Rayvin

You think our leaders have done enough? We've had 'serious warnings' about climate change since the early 1990s man, they've done fuck all. While I've no doubt that Trump will do us no favours, at this point he has done less harm to the fight against climate change than most other politicians worldwide.

I'm sometimes amazed to see that some of you joined TT about 11 years ago. That's fucking loyalty to a forum.

I mostly use the talking option to assist teammates in avenging me when I've been killed: "The fucker is crouching behind the door just to the right as you enter - hang on, he's moving slightly, he's about to edge his head out, SHOOT NOW!!!" Very satisfying to watch from my position as a corpse

Tbf, I don't talk to randoms either But I do use party chat if I'm with people I know. I'm just using the 12g automatic at the moment. No scope, it feels pointless to have one with the shotgun.

Having a good squad counts as well. I normally play with a couple of other guys (though they've both checked out to play FF now ) and having that dynamic makes you much more effective than just playing with randoms.

As I say, we're on course for that anyway... Even the 'left wing' establishment has done fuck all about that. There's no political will to tackle the issue, there hasn't been for as long as we've been talking about this. Because they'd have to restructure the entire world economic system, and many of the established parties would find themselves a lot poorer. The only hope I've had is that this constant dithering from the political class about such a serious issue is in order to allow these very wealthy people to transfer their wealth into assets that won't be affected by what needs to happen - and that when enough of them manage this, we'll be able to tackle it. So yes, Trump will speed it up - but at least he genuinely doesn't seem to believe in it. Ire should be pointed more firmly at those who DO believe in climate change, and did nothing anyway. They had plenty of time.

It means they'll be exposed though. Unless trump actually does manage to invigorate meaningful change for people which we all consider to be unlikely. Exposed and then replaced by what will hopefully be a far superior brand of leftwing politics than what we've had up until this point.

I started off with a Medic and am now using Assault. 1 for 20 does suggest that something untoward is going on though... I'm usually around par 15-15 on average. I make up for not being great at killing people by going for the objectives. I don't think the machine guns are great for the assault - the shotguns made a hell of a lot of difference for me. You can blow someone away in two shots as long as you're close enough. Obviously that means you have no range to speak of, but again, playing the objective rather than to kill means I tend to run into a lot of close range enemies anyway.

Have a good one mate

Have to agree, I'm not opposed to being a bit more informed going into the match. It's not like they're being posted with multiple explanatory paragraphs

No worries, I assumed you'd stopped playing for the evening. I'm mostly playing the Rush mode at the moment. Which class are you using?

You know, that's a more reassuring explanation of that particular question than any I can think of, so sure, let's run with that

Parky and I have been saying this for years

Yep. I think the left needs to look past identity and just see people as people. They can then build a movement around it and work on economic progressivism - which is the thing that will actually help more minorities and more women than another 50 years of this identity politics nonsense. The only way that can happen though, I suspect, is if the left is torn down and rebuilt. Otherwise it'll look like a rebrand.

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Very strong article from the Guardian. I'm surprised they published it to be honest, it cuts to the heart of their whole ideology and rips it out. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/01/blame-trump-brexit-identity-liberalism#comment-88592983

Yep I was - I did what you said in terms of taking the total number of products rather than worrying about the %ages in the end, so thanks for that.

Fish proving his superior fan credentials once again

Indeed. I recall reading a truly surprising comment on the Guardian from someone who identified as a paedophile, but had never acted on it and understood that it was wrong to do so. This individual also talked of their despair at how society closed doors on people like him at every turn, making it very difficult to get help or assistance, psychologically. Then again, I remain amazed that anyone would even make that confession, even anonymously, on a public forum - so maybe society isn't as closed off to them as it once was. As adios says, I think we're on the cusp of discovering just how prevalent a mindset it is.

Oh really? I thought it was the latter. Fair enough - still though, it's a far more widespread issue than it should be.

I wondered about that point too but then I struggled to think why there would be multiple phone calls on the same claim... fully appreciate I could be missing something though.

I think it's an area that could do with more study altogether given that the research seems to suggest that there might be a genetic component to being predispositioned to sexual urges in this sense - If this is true it would explain its prevalence I suppose; I think Germany has a voluntary chemical castration process for people this way inclined - and while that's uncomfortable for us to think about, I'd far rather these people were open about their urges and able to get help for it than the risk of leaving them to their own devices. That said, I'm struggling to believe that the issue for a lot of the perpetrators here isn't just that they're opportunistic and depraved. I guess it's worth keeping in mind though that, especially in this case, the perpetrators likely had many victims - which makes the problem look more severe (in terms of the number of perpetrators - clearly it remains severe in terms of the number of victims) than it actually is.

28/35. As with everyone else, some obvious ones missed as well.

860 (presumably) footballers have contacted them over the past few days. That's a fucking mental number. What on earth has been going on?? It's starting to look like this is an endemic problem in British organisations of days (not so long ago) gone by - football, the BBC, the fucking government - seriously, what the fuck?

I wouldn't be overly surprised if the rich outlived us all. Full on conspiracy mode, they could get robots into the workforce to cover 99% of jobs carried out by people around the world, and then look for a global cataclysmic event (water shortage, food shortages, etc) to wipe out those of us who are no longer needed. Subsequently they can restore balance to the world using their robot slaves, ensuring a high quality of life for themselves. That's what I'd do, anyway