u/Suibeam

I am just talking about my experience, not about Game Balance. Since in Valo we should generally not spray, it kind of removes an M4 element from Phantom.

As far as I have read from various sources, Phantom is usually better to main (Vandal is still great). In CS I very like M4. I burst tap and spray with pattern. So I tried to main Phantom.

Since Valo spray is not a good idea but burst tapping is better (So I read), I struggle with Phantom a lot. Phantom kind of invites me to Burst spray and I pull my mouse down. Not only do I play way sloppier with Phantom, I have to readjust my crosshair height after every target. With Vandal I can just focus on mouse clicking heads.

It is a bit of confusing to me. I would love to play Phantom as I think it is more versatile and should be consistent. With Phantom my spray is just not working just like if I used a Vandal. I feel like I should just use Vandal...

First, I very enjoy Ormund's character. He is very interesting. But Ormund feels like he is cheating.

yes Ormund seems to be competent and cunning. but it feels like out of the blue and his people having insane god powers.

people thought it was Gold Cloaks turning on Gold cloaks to kill so many armoured warriors with their commander, but now we saw it is just some random lunatics like wannabe harpys. how has noone noticed a battle because they just got the order that minimum 3 gold cloaks must be together all the time. I was wondering how Ormund, busy and stuck in a town and overlooked by air surveillance dragons gets to organise so much in King's Landing. Infiltrate entire Gold Cloaks without accidentally asking the wrong Gold Cloaks to betray their own people. But the random lunatics seemingly can murder armoured trained warriors in large numbers undetected in short time span and bring them all the way to the same location to set up an art piece scene.

And: oh you wanted to kill me with Baratheon armoured agents? let me teleport a sizeable amount of soldiers and first officer to snipe your Hand of the Queen in the middle of nowhere in a forest. In the middle of the night and darkness. Bypassing any guards or scouts and dragon in the sky with large enough troops to challenge Corlys camp. While I was trapped inside a town by a dragon in the sky, somehow having more intelligence officers and spy masters to turn kings landing upside down just weeks after an unexpected capture and knowing location of the Hand. All that without worrying about missing his first officer if Riverland armiy arrive before they return.

Ormund is the greatest magician with loyal subordinates with god powers

(also how is Corlys so far out without guards and no scouts protecting his camp)

I like to watch shows about Throne Wars and Intrigues. But those shows I watch usually have a lot of competent schemers and competent strategists duking it out from both or more sides.

But this show feels like watching a bunch of dumbasses and fools driving cars into each other. It makes the entire war for the throne and the scheming so uninteresting. And unlike Game of Thrones I feel like this time it is not only the fault of the showrunners but also of the source material. Everyone is just an idiot.

Okay sorry I ranted a bit. I feel like this era and event could have been such much more but instead it is kind of carried by Dragons and Asoiaf universe. Think about it, if there was no dragons.

In the end it is still entertaining enough to watch and the actors and actresses are mostly very good.

So I have created an account 5 days ago and have been using it.

There is only 3 comments which are visible to other people. All my other comments are not visible to my other account.

Do you know what is happening and how to fix it. Every account check or account status says i am fine.

This provides a striking illustration of the ideological foundations and the future of these elites’ power.

From literature to real-life dictatorship and the Gleichschaltung of government apparatus. Gleichschaltung, something our ancestors witnessed in Germany before.

Silicon Valley is not only controlling the USA but as we have been made aware in the past year and in media, Silicon Valley is controlling us and our elections. Palantir is coming closer and closer to our daily life and our police forces

In Germany we are not protected from social media from the USA. We have no european alternatives anymore. StudiVZ died ages ago. We are free hunting ground for US tech elites

YouTube link, for those who’d rather watch it on YouTube, it has generated English Subtitles

Hier wird beeindruckend die Basis der Ideologie und die Zukunft der Macht dieser Eliten gezeigt.

Von Literatur zur realen Diktatur und Gleichschaltung der Regierungsapparate

>!Does she survive when you don't do the quest with her? I saw a streamer who got the quest to get to Gomez and Syra did not die, she simply didnt talk and just did her usual routine and joined the guards beating you. Was that a bug or does she not die as long as she doesn't try to leave? !<

I feel like Act 1 is an entirely different game than the other Chapters.

disclaimer: This wasn't telling you to watch chinese or Hong Kong shows. It is a different story culture you cannot relate to. The point was how they handle production and viewers benefits.

Chinese and Hong Kong (in the past) do it well. 40-80 Episodes. They film and produce shows, dramas and all in 8 months-2 years and release them daily / on weekends.

You get like 4-8 Seasons worth of content. The entire show. And the quality of current Chinese movie/series industry easily matches HBO and others production. They are even better when you need wide shots with hundreds or thousands of people.

The positive effects: No writer and director decline/swaps. No actors leaving the show. No children aging during the seasons issue. Fewer interventions from executives because what you see in the first season is more or less the direction of the rest of the show. No artificially extended seasons ruining storylines and character development. What you get in first 10 episodes is the same writing idea you get for the last 10 episodes.

Context side note: Hong Kong in the past were the Hollywood of East Asia and South East Asia, it was dubbed everywhere and everyone has the same childhood memories about Hong Kong shows series. China mainland has outdone the quality Hong Kong could never reached because of budget restraints while preserving the production style of one and done. Hong Kong movie industry is still strong but the series industry is dying because of failed projects and actors/actresses retiring with lack of new talents while competing with Korea and Mainland China. The Chinese movie and series industry is shining though.

edit: People kinda focus on the wrong point, the point was how shows are produced. People think the industry only produces costume drama or wuxia. Which is more a stereotype. While it is true that they produce them, they produce hundred shows per year by many studios. Just because you produce Game of Thrones and Witcher doesn't mean everything is medieval with dragons. Besides that isnt even the point, the point is how they produce shows.

In the comments I posted few series with high quality non-costume. Wasn't hard to find obviously.

Bitcoin just follows the cycle as many have thought. Unlike february, it didnt bounce off right back to 65k but is hovering over 60k now for quite some time.

I remember when people congratulated each others for buying at 60,500 USD when it hit that for like 10 minutes. They felt so lucky. Now we can all be that lucky for more than 10 minutes for under 60k

EU+UK, China, USA and Russia's war trauma

This came up when watching Talkshows about EU+UK, China, USA and Russia. EU+UK is still horrified by the 2nd world war and want to avoid another war on the continent so much that they hoped and deluded themselves. But they are hesitant in general. Similar things happened after the Great War WW1, when France and British Empire wanted to avoid war as they were still horrified. Russia took a different path and doesn't really fit the bill as they glorified the war and the sacrifices/victims.

China similarly to EU+UK is traumatized by instability, civil wars and Japanese/European invasions. You all likely know the meme "China is whole, then breaks again" "Whenever China has a civil war or famine, 20 Million people die". Chinese have internalized the massive risks of instability and civil wars, and war against strong opponents. It devastates a country that otherwise had 25-36% of the world economy for most of their several millenia of existence, a wealthy country that stops being able to feed their people.

USA had something similar too. After the Civil War, USA was devastated. People really didn't want to have another civil war and in the Great War the population hesitated to support an intervention for Europe. In WW2 it was even more so as US population and many politicians did not want to be dragged into another World War. They isolated themselves until the US administration and Japan triggered the entrance of the US into ww2.

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USA's war trauma in homeland is distant. Imperial Chinese confucian scholars and ministers constantly reminding the Emperors that war and conquests are paid for by the common folk

But in late 20th century after the collapse of USSR, USA is overwhelmingly stronger than other nations military capabilities (even when USSR still existed). In previous wars though USA oftentimes lost the war, they had rather low casualties for losing and those losses were always on the other side of the world, never devastating their homeland. USA also won the cold war against the USSR. And on the first weeks of wars, USA usually get away with almost no casualties until later. All this leads to US politicans and parts of the US population not feeling too strongly about going to war, it is more a monetary or moral question than the fear of total devastation of their homeland.

I dont know much about population sentiments of distant history besides Imperial China. For example in europe, oftentimes the nobility were deciding to start wars, so no clue if the population even had any say on that. In Imperial China the was a saying "heart of the people" which is similar to sentiment of the people, if the people hated the administration and emperor too much, a civil war was about to happen. So Chinese empires couldn't constantly go to war. In Addition confucian scholars and ministers throughout millenia weigh up between funding wars and letting population rest to work on field and grow families. Chinese history in general did not have the idea of "war and conquests will fuel itself" but instead "war and conquests are costs the population has to pay for". The glory of an Emperor or a General is paid for by the sweats and bloods of the common folk on the fields and on the battlefields, was a common trope in literature and poems, and often reminded by ministers and scholars.

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Historical supporting examples for relation between war trauma at home and hesitation to start new wars.

So the question would be if the hesitation to start new wars is present enough in the USA compared to EU+UK and China. The risk difference for the USA as they might feel invulnerable in the late 20th century? Are other historical situation in nobilities and population supporting the idea that recent trauma makes a huge difference for willingness to start wars easily?