“I hear you’ve been asking people about me,” he said in the same voice I’d heard in a now-deleted video Larry had posted to YouTube. A paranoid conspiracy theorist, Larry was exactly the type of person who would call from a blocked number. I had been reporting on Larry for months (and Ezra had done so for even longer), but had not yet reached out to him. On a March afternoon in 2019, I sat down for a day of writing when my phone started vibrating. Larry was proof that life beyond their liberal-arts campus could be exhilarating.
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He appealed to them because he offered fatherly guidance, free steak dinners, and tales of adventure. I understand why these contradictions may have felt outré to college sophomores. A supposed Marine who bragged about reading Marcus Aurelius, a man who worshipped law enforcement but railed against the Man, a salt-of-the-earth Jersey boy who had stories to tell about Mikhail Gorbachev, Robert De Niro, Rudy Giuliani, and Mario Cuomo as well as seemingly every shady figure who had passed through the Lincoln Tunnel in the 1990s. For example, he seemed genuinely concerned when I told him a loved one was scheduled to have surgery and was sure to follow up the next day. He exuded a particular kind of tristate-area machismo that was tempered by a surprising politeness. By the time we met, I was well acquainted with Larry’s tricks, though I gleaned traces of his charisma. When I tell people that I spent a considerable amount of time with Larry, as I knew him back then, they almost always ask some version of the question “Did you see his appeal?” The simple answer is no. Tuesday’s court hearing was, in part, to address whether Ray’s defense team might subpoena the medical files of his alleged victims, including records from family-therapy sessions. The 61-year-old is accused of “sexually grooming,” in the words of prosecutors, his daughter’s friends, with whom he lived on and off for years, and coercing at least one them into sex work and taking her earnings.
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Ray is scheduled to stand trial in February on racketeering, money laundering, forced labor, and sex-trafficking charges. I had interviewed Ray at length for the story, and, as I sat ten feet away from him, I wondered whether he would recognize me through my mask if he turned around. We detailed how Ray had spent years psychologically and sexually abusing his daughter’s friends, some of whom he’d met while living in his daughter’s dorm room at Sarah Lawrence College. It was the first time I’d seen Ray since February 2020, after he was arrested and charged with a slew of crimes because of a New York Magazine article Ezra Marcus and I wrote about him. He glanced at his girlfriend and co-defendant, Isabella Pollock, who was sitting toward the back of the courtroom, and seated his imposing body down between his attorneys. This game may just be the definition of masterpiece, not just in gaming, but period.Larry Ray arrived in a federal courtroom Tuesday wearing the standard khaki shirt and pants issued to inmates awaiting trial. Everything about this game just lines up perfect. The score by Gustavo Santaolalla is very suiting for this game. The characters are human and you can feel their every emotion, the story is so captivating and great pacing. This game really takes it home for me when it comes to big name games (listed up top). Will I ever forget my experience with this game? Not for a second. Was I ready for how absolutely mind blowing the game would be after that? Nope. Was I ready for the emotional rollercoaster of the first 20 minutes? Nope.
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6 years later here I am, got it for the PS4 and started playing. When the game first released I was too young to play, and it really felt bad having to wait to play. Never have I played a game so human though as The Last Of Us. Such as The Witcher 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, Batman Arkham City, Portal 2, etc. Before I begin this review I've played other big name games, ranging in ratings that is.