Oh Volume. I thought this was something novel. That’s not what I took from the poster’s claim. That’s just in-camera, not something the actor can see.

I think you might be confusing the International Red Cross and the American Red Cross. Different organizations.

There is that, but I think what’s particularly an issue here is that Majors hired a lawyer who basically decided to do their own PR stuff, presumably without involving his actual PR team, and at that point, you probably don’t want to be involved with that client.

Exactly right, Lorem.

No. You do not want a “shady” or “mean” or “slimy” lawyer, and no, they aren’t the same as “badass”, that’s media bullshit.

I’m sorry buddy, that’s racist nonsense from the 1990s. Japan isn’t that kind of culture, and never was outside the minds of Westerners obsessed with making Japan seem as alien and scary as possible.

It’s still utterly psychotic, and the punishment very definitely does not fit the crime. Nor does this improve or protect society in any way at all. This is purely vindictive and he’s being punished far more severely than countless criminals who have committed crimes many, many times worse.

“Wonder if he can declare bankruptcy over it”

Unfortunately I don’t - my guess would be somewhere in the dialogue on the Suicide Mission itself. At the time I was talking to other ME2 hypernerds so we’d all played it recently - I need to actually go through the LE - I finished ME1 in LE but barely started ME2.

Yes. And that IS detailed in-game, even if the wiki is choosing to source it from somewhere else. I know because I have posts where I’m talking about it from 2010, so before that article even came out. Also because I’ve played ME2 over eight times lol.

Yes, I have. The fact that you open with “there are no laws against it” (which isn’t even entirely true but that’s a separate discussion) shows you fundamentally don’t understand the issue. This isn’t about criminality, this is about civil suits.

This much, much slower than stuff like baton rounds or other “less lethal” stuff - less than half the velocity - so a fraction of the energy (I forget how to calculate it, but less than half the velocity is a lot less than half the energy). It’s true that there’s no impact that can’t potentially hurt the wrong person.

Yeah this seems less like a menace or a barely “less lethal” weapon like the cops usually like, but rather fairly sensibly designed but perhaps not very good at its job? I’d rather have that then them having something actually dangerous.

“Okay, yeah, they said as much.”

“It just didn’t really make visual sense when the next game would establish that all the other Reapers were either giant cuttlefish ships or large beetle ships.”

Yeah it’s out of place here.

Really? All the adults I know who have seen it were unimpressed, “fine” being the main descriptor. No-one hated it, and no-one was particularly keen.

Well, I mean he’s still Frank Miller, but yeah, in 2018 he apologised for all the Islamophobia and the weird-ass comments he made about Occupy Wall Street (which basically boiled down to more Islamophobia), saying he was going through a very dark period in his life, and wasn’t thinking clearly. He certainly seemed…

I mean I guess the point is it’s not really stealing if it doesn’t cause real harm which was the problem for the media industry. Which, still, to this day insists on constantly intentionally creating situations where piracy makes sense and in most cases isn’t even “impacting a revenue stream” or whatever.

People have forgotten the IRA already? Goddamn. I used to go to school through the Ring of Steel every day, and have felt the shockwaves (albeit hundreds of yards distant) of a couple of IRA bombs. Weirdly I don’t hate them, I always kind of felt they had a point.