I think The Prefect might be a good one, there's always the sense of impending doom from the approaching inhibitors yet humanity is in a fairly stable state, and there's plenty of shadowy figures they could expand upon. Oh and it's got cops in, I can already see it airing on Fox... soo on second thought...
I'd mod you up, but there's one thing I have to get off my chest with regards to windows 7 and Vista, although admittedly it's also the partly the fault of developers that don't check for invalid pointers. The sound interface. It drives me up the fucking wall! As soon as I unplug my earphones from my workstation to play some media on the speakers, it disables then re-enables my sound interface. This completely screws with applications like chrome or winamp that lose their sound device context. For instance, sometimes this will cause youtube to stop playing sound, and pretty much every single instance of flash player will screw up.
It's actually more down to sitting on the bowl out of habit and the seat being up = freezing cold ass and nothing to do with being pussy whipped. It must suck to be your significant other.
Yes but remembering where the keys are also makes you more likely to remember other things like anniversaries, buying the groceries and leaving the toilet seat down. This in turn leads to little wifely rewards like more time on World of Warcraft or sex.
Half-life was the first first-person-shooter on PC to include a story and scripted scenes where the camera never left the character's eyes. Quake 2 and Unreal didn't even come close. If you recall, neither of those games had allies with whom you could fight, or allies you had to escort through an area to complete an objective. HL had both of these, as it also featured the most advanced AI in an fps game released on any platform at the time.
I think the difference between government and conman, and rape victim and rapist is that the government has a responsibility to not be conned. They have a responsibility to spend the money they gather from their citizens in taxes in a way that aids the country. The girl does not have a responsibility to avoid the rapist, as in she should not have to dress from head to toe in cloth to make sure she isn't raped.
I was arguing more about the assertion that there is no God, not for or against the lifestyle choices that people make who choose to believe in religion, or the religion's stories about its God.
The 'facts and evidence' do not imply that there is no existence of a God like entity. Merely that none has been found yet, this is an important distinction. This is the problem I see with hard line atheist beliefs, they are in some ways as bad as their religious counter parts because they refuse to acknowledge the other side of the argument and instead treat the science and logic they believe in as infallible, rather than as what it really is - the current human understanding of the world around us that is subject to change.
My wife and I went on our honeymoon to London UK last year, and we brought our 'smartphones'. Baring in my that I had told the monkey at Telus that I would be traveling between North America and the UK frequently, and needed a phone that could function in both countries, I was pleasantly surprised when neither of our phones would pick up a signal. Now in fairness, the phones we bought weren't Nokia phones, but shitty touchscreen fad things so I wasn't entirely expecting them to pick up a signal. What I *wasn't* expecting was that not only did the signal not pick up, but the phones would not take pictures, would not synchronise to any sensible date or time and the alarm clocks would miss their alarm times. That's a pretty dumb smart-phone that can't function at all outside of a signal. So we went to Phones 4 U (a brilliant little shop that North America simply has no counter-part to) and I explained the situation to the store clerk, she was very apologetic, and promptly gave us a pay as you go phone for 10 quid (that's maybe $14 CAD) and we also bought a 20 quid top up card. The phone sends text, does calls, and doesn't have a god awful UI nightmare that is a touchscreen. Sadly it does not function in Canada, but for a tenner, I can forgive it.
So yeah, I agree with you whole heartedly, smart phones are the new dumb phones for dumb people. Oh and really Canada, the state of your telecomms infrastructure is truly atrocious. I would never have replaced my Razr, had I not finally gotten tired of its tiny amount of memory.
Wow, you've managed to take a completely innocent prayer giving thanks for food and made it utterly insidious. Who care's if the prayer was to God? Once again, that's not the point, the point is to teach children to give thanks, which is something you cannot seem to grasp, so further conversation is pointless.
That depends upon your definition of 'God', personally, I was thanking my good fortune to have cooked meals. This is beside the original point though, your analogy was crap.
"Odd, when I was at school we thanked the dinner-ladies, not god." Implies that we were more thankful to God for our meal than we were to the people who actually cooked the meals, which was not true and not the point I was making. The purpose of saying a prayer before eating was to make us aware that not everyone in the world was fortunate enough that day to have a meal, and therefore to make us thankful for what we had. Yes, there are other ways to teach that to children, but they do not invalidate prayer as means to achieve it.
That would almost be a gag worthy of Family Guy, if it weren't rubbish. Prayer serves many more purposes than simply whining about bad things that are happening. For instance, I went to a Church of England primary school and each day before lunch we said a short thank-you for our meals, that wasn't begging, it was an expression of thanks for our good fortune to have food on our plates. But I'll save that one for when I want to make fun of religion, and by extension, Americans.
That would definitely have been more interesting, reminds me of Hyperion which had a similar concept of AIs running a futuristic version of the internet (ok that's a horrible comparison) in exchange for using human brains as processors.
Ok let's be clear, even the first Matrix film was wholey unbelievable. They never took a giant dump on the story, it was never sensical to begin with. It was always a philosophical thing about what it means to have free will, and to rise against The Power. They basically outline how unbelievable the plot is right where Morpheus explains what the Matrix was - "combined with a form of fusion, the machines had all the power they would ever need". So let me get this straight, they used Fusion power, but somehow still needed to combine that with the incredibly fucking complex task of keeping an entire race enslaved in an elaborate virtual world? Really?
Also, Neo wasn't Jesus. He didn't die for anyones sins, he wasn't sent down by God to walk amongst men. Neo was an anomaly - the result of the machine's inability to completely trap human free will.
Finally, considering the number of implants inside Neo (the most obvious being the giant fucking hole in his neck), possibly including all manner of brain computer interfaces, it's not exactly a giant stretch of the imagination that he can sense or interfere with nearby machines. Nor would it be impossible for Smith to "reprogram" a human being, the plot was already utterly absurd 1/3 of the way through the FIRST film.
The graphics *were* good, they're horrible by today's standards. Furthermore, how can a top down 2D tile based game convey more realism than a 3D game depicting the viewpoint of one of its participants? That's why FPS's took off, they are more immersive. That's also why Half-life (a game you appear to classify as the last good FPS) was so well received - it was the first FPS game whose scripted events did not allow the camera to leave the player character's viewpoint. Take a look at the Deus Ex 3 boards and see how many people are up in arms about 3rd person cover, people are more at home with FPS style play. While I agree that most FPS games are terrible these days, or are halfway between terrible and good (e.g. mass effect 2 - great story, horrible cover based level design), the FPS system is not at fault, it's the nervous publishers who won't back a project that's a bit of a gamble. And yes, I think Call of Duty is ruining our children.
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I think The Prefect might be a good one, there's always the sense of impending doom from the approaching inhibitors yet humanity is in a fairly stable state, and there's plenty of shadowy figures they could expand upon. Oh and it's got cops in, I can already see it airing on Fox... soo on second thought...
I'd mod you up, but there's one thing I have to get off my chest with regards to windows 7 and Vista, although admittedly it's also the partly the fault of developers that don't check for invalid pointers. The sound interface. It drives me up the fucking wall! As soon as I unplug my earphones from my workstation to play some media on the speakers, it disables then re-enables my sound interface. This completely screws with applications like chrome or winamp that lose their sound device context. For instance, sometimes this will cause youtube to stop playing sound, and pretty much every single instance of flash player will screw up.
Yes but the robot's contribution to humanity is probably far greater, all humans may be born equal, but they certainly don't die equal.
It's actually more down to sitting on the bowl out of habit and the seat being up = freezing cold ass and nothing to do with being pussy whipped. It must suck to be your significant other.
Yes but remembering where the keys are also makes you more likely to remember other things like anniversaries, buying the groceries and leaving the toilet seat down. This in turn leads to little wifely rewards like more time on World of Warcraft or sex.
Half-life was the first first-person-shooter on PC to include a story and scripted scenes where the camera never left the character's eyes. Quake 2 and Unreal didn't even come close. If you recall, neither of those games had allies with whom you could fight, or allies you had to escort through an area to complete an objective. HL had both of these, as it also featured the most advanced AI in an fps game released on any platform at the time.
I think the difference between government and conman, and rape victim and rapist is that the government has a responsibility to not be conned. They have a responsibility to spend the money they gather from their citizens in taxes in a way that aids the country. The girl does not have a responsibility to avoid the rapist, as in she should not have to dress from head to toe in cloth to make sure she isn't raped.
Your post is confusing, you seem to imply that you couldn't care less, yet you say you could. Exactly how much less could you care?
I was arguing more about the assertion that there is no God, not for or against the lifestyle choices that people make who choose to believe in religion, or the religion's stories about its God.
The 'facts and evidence' do not imply that there is no existence of a God like entity. Merely that none has been found yet, this is an important distinction. This is the problem I see with hard line atheist beliefs, they are in some ways as bad as their religious counter parts because they refuse to acknowledge the other side of the argument and instead treat the science and logic they believe in as infallible, rather than as what it really is - the current human understanding of the world around us that is subject to change.
My wife and I went on our honeymoon to London UK last year, and we brought our 'smartphones'. Baring in my that I had told the monkey at Telus that I would be traveling between North America and the UK frequently, and needed a phone that could function in both countries, I was pleasantly surprised when neither of our phones would pick up a signal. Now in fairness, the phones we bought weren't Nokia phones, but shitty touchscreen fad things so I wasn't entirely expecting them to pick up a signal. What I *wasn't* expecting was that not only did the signal not pick up, but the phones would not take pictures, would not synchronise to any sensible date or time and the alarm clocks would miss their alarm times. That's a pretty dumb smart-phone that can't function at all outside of a signal. So we went to Phones 4 U (a brilliant little shop that North America simply has no counter-part to) and I explained the situation to the store clerk, she was very apologetic, and promptly gave us a pay as you go phone for 10 quid (that's maybe $14 CAD) and we also bought a 20 quid top up card. The phone sends text, does calls, and doesn't have a god awful UI nightmare that is a touchscreen. Sadly it does not function in Canada, but for a tenner, I can forgive it.
So yeah, I agree with you whole heartedly, smart phones are the new dumb phones for dumb people. Oh and really Canada, the state of your telecomms infrastructure is truly atrocious. I would never have replaced my Razr, had I not finally gotten tired of its tiny amount of memory.
I swear if you looked closely enough, you could see a single neon tear shed from Slash's eye as Fergi murdered that song.
Wow, you've managed to take a completely innocent prayer giving thanks for food and made it utterly insidious. Who care's if the prayer was to God? Once again, that's not the point, the point is to teach children to give thanks, which is something you cannot seem to grasp, so further conversation is pointless.
That depends upon your definition of 'God', personally, I was thanking my good fortune to have cooked meals. This is beside the original point though, your analogy was crap.
To break this down even further and thus eliminate any need to continue this conversation; we were giving thanks, not begging.
"Odd, when I was at school we thanked the dinner-ladies, not god." Implies that we were more thankful to God for our meal than we were to the people who actually cooked the meals, which was not true and not the point I was making. The purpose of saying a prayer before eating was to make us aware that not everyone in the world was fortunate enough that day to have a meal, and therefore to make us thankful for what we had. Yes, there are other ways to teach that to children, but they do not invalidate prayer as means to achieve it.
Someone modded this up? Seriously? Of course we thanked the dinner ladies, way to miss the point.
That would almost be a gag worthy of Family Guy, if it weren't rubbish. Prayer serves many more purposes than simply whining about bad things that are happening. For instance, I went to a Church of England primary school and each day before lunch we said a short thank-you for our meals, that wasn't begging, it was an expression of thanks for our good fortune to have food on our plates. But I'll save that one for when I want to make fun of religion, and by extension, Americans.
That would definitely have been more interesting, reminds me of Hyperion which had a similar concept of AIs running a futuristic version of the internet (ok that's a horrible comparison) in exchange for using human brains as processors.
Ok let's be clear, even the first Matrix film was wholey unbelievable. They never took a giant dump on the story, it was never sensical to begin with. It was always a philosophical thing about what it means to have free will, and to rise against The Power. They basically outline how unbelievable the plot is right where Morpheus explains what the Matrix was - "combined with a form of fusion, the machines had all the power they would ever need". So let me get this straight, they used Fusion power, but somehow still needed to combine that with the incredibly fucking complex task of keeping an entire race enslaved in an elaborate virtual world? Really?
Also, Neo wasn't Jesus. He didn't die for anyones sins, he wasn't sent down by God to walk amongst men. Neo was an anomaly - the result of the machine's inability to completely trap human free will.
Finally, considering the number of implants inside Neo (the most obvious being the giant fucking hole in his neck), possibly including all manner of brain computer interfaces, it's not exactly a giant stretch of the imagination that he can sense or interfere with nearby machines. Nor would it be impossible for Smith to "reprogram" a human being, the plot was already utterly absurd 1/3 of the way through the FIRST film.
Yes, except Religion, I'm not too sure where that stands.
I didn't claim that there wasn't, only that WWII contributed to scientific discovery.
Especially as WWII contributed greatly to our current level of technology, e.g. computers.
That... was beautiful.
The graphics *were* good, they're horrible by today's standards. Furthermore, how can a top down 2D tile based game convey more realism than a 3D game depicting the viewpoint of one of its participants? That's why FPS's took off, they are more immersive. That's also why Half-life (a game you appear to classify as the last good FPS) was so well received - it was the first FPS game whose scripted events did not allow the camera to leave the player character's viewpoint. Take a look at the Deus Ex 3 boards and see how many people are up in arms about 3rd person cover, people are more at home with FPS style play. While I agree that most FPS games are terrible these days, or are halfway between terrible and good (e.g. mass effect 2 - great story, horrible cover based level design), the FPS system is not at fault, it's the nervous publishers who won't back a project that's a bit of a gamble. And yes, I think Call of Duty is ruining our children.