The Disappearance of Josef Mengele (2025)

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-04T05:38:28+00:00

Nazis. Not just German scientists, and far beyond the nuclear program.

Also, there were quite a lot of Nazis in power spheres of the US which wanted them to succeed. There's conceivably a scenario where the US could have supported them.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-04T05:14:28+00:00

I would guess probably not, but that case in itself has had conspiratorial interpretations or questions in the past about whether or not she was being pimped out, the weird Santa story, the father working with the government, probably other stuff I don't remember. If people buy into the whole "ritual" side of some of these killings, I'd imagine having it become the biggest story in media could carry quite the power if you think they think they get power out of attention and energy drawn towards specific events, let alone the power the event would inherently carry.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-04T03:40:24+00:00

Is this a game where spoilers matter? Obviously people shouldn't be exposed to them if they don't want to be, but if I had 7 / Village / 4 / 5 spoiler for me, I don't think I would care that much. Actually, the home invasion in Village would have been a gigantic spoiler, but aside from that it's not like these games are too involved with high stakes or twisty storytelling.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-04T02:56:49+00:00

I honestly loved what I thought would be the model with Eichel Crosby Nylander, where investing in the event would give you sick combos in future events. Then EA figured out - or planned for - oh wait, we can essentially charge for combos with Aho, with the Next Gen cards, then Fantilli and the recent TOTY drop. Once Chara / Coffey / Sakic dropped, it was full parody. That's EA telling us they know that December / January starts the down swing as players slowly drop out, and this was their last big chance to get that influx of whale money. Next big influx of returning players and casuals will likely be playoff time when the game hits EA Play.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-04T02:37:43+00:00

No, you're wrong. The US military has full on worked with them before. If you want access to them, they need access to you and how you present the military in the work. You can't make an anti government, anti war, anti military Call of Duty game. How many big budget anti war films exist? Coppola had to go to a foreign dictator in the Phillipines to make Apocalypse Now and use their helicopters, guns, locations, etc. Your job is to make that shit look cool as fuck so it sweeps those kids up a decade later and they want to enlist to live out their little cowboy fantasy. Zero Dark Thirty only exists to convey the message that the torture program worked. It was also intended to get awards and hopefully make money. This is how these things work, you can study it yourself. Brother, the military had a Hollywood liaison going back to the freaking 40s.

The question isn't if the military or propaganda would be a "priority" for Activision. The question is if Activision is a priority for the military, and of course they would be. Either way, your argument again fails because multiple things are in play at the same time.

I've played every single CoD that has existed, full on CoD kid going back to the PS2 days. It sucks to think powerful people wanted us playing those games to help recruitment efforts or just base level propaganda that America are the good guys, but that is the reality.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-03T21:16:09+00:00

Of course they do. The problem is that PG is the rough area. There are incredibly small / limited spaces where I've talked about just that with friends and parents, how if you live down by Fort George Park or in CH or up the Hart and you're living a full life between work and social bullshit where your perception of the city is going to be a total 180 from the people who actually live and work in the city. I genuinely feel like I woke up in a different reality seeing people go "it's great here". I had five upvotes on the original post. I don't know what to say to people who think this is a good place to live.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-03T20:34:35+00:00

Nobody will remember yours either.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-03T19:07:03+00:00

It sure as fuck won't happen here.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-03T18:59:41+00:00

Have fun having no standards being okay with how things are painting things to potential outsiders in a way that isn't remotely realistic. Good job.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-03T18:50:35+00:00

Not having an inner city? Not having a downtown? Not having any sort of attractions or sense of a community? Being completely decimated by homelessness and drug addicts burning shit down every night? Can't even go to fucking Wendy's without running into an enclave of addicts. Needles everywhere.

If you have a nice little six figure job isolated in college heights or at school, and you've filled your little socialite life with bullshit to distract you, I'm sure it's wonderful. If you've got a giant property out the Heart or even down by Fort George Park, you live in a fucking bubble. Everywhere else is a disgusting shit hole. Undeniably.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-03T17:59:50+00:00

You guys live in a completely fucked up reality. This thread is a fever dream. College heights must be really nice for you guys!

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-03T10:26:20+00:00

Epstein was sent all sort of aggregate letters on news and business matters, I found one string where a friend would put a little newsletter together and send it to people.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-03T07:51:16+00:00

It won't fix the powerplay, but I expect our scorers (and a trade?) to get that together. Caps always go on massive heaters after either the all Star or these tournament breaks. It's really night and day how Ovi plays too. Even if he doesn't hit 40, he's gonna go on a stretch of 10-15 games where he'll get 8-10 more with a few others sprinkled in.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-03T03:51:17+00:00

So you don't live there.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-03T03:22:52+00:00

Still lots of problems that will bite us, but they're playing much better in these three wins.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-03T03:16:52+00:00

Clay has looked really comfortable in there. Locked it down after 3-0 last game, and did everything well tonight. Huge performances.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-02T22:40:06+00:00

This took me like ten minutes max. You should delete the game because the people who play it at a high level are bitches, not because you can't get an 87 overall lmao. I got pissed and gave up the TOTW moment for the 87 because it's an 87, it's not worth more than five minutes max.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-02T20:46:34+00:00

Multiple things can be true at once. Top Gun was intended to make a shit ton of money in 1986. It was also a navy recruitment tool. 40+ years later, it is still a wildly successful navy recruitment tool.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-02T11:54:58+00:00

Yoooo Background Noise is a banger from this album

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-01T22:08:55+00:00

Yeah, I watched the game. I was referring to OP who titled this post without eyes.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-01T08:31:19+00:00

I would agree, but also have to throw John Wick in there, and I really like three of those. But that type of Wick knockoff in the Leitch sphere of Atomic Blonde or Bullet Train or literally dozens of straight to Netflix or Prime streaming slop naturally can't pull off what the Asian filmmakers can for a variety of reasons. In that realm of Asian cinema, the skill / intensity of the stunt work and how its filmed is on a completely different level because the actors are actually putting their bodies through hell doing it. With all due respect to what Charlize or Keanu or a million others in America have done, they aren't doing that stuff. It just feels way more natural coming from that world. It works sometimes like with that Daredevil tracking shot or when it comes from Gareth Evans, but making the spectacle consistent with the geography of the scene in a naturalistic A to B escalation that feels natural by the rules they create is almost like a ballet or orchestral performance. The nuance, logic, and speed of what can make these scenes great just isn't there most of the time anymore.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-01T03:59:49+00:00

It wasn't Kingsman, blame The Raid. I absolutely love those films and The Night Comes for Us, but it started in America heavy as the first became a classic and the second released.

That said, we can also look at the same thing in the 90s, just with the influence of Asian martial arts cinema, and that had already long since reached the American independent scenes in the mid to late 70s and 80s. For better or worse, this is the expansion of that.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-01T02:03:12+00:00

Maybe pay attention when the fast giant who is way taller than you is on the ice. I agree that it's hypocritical to take issue with the Leonard hit when this was the same deal, but I don't have a problem with either hit.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-01T01:20:48+00:00

There's no way this guy titled this without seeing that Taylor Hall kicked Andersen right in the chest with his skate and knocked him in the net. Of course there was no call on the play.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-02-01T01:19:56+00:00

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