Everything posted by Elerond
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Fallout 4 is coming soon.. is there a new OB Fallout Scheduled?
In some areas enemy scaling is just ridiculous for high level player character. Like for example Gunner base where weakest enemies were sergeants. So it seems that Bethesda has not learn from their previous tittles.
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European Refugee Crisis
Nah. its a war zone and accidents happen ...Russia knows this It was not accident, because Turkey knew that there was no aircrafts that are hostile for them in air. It was just show of power from Turkey.
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European Refugee Crisis
we already have taken over that since all wars started by western in Middle East and all over the world....Chechen, Bosnian, Viatnamese, Iraqis, and what not....Indonesian immigrants also flocking in, not to mention Bangladeshi and Nepal... There is a joke, Bangladesh political candidate even say "I don't fear to loose, i can go to Malaysia and win", in the campaign. Malaysia also being called Banglasia now... That was just how many Germany has taken in this year. Total amount is much higher. Although Germany is quite generous in its refugee policy. But nothing can compare to those countries that neighbor crisis countries, they will always take biggest load even if they don't have resources to do so.
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European Refugee Crisis
Malaysia is about size of Germany, which have taken over 800000 refugees from Syria alone. Germany also has over 2.5 times Malaysia's population.
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European Refugee Crisis
I read that link about Sweden, surly that can't be right....it makes it out like Sweden is some barbaric land? It looks thing from very single minded perspective that cause it to interpret things so that they fit article's writers and publication's political views. Meaning that it is very typical Breitbart article and you should not believe anything that you can#t confirm from other sources. But Sweden is barbaric land, every Finn will tell you that is the case I'll be honest if I was a Swede I would be offended by that article....I am not a swede and I was offended ...what political views do Breitbart follow? It is right-wing and mostly pro-republican publication.
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European Refugee Crisis
In this case it isn't Christianity precisely but history of our cultures and laws and social changes that are happened and attitude change where people have stopped to care specifics of other people's religious views and grown attitude that asking specifics of other people's religious views is impolite. This is created culture where quite few people care what are religious views of others in our countries let alone religious views of outsiders. Usually only times when people start to care religious views are when somebody tries to force their religious views to others. This is attitude that is common withing everybody regardless of their religious background. I personally had partial religious upbringing where everybody that didn't believe as those that taught me were heretics, although at that time worst offenders of heresy were those in other Christian religions especially Catholicism and religions with Christian origins like Jehovah's Witnesses and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), because they should have know better and Muslims for example were seen as people that just didn't know better and should be saved to mercy of the Christ. But anyway everybody measures things by their own background because that is only thing that people can use as measure stick.
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European Refugee Crisis
Calling religions or things related to religions heretic or heresy is thing that has become socially unacceptable in many western countries, because of long history of burning and other wise killing people that had different view on some religious matters. Also there have been lots of wars and massacres that were justified by other side's claimed heresy.
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European Refugee Crisis
I read that link about Sweden, surly that can't be right....it makes it out like Sweden is some barbaric land? It looks thing from very single minded perspective that cause it to interpret things so that they fit article's writers and publication's political views. Meaning that it is very typical Breitbart article and you should not believe anything that you can#t confirm from other sources. But Sweden is barbaric land, every Finn will tell you that is the case
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European Refugee Crisis
No but there are many people in the West who wont call ISIS Islamic because they are acting in a way that many Islamic commentators say they aren't Muslim. Obama for example doesn't refer to them as Islamic For me I don't know why people think it matters. As I said earlier most people know they don't represent the Muslim community Actually as long as we call them ISIS or ISIL we are calling them Islamic as we accept them to be part of Islam in their name. It is clever branding trick from their leaders. Even Daesh term, which said leaders are said to hate, has implication that they are Islamic. I would not be so bold and assume that most of people know that they don't represent Islam and Muslim community, because even though there isn't actually any good study about subject, so polls and political behavior seem to show that people link them more and more heavily to mainstream Islam. Seriously...you Finns as well? Guys I am really shocked that people look at ISIS and assume this is what the global Muslim community believes...but thanks for honesty Elerond why do people in the EU tease Sweden and say things like " the Swedes are all self-hating and they enjoy taking in refugees " ? I would guess it because that is how right-wing media in USA has pictured Sweden and some people in EU use that is as joke or ammunition depending on their political views. Like for example http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/04/20/self-loathing-sweden-should-only-welcome-persecuted-immigrants-not-the-persecuting/ In Finland I haven't seen such behavior, but Finland has long standing tradition to tease and mock Sweden for everything so we aren't influenced by others in that sector that much because they are usually far behind us anyway with their jokes and teases. But to actually answer your question I don't know and I am not sure if they even say such thing in any meaningful amounts outside of internet forums where it can be used to strengthen some individuals own political views.
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European Refugee Crisis
No but there are many people in the West who wont call ISIS Islamic because they are acting in a way that many Islamic commentators say they aren't Muslim. Obama for example doesn't refer to them as Islamic For me I don't know why people think it matters. As I said earlier most people know they don't represent the Muslim community Actually as long as we call them ISIS or ISIL we are calling them Islamic as we accept them to be part of Islam in their name. It is clever branding trick from their leaders. Even Daesh term, which said leaders are said to hate, has implication that they are Islamic. I would not be so bold and assume that most of people know that they don't represent Islam and Muslim community, because even though there isn't actually any good study about subject, so polls and political behavior seem to show that people link them more and more heavily to mainstream Islam.
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European Refugee Crisis
Funnily didn't got actually any of your facts right. But on other hand you got them just so as people from Nordic Countries seem to want to represent their countries to outside world. First Finland is not actually part of Scandinavia (and also there isn't one single approach that Nordic countries have adopted towards any immigrants, but they all have quite different way to approach the subject) Second Nordic countries don't actually give special privileges for Muslims or other immigrants, but instead immigrants often have difficulties to get same utilities that typical members of original population have. Third Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland actually have given military assistance against ISIS for quite long time now. Which is thing that comes as surprise for quite many Nordic people. Forth there isn't not actually those certain districts (where ambulances and firefighters need police escort) even in Sweden where those "news" about it come. I would say that reason why Nordic countries aren't targeted by Islamic terrorists (although Denmark was already target of such attack), is because they are poor targets for them. Because even in Sweden, that has largest Muslim population in Nordic Countries, Muslims make only 5% of total population, which means that amount of people that could be recruited to do such attacks is low. Also attacks in Nordic countries will produce much less coverage for their ideology. Also it is worth to note that Islam isn't actually one single religion, which has quite big influence in current crisis in Iraq and Syria. And it is also quite important factor when it comes to question how probable it is that some members of Muslim population become radicalized. Interesting article to read http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-wahhabism-saudi-arabia_b_5717157.html
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Democrat Presidential Debate
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/11/21/whatever-the-heck-bernie-sanders-is-talking-about-its-not-socialism/ The senile old man is confused, or more likely lying. He says he's against capitalism, so he has to be a Socialist, what else is there? Or may be he just doesn't know what all those big words actually mean. Main idea behind socialist movements is to lower economical disparity between people. In classical marxism that means moving means of production from individuals to collective ownership of people, but that is not only way to approach the subject. Sanders seems to follow more right-wing version of socialistic ideologies where social equality is produced with market centered ways like progressive taxations, central buying system for social services, income support for poor and so on. But ownership of everything would still be private and government's role is to equalize money distribution instead of production.
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Attacks in Paris
So more rebels, terrorist and supporters of al-Assad is answer to current crisis, I see.
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Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
I would say that double edged lasersaber could be used in similar fashion as quarterstaff(short staff in half-staff grip. And it could have some advantages over regular lightsaber like ability block and bind opponent's saber with one edge and attack with another. But I would say also that it don't have similar reach advantage as staff does as you can't move to grip to quarter of staff grip to give you longer reach and jabs have much shorter distance and don't have similar reach and speed advantage as they have in regular staff fighting. Of course laser edges bring some of their own advantages (and disadvantages) that regular staffs (even edged staffs) don't have. But really there is no logic in lasersabres as if star wars universe would have even close similar physics than our universe lasersaber would be mostly weaker choice than regular sword. But we know that it isn't true and Star Wars universe have its own physics that differ from ones that we are familiar with. And overall lasersaber is very unpractical choice of weaponry especially in context where it is used, but do people really care of that fact? Probably not .
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Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
It should remembered that every jedi and sith should make their own lightsabers and current sith didn't really have anybody to show and teach what they should aim towards (like how Luke just copied his father's lightsaber design, who used Obi-Wan Kenobi's design and so on), so its unique look in Star Wars universe could be because of that.(even though in reality it is just because movie's costume designer liked that look)
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Attacks in Paris
What is EU4? Europa Universalis IV, it is grand strategy game, that focuses on civilization management, from Paradox Interactive.
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Attacks in Paris
It is just like western countries have never killed anybody it is just made look like they have done so by using dummies. And western countries have never enslaved anybody, or occupied lands like Malaysia, all those are acted ruses that didn't really happen.
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Difference of Vailian Republics and Old Vailia?
No. Vailian Republics is like Canada, Australia or New Zealand and Old Vailian is Great Britain. (Or maybe Brasil as Vailian Republics and Portugal as Old Vailian would be better example as Vailian language has it roots in romance languages)
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Attacks in Paris
There is a ongoing terrorist attack in Mali where terrorist are holding 170 people in hotel. Media sources say jihadists, no knowledge if they belong ISIS or boko haran or some other group
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Attacks in Paris
It was added in Treaty of Lisbon this is fist time it's triggered.
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Attacks in Paris
France in war against ISIS/terrorism is at least somewhat understandable after two terrorist attacks in one year, but what I find more troubling is how quietly and bit celebrating at least Finnish media has taken the fact that article 222 from Treaty of Lisbon was triggered by France and EU's Defense ministers accepted it, so whole EU is now effectively in war with ISIS/terrorism at least in sense of giving military assistance and troops for France.
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Chris Avellone says Pillars of Eternity was too linear and that he had little impact on the story
They constantly reminded themselves during development what were the core values they promised in KS pitch and what were the additional promises in stretch goals. You can see that Obsidian has tried to realise every promise that they made, even if they didn't have ability to implement it on such level that it is meaningful addition to the game. So I would say that they would had done different decision during development if they hadn't been so locked by their promises during KS.
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Attacks in Paris
Do you really not see a difference between Not taking initiative to publicly mourn something, as long as no-one is asking you to.and Actively showing disrespect and spite for other people's mourning, like booing(!) a minute of silence.? Let's just disingenuously group both of those under "not caring enough" and equivocate away? PS: Also, it makes perfect sense for FIFA to a have a minute of silence when a major terrorist attack happened right next to its own soccer game, and the terrorists in fact tried to target that game's audience and players - while not having a minute of silence for every other unrelated tragedy around the world. The core of the problem is, that no one asked anyone to mourn for Turkey, Russia, Lebanon, Kenya... Some people then might come to conclusion, that some lives are not as worthy as others... Although people have been asked to mourn Turkey, Russia, Lebanon, Kenya, Tunisia, Nigeria (most recent victim), etc, tragedies. But ones doing the asking aren't necessary always same also stage where mourning is done changes. But tragedies in home front get always more recognition than tragedies else where. So tragedies, in west get more notice in west than tragedies that happen in somewhere else. Because not in sight not in mind is very real psychological phenomenon that effects most of the people in world. Western tragedies are often more noticeable around world because western media is so dominant compared to other medias. And of course all western countries aren't equal, like for example tragedy in Finland gets much less notice than similar tragedy in USA. But it is just reality that those with more power and influence get more notice than those with less.
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Attacks in Paris
Victim is always the predator, if we listen those that support the attacker. There are always things that victim did to provoke the attack at least for the attacker, because attackers very rarely accept that fault is solely in them.
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Fallout 4 is coming soon.. is there a new OB Fallout Scheduled?
Grenades are excellent in areas that are infested by feral ghouls as you can throw one every time you see ghouls starting to spawn (wake up and crawl in from windows and other holes) as they usually kill most of the spawning ghouls. But I hate fact that they are binded in same key as bash