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You'd be wrong for thinking that. It actually did escalate because of the suspect. He failed a field sobriety test. It's a DUI easy. But he fought back, punched one of the cops and grabbed a taster and started running away. Now, here is where bad went to worse. As he is running away he points the taser back at the pursuing cop. The cop pulls his weapon (which, up to this point, was holstered) and shot the suspect in the back. On the first look the cops actions are not unreasonable. A taser is a weapon. But it is not a deadly weapon and in the hands of a fleeing suspect posed no threat to either cop. They had his name, license, car and keys. That guy was not going to get away even if he ran. So the pursuit was probably unnecessary. No pursuit and the suspect does not get shot. IMO only, I think the cop was mad about being punched, mad about his partner's taser and that drove him to pursue. There is a lot of gray area in this one. This is not George Floyd where he died after a curel, calculated, and deliberate act for no purpose other than torture.

No way do I put her in charge! She is strictly there for voter appeal. If/when I abdicate Rep. Duke would be a much better successor. That SOB already figures he owns this place.

More DS2. After spending few hours in Bright Cove Tseldora, while trying to get all the items, I've moved to another bossfight. The Duke's Dear Freja. Not very difficult boss for being the area boss, but for some reason I was to stubborn to tryout few more tactics and I've insisted to jump under her soul beam. After I stopped repeating that, she fell on second try,,, In total, I've needed 9 attempts to get one more Great Soul for my collection. Whole fight bellow

Yes, a game where a shadowy heir to a fortune sends unfortunates to their doom for profit definitively takes your mind of the current political environment. Joking aside, best Lovecraft game yet.

depends. for those curious 'bout brooks situation: 1) do a search for fleeing felon rule. you may be surprised. 2) tasers is not nice, but is not the core problem the suspect didn't just point the taser at the cops following him. watch video close. looks as if mr. brooks discharges the device-- possibly even hit the nearest pursuer. cop stumbles immediate after taser is discharged by brooks and falls against a car. taser is kinda a red herring though. the suspect had already shown a willingness to assault police officers in their earlier attempt to arrest him. cop training almost anywhere would establish that the subject in question is dangerous, and cop training and reasoning is simple: a suspect who has shown a willingness to use force on police is a threat to public. ipso facto... 3) @HoonDing is actual right 'bout race, but am not thinking for reasons most will embrace... as usual, many will disagree with Gromnir. regardless o' race, once you trigger cop training and experience regarding violence, you have already passed the rubicon. vol enjoys posting videos and links to events where white folks suffered at the hands o' cops. he is wrong to claim there is no cop racism 'cause such events occur, but it is true cops is less hesitant to use excess force 'pon whites than many would like to believe. is not as if this stuff only happens to minorities. once you put a cop in a situation where they is needing respond to challenges to authority and situations which has possibility o' putting self, other officers or innocent bystanders at risk, then far too many cops will use force, and then punish the suspect for providing the cop an excuse to use force. need serious changes to training. HOWEVER ... the racism likely started before the drama and not once we saw the suspect fighting with cops-- punching 'em, grabbing the taser, fleeing and then discharging taser at pursuers. if cops show up and find a drunk guy asleep in his car at a wendy's drive-thru, and the guy is white, how much effort do the "protect and serve" cops make to see that drunk guy gets a ride home... safe? even if suspect is drunk and belligerent and repeated fails the attitude test, particular if suspect is appearing to be an upstanding, middle-class white guy, the first impulse o' cops on scene is gonna be other than arrest. yeah, arrest is ez to argue is reasonable. brooks failed sobriety and fell asleep at wheel at a wendy's-- this is not a person you give a citation to and then send him on his way. brooks is exactly the guy who gets in an accident minutes later and kills multiple people 'cause he were too drunk to drive safe. drunk tanks at local jails o' every major city is filled with such people all too often. is not gonna be difficult for cops to show it were complete reasonable to arrest brooks. nevertheless, the whole situation coulda' played out different if the cops were more inclined to help brooks. a couple o' atlanta cops came across a drunk black man in a parking lot. what are chances brooks were belligerent? am suspecting brooks failed the attitude test immediate. drunk white guy in same situation and the cops woulda' been more likely to channel their inner andy griffith, perhaps rolling their eyes a bit, but doing everything they can to get drunk guy home safe. @IndiraLightfoot asks why cops weren't more careful and aware given situation. from cop pov, and as hard as may be to believe, they probable were being careful. the initial skuffle, even after the suspect became violent, did not see the cops respond with night sticks and other similar heavy-handed options. from cop pov, they no doubt believed they were being careful. have tried to explain how casual is cop violence on these boards. initial skuffle were, God save us all, restrained. however, in a high pressure situation, cop training and experience takes over, as it is s'posed to do. brooks, a fleeing felon, escapes from cops and fires taser at one pursuer, possible hitting him. again, need serious changes to cop training. regardless, am thinking many people is gonna be shocked by the actual results o' the now inevitable case 'gainst the cops. oh, and for the fox viewers, Atlanta erupts after Rayshard Brooks death prompts police chief to step down story at fox focuses on the violence o' the protesters. is unfortunate when protesters respond with violence, 'cause many of those moderate white voters whose support the protesters need if there is gonna be meaningful change, see brooks video and is appalled, but they see wendy's burn and is similar horrified.

In all likelyhood I won't touch it, it'll probably play exactly like Mafia 3 and I doubt that they will include wheel support which is one of the things I really loved about the original, and I doubt they'll have the cars feel as good driving either. I could live with them updating the shooty bits to cover based but I really want some excellent driving feel in it since it was such a huge part of the game, it felt like driving an old slow car. Not to fond of how the characters has been redesigned, technically much better but I almost for a second thought that they'd taken the M2 main character and voice actor.

Hardest difficulty pacifist/minimum kills run here I come!

Dear Obsidian In response to your fantastic game, please consider my priority list for The Outer World 2. Please please include; Customisation of the SHIP! or possibly the ability to build a ship from scratch!? A Player Home: How about we can terraform a moon and build a settlement/moon base? Implement some of the 'build' software from Grounded? More of ADA! 😍 And generally more of everything! More planets, moons, stations - a new star system maybe? Awesome work! Love this game! Everyone boycott Bethesda and all hail Obsidian!! P.S. - Please join forces with CD Project Red and make an epic open-world high fantasy game to rival the burnt out franchise that is The Elder Scrolls? 😏 Further suggestions encouraged in the comments..

Eh, it's a pain to save an image, upload it to photobucket or some such service, and then share it on the forums, so I tend to just directly link them. I've never been able to find an option to delete old pictures from the Forum gallery you can upload to, so it's maxed out from long dead threads.

Paradox has been putting up some Empire of Sin gameplay content that I completely missed. Still looks like a potential GOTY to me.

Sung Wukong: Spider-Man. Tang Sanzang: Captain America. Zhu Bajie: Thor. Sha Wujing: Iron Man.

then you really don't know how cops behave in many/most jurisdictions. dui is not necessarily a one-way ticket to jail. particular in many a rural jurisdiction, and especial if the drunkard is underage (but not limited to such) the police as often as not drive the bleary-eyed driver home rather than drive to jail. etc. there is many states which do require minimum jail time following a dui offense, but even then, you need not be arrested. may need show up voluntarily for court/jail, but... but again, we did note how arrest is always gonna be ez to argue as reasonable. cops will take a bit more effort if they is sympathetic and sympathy is in far less supply for minorities dealing with cops. once cops got brooks out of the cars and presumable got keys away from him, then immediate danger to public were over. no need to resort to violence. HA! Good Fun!

If he were black and had not punched a cop, grabbed a taser and pointed it at a cop he would still be alive.... probably

We finally get a Persona on PC and it's IMHO the worst one.

If he were white he'd still be alive.

Thx for filling me in on some info the article I read didn't account for. Yeah, then it makes a bit more sense, given him attacking them etc., but yeah, the pursuit was where it all went south fast. Was he really that big of a danger to society when he ran away in that instance? Why not just call for backup and catch him, using more manpower and safer tools for that kind of job (catching him - rather than stuff that might kill him)?

Swedish band, there's a line in the song that is in Swedish, just warning you so you don't think that you're hearing satan speaking. And something German to keep Gorth a bit calm;

And Rammstein said: Let there be fire. And there was fire. Lots of fire.

Resting B**** Face

X4 - After completely wiping out the Xenon Wharf in Turquoise Sea, I took a short trip over to Scale Plate Green to destroy the Xenon Shipyard there. The wharf was heavily protected, the shipyard was LUDICROUSLY heavily protected. I'm talking 1 I destroyer, 6 K destroyers, and more frigates and fighters than I could count. This took a very long time and there was more than a little save scumming involved, but eventually I destroyed all the critical parts of the shipyard (fabrication/maintenance modules, storage modules, and defense modules). I didn't completely destroy the station, like I did the wharf, and I didn't destroy the I destroyer because it would have taken too long and I have other stuff to do right now. The I desyroyer's shields are just too beefy for me to take down quickly and I can't employ my previous tactic of flanking the I, setting up shop and opening up on it, then moving to flank again as it turned to face me and intercept with 50 fighters pounding my shields simultaneously. I could destroy the Ks because I could take down their shields quickly enough to do hull damage before the fighters swarmed on me. I can't come close to taking down the I's shields before I get swarmed and have to withdraw and reset and by the time I get back the shields have recharged. I'd have to wipe out all the fighters first then fight the I 1 on 1, and that would take more time than I'm willing to invest right now. Anyway, I did enough damage that it will be a while until the Xenon can build ships in that region again. The 1 I destroyer, a handful of frigates, and a hundred or so fighters is all they have for a while, they can't replenish their fleet unless they import from halfway across the galaxy, so I should be mostly free from harassment for a while. Now I'm off to increase my standing with the Holy Order of the Pontifex and to make some money.

Man, I had the hots for Damsel back in the days. But seeing this face now ....

Disco Elysium + Expeditions: Viking In particular with the latter, I'm wondering whether that's a format that would be viable for Josh Sawyer's Dream turn-based historical RPG. Would be interesting to see what their dev budget was... but in either case, that's a pretty good soundtrack and composer for an indie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9FkldqiH5Y

You almost had me sold. But then you had to go and declare yourself president. Alas, it seems no one is immune to the lure of power. Reflect. Think about what you are doing. A peaceful transfer of power to someone who you know is much better suited for the job is still possible. Resign, and let Sunny bear that burden. For your sake. For all our sakes.

I just viewed that as an extra part of the joke when I saw it... On to other htings..

I suggest a Obs Board Project. We gotta get @Gromnir on Jeopardy.

already were. edward g. robinson, an excellent actor who were unfortunate typecast a bit too often, were advocating civil rights reform and championing an end to workplace discrimination based on race way back in the 1940s. more vocal support such as his back in the 40s and we might not be where we are today. he also had an extensive private art collection, but am not sure how relevant such is. guy had gravitas even playing a scene with mcqueen, malden, calloway and ann-margret, 'mongst others. ... am also a big fan o' karl malden, but am honest not aware o' his political activities or skew. could show his famous on the waterfront scene, which would also be relevant in its own way. a few degrees o' separation makes near anything relevant if you got a little imagination and a bit o' trivia-level knowledge. HA! Good Fun!

Me catching up on the last thread ...aaand just to be topical 'Faded away into a dark nightmare': North Korea says diplomacy with Trump has failed

I went to what used to be my favourite burger place and discovered they've changed owners. Didn't discover they changed owners until after I ordered though, they no longer chuck for their ground beef, and they don't know how to fry fries. I'm miserable right now. 😭