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Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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quote:

'You abandoned your girls in the cold - and I brought them home and warmed them up.'

Yoooooo what the gently caress

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Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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My baby daughter was born two days ago.

Why am I reading this? gently caress.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Skelicopter posted:

Dirty John.
I've read about a lot of sociopaths, but John isn't a serial killer - though he definitely fits the profile. The fact his crimes were slightly less outlandish actually made the story more unsettling, in some ways, as they seemed less like something from a horror movie and more like something I can imagine happening in my own or my friends' lives.

drat fine link, what a loving nightmare. I think the insidious subtle nature of his evil is definitely too easy to relate to one's own life, as you said. Just the amazing way forgiving, normal people were utterly unprepared to deal with cold-eyed malevolence. Although I did feel like there was a bit too much forgiveness in that family in spots. That's me, though.



also extremely fun. I love weird things that people reason themselves into. Well, I hate it since it's still happening, but it's interesting and quirky when viewed through history. I have to wonder how small a push it would take to get a present-day guy to eat his exhumed sister's burnt heart, probably less than I'd hope.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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the old ceremony posted:

the abuser themselves never thinks they're winning. they always still think they're the ones being hosed over. so they're locked into this life of perpetual victimhood where no matter how much they get from their victims, they always feel like they're entitled to even more and are being actively robbed of it - so they end up with all this stolen money and luxury and they can never even bring themselves to enjoy it because there's always the bitterness of thinking they should have had more. it is a miserable, awful life.

It really struck me when John went to the lawyer and, despite having initiated casework and ceasing to be a client in a fit of anger, he still felt entitled to the entirety of the fee--and that lawyer was so shook by him that he actually did it.

And it wasn't enough.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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The poo poo I hear about small towns puts me off that notion entirely.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Aleph Null posted:

Do yourself a favor and do not read this.

Welp, time to hold my daughter forever

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2017/10/28/family-shattered-by-allegations-man-lived-like-a-prisoner-in-basement-for-decades.html

Friend just linked this lovely case where a developmentally-disabled homeless couple are held captive in a basement by the couple who abducted and raised their baby as their own.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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For the life of me, I cannot make out bodies in any of those aerial photographs so good on them for figuring it out.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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The fluids wicked through the walls and furniture!

They wicked!

I feel super nauseous now

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Jedit posted:

For those having trouble parsing, wick is a verb and wicked (wikt) is its past tense.

The image it put in my head was a glass oil lamp filled with a slurry of human putrification

Then someone strikes a match and lights the wick.

This thread is nightmare fluid. I mean fuel. AUGH

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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I... don't... what about that post was supposed to make anything better? That's exactly what I gleaned from the text and it was revolting and then some.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Holy gently caress, I really hope aliens fire a planet-cracker at us.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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It's kind of strange that the people who see white people taking advantage of and invading colored people's spaces, never think "maybe I'm one of them" and "maybe my perspective shields me from the damage my actions cause."

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Phanatic posted:


More hosed up: Kid gets Siri to autodial, tells the 911 operator the make, model, and color of the minivan, and the operator doesn't tell police, who are *still at the scene*, any of that information.

Nice. And the operator didn't even vocally respond during one call, if my understanding is correct.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Azathoth posted:

It is the same psychological reaction that causes parents of kidnapped children to hope that, decades after the kidnapping, that their children are still alive, only occurring on a national scale. Even if it is highly irrational, it is very understandable.

After reading this thread, I'd hope my child died almost immediately because the alternatives are... hosed.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Going to prison over something I didn't do is a nightmare of mine. The combo of grief, injustice and hopelessness in that story would just end me.

And then I always consider how many times this happened and everyone considered justice served, the end.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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And then use the other foot like a hammer to drive the first one home.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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13Pandora13 posted:

Everyone thinks they could/would never forget their own child until it happens.

I loving wish I could think like that. Instead I'm so haunted by the concept that I spend every car trip with my daughter having a low-level panic attack.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Personally, I picture something like a how it's made episode about bolts.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Wasabi the J posted:

Car baby chat popped up in the GiP current events thread. Current opinion is that you're a bad parent no matter how the actual psychology works.

A very helpful perspective that will definitely solve the problem. Yayy

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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The snippet where the estranged mom waits by the grandmother's death bed for their daughter, then grabs her hair and pulls her out of the room when the daughter goes to kiss the dying grandmother's cheek, is so hosed I can't help but laugh. How do you think yourself into a move like that?

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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What the gently caress would cause you to pepper spray someone twice if they're strapped to a chair with a bag over their head? God drat, abolish police.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Must've crossed the wrong guy.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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This is a weird one.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Kitfox88 posted:

Slappers only.

The ga-ga ball school of combat?

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Splash Attack posted:

pern pretty much moved from fantasy to a mash of fantasy/sci-fi towards the end, and i’m not sure how i feel about that.

Wasn't Pern colonized via starship to begin with?

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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I mean, someone's got butcher knives over their bed and you're still up for a poke, you've gotta have some pretty rough tastes.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Randaconda posted:

Strangled her first husband on their wedding night because he couldn't gently caress her five times like her dad did her mom on their wedding night, I'll note.

And this was after years of being raped so often that she told her kids she hated men and sex, so there must have been some twisted ideas about sexuality rattling around in that head.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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I can think of dozens of diabolical "leaders" who would benefit from a swarm of angry hyenas.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Escalating levels of hosed up, there. Denied psychological assistance! Allowed to attempt suicide on property! Estranged next-of-kin as sole end-of-life oversight! Fee for a charitable donation!

gently caress the world.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Camrath posted:

I have it literally written into my will that I am to be buried with my gaming dice box and my hand forged broadsword. This is ostensibly so if an afterlife exists and I meet friends I can play d&d with them, or fight enemies if I meet them. But really, it’s just to gently caress with future archaeologists.

You're just going to be stuck eternally LARPing.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Interior lesions, eh? Can't wait for that global resurgence.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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The thought of a bunch of old, dry scabs pouring out of an envelope makes me nauseous.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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He was just going to surprise the family with a newly-poured basement floor. Nobody else in the house, it's a great time to-- *trips*

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Yeah, basically your super-religious father sells you for protection to the God-mob-boss, and then if you so much as move a muscle afterwards your dad's dead and you're either dead or regularly heavily abused after that. Seems like a kind of a no-peep situation.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Oh dammit

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Rondette posted:

I feel like there is some spooky kind of film to be made from their experience.

That's like a layer cake of unnerving and dark, dang.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Rondette posted:

Eh, I just hate that poo poo, like when people thank God for saving them from a car accident, no it was the firemen and medical team who did that.

As for their getting trapped, I forgot to mention the bit where they slid down a rockface while having to watch out for massive rocks also tumbling down and trying to kill them. They didn't have the energy to get back the way they came

I mean, I'm not a big God person, but any set of circumstances can be explained by God watching out for you without having to set up a Rube Goldberg machine of events including a vagrant's death to deliver you matches. The inspiration to look one more time, maybe there's a hidden pocket, the fact that they remained dry enough to use, could all be the "work" of an omnipotent deity. I'm especially loathe to blame someone in a life-or-death situation to find miracles in surviving.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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christmas boots posted:

I know we just did one but

PYF unnerving article or story: they examined his scrotum pretty intensely

*strides into exam room, alarmed*

Whoa whoa, GUYS! Guys! Back up off it a little bit!

Jeesh! I mean...

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Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Goon project: an escape room where you’re trapped on a lush coastal mountainside and need to find a way into an underground room with a computer to post.

Solve the riddle to offend your gorgeous dining partner so they stalk off. Go to restroom, find smartphone and solve the PornHub puzzle.

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