Wizards of the Coast has been busy adding various franchises such as Final Fantasy, Lord of the Rings, and Spider-Man to their competition-legal original cards for Magic The Gathering. Here are a few more card sets that will soon join their “Universes Beyond:”

Elden Ring The Godfather Film Trilogy Super Mario Bros. The Chronicles of Narnia Conan The Barbarian McDonalds (both foods and characters) The Hindu Pantheon Yu-Gi-Oh! Gucci The Works of The Marquis De Sade Star-

So the Valley of Fear concerns a real-life incident that helped to shape the Pinkertons' reputation: their destruction of the Molly Maguires in the coalfields of Pennsylvania. An early trade union of miners of mostly Irish extraction, the leadership of the Molly Maguires were accused of murder, arson, kidnapping, and a whole host of other crimes by undercover Pinkerton agents who had infiltrated their ranks on behalf of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, who the Molly Maguires were fighting over wages, hours, and working conditions. Dozens were sent to jail for long stretches of time, and ten men were ultimately hanged as a result of Pinkerton testimony.

The fact that the evidence against the Maguires largely stemmed from undercover informants paid by management to disrupt and destroy their organization and other suspect sources of evidence like jaihouse snitches, and that the prosecutions against the Maguires were personally carried out by the CEO of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad in the midst of labor conflict over who ran the coalfields, has led a lot of labor historians to conclude that the Molly Maguires were stitched up in the courts and that the Pinkertons committed wholesale perjury, acted as agents provocateur to provoke the crimes they then testified to, and caused the judicial murder of ten men.

That was just the start of their long and inglorious history of being the favorite goons of anti-union robber barons: the gun thugs who were outfought at Homestead were Pinkertons, as were the private armies who fought for capital during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 who had to be once again bailed out by the National Guard. Likewise, their foray into bearing false witness continued with the manufactured confession that named UMW leader Big Bill Haywood as the man who arranged for the assassination of Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho.

Pfff. what?

hi time for another micah bell rdr2 ramble post

so ive seen across the entire community people debating whether or not micah was actually the rat or not.

ive wondered this myself as well, so for my small analysis im going to be going off of how peter said micah's lines and his facial expression when they were acting.

every time micah denies being a rat to arthur, in my opinion, it is difficult to tell whether or not the denial is a "oh shit he caught me, and im pissed about it" denial, or a "for fucks sake i am not the rat"

don't get me wrong micah was 100% a scumbag and you can see in earlier missions in chapter 6 from the way he was talking that he wanted arthur and john to die, and of course no one would logically put it past him that he would throw others under the bus to survive.

however, the tone of his voice is really what throws me off. he keeps denying it, and youd think hes just denying it due to his pride or to keep his image in front of dutch and even arthur.

however, if arthur knows, why would he keep denying it?

of course, that can simply be answered with "arthur can tell dutch for certain"

at the same time, the way he denies it is so weird to me. like he doesnt sound necessarily frustrated over the fact he was caught, he sounds frustrated that he would be accused of that in the first place that he did it. every time he denies it to arthur, and arthur argues back, it feels like two brothers quarreling. it feels like arthur is the brother going "but mommmm, he broke the lamp" and micah is yelling back "I DID NOT BREAK THE LAMP", which he in fact didnt, neither of them knew who broke the lamp.

now theres a chance it could be both, like i said, he could be denying it due to his own pride (hence why he looks and sounds like hes upset of being accused of such a thing), and to cover up against dutch and the others. but whats weird is that the man prides himself on being a survivor, so youd think he'd add this section to his little speech about "being a survivor" as arthur and micah fight.

going to milton, its hard to tell whether or not he said this out of truth or just to have the gang itself collapse so the pinkertons can collect the rewards. from the tone of his voice, he could be telling the truth, but when arthurs voices his surprise, milton just kind of repeats himself and doesnt sound surprised that arthur didnt even know himself. his tone also kind of reeks of "i can fuck up the gang some more by saying this", but again its very hard to tell since we dont see milton a lot in the game or have him speak.

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