I should add that my coins are either British or American and not some oddball shit that the average person won't recognize as money. Collector coins are not going to be held in the same esteem as a US silver Eagle or a UK sovereign.
I'm with you on metals.
Best advice I had on that topic was this:
"Gold is what you use when you buy your neighbor's house, his car, or his daughter. But for day-to-day living you need silver and in the one-ounce quantities that will buy your groceries, your fuel, and other necessities."
To...
No, you misunderstand. The utterly nerfed weapons on normal are utterly unreal and frustrating.
In HC you can shoot someone in the arm with the .50 and they die. Just like in real life.
The AA is still nerfed a bit in HC when used on infantry but not as bad as in normal.
Only if you set aside decent funds and invested them wisely. Otherwise you'll end up being 75 and collecting bottles from the neighborhood recycle bins to supplement your income.
For my part I got fed up with shooting someone in the chest with the .50 and watching them walk away. Or firing a few 30mm AA rounds at them and watching them walk away.
The Department Secretary sent me a message to let me know "this will be handled".
I checked with HR and the write-up against me has now been shitcanned. My grievance, however, is proceeding apace.
LOL.
This happened on Friday:
One of our services was down because of the Crowdstrike issue. One of our executives remembered that I was on the network team (which was nine years ago before I moved to ISO).
Calls me on MS Teams and has a nuclear meltdown because "You're not doing your...
Better yet all the people we ban can go get their money together and start their own server where they can cheat and troll and grief and TK and utter racist nonsense to their heart's content. I'm sure they'll enjoy each other's company.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has a FOUO Information Sector advisory posted in restricted channels linking this current drama to the Russian email compromise of Microsoft late last year (2023).
So yeah. The badass Ruzzians think stopping us from playing BF4 is going to prove some sort...
DDoS - it's happening to other folks and not just us. Meaning this is an ongoing worldwide attack. Probably from the cunts in Ruzzia.
https://downdetector.com/