If the quality of your threads had a Steam rating they'd probably be 4% positive.

Originally posted by Stake from Jate Farm:

Originally posted by Medicinal Warlock:

Mate, it's EA. We're lucky that they haven't started having microtransactions for ammo.

He's not joking, btw.

The CEO of EA actually, legitimently considered putting in microtransactions to fill your ammo reserves.

Have you a source for this or is it something you just made up?

I don't think huge maps or slow game play is an issue, Battlefield 2 managed it quite well but this game is just an awkward mix of Battlefield 1 with WW1 taped on it. I would expect the gameplay to be slow, especially in a western front setting since apart from artillery barrages and pushes across no mans land, it was quite a stagnant war, but it's pretty much BF4 so it can't really get this right either since people just run around with SMGs, which were quite uncommon in WW1. Also, I don't think realism was ever Battlefield's strong point despite it trying to sell that, it's very much so an arcade shooter action game.

If you want a realistic military game with proper use of maps, 100s-1000s of square kilometres in size with 200+ player servers with everything from the broader logistics down to the individual soldier, just play ArmA, don't expect it from Battlefield anymore - try Battlefield 2 or the original 1942 for bigger maps and servers done well. I'm definitely not defending Battlefield 1 either, it just looks like a lazy effort to plop BF4 onto WW1.

Originally posted by Lagger:

It's just more unnecessary shit.

But all the 80s music and dancing!

Ah yes, the Buzzfeed editor.

Whatever one has the internationally recognised medic symbol so that you don't get fired at.

They're great fun. The wedding parties after the actual ceremony though is when the real fun begins! Not sure how it works in the US but in Ireland they usually go on pretty late. The ceremonies are quite nice too but the churches here are hundreds of years old (some over a thousand years old and still standing/in use!) and are pretty cold inside.

Originally posted by Kryztal:

Originally posted by Keyes:

If I can recall correctly, Sweden has a much broader definition of what "rape".

No, the definition is the same.
There's a difference between sexual assault and rape.
Touching someone sexually (or the similiar) is sexual assault.
Forcing one to have sexual intercourse is rape.

If anything, I'd blame the refugees for it.

Also, to correct myself, I meant rape reports rate. My bad.

What I'm referring to was a 2005 change in the law by Social Democrats - rape can include other things according to the new law so that's probably why the statistics are so high compared to others. Refugees have probably increased the rates somewhat but this law change is most likely responsible for the perceived increase in crime. It's also fairly likely due to the way Sweden records it in the first place - as soon as it's reported, it's put down as a statistic by the police, and each separate occasion of a rape being committed is put down as a statistic. You can probably link refugees to a recent rise in the crime, but from what I've read the most plausible reason for the higher rates compared to other developed countries is not because of a huge crisis but because of how the statistics are managed. Look at Japan, the opposite can be seen with murder. Police only ever put a crime down as murder unless they've completely figured it out, so it can give the illusion of the absence of any homicides. Japan is still an incredibly safe country, if not one of the safest, but always be skeptical about how statistics are made.

Originally posted by Kryztal:

I find it funny because today there was just an article about Mexico being one of the most friendly countries in the world.

Also, nice generalization - might aswell hate swedish people because of the high rape rates here, or turks because incest.

If I can recall correctly, Sweden has a much broader definition of what "rape" is so the statistics are a bit distorted when compared to other western countries where the standard definition of it is used. Sweden doesn't really have a rape crisis, it's just distorted figures due to how the law describes the crime compared to other countries, and possibly perhaps that people are more likely to report it if they are victims compared with other countries again. That being said I'm not too sure if the crime has been falling or rising, I would guess that it could be rising due to the large refugee population moving into Sweden.

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