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[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I played the storyline for Qube recently (10th Anniversary edition), and there was a hook that was supposed to be sad, but instead hit me as horribly American, plus a dash of victim blaming.

::: spoiler Spoiler "So, I want you to know, I’m only reading this because you wrote it to yourself.

"It was three PM on a Sunday. You were upstairs at home. A teenage boy broke into your house. He thought you were away on vacation. You went downstairs with your gun. You shot him in your living room. Only he wasn’t trying to rob you. He was passing by and saw a fire in your kitchen. He broke in to try and put it out. He was young and stupid and probably should have thought of a better solution. But you assumed the worst. You assumed the very worst and you shot him. He was paralyzed from the neck down. He died seven years later, alone, at night, in Penrose-St. Francis Hospital…"

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You mean like that Japanese kid that knocked on the wrong door and got shot? The guy who shot him was acquitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Yoshihiro_Hattori

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That was infuriating the whole way through. I don’t exactly want to recommend reading further, because it’s just a depressing story all around, but this was well written and provided the piece of information I was shamefully burning with curiosity about

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thank you regardless. That definitely is a sobering read. Poor Webb Haymaker, he tried..

It didn't have what I was thinking about, though.. Even though the country is completely in the gutter with gun crimes by civilians and law enforcement alike, it's at least nice to know that my initial assumption, that the Brady Bill the community helped enact probably was decommissioned, is in fact still active and enforced.

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[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had no idea qube had a concrete plotline, as far as I ever saw, you are immediately thrusted into the puzzles.

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Press releases before things are declassified: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-e46xdcUo

The declassified documents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCT80HJWQ2A

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