korlic

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."

I find this article rather interesting, especially considering who the author is...

I too, found myself agreeing with a lot of the points made in that article. Having spent 60+ hours with it so far, I found the combat, with the removal of healing spells, to be rather lackluster, and restricted to having only 8 abilities available leads me to believe that it was designed specifically for consoles, and the entire game balanced around that restriction. The inventory system is very cumbersome and the loot to be incredibly bland and uninspiring, especially the rings.

The main character seemingly survives a disaster and is then suddenly revered as an almighty wise leader because you've accidentally obtained a mysterious ability.

The "single player MMO" pretty much sums it up for me, without the complexity of an MMO that is. I'm disappointed in this game to say the least. Absolutely no way is Dragon Age: Inquisition deserving of GOTY.

This doesn't seem right, pretty sure I tried that and your team turns on you for not shooting people.

Pretty much expected when internet places become popular.

Are you implying that it may be corrupt?

Hmm, let's investigate!

@gaff:

I can't really speak about the impact potential child bearing could have on a womans choice of education or career goal. I am not a woman.

I wouldn't say it's necessarily the job they chose to pursue, a female leaving university looking to become a high school math teacher should be paid the same as a male leaving university looking to become a high school math teacher, given their qualifications and experience are a match.

If these two math teachers were to make a baby, the first highly variable factor in the lives of these two teachers that will have an impact on pay is paternity leave. How many weeks or months to take before and after birth. What time a woman may arrive at work if they're ferrying children to a daycare centre, a nursery or school. How early a woman might leave each day to collect their children. It's all these highly variable factors that impacts a womans pay and her overall income.

On the employers side of things, discrimination is another variable factor, whether it's promotions, pay rises or to employ or reject. It happens frequently, not in all cases, but it would be naïve to think it doesn't. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to prevent discrimination. We have laws against it, there are punishments as deterrents, we are taught that it's wrong and yet still it exists. Heck there's even laws to encourage discrimination. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_quota)

@jerseyscum:

Hi,

I'd like to address a couple of your points by sharing some videos with you.

Pay gap - A couple of videos for this one, detailing how an individuals pay is determined and why the statistics you see thrown around so often is false, surely if the gap is that large then wouldn't the majority of companies fire as many men as possible to hire women instead?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwogDPh-Sow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58arQIr882w

Education - Globally, women are doing worse as there are a lot of nations that reject the influences of the western societies and tend to favor males, but if we're talking strictly the US, according to the US Department Of Education, women are the majority graduates of Doctorates, Masters, Bachelors and Associates Degrees:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sKBMcLzRHY

The other points are completely agreeables.

@matt_rogan1407:

Hi,

This issue appears to occur when the contacts on the Hard Disk have either fallen out of an ideal seating position or dust and debris have made their way in and are preventing the system from recognizing the disk.

Here's a video to illustrate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkKDgaM7E58

Ensure that when re-seating the Hard Disk that the screw hole is lined up properly.

@extomar: Yep, there's nothing you or I can do, defending or trying to deter people from such behavior seems futile, and it's probably best that the individual on the receiving end of it to block harrassment and abuse and report threats to the police.