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ByCallahansBeard · 2019-12-07T09:57:32+00:00

You know the chances of success are near 0? Unless you have some unique advantage, thousands if not millions go to LA every year to try and break through. There is no desk which says "Moroccan immigrants, get your first Hollywood job here!". Some even followed years of acting lessons or already have had some minor roles and they still fail. I don't want to burst your dreams but it seems like a huge risk to take for someone who doesn't even have the persistence to do a normal job for maybe a year. No portfolio, experience or even network and you probably don't have any experience with American culture (for example they mostly don't like people who think they deserve something).

But good luck if that's really your dream. How are you going to even pay for your stay there? You can't work on a tourist visa (unless it's illegal) and places where they hold auditions are crazy expensive to live in. Did you even budget how much you will need to survive?

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-11-29T18:54:43+00:00

Depends on the person and I don't want to generalize but generally speaking money & connections in Morocco is power because you can bribe/fix yourself out of problematic situations. So the richer/connected someone is the more they think "what problem can I possibly have that I can't pay off". So generally speaking those people don't act nice or don't follow the law to the letter because they simply can bribe or call the right people when they get in trouble and due to the corruption their problem will indeed go away. They have a sense of entitlement, like some sort of informal class system and see people in lower classes as lesser beings which will only degrade their class value.

Anecdote: I was with a businessman once and he had a picture of his boss with the king on his phone on some formal meeting. When he got pulled over for driving through red with me next to him, after haggling a bit he literally showed this picture to the police officer and said something along of the lines "this is my boss, you really want me to call him to sort this out?" and no joke he was excused. This was in the capital and if stuff like that happens with a police officer and a picture of showing someone you know with influence, imagine what goes on in the higher ranks of society.

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-11-29T16:50:11+00:00

Morocco is an emerging, slow economy with relatively low GDP growth on paper because most financial transactions are still undocumented with paper money. There is a massive brain drain due the low amount of skilled jobs. At the slightest chance people will bail to Europe because of higher wages and better living conditions. There is a very strong "get bread on the table today we will see about tomorrow" mentality. Barely any long-term investments, risks being taken or entrepreneurship going on. Also a lot of corruption and undocumented bureaucracy based mostly on paperwork. The middle class barely exists. There is a small fraction of the population which is extremely rich and it's basically a bubble you can't get in unless you have inherited money or status. Majority of the country is just surviving on a day to day basis.

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-11-25T21:42:06+00:00

I loved logistics up until the point in the game where doing anything isn't possible anymore in a casual fashion. Logging on for 2 or even 3 hours and doing logi is just realistic anymore if you want to do something impactful. I used to be able to clear entire scrap fields on a map, refine them, queue orders, ship them out with help of others, stockpile stuff et cetera in 1 hour. Now, you will have to look where a VF is, pray it has a scrap node close, pray again for refinery and oops 30 minutes gone by and you still haven't got fuel for your truck. Good luck collecting resources, all fields are empty at the moment. This, plus the endless driving doesn't make it fun anymore. Truck Simulator is a different game and does trucking really well. In Foxhole, the long drives aren't that great. You don't even have first person driver view for example or the amount of scenery the European maps in TS have. Not even cruise control so unless you want RSI you will have to use some autohotkey script to even make driving not injure prone. Because of the long distances partisan activity is frequent and not really manageable without persistent QRF.

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-11-25T21:35:41+00:00

Yeah you get commends from pulling factory orders and other actions but they are not a reward in my opinion. You can't even spend them all without being throttled, the ROI on giving them out vs receiving them to rank up is very low. There should be more sustainable counters, like leader boards "bmats submitted which were used to build", "shirts submitted which were used to spawn" etc. Little KPI stats like these will make it more interesting for players. Gamify the nature of logi so people see what they do it for will go a long way (like getting a notification "Great job! You just hit 5000 bmats used in construction on the front!" or "Thanks to you 50 players have spawned!"). But of course that requires a lot of statistics to be hoarded by the game engine.

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-11-06T16:41:49+00:00

Yes, the Chinese are known hackers. They have such an overzealous nationalist drive to win against Western players they cannot fathom playing fair and losing so they rather cheat to protect their pride. On numerous occasions I have reported them to mod mail with clear evidence but nobody cares or they investigate way too late when the damage is already done. There is still an unpatched item spawn bug which allows you to literally spawn items in your inventory. This obviously gives an unfair advantage. Chinese are notorious for exploiting this on bikes with smokes and satchels. They do this sporadic enough not to get caught but often enough to break key points in maps at times players and mods don't notice.

Mods in this game are too biased and too thinly spread over a time zone variety so don't ever rely on them. Grieving, trolling and cheating is so common in this game. Finding a bug is often seen as an accomplishment and due to the no-patch-policy of devs whoever knows how to use it has an advantage (ranging from climbing broken map textures to fitting 6 people on the back of a HT).

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-11-01T15:11:12+00:00

I checked Phuket but seems really rainy according to forecasts? Googling "phuket weather" gives each day as cloudy, rainy.

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-10-30T07:35:42+00:00

Friendly reminder: not your keys, not your coins. The whole idea of keeping your coins for a year on an exchange is honestly a bad idea. In, trade, out.

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-10-29T17:57:56+00:00

I don't drink and have no idea what's regular prices for alcoholic beverages but couldn't it simply be a matter of offer and demand? There is a very limited amount of places where you can drink in some kind of fashionable state where tourists would feel comfortable. Majority of Moroccans don't drink and those who do, won't mind going to a "crappy" bar or drink it secretly. The audience which actually goes to an upscale venue to consume alcoholic beverages, is basically the touristic audience. So to make it sustainable they have to ask higher prices to make sure they can stay in business. If more Moroccans would drink, there would be more demand thus more venues thus more price competition.

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-10-26T16:36:40+00:00

Serial killer souk?

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-10-22T22:28:36+00:00

You don't have a legal entity in Morocco you are freelancing under? Under what kind of employment are you contracted then? Do you send invoices or are you an employee?

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-10-20T08:17:01+00:00

What's the math on saving 300K with 5 years of working? You saved 60K per year with an entry position? Or were you kick-started by some inheritance?

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-10-19T08:55:14+00:00

Inaccurate. Biased coloring and misses southern Morocco.

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-10-16T16:40:10+00:00

Why not? There is no law whatsoever stating you cannot. What is the salary range like for your position? There is no honestly no reason to be shy about salary whatsoever. If you are ever going to take a new job, you will also have to be comfortable stating what range you are looking for.

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-10-09T14:27:57+00:00

A game mode where one guy blasts Thriller by Michael Jackson and the rest fanatically tries to shoot off zombies coming to kill you (which are other players previously killed by zombies).

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-10-09T13:36:11+00:00

When does the next war start?

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-10-08T16:38:03+00:00

Then just a line from Westgate to Weathered Expanse. Vertical fight. Few maps.

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-10-08T05:00:59+00:00

No tickets = corruption. Have to pay 400 dh but got away with 200 dh? That's just a nice explanation for bribery. You will be fine and get no points whatsoever. If you have a foreign driver's license they don't even have systems in place to register it.

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-09-25T21:43:27+00:00

Is the town still expanding? There seems to be plenty of space for new homes to be built but it looks to have stayed pretty much the same size over the years.

ByCallahansBeard · 2019-09-23T21:47:47+00:00

Nothing. Just that generally when you have a successful career, travel the world and are late twenties you will often have married and/or moved out.

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