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RebelElite791 posted...

Its set in Bohemia not Bavaria...

fixed >_>

ThinkCritically posted...

I watched a stream of it for a little while.

Has the "British accents in the Holy Roman Empire" joke gotten tired yet?

I don't think that's a totally fair criticism. A genuine medieval accent would have gotten....grating after awhile


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Combat looks wonky and videos made me iffy about the system, but after playing it, it's a more in-depth weapon system than even games like Mount & Blade have, and it definitely rewards good reflexes and practice. I suspect the wonkiness comes from how the first person camera is at eye-level and always facing your opponent, meaning your sword will be out of frame most of the time.

The story is surprisingly good too, even though it's pretty cliche as far as vidya stories go. Genuine pathos shines through in a lot of scenes which makes it work. Brian Blessed makes the story worth paying attention to in any case.

There's a lot of design decisions that I really enjoy. For example, the game only autosaves after quest milestones and in order to save manually, you need to drink an expensive kind of alcohol, and you only get three slots in one save file (saving overwrites the earliest save). This makes savescumming basically impossible and brings some finality to your decisions. The adherence to actual life in medieval Bohemia is entertaining as well.

Only issue I have is that so far the game seems too railroaded. There's not a lot of sidequests and not much reason to do anything but follow the main quest (again, I'm only 5 hours in so far)

I've seen videos about crazy glitches but I haven't run into any yet 5 hours in. I got stuck on the side of a hill once, but managed to get out without having to reload a save. That's the closest I came to a bug. This is on PC and post-patch, however.

My rating for this game so far is a 4/5.
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Nomadic View posted...

Of course. The employer still has all the power in an employer employee relationship. The employee has rights, sure, but as far as things like forcing you to come in on your day off or working over the employer always have the upper hand. Unions help level the playing field so the employees arent taken advantage of.

If you don't want a job that can have you come in on your days off then don't accept that job....

Employer: Do what I ask and I'll pay you.
Employee: Ok.
Employer: Now do this for me.
Employee: No.
Employer: Ok, I won't pay you any more then
Union: Objection! How dare you stop paying your employee when they stop meeting the conditions under which you agreed to pay them???
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Hinakuluiau posted...

megamanfreakXD posted...

Resident doctors work over 80 hours for week for dirt on top of debt.

These people are a bunch of bitches.

A person should look at this and think, "maybe residents should get protections that allow them to sleep more and get higher pay with lower debt" and not "lets drag others down for our choices"

Lol yeah, let those patients die in the waiting room because the residents can't be bothered to come in when on-call.

Thanks, unions!
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Nomadic View posted...

More employees should unionize. As someone that worked in a union job, they are awesome. The job sucked, but the union made it bearable. The employer otherwise can dick you around any way he wants. The union gives the employee some protection against abusive practices.

You know that employment laws exist now, right? Or are you posting from the 1930's?
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s0nicfan posted...

Honestly that seems fair.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/14/somebody-just-put-a-price-tag-on-the-2016-election-its-a-doozy/?utm_term=.261fc1073fbe

The final price tag for the 2016 election is in: $6.5 billion for the presidential and congressional elections combined, according to campaign finance watchdog OpenSecrets.org.

The presidential contest primaries and all accounts for $2.4 billion of that total. The other $4 billion or so went to congressional races.

They can afford to pay their people, and the dems in particular should be willing to put the money where their #fightforfifteen mouths are.

I don't dispute that they're actually living up to what they preach for once.

I'm pointing out though that no union post-1955 has ever gone into an industry and made it work better than it had before.
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A_Good_Boy posted...

That owner probably should have adhered to proper legal channels to challenge the law instead of breaking it. He had plenty of time prior to that 90 day time frame to figure something out, shame he had to resort to the worst option that he could.

I like how you're ok with this becasuse "the law is the law" in a case where a man has to pay millions to clean his property, but you get up in arms over enforcing immigration law as it is written.
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Can someone spraypaint the judge's car and get away with it then because it's "art"?
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-12/campaign-workers-unionize-just-in-time-for-mid-term-elections

Several Democratic congressional campaigns have agreed to bargain collectively with the Campaign Workers Guild, a new union trying to organize election campaign staff in what may be a first for national politics.

The CWG announced Monday that it had secured a union contract with the campaign of Wisconsin activist Randy Bryce, the leading Democratic challenger to Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan in this years midterm elections.

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Among the issues the union said it seeks to take on are hours that approach eighty per week and wages that are below $15 an hour.

Under the agreement with Bryces campaign, workers will get paid time off and earn at least $3,000 per month. The negotiated contract covers eight employees and includes a third-party reporting process for sexual harassment and monthly health insurance reimbursement of up to $500, the campaign said. Randy is a candidate who practices what he preaches, said Bryce spokeswoman Lauren Hitt.

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Sparksfanboy posted...

Why is Mal Fet allowed to break the censor bypassing rule itt?

I got a non-delete moderation
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DifferentialEquation posted...

But white people who fought for the rights of black people are not considered to be good people,

There you have it, Abraham Lincoln was not a good person.
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cjsdowg posted...

I didn't noticed who the TC was . Mal why did you post the picture without the article who talks about how the actors were so excited to see white kids wearing the mask.

Did you not see what I wrote right under the picture?
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Had this topic really gone this far without anyone pointing out that the topic title is a lie
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Answer: anybody.
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

your comprehension skills are astounding

Just like yours are for not responding to my simple question :
Mal_Fet posted...

Tell me, in your own words, what exactly a diversity manager does. Be specific.

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FrisbeeDude posted...

Lmao no

>A man does a great deal of good for the black community
>Not part of black history because he's not black

I guess Abraham Lincoln isn't included in black history either?
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More proof that these social justice types don't actually give a shit about "allies".
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@YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

Mal_Fet posted...

Are you guys under the impression that a diversity manager is some kind of security guard for minorities or something

you really think that's a response to anything anyone said in this topic, or that it's defending your previously established position

lmfao

That's what was being implied for sure, that they supposedly protect minority athletes from bigoted foreigners.

Tell me, in your own words, what exactly a diversity manager does. Be specific.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2325414/Men-physically-strong-likely-right-wing-political-views.html
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

can you really not understand why having a diversity manager makes sense for a crew of 244 people about to spend the next two weeks with people from 100 other countries

CiIantro posted...

Because in countries like South Africa, black people were treated like animals well into the 1990s? I know people shit their pants when they hear the word diversity, but it has a place.

Are you guys under the impression that a diversity manager is some kind of security guard for minorities or something

scar the 1 posted...

You realize that a diversity director doesn't get to decide who the US selects for their teams either, right?

So what are they for then if not to manage diversity
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CiIantro posted...

@Mal_Fet posted...

CiIantro posted...

Pre-civil rights era, the US sent virtually zero black people to the Olympics. They werent even given the opportunity to qualify. THAT is how you discriminate.

Ok so why do we need a diversity manager in 2018

Because the Olympics are international, and some countries are still racist/homophobic as fuck.

Other countries don't get to decide who we select for our teams. So why do they need a diversity manager?
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CiIantro posted...

Pre-civil rights era, the US sent virtually zero black people to the Olympics. They werent even given the opportunity to qualify. THAT is how you discriminate.

Ok so why do we need a diversity manager in 2018
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daftpunk_mk5 posted...

Lmao
Step 1. Fund game with free Kickstarter money
Step 2. Still charge $60

People who kickstarted it don't have to pay $60
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CiIantro posted...

Best of the best SHOULD get in. The purpose of the diversity director is to prevent racial discrimination.

Like, how precisely to you discriminate in sports performance

*Gay black guy runs 100m in 10.5s*

*Straight white guy runs 100m in 10.8s*

Coach: "I'm gonna take the white man even though he's worse because I don't want no damn minorities on my team!"

Diversity manager: "Hold it right there! You are in direct violation of discrimination law!"

Coach: "Damn, caught me again!"
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Wow, not even 4 seconds in and already he spouts fake news.

Cooper's fully infected by CNN now
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bevan306 posted...

After learning shapes maybe you can learn about jokes

I got the joke. I still wanted to point out though that making those rectangles still required more effort than cloning the same leaves 7 times did.
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The Peterson interview was great


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bevan306 posted...

I've cracked another case wide open

Hilariously, those shapes you circled actually aren't the same dimensions

The leaves in the background of the portrait are literally copied and pasted without any variation at all
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If you make sure to hit your macronutrient goals then you'll be less hungry
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Antifar posted...

The painter's whole thing is patterned backgrounds.

There's no pattern there. The repetition is clearly meant to be obfuscated.
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Nomadic View posted...

I dont get it. What are the boxes highlighting?

The artist copied that part of the background and cloned them elsewhere
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K181 posted...

Just fyi, that's his portrait for the National Portrait Gallery, which is almost always artsy nonsense, while the official White House portrait is always more traditional.

For instance, Dubya:

https://ids.si.edu/ids/dynamic?id=http://npg.si.edu/media/A8000106A.jpg&container.fullpage&iframe=true&width=85%25&height=85%25

And Reagan:

https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=http://npg.si.edu/media/84T0278A_1.jpg

At least their hands are correctly-proportioned

Seriously, just look at Obama's left hand for 30 seconds. It's all fucked up
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Socialists have been saying that Capitalism had run its course for over 100 years now.

They were wrong in 1918 and they're wrong in 2018.
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mustang90 posted...

If you cant stand the heat stay out the kitchen. If she never married him shed be fine.

Legit psychopath right here

Didn't even have the balls to post on his main
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LordRazziel posted...

Sounds like they want to fill positions, so there is adequate representation among different groups. Is that not a good way to combat racism and sexism?

How about they just make sure that the best person for the job gets hired? Shouldn't that lead to better representation?

The only way you would disagree is if you believe that minorities can't compete with white men based on merit alone.
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LordRazziel posted...

Does there have to be? Don't you rail against people when they whine about things not being even-steven?

Statistical variances are not necessarily a result of discrimination. This is a case of people directly discriminating against people based on their skin color and their gender, and they're doing it in the name of being against racism and sexism.
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Superior version:


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Giant_Aspirin posted...

so why are you only expressing outrage when the Labour Party does it and not the other one?

Well first, I've never seen a news article refer to their women-only conference and I can't find any such conference on google

and second, this conference was announced just the other day

Antifar posted...

In its 112 year history, the Labour Party has been led by a white man for all but 10 months. I think it's disingenuous to suggest that the party doesn't have space for them.

Ok but which positions to they specifically declare are only allowed to be held by white men
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Antifar posted...

The Tories have a women-only conference; is that an outrage too?

Anyways, here's a Labour MP in his own words
https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/962818765577744384

Literally Owen Jones.

Kinda ironic for him to accuse the Tories of killing jobs when the guy extols socialism, a system that has only ever resulted in economic disaster.

Antifar posted...

The Tories have a women-only conference; is that an outrage too?

Depends. Is sexism bad?

If you think it is, then yes.
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MedeaLysistrata posted...

Mal_Fet posted...

MedeaLysistrata posted...
i'm sure if you were white/are white you would be willing to drop an nbomb in front of a group of black people. but i didn't expect you to answer that question with any measure of sincerity.

I answered your question. White people can say the n-word.

post a youtube video of yourself saying it, i need confirmation

EDIT: IF you're white

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what "can" means

White people in the US are capable of saying the n-word without any legal repercussion, and anyone who reacts violently to me saying it will be arrested for assault. Therefore, I can indeed say the n-word.
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Ricemills posted...

Mal_Fet posted...

Ricemills posted...

a corporate recruiting minorities for filling the minority equality position, how shocking!

And also bigoted.

i know right? white people must be allowed to be in charge of the minorities.

Lol

The person in those positions aren't "in charge" of anybody except maybe their secretaries.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

i'm sure if you were white/are white you would be willing to drop an nbomb in front of a group of black people. but i didn't expect you to answer that question with any measure of sincerity.

I answered your question. White people can say the n-word.
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Typical armchair psychology/spiritualist bullshit.

People have been drawing attractive females since humans discovered you could put pigments on cave walls. Why? Because they're the ones that make babies and therefore way less expendable than men. It makes sense for us to be tuned to appreciating healthy and attractive women.
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Ricemills posted...

a corporate recruiting minorities for filling the minority equality position, how shocking!

And also bigoted.
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MedeaLysistrata posted...

Mal_Fet posted...

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Giant_Aspirin posted...

it seems like this is just to fill four 'equalities officer' positions, which are specifically designed for minorities.

so you're literally complaining that a representative specifically designated for a minority position can't be white. i bet you're equally infuriated by minority only scholarships and the like.

imagine the audacity of denying someone something based on their gender and skin color

do you get mad that white people can't drop n-bombs but black people can?

I don't know about the UK, but they actually can in the US. You don't have to like it, but there's nothing stopping anybody from saying the n-word. What you can't do in the US though is discriminate against people's skin color and sex in order to hire them, which I guess you can do in the UK.
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

Mal_Fet posted...

Oh, so it's discrimination.

in the same way that minority only scholarships are, yes.

There are "white only" scholarships too

How many positions in the Labour party are only allowed to be filled by white men?
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MedeaLysistrata posted...

Giant_Aspirin posted...

it seems like this is just to fill four 'equalities officer' positions, which are specifically designed for minorities.

so you're literally complaining that a representative specifically designated for a minority position can't be white. i bet you're equally infuriated by minority only scholarships and the like.

imagine the audacity of denying someone something based on their gender and skin color

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Giant_Aspirin posted...

it seems like this is just to fill four 'equalities officer' positions, which are specifically designed for minorities.

Oh, so it's discrimination.

Funkydog posted...

I mean, they improved greatly in the last one when the tories had a solid position and made a mockery of themselves by getting greedy >.>

Only reason Tories got greedy IIRC is because they were running against Corbyn and thought they had it in the bag

Which they basically did
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JE19426 posted...

You spelt the parties name wrong. It's the "Labour Party" not the "Labor Party". Proper nouns don't get spelt differently due to regional spelling differences.

Like I give a fouck.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

you can be a gay or disabled white man and go

Oh well I guess that's not discrimination then
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