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I mean, the whole thing that made Epstein such a big deal was that he dealt with everyone. Not necessarily everyone was involved with the whole "child sex trafficking" stuff, but it kept everyone culpable, and meant Epstein could sink literally everyone who was even remotely associated - so that nobody was able to bring the events to light.

Who knows how guilty King would be in this situation. But not at all surprised he might see himself getting into trouble for whatever his association was.

Remember seeing Deja Foxx blow up like, 3 days ago. Made a surprisingly big splash, but probably made that splash way too late to make an impact. Not surprised at this result.

I remember when the leaks finished it turned out something like 30-40% of the set was just FFVII and XIV. Heck, we got 3 different Cloud and Sephiroth cards.

I understand they can't do everyone, and there was already IIRC the most legends of any set(?) in the Final Fantasy set, but would have loved some more representation. The first FF game I ever finished was FF12, and was pretty disappointed to see they don't even get the full cast.

Honestly surprised FFXIII got so little representation - I know its a more controversial instalment nowadays, but it was ****ing massive when it was coming out, and because of that its still the one I associate most with Final Fantasy. It got 2 sequels even - I don't think anything besides 7 have that many extra games - it isn't even common to get a single extra game attached to the main series.

With how wild a success this set seemed to be, I wouldn't be surprised if in another year or two, we ended up with an additional Final Fantasy set, like how there were two DnD sets or two LotR sets.

Call em like I see em.

https://youtu.be/sbpjPRoSvLY?si=oEMGM7T8bitdDfWm

The court's decision was unsigned, and the majority did not explain its thinking.

As one does, when you pass something blatantly unconstitutional because you're partisan hacks.

wtf is going on in the world right now?

I feel bad for the people who are paying $30/month to have a shitty anime waifu-bot pretend to like them.

Supposedly, the reason Starfield took so long was because BGS basically had to build and then rebuild a whole engine for Starfield, and then redo everything when the thing they were trying to do with Starfield was no fun.

If that's true, a game they've already done like ES or Fallout should be able to be done way faster. Though we're supposed to be waiting on another round of Starfield DLC, so who knows.

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Packing the Supreme Court with partisan judges was literally step 1. Its not like there wasn't likely an equivalent of "Project 2020" or whatever in the works.

If he actually had files to release, Trump would be sucking up to him like he was doing 6 months ago.

Honestly, this kind of sounds like small fries for the FBI to get involved with. My quick google says the video game industry in the US is estimated to be worth ~$41 Billion. That's like 0.5%.

I'll probably check out a replay eventually - AEW always delivers on their big shows, and Adam Page is IMO the best professional wrestler alive and is going to earn that world title tonight. Though I can't imagine Okada/Omega V will actually meet the hype.

what the **** is going on?

Where did this "they're controlling the weather" thing suddenly come from to be such a big deal overnight? The last time it made news everyone was making fun of the idea.

The GOP is trying out different talking points to see what sticks. Once one finally works everyone will fall in line and we'll be back to nothing.

At this point, most people who vote republican probably wouldn't even care if Trump and his entire administration are child sex traffickers.

The entire government is run by losers who grew up on 4Chan, and because they had money never had to learn how much of a ****ing loser that makes you.

theAteam posted...

Biden snuck in and took them in the dead of night

Turns out Biden's cognitive decline was all a farce specifically designed to let Biden destroy the Epstein files without any suspicion.

UnfairRepresent posted...

She supports Zohran Mamdani who called the October 7th Hamas attacks a vile war crime.

https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/1941641575869579606

So if you support the Muslim socialist who wants Universial Healthcare, then you're a zionist who is pro-genocide.

I thought the left-wing loved Mamdani? He's been getting into a ton of flak during his campaign because he is very explicitly not pro-Israel.

If anyone doesn't know who this is, Mamdani made a bunch of news for being essentially a social democrat who had a bit of an upset winning the democratic primary for mayor of NYC (which means he is now largely expected to become mayor of NYC).

Southernfatman posted...

Is it "the left" or just a relative few leftists on Twitter and reddit?

Probably the latter, given just from these kinds of topics I recognize the silly squirrel profile pic.

It'd be really funny if this was one of the few things the MAGA crowd weren't willing to just completely abandon to follow Trump. Like when Trump was bragging about being the one to bring covid vaccines to the world, but his base was too anti-vaxx he had to still back off.

It's not stupid easy, but you can easily have fun on the "I just want to pubstomp" difficulty, that is in fact stupid easy. If you want to like, max out the difficulty you really need to fully know what you're doing, but you only really have to do that if you personally want to.

As someone who is shit at Civ games, you can definitely have a lot of fun without really being too challenged.

I think we've seen so many of these topics I recognize that stupid squirrel profile pic.

And also, the OP still doesn't say about what Contrapoints supposedly even did to upset people. Its not like she's new to people getting mad at her, she deletes like every other tweet within the day.

I've enjoyed them. Not enough to sub to Disney + for the TV shows, but I will probably go watch whenever a new Star Wars movie comes out.

Honestly, all the stuff ILCA was able to do with BDSP beyond their coat of paint was really good. The Underground was a really cool change, the art style was great, the post game stuff and gym leader rematches etc... were all great, etc...

The fact that we ended up just letting the narrative be that BDSP was lazy garbage take over before the game even came out was unfair. It's the best "classic" pokemon game that's come out in like 10+ years.

I'd be happy to see them get a chance to actually go all out with BW remakes, especially since the main story around BDSP was it being shoved onto ILCA at the last minute when it turned out they weren't gonna be able to drop PLA in time for the holidays.

Don't worry, its just that time of the week where the republicans do something really stupid and pisses off their own base, but the talking points haven't been finalized yet.

Within a couple days, the Fox News and whatnot will get their shit together and the whole MAGA crowd will move on to pretending the whole thing was a hoax to spite the republicans, or that child-sex trafficking is okay as long as its in the name of supporting daddy Trump.

Honestly, I'm surprised Trump even cares. It was like 10 years ago when he said

"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"

And that's shown to be pretty much completely accurate, if not even more preferential towards Trump. Its basically already been proven that Trump is a pedo, and nobody in the MAGA crowd cares in the slightest. They'll say Trump being with Epstein was fake news, or he's probably the reason he got caught, and move on to the next talking point without a second thought.

For Trump to be worried about any implication, he'd have to be way more involved than we even think he is.

I mean, was this ever really enforced to begin with? Churches have been directly supporting Trump for like, a decade now.

I remember liking it as a kid, but its pretty meh looking back at it.

Still not as bad as people pretend it was, like a 5-6/10 movie at worst. Think the problem was that Final Fantasy the game can tell a boring story for long enough that it turns around into really good by the time you finish, and you have added incentive to continue playing as long as its interesting enough because you're literally playing the game to get to that point. In a movie neither of these things are true, so if the first hour of this ~2 hour movie is boring as ****, nobody is gonna care if it gets interesting later.

I think we'll eventually get it - I think the mass popularity of GoT, and then the huge backlash the ending few seasons got probably made him change a bunch of plans (given like, the main plot points of the last few seasons aren't really that out there, just how the show got to them), and GRRM is admittedly really bad at actually planning his stuff out. Don't forget his last book was released pretty much around like, season 1-2 of the show's release. That's a lot more hype for this book than existed when he was writing the last one.

So having to redo whatever his original plans were, and then find a (at least, somewhat) different way of bringing even more characters together for a big final climax that still fits the myriad of storylines and character arcs probably isn't fun. I imagine Winds of Winter would probably be the toughest book of the story to actually write.

But because of that, I do think that if we actually manage to get Winds of Winter, we'll probably also get A Dream of Spring pretty quickly. At that point the hardest stuff for GRRM to write will be done, and it'll be easier to wrap everything up once its been set up for the big climax.

Its a love letter to the original PS games, but sort of gets carried away in its own self-indulgence.

There are a million extra collectibles you'll feel the need to try and get (and some are irritatingly tough to get) and all the levels are like 4 times as long to finish, that isn't really better than the old PS games.

If you liked the original Crash games, you'll probably like these, but you won't like it more unless you're really into Crash.

As others have said, don't try to 100% it, but its a fun game by itself.

I really liked the show when I was a kid - and being a fun little episodic crime show is IMO probably better than trying to give any kind of actual resolution to a lot of the silliness going on. One of the times filler is just like, enjoyable. Its still a fun mystery, and its always something new or different from the last one.

Its quite formulaic, but the mysteries are fun, and the silly side moments of "Jimmy needs to basically frame his incompetent guardian for solving the crime" and "Jimmy's girlfriend knows that Jimmy is the kid, but can't really prove it and for reasons Jimmy needs to convince her otherwise".

Definitely felt weird that first episode with them having regular japanese names instead of weird dubs names like Jimmy or Rachel.

Well, this isn't slavery unless the farm owner starts to stop paying them (as in some kind of "I'll forward you the money to pay off this bill" kind of way), but is 100% reminiscent of catching runaway slaves.

Certainly not something I'd put much higher than "slavery", but there's definitely wiggle room for nazis online to dance around it to pretend its perfectly fine.

EDIT: Okay I watched what Trump said again, forget that this definitely sounds like slavery. Weird that Trump is just gonna make the farm owners responsible for these immigrants, but I don't think that means getting them a work visa...

LightSnake posted...

Isn't this just human trafficking

Yes. This would at bare minimum, be directly human trafficking.

IMO, the first Jurassic World movie was fun. The premise to make a silly disaster movie out of "we're making dinosaurs" is obvious, and Jurassic World did what it wanted to and did it well. Heck, this was the Jurassic Park book.

The real question, is why are we expecting peak cinema from a dinosaur action movie? It's a ****ing miracle the first one was any good.

I remember him saying he wanted to do that when he first finished the court case. Guess he fell for some conservative grifter and it didn't take.

If we never have to hear about him again, I wish him all the best.

Glob posted...

As somebody whos done them and isnt normally worried about exams, they are daunting as fuck.

This. My oral defence for my Master's was the most stressed I have ever been about any test I've ever had in my life, and you don't typically get an oral defence date at all unless everyone has pretty much already agreed you're passing.

I mean, Musk doesn't need to ever actually deliver on these things - he just needs to say stuff and sound futuristic.

I'm still waiting on how long before Tesla's self driving won't crash into a Road Runner-esque landscape painted on a wall.

"Wow isn't it so great that I learned nothing with my expensive degree?"

Like, why do people think this is a win?

There was a very significant part of this console generation, that being the shift to SSDs instead of hard drives. That single handedly has made a massive difference for my playing.

But at the same time, I bought a Series S relatively early on because I couldn't afford the PS5/Series X, and have felt zero need or even interest in actually upgrading, so its literally just the SSD

I really hope Microsoft keeps the Series S - type console with whatever they do next - it was a great idea to have just a cheaper option to run all the new games or casually play gamepass, and instead it was assaulted with stupid internet circlejerking at every opportunity.

I really enjoyed it, but I've barely thought about it since I put it down. I've been thinking about trying the later games, but I've just never really gone out of my way for it.

A good game, but not one I feel the need to ever actually return to.

This actually just looks like a no-win scenario for AEW. Unless they can directly prove the spot was planned, they can't really win here. Like Moxley hitting every standard for civil battery/assault was broadcast on national TV.

This guy isn't asking for that much, which seems like it isn't that likely he's just trying to scrounge for money.

obsolete posted...

Even if Moxley didn't mean any malice with that you can't shove a non-wrestler when they're not expecting it. AEW should settle, pay his medicals bills, and apologize.

Add to that the unexpected bumps are always the ones most likely to lead to some kind of injury - especially if you aren't like, trained to be taking bumps.

The one thing that could be the case as well is if this is basically a way for this guy to get his insurance to pay out, because otherwise he won't have any "on-paper" damages. This is surprisingly common because insurance companies basically won't give anything out. In this case, the guy needs to sue Moxley and AEW, even if AEW would otherwise be supportive. They can settle out of court and this guy can get his insurance to finally pay out.

Heck, the guy doesn't even seem to be suing for much? 25k in America is like, 4 minutes at the doctor.

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The event in question was broadcast on national TV, and Ricochet's tweet alone would probably be enough for this guy to win.

I bought a regular booster box, the starter deck, and a single collector booster.

If the collector booster was the price of normal ones, I'd be much more inclined to buy others, but really that's the only thing I kind of regret picking up. Got the Booster box and starter deck(s) for not much more than other sets charge, so I don't really feel ripped off for those.

The Precon decks are like triple MSRP anywhere I can find them, which is already inflated because I'm in Canada, so I didn't bother touching any of those.

It's a very 2010-era game, and it screams it so hard it feels almost weird to play in the modern day. I actually played it again recently after I saw some YouTuber make a way too long video essay about it.

It feels like this weird mix of overly ambitious and "lazily colour-by-numbers whatever is popular in the game industry right now". But it does the lazy color-by-numbers stuff pretty decently as well.

I'm gonna say "like" but really only barely. I certainly wouldn't consider it a bad game, but its not really something worth going out of your way for.

Well if this guy cared about America he would still be at war.

/s

Didn't Trump basically say "If you don't behave perfectly we'll **** stomp you out like dirt"

I mean, there were enough protests elsewhere, and even those protests were just "yeah probably better to just not bother at the actual parade" anyone in town would probably have felt it not worth it to bother going at all.

I mean, go off and investigate whatever you want. Its not like it wasn't a literal investigation that the GOP was so desperate to find some evidence of wrongdoing in 2020 they were looking for like, bamboo residue to indicate Chinese interference.

I'm still of the opinion that if Trump did steal the election - we'd have heard about it by now because there's zero chance Trump or any of the idiots in his administration would be able to keep their mouth shut about it. Trump's last administration leaked like a sieve, and that one was a billion times more competent than this one.

Cartoon_Quoter posted...

It'll be replaced by "MEFA", which will do exactly the same thing as FEMA, but now all the conservatives who have spent years calling for FEMA to die get to say they killed it and replaced it with "a good, old fashioned conservative" alternative. And 75 million of the dumbest people imaginable won't even think to question it.

Don't forget it'll cost 4x as much to run, and somehow only deliver about 1/4 what FEMA was.

So.... there's just gonna be no disaster relief anymore?

Remember when it was a big shot against Biden that FEMA ran out of money last year? imagine if Trump could face any consequences for just never giving it out again.

I imagine the MAGA crowd will declare victory when Trump offers nothing to help West Coast Forest Fires, and it will somehow be democrats' fault when its also not there the next time a hurricane ravages Florida.

I remember the lady who wrote the book hated that they turned the movie into a generic slasher flick.

Which is funny because the book is instead a generic whodunit.

This has come up a couple times since the election, and just, there's absolutely no way we'd be hearing the election was stolen as some kind of deep-state movie plot, they'd just be bragging about it with no consequences.

There's zero chance Trump or Musk would still be quiet about this. Especially after Trump won and had basically gotten away with everything, Trump would be bragging to high heaven about how he stole the election to "save America" or whatever.

Elon Musk doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut either, and especially right now where he and Trump are in the middle of a stupid middle school spat he'd definitely tell everyone he stole the election for Trump because Musk is the biggest most special boy and he's the one that deserves all the admiration.

Trump's 2016 administration leaked like a sieve, and back then it was still loaded with people who were actually competent. None of the competent people are there anymore.

Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)

https://youtu.be/TmSseflzy38?si=u5rUwo5rXxdLGk2n

I'm firmly of the opinion that if RoS was anything close to like, real effort, and not a super awkward attempt at damage control towards an audience that would never accept it.

TFA took a similar story and set it up to go in a new direction, and then TLJ took it in a new direction and set stuff up for a finale to the trilogy. But the final movie suddenly had a whole breakdown and basically made a completely unrelated third movie with the only actual relation to the previous movie being actively ruining everything it set up as if it was bullying your friend to try and fit in with the cool kids.

If ROS had just gone with what had been set up and actually tried making a decent movie with what had been set up, nobody would still be whining about The Last Jedi.

This is apparently the kind of DEI we needed - we were sorely underrepresented in the incompetent white loser with no abilities in the federal government.

Its such a good thing Trump won and made sure the entire administration if full of this under supported group of talentless losers.

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