Between this and trying to sell that nuked Torii gate merchandise someone over there HAS to be doing this on purpose. There's just NO way these things keep happening by coincidence.... is there?
https://x.com/assassinscreed/status/1877400048314528126
https://xcancel.com/assassinscreed/status/1877400048314528126
https://archive.is/https://x.com/assassinscreed/status/1877400048314528126
If people haven't read up on the group who did those attacks, Aum Shinrikyo, its a fucking wild story. A straight up new religion founded around terrorism, they had hymns about how wonderful sarin gas was, and were only held back by sheer incompetence, like when they got a helicopter but couldn't figure out how to fly it.
The gas attack itself had a fucking Looney Tunes show leading up to it which is the reason why "only" like 15 died instead of 10000+ it would have had had it worked anywhere near as planned.
They also treated the leader like we should all terrorists after trial. They locked him in a cell alone for years until he was a blithering mess that couldn't sign his name or stop shitting himself, and then didn't tell him he was being hung until the day he was, as is tradition there.
Random stupid fact about him. He started his group with generic mediation Buddha talk, and one of his "miraculous abilities" was being able to float while meditating. He achieved this because he taught himself to flex his thigh muscles hard enough to become airborne while sitting cross legged, and then snapped a picture at the exact moment he was a few inches off the ground. And then would sell people his bath water for their tea (beating Belle Delphine to the idea by 30+ years).
Its truly a story so ridiculous it could only be Japan, and should not be associated with something so boring as an Asscreed game.
The people who fall into these religious cults are a very special mix of psychotic and very low intelligence. Just watched a sickening Dateline on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Absolute bunch of retards run by deranged lunatics.
.... but enough about the woke.
Yeah but usually there is a hook, and a continued amount of "success," however low the bar is, that keeps them together. Jim Jones was a hugely powerful civil rights activist, Heaven's Gate had asexuality and aliens, Manson had drugs and sex.
Shinrikyo was a continued string of incompetence on a level that its hard to even explain, especially considering they were setting the stage to get all governments to give up and declare Shoko Emperor of Japan/Earth. And yet they could barely manage basic functioning.
And they still fucking exist.
Also the Mormon cults are all "politics first" types, especially singular principles they hold they let them become easily controlled by tyrannical types. FLDS are usually the polygamy thing, but there are dozens of "30 people in a compound" ones that are about anything. Its a great example of why you don't become "single issue voters"
I love this video going into how Japan handles executions, calling it 'evil', only to get a slew of comments basically going 'Still waiting on the evil' or 'Nope, seems sensible to me.'
There is a lot of evil in the Japanese justice system. They will bully people into confessing to crimes they didn't commit just to keep up their 99% conviction rate, torture people in terrible ways during those interrogations, and be completely arbitrary in how they carry out those executions. Such as rushing 3 executions out within a week of an unrelated massacre just to save face.
Problem is, that's both complicated, nuanced, and would be difficult for a lot of people to fully criticize.
So instead they fall back on the good ol' "death penalty bad!" or the even dumber "its so barbaric" even though lethal injection (the most "humane" in their eyes) is the most brutal execution we have minus that its cleaner.