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Thank you for adding Trump into this discussion This way to the rabbit hole 🕳

I had it back in 1993 and it felt aged back then

Is 3D Land considered part of the series?

Even if we acknowledge it’s flaws, what’s the alternative? I think in practice there may be faults in implementation at times, but on paper the system is pretty solid.

I think that conflict is why public defenders suck so much

The point wasn’t about the existence of rapists. That’s a given. We are talking about the credibility of a personal account versus one corroborated by a second/multiple persons

This isn’t an issue about trusting women. It’s an issue of trusting a personal account versus a substantiated account. All the thousands of people that have claimed to have been abducted by aliens have personal accounts of being abducted. And there’s a large quantity of people that have described the same thing… did it really happen? Where is the evidence to substantiate that it happened? Do they have other witnesses that can corroborate their personal account. Usually the answer is no, all they have is their personal account of what happened. And it doesn’t matter how many people have a personal account of being abducted by aliens, we usually still say sorry that’s not enough. Now if it was just one woman and she was saying “no” to unwanted advances and there was someone else there saying “hey back off, she said no” and then later on we found out that something happened, that second person’s testimony would add a lot of strength to what the woman was claiming.

Clickbait- I meant to say “not guilty” in the title.. If someone is not guilty, it doesn’t imply they are innocent, it just means there is not enough evidence to prove they are guilty. This thread is about the principles, not a specific case. So please take Bill Cosby discussions to the Bill Cosby thread. Ok, Let’s say there is a man charged with a crime. It looks very likely that he is guilty, but there’s just not quite enough evidence to make things conclusive. Is it better to assume that he’s guilty and punish him accordingly? Or is it better to give him the benefit of the 1 in a million chance that he’s actually not guilty and let him walk free?

Gives you all a reason to come back and see what’s new If he is a rapist, then he is a despicable man and deserves no benefit.

When he confessed to doing this type of thing, did he say that he offered them the drug or did he say that he tricked them into taking it? That would be the key detail that changes it from consent into rape

Just as a disclaimer, I’m a moderately conservative religious person, so by my thinking people shouldn’t be using drugs or having consensual sex unless they’re married. Just putting that out there as I am suspending my own personal moral framework in this thread and going by societal standards and US law. I think about consensual relations like a guy and a girl go to a bar have some alcoholic drinks together and then they go back home together.. is that considered consensual? Or similarly, guy and girl at a party both thinking about doing it consensually but they hit the bong first just to calm their nerves. Well, Bill Cosby being a multi millionaire has access to much fancier things than alcohol and weed. Here’s the thing, even if it was consensual at the time, what happens if the girl regrets it after the fact.. she could come up with story about how it was not consensual, whether it’s Bill Cosby or some kids at a party. Also, it’s difficult to depend on someone’s recollection of what happened when they are describing things that happened while they were under the influence of drugs. In Bill Cosby’s case, being a celebrity, he had access to never ending line of fans and associates that wanted to be around him so yea he could have pulled off the same routine with dozens of ladies. It’s doesn’t matter how many of them came forward and said this happened to me too.. what matters is whether it was consensual at the time that it happened (And no, I’m not saying did she consent after taking the drug- that’s obviously rape… but did she consent to actually taking the drug knowing what it would lead to next). I don’t know what happened, but this is certainly something to consider. I think about incidents like Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton. Could that have been a consensual thing in the moment? I don’t know. But he didn’t have to drug her or manipulate her.. she simply wasn’t able to resist his dominance as he was the most powerful figure in the world at the time. This Lewinsky case is really grey because it poses a lot of questions.. -was she implicitly coerced by his position of authority? -could she have consented then regretted? -is it even possible for her to have consented, and if so is that still considered wrong just because he’s the President? Stuff to think about.. all that said, I think Cosby is definitely responsible for getting himself into this mess. Don’t know if I would give a guilty verdict for the charges without a confession though.

Ok thanks for sharing that article. Until now, I hadn’t seen all the facts laid out like this before. I’m not a Cosby fan by any means, never really watched the show.. but whenever I see criminal charges, I instinctually always try to see if there is any way to absolve guilt. After all, we presume innocence until guilt is proven. According to this he actually admitted to giving women sedatives before sexual encounters. That sounds pretty damning.. based on that detail alone, I am almost certain he is guilty. That said though, “almost certain” isn’t the standard that criminal judgments should be made on. And even though I think it’s very likely he did it, the objective part of my mind can still think of a few questions that could be asked that would cast doubt on a guilty verdict. The gold standard will always be for the guilty party to surrender the fight and offer a confession. What I find interesting is that this “non-prosecution agreement” was an oral agreement.. meaning it was not put in writing… who does that? Usually for an agreement to be binding, it has to be in writing so that others can review the terms that were agreed to. The problem with this “oral agreement” that supposedly happened is that it could very well have not even happened. The prosecutor could have just come to an agreement with the Cosby’s after the fact and then said ok, I’ll tell them that we actually agreed to not prosecute this.

He hasn’t confessed so we don’t really know for certain what happened. That would be the strongest form of evidence. I feel bad for victims of rape, but at the same time, he is a high profile guy and it’s not uncommon for opportunistic people to pile in once they hear that there are rape allegations made against a high profile individual. Not saying that is what happened here. Or that didn’t happen. All I’m saying is that we really don’t know. Now if he were to make a confession, that would make things real easy. Then we would know for sure.

Did she send that just before he went in or just before he got out?

For people who want to read it here on VGS: Obviously sounds like they are a very small company, maybe just 1 guy. My guess is the person in charge is very technical or business savvy, but lacks marketing awareness. They need to hire a marketing person to get an idea of how the company is perceived and to address this via more frequent communications. It sounds like they may be ok business-wise for now, but if they don’t address the marketing issues right away, they may get more order cancellations and then business will start suffering

Would have been cool if he came here to VGS. Other than the occasional blip, I think we all get along pretty well here and keep things respectful

I have them but they’re in backlog

I have a Robot named Fight! and have played it extensively. I have really tried getting into it but is actually very frustrating. I you die, you lose all of your progress, items, and you can’t even backtrack because the map totally changes every time you die. Honestly, I do not understand how the developer ever thought this was a good idea. After playing for a few days I just decided I’m not gonna play it anymore. Seriously, I must be missing something. They’ve basically taken what should be a good game and ruined it. I hope someone can chime in and tell me there’s a hidden setting that makes the game feel a little less hectic

It’s good. You’ll enjoy it

Actually we do. But the public can’t handle the truth. Hail Hydra.

Hmm. $185 was too much for me a few years ago.. Things have gotten stupid crazy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_plurals

Just playing devils advocate here. The Sega Genesis and Master System can both be played using the same Genesis hardware. You just need to use a Power Base converter which is essentially a pin converter. Yet both are viewed as different systems. Likewise, NES needs a pin converter to play Famicom. I get the argument that Master system games are using the Genesis processor hardware differently than Genesis games.. but isn’t the Famicom also for sound processing and Famicom disk system? Again I’m not advocating. Just something worth thinking about

What about 60 pin tapes versus 72 pin tapes