the fashion has nothing to do with that awful pedophilic book
I’m aware you’re not the original author, but I can’t really let someone bashing Nabokov stand unchallenged, so I’ve reproduced one of the top comments from the original post:
I appreciate the post, but need to defend Nabokov — Lolita is not a pedophilic book — it’s an ANTI-pedophilic book.
Nabokov is trying to show how deluded and unreliable the narrator Humbert Humbert is, even as he uses beautiful language to describe his monstrous crimes of murder, kidnapping and rape.
Humbert is trying to lure the reader into sympathizing with him. Nabokov won’t let him.
And it's not just anti-paedophilic, it's one of the best books of the last century in my opinion - his writing is superb, the way Humbert is a creep who tries to dress everything up in flowery language to disguise what he is when he is just the same as Quilty, it's all really good.
I remember reading the original post! I knew nothing of him beyond my family’s annual holiday watch of Christmas vacation, so this was an eye-opening read. Thanks for reposting it.
Thanks for the detailed write-up! I was vaguely aware of how disliked Chase had become, which always made me a little sad, because I really liked him when I was younger, when his movies were doing well. Now I’m glad he is being treated exactly as he appears to deserve, based on his behaviour.
I’m also a comedy fan and and I love the roasts, so it was interesting to read about the history there. (The James Franco roast, particularly Hader’s bit, was one of the funniest I have ever seen.)
Oh man have you found your community, assuming this settles into a continuation of the original subreddit. Obscure interests lavishly produce "inject this directly into my veins" drama.
This infinity crackhead has really gone of the deep end.
But to much of the community, it was just kind of sad.
EMPRESS, if what you want is just ask us to forget all about the last few days/weeks and move on, just say so. It's fine, we will. You don't need to make up stories.
I think the funniest response to the whole letter is “Ma'am, this is a Wendy's.”
I really admired her... before she went batshit, like, she was the only one cracking denuvo, asking us what we wanted cracked next, for a time, she was the real queen of the pirates...then she went full fascist, started rambling about gender supremacy, seeing enemies everywhere, shit just went down hill, shit
But worry not! Despite being caught in the act of piracy, EMPRESS would proclaim on her website that the investigation had ended and her lawyer had gotten her off the hook. She was back to cracking. It was a long and gruelling prison sentence that went on for over three months, but she had survived.
Jokes. This announcement came two days after the alleged arrest. Apparently the ‘police raid’ was nothing more than a lenient, routine police check.
But nonetheless, the harrowing experience had reformed Empress into a new woman. She apologised to the people she had offended, and promised to start again without hate or conflict.
i am very emotional soul, and i burst with emotions quiet easily. so i want to give an official apology to ALL repackers, and ALL people who ever got offended from me due to that. i messed up before, but i will not mess up again. i put hope in your kindness, and your ability to forgive.
For once, her fans and haters were united. They were all happy to see her back. Whether she had really been arrested, or had simply invented the whole thing as an excuse to reinvent herself, they hoped it would be a positive change.
I am happy with it. Everyone makes mistakes in their lives. I hope you are doing well after this and everything will be back to normal.
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Mistakes happen but it is brave of u that u accepted those mistakes and want to start afresh! You will always have the chance to start afresh and nobody can take that from you! Now prove that you are the best and have a peaceful relationship with everyone!
Thank you for your efforts
Of course, there were those who thought this was yet another stunt. People were starting to question her claims about the Scene being dead. Perhaps, they said, EMPRESS had become a lone wolf because she was kind of antisocial.
if they wanna start fresh why not come clean about the police lie? it was so obvious.
There were pundits asking when the Netflix adaptation would come out, and others congratulating her on the world’s shortest police investigation.
this is like a soup opera i fucking love it
So where are we now? Well the philosophy came back with a vengeance, but it was largely contained to EMPRESS’s own subreddit and her website. Her releases, such as Resident Evil Village and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, have helped earn back some goodwill.
Speaking for the whole community, one man said:
I just wanna play games man jeez...
”I don’t wanna get black fungus, thank you”
Unfortunately, this redemption arc would not come to pass.
EMPRESS just couldn’t keep from stirring shit. Not long after her dramatic return, she went on an odd rant against Indians, and announced that she was done being Pirate Jesus, she wanted to be Pirate Pinochet now.
the days of “the kind empress” is LONG GONe and FINISHED.
MALES has “proved” they are TRASH. And I only need the “good” ones, those who actually have a brain in their skull.
and to anyone wondering, YES I hate 99% of india’s retards.
I know who here is indian, and I haven’t spoken against them cause of their “country”. but I will NEVER stop expressing how I hate that country as a “Whole”.
When someone asked if she had ever visited India, she confirmed that she had not.
This caused a lot of drama. As it turns out, there are quite a few Indians out there. And since a lot of games don’t sell in India, they make up a LOT of the piracy community. One of my favourite responses (from user u/Don11390) was this:
Wow. As an Indian guy, I went from "Oh, she's basically a chuuni character that escaped into our world from some shitty manga" to "I really hope she gets hit by a truck" after seeing that screenshot.
It’s like a tragic opera. This world produces millions of smart engineers, but the bar is set by a very few doing the really hard work and the fact is no one can make anyone do that work. It has to come from passion, so there’s will be either ego or “philosophy” which is maybe the same thing.
The dirty part of this story is really how that intersects with the mundane, which I guess it is to the Scene’s credit that they understand to mix with as little as possible. She broke the rules and showed what the rules were for. Her story is a reinforcement to the culture of monk-like seclusion, as it highlights the profanity of the surrounding masses and these flash loves and hates.
After all, monks and sages aren’t better than anyone else, they’ve just accepted their weaknesses and designed a life of harm reduction. Her difficulty is essentially the fact that she is for a time able to do the work without the monastery, meanwhile her inner drama is on display. Anyone who needs her to be better than she is, that’s on them.
Yeah the amount of fuck I give about this is so small that it doesn't even register on a scale. All I care about is free games. I would suck Satan's dick if he was the one cracking denuvo js..
I wish there was some happy ending to this. But there isn't, really. EMPRESS is still doing her thing, and everyone's happy to hand-wave it away as long as she delivers the good shit.
And if that doesn’t just burst with Christmas Spirit, what does?
Remember the eleven separate times (and two HobbyDrama posts) where people leaked classified military details because they didn’t like the inaccuracy of the military vehicles in the video game War Thunder? It happened again.
Probably going to do a writeup on this, including both this new leak and the old ones that the two HobbyDrama posts didn’t cover. Right now it’s breaking drama so I need to wait.
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