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Hm, I kinda prefer it that way to the "WOW guys! Check THAT out! AWESOME! Yeah!!" fake style so frequent in YouTube LPs. In fact, I prefer when the player is completely mute, but if they have to speak, I prefer when they talk like a normal, not high on speed person. I think the "bored" vibe is mostly coming from the way you sometimes speak while audibly inhaling/exhaling, with the cadence possibly affected by looking for the right words? I've had people tell me I sound exasperated over VoIP because I tend to do that too.

IIRC, Director's Cut was a free upgrade for anyone with the original version. I don't think you can buy the non-DC version anymore, the DC package has the base version as an optional download.

Short answer: from W10 Pro, it's not worth it. Long answer: you'd have to stop services, disable pre-scheduled tasks and prevent apps from installing (ideally by customizing the WIM file before installing the OS). And it would all be rendered pointless at the next feature update anyway because Microsoft really wants you to experience the whole "your system isn't really your system" thing. So you have three options, at this point. One, get W10 Enterprise if you're dead set on using Windows 10 without bull****. Two, learn to live with it if you're not willing to shell out hundreds in OS subscription fees (which seems to be the model MS and all the cool kids are going for). Three, invest in yourself and your future and move to something like Ubuntu -- forever. Sorry in advance that it's not the answer you wanted.

Yeah, disabling all telemetry and removing bundled malware from W10 Pro is a nightmare. But setting up a W7 VM with GPU passthrough isn't exactly quick and simple either.

So... a month or so? Because that's how much longer W7 will be supported. And I say this as a W7 user...

That seems to be one of the biggest hurdles. No-deal would mean going back to a hard border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the island which could jeopardize the Good Friday Agreement. A return to violence has been raised as a potential risk, though it's hard to discern genuine concerns in the constant Brexit fearmongering. But most importantly, the fantastic absurdist comedy coming out of Westminster would cease. That would be the real tragedy.

edit: derp (yeah, it wouldn't make much sense to put out a product intended to create competition for themselves)

Why would it be P2W? I remember reading about a co-op campaign, but is it supposed to be like MWO beyond that?

This game sounds great. Seriously considering breaking my 6-month quarantine rule.

IIRC Quickdraw is utter trash. Anything it can do, Shadow Hawk can do better. Except... fetch a higher price when vendoring it, I guess. I really don't remember how the campaign was structured or if all missions had time limits to do them, but it could pay to do some random contracts to get better mechs and more experienced mechwarriors if you're getting creamed. If I'm not mistaken, the game capped the skulls (and thus the tonnage of enemies that show up) of random contracts depending on where you were in the campaign, so that may not help you much either. I do remember that my game ran for ~2000 days, so I did a ton of grinding for mechs -- but I ran a modded game that lifted travel and contract restrictions.

Huh, I would have taken it as a sign to stop checking email. But then I tend to take any excuse to ignore people, no matter how flimsy. (can't assist with the mission, barely remember anything about specific assignments)

I've had this happen too after picking up semi-abandoned campaigns. DOS was one of them, but also Stellaris and others. It's one of the few downsides of playing co-op in games that have such long campaigns. Good to know it's not just MY brain turning to mush.

I wish I could say that I suspected ShadySands of secretly being Mitch Gitelman all along. Honestly, the free patch sounds better than the paid DLC, value-wise. Which is good, I guess, except if you purchased the Season Pass? I suppose I'll grab the whole bunch in a year or three. Sadly nothing in there that immediately makes me want to reinstall the game. Sorry, Mitch.

Funny that you should mention AoD there after criticizing the all-or-nothing skill check design, because that's one of the things AoD drew flak for. You would have an absolutely miserable time in that game unless you had laser focus on a small set of skills, which determined the kind of character you'd play. I mean, I played a Daratan Praetor jack of all trades character and got the secret ending and all, but it took a hell of a lot of metagaming, going back, etc. Definitely not something you could achieve in a first playthrough, or without a guide. This game (as AoD) looks right up my alley, but I'm also a strong proponent of the "wait at least six months" school of thought.

I am not refusing to acknowledge anything. I was simply trying to explain to you that, in general, this subforum is not a place where you should expect direct help from tech staff -- not that you shouldn't post bug reports. There is a post by an Obs dev in this very thread acknowledging the issue on October 29th. If there's a bug with the quest, it's likely that the only thing that will help is waiting for a patch (which, as of the time of writing this, has been stated to be planned to drop on the 18th). Sorry you're having trouble. Moderators are not Obsidian employees, mind.

Heh. Weird as it may be, seeing my posts from outside my profile made me realize how dumb it all looks. Time for a timeout. Thanks.

Sigh. You didn't say this either? Did someone hack your account and post this? Was it somebody else operating under your identity? So it was a banking crisis that happened because of a socialist idea!!11oene Look, I know you make a point of pulling the trigger without knowing even the basics, but I really don't have time to ELI5 for you all the time. The German regulation I linked is a development of the Verordnung über Arbeitsstätten (Arbeitsstättenverordnung - ArbStättV). It's an ordinance. It's issued by the government. It's enforceable. Yes, ordinance is in this context interchangeable with law. Similarly, the Royal Decree I linked to is the way our government dictates enforceable regulations when pertaining to certain matters as provided for by the Constitution (or as a development of parliamentary acts if specified therein), without parliamentary involvement. Yes, a Royal Decree is law. Law is "actual law". Clear now? You didn't provide ****. Your examples are things like moving rocks with a truck instead of by hand, which is profoundly stultifying even for the kind of content you have us accustomed to. Of course mechanization increases efficiency, duh. How does one increase work efficiency without the massive injection of capital needed to mechanize tasks? If what you mean by "work smart" is "get a small loan of ten million dollars and get machines to do everything", then you may be on to something, but I get the idea that you'll be shifting the goalposts soon enough again, because that doesn't jive so well with tugging at bootstraps. And for the record, I've been working since I was 17. Much of it physical work too. Which is why I know, unlike you, that the demands of Amazon warehouse workers are perfectly reasonable. I didn't claim anything of the sort. Please report any posts where anyone said that. Coltan forced labor mining operations in central Africa is the example you chose to debunk with your fictional story of a small loan of ten million dollars which could easily be obtained by asking the EU to then get a mining co-op going. That's another of your "work smart" solutions, I take it? "Nuh-uh! It's not! It's just a fact." Okay. Recess is over. Back to class.

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Once again: excessive speculation and deregulation leading to a housing market bubble is somehow the commies or the socialists or the lefties' fault, is what you're saying? Because... some socialist somewhere at some point said something about homes? Keep grasping at straws. Did I at any point say it wasn't a recommendation? The fact that it's "just" a recommendation and as close to a mandatory rule without actually being enforceable does not change that it's dealing with basic working conditions. Again: If it wasn't a recommendation and was instead a statute, Amazon workers wouldn't have to go on strike. They could just sue and we wouldn't be having this conversation. This is without losing sight of the fact that it's basic working conditions as regulated by law in places such as Germany: https://www.baua.de/DE/Angebote/Rechtstexte-und-Technische-Regeln/Regelwerk/ASR/pdf/ASR-A3-5.pdf?__blob=publicationFile and Spain: https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1997-8669#aniii Next time maybe try looking past the first link Google gives you. Or, I don't know, maybe just read the link Google gives you and you're supposedly using to debunk a position. So now it's working "better"? Not harder, not smarter just... better? What does that even mean now? Sounds like more circular logic. Working better is what gives better results, so to get better results you must work "better"? It's 0 = 0. Meaningless. Useless. Barring gross incompetence or open sabotage, "work better = better results" is more of the same hot air you've been blowing for the last few pages. You even admitted it yourself, something something indefinite factors. Bribery, embezzlement, influence trafficking, all of those things tend to have direct results. "Better" work? Not so much, not always, not consistently. And this is because in a capitalist system, the proceeds from a worker's labor are appropriated by whoever owns the means of production, without obligatory proportional compensation. But we're not talking about grants by the EU to open businesses where I live. We're discussing your story of a magical land where black slaves could get a small loan of ten million dollars to start a mining co-op. Just admit that, like 95% of what you post, you literally made it up on the spot. And by the way, the EU does not directly lend money to prospective small business owners. They do it through, surprise, your local financial institutions (i.e. banks), who have the last word on whether to lend. And the largest amount you can get is 150k. A far cry from the ten million you claim is needed to get a coal mine started. Is playing fast and loose with numbers and facts part of the skillset needed to "work better"? How so? No regulation to get in the way of business. Supply and demand isn't artificially manipulated by the government. Anything you want you can buy it provided you have enough money. Taxes are not an issue if you grease the right palms. Sounds like a perfectly free market to me. It's only a lawless environment if you're a have-not. But if so, you should just "work better", right? Problem solved!

So the excessive speculative activity in the mortgage sector coupled with loose requirements and insufficient checks when lending and selling financial products (i.e. deregulation) leading to a housing bubble was somehow the commies' fault because, um, housing is a right? That's some impressive mental gymnastics, perfect 5/7. And no, I would have been perfectly happy with the whole system being allowed to crash and burn. I didn't have a mortgage and my savings were guaranteed by the state in the case of a bank run (which is as close as an actual guarantee as you'll get, otherwise I would just have bought gold bars), so seeing a few banksters land behind bars would have been totally worth it. Alas, no such luck. Did you read the link at all? It clearly says, "should be standard procedure where applicable". This is from a federal agency. The reason it's "just" a recommendation is because there is no statute to make them mandatory, even though there's pressure for just one such statute to be drafted. In the US, and elsewhere. For example, in Germany (that commie hellhole!) employers are required by law to take measures if temperatures inside exceed 26 ºC. Not necessarily air conditioning, though. Here, warehouse work would have to stop if temperatures exceed 25º C, which isn't hard (and which isn't always observed). If you think doing physical work in excessive heat shouldn't be regulated under "basic" labor conditions, I have to wonder whether you have done a single day of physical work under such conditions in your life. You are right on one thing. It's not "employers" in a broad sense. It's mostly the transnational corps. Small businesses rarely have the kind of leverage that allows them to put competitors out of business, manipulate the labor market and abuse corporate personhood to put special interests above the general interest. Thank you. So hard work will then not always yield better results, and neither will "smart work" or any other adjective put before "work", because life just doesn't work that way. Yep, not even dumb work, or lazy work. Which is what I've been saying all along. We all know that one guy who's a total waste of company resources and yet, against all common sense, will not get fired no matter what. Hell, they may even promote him. The notion that in order to succeed you just need to keep pulling at your bootstraps is an idiotic feel-good fantasy. Of course staying in bed will not work either, but that's not what people trying to survive on a burger flipper's wages are doing, so moot point. Now, with that out of the way, perhaps we can go back to analyzing precisely how "greed is good". I'm not fighting for anything other than, maybe, intellectual honesty. If we can at least get there, we may be on track to inventing a scientific approach to economics that will not be dragged down by centuries of dogmatic junk and torn bootstraps. I have no idea what that would look like. Pretty sure that no one around these parts got a small loan of ten million euros to get their businesses going. And I've seen a lot of small businesses close over the years because they simply couldn't compete with the likes of Carrefour, Amazon, Inditex, etc. As for capitalism in Africa, that's probably as close to "free" markets as you can get in the real world. Very little to no state intervention resulting in veritable AnCap paradises in places like Somalia, South Sudan, DRC, and a few others. If you have sufficient money, the lack of regulation is a boon rather than a problem, as illustrated by the coltan extraction operations in DRC that I mentioned before, for example. The "western model" (another meaningless buzzword btw) works despite capitalism, rather than thanks to it.

I actually live in Spain, which has a 14% unemployment rate now, down from ~26% in 2013-14. It's sadly not an exception in Europe. Honestly, the way you talk reminds me a lot of the tune many business owners would sing, before the economy crashed in 2008. The fact that you may not see the reserve army of labor now is not a rebuttal of the concept, much like not being currently electrocuted does not mean that electricity is a fiction. Your reference to the nominally low US unemployment rate betrays, as if on cue, your ignorance of the underemployment rate, and what it means. And again, the fact that you are using your inability to find employees for your company shows that you do not understand what structural unemployment is. Educate yourself a bit -- you know, what you keep saying people should do to find a job? In the US, there is unsurprisingly a higher temp limit which should not to be exceeded as per the OSHA. So yeah, basic conditions. Similar recommendations exist across Europe, and yet somehow I'm not surprised you're unaware of this. Obviously, that is not prescribed by law, because If it were, Amazon's employees wouldn't have to strike when they could just sue, duh. I'm not surprised that your stance is "well go change the law then because they are sticking perfectly to it!", even though a large part of worker-employer relationships are not handled by labor law, but collective bargaining. It's also baffling how attached you are to the letter of the law, while also bemoaning taxation, which is fundamentally the basis of any lawmaking. It was actually Guard Dog, to whom I was originally replying. Then you moved the goalposts: You can't seriously expect me to walk you through your own comments all the time. The discussion was about how greed supposedly motivates people to work hard, and therefore achieve results. So harder work = better results. Seems simple enough. You do not need to explicitly say something, something may be directly derived from what you have said by following its implications. This is called deductive reasoning. I'd also suggest you read up on black swan theory, and how it relates to the large numbers of businesses that not only do not make billionaires of their owners, but simply fail (~50% make it to their fifth year, and about one in three survives past ten) and land people in debt. It's not that it's "billions or bust", but if you cannot provide a clear, definite, and reliable path from zero to billionaire within your lifetime and without inheritance, by detailing exactly what "working smart and efficient" means, you are just blowing hot air. To use an easy to understand analogy. If I say that all I need to read your mind is "focus" and just happen to guess what you are thinking, am I really reading your mind? Let's of course discard the many tries when I failed, and only consider the one lucky guess when I actually did it, as "proof" that mind-reading is possible and all that's needed is "focus". That's magical thinking. Also read up on it. No, you just made up a story that may or may not be true because you didn't give any hard figures or sources. Even your ballpark figures do not support your conclusion if you take into consideration what should be basic concepts for a business owner, e.g. running costs and loan interest payments. You don't need to write a dissertation, just a link or two should be enough. See, I'd be more inclined to take you at your word of it if you hadn't consistently displayed a glaring detachment from reality and ignorance or misunderstanding of basic facts. And while there are indeed millions of people starting up small businesses, the difficulties facing starting a co-op mine in Africa by former slave miners who just happened to get a small loan of ten million dollars are so insurmountable that the few that exist are sadly far from the norm.

Only the employee will be without a job (and at risk of exposure), but the employer can just keep offering the same **** conditions to more candidates, until one accepts, as provided by the reserve army of labour. Do you live in a parallel universe or something where demand for jobs is lower than offer? Because in most of the developed world, it's the other way around. Seriously, it's hard to have a conversation on this topic when you don't even have the basics such as structural unemployment and underemployment rates down. No, Bezos isn't going to be "out of a job" in any sense of the word because he can close shop tomorrow and walk away without ever having to work again, unlike his workers. And no, they weren't protesting to get more comfy chairs, they were striking to get basic working conditions, such as air conditioning in warehouses with temperatures higher than 35 ºC where physical work is done. Wew lad. Is it customary in Poland to exploit your "friends" and steal the fruits of their labor (when not their wages outright) when you give them food and shelter? You have the gist of it, though. The job is the only thing protecting your friend from exposure, and therefore the power relationship between you and your employee friend is NOT equal. As I said. No, that's just goalpost shifting that you need to do so that the whole thing doesn't crumble (as much). First it was that the system rewards hard work. Only it obviously doesn't, so it was redefined as "smart work". But only those who cross an arbitrary profit threshold apparently know how to do that. Their success is explained by "working smart" by those who don't want to look too closely, and the process of becoming successful is described as "smart work". In short, they are successful because they succeeded, not because they worked hard. It's circular logic, it's nonsense. It's a meaningless buzzword. Hold up. I thought we just established that you don't need to work hard to make billions, just smart. But now you're giving me this sob story about how tough it is to be a billionaire and likening it to the sacrifice and mental and physical fortitude required to be a professional athlete. Which one is it going to be, this page? Anyway, yeah. I'm not so convinced after you suggested that it should be easy to get a $100k loan for a co-op mine together with another 79 have-nots because you can apparently get a mine running for $10M now, and then somehow forgot that operating costs are a thing from day 0, unlike revenue. I'm not getting the "smart" work vibe here at all.

The "Nazi means National Socialist, ergo literally Hitler was really a pinko lefty" thing has been a meme around these parts for some time now. Usually I immediately counter with a Carl Marks ☭ = 卐 jpeg, but I cba anymore, honestly.

I think I've brought this up before, but you are operating on the premise of a completely fictional worker-employer power dynamics. And after going over this topic for what feels like the nth time in ten ****ing years, I am not inclined to educate you. Even less so considering that this is in the intellectually dishonest context of "working smart ≡ making billions of dollars". I'll give you a hint, though: the labor market is NOT a perfectly competitive environment, and monopsonies like Amazon do NOT negotiate on an equal footing. The beauty of it is nobody needs to put a gun to anyone's head (in first world countries at least). The threat of hunger and homelessness is more than enough, and it tends to minimize the risk of violent revolt compared to other means of coercion.

Thread has gone full socialism. Enemies of the people everywhere (in this thread), tremble!