How Pokémon Got Enlisted in the Israel-Gaza Conflict
The theory that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery is about to be formally tested in a Japanese court of law. The big news for gaming fans of late is that the Kyoto-based video-gaming giant Nintendo has just instituted legal proceedings against the far smaller rival publisher Pocketpair over the content of its hit recent title Palworld, often described as being “Pokémon with guns”. As Nintendo own exclusive rights to the Pokémon series, Pocketpair’s bright idea of handing over Kalashnikovs and Mausers to Clefairy and Psyduck was unsurprisingly deemed by Nintendo’s lawyers to breach the firm’s intellectual copyright.
Yet this is far from the weirdest such lawsuit Nintendo has ever been involved in. If you don’t know, the incredibly popular games in question involve players wandering a cartoon world and capturing cute little animal-like creatures called Pokémon inside magical balls, before tooling them up to fight one another in battles against competing Pokémon trainers. It is now 25 years since the original Japanese GameBoy titles in the series were released in America, an occasion celebrated earlier this year by the ‘Pocket Monsters’ making the front cover of Time magazine, the excuse being that, so popular are the critters, they are now the highest-earning global media franchise ever, raising $100 billion in revenue up to 2021.
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Dr Phil knocking it out of the ballpark with this 5min speech.
Question: Just how deranged does one have to be to support mass-murdering, death-worshipping terrorists who would murder you and your family in the blink of an eye?
Answer: Exceedingly.
https://x.com/DrPhil/status/1843320452963533059
This lady speaks the truth. Well said;
”Assita was born a Muslim and has been fighting against Radical Islam and Terrorism for a long time.
We need more Assitas in this world.”
https://x.com/K0sher_C0ckney/status/1843409070533042556
“Assita is fighting against radical Islam.” Good on her.
But is there any other Islam?
Genuine question.
Is there a soft, forgiving, tolerant version?
If so, where?
How do they interpret certain verses in the Quran that call for the subjugation or killing of infidels?
Deuteronomy 13:6-10 6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: 9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Deuteronomy 21:18-21 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that,… Read more »
Sure, I am familiar with the Old Testament.
But Jews don’t live like that. When did they last stone anybody?
I suspect godknowsimgood’s point is that all sorts is written, in all sorts of books, but we should rather judge individual people by their actions above everything.
They have bombed a few. Not sure which is better.
I have travelled to Tunisia, Egypt and Turkey, and only experienced kindness. Better not to drink the tap water, though …
Somewhere along the way wading through this rubbish, I lost the will to live before encountering any reference to Gaza.
Losing the will to live. Well, it was written by Kamala Harris. And that is what she does to us all. How do I know she wrote it? Here is one of her trademark points right in the middle of it: “it is within this topic’s very unimportance that its true importance really lies“. True Kamala at her best. Here is ridiculous meaningless nonsense she is famous for: “‘What can be, unburdened by what has been”. Which also means Kamala is unburdened by any knowledge of history so will make the same mistakes all over again. And another example: “The governor and I … were ….. talking about the significance of the passage of time. Right? The significance of the passage of time,” Ms Harris said.“So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires, what we need to do to create these jobs,” she told an audience in a speech about expanding broadband coverage.“And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children and what that means to the… Read more »