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If you can't understand why someone wouldn't go out in front of the world and make big statements in line with these claims, or any statement at all, immediately after a very traumatising experience then you really need to work on your empathy and understanding of basic human emotion. I understand your skepticism, to a point. I just gave a very obvious reason why she hasn't talked about the harrowing things she went through in detail to the public straight away, whether they are as is said in this article or not. Even thinking about them is going to be very difficult for her, nevermind doing what you're expecting

Edit: Taken out a sentence that isn't relevant, as I thought you were the OP of this comment thread before

I'm not a chatbot, you can read the article yourself and find out these things. I haven't insisted the article is credible. Go back and read what I wrote and you'll see that

Where in the article does it say she gave testimony herself? Also it isn't that much of a niche news site, it's one of the biggest left wing news outlets in the UK, probably the second biggest after Novara

Nice editing and erasing most of what you said in this comment. Realised you've been talking shit eh?

Didn't realise "plausible" was a synonym for ”true". Do you wanna stop strawmanning me or? And you are doing it to try and talk down to me, be real. You can be "precise" without using those terms. It has similar energy as someone weaponising psychology terms in a conflict in order to try and seem like the one in the right by virtue of being "more intelligent"

Ok so...how have I said anything that goes against that? I've not once said I believe it or that others should and that we should have solid evidence before we believe something. I like the throwing out philosophy terms you're doing in order to try and talk down to me too

Yeah I've noticed a lot of the engagement to what's said here is similar to r/worldnews a lot of the time. There just needs to be more communities on other instances so we don't have to deal with the enlightened centrism that dominates reddit on here too and the libs can have their own space aswell

Have you considered that maybe she's very traumatised both physically and mentally at the moment and is recovering first before she steps out into the public eye again?

So we just don't consider anything could be true unless we know for absolute sure it is? So we shouldn't even entertain the idea that Epstein didn't kill himself, as well as many other things? I understand that we shouldn't go about throwing out theories and believing them completely without some solid evidence, but I think the other extreme of "epistemic hygiene" hinders us too. Certain things could turn out to be true and us ignoring suggestions of that earlier on could mean we don't realise later. Again I'm not saying that the possibility I bring up in my original comment is likely or anything, just it wouldn't surprise me really. There's so many examples in recent years of powers distracting us from the bad things they're doing with other things

Very fair reasons! Much of it are common things people say about it, even those that enjoy it

The story being hard to puzzle out on your own is understandable, I've never understood what's going on well in ER or any Dark Souls game by just playing it. But I have to say, as someone who's a big fan of a good story and deep lore, I actually really like that they do it that way. Even though it may not seem it on the surface, the lore is very deep in all the games. It's not just item descriptions that show us it, the sparse conversations things you hear from NPCs are also part of it. There's also lots of indicators throughout the world in just the environment. The fact that the only reason we know so much lore is because the fandom has pieced it together over the years with all these masses of obscure clues and evidence is really cool, to me. Also just have to say there are many different ways in which your characters actions affect little sub plots and the world at large. ER has a bunch of different endings and ways you bring them about, for example

As for the messages I totally feel you there, the fandom has a lot of memelords who tend to repeat the same things over and over with messages. You can actually turn those off though if you play the game offline, which is what I do. I'm not bothered about PVP and there's plenty of times I've been invaded across the games at real inconvenient times, so there's nothing that attracts me to playing online

I love the combat and always have but again that's obviously subjective. I really like the diversity of builds you can do and how it opens it up to so many potential challenge runs. But yeah if it's just fundamentally the way the combat is that isn't for you then I guess just trying out different builds wouldn't change much for you

Yeah this isn't me trying to pressure you or whatever into giving it another go, even though I love these games I totally understand why a lot of people don't like them. I haven't been able to play a single one all the way through without having to look things up online, as have most others. There's a lot of times in all the games where you just think "how was I ever meant to figure this out on my own?" They all have their flaws. DS1 and DS2 were both released unfinished and DS3 I think is actually pretty overrated, though still a fantastic game

Anyways thanks for explaining what you didn't like. I didn't intend to write back something like this, I expected what you would say would be entirely subjective. And a lot of it is but I just thought I'd give my thoughts on the rest. The irony of the longest posts I've written on Lemmy about soulslikes being in the BG3 community

Not saying it's definitely the case but the conspiracy minded part of me can't help but notice the attack on the synagogue in Manchester was very conveniently timed around when the flotilla arrived in Israel. Could just be coincidence of course but we've seen what they're capable of making happen. This would be very easy for them. And this isn't to have any disrespect towards the victims of the attack, even if it was a false flag or whatever it doesn't make it any less of a tragedy. Plenty of Jewish people suffer generally because of Israel too

Edit: well guess I offended a bunch of people with this. Nice to see that we're being no different to reddit here and just downvoting people we don't agree with, even if that person isn't being shitty about the opinion they're expressing and isn't claiming it's true anyway, and not having an open discussion about the thing that's been said

Thanks for the advice and suggestions! I'll look into these and see how I go with them