Hello all, Believer here. Discussing video games evee since I ever played one. Because every now and then, they make me feel.
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Your name is Jean-Marc, you’re 46, and you run a video game and collectibles shop in Nice, wedged between an optician and a real estate agency selling 1-bed flats for €410,000 “with sea view” if you lean far enough off the balcony.
You know every GTA San Andreas cheat by heart. You tested all of them in 2005 on the PS2 in your bedroom at your mum’s place.
You opened in 2011 with a state-backed loan at 4.7%, and the naive belief that passion eventually pays.
It did pay, sort of. €1,900 a month in a good year, after the French tax office has eaten first, second and third. Your commercial rent is indexed on a formula nobody in the Republic actually understands.
You sell Funko Pops at €17.99, sealed Pokémon cards, refurbished controllers. You let little Enzo, 12, pay in installments because he’s saving for a Switch 2. You close at 7:30pm and walk home because the harbor parking is €3.40 an hour.
Saturday, there’s a protest “against the cost of living.”
You also think living costs too much. You almost went.
At 5:12pm, your metal shutter gets ripped open with a crowbar.
Forty teenagers in tracksuits and crossbody bags walk into your shop like it’s a bonus level. They take the PS5s, the Dragon Ball figures, the till with today’s €280 and even the box of paper bags that say “thank you for your visit.”
A guy in a floral shirt films it vertically for TikTok.
You step outside and say “stop, this is my shop.”
You get hit from behind.
Then rocks.
They laugh. Floral shirt guy is thrilled: good angle, good lighting.
Sunday morning, the police tell you there are “1,400 arrests nationwide” and they won’t send a squad for some Funko Pops. Filing the complaint takes 2 hours 40. The officer types with two fingers on Windows 7.
Monday noon, your insurer reminds you that your €1,140-a-year policy has a €3,000 deductible and a “riots and civil commotion” exclusion on page 31, font size 6.
Saturday night, an MP explains on TV that “the anger is legitimate” and we “shouldn’t cry over shop windows.” He’s never owned a shop window. He has a state-funded apartment.
Sunday, your limited edition Vegeta figures show up on Vinted. “Brand new, never opened, €39, pickup in North Nice.”
The seller has 4.9 stars.
Monday, the tax office emails you. They haven’t heard about the riots. They’ve heard about your payment deadline.
You did everything right, Jean-Marc. That was never the problem.
The problem is you were playing by the rules in a lobby where nobody else does.
So stop believing in the State. It’s not coming to save you. It’s coming to collect.
Stop voting. Every five years they hand you the controller, and it’s never plugged in.
Go to the gym. Not for revenge. For you. Because when the system folds, the only asset nobody can loot is the one you built under a barbell.
And make money they can’t see. Cash, side hustles, sats on a cold wallet in a sock drawer. Not your keys, not your coins. Not your shop, not your loss.
Fuck the system, Jean-Marc.
It already did it to you first.
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Established in 1615 under King Louis XIII, the Marché des Enfants Rouges had served Paris for over 400 years.
Now destroyed by fire.
Western Europe is dying a rapid death.
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Pappan till svenska fotbollssupportern och polisen Christian Zedig som inte var i tjänst, som mördades under fotbolls-VM i Köpenhamn, skriver gripande. Han uppmanar till spridning, så det hjälper vi naturligtvis till med. Johan Zedigs text 💔♥️
"Det finns en gräns för allt,
och då måste man antingen stå för den, eller förklara den.
Jag är Johan Zedig, pappa till Christian Zedig som blev nerslagen/mördad i Danmark/Köpenhamn.
Christian var polis, han svor att värna om det rättsväsende som vi har här i Sverige, och förmodligen det samma som finns i Danmark.
Christian gick in när det satt människor som redan på förhand var där för att bråka, och försökte få lugn under själva fotbollsmatchen.
Den där människan som slog honom, som har ett register av våld bakom sig, ville bara få utlopp för inre aggressioner och det finns ju redan ett register på, och säkert vittnen.
Så jag tänker såhär, mina tårar är slut, familjen kämpar i ett mörker, barn och barnbarn vacklar fram i ett system som tydligen har urholkats.
Så jag, som Christians pappa vill träffa dig, som Danmarks Statsminister, vill att du och jag möts, öga för öga, och där och då får du förklara för mig hur man bara ger 12 månader för ett mord.
(Det var planerat att slå någon, och det vet alla..)
Tänker att du kommer hit, till Astrid Lindgrens Värld, Mariannelund, Katthult, Bullerbyn… Där barnen får sina sagor, där början på livet..
Så Mette Fredriiksen, jag väntar på dig och på ett svar från ert/ditt kansli.
Min Christian ska inte dö förgäves..
Jag finns på [email protected]
Väntar på att du har kurage att återkomma.
Vänligen
// Johan Zedig
(Låt detta gå viralt, dela, dela och dela.
Någons måste det hitta in 🙏♥️)"
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Jeg var i retten i går.
Det var jeg, fordi jeg var nødt til at se den mand, der har ødelagt en uskyldig familie.
Den mand, der har gjort to små piger på 4 og 6 år faderløse.
Den mand, der har frataget en hustru hendes livs kærlighed gennem 17 år.
Jeg var nødt til at se hans øjne, se hans kropssprog og høre hans forklaring.
Om han overhovedet angrer og ved, hvad han har gjort.
Det kan man altså ikke få en tilnærmelsesvis ordentlig fornemmelse af ved blot at læse de gængse medier.
På ingen måde.
Det var ubærligt at se Christian Johan Zedigs familie i retten.
Det var hjerteskærende at se hans knuste hustru og høre hende fremstamme: ”Det har ødelagt alt.”
Jeg fik tårer i øjnene i går og får det nu igen.
Det var barskt.
For heller ikke den smerte, som Christians familie lige nu oplever, kan man forstå ved blot at læse om den.
Og derfor mener jeg, at det er sundt for lovgivere at møde op i retten. For den politik, der vedtages i Folketinget, har direkte konsekvenser for rigtige mennesker. Det kan man godt få indtryk af, at nogle har glemt inde i boblen på Christiansborg.
Dommen på 1 år er på alle måder uretfærdig.
I retten fik jeg indtryk af, at Nkumba Ludovic Tshiembe var påvirket. Han sad oftest og kiggede ned i bordet eller med hænderne op foran ansigtet. Han havde enormt svært ved at se på Christians knuste hustru, da hun indtog vidneskranken. Det kan jeg godt forstå.
Han udtalte, at han ”har det forfærdeligt”.
Det håber jeg, han har.
Det giver os bare ikke Christian tilbage.
Nkumba Ludovic Tshiembe burde fratages sin danske indfødsret og udvises for bestandigt. Det burde han allerede være blevet, da han blev dømt for grov vold og voldtægt i 2014, eller da han i 2017 blev dømt for drabsforsøg.
Så havde to piger haft deres far i dag.
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Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 1965
Over 65 years ago warned us all that the United States would be ruined by toxic empathy.
“False compassion… is a pity shown not to the mugged, but to the mugger; not to the family of the murdered, but to the murderer.”
And here we are today…
Is this why they 41% themselves? To become "their true self"!?
Episcopal priestess says Mary assigned Jesus male at birth, but he was trans. And when he was resurrected, he came back as His true, transgender self.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Mary did not assign a gender to Jesus. Mary was told before his birth that Jesus would be a male.
Luke 1:30-31 – "But the angel said to her, 'Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.'"
biblegateway.com/passage/?searc…
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Happy 4th anniversary, Freedom Planet 2!
I still can't believe this game actually happened. An adventure twice as long with an all star voice cast, pixel art and animation on par with 2D fighting games, and lovingly designed characters and environments by Tyson Tan! (1/3)
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Deporting people to random third-world countries must unironically be a great way to incentivize self-deportation.
Either you go home or an ICE agent spins the wheel and you might end up in a country you've never heard of before.
Not doing it yourself becomes a serious risk.
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Reasonable Blackman says:
"I want England to be a White nation. In 10 years, England won't be White and people will look like me. And that's not a good thing" 🇬🇧
Do you agree with him?
Everyone keeps saying Kiriko and Le sserafim saved Overwatch, but they didn't. They simply appealed to gooners, UwU gamer girls and degenerates that are willing to pay up for slop.
The game is on fucking life support because the top priority is now to always provide those skins.
Imagine, if you will, an Overwatch game like in the days of old where you didn't vomit in your mouth when you see an UwU Mercy, Juno, Kiriko main with +250 levels where it's clear they are not really here to play the game but to just do what they feel like, like show off skins.
The whole point of Overwatch 2 was the fucking PvE. They fumbled it hard.
Hero Mastery. Fumbled.
Stadium. Their biggest game changer and a mode that is now on maintenance mode. A decision made because they fucked it up. Players were lots of fun with it but that fun is gone now.
"Dare to see the world for what it could be" rings really hollow when they will no longer focus on making good content.
Everytime they introduce something interesting and appealing to the players, they fumble it and have to discontinue it and return to focus on skins;
Stadium.
