touching anyone, wearing unauthorized clothes, touching buildings, or walking a centimeter out of designated routes. Civil enforcers are on every planet, and they are engineered so that they are 40 times larger than the 300 quadrillion population. At least 7 billion die every 12 hours under this rule.
Thoughts are also surveyed, and anyone who does not think anything to loving the Stimpire with more than their capabilities will be sentenced to a prison. Prisoners who are punished for this violation will meet their greatest fear, only to have it amplified so they will turn insane as they imagine it exactly as they fear it. They then undergo a painful extraction of all fluids, to be replaced by a toxin which causes permanent irritation. The unknown substance keeps the subject aging normally, except they will never die. Prisoners punished in this way are unable to be reverted, despite many efforts, and they will never be able to be disposed.
The sickening truths have been revealed only today, and invigilation teams are still investigating the truths without setting foot in the galactic space of this sickening empire.
Writing about something horrid doesn't necessarily mean condoning that horrible thing... though sometimes such as in that case, yes it's clear the hog writing it is also getting off to it.
It's "sickening and heartbreaking" to that hog the same way all those "pizzagate" conspiracy theorists were getting off to the very same stuff they were accusing the (admittedly guilty in a broken-clock kind of way
) democrats of doing.It's more a meme than an active fandom concept now, though in its day, years ago, it was just seen as fandom speculation of what Star Citizen could be. And it's not the only gross speculation to come out of that. If you dare (Content Warning), look up "the inevitable consequences of piracy" that some creep wrote about that probably should be on some likely kidnapping suspect lists.
The Star Citizen grifting company knows what fandom it has; the Valentine's Day ads (and monetization of course) were all about avenging dead waifus and jokes about dead waifus.
What even is the context of that? It doesn't even seem like Star Citizen fanfiction, just weird worldbuilding from some 4chan incel.
What even is the context of that? It doesn't even seem like Star Citizen fanfiction, just weird worldbuilding from some 4chan incel.
It is lifted directly from an official Star Citizen forum post some years back, both legendary and notorious, back when there was a lot more speculation about what Star Citizen would be (and a lot of it expected more than one star system).
It's not the only really gross fandom speculation post. One of the other more notorious ones involved multiple effort posts, over months, from a big spending (you get "ranks" on the forum just for paying money for the eternal alpha and they can be posted) user that wanted bounty hunting to include (CW: gore, torture)
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dismembering targets so they are more portable in cargo holds, castrating them so they get strength debuffs, and elaborate means to keep the mutilated bodies alive for "wanted alive" deliveries.
His posts weren't just allowed; they got a lot of buzz and attention for "innovation" and "creativity" from the community.
It is lifted directly from an official Star Citizen forum post some years back, both legendary and notorious, back when there was a lot more speculation about what Star Citizen would be (and a lot of it expected more than one star system).
So somebody fantasizing about EVE style player empires and also the idea that SC would be literal magic enabling them to do
things, then?bounty hunting
Yeah I remember a lot of weird "I want the official, central server continuity to allow Ark private server style shenanigans where you can permanently hold another player's character hostage if you feel like it. There's a big overlap between that and the weird fantasies about people who blow up their spaceship getting sentenced to work thousands of real time hours doing hard labor in space prison.
It really is amazing how strongly SC has managed to capitalize on the dumb guys who have bad ideas but lots of money demographic just by virtue of CIG being run by a bunch of dumb guys with bad ideas who promise that someday their beleaguered software engineers will get around to implementing them, once they're done procrastinating by doing literally anything other than touching those ideas with a ten foot pole.
So somebody fantasizing about EVE style player empires and also the idea that SC would be literal magic enabling them to do things, then?
I used to lurk those forums, and yes, many big spending fans did actually believe that they'd have EVE Online except first person and fully sandboxed accordingly.
There's a big overlap between that and the weird fantasies about people who blow up their spaceship getting sentenced to work thousands of real time hours doing hard labor in space prison.
Star Citizen does have a laughably corrupt and fucked up privatized prison system that is meant to make players miserable for having the wrong kind of fun in game where you're expected to do slave labor for a private corporation until you are allowed to leave, or you can try to escape in a scripted janky sloppy platform gamey way that has a giant assembly line of attemptees trying to survive the greatest challenge of it: lag and janky fall-through-the-world physics.
