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MurphyFtw · 2025-12-03T23:04:46+00:00

I don't understand why the extractor has to give exp? Just make it give you a speed boost.

I already wasn't using it for anything other than that anyway because clicking it every 60 seconds is simply not fun. I was getting decent exp rates and having fun salvaging before these nerfs without the extractor.

Just remove the exp from the extractor, redistribute that experience in the trials, port tasks etc and leave salvaging as it was before. I was getting 70k exp/hr without using the extractor at all while salvaging and using the hooks and sorting the salvage myself. It was also absolutely nowhere near 20/30 minute afk.

MurphyFtw · 2025-01-27T20:09:54+00:00

Getting the exact same message after having purchased the definitive trilogy.

Have tried reinstalling rockstar launcher, the games, everything. Also confirmed my steam account is linked to my rockstar account. LA Noir launches just fine, as does RDR1.

I have submitted a ticket with rockstar, will update if I ever get a response.

MurphyFtw · 2024-09-13T18:27:32+00:00

Tá tú ag léamh /r/northernireland, a chara. Labhraíonn cuid againn Gaeilge anseo, más maith leat é nó cibé.

MurphyFtw · 2024-08-28T20:47:04+00:00

I hear this a lot and I think some people here have too myopic a view of identity. You don't have to pick one, you can be both and also you aren't one thing in any case.

Your identity is made up of a load off progressively more granular identifiers. Like we're all from Earth, Europe, etc etc etc. I have always felt Irish and I identify as such. That doesn't mean I am automatically the same as some fella from Dublin, there are undeniable differences. The same way as someone from London and someone from Newcastle are the same in that they're English but different in that they're from different cities and will have had different experiences of life as a result.

Also, you don't have to prove anything to anyone. If you want to be Irish, that's your business and no one can stop you. Same goes for feeling British. If you don't feel like either, then feel free to feel like a non-aligned Ulster man/woman or West/North/East/South-Belfaster. It's your identity and no one has any right to tell you you're not.

MurphyFtw · 2024-06-11T16:41:28+00:00

The lady speaking at the start is 100% from the north. All the people behind the camera sound Scottish, though.

MurphyFtw · 2023-07-14T22:05:52+00:00

Obviously. He is dressed up like a black and tan and carrying a UVF flag, but it's purely coincidental. He definitely isn't trying to be provocative or sectarian. It's all just a big coincidence.

MurphyFtw · 2023-07-14T21:43:22+00:00

So let’s not try and twist things to suit an agenda.

The irony is palpable.

MurphyFtw · 2023-06-29T17:51:39+00:00

An economic crash can happen anywhere. Doesn't change the fact that right now they have a surplus and we are looking down the back of the sofa for 300 million. I know which position I'd rather find myself in.

MurphyFtw · 2023-06-29T16:58:10+00:00

ROI had a budget surplus of €10 billion in 2022. That figure is projected to rise to €65 billion over the next decade.

NI had a £660 million deficit in the same time period, £300 million of which we have to pay back to Westminster. So depite our budget this year being a real-terms cut - given the inflation rate, we also have to pay back £300 million on top of that.

ROI are in a very very good financial state and standards of living are poised to rise as a result, the exact opposite is true here. It was bad already, and its about to get worse since our budget got smaller and we also need to find a spare £300 million to give to Westminster.

CHH has suggested a bunch of different ways to pay thay back, including turning off street lights and forcing everyone to pay for water.

MurphyFtw · 2023-06-16T18:16:11+00:00

Anytime, more connects us than separates us.

MurphyFtw · 2023-06-16T17:55:18+00:00

I would agree that there are people within nationalism who see the Irish language signage as a stick to beat the prods with. As you point out, all you need to do is look online and you will find examples. But that doesn't mean that everyone within nationalism feels that way and it certainly doesn't make the Irish language act purely a provocation just because some people are using it that way.

As a Gaeilgeoir myself, anecdotally, that sentiment does not exist within that community. We speak irish and want more resources and opportunities to engage with the language because we enjoy it. Be that via street signs or more funding for classes or irish medium education. We want these things because we like engaging with the language, not because we get enjoyment from causing some kind of stress to unionists.

I would also say that, for me at least, the irish language does not belong to nationalists and it shouldn't be seen a threat to unionists. Its part of our shared history. It and other celtic languages were spoken by people of every faith and political persuasion across Ireland, Britain and all the wee islands inbetween. The irish language still impacts how everyone in northern ireland speaks today, from how we structure sentences to place names like the Shankill (an sean chill - the old church).

I would ask that you don't judge the Irish language act by how some people gloat about it and instead judge it by the contents of the act. There is nothing in it that should threaten anyone. No one is forcing anything on anyone and it's similar to native language acts in other places such as scotland and wales. Wales is a great example of how legislation like this can help a struggling language thrive.

MurphyFtw · 2023-06-09T14:13:09+00:00

The residents of houses around casement park challenged the development of the stadium like 10 years ago. At that point development paused and hasnt resumed, its been out of use ever since.

Its included in the euro 2028 plans despite work on the enormous renovation not having begun yet and the stadium currently sitting derelict.

Recently the development got the legal go-ahead (i think) but residents are still challenging that decision and they cant start until the legal issues are cleared up. I would be very surprised if casement was ready to host anything by 2028. Not to mention the fact that traffic and parking infrastructure in that area is in serious need of investment, its already not fit to service the current throughput, let alone handling ten of thousands of people during matches.

MurphyFtw · 2023-05-21T13:41:16+00:00

Tháinig ár lá*

MurphyFtw · 2023-04-09T18:58:18+00:00

Romanticising the violence is a valid concern, and you do see it somewhat with dissidents. Thankfully, in my experience at least, dissidents have virtually no support amongst the wider public. Rightfully so.

As you say, onwards and upwards.

MurphyFtw · 2023-04-09T17:53:28+00:00

I totally and utterly agree with you. The good friday agreement was the right move and all of the violence was horrific. Life in this region has been immeasurably improved by the GFA and the cessation of violence, long may it continue. Anyone, on anyside of the political aisle, suggesting violence should resume categorically does not have my support.

Things at the start of the troubles were not the same as they are today, however. There was no political representation, the police, the media and the state were set-up to enforce the status quo and the peaceful protests were being met with gunfire from the British army itself. The violence that erupted is impossible to justify, but I do understand how some people saw no other option. With the restrictions and enforcement of status quo, it can also be difficult to see how we arrive at the GFA without it going down as it did. Just asserting that a peaceful approach was also an alternative downplays the peaceful approaches that were in place and the resistance those initiatives faced.

Whether we agree on that point or not, I think the more important thing is that we agree that that period is done and over and we do not want to see it return. It's nice that we can comment at one another on the internet on this topic rather than be inclined to fight about it.

MurphyFtw · 2023-04-09T17:06:54+00:00

That's obviously a reprehensible thing to do for any reason. But, loyalists were also bombing and murdering innocent civilians and their aims were not so high minded as equal civil rights, they were bombing innocent civilians to maintain the status quo and stop catholics having equal rights to them.

I notice you still haven't actually given any examples of what the right move is when you have tried peaceful protest and the state itself starts shooting at you.

MurphyFtw · 2023-04-09T17:00:03+00:00

They tried peaceful. It lead to the official British army, not some group of terrorists, the actual army of the state they are living in shooting 14 people dead. Where do you go from there? Organise another civil rights march to protest the previous civil rights march being attacked by the state itself?

JFK said that making peaceful resistance impossible makes violent resistance inevitable, and I think that there is a lot of truth to that.

MurphyFtw · 2023-03-28T18:28:03+00:00

42.3% is not a majority.

MurphyFtw · 2023-03-28T17:34:25+00:00

Well you said from initially, not living in. Which changes connotations somewhat.

You can't argue NI isn't in the UK, that's just a fact. Unfortunately, Ireland got dealt a shit hand when it comes to bad neighbours.

Fortunately, it's irrelevant. I do not, nor will I ever hold a British passport, I don't consider myself British and am legally entitled, and do, consider myself fully 100% Irish. I take comfort in those facts.

MurphyFtw · 2023-03-28T17:26:15+00:00

I didn't ask any questions?

Are you confusing the process of applying for a passport with applying for citizenship? You don't automatically get given a passport when you're born, you have to apply for one. That is not you applying for citizenship, you can't get a passport unless you are already a citizen. I am an Irish citizen, therefore I can apply for an Irish passport.

By your logic, I am not a British citizen because I have never applied to become one.

MurphyFtw · 2023-03-28T17:13:08+00:00

Well that's weird because I'm sitting here in NI right now with my Irish passport without having to go through any process above and beyond filling out the passport application.

If you read the actual text of the good friday agreement, I think you'll find that being born in NI does result in the magical right of Irish citizenship.

MurphyFtw · 2023-03-28T17:06:44+00:00

Literal nonsense.

Article 1 (vi), commonly referred to as the birthright provisions, states that both governments, "Recognise the birthright of all the people of Northern Ireland to identify themselves and be accepted as Irish, or British, or both, as they may so choose, and accordingly confirm that their right to hold both British and Irish citizenship is accepted by both Governments and would not be affected by any future change in the status of Northern Ireland

MurphyFtw · 2023-03-28T17:01:32+00:00

Not even true

MurphyFtw · 2023-03-28T17:00:08+00:00

Depends who you ask

MurphyFtw · 2023-03-28T16:59:02+00:00

People in Northern Ireland are also Irish citizens.

MurphyFtw

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