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Zareth posted...

My dog actually said "stop wasting time going after corrupt politicians committing felonies and go after shoplifters" with a straight face

Maybe just apply the law equally. Why was Trump charged with felonies for doing the same thing clinton was slapped with a fine for?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/30/politics/clinton-dnc-steele-dossier-fusion-gps

Blightzkrieg posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b49728d8.jpg

Lol

adjl posted...

How much do you think it costs to prosecute somebody (bearing in mind that, at a minimum, you're looking at two lawyers and a judge that each make a couple hundred an hour)? How much do you think any individual shoplifter actually costs society?

Collectively, shoplifting is certainly a problem, but it's a problem spread out across thousands of small-scale criminals, each of which is far more expensive to prosecute than to leave alone. If resources are limited, disregarding any but the most egregious examples of shoplifting is precisely what any given court system should be doing, allowing those limited resources to instead be focused on higher-value cases (like fraud that results in a $350 million fine or a presidential candidate using campaign funds to bribe people to not say bad things about them).

I appreciate your well thought out and measured response.

While charging shoplifters may come with a large expense, not doing so only encourages first time and reapet offenders. Not prosecuting smaller crimes leads to the commission of more serious crimes. While the cost of each individual shoplifter may not be much, collectively it leads to higher prices, lost tax revenue, store closures and businesses shutting down, and lost time and a more inconvienient shopping experience. Its analogous to death by 1000 paper cuts.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

wow

oh no

gross

looks like he hasn't done anything differently than any other d.a does.

lmfao

"Under Bragg, the percentage of felonies downgraded has increased to 60 - up from 53% percent under his predecessor."

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d1e72223.jpg

BlackScythe0 posted...

What is the name of this logical fallacy? The whole "You can only do one thing at a time" as if the resources which would address shoplifting is even remotely the same as this? Like do you think street cops were taken off the streets for this? Investigators for violent crimes are getting pulled to investigate paper crimes? Like how can anyone say stuff like this without realizing how profoundly ignorant it is?

I think it reads as more of a critique on the priorities of new York prosocuters. Charging someone for classifiying a payment to a lawyer as a legal expense seems silly while refusing to prosecute shoplifters when stores are closing due to shoplifting and having to lock up toothpaste, all while downgrading over half of felonies to misdemeanors.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

they can do both at the same time lmfao

Tell that to Bragg, who has down graded over half of felonies to misdemeanors and refuses to prosecute shoplifters.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/97fbca44.jpg

Sarcasthma posted...

Keep taking those l's, buddy.

Yeah!!! Out of control inflation and new foreign wars and billions in tax payer dollars flowing overseas with no oversight or accountability. Sounds like a cause for celebration!

Its a good thing new York spent their precious little resources prosecuting a guy who wrote down a payment to a lawyer as a legal expense instead of going after serial shop lifters and perpetrators of violent crime.

NightMareBunny posted...

he tried to overthrow the government because he lost the Election

You're believing fake news. He encouraged a peaceful protest if that's what you mean.

I haven't played that since the ps2 era. But if you want it for the story, you could try an easier difficulty. Playing on hard mode and finding that it's hard; isn't that the point?

BlackScythe0 posted...

I don't think there is that many traitors on this board.

He's not perfect, and one could levy some valid criticism against him, but a traitor he is not.

Justin2Krelian posted...

A lot of No votes anyone specific?

Trump.

Its ok

Game informer

Rasmoh posted...

It almost assuredly would. If street drugs were legalized and regulated, much of the things that make them unsafe would simply go away.

Didn't Oregon try that? Remind me again what that did to the number of overdose deaths.

Here are the last two: Warm Sun Shines and Monitor.

https://youtu.be/fgmBAF73EwY?si=_8xw8hMLDOiex7au

https://youtu.be/TLOss11mUDQ?si=omWnHHw-rCiX-sIY

__starsnostars posted...

He spent like a third of his presidency golfing and another third scamming tax-payers for personal enrichment.

You do know that he left office with less money than when he entered, right? can the same be said about any other president? The last 5 in particular left office with exponentially more wealth than when they entered, clinton especially.

This is the first song I wrote for the album, its called Dear Girl.

https://youtu.be/DsX79nGG4Zc?si=yeHE1DGpfQ1sjLtg

This one is called Moon Child. Inspired by Moonlight Sonata.

https://youtu.be/vxi6y6jimEQ?si=gwFyOYv6gw3me9LW

I call this on First Born.

https://youtu.be/YCJItd4hNdg?si=FweMS5SA4HqQsyzP

ConfusedTorchic posted...

so fraud is okay because they got paid back

lmao ok

except them getting paid back isn't what constitutes the fraud. (did they even get paid back lmao)

yeah, that's cut and dry fraud

When I go take out a second mortgage on my house, the bank just doesn't take my word on it that its worth infinitibillion dollars. They do their own evaluation.

Yes, they got paid back.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Dude. This isn't about what he sold or what parties agreed on, it's about what one party lied about for personal benefits. Do you think if the banks sent out "evaluators" to assess it and agree with his assessments this would have happened? You're also trying to nit pick and avoiding the tax fraud part of it.

Stop defending criminals.

He didn't lie about what it was worth. He said it was worth x and the bank agreed. And then the loan was made and he paid it back. The case wasn't even brought by the bank, but people using the justice system against their political rivals. This was a cival fraud case, not about taxes my dude.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

it's a bit different when you overvalue it 50x what it is actually valued at

Its worth what someone is willing to pay for it. If the banks evaluators accepted it as collateral than that's what it worth, for a loan...that got laid back.

In my opinion its pretty obvious some people are using the justice system to go after their political rivals. Overvaluing a property on a loan application that got paid back? Come on.

This one is called Baby Pictures.

https://youtu.be/nl_hqdkG6Mk?si=DwI3B8-5YASjO7iN

Trusted Since 1849

Only seen Joker so that gets my vote.

BoomerKuwanger posted...

Sounds kinda MIDI-ish, no offense.

I'm not an expert with this stuff by any means but I think the mixing is maybe a bit flat, that could be part of it. Also lots of staccato (I think that's the term I'm looking for) piano and guitar sections that sound kinda unfocused IMO. Were some of these instruments done with a program or are they all live instruments? Like some of them sound like programmed to me, I don't know how to explain it but they just do.

Mad props for putting it together though, doing music is one of the coolest hobbies you can have for sure

Thanks for taking a listen and for the feedback. Mixing is definitely not my strong suit.

The piano/organ/strings and trumpet sounds all came from the keyboard, but were all played live and not programmed. Guitar, bass and drums are all live instruments.

Yeah music is definitely a fun hobby.

Do you play at all?

Track 6 is titled Remi G.

https://youtu.be/1Cntk6xo3Y0?si=3mA6_78U1-UIr-zB

Here is one called Coduroy Overground.

https://youtu.be/KGLMjfI9YBU?si=GQLT4WqswR__-odU

Lord of the rings. You gotta tril it up at least every 5 years.

I have a ps vr for skyrim and borderlands which is pretty cool. But the cost right now is too high.

This one is called Rising Son

https://youtu.be/qwY9F7uXw4w?si=GIR7K0EHG0PRa0i7

Yellow posted...

@hungrymike can you do lyrics?

I'm going to see if I can remix my "little guys" track.

I've never really done lyrics, but i am really not a good singer.

Little guys sounds cool. The intro was reminiscent of Lincoln Park. Definatley good for a game!

Yellow posted...

Sounds pretty cool, for some reason it almost reminds me of Runescape.

If I write music it's usually just mouse clicks on a keyboard, I can't play real instruments in real time. If I could do that I bet it would sound more natural like yours.

Thanks Yellow.

I think I remember you posting a link to your sound cloud and I thought it was pretty good. (At least I think it was you)

This one is called Still Bay.

https://youtu.be/U6nr3yxY84M?si=BEi6m1fSMzCv_AZ3

I haven't played any of those games, but I did play the first 2 kingdom hearts on ps2 so that gets my vote.

It's between salt and vinegar and bbq

Its called Family Tree by Dizzi Bear. I'll post the songs here as I get them loaded to YouTube, or you can listen on Spotify/Pandoa.

Here are the first 2, Forgot About Clay, and Big Sister.

https://youtu.be/W3T9trgInTs?si=kAz7GJPxXN6-qjp_

https://youtu.be/Nx-0GPMTe9o?si=w3VBPn_Y0S-JXIu-