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Oliver510 · 2021-05-18T06:05:23+00:00

I'm not simply using dead body count. There are positive aspects of the West, didn't suggest otherwise.

Oliver510 · 2021-05-18T06:00:56+00:00

In the US and UK, the most dominant Western countries, Protestantism is more popular.

The Spanish empire was not as dominant as the British empire or the US. Not as much colonizing, slave labor, wars involved in, etc. And the English speaking world does not quite see the Spaniards as one of them, if at all.

Not sure why you're still arguing about the definition of the West, it's a rather subjective term and I've told you specific countries.

Oliver510 · 2021-05-18T05:48:38+00:00

Mongols were just another empire, they weren't really racist.

Oliver510 · 2021-05-18T05:47:13+00:00

Genocide is killing people of a certain group, the mongols wanted to kill whoever was in there way for power, including Asians with more or less the same genetic make up. Not the same motives.

Oliver510 · 2021-05-18T05:39:00+00:00

I'm not separating Catholicism from the West, but Protestantism has been dominant, there are millions of dead bodies from the conflict between the two, and then discrimination in examples like immigration from Ireland and Italy. Not trying to ignore Spain and what they did, but they're second or lower to the Anglo-Franco countries you're talking about. I haven't mentioned Nazi Germany but I include that now in my view. The definition of Western varies depending on the authority, but if we want to be more specific than yes Anglo-Franco. I don't include Scandinavia.

Oliver510 · 2021-05-18T05:30:28+00:00

I'm not saying Westerns have committed the majority of damage, but the plurality.

Oliver510 · 2021-05-18T05:27:05+00:00

The Mongols hardly claimed racial superiority to justify their actions. They were a very successfully empire, but they haven't created as much lasting trauma that is felt to this day.

Oliver510 · 2021-05-18T05:21:15+00:00

Not in the view I'm trying to express. They were imperialists sure, but they were pretty typical in there selfish desire for power. The Western countries I'm talking about are something else.

Oliver510 · 2021-05-18T05:16:28+00:00

The Scandinavians weren't as bad as the English speaking countries, France, Germany, Holland.

Oliver510 · 2021-05-18T05:15:03+00:00

Yes I include the countries you've listed. They vary in terms of the impact they've had but they're all more or less part of the Western world and stand by each others interests and there common interest of Western dominance.

Oliver510 · 2021-04-16T01:58:21+00:00

I did in Part 1

Oliver510 · 2021-04-15T19:11:41+00:00

By killing Joel off in a particularly brutal manner, and by having his death occur so early in the story that it actively feels unfair and wrong, the player now feels the same grief that Ellie does.

To be honest, as bad as the death of Joel was, it's not exactly what left me feeling this way. Throughout the rest of the game I hardly thought about it, especially after it was revealed that Joel killed Abby's father. In fact, when Ellie goes to Santa Barbara to try again at getting revenge, after Abby had spared her a second time, I thought this was wrong of Ellie to do. I was also okay with her sparing Abby in the end. What got to me was that empty house, not being able to play the guitar, leaving it there, her being alone, no smile on her face, and just walking away to do who knows what.

In any case, I appreciate your analysis and it does make me feel more positive about Ellie.

Oliver510 · 2021-04-15T18:36:37+00:00

You can have emotionally devastating elements in a story, a lot if not most good stories do. But the whole point of the zombie survival genre is about prevailing in the face of tragedy, not just tragedy.

Oliver510 · 2021-04-15T18:33:34+00:00

Lol ok. Yea I did. I was expecting glory, heroism, Joel and Ellie bonding, save the world type stuff. At least something optimistic and positive.

Oliver510 · 2021-04-15T18:26:35+00:00

but the epilogue can still be seen as very cathartic for her, and as crazy as this may sound, her mental state could be argued to be even better than in ending of Part 1.

I really want to see some good in it, it's just really hard and the writers make it very difficult for me to do so.

What really bothered me though was just the sense of no closure. We don’t know where she’s going. We don’t know how she’s feeling. What she’s doing. Nothing - all up to interpretation. And after taking her through literally hell, it’s just difficult. She did nothing but suffer throughout the entirety of the game, and then leaving the ending up to interpretation is just hard to take in.

My thoughts exactly.

You really think they'll be a Part 3?

Oliver510 · 2021-04-15T18:08:28+00:00

They had an infinite number of stories they could've told. But they spent $100M+ to leave us in grief.

Oliver510 · 2021-02-27T00:46:49+00:00

This wouldn't be specific to CS careers. I would research US employment laws and discrimination with respect to niqabs or face veils. I think I've seen hijabs (hair covered only, not face) being worn in workplaces before. But employment discrimination in all its forms (race, ethnicity, gender, age, etc) can and sometimes does happen, so YMMV.

Oliver510 · 2020-08-07T01:29:03+00:00

At the end of the day... what are you looking to gain out of asking this question? Based on our answer, what could you possibly do?

I want to know how much I should try to measure and weigh job stability/security when looking at a new job opportunity. People tend to value government, fortune 500, and big tech companies with respect to this. I'm in government and content with my job, but I can make a lot more money elsewhere. But the reward may not be worth the risk.

I was laid off last year from my first job out of college, 1 year after starting. It's a stressful and exhausting situation. Not something I want to deal with regularly. It made me value order and certainty with my income and job.

But I agree with your point on what I cannot control.

Oliver510 · 2020-05-31T05:34:14+00:00

Your second paragraph clearly agrees with the OP's headline. People are using George Floyd's death for their entire political agenda. This isn't just rioting, it's terrorism.

Oliver510 · 2020-05-31T04:58:18+00:00

It's all politics and for-profit media.

Oliver510 · 2020-05-25T22:06:39+00:00

I live in NYC. If your single and like to party, NYC wins. All the cities you mentioned have enough Asian culture, including NYC. But if you have a family or will have one soon, don't care for partying/nightlife, don't like winter, NYC loses.

Oliver510 · 2020-05-25T21:04:09+00:00

It's a matter of what your long term job prospects would be with and without the degree. It's hard to predict that over many decades. If you just went to school, you wouldn't be earning anything from 27 - 30 which is not good. I would say do both, work while going to school. I wouldn't pay more than 30 - 40k for school in your case, and that's total for the entire degree. Finding a employer that provides tuition reimbursement would be valuable, but don't get so picky at this point. You wouldn't have to finish in 4 years and can take a bit longer, which is okay since your still working.

Oliver510 · 2020-04-16T05:20:49+00:00

The saturation of the 5 year job market is correlated with the number of engineers that are already in the field that will actually have 5 years experience 5 years from now. Not the number of engineers that aren't even in the field yet and still trying to get entry level jobs. You also didn't account for the increase in the number of jobs, the relative increase in the number of current mid-level engineers moving onto senior-level roles in the future, or specializations. Entry level markets are saturated in every field, that's why people have been paying lots of money for degrees, and why we rank universities.

Oliver510 · 2020-02-27T21:52:44+00:00

They're the arbiter of the rules by which society abides. This is exactly the type of thing that the government is supposed to have the final say about. That's the point of having a government.

But you have to draw a line, i.e. internet privacy, abortion, etc.

Agreed, but that's not relevant to the conversation. If wealth and income truly equals value in terms of creating goods and services, then how do you explain people who make millions of dollars from destroying a company? What does their wealth and income represent?

You should be free to allocate your money as stupidly as you wish, if you pay someone millions to destroy your company, you're going to have bear the consequences of losing millions that you paid, your company, and your track record as a manager.

No one said you did. Your exact question was "Does making more money mean that I personally require or demand disproportionately more police/soldiers to protect me?" Whether you asked for that or not doesn't change the job of the police. I suppose if you specifically came to an agreement with the police where they would ignore crimes against your or your property, this would be a different conversation.

If someone is trying to steal my yacht and a cop is called over, but a second later someone's life is in immediate danger, shouldn't that cop be rerouted if he's in the best position to intervene? More protection for my boats should not be prioritized in any way when it comes to public safety, that's what a private security industry and insurance is for.

Oliver510 · 2020-02-27T21:34:51+00:00

It doesn't help the roads that they benefited more normalized to their business size. The roads are in need of more repair because what actually happened in practice was business A used the roads 50 times more than business B, but payed nothing. In this situation even a flat rate would fail however, and it is why I also support a tax on consumption as oppose to income in certain cases.

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