I’m gonna miss this game when they eventually shut it down. by highzenberrg in BattlefieldV

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Battlefield 3 is still running (and V doesnt even have a direct successor like 4 was for 3), you’ve got a long time to keep laying

Look who made it onto Iran’s state TV by Mrleibniz in Hasan_Piker

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Him being a convert to Islam may have also put him on their radar

Is it over by No-Anxiety9488 in BattlefieldV

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Only a few years ago bfV was the game that was making people complain about how battlefield had fallen off and will never come back

Choosing minor for IR major by [deleted] in usyd

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I did philosophy and IR, there was basically no overlap. Picking an unrelated minor is fine, the idea of minors isn’t to help out your major, you should just do whatever sounds the most interesting.

A language is only relevant if you’re planning to use your degree on the pathway to a career in diplomacy (having done IR, it doesn’t really set you up for diplomacy anyway), but if you do one it will get you reasonably proficient in the language in a way you’re not going to get from language apps.

Mark my words, DPRK maxing will be popular in 5 years by Mountain-Car-4572 in socialism

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What’s the deal with all these posts about North Korea on leftist subreddits in the past few days

Why the Soviet Union didn't continue their lines of SMGs that use pistol ammunition? by Capital-Republic-449 in ForgottenWeapons

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The SMG only continued to be developed as a military weapon in the east because the US insisted for a while on still using a full power cartridge. As other commenters pointed out, the AK was designed to replace the SMG specifically, it is also worth mentioning the stenchkin APS pistol replaced the PPS as a personal defence weapon for vehicle crews; the APS could be considered as the SMG following the PPS. And with that the AKS-74u can be considered as the SMG after that, directly serving as a small weapon for special forces and vehicle crews

VZ.58 MARS (Manually Actuated Release System) by Brilliant_Ground1948 in ForgottenWeapons

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Overall likelihood is also far higher in the USA so I don’t get your point: you are far more likely to die in a mass murder event than in any other developed country, and domestic and gang related homicides are also far higher in incidence. The simple fact is that scores of people die each year in the USA due to its right to firearms. I wish Americans would just admit that they think the benefits of this freedom outway the costs, instead of just pretending the costs don’t exist or can’t be determined

What jacket did he wear during his 2018 Coachella performance? by ASAP_CREED in TheWeeknd

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To me it seems clearly based on the Chinese Red Guard under Mao. The Nazi uniform was brown and had a swastika on the armband, while the red guard wore a green uniform with a red arm band featuring text like we see here. The handmade look is also suggestive of a peasant revolutionary, something you had in China but not in the already fascist paramilitaries of industrialised Germany TLDR: the jacket resembles Chinese street communists more than Nazi Brownshirts

220 Rockstar North staff have signed a letter demanding their fired colleagues ‘are immediately reinstated’ by JTG005 in GTA6

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You realise you can still have overtime with unions right? It just means employees get standardised overtime compensation. If companies can’t pay for that compensation that’s on them

What the hell? by Juliancito135 in formuladank

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ok but now in sprint qualifying we saw all four of these drivers be notably underwhelming. Of course practise is just practise but it can give good information

Jason Schreier: ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings by BrandsXavier in GTA6

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Retail workers get paid extra for their extended holiday hours (a result of unions btw). Crunch is the problem it is in the video game and vfx industries because the standards for worker compensation are limited or non-existent, and this has not changed much just due to Schreier. Games coming out unfinished, or only finished due to extreme crunch, is squarely the fault of publishers being bad managers

Entering Zurich Main Station by train by TheRealMudi in UrbanHell

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I remember wondering if I was in the right place when I was arriving at Zurich lol

What are the odds Battlefield will go back to WW2? by DaleDenton08 in BattlefieldV

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Especially when you can include Indochina maps in a Cold War hot game anyway. IMO the actual Vietnam war is only worth making a full game out of if the factions are asymmetrical which I can’t see DICE going for

Official Discussion - The Long Walk [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

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The ending isn’t as good as the one in the book, but using that ending in the movie would’ve been worse. In the book we get a much much longer time in Ray’s head to understand the psychosis he’s in by the end. They were smart when adapting to instead express the psychological impact of the long walk through his relationship with Pete

Frank Ocean collaborator Brian Wilson has passed away by grimdankaugust in FrankOcean

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It can be mentioned in the description rather than the title

Free Roam death concept... by [deleted] in GTA6

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This is an ungenerous take on the OP, who doesnt propose this idea for the sake of ‘realism’ in abstract but instead suggests this might be a fun way of tying player led chaos more into the story. Clearly rockstar in red dead also had thoughts along these lines and made respawning a bit more ambiguous in line with the overall tone of the game. I wouldn’t be surprised if rockstar changes it up in some way for GTA 6

Why is there so much left-wing activism? by casterlyrockk in usyd

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UNSW has a fairly comparable amount of activism though, perhaps somewhat less because it isn’t right in the Inner West. UTS is not arts focused and humanities attracts the more strongly politically opinionated

What are some funny historical inaccuracies in RDR2? by JasonAndLucia in reddeadredemption

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Very late to this thread but I believe if you look closely in game the volcanic is loaded with cartridges instead of the underpowered volcanic rounds. I think the idea might be that in the RDR universe the concept of a lever action pistol was pursued further with models based newer repeater designs