“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply,” Stephen Covey.
"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite. " -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
“Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life” “Logic will get you from A to Z; Imagination will get you everywhere.”
“Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life” “Logic will get you from A to Z; Imagination will get you everywhere.”
Earth and human are the training ground made by the ISIS God.
ISIS members have to prove to its God that they can fight even when it is "losing".
They will be rewarded with 72 virgins if they continue to fight in a difficult time.
In afterlife, they fight with other fighters from other universe.
Like Guild Wars 2, it is World versus World PvP.
"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite. " -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
There was similar silliness about capitalism collapsing in the 1930s.
I repeat: there is NO ALTERNATIVE to capitalism as the mechanism for organizing economies. None. No other mechanism that has been attempted has come close to working. The communist experiment, if it did anything useful, provided a test of whether a centrally planned system could replace capitalism. It could not.
"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite. " -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
Being harder on them, and winding up accidentally hurting more innocents in the process, makes it easier for them to convince people on the fence that you're the bad guys.
Being less hard on them I'm sure they can spin it as you're retreating and they're winning.
It must be a lot easier to convince people when there's no losing option for them:
they win and conquer the planet (not likely but certainly the end goal) = they win!
they lose and all get executed = they still win, because now they're partying in martyr heaven!
In 2008 global capitalism failed. The banking system was de facto nationalized. That's what a failure of capitalism is: a regulated state take over of capital.
The direct opposite of what you are saying occurred. There was no alternative to socialism: no one wanted to or even could have continued with capitalism because the system had collapsed.
Most of the command structure of ISIS has been obliterated and now they are so desperate for recruits they are putting suicide vests on little children!.
They are really on the verge of total collapse in Raqqa and Mosul BUT its the idea of ISIS that will live on and that idea is what we must destroy.
Young kids need to be shown that ISIS isnt some grand defender of Islam but just a bunch of degenerate rapists, murderers and thieves!
When that mystique is gone and hapless muslims stops believing in there shit then we will have defeated ISIS.
This is now a war of propaganda and ideas cause ISIS is getting annihilated on the ground in there home turf of Syria and Iraq but they continue to inspire young kids in western countries and thats what we need to stop!
Because the us loves conflict and funding Isis through Saudi Arabia and turkey shows that they won't go anywhere.
Of course ISIS can be defeated. And quite easily, too. However, two things:
a) they provide a useful proxy for the foreign policies of certain nations
b) eradicating them would be... bloody, messy and full of collateral damage.
so, though we may have the means, we lack the will.
They are legion! and spread out wide.