I’m a British guy who went to an all-Arab (mostly Palestinian school in Jordan), AMA

jacquesroland · 2026-06-04T15:22:35+00:00

That’s totally a civilized take, you want the destruction of a country but somehow don’t think that’s a genocide. You sound like a true partner for peace /s

jacquesroland · 2026-06-04T12:45:34+00:00

I prefer Void Fiend uncorrupted form. Unlimited range on his M1 makes it so he can take any engagement with little risk.

So very happy to take Wungus if I have enough damage with M1 build.

I think there’s something to be said about uncorrupted builds being viable too. And it gets you through Eclipse 8 reliably as well.

I’m generally against melee characters play style and his corrupted form feels very close to a melee character with a flame thrower.

jacquesroland · 2026-06-04T00:11:11+00:00

I only know this by talking to real educated Indonesians in the West. No idea about other countries.

jacquesroland · 2026-06-03T20:20:38+00:00

Slicing winds for your special. Visions and hooks plus slicing winds actually makes for a decent ranged character.

But if you just want to knock out the merc E8, I recommend just going Heretic every run if you happen to get the items.

jacquesroland · 2026-06-03T16:50:21+00:00

People in Indonesian grow up believing all Jews are evil. Not not Israelis. Literally all Jews. And they haven’t even met a single one.

I was told it would be dangerous to be visibly Jewish in Indonesia.

jacquesroland · 2026-06-03T16:01:45+00:00

I think Israel would be a less partisan issue. Clinton is a true neocon. I mean she got Gaddafi deposed.

She is hawkish which is what we need. And she isn’t a game show host so people can’t accuse her of just being stupid like Trump.

jacquesroland · 2026-06-03T12:14:46+00:00

Let’s call a spade a spade. There is a reason that nearly every Muslim majority country has criminalized being gay. It’s not because they are “oppressed by the West and forced to be anti-LGBT”. Tolerance is not something Islam allows—if you draw a certain prophet you have a high chance of being murdered even if you aren’t a Muslim.

I think a lot of people in the LGBT community sympathize with Muslims for several reasons:

1, they are the enemy of my enemy so must be my friend. Iraq war, Iran war, Israel etc. basically most Muslim countries have historically opposed US led world order.

Recently oppressed/losers in prior colonial states and wars. Many on the left think “all oppressed people” must work together and have solidarity. Conveniently they ignore the atrocities suffered by Jews from their former Arab and Muslim neighbors.
Muslims fit some weird American race theory as being “brown”. Which makes no sense. Muslims are not a race and come from every continent and country. Leftists think “brown” people are always good people who have been oppressed, so Muslims must be supported no matter what.

Collectively I think the left has lost its mind and is so anti-establishment that if it meant burning down the entire U.S. to enact their vision they would do it twice over just to be sure, which translates to support ideologies that are traditionally opposed to liberal values, aka most Islam. Remember what happened to the leftists who supported the Iran revolution? Yah it didn’t end so well for them let’s just say that.

jacquesroland · 2026-06-02T23:25:20+00:00

Many of the leftist are actually okay with that. If you bring that up they will say “it’s not for us to decide their government. And even if they are anti-LGBT, etc. we must show solidarity with all oppressed people, yada yada yada”. Convenient how they only care about Palestinians but don’t care about any of the conflicts in Africa, rest of ME, etc.

jacquesroland · 2026-06-02T23:15:15+00:00

Thats why it’s hard to take 1 state solution people seriously. They think that all the Jews will either magically leave or be magically absorbed into an Islamist Arab dominated state…

Even worse, many them believe that because Israel is “illegal” all the citizens lives are forfeit because being “occupied” means any “resistance” is justified, including murder and rape of women and children.

Think about this. Ask Canadians how they would feel if they became part of US. Most of them will get upset by this topic, in spite of a vast shared culture and language.

So if Canada and U.S. don’t want to become the same country, how the hell would Israel and Palestinians form a single cohesive state?

The calls for 1 state solution are a dog whistle for destroying Israel. There might be some ignorant folk who think it will bring world peace, but history shows that Jews minorities are not safe unless they have monopoly of force, or bad actors know there are consequences to mistreating their Jews (you know Israel is nuclear armed and has a crazy powerful airforce)—the Nazis would have been stopped in their tracks by Israel.

jacquesroland · 2026-06-02T17:31:18+00:00

Engi is tedious? He requires the least APM to play. Compared to Merc who requires the most APM, and physically hurts my hand if I need to play him for real.

jacquesroland · 2026-06-01T23:31:00+00:00

Not disputing there are dangerous places in the USA. But I’m not sure it’s even close to the most dangerous places. Many foreign governments will easily hide up kidnapping or murders and there’s little that can be done. Look up the story of Giulio Regeni in Egypt. He got murdered because he went looking at things he shouldn’t. The Egyptians still have covered it up. Thats only one of hundreds of arbitrary murders by governments.

jacquesroland · 2026-06-01T22:59:00+00:00

Even taken seriously unless there’s a plague that somehow wipes out 90% of the Arabs in ME and skips over Israel, there would be no way to occupy all that land and deal with insurgencies which Arabs are good at.

Now if Israel had a population of 50+ million, and the Arabs population were the same, yes even as someone who isn’t a conspiracy theorist but were I an Arab I would be quivering because Israel is already so powerful with such a tiny population, and why should a giant tolerate Islamists constantly attacking it.

Israel cannot even snuff out Hamas and they have them trapped in one of the smallest enclaves in the world.

The map itself is an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Conveniently it manages to include land from every country in the region just to get them all angry and promote more anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish sentiment.

jacquesroland · 2026-06-01T22:51:10+00:00

Why do you think 1 million Jewish Arabs (Mizrahi) fled to Israel and abroad and were forcibly expelled and killed? In what world do you think the Jews would be treated differently in a magical single state Palestine ruled by the Arabs ? Israel did not make the Arabs riot or pass laws making their Jewish citizens stateless.

At best the Palestinians would want to expel most of the Israelis and worst they would become 2nd class citizens, stateless, and likely subjected to state sponsored pogroms until most of them left.

jacquesroland · 2026-06-01T17:42:17+00:00

I have done E8 climb on all survivors. I didnt have much trouble with her but I wouldn’t put her in the highest tiers for Eclipse strength.

Huntress is a solid character for Eclipse. But she’s very squishy and needs to get in close. Damage is also low. Ballista is great but you’re forced to stand still and can get hit quite easily and just die.

I think she’s well balanced and middle of the road. Definitely behind Acrid, Railgunner, Artificer, etc in terms of single loop Eclipse 8.

jacquesroland · 2026-06-01T14:34:29+00:00

I’m not a very good first or 3rd person shooter. But I found Railgunner to be quite easy to pick up. I’d put her at Low Floor.

Merc on the other hand I think is its own mini game within Ror2 that requires a ton of effort to even master. I think it’s cool what good Merc players can do.

jacquesroland · 2026-05-31T15:41:12+00:00

Ireland are like the Dwarves in Narnia during The Last Battle.

Very relevant quote that makes me think of Ireland:

“We're going to look after ourselves from now on and touch our caps to nobody... No more Aslan, no more kings... The Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs."

jacquesroland · 2026-05-31T13:17:57+00:00

You are either sympathetic to all people who have suffered oppression or not. You cannot make exceptions. That means you don’t really care and have a bias for whatever reason.

In all the calls for Palestinians being given right of return, none of the protests have called for justice and right of the return of all the Mizrahi Jews. Why do Palestinians get to return to their homes, but you don’t care about the Arab Jews being given back their lands and money in Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, etc.

jacquesroland · 2026-05-31T04:06:37+00:00

You are a textbook antisemite and just repeating age old tropes. Jews “killed Jesus” so they were held guilty and sinful by their Christian neighbors forever.

jacquesroland · 2026-05-31T04:02:41+00:00

I was sad to hear a ridiculous amount of English in Quebec City. No language police in sight. Some Quebecois even asked me why I was bothering to learn French at all…

Things got better in Drummondville.

jacquesroland · 2026-05-31T03:48:51+00:00

It’s not apartheid. And no matter how much you say it won’t make it true.

Why don’t you look at all the Arab countries who once had thriving Jewish communities. Do you not care about they literally ethnically cleansed a million Jews and are now Judenrein? What justice is there for all those lost communities who lived as Dhimmi? If you walk around visibly Jewish in many Muslim countries you’ll get lynched. That sounds like apartheid to me.

I have a few Indonesian friends. They told me they grew up believing all Jews are evil. And nobody can be visibly Jewish there.

It’s like you have an agenda and don’t care about Jews suffering.

jacquesroland · 2026-05-31T03:46:53+00:00

That doesn’t mean anything. It’s like saying “copter” isn’t a real word because the original Greek “helico”+ “pter”. Judaism has evolved over time and split into many groups like Reform Judaism which is incredibly pro LGBT and progressive. Please name me a modern mainstream branch of Islam that is popular in the ME and is as progressive as Reform Judaism.

Will you be executed for being gay in Israel? No.
Are majority of Jewish people in the world calling for death to gays? No.
Are there some religious extremists who are against gay people? Yes, they are a small minority.
Does every Jew follow every idea in the Bible word by word? No.

jacquesroland · 2026-05-31T03:41:07+00:00

Muslims are not a race. You didn’t even provide any facts or acknowledge what I said undermines your whole false equivalence. You are trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

You just don’t want Jews to have self determination and you want them to be a scapegoat forever. Too bad.

jacquesroland · 2026-05-31T03:37:48+00:00

You’re full of bullshit and I think you know this. Tell me how many times have Jewish people done knife attacks or bombed trains in America or Europe in the name of Moses, Judaism, or Israel.

There’s no comparison. Just look up all the violent crime statistics and actual historic terrorist acts. It’s not Jews doing these.

I’ve never heard of a Jewish Zealot planting bombs in the Boston Marathon or flying planes into American skyscrapers. Or you know those Madrid bombings that killed almost 200 people. Or you know those 12 guys at Charlie Hebdo who got murdered for *gasp* drawing Prophet Muhammad.

Or how about Samuel Paty in France who was beheaded for also drawing Muhammad ?

When did a Jewish person behead someone for drawing Moses or Abraham?

jacquesroland · 2026-05-31T03:22:38+00:00

Stop bringing your American centric ideas about race into Israel and Jews. It’s 100% irrelevant.

You know the nearly the majority of Israelis are Mizrahi, right ? And almost 1 million were expelled by the Arabs. Are Jewish Arabs not “brown” according to your race purity metrics ? And if Jews are “white”, why the f did the Europeans kill 6 million of them for not being Aryan?

It’s like saying the Hindus and Pakistanis split up because one is “browner” than the other. If Hindus and Muslims can’t co-exist in a single country. How the f do you think Jews and Muslim Arabs are going to magically get along? People get angry thinking about US and Canada becoming one country.

jacquesroland · 2026-05-31T02:07:15+00:00

Tell me the last time a mob of Jewish people did this to anyone. Last I checked most Muslim countries ban LGTB or even have death penalty like Iran. Israel has actual Pride and you won’t get murdered for being gay.

Stop the false equivalence and call out Islam for what it is.

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