Do not give me advice for scammers or scam avoidance. I have no plans to ever improve at anything for any reason.

Update: Dead children is best children

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      Fallout 2 may still be the only game that lets you target kids’ groins with a sledgehammer.

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      I member “murdering” children in their sleep for infinite xp in fo3, good times

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    You’re right, the prequels have dead kids, almost no women, and heck, it even has a dear leader taking over the Senate and declaring himself emporer in the name of safety. Republican wet dream.

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      I really think Lucas ruined the originals by not adding enough CGI to them

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      I thought they were brilliant. Had a blast with all of them. Darth Jarjar as my favorite character.

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        I was surprised how much I enjoyed the anti cheese edits to be honest.

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      At least they were more original than the sequels.

      Not a high bar, I know, but it’s something.

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    My go to trick is to check if they have Huawei VR2 driver game listed on their Steam games list. No real human is going to have it, and its part of an “increase your steam game count” script.

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    I have a person who friended me, then like every 2 days for the past month they’ll ask “You there?” “hello?” “if you don’t wanna talk just unfriend me”
    for like a month.
    it’s a pretty interesting tactic ngl

    I also never unfriend spammers, so I’ll have them send like 3 Phish’s over the span of a couple weeks before they get banned. For some reason steam hates banning them.

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    There’s actually one woman in the prequals but she only exists as a sexy forbidden wife of the main character, Mr. Macho Skywalker, and she dies as soon as he breaks up with her so it’s all good.

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    I feel like there’s an XKCD where either the black hat guy or cueball do basically this, but shockingly I can’t find it.

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    Indeed. Vader/Anakin’s slaughter of the children has to be the darkest inference in the Disney franchise.

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    They say that dead children is bad but remember the live children in the recent Marvel movies?

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    Playtests are a scam?

    Actual question. I’ve never gotten one of these so I don’t know

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      Looks like a phishing attempt. Check the URL listed on the embed

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          In seriousness, though, one of these type of sites looked like a scam but they warned me that my Driver Registry needed defragmentation to avoid WiFi Corruption and had a free download to fix it so, y’know, swings and roundabouts.

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            my Driver Registry needed defragmentation to avoid WiFi Corruption

            That’s their tech literate filter, which helps them not waste time on people that would almost definitely catch-on to their scam before actually getting scammed.

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    Your mockery of republicans is indistinguishable from actual republicans. You are serving only to swell their ranks.