At least 17 children, some as young as 14, have been arrested on terrorism charges over the past 18 months. A new neo-Nazi group led by a 15-year-old from Derby emerged last year. Its entire membership consisted of children. The group discussed attacking migrants in Dover and how to acquire and modify weapons.
One example, found on the social messaging app Telegram, involves a user posting comprehensive bomb-making instructions to a youngster with the message: “Hey kid, want to make a mailbox bomb for Roblox?”
Also on Telegram was a Roblox simulation of a vehicle attack against protesters, a recurrent theme of far-right memes, and a real life feature of last year’s Black Lives Matter protests in the US.
“Every day we are seeing far-right violent extremist and terrorist groups exploit youth culture, not only to evade content moderation, but also to radicalise young people themselves,” said Adam Hadley,
director of Tech Against Terrorism.
Overt attempts by the far right to woo teenagers to its cause are rising. Patriotic Alternative has encouraged youngsters to host livestreamed “zoomer nights”, named after the “Gen Z” age-group born between the late 1990s and early 2010s. Archived footage from the anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate reveals teenagers discussing “white genocide” and fears that black and Asian minorities will become their “new masters”.
Finally finished Demon’s Souls. What a great game. It definitely felt easier as the game went on and it’s probably just because I “got it” more than earlier on. But what a fun and challenging ride it was. It’s super rewarding too as you actually feel like you accomplish stuff as you make progress in the game. I was a bit disappointed at how easy some of the bosses felt later on but I’m not sure if it’s because of my build or if I was just better at the game, or a bit of both.
I did feel like no matter what items dropped, that nothing was as good as my current setup I was using. I literally used like 1 main weapon the entire game, leveled up as I progressed, and then later just enchanted it with magic. And no other weapon I picked up was close to doing the damage of that setup. Not even some of the very later “special” weapons that you get.
Hoping for some Bayo 3 footage and more NMH3 footage. Other than that, I’m not expecting much, thanks to COVID. There was an article last year where the Xbox manager was saying consumer wouldn’t be seeing the effect of COVID on the industry until Summer 2021, so yeah.
Playing Cuphead. Third Isle is that good shit, with the bullet patterns. chef’s kiss I think the DLC is supposed to drop this year? Hope it makes it.
I didn’t really have trouble with any of those, not close to the trouble I had with a few boss fights.
I also got the miracle that is supposed to make those guys disappear (forget what miracle it was) but every time I tried to use it on one, my dude just shook his hand and didn’t actually use the miracle.
Did you use the correct catalyst equipped for the miracles? Unless you had Talisman of the Beast, which could cast both magic and miracles, you would need to switch between a magic catalyst and a miracle talisman.
I believe I did. It was the talisman of god I think and I used that to case the only other miracle I had, which was to send me back to the nexus whenever I wanted.
My setup was super basic. I literally had 1 sword and the talisman of god on my right hand like 95% of my time playing, and the other hand had the shield and then silver catalyst like 95% of the time. I had the adjudicator shield like 90% of the time and would sometimes swap it with one that could handle fire and magic a bit better than that one could. But typically I had the adjudicator shield + regenerator ring on and I could gain health back pretty quickly.
I tried it multiple times so I have no clue why it wasn’t working. Maybe I needed to have my faith level up higher or something and didn’t realize that?
Another thing I was somewhat disappointed about was getting all of these demon’s souls for killing bosses, and I held onto them thinking I would be able to upgrade a bunch of cool weapons with them, but like, pretty much none of the items I ever had on hand could be upgraded with those souls from either blacksmith. I did see you could use some for magic and miracles though but like I didn’t really need to do anything else with that I don’t think. I just wanted some cool ass weapons lol.
I was also surprised how these weapons you pickup near the end of the game, like Soulbrandt and what not, were weaker than the weapon I was currently using, and much slower.
I dunno - I just expected to have to use more variety and upgrade in order to progress in the game but I guess they just leave that up to the person playing and the play style they want to do. Even with the armor, I pretty much stuck strictly with the same boring leather outfit because it was just better than the other stuff because I could move fine and it gave me good protection. Think I had assassin helmet on with the leather armor for like 95% of the game.
I played a bit last night right after I beat it because I wanted to level up with the 120k souls I had from beating it, and I guess I can’t level up until after beating the first boss and going back to the Nexus.
I may play it a bit. The first level is super easy lol and last night I got like 1/2 through it and just called it quits since it was late.
