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Rare Recalled NES Game Stadium Events On Ebay For $99,000
An anonymous reader writes Via Eurogamer comes news of possibly the rarest of all NES games selling on the auction site Ebay for a staggering 99,000 Dollars at this time, with 4 days left to go. The game in question the 1987 NES game Stadium Events was released then pulled only 2 days later. Stadium Events was released by Bandai as a test title for its Family Fun Fitness Control Mat — an early version of the technology now found in Dance Dance Revolution floor pads. But Nintendo acquired the technology for itself, just as the game was being released. The company ordered an immediate return of all copies so the game could be rebranded with Nintendo's version of the controller mat, now named as the NES Power Pad .
Rare? They were my favourite Nintendo game developer!
http://www.wired.com/2015/01/stadium-events-sealed-ebay-nintendo-nes/
Wired's take is that the price is heavily driven up by trolling bidders
http://www.wired.com/2015/01/s...
Favourite quote from the article:
What can be especially frustrating about these trolled auctions is the inevitable wave of incorrect news reports that follow, suggesting that the item in question has “sold” for the wildly inflated, unrealistic, fraudulent bid amount, without even a caveat.
It's turtles all the way down.
Games, controllers, everything.
Probably easier anyway, I'm too out of shape for exercise.
Maybe someone is willing to pay a hundred grand for some plastic and silicon...
So how was it verified, without breaking the factory seal? They claim its unsealed, yet also verified original game inside. Also, ditch the plastic bag and tape job and authenticity sticker. Put it in a real display and sell with a certificate of authenticity.
I guess you're new here.
One mans junk, is another mans treasure...I guess
Next you'll be telling me I spent too much on my car or motorcycle. Don't ever get any hobbies, you might deprive someone of a school.
Double kick in the teeth to the 3rd world employees who built these back in the eighties for pennies a day
Rich people have been spending incomprehensible sums of money on luxury goods for a long, long time. The only difference is that now some of the geeks are among the rich, and have tastes that extend into obscure and rare video games, rather than the classics like jewelry, yachts, planes, or supercars.
Or perhaps you meant "us" as in the western world? I can assure you that the elites in any given impoverished country are busy wasting wealth, too (though they tend to prefer the classics, as well). I've walked through some of Saddam's old palaces, and the amount of money he probably wasted on that stuff while the rest of the country rotted is just staggering.
Where there any differences with the Bandai version and the one most of us are familiar with that came with the game mat, other than Nintendo branding?
This site fucking sucks.
3 days ago, I saw the same story on a video game news site. Only then, they made it very clear in their story that the ebay sale was probably a fraud. The bidding was much lower until an anonymous ebay troll with no feedback kept artificially inflating the bid.
So thanks for the news which is both incorrect and old.
Instead of bitching and moaning about it, why didn't you just submit a better summary yourself 3 days ago?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
"They" hate us because we've enslaved their entire population.
I've walked through some of Saddam's old palaces, and the amount of money he probably wasted on that stuff while the rest of the country rotted is just staggering.
Yeah, but unlike Saddam I'd like to think we're not a bunch of assholes who would put an old video game ahead of the well-being of kids.
LMAO
Have you seen what we are doing to the food they eat, the water they drink? Only bottled water is safe now. We have fast food in the schools. Fuck the kids money is the only thing that matters.
In fact unless you can show a company will come out better in profits you are not allowed to stop them from doing directly dangerous things to others.
love the taste, hate the texture
You know how many schools you could build in Kenya for $100K? How many goats you could buy for needy families? How many girls you could send to school in Afghanistan? How many life-saving vaccinations you could dispense? How many malaria nets? How many wells you could dig?
Amount of money spent on a rare collector's item, makes not one bit of difference for how much money goes to <insert favorite charity here>. Why?
Buyer could sit on the money instead of buying this item - like anyone else having that amount of $$. Or spend it (perhaps, possibly, some to that charity). Same goes for the seller.
What matters is who holds the money, and whether he/she is inclined to spend some on your favorite charity. So in fact: if seller is more inclined to give money to charity than buyer is, then a high price for the item would be good news for that charity.
But lacking such info about buyer or seller, there's no way to know. So from your charity's point of view, nothing changes except for who gets to decide where the money goes.
I have read this three times and I still have no idea what you are talking about.
Option 1: Spend your space $100K on this piece of grey plastic.
Option 2: Spend your spare $100K on food for your local food bank to help families in your community that are feeding their kids Cheerios for dinner. Or worse, sending them to school hungry because this month they had to put a new muffler on the car that they drive 20 miles to work.
I assure you that makes a "damn lot of difference."
Yeah, but unlike Saddam I'd like to think we're not a bunch of assholes who would put an old video game ahead of the well-being of kids.
That is just wishful thinking.
Ahmed Wali Karzai for instance, the brother of Hamid Karzai, was the largest warlord and drug trafficker in Afghanistan during his brother's presidency. It's not because someone is on our side, that they're suddenly saints. In fact, Saddam was described in glowing terms by some of our politicians, to defend him against claims of genocide made by the Europeans, long before his relationship even went sideways with the US.
Also, I can assure you that many world leaders have people in the US, that can procure things for them in the US for the right fee. So even if an Ebay auction is purposefully limited to the US, it doesn't mean you're bidding against just US residents. In any case, that's probably a moot point anyway. The probability that the bidding is driven by fraudulent accounts, like someone else said already, is probably even higher still.
Now you've inflated prices. You aren't helping any where as much as you think.
Have you seen what we are doing to the food they eat, the water they drink?
Have you? Or are you just believing what you're told without questioning it because it happens to fit in with your own preconceptions?
But don't listen to me, the chemtrails have activated the fluoride in my drinking water, so The Man is controlling my thoughts...
Maybe all of those Buckyballs will be worth something someday.
Too bad it's illegal to sell safety-recalled products in America.
What he's saying is:
Option 3: Save your $100K
Option 4: Spend your $100K on some other worthless luxury.
Someone that was going to spend $100K on an old video game was never going to give that $100K to charity. (Or they already give more to charity that you'll ever do in your life - who knows).
But the person that previously didn't have $100K, and now does, due to selling it, may actually give some of it to charity. (Or they may spend it all on hookers and drugs - who knows).
Do you know how much better you could make the world if you go volunteer instead of post on Slashdot?
Love sees no species.
Other than the window of availability, I don't get why the Nintendo World Championships 1990 cartridge is not considered rarer than Stadium Events since there are supposed to be fewer copies of it in existence.
Nintendo World Championships 1990 - 90 gray + 26 gold
Stadium Events - 2000 produced, 200 reached consumers
Option 3: One or two Super aEgis 2 autonomous robotic gun turrets: dual articulating 12.7mm machine guns, a 40mm automatic grenade launcher topped off with an explosive mini-sabot cannon w/ ~2km effective radius.
Oop, this: http://www.military.com/video/...
So I'm guessing you haven't bothered seeing that therapist we talked about yet, have you? *tsk, tsk*
Do you own a cell phone? A pc? A television? A vehicle?
You could of kept one starving family in costa rica happy had you just sent your cash to them instead of buying all that stuff.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
Or is this AC trying to garner publicity for their ebay auction?
Money in the hands of people who know what the hell they are doing and how to truly give help to those who need it (think Medecins Sans Frontieres) goes a lot further than some volunteer stumbling around.
But back when I had no money I did volunteer a lot at the local Boys and Girls' Club.
I assure you that makes a "damn lot of difference."
Yes it does. But only if some of that $100K is actually spent on said charity.
As for option 2: I think we can all agree that <insert charity here> would be happy. But...
Option 1: Spend your space $100K on this "piece of grey plastic".
You're making the assumption that with such a purchase, that $100K would be 'lost' for the charity. But it isn't: who says that seller of this "piece of grey plastic" would not spend it on that charity? After all, that's $100K for seller to do with as he/she likes.
Sure, some of that $100K may be spent on hookers and drugs. Who knows. ;-) Or it may be spent on charity. Or it may be spent elsewhere, and via-via get into the hands of people who (in turn) give some to charity. But any of these things may happen, regardless of whether sale takes place or not. It's simply [buyer backs out, and spends $100K somewhere] vs. [sale takes place, and seller spends $100K somewhere].
Either way: without knowing buyer or seller, what makes you think that [buyer spending X amount of $$ on charity] is any more likely than [sale takes place, and seller spends X amount of $$ on charity] ? Statistically speaking I'd say that's an equally like outcome. Or in other words: for your charity, the amount of $$ changing hands is irrelevant, what makes the difference is in whose hands those $$ winds up.
Time to put my flame suit on.
Done.
You want to know why they hate us? *THIS* is why they hate us. $100K for an effing OLD VIDEO GAME?
Well, given this has been bid up to this level by a troll eBay account, they likely hate us for nothing because that's what this will amount to.
Then again, maybe they *should* hate us because we have so many trolls that we can no longer have nice things.
PS. Did you happen to bite your tongue when your knee jerked so hard? I'm guessing it hit your chin. Hope you're okay!
Apk doesn't need that: Barbarahudson sockpuppeting troll quoted http://slashdot.org/comments.p... convinced me apk's correct.
Yeah, but unlike Saddam I'd like to think we're not a bunch of assholes who would put an old video game ahead of the well-being of kids.
Because you spend every cent of your disposable income on charity, right?
If not, I'd love to know what you think is more important than starving kids. Is it a snack from the convenience store? A trip to the movies? The latest novel from your favorite author?
I also presume you live in the cheapest possible housing, subsisting on the least expensive food you can find, as you prioritize the well-being of other so much that you dare not waste a penny that could go to better the lives of poor, disadvantaged, children.
Really, if you don't, you must be some kind of unfeeling monster!
Required reading for internet skeptics
Yeah I'm sure the Japanese are extremely upset.
Yes, because pretending to be more than one poster and ranting about posts from 2010 and 2011 definitely proves you are mentally balanced, apk...
Why not listen to mmell and seek mental therapy? He's practically the only one here who wants to be your friend.
Tried using Ebay to sell some heirlooms for the first time last summer. They disregard Ebays rules, they disregard the rules you place in your own auction, snipe bid at the last second with no reputation screwing your auction then their account is somewhere in africa or russia trying to be all chummy and get you to alter the price/shipping. Worst part still charges you the 10% (9,000) in that case of Stadium Games and doesn't reverse the fine until a 1-2 month investigation has taken place in which they may or may not determine a reversal, and with their new ebay guarantee the seller accepts all risk. Avoid Ebay like the plague.
A short look @ BarbaraHudson's userpage here shows her obsession with apk recently in a short search. Posts shown here merely show how long it's been going on from her and her stalking harassing anonymous coward libelings of apk.
Stop pretending to be apk, creep.
> Fuck the kids money is the only thing that matters
I would like to see you work for free, to provide service for others.
Oooh, now you too are talking money. How stange.
So three things happened here:
1). Rare Recalled a defective game, specifically the NES game known as "Game Stadium"
2). Rare received a bribe of $90,000
3). In exchange for this bribe, Rare evented, on Ebay.
I think it's pretty clear that the third bit is the offensive one. Rare should not be permitted to event on Ebay.
actually, it just depends on what the guy receiving the 100k does with it. maybe he spends it on a charity.
maybe.
you see, regardless of that transaction the 100k is still viable to end up at a charity.
(if he actually just gets that money for it anyways).
(cheerios aren't that cheap, if you eat them as meals).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
If you will be the US lapdog, we will let you get away with slavery, genocide, and all other bad things that you desire.
We tried to exterminate with prejudice the native people of our lands. Hell we used Biological warfare on them.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I'll take option 3.
and buy a very cool BMW i8 sports car.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
We tried to exterminate with prejudice the native people of our lands. Hell we used Biological warfare on them.
Did we know about biological warfare back then? I know the end result looked like biological warfare. I just didn't know we had the foresight to do it on purpose.
The reason I'm asking is because I really don't know US history that well. In the US history book I studied for instance, there was nothing about the United States being a penal colony like Australia for instance (although, that was a part of US history as well).
Really, if you don't, you must be some kind of unfeeling monster!
You're trying to be sarcastic, but isn't that what we are? We've deliberately hardened our hearts over the years to permit us to engage in as little charity as possible, citing responsibility. Guess we're not our brothers' keepers.
Obviously I use the we and us quite deliberately, I ain't perfect either.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Biological warfare was far from new at that point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
However, it's not clear whether the bio attacks on native Americans were intentional:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
This relies on the same bullshit theory of inflation that makes conservatives think that increasing minimum wage will lead to inflation.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
On a per-game basis, NWC 1990 is the rarest, but by cartridge spec, the *NTSC version* of Stadium Events is the rarest.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
That's your own fault. Don't buy hardware that's tied to a "free" online service. The cost of maintenance is built into continued sales. Once those sales stop, so does the funding. And definitely don't be surprised when the inevitable happens.
The same is also true of any home automation hardware you find in the big box stores. API points to a server run by the manufacturer or it requires an iOS/Android app or both.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
"you're right about hosts files" - by drinkypoo (153816) on Thursday May 26, @01:21PM (#36252958) Homepage
from http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... and
"(APK) raises a good point, through packet mangling you can reroute DNS queries with users none the wiser. Since most providers don't offer any encryption (let alone authentication) of DNS queries, this is a real problem. But you can trade fingerprinted hosts files" - by drinkypoo (153816) on Thursday May 26, 2011 @12:33PM (#36253160)
from http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
See subject above and your own words quoted on hosts files in response to apk.
Don't buy hardware that's tied to a "free" online service.
Don't fool yourself and think that paid online services are any less immune to being shutdown.
No such illusion here. But when it's "free" some people forget that everything still costs money and that it's paid from somewhere.
I have heard about fast food being served in schools, but it's not happening in the mid-west where I live. { I would know my kid loves fast food and hates the school cafeteria }
The municipal water here is not only safe, it is bottled and sold... probably to you.
Blackberry is part of a large consortium that wants to keep this tech open. They are trying to make secure open specs. I think Google and some other big names are involved.
I don't know why people put up with Apples closed ecosystems.
Speak English, dickless.
Why?
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
"Rare Recalled NES Game Stadium Events On Ebay For $99,000"
Removing some capitalizations might make this understandable.
Why does slashdot have to capitalize EVERY word?
Fucking retards
...omphaloskepsis often...
The Nintendo World Championship cartridges likely survive in high numbers because it was obvious at the time that they were special, would only be produced in very limited numbers, and therefore likely to be collectible and valuable. On the other hand, the people who were in the right place and the right time to get their hands on a copy of Stadium Events probably had no idea of what they had, and probably just thought it to be another B title from another third party company they've never heard of, and therefore almost worthless on the second-hand market like many of those games were - and still are, even today. So while there may have originally been more copies of Stadium Events, it's very possible fewer survive today.
Though it's likely that there's a few copies of Stadium Events still tucked away in attics and closets, owned by people who still have no idea what they have, that will eventually be unearthed. The publicity this auction may even make a few of these people go "Oh, Stadium Events.... hey I remember that game ... OMG holy crap!"
"I tore apart your stupid hosts file crapola." - by BarbaraHudson (3785311) on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @10:46AM (#47703255)
Where? You RAN from trying recently -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & you're FAIRLY given the opportunity to make good on those words of yours - you downmodded (via your many sockpuppets) & ran, lol, after your wise-ass comment on hosts here JUST before that challenge -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... quoted next below:
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"scans multiple forums repeatedly to troll his crappy HOSTS file " - by BarbaraHudson (3785311) on Sunday January 04, 2015 @11:58AM (#48730581) from http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
I only post on them where they apply (or confronting naysayers like you). Prove otherwise!
(Oh, that's right - you're NOT BIG ON PROOF, are you? See below next...)
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"His only "legend in his own mind" was that he claimed that "his" hosts file could completely secure a windows computer. " - by tomhudson (43916) on Saturday February 12, @11:19AM (#35186644)
Where did I even *once* claim hosts completely secure a computer?
Putting words in my mouth I never stated != truth, or a good argument on YOUR part. You RAN from that too!
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"Who has independently vetted it?" - by BarbaraHudson (3785311) on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @10:46AM (#47703255)
You tried to say it's malware/spyware too - guess what:
Answer = The BEST in the security antimalware & antispyware business currently, http://www.av-test.org/en/news... per that VERY recent test's results, who also host & RECOMMEND my program for hosts, is who -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... (Malwarebytes' hpHosts)
* You've done better? No... lol!
APK
P.S.=> You fail: "Eat your words, Forrest" & you told others to stalk/harass me by ac posts as YOU YOURSELF do, unceasingly, for years http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & you DO keep sockpuppets...
... apk
You stalks me by ac posts & that's quoted in your words http://slashdot.org/comments.p... - who's the JERK here?
Your "points" vs. hosts show it too (in a 'journal' - not publicly since you KNOW they're bullshit) were:
"We don't need to use a hosts file to block ads (adblock does it better)" - by BarbaraHudson (3785311) on Sunday September 21, 2014 @02:09PM
FROM-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
To THAT b.s., I point out how NOT BETTER it is, tearing up 4++gb of RAM & flooring CPU too ->https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-pluss-effect-on-firefoxs-memory-usage/
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By default (since advertisers KNOW most folks using "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" won't change that) adblock's PAID OFF NOT TO DO ITS JOB FULLY -> http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...
ClarityRay's also DESTROYING AdBlock but it's NOT ABLE TO DO THAT to custom hosts files.
You're *trying* to tell us that Adblock's vastly inferior in abilities + chews up resources LIKE MAD is "superior" to hosts that do all of what adblock does, and FAR more - with less? Please... lol!
I'm confronting YOU directly (despite your constant trollings of myself often behind my back like now from you, that I do *NOT* start 1st, until YOU pull your crap on me like usual: That's all!) for closure of this publicly so You can "eat her words" in front of us all!
APK
P.S.=> Facts above vs. BarbaraHudson's fictions & the FACT BarbaraHudson CANNOT DISPROVE that hosts do more w/ LESS, & far, Far, FAR MORE for added speed, security, reliability, + even anonymity (to an extent) vs. adblock & that hosts fix DNS security issues in DNS amplification attacks, DNS being downed, DNS being redirect poisoned etc. - et al as well: NO SINGLE SOLUTION does more & w/ less, period/fact, for all those points of mine here YOU downmodded & RAN from -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... like the troll & multiple account using sockpuppeteer YOU are... apk
Al - please go talk to someone. Please? I don't know what that is you have a grip on, but it isn't reality.
"SO - that automatic hostfile exploit of yours keeping the cops from finding your pictures of naked little boys?" - by mmell (832646) on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @01:29PM (#46931715)
See subject & that quote of yours doing that, + the link to it -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
(No denying it - I could EASILY have your ASS for it... )
APK
P.S.=> Tell us another lie & libel of myself by YOU, scumbag... apk
Thanks for living up to all my expectations of you. Now get some professional help, will ya?
It'll be the only ass you've had since ass had you, no doubt.
Take your own advice + get legal help for your libeling others http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
"I tore apart your stupid hosts file crapola." - by BarbaraHudson (3785311) on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @10:46AM (#47703255)
Where? You RAN from trying recently -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & you're FAIRLY given the opportunity to make good on those words of yours - you downmodded (via your many sockpuppets) & ran, lol, after your wise-ass comment on hosts here JUST before that challenge -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... quoted next below:
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"scans multiple forums repeatedly to troll his crappy HOSTS file " - by BarbaraHudson (3785311) on Sunday January 04, 2015 @11:58AM (#48730581) from http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
I only post on them where they apply (or confronting naysayers like you). Prove otherwise!
(Oh, that's right - you're NOT BIG ON PROOF, are you? See below next...)
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"His only "legend in his own mind" was that he claimed that "his" hosts file could completely secure a windows computer. " - by tomhudson (43916) on Saturday February 12, @11:19AM (#35186644)
Where did I even *once* claim hosts completely secure a computer? Hosts are, however, the BEST single tool for more speed, security, reliability, & more. Prove otherwise.
Putting words in my mouth I never stated != truth, or a good argument on YOUR part. You RAN from that too!
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"Who has independently vetted it?" - by BarbaraHudson (3785311) on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @10:46AM (#47703255)
You tried to say it's malware/spyware too - guess what:
Answer = The BEST in the security antimalware & antispyware business currently, http://www.av-test.org/en/news... per that VERY recent test's results, who also host & RECOMMEND my program for hosts, is who -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... (Malwarebytes' hpHosts)
* You've done better? No... lol!
APK
P.S.=> You fail: "Eat your words, Forrest" & you told others to stalk/harass me by ac posts as YOU YOURSELF do, unceasingly, for years http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
... apk
BarbaraHudson stalks me by ac posts (quoted) http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & her "so-called 'point'" vs. hosts = b.s. (in a 'journal' - not publicly since she KNOWS they're bullshit):
"We don't need to use a hosts file to block ads (adblock does it better)" - by BarbaraHudson (3785311) on Sunday September 21, 2014 @02:09PM FROM-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
To THAT b.s. I point out how NOT BETTER it is, tearing up 4++gb of RAM & flooring CPU too -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth...
+
By default (since advertisers KNOW most folks using "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" won't change that) adblock's PAID OFF NOT TO DO ITS JOB FULLY -> http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...
ClarityRay's also DESTROYING AdBlock but it's NOT ABLE TO DO THAT to custom hosts files.
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* BarbaraHudson's *trying* to tell us that Adblock's vastly inferior abilities + chewing up resources LIKE MAD is "superior" to hosts?? Please... lol!
(Hosts do all of what adblock does, + FAR more - with less!)
APK
P.S.=> Facts above vs. BarbaraHudson's fictions & the FACT BarbaraHudson CANNOT DISPROVE that hosts do more w/ LESS, & far, Far, FAR MORE for added speed, security, reliability, + even anonymity (to an extent) vs. adblock
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That hosts fix DNS security issues in DNS amplification attacks, DNS being downed, DNS being redirect poisoned etc. - et al as well!
Fact: NO SINGLE SOLUTION does more & w/ less, period/fact, for all those points of mine here BarbaraHudson sockpuppet downmodded & RAN from -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... like the troll & multiple account using sockpuppeteer he/she is... apk
To be a compassionate human being is to be more human. We each begin on a static point into our personal trajectory. If I have known compassion towards me I will be more likely to see with compassionate eyes. This new world is always new. It has always been so. Compassion is taught as well as inherent. The eyes of a child sees all. If you move with diligent love this is known to the child ... and he or she is another closer to being the best generation of all ... on and on .... it is not so bleak a house ... there is always hope & with good reason ....
Apk runs from the truth, as everyone who has read his rants knows. As soon as he is confronted about his lies he desperately tries to change the subject using one of his copypasta posts.