WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

author=Red_Nova
Just calm down and go to bed.

That poor light.

I'll tell you what I'm thinking
The Hawkman must be very powerful to spawn multiple pages of arguments.
I will pray for frozen_phoenix

I just got Alexander in FF7 and I'm totally fine with that. I'm just happy that I'll never have to go back to the Great Glacier again.


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I, Ocean, the foodmonster, have eaten too much today.

author=Pizza
In other news, I just watched Star Wars Episode I with my room mate for the first time in 3-4 years (since we're watching them all week by week in prep for Episode VII), and I have to say... It's not as bad as people make it out to be. When everyone says it's "absolutely horrible" or "one of the worst movies they've ever seen" I can't help but think they either haven't seen enough truly, objectively bad movies or they're letting their nostalgia for the originals get in the way. Considering how many characters and plotlines the movie has to set up and how early in the timeline it has to start it's pretty averagely entertaining all around. The general art design is really nice, the fight coreography is well done and exciting and the whole movie feels like part of the Star Wars universe. Honestly, it could have been a LOT worse than it actually is.

Time will tell what next week brings, as I remember Episode II being the worst of the prequels by far.

As I was about 11, I did not hate the film when it came out. Just disappointing that it wasn't as good as the original Star Wars Special Edition VHSs I had. Which were awesome. There's nothing wrong with those versions.

The worst thing about the prequels is how boring they are. They're trying to tell a coherent and adult story, but 1) doing it badly. 2) in what amounts to a movie for kids. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

I fainted twice just trying to figure out a reliable way to get from the hot springs to the cave with the person in it. I was losing my shit, fearing this was another one of those damn Lost Woods kinds of things (it actually is to a certain degree).

The rotating map was just a crapshot. I figured there had to have been a constant with each direction you walk so maybe if I just try and make it to the far right side I'd get to the mountain. I guess Square thought it wasn't bad enough being lost in a frozen hell that makes use of the same backgrounds for multiple pathways all the while running against an invisible clock, they just had to throw an extra wrench in there.

It's not bad going through it when you know that you have to ; it's when you're doing it because you want to that starts making you question life choices.

I got so pissed, I spit on my cat.

author=Gourd_Clae
@piano Don't hate him cause he's cute.

I'm not sure where he's getting that those are fake though.

Well, the one about the breastfeeding mother is fake. I honestly couldn't tell the difference between it and other real news stories until Corf brought it up and so I went looking, and it turns out that the site is a satire like the Onion (don't just blow off the Onion, though. They do occasionally publish real news stories, usually filed under too-strange/insane/sick-to-be-fiction.). I went to the gym tonight trying to lose some weight and checked my blood pressure. It's the highest it's been in over a year, and no, when he cusses you out, he's not being cute.

You know, I used to say, "Most cops are good people, but the bad ones need to be held accountable." Even good cops fuck up and when they do, they shouldn't be held above the law. This, of course, was enough to earn me the label of cop hater. For the cop-lover...you know what, I'm not pulling punches anymore...for the cop-sucker, anything less than blind obedience makes you a cop hater. Yeah, not blindly obeying egotistical jack-asses with guns who will kill you for a busted taillight is un-American.

I've had cops point guns at me for no reason. I once had one begging another to let him shoot me. I'm serious. I was being cuffed, and this cop was begging the one cuffing me to let him shoot me. This was after they illegally searched my vehicle and found nothing. Why? Because my tags were expired. I had this scum bag trying to coerce and intimidate me into admitting I do drugs (I don't, not even once in awhile). I told him that if it's so important to him, I don't object to him doing drugs. Not even that was enough to turn me against cops, although I've always had a strong distrust for them.

I've always had bad dealings with cops. When I was moving pianos for Piano World, I was constantly getting pulled over for no other reason than my passenger was black, and you should see some of the shit these cops do. I remember one time, a cop spent ten minutes making my helper spell his name over and over again (You know what this does? This confuses a person so that after several times, he starts questioning the spelling of his name. Then the coproach accuses him of using an alias and uses it as an excuse to start questioning the passenger.). I asked him what I was being pulled over for, and he said my tags were expired. I told him, "No they're not, they're new." And they were. He runs to the back of the vehicle and comes back and says he read them wrong, but that still isn't the end of it. He's got nothing but still keeps his shit up. This wouldn't be such a big deal if cops weren't pulling me over regularly for the same stupid shit. Was I jaded? Yes. Did I hate cops? Not so much! They have a hard job.

No more of this shit. Let me tell you the story of Jeremy Weekley. Officer Weekley, of Detroit, is chosen to film for a cop show. He and his team have been staking out a suspected murderer. They've got his movements down and they're ready to move, but there's a problem. The suspected murderer lives in half of a duplex and Weekley is afraid that the suspected murderer may have access to the other residence. How does he resolve the issue? He tells the judge that the family living in the other half of the duplex are accomplices (even though there's no evidence of any contact between either tenants) so that he can get a warrant to raid both residences. The camera shows a yard full of children's toys and Weekley breaking in the door and running in. Four seconds later, there are two gunshots. What happened? Weekley just blew a sleeping seven-year-old girl's brains out. During the raid, they found nothing, and the suspected murderer wasn't even home.

When Huff post initially carried the story, Weekley said that he had been blinded by a flash grenade and having been startled, accidentally fired twice, which for you or me would almost certainly carry 2nd degree manslaughter if not 3rd degree murder. At the very least, negligent homicide for failing to observe weapon safety. Apparently, the court and lawyers realized this, so Weekley's story soon changed to the-grandmother-who-was-on-the-couch-with-the-child-tried-to-wrestle-the-gun-away-and-I-accidentally-fired-during-the-struggle. That's a big difference from being startled by a flashbang. The video taken by the camera crew debunked that. Even though they weren't in the house, there was no way enough time had passed for an elderly woman to jump off of the couch after having been startled awake to wrestle a gun away from fully armed policeman. The grandmother said she never touched the gun, but was startled and fell off the couch. Apparently, this means the grandmother must have hit the gun without realizing it causing Weekley to fire, and so all charges against him have been dismissed.

For anyone else, none of this would have been an excuse. You or me would have gone to prison no matter the circumstances, because the killer held the gun and the killer should have been in control of the gun, but because Weekley's a fucking pig in a blue costume, he gets a free ride at the taxpayers' expense; a baby killer who did everything he could to put the blame on someone else and then demand we feel sorry for him for the emotional trauma of having killed a baby. That he lied to get there, came up with nothing to justify being there, and held the gun that splattered 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones brains all over her family's couch counted for nothing. This was a productive, law-abiding family who had never run afoul of the law until Jeremy Weekley had them in his sights.

Yeah, I hate cops. Any decent person would hate baby killers and baby rapists. And more baby rapists. Here's a child rapist who was protected by his department.

But you know, at least the rapists are being held accountable. Someone steals a a bike and the owner's friend helps him look for it. The cops stop the guy who's trying to find the bike and gun him down for taking off his hat.

If Linkis want's to defend these murdering psychopaths, that's his business, but when he starts attacking me because I disagree with him, I draw the line. I don't care what fucking war he has or hasn't fought in (I don't know if he has, but seeing that he's 70, it's not unreasonable to assume the possibility...maybe I should give him a list of all the veterans cops have been murdering), but he's trolling.

Look back on his posts. I wrote a bad review for a bad game, and Linkis jumped my shit for it. Look through his posting history; he has a tendency of attacking reviewers for giving low ratings. He sits on this board and yell's and screams about our First Amendment rights (which we actually haven't had since Senator McCarthy shredded it. Yes, any statement that takes a liberal or progressive view can lawfully be prosecuted in this country as un-American. Just because the oversight commission in charge of bringing such cases forward has been dismantled doesn't mean the laws have. I can actually end up spending my life in prison for this post alone if some prosecutor felt like enforcing anti-communism laws against me. In fact, so can many of you for many of the posts in this thread.).

It's not "cute". It's ignorant, and I should have ignored him a long time ago. He get's my blood-pressure up far too often, and tonight was the worst. Not even mawk gets me this pissed off (which is probably because I agree with many of things he says and I understand why he's such a nasty individual, even if I don't know what his problem is.). Any man who can defend baby killers and rapists does not have my respect, and I do not give him a free pass for being "cute".

When a cop wants to search your car, you're allowed to say no!

It is not illegal to own a gun!

It is not illegal to ask why you're being stopped!

It is not illegal to disagree with a cop!

It is not illegal to demand a reason for a cop's orders!

It is not illegal to question arbitrary orders!

It is not legal for cops to arrest people because they feel like it!

It is not legal murder a deaf man for not following orders!

It is not legal to murder unarmed people in their disabled cars!

It is not legal to murder an 85-year-old wheelchair bound veteran and it is not illegal for him to refuse his meds!

Police are in the news for murdering someone for every fucking one of these!

Police have openly declared that they are at war with us! NEWSFLASH! WHEN SOMEONE IS AT WAR WITH YOU, THEY FUCKING KILL YOU!!! And you want me to love them for it? Should I love the Gestapo or the Khmer Rouge? Are you going to start a hashtag #NotAllTaliban? Here's a possibility you may not have considered: I don't care if cops are murdering scum. I just want the same laws that apply to us to apply to them, but they can murder little babies and walk free! That horrible monster murdered a little a kid and after all the laws he broke to get into the position to do even do that, he was cleared of any wrong doing. It was perfectly legal to lie to a judge to get a search warrant! How can you defend this? How can you side with someone who would do something so horrific? She was just a little baby! Will you side with them when they murder your grandchildren?

Police are just people. Sometimes they commit crimes. That's normal. It's not a reason to blame them as a group. That's just gross prejudice, no different from thinking black people are scumbags as a group because their communities have a higher crime rate.

Anyway it sounds like that one particular cop you're talking about is probably guilty, but you are innocent until proven guilty in the US. His story is not completely implausible, so even if you think he's lying, it makes sense that he would not be convicted. If you're going to be mad at someone, be mad at him, or at the judge or jury that made the ruling on his case. Being mad at the system is pointless and misguided.

author=LockeZ
Police are just people. Sometimes they commit crimes. That's normal. It's not a reason to blame them as a group. That's just gross prejudice, no different from thinking black people are scumbags as a group because their communities have a higher crime rate.

There is a distinct and documented phenomenon of the 'Blue Code' in police forces all over the country, the unwritten rule that police protect their own, not reporting or prosecuting crimes, errors, misconduct, or wrongdoing. This even extends to 'good cops', because they're pressured into protecting the bad apples by coercion, whether it's by withholding promotions, and sometimes even more insidious methods, via 'oddly' getting a beat in the most dangerous hood in the city and backup is 'strangely' slow to arrive.

This of course is most troubling, not only because it's an organized and recognized thing and not just random acts, but an entire negative culture surrounding police forces, which are elements of the State, and thus the standards and risks of deviance is well beyond a normal citizen.

As a minority who grew up in a major city Locke, this is a subject I'm pretty serious about, and if you don't know what you're talking about, as in really know about this, I'd advise you just shush yourself up, Locke.

@pianotm
1. Thanks for fixing my grammar mess-up
2. You do bring up a good point, and I do agree with LockeZ, hell when I saw that video Sated showed (to those who don't know) I had a feeling that maybe those 2 videos are just from stress. Just because their police, doesn't mean they can't stress out. Police are not tools.
Though from multiple stories of police brutality, the officer(s) was fired afterwards (which I believe is not a harsh enough punishment).