LazyPiranha

Look, if you were involved in a secret pedo island and flew celebrities and politicians from all over to your secret pedo island to do secret pedo island things, wouldn’t your first order of business be to NOT keep a written log of it? It’s such an annoying detail about this whole thing, that you have pilots willing to bring people to a place dedicated to one of the vilest crimes imaginable but you will be god damned if you’re going to lie about it on a flight log. Child trafficking is one thing but unofficial unregulated paperwork? That’s sacred. Why do people pal around with Epstein? The same reason they pal around with Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, whoever. People will spend time with billionaires because they are billionaires, and that’s the lesson we refuse to learn.

You can be a pimp, a child rapist, a predator, and any other number of the worst things possible and that doesn’t mean that every person you ever spent time with is also one of or all of those things too.

The Epstein thing is a fascinating case of people absolutely missing the point. The lesson we should be taking away from this isn’t that there’s some super secret pedo cabal out there, but instead that the rich have laughably easy access to those in power.

The sentence has less to do with the crime itself which goes beyond simple leaks because he did try to extort them, but because of him being tried in relation to his mental condition. If you’ve got a guy who is, in open court, proudly claiming they not only will go back to crime but wants to do it as soon as possible, then what other choice do you have? A regular prison stint won’t help this kid at all, he needs professional medical help until he’s deemed to not be a danger.

What makes you think it isn’t?

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! Bayonetta 3 Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (GBC) Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Link’s Awakening (Switch) No More Heroes 3 Nier Replicant some decimal or another Stray Immortality Fear & Hunger The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Resident Evil 4 (2023) Dead Space (2023) The Callisto Protocol ——————————————- Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun A fun throwback shooter with a lot of charm and style. I know next to nothing about Warhammer, but everything is littered with chunky dudes and skulls in a satisfying way. The only major gripe is that good lord this game needs a map. Like a Doom a lot of levels require you to find a key and unlock a door to progress, but sometimes the stage is just so full of similar mechanical nonsense that it’s hard to remember where the hell you were when you saw it the first time. Fun times though and a good little 8-10 hour distraction.

It’s half a mile from the statue to any part of New Jersey, and that’s just a park. It’s a mile until you get to an actual building. On top of that, if you believe the implausible map for the movie, the entire east coast is on the same side.

What the fuck are you sniping from the torch of the Statue of Liberty? Seagulls?

Sure, why not.

The Israeli government as it currently stands isn’t going to want a ceasefire regardless of what Hamas have or haven’t done. The current government wants no Palestine at all, a ceasefire does not serve the goal in the slightest. Let’s not pretend that they’re so offended by the actions of Hamas that they’re taking out righteous anger, that’s a convenient justification for something they’ve wanted to do since forever.

Given the people involved my guess is she came in, secured the bag by stealing every penny that wasn’t nailed down, and is quitting after looting the place with a pretense of moral high ground.

There are also a small handful of matters that HAVE to go to the Supreme Court, but there are very few filed and even fewer heard, probably less than one a year on average.

Who could possibly have seen this coming?

We should just hire a junk scientist to make a bullshit study showing that raw milk gives kids autism and then they’ll have no idea what to do.

Teaching HOW to do math is weird. It's like trying to translate your own brain into someone else's. My son is in fourth grade and trying to teach him the shortcuts and logic my brain uses to do math quickly in my head just doesn't work most of the time.

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I always thought the idea was that Israel gets so much money from the US that if it becomes politically unpalatable over here that money could dry up. Virtue signaling with at least the vaguest possibility of a consequence.

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! Bayonetta 3 Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (GBC) Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Link’s Awakening (Switch) No More Heroes 3 Nier Replicant some decimal or another Stray Immortality Fear & Hunger The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Resident Evil 4 (2023) Dead Space (2023) ————————————— The Callisto Protocol I really set this one up to fail, didn’t I? Even if I hadn’t just played two of the best over the shoulder action horror games of all time back to back immediately before starting Callisto, I don’t think it would have made much of a difference. Callisto feels like someone took the basic framework of Dead Space and managed to tweak everything in just the wrong way. Oh, you want a clever combat system instead of just bullet sponge enemies? Yeah, we can do that! How does just waggling the joystick left and right endlessly sound? The idea of having melee be a significant part of the combat and having a way to dodge incoming attacks is good and makes sense. The solution being “just hold left then right endlessly until victory” does not. The boss enemies are bullet sponges, so you will spend minutes of time ducking and weaving without any danger at all because you will ALWAYS dodge as long as you alternate between left and right. There are long stretches of the game dedicated to slowly crawling through vents or shimmying through cracks which feel half like they’re to hide loads and half like they’re padding a short game. The world is littered with walls of spikes for you to throw enemies into which would be more satisfying if the tool you used to do it didn’t suck and if it didn’t feel like an apology for the combat. “Look, we know you’re getting tired of dodging, just toss this guy into spikes and we can both move on.” It’s not a terrible game or even a bad one, just a thoroughly mediocre one. It was free through PS+ and for that it was fine but if I had paid $70 for it I’d have been be very unhappy. As a side note, this game was originally going to be in the PUBG universe which is wild, and I don’t know if it’s a bad coincidence or not, but the ending of the game can be sort of loosely connected tied to PUBG still. I don’t know if they kept the original idea but scrapped the direct reference or if it was just a fairly standard trope that echos.

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! Bayonetta 3 Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (GBC) Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Link’s Awakening (Switch) No More Heroes 3 Nier Replicant some decimal or another Stray Immortality Fear & Hunger The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Resident Evil 4 (2023) ——————————— Dead Space (2023) Unlike RE4 remake, I feel like the new Dead Space is an improvement from the original in more or less every way. Honestly the only part of the remake that I’d say is worse is they try to redo the twist ending by changing it, and it’s somehow even less plausible than the original twist. That said, the original reveal was equally stupid so it’s just swapping one bad twist for a different one. I haven’t replayed Dead Space as many times as I have RE4, so outside of some really obvious differences it’s harder to tell what was totally changed and what was left more or less intact. It’s a very faithful remake and I would go back to play this one over the original before I would go back and play the remake of RE4 over the original. Hopefully they’ll give Dead Space 2 this treatment as well. That said, playing this made me look up the bigger picture lore on the markers and yeesh.

Miller: We should get rid of this dude, he’s a crook Santos: womanbeatersayswhat?

A century too late, but welcome news nonetheless

Bring back the guillotine