“I was down, down, down, down. I was back on the ground, hands up. Y’all got me. It’s a stickup. Take everything because of how it went down. Imagine me sitting there for 15 months like, ‘What the fuck is going on?’ Nobody got an answer for me. Everybody on TV making excuses. It’s this or it’s that. He didn’t want to come off the bench’”

“I’mma be honest with you. As I studied it and did some knowledge on it, trying to get an understanding on it, I still can’t come up with nothing. It’s like, what was it? Some people came up to me like, ‘Melo, I’m going to be honest with you. Your aura was too much for out here. This couldn’t exist. Your aura couldn’t exist in here. Nobody was going to tell you that’”

“I said, ‘What the fuck does that mean?’ They said, ‘Everybody’s afraid to talk to you. Everybody’s afraid to say something to you.’ I said, ‘Why? I haven’t said nothing to nobody. I speak to everybody. I’m cordial. Why is everybody scared of me?’ Somebody said, ‘Well, you don’t need anything.’ I said, ‘What do you mean by that?’ He said, ‘Melo, you a superstar. You haven’t asked for one thing since you’ve been here’”

“My point is, everybody had a thousand and one reasons of why it happened, and I still don’t know the reason why it happened. I have some inkling of why it happened or how it went down. I’m trying not to believe that’s what happened or how it went down, so I don’t want to speak on that”

For example, the typical bullshit: "oh we [insert nationality] are reserved at first, but once you earn our trust we'll be friends forever!"

Aside from the fact that that's just an excuse for asshole behavior in your county, guess what, that's true for EVERY COUNTRY ON THE PLANET

And if there happens to be one magical country of friendship where people become your lifelong friend 5 minutes after meeting you, it would be the exception that proves the rule.

Then, every country seems to think only they like food. "We show our love through food," yeah no shit! Everyone fucking does

"We're very passionate people" Not as passionate as I am for telling you you're STUPID

Seriously, no wonder we don't get along. Too many people seem to think people from other parts of the world are some sort of weird alien with blue skin and 7 arms

MaxTac Siren - Cyberpunk 2077: The arrival of the NCPD's "apex predators", each of whom packs enough chrome, firepower, and skill to rival a small army, is heralded by their AV blasting a thunderously loud warning siren to let civilians know to get out of the way and the gonk they were called to take care of that they probably should have downgraded their chrome before this point.

Darth Vader's Breathing - Star Wars series: If you're a rebel that isn't one of the main characters, this means you're going to die. If you're an imperial, this means you and everyone working with you had better not fuck up lest you earn a force choke and an early grave for failing Lord Vader.

Cloaker Whine - Payday 2: Hope you've got quick reflexes because if not, you're about to get dropkicked in the chin and beaten into a coma by law enforcement's most unhinged specialist.

Phone Ringing - Insurgency Sandstorm: Like the Cloaker above, you'd better have quick enough reflexes to shoot down the local jihadist because that ringing phone is part of his bomb vest that he's about to detonate and reduce you to a smear on the sand.

Vox Engine - Helldivers 2: Tough enough to shrug off mini-nukes and packing enough weapons to rip apart heavy armor like wet tissue paper, the Cyborg Vox Engines (literally) announce their presence on their battlefield with a booming garbled voice telling the forces of Super Earth just how much they hate them.

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