Yeah, Rocket League has plenty enough awful people without them.

Either this or the Epstein stuff, so...could still technically be worse?

Not if they're citing Duke Nukem, which is probably more well known for the phrase at this point than They Live.

Not victim blaming, just an objective observation that it's not a safe prank to play anymore.

Kid chases a ball into the street and gets hit by a car, it's the driver's fault. Kid has the right of way, but parents still teach them to look both ways before crossing because it's unsafe. Regardless of who's at fault if there's a collision, the consequences warrant extra caution. Same deal here. All three cases mentioned in the article resulted in the shooter/driver being arrested; they're clearly at fault. However, there's only so much that the law can do to hold somebody accountable for a death after the fact.

The initial reports had two pretty specific claims:
1. There was a compromised Salesforce database that resulted in potential compromise of all gmail users.
2. Google sent notifications to most/all gmail users indicating they should change their passwords.

I've yet to see a single firsthand notification from Google, so was already skeptical of #2. However, the first claim was debunked pretty quickly by confirmation the Salesforce breach didn't include gmail data, even without considering how much MFA would negate how dangerous such a breach could be.

This whole situation throws up way more red flags about tech/cybersecurity reporting than anything on Google's side.

That the article has two other examples of the same thing happening kinda backs up that it's not a safe prank anymore.

Maybe I'm still just waiting for the morning caffeine to hit, but I don't think that first sentence has any business using a comma.

They're used pretty interchangeably, given the logo. The article you linked even uses "Levi's" in the same way at least a couple times.

Nothing here indicating surprise, but it is important to call out plainly what's happening.

It's not suggesting the opposite, it's just using a different definition of criminal.

When you say "criminal," you're referring to someone who has committed and/or been convicted of committing a crime. When Fox News uses the word, they mean people with skin that's more than 1.5 shades darker than Hulk Hogan's.