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LeetCheet posted...

Oh. Kinda makes your post seem dismissive and rude then.

Notschmendrake posted some statistics on how such great lives many men has.

76% of all suicides and 85% homeless all being men, but by all means continue thinking men are the privileged ones.

The top 5% of men have it really good, so the abysmal situation of the bottom 50% of men is invalidated by that.

Sure would be nice to end debtor's prison. Something that SHOULD have been outlawed a long time ago, yet still persists to this day b/c men are acceptable victims and the child support system is allowed to do whatever the fuck they want.

Notschmendrake posted...

I'm not male though, so that wasnt the harsh dig you meant it to be.

The greatest irony of all is that she'll get away w/ calling men bitches, but if you called women that, you'd be modded within half a day.
I'd report her post to prove the point, but apparently she blocked me, whoever's alt it is.

Could've been worse. If the genders were reversed, the betrayed spouse could've been on the hook for 18 years of child support.

Full Throttle posted...

She's a recovering drug addict

her friend now who is a recovering addict

As for Travis, he was kicked to the curb who has addiction problems of his own and he physically abused both of them throughout the years for his drug abuse.

Drugs are a hell of drug...

It was a complete shock to find out her husband had cheated on her and then to find out he admitted to 30 other women over the years as well and may have illegitimates around the city

See my first statement. Probably some innocent dudes paying for those illegitimates right now.

At the end of the day, Hailey found forgiveness to her friend and says everyone makes mistakes and there is no hate in her heart except for the pimp, Travis

Strongly disagree w/ this. Both of them betrayed her. If her "best friend" was her friend since childhood, that betrayal might even be worse, IMO. Should've dropped both of them from her life. Her friend was a fully functional adult capable of making her own decisions, she wasn't "pimped". Pretty insulting to actual victims of that, really.

Considering it happened to me this year? Very concerned.

What's even more concerning is how much the police don't give a shit about it.

I filed an initial police report once I noticed suspicious activity on my credit report/tracker, before knowing any more details. As the fraudulent bills came in and I worked w/ the businesses to clear things up and got some info on at least one of the scammers (email, phone, IP address used, etc... yes, I'm sure all of it was fake/VPN, but surely it's something of a lead?) I added to the report.
Mid-way thru, one of the businesses wanted a copy of the police report. I had to go through the records department and wait a while (filing the new info in the meantime), and then when I got the report, it said the following:

Case Status:
CLOSED NO ARREST

That was from the initial report, before I could even provide many details. They considered the case closed from the very start. It's been months since I added all of the details to the report and nothing else has been done. It took literally a month of calls to even get the officer to come back and review my new evidence, he apologized and said how busy he had been. I legit think he's the only officer assigned to ID theft in the entire county (ie, I don't blame him, personally). They (police) don't fucking care. At all.

One valuable thing I did learn from all of this is that apparently in 2019 Congress FINALLY did what should've been the law all along: make it free to permanently freeze and then temporarily un-freeze your credit. I thought it still cost money w/ all 3 bureaus to do that, still. So now at least I have that in place, would've done it before if I had known the law had changed.

DragonClaw01 posted...

Because the Rittenhouse case is far more interesting and controversial. Most people seem to agree that the McMichael's are guilty, so what is there really to talk about?

Like I said, the background behind why it took so long and took the murderers leaking their own video to generate an arrest is on its own enough controversy and rage-fuel to get a 500 topic.
The jury selection was incredibly racially biased, w/ the defense getting rid of as many black jurors from the pool as possible to get 11 white and 1 black juror in a community that's like 38% black. And further made the racist intentions blatant by asking for the judge to remove black pastors from the court because they were "intimidating".
And the scum bags' incriminating statements on the stand really are something else.

Plenty to talk about, and I was criticizing the news. Whose job is supposed to be to inform, not revel in partisanship for cheap ratings (I know that it's the opposite in reality, my whole point is this is indicative of everything wrong w/ the news media).
How many of the people seeing dozens of hours of Rittenhouse footage are even aware of these verifiable and disturbing facts surrounding the Arbery case?
The news is fucking failing us.

Zeus posted...

...again, we literally saw this in the Rittenhouse case when armed grown men chased down and tried to murder a teenager. And even after the first shots fired, Gaige approached Rittenhouse and aimed at him... and yet the prosecution has him up there crying and pretending he's blameless despite again, chasing down and trying to murder a teenager. And even after Gaige admitted on the stand to pointing that gun at Rittenhouse, the media defended it -- arguing that he was nervous, etc, not sure what he was doing... unless the kid a large group was chasing and trying to murder. FFS!

I was talking about the Arbery case. Nothing in my post was about Rittenhouse's case.
This topic is about the former, despite Duckbear naming it after the latter.
I haven't followed the Rittenhouse case much b/c it doesn't seem anywhere near as much of an outrage as this case (not to mention the cover up involving DA officials that almost kept it under wraps until the perpetrators leaked their own incriminating evidence to the public).
And frankly I'm very irritated that the media has focused on the Rittenhouse trial like 200x as much as they have this one, it's a pretty clear cut example of everything wrong w/ our news outlets.

hockey7318 posted...

I've had a Discover card for a long time. I get pretty good cash back and no annual fee. What's wrong with Discover?

This.

They're doing 5% cash back on Amazon.com purchases currently, too.

And they give free credit scores w/ your statement.

It's a damn miracle drug.

During the height of my allergy season when it's at its absolute worst, a week on that almost eliminates my symptoms entirely, far more so than my allergy meds.

But the doctor will only let me take it for a week, and only when my symptoms are REALLY bad, since it's apparently very unsafe to be on prednisone for longer than that.

Still very grateful for it.

Andrew Garfield is the best movie Spider-Man.

If they removed him from trailers b/c literally everyone but him is going to be in this movie, then I'm not seeing it.
Hopefully it was removed b/c it spoiled the "surprise". But that makes no sense, everyone's expecting it at this point, already.

mrduckbear posted...

Trailer Trash, Travis McMichael pulled a Kyle Rittenhouse and sobbed UNCONTROLLABLY in court after he testified about the "life or death" situation where he HAD to shoot Ahmaud Arbery dead after wrestling over the shotgun before he shot him THREE times as he thought of his "son" when he did it.

How to commit murder and claim self-defense:

1. Attack/threaten an innocent unarmed person with a gun
2. Once he's frightened for his life, he tries to disarm the gun from you in a desperate struggle to not die
3. The SECOND his hand touches the gun, you're now clear to fire "in self defense". Of the situation you created and instigated, and brought the weapon to.
4. Just to be safe, make sure you're white and the other guy's black

I'm so fucking sick of this bs. It's always the armed aggressor talking about HIS right to "self defense". The idea that the murder victim was trying to defend himself from a crazy ass hole with a gun somehow doesn't get any air time.

The 35 y/o said "I wanted to give my side of the story" as the former coast guard petty officer said he was in a life or death battle on the roadway after the duo tusseled over control of his shotgun before he pulled the trigger

Go fuck your self, you steaming pile of feces! I want to hear Arbery's side of the story. But I can't. Because you fucking hunted him down for sport and murdered him!

Since the '50's? No. Definitely since GWB took office.
And while the 80's and 90's are largely remembered fondly, it was the hyper-capitalism, deregulation, loosening of rules on the stock market (corporate stock buybacks were illegal till 1983), and attacks on labor in the 80's that set the stage for our long slow downfall. Just took some time for it to snowball into disaster.

Hilarious, and I'd sooner watch the Japanese version, too.

Zareth posted...

Yeah, no. Disney will keep fighting until it costs the porno makers too much money and they'll settle out of court and let them win.
You can't beat Disney.

Scarlet beat Disney. And had way less of a case than this. Think she ended up getting $60 million when the movie only made like $400M, and had Shang Chi to prove what happens when you do a theater-only release in the COVID era.

Anyway...
My contribution to this topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kVK6oO0obI

Great song.

Why take it from an atheist video game maker when you can hear it from:

an author, speaker, scholar, and global traveler, who holds graduate degrees in Theology & Intercultural Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and received his doctorate in Intercultural Studies from Fuller. He is the author of Undiluted: Rediscovering the Radical Message of Jesus, and Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith.

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Pretty long read, and some of the examples are a bit of a reach, but just the sheer amount of call-outs in the bible that match up are pretty interesting.

OhhhJa posted...

It's actually kind of funny to see democrats using the same "no job" arguments they used to make fun of Republicans for making

Only time I've ever been a Democrat is to vote in the primaries some years, and then quickly change back to Unaffiliated once I'm done.
If we had ranked choice voting, I wouldn't even do that.

You know what? Fuck the likes AND dislikes. I want the "# out of 5" ratings back!

OhhhJa posted...

All the official white house channel videos since biden took office have like a 90% down vote ratio lmao

Yeah, the alt-right are a bunch of fucking snowflakes w/ nothing better to do all day, like...working.
We knew this already.

GanonsSpirit posted...

These impossible questions get easier and easier.

Yup. This was the easiest one yet. E

I understand that if someone wants to get into your house, they will.

Even if they can't get in the door, they can smash a window if they need to.

But at least w/ a breaking and entering situation, or a lockpicking situation... they're making a scene or looking obviously suspicious (on the off chance someone else passes by and sees), and possibly leaving damage or tampering evidence behind.

With a smart lock, the obvious physical signs of illegal entry are no longer there, and it can be done remotely from far away. That's what bothers me....

VioletMassacre posted...

What makes GOG superior?

No DRM

Thanks, TC

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

He included a link to the vastly superior GOG, so that alone makes this topic worth it

It's fucking terrible, I hate it

Blatantly obvious it's because of all the instances of big corporations posting unpopular videos and getting down voted to hell over them.

And they claim it's for the sake of the mental health of content creators or whatever... But the dislikes aren't actually going away, they're becoming "private", so the general populace can't see the number. So, the only one who CAN still see it... is the content creator himself/herself. Riiiiiight...

LinkPizza posted...

I think I remember you talking about this before. Or it was someone with a very similar story

Yeah, I posted about it.
I did get them to at least install a latch (the U-shaped thing, I forget what they're called), so when we're home, there's an extra layer of security from the lock being hacked.
Still sucks and I've been trying to get out. Picked the absolute worst time to try and get a house...

My apartment forced keypad entry locks on us last year (as well as "smart" thermostats that can be changed remotely, but they assure me it will totes never be used to illegally initiate a constructive eviction on someone... and yes, we pay our own energy bills), I fucking hate it.

I don't want ANY "smart technology" in my home.
Trying to get a house now, that's been "fun". I tell any builders I don't want that shit, and if I buy a house that has such things, I'm tearing them out myself.

Mead posted...

So what is it that you want, for all the people in the southwest to just disperse away from their lives and homes? Should people live in the southeast with all those hurricanes? Now the NorEasters are wreaking havoc on the northeast guess we cant have anyone live there

People are still moving there. The population in that region is growing.
It'd be one thing if it was people who've always lived there, but migration from other states to there is still encouraged. That's why Lake Mead is depleting so fast. The population it was meant to support has exploded. Nothing is being done to stem the blatantly obvious oncoming crisis. Like always, we'll just band aid it after the fact, at great financial and environmental cost.

Mead in the span of 10 mins. claimed people will move when they need to, then admitted they'll resist b/c it's their home, and that's the best retort he has to contradicting himself.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

lol

The rich don't pay anywhere near their fair share in taxes, and even with total control of government, Democrats don't seem to be in any rush to change that.
The middle class is the group most burdened by taxes. And running up the debt costs us all, b/c then ever more of the federal budget goes to literally just paying interest on the debt instead of going to social welfare programs.

Using desalination plants to support population centers in the inhospitable desert is also really bad for the environment, if you at least care about that.

Only problem I see is that you can't choose multiple answers.

In all seriousness, options B, C, and D were inappropriate to put on a school test like that (and the question itself is odd for a history exam). The teacher shouldn't have done that, no matter how true it is.

Anyone angry about A being listed can fuck all the way off, though.

Hahaha, he can go fuck off. What a damn snowflake!

papercup posted...

If you want people to work, you have to offer them a fair wage for their work. It's literally that simple.

Even then, it goes beyond that. The cost of living is rising so fast, there's no fucking point.
Housing is going up 20% a year now. Even a 10% raise would be falling behind.
We allow the rich to concentrate and pool ever more money and buy up property as an alternative stock portfolio, and the rest of us get priced out.
Higher wages are a start, but the inequality is way bigger on the other end. Until it's balanced out, why bother? Money isn't an end, it's a means to an end. the stuff we use money to obtain is becoming more expensive than a salary increase can make up for. Do something about THAT!

Sulugnaz posted...

lol...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/investigations/2015/10/30/could-saltwater-save-southwest/74412576/

Desalination plants on the Pacific coast to address the issue have been discussed and planned for years.
Not sure if you think the idea of something already in the works by officials is "lol", or the idea that federal tax dollars will end up helping to pay for something that's extremely expensive is "lol", but either way...

Mead posted...

people have always migrated as needed

Mead posted...

because its their home

people tend to prefer to stay in one place if they can manage it.

Oh, so they don't actually migrate as needed?

They "manage it" because taxpayers across the country pay for the rebuilding.

Same as the water situation in the southwest. They won't move, they'll just get the rest of us to pay for expensive desalination processes so they can stay there. It's their home, after all! Who cares if it was a bad idea to live there in the first place?

Mead posted...

people have always migrated as needed

Then why do they keep trying to rebuild New Orleans instead of moving people out of there?

The Southwest population is booming, but never had and never will have the water supply to support it.
A crisis is inevitable at this point.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Except it's not. Rural generally doesn't require the same level of support, because reduced population requires less infrastructure. It can also be more self-supporting to some degree.

Oh, so now resources per person isn't what matters. Got it.

Suburban living has the population pressures and requirements of urban life but without the advantages of shared space that allows cities to more efficiently utilize resources and infrastructure. Rural areas face much lower population pressure and infrastructure requirements, so wind up being more efficient than suburbs in their own way as well. Suburbs are basically the worst-case scenario between the two extremes.

Suburbs are in between rural and cities in population pressure and infrastructure requirements.
Rows of detached houses all on the same water system and electrical grid with shopping complexes a few miles away are far more efficient than rural houses on acres of land that have to be reached individually by power lines and on their own closed well and septic systems each and require driving many miles to get to shopping centers.

It's also part of the reason why living in the suburbs is almost always the most expensive cost of living expense. Which is why there's demographic evidence that people tend to move out of the suburbs and into cities in times of economic downturn, while they move out of cities to the suburbs when the economy is doing well. Suburbs are ridiculously wasteful.

The cost difference to build the same size house in a suburb or rural area is negligible. The difference is the price of the land. Suburbs are more expensive than rural because people want to live there, and demand sets the price. And no, cities are easily the most expensive for the same reason (land is more valuable), unless you are extremely disingenuous and compare a 1000 ft flat in a city with a 3500 sq. ft McMansion in a suburb.
And the suburbs have seen a big influx from the cities since the pandemic despite the economic hardship. Before that, cities were growing even during the post-Great Recession boom. There's no connection between the migration to cities and economic downturn.

Muscles posted...

That seems off to me, everything is more expensive in Chicago than the suburbs.

He really wants the reverse to be true, though. Stop being so mean to him by pointing out the holes in his logic!

Revelation34 posted...

Then there'd be less housing so less room for people who need to live there.

How so?

If you reduced the number of streets usable by cars and got rid of most of the parking spaces for said cars, the city would have way more room for housing.
Pedestrian and bicycle paths take up far less space.

ParanoidObsessive posted... Yeah, but that's comfort and preference, not efficiency.
Don't get me wrong, the suburbs are pretty much my preferred style of living as well, but it is definitely the most expensive and least efficient in terms of utilizing space and maintaining infrastructure.

Uh...compared to a city, i'm sure it's way less efficient. Still better than rural, though. It's not the "most" expensive and "least" efficient.

But until blasting music or being a loud ass hole is a jail-able offense, I'm gonna want some space from other people, thanks.

Muscles posted...

I like living in the suburbs though, it's that sweet middle spot between too many people and too few people

Same. Just a shame we have a joke of a mass transit system, so going other places takes a long time by car.

Ideally, we'd have condensed walkable cities with cheap/free trains or subways to get around and almost no streets for cars, then along the perimeter of each city, train stations to bring in people from the suburbs, which also have stations for people to park and ditch their cars at.

BlackScythe0 posted...

I already got you covered.

How do you think Leonardo da Vinci did his anatomical work?

Uh...

mrduckbear posted...

DISSECTED in a LIVE AUDIENCE where people spent 500 a ticket to watch at a Portland Marriot Hotel Ballroom!!

The body was sliced open and examined before a paying crowd in the room came to see a "cadaver class" put on by a group called Death Science as part of an Oddities and Curiosities Event that was opened to all members of the public and reserved solely for scientists with a professional interest in autospy

But his 92 y/o wife, Elsie blasted the autospy stating she had no idea her husband's body would be used for a "pay per view" autopsy and condemned the event and says she's considering legal action over his remains being treated like a piece of meat for entertainment

His corpse ended up here after it was donated for profit firm Med Ed Labs in Las Vegas who sold the remains to a macabre artist and Death Science founder Jeremy Ciliberto

He said they bought the corpse from the party full knowing it was going to be used for research but the Las Vegas based firm said they thought it was going to be used to teach med students

Their lawyers are fighting back claiming his widow consented to the pay per view autopsy and has no claim and even if she didn't, the body was used for medical research which she signed off on and she would breach the contract claims against Med Ed Labs and will fight against her claims.

Sure doesn't sound like it was educational for medical professionals.
The lab that his body was donated to and then sold it to the people putting on this show seem to think otherwise, too.

faramir77 posted...

The fucked up thing is that I don't think it's illegal at all. It's like that old woman who donated her body "to science", and it ended up being used as explosion test dummy by the US Army.

Voted No, though I don't like how the question is framed as a violation of her rights, instead of the deceased's...

faramir77 posted...

The fucked up thing is that I don't think it's illegal at all. It's like that old woman who donated her body "to science", and it ended up being used as explosion test dummy by the US Army.

Shit like that will cause a lot of people to refuse to agree to donating their body that may have otherwise done so.

BlackScythe0 posted...

What exactly did they think was going to happen? They've been having autopsies like this for educational purposes for as long as there has been medical professionals.

They thought it'd be used for educational purposes by medical professionals/students that are held to confidentiality oaths?
Instead of whatever random sick yokels paid out $500 to "see a show"?

This is Peak Capitalism. It's utterly insane this even needs to have lawmakers step in let alone there's people defending it. But yeah, apparently we need regulations on what is and isn't "for science" when someone agrees to donate their body. So you know it actually will be used for education, and not as some pay-per-view side show or an army explosives test dummy.

BlackScythe0 posted...

I wonder how much this had to do with the dude himself and how much was people just voting R.

It's the result of FPTP and the ensuing 2 party system.

If you don't like the guy in charge, the other party is the only option to vote him out.
It's why Republicans don't even need to try. They just fuck things up, Dems come in to clean it up but that takes time, so before they can, people mad that things still suck vote the R's back in. Or even worse, Dems do literally nothing, and their hold on power crumbles even faster.
Hell, even if Dems did everything right, as soon as a black swan event happens, they'd get voted out in a wave election.

Republicans have realized how fucked the election system is in this country and exploited it to the max. Push as much of their extreme agenda as they can, get voted out, watch as Dems spend most of their time fixing things and squabbling w/ each other, get voted back in by voters angry and wanting to express it, rinse and repeat...

I can't even be mad, that's just fucking hilarious that he won on $153 against the top state senate Democrat.
I'm glad Dems got a wake up call in a small election at least, maybe now they'll pull their heads out of their asses before 2022's elections.
Republicans aren't even a real party anymore, just a cult of personality to a reality tv star. And Dems STILL can only barely eke out the slimmest of victories against that kind of opposition, and they think it's a huge win....
Guys like this should be slam dunks, the fact they're not says a ton about just how weak and pathetic the Democratic party is.

mrduckbear posted...

This could be a wider rebellion of suburban and working class americans against Democrats socialist spending and support for CRT which has now worried Democrats for the upcoming midterms next year

The disconnect between Democrats and White Voters seem to be coming to fruition as CRT and transgender bathrooms is now a battleground issue to ban in many states where conservatives say is a threat to white people that they are inherently "evil".

Murphy had just barely won his election but will lose a handful of state senate and house seats though looks to retain a majority as Democrats now have to focus on how to turn it around next year when a wider election comes around nationwide

Seems about right.
Focus on taxing the rich, advancing green energy, reducing inflation and stopping the housing price surge, and other stuff that a massive majority of people actually want.
stop catering to the twitter crowd as if they represent America, it's really turning people against the Democrats.
Give Manchin and Sinema whatever pork they want and get some shit done. Failing to do anything w/ total control of the government while people can't afford housing and see massive inflation is wreaking havoc on the party.

helIy posted...

the only reason to want something to be legal is because you want to not get in trouble for doing it

there are different degrees to it. i would view someone as wanting weed legalized as harmless

someone wanting to be allowed to have sex with children is, uh, very much extremely not harmless

I don't drink or smoke and have no interest in marijuana or other drugs.
I think weed should be legal b/c the "war" against it does a lot of harm for a drug that's way less harmful than other two I mentioned which already are legal.

Or as Helly sees it, "herp derp, SotS wants to smoke weed!"

Jen0125 posted...

Lmao the mods are predators

Classy

Jen0125 posted...

16 is functionally a child. Men who argue against that should be on a watch list. I said what I said.

Yeah, we're aware.
You say a lot of terrible things.

Jen0125 posted...

Who cares dude? You're over here trying to defend having sex with 16 year olds. It's weird. And now people are discussing if it was a crime of passion. Give me a break. Men will do anything to defend men it's so strange lmao

I thought defending the murderer is ridiculous, and you still manage to have such a toxic take on it that I disagree w/ you anyway.

The majority of the country, 16 is legal to begin with. In many more states, there are Romeo and Juliet laws covering a few years difference in age. CA happens to be one of the very few states where that was even a crime.
I even said that while CA law was out of step w/ the vast majority of the country, the step dad was justified in his reaction since it was illegal in this case.

But you feel the need to call the 3 yrs. younger person a "kid" and make it some sort of sexist conspiracy that people don't think a 3 year age gap is a big deal.

Veedrock- posted...

"Developers HATE this one simple trick!" You can't lie when there's a contract, and HOAs established by developers are controlled by developers so you won't have the power to dissolve it.

Yup.
They'll want the HOA covenants written up before they begin work on the property, and in order to subdivide a parcel of land into the lots for houses, a plat is required. The government will need to know in order for the plat to be approved whether the roads will be publicly maintained or private (HOA).
I was so confused by his statement, b/c it made no sense at all. You can't just "fake" having a HOA.

No more censorship policy
Backwards compatible w/ all prior PS consoles (physical discs) and expanding PSN purchases for use on PS6 (I have a bunch of PS1 and PS2 digital games that can only be played on PS3... Not PS4 or PS5, for..."reasons")
Optical drive priced fairly (it does NOT fucking cost them $100)
Free tier for online, for stuff that isn't outright online multiplayer / PvP
Actually fucking test software updates before releasing them / requiring them to access the online store (recent one caused bricked consoles)

Basically just put out a console that plays games w/o all of the fucking bull shit that's been layered on the past few generations.
That's it. That's all I ask for.

DocDelicious posted...

I'm not even sure what improvements the PS5 has made over the PS4.

Mostly the same or worse than before

Honey mustard is the best.
Brown and regular mustard are fine.
I also loved the "dijon dill" mustard dressing I had at a restaurant, I keep meaning to look up recipes to make it myself since no one sells it... It's sort of like honey mustard except tart instead of sweet.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

mustard is gross, and ruins hotdogs

It's not gross, but definitely is on hot dogs. Ketchup all the way for them.

Revelation34 posted...

By demanding he take it out. Anybody that claims they have a weapon without brandishing it means they are 99% lying.

Guess it's my fault for taking you seriously

Revelation34 posted...

Just lie about it or shut it down like a week later.

What?

Revelation34 posted...

So you admit prosecutors lie. Nobody life would have been in danger.

How the hell would you know if he had a knife or anything?
Would be heroes get killed or maimed all the damn time in situations like this.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Ok so first off repost.

Yup

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/79733867

Second off still not seeing a picture of the lawn. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people hate HOA's (myself included) however, I've never lived anywhere HOA or not where you can let your yard go wild and not run afoul some city code. So without a picture of the lawn I can't lay blame on the HOA for this.

What I take away from the story is the cops try to contact the person. They refuse to open the door so the workers start and then the dude starts opening fire from inside the house. In no world, even if the HOA was being unreasonable, can I just overlook that. Dude had no justification for what he did, he set his own house on fire, and then committed suicide by cop.

The cops admitted that they were enforcing an HOA covenant, not a city ordinance. The government had no right to get involved in the first place and while shooting at people wasn't justified, the HOA and the government did "start this" when they vastly overstepped their authority.

Your thread title is bull shit.

Sensationalist, but technically true.
If it weren't for an overbearing HOA getting the authorities involved for something that wasn't against any law on the books, the home owner would not be dead right now.

I never watched the film or played the games, but the image of that face was burned into my brain as a kid and I still remember it.

Legit probably my first experience of "nightmare fuel" before I even knew what that was.