BruceVC

You 100% right, I didnt realize you had played this game before. I will definitely be considering the other games in this series after this The writing is captivating and funny and the game world unique with lots of lore that I know nothing about so its always interesting to read about ports I find One of the single most rewarding features in the game for me is when I sail into the deep, deep, dark sea and I can see no lands and then suddenly I discover a new land ....its exciting, I feel like a real explorer and this is even more rewarding when I am low on some sort of resource ⛵

I refuse to accept a man of your prodigious DIY skills would be scared of a simple spirit....you one of those people who could make some sort of " spirit trapping " box and take on that apparition 👻

Well instead of burning the house down, what about your loan and money you may have invested, you can also arrange a cleansing ceremony or similar practice that allows restless spirits to move on. Because end of the day most hauntings are about that, a spirit that doesnt know its dead or died in a traumatic way and needs help to move on. Once the spirit is gone the house will be fine to live in http://www.spiritualcoach.com/spiritual-house-cleansing/ https://news.remax.com/is-your-house-haunted-a-medium-shares-how-to-rid-a-home-of-ghosts

Do you get white, fruit privlidege? Surly you do

That is an interesting point ....I wonder ? I know in Florida they passed some state law where Trump cant be arrested or something similar for charges he was facing in NY

Well their isnt really an incorrect way to use rubber bullets, they get used instead of normal bullets as they considered non-lethal and 97 % of the time they dont kill people but are suppose to hurt and knock them down. But sometimes like the link I posted a rubber bullet can kill you https://www.rt.com/news/413622-rubber-bullet-fatalities-ucberkeley/

Okay you are misunderstanding several things about the points I have made and even though I feel I am repeating myself again I will do it in the interests of clarity. And I think this is an important debate and I appreciate your feedback I have no issues with peaceful protests, I have issues with violent protests. Do you support protests where protestors kill security guards, police and loot shops and burn malls ? Can you answer this question so I understand your view This is not about race so please try to understand this, if white people or Mexicans or Mongolians were protesting I would have the same view. I dont support violent protests....peaceful protests are fine and allowed in most of our Constitutional Democracies. Rubber bullets and water cannons shouldnt ever be used on peaceful protests...why would they need to be used when the protesters are not destroying things or attacking people ? I realise you dont work in the financial sector or have studied economics so some of what you saying is more about me not explaining properly or you misunderstanding what I am saying. So I need to cover some of your points which are valid concerns When you have a province in any country that contributes 60 % of GDP and within that province their is looting and burning of businesses then it creates a huge negative impact to the overall GDP of the country so yes its relevant to overall economic transformation and how any country can address goals like reducing inequality and job creation. So this has nothing to do with protecting the rich, this is about the overall ability of any country to have a sustainable economy ...and most important uplifting the poor. The rich will survive this, its the less wealthy that will suffer when businesses close down as people have now lost their jobs ....thousands of South Africans, mostly but not all black people, no longer will have a job. That is the reality and only outcome from this looting and violence The point about the mines and unions is not primarily about the wages people are asking for. Its the protracted nature of the protests, the violence and the demands. Lets take the Marikana strike that went on for 3 months before the shooting tragedy. During that time their was no work...as in no mining going on. With sectors like mining because of the reality of how you extract commodities and how you need monthly quotas extracted and sold that means Lonmin cannot make its target end of the year so basically they fail to be profitable which means investors sell shares and the entire company suffers. That means the company starts running at a loss and to rectify that for the next financial year you have to make structural changes to the overall company ....which basically means retrenchments. Thats how all listed companies work and how all investment works because no investor is going to invest in any company where their investment loses money. Why would you ? So a protest for 2 weeks with reasonable demands you can absorb but no company can survive or be profitable if for 3 months their is no work and no revenue stream And if you dont agree with the principle of profitability then you cant ask or expect salary increases or bonuses because how is the company suppose to pay for these things if its running at a loss You seem to justify violence and looting with the French Revolution example, its not a very accurate comparison to any country in the year 2021. That was about an absolute Monarchy with a clear class divide of real nobles and peasantry and the poor had no rights and no way to change their economic status, people were born into positions of wealth and they didnt have to work to keep that privlidege . That is not how any Constitutional Democracy exists nowadays because even people born in poverty can get an education, get a job and change their economic status...but you need a job at least and a sustainable economy. And finally I have a white collar job, why would I want to work in a mine? I wouldnt survive 2 days with the physical burden that job entails. That has nothing to do with me supporting peaceful protests and being opposed to violent protests

No thats not it at all and I thought I had been clear on this in my explanations of the ongoing violence in SA I have no idea what you mean by the HK protests, my view on that is and was critical of what is ongoing in HK because the system of Democracy has been destroyed by the CCP. And I will never support the erosion of Democracy In SA we support protests, its in our Constitution. But I dont support violent protests, looting and the torching of malls which is ongoing. Its incredibly simple to understand and the current violence is primarily about the destruction of black businesses so this has nothing to do with ....black wages, its criminality So I dont know how you come to the spurious conclusion I support police states, maybe you can clarify how you came to that view ? I support the rule of order being enforced in any Constitutional Democracy in the world. I am unclear why anyone who lives in a country who has a similar system of government would disagree ?

15 hours into Sunless Sea and loving it even more I had this exciting journey where I ended up sailing far into the unknown lands of the southern seas but I didnt have enough fuel and food, or money, for the return voyage. So I ended up resorting to cannibalism and sacrificing some of my crew to the various gods of the sea hoping for divine assistance ...and it worked, I received fuel and was able to just get back to London with lots of things to sell Absolutely entertaining experience

Another nightmare outcome of this violence is citizens in suburbs in the targeted provinces have formed their own militias to protect their homes and businesses My sister was telling me that in an area called Hillcrest where one of my brothers live is that on the streets their are large groups of armed people determined to protect their homes and families This is one of the absolutely justified reasons for citizens to own firearms because similar to the debate in the USA citizens have a right to protect themselves. The difference in SA is the " enemy " is not concern with Federal government overreach but rather what happens when your security forces cant protect its citizens from brazen violent mobs intent on mass looting of business and peoples livelihoods And the looting and destruction of shops is worse in all our black townships

https://www.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/violence-looting-continues-in-durban-and-surrounding-areas-on-monday-night-20210713 The rampant looting and torching of malls and shops continues in SA in 2 provinces One of the provinces is our economic hub that contributes close to 60 % to GDP has been targeted but where I live in the Western Cape we not seeing violent mobs Despite the army being deployed they cannot be everywhere at once as we have dozens of small towns where this criminality is occurring. Its like living in some theoretical SJ projection where people say unhelpful things like " the poor will rise due to inequality " except it real and its caused by small groups out of millions of impoverished people and its continuing because we have allowed a culture of impunity to develop over the last 12-15 years where our security forces havent enforced the rule of law and order effectively on other violent protests

Yaaaay, my fellow Ragnarok groupie Since no one cares about this series lets chat about it. Loki is brilliant, their is so much scope going forward and how the Mythology will be interpreted in the series. In the Norse mythology in the final days of Ragnarok Thor defeats Jormungandr in an ultimate battle but dies doing so....I wonder if the series will mirror this ? Also I wonder who the Sorceress will be going forward...so many interesting things to ponder

Zora please stop repeating this conspiracy theory, its inaccurate and intellectually and morally beneath you People died at Marikana due to a sequence of events and months of violent protests. Before the miners were killed 10 police and security members were killed by the miners....people who also had families and were just doing their job In SA their is still this false narrative repeated by a few " Cyril ordered the police to kill the miners ". No he didnt, he was at the mine negotiating between the unions and mine owners because he use to part of the trade union movement but his input made no difference When people use the additional false narrative of " the mine was part owned by Cyril " he was just a shareholder of Lonmin like tens of thousands of other people. Being a shareholder doesnt make you responsible for decisions that the police made due to fear and not being trained properly to deal with thousands of angry miners who were armed. Marikana was a tragedy, a terrible tragedy and numerous groups all should have taken equal responsibility If you genuinely care about this story I can share many links to confirm and clarify the truth

Maybe but I wouldnt care as long as England had made all their goals in the final

I hear you, end of the day we all have our own preferences around what we watch and what entertains us I just found Ragnarok to be something different, especially around the slow but interesting integration into Norse Mythology and season 2 is even better particularly with the arrival of Jörmungandr 🐉

The " Land question " as its known in SA is not our main economic problem, its an old debate and comes from those people who believe land ownership will achieve economic prosperity but this an outdated understanding of the structures of the SA economy. Agriculture only contributes 6-7 % of overall GDP so its not going to change much Our problem is job creation and how having a job allows you access to resources like the ability to get a home loan and have basic spending power to allow SA to become a consumer driven economy. But we dont have the jobs for several reasons like a lack of FDI ( foreign direct investment ) because of problems like self-inflicted downgrades from the credit ratings, our huge government debt and the massive problem with our unions and labor protest So we much worse off than any social and economic problems in the US. We can achieve our economic goals but government has to be decisive and implement necessary austerity and retrenchments in the public sector which has a bloated and ineffective work force in certain institutions....not all of them but several No you misunderstanding my point because I didnt clarify. During violent protests over the last 10 years their is pressure on the police to not even use rubber bullets because their have been isolated incidents of people during protests, 3 cases in hundreds of violent protests, being killed by rubber bullets. But no, live ammunition is not what I am suggesting at all and that wont help as we not China or some police state. But water cannons and rubber bullets can be used effectively to quell protests where buildings and shops are torched Here is an example of the push back on rubber bullets https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/03/15/south-africa-police-kill-bystander-protest

Yes this is also the pointlessness of this type of destruction normally, its in towns and areas where many impoverished people live so protestors are only hurting themselves and increasing inequality And to make things worse its not all the people living in these areas that involved in criminal acts but the entire community will suffer because of this Our problem in SA is have allowed much of these violent protests to continue and many people in society have made excuses for it so it sets a dangerous precedent But these specific protests in SA are also in residential areas and middle class sectors which are the main contribution towards our tax base and actually employ people. So we talking about a small number of people who feel emboldened by the lack of action and arrests and they believe they can act with impunity The good news is our army is now being deployed because the police are overwhelmed

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-07-12-live-updates-riots-and-looting-mob-sets-mall-in-vosloorus-on-fire/ Here is an outcome of what happens when you allow violent protests to continue and like in the USA we also have some liberals who make public statements like " the police mustnt use rubber bullets because these protests are about ...inequality and poverty " so the protestors run rampant and just destroy business The USA isnt at the point of SA but its a slippery slope when you ignore and justify violence from mobs Take a look at the photos in the link, this is from today

What was the initial cause of your neck and arm issues ?

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/amnesty-international-sa-condemns-looting-in-kwazulu-natal-and-gauteng/ The former SA president, Jacob Zuma, who has been complicate in billions of Rands of corruption charges over the last 10 years was jailed last week for......contempt of court for not appearing at an enquiry around a particular case of corruption. He received really bad legal advice and basically thought he could ignore a binding, subpoena to appear in court He was jailed for 15 months for this particular infraction. Now in parts of the country we are seeing looting and blatant criminal acts perpetuated by people who primarily belong to the same tribe as Jacob Zulu and in the province where this tribe is dominant which is where I grew up, Kwazulu Natal. His tribe are Zulus and most Zulu people are not involved in the criminal acts but small groups are However this criminal element has burnt trucks at toll bridges and looted and attacked malls and shops They need to deploy the army because allowing protracted, violent strikes to continue never achieves anything constructive in the long term

Not sure how relevant comparing arguably bad refugee decisions in a particular game is the same as clearly bad refugee decisions in the final? Two wrongs dont make a right The one benefit that the Italians players have is if they cant play football anymore I can guarantee you they will get jobs in Hollywood.....what a bunch of actors and this incident you mention was egregious

Their has to be a better system than penalty shootouts to decide who wins games like this ...oh well

I cannot believe it !!! Oh well I suppose now the game is more exciting and Italy was putting loads of pressure on England .....

Its looking good so far for England ....now they just need to hold the pizza munchers off for the rest of the game

Sorry to hear but at least that great meat wont go to waste. During this lockdown, and the fact I am single, I have on several occasions cooked a whole roast, different types of meat, just for myself 🐷 So I eat it for lunch on Sunday or Saturday and then I have delicious leftovers for sandwiches for the next 3-5 days so nothing is wasted 🥘