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... article given, suspect was apparently given time for attempted murder, not the warning shots. The comments shed some light on it, including

The woman in question retreated to a garage to her car, acquired a weapon, THEN returned to the residence and THEN fired the weapon. It is not self-defense, nor stand-your-ground. It IS attempted murder. She gambled and lost and it cost her 17 additional years.

Actually evidence and photographs have proven she shot pointing at the wall near her ex husband and his two children.

There's almost certainly a problem there, but it's got more (though more =/= entirely, of course) to do with mandatory sentencing than anything else, imo.

That said, warning shots are in fact illegal in many areas in the states, as is pulling your gun as a deterrent. Killing in self defense isn't (sometimes), but putting stray bullets into the air or using a weapon to intimidate (even if it's for self-defense E:Brandishing! That's the word, and I think the keyword for hunting down the legal status of the act.) can be, depending on the situation. Varies from state to state and situation to situation, as always.

Gun laws in the state range from disparate to fucked up, with occasional bits of something approaching sanity sprinkled among them. Not saying which the stuff being discussed falls under

Ha. Franken Fran's of the few guro-influenced pieces I've managed to enjoy. Pretty good stuff~

Why is it that games that shit on the protagonist amuse me sooooo~

Started playing Last Remnant. Main character dude is thus far a mostly useless idiot that's getting his arse pulled out of the fire by a duex ex machina. Sister got kidnapped right in front of him while he got wailed on. Goes off hunting, case of mistaken identity (which is like point the one "This guy is an idiot." Sister is young and brunette. Lady he thought was her is middle aged and blonde.) ends up with him in the middle of an pitched battle right as the arcane tac nuke goes off. Swag saves ass, falls in hole with mistaken-identity lady. Ask what's going on, response is, "We fell in a hole. Now we're in a cave. Need anything else obvious pointed out?" Which kinda' sets the tone for his interaction with other people so far.

Ends up being helped by MI-L and her allies because they realize he's toting a Duex ex Machina (and god damn isn't that refreshing?) and he's the kid of high level weapons researchers. So now he's getting help! By a seemingly obvious going-to-turn-out-to-be-evil ruler (Sephiroth prettyboy vibes like goddamn and giant fuckoff cannon, check), MI-L (Thinks main-character is an idiot, is giving off serious "I want to kill this fucker" vibes, and looks like a middle aged soldier), Goro the Catboy, giant sexual predator fish dude, and sociopath rabbitlizard (Kingdom's spymaster, by all appearances). Who despite being the high muckitymucks of an entire kingdom are more-or-less dropping everything to help out some mostly-random country bumpkin. Riiiiight.

Maybe (probably) I'm reading too much into it, and I'm definitely not far in. But. Bad moon rising, ahahahaha! Hopefully, anyway. Leave me to my delusions.

And I love it. There's this constant shit-eating grin lurking in the back of my subconcious going, "This guy is screeeewwweeeedddd." Which is good, 'cause the protagonist is like the only character I don't like thus far, haha.

Haven't got this much chuckle from a game since Black Sigil, which starts out the game wearing steel toed tapdancing cleats riverdancing on the protagonist's head (and gets better fairly shortly into the game, but that first bit is great~).

... I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought that.

That's... probably a good 30-50 cent less than you'd normally pay of that much, in this area. I don't even buy the stuff anymore (because I eat it if it's available, but don't when it's not, without a notable difference in happiness) but savings is savings.

... is that... is that some kind of strange next generation internet flirtation, you two? Because it kinda' looks like it. All coquettish and demure and indirect and shit. Petticoats for everyone? Especially the guys. "Few fleeting days of summer" definitely sounds like victorian-era innuendo.

Maybe I'm just confused, I'unno. I'm not up to date with this newfangled culture stuff.

Contemplation =/= enaction

From the update posts, it mostly sounds like it's just the sound guy(s) working on this stuff, and he/she(they) apparently has(/have) nothing else to do but muddle. S'probably not notably impacting beta release, basically.