BruceVC

Still busy Sunless Sea and still having great fun. My latest conquests and developments are I sired a child from my important and appreciated romantic interludes at London Port and the little rug rat and his mother wanted a better life from me. Sadly at the time I had limited resources and lived in a room above the pub. So I gave up any responsibilities and lost my child. I felt bad because now I own a villa but without financial support I couldnt do much for my offspring I have finally upgraded my ship and the hull has 200 damage points and I can load a Torpedo weapon. That means I can now battle most high level monsters and enemy ships and sometimes win I have been trying to complete my officers quests which is very entertaining and exciting Great game overall

I am glad you have observed the interesting and mundane ways that human beings interact, I find it fascinating In SA we have a normal way of greeting people where everyone generally says " Morning\Hi.. how are you? " But they dont actually want to know " how are you " .....its just part of the greeting etiquette. Because often its complete strangers you greet, meaning its people who you recognize their faces but dont know anything about them. I generally work in large companies and their would be thousands of people you dont know personally but you walk past them or get in the same lift So what I use to do occasionally , outside the pandemic, is when someone who automatically responded with a " how are you " I would pretend it was a legitimate question and start telling them all my problems but exaggerate things in a negative way as if they were a real friend And it really is hilarious when you see how complete strangers responded because they asked me a question but they didnt want to know about my "problems " . And I use to always start the joke by saying " Im so glad you asking because things are terrible "

And I assume you the expert on the state of the Cuban healthcare system ?

Their are people who support BLM and they make sense in their approach and ideas, I see them on CNN all the time My concern is the people who come up with all these ideas and new policies to defund and undermine police and the direct impact that has on society and the rule of law and order

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Republic_of_Sarah I started watching this and its got real potential. Its got numerous SJ themes that have been done in a realistic and believable way that includes estranged families, LGBT relationships, Native American rights, inter-racial relationships and of course the ubiquitous " evil, Capitalist, large corporation " that could destroy the small town through mining projects So it should appeal to many people on this forum

Yeah, it will be interesting to see when I get my actual appointment because of how under resourced we are with vaccines generally and now with this unprecedent looting and burning of shops the supply chain has been severely impacted around the vaccines we have got

Absolutely and we have had success stories in township schools by a proven, working model. The sustainability and effectiveness of our township schools works when you have a good, working relationship between parents and teachers and basically the school board needs parents to support them and of course the resources, allocated yearly from government in a budget, mustn't be squandered but in this case that is not the main issue So your typical township school would love the idea of a point and click book as I mentioned

I dont know much about the global appetite for books but I know what I enjoy and what people like me, we do have spending power and buy books regularly, would enjoy. A graphic novel is always a good idea but the market is dominated by many players but a point and click adventure sounds like an excellent idea Would you intended audience for this point and click idea be children under 14 or so ? I think their is market for that group that is relatively untouched but to honest I dont know much about children's point and click ? It can be educational as well and positioned truly as a " clever way to get children to read more " Its something, once you develop the most effective implementation model, that can be used throughout Africa and particularly SA. It would be positioned as a tool " to encourage children to read more " and something that would gain good support because we have about 10-15 % of children who get to grade 12 and are still unemployable And the reasons for this are almost the same, these unfortunate kids went to certain township and public sector schools that failed to deliver a decent education to these kids but the kids are pushed through the grades without having to pass so the pass rate looks good....its a small number of kids but its real And the lack of reading skills is due to a lack of effective reading resources at some of the public sector schools. So you can see how the entire idea of kids wanting to read is always an important objective in SA and we invest in products and ideas, like point and click products, that we believe will improve the standard of our education

And we all know how draconian and sensitive the Obsidian moderators are on this forum....I actually am expecting criminal charges to be laid against you by Gothfuscious

Melk I meant to say this about 8 months ago when I realized you have published\ebooked a book, " well done for writing and finishing a book " I admire anyone in any part of their life who can get this done, how long did it take you to complete ?

Gromnir I mentioned that the actual knowledge what Cuba is teaching people around medicine is outdated This is not my opinion because I dont like socialist countries and believe they represent mostly failed states. They do but that is not the point We have SA doctors who come back from Cuban with so called " training on medicine " but they dont get deployed because they need retraining and dont understand aspects of modern medicine And I would argue that represents most of their education system in Cuba because we have same issue with Cuban engineers who we import. The Cuban engineers and doctors quite simply lack the updated and relevant qualification. So I am not sure how anyone can say " Cuba has a good and modern healthcare system " https://mybroadband.co.za/news/government/394813-cuban-engineers-not-registered-to-work-in-south-africa.html

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/trending/406212-food-and-fuel-shortages-hit-parts-of-south-africa.html https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/506136/economic-impact-of-riots-and-looting-in-south-africa-and-wider-emerging-problems/ The outcome of the looting and criminality that has gripped 2 provinces in SA over the last 5 days can be summarized in different ways but the main points are over 150 people killed over 2000 people arrested massive food and fuel shortages as transport of goods is severely impacted or trucks carrying goods have been destroyed or burnt on our national roads anything from 20-40 billion Rands damage to the provinces economy hospitals and clinics in rural areas have been destroyed tens of thousands of people people will have lost their jobs as businesses have been destroyed the poor get poorer and inequality will increase And we have to deal with the rampant spread of the virus And I hear comments from small groups of so called socialists globally that these types of violent " revolutions " are an effective way to implement economic change in any Constitutional Democracy ....yeah right, tell me another one

I agree, BLM is a nebulous organization that has no clear leadership structure and no one who takes responsibility for words and comments said in the public arena So when are we going to see someone taking responsibly because we see actions and protests on the ground but no accountability ?

I agree about the reality and strength of the Cuban health system, people believe they have this strong health system? Maybe in the 1960's-1980's but not anymore. South Africa has this misplaced view we " owe " Cuba for their ideological support of Socialism and the ANC during the Cold War but the Soviets and Cubans only supported liberation movements like the ANC because it was a the Cold War. The Cold War ended 30 years and countries like Cuba and Russia pulled out of Africa decades ago Anyway we have been sending small amounts of students to Cuba to get " medical training" as doctors and we have to pay for it. But when they come back to SA its been found they have to be recertified on several things. So sending people to Cuba when we have our own effective universities that educates students around medicine has been a huge waste of time because the Cuban education system is outdated and under resourced https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2020-04-29-where-are-all-the-south-africans-trained-as-doctors-in-cuba/ Also the virus is running rampant in Cuba, one of the reasons for the current protests, so to look at Cuba as a success of dealing with the virus is a false narrative and inaccurate

My age group 35-49 is allowed to register for vaccines so I have done that, hopefully I get my date for the actual vaccine soon

No I didnt or cant recall, I looked it up and it doesnt ring any bells But I played F3 about 10-12 years ago. What is significant about it ?

Are you one of those gamers who loads the " killing children allowed " mod in RPG I generally never kill children unless they possessed or evil, I dont mind annoying game children running around repeating things like in Fable Anniversary ...I just ignore them

So Germany doesnt play a critical and stabilizing role in the continued sustainability of the EU? Are their recent acts all terrible ? And the EU is a huge success and the worlds most successful economic trading block and is a primary destination for millions of people who immigrate from their home countries and want a new life in the EU...so we know the EU is a nice place and if Germany is an important part of that they cant be that bad ....surly ? What am I missing

I know I keep saying this but this game looks excellent...but I am not crazy about the voice overs in the game so far. A game like this must have someone speaking English who is Russian or East European and has an accent like in Metro It makes it realistic and believable, I use to love Artyom's ( metro protagonist ) reflections on his life and journey I am not trying to sound petty and captious but I really dont want to play a game set in Russia with American or UK English accents

Thats not really a reason, why didnt you like it

13th century !!!! Thats amazing, what a long time. Do you know what your family use to do through the years, were they soldiers, blacksmiths , Vikings, reindeer hunters ? I am always interested when people can see what their ancestors did Its easy for people with an ancestry to England to trace their family trees if you want to because the English keep excellent records and preserve family trees. But I have only really been concerned when my family arrived in SA and most of them came with the British army in 1899 to fight the Boers. My great grandfather had 4 brothers and after the Second Boer War (1899-1902 ) 2 brothers stayed and lived in SA and 3 went back to England. So you can see how my family was split from that day on with a UK side and a SA side

Germany was also one of the first countries in the EU to not want harsher sanctions against Russia generally for the last several years of Russia's controversial geopolitics interventions ( assassinations in foreign countries and state sponsored hacking, not REvil which is not state sponsored ) and has pushed back on more punitive measures on Russia on the new US\EU alliance so you can see that they also play the role of moderation But I dont want to make this about Germany, they need to take accountability for this infraction I agree. I also admit I am a huge supporter of the important, positive role that Germany has played in the world since the end of WW2 and the Cold War so I genuinely admire how they have been able to recreate themselves and their influence after the dark days of the Nazis but its not through military hegemony....its economic strength through sustainable and successful polices and work ethos So the most important question which has been unanswered so far is " why does Kosovo want these weapons" ....nothing encourages additional conflicts in parts of the world with a history of conflict than an arms race or similar development

But Elerond their is a history to the region with conflicts and countries like Serbia and Croatia are stable and have sustainable economies and that is important to overall peace in the region Why does Kosovo want these weapons in the first place? How do we know its not with the intention of starting some sort of ethnic conflict and dont you think its provocative for Germany to send weapons to Kosovo ?

I use to think it was time for the US to bury the hatchet with Cuba which is why I supported the initial Obama peace efforts But the people of Cuba didnt benefit from it and still are denied basic human rights. I wish it was over as well but unfortunately its not

This is an incredible breakthrough in the fight against viruses and most importantly Corona What a great link, nice one