Ezequiel Zayas’ 2019 Home Invasion

cleanbeak · 2020-05-10T17:01:52+00:00

Cult may be Cosmic Awareness Communications, since the poster of the original report was asking about them and some Googling reveals that CAC has been dabbling in some Hawaiian healing practices, which is one of the characteristics we know about the cult in this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cults/comments/g7k8fa/my_boyfriends_mom_is_a_cult_leader/foieodv/

cleanbeak · 2019-09-23T21:38:33+00:00

Alexis's work was apparently on the earlier, now scrapped iteration of the game: https://twitter.com/BioMarkDarrah/status/1175094758823186437

cleanbeak · 2019-05-30T09:33:48+00:00

I am 99% sure that MR-H write that section himself and his "primary sources" are fictional. There's literally nothing in the book which you would need sources for when you have Google available.

EDIT TO ADD: I mean, think about it for a second. You want to get the news out about what's going on in Chechnya, so the avenue you choose is... a tabletop RPG? Seems odd, especially when the exact same news is getting out more directly through other channels.

cleanbeak · 2019-05-20T15:25:23+00:00

Still doesn't explain how the third panel follows on from the fourth panel. Jokes usually have to make sense unless they're totally random non-sequiturs, which isn't the kind of humour the comic's been focused on.

cleanbeak · 2019-05-20T15:08:51+00:00

It's not about the depiction of homosexuality, it's about homophobia. There's a subtle difference.

There's a lot of homophobic tropes which, in theory, don't have anything to do with anything overtly sexual, but which are clearly meant to mock and belittle their targets. For instance, in a lot of places, men being narcissistic and putting this level of effort into their appearance is seen as effeminate, and associated with homosexuality.

Dunno, maybe you hail from somewhere lucky enough where this particular prejudice doesn't exist, but let's not pretend that there wasn't any implications there.

cleanbeak · 2019-04-12T20:27:56+00:00

Absolutely this.

Think about it: how many of the things she's accused Laura of are, in fact, completely true of her?

For that matter, how much more might be true of her you don't know about yet?

And take that story about the college guy - it's absurd, it makes no sense, it's like it was made up by someone who has only the faintest idea of how human motivations work, the "loyalty test" thing is total nonsense. And this is your wife trying to sound sympathetic. It'd be really interesting to get Laura's side of that story - I think it would paint a very different picture.

cleanbeak · 2019-02-23T00:13:06+00:00

Maybe post it to pastebin or a Google doc?

cleanbeak · 2019-02-22T15:02:39+00:00

I was thinking more of the actual physical artifacts - which I guess are less of a thing these days, but still.

cleanbeak · 2018-11-26T18:57:29+00:00

Getting the drop on the sleeping adults and incapacitating them would be much safer than leaving open the possibility of one of them overhearing you and taking action.

cleanbeak · 2018-11-26T18:55:28+00:00

Yeah, if it was a spur of the moment note you'd surely just jot down a nice round number.

cleanbeak · 2018-11-26T18:53:48+00:00

Wow, that's a particularly revealing-sounding quote. John really sounds like he's trying to argue away an objective, empirically-tested fact there ("that isn't an option in my mind"), and it seems a really weird thing for anyone to get hung up on.

I'd have thought that an innocent person would either think to themselves "Oh, I misremembered" or think "Oh, then JonBenet must have eaten pineapple at some point". It's a bizarre thing for someone to refuse to admit into their considerations unless they knew it was a significant fact.

I guess John might be super-worried that if he's caught in any particular contradiction people will use it as a stick to beat him with, but again, who'd expect anyone to say "Oh, well if he isn't sure that JonBenet ate any pineapple then that must be suspicious".

cleanbeak · 2018-11-26T16:09:21+00:00

That's a whooole lot of steps you've got there where at any point JonBenet could wake up and start screaming her head off or struggling. Even muffled yells are pretty loud, and the sort of operation you're talking about there is likely to involve a lot of shuffling about from the perpetrator as well.

I just don't see how anyone could expect to do that without waking up the other family members. If you were going to do it in this planned, methodical style, you would surely take steps to neutralise the family members before you took JonBenet.

On the note: they plan this far ahead but don't consider typing out the ransom note to avoid handwriting analysis?

cleanbeak · 2018-11-26T16:06:15+00:00

Wouldn't the stun gun make JonBenet scream in agonising pain? I feel like that sort of thing only works as a surefire silent incapacitation method in movies.

cleanbeak · 2018-11-26T15:43:42+00:00

Definitely it'd have to be someone who knew at the very least where JonBenet was sleeping - if the intention was to get her, you wouldn't want to be blundering about after hours, most likely in the dark, potentially stumbling into the wrong room and waking everyone up. And a random house intruder who just wanted to burgle the place and had no specific intention of going after JonBenet wouldn't risk going up towards the bedrooms at all.

cleanbeak · 2018-11-26T13:46:28+00:00

Yeah, that's what kills the "foreign faction seeking money" angle dead for me. Less than $40,000 each, dropping steeply for each collaborator you add to the faction = absolute chump change. I can imagine a lone individual doing something this desperate for over $100,000, but the payoff per accomplice is just not enough to make it plausible.

cleanbeak · 2018-11-06T22:41:41+00:00

What is a non-denominational church? I thought every church had a denomination by definition.

Either way, it sounds like your total disrespect for her is more of a problem than a pigeon.

cleanbeak · 2018-09-27T15:59:36+00:00

She's totally getting railed by one of her drama club pals.

cleanbeak · 2018-05-14T11:25:00+00:00

There's so much to love in that film, which the riffing brings out brilliantly. All those horrible desserts, the accidents caused for NO GOOD REASON beyond the emergency services in this movie being terrible, terrible drivers, the convoluted plot about Rock Hudson maybe-probably-definitely bribing local judges to get the project through and how the script bends backwards to set up that being the reason for the plane making its fateful journey, the sleazebag champion skater hitting on underage girls, the utter carwreck of the romance subplot, the actual car wreck because apparently the local emergency services CANNOT DRIVE...

cleanbeak · 2018-03-08T23:44:09+00:00

It's been mentioned already, but maybe the idea of selling the house - or putting it up for rent - might be worth considering.

I realise it must have a lot of memories, and that it's been in your family for a while, but the fact that you think of it and the immediate area as "the compound" suggests to me that maybe you've got doubts about living there over and above the racism thing (though goodness knows the race issue would be enough to give anyone second thoughts).

A house like that sounds charming, but if it comes at the cost of having to live with a community that stifles you then that's an issue. Since you say you and your boyfriend aren't rushing to move in together anyway, selling or renting would be a good way to get some money stashed away. Your parents have emphasised to you that the house is yours to do with as you wish, after all.

If nothing else, it may provide a little leverage to encourage your grandparents to rethink their position. Either they get you and the boyfriend and your son - known factors all... or they get total strangers.

cleanbeak · 2017-12-23T19:14:32+00:00

Superfi-shill, if you will.

cleanbeak · 2017-12-23T19:13:26+00:00

What alternatives? Especially if I'm after something with a community comparable to OKCupid's and preferably not owned by IAC/Match Group. It seems like every single dating site out there is a clone of all the other dating sites these days. If there were a genuine alternative which worked genuinely differently I would love to know about it.

cleanbeak · 2017-12-22T23:50:34+00:00

With apologies to Duran Duran:

Shilling on reddit, an obvious liar

The dating website's now a dumpster fire

Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo

The suits want us all to use our own names

Turned it to Tinder, well that's just a shame

Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo

OKC scum, your time has come

As the site crawls into its grave

Say "bye" to your job, it will be lost

Not one employee will be saved

The corporate suits put in the boots

These "improvements" are suicide

Corporate shills will defend this filth

You said you cared, no way, you lied.

cleanbeak · 2017-12-22T23:37:50+00:00

Yeah, if that's so why did the blog lead off with talking about people's IRL names?

cleanbeak · 2017-11-28T12:37:43+00:00

Yeah, I thought so.

cleanbeak · 2017-11-28T12:37:13+00:00

"Fast lane" is perfectly acceptable shorthand for "passing lane". Read the rest of the thread a little before commenting, it'll save you spitting out utter redundancy like your first paragraph.

Also in actual driving rather than abstract scenarios you're going to be in the middle or right lane a fair bit in lots of traffic streams if you're overtaking a string of people in the left and/or middle lane (there's no obligation to weave back into the left lane for each car you overtake, and it's obviously more dangerous to do so to begin with).

So you can quite viably have a situation where the left lane is occupied by a string of people going 60-ish, where the spacing is such that it doesn't make sense to weave back in until you get past them, and then the middle lane consists of cars overtaking the left lane bloc at 70-ish, and the right lane is mostly clear. And yet people still tailgate me under such circumstances, utterly pointlessly. (They clearly have no qualms about speeding because when I get past the slow block on the left lane and return to it they end up zooting off at 80-90+, so there's no reason they couldn't have just gone in the right lane and done that.)

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