I can definitely see where you're coming from. This is mainly a site to talk about games, and not here about the crazy things happening in the news, especially the depressing stories.
Though I can see why having threads on news is a handy thing. It at least keeps me posted on what's going on in the world and I think it's pretty important to at least know about it.
Dance my pretties!
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