After getting through a death trap (unrelated) I sat down in a computer lab where Jerma of Jerma985 fame came up to me. He seemed annoyed and mad while he started to talk to me. He said that he found out I was the cause of a joke that other chat members made go to long.
After a quick defence from me, saying it's not my fault other people drag out the joke. Jerma told me, "I know, and I'm not mad at you specifically. But you know, it's a waste of a joke to highlight it for 300 points in a chat of thousands instead of just saying it yourself on a stage for one hundred people." And then he left the room.
A Whumpee gets kidnapped by Whumper and is tied up, suspended over something (lava, the ocean, the works). Caretaker arrives to save Whumpee, and Whumper gives them this: Caretaker must defeat Whumper to save Whumpee. Otherwise, a device that cuts the rope suspending Whumpee will be cut and Whumpee will fall to their death.
Whumpee could only watch in fear as Caretaker and Whumper fight, and as each minute passes, the rope holding them up starts to slack...
I'm honestly wondering if Stockton Rush fully disclosed to the others what a piece of shit the submersible really is? Were they informed about the lack of safety regulations? Were they aware that the whole thing was a jerry-rigged tin can? I can't imagine anyone willingly agreeing to pay $250k a head for a trip in a death trap to go ogle the mass grave of so many souls.
As we have studied Ibrahim’s career, we have seen the vast power that he gradually gathered into his hands, and we have noted the amazement with which European legates listened to his own accounts of his standing in the state. He was practically the ruler of the Ottoman empire, but there was one fact that he forgot; he was absolutely at the disposal of the sultan and could be disgraced or executed at the latter’s caprice—he was but the shadow of the "Shadow of God on Earth." - Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent by Hester Donaldson Jenkins