#DCB Three Hopes Run

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

i love this alliance general and am glad someone is thinking positive about future friendships in this damn game

look at this cute general look at him wanting to be friends with all these people he spent all these good times with

[dmclemblems]

Claude calling the people of the Kingdom and Empire monsters and rallying people under the promise of their deaths and only giving half of a shit for his own people, on top of being willing to worsen foreign relations and refuel fighting on the border wrt Sreng for the same reasons. Hm wow that sure sound like someone who sees outsiders as less than human and only as threats to his own people (who are the only ones deserving of peace and safety). You know, that mindset that Claude fundamentally hates and literally came to Fodlan to wipe out so that people can live in harmony with each other?

Fuck this game and the absolutely horrific treatment it gave to Claude's entire character. Literally nothing anyone says can possibly explain why such a core aspect of Claude's character is not just not present, but actively replaced with its perfect opposite - and this game doesn't even bother to give a HALF-HEARTED explanation, he Just Is like this now. This game can actually suck my ass.

I like the game generally speaking (and AG was written really well), but I'm definitely not fond of how Claude was handled.

Like you said, and one of the biggest things that bothers me that I mentioned in another post is how he basically tells people to surrender or die, yet he says he wants to minimize casualties. It doesn't even make sense that he wants that but attacked the Kingdom without so much as a letter being sent to speak to Dimitri personally talk to to him about the Church and whatnot. Plus, if he did, he might have been made aware that all his perceptions of the Church were wrong.

The whole Sreng thing bugs me because they informed Sreng about the war and whatnot so that they'd invade, but later Claude tries to... not get them involved? He used them when it was convenient and then suddenly didn't want to after that.

One of my biggest gripes is that Claude has no consistency. You know how in CF they kept doing this back and forth trying to be like Edelgard is a bad person who started the war, oh wait no she's just a good person with strong views, etc etc? They really did that with Claude here except at least Edelgard was always consistent with her character. Claude's writing here is just like... they're trying to make him the anti-war person he is in Houses but they wrote him to be the exact opposite. When it starts going too far they pull him back again and have him keep iterating this nonsense about not wanting the war to keep going because people are dying.

Also, Nader saying he couldn't wait to rampage in the Kingdom REALLY bothered me (and he says this at camp so it's missable if he wasn't spoken to). After all the shit they said about Almyrans not being barbarians and whatnot, he's planning to go nuts with attacking the Kingdom? All that would do is make the Kingdom more unwilling to make any kind of relationship with Almyra.

There was definitely a lot of "we're doing this for Leicester" and not... any bit of care for any other land. I've been goofing about it a lot and trying to be mellow about it but just in general I find the things Claude does and the things he says to be absolutely abhorrent in this game. The way he manipulates people with the politely worded "surrender or die" is seriously awful and isn't much better than Edelgard's behavior.

I really doubt there would be any true harmony after this war. Even if the Kingdom lost and ceased to exist (and became just Adrestia and Leicester), I can guarantee there would be civil wars and uprisings all over the place. The people in the Kingdom would never, ever settle for that. Honestly, I could see Sylvain rallying troops and launching an attack on Leicester. I feel like even though he acts mostly calm during the story, he still has that in him because of the way Dimitri didn't want his emotions to get the better of him in battle. It's pretty clear to me that Sylvain despises Claude and the Alliance in GW.

Literally the whole thing with the Kingdom just sits so wrong with me. They were just minding their own business and suddenly everyone is trying to invade. In fact, they're trying to do good things within their borders and fix their society, but they can't because everyone around them just wants to go to war. Even the Church kind of forced them to get involved by asking for their aid. I'd put the least blame on them honestly because they really don't do anything bad at all here/in this game, but the war forced Dimitri's hand in so many ways when all he wanted to do was make a better society for the Kingdom.

By the end of the game I'd say Claude is really just... marginally better than Shahid, and that is not a high bar. It just served to keep the theme going that Almyrans just want war and fighting. Claude had other options and he chose invasion and killing. He chose to do what Shahid did to Leicester.

I honestly feel really bad for the Kingdom. Nobody will leave them alone and the worst part is that they're all so loyal to each other and so tight knit that like... once you've fucked with one of them you've fucked with all of them. They're not just gonna let it go and be like oh yeah okay we'll just stop the Kingdom from existing and give up on it. Dimitri also just wants to keep his people safe and Claude abuses that fact to make Dimitri let him get past him to get to Rhea. Basically, Claude is saying either I kill your people or let you me pass by and kill Rhea. Seeing as Rhea has always supported Dimitri and has never tried to obstruct any part of his rule, it's really shitty to be like oh hey you know this person who has done right by you and has been super chill with you? Let us kill her or I'm gonna kill your people and make you feel like shit about it. He uses people's emotions to make them stop fighting, and what he said to Ashe really bugged me.

There's a lot of stuff at the camp in GW that I saw (I'll end up posting some of it later, it's just that my posts are totally out of order for when I actually post them compared to when I'm playing so that I don't end up posting tons of stuff all at once, flood people's dashboards and then just have nothing to post lol) that really highlight how awful all of this is. Several characters are unhappy with all of it, and then you have the dumbass types who don't give a fuck like Raphael and Leonie (which is BEYOND me, especially with Raphael. He's supposed to be the gentle, kindhearted one and he's like 150% okay and happy with invading and fighting people and just knocking them flat. He gets excited for it. Hopes Raphael just ain't the one for me lol), and they only care about a good fight no matter who they have to kill.

Only a few people regularly question the morality of Claude's army, like Yuri, Hapi, Lorenz and Ashe. Most of them just... do not care. They'd kill good people for a good fight or because they just happen to like Claude so they'll ruin other people's lives.

I know it's just a video game, but... I just hate everything about the second half of GW lol. I love the early Almyran lore and it helps a lot for the missing pieces in Houses, but the story is just... disgusting. I've always hated Edelgard's actions in Houses and I'm not gonna justify Claude's behavior and actions in Hopes just because I like him in Houses. Just like her, he's a huge warmonger in this game. I guess it's because I just... don't like war and I have a very strong mindset on people who do things like that, especially when they attack people who are just living their lives and doing their own thing. Even though I've always been a Kingdom girl, I don't think my feelings would change on any of this if I was more bias toward Leicester. I don't think I'd be comfortable seeing the Kingdom being trampled for literally no reason whatsoever. We can't even blame Cornelia or other TWS members in this game for a lot of what happens to them. It's Edelgard and Claude doing a lot of it.

There's just... a lot of really awful things happening in this game and Claude spearheads a whole ass lot of it.

Claude von Deserved A Lot Fucking Better.

[heatherrdavis1]

BTC WILL BOOM AS BITCOIN HALVING APPROACHES | Digibyte NEWS! AAX Cryptocurrency Exchange

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Hey, everybody, many here with altcoin bise. Happy Monday, hope your week is off to a great start. We’re discussing some of the possibilities that we’ll be seeing pretty soon next month. Actually, in a post bitcoin to having world, some analysts are suggesting that the digital asset could be set to bloom in conjunction with that variable, as well as the fact that hopefully by then or at least later on in the summer, we’ll be living eventually in a post covered 19 eras. We’ll take a look at that from a couple of different perspectives. We’ll also take a look at. Did You Bite? Which has some updates? It’s up 2.9 percent on the day. And then finally for today, we’ll end with this sponsored piece looking at the 8 X exchange here on altcoins Point Buzz with this review by any. Let’s first-ever take a look at the markets today. Quant market cap, dot com. We sit at 200, 2.6 billion dollars. Right now, things are down a little bit, but they’ve been running up for the better part of a week. Now Bitcoin’s still above 7 K. However, down 2.8 percent in these last 24 hours. Projects down to 3 4 5 percent. Overall, Bitcoin sits currently at seven thousand twenty-five dollars and 89 cents. So importantly, still above that 7 K floor, that baseline that exists right now as support and the dominance right now at sixty-three point five percent. OK. From the other day at altcoin base, I owe the value of something useful is only realized once it’s scarce. This is pretty much universal. It goes for all things and colleges. Human psychology. But that does seem to be a universal principle. Enter the bitcoin having it is coming next month. In May of 2020. It’s right around the corner. Say no to brba E 27. Dongseo is looking at why bitcoin is set to boom potentially in a post covered nineteen eras. With a global recession looming, the purchasing power of traditional currencies is bound to be impacted. Enter bitcoin, of course, and the many advantages associated with it to a certain extent it did not really perform as a safe haven asset that we all would have wanted to see. But again, long term horizon, it’s all about the long term horizon. Of course, the comparison has been made in the past. Bitcoin is akin to digital gold. But let’s fast forward to this year specifically. Yes, there were some pretty nasty market movements to the downside. In fact, 40 percent drops last month. In particular, we’re talking about March 12th, 13th. So that was a very nasty time. However, Bitcoin has rebounded significantly and at the time of this writing, it has increased by approximately 70 percent from its lowest point this month. Not bad. The argument is thus made that although the volatility is terrifying, the recovery aspects of it are actually also appealing, because for those that are traditionally in the stock markets, they’ve lost quite a bit as well, but they haven’t rebounded to the same extent. So with the global recession looming, purchasing power of traditional currencies is bound to be impacted. And for those who understand the benefits of cryptocurrency, I predict there will be a surge of interest in owning Bitcoin. It will be mainly down to cryptocurrencies ability to alleviate a portion of pending pressure on traditional markets as we enter a global economic downturn. So in other words, it can act as a financial hedge, as a diversification asset that, hey, just in case in case other stuff goes poorly, you’ll have this in your portfolio. I think it’s more than that. However, I think people are seeing that there’s a growing mistrust or perhaps frustration with central bank monetary fiscal policy. And people are seeing more and more that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But let’s talk about Bitcoin for the sake of illustration. It’s a technology that is not affected by the decisions made by politicians, whether you agree with them or not. Bitcoin is dictated solely. It’s circulating supply, for example, is dictated solely by the algorithm that defines it. And so for a lot of people that are against this endless, infinite quantitative easing. People like myself, for example, I think they’re opening up to the idea of Bitcoin again in this post covered 19 contexts. Let’s take a look at this analysis here on crypto potato dot com bitcoin bottom is in as those who needed to sell it did on the 12th of March, though, Wolf, of all streets here tweeting on the 18th of April, Bitcoin has retraced the majority of the dramatic crash on March 12th, over 80 percent. There are a number of theories for why the price dropped so hard. The most logical and the one supported by those in the know is that bitcoin dropped because it is a liquid asset. In other words, it’s easy to sell. And we’ve talked about this before, no matter what space you’re in, there was a liquidity pinch and a lot of people needed money in a hurry. It wasn’t necessarily a refusal or a rejection of bitcoin, but in a way, it spoke to Bitcoin’s ability to generate cash quickly as a high liquidity asset. Well, now there’s another variable to consider. The Bitcoin having is coming up three weeks from now, which might have also helped cause the current bitcoin rally with a 50 percent reduction in bitcoin block subsidy rewards. There could be a positive trend as people seek to accumulate bitcoin anticipating price positive for other price movements. It’s all supply and demand. All right, guys, it’s all about finding that equilibrium point on the curve and scarcity breeds value it as a universal as much as it can be a universal economic law. And it could well be that that interest in Bitcoin leading up to the having is led by the institutional investors. So The Wall Street Journal recently covered the fact that Renaissance is Medallion Fund was up 24 percent in 2020 through April 14th in comparison with the S&P 500 index that has fallen eleven point four percent through April 14th. And Medallion uses mathematical models and its conviction that Bitcoin futures could be a profitable area to apply them indicates positive institutional sentiment around the liquidity of Bitcoin. Many other examples exist as well. Check out the full list here. That was just one on crypto potato dot, however. Let’s switch gears now and let’s look at did buy for just a second, which is up 2.7 percent in these last 24 hours here. Crypto mug investors podcast hashtagged. Did you bite Joe Zaya Spackman DCB Exchange listings, mining and staking privacy plans? If you love DGP, then you don’t want to miss this one. Watch and listen here. You have options on both YouTube and on Apple iTunes where they talk about the team, the project, their ambitions, the roadmap that lies ahead and all that has to do with the technology behind. Did you buy and hear the change? Angel team change. Angel Dot Io’s Cryptocurrency of the day has to be D.G. by coin. It has made its way back into the top 50 on Quinn market cap and the tech is amazing. Plus it is so fast. Come and get some dcb at change. Angel dot I o we’d love. Did you bite? As you can see here. There certainly. Yeah. Behind the team. Luna crushed social listening for crypto current ult rank leaders on Luna crush dot com hashtag alte rank equals increasing social activity plus price performance versus bitcoin plus rising trading volume if a bunch of them here tommo chain currently at number one. Did you buy at number two followed by Tasos Ethereum and Chain Link? We’ve been covering Luna Crush lately more recently, but as you can see, those are the top-up rank leaders again in these past 24 hours. And finally today we are looking at this sponsored piece on altcoin BI’s done IO navigating market volatility with AAA ex article by any digital asset exchange as partner platform of L.S. e.g. offers to the trade-off high liquidity digital assets over the counter spot and futures market. So as we all know, the crypto market is highly volatile. We’ve been talking about that just today. A December 2019 report published by S. F. 0x shows that compared to cryptocurrencies, the price of traditional investment mediums like Gold and S&P 500 have been more stable. And it’s certainly no secret that they’ve been more stable. And he writes here about the March Black Swan event, talking about the 12th, 13th of March. Bitcoin’s price just over that time alone went from seven thousand nine hundred dollars to four thousand eight hundred dollars in one day. So volatility to some certainly may be intimidating and maybe it’s not exactly a quality that you’re looking for. To a new investor. The volatility might bring with it a sense of fear and uncertainty. But however, for advanced traders, this brings with it a plethora of opportunities. And an X is an exchange that provides the right platform, safety features and tools for both beginner and advanced users. First and foremost, X is a digital asset exchange developed in collaboration with the London Stock Exchange groups L.S. e.g. Technologies. It’s the first cryptocurrency and digital asset exchange to be powered by LCG Technologies Millennium Exchange matching engine and the first exchange to join the London Stock Exchange Group’s partner platform. A их focuses on trading high liquidity digital assets as well as over the counter spot and futures markets and more about all that is available here. You can read about their spot trading features. Again, the whole emphasis here is that this is serving a wide range of clients, both those new to the investment space, beginners and veterans alike. And if you’re so inclined, you can check out the spot trading feature again, that would be perhaps more slanted toward the beginners if you’re a little bit more advanced. You can also look into the futures trading information on that is here. Leverage trading also existent. By the way, if you’d like to try these things and you are more of a beginner, you are unfamiliar with them. Of course, there are tutorials and examples that are available for you to learn more and more as you go along. Default fund, vanilla contract, over-the-counter OPEC and some of the advantages of that partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group are as follows. AA X is very much leveraging the Millennium Exchange matching engine technology and this is incidentally the first deployment of the technology in the cloud and this allows for configurations to trade any type of product in any market. And additionally, it combines reliability with scalability thanks to its rule-based. Distributed. And fault-tolerant technology design. Here’s the roadmap for 2020 in Q2. An X plans to launch native token a b. Their wealth management part 1 borrowing is going to come into effect. Tokenized commodities will include gold in Q3. Wealth management part 2 lending staking bitcoin dimensions. Contracts will come into play in Q2 as well. Multi-asset as collateral for trading options. And in Q4 we’re going to see margin calling options and social trading and a trading bot checkout and his article in full. We’re very excited about the X exchange. You can learn more about the exchange itself. You can also learn about the baby token and its launched for all of this. You can sign up here with the altcoin Buzz. The exclusive link will include this in the description below. But again, check out our article. Check out the link for more information about an X. That about wraps it up for today. Everybody, to be sure, you’re following us on all the regular social media channels and keep checking back into altcoin BI’s dot I o for all the latest. Hey, go ahead. Like subscribe, share and did the belt receive notifications if you’ve enjoyed today’s video? Best of luck. If you choose to invest on this Monday, everybody, but have a great one. A terrific start to your weekend. As always, we do hope you can soon be our next video ticker.

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BTC WILL BOOM AS BITCOIN HALVING APPROACHES | Digibyte NEWS! AAX Cryptocurrency Exchange

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Hey, everybody, many here with altcoin bise. Happy Monday, hope your week is off to a great start. We’re discussing some of the possibilities that we’ll be seeing pretty soon next month. Actually, in a post bitcoin to having world, some analysts are suggesting that the digital asset could be set to bloom in conjunction with that variable, as well as the fact that hopefully by then or at least later on in the summer, we’ll be living eventually in a post covered 19 eras. We’ll take a look at that from a couple of different perspectives. We’ll also take a look at. Did You Bite? Which has some updates? It’s up 2.9 percent on the day. And then finally for today, we’ll end with this sponsored piece looking at the 8 X exchange here on altcoins Point Buzz with this review by any. Let’s first-ever take a look at the markets today. Quant market cap, dot com. We sit at 200, 2.6 billion dollars. Right now, things are down a little bit, but they’ve been running up for the better part of a week. Now Bitcoin’s still above 7 K. However, down 2.8 percent in these last 24 hours. Projects down to 3 4 5 percent. Overall, Bitcoin sits currently at seven thousand twenty-five dollars and 89 cents. So importantly, still above that 7 K floor, that baseline that exists right now as support and the dominance right now at sixty-three point five percent. OK. From the other day at altcoin base, I owe the value of something useful is only realized once it’s scarce. This is pretty much universal. It goes for all things and colleges. Human psychology. But that does seem to be a universal principle. Enter the bitcoin having it is coming next month. In May of 2020. It’s right around the corner. Say no to brba E 27. Dongseo is looking at why bitcoin is set to boom potentially in a post covered nineteen eras. With a global recession looming, the purchasing power of traditional currencies is bound to be impacted. Enter bitcoin, of course, and the many advantages associated with it to a certain extent it did not really perform as a safe haven asset that we all would have wanted to see. But again, long term horizon, it’s all about the long term horizon. Of course, the comparison has been made in the past. Bitcoin is akin to digital gold. But let’s fast forward to this year specifically. Yes, there were some pretty nasty market movements to the downside. In fact, 40 percent drops last month. In particular, we’re talking about March 12th, 13th. So that was a very nasty time. However, Bitcoin has rebounded significantly and at the time of this writing, it has increased by approximately 70 percent from its lowest point this month. Not bad. The argument is thus made that although the volatility is terrifying, the recovery aspects of it are actually also appealing, because for those that are traditionally in the stock markets, they’ve lost quite a bit as well, but they haven’t rebounded to the same extent. So with the global recession looming, purchasing power of traditional currencies is bound to be impacted. And for those who understand the benefits of cryptocurrency, I predict there will be a surge of interest in owning Bitcoin. It will be mainly down to cryptocurrencies ability to alleviate a portion of pending pressure on traditional markets as we enter a global economic downturn. So in other words, it can act as a financial hedge, as a diversification asset that, hey, just in case in case other stuff goes poorly, you’ll have this in your portfolio. I think it’s more than that. However, I think people are seeing that there’s a growing mistrust or perhaps frustration with central bank monetary fiscal policy. And people are seeing more and more that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But let’s talk about Bitcoin for the sake of illustration. It’s a technology that is not affected by the decisions made by politicians, whether you agree with them or not. Bitcoin is dictated solely. It’s circulating supply, for example, is dictated solely by the algorithm that defines it. And so for a lot of people that are against this endless, infinite quantitative easing. People like myself, for example, I think they’re opening up to the idea of Bitcoin again in this post covered 19 contexts. Let’s take a look at this analysis here on crypto potato dot com bitcoin bottom is in as those who needed to sell it did on the 12th of March, though, Wolf, of all streets here tweeting on the 18th of April, Bitcoin has retraced the majority of the dramatic crash on March 12th, over 80 percent. There are a number of theories for why the price dropped so hard. The most logical and the one supported by those in the know is that bitcoin dropped because it is a liquid asset. In other words, it’s easy to sell. And we’ve talked about this before, no matter what space you’re in, there was a liquidity pinch and a lot of people needed money in a hurry. It wasn’t necessarily a refusal or a rejection of bitcoin, but in a way, it spoke to Bitcoin’s ability to generate cash quickly as a high liquidity asset. Well, now there’s another variable to consider. The Bitcoin having is coming up three weeks from now, which might have also helped cause the current bitcoin rally with a 50 percent reduction in bitcoin block subsidy rewards. There could be a positive trend as people seek to accumulate bitcoin anticipating price positive for other price movements. It’s all supply and demand. All right, guys, it’s all about finding that equilibrium point on the curve and scarcity breeds value it as a universal as much as it can be a universal economic law. And it could well be that that interest in Bitcoin leading up to the having is led by the institutional investors. So The Wall Street Journal recently covered the fact that Renaissance is Medallion Fund was up 24 percent in 2020 through April 14th in comparison with the S&P 500 index that has fallen eleven point four percent through April 14th. And Medallion uses mathematical models and its conviction that Bitcoin futures could be a profitable area to apply them indicates positive institutional sentiment around the liquidity of Bitcoin. Many other examples exist as well. Check out the full list here. That was just one on crypto potato dot, however. Let’s switch gears now and let’s look at did buy for just a second, which is up 2.7 percent in these last 24 hours here. Crypto mug investors podcast hashtagged. Did you bite Joe Zaya Spackman DCB Exchange listings, mining and staking privacy plans? If you love DGP, then you don’t want to miss this one. Watch and listen here. You have options on both YouTube and on Apple iTunes where they talk about the team, the project, their ambitions, the roadmap that lies ahead and all that has to do with the technology behind. Did you buy and hear the change? Angel team change. Angel Dot Io’s Cryptocurrency of the day has to be D.G. by coin. It has made its way back into the top 50 on Quinn market cap and the tech is amazing. Plus it is so fast. Come and get some dcb at change. Angel dot I o we’d love. Did you bite? As you can see here. There certainly. Yeah. Behind the team. Luna crushed social listening for crypto current ult rank leaders on Luna crush dot com hashtag alte rank equals increasing social activity plus price performance versus bitcoin plus rising trading volume if a bunch of them here tommo chain currently at number one. Did you buy at number two followed by Tasos Ethereum and Chain Link? We’ve been covering Luna Crush lately more recently, but as you can see, those are the top-up rank leaders again in these past 24 hours. And finally today we are looking at this sponsored piece on altcoin BI’s done IO navigating market volatility with AAA ex article by any digital asset exchange as partner platform of L.S. e.g. offers to the trade-off high liquidity digital assets over the counter spot and futures market. So as we all know, the crypto market is highly volatile. We’ve been talking about that just today. A December 2019 report published by S. F. 0x shows that compared to cryptocurrencies, the price of traditional investment mediums like Gold and S&P 500 have been more stable. And it’s certainly no secret that they’ve been more stable. And he writes here about the March Black Swan event, talking about the 12th, 13th of March. Bitcoin’s price just over that time alone went from seven thousand nine hundred dollars to four thousand eight hundred dollars in one day. So volatility to some certainly may be intimidating and maybe it’s not exactly a quality that you’re looking for. To a new investor. The volatility might bring with it a sense of fear and uncertainty. But however, for advanced traders, this brings with it a plethora of opportunities. And an X is an exchange that provides the right platform, safety features and tools for both beginner and advanced users. First and foremost, X is a digital asset exchange developed in collaboration with the London Stock Exchange groups L.S. e.g. Technologies. It’s the first cryptocurrency and digital asset exchange to be powered by LCG Technologies Millennium Exchange matching engine and the first exchange to join the London Stock Exchange Group’s partner platform. A их focuses on trading high liquidity digital assets as well as over the counter spot and futures markets and more about all that is available here. You can read about their spot trading features. Again, the whole emphasis here is that this is serving a wide range of clients, both those new to the investment space, beginners and veterans alike. And if you’re so inclined, you can check out the spot trading feature again, that would be perhaps more slanted toward the beginners if you’re a little bit more advanced. You can also look into the futures trading information on that is here. Leverage trading also existent. By the way, if you’d like to try these things and you are more of a beginner, you are unfamiliar with them. Of course, there are tutorials and examples that are available for you to learn more and more as you go along. Default fund, vanilla contract, over-the-counter OPEC and some of the advantages of that partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group are as follows. AA X is very much leveraging the Millennium Exchange matching engine technology and this is incidentally the first deployment of the technology in the cloud and this allows for configurations to trade any type of product in any market. And additionally, it combines reliability with scalability thanks to its rule-based. Distributed. And fault-tolerant technology design. Here’s the roadmap for 2020 in Q2. An X plans to launch native token a b. Their wealth management part 1 borrowing is going to come into effect. Tokenized commodities will include gold in Q3. Wealth management part 2 lending staking bitcoin dimensions. Contracts will come into play in Q2 as well. Multi-asset as collateral for trading options. And in Q4 we’re going to see margin calling options and social trading and a trading bot checkout and his article in full. We’re very excited about the X exchange. You can learn more about the exchange itself. You can also learn about the baby token and its launched for all of this. You can sign up here with the altcoin Buzz. The exclusive link will include this in the description below. But again, check out our article. Check out the link for more information about an X. That about wraps it up for today. Everybody, to be sure, you’re following us on all the regular social media channels and keep checking back into altcoin BI’s dot I o for all the latest. Hey, go ahead. Like subscribe, share and did the belt receive notifications if you’ve enjoyed today’s video? Best of luck. If you choose to invest on this Monday, everybody, but have a great one. A terrific start to your weekend. As always, we do hope you can soon be our next video ticker.

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BTC WILL BOOM AS BITCOIN HALVING APPROACHES | Digibyte NEWS! AAX Cryptocurrency Exchange

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Hey, everybody, many here with altcoin bise. Happy Monday, hope your week is off to a great start. We’re discussing some of the possibilities that we’ll be seeing pretty soon next month. Actually, in a post bitcoin to having world, some analysts are suggesting that the digital asset could be set to bloom in conjunction with that variable, as well as the fact that hopefully by then or at least later on in the summer, we’ll be living eventually in a post covered 19 eras. We’ll take a look at that from a couple of different perspectives. We’ll also take a look at. Did You Bite? Which has some updates? It’s up 2.9 percent on the day. And then finally for today, we’ll end with this sponsored piece looking at the 8 X exchange here on altcoins Point Buzz with this review by any. Let’s first-ever take a look at the markets today. Quant market cap, dot com. We sit at 200, 2.6 billion dollars. Right now, things are down a little bit, but they’ve been running up for the better part of a week. Now Bitcoin’s still above 7 K. However, down 2.8 percent in these last 24 hours. Projects down to 3 4 5 percent. Overall, Bitcoin sits currently at seven thousand twenty-five dollars and 89 cents. So importantly, still above that 7 K floor, that baseline that exists right now as support and the dominance right now at sixty-three point five percent. OK. From the other day at altcoin base, I owe the value of something useful is only realized once it’s scarce. This is pretty much universal. It goes for all things and colleges. Human psychology. But that does seem to be a universal principle. Enter the bitcoin having it is coming next month. In May of 2020. It’s right around the corner. Say no to brba E 27. Dongseo is looking at why bitcoin is set to boom potentially in a post covered nineteen eras. With a global recession looming, the purchasing power of traditional currencies is bound to be impacted. Enter bitcoin, of course, and the many advantages associated with it to a certain extent it did not really perform as a safe haven asset that we all would have wanted to see. But again, long term horizon, it’s all about the long term horizon. Of course, the comparison has been made in the past. Bitcoin is akin to digital gold. But let’s fast forward to this year specifically. Yes, there were some pretty nasty market movements to the downside. In fact, 40 percent drops last month. In particular, we’re talking about March 12th, 13th. So that was a very nasty time. However, Bitcoin has rebounded significantly and at the time of this writing, it has increased by approximately 70 percent from its lowest point this month. Not bad. The argument is thus made that although the volatility is terrifying, the recovery aspects of it are actually also appealing, because for those that are traditionally in the stock markets, they’ve lost quite a bit as well, but they haven’t rebounded to the same extent. So with the global recession looming, purchasing power of traditional currencies is bound to be impacted. And for those who understand the benefits of cryptocurrency, I predict there will be a surge of interest in owning Bitcoin. It will be mainly down to cryptocurrencies ability to alleviate a portion of pending pressure on traditional markets as we enter a global economic downturn. So in other words, it can act as a financial hedge, as a diversification asset that, hey, just in case in case other stuff goes poorly, you’ll have this in your portfolio. I think it’s more than that. However, I think people are seeing that there’s a growing mistrust or perhaps frustration with central bank monetary fiscal policy. And people are seeing more and more that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But let’s talk about Bitcoin for the sake of illustration. It’s a technology that is not affected by the decisions made by politicians, whether you agree with them or not. Bitcoin is dictated solely. It’s circulating supply, for example, is dictated solely by the algorithm that defines it. And so for a lot of people that are against this endless, infinite quantitative easing. People like myself, for example, I think they’re opening up to the idea of Bitcoin again in this post covered 19 contexts. Let’s take a look at this analysis here on crypto potato dot com bitcoin bottom is in as those who needed to sell it did on the 12th of March, though, Wolf, of all streets here tweeting on the 18th of April, Bitcoin has retraced the majority of the dramatic crash on March 12th, over 80 percent. There are a number of theories for why the price dropped so hard. The most logical and the one supported by those in the know is that bitcoin dropped because it is a liquid asset. In other words, it’s easy to sell. And we’ve talked about this before, no matter what space you’re in, there was a liquidity pinch and a lot of people needed money in a hurry. It wasn’t necessarily a refusal or a rejection of bitcoin, but in a way, it spoke to Bitcoin’s ability to generate cash quickly as a high liquidity asset. Well, now there’s another variable to consider. The Bitcoin having is coming up three weeks from now, which might have also helped cause the current bitcoin rally with a 50 percent reduction in bitcoin block subsidy rewards. There could be a positive trend as people seek to accumulate bitcoin anticipating price positive for other price movements. It’s all supply and demand. All right, guys, it’s all about finding that equilibrium point on the curve and scarcity breeds value it as a universal as much as it can be a universal economic law. And it could well be that that interest in Bitcoin leading up to the having is led by the institutional investors. So The Wall Street Journal recently covered the fact that Renaissance is Medallion Fund was up 24 percent in 2020 through April 14th in comparison with the S&P 500 index that has fallen eleven point four percent through April 14th. And Medallion uses mathematical models and its conviction that Bitcoin futures could be a profitable area to apply them indicates positive institutional sentiment around the liquidity of Bitcoin. Many other examples exist as well. Check out the full list here. That was just one on crypto potato dot, however. Let’s switch gears now and let’s look at did buy for just a second, which is up 2.7 percent in these last 24 hours here. Crypto mug investors podcast hashtagged. Did you bite Joe Zaya Spackman DCB Exchange listings, mining and staking privacy plans? If you love DGP, then you don’t want to miss this one. Watch and listen here. You have options on both YouTube and on Apple iTunes where they talk about the team, the project, their ambitions, the roadmap that lies ahead and all that has to do with the technology behind. Did you buy and hear the change? Angel team change. Angel Dot Io’s Cryptocurrency of the day has to be D.G. by coin. It has made its way back into the top 50 on Quinn market cap and the tech is amazing. Plus it is so fast. Come and get some dcb at change. Angel dot I o we’d love. Did you bite? As you can see here. There certainly. Yeah. Behind the team. Luna crushed social listening for crypto current ult rank leaders on Luna crush dot com hashtag alte rank equals increasing social activity plus price performance versus bitcoin plus rising trading volume if a bunch of them here tommo chain currently at number one. Did you buy at number two followed by Tasos Ethereum and Chain Link? We’ve been covering Luna Crush lately more recently, but as you can see, those are the top-up rank leaders again in these past 24 hours. And finally today we are looking at this sponsored piece on altcoin BI’s done IO navigating market volatility with AAA ex article by any digital asset exchange as partner platform of L.S. e.g. offers to the trade-off high liquidity digital assets over the counter spot and futures market. So as we all know, the crypto market is highly volatile. We’ve been talking about that just today. A December 2019 report published by S. F. 0x shows that compared to cryptocurrencies, the price of traditional investment mediums like Gold and S&P 500 have been more stable. And it’s certainly no secret that they’ve been more stable. And he writes here about the March Black Swan event, talking about the 12th, 13th of March. Bitcoin’s price just over that time alone went from seven thousand nine hundred dollars to four thousand eight hundred dollars in one day. So volatility to some certainly may be intimidating and maybe it’s not exactly a quality that you’re looking for. To a new investor. The volatility might bring with it a sense of fear and uncertainty. But however, for advanced traders, this brings with it a plethora of opportunities. And an X is an exchange that provides the right platform, safety features and tools for both beginner and advanced users. First and foremost, X is a digital asset exchange developed in collaboration with the London Stock Exchange groups L.S. e.g. Technologies. It’s the first cryptocurrency and digital asset exchange to be powered by LCG Technologies Millennium Exchange matching engine and the first exchange to join the London Stock Exchange Group’s partner platform. A их focuses on trading high liquidity digital assets as well as over the counter spot and futures markets and more about all that is available here. You can read about their spot trading features. Again, the whole emphasis here is that this is serving a wide range of clients, both those new to the investment space, beginners and veterans alike. And if you’re so inclined, you can check out the spot trading feature again, that would be perhaps more slanted toward the beginners if you’re a little bit more advanced. You can also look into the futures trading information on that is here. Leverage trading also existent. By the way, if you’d like to try these things and you are more of a beginner, you are unfamiliar with them. Of course, there are tutorials and examples that are available for you to learn more and more as you go along. Default fund, vanilla contract, over-the-counter OPEC and some of the advantages of that partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group are as follows. AA X is very much leveraging the Millennium Exchange matching engine technology and this is incidentally the first deployment of the technology in the cloud and this allows for configurations to trade any type of product in any market. And additionally, it combines reliability with scalability thanks to its rule-based. Distributed. And fault-tolerant technology design. Here’s the roadmap for 2020 in Q2. An X plans to launch native token a b. Their wealth management part 1 borrowing is going to come into effect. Tokenized commodities will include gold in Q3. Wealth management part 2 lending staking bitcoin dimensions. Contracts will come into play in Q2 as well. Multi-asset as collateral for trading options. And in Q4 we’re going to see margin calling options and social trading and a trading bot checkout and his article in full. We’re very excited about the X exchange. You can learn more about the exchange itself. You can also learn about the baby token and its launched for all of this. You can sign up here with the altcoin Buzz. The exclusive link will include this in the description below. But again, check out our article. Check out the link for more information about an X. That about wraps it up for today. Everybody, to be sure, you’re following us on all the regular social media channels and keep checking back into altcoin BI’s dot I o for all the latest. Hey, go ahead. Like subscribe, share and did the belt receive notifications if you’ve enjoyed today’s video? Best of luck. If you choose to invest on this Monday, everybody, but have a great one. A terrific start to your weekend. As always, we do hope you can soon be our next video ticker.

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BTC WILL BOOM AS BITCOIN HALVING APPROACHES | Digibyte NEWS! AAX Cryptocurrency Exchange

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Hey, everybody, many here with altcoin bise. Happy Monday, hope your week is off to a great start. We’re discussing some of the possibilities that we’ll be seeing pretty soon next month. Actually, in a post bitcoin to having world, some analysts are suggesting that the digital asset could be set to bloom in conjunction with that variable, as well as the fact that hopefully by then or at least later on in the summer, we’ll be living eventually in a post covered 19 eras. We’ll take a look at that from a couple of different perspectives. We’ll also take a look at. Did You Bite? Which has some updates? It’s up 2.9 percent on the day. And then finally for today, we’ll end with this sponsored piece looking at the 8 X exchange here on altcoins Point Buzz with this review by any. Let’s first-ever take a look at the markets today. Quant market cap, dot com. We sit at 200, 2.6 billion dollars. Right now, things are down a little bit, but they’ve been running up for the better part of a week. Now Bitcoin’s still above 7 K. However, down 2.8 percent in these last 24 hours. Projects down to 3 4 5 percent. Overall, Bitcoin sits currently at seven thousand twenty-five dollars and 89 cents. So importantly, still above that 7 K floor, that baseline that exists right now as support and the dominance right now at sixty-three point five percent. OK. From the other day at altcoin base, I owe the value of something useful is only realized once it’s scarce. This is pretty much universal. It goes for all things and colleges. Human psychology. But that does seem to be a universal principle. Enter the bitcoin having it is coming next month. In May of 2020. It’s right around the corner. Say no to brba E 27. Dongseo is looking at why bitcoin is set to boom potentially in a post covered nineteen eras. With a global recession looming, the purchasing power of traditional currencies is bound to be impacted. Enter bitcoin, of course, and the many advantages associated with it to a certain extent it did not really perform as a safe haven asset that we all would have wanted to see. But again, long term horizon, it’s all about the long term horizon. Of course, the comparison has been made in the past. Bitcoin is akin to digital gold. But let’s fast forward to this year specifically. Yes, there were some pretty nasty market movements to the downside. In fact, 40 percent drops last month. In particular, we’re talking about March 12th, 13th. So that was a very nasty time. However, Bitcoin has rebounded significantly and at the time of this writing, it has increased by approximately 70 percent from its lowest point this month. Not bad. The argument is thus made that although the volatility is terrifying, the recovery aspects of it are actually also appealing, because for those that are traditionally in the stock markets, they’ve lost quite a bit as well, but they haven’t rebounded to the same extent. So with the global recession looming, purchasing power of traditional currencies is bound to be impacted. And for those who understand the benefits of cryptocurrency, I predict there will be a surge of interest in owning Bitcoin. It will be mainly down to cryptocurrencies ability to alleviate a portion of pending pressure on traditional markets as we enter a global economic downturn. So in other words, it can act as a financial hedge, as a diversification asset that, hey, just in case in case other stuff goes poorly, you’ll have this in your portfolio. I think it’s more than that. However, I think people are seeing that there’s a growing mistrust or perhaps frustration with central bank monetary fiscal policy. And people are seeing more and more that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But let’s talk about Bitcoin for the sake of illustration. It’s a technology that is not affected by the decisions made by politicians, whether you agree with them or not. Bitcoin is dictated solely. It’s circulating supply, for example, is dictated solely by the algorithm that defines it. And so for a lot of people that are against this endless, infinite quantitative easing. People like myself, for example, I think they’re opening up to the idea of Bitcoin again in this post covered 19 contexts. Let’s take a look at this analysis here on crypto potato dot com bitcoin bottom is in as those who needed to sell it did on the 12th of March, though, Wolf, of all streets here tweeting on the 18th of April, Bitcoin has retraced the majority of the dramatic crash on March 12th, over 80 percent. There are a number of theories for why the price dropped so hard. The most logical and the one supported by those in the know is that bitcoin dropped because it is a liquid asset. In other words, it’s easy to sell. And we’ve talked about this before, no matter what space you’re in, there was a liquidity pinch and a lot of people needed money in a hurry. It wasn’t necessarily a refusal or a rejection of bitcoin, but in a way, it spoke to Bitcoin’s ability to generate cash quickly as a high liquidity asset. Well, now there’s another variable to consider. The Bitcoin having is coming up three weeks from now, which might have also helped cause the current bitcoin rally with a 50 percent reduction in bitcoin block subsidy rewards. There could be a positive trend as people seek to accumulate bitcoin anticipating price positive for other price movements. It’s all supply and demand. All right, guys, it’s all about finding that equilibrium point on the curve and scarcity breeds value it as a universal as much as it can be a universal economic law. And it could well be that that interest in Bitcoin leading up to the having is led by the institutional investors. So The Wall Street Journal recently covered the fact that Renaissance is Medallion Fund was up 24 percent in 2020 through April 14th in comparison with the S&P 500 index that has fallen eleven point four percent through April 14th. And Medallion uses mathematical models and its conviction that Bitcoin futures could be a profitable area to apply them indicates positive institutional sentiment around the liquidity of Bitcoin. Many other examples exist as well. Check out the full list here. That was just one on crypto potato dot, however. Let’s switch gears now and let’s look at did buy for just a second, which is up 2.7 percent in these last 24 hours here. Crypto mug investors podcast hashtagged. Did you bite Joe Zaya Spackman DCB Exchange listings, mining and staking privacy plans? If you love DGP, then you don’t want to miss this one. Watch and listen here. You have options on both YouTube and on Apple iTunes where they talk about the team, the project, their ambitions, the roadmap that lies ahead and all that has to do with the technology behind. Did you buy and hear the change? Angel team change. Angel Dot Io’s Cryptocurrency of the day has to be D.G. by coin. It has made its way back into the top 50 on Quinn market cap and the tech is amazing. Plus it is so fast. Come and get some dcb at change. Angel dot I o we’d love. Did you bite? As you can see here. There certainly. Yeah. Behind the team. Luna crushed social listening for crypto current ult rank leaders on Luna crush dot com hashtag alte rank equals increasing social activity plus price performance versus bitcoin plus rising trading volume if a bunch of them here tommo chain currently at number one. Did you buy at number two followed by Tasos Ethereum and Chain Link? We’ve been covering Luna Crush lately more recently, but as you can see, those are the top-up rank leaders again in these past 24 hours. And finally today we are looking at this sponsored piece on altcoin BI’s done IO navigating market volatility with AAA ex article by any digital asset exchange as partner platform of L.S. e.g. offers to the trade-off high liquidity digital assets over the counter spot and futures market. So as we all know, the crypto market is highly volatile. We’ve been talking about that just today. A December 2019 report published by S. F. 0x shows that compared to cryptocurrencies, the price of traditional investment mediums like Gold and S&P 500 have been more stable. And it’s certainly no secret that they’ve been more stable. And he writes here about the March Black Swan event, talking about the 12th, 13th of March. Bitcoin’s price just over that time alone went from seven thousand nine hundred dollars to four thousand eight hundred dollars in one day. So volatility to some certainly may be intimidating and maybe it’s not exactly a quality that you’re looking for. To a new investor. The volatility might bring with it a sense of fear and uncertainty. But however, for advanced traders, this brings with it a plethora of opportunities. And an X is an exchange that provides the right platform, safety features and tools for both beginner and advanced users. First and foremost, X is a digital asset exchange developed in collaboration with the London Stock Exchange groups L.S. e.g. Technologies. It’s the first cryptocurrency and digital asset exchange to be powered by LCG Technologies Millennium Exchange matching engine and the first exchange to join the London Stock Exchange Group’s partner platform. A их focuses on trading high liquidity digital assets as well as over the counter spot and futures markets and more about all that is available here. You can read about their spot trading features. Again, the whole emphasis here is that this is serving a wide range of clients, both those new to the investment space, beginners and veterans alike. And if you’re so inclined, you can check out the spot trading feature again, that would be perhaps more slanted toward the beginners if you’re a little bit more advanced. You can also look into the futures trading information on that is here. Leverage trading also existent. By the way, if you’d like to try these things and you are more of a beginner, you are unfamiliar with them. Of course, there are tutorials and examples that are available for you to learn more and more as you go along. Default fund, vanilla contract, over-the-counter OPEC and some of the advantages of that partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group are as follows. AA X is very much leveraging the Millennium Exchange matching engine technology and this is incidentally the first deployment of the technology in the cloud and this allows for configurations to trade any type of product in any market. And additionally, it combines reliability with scalability thanks to its rule-based. Distributed. And fault-tolerant technology design. Here’s the roadmap for 2020 in Q2. An X plans to launch native token a b. Their wealth management part 1 borrowing is going to come into effect. Tokenized commodities will include gold in Q3. Wealth management part 2 lending staking bitcoin dimensions. Contracts will come into play in Q2 as well. Multi-asset as collateral for trading options. And in Q4 we’re going to see margin calling options and social trading and a trading bot checkout and his article in full. We’re very excited about the X exchange. You can learn more about the exchange itself. You can also learn about the baby token and its launched for all of this. You can sign up here with the altcoin Buzz. The exclusive link will include this in the description below. But again, check out our article. Check out the link for more information about an X. That about wraps it up for today. Everybody, to be sure, you’re following us on all the regular social media channels and keep checking back into altcoin BI’s dot I o for all the latest. Hey, go ahead. Like subscribe, share and did the belt receive notifications if you’ve enjoyed today’s video? Best of luck. If you choose to invest on this Monday, everybody, but have a great one. A terrific start to your weekend. As always, we do hope you can soon be our next video ticker.

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In Its Third Month, India’s Cash Shortage Begins to Bite

By Geeta Anand and Hari Kumar, NY Times, Jan. 24, 2017

NEW DELHI--First, Yashpal Singh Rathore’s marriage was delayed by his future in-laws, who, like most Indians, ran short of cash after Prime Minister Narendra Modi banned the country’s largest currency notes in November.

Then the 29-year-old lost his job when the ensuing cash crunch hit demand for motorcycles and scooters sold by the company where he worked, Hero MotoCorp Ltd. After that, the prospective in-laws refused to let the wedding go forward until he found another job.

“So I lost my job and I lost my marriage,” he said in an interview at a protest, where he shouted slogans with more than 100 red-flag-waving workers let go by Hero.

Mr. Rathore is one among a large number of Indians--the precise number is not known--who have lost their jobs since Nov. 8, when Mr. Modi abruptly banned 86 percent of the country’s currency in a bid to eliminate “black money,” currency on which taxes had not been paid.

For the sake of secrecy, the government largely avoided printing replacement notes in advance. So there has been an acute and protracted shortage of cash as the government struggles to catch up. That, in turn, has proved economically damaging.

Exactly how harmful remains hard to determine, but the available data is not reassuring. Demand for vegetables is declining because people don’t have the money to pay for them, for example, and some service industries are reporting steep job losses.

The International Monetary Fund this month cut its projected growth rate for India by one percentage point for the current fiscal year, to 6.6 percent. While the full impact is still difficult to discern, there is little doubt who is suffering the most. “This has actually hurt the poor enormously,” said Nasser Munjee, chairman of DCB Bank and a company director at HDFC and Tata Motors.

The pain is hidden, for the most part. Accustomed to hardship, many who lost employment were at first convinced by Mr. Modi’s speeches that their setbacks were transitory and, in the long run, would be worth the suffering. But as the crisis drags on, with no end in sight, some are growing frustrated, as they told us in a series of interviews at protests and at day labor gathering points.

Many of them, even children, are forced to go without fruit, vegetables and milk--now unaffordable luxuries. Most had not paid apartment rents and their children’s school fees in the months since the cash ban. Many had sent their families back to their villages, and were ready to give up and follow if things did not turn around soon. Sending cash to the elderly parents they had long supported is now out of the question.

As is common in India, the workers said that although they had worked on Hero MotoCorp’s shop floor, wearing company uniforms, they had been formally employed by other contractors, meaning they could be let go more easily without benefits.

Sunil Kumar, 28, who had been earning 15,000 rupees a month, about $220, at Hero, said he had been supporting his wife and two children when he lost his job without notice Nov. 29. They immediately cut milk, green vegetables and fruit from their diets, including for their 3-month-old and 3-year-old children. Paying rent is out of the question.

“This is like a massacre for us,” he said. “My livelihood is gone after the cash ban. What do I do now?”

The decline in vegetable demand is so steep that the prices of eggplants, potatoes, cauliflower and tomatoes dropped between 42 percent and 78 percent, the NCDEX Institute of Commodity Markets and Research said.

In the first month alone after the currency ban, micro and small-scale service industries cut staff by 35 percent, the All India Manufacturers’ Organization said, based on a survey. It released a study this month saying that job losses in a variety of industries, including automobile parts, infrastructure and construction, would swell to as much as 35 percent by March.

The anecdotal evidence is painful. Mr. Rathore, whose wedding was postponed, is among 582 workers who reported losing their jobs at Hero MotoCorp in November and December, as the company suffered a 34 percent drop in two-wheeler sales in December from a year earlier. Hero did not respond to requests for comment.

Most economists believe the economy will rebound, but nobody knows how long it will take.

In Noida, a satellite city of New Delhi, hundreds of unshaven men in rumpled clothing stood recently at a three-way intersection called Khoda Labor Chowk that is a gathering place for people seeking work.

Before the currency ban, they told us, they would be hired most days, earning 400 to 600 rupees, about $6 to $9, for a day of carpentry, floor tiling or masonry. But since the ban, most interviewed said, they had worked for only a week each month, at best, and even on the few days when they were hired their wages had fallen by half.

Rafiq Ali, 46, said that having worked only 12 days in the last two months, he had sent his wife and two children back to his native village about 200 miles away, where it is cheaper to live.

“I am surviving on roti and potato with salt,” Mr. Ali said, referring to the flat Indian bread that is a staple in the Indian diet. “I’ve stopped taking milk, even in tea, and eating vegetables.”

But what hurt him most, he said, was a recent call from his wife, back in the village, who wanted money to take their sick daughter to a doctor. Mr. Ali said he had nothing to send.

“A sense of desperation and helplessness is emerging,” he said. “This currency ban is not helpful for poor people.”

Almost every man we interviewed said he was a migrant who had been sending a portion of his salary home to support his parents in his native village--and had been unable to do so since the currency ban wiped out work.

Vikas Sahu, 30, who had been working at Hero for four years, has been unable to send money back to his parents, wife and children, who live in his village about 100 miles west of New Delhi. His first grader’s school fees are overdue by months, and his father took out a loan of 70,000 rupees, about $1,000, for agricultural expenses, including paying for repairs on the family’s tractor.

“How long I can survive like this?” he asked.

With little else to do, Rakesh Yadav, 28, shows up most days to protest, hoping for some relief from the government or some upbeat economic news that might induce Hero to begin rehiring. He had worked there for eight years as a machine operator on the shop floor.

To cut costs, his wife and daughter went home to his village. He gave up the one room they had shared at a monthly rental of 3,300 rupees, or about $50, and moved in with four other men who share a room.

“I do not know where to go or what to do,” he said.

Mr. Rathore said he thought about giving up and returning to his village in Bilaspur district, about 750 miles south of Delhi, but he just cannot bear to do so, at least not yet.

“What can I do in my village?” he asked.

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Another reason why the whole "forced marriages" concept (that Rhea haters ate up like pie) is bullshit.

Speaking for Faerghus, since this seems to be an issue players point the finger at Faerghus for, it's just... not true? This NPC does understand there are political implications to his marriage, but he wasn't forced into it and neither was his wife. They married for love.

The only known case of an arranged marriage prospect within Faerghus' known cast is Ingrid, and that's something Ingrid has taken on for herself as well. She knows her lands struggle with crops and that her people go hungry. She's choosing to deal with a non-romantic marriage for her people.

But what about Glenn, you ask? There are two aspects to that:

The marriage was arranged when Ingrid was born, but it's worth noting the marriage was arranged between Gunnar and a childhood friend's son. She wasn't just being married off to just anyone. It was both a childhood friend (who Gunnar clearly had deep trust in)'s son, but also a family member of the royal family's right hand family. But what about the Houses paralogue, you ask? Gunnar wasn't aware of the man's crimes, but as soon as he found out he rejected the proposal. Gunnar cares about his daughter's happiness and wellbeing. The only reason they're searching for a marriage candidate is because Galatea lands desperately need the financial support.

Ingrid is the only case we know of where she's being "married off" (her endings rebuke this entirely anyway because she does end up marrying for love if paired with someone). Nobody else in Faerghus had a marriage forced or politically forced on them (and frankly I still fail to understand how the Church is supposedly at fault for concept of this being the case period anyway). Dimitri, the literal prince and at the time of birth immediate heir to the throne, was never forced to marry. Felix has never been pushed to marry. Sylvain has never been pushed to marry (despite how important it is that they continue that bloodline). Annette, a female, has never been pushed to marry.

In other words, the major political players have never put their kids into arranged marriage with a single exception of necessity for one family (Galatea), and in Rodrigue's case with Glenn, it was done with a childhood friend's lands' welfare in mind. Gunnar could have married Ingrid to anyone at any point, but the most important aspect of it is that when it was arranged without her say so (i.e. at her birth), it was done with the son of a man who Gunnar trusted implicitly.

After Glenn died, Ingrid was plenty old enough to have a say so in who she might be married to. Presumably the issue wasn't pushed on her for a while after Glenn died for emotional reasons, but once they tried again, Ingrid had a say in things. Her father sent her letters specifically for her input. No, she doesn't want to marry for political reasons, but she understands how much her lands need it. Still though, her father won't force her to marry some scumbag. If she tells him she won't marry someone, he accepts that.

In other words, the only argument that can be used for "forced marriages" falls flat on its face. It's not a regular practice in Faerghus. None of the heirs to specific territories are being married against their will. The only instance we know about isn't so extreme that Gunnar is just going for it and picking the best dowry without considering his daughter's happiness and health.

The one time it was decided before she was old enough to give her input, Gunnar didn't need to "consider" marriage prospects and be unsure who to pick, because it was planned between two old friends who trusted each other and presumably felt that their child would be safe with the other family in question.

My biggest problem with people saying this claim is supported is that for the most part, people just take Claude's words in GW at pure face value and assume it's absolute, definite truth when he gives nor has any evidence to back it up (mainly because he blames it on the Church, which still doesn't make sense because such things are out the Church's jurisdiction. No amount of "seeing what the world is like without Rhea" is going to change Faerghus' politics, so even if his claims were true, Claude would have to go talk to every single individual territory within Faerghus to realize the truth if he's that dead set on his view of this, as each territory does its own thing politically).

He brings it up like it's a fact in Faerghus, which as I've said before, he has literally no knowledge whatsoever about Faerghus, and it shows. He doesn't even know extremely basic things, such as the previous king literally dying in the middle of making friends with a foreign land. He knows that Lambert died in Duscur during the Tragedy, and that's... basically the extent of his knowledge and understanding about it. For some reason though in Hopes, he thinks he understands Faerghus as well as he understands Almyra.

It's also annoying because in Fodlan games, a character can just say something - literally anything at all - and it's eaten up immediately and taken at pure face value with no thoughts actually put into questioning its validity. And before anyone says "but Dimitri didn't argue this in Zaharas!" yeah, I'm aware, and I feel that was a huge reason why that chapter, trying to be the "we fight as allies this once" chapter, was a total flop, aside from other things (particularly in the SB/GW department with Dimitri and magically wanting to "talk things over" with someone who had just murdered one of his dearest friends mere hours ago tops in SB, or in GW where politics would demand more from him).

The games have a problem with trying to introduce false concepts through characters who don't know better (i.e. introducing incorrect perspectives that we're meant to understand are just perspectives and not the truth nor fact) but then not refuting those claims, despite the game itself as the story progresses outright denying those things, whether outright or passively (in the latter's case, again, other important political figures having no talks of marriage on the table at all).

In the screenshots, the NPC is aware that politics have to get involved with his marriage, but he wasn't forced to marry and neither was she. Not only does he mention it, but he wants people to know they married for love. He's basically saying he doesn't want people to misinterpret their reasons for marriage (wanting land, wealth, etc).

In Ingrid's case, it was started with that goal in mind, but it started out in safe hands. After that she always had a say in who she might marry, and ultimately didn't marry for political reasons. The one person who was possibly going to marry for political reasons in Faerghus and not out of love ends up not even doing that.

Honestly, in Claude's case, I feel like he was just written with no purpose in mind except to rock the boat unnecessarily, because everything he claims in regard to Faerghus is purely speculation on his part. He knows absolutely nothing about Faerghus (in both games, but his ignorance in Houses isn't malicious, whereas you could argue in Hopes he's attempting to overthrow what he believes are their systems when even if they were, it would still be none of his business) but talks like he's lived there or spoken to its people who make the decisions he claims are happening.

Also, the concept of Dimitri being forced to do this that and the other thing are just... not true? Dimitri is happy to be able to help others and make reforms for his lands. He likes that he's able to have the power to make good change and help people. He knows that you need a certain degree of power to be able to push things in a better direction and to have a voice. By having the most important voice, he can make other voices known that otherwise would not be. When people have no choice but to listen to the king, he can demand that other voices are heard.

Even in his A support with Shez, he believes his happiest moment will be when he dies after dedicating his life to "a peaceful kingdom full of joyous citizens". I get the whole "but he isn't living for himself!" side of things, but this part of this post is specifically about how Dimitri is supposedly "forced" into doing things because he's king; but plain and simple, he wants to be king because by having the highest power in his land, he can make positive change happen

"This bad thing is happening in the Kingdom!" Well now he can change that. He wants to change things in his land for the better, and he understands that his position is a necessity for that. That's why he's so upset when he's "rendered powerless by age" in Houses, i.e. can't ascend the throne yet. He wanted to make change and couldn't. He wanted to do right for the Kingdom, but he couldn't yet.

Basically what I'm saying is that people keep using Claude's Hopes rhetoric as "fact", but literally none of it is. It's all based on the most severe amount of ignorance in both games and him for some reason believing that he knows jack shit about Faerghus. That includes the marriage "issue", which while I'd say it may exist in Adrestia (ex. Bernadetta being planned to marry Ferdinand), does not exist in Faerghus as any sort of "issue".

I don't recall if it's really even present in Leicester? So either... Claude just pulled that argument out of his absolute ass, or he's seeing an issue in Leicester and for some reason assuming his country's politics are every country's politics, which is, again, total ignorance (and he makes no effort to ever found out if any of that is true).

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

ah yes, she's concerned about the aggressor and attacker who was invading them six months ago. something is wrong with the empire right now, poor edelgard; whatever could've happened to her? :(

like... what. why do you care about what's going on with her specifically when she's the person who made the decision to invade leicester? does the whole war just mean nothing to marianne? it's just totally fine that all those people died in a war edelgard started? poor edelgard, something happened to her after she started her attack? you're concerned about the leader who gave the order to attack your home?

hopes has stupid lines but this one is top tier of the top tier and just an excuse for more edelgardjerking from the writers.

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

still wanna know where claude got his isolationism argument from.

like i genuinely don't get where he got that from (this not being the only case against it, but being one of the more heavy ones). he refers to it when talking about fodlan as a whole, so he's completely ignorant of literally anything ever from faerghus but just assumes what he thinks is true?? despite not actually knowing anything about a chunk of fodlan??

i mean was it a writer oversight or did they intentionally make claude like that? bc i know he's supposed to be different than in vw where it's like, in vw he has a similar view/doesn't know about faerghus but he's more positive about opening fodlan to a better worldview, versus in hopes where he's much more cynical about it and seems to have a more negative view.

in houses he thinks people will be able to mature and accept others. in hopes he seems to think the only way to get that to happen is to wipe out the central church, who clearly has not stopped faerghus from foreign relations, thus proving his argument false. it just feels like, because the people of fodlan are wary of foreigners (and considering they've been attacked by at least four foreign nations depsite not being the aggressors, that being almyra, brigid, dagda, and sreng), that he just assumes all nations are against foreign mingling (including with nations that haven't attacked them)?

but like... he doesn't know jack shit about faerghus, so he's just assuming he knows about them and... never makes an effort to find out.

tbh it feels really uncharacteristic of him, at least in vw (and in houses in general). based on how he acts in white clouds, i would think he'd be more interested in learning about that stuff from each area in fodlan. hopes pretty much put that knowledge seeking aspect of him well into the dirt, but that just makes his argument come off as much more arrogant on top of being ignorant.

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

I really hate the inconsistencies that exist just to make SB (and CF technically) work, but also how hard Petra basically simps for Edelgard to the point it deconstructs aspects of her character.

In Houses she mentions her siblings being in danger if she died, but in SB she just doesn't even make any mention of them in this situation. She's just willing to possibly die all of a sudden for someone who never actually treated Brigid like its people were independent (which she could've done at literally any time from the moment she became emperor). She was relatively vocally I guess you could say "good" to Petra, but the way the writing handles Petra's response to all of it feels like Petra's just been brainwashed.

Petra says she would always choose survival and makes a point to emphasis that, but in SB she's completely and carelessly willing to risk her life and possibly throw it away... for Edelgard? Who still has not actually officially freed Brigid? And if Petra were to stop being Edelgard's ally?

"Reconsideration". Because Brigid was never freed and now they're not going to be as long as Edelgard is in charge, because their queen is no longer bending to her will and fighting for her. If she was ever truly planning to free Brigid, Petra's decision alone not to fight for her shouldn't have changed that fact (especially since she supposedly gives her the choice in Houses to fight for her or not, and on non CF routes she does this by sending a letter, to which Petra refuses).

It should, of course, be obvious with this that everything is very not hunky dory between Adrestia and Brigid, but then...

...eh wot hooligans???

I mean sure, if you considered forced vassalage to be "peace" and not being a free people "peace" then sure. But like... it's not a peace her people want and she should know that, but the game tends to do this back and forth with this topic. I hate it though because it makes it come across as being forced into submission and not having the means to fight back is "peace".

I know this game has lots of issues with uh, if you're attacked or if you were defeated by another military force you should submit and be happy about being taken over, and when you can't fight back anymore that's "peace" because nobody's fighting... but uhh... why is that only an issue with the Empire? I mean, we know why - the devs wanted to walk with her and they admitted it! But like... they should still know when they're writing something reeeeally icky.

Duscur doesn't have this problem and they're not under Edelgard's foot. Anything under Edelgard's foot though is treated like they should be thankful for her control and/or invasion(s). That just overall sends a really nasty message. I don't know that the devs meant to do that as far as an Empire, but I do think it's because they went a little hard with the Edelgard bias and somehow forgot what it would look like to an audience playing the game.

It's like they know it's not a good thing but they keep pushing the "Brigid isn't actually free but it's still peace because nobody is fighting" narrative.

Like... I don't care how much you love a character you're writing. You can't tell me that oppressed nations would just call oppressions "peace" or that their leaders would be more than happy to fight and die for the leader of the nation oppressing them. It gets even worse when you get into the racial territory of it, but that's a topic I've already covered so I'm not gonna go over it again here.

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

lmao... imagine if someone could talk to edelgard this way

and also lol

how dare you guys come in and attack us after our emperor we we all loyally follow and fight for attacked you first! how dare you retaliate just because we haven't attacked you particularly recently! there's a warranty on invasions! if you don't retaliate in a certain window of time, you can't anymore! you have to wait until we attack you again!

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

nah but like

they're "seiros lapdogs" because they're fighting back against the people who attacked them completely unprovoked??? also because it so happens that thales is at garreg mach so they have to go there to reclaim the area to defeat him???

i just hate this because it's just perpetuating things about faerghus and its people that just aren't true. it frames it like they jumped into the war willingly for the church and that they're only here for the church. like nah buddy, it's not faerghus' fault you're out here fighting to protect thales and ludwig.

it also is batshit to me how he and leopold are fighting to stop faerghus from advancing but like... they know what's happening to the empire and that edelgard isn't even calling the shots anymore, yet they still stupidly fight for the very person who is literally razing their country and burning their villages. they know the empire is in shambles and that the kingdom isn't targeting them and is specifically aiming for gm to get it back from who? thales; who, mind, at this point is in his real form and not posing as arundel anymore. everything is laid out plainly, but they still act like faerghus is the bad guy.

but yeah, okay. faerghus BaD for defending themselves, fighting back, finding out who is behind all the puppeteering and heading to take him out. sure, that makes them seiros lapdogs. like what are you, an agarthan mouthpiece??? may as well be like yeah you go retreat and leave you agarthan lapdog. if they don't realize it's Someone Else in charge of course, then ludwig lapdog works fine too.

and it sucks because other than this shit, i like waldemar just fine as a character. it's just like, it feels like they forced someone to have to stick in that final faerghus BaD insult before the grand finale so they just randomly picked someone to remind us that faerghus is Always Wrong as long as they continue to fight back and prevent being attacked in the future.

waldemar here is just basically ag caspar. fighting and risking his life for thales, who is destroying the empire and basically holding the emperor hostage. if the writing here had any decent plot points, they would've all stopped and have been like hey wait, shouldn't we be fighting to get our emperor back? why are we stopping these guys from killing the people who are destroying this country?

and like, they literally went from siding with ludwig during the insurrection to siding with edelgard in this timeline to... jumping immediately back to ludwig as soon as he was at the top of the food chain (thales notwithstanding). as soon as the person in charge changes, they jump ship immediately; then of course get mad that the people they attacked are coming after them... and fighting them as they defend the very people who are letting adrestia become a literal, physical ruin.

it really just tells me that these people don't care about adrestia itself, but status, power and wealth. they don't care about the country itself as long as they're doing well. that's like, the only thing i can get from still fighting with/for ludwig/thales. the fact that they just fight for ludwig again as soon as edelgard is out of commission is also pretty gross to me. they have no loyalty at all.

and it's like, i want to like waldermar and leopold, but they come across as just selfish, entitled and only there for their own asses to be covered. and i get that - that is a realistic take on politicians, but the fact that the game regularly loops back around to faerghus BaD despite that and despite portraying these people as opportunistically selfish is like... what are they even trying to write??

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

idk like i just imagine the soldiers get so excited and happy that their king is helping them train. most soldiers would never get that chance. also, they would always be such intense but respectful training sessions?

i just. very much love that dimitri trains with soldiers, and not just in general, but every day. every day he makes time for his soldiers so they can improve their skills and stay alive. he interacts with his army not just in general, but every day. he could be only mingling within his own immediate friend group, but he makes time to be with the commonfolk in various towns and his army.

dimi is a very busy man but he is a very busy man always doing his best for his people. 🥰

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

this ironically fits so perfectly into gw bc of a certain nader in gw.

like, at least sreng has a legitimate reason for invading. almyra is just yeehaw raids and pillaging is funsies. meanwhile one of the supposedly most stand up guys in almyra calls his pillaging "souvenirs".

catch vw nader staring in horror at gw nader.

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

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