harry dubois would end death note in one episode. he'd be unkillable bc he has no fucking idea what his name is and then he'd go drink driving and accidentally run light over and the killings would mysteriously stop

Harry: Kim, what's following that kid?

Kim: ...

Harry: What?

Kim: What are you talking about?

Inland Empire [80%]

Looks like you're the only one who can see it.

Harry: The... bone monster?

Kim: The bone monster.

Harry: Yes. The bone monster.

THE BONE MONSTER - As you approach it grins, watching you watching it.

THE BONE MONSTER'S KID - "Good morning officers."

YOU - Continue looking at the bone monster.

THE BONE MONSTER - It tilts its head to the side quizzically at you.

YOU - Tilt your head in response.

THE BONE MONSTER - It begins leering over you, grinning even harder.

THE BONE MONSTER'S KID - The kid turns towards you.

PERCEPTION [LEGENDARY: SUCCESS] - For a moment he looked at the bone monster, and then to you.

THE BONE MONSTER'S KID - "Is there a problem, officers?"

KIM - "You will have to forgive my partner, he has quite an active imagination."

THE BONE MONSTER - "You hear that? I'm just a part of your imagination."

INLAND EMPIRE - I don't think he's a part of your imagination.

This man... He can see Ryuk? But how? The only explanation is that he touched my Death Note, but I've had it with me all day! Did he sneak into my room last night while I was asleep? But, all my security measures were intact... And he seems confused, is he putting on an act? Let me see if I can...

"Pardon me officer, I don't think I caught your name?"

"Uh, well that's the thing, I, uh, don't actually remember it at the moment."

Damn him! He knows I need a name to kill, and now he's taunting me! He can see Ryuk, too, so one wrong move could end me! I might have to make the eye deal at this point...

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LOGIC [Medium, failure]: This bone monster is obviously Kira. You are fucked.

> Attempt to arrest the bone monster

PERCEPTION [EASY: FAILURE] - You can't tell what gender it is.

YOU - "Excuse me, sir-- or, uh, madam?-- Bone... person..."

THE BONE MONSTER - It laughs, a deep, gutteral sound, like air escaping from the lungs of a corpse. As its jaw moves, you can see rows upon rows of sharp teeth inside its gaping maw.

COMPOSURE [CHALLENGING: SUCCESS] - You stand your ground and manage not to freak out.

YOU - "I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to come down to the police station. You... uh, match the description of a suspect... I think."

THE BONE MONSTER - It lets out a loud, phlegmatic belly laugh. "What are you going to do, arrest me?"

AUTHORITY - Damn right you are. Cuff him.

YOU - "Yes, as a matter of fact, I will. You are under arrest on suspicion of being Kira. Put your hands forward, wrists together."

KIM - "How exactly are you going to handcuff a hallucination, Detective?"

THE BONE MONSTER - It laughs again, like this is the funniest thing in the world, before obediently sticking out its arms.

THE BONE MONSTER'S KID - His eyes go wide and his face goes pale as you place the cuffs on the monster's wrists, before his gaze darts to Kim.

KIM - He is staring at the cuffs. He looks bewildered. "Are those handcuffs... floating?"

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Shit! Ryuk, why did you have to comply?! Is this a game to you? No matter... They still don't realize that I'm Kira, not Ryuk. All I have to do is stay calm and act surprised. I'm sure Ryuk can just escape later, once he gets bored. And this other cop obviously can't see him, so it seems it's only the first one who has touched a Death Note... I just need to make it seem that he's the only one who can see Shinigami. Then I'll seem innocent, and he'll be the suspicious one!

"How did you do that? Is it some kind of magic trick?"

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SHIVERS [Heroic, Success]: As intimidating as it looks, the bone monster isn't the real threat.

mink was the funniest badass fucking character i do not give a shit

why does this have so many notes jsjdjsjsjsjsjns

fungi chairs!

photo credit: @laurarbenson @adamjk

I cant think anymore

what can i do to help this time

Back shots again

Sea and Stars, Milton avery

1951

what happened with Mr beast

If you want to get caught up on the Beast Games controversy (which is just one of the endless twisted shit he's being accused of right now):

(I'm going to be using "MrBeast" to mean the company, and "Jimmy" to refer to the man of the hour)

Jimmy has an upcoming Amazon show called Beast Games. If you haven't heard of it, it's described as Squid Game-esque, and is marketed as the biggest game show ever put together. There are 2,000 contestants (though it was originally advertised as 1,000, and the contestants weren't aware of the change), competing for a prize of $5 million, the largest game show prize in history. Contestants commit to 9 weeks of filming, with the first stage taking place in Las Vegas as a kind of qualifier.

Prospective contestants said they were asked if they were willing to die for MrBeast, if they would be buried alive, or be shot into space. The contract they signed also required them to say they are willing to die for Jimmy. A lot of them said they applied anyway because they desparately needed the money for a variety of personal reasons (like medical debt or student loans).

However, contestants have described the horrific conditions they were subjected to on set, having been treated like animals. Just to be clear, these are still allegations, and MrBeast has denied it as 'inaccurate'. But there is overwhelming confirmed evidence indicating that everything they have been accused of is 100% true.

Apparently the show starts with Jimmy appearing looking down at the contestants as a Jesus figure, surrounded by money, while the contestant's were told to scream praise at him "like he's god". He proceeds to watch the challenges from above, sitting on a throne like Nero.

The contestants were asked to give up their medications and inhalers to the production staff. Medical staff were worried as to what would happen, and allegedly secretly told contestants to hide their meds in their clothes and smuggle them onto set instead of allowing them to be taken away. When the game actually started, contestants who had given up their meds were denied them for days. Many of the meds were also lost by staff and never found. At least two had seizures because they were refused their epilepsy medication. It took several minutes for medical staff to reach them when it happened.

They also had to give up their clean underwear for some fucking reason, and many never got it given back during filming, or even after, because the staff apparently lost it.

Women were refused tampons and pads, and were bleeding through their clothes. They were told by staff that they didn't need them, because it "wasn't a medical emergency". The crew were seen laughing at the women begging for clean underwear. Contestants were also refused new contact lenses, and told they couldn't take out their old ones.

Contestants were also starved, with one saying he went 20 hours without being fed. The meals they did receive were almost nothing - one consisted of a miniscule amount of cold oatmeal, a few pieces of raw vegetables, and a hard-boiled egg. They were sometimes given Jimmy's shitty Feastable chocolate bars (you know, the ones that are also controversial because MrBeast lied about their nutritional content), so they could be filmed gushing over how incredible it was. One contestant described how her group would secretly collectively hoard the chocolate as supplies, because they had no idea when they would next be fed, if at all.

People with dietary requirements like allergies were especially fucked, because they were served the same thing as everyone else instead of replacement meals, so they just couldn't eat. A diabetic, after finally being given her insulin, long after she was meant to have it, was denied food she needed to take it. She was told she didn't genuinely need to eat. After a lot of groveling, she was given half a banana.

When other contestants went to staff to beg for food, medical care, or other help, they were refused it, and apparently some were screamed at or cursed out for having the nerve to even ask.

There was barely any water available, so in the Nevada heat sunstroke was almost universal. Contestants were vomiting or passing out, and some were said to be hospitalised from dehydration. Occasionally, gatorade was temporarily available for rehydration, but the staff didn't announce it (their microphones didn't work properly apparently), so most contestants only learned about it through word-of-mouth from their teammates. Within days, the gatorade ran out.

There were also sometimes brief windows where medical care was made available, but again, staff didn't actually inform anyone when this happened, with people only hearing about it through the grapevine.

Sleep deprivation was also a huge issue. Because the challenges took place at night, contestants had to sleep in broad daylight on the turf floor of the stadium in a cheap sleeping bag. They were only allowed to sleep for 3-4 hours at a time.

The male contestants realised they could get ahead by simply attacking the female contestants with no consequence. Female contestants were knocked out cold during the games, and dragged off by production staff. This wasn't just during the challenges either - food was so scarce that when meals were passed around, contestants would steal or fight over each other's food, and the male contestants would sometimes beat the female contestants and take their meals by force.

The teams were incredibly unbalanced. Although there were a wide array of contestants, all the challenges were physical. The young athletic male contestants formed their own groups, and wouldn't give team vests to women or elderly contestants, apparently physically ripping them off of them.

There was almost no medical staff, and only two ambulances for 2,000 people (plus crew). Horrific injuries are reported, the majority suffered by women, from beatings and tramplings. One thing we know to be true is that local hospitals began receiving Beast Games contestants with serious injuries, including broken bones.

One contestant described to the New York Times how she was elminated, leaving the tournament bruised and bleeding. She was offered on camera a $1,000 consolation prize, only for the staff to then turn off the cameras and immediately take the money back.

Eliminated contestants were offered $1,000 to sign an NDA. When an article about what happened came out, MrBeast called all the contestants and offered them another $1,000 in compensation, as well as free therapy.

MrBeast blamed the poor conditions on Crowdstrike (what?). They've said they'll conduct an internal, not independent, review, and use this as a learning experience for the next stage of the competition in Toronto. One of the actual reasons is that Jimmy actively sought out workers who were not part of a union, so they wouldn't be beholden to safety standards.

MrBeast has been blatantly trying to censor online criticism of Jimmy, and coverage of both this and the myriad of other controversies emerging over the past two weeks, on YouTube, Reddit and Twitter. Additionally, DogPack404, a former employee of MrBeast who released a video on him, received two cease-and-desist letters from law firms representing Jimmy, accusing him of personal defamation and breaking an NDA. YouTube has also been protecting their most popular and lucrative creator, demonetising, age-restricting and shadowbanning videos on him.

The fact that Jimmy is being accused of so much abominable shit that this isn't even the biggest controversy right now is fucking wild.

Don't get me wrong, this isn't THE MrBeast controversy everyone's talking about, honestly out the million repulsive things that have come to light these past two weeks this probably one of the least discussed. Some more stuff (for which CWs apply) came out two days ago that's equally vile, so the Beast Games thing has been somewhat forgotten for the time being.

Also, a lot of steps have been taken by Jimmy and pals to suppress all the many controversies. Make no mistake, the MrBeast brand is a billion-dollar media empire; many massive corporations like YouTube and Amazon have a significant financial incentive to protect Jimmy's public image at all costs, other large YouTubers want to stay on his good side, and former employees have said that they're afraid to speak out because of how he might retaliate.

MrBeast's internal codename for the Beast Games project is "Project Greenlight", while the Las Vegas part is "Project Redlight" (referencing the first challenge of Squid Game, Redlight-Greenlight).

Also, we have a leaked photo of Jimmy on set dressed like this:

So, clearly he's living out some bizarre power-trip by watching impoverished people fight for his amusement.

We now have some firsthand accounts of how some of it played out.

The first challenge involved splitting the contestants into several teams, and then having each team pull a single rope that lifts a 10,000lb weight.

Initially, the production team apparently split the competitors into 4 teams of 500 (simply called A, B, C and D). However, after everyone had already got into position at their assigned rope, they were then told that a mistake had been made, and that they actually needed to be split in 5 teams of 400.

Only, when they were asked to divide themselves up into an extra team, nobody wanted to be on it. So, the production team announced that the teams would instead be decided through a surprise last-minute preliminary challenge: the crew would throw out coloured jerseys into the arena, and encouraged the contestants to fight for them.

They started throwing the jerseys in front of the contestants. The 2,000 contestants stampeded toward them, forming a mosh pit in a frantic effort to grab one. The players barely had room to breathe, crushed under the weight of the crowd. Players who went down had their heads and bodies trampled. Some of the female contestants did their best to keep each other upright for fear of going under. This mass of people close proximity also wasn't ideal because at least 5 of the contestants had already tested positive for COVID, and one had pink eye.

The men, now knowing that this challenge would be based on purely on physical strength, began to coordinate by hoarding certain coloured jerseys to make sure they were all on the same team. One player, after finally fighting her way back out of the mosh pit, described how she ran into a male contestant holding 8 Orange jerseys. When she asked him for one, he said no. Other male contestants allegedly went so far as to physically tear their team's jerseys off of female and elderly contestants.

As a result, the Orange team consisted almost entirely of the most athletic male contestants. Meanwhile, out of the 400 members of the Red team, only around 20 of them were men, and they were mostly the elderly male contestants.

The Red team was ultimately eliminated because the people at the end of the rope fell over, only to have the rope wrap around their necks and throttle them as they were buried underneath their falling teammates. The rest of the team pleaded with production staff to stop the game before someone was literally killed, but were told they had to keep going. Instead, they abandoned the rope altogether and went to rescue their teammates against the orders of the crew, who refused to help.

The remaining 4 teams (minus a few players who were so disgusted by what had happened to the Reds that they self-eliminated in protest) progressed to the second round, the "briefcase challenge". The super-special surprise twist for this game is that instead of competing against the other 3 teams, the 400 players of each team would now be pitted against their teammates.

We actually have a photo of this second game, to give you an idea of the layout of the arena. In the picture, that seems to be the Orange team competing. You can also see Jimmy presiding over the bloodshed from atop his temple to avarice and sin.

Basically, here's how the game works:

The playing field is divided into four quadrants (northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest). Across the four quadrants there are 400 tables, each with a briefcase. So, one for every contestant.

Some of the briefcases were designated as "safe", while others were "unsafe". Also, there were apparently some special red briefcases that contained $1,000, but anyone who went for them was also guaranteed elimination.

The stadium's jumbotron then showed a diagram of the arena, and which briefcases were the safe ones. The goal was to be the first person to hold onto a safe briefcase.

Before the countdown to start the game, Jimmy apparently told the contestants not to shove each other while going for the cases. However, the only problem was that there was so little room between the tables that as the contestants piled onto the field, all desparate to get to a safe briefcase with $5 million on the line, they were trampled en masse, resulting in serious injuries.

The male contestants had also figured out that they could steal cases from or even eliminate their female teammates from the game entirely by injuring them so badly that they weren't able to continue, and they would suffer zero repercussions. The women began to be targeted by the men, with some allegedly being concussed, beaten into unconsciousness, or having their bones broken by their former teammates, as Jimmy watched from his palace above the field. Their limp bodies would then be dragged off the field by the crew.

Players, mostly female contestants who had been beaten and trampled, were being carried off in stretchers and shipped to the local hospitals. Others were simply left to fend for themselves, with one contestant describing how a woman who had badly injured her ankle was left for hours in tears, as the other players did their best to comfort her. When they tried to get the attention of the production team, they were flat-out ignored.

As far as I know we don't have much information about the third game yet. But it's been described as a kind of extreme capture-the-flag race. Apparently, the tramplings and violence against the women only escalated from this point on; none of the perpetrators were disqualified. Employees on the night-shift at the local hospitals describe how they were constantly taking in medically-evacuated Beast Games contestants for the entire night.

Meanwhile, the surviving eliminated contestants returned to the hotel, only to discover that now they were out of the game they had been abandoned by MrBeast. They were left with no water, no food, no accomodation and no way to get home. MrBeast's travel team had originally promised all their flights would be taken care of, but this turned out to be a lie; no flights had been booked. When players tried to get in contact with the production team by phone or e-mail they were met with radio silence.

They couldn't stay overnight at the hotel either, because the rooms they had originally been assigned to (and hadn't been allowed to leave) before the games began had been cancelled, and the hotel wouldn't let them rebook unless they had a flight arranged - which suddenly none of them did. One competitor described how, with nowhere else to go, they all eventually just stumbled into the hotel's casino and sat at the slot machines, delirious from starvation and dehydration. By this point some of them hadn't eaten for over 24 hours.

They also struggled to get their personal belongings back. All the luggage had simply been tossed into a single room at the hotel. Each of the 2,000 contestants would've brought multiple bags, so the eliminated players were forced to spend hours digging through thousands of bags to find their own, not just to get their stuff back, but also to find their confiscated phones which they needed to contact loved ones or arrange any form of travel. Some never found their stuff because it was either lost or stolen, others didn't get their vital medication back, and no one had their underwear returned.

For everyone asking whether contestants could bring a class-action lawsuit against MrBeast, the contract the eliminated contestants were paid $1,000 to sign was not only an NDA, but also allegedly involved waiving the right to sue the company, so no, anyone who took the hush money can't take them to court. But not everyone did accept that payment, which is why they've said they were all later called by MrBeast and offered another $1,000 as compensation for the "inconveniences" they'd experienced.

I hope everyone involved in the creation of this game goes to prison