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Didn't know there was a PS4 version, I assume it's a port of the GameCube? Well, the down side is that you miss gems like this...

Which version?

Apparently the young woman was Hispanic and beaten by some 20 black teenage "girls" who called her all kinds of racial slurs. Absolutely horrible. While I know some will say "oh, well, this is a consequence of the pandemic" it seems to me this if far deeper. This shit will continue to happen until there are real consequences. Teens feel like they can get away with anything, and unfortunately, the law mostly lets them. I don't ever remember Boston being as unsafe and unfriendly as it is now...

It sounds like we agree. What they did was terrible, and it really hurts rather than helps any social cause. https://www.blackenterprise.com/dei-advocates-accuse-black-arizona-dj-of-wearing-blackface-at-charity-event/ Lassen, a white co-chair for the Scottsdale Parent Council (SPC) DEI Committee, sent an email to the PTA accusing them of hiring a DJ wearing blackface. Rhoden, an instructor and member of Scottsdale Unified’s Equity and Inclusion Committee and the Scottsdale Human Relations Commission, shared a Facebook post insinuating that Hunter had darkened his skin ahead of the DJ gig.

Deceased train driver in Japan awarded 45 cents after his pay was deducted for 1-minute delay in 2020 https://www.yahoo.com/news/deceased-train-driver-japan-awarded-000813746.html The Okayama District Court ordered the West Japan Railway Co. on Tuesday to pay the train driver, who demanded 2.2 million yen (approximately $17,065) compensation for emotional distress in March 2021. The train driver, who was in his 50s, died from an illness earlier this year.

“The war adds to the series of supply shocks that have struck the global economy in recent years,” said Mr Gourinchas. “Like seismic waves, its effects will propagate far and wide -- through commodity markets, trade, and financial linkages. Russia is a major supplier of oil, gas, and metals, and, together with Ukraine, of wheat and corn.” A long time coming, and I'm not surprised one little bit. Russian and Chinese leaders have for decades now demonized the West, and the West in turn has placated them. Now, things are going to change. It will be painful at first for all, but in the long-run, it will be good to decouple from Russia (gas) and especially China.

I didn't order nor play either of them, so please let me know what you think once you've spent some time with the games

That was never a "special" nor "limited" edition. All of Nintendo's special/limited editions are scalper orgasms due to Nintendo never ever meeting demand.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" - MLK I'm not sure "outraged" is the word I would use, but I certainly think it's unacceptable. I would hope, you too, would agree that what they did was unacceptable. No one is saying these "busybody assholes" deserve to be executed, but called-out for what they did? absolutely. They did apologize, and I'm sure there will be fallout from the whole episode. Regardless, I think we can all agree what they did was stupid, asinine, and appropriately noted in this thread which is for stupid and asinine things people do To be fair, this was from a local news channel which is affiliated with Fox, this is not the same thing as Tucker Carlson just making shite up.

Nintendo printing enough to meet demand??

Wow!! just unbelievable... Arizona diversity leaders slammed for falsely accusing Black DJ of wearing blackface Hunter also addressed the accusation that he was a Black man doing blackface during his Facebook Live. "Was I not Black enough? How black do I got to be for people to know that I’m an actual Black person," he said. A petition is now circulating to remove Lassen and Rhoden from the Scottsdale Parent Council and do away with the equity, diversity and inclusion committee.

The suspect in a South Carolina mall shooting in which nine people were wounded has been released under house arrest and ordered to wear an ankle monitor after a judge set a $25,000 surety bond. The suspect, Jewayne Price, is also barred from contacting any of the victims, Columbia police said on Twitter. Price will be allowed to travel from his home to work while he is under house arrest. Neither Price nor his attorney could immediately be reached for comment. My reaction:

Drunken driver convicted in crash that left daughter unable to walk sentenced to 26-plus years https://www.yahoo.com/news/drunken-driver-convicted-crash-left-000557307.html Kansas sentencing guidelines called for Jimmy Dean Landis to face a maximum potential prison sentence of 11 years, four months, on his most serious conviction, for aggravated battery while DUI causing great bodily harm or disfigurement. But Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay asked District Judge Steven Ebberts Friday to exercise his option of giving Landis a stiffer sentence. Ebberts then did that. He sentenced Landis to 21 years, eight months for that crime and to a total of four years, 10 months for other related crimes, putting Landis' total at 26 years, six months.

65 more days and it's a full revolution around the Sun!

https://qz.com/2155842/an-80-km-line-of-russian-trucks-is-trying-to-escape-eu-sanctions/ The sanctions against Russia, and the pileup of trucks at the Polish border, shows how wide-spanning Western sanctions are reshaping economic borders and forcing countries to turn inward, reducing their dependency on some international trading partners. The EU was a top trading partner of Russia’s before the war, importing more than €158 billion worth of goods from the block in 2021. But the trucking ban will further cripple trade, even if Europe tries to retain access to essential commodities such as energy and fertilizers. Not only is Europe cutting off trade with Russia by land, it’s also cracking down on Russian ships entering its ports, as well as seeking to wean itself off energy imports from the country. In the US, automakers are rushing to secure their own supplies of raw materials used to make electric vehicle batteries, and the government is turning to its own strategic petroleum supply to try to make up for a loss of Russian oil. While it will take months before Russia bears the full brunt of sanctions, the lines of the globalized world are being redrawn as Putin’s war in Ukraine continues, and they are unlikely to go back to the way they were.

I think I admire you for being able to sit through a cartoon series that has no end in sight. You've spent roughly 7.55 whole days watching. Myself, I could never do that. I also can't stand MMOs, so there you go

I haven't seen The Northman yet, but look forward to that! Hopefully it will be delightful like the rest of his wacky movies

"It's pure propaganda," Quintana told The Washington Post of the video, which spread on pro-Russian disinformation channels.

"Horror" movies that I've liked the past few years... very few. The two that readily come to mind are The Witch, which is a slow burn but I thought beautiful and interesting from the beginning. And The Lighthouse which is just crazy, beautiful, with a small but important dash of Lovecraft

I want one...

Is the game any good?

Sometimes I wonder if I'm living in some strange alternate reality...

I hate to use the "Nazi-analogy" which is used far far far too often in instances where it is unwarranted, BUT, in this case I think it is. I really don't see how anyone can defend the Russians, which are absolutely behaving as Nazis did A Visit to the Crime Scene Russian Troops Left Behind at a Summer Camp in Bucha https://time.com/6166681/bucha-massacre-ukraine-dispatch/ “The signs of torture were also on the bodies,” says Taras Shapravskyi, the deputy mayor of Bucha. Five dead men in civilian clothes were found in that chamber, he told me. “They had burns, bruises, lacerations.” It was dark when the groundskeeper took me there the following week and shined a flashlight in the room where they had lain. Two trails of dried blood ran down a wall into the dirt, next to a fleece hat that appeared to have a bullet hole.

Great video on the Russian propaganda machine How Russian media manufactured an alternate reality about the war in Ukraine https://www.businessinsider.com/how-russia-is-lying-to-its-citizens-about-ukraine-war-2022-4