Gfted1
-
Posts
6413 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
60
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Blogs
Everything posted by Gfted1
-
Yeah, but you will get it reimbursed in back pay and then it will suddenly be "Ah, paid time off".
-
GTA 5 - Grand Theft Auto Online Releases Tomorrow
-
Do not forget the happy endings ;)
Gfted1 replied to okkoko's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
Isnt there an expansion pack already funded by this Kickstarter? That would seem to point to PE1 having an open ending. Me, Im a sucker for the happy/good endings. -
What? Are you confusing "crime rate" with recidivism?
-
Features concerns so far
Gfted1 replied to Chilloutman's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
Again, if you feel you cannot contribute to a topic without personal insults then it is best to step out of the conversation and collect yourself. -
The price per sortie is high but youre paying for the ability to project that force almost anywhere on Earth. But I for one welcome our coming drone overlords.
-
Congrats!
-
I dig the controller. It appeals to my minimalist aesthetics.
-
If Obsidian kickstarts a space opera RPG, would you back it?
Gfted1 replied to Arcoss's topic in Computer and Console
For me, if Obsidian makes another Kickstarter, I'm going to take the wait and see approach. -
That church is pretty impressive.
-
Russia finally made a Bradley? Oby's videos never have sound but I would like to know the model number so I can read up on it.
-
Yeah, I watched the rerun of the pilot episode last night and at the end when "Lola" took flight my wife looked at me, rolled her eyes and exclaimed "C'mon!".
-
I did now. Thank you good sir.
-
Thanks for the heads up Keyrock. Added FotAQ to my library because why not.
-
That's an excellent point and one I will try to remember.
-
First Bionic Leg Allows Mind to Control Movement in Study.
-
Agreed. I was just trying to illustrate that a person with no beginning advantages and a pretty huge disadvantage can carve out a decent middle class life through effort (and some good luck). I think a lot of people do "choose" to be homeless. Notwithstanding the hard luck cases where someone lost their job/died/whatever, I believe most homeless are in that condition due to their own actions, most commonly substance abuse of some kind. We already have programs to help people but at some point personal accountability has to rear its ugly head, imo.
-
Ive never heard of this company but Bundle Stars is offering four Commando games for $2.25.
-
I figured it was a mistake to post that.
-
I agree that being in the right place at the right time is beneficial but to discount individual effort falls flat imo. Ill use myself as an example. I grew up with nothing. NOTHING. My father died when I was 7 and my mother, who had only been a housewife up to this point, took the only job she knew how to do, she became a waitress at local diners. I never even had new clothes until high school. All of my clothes came from resale shops like Goodwill and Salvation Army. We were poor as hell. She died when I was 17 and I was on my own from that time. Apparently defying the odds, I managed to not turn to crime, hard drugs or homelessness. Am I some kind of unique case? Of course not. People do that every day. It would be an interesting counterpoint if being coddled by the state actually perpetuates the problem. Im not so sure JSFOCC would still be chillin at home at 27 if the mechanism wasn't in place to support that lifestyle. He would have been forced into action long before now. Possibly.
-
For me, reading that post was like looking at an alien world. Ill never understand why the successful should be penalized to take care of the unsuccessful. But on the bright side, as I advance to my twilight years, at least I too will be able to become a burden to my society. *sigh* That's not true, I responsibly have a retirement plan.
-
@JSFOCC: An informative post but doesn't it come down to the fact that they can no longer afford the "good old days" and now must make adjustments? I totally understand that everyone wants everything for free, but where does it come from? Inb4 someone mentions "the rich". Do you think continuously raising taxes to pay for all your social programs is a sustainable model, even in a country as small as yours?
-
That's sounds like a pretty good motivation then and you can never go wrong getting an education. Why is Denmark trying to cut the program?
-
I see, you've moved the goalposts from aircraft carriers to the entire defense budget of the country. Seems legit.
-
What are you talking about? The total military defense budget was 660 billion.
