Drowsy Emperor

Hello people. With the upcoming reveal of the console I thought we could summarize the rumors and what is already known. So far it is all but confirmed that its either some sort of handheld/traditional console hybrid or a handheld with a docking port for HDMI play. Apparently it will feature a handheld screen with detachable controllers, presumably for multiplayer gameplay on one device, backwards compatibility with things like motion controls or simply to allow for the use of specialist controllers. It will likely launch with the new Zelda game which has some interesting implications for the WiiU (which is also getting the same game). Launching the first proper Zelda installment (since Skyward Sword on the Wii) on the NX implies that Nintendo wants to give the new device a push at the expense of the WiiU. Even though the WiiU is getting its own version, this signals that key first party support is going to go to the NX and that just confirms what we already know - that the WiiU is dead. There are two speculations about the way the new console works: 1. That the dock will just be a dock and little else - that would make it essentially just a handheld 2. That the dock will feature additional processing/gpu power (how this would work is anyone's guess)- that would make the NX a hybrid device, where you would play the latest AAA games on the TV and handheld ones on the move The first theory is much more likely. But it also means something interesting - if this handheld is the device Nintendo will be depending on the for the next few years that means that for the first time they're definitely out of the mainstream console gaming scene. For power reasons, a pure handheld is not going to be able to run the majority of the popular games which means it will depend on Nintendo's first party support and the kind of third party support that the 3DS had - a separate market for a separate product in a nutshell. The second theory would theoretically be something great as it would allow Nintendo to stay somewhat competitive with the PS and XB and, more importantly, it would unify Nintendo's handheld and console studios around a single device, which would insure more first party games than ever before. Thoughts?

I mean, really? The only thing that's lacking on the list is inhumane treatment of animals and spitting on the sidewalk.

Being acquitted by a court instituted with the sole purpose of cementing the notion that you're guilty pretty much ensures that the whole process was a joke from the start. The way the indictment was structured also suggests a fantastic degree of fishing (let's see what we can make stick!) by the prosecution:

You're all toxic, but as internet toxicity goes (see reddit, twitch), this is positively endearing.

That's true, but most political courts have the inquisitorial logic that you're presumed guilty until you somehow prove your innocence. The idea of course, is to make that impossible for the defendant. I actually watched dozens of hours of the Milosevic trial up until his death in the Hague and the panel of judges was extremely biased and obstructive towards him from the start. They resented and perhaps feared the fact that as someone who completed law studies and had the benefit of first hand knowledge of the events at hand (that they did not have and could never catch up on) he could handle his own defense better than they could do the "prosecuting and judging" part, so they tried to force a lawyer on him at every juncture. They also showed extreme favoritism towards the prosecution even at embarrassing moments such as when prosecution witnesses revealed they had been blackmailed, bribed or otherwise pressured to give a particular testimony, or even worse didn't even know what they were testifying to and just signed testimonies written by the prosecution itself. It was occasionally hilarious to see witnesses flat out denying they said something from their written testimony only to eventually being cornered by Milosevic in cross examination to admitting they just "signed what they were told to sign". In normal circumstances the case would have been thrown out entirely after such a scandal, but for the purposes of manufacturing guilt, the show had to go on.

Actually that is looking at it the wrong way round. The "International criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia" was instituted in order to make the interventions and the bombing appear legal and proper post facto. Since the bombing was instigated unilaterally without the approval of the UN security council and lacks a legal precedent it would technically fall under the UN definition of aggression. Since a legal argument cannot be construed to support the intervention the ICTY was instituted to support and cement the idea that humanitarian concerns gave a "just cause" to the whole operation. In order to achieve that goal it would have to, in essence, make a reality out of what was, for the most part, propaganda. But as the years passed and evidence to back up the many outrageous claims couldn't be found it is now slowly collapsing in itself while trying to find a "graceful" way out.

Although it makes little difference down the line, the possibility of another Clinton in office makes my hair stand on end. And the things she says much of the time make Bill seem meek by comparison. People slam Trump for being "combative", but if you look at it closely, Hillary's discourse is much much worse.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-warcrimes-bosnia-karadzic-idUSKCN0WP2ZW http://inserbia.info/today/2016/07/icty-upholds-convictions-sentences-of-two-serbs/ Numerous Serbs were and are guilty for war crimes, its a historical fact You can dismiss the ICTY as a Western kangaroo court and you can see it as illegitimate yet this is obviously not the view most of Serbia shares as Serbia is still trying to join the EU....which is a Western institution that is aligned to organistions like NATO War crimes were also committed by Croats and Bosniaks but the majority or war crimes were committed by Serbs and no amount denialism and revisionist history is going to change to that, sorry Drowsy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_indicted_in_the_International_Criminal_Tribunal_for_the_former_Yugoslavia 0/10 for this troll attempt

https://www.rt.com/op-edge/354362-slobodan-milosevic-exonerated-us-nato/ http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/01/the-exoneration-of-milosevic-the-ictys-surprise-ruling/ And so everything written about him, his supposed nationalist agenda and acts against Albanians/Croats/muslims falls apart as even the western kangaroo court finds him innocent of it all, albeit burying the verdict in the details of another trial.

*shrug* At this point only profoundly stupid people expect anything else to happen. One look at the fate of christian churches in Egypt or the walls and fences that protect the orthodox patriarchy in Istanbul is enough to know how tolerance works in the muslim world. Also it would help to provide some context: synagogues are protected because French muslims routinely vandalize them and attack jews to the extent that French jews have started emigrating due to security concerns. http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/22/middleeast/france-israel-jews-immigration/ The article goes to great lengths to avoid pointing out who the cause of insecurity is, but that is now impossible to hide.

Sanders is really eating all the **** they're dishing out and liking it as if its chocolate mousse. "Clinton will make a great president"

Almost went Godlike. He did do it as everyone else was having connection problems, but its the thought that counts.

Jesus, the hit didn't look that bad on camera but his skull is caved in like a melon.

What a string of disasters

Not initially, but he didn't really have to considering the Russian naval base there.

Suicidal people don't put a shrapnel loaded bomb in a backpack and go wondering about town usually.

Presumably he knew which victims he was going for seeing as how he lured them to the McDonalds with the promise of free food.

Where do you get this rubbish from? Russian soldiers in Ukraine were almost exclusively volunteers barring some of the officer cadre. Putin hasn't "made their families shut up or disappear", only their (the soldier's) funerals were kept quiet to downplay Russia's role in Ukraine. In Syria there wasn't even any subterfuge. Mass murdering his citizens? Please. The only assassination that can credibly be attributed to the Russian government is the defector FSB agent in London that was ****ting on the Russian government (as only UK based defectors can) until they made him drink a nuka-cola. Everything you wrote is absolute nonsense that even patently anti-Russian publications like, for example, Foreign Affairs wouldn't write.

The perpetrator apparently had collected material about various killing sprees in recent years, Breivik's only one of them although of course prominent. A "link" is not the same as "basically identical". The link has apparently more to do with planning and how to go about a mass killing, not with motives or victims. That's what you understand with a more careful look into the details, but what the media is trying to push is that its a far-right thing.

Of mixed descent, doesn't like foreigners. Shoots up a totally random crowd you'd expect to find at a McDonalds. Argues for a while and then shoots himself. #andthorazineforall The "Breivik link" is obviously obvious, but only to German police. Because a middle aged white Norwegian who shoots up the youth of the leftist party as a form of political terrorism against their immigration policies is the same as a kid of mixed descent shooting up random people in a McDonalds.

Convenient enough for everyone to find their own scapegoat. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Chinese culture stresses conformism, not resisting authority and not raising a fuss. Crime is in a way an organized and accepted part of society. Not like in Japan, where they're an institution, but not far away either. Guns are extremely hard to come by in most Asian countries. Violence is mostly committed by things like knives, bats and such. In short they're an easier populace to keep in line.