He said he had left Kerstin G on a ridge exposed to strong winds when he went to seek help. He told the court he could not explain why he had failed to wrap her in the emergency blanket she was carrying or place her in a bivouac bag. When her body was later recovered, the items were found in her rucksack.

Giving evidence, a police officer on duty that night, who had called Thomas P on his mobile at 12.35am, after a helicopter had set off to monitor the couple two hours earlier amid concerns for their safety, said the defendant had told him: “We don’t need anything … everything’s fine”.

The officer had advised Thomas P that the couple should keep moving. The discussion had ended abruptly. The officer attempted to call him twice more, and to find out if the pair needed help, and sent text messages, but had received no reply. Later, conditions became too dangerous for the helicopter to attempt a rescue.

Yeah, he was for sure trying to kill her.

They probably pre-gamed the interview by doing just that.

“Ehrm, it actually increases blood flow to my brain so I write into my contract that before any debate my opponent must give me uppie-spinnies.”

The real news is that the UK was even considering blocking the pedophile robot.

I think the real problem is the refusal to actually progress the story and have a plan for that progress. WoW is a good example of this. They keep rehashing the same old shit with the same old characters that can’t really have any growth anymore because anytime they do the player base hates it and Blizzard backs down. So expansions basically become “what is this older expansion again, but with a twist!”. They never move on so they’re always trapped in this liminal comic book reality that just gets exhausting. I keep wanting to get back into retail WoW because I started playing with Warcraft 2 so I’ve got a lot of nostalgia and love for some of the story and characters, but I just get exhausted with them teasing character growth that never happens, a world that changes only superficially, needlessly convoluted end game systems, and one of the most toxic communities in gaming. I’m happy just mucking about in Classic with IRL friends for nostalgia anymore.

FFXIV is an example I like. I haven’t played since Endwalker because that felt like a true ending. I’m glad that it’s still going for people and I may jump back in at some point, but for now I’m fine.

Warframe has been doing a good job of keeping their story going with interesting stakes and good character development and progression. It’s the one that has my attention at the moment, but with any of these MMOs when it starts to feel like a chore I just let myself move on and I have plenty of books and other games also to break things up.

That whole story is quite the intense read. Thanks for sharing!

The end of the beginning of the beginning of the end of history.

I’m sure the DPRK knew. At the end of the article they present the fact that the talks between the DPRK and USA less than a month later fell apart quickly and the DPRK quickly resumed missile testing as some tangentially related fact. I’m sure they had a strong suspicion that it was the US and Trump probably said some dumb shit that confirmed it during the talks they had scheduled so the DPRK dropped it all.

Besides who else but the roided up drug crazed US special forces would shoot civilians then stab them repeatedly to “let the air out of their lungs so they’d sink”?

Industrial quantities of amphetamines.

The aborted SEAL mission prompted a series of military reviews during Mr. Trump’s first term. They found that the killing of civilians was justified under the rules of engagement, and that the mission was undone by a collision of unfortunate occurrences that could not have been foreseen or avoided. The findings were classified.

Fucking ghouls.

They doing beanie babies yet? I have a vintage Beanis the Hog that I’m hoping will pay off the mortgage on my retirement cardboard box.

I kinda like it. Stalin looks kinda sad and disappointed, as if he’s looking into post-war Europe and seeing that all hope of revolution is being extinguished.

It’s probably the exact face he would make if he got to listen in on the French Communist Party meetings at the time.