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Gaming / Re: E3 2016; Microsoft, PC, Ubi and Sony today
« on: June 13, 2016, 12:08:41 PM »
Minecraft is still a thing?

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Gaming / Re: E3 2016; Microsoft, PC, Ubi and Sony today
« on: June 13, 2016, 11:54:59 AM »
> Final Fantasy
> Not KH3

:(

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Gaming / Re: E3 2016; Microsoft, PC, Ubi and Sony today
« on: June 13, 2016, 11:52:06 AM »
Take a shot every time someone says "cross-play"

1504
Gaming / Re: E3 2016; Microsoft, PC, Ubi and Sony today
« on: June 13, 2016, 11:34:06 AM »
And it's only $299.

I'll be buying it

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Gaming / Re: E3 2016; Microsoft, PC, Ubi and Sony today
« on: June 13, 2016, 11:32:15 AM »
Wow. Leading off with the Slim Xbox

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Serious / Re: 50 Dead, 53 Injured at Orlando LGBT Nightclub
« on: June 12, 2016, 06:00:30 PM »
Anyways, rant aside -

In similar but unrelated news, an armed man was arrested in LA after admitting he was going to the gay pride parade.


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Serious / Re: 50 Dead, 53 Injured at Orlando LGBT Nightclub
« on: June 12, 2016, 05:52:29 PM »
It's amazing.

I leave this thread for five hours to work my shift, and you all manage to turn this into a political shitshow akin to the comments section on a Fox News post.

GG, guys. GG.

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Serious / Re: 50 Dead, 53 Injured at Orlando LGBT Nightclub
« on: June 12, 2016, 11:04:42 AM »


Lovely image tweeted out by the Lt. Governor of Texas earlier this morning, before being removed.

And Das, I won't be continuing that line of discussion here. You lot are more than welcome to if you wish.

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Serious / Re: 50 Dead, 53 Injured at Orlando LGBT Nightclub
« on: June 12, 2016, 10:56:53 AM »
Get ready to hear the same tiresome rhetoric all over again.

"Islam is peaceful"

"Islam doesn't have a problem with homosexuality"

"You're a racist meanie if you suggest otherwise"

"TERRURIZM HAZ NO reLIEgion"

Perhaps we'll also get a guy covering John Lennon's "imagine" in the streets of Orlando too? I'd love to see more useless solutions to this problem.
Do you have a useful solution to this problem?
YouTube

We
have
no
choice

From what I've read, the shooter was born here.


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Serious / Re: 50 Dead, 53 Injured at Orlando LGBT Nightclub
« on: June 12, 2016, 10:34:19 AM »
Governor Rick Scott is scheduled to give a statement shortly. The next police press conference will be at 1:30.


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Serious / Re: 50 Dead, 53 Injured at Orlando LGBT Nightclub
« on: June 12, 2016, 10:07:56 AM »
This is officially the worst mass shooting in US History, in terms of number of victims.
i, uh, think there might need to be some more qualifiers in there

we've had worse massacres before

We've had worse massacres before, yes.

But in terms of mass shootings and the number of victims, this is the worst in our history.

Vox covers it in more detail

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Serious / Re: 50 Dead, 53 Injured at Orlando LGBT Nightclub
« on: June 12, 2016, 09:41:49 AM »
This is officially the worst mass shooting in US History, in terms of number of victims.

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Serious / Re: 20 Dead, 40 Injured at Orlando LGBT Nightclub
« on: June 12, 2016, 09:24:38 AM »
Number of dead up to 50.


All your friends are okay, Icy?

I think so

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Serious / 50 Dead, 53 Injured at Orlando LGBT Nightclub
« on: June 12, 2016, 08:19:36 AM »
Considering I have friends who go, this one really hits close to home

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About 20 people were killed and at least 42 people were wounded when a gunman armed with an assault-style rifle, a handgun and possibly an explosive device opened fire inside a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., about 2 a.m., Police Chief John Mina said.

The police classified the attack as a “terror incident.” Local and federal authorities were investigating, and the F.B.I. set up a hotline for tips.

The police and the federal authorities said they were pursuing several angles in the terrorism investigation, both overseas and in the United States.

The gunman was not from the Orlando area and was organized and well-prepared, the police said.

The gunman was found dead inside the Pulse nightclub, one of the largest gay clubs in Orlando, about 5 a.m. after a shootout with officers who were attempting to rescue dozens of people who were being held hostage, said Chief Mina. He confirmed that the gunman had been killed by the police.

The chief said it was difficult to assess the number of clubgoers who had been killed because many of the bodies had not been removed.

The police were searching the club for other explosives that the gunman may have planted during his assault on Pulse.

The shooting began inside the club, the chief said, and continued outside when an officer working at Pulse attempted to confront him. The gunman then ran back into the club, resumed shooting and took hostages.

At 5 a.m., Chief Mina said, the police decided to attempt a rescue, detonating two explosives to distract the gunman and to help clear the club.

“With that advantage,” the chief said, nine officers moved into the club to confront the gunman. In the ensuing shootout, one of the officers was slightly wounded, saved by his Kevlar helmet, the authorities said.

“We rescued about 30 people,” Chief Mina said. During the rescue and shootout, officers with the SWAT team — using an armored vehicle — entered the club and hurried people to safety. Many of them had sought shelter in other sections of the sprawling club.

The survivors escaped under the cover of what the police called the two “discretionary explosions,” the authorities said.

The wounded were taken to three area hospitals. Most were taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center, the area’s chief trauma center, which is just three blocks from the club.

On its Twitter feed, the Police Department asked other residents to “stay away from area” and said that it was seeking support from local state and federal agencies. Later, employees in the area were asked to stay home if possible.

The club itself posted a message on its Facebook page about 3 a.m.: “Everyone get out of pulse and keep running.”

Customers streamed out of the club into a chaotic situation with little idea of where to go. “Cops were saying, ‘Go, go, clear the area,’ ” Christopher Hansen told an Orlando television station. “You don’t know who’s what and who’s where.”

As the sun came up, helicopter-shot video showed a situation that seemed to be under control, although windows on one side of the club appeared to be shot out.

Phone camera videos shot at the scene show police cars, ambulances and other emergency vehicles outside the club on South Orange Avenue in downtown Orlando. Streets around the the club were shut down for several blocks.

Dozens of officers, paramedics and firefighters from the Orlando police, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, the F.B.I. and three area fire departments were called to the scene.

“This will have a lasting effect on our community,” Chief Mina said. “We are a strong community.”

In the hours immediately following the shooting, the local television stations broadcast camera phone videos that captured the chaos at and near Pulse.

One of the videos clearly captured the rescue attempt. Shots could be heard as men and women ran from the nightclub.

Some of the clubgoers told local television reporters that the music was so loud it was difficult, at first, to distinguish the shots from the pulsing beat.

More than 100 people were believed inside the club when the shooting began about 2 a.m.

Orlando Regional Medical Center was placed on lockdown after receiving the first of the victims. “Only essential workers are being allowed access into the building,” the hospital said in a statement.

“Out of an abundance of caution, Arnold Palmer Hospital and Winnie Palmer Hospital have also been placed on lockdown,” the statement added.

On Pulse’s Facebook page, club officials promised to post updates as they came in: “As soon as we have any information, we will update everyone.”

“Please keep everyone in your prayers as we work through this tragic event,” the nightclub post said. “Thank you for your thoughts and love.”

Officials at Orlando Regional Medical Center asked family members of victims and missing people to gather at the north entrance, where they would be escorted inside.

Local television stations broadcast interviews with people outside the club and the hospital, anxiously waiting to hear from people who they said were still inside.

WKMG and WESH broadcast interviews with the crowds milling outside the hospital. One woman said she rushed to the area after she got a call from her daughter, who said, “Please come get us and come get us now.”

One mother told CNN: “A girlfriend of my son called and said he got shot, he got shot and she was crying.”

She said she could not find her son, or even get information on where he had been taken. Some of the victims had been transferred to other hospitals “because this hospital was full,” she said outside Orlando Regional Medical Center.

The club, which calls itself “Orlando’s Latin Hotspot,” hosts an “Upscale Latin Saturdays” party on Saturday night with three D.J.s and a midnight show.

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Gaming / Re: Pokemon Thread (New Sun and Moon info)
« on: June 11, 2016, 11:30:04 AM »
Koala Pokemon is best Pokemon

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I can still play it, but that's because I took my Xbox offline.

Once I finish it, I'll go back on

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In all likelihood you won't have your stuff taken away from you. This has happened many times over the past decade and MS just eats the cost every time.

I don't imagine they will this time.

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Cannot confirm the validity of said image.

What? So this was an intentional cucking?

No idea.

I'm tempted to try asking support myself

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Cannot confirm the validity of said image.

Also, a second one, though this one seem fishier:


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Microsoft when they remove the game from our accounts.

Well, not yours.

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Mine is installing.

They'll probably pull it, but hey. Worth a shot

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Serious / Re: No brakes on the banter train
« on: June 09, 2016, 06:06:29 PM »
If Donald Trump looked at time stamps, he could answer the first portion of his tweet.

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He didn't endorse her.
He's continuing his campaign in DC and then to the convention.

His campaign to the convention is more to get his beliefs and causes engrained in the Democratic platform. Sander's knows full well that he will not be the nominee.

His statement that he will work with Clinton is as close as an endorsement we will get from him until after July.

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The Flood / Re: What should I be watching on Netflix right now?
« on: June 09, 2016, 10:32:08 AM »
Grace and Frankie

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Serious / Oh Canada
« on: June 09, 2016, 10:31:09 AM »
Canada's Top Court rules that some bestiality acts is legal

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In a surprising decision from Canada's Supreme Court, the country's top judges ruled that forcing a dog to perform oral sex is not, in fact, bestiality and therefore not necessarily illegal.

The ruling essentially invites Parliament to get to work and fix that.

The case before the court involves an unnamed man, accused of forcing the family dog to perform oral sex on his underage daughter. The man was convicted of a litany of sexual offences in relation to the abuse, and sentenced to 14 years in jail. On one charge of bestiality, however, he was acquitted on appeal

More in the article

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Serious / Re: What do you guys honestly believe happened on 9/11?
« on: June 08, 2016, 10:47:36 PM »
I've done enough research on the topic to be convinced there was a conspiracy of some sort.

::)

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Gaming / For all 2 People Who Care (Destiny)
« on: June 08, 2016, 07:11:21 PM »
Next Expansion Details

For the rest of you, feel free to mock this game.

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The Flood / Re: Today I ate a salad without dressing
« on: June 08, 2016, 07:04:20 PM »
Any salad without honey mustard is wrong.

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Gaming / Re: E3 2016 predictions?
« on: June 08, 2016, 06:53:41 PM »
What about Kingdom Hearts 3? Where did that ever go?

Still in development. They just released a trailer for Kingdom Hearts 2.8 - and yes, that's a thing. Also said we're getting KHIII announcements this winter

YouTube


The story in this one apparently leads directly up to the start of KHIII

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