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Wow, this thread is derail central. And that's what I love about you lovely moderators. My favorite type of person is one who has proven themselves to be intelligent and reasonable, yet at the same time chill and fun to be around. Lotta you mods hit that mark.
Noooooo, who does that? I certainly don't do that, no sir! It's definitely not one of the reasons I still frequent the forum!

Most of the internet right now
 

 
I already preordered the deluxe edition, but thats because I enjoy playing battlefield. Everyone needs to chill the f out.

And of course, you don't have to bother wasting "valuable" seconds changing the font color to something that only night theme users can read.

The thing is, a lot of people such as myself - a battlefield fan - didn't care and it didn't felt out of place and forced. Why is that?
The discussion is in WHY does it feel out of place and forced for some people?

I explained it in my post and I'm gonna develop it explicitly again because there are various psychological phenomenons at work here and I could cite some for you:
1. Status Quo bias: people prefer when things remain the same. In BF5's case, they obviously changed something
2. Norms & Values: The discomfort of transgressed norms, not only that, but the expression of it. In fact, a during a very recent study of the university of ULB (I assisted to the lecture last month) the discrimination of LGBT people at work: in short, there was a theory that could be inducted with the data gathered: People that transgress the norm are not discriminated because they transgressed it, but because they show that they transgressed.
For instance, you get records of such conversations: "I hate muslim/gay people!" -"Well, I'm actually muslim/gay" -"Oh, you're okay because we don't notice it"
In case of BF5, they flagantry transgressed the norm of by presenting a woman as the new face of the game
3. The cognitive dissonance: which is the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes: It's an extremely strong psychological state in which people won't accept their own incoherence (it's actually part of a defense mechanism to preserve self-integrity and thereby mental sanity), that's why even the most developed arguments won't even work.
No one wants to be sexist because it's socially undesirable. I believe many of the people complaining about the woman in the game also believe in equality between genders and women's rights. I believe they do not mean to be demeaning to women in any way. BUT the incoherence I exposed in the sole argument brought by those people which complains about historical inaccuracy (...):
1. Battlefield never pretended (in any game) to be historically accurate
2. There are many other bigger inaccuracies that didn't bother people that much
(...) shows that, the outrage may actually be (intended or not) sexism deflected (by the cognitive dissonance) behind the curtain of "historical accuracy". Because they ofcourse don't mean to be sexist, but they need to find a thing ("historical inaccuracy) to blame their discomfort on.
 
I'm sure there are many other phenomenons such as the lack of the ability of decentring which means being able to step outside of one's own truisms, cognitive scheme and preconceived, culturally anchored thoughts and ideas.

All in all, the status quo bias, norm&values, the cognitive dissonance are the main psychological phenomenons (I could observe in the people commenting against of the implementation of women in the game) that could explain their discomfort and the reason why they oppose this change. 
 
This is my last comment for this thread.

And of course, you don't have to bother wasting "valuable" seconds changing the font color to something that only night theme users can read.

It's all about shape these days.  Does it have rounded corners? does it bend? does the battery go flat to early?  

What about battlefield bad company 2 which is reputed as one of the best campaigns in Battlefield history although being lighthearted?
What about Wolfenstein?
What about Aldo's squad in Inglorious Bastards?

Do you feel the same way about all those?

I enjoy historically accurate shooters personally, I really enjoyed Verdun as a WW1 shooter. Battlefield 1 was fun as well, but way less historically accurate. Still fun to play, but I would have been happier if it had some more accuracy, particularly in the trench warfare gameplay.
 
In my opinion, female soldiers is NOT the worst historical inaccuracy we saw in the trailer for Battlefield V.
 
What bothered me most about the trailer was the "we are a badass band of misfits shooting our way through Nazi scum" aspect of it. What bothered me was the apparent heavy leaning on "cosmetic customization" instead of just having everyone wear standard uniforms.
 
This seems more like: Destiny 2: Battlefield WW2 edition, or even "Battlefield: Inglorious Bastards edition" rather than a successor to Battlefield 1942.
 
To me, these kinds of depictions of WW2, with cosmetics, and "hey we are having badass fun" kind of make light of the real suffering and historic tragedy of WW2, which really rubs me the wrong way.
 
You could argue that any video game depiction of a real war does this, but in a game like Verdun, or even Battlefield 1942, you can take war seriously. You really feel it would have been awful to be at war. The trailer to Battlefield V made me feel like they are making light of WW2, which is a slippery slope IMO.
 
Let's hope the game ends up being very different from the trailer.
 
 

People are stupid.
Edit: Fuck it, just preordered the deluxe edition.

This pretty much describes gamers this week 
 

At only 33, he managed to garner a huge following and has made a massive impact on the gaming community. If he had lived longer, he perhaps would have accomplished much, much more, but what he has done for us, for ALL of us, cannot be understated.
 
 
May you rest in peace, John Bain, and myself and all others who care about the state of the gaming industry will continue your legacy. You will be remembered, and everything you stood for will live on in our hearts and minds for generations to come.

We essentially had net neutrality back then. Not in law, but ISPs hadn't thought of screwing over customers in this way at that point. Also, how the internet has been used has changed drastically in 10 years. There has been a massive shift toward streaming and using other methods of watching hi-res video, meaning ISPs have more of an incentive to do this because it's easier than updating their infrastructure to support the higher demand. It doesn't justify it, but it does help explain why we are where we are right now.

We essentially had net neutrality back then. Not in law, but ISPs hadn't thought of screwing over customers in this way at that point. Also, how the internet has been used has changed drastically in 10 years. There has been a massive shift toward streaming and using other methods of watching hi-res video, meaning ISPs have more of an incentive to do this because it's easier than updating their infrastructure to support the higher demand. It doesn't justify it, but it does help explain why we are where we are right now.

The title of the thread is somewhat misleading because Tesla aren't exactly being sued because the trucks look similar. They are being sued because:
 
Here is another pictures of the two trucks, taken from the lawsuit itself.

 
 
Like I said earlier, if Apple could win the lawsuit against Samsung, then I don't have any problem imagining Nikola winning against Tesla.

Yes, he started Zen and left when it was already en route. You can find him and Lisa Su explaining Zen in Youtube  
 
Unless Intel got tired of trying to polish their process shrink and decided to start pouring some glue on the big guys  

I mean a citation from an independent, third-party (non-you) source that demonstrates each of these happening and why they are all problems. No offense, but you don't seem to be the most unbiased in this matter. Also, doing things like what you mentioned seems to be more of a series of last resort options and probably only done after providing disclaimers and all needed info to the consumer, and that is my default assumption since it's the one that makes the most sense and you didn't provide any evidence to the contrary. And I would certainly go for a fix from him rather than Apple if they refused to service my machine. If you don't think I should be going for these "substandard" options, why don't you support Apple improving their terms of service?

I think it is amazing that the worlds largest company can't fix their 2/3rd best selling product.  Whats even more silly is people defending that lack of customer service.
 
Legal or not, not offering a repair service for your customers is a failure of after sales service.  And claiming they simply can't do it is BS. 
 
 
 

Wow, this thread is derail central. And that's what I love about you lovely moderators. My favorite type of person is one who has proven themselves to be intelligent and reasonable, yet at the same time chill and fun to be around. Lotta you mods hit that mark.
Noooooo, who does that? I certainly don't do that, no sir! It's definitely not one of the reasons I still frequent the forum!

Wow, this thread is derail central. And that's what I love about you lovely moderators. My favorite type of person is one who has proven themselves to be intelligent and reasonable, yet at the same time chill and fun to be around. Lotta you mods hit that mark.
Noooooo, who does that? I certainly don't do that, no sir! It's definitely not one of the reasons I still frequent the forum!

Wow, this thread is derail central. And that's what I love about you lovely moderators. My favorite type of person is one who has proven themselves to be intelligent and reasonable, yet at the same time chill and fun to be around. Lotta you mods hit that mark.
Noooooo, who does that? I certainly don't do that, no sir! It's definitely not one of the reasons I still frequent the forum!

Dignified

How bout plain weird

Um, yes? In fact, that is exactly what I would do, because I don't very much like people kissing me even under better circumstances, and I am well within my rights to say I don't like it. I doubt I would press charges or anything that severe, but you can bet they would receive a verbal lashing at least.

Um, yes? In fact, that is exactly what I would do, because I don't very much like people kissing me even under better circumstances, and I am well within my rights to say I don't like it. I doubt I would press charges or anything that severe, but you can bet they would receive a verbal lashing at least.