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I've never done Ages or Seasons, personally. Handheld Zelda in general never hit me quite right, like I could just 'feel' that they were done by smaller development teams with different styles from the mainline entries.

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Seems like the target audience for this content is... not me. I'll pass.

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VipaGTS posted...

Conservatives in ruins.

Which conservatives? I'm happy to see the US with another gold medal.

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I don't even understand the gimmick of this gimmick.

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I'm not offended at all.

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Imagine taking any of this bait, what the hell guys?

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Isn't this a copy pasta?

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Can't believe I forgot this one.

Gideon Wyeth, from Advent Rising. It starts as a pretty standard third person shooter in a sci-fi setting, with rocket launchers, assault rifles, etc.

Then, partway through the game, you learn that humans are being hunted to extinction because they are an ancient race of ultra-powerful beings who forgot their lineage over time, and a malicious alien collective called The Seekers views them as an existential threat. From that moment on, Gideon receives training from a friendly coalition of aliens regarding how to unlock that potential. It starts simple enough, with the ability to push and lift things with his mind, but over time he learns to make energy shields and fire ice projectiles.

These powers become stronger as they're used, so by the end of the game he's capable of things like: a completely invulnerable forcefield in a sphere around his body that deflects projectiles and passively knocks nearby enemies away, the ability to move so quickly that he can dance between projectiles fired from emplaced gun turrets, and the ability to pick up an entire platoon of soldiers all at once to throw them off their ship and into space. All of these powers have long energy bars and quick regeneration, so they're essentially unlimited.

It's a great game, even though it has some dumb glitches and it's kind of short. The thing that sucks the most is that it ends on a cliff-hanger and never got a sequel.

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Dante in DMC 4. Having access to every style interchangeably is ridiculous in that game.

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limp-bizkit-89 posted...

@Gobstoppers12 still pretty silent

Was raiding in TBC classic tonight.

I mean...Love or hate the wording, any kind of travel is a method of spreading Covid, and when we have no idea who they are, how many there are, or whether or not they're vaccinated, well...It seems like it's not entirely outside of the realm of possibility that they might be contributing to the spread in certain areas.

Not saying it's all their fault, not saying it's even a tenth of the problem, but it's not like we can pretend there's no risk to having the border unsecured.

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I4NRulez posted...

I'll gladly admit I was wrong if I am

https://www.nbcolympics.com/wrestling

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No, I don't believe they did.

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skermac posted...

i think driving 10 hours and still be in the same state is an exaggeration

Oh, you think so?

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iPhone_7 posted...

Vaccine passports to travel or enter businesses or attend public events isnt oppressive.

In what way is it not?

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Sackgurl posted...

then welcome to democratic party

Nah. I just think voter I.D. is important enough to be worth furnishing for free. I do believe each state should determine the qualifications for voter registration, too, given that pretty much all elections are held at the state level. You're the one adding in the stuff about it being a national thing.

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monkmith posted...

no no not that way!

Yes, exactly that way.

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Next up, voter I.D.

Right?

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One of my friends had this same thought while we were in California for my cousin's wedding.

"I think I might rent a car so I can drive down and see San Francisco." Like, dude...? That's at least an eight hour drive from where we're going to be lol

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This topic is some of the laziest bait I've ever seen. At least have some subtlety.

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This ain't it.

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hockeybub89 posted...

A cop shoots a unarmed person when they so much as breathe wrong

I think this guy did a lot more than breathe wrong. And he was armed. So what argument are you making about this case?

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I have TC tagged for "weird rant" based on something else recently. I see the tag is well placed.

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China, Australia, and Japan are really bringing it this year. They've all already gotten more golds than their final totals in 2016.

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Comfy_Pillow posted...

It just seems like it's going in a really stupid direction for how much people talk about this show being an anime staple

Most people are referring to the first part with L. It's not uncommon for somebody to suggest to a new viewer that they stop watching after episode 25.

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Comfy_Pillow posted...

Is the ending decent at least?

The actual ending is very fitting for the series. The lead-up to it is...disappointing, at best.

L's death is where things took a drastic turn for the worse. The story got much more convoluted and silly after that. And the reason for why things end the way they end is really silly, too.

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Shezarr posted...

Im fairly sure Gandalf is called Mithrandir multiple times in the movies

Definitely true.

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limp-bizkit-89 posted...

that leaves the rest of us, the 20% absolutely puzzled and disgusted on how blindly people take teams and will defend certain stances no matter what

Yeah...

limp-bizkit-89 posted...
your opinions are not exactly respected here anyway, I got you tagged as MAGA, nuff said.

said the guy who follows a cult ideology that would rather root for foreign athletes than American ones if the latter are liberals or people of color

Yeah, real unbiased there. Definitely not picking teams or anything.

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RickyTheBAWSE posted...

let's not conveniently forget the root cause just so you can make a bad faith, intellectually dishonest "argument."

The root cause is that there was a witness who reported him for driving recklessly. That's a lawful reason to conduct an investigation, and it's not the silver bullet you seem to think it is. But, again, you don't seem to understand what you're talking about, so I don't think it's worth debating with you until you can come up with a coherent argument.

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RickyTheBAWSE posted...

unlawful interactions

Since you clearly don't understand what constitutes an 'unlawful interaction,' I am going to assume that you have no idea what constitutes a threat, nor a justifiable use of force. So at this point I have nothing to gain by continuing this argument with you.

RickyTheBAWSE posted...

no bigger details have been "dodged"

Is saying "I'm gonna tear your *bleep* up" not a threat? Is refusing to disarm yourself after a lawful order from a police officer not an escalation? Is saying "shut your white *bleep* up" not a racist statement? Address those things specifically if you want to be taken even remotely seriously here.

Also, remember to specify that the first shot was a beanbag round, not a lethal round. The first bullet fired was by the suspect, not an officer.

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RickyTheBAWSE posted...

warning police that he's not to be messed with =/= not a threat

Even though that definitely constitutes a threat under the circumstances, I notice how you neglected the part about how he was going to "tear their *bleep* up"

RickyTheBAWSE posted...

he's clapping his hands with clearly nothing in them when they fired.

the man relocated positions and returned fire.

They fired a beanbag*. He relocated positions and opened fire with lethal ammunition.

Please don't try to dodge the details with vague implications to make your case seem stronger. You're selectively leaving out the most damning parts of the story and trying your absolute hardest to convey this violent man as nothing but a victim of circumstances. He's clearly got a personal vendetta against the police, and seemingly against white people too, hence "shut yo white *bleep* up."

So...at what point is it a threat? Is threatening to 'tear their *bleep* up' not a threat? Is refusing to drop his weapon after a lawful order not a threatening behavior? The police told him to disarm, and he refused. At that point he's dangerous. They told him to get on the ground. He refused again. At that point he's even more dangerous. He made the situation volatile by refusing to cooperate. He made hostile advancements and was screaming at the absolute top of his lungs before the beanbags were fired.

Then, even after checking himself and seeing that he wasn't really hurt, he just couldn't tolerate the wound to his pride so he decided to try to commit murder. The officers are lucky he was such a bad shot.

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RickyTheBAWSE posted...

Mr Hanky, can you quote the threat?

"This ain't a *bleep* you wanna *bleep* with. You can pull up with all the cops you want. This is not a *bleep* you wanna pull up."

While the officer is telling him to put his gun down, "Nah, nah, I ain't putting *bleep* down."

Then he starts stepping off the porch, gesturing, making demands. He's told to get on the ground. He refuses. Consciously he refuses. Then his wife comes out and wants to know what's happening, and he starts yelling and clapping "You *bleep* with the wrong *bleep* people."

He is kind of hard to understand after that, but he seems to be yelling about how he's going to "tear your *bleep* up."

After that, there's a conspicuous edit that cuts him off. Presumably he said something the uploader didn't want us to hear. He starts to clap again, then there's another edit. We don't know what he says there, either. I assume based on the biased text in the corner that it was another thing the uploader didn't want us to hear.

Then he starts screaming and pointing. "Shut up. Shut yo white *bleep* up." So he's a racist, too, which is a lovely trait. Really a five-star individual you're all defending here. His wife is telling him to calm down. At this point he's fucking screaming at the police to get off his property. And then he steps off the porch. Keep in mind he has a gun on his person at this time.

The officers fire a few beanbag rounds at him to try to keep him from approaching. At which point he moves behind his truck while his wife starts screaming and runs inside. He opens fire on the police, still making belligerent comments about how he's "not a mother*bleep*er you wanna deal with." He was fully aware of his actions. There was no panic.

He was taking up a tactical position to try to commit murder of a police officer. He was duly hit by several rounds, and then the officers on the scene administered medical attention and had him taken to the hospital.

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RickyTheBAWSE posted...

BUT he was within his Rights still.

You never have the right to start making threats of violence against the police. A lot of people in this topic are forgetting that.

WingsOfGood posted...

But it is obvious dude constantly shouting go away in that moment isn't cooperating and he has the right if silence so....

He has the right to remain silent. He does not have the right to resist arrest or make threats.

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WingsOfGood posted...

So you made it in your head he would not cooperate.

You made it in your head that he would. Evidence suggests he would not, given he grew more and more combative, not less, over time.

WingsOfGood posted...

Until what? What is the end goal when it is clear he refuses to cooperate and can just take one step and be beyond your reach.

The idea is to ask him questions and conduct the investigation. Maybe they hoped his wife/girlfriend/whoever would help to calm him down, maybe they thought he would come to his senses after a bit. But once he started making threats, it was no longer an option to just leave him be. That's a crime, you know.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Hercules in New York

Which version?

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WingsOfGood posted...

But warrant says that he cannot anymore and he likely be more cooperative.

You really think a guy screaming at the police from his porch is going to be more cooperative when they come at him with a warrant?

WingsOfGood posted...

But again, this takes a highly trained person.

You keep saying things as if you have some kind of expertise or experience with the issue, but you really don't seem to understand how these situations work. You think that your assessment is the true and correct one, and that the police "need more training" to meet your standards of behavior...but actually, you're just wrong and you're playing the role of criminal apologist.

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MarthGoomba posted...

I enjoy the level design, upgrade collection, and nightmare system. I don't find it frustrating at all.

You do you, but I whole-heartedly disagree with your assessment.

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WingsOfGood posted...

But my point is, they saw the gun, he said "yep i got a gun, get off my property don't fuck with me"

At that point, he's a danger to himself or others because he's making threats. That's when you absolutely do not leave the scene. Leaving the scene after somebody has made a threat with a weapon is just asking for something bad to happen once you take your eyes off him.

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Predator.

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MarthGoomba posted...

X6 is a great game that gets way too much hate just because of a few insignificant design oversights and higher difficulty than usual

It's not great at all. Even without the shitty insta-death level design gimmicks, the enemy placements are dumb, the random upgrade system (with the chance to permanently miss out on rescues) is horrible, and the nightmare system is just needlessly complicated.

It's not an "insignificant design oversight" when the game is just flat-out frustrating to play.

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WingsOfGood posted...

Blame falls on those who could have just left when the man obviously wasn't going to answer any questions.

"Darn, he doesn't want to talk. I guess that's that."

Even if they paused to get a warrant, they would still stake out his house and make sure he didn't leave. And there's a reasonable chance they could pursue without a warrant if they believed he was a threat--which, in the case of his threats and shouting, he definitely could have been seen as a threat to himself or others.

I took this off a random law firm website just for reference:

"They may be able to make a warrantless arrest if there are circumstances that make getting a warrant impractical. Known as exigent circumstances, these situations can involve:

1. A police officer in pursuit of a suspect who enters a home or apartment

In this case, the officer wouldnt be able to get a warrant in time. They would need to stop the chase, which would allow the suspect to get away. The police must be in hot pursuit of the suspect. In other words, the police must follow the suspect into the home.

2. An officer believes someone inside a home is in danger or that evidence will be destroyed

This is referred to as exigent circumstances. If someone inside a home is in imminent danger, a police officer shouldnt have to wait for a warrant. In order to prevent immediate harm, the law allows the officer to enter the home and arrest the suspect. This can also be applied to a situation where evidence might be destroyed.

3. Someone lets the officer into the home

Although its unlikely for a suspect to welcome a police officer into their home, someone else in the residence could do so. In this situation, the officer does not need a warrant. The person inviting the officer into the home must have the legal right to do so."

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WingsOfGood posted...

You literally have no concern that if a shootout occurs the witness civilian might get shot in the crossfire.

Blame falls on the suspect for that. He was the one who made it a firefight. He clearly wasn't hurt badly enough by the beanbag to hinder him at all. It was practically a warning shot. He stood there, contemplated, and made a conscious decision to start a firefight. He even went for his truck to get behind it and shoot from cover. It wasn't some desperate attempt to preserve his own life; he was angry and wanted to kill a police officer.

The video linked in the reddit post also has qualifying text written on it that is clearly, clearly biased in favor of the suspect. It isn't an objective assessment of the situation in any way, shape, or form.

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Kaldrenthebold posted...

I did some tower level and it was the worst thing ever. Just running to the right with some bad platforming and annoying as hell enemies. I think I stopped after that cause it was so painful.

That's definitely one of the worst levels. X7 is also a miserable experience all around if you play as Zero, in my experience. The fun is when you know what the game is all about and you just want to screw around in a 3D environment with some enemies to kill. It's not "good" by any means, but X6 is so, so much worse. X7 has some frustrating design and bad camera angles in 3D segments, but X6 is just...horrid. It's absolutely terrible.

I bought the second half collection on Steam a while back and enjoyed X7 much, much more than X6. I had played and beaten both in the past, but tried them again recently. X7 holds up better than I expected, and X6 holds up much, much worse than I thought.

I played as Zero in X6 hoping his AoE potential would alleviate some of the bullshit enemy placements in the levels, and it helped some, but there's no cure for awful level design. What really killed the run was trying to fight the Nightmare King (the two squares with the eyes inside) as Zero on normal difficulty. It was just too annoying. I could have beaten it with enough persistence (I have done it before, back in the day) but I assessed my priorities and put the game down. I haven't gone back to it.

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WingsOfGood posted...

Should been obvious he wasn't going to answer any questions and he even has a right to silence.

He has a right to silence, but he doesn't have the right to actively impede an investigation. He definitely doesn't have the right to shout orders from his porch.

WingsOfGood posted...

obey the property owner's request to leave

Yeah, because somebody who's under suspicion of a crime should be the one deciding when the police leave the property or not. I don't know the sort of people you deal with on a regular basis doing whatever it is you do, but in my area, if somebody's telling the police to leave, it's because they have something they need to hide.

WingsOfGood posted...

Leaving when someone is yelling at you and you feel you are in the right takes a big and intelligent man.
Police should be trained to be that kind of man and yet we find they are not.

So what you're saying here is that police should always back down when a suspect tells them to back down? What kind of environment would this create? "Be the bigger man, let me destroy the incriminating evidence before you come back."

WingsOfGood posted...

but the irony is the blame is put on a citizen

The guy got hit with a beanbag, looked around, realized he wasn't hurt, then went on the attack with his gun in hand. He had every opportunity to calm down and address the situation like a reasonable human being, but he decided to get more and more agitated and aggressive until he just said "fuck it, I'm okay with dying over this shit."

It's on him. Only on him. He had an obligation to obey lawful orders and refused. He then made things much, much worse. His wife/girlfriend/whoever was trying to get him to calm down, but he ignored her.

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WingsOfGood posted...

Why did he do this? I bet he has been harassed before.

Why did he do it? Because he was unstable. Whether in the moment or all the time, he felt like being a 'badass' and threatening the police. If it's 'harassment' to be investigated for a crime, then maybe he should stop putting himself in compromising positions to be investigated. One thing is for sure--if the police show up to investigate you, you're definitely not doing yourself any favors by making threats. There is no excuse for it. I don't care how many times you've been 'harassed' (which seems like a weird red herring for you to throw into the debate), it is never the correct move to threaten and belligerently disobey the police.

WingsOfGood posted...

Leave and get a warrant

You don't really know how these things work, do you? You don't need a warrant if there's probable cause. A warrant and probable cause essentially serve the same purpose in an investigation. It's the difference between collecting evidence which leads you to a conclusion (hence getting approval to make an arrest based on collected evidence) or having enough information right in front of you to make the arrest on the spot.

In this case, even without any reckless driving added in, the menacing and disorderly conduct charges should be plenty to make an arrest.

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A lot of twitter traffic is done by bots and data analysts.

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eston posted...

it's not illegal to be drunk in your home and they can't prove he was driving in that state.

You can prove somebody was driving without catching them in the car. Witness testimony, surveillance footage, the suspect's own words, etc.

Investigations exist for a reason. Why do you so badly want people to get away with dangerous behaviors like drunk driving and armed menacing?

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eston posted...

I am approaching this conversation from the position of an optimist who thinks our police can and should do better than this.

What would you have proposed? Just wait and see what he did after stepping off his porch making threats and challenging the officers? If it were anything other than a life or death situation, maybe you'd have a point. Do you understand that everybody involved is a human being and only has one life to live?

I don't understand why you think the police should put themselves at the mercy of a potentially drunk guy with a gun and a bad attitude. We already know he was willing to die in a shootout with the police, because his first reaction to being hit with a beanbag was to open fire. He was ready and willing to murder those officers.

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eston posted...

Good to see that you missed the point entirely

I don't think the point you're making is the point you think you're making. When somebody is acting in a threatening manner and with disregard for lawful orders while armed with a gun, it isn't the time to de-escalate. Crazy people do crazy shit, and they do it quickly. It isn't like a movie where there's a writer who's meticulously putting the pieces into place so that the story works out well for everybody in the end--reality doesn't work that way.

In reality, a guy with a gun who makes threats sometimes just explodes at complete fucking random and starts carrying the threat out. Officers can be shot within one second of a subject drawing his gun. It is literally life or death every single second when an unruly suspect is armed with a weapon. In that context, any act of aggression warrants an immediate response.

Being drunk doesn't make somebody harmless. It removes their inhibitions. It often makes a person much more dangerous. Why should his state of intoxication have any bearing on whether or not the police take appropriate measures to detain and subdue him?

Something tells me you're approaching this from the position of an optimist who thinks that drunk people are just talking to talk and don't actually ever do anything dangerous. It would be nice if that were the case, but it isn't.

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