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-ZIO- posted...

He could have been saying as much being misled by his family members. Unfortunately, Jirard might have been treated as the fall guy. Might have been too good for the evil of this world.

He'd definitely be guilty of covering things up at best. From the call, he definitely was aware of it. Worst case, the whole thing was an attempted scam by all of them, best case family members fucked things up and he is guilty of inaction and covering it up.

With that, seems more like incompetence than malice, but they'll also have to answer the questions of the other supposed funds and why they were advertising partners who didn't get money. At this point, I feel like the most charitable view would be that the family members fucked things up somewhere along the way and he procrastinated on doing anything about it.

I'd say the only way this totally blows up more is if the money is actually gone, and he's fully complicit in it. I'd say best case scenario is just gross incompetence. The next best scenario is that one or both of the family members embezzled some or all of it, and he's just been stupidly holding off on doing anything because he's trapped in a situation where he'll need to make them face consequences. Worst case scenario is that he personally was involved and there's no way out for him.

Many of them are not very well-balanced. They come off as lazy attempts to stretch out a concept instead of simply making a good one and done single player experience.

GhostFaceLeaks posted...

Place your bets on how long he'll be in jail for and how long it'll take until his Youtube career permanently tanks.

Unless it turns out to be some insane shit like all the money was blown on drugs or some kind of insane conspiracy, I can't imagine much coming out of it other than a sizable subscriber loss. Though every single day without a statement is making it seem more and more likely that it's something sketchy rather than idiocy.

Im always curious why scams are like that. Obviously English is not the native language of most of them, but I dont think I have ever seen a properly formatted scam even once. Is it to avoid spam filters by being partially gibberish?

If someone parked stupidly close to me and left me with no choice but to squeeze in through a tiny gap, I probably wouldnt care if I dinged their car. In all other circumstances, Id take total blame.

The new avatar looks weird, the red background is too in your face, and the background decorations are a bit too large. Otherwise, more of the same, so that's good at least.

Even if the group had a bunch of harmless idiots, there's not one excuse for doing what they did. You don't just go with the flow to invade a government building. By the time they actually got into the building, anyone still there knew what they were doing.

I'm really interested to see what the response will be. I feel like unless there is incredible mismanagement that the channel must bring in a pretty good chunk of money, so I can't imagine stealing it was ever the motive. I do wonder if the other family members in charge of the charity organization might have fucked things up somehow, accidentally or maliciously to try to steal the money, and that's put him in a situation where there's no good outcome for him. You can obviously never know someone who might just be putting on an act on the internet, but he certainly never seemed like someone who'd have malicious intentions at least.

The idea has always seemed so weird. I've never seen a deal good enough to even splurge on Black Friday, let alone actually do the weird early morning store ritual.

Do they mention anything about reaching out beforehand to see if they can give any answers? If theyve been absolutely radio silent on responding to people, I guess its a fair video to make, but if this is completely unprompted, without any kind of questioning, then seems pretty clickbaity.

I'm curious if he actually believes any of this shit he spews, or if it's all just an act to make money. The dude seems really dumb, but that seems like another level of stupid.

Curious if there's even much hype for it, considering it's another one that relies on having seen a TV show for full context. I think putting too many eggs into the TV basket has definitely hurt MCU's overall momentum.

FL81 posted...

Can we technically classify GameFAQs as a Fandom wiki yet?

It doesn't use the same licensing, so they'd never be able to wiki-fy it without removing all the FAQs.

You know a company is shit when their first thought is how do we make it more painful to leave rather than why are people leaving and how do we fix it?

I don't think there's any need to report it. This is unfortunately not that uncommon of an occurrence for sick fucks to spam that shit for laughs. Thousands of people probably get affected per day. As long as you aren't saving it, there'd never be an issue. Clearing your cache is never a bad idea though.

Didnt grow up in a religious home, and the concept overall just never made sense.

Probably not, but you never know. With what's left and the current pacing, I don't see the manga ending in less than 500 chapters, despite being in the so-called final stretch. Oda certainly isn't rushing things.

It's one of those things that's relatively minor in a bubble, but giving the government too much freedom with our personal data without consent is definitely nothing that should just be accepted.

I'd say religion itself. We'd always find ways to fight and hurt each other, but the feedback loop from religious texts and gatherings can make that much worse.

TheDurinator posted...

While I don't think we're going to get the WOKEpin, why? He is a literal comic book villain. Having him be the one meting out vigilante justice just seems silly.

I guess to make him slightly more like the "honorable mafia" nonsense trope? I'm not the biggest Spider-Man fan, but seems like a weird characterization. Maybe if he had the guy just shot in the head right there by one of his goons or something, but feels off doing it himself as if he's just some random street thug.

I believe it is split, the character is, but some stories are not.

At this point, this is just one of those conflicts that really has no good ending.

The major problem is SEO and the fact that the corpse will still be left behind. If Fandom actually had any respect for the creators and nuked the old site/put it into read only at their request, things would be more viable. They could even restart it after a certain amount of time, but they need that money to keep coming in.

I wouldn't do it, but I'd pick 73 if I was forced to choose. There's zero benefit to going earlier unless you're someone really passionate about a particular timeframe, and you have nothing to lose in the present.

Cheater87 posted...

And buy them again because lack of backwards compatibility!

You can't even buy them anymore, so now people just have to wait until they arbitrarily update NSO and you'll no longer even be able to play them way in the future when NSO goes offline. I'd rather have the old VC system back, so they had more incentive to release games.

It depends on exactly what he said, but it generally sounds like there's not much that can be done in cases like that.

It doesn't need to be, but it should if a bottle lasts you months. If you somehow go through one in a couple of weeks, then you're fine.

Assuming it's real, maybe it'll be a wireless dock that just needs to be in the same room as the console, but doesn't need to be physically connected. I imagine it'd still function as a stand, though.

Sounds like an absolutely amazing idea that will definitely not end with thousands of people losing their life savings.

Does Trump think of himself as like a greater concept or something?

The main problem with it is that it's a purposefully vitriolic and loaded term, generally lazily tossed around at any opportunity. Even though it's a phenomenon that can be talked about, the usage of that term muddies discussion or renders discourse impossible.

I was expecting some kind of trashy trailer or something. Just looks like a vacant home someone broke into and the seller is too lazy to try to get it properly cleaned out.

Wonder if they got caught just because they were being stupid with converting them to paper money, or if they just got caught due to surveillance stuff. Seems like it would be super easy to do without being caught, so they'd have to be all kinds of dumb to have gotten caught that way.

While its certainly not impossible for circumstances to arise the more chaotic the world is, the larger powers are more into proxy wars, information wars, etc. Nobody worth mentioning wants to claim land anymore, at least through direct combat. The only real worry point is would be a chaotic nation launching a nuke for no reason, like if Putin decided to just end Ukraine out of spite.

I remember one early Pokemon manga canonically has one of them taking a shit for some reason, the more gag-based one. Might have been Pikachu or Clefairy.

Out of the houses we service, fake rocks, hidden in sheds, under mats, etc are all pretty common where I'm located. I'd say more people have moved to lockboxes and door codes over time. It's certainly going to vary depending on the area and the crime level.

How much can they even force him to pay, even if he agreed to start paying? Its good he has this over his head for the rest of his life(?), but it seems that not much will ever actually be paid.

I could see a scenario where constant villain attacks lead to major cell and internet downtime, keeping papers more stable.

Curious if the site makes much profit. Outside of the newer game boards, the boards are basically just a relic, so they cannot generate much revenue. So it's really down to whether or not people are still using the FAQs and if people are bothering to write new ones. I feel like Fandom integration would be too much of a pain in the ass code-wise, and the FAQ belonging to the writers means they can't just suck the soul out of them.

It's funny how some places are still doing Twitter, rebranding to X, and other places are doing X, formerly Twitter. Wikipedia seems to refuse to change the name, and all the editors are arguing about it. I wish outlets just doubled down on calling it Twitter just to fuck with Musk though.

Definitely going to need the video before any real judgements can be made. It's entirely possible for it to be a fuckup cop coverup nonsense story, and it's entirely possible the guy put them in a situation where lethal force was necessary.

HB has a couple meh episodes, but overall it has been quite enjoyable. HH's first episode was fun. As long as corporate meddling doesn't fuck with anything (given the amount of time it took to produce and the corporate mandated radio silence on the part of the creator), seems like it should be a fun ride.

I'd say the biggest pushback came when intrusive and dangerous ads became more commonplace. Obviously, it'd have happened regardless, but I bet it would be less prevalent had sites and agencies vetted their ads better.

I use the phone and TV apps pretty frequently, so it is just easier to pay for it than use workarounds.

Sure. Any dreams I remember are always some kind of nonsensical clusterfuck of a scenario. That would probably be an improvement.

Only for videos that don't have speaking. I occasionally watch some of the non-fake restoration videos and crafting videos on like 4-6x speed because there's really no need for them to be like 20 minutes.