Other prizes being raffled or auctioned off include a wide array of MTG merch: booster packs, coveted decks, and a 1907 copy of Peter Kropotkin’s book “Mutual Aid”—stuffed, of course, with MTG cards.
low key teared up reading this post. nerds are alright.
There is that "bullet with your name on it" trope in fiction though. Presumably that's the image these reports are supposed to conjure up, of fanatical assassins carving names into bullets.
I think the fact that the trope is so dated is what stuck out first to me after seeing this pop up more than once under spooky circumstances.
Its very odd because its like a fractal of implausibility/impossibility. Like, I could point out that you can't / wouldn't fit any meaningful manifesto on a shell casing but it feels like I'm already taking the bait entertaining it that much. Its like Ralph saying he saw Principle Skinner and Ms Hoover making babies and he saw the babies and one of the babies looked at him. You just roll your eyes and dismiss the lie because its too stupid to bother entertaining. But it gets repeated by credulous / incurious / ill informed people and/in the media despite being easier to poke holes in than Kirk's throat.
I'll stay open minded, because maybe these wannabe shooters just have really neat handwriting, but if I were more inclined to jump to conclusions I would probably assume this pattern of blatant in-your-face fuckery indicates CIA shit.
tl;dr supposedly he tried to shoot a security guard at a grocery store and after fleeing the scene (with his/a handgun) it turned out he'd also left a gun case behind at the scene that contained some shotgun shells that had "anti trump" stuff written on them. So secret service / feds got involved which explains the overkill response.
Can't help but wonder about those supposed "threats against the president" shotgun shells.
Edit: that article is from tuesday and then another outlet on wednesday reporting on the story paraphrases the cops in a way that implies those shotgun shells were found during the 100 police "attempt to arrest" him for the attempted shooting. Which would mean he was just such a BAMF that they sent an army to get him for an attempted shooting. Its not even an article, mind you, but I thought it was interesting that this important part of the story is already getting blurry in the media. https://kbnd.com/kbnd-news/regional-news/903656/
bet some local cop filed false paperwork on the guy re: threats to trump.
I didn't want to reckless-post random theories, but the article explicitly spells out where my mind went:
Local media have speculated that the Israeli biolab may have been involved in the production of counterfeit medicines. However, there is another possibility. Islamophobic Israel advocates have claimed that ‘Iranian’ cells in the US were planning terror attacks.
SEGA ported Ecco the Dolphin for Windows PCs back in 1995. With increased hardware capacity and a lot more storage on the CD-ROM format, the original console version was rewritten from scratch, upgraded and packed with awesome new features and goodies. The original Ecco PC version features redrawn high resolution graphics; the CD Audio soundtrack from the MegaCD/SegaCD versions; the 3D rendered videos from Tides of Time, save/restore functions replacing the password system, 3 difficulties and translations to several languages.
Wow I had no idea the original port even existed, let alone improved on the console release. Ty for sharing.
Sauntering into the clean room nonchalantly with 16 encyclopedias and the code listing for every program ever written hidden under my hat.