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Rika_Furude posted...

Whats a non shitty one for an aussie though :(
Even if I move to a higher pop server thats somewhere else, there's probably only 2 options. japanese (in which case there's a language barrier outside of whatever aus communities are there), or american/europe, which will have far higher latency than japan/aus, and chances are the servers will be asleep when I'm awake anyway

also, current queue progress
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/5/9/AAaSISAAE8Gn.jpg

Wait, this is japan/aus serverpool?

Maybe activate the japanese language in the dungeon finder?

I mean, if the europeans here would search for french only, the waiting time would be the same...

Fenriswolf posted...

But Zionist protesters calling for genocide against Palestinians are okay?

https://www.newsweek.com/pro-israel-protesters-nyc-demand-gaza-flattened-1833787

What's funny is that plenty of peaceful protests occurred elsewhere with thousands of people. For instance in Sydney, a city with large numbers of Arabic people, more than 6000 people protested despite politicians trying to intimidate people from going and police banning marches and threatening to use search and seizure powers.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-15/pro-palestinian-rallies-melbourne-sydney-adelaide/102966898

Literal whataboutism.

Again:
Just because you have peaceful pro-palestina protests in the US and problematic pro-israel protests at the same time, it doesn't mean that the same is true for Europe.

First: Cursed

I'm not expecting any change at all, but I want to make sure.

I'm not sure what the issue is supposed to be.

A defendant satisfies 3553(f)(1), as amended, if he does not have:

A
AND (does not have)
B
AND (does not have)
C

All three together are relevant.

You can do both in the logical way anyways, as MagnaCarter said.

NOT(A or B or C) is the same as (NOT(A) and NOT(B) and NOT(C))

I seriously can't see anything wrong with this.

Just read that Kottick is stepping down as CEO with January 1st 2024.

I dare to say that it gets better.

MabusIncarnate posted...

I wonder how many people actually click the ad and buy what it's offering directly from that link. I'd think that number would be tiny but there are a lot of morons out there.

It's rarely about this "click and buy NOW" stuff.

It's usually to "remind" you of it.

Like, "oh, yeah, I actually should buy a new vacuum cleaner by now, cause the old one isn't working great anymore" or when you are in the store you may remember "vacuum cleaner 3000" from some ad you have seen a week ago.

GameboyTroy posted...

Worse. Look at what Microsoft did to Rare. Enough said.

The difference is that Rare was good at that time.

I mean, it really sounds like your server is pretty dead.

I did all 3 Stormblood 24 raids a few weeks ago as DPS(!) within two days, and was waiting 15 at most.

But I'm in europe (Light) so no idea what could work out for you.

Error1355 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/3/AADAKwAAE7tX.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/4/AADAKwAAE7tY.jpg

The turf Monster is simply misunderstood. It's friendly.

ALIEN_WORK2HOP posted...

it was clear last week on the day of the massacre that she was german and it still isn't confirmed that she is dead. But yeah judging by the video it doesn't look good.

That wasn't the claim that got him warned.

Returning_CEmen posted...

I got warned for my post and I see stuff supporting what I said coming out .

Well, may you be so kind to repeat your take and show us the stuff that is supporting your claim?

DrizztLink posted...

Dude.

Please don't compare the situation and protests you know in the US with the same protests we have in Europe.

As I already explained before:

We in Austria also had to ban a protest because they shared call for violance online even before the protests started, and refused to distance themselfes from that.

We are warning people to not wear anything that could be seen as jewish like an Israelian flag or a kippa.

Jewish institutions are currently in high alert all over the place, I have read about schools in UK being forced to closed because they can't ensure the safety anymore.

Yesterday another teacher got killed in France, from someone screaming "Allahu Akbar" (details of the motive still unknown).

Today there is another Pro-Palestinan demonstration scheduled. Maybe this time it will be better, but the tension is high.

HHH_is_the_game posted...

But comparing these things to the Holocaust without the context of the fact that Israel is trying to defend themselves from terrorists who have constantly been attacking their civilians, and also with the context that the Jews were the victims of the Holocaust, it really does seem sort of antisemitic to accuse the jews of being equivalent of the nazis (they are not)

It was a good effort, but as you can see, people go even further.

ScazarMeltex posted...

It's not. He believes that the course Israel is on is the best one, or the only one, I want him to ask himself the question I asked and follow it to the logical course. How many civilian deaths is a Hamas death worth? If he legitimately believes that Israel wrecking Gaza, regardless of who is there, is the only way forward for them then I want him to look at the human cost, not emotionally react and lash out, but really look at it, process exactly what he's saying he believes, see that body count and for some people the only way to do that is through numbers.

What about you? Can you answer it? Because when you start talking about putting human bodies on the ground, the majority of which will be innocents, in the name of justice or vengeance as being the only way forward then it behooves you to really look at what that means. To decide how many of "them" are worth the lives of innocents. 5 to 1? 10 to 1? When does that cost become too much? Nobody advocating Israel's forthcoming destruction of Gaza is willing to answer that question. They want to just say "whatever it takes", well then boil it down and give me a fucking number.

And that's why your question is in bad faith.

Because everyone, including you, know that there can't be a number, because lower is obviously better every fucking time.

And no matter what kind of number someone is going to give you, the reaction will be...

1. "That much? Why do you not care about this amount of dead innocents"
2. "Well, Israel is going to kill more than that, so shut up".

There isn't a fucking line where people say "oh, 99 death innocents per terrorist are fine, but 101 are too much".

Just as there is no fucking number that would excuse anything that Hamas did.

This isn't a fucking excel sheet with a figures on it.

Prismsblade posted...

Is twitter the only social media site with this issue? If they want to ban the site then just do it, no need for a excuse.

Tiktok and Facebook are also in trouble right now for the same reasons, but the biggest issue has Twitter.

Mostly, because Musk doesn't act that cooperative.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Did you see the weird shit like 26:00 over there? I saw that all the time >_>

Sure, because it was everywhere.

And I think it's an quite elegant solution.

Stuff like

"Open Monday to Friday, 08:00-26:00" seems smoother than some 08:00-02:00", with the 02:00 already being Saturday.

LazLemon posted...

tl;dr: The rest of the world just calls it 'the time'.

This, or simply "24-hour format".

But actually, in truth, we are all
ai123 posted...

some kind of special forces operative.

Sometimes I'm wondering... "Wtf are people are talking about?"

And then I check my phone:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/9/3/AAelttAAE7c9.png

s0nicfan posted...

Hamas is explicitly telling people not to leave their homes. From the BBC live update feed:

Here the full source/article on Reuters:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-tells-gaza-residents-stay-home-israel-ground-offensive-looms-2023-10-13/

Eyad Al-Bozom, spokesman for the Hamas Interior Ministry, urged Arabs everywhere and especially in countries that have borders with Israel to support the people of Gaza.

We tell the people of northern Gaza and from Gaza City, stay put in your homes, and your places. By carrying out massacres against the civilians, the occupation wants to displace us once again from our land, he said.

The 1948 displacement will not happen. We will die and we will not leave, Bozom said at a news conference held in Shifa hospital in Gaza City.

We had a similar situation here in Austria too, but less extreme.

Two demonstrations planned at the same time in Vienna, both allowed. Was not the first one either, but tension was high

Until one side overdid it with their calls for violaence online, and the organisators were not distancing themselves from it at all.

Didn't change much, people still gathered, and we will have similar demonstrations again. Probably this weekend.

tremain07 posted...

You guys really think the media will even report this? I'm not even sure some progressives are willing to talk about this seeing as accusations of antisemitism will be the end of their channels especially on Youtube.

Auto translated from german, but this is what my Newspaper says about this:

HRW accuses Israel of using white phosphorus
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of using munitions containing white phosphorus in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. The human rights organization said it verified videos taken in Lebanon on Oct. 10 and in Gaza on Oct. 11. It said they showed several airstrikes with white phosphorus over the port of Gaza City and two rural locations along the border between Israel and Lebanon. The Israeli military, when asked, said it was not currently aware of the use of white phosphorus weapons in Gaza.

White phosphorus is highly flammable. The white smoke (phosphorus pentoxide) it produces can be lethal if inhaled. The toxic substance is used militarily in incendiary bombs, signaling devices, tracer munitions, and smoke bombs and can cause severe burns.

The use of white phosphorus against military targets is controversial but not banned. The 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) only precludes the use of equivalent incendiary bombs against civilians. Previously, Israel's military had used white phosphorus primarily to disguise ground operations because it creates a dense smoke screen. However, it can also be used as an incendiary weapon.

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ZaruenKosai posted...

why dont you wake the fuck up
you are defending genocide, even if palestine bent over , israel would just shoot them all in the head firing squad sty;le.
now fuck off.

He isn't that wrong.

UN itself aside I don't think I have heard of any western country condeeming the reaction of Israel or calling them out at all. At least not in Europe, from political governments.

Today, german foreign minister Baerbock is visiting Israel to support Israel.

Our newspaper are more busy to be filled with the citizen that got killed or went missing by the attack of the Hamas, interviewing survivors, and whatever protests are going on in our country right now.

2Pacavelli posted...

Most countries have stricter rules when it comes to who can become president.

Really? Here we just have "be allowed to vote (be a citizen)" and "be 35 years old".

That's it. You could lose your right to vote if you serve a heavy jail sentence for some crime, but I don't know the actual legal details about that.

variasuite posted...

Is it tho?

That's the problem.

Because of this, the online tools get worse and worse and worse.

Does it change anything for the better?

No, because if someone wants to create an image of Mickey doing 9/11 they won't stop because of some error message.

Divine punishment is real.

Dakimakura posted...

Who of the whaten?

"The new Dark Souls".

Well, at least the "Dark Souls of October 2023"

Users using adblockers is YOUR fault!

you keep creating more disruptive ads because youre so cool not giving a f about your users now look what happend

VeggetaX posted...

What kind of punishment could the EU give Elon if he didn't comply?

Like others already said, the EU could decide to ban Twitter.

Well, let's just say that even Elon was forced to listen to this threat.

Yeah, this was pretty fun.

In short, EU was asking "X" to do something against all this hate and propaganda about the current situation in the middle east (well, mostly about Hamas celebrating their terror).

And the EU wasn't asking kindly, it was basically a threat that X has to follow EU laws OR ELSE...

Musk played the fool and said "I have no idea what you talking about, please show me where the problematic content is". Well, maybe he wasn't playing at all.

Today, Yaccarino announced that they banned hundreds of such accounts. Seems like that they did know what the problematic content is.

I think the birthplace is a terrible requirement, so I would see no issue if this getting changed.

But any change has to asure that no one currently living can profit from that, otherwise the change will instantly the law "that made Elon Musk eligaible" or something like that, so...

1) Either do a law now, that becomes active in 35 years. As in "in 35 years, every US citizen older than 35 can becone president".

2) Or do a law that states "everyone born after January 1st 2024".

You really have to ignore the current political generation. Such a change has to be done for the sake of the change itself, not with any current person in mind.

King_Rial posted...

I think it was focused on the "chaotic" part of "chaotic evil" or something. lol

To be fair, with this huge random list of tags "chaotic" isn't supposed to have any effect anymore in the first place.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Did the skins and other shit from OW1 transfer to OW2?

Yes.

But as far as I know getting new skins was much faster in OW1 than it currently is in OW2, but maybe they already improved it by now.

UnfairRepresent posted...

I don't play Overwatch

Is it really that bad or is this just review bombing?

It's mostly review bombing, but with a good reason.

Overwatch 1 was a full price game with lootboxes, but a decent way to get them by playing (buying lootboxes was still borderline scam).

Overwatch 2 was "upgrading" and replacing Overwatch 1 as a F2P game. It doubled down on scummy ingame purchases hard, but instead promised some great PvE content.

Some time ago, they announced not only that the planned PvE content was scraped with no replacement at all, but also that this was already decided quite a time ago, but they didn't found the words for the community.

Technically, as a game, Overwatch 2 should be fine. It's just scummy Activision business to the max.

Arcanine2009 posted...

Apparently she may not be dead but has serious head injuries in a hospital in Gaza.

I can not imagine how the same people who parade and defile her body like that, would put her in a hospital after that.

At this point I would believe it. Maybe not the number, but in general?

We have the video of body the german woman getting defiled and paraded around, I heard about other videos of beheadings (from a trustworthy community), I have seen images from a bloody baby carrier.

You hear accounts from people who were talking on the phones with their relatives, until the contact suddenly broke of.

The only thing that makes it sus is that the Hamas are not celebrating the dead babies forbtheir own propaganda, and the fact that we somewhat expect them to do this is quite telling by itself.

Like, maybe, just maybe, even the Hamas know that showing off baby heads isn't that heroic.

masterpug53 posted...

Which stands in stark contrast to the game's other big moral dilemma - the only argument that one ever prompts is exactly how hard Delphine can go fuck herself.

Calling the bullshit of the Blades a "big moral dilemma" is already overselling them.

soon.

I still think it's fascinating how Ulfric is able to become an even more unsympathic asshole than the whole supressing empire that tried to execute you simply because you were somewhere at the wrong time by chance.

In all but one of my playthroughts I joined the empire (if I joined anyone at all) simply for two reasons:

1) I like the city of Solitude
2) Fuck Ulfric.

At least it's a badass dragoon.

And I would not dare to disagree with a badass dragoon.

And seriously, Freya is one of the better characters in FF IX.

SpiritSephiroth posted...

Yeah I was trying to find an actual source. Really hard to find any confirmation on whats going on atm >_>

Yeah, I usually don't like to handwave it like "that'sno legit source" either, but...

The more tweets I read, the worse it became.

Somewhere down there she was quoting Putin...

SpiritSephiroth posted...

Seems like more reports of white phosphorous again?

https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1711723696287600673?t=H0f-XCWNWwqe_5B9nzqiiw&s=19

Edit: also they are not outright banned by international law I believe. I see so many reports conflicting on this.

I would not trust an Twitter account who also goes on like "The US destroyed the North Stream Pipeline" and is full of anti-NATO and US news, and Obama in particular.

At topic: The majority of my sexual fantasies involve penises, so yeah, they are obviously nice. And it would be pretty hypocritical if I would say only my dick is nice, and other dicks are disgusting.

At the out of hands discussion here:

As someone who had to get circumcised as an adult just a year ago:

Probably something around 95% I read in online discussion like this is absolute bullshit. From both sides.

This "hurdur better hygiene, easier cleaning" is the same bullshit as this "hurdur, mutilated penis".

Seriously, wtf is wrong with people.

I mean, sure, the possibility is there.

Any conflict in the world, no matter where, could help to reduce the attention and support Ukraine currently gets, so ofc will Russia encourage them.

Putin is already meeting with the Iraqian president, and the fact russia media are already reporting that Abbas got invited into Russia too isn't a good look either, even if nothing official got confirmed so far.

But just because Russia cheers them for sure on it doesn't mean that they prepared and activily supported them in any meaningful way.

that topic is still there and has not even half the needed posting.

teep_ posted...

You're right, but imo that's not too big an issue for two reasons:

a) I see it as an expression of unhappiness with the current federal government, which is made up of the SPD and the Greens

b) if and when Wagenknecht, former leader of the Left party, founds her alt-left party as she's stated she will, a lot of these people will go over to her and the AfD will lose its left wing support

Wagenknecht wont change much at all.

What will she get? 4%? 6% at most, like the left before? She isn't that popular anymore thanks to her "we need more peaceful talks with Russia".

And that the SPD and greens both lost 1/4 of their voters is quite an issue.