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I can't speak for California but where I live fastfood is still quite a way from the bottom. And I wouldn't pay attention to any reasoning from HR. In my experience employment selections tend to be totally frivolous.

Lower your work expectations to the absolute bottom-tier. Or work for free and hope you meet someone that will take pity on you. This sounds harsh but honestly without skills, experience, money or connections those may be the only options.

You forgot the second charge of impiety. Turns out that ancient Athens was lacking in religious tolerance.

There were people unimpressed with it from the very start. They were just drowned-out and even censored for quite a while.

I never understood the problem people have with BS jobs. It's a natural consequence of economic system geared for overproduction. By all accounts the olden days of regular unemployment were far more straining.

It doesn't. Most people know nothing of it and do just fine. Gaming history is only of use to a designer if he plans to milk nostalgia or take risks in their design. Most developers have absolutely no need for it.

In case anyone was still interested in the current happenings: Ukraine troops retreat from key town of Debaltseve

You do realize that ceasefire was made only now so to save Ukrainian army from a major encirclement? If there is anyone who can't win militarily it's Ukraine.

And what would you call Ukrainian economic situation then? Last I heard they were even worse off.

I think it's a dominate behavior among players. We're well conditioned that way. But that's exactly the problem. Interesting decisions have disappeared from games as they didn't fit neatly into one-dimensional alignment bar. And it's mostly due to our gaming habits since the mindless chase for rewards has long ago overrode any notions of role-play.

I'm pretty sure that's just some players choosing munchkining over role-playing freedom. The real problem with all behavior-meter systems is that mixing your choices amounts to neutrality rather than bi-polar disorder.

For the GPU enthusiasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spZJrsssPA0

It's also not meant for distribution in the west.

Do you really believe that or did I miss a joke? They even managed to quote Irving in that article.

They do work but predictably they are discriminated in the job market. Given equal social security it's no wonder some will prefer it to seeking employment.

That's not always the case anymore. Some newer games scale badly with resolution and won't provide playable framerate on lower-mid GPUs.

All they had to do is pretend for one day that terror doesn't work. And we couldn't do even that.

The only thing sadder than terrorists winning is the political opportunism this attack will spawn. Or has already spawned judging by this thread.

Similar requirements to Assassins Creed Unity. Not a good sign.

I heard this argument a few times and I never understood the logic behind it. If 'assault rifle in every home' didn't turn back US army in Iraq and Afghanistan then I think it's safe to say that civilians cannot oppose modern military forces in open conflicts. That's why people turn to terror for their violent policy changing.

There is no need to pull 'creative' card to find holes in your argument. Original Tomb Rider was very successful and serious case can be made that it was both better received and more profitable than the reboot.

Not standing idle is far off annexing territory. During the orange revolution Russia managed to restrain itself and eventually Ukraine peacefully flip-flopped back to their sphere.

The problem with STALKER wasn't that weapons don't hit targets but that AI clearly cheated. Your opponents were in no way bound by the same rules regarding bullet ballistics/grenades/emissions etc.

No it doesn't. That's just a western European view of things and not always shared by other participants of the conflict.

Tradition is a powerful force. This has nothing to do with tradition but with it's historical usefulness. Modern application of torture goes all the way back to Algerian civil war when it was very effectively applied by French paratroopers.