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Mx. posted:excuse me what Which part of this was unclear?
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christmas boots posted:Which part of this was unclear? If I'm being honest, the part about the flu tasting like vinegar.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 11:23 |
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ASU college of English looking... solid?
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# ? Jul 26, 2022 05:29 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FWId1YBU3g Interesting video on the true crime community
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# ? Jul 26, 2022 21:23 |
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Holy poo poo, they've identified the Somerton Man, and "Jestyn" had absolutely nothing to do with it. (from the NY Times, gently caress them) quote:Two researchers using forensic genealogy put a name to the so-called Somerton Man this week, saying they had finally solved the central mystery of an Australian cold case that has stymied investigators for 73 years and inspired theories about spies, smuggling, ballet and teeth. I have to admit, I'm kind of disappointed to have this one solved.
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# ? Jul 27, 2022 04:47 |
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It's a CIA coverup
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# ? Jul 27, 2022 04:56 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Holy poo poo, they've identified the Somerton Man, and "Jestyn" had absolutely nothing to do with it. He was a random guy who died on a beach. No secrets, just complete incompetence and conspiracy theories that were all, completely and utterly wrong. I presume the Netflix series is coming out next year.
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Comstar posted:He was a random guy who died on a beach. No secrets, just complete incompetence and conspiracy theories that were all, completely and utterly wrong.
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# ? Jul 27, 2022 07:29 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Holy poo poo, they've identified the Somerton Man, and "Jestyn" had absolutely nothing to do with it. drat, red herrings galore. But I've been fascinated by this case since the day I stumbled onto the Wikipedia page and was terrified by the header photo so glad to see it solved.
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# ? Jul 27, 2022 12:17 |
This murder happened four years before I was born and is local. My dad and I were talking about it today after we rode our motorcycles past the area where the truck was found. https://youtu.be/xhCjDLnXj1o A very tragic and eerie case.
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FishBulbia posted:It sucks that the amount of time you can waste on a videogame has become a proxy measure for how fun/enjoyable it is Sir or ma'am, are you in the right thread?
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# ? Jul 31, 2022 20:42 |
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Tenkaris posted:Sir or ma'am, are you in the right thread? whoops
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# ? Jul 31, 2022 20:42 |
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It is unnerving that the amount of time you can waste on a videogame has become a proxy measure for how fun/enjoyable it is FTFY
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# ? Jul 31, 2022 20:45 |
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Unnerving? Related to time spent playing video games? Why not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF9vd31drIc
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# ? Aug 1, 2022 02:26 |
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A dispute between two idiot kids playing Call of Duty led to a totally unrelated guy who was adopted father of his orphaned niece and nephew getting murdered by police. Later one of them committed suicide, having not recovered from being hauled out of her home at gunpoint and literally having to step over her father figure as he lay bleeding out. No EMS called of course, just cops with guns storming the home. Admittedly, yet another ACAB problem rather than a gaming problem. But the two gamer kids and the actual swatter all got jail time while the cop who committed the murder is still free. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting There was also Stanislav Reshetnikov/Stas Reeplay. Russian streamer who liked to livestream abusive "pranks" on his girlfriend. He hilariously locked her out of the house in nothing but lingerie, while she was pregnant with his kid. She froze to death, and he kept streaming for hours with her body dragged back into the house before someone in the chat called the cops. In this case at least he got arrested and is in prison for murder. Ngl it's got me shook how toxic gaming culture has a body count, that I'm sure is higher than just three.
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# ? Aug 1, 2022 15:33 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Ngl it's got me shook how toxic gaming culture has a body count, that I'm sure is higher than just three. Do we count swatting? Also I finally had to stop notifications from Reddit because it's been a few weeks where I get alerted to a thread about the latest accidental child gunshot murder or some other hosed up incident, three to four times a day. I can't remember the last time I got a notification for something I wanted to see
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FireWorksWell posted:Do we count swatting? Gee I dunno did he talk about swatting in the post you quoted?? It is weird though, I haven't really heard of swatting happening outside of gamer circles. Like most swattings have happened to streamers. Tenkaris has a new favorite as of 15:48 on Aug 1, 2022 |
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Tenkaris posted:Gee I dunno did he talk about swatting in the post you quoted? Wow, I didn't put it together even though they used the word swatted...I feel real dumb. As for your other question I'm willing to bet it's happened outside of gaming, it just isn't as easy to notice because it's not happening to a streamer. Like how we had that incident in 2020 where a black man (I wanna say Christian Cooper) was out bird watching, asked a woman to leash up her dog, and the woman instead called the cops and lied that the man was threatening her. She made sure to inform them the man was black, which I think fits the nature of swatting.
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# ? Aug 1, 2022 16:14 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:A dispute between two idiot kids playing Call of Duty led to a totally unrelated guy who was adopted father of his orphaned niece and nephew getting murdered by police. Later one of them committed suicide, having not recovered from being hauled out of her home at gunpoint and literally having to step over her father figure as he lay bleeding out. No EMS called of course, just cops with guns storming the home. Admittedly, yet another ACAB problem rather than a gaming problem. But the two gamer kids and the actual swatter all got jail time while the cop who committed the murder is still free. The guy who requested the swatting had the username "swautistic". gently caress him to hell and back, but credit where credit is due. If you're an internet poisoned dipshit who routinely swats people, "swautistic" is a great name.
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# ? Aug 1, 2022 16:59 |
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Took me a minute to parse that wasn't a swastika reference, but that probably still tracks
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# ? Aug 1, 2022 17:37 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:A dispute between two idiot kids playing Call of Duty led to a totally unrelated guy who was adopted father of his orphaned niece and nephew getting murdered by police. Later one of them committed suicide, having not recovered from being hauled out of her home at gunpoint and literally having to step over her father figure as he lay bleeding out. No EMS called of course, just cops with guns storming the home. Admittedly, yet another ACAB problem rather than a gaming problem. But the two gamer kids and the actual swatter all got jail time while the cop who committed the murder is still free. The good news is that the cop is facing a civil trial from the family for his gently caress-up. The bad yet unsurprising news is that the department actually promoted him to detective since 2017. The slightly funny news is that one of the cop’s lawyers is named Steven Pigg.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haven_(TV_series) The show based on the Stephen King book based on the Tamam Shud corpse.
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Tenkaris posted:Gee I dunno did he talk about swatting in the post you quoted?? The cybercrime/security researcher Brian Krebs has been swatted a few times I believe. It is apparently so common he is on first name basis with the local PD response team. When he was reporting on Silk Road etc he often had heroin and other drugs mailed to his house and then the cops would be tipped off that he had drugs. Varkk has a new favorite as of 22:18 on Aug 1, 2022 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:A dispute between two idiot kids playing Call of Duty led to a totally unrelated guy who was adopted father of his orphaned niece and nephew getting murdered by police. Later one of them committed suicide, having not recovered from being hauled out of her home at gunpoint and literally having to step over her father figure as he lay bleeding out. No EMS called of course, just cops with guns storming the home. Admittedly, yet another ACAB problem rather than a gaming problem. But the two gamer kids and the actual swatter all got jail time while the cop who committed the murder is still free. You missed the worst part: the dispute was over a bet for $1.50. Viner literally tried to have Gaskill murdered for the price of a can of Coke.
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A 12 year old girl chewed through restraints and fled from a house where 2 bodies were found. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/03/us/alabama-kidnapping-leads-to-corpse-discovery/index.html Suspect is named and in custody. But eeeh also quote:The sheriff further stated that "other people" were living in the residence.
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# ? Aug 3, 2022 19:15 |
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"She wasn't reported missing" could be one of two disturbing outcomes of this.
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# ? Aug 3, 2022 19:49 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:"She wasn't reported missing" could be one of two disturbing outcomes of this. Only 2 disturbing outcomes, lol newb.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
That was the initial reporting but the autopsy showed he just beat her to death. She died of head injuries.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:"She wasn't reported missing" could be one of two disturbing outcomes of this. The current main suspect of the Delphi murders (The "down the hill" audio clip murders) just got sentenced to 90 years for kidnapping and doing not very nice things to a 9 year old girl. Of course, content warning for not good stuff a violent pedophile would do to a child except murder. https://lawandcrime.com/crime/indiana-man-sentenced-to-90-years-for-kidnapping-and-trying-to-kill-girl-in-graphic-and-unimaginable-crime/
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# ? Aug 9, 2022 00:24 |
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Discovery+ has made a documentary about Armie Hammer’s light-speed fall from Hollywood’s Favorite New Hunk to Sleazy Violent Cannibal Freak. CW for mention of rape and abuse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIQ80m7831I
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Busket Posket posted:Discovery+ has made a documentary about Armie Hammer’s light-speed fall from Hollywood’s Favorite New Hunk to Sleazy Violent Cannibal Freak.
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# ? Aug 12, 2022 03:49 |
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his character in sorry to bother you was basically just him, huh
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I've been listening to a great podcast called Dark Histories (no relation to Dark History with Bailey Sarian; this is written and hosted by an English guy named Ben Cutmore), and in Sept 2019 there was an episode on Graham Young, the "Teacup Poisoner". That wikipedia article is pretty thorough (TL;DR -- Young became obsessed with poisons at a very young age and proceeded to poison his whole family, his school friends and classmates, his fellow patients at a mental hospital, his coworkers, and his fellow inmates after he was imprisoned, until he was found dead in his prison cell from an apparent heart attack), but it kind of glosses over how bizarrely compulsory his poisonings were. Like a compulsive liar or compulsive fire starter, everywhere the guy went, he was slipping poisons into people's food. Even his friends, even people he liked, even when it was against his best interest. When his coworkers at a chemical lab all started getting sick and a workplace safety inspection concluded that everyone just had a stomach bug, Young argued with the conclusion and insisted that everyone's symptoms were clearly signs of poisoning -- this is what led to him getting investigated, arrested, and then convicted for murder and attempted murder. And even after that, in prison, he kept on poisoning people right and left. It's like the guy genuinely just couldn't help himself. What was so interesting about this story to me was that, like Young, I too was very interested in poisons as a kid. When I was around 10, my parents took me to a university library book sale and I bought a manual of toxicology published in the 1920s. It quickly became my new favorite book for the next few years -- I read it cover to cover many times over, worked on memorizing the fatal doses and the symptoms pre- and post- mortem of all the poisons listed, wrote short stories about people who were poisoned, etc. But all of this was because the book made me want to become a toxicologist, not a poisoner. I came from a dysfunctional family and was underparented and left unsupervised a lot -- a good breeding ground to turn me into someone like Young -- but it never occurred to me to use all this knowledge to harm anyone, and instead, all my fantasies involved helping people and solving crimes. Young being a Bizarro-World Me has left me wondering about Nature vs. Nurture, and is it that there was something in me that protected me from becoming like Young, or did Young lack something in him that prevented him from becoming like me? E: I guess the answer to that is, "Yeah -- a conscience." Rabbit Hill has a new favorite as of 15:40 on Aug 15, 2022 |
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I'm reminded of the loving deranged NYT probably story where someone recounts how their grandmother casually poisoned everyone in the family and random animals and visitors and how when she got senile everyone would just dust the rat poison off the tops of the bottles like it was no thing.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm reminded of the loving deranged NYT probably story where someone recounts how their grandmother casually poisoned everyone in the family and random animals and visitors and how when she got senile everyone would just dust the rat poison off the tops of the bottles like it was no thing. Vice. https://www.vice.com/en/article/avywv4/my-grandma-the-poisoner-0000474-v21n10
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Rabbit Hill posted:I've been listening to a great podcast called Dark Histories (no relation to Dark History with Bailey Sarian; this is written and hosted by an English guy named Ben Cutmore), and in Sept 2019 there was an episode on Graham Young, the "Teacup Poisoner". I find Graham Young kinda fascinating as well. The guy seemingly couldn't resist poisoning everyone around him. He did it to his family, to himself, to the inmates, guards and medical staff at Broadmoor, to some random guy as soon as he was released, his colleagues at the chemical lab he somehow got a job at after release and eventually probably himself. Iirc when he was sent down for the second time they had to keep moving him & searching his cells because he absolutely would just continue to poison people if given the slightest opportunity. There's a couple of dramatised versions of his life that I'm aware of: A Terrible Coldness, which is a TV drama and is very dour and serious, and The Young Poisoners Handbook, which is a black comedy. Neither is great, but it's interesting to compare them and the different conclusions they come to on his ultimately quite opaque motivations.
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quote:He found a job as a storekeeper at a factory in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, where his duties including making tea for his colleagues. Yes let's give the rehabilitated compulsive poisoner work as a dude preparing food.
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Kitfox88 posted:Yes let's give the rehabilitated compulsive poisoner work as a dude preparing food. That's the thing, they weren't told about his convictions. It only came out when the police got involved. They just thought he was a benign weirdo.
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Incredible
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