Apparently some Woke company decided to create a game (with $168,000 from
the EU) about "Queer Activists" who have to convert a "right-wing"
progressive country in 2030 to Woke idiotology. It was released on August
20, and it has never had more than 83 players as of yet. The name of the
game is DustBin... err... DustBorn.

Every new woke product seems to bomb harder than the last these days and
that's a good sign for the future. Video game players, a market which now
dwarfs movies and TV streaming, are rejecting woke material en masse.
Case in point: Dustborn.

The aggressively advertised game features a cast of queer activist "punk
rock" characters that set out on a road trip across an America controlled
by "conservative oppressors" that are really uncool. Set in North America
in 2030, The American Republic is under the iron fist of "Justice" and
The Puritans, a fascist police force presided over by President Samuel
Ward. California has gained independence and is now Pacifica, a
corporatocracy ruled by the wealthy few. Texas has seceded, rebranding
itself as the libertarian Columbia.

Hilariously, players fight the fascist government by using the "power of
words" to gain allies and divide their enemies. Characters can also build
up their "trigger meter" to really punch the patriarchy.

As the developer, Red Thread Games, notes:

"Dustborn's story is a story about being different, about being an
outcast and outsider, about having to hide who and what you are from the
authorities, from society — even from your family...

Last but certainly not least, it’s a story about the power of
disinformation, propaganda, and language, and about how powerful words
can alter our perception of reality, hack minds, and change the world..."

Dustborn embraces the the leftist ideological fallacy that words are
magical weapons that need to be controlled and policed at all times by
the woke devout; the only people apparently enlightened enough to dictate
language. The game was released this week to the deafening sound of
crickets. On gaming service Steam, the project garnered a maximum of 83
players on launch day. A total flop of epic proportions.

https://steamdb.info/app/721180/charts/

Currently 49 players at Steam. Woke crap ignored again.

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Look for the vacuosities, empty Woke stupidities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the vacuosities
That's why the Woke can rest at ease
With just the vacuosities of life

On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 13:51:41 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> "Dustborn's story is a story about being different, about being an
> outcast and outsider, about having to hide who and what you are from
> the authorities, from society — even from your family...

Lebensborn it ain't...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX3dPxXk-W4

'Crooked tree', sort of apropos. I usually turn on PBS on Saturday night
since there is often a Austin City Limits show or a locally produced show
featuring Montana bands. I didn't know who she was but she and the band
are good. She did keep her wig on. She's had alopecia universalis since
she was a kid and knows about crooked trees.

Anyway it got me thinking. I've always been an outsider although I was
more the defiant sort than trying to hide who I was. What happens when
outsiders find they aren't on the outside anymore? Do they become boring
old citizens?

Good luck with the 'power of words'. Tell Pavel Durov about the power of
words when the government doesn't like your words.

Re: Crooked trees.

SawMills know trees are banana shaped . . . & cut accordingly.

On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 12:11:29 -0700 (Seattle), Relf wrote:

> Re: Crooked trees.
>
> SawMills know trees are banana shaped . . . & cut accordingly.

I can tell that picking through the two by fours at Home Deport. They'd be
great were I building a banana cabana.

On 2024-08-25, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 13:51:41 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> "Dustborn's story is a story about being different, about being an
>> outcast and outsider, about having to hide who and what you are from
>> the authorities, from society — even from your family...
>
> Lebensborn it ain't...
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX3dPxXk-W4
>
> 'Crooked tree', sort of apropos. I usually turn on PBS on Saturday night
> since there is often a Austin City Limits show or a locally produced show
> featuring Montana bands. I didn't know who she was but she and the band
> are good. She did keep her wig on. She's had alopecia universalis since
> she was a kid and knows about crooked trees.
>
> Anyway it got me thinking. I've always been an outsider although I was
> more the defiant sort than trying to hide who I was. What happens when
> outsiders find they aren't on the outside anymore? Do they become boring
> old citizens?
>
> Good luck with the 'power of words'. Tell Pavel Durov about the power of
> words when the government doesn't like your words.

Yeah. The Woke Left keeps projecting their despotic tyranny and censorship
on the right when they're the ones who are, ever more aggressively, pushing
for the "cancel culture" and ignoring the 1st Amendment. I think they would
read "1984" and ask, "What's the big deal?" After all, people can now be
fired (or even jailed in some countries) for stating the simple fact that
men ("trans" or otherwise) can't have babies. That asinine stupidity is not
coming from the right.

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“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien