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I guess I am old fashioned and only believe you are responsible for your own actions. Bryon may have made the mistake of blocking Arby with his vehicle at various moments (aggravated assault), but at the critical moment when everything was going down he was not an active participant being away from the scene and not actively blocking Arby. The McMillians took it on thier own selves to go overboard and actually confront Arby in person and fire on him. Furthermore, the ultimate murder weapon was a gun not a vehicle, so there was no way that Bryon could've reasonably foreseen that this would've been the result of his actions. If they ran him over it would've been a bit more foreseeable.

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I know this point has already been established. I feel like we are going in circles, I was just missing his statements from my initial analysis, only going by the video of his actions. If he never said that statement to the police he would be a free man, since there was nothing in the video to indicate he committed a crime. Now he will most likely die in prison. He is a walking example to of why you should consult legal council before talking to the cops. The miranda warning says "anything you say can and will be used against you.", so probably best to not say too much or be very careful at the very least.

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He was filming what he most likely thought was a legit citizens arrest and was hanging back from the action, but regardless when you say "I cut off his escape" & it turns out that the citizens arrest was actually false imprisonment, then you are going to have issues. Probably, also why it is best to leave this stuff to the actual cops.

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BEERandWEED posted...

Complicit - involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing.

He wasn't filming to catch a crime, he was filming to preserve their triumph. It's not complicated why he was found guilty.

If you are hired as the getaway driver of a bank robbery, never set foot in the bank and never touch a weapon but someone gets killed during the robbery, you are complicit in the crime and held almost as equally responsible.

Filming a crime in progress isn't a crime and you have no idea what his motivation for doing so was anyways. It was his statement in #54 that doomed him. Even though the video evidence contradicts it in my opinion. Regardless, this is a good example why you shouldn't talk to cops pretty much ever in this situation. What a fool

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BEERandWEED posted...

No. He was an active participate in the murder. He wasn't filming for evidence, he was filming for pleasure. He didn't alert the police or try to stop the murder. He just helped his friends murder someone, filming it for prosperity.

How was he an active participant of the murder when he was in his car filming the murder a good 30 yards away and didn't have a weapon? Did he murder Arbery by telekinesis? Because that would be a cool trick. Like I said before, this is why you don't buy your lawyers from the Dollar Tree.

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BEERandWEED posted...

He wasn't a random passerby filming at an opportune moment. He was complicit in the chasing down and shooting of a person.

He was like a good 30 meters away from where the scene was even happening, at least in the video and was unarmed. Merely, following a person in car is not a crime, otherwise all the paparazzis would be in jail. In addition to having a terrible hair cut, the dude had a terrible lawyer.

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I still don't know how you can go to jail for murder for filming something you barely are apart of, but that is felony murder laws for you. They should be unconstitutional, but alas I fear they are here to stay

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It's pretty much a humble brag and lol at thrifting for most of her stuff, suurrre. The thrift stores in Houston are just packed with designer handbags and clothing, but ,yeah, she is certainly hot, although a handful as well.

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An idol to idiot worshipers

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The fact that we are arguing semantics already indicates how boring the topic is, although it was pretty obvious to me Brian committed suicide when he wasn't found, but people wanted the epic conclusion to the story with a mangy Brian being pulled out of some type of makeshift fox hole by the FBI. We didn't even get the Brian gets eaten by the gator ending, so it was all pretty boring and anticlimactic, really.

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Quit blaming tiny dicks for causing violence

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Well, I am not going to assault them. That is for sure

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He has very little charisma, but he has no choice but to run the media tour at this point, since his job prospects are pretty much f-ed. I guess you make a couple million and retire to Europe where no one gives a f about you. Could be worse.

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SilentSeph posted...

Employer: So she puts out? She's hired!

Yeah, definably sounds like a good future Blizzard employee

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It was pretty obvious Kyle was going to get off. Even Reddit was largely memeing about the trial and the poor prosecution. Only Twitter is reeing at this point, doing thier usual race baiting despite the fact that it was white on white violence, so has nothing to do with race.

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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?


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BlackScythe0 posted...

Of course they are fucking guilty. And the justice system was so fucking rigged that they were going to get off because one of them knew the right people. https://apnews.com/article/georgia-brunswick-ahmaud-arbery-savannah-583c175e91787305180682f10671d2e7

But then the idiot is so arrogant he apparently puts out the video of his drive by lynching himself. It's just mindblowingly stupid.

Dude is minding his own business jogging gets random ass holes pull up on him telling him to stop so he tries to run away (as most people would), they strike him with the truck and rush him with a gun where he is forced to try and defend himself before they blow him away without hesitation. Apparently they might have said the n-word over his body? This is a clear cut murder, but unless I'm misunderstanding they aren't being charged with murder they are being charged with "felony murder" which is a charge applied when someone dies while under commission of a different felony in this case a charge of false imprisonment.

The dad and the son are charged with murder amongst other things. The neighbor that filmed the scene is charged with felony murder, since he was not as involved being the camera man hanging back and all. Overall, I don't like felony murder rules and don't think the neighbor should get a life sentence for the poor judgement of the father and son (although it was stupid to chase the guy in a car), but the father & son are guilty as sin as far as I am concerned. Getting out to assault the suspect with a deadly weapon doomed thier case no matter how much crying the son does.

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Picard and Data pretty much carried the show acting wise. Everyone else felt pretty average to downright sucky in the case of Troi and the Crushers. While I like Worf's character, he did not come into his own until DS 9, although he got some pretty good character episodes in next gen

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There is a first time for everything, I suppose.

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It was always a pretty cut and dry self defense case. The first tried to wrestle the gun away from Kyle and the others chased him down until he fell and had no recourse but to fire. Openly carrying a gun is douchey, but not provocation. The race baiting is just a way to spice things up, although it makes no sense, as it was white on white violence. Race has nothing to do with anything here

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Certainly cremation. I know the body is an empty vessel once dead, but the embalming process they use is disgusting and to add insult to injury they stick a pretty gnarly buttplug up your corpses butt. Like, I said before, cremation

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Yeah, TCG is pretty bad as well. But at least if you buy a box set for $200 there is a good chance you will have the majority of the set. In CS go skin market you can spend damn near a $1,000 and still not get a knife or gloves, instead only getting a bunch of 10 cent skins. There is a big reason a lot of the knives are close to $500 and keep on mind this is for a game that someday may cease to exist. At least with TCG your cards will last for decades, although power creep will most likely render then obsolete. Regardless best to avoid both markets.

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Sulugnaz posted...

I'd argue that it depends on total number of games. 300? Not that great. 30? Pretty brutal? 7? Ouch.

I score about 25 kills a match in team deathmatch & each match lasts about 8 minutes, so it would take me a little more than hour, closer to two to achieve this.

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Veedrock- posted...

Is it really self defense if the guy has over 300 kills in call of duty? I don't think so, dude's a certified killa.

Mind you this is in the official record.

No that is a Reddit meme. But regardless, the prosecutor was dumb enough to try assert that because Kyle plays violent video games he was prone to violent behavior in real life, which Kyle dismissed pretty quickly. I mean 300 kills in Call of Duty is nothing

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In terms of video games, definitely EA. The fact that people will spend thousands of dollars building thier teams in FIFA only to have the team whiped out the next year bogles my mind. That seems absurdly predatory to me.

Valves skin system in CS go is ludicrously rigged.$2.50 per case and you only get one skin and it is maybe a 1/50 chance of getting a rare skin and about a 1/200 chance of getting a knife or gloves. The EVs a are stupidly rigged. They compare themselves to trading cards, but trading cards give you 8 or so cards per pack with a gaurenteed chance of a rare. Even mystic rares are 1/8. The EVs for skins are a joke.

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Deep fried Twinkies. How many third world.countries have deep fried Twinkies?

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I don't think so. Some woman probably would've spoken out against him like what happened to the royal dude. Epstein was just absurdly well connected. It seemed like everyone visited him at one point in time, probably because he had loads of money and people wanted to do some influence peddling.

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Dikitain posted...

So rather than fixing their shitty algorithm, they just disable parts of the system that they don't know how to properly handle?

Yep, that sounds like Google to me.

Thier algorithm is pretty basic. Mega corps pays them the money, YouTube puts them on the front page. If YouTube dislikes you, you are essentially sent to SEO hell.

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I almost wished I played more games. I waste so much time on the internet and it is far less fulfilling in the end. The internet is like a potato chip: immediately enjoyable, but ultimately unfulfilling and if you consume too much you get a stomach ache

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Almost every country has sovereign immunity including the US. The US can always waive it, but it does not have to. The lawyers suing are hoping they can put enough political pressure to have the government bend.

The migrants abuse the amnesty laws by illegally entering the US through unestablished channels and if they get caught claim amnesty. I have no respect for these people that try to find loopholes to try to cut in front of the people that are going through the official immigration process. They ruin it for everyone.

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Gaawa_chan posted...

Trumpers should be chomping at the bit for these people to settle. There's no way in hell these two administrations will not be shredded in court, and it will be well-deserved. Can't wait to hear you guys piss and moan when the government pays out in the multi-millions to each individual instead of less than half a mil.

The government has sovereign immunity, so it is doubtful the migrants can successfully sue. Paying a bunch of foreign nationals that broke the law, even if we mistreated them is not a particularly thrilling prospect. I would just shaft them and be done with it, but there will be enough political pressure that no doubt we will pay out, but less hopefully.

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Perceptive kid

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lihlih posted...

Don't forget that if Epic manages to steal enough users to their store, Valve might have to start making games again. That's a huge plus, since Valve makes some of the best games out there.

Wishful thinking. Even with the release of Valorant Valve still does not give a crap about CS Go. Cheaters run rampant & the servers are borked. You pretty much have to go to private servers to get a good match. An TF 2, yeesh, what a mess that game is. If it isn't Dota, Valve does not care

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wolfy42 posted...

I was going to say the first Wizardry actually. Weirdna (sucks) revenge isn't really that hard, people make it out to be harder than it is, you don't actually start with 1 hp, and you also don't start alone (you summon monsters to be in your party and tank for you).

More importantly, presumably, you have played the first 3 games already and know what the spells do (which you actually start with (tho at first just level 1 spells). In the first wizardry that is not the case, you don't get a manual (or didn't on the apple II c version I played) and you literallly have to figure out what the spells do by trial and error. It was difficult because it was unknown, there were no games even close to like it released previously, no instruction manual, and no internet for aloooooong time to come so you needed to figure out everything as you went.

I played the Wizardry version from the archives and it had a manual for 1. Pretty memorable manual too, as it had the artist that did the first ad&d book, so it had all the cute cartoons. The spell's were pretty much the games copy protection, since you had to type them in to cast them and they had off beat names, so you couldn't guess them

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The secrets in Zelda 1 are borderline impossible to find without a guide or cheating so you have unlimited bombs. There is no reasoning when it comes to secrets in that game

Zelda 2 is overrated in terms of difficulty because of the AVGN video. Death mountain only requires basic mapping to get through and none of the enemies are too tough once you learn thier patterns. AVGN is entertaining, but he is not necessary giving you an accurate representation of game difficulty

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They don't care much about thier employees. The age of sticking with a company long term & the company taking care of you are long dead. You just get the experience you need & move on. It is easier getting a promotion interviewing with other companies than getting one internally. Is it good or bad, I don't know, but it just is the way the world is now. Employees move around frequently, so from an employer prospective why spend money trying to retain an employee that will end up moving from you after a few years anyways.

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That is a headscratcher. You would think they would want to resurrect Regan or something.

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No one cares about Japan anymore. Korea is the cool Asian nation now

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I would think having your wrist at a more elevated angle while you type would be worse. Level seems better

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11110111011 posted...

I never found Final Fantasy hard. Must be a generational thing.

The hardest ones I can think of are any of the Ultima or Wizardry games.

Ultimas aren't too bad. They are mostly about exploration than combat difficulty. Probably closer to an adventure game than a RPG

Wizardrys are middle the road in terms of difficulty, especially 6-8, since you can save and rest anywhere. 1 is pretty straight forward outside the psuedo permadeath, but there is a glitch you can use to avoid it. That game relies on the permadeath to make it difficult, otherwise it is just grindy.

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He looks like he eats about 800 pizzas over an 18 month period

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I am here to drink milk and eat Oreos and I am all out of Oreos

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Language is about being understandable. When you say Communism most people, especially from the 20th century are going to think of the political system implemented by the Soviet Union & adopted by China, Cuba, North Korea, ect. The Soviet Union may have appropriated the term, but they ultimately made it thier own

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I would say the big difference between a fascist state & a communist states is the later tends to have a centrally planned economy, while the former relies on a private, albeit usually corporatist, economy. Both are essentially autocracies, so rely on the same tricks to stay in power: military control, secret police, suppression of free speech in favor of government propaganda, ect, so the distinctions are often hard to tell. I would say that China is less of communist state now a days and more of an authoritarian capitalist state, aka fascist by that definition.

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Nanaue posted...

Nazi Germany was much worse. America had no right to bomb Japanese civilians

It was the imperial governments fault for not surrendering when they were beaten. We were carpet bombing thier cities before the a-bombs were dropped and they still didn't bother to surrender, instead they were talking about thier will to fight to last man. If anything, the a-bombs gave them a way to save face and actually surrender. And let's not forget, the Japanese ultimately started the war on America with thier pre-emptive strike on Pearl Harbor. It was not like America was arbitrarily picking on poor ole Japan.

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The father was within his rights, as the father was technically breaking up a crime in commission. Furthermore, it did not seem like he used any more force than was necessary to get the kid out of his house, namely one punch and a lot of name calling. The kid just turned it up by 1,000 by shooting him in the head then killing his family. Obviously Johnson did not believe too much in his self defense case since he felt like he had to "kill the witnesses".

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At least he holds the door out for her. Truly a gentleman

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Yugimoto because he is the only one I know

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