That game could have been horrifically violent and still not focused so much on this boring, tedious sort of combat that the shooter genre has embraced.

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Defense attorneys had to get jurors to believe that despite no evidence of Alexander ever having been violent in the past, he had attacked Arias on several occasions, and did so again on the day of his death.

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What made the In Amenas attack so violent and lethal may turn out to be due to the very specific nature of how events unfolded on the ground.

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