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Cake day: June 30th, 2023
  • Mudface@lemmy.worldtoPatient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•What game holds a special place in your heart?
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    1 year ago

    Street fighter II

    growing up with line ups of kids playing sfii in the arcades, leaving your quarters on the cab in a line to figure out who’s next, and when someone finally beat that Asian kid (who knew every move you’d make and always picked chun li) who played for free all day beating everyone else was finally beaten and the cheers and the whooping and sometimes even the real fist fights over it.

    Street fighter ii was an absolute phenomenal moment in gaming

  • Mudface@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Police union leader said woman killed by Seattle officer ‘had limited value’
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    1 year ago

    I understand that being surrounded by trauma most days of the year, for a lot of your life leads people to find humor in what the rest of us would find disgusting.

    I know a guy who airlifts people to hospitals when they are severely injured. Once a man had been beaten to death in the head with a hammer and my friend had to airlift his body somewhere. His joke “It’s hammer time”.

    Not a good joke to you and I. But there is a fair amount of desensitization and coping that goes into a joke and a laugh like that. This guy I know is just a pilot, he doesn’t have any real specialized training to deal emotionally or mentally with something like that.

    I am not excusing the officer, not one bit. But just laughing and making a joke about a traumatic situation I kind of understand in a round about way.

    What makes this so insidious feeling is that it’s the police, and I know that the vast majority of police are corrupt losers who might actually simply be a bunch of horrible horrible people. Do we know if they would cover up any incompetence that went into the cause of this death? Of course we do. It’s probably even likely, imo

    I don’t think that the police should have a union, I don’t think the tax payer should pay for police officers mistakes.

    And the addition of throwing in a story about a trump flag incident with a black person makes it pretty obvious that the author of this piece has an agenda to push too.

    Pretty sure you can find other flags in that precinct. Probably a BLM flag if this is in Seattle.

    The police are disgusting, this author is stooping pretty low, and the only people I respect (besides the victim) in this is the victims family. God bless them, and I hope they are able to find some comfort in the years ahead.