because they can just pretend their target was threatening.
As always, check the trial footage, evidence and testimony.
For example, Grosskreutz literally answered a question in testimony saying that after he had approached and lowered his arms he pointed his gun at Rittenhouse before Rittenhouse shot him. That question basically decided that charge.
This was a pretty informative (though also fucking disillusioning) watch. Finally someone bringing up the complete crickets in regards to Baldur's Gate 3.
Didn't think SBI was involved with BG3? So why would a steam curator listing games SBI was involved with (which to be clear was what set that whole mess off) have anything to do with BG3?
So far the only conclusion have come closest to settling on is it's purely about popularity: once a certain threshold of public exposure is passed, perhaps into the aether we collectively refer to as "mainstream" influence or attention, ACTIVATE MORAL CAMO - ENGAGE MEDIA CYCLE -DEPLOY RED MEATS!
If no threshold crossed though, well fuck 'em, who's gonna care anyway? Numbers ain't affecting shit. It's solely tactical, at least within the content production echelons of their modern news/influencer ecosystems.(Is only half-formed theory am speculating, can change or be thrown out entirely if more information deems it so, am not emotionally attached to it thankfully lol. tIght bastard didn't even pay for dinner!)
Media is acting in their own financial best interests, and the best financial choice for them is to spend the minimum time and effort farming the most clicks, which red meat outrage bait is good for.
Where was the online hate mob and dozens of videos from reactionaries in that case?
I mean, not reactionaries per se but it got it's 15 minutes of hate. And a handful of people pointing out that these were things you'd have to be a sucker to buy since they're all available in game and not super unreasonable to get that way. And then a mod came out reducing the prices for those things in game to 1 gold, and that mostly quieted it down since anyone who cares is just going to install the mod.
Yeah, I understand why you would think that. It makes total sense for you.
And what *should* he think? This blew up at scale when the Steam curator made the rounds and SBI went overboard in response. Literally a list of games they worked on and SBI was calling for the list to be banned and it's creator to lose their Steam account and that response is what blew it up. Before that, it was a relative handful of folks grouching about SBI.
Also, we're letting the bit where the "terrify them" bit is a joke go at face value? This wouldn't be accepted in most other contexts. Not even claims of a coming bloodbath in the auto industry or threats of violence in Minecraft.
Isn't the PS5 Pro supposedly going to use A.I. to remaster older PS4 games?
I assume they just mean AI upscaling? Which mostly does a pretty good job, in general. It's much better at filling in the gaps between picture at 1080p and same picture at 4k than it is at generating an image ex nihilo (and usually better than most other methods of automatic image doctoring). I imagine you could train one to do something similar with audio too if you had a mind to try.
Qanon murderer took advice from her qanon buddies to fire her lawyer and represent herself. Results;
Following a trial process, in which 37-year-old Neely Raye Pesognellie Petrie-Blanchard represented herself in her murder trial of 50-year-old Christopher Hallett, jurors deliberated on Friday, April 19, 2024, for roughly 30 minutes before finding Petrie-Blanchard guilty of Murder in the...
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Representing self, fool for a lawyer, etc. Even moreso since you really have to fuck up to get life as a youngish white woman for just one murder. Even Arias had to make it an extremely brutal murder and go through several rounds of lying to police to get there.
