Ankle Megami Tensei

Screenshot from Google News with a variety of headlines. The relevant ones are highlighted: One from The Guardian: "Trump orders homeless he passed en route to golf course to leave Washington DC" One from the Las Vegas Sun: "Las Vegas retailer making free deliveries to Latino families too scared to shop"

2025 in America is just being repeatedly kicked in the balls by how stupid things have gotten

The President is doing code enforcement on his way to his near-daily golf game and Latino families are huddling in their homes hoping the Gestapo doesn't burst down the door today

I haven't played Alan Wake II but I assume people mean the Mr. Scratch stuff factors into that game somehow.

seriously who thought that was a good idea

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

THE INFLUENCE OF THE "HAM SANDWICH RACE" IS WANING

Less than two years ago, an Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza city merited a multi-day news cycle, with international outrage forcing Israel to issue denials and launch an absurd but ultimately successful attempt to muddy the waters with dubious theories about Gazans bombing themselves.

All 16,000 of them! I'm a journalist.

I thought it was ten billion but it's been a while since I read it

In fairness to Asimov agriculture has had some significant advances since 1954

That said it's kinda funny considering he had a short story where the population was ONE TRILLION and it barely affected the culture

broken clocks etc

Ralsei would never

ICE looted their restaurant and tried to break into the safe. News chopper footage caught them backing their cars up to the door and carrying out cases of food.

Quick little fact check here: Israel has armed the Burmese military for decades, including during the Rohingya Genocide. Protesting Israel’s genocidal regime directly and materially benefits the people of Myanmar.

things that don't exist: four-sided triangles, single-color rainbows, and left-wing billionaires

oh and J.D. Vance's sense of shame

yeah, I work for a company that responds to those alarm systems (LVMPD won't respond unless there's a witness who can confirm a crime has occurred) and that happens a lot. The "wail" of high winds can sometimes set them off too.

Voter in Iowa asks Ruben Gallego if he and the Democratic Party will support those advocating for Palestinians.

Gallego says “The people of Gaza are in this situation because Donald Trump is President.”

Voters point out Biden was president too.

Gallego: “Whatever, hey this is your opinion dude.”

The bear escapes after you punch it in the butt for like ten minutes

Which is my main issue really; the tiger fight is over pretty quickly and you could kayfabe that Kiryu just didn't get hit long enough to knock them out

Meanwhile Saejima is just tanking bear swipes for minutes on end

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?

ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles

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"My job can't be taken away even by a constitutional amendment" says person whose job is to interpret the constitution

People talk about how ridiculous Kiryu fighting the tigers in Yakuza 2 is but for my money Saejima fistfighting a freakishly huge brown bear right after having a snowmobile accident is the most unbelievable shit in this series (at least until Ichiban showed up)

I wish the weapon description kept getting more elaborate

Broken Beyond Repair Scooter

Scooter Reduced to its Component Parts

I love how in Himura's recollection all of the mafia are wearing fedoras like it's the 1930s

Only other example I can think of is the guy who helps Murphy out in the backstory of Silent Hill Downpour

I'm having trouble thinking of other media where a prison guard (especially one this high up the ranks) is depicted as actually caring about the welfare of their prisoners

This guy lets a convicted murderer and a high-ranking crime boss out of prison because he fears for their lives if they stay

Excuse me sir, I can't help but notice you've brought some kind of glowing purple monstrosity with you

Could you please leave him outside

Saejima-posting will now commence

I love levelling up by beating up imaginary thugs that are part of my cellmate's fantasy version of Tsukimino that he can for some reason project into my mind

😢 Geez, I'm sorry.

"Why won't Dems do X?"

"HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE THE DEMS FOR NOT DOING X! THEY'RE NOT THE PROBLEM! YOU'RE THE PROBLEM! WHY DON'T *YOU* DO X IF YOU'RE SO SMART???"

Very pragmatic of you lady

It's Hitler-coded

I didn't know that but it explains a lot. Like how Kaoru is a helpless damsel-in-distress for much of Yakuza 2 (despite being introduced as a badass lady cop) or why so many of the games have plots involving secret foreigners.