What’s funny is battlefield to me was always just a chill game I used to play to do whatever. More for fun and blowing off steam with very little consequence of death. Like if someone was cheating in battlefield i hardly ever care. I also don’t remember a huge ranked or competitive scene for the battlefield genre but I could be ootl cause I haven’t played since 4

Compared to games like Tarkov or DayZ which have a lot more consequence tied to death.

One I hate that I am unsure of a term for but I call it “Family time” is when a show or movie makes everyajor twist revolve around the main characters family…

Star Wars is a great example that no one notices it in

Darth Vader is Lukes father Leia his sister

Both rolls could have worked without those twists

But it is far worse in other shows and series or even ruins them for me

Fringe was ruined by it imo

Slow horses is falling into this trap with season 4

It’s a cheap ploy to try and make the moment or stakes more dramatic by involving the characters in ediate family as ploys or villains. At the same time it just feels out of place most of the time that the entire world these characters are in revolve around 1 family.

So many shows use this trope but I don’t even see a proper term calling it out and at the same time it has ruined so many shows and just shows a lazy writing or plot narrative.

The author does not know how to write for the dramatic response they want the audience to have for the villain or ploy so they make some dramatic reveal that their family member was secretly involved making it more difficult for the main characters to make decisions or take action.

Good

More ashamed of my country than ever and feel stuck here. From California and feel like we have some dead corpse strapped to us.

Everything after ffx just dropped in quality

Could force us all to speak Danish and I’d still be down

As a Californian I’m in

This is a classic tactic cause you can scan them without scratching them at the store and filter out any actual winners and just leave people with essentially nothing.

When I worked as a cashier there was a real estate agent who bought scratchers all the time and did exactly this. If one of them won more than like 50 bucks he cashed it and took all the worthless/low value ones. Then all his clients would get them in the mail for Xmas.

Leaving the DNA behind doesn’t really identify him if his DNA is not in the system.

But nowadays the odds some relative of yours put theirs up on some family tree site is pretty high so they could narrow the suspect pool quite a bit going that route.