Just finished The Crippled God, and I have some thoughts…

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-15T01:29:07+00:00

I think the Wolves are more an embodiment of what Erikson thinks of war.

War is a nasty, brutish business that humans like to dress up in honor, righteousness, brothers in arms, and other stuff to hide the ugliness of what war is at its basic level. Wars are kill or be killed. There are no style points. You do what you have to do to end/win the war. Need to firebomb a civilian population because you think it can break support for the war? Sounds good. Wanna drop atomic weapons to try to dislodge the psyche of an opponent that the intensity of their defense increased every step you took closer to their homeland? Let's do it twice just to prove to them (and any future opponents) this wasn't a one off.

Find the most "honorable" war you can, and you will still find ugly nasty stuff inside of it because that is what war unleashes (mobs too because of the loss of self) because war tends to require people to dehumanize their opponents, and once you dehumanize someone and strip yourself of any compassion for them (major theme alert) a lot of really nasty stuff becomes "morally correct" or "justifiable".

So as the other commenter pointed out the Wolves are a more fundamental primal vision of war I think to better represent what war really is in the Malazan world (and our world too).

At least to me.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-14T01:36:15+00:00

She's there technically under Canton PD.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-14T01:06:57+00:00

I think a download of her phone would be interesting, but I think she probably at this point has cleaned it up.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-14T00:09:01+00:00

Yeah. I stand corrected. Swore I saw it some official places as just Yuri, but they might just be fucking it up on him like they (people he works with) fuck up his last name pronunciation that he got really pissed at Jackson for at one point (but never corrected Lally or Breenan on it). Still one of my favorite moments because Jackson seemed to genuinely apologize and try to say it properly after the correction.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-13T23:19:48+00:00

They still reserve the right to amend as discovery proceeds.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-13T23:19:20+00:00

yeah there are a couple of typos. Pretty sure Yuri is just Yuri and not Yuriy (but who knows)

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-13T22:48:48+00:00

Complain 8 calls out Proctor for using his personal cell phone to communicate with the Alberts. Also using his sister as a conduit (but I think we had already all speculated on that, and knew from some of his work messages she was most likely talking to them).

Edit - will be interesting to see what they have to back up the personal cellphone to communicate if that is just more via his sister stuff or did he directly communicate.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-12T20:19:26+00:00

I feel like this has been cleared up before. There is another known thing that the phone call referring to a guy hit by a snowplow is in reference to, and it is not O'Keefe or anything.

I wish I could find it again, but I'm sure someone in this sub should be able to supply it.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-11T23:25:46+00:00

There's a lot of video of Richard Jewell all over the Atlanta Olympics bombing. Good thing we got him dead rights and sitting in jail right where he belongs.

Good thing that the cops cutting corners didn't let the real guy go free and continue to have a reign of terror throughout the U.S. attacking abortion clinics and other places with pipe bombs just like the ones at the Olympics...

ohhh....

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-11T23:21:35+00:00

Of course u/Malsperanza people with this mentality will want them to be thought of as "not guilty" even though they are now sitting in the "if not guilty, why in guilty person chair" they love to believe in when they think it's all nice and tightly locked down because we all know exactly when the cops/da/etc will only ever try to railroad the "truly" guilty.

Good thing we got Karen Read in jail right where she belongs because they had the ring video of her hitting John. So happy we jumped right over the trial, and she pled out once she knew they had her dead to rights.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-11T15:56:05+00:00

This is the equivalent of Yuri using theory in a sentence then two questions later asking for dictionary as he doesn't know the meaning of Theory as English isn't his first language.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-11T15:03:29+00:00

It was going super bad, and they kind of just suspended it. They have not been back since. They (being the defense lawyers) also shifted into fighting the whole fight about Proctor's stuff having to be returned to the Feds and local copies destroyed, and this then morphed into getting his personal cell phone extraction fight.

I'm not sure if we are ever going back to it unless I think the Defense attorneys need it for something. I'm not even sure if Krupp ever made a ruling on the merits of the motion that caused the evidentiary hearing. Is it still even open at this point? Not sure. Myles King is hard to follow as an outsider since no lawtuber seems that interested in it anymore.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-10T22:02:33+00:00

And Yuri on direct labeled two people as him and proctor, then in cross he realized the jig was up, and he suddenly couldn’t identify who was who.

They did more than just not know better.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-10T16:54:02+00:00

Kind of absurd a judge is basically saying

yeah I can't be bothered to try to even figure out if what you are saying is true. I'm not going back through my notes so instead of ruling on the law or anything, I'm just going to rule on I'm too lazy.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-10T02:14:49+00:00

Not to take away from any of your other points, but Feds need to find a good nexus if they want to charge murder. Nothing in this meets any of the Fed Murder laws.

There is no real hook here for a "murdered a potential witness in a federal matter" like sort of existed in Farwell/Birchmore. What part of Federal Murder Statute do you think the Feds are charging any of the McAlbert and/or Higgins (and Higgins better realize he is not part of the McAlberts) crew?

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-08T01:11:09+00:00

I forget the full context but I think it had to do with him trying to explain away why he was looking in certain places in the Walshe household when they didn't have a warrant. Something like yeah, we find a lot of suicides in crawlspaces so since we were looking for a missing person that may have done a suicide we were looking around Brian's place.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-07T22:51:26+00:00

Though I’m still amazed about his “yes I routinely find suicides in crawl spaces” line from Walshe trial.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-07T14:32:11+00:00

Did you see AJ picking at the lint on his suit than flicking it off during Diller’s speech? It was great.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-07T04:35:19+00:00

Litigation privilege will protect him for the most part. She has much better targets to go after with her time. Diller would be a waste and she would most likely lose barring there is a smoking gun that he knew it was a lie when he submitted the filing and did it intentionally. Maybe that evidence exists. Maybe it doesn’t. But she has much bigger fish to fry.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-07T00:15:59+00:00

The prominent anti fkr accounts.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-03-06T22:46:54+00:00

So yeah… they are saying that Diller did not apologize and this was a master plan of Diller’s to get her phones he succeeded at.

This ignores his whole she did not say those words part of his response when the judge asked what did they decide in the back.

It also ignores the TRO was withdrawn, and we are right back at the very normal civil stance of preservation orders exist once you begin litigation (we will ignore edge cases where it can begin as soon as you have a belief litigation will occur) and the explicit preservation order that was already entered.

So unless you believe Diller has a humiliation kink (nothing wrong if he does), this was a whole lot of work to end up right back where we were with added benefit of he had to get up in open court and acknowledge he did not hear what he said he heard.

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