Steven Williams, the man who plays Boogie2988 online, went to Twitter early this morning to further defend his late father. Evidently, he was on Twitch earlier and threatened physical violence against anyone who besmirched his father’s good name. Why would anyone express the opinion that Boogie2988’s father deserved to die the way he did, drowning …
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Chicago thugs kidnap then torture special-needs teen
From CNN: Four suspects have been charged in connection with the attack on a special-needs teen that was streamed on Facebook Live. Jordan Hill, 18; Tesfaye Cooper; 18; Brittany Covington, 18; and Tanishia Covington, 24, have each been charged with a hate crime, felony aggravated kidnapping, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly …
Killed because you do not know the Quran
In Bangladesh, Islamic terrorists seized a restaurant popular with foreigners and executed hostages who couldn’t quote one verse from the Quran. From USA Today: By the time the 10-hour siege was over Saturday inside a restaurant in Bangladesh’s capital, 22 people — plus six terrorists — were dead in a bloody attack in which 20 …
Convicted rapist banned from ‘Magic: the Gathering’ play
Wizards of the Coast suspended a player of Magic: the Gathering from competitive play until the year 2049. His Magic Online account, the online version of Magic: the Gathering played with digital cards, has been frozen and flagged for deletion. The reason? He’s a convicted rapist listed on the Virginia sex offender website. Zachary Jesse finished …
Hello Kitty's parents sound like a couple of jerks
It turns out that Hello Kitty, the iconic character created 40 years ago by the Japanese company Sanrio, is not a cat, but a human girl. She’s also not Japanese, she’s British. Who know? Christine R. Yano, anthropologist from the University of Hawaii and author of Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek across the Pacific, that’s …
DragonCon responds to the call for boycott
The organizers of DragonCon have issued an official response to the call for a boycott by author Nancy A. Collins of the popular annual sci-fi and fantasy convention. As Collins has correctly pointed out, money earned from the yearly convention still goes to the con’s creator and co-owner, accused sexual predator Edward Kramer. From the official DragonCon …