Watson was the NPC as well. The player (the customer by analogy) was Holmes.
There was a Sherlock Holmes game where Watson didn't have a walk animation. Instead he would just appear in front of you as you turned around.
I have to ask: Are there corvids involved?
IYKYK
I truly love the people of Minneapolis MN! “We walk the same ground. We’re torn apart. Put down your weapons. Come sing your part” inviting ICE to see all people as humans and to join them in non violence. It’s Whoville from Dr Seuss comes to life - kindness and compassion personified. MN Strong!
But... Doesn't this award mean that you are now a sung hero? Doesn't receiving the award make you logically disqualified for it?
Instead, we are told that ICE employees should be allowed to violently defend themselves from... a bitten finger, one alleged, but unsubstantiated, case of internal bleeding, and lots of mean words.
5/5
If that crowd, that sheer VOLUME of people, in Minneapolis HAD turned violent, ICE would be powerless to stop it. There would have been bodies of their employees trampled, if not charred, in the streets.
4/5
I can't find the numbers right now, but I remember the Capitol Police noting that on 1/6, they were outnumbered around 5:1, possibly lower. The number of rioters was 2-2.5k people. Even that was too much to do more than slow down the riot long enough to protect some parts of a single building.
3/5
At the peak of anger, after the murder of Alex Pretti, the crowd surged to over 100k. ICE boasted that its presence would be up to 3k. More than the available police force. Thus the ratio of protesters to ICE employees at something north of 30:1. 20:1 if local police were on ICE's side.
2/5
It occurs to me that we have pretty solid evidence that the protests in Minneapolis are peaceful just from the raw number of people involved.
1/5
I was going to ask if there was, in fact, any recorded previous usage of "Dontoe Doctrine". I guess there was...
Maybe Gibson was on to something about those SIMMS when he wrote Neuromancer after all.
What happened in 2013?
How's this for irony: Dropped my son off for his first day at high school, and the first song that plays when we get in the car is "High School Never Ends".
🤣🤣🤣
Politics is an exercise in forced equilibrium though. Especially that last hypothetical. I almost find it more likely that the new party won't make it even as far as the '26 elections, let alone '28. Maybe the split on the center will just be party migration and dilution of the GOP with former Dems.
If that happens, they could easily destroy the conservative end of the spectrum at the ballot box in '26. And, if that happens, and Musk's money somehow lasts him until '28 (personally, I doubt this is likely), that might make enough room for the Democratic party to split, causing a repeat of 1860.
Sum that all up with his notorious "talent" for over-promising and under-delivering, and it becomes easy to predict that this "America Party" will go nowhere.
Not that it won't accomplish anything. There's enough dissatisfaction within the GOP that the two ego-singularities could split the vote.
Keep in mind: Participating in a Twitter poll these days requires a subscription to the service. So, that's 2/3 of people who have actively chosen to pay Musk for the pleasure of... something? I never figured out what.
That result, despite the selection bias and Musk pushing the idea, is abysmal.
3) Get Elon Musk out of politics
While I'm sure Musk, himself, could get behind the first two, that third one is a doozy.
It really says something when he polled Twitter about creating a new political party and he got somewhere north of 66% saying "Yes".
Pollsters do try to find such agreement points, and there indeed are a small handful of views out there today that are polling with around 80% agreement. But they're not enough to make a political party around. Namely:
1) Release the Epstein list
2) Immigration is good for the country
And, well...
Back to my thesis though: Musk also claims to want a party for the "80% in the middle" of the U.S. political spectrum.
I shouldn't need to say this, but, getting 8 out of 10 completely random people to agree on ANYTHING is nearly impossible. Let alone 80% of U.S.'s 330 million.
(Can't fully blame them though. After all the negotiations back and forth, the Senate, the House, and the 3/5 debacle and the fact that they didn't have a working example in front of them to learn from, mistakes were naturally bound to happen)
And, of course, you don't need the history lesson (which Musk, understandably, never got in apartheid South Africa) to see that. All you need is the math. The entire thing seems to have been accidentally rigged up to force a two-party system by our founders who wanted NO parties.
(On a side note here, it always strikes me as odd that the Republican party calls itself the GOP (Grand Old Party) when, as you can see here, they are actually YOUNGER than the Democratic party)
