Darks wrote on Nov 26, 2020, 16:25:
Still waiting on the Steam release!!!

Me too. Its almost like they don't want me to buy it

With 10% off its only $1,300 for the "Call of Duty Collection" (Which is missing a few of the newest games).

What a shit deal.

Beamer wrote:
You can't organize people by "merit." Hell, it's true in video games. In Jagged Alliance you often take the shittier merc because he has the one skill you think you need and don't have.

Yea because you're looking for that skill and he has merit in it.

Beamer wrote:
Or maybe that high merit merc doesn't get along with a merc you already have.

I've also been involved in a lot of hiring and I think its reasonable not to hire people because of toxic personalities, I've rejected plenty.
But I'd say people skills (depending on the job) are a form of merit too.

I think what the others are saying when they criticise "diversity" is that you shouldn't be hiring people based on things like race, religion or sexual preference, unless it's relevant to the work.

My wife worked in one of amazons warehouses (in japan) and they're treated like prisoners, metal detectors, constant surveillance and you're being timed to make sure you're keeping up a minimum pace, you even have to check your lunch in at a security station. The company has zero trust in its staff. Not surprised they treat the drivers this way too.

The author of the farcry 5 article needs to step away from the social media and spend more time outside in the sunshine.

NKD wrote on Nov 13, 2020, 23:09:
Swatting should be tried as attempted murder.

Agreed. People have died in the past.

The a tiktok issue was because the ccp was repeatedly caught using it to harvest peoples private data.
Other countries have or are considering banning it for the same reason. It has nothing to do with Trump.
It also didn't help that tiktok was silencing politcal dissent or criticism of the concentration camps either.

I see. Ubisoft censored a podcast from game about resisting totalitarianism because podcaster held a "controversial" political opinion 3 years ago.

I dont like fake accounts and bots. But legitimate accounts are also being banned.
Corperations should not be trying to control what we think. We're on the path to a dystopian future and anyone who thinks this is good and won't be used against them one day is very short-sighted.

Buzzfeed movies? Oh God.

Still sad that Raven is just a COD assembly line.

What garbage. This makes it so much easier when deciding what to buy at least.

Slick wrote on Oct 25, 2020, 17:34:
it's a capitalist's wet-dream.

Lock it to a Wechat account and its a communists wet dream too.

Agreed. Im not a fan of the idea that corporations (foreign corporations from my perspective) have the right or power to control peoples speech and steer public discourse. Especially when the censorship is being applied so unevenly.
The qannon/alex johns nuts having the ability to communicate their nonsense is a small price to pay for the greater good that is served by allowing open dialogue.

NotOneOfUs wrote on Oct 3, 2020, 19:31:
While I do indeed think this may have just been a random attack (we don't know the motive yet), are you saying we /wouldn't/ be seeing the press (and certain groups) go bonkers over this if the races were reversed?

If so, then I'd say that is truly ignorant.

If some white trash equivalent went and beat up Morgan freeman or something then yea the media would be claiming it was a hate crime at the least.
But who knows the actual motives.
I've been randomly sucker punched 3 times in the streets by a very diverse cast of c ts.

Cutter wrote on Oct 1, 2020, 12:30:
PICARD: This is not unlike a drumhead trial.

WORF: I do not understand.

PICARD: Five hundred years ago, military officers would upend a drum on the battlefield sit at it and dispense summary justice. Decisions were quick, punishments severe, appeals denied. Those who came to a drumhead were doomed.

TNG was amazing. So much better than the new shows that seem to miss the whole point.

Simon Says wrote on Oct 1, 2020, 21:43:
Dafuq? This is getting seriously stupid.

I'd rather not have to click through dozens of pages of lame Trump splash screens.
If people are just spamming up the page then yea they should get rid of them.

However they still have mods referencing antifa/blm so they're not being very honest when they say "all" politcal mods.

jdreyer wrote on Jan 22, 2020, 16:21:
While every Chinese company has to do what the government tells them, I haven't gotten the sense that Tencent is particularly beholden to or controlled by the CCP.

Aren't many of its founders, Its current upper management, And its current CEO literally registered members of the Chinese Communist Party?
I'd say being run by communist party members qualifies as being controlled buy the communist party.

And now I wonder if its ethical to still buy games from them.
The CCP is as bad if not worse than the Nazi party, And I know I wouldn't buy games from companies owned by registered Nazi party members even if they were just doing it for the financial connections.

Scottish Martial Arts wrote on May 23, 2017, 20:14:
A Final Solution, perhaps?

Do you honestly believe that's what he was saying?
How can we even discuss the issue if you're going to imply things like that?

How about these ideas for possible solutions?
We start by teaching the Quran and Hadiths (And bible for that matter) in schools.
Not as religious indoctrination but teaching what they actually say and the history behind them.
Because a lot of people are totally clueless.
People are blindly claiming that its a book of nothing but peace. So these kids are primed to believe it. But when they encounter hate preachers they have no come backs or defense against the very well thought out straight forward arguments the preachers give them.

Another thing is to shut down faith schools so kids growing up are forced to mix with kids of other religions and ideologies. Instead of forming closed self segregated groups where they begin to believe that they are the correct and pure ones and everyone else is corrupted and lesser than them in some way.

Also banning the hate group and Islamist recruiters Hizb ut tahrir would be very helpful, As well as taking greater actions to tackle Islamic hate speech and obfuscation in general.

And no, By "greater actions" I dont mean "Gas chambers".

Whenever I try play the second game all the enemies are invisible except for floating cigarettes they may be smoking.
Makes it very tricky.

Doesnt look like its getting fixed anytime soon.

Brutatl