Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
Damn. You can't make this shit up.
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- France
They didn't actually fight any good while on fire though. Firefighters are far too safety conscious for that.
However one thing that they really are good at is backing each other up. A coordinated mob of fit guys can and will beat riot police, so now there's lots of very satisfying footage of cop charges going wrong, cops retreating, and cops being pushed around by protesters.
10/10, cathartic stuff.
- Location
- Brazil
French firefighters: "I'm gonna do what's called a Pro Gamer move".
*casts Fire Shield, charges riot police*
*casts Fire Shield, charges riot police*
Evaunit02mark1
S-s-smell the Prey, S-s-start the Hunt.
[X] Goldfish
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Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
"Riot police can't catch you if you're on fire" eh?
As a side note, I am throughly intimidated by the sheer numbers of priority targets Golden Company has for us, even before looking into the Shadow Fortress.
They are bullshit, I have no idea how to deal with them, imma leave this shit to someone less prone to worrying about things than me.
[X] Goldfish
Goldfish
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- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
I've avoided the news as much as possible lately for the sake of my sanity, so I haven't seen anything about French firefighters squaring off against riot police. The thought of flaming firefighters is amusing, but what I can't stop thinking about is how effective a high pressure water hose would be against a wall of police using riot shields. It seems like it would be similar to bowling. But with people.
- Location
- Germany
Uhm... water-throwers are a staple of riot police for a reason.
Also, @TalonofAnathrax, it's cute that you guys are protesting against retirement with 64. Meanwhile our government is waffling about potentially raising the retirement age above the current 67, though what exactly that is supposed to achieve when you can't get a job anymore with 50 is anyone's guess.
Goldfish
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Oh, I know they work great against normal people. I just want to see the effect of one hitting a riot shield wall.
Evaunit02mark1
S-s-smell the Prey, S-s-start the Hunt.
*Sobbing laughter in barely above the poverty line American*
My grandmother worked until she was almost 70 and only stopped because the factory she worked at was shut down. If I get that old, hell if I even live that long, I doubt I'll be able to retire to begin with.
Maybe the winds of fortune will change, but if trends keep dancing along the lines they are my generation and the one right behind it is as screwed as the Golden Company once we get all the targets in one place.
At least the whiskey's cheap.
Goldfish
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Right there with ya, dude. I fully expect to work until I die. Retirement just doesn't seem to be in the cards for me.
- Location
- France
You know, my grandmother was colonized (ie born to an indigenous ethnic group in a French colony). She's illiterate, uneducated, and her life basically went "childhood -> arranged marriage -> six or seven kids". Her husband was a primary school teacher (and he was also colonized, not French) in the ass end of nowhere, a rural area best known for semi-regular riots and lots of bloodshed during the war of independence and ensuing religious civil war.
She still gets a better retirement pension than many people in so-called "developed countries".
How fucked is that?
She still gets a better retirement pension than many people in so-called "developed countries".
How fucked is that?
I can say all this without doxxing myself because it's actually an incredibly common situation... Which makes things even worse!
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
It's pretty much a universal situation to a degree, it's just that some places have it better, only since fascism is on the rise it's just slowly declining toward increasingly worse status quo.
I have to then consider how I can either save some time off to decompress from corporate America, or I can save it to spend time with my family in California, because I paradoxically can't afford to live independently in California.
...
But at least I have escapism! Cheap, too!
It has to get a lot worse before it gets better, if it ever does. And, arguably, it probably won't ever, unless things shift before it actually hits that point where people are going literally insane with rage.
Irony is that I am pretty sure if Europe had to put up with some of the craziness over here in America it would have already hit that point. And we're chill with an attempt at peaceful resolution over here regardless, that we won't consider other alternatives, to protest, before we've already lost our ability to do so. And arguably, a lot of us already have.
No job security. If you have a degree, your financial burdens are greater even if your income also increases. If you don't, even without debt, you're not making enough to do more than keep a roof over your head. It's a lot of artificial business, to distract the plebes so they don't have the energy to fight back.
And that's tolerable, because common consensus is we still have freedom, and a lot of other places don't, even if it actively gets eroded a little bit at a time. It's not like people aren't talking about all the obvious signs either.
Irony is that I am pretty sure if Europe had to put up with some of the craziness over here in America it would have already hit that point. And we're chill with an attempt at peaceful resolution over here regardless, that we won't consider other alternatives, to protest, before we've already lost our ability to do so. And arguably, a lot of us already have.
No job security. If you have a degree, your financial burdens are greater even if your income also increases. If you don't, even without debt, you're not making enough to do more than keep a roof over your head. It's a lot of artificial business, to distract the plebes so they don't have the energy to fight back.
And that's tolerable, because common consensus is we still have freedom, and a lot of other places don't, even if it actively gets eroded a little bit at a time. It's not like people aren't talking about all the obvious signs either.
I have to then consider how I can either save some time off to decompress from corporate America, or I can save it to spend time with my family in California, because I paradoxically can't afford to live independently in California.
...
But at least I have escapism! Cheap, too!
- Location
- Brazil
And it makes the world go 'round.
- Location
- Germany
Pretty sure it's not about actually making people work longer, it's about forcing them to accept less money when entering retirement?
[X] Goldfish
- Location
- Germany
We are working on replicating as many of your issues as we can. Meanwhile the unspoken consensus is that the world is burning down around us (in some regards literally) and that there is nothing we can do about it.
I'm not entirely sure that it is possible for most people to get less. Could be an attempt to shortchange them through Hartz IV though.
Most western democracies are one or two bad election cycles away from flushing someone like Duterte into office here too. So take heart in the knowledge that at least we are not trying to recolonize your country.
Yet.
- Location
- United Kingdom
[X] Goldfish
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- Germany
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- Location
- France
Both. The current system is designed to decrease pensions (often rather significantly), while also increasing the retirement age and decreasing social mobility (people who were born rich get higher pensions than those who became rich gradually, through a career).
Oh, and then there's a whole mess about various professions losing their specific pension schemes, which is just the icing on a really ugly cake. For example teachers accept frankly shit pay because of the promise of job security and a high pension, so now this plan (which will dramatically slash their pensions) is not going over well. Similarly, firefighters, lawyers, train employees, tax inspectors, (etc) all had their specific retirement rules obtained over the years and now risk losing them all, sparking protests.
I mean, I'm aware that things are worse in many many countries (that's actually the whole reason I follow US news in some detail - it just always makes me feel better about my own country), and I offer you all my best wishes, best of luck, and condolences.
Anyway, back on topic : what was the weapon that Tiamat feared that we went to fetch in Lyceos? I was under the impression that it was the Mythic rank, but that's sort of wierd : does this mean that the tower can somehow give people Mythic ranks? Or was that coded thingy specifically written for us, because Syrax knew that she could spark our Mythic Ascension and wanted to lure us in? But if so, then why did the undead (the riders who seemed to have been sent by the Rakshasa) seem to think we were coming to steal something?
Or am I forgetting some amazing piece of loot?
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- Germany
I think Syrax's knowledge in general was the price.
In our particular case it was enough to make the jump to Mythic, for the Rakshasa it could have helped him become one of the Mahardja Rani.
Others propably would have profited according to their prior power and knowledge.
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- Germany
I'll drink a glass of scotch on you people tonight.