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You'd be surprised, and again, a lot of government forms have English as its own ethnic tick box. So on the one hand you have that everyone knows English is not a race or ethnicity, but at the same time, it gets treated that why by certain check marks and forms.

You get that fun argument on exactly how to balance things out and "level the playing field." Short term processes to resolve it can cause issues in the long term and heighten racial / ethnic divides. You want to make sure the minorities are not put at a disadvantage, and have the same opportunities as the majority. But depending on how you go about it, you can then end up where chunks of the population feel that the tail wags the dog. To use the very rough metaphor; You have a group of 10 people. 2 of them are a minority, and have suffered a history of persecution and potential unconsidered discrimination. To balance it out, in any decision they get to have 3 votes each. The 8 remaining only have 1 vote each, and because of that, start to feel aggravated with the 2, which causes them to act out on the minority. Long-term solutions and social psychology are a bitch to work with, and there is rarely a clean and simple answer to it. Also of note that you might find interesting @BruceVC https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-lammy-lbc-african-caribbean-english-b1824029.html

GM: The evil wizard shrinks you down to tiny creatures and puts you in a glass dish. Party: .... GM: Then he casts Scorching Ray and you all take 10 fire damage. Party: How could the get worse? GM: Well, none of you can move now. You've been "Petri-Fried"

@BruceVC There are some ongoing arguments about that report and what it highlighted. A bunch of it was already known, there was a similar one on how multicultural higher education is, and how quite often the minority ethnic groups are getting better grades. However it's also being "balanced" by how outside of higher education, lower graded "white" people are still managing to get better jobs than those minorities - which the report didn't really mention. While the report looks into institutional racism, it glosses over how there is a certain historical mistrust which causes some divides, and there's a lot of feelings in the various minority groups that the report really is more of a PR move than an understanding of what they're actually dealing with. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56585538

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/cd-projekt-red-is-making-big-changes-to-its-structure-and-mission-after-cyberpunk-2077/1100-6489519/?

Put in NWN 2 Complete from Gog. Seeing how the memories hold up...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/role-playing-games-can-give-kids-a-mental-health-boost?

For the random interest:

Then it would be Niflheim, the land of the dead that's all cold. Valhalla was all large feasting halls full of warm hearthfires, mead and buxom serving wenches. Valheim is somewhere in the middle...

I'd say it depends on the purpose for the grind. Valheim starts off well, but it swiftly turns into that "I'm grinding materials so I can build tools, those tools I can use to grind materials which I need to build tools so I can grind other materials." There's little extra hook to actually get into it beyond that cycle. I mean, sure those boss fights are there, which you need to go through to unlock access to higher level materials / tools in which you need to... grind for materials to build tools to grind for materials... I think I need a bit more story or world engagement to stick with it for anything other than a social hangout with friends.

I have to admit, I'm losing the will with Valheim at the moment. About the only reason I log into it is because my friends have their own server and it's that kind of social get-together. But I'm finding it too much of a "grind to get tools to grind to get tools to grind to get tools," none of which make lower level grind any quicker or smoother. With almost no-other real gaming to get into. Experimental building is fine, but still nothing too fresh compared to other games. Combat is more of an irritant that gets in the way of sloggy grind. Ah well.

https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/37801/patch-1-2-list-of-changes That's.. a big list.