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You can't always get what you want I guess especially when Mick has you under his thumb.

nice

I don't really get all this hostility towards the Russian tourists themselves..... rather unsettling.

hey are treated differently, have extra difficulties, oppressed characters identify with them, etc. etc. etc. This can explain why the game is selling so well.

Lol this is the biggest nonsense I Have ever heard regarding gaming.

It is identity politics. Infamously not popular in the gaming community.

Lack of imagination is a terribly bad argument. People can find very interesting playing the role of the outlier, precisely because it is not the same as the rest of the characters

Contradicting yourself. If like you say its terribly interesting, then the Shogun series should be no prob for you. (ignoring the obvious like, he wasnt a "samurai" etc, he is just the "main character").

I didnt like Shogun either. It wasn't too ridiculous though (a la Last Samurai which was very ridiculous), as the main protagonist was a foreigner who very unapologetically remained so till the end, which was kinda the point.

Commercial success? irrelevant. I don't believe we were discussing "failure" or successes based on popularity. Well I wasn't anyway. Im not going on a gish gallop.

Lets stick in a different ethnicity - Now what would be the "reason" for this?.

again, entertaining

Lol sorry no - why would it be entertaining to play another race? One that conspicuously doesn't fit historically in the role ?

Ive never heard people complain about not being able to relate to characters in Sangokumuso/chinese history/Samurai games because of their ethnicity- so this sticks out like a sore thumb. If it was a white dude it would be equally silly. If it was a half asian mix of some sort, then maybe there is something believable there.

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Conservatives: A VR-based sci-fi game where you travel in time and fist-fight the Pope, and can survive 200ft falls because there is some straw in a cart? Yes, this checks out, fine, very history. I especially liked in the one set in 19th Century London where Karl Marx was an ardent capitalist.

Also conservatives: A black person in a videogame? muh realism!!!!!

Why time travel? Seems fun

Why 200ft jumps? entertaining

Fight against a Magic pope? again, entertaining

Lets stick in a different ethnicity - Now what would be the "reason" for this?.

butter prices make your eyes bleed

It should but in practical terms skipping the courts means that anything can be just misrepresented as a gang logo and the accused will simply have no chance to demonstrate this is false.

said client to "seek asylum", like many gang members claimed to do. Again absence of evidence of said "benign" tattoos.

 Trump administration with identifying gang members at all.

isnt it made easier by the fact that many have their own logo stamped somewhere on their body?

communities that he contended were “taken over” by what were actually a handful of lawbreakers.

very strange obfuscation, all you need is a "handful" to take over some communities if those communities dont or cant stand up to them

 he should have fought in Japanese court to clear his name.

... I take it you aren't familiar with Japanese court, where the truth doesnt really matter so much

I really dislike our dependency (my own too) on our phones. I can't help but feel that it makes us a bit weaker, despite potential bumps in productivity and time saving.

I have noticed even as an adult, it feels like my ability to learn and retain info has waned because I can just look it up in an instant.

Gone are the days when the only way to settle an argument would be to go to the Library and look it up, so he/she with the most confidence tends to win.

Lets train our kids not to depend on pda.

Over 7 million people died worldwide

died "with" covid. Remember that.

why what is so bad about sports betting?

Pachinko probably pays out a higher total return

Doubtful -

There are many many casual sports betters. Don't think the same can be said for pachinko

This is a perfectly valid example that proves the point, what evidence do you have the information reported is fabricated

Its not a "push against environmental justice initiatives"

Its a push against wastage and pink elephant projects. To cite that it is a push against "environ .. initiatives", you would need to back that up with something specific.

the "risk" is the same as any betting?

at least its potentially more fruitful than pachinko

Never the same without Terry Wogan's irreverent hosting. With his wry smile and wit, he made it clear it was nowhere near meant to be taken seriously

Travelling light is a sign of wealth.

President Donald Trump's administration against environmental justice initiatives.

lol. Fabricated.

Drive against throwing money away.

A long, long time ago, a friend and I almost got to that stage

What could have been :)

Its hard to tell, as the relationships that were cut short before fruition are always remembered more fondly..... sometimes its for the best..

Good luck to the kid - although surrounded by wealth, it can't be an easy life being surrounded by so many strict rules.

The caveat which the media conveniently ignores ; it penalises those companies that outsource parts of their manufacturing processes outside the US. The solution is then for the companies for look for ways to do more in the US, instead of just pointing the finger at "tariffs".

I was hoping this article was going to be about visiting rights for next of kin and not language issues. 

exactly - I would have thought this to be the most urgent issue.

Why one rule for Hong Kong and another for Cambodia?

Because China

l. The law simply recognizes

The law simply recognises diminished responsibility. Black and white. Doctor shop till you get a diagnosis. So yes, people can avoid responsibility, and also make demands for being treated in a specific way or have allowances made for their "condition".

This does not imply that such conditions do not exist or that they dont merit special treatment before you go off on a troll about that.

The point is, the getoutofjailfree card for various scenarios, is too attractive and too easy to obtain.

Having a mental health condition in no way makes a person able to avoid responsibility for their actions,

Legally, it does actually.

everyone is keen to blame their failures on a condition or something.

Yes there are reasons certain people behave the way they do but modern people are going to great lengths to remove responsibility of their own actions and behavoir

That is the whole point, boys are being educated to be more, better than just homemakers,

why all the disrespect for homemakers?

The divorce rate for international marriages is higher, with more than half ending in divorce.

interesting stat - would be nice to know the specifics of which cultural aspects came in to play