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Super really flanderized a lot of characters, though it seems to be on the mend with more recent stuff.

If we're talking about a suspect, depends on how they were acting and if they police acted appropriately. If we're talking about a bystander, it depends on the situation and if the police acted negligently. Every single death caused by police should really be investigated by an outside agency though.

Pretending this is real, you're definitely a horrible human being.

Torgo posted...

It's called "motive" and "intent" these are actual legal terms.

Yes, but you have to have sufficient ability to prove them, is the point. People state things about him like they are absolute fact, when they're mostly just inferences. They're very reasonable inferences, but that doesn't make them proof.

Inohira posted...

No. Plenty of people say flat cash doesn't help the homeless because they'll just spend it on beer and drugs, and that you should only ever offer them food. This proves that theory wrong.

This seems to be talking about a different class of homeless, so not really. Someone who has been couch surfing for two years and just has lacked the money to settle down is vastly different from someone who has been living on the streets for a decade. They're both homeless, but their circumstances are completely different. Depending on how you define it, you could probably break them down into many different categories, all who need different types of help, monetarily, mentally, and in other ways.

BunkerBoy posted...

Yeah, but do you at least agree he recklessly put himself in a situation where self defense was required? Because of that, I don't see a problem with the families of the people he killed going after him

From the perspective of analyzing who he is, I think anyone can see he's the type of person who probably had sick power fantasies of a situation like he went through, but I don't see how such an analysis helps anything from a legal perspective. Unless his activities being in the right wing limelight have brought forth statements that could be used in these cases, it's not the legal system's duty to ascribe unsaid thoughts and motivations. Lawyers can definitely try to pry them out during testimony, though.

texanfan27 posted...

he had no connection to the location, wasnt a first responder, and went towards a dangerous scenario which is one the first rules of carrying a firearm, avoid conflict.

he had the right to go to the protest, but had no reason to be there. He put himself at risk by going, leading to a death.

If you're speaking from a moral perspective only, I'd agree. If you're arguing from a legal perspective, I think it's irrelevant to bring up. Unless there's proof to show his intent was malicious, it's ultimately a factor that does not matter. It was really only relevant on the matter of the legality of the gun.

It depends on how you're defining homelessness. Most people probably think of the on-the-street, visible population. That's a different demographic from the displaced but still functional population. Both are problems that need to be solved, but it kind of muddies the waters when they're lumped into the same demographic.

texanfan27 posted...

Rittenhouse had no reason to be there

What exactly does this mean? I really do not understand this line of thinking. You can go to any protest anywhere in the US, doing anything you want. There's no regional limitations. I think he's a piece of shit for a variety of reasons, but that's not one of them.

We really need some kind of absolute cutoff point for politicians. It's simply silly that someone so old and clearly broken is allowed to hold any power.

I think the speculation is more towards relationships between publishers and reviewers. Many of them rely on getting games early, so shitting on what they eat could burn bridges. Though I don't know if anyone has spoken out about that being a thing.

XxAxem_BlackxX posted...

Just just gonna throw this out there. The reason liberals hate Rittenhouse so much is because he's conservative. That's literally the only reason. You know how I know? Imagine if he had been a left wing BLM supporter and the three people he shot had been far rightists. Liberals would love him and call him a hero, especially since one of the guys he shot was a child rapist. The left's hatred for Rittenhouse is entirely political.

I assume this is bait, but he's hated because he's a smarmy piece of human garbage. I think he's completely legally in the right, but he's a shitstain regardless.

Xenogears15 posted...

Motherfucker had no business being there, or being there armed.

I never understand this point. Anyone can go anywhere, protest anywhere, and carry any legal firearm anywhere. The only points of contention should be if any of those factors are not legal, which was the whole debate about the firearm, or if there is explicit documentation of something like the person literally saying "I am going there to kill people."

Do they have any actual case, or is it more of just trying to browbeat him into settling? He's a smarmy piece of shit, but legally everything that night should be considered self defense.

I assume both sides cheat, but the Republicans just do it in stupid, obvious ways.

With how bleh it looks so far, I hope it hits the 60-70 range. I hate when they're rewarded for their mediocrity like with Pokemon.

I'm not really a fan of the aesthetic, but core movement looks like it might be pretty fun. Only real issue could be if it's too gimmicky.

If we're including get rich schemes, easiest is ten years back and pump as much money as I can into bitcoin before it explodes and cash out as much as possible before the first big crash. If not, I'd just stay where I am currently.

Zikten posted...

Does anyone know how far alone pregnant she was? Did the cops know she was pregnant? In some situations, if you kill a pregnant woman you get charged with murdering the baby

Why would that at all matter in this situation? Unless it comes out that this is a lying cop coverup, it's not a factor that even comes into play.

Better than an insane wannabe despot, but certainly not an ideal leader by any stretch.

Are there any provisions to things like this like "cannot rent for X months" or "must prove occupancy for X months?" It's completely fair that you should be able to use your own property for more important things, but it'd be shitty if it can be abused to just sell it for high profit to land developers.

I'm curious if he's actually gone this nuts after the whole illness and addiction thing, or if he's just playing it up to cater to the nutballs who eat this shit up.

Sure, seems easy enough with that amount of money. It'd be more challenging if you put it at like two million.

Unless details are different than presented, seems pretty fair next. The normal reaction to someone being in front of your car is not to accelerate. Unless the cop just ran in front of her without giving her any time to react and just started shooting before she could even think to put her foot on the brakes, I'm not sure what anyone would expect. It's more of a tragic outcome than someone getting their just deserts, but it's entirely on her and her alone based on these details.

hockeybub89 posted...

And I brought up PETA. Does PETA being insane dilute the idea of treating animals humanely? Do they embolden a narrative that abusing animals is actually not so bad?

PETA's bullshit can certainly take away from real animal rights organizations. People might donate less because they correlate everything with PETA. You have to remember that not everyone is going to deep dive into these issues. If all they see are the surface level crazies, that might mean they just ignore the issue completely.

hockeybub89 posted...

People keep saying protesters piss people off and turn them away from the cause. You hear it all the time when protesters for designated "liberal" causes make a scene.

To me, that sounds like people won't support a cause if they come across protesters who do something they don't like. And people who truly believe something wouldn't do that regardless of what any protester does.

In the case of stuff like global warming, I think it paints them as insane, which only emboldens the "global warming is false" narrative. Actions speak louder than intent, and misunderstanding of intent leads to the dilution of the message.

He's good at something, but I don't really know how to describe it. He has the ability to draw watchers/readers in despite not being a compelling writer, consistent on lore, or really reliable at all.

Hes a brand name at this point, with a particularly unique style, love it, or hate it, so makes complete sense to me.

For what I consume, yes. I can't stand to watch ongoing series at this point because so many of them turn to shit, so I don't keep up with anything actively airing.

Only during peak covid. Otherwise, never.

That has to be some kind of bot-driven money laundering scheme. There is no way there's enough of an audience to unironically keep this going.

At some point down the line, but definitely not at launch. It's sounding like the base game is going to be usual Bethesda, but mods will probably help the experience in a couple years.

Watching the first few minutes, seems like they're both dumbasses, but the cop seems to get progressively worse. It should be part of the cop's job to keep things from escalating, rather than becoming the problem.

It was fine. I don't think there's a core Kirby game I'd put below 7/10.

Definitely Eternal Darkness, if you got someone who could translate the experience into the modern day.

Even ignoring my distaste for the animation style, the story content there is just bad. I wouldn't call classic SpongeBob smart writing or anything, but none of the characters aside from Squidward seem to have any actual characterization in that scene.

I ask for removals or additions pretty much all the time.

Why do you even use the general feed? I just follow creators I want to keep up with.

They already had the PSP one, which was fine. If they could do something like combine the first three games into one seamless experience with crisp spritework, that could be kind of neat.

Pre-anniversary bait to drain wallets when they drop the new meta-changing units. Fairly standard move.

Whenever I have to wait in line at a large store without self-checkout, I'm always internally yelling at the idiots who just sit there until everything is bagged, then dig out their payment method, then take two minutes to pay. You can literally stick your card in any time after they've scanned the first item, you dumbass. You can have the cash in hand, you moron. You can have the check mostly filled out, you strange, strange person who still pays for groceries by check.

Yeah, adopting unhoused seems performative nonsense. It doesn't do anything to further discourse. Maybe if you want to differentiate between the displaced population who are getting priced out of housing and the homeless population made up of people who need mental health help we cannot provide under our shitty healthcare system.

Any number where rounding to the nearest 5 gives you 60.

Nah, it looked really, really bad to me. The horrible choice of voicing the protagonist, giving them too much baggage, and dumbing down all the dialogue due to that was what killed all interest for me. I've been meaning to look into it at some point to see if there are any good overhaul mod packs, but I have so much other stuff to play that I'll probably never get around to it.

At this stage, I'm not going to carry one around with me. If a place asks and provides one, I'd probably just roll with it, but I'm not going to plan on it.

Ive had my AC set at 61 24/7 since mid-May.

It's pretty much impossible for all humans to be happy. We'd need to trust our care to an AI overlord for that to happen. Not to say that things right now are perfect. Quite a bit of shit could be improved.

At one point, I wanted to go back and beat some of those childhood edutainment games like Zoombinis just because I never actually did as a kid due to the stupid padding most of them had to be functionally endless. I didn't think they'd be good games, but I clearly didn't remember just how shitty they were, so that thought lasted about 20 minutes.

I have a hard time imagining it not being extraordinarily average at absolute best and horrible garbage at worst. Bad CGI, horrible quippy dialogue, little chance for particularly great coprophagy given the bad CGI, and whatever the fuck kind of weird accent Luffy's actor has going on, it doesn't look super appealing.