Chairchucker

I assume that first line was sarcasm, as you know that both of us think it is cool and good that Djokavic is getting deported.

Started again, again. Decided to play on Core, see if I can manage. (I'm usually on normal to escape Owlcat's shenanigans.) I'm actually doing OK. Helps that I know exactly where to go in the first act, and how to cheese myself some extra XP using 'only active party members gain XP' until I get a full party. Current character is a two handed fighter going full into elven curve blade. Gonna go trickster and unlock all the absurd trickster feats.

The Eternals came out on Disney Plus this week so now I've seen it. Rather enjoyed it actually.

Re: Djokavic; boot him. The process that led to his initial visa cancellation may have been flawed, but there is still ample reason (i.e., him being a lying jerk) to deny it a second go round. Re: socialism/capitalism etc, I think while the terms are useful in terms of a shorthand description of certain policies, they can also be a hindrance, in that people will just play word association bingo and go 'oh that particular policy used the key word 'social', it must be socialism and therefore bad', instead of considering the policies on their merits and examining how they've fared when they've been used elsewhere.

Hating our politicians is what we do best.

No movie ever has 'needed' to be made, and there are whole categories of movies for which the purpose is 'make money'.

Personally, I've never made a merc and I never will.

Yeah, you've touched on something there relevant to our own system. People have been in our system for, as I understand it, as long as 12 years. Perhaps it really is impossible to extradite their legal cases or whatever it is quicker than that. If that is really the case, it then becomes our responsibility to not place people in lodgings where they start to see suicide as a preferable alternative. Especially when we put them in off shore detention so that we can then claim that since they're not on Australian soil when human rights abuses get committed against them, it's not Australia's problem. Also, fun fact, it would be cheaper to just build houses and feed them in Australia. We're paying extra for the bonus of torturing them.

Gotta be honest, I've kinda gone off Ember. Now Daeran is my best friend. (Plus he bought me roses, and sometimes a girl likes to be wooed.)

Honestly I'd never heard that specific requirement to qualify as a 'concentration camp'. It seems kinda dumb and arbitrary. Nazi death camps probably followed German law at the time. I remember reading at some point that it was the Nazis who referred to theirs as 'concentration camps', to conceal the fact that they were frequently death camps. I would've just used the criteria, "Are they cramming a bunch of people into an uncomfortably small living space? Cool that's a high concentration of people, hence 'concentration camp'." That said I'm not aware that, generally speaking, any of the inmates of these detention centres have been charged with anything, so the rest of the definition that Dan Stone has offered seems to fit. A later definition offered in that same article is, "A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their membership in a group which the government has identified as dangerous or undesirable." Yep, they're cramped, they haven't been charged with anything, the conditions are harsh enough that a number of suicide attempts have occurred, the government frequently hides behind the shield of 'they could be terrorists' so the 'identified as dangerous or undesirable' fits. I know some object to the use of the term 'concentration camp' because of the most infamous examples being the Nazi Death Camps, and so it might seem like an 'emotionally charged' term or something like that. I kind of understand that, but on the other hand we have people who have been held without charge for a decade, we have people on our offshore detainment centres in particular who have been physically and sexually abused, we have people who have tried to take their own life because of how bad the situation is, so frankly my position is to use the emotionally charged term, and if someone's issue with the whole situation is that we're using a term that is 'too emotionally charged', immediately stop caring about that person's opinion. EDIT: Side note, politicians on both sides frequently refer to harsh measures taken against refugees as a 'deterrent'. My personal position is that if you see people getting into a leaky boat to escape a horrible situation, and your policy is 'let's treat them badly enough to make people prefer the awful situation they're trying to escape', maybe you're just a wretched human being.

There is, IMO, no reason for that character to survive until act 4 in any good aligned run.

Yeah, Australian politics really would improve immeasurably if someone sprinkled holy water on Rupert's coffin.

There's probs a few different ways to accurately describe them.

The Djokavic situation is interesting, not because there's anything remotely sympathetic about Novak's plight, screw that guy, I hope he gets kicked out, but because his detention at the same place a bunch of people have been detained for like a decade for the crime of trying to not get murdered in their home country has highlighted their plight. A bunch of his fans went down to protest on his behalf and realised his plight was not the biggest deal.

Yeah I'm not sure Emily Blunt's capable of making a bad movie TBH. No one should feel any obligation to prove me wrong.

Past Chairchucker was alternately a rude jerk and fine, actually. Some of my old posts make me want to delete everything before 2010, some of my old posts make me think 'nope, past me was great'. In more MOVIE related news, The Eternals comes to Disney+ this week. It got mixed enough reviews to make me not bother with the cinema experience, but I'm sure gonna watch it since I'm already paying for the subscription.

Honestly, one of the biggest problems with our political system is our voters, sadly. We have, somehow, managed to avoid the majority of the voter suppression nonsense that goes on in the USA, and we've got a somewhat more robust election system that should mean the two major parties don't have the overwhelming stranglehold on all sections of Government that is the case in the USA, the main problem is that many voters just ignore the smaller parties on principle. Anyway, hoping for Liberal and Labor (the latter of whom shamefully spells their name the American way) both lose a bunch of seats to more progressive candidates, but I honestly think Liberal will probably stay in power. EDIT: Re: the insurrection/terrorists thing, I think one of the 'goals' was to terrorise Pence into 'doing the right thing' and exercising his political power that he didn't actually have I think, and declaring Trump God Emperor for another 12 years.

A whole bunch of 'old man yells at sequels' in that crappy video.

Had my first meeting with this Playful Darkness fellow. Gotta say, it really gave me a greater appreciation for summoning spells.

The whole 'rotating camera moves scenery' mechanic is an innovative one, and one I hope never to see in any other video game. I'm already wrestling with your frequently frustrating camera, don't make it even more frustrating for me.

*strictly That first comma in that second paragraph is probably best replaced by a period or a semi-colon. *superfluous

Depends on the country. In the USA and UK, power and money (same thing in some cases) tends to be in the hands of old white guys. In Saudi Arabia, sure, a sheik could probs make you disappear. EDIT: whereas in China it might be dangerous to talk about a former communist party leader, for example.

I'll try to address this sentence by sentence I guess. Maxwell and Epstein have been photographed with a number of rich and/or powerful white dudes. It's not a matter of 'belief', it is a matter of public record that they were acquainted with these men, and some of the victims specifically stated that those men were involved. Trump specifically name dropped Epstein in one of his speeches. Some people certainly believe that Epstein would've cut a deal if he hadn't died in mysterious circumstances. I definitely think absurdly rich white dudes have more power and influence than criminal syndicates, yes.

I think it's good that Ghislaine is going prison, or jail or whichever one it is, forever, but also I kind of wanted her to roll over on every single rich and powerful rapist that she and Epstein ever enabled, even if that meant she never went to prison. I understand her desire not to get murdered, however.