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We have enough wealth to provide these things just to make society less turbulent. I guess it depends what you want to spend your money on. If a majority decides that government has those duties, health care, education and so on, well then it does.

mmm I 'm curious as to why you think colonies were established in the first place. Give me an example of colonization where the object was not to enrich the home culture or deny resources to competitors. Capitalism isn't really an ideology despite efforts to the contrary. It is simply how the world works. Usually Capitalism is associated with mass production, the market economy, but these are just gradual, in the case of the industrial revolution monumental, changes to something that has always existed. Getting Capitalism mixed up with values, because of the relative success and affluence of western Capitalist societies, is a mistake. At its core it is Gordon Gekko, the law of the jungle pure and simple. Those factors that reign in Capitalism and make societies stable aren't Capitalist. Taxation, redistribution, those are ingredients that go together with Capitalism to create modern societies.

Even if, it's not like that would make it better. It's easy enough to improve the lives of your citizens simply by exploiting someone else. That doesn't make it a preferable system. Rome was a success for the most part for the Romans, until the Gauls had had enough. It's a delicate thing a society, lots of factors go into making it durable and constant war and exploitation of your neighbors isn't one of them. Anyway that was Rome, not analogous to a modern Capitalist society except for those few points.

Name those capitalistic countries that allow their citizens to die of starvation and disease by the millions. And to stop you from going that way. No! Not helping some other country halfway around the globe that have suffered by failed socialistic/communistic "utopia" isn't capitalism "failure". We judge the system by how it cater to it's own citizens. Everything they do for other countries is just icing on the cake. It boggles me that there are people who can see murdering their own citizens as a "minor bug" in communism, but if capitalism cannot save the entire world from hunger and disease by this afternoon it's somehow a critical failure of the system. WUT?! How imperialism can be a manifestation of capitalism when it predates capitalism by a longshot? Imperialism is extending nations power by the acquisition of territories and capitalism is an economic system. They have nothing to do with each other. Imperialism can be present in capitalistic countries like US and also in communistic countries like Soviet Union. Blaming capitalism for things that happen or would happen regardless of the presence of capitalism is weird. If there is "oh so much" wrong with capitalism why the examples are always superfluous and nonsensical? Colonialism and Capitalism go hand in hand. There are too many examples to list. just to chose one ; the East India company ?

Speaking of head shots I liked how it works in Hitman where taking out with headshots drops people in body armor, but when they start to converge on you and supress you the window for hitting those headshots gets really really tiny.

It only works if the core mechanics are rock solid though. I kinda suspect that that isn't the case for the Division. I don't see it working well with a controller simply because of the wonkiness of the thumb stick for aiming. Really you should play to the strengths of either input devices. Even though some people may enjoy that, it's not something many would design a game around because it's so much harder to get right. So you add more time to the average encounter with the bullet sponge thing and small mistakes are more or less ignored. Ubisoft doesn't want players to rage quit because they aren't good enough. When I say that I haven't played a shooter with a controller of course that doesn't mean that I haven't tried and concluded that wow this is not the right tool for the job several times. As anyone with a choice would.

So you are saying shooters on a controller with one shot kills is rewarding ? I wouldn't know, I have never played a shooter with a controller. So maybe I amend one shot kills to more or less instant kills, in other words not bullet sponge, which is what most good shooters do. I don't see a connection with RPGs, the term doesn't mean anything anymore. Of course a lot of them do that thing where they give you tiny stat increases after you have scored your 1000th kill. just to keep you playing. You know, grind unlocks that they call 'RPG elements'

Plugging a little known (by the views at least) youtube channel for the WW2 nerds. This guy does heavy duty research before doing one of these videos, the theme being 'filthy detailed'. He is currently working on Stalingrad. He will likely be done with his reading in a couple of weeks. Can't wait.

Every respectable competitive shooter has a one shot one kill headshot. The bulletsponge thing is related to the lack of a mouse for consoles I think. You gotta do something different because the quick target acquisition and execution is not rewarding on a controller, so, bulletsponge and coverbased/cover shifting it is.

Yes, but what the hell is she doing at g20. I mean substitute her for one of Trump's idiot sons and it should become apparent.

Girl power or wtf is she doing here. You decide. The look on Merkel's face is priceless.

Yeah the old bait and switch. GOTY addition and yet somehow lots of DLC that aren't on sale.

Best post. You preach no discrimination and equality with that mouth? Yes. What of it? Nothing, I'm starting to develop indifference to hypocrisy on this forum, but sometimes it resurfaces. Carry on. It's a joke, Sharp_one. https://www.livescience.com/3634-conservatives-easily-disgusted.html

I keep thinking I want to get that, but then I read the GOG reviews and they say the campaign is short and ends abruptly or something like that. I'm a sucker for a good RTS campaign. It's alright, although you can go through the campaign in one sitting. So buy cheap. Just in case you weren't aware, GOG also released Homeworld: Cataclysm (renamed for the re-release), which happens to offer one of the best RTS campaigns you'll ever play. Deserts of Kharak started pretty good and retained the general feel of Homeworld games which is surprising given the setting, but ultimately, its campaign proved to be too monotonous for me. Yeah the cataclysm single campaign is pretty good. Did they do anything special for the re release. I heard the source code was lost, so a reskin at least ? Nope, doesn't look like it.

Well, you can't tell anything from a trailer these days. Michelle Yeoh could work out, she has the right gravitas to be a proper Star Trek captain. Hoping it's not about saving the Galaxy. There is too much of that going around.

TNG is occasionally good. Mostly it was the only Sci Fi on when I was a kid and I was briefly involved with a fan magazine. I'm not sure either series holds that well up with the best of the TV produced this decade, but for some reason Sci FI shows are still few and far between. What they have in common I suppose is inadequate effects, which is a good thing, it means that all they really have is the story, CGI filler just wasn't available.

Tried to watch the first Star Trek series. There was some guy who wasn't Shatner as captain and a medic with the weirdest combover you have ever seen who seemed to double as the captains bartender and some love triangle with a girl from a 'pleasure planet'. Proto Shatner didn't speak a lot but he made up for it with intense looks. Yeah not doing that again, sticking to TNG.

Is that an illustration of Trump trying to be funny and not really knowing how ?

Well nice to see Ramsay Bolton working anyway. Marvel fatigue set in two years ago for me so it would take something out of the ordinary for me to watch any more.

I feel like they didn't have to do a 'save the universe' plot. That's not really the strength of the series.

He's a talentless hack ?. Silent bob and what's the one where Alan Rickman is a fallen angel - long time ago now and he's past it.

No achievement for killing 125 hostiles, well I'm not so sure about that gardener, in the militia hideout mission. I am disappoint... That. was. hard.

Well, it's still good cardio for your brain.

Also no work today because of hackers. I feel like a kid who has been told be can stay home because of snow/heat.

Yeah bonus points for learning Korean however things pan out.