healthy active 45-year old guy suddenly dies of an extremely painful bacterial antibiotic-resistant infection and pneumonia, and also got a stroke on top of this
If they're seriously using lethal (and honestly torturous) bioweapons against individual whistleblowers now, we're probably totally fucked. The armed goons last time were bad enough but there are logistical and potential trust issues, human error and footprint, being inherent loose ends, possible witnesses/cameras, etc. that come with using them.
Bioweapons basically have none of those as long as you have a way of delivering it without being obviously detected, and that seems to be the case here.
Brian Knowles, one of Dean’s lawyers, said he didn’t want to speculate about the close timing and circumstances of the two deaths.
Well shit, even the lawyer seems afraid now, and I can't really blame him.
I guess the lawsuit's probably finished.
If that's (somehow) actually the case, then just allow it as an alternative costume to assuage people's complaints, people have already seen it and it looks literally just like a censored version that we have seen so many times in so many other games.
"children and teens have been subjected to online harassment, bullying, and other harms for far too long"
"toxic content"
This bill seems more like an effort to curtail speech and anonymity online than anything else.
People should be skeptical of something called the "kids online safety act". Usually when you see something receive bipartisan support, its some uniparty bullshit meant to erode the rights of the American people, enrich themselves, or get us into a war (or all of the above), and I strongly suspect this is no different.
Not to mention the bill is being supported by snakes like fucking Chuck Schumer, if that's not a massive red flag (and an indicator that such a bill would be useless against actual threats to children) I don't know what is.
I've recently been playing Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 for the first time, they've been good, though Baldur's Gate 2 is such a massive game in terms of side content by comparison to 1. I'm kinda a bit exhausted from the sheer amount of sidequests so I took a small break. It's good content so far but damn is there a lot of it.
Otherwise I've just been replaying Diablo 1 on the side, it's great. One of the only games to ever truly nail (grim)dark fantasy perfectly (hell it might be the only one if I'm being honest). If you just want a game that's pure, simple fun condensed into one of its purest forms, its great. I nearly wasted a week of vacation time just figuring out something to do, but then decided on a whim to play Diablo again, did it all night and beat it in 2 days. Been a great game ever since I was a small kid and terrified of it.
Otherwise I'll just say some of my favorite pre-2010 games in no particular order: Fire Emblem (GBA), Final Fantasy 4 (the DS version is the best one imo), Dragon Quest V, Starcraft 1, Chrono Trigger, Warcraft 2 and 3, Heroes of Might and Magic 2, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky trilogy, Age of Empires 2, Dragon Ball Z Budokai 1, Valkyria Chronicles, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers, etc.
I think that's only a small part of it.
People will only revolt when things are really intolerable generally. The founding fathers of America were aware of this. Its a big deal for dissent against the government to rise to violence, and it shouldn't be done on a whim or casually (as you can see with the French revolutions or with the Arab spring).
There are also still legal avenues to pursue, and things aren't as bad as they could be yet. Its been a gradual erosion. Currently the pot is still on simmer.
People like to meme that the American Revolution just happened because "muh based founding fathers killed all their enemies the second their rights were threatened", but the reality is that they exhausted all their legal options and all attempts to resolve the situation peacefully before doing it. We aren't at that point yet.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
- Declaration of Independence
A pawn in a fruitless battle?
Their dogshit article has already confirmed it to be an affronting landmark in a war that they believed was already won for their side. Its absolutely pathetic, and its also comical. This kind of article shows how afraid they really are.
Though as a result, I do expect the pressure on Stellar Blade to be increased if media attacks continue, I wouldn't be surprised if Soyny tries some of their usual bullshit.
“OMG. Nickelodeon? It wasn’t a studio, it was Neverland Ranch with craft services,”
You give this fag way too much credit, repeating old debunked false allegations instead of the real shit. (Hell MJ himself was abused by Hollywood jews, part of the reason he despises them so much). A better comparison would've been Epstein's island or the Lolita Express. Even when he's """"based"""", he's still a bullshit merchant, repeating shit everyone already knew.
Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a smokescreen for something else important at the moment. If he actually gets fired for this, I might admit this was an actual "based" moment from him. Until then, he's a snake as he always has been and his motives for anything like this should be looked at with suspicion.
To be on leftist television for this long you basically have to give up your soul, Maher is far from an exception on that.
Yes, but the reality is that we as humans don't know if people's conversions, repentance, or even their belief in God are truly genuine, only God knows that.
As a result, its quite difficult to know how such people should be treated as humans when they have done something truly repugnant and evil. Something naturally feels seriously wrong about allowing such people to do, well, anything, in a church or in a community.
Would you ever let your children near a """former""" child rapist who says he converted to Christianity and wants to teach Sunday School? Common sense would tell you no, and you'd be a fool to do it, and I'd condemn anyone who was brainless enough to let their children near such a person.
My viewpoint is that human forgiveness is largely a personal thing, done for your own sake and heart rather than for the other person. If they have done something evil, they should still face the consequences of earthly justice for it, even if they've sought forgiveness and even if the person has forgiven them. Forgiveness is not the same as reconciliation or allowing unconditional trust. If we're talking about forgiveness from God, that's between the person seeking it and God, but we don't know what will happen to them, we aren't mind or heart readers and we have to do the best with what we do know.
And what we do know is terrible.
I wouldn't be surprised, I'd be curious to know if certain people who were based in the community have been "taken out" in some way, how many controlled moderators and "community managers" were recently installed into positions, etc.
Wew, I feel bad for anyone who ever had to interact with that freak.