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This started earlier than that. This territory had previously been a part of the Ottoman empire and had a 90% Arab population. The Arabs allied with the British to drive out the Ottoman Turks during WW1 after being assured by the British that they would honor Arab independence. (Hollywood even made a movie about it: Lawrence of Arabia). Guess what? They lied. The British maintained military control over the area under the League of Nations "mandate system", and they decided they would support the establishment of a Jewish homeland in the region. Prior to this, Zionism had been a fringe movement, but it had gained support among many high ranking members of the British government. With the Balfour declaration of 1917, they oversaw waves of European Jewish immigrants moving into Mandatory Palestine. When it became clear to the Palestinians that the British would never grant them independence, in 1936 they went on strike. The British tried to break the strike with arrests, executions, mass punishment. This escalated into a the Palestinian revolt with fighting between Palestinian fighters and British and Haganah forces carrying out alternating raids that continued for the next few years. To settle the conflict, the British proposed a two-state solution, and drew a line down the middle of the map (The Peel Commission resolution) give one side to the Jewish state, the other side to the Arabs, and make the remainder part of Transjordan. But because the Arabs were a majority of the population, 250k would have to be removed by force. This proposal did not help calm things down. Fighting continued until 1939, by which point about 10% of Palestinian men had been killed, arrested, or exiled. Then the British proposed a one-state solution, which would have imposed limits on Jewish land purchases and immigration. The zionists violently rejected this. Then came WW2. With a large number of Jewish refugees trying to escape Europe, many tried to go Palestine. At this point Jews had increased from 10% to 30% of the population. By 1947, depleted by WW2, Britain announced they were leaving Palestine. The zionist militias now had modern weapons and officers with training and experience from WW2. November 1947, the U.N. voted to partition Palestine and set aside 55% of the country for a Jewish state, but did not explain how it would resolve that half the people in that territory were Palestinian. Arabs rejected this plan, but the zionists having the stronger military, used this opportunity to seize even more territory than what the UN had allocated to them, and drove the Palestinians out of the villages and cities in those areas out by force. Events were accelerated by the massacre at Deir Yeseen in April 1948, which set off a panic across the country. As news spread, people fled fearing their village would be next. Ben Gurion (the zionist leader) ordered evacuated villages to be razed to the ground, ensuring there would be nothing for them to return to. Ben Gurion announced the founding of the state of Israel in May 1948. Now dubbed the IDF, better equipped and organized, successfully fought off opposition forces and began pushing into more towns, driving out the Palestinian population. Over the course of the 1948 Nabka, 700k Palestinian Arabs were displaced.

it gives you the experience of eating very sweet, tiny candles

They settled out of court, so who knows whether or not they would have won the lawsuit, but the demons do look pretty similar to the large phoenixes on stages 3 & 4, down the the flapping wings and erratic hovering patterns. I think I prefer Demon Attack more as a game, I always liked the way the demons materialize in from the sides of the screen.

if Imagic had had you on their staff back then, maybe they wouldn't have been sued by Atari for making the enemies look too similar to Phoenix.

Deep Rising has a really incredible kill where a formerly eaten crewmate is cut free of the creature, half-digested, and still conscious. For a smaller budget movie from 1998, this shot really holds up well and looks nasty. https://beforesandafters.com/2019/03/18/tracking-nightmares-behind-blurs-half-digested-billy-shots-in-deep-rising/

Dragonfire is so fun

Were you an Alewives fan? Or did you discover them through Scud or after Dan got famous?

Yep. That’s the one.

This is the sign up thread. The game is still in development, but having a player count will help with some of the design decisions. Start date TBD, but probably early November. If the game is still going on Nov.20, we will take a break for the last 2 weeks of November and resume Dec. 1. A few notes about this game. This is very different than a standard Werewolf game, and strategy is quite different. It is a text adventure / Werewolf hybrid. With the introduction of puzzles and teamwork, you will find players have very different approaches than they would in a regular Werewolf game. For examples of text adventures I have hosted before, please see: Among Us (my first Text Adventure / Werewolf hybrid game) Pumpkin Town (text adventure) Kringle Krisis (text adventure) Please consider your availability when signing up, as to be a fully active member, it will require you to check in at least once a day, and its difficult to play the game if people are not keeping up. Signup List. Zeldafreak Brickman DefaultGen JamesRobot Splain OptOut FCGamer Jeevan WalterWhiteJr. Richardhead Hammerfestus Wasg13 Gloves PuppyWaffles

We just got Super Mario U Deluxe this past summer, so I am not starved for 2d mario right now, but it looks neat. I'll probably get it eventually.

Love Mouth of madness

I can't remember if I've seen Tales from the Darkside

Best Buy is sort of like Pizza Hut in a way... they both still exist, but the version of them that I have fond memories of went away long ago. Sometimes the various big box stores will get an exclusive edition of a new movie release, including Best Buy, so they must at least sell enough to collectors to justify that sort of thing.

There are 5 incrementally better endings... This would be the 3rd place ending, because Pitt has the captain's helmet and spear. 2nd place he's a full grown angel, and 1st place, Palutena gives you a kiss as cherubs drop hearts.

Recently watched Crimes of the Future- Classic Cronenberg doing weird sci-fi body/sex fetish stuff. Friday the 13th part 2-cozy! I think bag head Jason is a good version. Harry Manfredini is doing a great job channeling Bernard Hermann on the score. Fired on Mars- animated series mocking corporate bureaucracy on a Mars colony. A lot more depressing than I expected. What we do in the shadows - I’m late to this series but it’s pretty funny. Loved the Vampire council.

I have more than enough old games that I never finished or would happily play again to last me several life times. New stuff just isn’t to my taste. I’m too set in my ways.

First game I beat was also the first PC game that I owned, Bubble Ghost. The last games I beat were back-to-back NES Metal Gear and MSX2 Metal Gear. For an in between game, Facebook just showed me this “memory” from 2014

Luckily, I specialize in sexy drawings

I love the idea of the smiley face being a mask worn by the robot! Nicely done!

Those look like they are a very tiny snippet of the screen, which would make them a little too hi-rez for 2600.. maybe a health meter of some sort

I beat the original Castlevania. Castlevania 2 was too confusing for me. Never played any others in the series, although I'm interested in Symphony and part 3.. and possibly the DS games

Just beat Metal Gear for MSX. I was able to do this one a lot faster. Glad to have the actual Metal Gear at the end but they still should have had it walking around and shooting at you.