Rayvin

It's not quite the same although I was technically a mature student, but I did a masters degree when I was 27 and just had to apply to the institution directly. Didn't go through UCAS. You're gonna get hit with fees though, and the loan arrangement is different as I understand it for mature students. What do you hope to gain from what you're doing though?

Riiiiight. So whatever is wrong with Arsenal fans is apparently contagious then. Londoners man...

Am now 285. Started the raid tonight and Fuck. Me. It's not hard in the conventional sense like, but it's fucking brutal in terms of non-conventional difficulty. Worth a run at though. We spent 3 hours on it tonight and cleared one room.

That sounds useful cos despite what Ant says, it's really hard. We just don't have enough time left by the end. Ant, how much time did you have when you got there?

It's ok, we don't understand why he's on there either.

...you know that's our Fish, right? He just can't help himself.

I'm pretty sure that by any reasonable metric, you're now both nazis. Just saying.

Maybe I've just missed the joke from Fish then. Wouldn't be the first time.

I assumed you played poker professionally...

I feel the need to make more of a point about this issue being on both sides now. It's not just the SJWs with their will intentioned but highly disruptive nonsense. The entire discourse is dominated by snowflakes. Video games were the line that should never have been crossed IMO. Tempted to argue we'd have averted Trump otherwise...

Tempted to argue this is Wolfy's point - you do what you need to survive, and as the need to survive diminishes, you become more free to pursue other things.

Well, you and me both then.

Decent post.

That's actually an encouraging thing to read, that last bit. Although having said that, is he happy?

I think the argument runs that 'where do you draw the line'. Gun toting Pandas? Mid-war alien invasion? Guns firing cotton-candy? EDIT - Also, if inclusivity becomes more important than historical accuracy, wouldn't you have to go all the way with all social labels? Don't disagree with doing so actually, but you can't just half-arse it if inclusivity is your priority. Having said that, it doesn't bother me what gender anyone in the game is. It also doesn't bother me really whether the nazis are wearing nazi clothing. What bothers me is the infantilization of our culture by one group of people trying to protect everyone else from everything, and another group actively trying to wind them up by going to further and further extremes, and the inevitable overspill into normal life that we're now seeing. The culture war. For idiots, by idiots.

Kind of agree with this.

...and what if you don't want to be an artist

What if what you enjoy doing comes with external disapproval, thus instilling guilt and feelings of inadequacy?

It's definitely what I just said then

Good point - never been arsed about a legacy myself, but I think it's important to arrive at your death bed and have as few regrets as possible. Although I guess this could be mitigated by arriving at your death bed and working through a bottle of whiskey until you feel better or die. After which, it doesn't really matter anyway. What if you need to feel a sense of success in the moment, as you live through your life?

To be honest, the word 'nazi' has now been watered down to the point that I think we can safely assume that anyone to the right of Antifa is a nazi. And they're anarcho-communists. As for this game, I wonder if they've done it because they anticipate having people play as the German side, as with Battlefield One. It's easier for Battlefield to do that because WWI was a clusterfuck borne out of the idiocy of all sides of it, and wasn't based around notions of racial supremacy. If they did the same thing in WWII, I suspect they'd end up with a lot of screenshots being taken and turned into memes by ignorant and disrespectful halfwits, aimed at winding up people whose job it is to look for things to be offended by. Presumably, EA has looked at this and decided it just can't be fucked with the nonsense that would be kicked up as a result. I noticed that Destiny has had to remove a piece of armor that has a pattern which could have been influenced by the Kekistani flag... The whole thing continues to be fucking ridiculous.