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Finished Demon’s Souls, kind of underwhelming. Don’t think I scratched the surface too much, but beyond that the last six or seven bosses I did were pretty easy and not that memorable, other than the Storm King, that was probably the highlight of the game.

Might do another run at some point; I was going to get to Ed and see if I could get Northern Regalia before remembering I’d have to fight the Firelurker first, and that was one of the two bosses I had the most trouble with. Ah well, onto Disco Elysium.

The important difference is immutable traits. Wanting to get rid of people because they have a certain amount of melanin in their skin is very different from wanting to get rid of people because they want to get rid of people with a certain amount of melanin in their skin. Just like wanting to restrain someone and lock them in a room for sexual stuff is very different from wanting to restrain someone and lock them in a room for wanting to restrain someone and lock them in a room for sexual stuff. Racism and hatred of racism are not equal beliefs.

Also, Hector, if Hitler was not released after 5 years for his first coup attempt, there would not be a Nazi Germany. So I'd say they simply were not hard enough on him.

He got released barely a year later. There was a lot more to the rise of the Nazis than just Hitler though. Economic woes of the 20s combined with some foolish political decisions within and without Germany, to put it (over)simply.

Quote from: scriver on October 22, 2023, 04:59:03 am

Quote from: Maximum™ on October 21, 2023, 08:44:03 pm

Do what?

Beating people up, kicking asses, murdering people, the stuff you're always going on about.

Murdering people? I'm talking about nazis here, not people.

You might not like it, but even Nazis have some good in them. There are indeed charities set up by former members of various neo-Nazi groups to help people get out of them, after all.

You might like to think they’re irredeemable, but life ain’t black and white like that. Pun mostly unintended.

Does being a Sith require being suicidal? Because that's the only way this would work, no? Otherwise every Sith ever would only get an apprentice that can only get stronger than them when they're on the death bed for unrelated reasons, and can't fight right anymore.
The culmination of thousands of years of that would be the wimpiest, most incompetent guy in the galaxy. #Darth_Jar-Jar

That would be a betrayal of the Rule of Two. The apprentice is supposed to learn all they can from the master and then challenge them. If the master wins it’s technically a failure on their part for choosing a poor apprentice.

I’m not sure if it’s old or new canon but the third Sith Lord had to replace their first apprentice because they didn’t adhere to that part of the code, and the first Sith Lord was worried their apprentice was going to wait until he died and inheriting the title (as opposed to earning it) so he took steps to extend his life in an effort to be able to find and train a new apprentice. This resulted in his apprentice accusing him of betraying the code because it looked like he was trying to bypass the apprentice becoming the master schtick he’s been teaching her for the previous two and a bit decades.

Quote from: hector13 on October 20, 2023, 10:59:52 pm

He supported Biden in 2020, but didn’t renounce any of the white supremacist nonsense

This article amuses me greatly. Imagine a president so pro-Israel that a white supremacist criticizes the killing of an Iranian general and voices his support for the other party's candidate.

I think Spencer just realized Trump doesn’t have ideals, he just wants the people to like him.

Israel cracks down on social media support for folk living in Gaza, including people losing their jobs and students being asked to leave their accommodation.

… even when no criminal charges are filed, some people in Israel are still facing heavy consequences for their social media activity.

Lawyers working for Adalah say they have received more than 40 cases of Israeli Arab workers suspended or fired from their workplaces overnight.

"People are getting their livelihood threatened sometimes just for liking a post," says Salam Irsheid, a lawyer at the organisation. "We even have a case of a worker who is at risk of being fired for liking a news report on the situation in Gaza on social media."

Lawyers from Adalah say they have received complaints from 83 students who have been suspended from schools across the country and, in some cases, told to leave their accommodation at short notice.

"None of the cases are about actions, demonstrations or participating in illegal things. They're all about posts on social media," says Dr Hassan Jabareen, the general director of Adalah.

It’s not limited to Arabs, either:

Last Sunday, a prominent left-wing ultra-Orthodox Jewish journalist, Israel Frey, had to be escorted by police away from his home in Tel Aviv for his own protection.

Protesters had gathered outside the building and shot flares at his apartment after he posted on social media a video where he was praying for civilians in Gaza.

And on Wednesday, Ofer Cassif, a Jewish lawmaker for the Arab-led Hadash-Taal alliance, was suspended from the Israeli parliament for 45 days after he strongly condemned the bombing of Gaza.

In one of his most recent posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, he criticised the police who, he said, hadn't intervened promptly in Mr Frey's defence.

"Armed police forces are sent to arrest anyone who shows a trace of empathy for the massacres in Gaza," he wrote.

"But the police have no desire to protect a left-wing journalist whose life is in danger."

Settlers in the West Bank force Palestinians from their homes.

The incident began when two armed settlers, accompanied by a soldier, attacked a home on the outskirts of the village, according to three residents including the homeowner.

"Three Israelis came to my house, they were armed, and one was wearing the uniform of the army," said Musab Rabai, 36.

"One of the settlers came into the house, pushed me and beat me on the head with the gun and told me he was going to shoot me."

Neighbours responded to Rabai's shouts for help, he said. Among them was Zakriha Adra, a father of four. Video footage filmed by Adra's cousin, Basel, shows the settler who allegedly beat Rabai and the Israeli soldier standing a short distance away from the group of Palestinian neighbours. The armed settler then suddenly approaches Adra, strikes him with his rifle and shoots him in the stomach from just a few feet away.

Throughout the encounter, Adra appears to be holding his arms by his sides in a non-threatening manner.

Israel razes a neighbourhood (after what appears to be 30 minutes notice to evacuate) and issued an evacuation notice for a hospital.

Residents told the BBC that they had not expected the bombing as the area had been relatively calm. They said they were told to evacuate on Thursday evening at around 20:30 to 21:00 local time (17:30-18:00 GMT).

"We ran through the streets. then Israel started bombing this area non-stop, from 9pm to 7am this morning," one woman told the BBC on Friday.

In northern Gaza, the Palestinian Red Crescent said Israeli forces had ordered the evacuation of the Al-Quds hospital.

The hospital is currently home to more than 400 patients and 12,000 displaced civilians, according to the Red Crescent.

The humanitarian organisation called on the "international community to act urgently".
A doctors' group, Physicians for Human Rights Israel, said it filed a petition to Israel's Supreme Court warning that Al-Quds hospital could not be evacuated.

"In its response, the state announced that it would not attack the hospital for the time being," the group said, as it warned against harming civilians during combat, violating international law, and damaging medical services.

Edit: Ha! Found the one I read yesterday about hate crimes in London.

Big increases:

Speaking on Friday, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan, the officer in charge of the policing operation, said the number of antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents had gone up 1,353% [from 15 to 218] and 140% [42 to 101] respectively.

The sort of people calling for lynching are very rarely the people actually performing the lynchings, as evidence by Donald Trump not marching in the Capital with his supporters.

Not allowing them to get that message out by having them say it in the national media is probably a decent start to stopping people hearing it.

It’s not his supporters that are to be worried about, I said potential supporters, folk on the fence about him. He won’t be getting punished for an attempted fascist takeover, he’ll be getting punished for speaking, which is going to make it seem like what he says about there being a conspiracy against him will be true.

It does matter that his supporters (as potential ones) get angry, because anger is a ridiculously good motivator - I don’t like arguing with people on the interweb, I have been involved in an argument with an interweb stranger for the last two days because they blame a professional for the consequences of ignoring the professional opinion - and it defies logic. Trump and the Republicans have been saying the electoral infrastructure is broken and biased against them… yet they still take part in elections. His angry supporters will come out in their droves to vote and make it difficult for the election workers to do their job. That’s a bit more problematic than them shitting their pants.

When was the last time you changed your opinion because someone said “well you’re a fucking idiot for believing that, moron”? Fascists aren’t above using political violence. I mean that’s part of their jam, so mocking them and ostracizing them won’t make them go away, it won’t make them change their mind, it just gives them targets for that violence. Treating them like human beings and that you treat their concerns as serious (however trivial or out of touch with reality) will work much better, but the political geography doesn’t allow Montagues and Capulets to mix so it’s not going to happen.

Take Lisa Cameron as an example. Long story short and vastly oversimplifying things, she was an SNP politician who recently defected to the Conservatives because the SNP were mean to her and the Conservatives were nice.

Edit: Jordan’s also out as the speaker nominee. Democrats being blamed by angry Republicans, because it’s obviously the Dem’s fault Republicans can’t come to an agreement