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Yep, this. The servers shutting down and forcing people to buy 2 to keep playing is bullshit. And I generally like Blizzard.

A dark rumor has been around the comic community, that DC Comics will be shut down. You may think "I don't read comics. I don't care". But it means no more DC cartoons. No more movies or video games based on DC characters. It means the end of a legacy that has lasted since the 1930s

also, all this destruction was all just collateral damage in the owner's desire to purchase and corrupt cnn

How did they do the transfer thing on the 3DS to bring them to the newer gen games? The PokeBanl thing?

didnt one of the harvest moon games end after marriage if you played as a woman and continued on if you played as a man?
maybe harvent moon is to blame for the lack of female farmers in japan

Field trip like every day or... more homework?

Treat your workers better.

Do we know for sure yet if the new Symphonia re-re-rerelease is finally going to be up to the GameCube standard of 60fps battles? They said "enahanced graphics" on the Nintendo Direct.

Remaking tales games is kinda pointless since theyre more about stylish anime graphics than being a graphic powerhouse. Hell arise is the first game in the series that looks high budget

Would finding life on another planet completely devalue the big 3 religions?

The Switch is a poor fit for the series because it's a weak shitty system.

Yeah okay also consider that there's a fidelity loss to be had on the Switch and these tend to be kinda fancy games.

When are people going to call out Atlus for greedy shit like this?

even real life Japanese don't talk like an anime character.

Ice/ rock and it isn't even close.

You are able to hear GameFAQs posts?

Its also only 30 fps.

Should have made a feet topic instead

respectfully, I do not know this name. was this a CEuser or like a youtuber? If latter, link plz.

oh this person not dead just banned?

This is why every profession should unionize.

A teenage human trafficking victim who was initially charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed her accused rapist to death was sentenced on Tuesday in an Iowa court to five years of closely supervised probation and ordered to pay $150,000 restitution to the mans family.

Pieper Lewis, 17, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and wilful injury in the June 2020 killing of 37-year-old Zachary Brooks of Des Moines. Both charges were punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Polk County District judge David M Porter on Tuesday deferred those prison sentences, meaning that if Lewis violates any portion of her probation, she could be sent to prison to serve that 20-year term.

As for being required to pay the estate of her rapist, this court is presented with no other option, Porter said, noting the restitution is mandatory under Iowa law that has been upheld by the Iowa supreme court.

Lewis was 15 when she stabbed Brooks more than 30 times in a Des Moines apartment. Officials have said Lewis was a runaway who was seeking to escape an abusive life with her adopted mother and was sleeping in the hallways of a Des Moines apartment building when a 28-year-old man took her in before forcibly trafficking her to other men for sex.

Lewis said one of those men was Brooks and that he had raped her multiple times in the weeks before his death. She recounted being forced at knifepoint by the 28-year-old man to go with Brooks to his apartment for sex. She told officials that after Brooks had raped her yet again, she grabbed a knife from a bedside table and stabbed Brooks in a fit of rage.

Police and prosecutors have not disputed that Lewis was sexually assaulted and trafficked. But prosecutors have argued that Brooks was asleep at the time he was stabbed and not an immediate danger to Lewis.

Iowa is not among the dozens of states that have a so-called safe harbor law that gives trafficking victims at least some level of criminal immunity.
Lewis, who earned her GED while being held in juvenile detention, acknowledged in a statement prior to her sentencing that she struggled with the structure of her detention, including why I was treated like fragile glass or wasnt allowed to communicate with her friends or family.

My spirit has been burned, but still glows through the flames, she read from a statement she had prepared. Hear me roar, see me glow, and watch me grow.

I am a survivor, she added.

Prosecutors took issue with Lewis calling herself a victim in the case and said she failed to take responsibility for stabbing Brooks and leaving his kids without a father.

The judge peppered Lewis with repeated requests to explain what poor choices she made that led up to Brooks stabbing and expressed concern that she sometimes did not want to follow rules set for her in juvenile lockup.

The next five years of your life will be full of rules you disagree with, Im sure of it, Porter said. He later added, This is the second chance that youve asked for. You dont get a third.

Karl Schilling with the Iowa Organization for Victim Assistance said a bill to create a safe harbor law for trafficking victims passed the Iowa House earlier this year, but stalled in the Senate under concerns from law enforcement groups that it was too broad.

There was a working group established to iron out the issues, Shilling said. Hopefully it will be taken up again next year.

Iowa does have an affirmative defense law that gives some leeway to victims of crime if the victim committed the violation under compulsion by anothers threat of serious injury, provided that the defendant reasonably believed that such injury was imminent.

Prosecutors argued Tuesday that Lewis waived that affirmative defense when she pleaded guilty to manslaughter and willful injury.