Carving found near entrance to a German WWI underground city that seems to go on and on and on. These spaces pre-existed WWI by centuries. They were the quarries from which stone for castles,
cathedrals and homes was mined. The subterranean geology of this part of France is generally quite stable leaving these places intact, frozen-in-time since the middle ages. When WWI came, many of them happened to be adjacent to the course of the Western Front.
Apparently some Stardew Valley fans have been discrediting Fields of Mistria fans by claiming that they're just playing a "clone" of "Stardew Valley."
First of all, farming simulators aren't "Stardew Valley clones." Stardew Valley wasn't even close to being the first farming simulator game. If you're going to claim that they're "clones" then they're Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons clones since it set up the standard of the genre since 1996. (Play DS or Friends of Mineral Town and tell me that Stardew Valley didn't take heavy inspiration from those games. Not that it's a bad thing at all, but don't just brush Harvest Moon off as "the game that walked so Stardew Valley can run.")
Of course the entire argument itself is really stupid. They're not "clones" of each other. (Besides technically Harvest Moon* itself. I'll explain later.) They're just in the same genre. But if you're going to make the stupid argument at least get it right so you don't sound as stupid.
It's like saying that Wild Arms is a Final Fantasy clone for having similar turn-based RPG mechanics.
*What's known as "Harvest Moon" today actually is pretty much just a clone. Marvelous used Natsume to translate their games up until after A New Beginning for the 3DS before switching to XSeed. (Probably because Natsume is really, really bad at it. I'm surprised they didn't switch after DS which how bad they fucked the first versions of that game up.)
When translated to English the game's series would literally be something like "Ranch Story." Natsume owns the "Harvest Moon" name. So XSeed had to change the name to "Story of Seasons" for international releases, which meant that Natsume could make their own games using the "Harvest Moon" title for profit.
They were actually just trying to make Harvest Moon clones. They were really bad at it too up until Winds of Anthos. They basically destroyed the series' Western reputation until Marvelous decided to remake two of their most popular games, which made people actually look into the reason for the name change.
Edit: One World is actually okay, too. Not great, but it's not bad if you can get it cheap.
Of course some Stardew Valley fans called Story of Seasons a "Stardew clone" too, even though the title change came about two years BEFORE Stardew's initial release, so whatever.
Maybe people should just be happy that there's a shit ton of great farming/dating sim games to choose from instead of fighting over which one did it first or better?
Minnesota prosecutors have obtained key evidence previously withheld by federal officials in their investigations into the fatal shootings o
Minnesota prosecutors obtain long-withheld hard drives, car in investigation into killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti
MINNEAPOLIS —
Minnesota prosecutors announced Monday that they have obtained key evidence in their ongoing investigations into the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during pitched protests against a federal immigration enforcement crackdown in the state earlier this year.
“Through the cooperation of our federal partners we have obtained the hard drives of previously withheld evidence in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and the shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said. "We have also obtained some of the physical evidence that was previously withheld, including Renee Good’s car.”
Statements, police body camera video and other evidence had previously been withheld by federal officials in the killings.
Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was shot and killed in her car while leaving an anti-immigration enforcement protest in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surged through the region. Her death and that of Pretti, another protester, just weeks later sparked outrage across the country and calls to rein in immigration enforcement.
“The wonderful thing now is we have all the evidence,” Moriarty said.
Investigators are going through all the evidence, including hard drives with statements, hours of video recorded by body-worn cameras and the physical car Good was driving, Moriarty said.
“We need transparency. We need cooperation. Our community needs it,” she said. “Our democracy requires it.”
At the end of June, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Moriarty asked a federal judge to push out the deadlines in their lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice because they said they were in the midst of recently reinitiated “ongoing discussions” with the FBI about information sharing.
Those ongoing discussions with the FBI about information sharing are likely to affect Minnesota’s request for summary judgment in the case, Ellison and Moriarty wrote in their motion to the court.
The attorneys representing the federal government signed onto the motion.
Ellison said he remains “deeply troubled that the federal government spent more than half a year attempting to conceal this evidence from state investigators.”
“It should never have taken this long for Minnesota law enforcement to gain access to the federal government’s evidence,” he said in a statement. “I hope that this is the beginning of a major course correction on the part of the federal government.”
Before you make fun of Lindsey Graham’s death, ask yourself if Donald Trump would mock the death of somebody he disagreed with and whether Lindsey would make excuses for that mockery.
Then… go right ahead and make fun of Lindsey Graham’s death.
RIP Sam Neill: “It’s not a happy place, America, and I wasn’t happy there. I’m interested in the condition of America now. It beggars belief what’s happening there now. When you hear a slogan like Make America Great Again, it makes a sort of weird sense because America could be great again, but at community level. Not with the sort of strange billionaires making weird decisions”
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