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So, uh, there's pretty good odds of (pretty damn earned, at this point) riots in memphis in the near future. Haven't looked hard into it yet, but the gist is that a group of cops beat a man, Tyre Nichols, for something like an hour straight, so badly the injuries killed him a day or three later, and the whole thing got caught on tape. Broke a baton on him, one of the cops kicked him hard enough for the cop to start limping, etc. They tortured and functionally killed a man out in the street, basically.

It's kinda' fractally fucked up, because the initial response from the pigs, was, well... on the face of it, and from what I understand of what was understood at the time it happened, it almost looked good... better than the usual reaction, anyway. Five cops were immediately fired, and were put in jail for murder (they're out on bond now, of course). Like, people were thinking, "Hey, this is almost good, right? This is what should happen at a minimum when cops fucking murder someone."

And then a few days later, the video hits the public and we apparently find out there were 10 cops involved (police apparently lied about that out the gate, from what I've picked up), 6 that were physically involved in the murder and four that were egging them on and encouraging it. Half of them were black.

No bonus points for guessing what color skin the five cops immediately fired and jailed had

Also, Chrono Trigger is by bar an underrated cult classic. Square has done some good but I would love if they would let the franchise see the light of day again.

From like a week ago, but... CT is pretty much the antithesis of an underrated cult classic. It's one of the most beloved classic JRPGs outright, there's nothing cult or underrated about it, it's just a highly regarded older game played by very literally millions. Chrono Cross didn't see the greatest reception, so there hasn't been much attention to the IP since, but Trigger's seen over 3 million sales over the last couple decades, ports to like a half dozen different systems... it's a pretty major name in gaming even without more attempts at the franchise.

Given what they did to Lufia when it came back it's probably for the best they let it lie fallow.

Eh... honestly, I liked the GBA one pretty well, and while I never touched the DS version, it seems liked well enough. They could have been better, but I wouldn't say Lufia was terribly tarnished by the attempts. For all squeenix's myriad issues, they mostly make pretty solid games at the end of the day, even when they fail to meet the standard of one previous attempt or another.

I mean, there'd be riots within a few weeks, probably. This country could not take an overnight 30% hike in across the board expenses, even if it wasn't fuckstupid horseshit wildly shifting the burden of taxation onto the poorer parts of the economy. The country would grind to a near fucking complete halt.

Which is the point of the legislation in question, of course, if could pass -- the folks proposing it want to destroy the US outright, and rebuild it into a regressive shitpile with them on top and the rest of us omnifucked forever.

Those library papers were in the possession of the bloody archives, dude. Take two seconds to actually look into the circumstances of something before spouting off horseshit, for the love of everyone's time.

There's people that would believe hunter would do literally anything at this point. It's pretty irrelevant considering he doesn't and didn't have the documents in question.

Not in english I don't think I can help with... I probably have some in my playlist, but I tend to very pointedly not look up translations when I find stuff in other languages I enjoy listening to. Makes playing the music publicly a risky proposition, but I like it better otherwise.

... but in english, my go-to for that one is Gavin Friday's Baltimore Whores, which is flat out one of the best pieces of music I've heard in my life -- the composition with the vocals and the lyrics basically fit together perfectly, imo. It's also a wildly inappropriate song about prostitutes boasting to each other about who has the loosest nethers.

e: Prisoner of Love is also weirdly catchy, in a sort of old-timey Grease-era broadway type sense. It's, uh. Alternate title is "Prison Bitch".

if you mispronounce dissonant real bad, you can get "deuce on it", which is to say, shit on it

it's definitely a game to mispronounce something as badly as possible while still be recognizable as the original word

E: to avoid doubleposting, Nobully Oblicky is a wonderfully terrible name for a noble's bastard child.

There's separatist/state splitting movements in... most of the states, from what I understand. They're collectively probably somewhat less influential in US politics than flat earthers.