Because I feel we are hijacking a thread about news not worthy of a topic.
To be fair maybe Prigozhin fits the definition, but still more than one post
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Because I feel we are hijacking a thread about news not worthy of a topic.
Gimli wrote:Let the Orcs come as thick as summer-moths round a candle!
It drives me nuts they are know for crappy Saints Row, while they were also responsible for Freespace and Red Faction series.burger1 wrote: ↑Fri, 1. Sep 23, 07:18Saints Row Developer Volition Games Shuts Down
https://www.gameinformer.com/2023/08/31 ... -shut-down
I think you underestimate the popularity of casual games such as Saint Row (just so we are clear - I never liked that game):mr.WHO wrote: ↑Fri, 1. Sep 23, 16:36
Imagine if Volition stayed with Freespace and Red Faction.
Very little to no competition in FPS with fully destroyable environment.
Space Sims are rising like a phoenix from ashes.
..but noooo, lets chase trends and try to make GTA with memes, but GTA part is really derpy.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2 ... 21958.htmlStars and Stripes wrote:[...]But the increase in weekend patrols at the train station “cannot be related to a specific incident,” garrison spokesman Franz Zeilmann said June 1.[...]
https://www.merkur.de/bayern/nuernberg/ ... 06611.htmlMerkur wrote:[...]U.S. military police in Nuremberg: Response to conflict involving soldiers
"The top priority is more presence in the main station," König said. Regular focus operations will further increase the presence, promises Gernot Rochholz, vice president of the Central Franconia police headquarters. The involvement of the U.S. military police is a reaction to an incident when U.S. soldiers and the federal police had clashed.[...]
[...]US-Militärpolizei in Nürnberg: Reaktion auf Streit von Soldaten
„An oberster Stelle steht mehr Präsenz im Hauptbahnhof“, sagte König. Regelmäßige Schwerpunkteinsätze sollen die Präsenz weiter erhöhen, verspricht Gernot Rochholz, Vizepräsident des Polizeipräsidiums Mittelfranken. Die Involvierung der US-Militärpolizei ist eine Reaktion auf einen Zwischenfall, als US-Soldaten und die Bundespolizei aneinandergeraten waren.[...]
I think a few things here got confused, maybe because I worded them wrong, so I'll try to clear things up a bit.Vertigo 7 wrote: ↑Thu, 7. Sep 23, 11:52That seems... odd. I can buy the bit about the 3 US dudes arguing with each other, happens all the time, but for them to telepathically decide together to start a fight with 9 police officers doesn't make any sense.
If they were identified as US military police, then I'm assuming they were on duty and they would have had standing orders that local law enforcement would have ultimate jurisdiction and would stand down. Reason being, the US has a "Status of Forces Agreement" with many countries, including Germany, where by the service members are ultimately turned over to their command if detained to face disciplinary judgement for minor infractions. Up until the alleged 3v9 "attack", none of the reports indicate there was anything serious going on that warranted anything more than a stern talking to, if that.
OTOH, if one of the cops got abusive, I could absolutely see the others attempting to come to the defense of their squad mate.
Need more details on the incident. Just seems very weird.
First up, the soldiers accused of the attack were handed over to the american military police. There is no indication that they were members of the military police or that any military police was present at the time. Furthermore the three soldiers were the ones who got into a confrontation with the German police, after, according to this article, an argument broke out between two groups of soldiers, so it is likely that more were present and the three who got into a physical conflict with the police may have thought that they would have more backup.Vertigo 7 wrote: ↑Thu, 7. Sep 23, 11:52That seems... odd. I can buy the bit about the 3 US dudes arguing with each other, happens all the time, but for them to telepathically decide together to start a fight with 9 police officers doesn't make any sense.
If they were identified as US military police, then I'm assuming they were on duty and they would have had standing orders that local law enforcement would have ultimate jurisdiction and would stand down.[...]
According to the German police a "Platzverweis" (dismissal from an area) was issued. Under German law this is a vocal order to remove yourself from the location you are at. I got one once, in my case the police came up to me and told me that I had to leave the area and was not allowed to return till the next day. (The specifics vary from state to state, but as this took place at a train station which fall under the jurisdiction of the federal police, federal law applies).Vertigo 7 wrote:Up until the alleged 3v9 "attack", none of the reports indicate there was anything serious going on that warranted anything more than a stern talking to, if that.
There is a absolutely a chance that police overstepped their boundries here. However it is also possible that a lack of understanding lead to this conflict. The soldiers came from a club, so I assume they were at least somewhat drunk. Nürnberg is not a giant city (the population is half a million with 3.5 million in the metro area) , but for a city of its size it has a relatively flourishing nightlife with quite a few clubs and pubs as well as a red light district with multiple brothels. If they had been partying they may not have fully understood that if they do not follow the "Platzverweis" the next step would be police trying to physically enforce it. I also do not want to accuse the soldiers of anything, but drugs like cocaine are readily avaliable and often lead to conflicts.Vertigo 7 wrote:OTOH, if one of the cops got abusive, I could absolutely see the others attempting to come to the defense of their squad mate.
Coming from a city with a lot of British soldiers it honestly does not seem super wierd to me. Maybe Americans are different and maybe it is not fair to compare them to British (or German) soldiers, but I have seen plenty of brawls involving British or German soldiers. If you have a bunch of young men, cheap access to alcohol all around the clock, clubs that, in some cities, can be open for a very long time (sometimes more than 72 hours) and then put drug use into the mix you get a rather volatile cocktail.Vertigo 7 wrote:Need more details on the incident. Just seems very weird.
If they do follow 3-2-1, then that was "mere" (costly) inconvenience.According to the report, GSC Game World occupies three floors of the building. While only one has been affected, that floor hosts the back-up servers for the studio’s data.
Sarah Wagenknecht wrote:It is possible to overcome capitalism wonderfully within the framework of the Basic Law (German constitution) - and that is all we want to do.
/Man kann im Rahmen des Grundgesetzes wunderbar den Kapitalismus überwinden - und mehr als das wollen wir auch nicht./
left who are not liberal, nationalist, and are symphasizers of another country's nationist / fascist ideology. Havent seen that sort of political party in awhile in Europeclakclak wrote: ↑Tue, 24. Oct 23, 12:26Wagenknecht is economically left, but socially conservative. She wants to limit immigration and shift focus away from so called "woke" topics as she argues they distract the country from achieving socialist goals and split the working class thus stopping it from waging effective class-warefare. Most controversial is probably her stance on the Ukraine War and Russia. She argues that Ukraine and Russia had wanted to sign a ceasefire in 2022 but, according to her, America and the UK blocked it. Further she argues that the Russian war of aggression only started as Russia was scared of a Ukrainian NATO membership. All of this is a possible explenation as to why Wagenknecht, despite being a former Left party member, draws a lot of her potential voter base not from the Left party, but from the far-right AfD.
Gimli wrote:Let the Orcs come as thick as summer-moths round a candle!