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Comment Re:I guess I'll see (Score 3, Informative) 156

GW2 grind is souldcrushingly long and tedious, as the game not only has far more grind than WoW ever it, it does the grind in a massively boring way, just like GW1 did. You just repeat the same small subset of actions in the same place all over and over and over and over again. I absolutely love their art, which is by far the best in the industry, but gameplay was remarkably boring after a few hours with very little depth and grind was just soul crushing. And I say this as someone who played GW1 for years, where best form of farm was running two instances with a solo build that could be (and widely was) botted.

WoW felt like a game of LoL in terms of speed of character progression in comparison to GW2.

As for WvW, you either don't understand how it works and bought arenanet's lie about scaling, or are intentionally misrepresenting the facts. Sure, you get boosted to maximum level but without gear, you're a useless dead weight. It gives you levels but without all the stats that come from level-specific gear, meaning one properly geared lvl80 can easily drop 5-7 scaled up low level guys and not break a sweat in the process. Done that myself several times on a warrior and elementalist before quitting the game.

Imho if you want to get into GW2, stick to PvE, go through the storyline once and quit. Because once you have done so, you enjoyed all the enjoyable content that game has to offer. Rest is simply about monetizing the wealthy min-maxers who can't be bothered to grind for months of redoing same easy instances for gear tokens, AoE bot the events for karma or botting gold.

Comment Re:strict privacy laws my ass! (Score 1) 109

I love you how spin and spin, and it still ends up at the starting line - that your logic is utterly absurd. You're simply incapable of understanding that taxation is not a bad thing, and that profit does not equal production, any more that profit does not equal "economic production" (listing a specific subset isn't going to change the whole).

Sorry, but pointing out your obvious doublethink that you're trying to pass as logic is not trolling. It's stating a fact. It's a shame you're apparently utterly incapable of seeing it.

I'll just restate the facts one more time:

Taxation on profit does not equal taxation on production.

Comment Re:strict privacy laws my ass! (Score 1) 109

Excellent. Let's continue to apply your logic to both statements to see if we can find a sizable difference:
Not "all human action" results in death. In fact the vast majority of human action does not result in death.
Not all production results in profit - correct. In fact the vast majority of production does not result in profit - also correct.

I'm sorry, you'll have to continue trying to twist the logic to break the obvious similarity. So far, your every attempt appears to match up perfectly between the two, because both are equally illogical and absurd.

Comment Re:The Wild West (Score 1) 256

The biggest problem with deflation is hoarding. If you know your currency will just keep increasing in value, you have no interest of spending that currency - you want to sit on it and let it become even more valuable.

This is why most central banks go to great pains to ensure small, stable inflation of their currency. It creates a powerful incentive to put the monetary resources into circulation instead of hoarding, leading to efficient use of resources.

Comment Re:The Wild West (Score 1) 256

The original argument was that bitcoin is deflating currency by design. While you are correct that the actual size of bitcoin and its ability to be used in very small amounts will allow for fix to problem of "currency vanishing", it doesn't solve the problem of the fact that it is a deflating currency by design.

Comment Re:the Swiss don't need you (Score 2, Informative) 109

As far as I remember they had similar pattern of domestic violence that Kosovo has. I.e. instead of knives, or small arms most wounds were high energy ballistic (caused by high power assault rifles), which are far more serious in nature.

It's not that they had a lot of it. It's that the pattern of this particular form of crime, which usually takes form of "most accessible weapon" was significantly more fatal than that in neighboring countries. By removing easy access to ammo, domestic violence cases went to more traditional "knives, flying pans and small arms" that gives victims a much higher chance of survival.

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