Armstrong 1st MRB

May be interested in coming back in, though fair warning my work schedule shortens up my available time span unless its a statutory or rain day.

Canadian here. I personally don't have a problem with guns and kids. I don't think you should just throw a loaded gun to a kid and expect them to understand how to use it properly, but that like anything else it can be taught proper usage. I think if any accident occurs involving a child and a gun, just like anything else a child does, it falls on the responsibility of the parents, or anyone who teaches others how to use a gun. Its the parents to judge whether or not they think their kid is capable of wielding a gun and having as much respect for its capabilities as anyone else who uses a gun. Like many other things, I don't believe anything needs to be banned, just explained through. Don't be stupid, and don't be surprised that if you're lax or stupid in how you handle something that something stupid happens.

I'm not going to come out here and dispute the fact that the Residential Schools were terrible. They fucked with the lives of a lot of people and kids, they tried to destroy an entire ancient culture of humans, and were in principle a very bad thing that deserves to be remembered and paid for. Having said that, there is an argument to be made that the situation could have been A LOT worse, and that there is some way for the views espoused there to make sense. A friend of mine who looked into the history said it to me like this: The guy who proposed the idea of the Residential School system was considered a "softie" on the issue for his time for believing that the "savages" could be "civilized". His opposition wanted total genocide closer to the American model, as in send in the army and extradite or kill everyone on the Reservations that they could. In that respect, it COULD be said that the people at the time had "good" intentions, in that rather than total murderous genocide they decided cultural genocide was preferable. Of course, looking back, we can say that either option was total shit, and that the overall outcome was still a terrible outcome because of the objective and the people involved, but in my experience, such can be said about almost ANYTHING in history, especially anything that's over 50 years old. Again, I have sympathy for those that suffered, and I understand full well that the whole system was barbaric looking back on it. But understanding the context of the times helps understand why some people who analyze it all today could come to these sorts of conclusions when understanding these sorts of issues. Its almost the same thing as people not understanding period pieces and why they utilize words and actions which would otherwise be unacceptable today. Such views, words, and actions were commonplace or different back then, and understanding how ones can hold such views, use these words, and perform these actions IMO is critical to achieving a deeper understanding of humanity, and these various issues themselves, as you can come to understand why people could commit these kinds of acts and still be human beings defined by their times.

Samuels and I swam across there one time, we had some pretty nice cover thanks to fog when we came in. Nobody was there, our main concern was dealing with how cold we were by the time we landed.

I found the tent, went through zeleno and picked up a few medical things and some low caliber ammo, most notably a crossbow and a bunch of apples to replenish our food stocks if we need em. Didn't encounter anyone, but I also found the orange cargo truck that's been sitting in Zeleno is basically tuned up, so obviously someone has been working on it even though it hasn't moved its position yet. BTW Marsden those videos you posted apparently aren't saved.

I thought I grabbed a box or two and put it into one of the tents, or I have one on me that I found searching. May be wrong. I did the weird suspicion that someone had poked through our shit though. Not that whoever did took much.

Made it back to camp, our barrel is gone but most everything else seems untouched. Ran into 3 different crashed helis on the way over. Got into a firefight in Zeleno Mil Base, just barely got out of there with a wounded leg before people just unloaded whole clips in there.

I got into it on the second game as well, thought it was a great title and I agree that #3 is great up until its ending. I wasn't that pissed, but I could see why lots of other people would be pissed, and I was very disappointed they didn't end up going with the "Indoctrination Theory". Personally, I'm not all the interested in ME:A. What I have heard coming out of their writing department by one of their leads hasn't been promising just in terms of general behaviour, leading me to think the writing probably won't be any better at best, even worse being the more likely scenario. And in terms of other odd design choices, these people intentionally made the default female protagonist ugly in order to try to: (paraphrasing) "draw in more women gamers who are turned off by playing as unreachably beautiful characters". Meanwhile FemShep design was made by the community, and lots of people liked her WAY better than MaleShep in many cases, and she even featured in some of the promotional content of the game for ME:3.You'd never see this potato-head character be on the poster with any marketing team who's competent at their jobs saying it would genuinely draw in more people than by giving them a more aesthetically pleasing design, its silly. Other than that, I've heard the first couple hours are boring busy-work (meaning they haven't learned much from some of the critiques of Dragon Age: Inquisition), the narrative isn't anywhere near as compelling as that of the original Mass Effect trilogy's, and a lot of the voice acting is garbage. So . . . yeah, I'm not anxious to rush out and buy it. I have tons of games on back-log anyway. Nier: Automata has my attention right now.

I can't recall, I think Samuels ended up leaving it in favour of Mottola's ATLAS. Took the clips for it though. Cocksuckers out of Dolina fucked me and Mottola over on the way back (me twice), but I've made it halfway back now and managed to find a Mosin.

Mottola and I both got shot, twice. I'm try and make my way back over before we all meet up though. On the bright side, with any luck we may be able to clear up some tent space. LOL

Marsden, Samuels, and I all logged at the Checkpoint just west of Severograd, founds lots of alright loot, full of weapons, and handling things fairly well. Decent luck on avoiding wolves and other players for now.

I'll be getting it as well.

I must say just based on the trailers, this game will probably be able to make better WWII-esque Machinima Films out of than DoD:S, and I saw some pretty damn good DoD:S ones.

Old fashioned landmarks and memory then, eh? Still gotta figure out why the hell this game won't run for some reason. I didn't have this problem on my shitty prior rig, but now it won't even run on my upgraded one.

I still think of GoT as one of the best shows on TV at the moment, but does anyone else who's read the books as well feel a little disappointed by how things have progressed in some respects from page to film? I've mostly been able to understand all the changes they made early in the first few seasons of the series (paychecks, summing up scenes and information into other scenes more simply for film, cutting out unnecessary characters, etc), but I've been left scratching my head more and more the past few seasons on occasion, especially since the series has only gotten more and more money AFAIK. How they cut out Stannis to me just came across as a cheap way to end his storyline that doesn't make much sense, this guy is supposed to be one of the best tacticians in all of Westeros, yet not only does he let a sadistic fuck not even half his age with 20 men cause complete pandemonium in his camp, he makes the completely wrong call for the morale in his army by burning his own daughter alive for a change in weather that makes fuck-all difference, and keeps marching on to certain death. Heck, most of the Stannis arc started to piss me off as it went on with how they basically threw out the Melisandre/Davos dynamic in terms of vying for Stannis' mind, but that's besides the point. The Ironborn have repeatedly disappointed me throughout the entire series with the exception of Theon. I mean, if anything, everything we see about these guys just shows exactly why they're confined to a bunch of shit islands and got completely crushed in their rebellion, they'll kill each other at the best opportunity, they'll run away at the slightest resistance, and they do almost literally fuck-all with what they do manage to take. I'm pissed with "Yara" (she's always going to be Asha to me), I'm pissed that they waited so long to bring Euron in if he is even in (seriously, what the fuck are they going to do with him with only a couple seasons left and the White Walkers literally on the horizon, and Dany already back home with a bunch of allies?), and I'm pissed that Victarion the viking badass won't make an appearance. On a side note, IDK if any of you were keeping track, but by the film storyline, Balon Greyjoy, not Stannis Baratheon, won the War of Five Kings by virtue of being the last of the five still alive. Then there's the Dornish. If there's a single plot line I'm most pissed at with how they handled it, it had to be this. So many cut characters, dramatically changed character personalities, and just to me doesn't feel anywhere near as satisfying as the books. The house that managed to survive hundreds of years of attempted Targaryean occupation and conquest of other houses gets laid low by its own bastard branch in less than a season because Doran's apparently a complete idiot compared to his book-self. Also's a shame that the fan theory about Rickon won't happen show-wise. Would have been interesting to see the one Stark who gets the least amount of attention the whole series and was least likely become Lord of Winterfell at the end. Guess we're taking bets on whether or not Sansa will live or not since Arya has no interest, Bran's in no shape to do it, and Jon probably will have a bigger seat to fill than Winterfell if fan theories are correct as to what will happen.