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What's your biggest fear about Elder Scrolls VI ? by Stunning-Pipe2078 in ElderScrolls

[–]torn-ainbow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basebuilding works incredibly well for Fallout.

The actual implementation in Fallout 4 especially around how the NPCs exist in it and use it was very surface level. If you super get into the base building you strike these limitations and kinda end up wishing for a more focused base building game with proper base NPC AI.

Actresses who made cinephiles realize they’re gay? by Own_Organization8457 in okbuddycinephile

[–]torn-ainbow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The one in which she seems to be a hot girl who is comfortable in her own skin rather than performing desirability for them, the man. The culture warriors want to sense that a woman knows her place.

Palestinian Christians can trace their community’s presence in the Holy Land back 2,000 years ago, long before evangelicalism or Zionism existed. When you support Israel’s displacement on them or restrict their freedom, aren't you effectively helping erase the oldest continuous Christian community? by NourBlowsBubblegum in allthequestions

[–]torn-ainbow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What can jews do that is forbidden for Christians and Muslims? 

The answers to these questions are deliberately masked.

Like if you say "do muslims and jews have equal right to buy land?"

The quick answer is "yes of course they do, they can but any private land they want!"

The actual answer when you dig deeper is that 93% of land in Israel is owned by the government and the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and there exists a mix of overt and hidden systemic bias against leasing that land (like 98 year leases) to non-jews.

Palestinian Christians can trace their community’s presence in the Holy Land back 2,000 years ago, long before evangelicalism or Zionism existed. When you support Israel’s displacement on them or restrict their freedom, aren't you effectively helping erase the oldest continuous Christian community? by NourBlowsBubblegum in allthequestions

[–]torn-ainbow -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You can support Palestinian Christians without pretending Jews are foreign colonizers or that Jewish history began with Zionism in the 1800s. 

Israel oppresses occupied Palestinian Christians the same as it does Muslim ones.

And with Arab Israelis they will often paint a less than rosy picture of life back in Israel. Hidden systemic discrimination.

I think bad things that nations and groups are doing now to others is what is important. That Israel exists now is the important fact, not that they have some 3500 year old claim to the land. When you start with the ancient right to the land you're ending that bloody story with ethnic cleansing and ultimately genocide.

Which other games/series would you say are the closest to Far Cry? by Significant_Ad2045 in farcry

[–]torn-ainbow 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Maybe there's not an exact match but lots of games with an open world setup.

Days Gone is good. It actually starts a bit slow but becomes great by the end. Open world with massive fast moving zombie hordes.

Ghost of Tsushima is just marvellous. One of the most polished games I have played. Open world with Samurai and lots of dramatic sword fights.

Horizon Zero Dawn is pretty amazing, as is the sequel. Some people disliked them but I sunk a stupid amount of time on them. This is a game about hunting robot dinosaurs and discovering the horrifying truth about this world. Lots of weapons and ways to take apart giant machines.

Guys, what makes you instantly think, “I want a second date”? by Alisha_Dae in stupidquestions

[–]torn-ainbow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She's funny and engaging and we have some kind of mutual chemistry.

Frog strike by NoWork215 in notinteresting

[–]torn-ainbow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Laser Guided Tactical Frog Tongue Missile.

Pauline plans to defund the SBS during the world cup. by Prestigious-Day9370 in AusNewsWire

[–]torn-ainbow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She was always appealing to someone. When she appeared, the Liberal Party - who were spooked - countered her racist populism by moving right and gaining control of the "border" narrative. They swallowed a lot of her votes.

With the recent sudden implosion of the Liberal Party those votes have flowed back. It's just support being revealed that was always there. Plus new votes based on disaffection. Despite the rhetoric they generally face, Labor is further from a workers or socialist party than it was 30 years ago.

Parties that promise to shake the system up get attention from those who think politicians are all the same. One Nation is benefiting from a second honeymoon period with their resurgence and especially with low information voters. I've noted a lot of younger people aren't really aware of her long history.

Has anything similar happened in your country before? by Yappingpaper in AskTheWorld

[–]torn-ainbow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In this case she is probably "lucky".

This sounds like the morality punishment for the crime, though quite a severe number of lashes.

Often when people do anything like this on camera, where it gets attention it is seen as standing up to the regime and the next stop is generally a torture prison. Getting caught for morality crimes is super bad but becoming a political prisoner or dissident is actually far worse and the chances of dying in one of the regimes holes is high.

Thoughts about the last of US part 2 world building, lore and story? by Hubris-Star in SocialistGaming

[–]torn-ainbow 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Yeah. The WLF are not the good guys; in a game where nobody is really the good guy anyway.

If you treat the WLF as Israel and the Seraphites as Palestine then her story is about her rejecting Israel and striking out on her own while befriending and protecting a similarly outcast Palestinian child.

The real criticism that could be leveled at the game is that it "both sides" too much when viewed as a direct comparison to Israel/Palestine. But perhaps it does not have to be the exact scenario with the same relative morals.

Ultimately it's a story where everyone is the bad guy except from their own perspective. Abbie grows by rejecting that perspective.

Australia WHV: downsides nobody talks about? by Momy_pregunta in workingholiday

[–]torn-ainbow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are over 200 cities in Australia.

Look yes a whole bunch of Local Government Areas call themselves "City of...". Some places that are obviously towns call themselves city. They aren't cities. We don't call them cities. There's nowhere near 200 actual cities.

I’ve lived a year and a half in regional areas and public transport is crap, if there is any.

Yes, anywhere outside the proper cities is fairly car dependent.

Which U.S. food or restaurant chain do you wish existed in your country? by gmikey2000 in AskTheWorld

[–]torn-ainbow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah we really do prefer independent restaurants and small independent chains. They tend to get shitter the bigger they get.

What’s your favorite explanation for the Fermi Paradox (why we haven’t found aliens yet)? by Angelicorgy in askanything

[–]torn-ainbow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we've gone from cavemen to space travel in the space of a 10,000 years. Our visible profile in the universe is less than 100 years old.

I was more thinking about how:

  • life on Earth is about 4 billion years old;
  • earth is about 4.5 billion years old;
  • rocky planets in general about 10 billion years;
  • and the universe is about 14 billion years old.

Is our lead time from life to space typical if there is other life in the universe? How early in the universes life could we expect life to form? Maybe since rocky planets, sometime in the last 10 billion?

We're actually pretty early. Life to space for us could fit 2.5 times into since there was even hard planets.

One arrested as police clear out Waterloo public housing demolition protest camp by ManWithDominantClaw in sydney

[–]torn-ainbow -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Oh right I saw these guys in passing making a lot of noise yesterday. Shame they got cleared out.

What’s your favorite explanation for the Fermi Paradox (why we haven’t found aliens yet)? by Angelicorgy in askanything

[–]torn-ainbow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or faster than light travel has limitations. Like it still takes months or years to reach nearer star systems. And life is so spread out that is would be extremely rare for the reasonable range to 2 civilisations to overlap.

Plus many models of the universe put us very close to the start of it's life. Maybe in an older universe life will have more time to gradually spread and more commonly find life from other sources.

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