Goth Waifu Amelia is now the mascot of UK nationalism and has gone viral after the UK panicked and took her game down.
Amelia from the UK political propaganda game “Game Pathways” has gone mega viral, and the internet can’t stop talking about her. The funniest part is they clearly expected Amelia to be the perfect anti-nationalist character, but instead they accidentally created a patriotic goth girl icon that people instantly latched onto. This is a perfect example of how out of touch these propagandists are with normal human reactions and culture online. Amelia is blowing up, why the game is getting mocked, and what this says about modern political messaging in gaming.
So now that January 7th has come and gone, what’s the latest psycho conspiracy for Stranger Things? Have people finally accepted that we simply got a bad final season and an awful series finale, or are people now citing “evidence” the mythical ninth episode will air some other date?
The judge denied bail for the Bad Boy Records founder, saying it would be impossible for Combs to prove he does not pose a danger. Sentencin
The jury’s verdict, delivered on the third day of deliberations, declared Combs, 55, not guilty of one count of racketeering conspiracy and two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion but guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
I won’t argue that juries make mistakes, but if you did abolish it, what would it be replaced with?
The possibility of bribery, threats or personal biases affecting decisions will remain no matter who makes the decision. All you can do is try to prevent those things. No country in the world has or will ever have a perfect legal system, because people are by definition flawed.
Giving absolute power to the judge? That’s a lot of power for one person, probably too much. As to the matter of bribes or threats, bribing or threatening one person is certainly easier than doing it to twelve.
A panel of other lawyers? They’d understand the legal terms better than regular people, but where would you get them? Any prosecutors would be inclined to favor the prosecution, and any defense lawyers would be inclined to favor the defense.
The legal system in America was formed on the belief that it is better to let a guilty person to go free than to punish an innocent one, so more rights and considerations were given to the defendant. And as noted, you’ll never be able to completely remove corruption.
I agree that the jurors made the wrong decision here, but what is the solution?
July is going to be a battleground of movies, between the newest Jurassic World, Superman, and Fantastic Four movies.
Personally, I think Jurassic World will do the best. Those movies usually perform well at the box office, regardless of how good they are, possibly because there's a simplicity to them. "Let's go see a movie about dinosaurs eating people. And now they've got a mad science experiment dinosaur that's bigger and meaner than the others". There's also no real concern about destruction of beloved characters, because people don't care about the characters very much to begin with. And this movie seems to have all new ones anyway.
Superman might do alright. There seems to be excitement for it, mixed with some concern about whether or not James Gunn can do a Superman movie as opposed to a "wacky misfits movie". There is also some (not necessarily a lot, but definitely some) worry that he's adding to much of his own experiences and issues into it. No one cares about his experience with cancel culture, we just want a Superman movie. The biggest problem this movie may have is an overinflated budget and marketing costs, which will necessitate a higher box office just to break even.
I expect Fantastic Four to flop. Both Brave New World and Thunderbolts flopped. Even if you personally liked them, they flopped. MCU fatigue is here. And frankly, Pedro Pascal fatigue is here too. And none of the news about the movie is exciting comic book fans. Comic book fans didn't want a female Silver Surfer, and they don't want Sue Storm to be the leader of the team. Early reviews and rumors point to the movie being about her, with the other team members being underutilized. This hasn't worked before, and I see no reason for it to work now.
If you could rewrite tlou season 2 what would happen in it?
You trying to get me in trouble, anon? :P Just for the record, this is the only time I'm gonna answer this and this is also the answer to "if you were to write a tlou2/season 2 fix-it fanfic what would it be" because I am also never gonna do that.
Putting this under a cut for long
Okay, so my opinion is that killing Joel off is cheap and boring and honestly just cruel. I think it is much harder and more complicated and complex to make people actually live with their choices and the consequences of their choices. Death is easy, in fiction.
If you want a completely different plot, I might go with Ellie finds out about Joel lying to her (and I wouldn't do a long estrangement, but I might let her believe it longer) and then have her leave. Maybe she hears about another Firefly group and tries to go track them down. You could have Joel following her or something, even, adding conflict between them or you could have him catch her to her fairly fast and her make him pick going with her or she never speaks to him again.
Then let her choose. There's more than one doctor in the world, and if it's been long enough, why couldn't they find another that thinks they could do it? Bring them back to the same place narratively, but separate her and Joel again and let her choose. Make it long enough that she has friends and you can still put in Jesse and Dina and whatever you want, like give her family and things to live to. Make her not a suicidal fourteen year old, let her actually heal some of her trauma, and let her realize "Oh, shit this is not okay."
If you wanna be really mean, you could make it so she has to choose between the vaccine and Joel. I dunno, maybe have her realize the Fireflies are going to kill him so he doesn't stop them again.
OR my other idea would be basically the same thing as it's doing (minus the... really dumb plot points like 2 people patrols) except Ellie only thinks Joel is dead. Kinda like spiral fractures, except I would make him actually pretty hurt. Like almost a coma, they don't know if he's gonna wake up, etc.
Because I think Abby would be a lot more interesting as a character (and actually redeemable) if she gets to the point of nearly killing Joel but then not being able to actually do it. Imagine she's standing over him, he's bleeding on the floor, helpless, and all she can hear is Ellie begging for her dad not to die, and all she can see is her own dad, and she can't do it. She can't make another girl a fatherless daughter.
Have Ellie go after Abby the same as she does, but the whole time, have Ellie think Joel is dead. Honestly you could speed up the timeline and have her burning so hot with revenge that she's following Abby while still hurt, half-killing herself in the process. She just has to believe Joel is dead.
Then in their confrontations they BOTH have to be wrestling with guilt and grief and, you know, do whatever you want with that. But Ellie eventually still makes the choice to stop, though I'd let Abby taunt her about Joel maybe being alive and her leaving him to increase the guilt, but let Ellie think he's dead and still choose to stop the revenge thing because she can see how endless it is and she wants to choose to be better.
It's choices and what she does have to offer the world. Have Abby scream at her about how unfair it is that she had her dad and her family and a really amazing little town and she's still so unhappy, and okay, you didn't make a vaccine, so what did you do to make your life so worthwhile? I think it'd be good to really emphasize that what Ellie has is what Abby wants so, so badly. Accuse her of wasting it and not appreciating it, like echo Marlene saying, "Don't waste this gift" to Joel.
Honestly, let Abby forgive Ellie for being alive, even. Like maybe not for the killing her dad thing, but for just being another kid in a messed up world who didn't deserve to die. Let her look at this kid who's younger than her and still just a messed up kid and let her forgive her for living and tell her to go home and live.
And then when Ellie goes home to Jackson, obviously he's not dead, and she sits at his hospital bed and says she forgives him or is going to try to forgive him, whatever you want. She falls asleep on the bed, and she's woken up by a voice going, "Hey, kiddo."
Smash cut to black, end of show.
Because the act of forgiving someone for something that is unforgiveable is always going to be more interesting when they're alive to deal with the consequences than if they're dead. It just is. Redemption through death is boring.
--The table is round, to show our everlasting concern for our missing men.
--The cloth is white, symbolizing the purity of their motives when answering the call to serve.
--The single red rose; displayed in a vase, reminds us of the lives of these Americans and their loved ones and friends who keep the faith while seeking answers.
--The red ribbon symbolizes our continued determination to account for our missing.
--A slice of lemon reminds us of their bitter fate
--A pinch of salt symbolizes the tears of our missing and their families who long for answers after decades of uncertainty.
--The lighted candle reflects our hope for their return.
--The Bible represents the strength gained through faith to sustain us and those lost from our country, founded as one nation under God.
--The glass is inverted, symbolizing their inability to share a toast.
--The chair is empty, the seat that remains unclaimed at the table.
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