FtttG
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FtttG
23hr ago
How is releasing footage of the incident that the assailant filmed on his phone "covering it up"?
FtttG
23hr ago
They even shot an innocent lady in Minnesota and decided to cover it up.
Are we talking about the same woman? Because her "innocence" is exactly what's under discussion, and I can't say it's been effectively "covered up" if literally everyone is talking about it.
FtttG
1d ago
So you really think that cowering in your home, as the cited person on twitter was saying, is a valid thing we should accept as a society?
What was your opinion of lockdowns?
This is important, because it's a hint to state of mind. It also wasn't just swearing. He (and I think after reflection it's almost certainly him) called her a "fucking bitch" immediately after. The vibe is "you deserved it", not "oh shit I almost died".
The vibe is "oh shit I almost died because someone hit the accelerator while I was standing directly in front of their car". I have to say, I think you're demanding an impossibly high standard of behaviour from police officers. It's one thing to say that police officers should endeavour to remain courteous and professional to the best of their ability. It's quite another to say that an officer cursing in the middle of a stressful situation, literally seconds after he was very nearly seriously struck by a car, is dispositive proof that he's a vicious murderer. And as I pointed out elsewhere, it's entirely possible that Ross didn't even know that Good was dead at the time he spoke.
FtttG
1d ago
A Xitter user with 43k followers explicitly describing Ross's wife as a mail-order bride. Heart-reacted 92k times, retweeted 15k times.
Richard Hanania mocking him for having an immigrant wife while thinking immigrants are a threat to America (refusing to parse the legal/illegal immigrant distinction, of course).
Richard Hanania asserting that Ross married a brown woman and then decided to devote his life to terrorising brown people (my God, do I loathe the term "people of colour", as if a Filipina has anything in common with a Somalian other than not being white).
Someone on Instagram comparing Ross's wife to the sexually exploited women she met while working as a missionary.
A Xitter user claiming that Ross married his Filipina wife specifically because the Philippines is the only country in the world which doesn't recognise divorce, thereby enslaving her.
FtttG
1d ago
I saw a clip of a standup comedian saying that seeing a relationship counselor when you aren't married and don't have children just means you should break up, and I'm inclined to agree. If you have children and a mortgage, you should be doing everything in your power to try and make the relationship work: if not, you're probably better off just cutting your losses.
FtttG
1d ago
I think it's mainly a style thing. The narration is so dense with jargon that there are often times when I literally cannot follow what's happening. Maybe this wouldn't be such an issue if I was a bigger sci-fi head.
I'm likewise having trouble keeping track of which character is which, an especially galling failing given that the narration makes such a big point of how different the characters are (both from each other and the human norm). One of the main characters has multiple personalities, but might as well not for all the difference it makes to her voice.
FtttG
1d ago
And he loses still further sympathy points if it was him who said "fucking bitch", to say the last.
It's been a few days since I watched any of the numerous angles of the altercation, but my recollection is that whichever person said "fucking bitch" said it mere seconds after shots were fired. If indeed it was Ross who said it, I think it's entirely possible he didn't know Good was dead at the time of speaking.
FtttG
2d ago
A bit over halfway through Blindsight. Honestly, I can't say I'm loving it. It may be destined for the charity shop.
FtttG
2d ago
I think it'd be no harm creating that now that we've established that the shooting in Minneapolis will be dominating discussions at least for the rest of the current news cycle, but this
I'd like to suggest that in the future mods should exercise some judgement and make a megathread on events like this that are likely to generate a ton of back and forth discussion
seems like an awful lot to ask. It's not like the mods have a crystal ball and can see into the future about which culture war topics will generate the most discussion. Some police shootings/killings become front-page news and stay there for months; most do not. A week ago, if you had asked me to predict which of this shooting or Trump's invasion of Venezuela would generate the most column inches, I would have predicted the latter.
FtttG
2d ago
FtttG
3d ago
I don't know about law enforcement in general, but the FBI uses the Bittaker and Norris audio tapes (of the two men raping, torturing and murdering their female victims, many of whom were teenagers) to desensitize agents-in-training to extreme violence. To help Scott Glenn prepare for his role as Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, an FBI consultant played him the tapes. Glenn left the room in floods of tears and was so upset by the experience that he refused to reprise his role in any of the sequels.
Spider-Man (2002). It's a nostalgic movie for me because I saw it when I was a child, which is the appropriate age to watch superhero films.
Failing that, the borderline example of Unbreakable, which is still the best cinematic deconstruction of superheroes.
FtttG
4d ago
(FWIW, I mostly didn't believe anyone was even attempting to be honest during the Floyd and Rittenhouse cases either. I believe them even less now.)
I hope this isn't getting too recursive, but what do/did you think about the Rittenhouse case?
I've heard of it but I've never played it. The only XCOM games I've played are the reboot ones, I've never played any of the originals.
FtttG
4d ago
Yes, I think the devs' main takeaway from the base first game was that the mechanics encourage an overly slow and cautious playstyle. Their attempts to address this both in Enemy Within (meld containers that self-destruct in three turns) and XCOM 2 were largely successful and mostly make sense in-universe. It's reasonable that XCOM, as a guerrilla paramilitary force, would have a limited window in which to extract its operatives before their transport gets overrun by enemy troops; it's not reasonable that ADVENT would attach explosives to a valuable asset and set them to blow up after a fixed period of time before they even know XCOM is in the vicinity.
FtttG
4d ago
Mechanically XCOM2 tactical combat is pretty good - the stealth mechanics for example are a nice addition.
I thought the stealth mechanics added to XCOM 2 were a bit half-baked and gimmicky. WotC goes some way towards addressing this specific criticism with the addition of missions in which the optimal strategy is to go the whole mission without being spotted.
But the whole theme, plot and writing are superhero-movie-tier trash
Agreed, although I can't really say this is a significant departure from the original XCOM: EU. I actually prefer the grizzled, bitter, shell-shocked Bradford over his flat, clean-cut characterisation in the first game, even if his new haircut looks preposterous. Shen is the archetypal Marvel girlboss Mary Sue, though, there's no denying that.
the character building has gotten far out of hand with mutiple overlapping systems
Agreed, almost everything in the tactical layer is far too cluttered compared to the more streamlined first game, and this is only exacerbated in WotC.
FtttG
4d ago
I've heard of it but never tried it, I'm curious. Reading the TV Tropes page for it now.
Primarily as an exercise to familiarise myself with my new guitar, I'm recording a guitar arrangement of a well-known piece of contemporary classical music which has been used in several films. I'm enjoying it, but my God, I'm so used to playing along with a click track, I'd forgotten that that isn't the norm in classical music. Ugh.
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