You’re can have fun playing it, sure. They should’ve given full creative control to whoever did the Mantis quest.
I think what most people’s true problem with it is isn’t what they say, I think it’s disappointment from the opportunity that Bethesda had to bring their systems and graphics to the modern day and approach space with more fluidity and more meaning, and they spent all of that time developing it, while not developing the new elder scrolls or fallout games, and they basically gave us 2011 Skyrim in space. Which would have been mind blowing back in 2011, but was kind of not impressive nowadays. Eh.
The shipbuilding was cool.
@DanFriedman81 Ur buk isnt nearly as fun, engaging,…; or inspiring to reed. Robert likewise sounds like a clown. Maybe his prose is just right, and all the fancy academic mumbo jumbo nonsense is just elitist vomit and completely unnecessary? Carry on!
@boycereads I liked Project Hail Mary, Enders Shadow, Speaker for the Dead, The Martian, Artemis, Armada, Bobiverse and Quantum Radio a lot. Those first six more than Red Rising although I liked Red Rising too.
The charge of the Polish Hussars at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 was the largest cavalry charge in history. I am painting this epic moment one painstaking detail at a time. This is exactly what I do - bring history to life in fine art.
Conjecture would be claiming she beats them or locks them in a basement. Saying a new, full-time, public appearance heavy, national CEO + entrepreneur isn't physically/emotionally available for young kids (let alone kids having just experienced one of the most traumatic things imaginable) is just basic life math. Kids are at best a side project for her. Thats just how it is.
The time math doesn’t lie.
@disinfo_tracker Fair point, IQ tests have cultural biases, and Lynn's Somalia data is flawed/small/unrepresentative. Bump it 15 pts for loading issues? Still 83 (not good).
But the real story isn't denying low averages, it's why: decades of war, malnutrition, no education, and massive corruption where warlords/politicians siphon resources (charcoal, aid, oil/gas deals) while keeping people impoverished.
Refugee camps often aren't much better than home conditions in many of these cases.
This isn't racist, it's what happens to ANY group in those circumstances. South Korea jumped from ~80 in the 60s to ~106 today after stability and investment. Same could happen in Somalia if governance fixed corruption and used its OWN resources (oil/gas/minerals potential) for the population instead of elite theft.
US tax dollars (often reported diverted/embezzled) shouldn't fuel that corruption engine. Better approach would be to push accountability there so Somalis benefit from their own wealth.
Fix conditions = scores rise. That's the path forward, not semantics over studies.
I don’t know everything Asmongold has said, and he may rant about IQ often, idk, but acknowledging that bad conditions equals lower IQ score is not racist. It would be that way for any culture who endured the same conditions and corruption that Somalia has.
It isn’t inherently racist, and you provided no solutions.
Also, bringing up ancestors doesn’t make any sense at all. It’s nonsensical, purely incendiary.
@NJBeisner@AwakenWithJP@kentoblanco@LibTearCreator1 No idea what this JP did or stands for, but you absolutely can choose to not stand by somebody’s spouse if after they die their spouse abandons their kids with absolutely no reason to do so.