@c0kemusheen: Did you said "Vai se fuder"? Isn't that "fuck you" instead of "Fuck off"? Also, i'm Brazilian, so i got to deal with a lot of comments on the vein of "You're a dumb monkey" and things like that. We all feel your pain, but it's HARD to judge people on a one by one basis, and you know how much people love the easy way, so... Stereotypes are not going to die soon.
But everyone probably assumes you're ace at football (sawker) though?
@Rattle618: If you don't like it by now, you're not going to like it at all. My advice, pack it up and play something else. I loved it myself, but it doesn't sound like it's for you.
Realism in in gameplay will always be weighed against the fun of the gameplay. If you get struck by a bullet in real life, you may not die right away, but if it goes untreated you may bleed out in a matter of hours or days. You may be able to stop the bleeding, only to fall prey to sepsis of the blood a while later. Even if you manage to get the treatment you need, you are looking at weeks and months of recovery. You may damage your spine and never walk again. You may get enough tissue damage in your leg that you have to amputate.
That's realistic, but put any of those mechanics into your game, and no-one will want to play it. Would you want to wake up in a hospital after running into too much enemy fire, and spend the next few hours of the game trying to learn to walk again? That said, there are things that I would like to see developers do, if only to unite the realities of gameplay and the cut-scene narrative in the game. I'd like to see the healthbar replaced with a system that measures luck rather than health. Instead of absorbing your enenmies bullets, they wizz by you until your luck runs out and you actually get hit. It may not be realistic that your enemies suddenly turn into stromtroopers, but it would help my immersion, I think.
I don't think the OP did anything wrong by telling them to fuck off, and for whatever harm it may have done, the demonstration of Portuguese (and thereby, that he's not just an "ignorant, dumb American") probably more than made up for that. I'm not sure that the racist in this incident would have expected any other response to what they did, and if they were going so far as to refuse service anyway, their views were already pretty cemented.
Having said that, while I've met many fantastic people over here, I'm genuinely apprehensive when talking to Americans. I've been harassed countless times for not being a Christian and asked what it's like to live without freedom. All this, by people who are seemingly normal, and who I would have considered my friends...
Well, if it's any consolation, as an American Christian who loves me some freedom, I think you're peachy keen, mandude! :)
Unless you're Norwegian. Those damn Nords with their fish... (Kidding!)
"Unless you're..." Hey!
Sigh. Another blatant case of prejudice against us Norwegians. Or as we like to call it, "fish-envy". :P
I'll be honest. When I was younger, (much younger) there was something about Americans that really rubbed me the wrong way. I would get provoked whenever I saw an American politician talking about "God's chosen country" and the "greatest nation on earth." At school and amongst my friends anti-American sentiments ran rampant, and in my teens, I've said enough horrible things about the US and its inhabitants that I'll probably never be let in if I tried. :) However, most Americans I've spoken with or met in person subesquently have been people I've liked, or at least respected. As I've gotten older, I've learned not to become infuriated by self-satisfied comments about how much better and more free America is than other nations. I can smile at it now. And you know what? Americans have alot to be proud of. And alot to be ashamed of. Like the rest of us.
I think the reason Americans meet so much ire abroad is a matter of scale.
Small fish will always try to eat the biggest fish in the fjord. (Old Norwegian proverb) (...not really)
Here's Di Grind by Kaizers Orchestra, the best live band in the history of mankind. They sing their songs in a thick, impenetrable dialect even native Norwegian speakers have a difficulty understanding.
I've had a good couple of days. After a long, long grind in Anor Londo, I killed Ornstein and Smough on my third attempt, before going back to Darkroot Garden, and killed the Great Grey Wolf Sif after a couple of tries. Man, that double spin attack nearly did my head in.
I now headed to The New Londo Ruins, which I must say is the easiest area I've visited yet, and the Four Kings are the easiest bosses. Just run up to them and stab them until they stop moving. Now it has to be said that I am probably overlevelled, and what ever sense of safety I now feel was fast killed off when I encountered Seeth the Scaleless in the Duke's Archives. He kicked my ass before I managed to get a hit on him.
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