I am have let myself be too soft as I have not invoked my freedom of expression and fair conditions and let them bypass responsibility and get away with imposing their way of business.
End tldr
You know reading these comments made me look at my Country's constitution... South Africa
Makes me think that people in general don't fully read them, myself included.
It is interesting because in a way some of the things written here can in practice get someone put in jail because of the stigma of the past - primarily racism
I was raised in the demographic as white but my mother is, and this the term they use here, coloured ( fair complexion) i am sure an internet search can confirm.
Also realised that when my last job told me I wouldn't advance in the work because of the colour of my skin ( and I was too stupid and eager for a job I accepted) they were legally covering their ass as there is provision for it if it is formally accepted. That my rights were ebbed away with fine print ( example, they made me sign something inocculous 3 months into employment and fine out down the line that I missed out on receiving bonus by a month because of the signed document)
But even through all that and the contracts they made me sign i still had the right to strike or to unionized.... of course they make sure that you can't do that because they prey on that need and suppress your right to diginity
Really off topic apologies, brain wonders off and puts pieces into play that fell off the bandwagon😂
Bleh, it seems ideology is unavoidable😂, seems that can be applied to the world over actually if it examined where countries try not to rock the boat too much to ensure their best interests are not disrupted too much
Not an American, so the whole America politica is not my thing
My personal opinion or stance if I had to take one is one has the freedom to express themselves, but to also take into to try respect another's beliefs and reasoning
So in this case, you have the right to express your opinions, you have made some assumptions, but still showed some level of restraint. Therefore I am, personally, going to respect your right to expression - seems sanctimonious for me to write that case but yeah... I do not know I am trying not to get into any ideology facets just trying to explore a question that has been bubbling in my mind.
( if you want my take on masks and you are free to disagree, is that during covid masks would lessen viral aerosol load.... so not foolproof but I find dealing with a 10000 viral load easier to deal with than 100000000 viral load)
I am not an American, but reading your Constitution.. with respect, I feel like your Founding Fathers would have many issues with how your Country is currently run, from what I have seen and read in the media
Not sure where it is from, misquoting and probably butchering the quote:
"If you think a headache is bad, break your arm then the headache doesn't feel so bad anymore"
Basically if something is bad, but something worse comes along, then the bad thing doesn't seem so bad anymore
Update:
Because this has got me thinking, going to update when I quote source ( also don't want to double post)
Heard in Mass Effect 2, Thane quoting:
"When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death."
Thomas Hobbes
Going to mention F.E.A.R 1 and to some respects F.E.A.R 2, its a first person game that lets you see your feet for one, but seriously they did a really good job with replica AI -even though they are clones they have personality - like making cover from environment, trying to use environment to get away from a bad situation - like crawl under blocked door's crawl space or shoot and run while getting to cover
Your character has an in-game reason to have slow-mo which is really well done in the I can throw a grenade, go slo-mo, hear the enemy crap its pants and shoot the grenade,see the air around the explosion expand and witness an appropriate blood and gore shower.
They comment on your speed, panick when they run out of ammo when you rush them and try to flank you if they can.
It has some horror elements as well but usually in service to the story as First Encounter Assualt Recon is meant to deal with shady stuff and F.E.A.R 2 had a really cool school level.
Level design for the first 2 also was pretty fluid with reasonable area transistions that made sense how you got where you were at even when it is mostly just a point A to B with some light exploration for secrets or weapons
F.E.A.R 3 is meh, had some fleeting good moments and some answers to questions from the first 2, but overall felt like a lesser game than the two preceding it. It lost a lot of soul and felt more robotic in design
Aaah, SWAT 4, they did good work with randomness at times, I recall times on that level where the mother is in the bathroom in tub with a shotgun telling you not to take her son or the suspect is roaming around in the lounge.
The suspects that drop their gun only to fast draw their side arm, the stubborn dudes that just won't surrender and forced to kill to, unintentional or intentional ambushes
I will never forget the feeling of "screw you game" and "well done" where I checked a hallway, clear- breach see suspect and get brained from the back as a suspect came out of a room behind me while being capped by the dude in front ( i don't know if it was imagination, but felt like my character's head moved forward when shot in head from the back and then the whiplash of being shot in the head from the front - was armoured suspects with automatic rifles)
Tldr:
I am have let myself be too soft as I have not invoked my freedom of expression and fair conditions and let them bypass responsibility and get away with imposing their way of business.
End tldr
You know reading these comments made me look at my Country's constitution... South Africa
Makes me think that people in general don't fully read them, myself included.
It is interesting because in a way some of the things written here can in practice get someone put in jail because of the stigma of the past - primarily racism
I was raised in the demographic as white but my mother is, and this the term they use here, coloured ( fair complexion) i am sure an internet search can confirm.
Also realised that when my last job told me I wouldn't advance in the work because of the colour of my skin ( and I was too stupid and eager for a job I accepted) they were legally covering their ass as there is provision for it if it is formally accepted. That my rights were ebbed away with fine print ( example, they made me sign something inocculous 3 months into employment and fine out down the line that I missed out on receiving bonus by a month because of the signed document)
But even through all that and the contracts they made me sign i still had the right to strike or to unionized.... of course they make sure that you can't do that because they prey on that need and suppress your right to diginity
Really off topic apologies, brain wonders off and puts pieces into play that fell off the bandwagon😂