Drowsy Emperor

Takes trolling to a whole new level.

That doesn't make any sense, its all over youtube. At this point there's no saving that video material from the internet. The relevant ones anyway.

French security services or some such order the city of Nice to delete all footage of the attack. Even if they aren't covering up something, its sure going to look like they are.

He wasn't even suicidal, he was an autistic person playing with a toy. The guy that got shot was a therapist trying to help. The cop was apparently blind, deaf, stupid and a poor shot - and the last was apparently his best characteristic, otherwise the black guy would be on a one way trip to the morgue.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/21/us/miami-officer-involved-shooting/index.html ...

And they say Kim Jong-un is bad. :D

So all these nerds who stayed in their basements and developed back and mental problems are fine yet when there's a game that encourages them to go outside and be healthy that is lame? Also the Pokémon games are ridiculously full of strategic depth and content. It might not be your cup of tea but to call it barely a game is a lie. Not a personal attack, a stated fact. What you said was a flat out lie. If they need Pokemon to go outside and be healthy then they're already beyond salvation. I'm a nerd yet I find time to go to the gym at least 4 times per week. Its really not that hard. I played the old Pokemon games, perhaps Gold or Silver. To call them full of strategy is a mighty leap of the imagination. In my experience its a typical jrpg grindfest in execution and the breeding aspect is a spreadsheet for nerds. I consider it a mind numbing slog as only Japanese games can be. You're making a fool out of yourself, judging a whole franchise by its second game entry released 17 years ago. It was before natures and abilities, the physical/special move split, stat overhaul, reusable TMs, double battles, online connectivity... It's ancient history in video game terms. But beyond games, there was still more than just cash-grabbing merchandise. Millions of us grew up with the Pokemon anime, PoGO reminds us of those times - even those who haven't touched anything Pokemon-related in years - and this excitement is a beautiful thing to watch. If you don't like Pokemon, that's fine, but to dismiss it as **** for lemmings and nerds is, well, embarrassing, considering the kind of forum we're on. I guess sitting on your couch stabbing virtual dragons with virtual swords is somehow more socially acceptable than going out for a 5 mile walk to catch these dragons? It's a good thing most of us are adults well-versed in the fine art of ignoring petty killjoys and carrying on with our lives. That whole passive aggressive post really shows how good you are in ignoring petty killjoys. Nevertheless, I grew up with the anime as well and Pokemon was repetitive, cranked out, bottom tier (in both art and story) trash like Dragon Ball and Yu Gi Oh compared to many other anime released both before and after. Its success (and purpose) lies in hooking children on the merchandise, the games and vice versa. Whereas the brilliance of some of Nintendo's other IP's is apparent even today (Super Mario, Zelda and others), and even to people who have no interest in games in general, I need to play 15 years of accumulated Pokemon games "to get it". Mmkay. I've played a lot of JRPGs and watched a lot of anime over the years. Not as much as hardcore weeaboos but a lot still. The "brilliance" of Pokemon is lost on me. As for this Pokemon GO thing, my criticism wasn't really directed at it being Pokemon per se. Its the idiotic behavior that it inspires, grown up people walking around like zombies, their faces glued to the phones, completely unaware of their surroundings. People already do that way too much in general, but this takes it to a whole new level.

So, for months there has been a (social) media focus on police violence against blacks specifically, in a country of 350 million people, where cops killing blacks -justifiably or not- is a fraction of the total of violent deaths. This, to you, is "a narrative". But then, you have, for years, a media focus on Islam-motivated -inspired -related violence in an area populated by more than 500 million, where the actual number of people killed for this reason is far less than the cops/blacks problem, by about an order of magnitude. This, to you, is "a problem with Islam", a sign of "cultural incompatibility", and so on. Authoritarian ****face Manuel Valls claiming that the Nice attacker had Islamist ties "one way or another" despite evidence to the contrary is not a narrative at all, right? And yeah, I guess the widely observed correlation between poverty and violence is just a coincidence, and mostly just a narrative pushed by leftards. Ideological killings is where it's at. Time for my time out... Just because its a narrative doesn't mean there isn't truth in it. I was merely pointing out that the escalation in violence is due to the media, not the circumstances changing. The problem with Islam is not just the violence. Its also a parallel culture where religion is the totality of the individual's existence and it includes a political and social order, judicial system etc. All of these are, when adhered to, incompatible with what may loosely be called "european values and norms". At worst openly antagonistic towards them. Some muslims may not care and just integrate but a lot don't and the UK is an example of what happens when you nurture this exclusionary tendency. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3358625/Inside-Britain-s-Sharia-courts-EIGHTY-FIVE-Islamic-courts-dispensing-justice-UK-special-investigation-really-goes-doors-shock-core.html I have nothing against all of these things in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia. If I was there I'd respect them as much as I respect my own laws. I'm not even against beheading or stoning as punishment for adultery and other assorted Islamic laws... in Islamic countries. But to claim that everything is fine, that all of "our" problems (current and forthcoming) is due to some unhappy poor minorities, is****ing stupid and narrow minded. Maybe its you who is presumptuous in thinking that they're so culturally vacuous that a thousand year old religion is eventually going to transition into the european iphone generation? Just because Europeans dumped Christianity by the roadside, Muslims must throw Mohammad out as well? And that they're all going to give a **** about your point of view and all these fine humanitarian concerns just because you like to play Voltaire, the same way I give a **** and engage in this discussion? You're in for a rude awakening pal. Please go into Molenbeek and explain to them how their religion is nothing but opium for the masses, their prophet a war criminal and their God an excuse for their Imams to get rich and keep their flock dumb and obedient. Tell them everything the left usually says about Christianity, hell give them the entire marxist manifesto. I'll be outside waiting with a body bag.

So all these nerds who stayed in their basements and developed back and mental problems are fine yet when there's a game that encourages them to go outside and be healthy that is lame? Also the Pokémon games are ridiculously full of strategic depth and content. It might not be your cup of tea but to call it barely a game is a lie. Not a personal attack, a stated fact. What you said was a flat out lie. If they need Pokemon to go outside and be healthy then they're already beyond salvation. I'm a nerd yet I find time to go to the gym at least 4 times per week. Its really not that hard. I played the old Pokemon games, perhaps Gold or Silver. To call them full of strategy is a mighty leap of the imagination. In my experience its a typical jrpg grindfest in execution and the breeding aspect is a spreadsheet for nerds. I consider it a mind numbing slog as only Japanese games can be.

As for this issue in particular, what I was trying to say that nothing of substance has changed. The police of today is probably much the same as the police 20-30 years ago, and criminality, poverty etc. has long been a problem with the black population. But for months now a narrative about particular police brutality towards black people is being repeated by the media. In a country of 350 million people, there are countless murders and crimes committed every day. Yet a particular selection is constantly in the news and is helping feed the "civil war" atmosphere. I don't believe any of these latest events would have happened without the "them vs us, police vs blacks" cauldron the media keep adding fuel to.

Funny that you'd make a comment in this vein, considering your expressed views on other issues. Manufactured race, gender, political orientation or religious wars are apparently very effective at averting class war. Thinking that economics lie at the base of every social conflict is a mistake that leftists always continue to make. Ideas, religion and various forms of identity are just as compelling reasons, not (always) just the veneer that comes on top of special interests.

The is an interesting phenomenon because the media basically created this race war out of thin air with systematic selective reporting.

For the first time after a long while I played something other than Team Fortress 2. Here's the short version: 1. Duskers. Great indie game simulating the 70's Alien movie experience and retro command prompt only gameplay. Its principal fault is that as a Roguelike, it doesn't have enough random unique content to give the game more variety. Thus, it becomes routine too quickly. 2. Shovel Knight. Nice 2d retro platformer. Has a lot of pleasant touches with level design, enemies and abilities without being too complex (a lot of platformers today are unnecessarily complicated for the genre IMO). Worth playing. 3. Ori and the Blind Forest. Lovely animation, interesting graphics - but the gameplay is simplistic and boring. - Gave up on it

Yes, unfortunately. Why is this **** a thing again. It was merchandising with barely a game on top of it, even in the 90's. And yet... this is the ultimate Darwinian experiment in natural selection. All the lemmings with no sense of their surroundings will go over a cliff, get run over by a car or fall over a precipice, into a volcano.

In Terran penal colony Serbia we're always eager to accept new recruits.

Turkey was instrumental in the creation and expansion of ISIS.

Well, *shrug*, he's right. "Moderate Islam" is a western construct for internal debates.

On a related note, Obama is trying to "solve Guantanamo" by shuffling prisoners around the world. A few days ago, out of the blue, local news in Serbia reported that 2 Guantanamo inmates are going to transferred... to Serbian jail. A country that has nothing to do with them on any level. I think they couldn't even find it on Google maps. There isn't even an indictment against them but they were held for 14 years in Guantanamo anyway. How ridiculous is this? Why are they coming here? And what do we do with them, strap them in power armor and send them to fight the Zerg?

I still don't understand why people think either candidate will herald a drastic change. Even though I'm rooting for Trump for entertainment value and spite, I see it just as a typical drummed up pre-election frenzy. People forget that Trump comes from the same social class as Hillary and other US presidential candidates. He's part of the financial elite that runs the country. And he's not going to rock the boat nearly as much as he's trying to convince everyone. Its just that he's upsetting some long standing interests in the Republican party, but at the end of the day, he's cut from the same cloth. The only real difference I see is the change in political discourse, that has become more crude and more savage than ever before - but seems to be a universal thing and hardly a Trump specialty. As for creeping authoritarianism, that started way before Trump, and seems to progress regardless of who is in charge.

Its sometimes a sound strategy to start a coup when the relevant political leader is abroad because if the thing is done properly, he won't have anywhere to come back to. But him merely being in another part of the country, apparently out of reach of the coup forces doesn't seem sound.

With these mass arrests I have a suspicion that figures within Turkey may have expected a purge incoming and tried to act preemptively with the coup. That could explain their relative weakness during the whole execution.

I'd love to know how they rationalized the coup among the commanders/soldiers. As in, what they were actually "fighting for". We didn't get to hear any of that unfortunately.

Well, as we say back home "pukovnik il' pokojnik", which in direct translation would be something like "colonel or corpse", meaning all or nothing. They didn't really go for broke and now they're at Erdogan's mercy. Along with a ton of people that are going to be swept away using the coup as an excuse.

The mistake was not getting important political figures and eliminating them fast. They rallied withing a few hours, which shouldn't really have been allowed to happen.

Turkey has been a state for a very long time, whereas Ukraine barely qualifies for the term.