If you turned your "artistic statement" into a Slashdot comment and it would get modded down as "Troll", it's not a particularly good statement. Keep thinking.
Funny you say that. I personally define art, especially in the context of videogames, as an expression of an artist's vision capable of provoking a genuine emotional response(and no, throwing up in disgust doesn't count). Some games make me go "wow". Seeing Final Fantasy VIII's cutscenes did so. Some parts of various' games storylines made me sit back and ponder things.
To get back to your troll comment, a really proper troll can enrage people. Art is in the eye of the beholder I guess;-)
The choices to be made in the main quests are pretty clear as far as I'm concerned, generally they boil down to taking a risk and letting someone/thing live, or playing it safe and killing them. Some of the sidequests have strange choices though, where doing the paragon thing means convincing someone using completely silly arguments, and doing the renegade thing sometimes shifts into downright psychopathic behaviour.
actually, that's one thing that makes America great. the realization that your civil rights are given to you by your creator (be it God, Yahweh, or whomever) leads to understanding that no mortal man can (rightly) take those rights away.
So there's really no point in resisting when they try to anyway, is there?
Iran's central government is lead by religious fanatics who the rest of the world do not trust their intentions. Once developed, the officials and the military will have access to the precious technology you developed for peace, and use it for war. It does not matter if the science and engineering communities inside Iran are religious nutbags or not.
Do you honestly believe this? For ages, rulers have used any means necessary to keep control. Let me give you a few examples:
- Do what I fucking tell you, or I'll club your head in. (all ages, really) - Do what I fucking tell you, or I'll stop allowing you to use my land to plant on and send some knights to club your head in. - Do what I fucking tell you, or the terruhrists are gonna kill us all! (sound familiar?) - Do what I fucking tell you, or you'll burn in hell. (or whatever religion x says will happen if you don't behave)
Religion is a means to controlling people. Sure, there's plenty of folks out there who honestly believe, but they don't rise to these kind of levels of power without getting corrupted in the process. The folks at the top of the Irani foodchain really aren't all that dissimilar from their counterparts in say, the US. They just spread a different kind of propaganda.
Not only that, but php has a separate function for the most obscure of things, whereas with perl one typically falls back on the basic concepts of programming. Hence, someone who is already familiar with programming in general will probably a lot more productive after having spent 5 hours with perl for dummies than he would with the php equivalent, from what i gather.
Only segments of the younger generation. It isn't like, a systemic flaw in those born after 1985. It's what they've been indoctrinated with by their crackpot parents,
I'm not typically one to blame tv for behavior, but I find the number of shows that contain some sort of government agency constantly struggling with regulations and regularly breaking due process to "get the bad terruhrist" rather alarming.
Interesting experiment, watch a couple of episodes of NCIS and watch them glorify operating outside their boundaries. I like the show as much as the next guy but that kind of content really starts to disturb me.
It's true that programmers fall victim to fad-ism, but the fact is that the learning curve of Perl is quite steep compared to that of PHP.
I've never quite understood this. Now, I put a relatively large amount of time into making my own code readable, well commented and otherwise maintain good coding practices. True, I have encountered self-proclaimed php writers who couldn't make sense of my code. Then again, those same php writers also had no clue how to write a loop or what a regular expression was, used copy-paste as much as actual typing and delivered huge files of spaghetti, so if you don't mind I'm not placing too much value on their opinion.
Is it really that hard to consistently write little black boxes that are both documented on the inside and outside? This is x, if you put y in you consistently get z back. Heck, Perl even allows doing everything in an OO fashion if that strikes your fancy.
The bulk of the human race is living in a fantasy world where about 5/6 of what they believe is utter bullshit. And it seems pretty constant across the globe. Different areas just have local varieties of bullshit.
Any chance we can convert the bullshit to biogas?;-) Should solve the whole debate in a single go really.
One thing both political sides seem to increasingly agree on these days is that the judicial branch may be the weak link in the design of our Constitutional guarantee of rights.
Funny. From the outside it looks like it's the damn voters that put idiots into office and then allow them to get away with taking a dump on the constitution that is the weak link.
Unless it actually says property of the police deparment on it, you'd have no reason to assume it belong to them. And if I found some unmarked metal box on my car, I'm pretty sure there is nothing preventing me from removing it.
Remove it? Drive to the nearest police station and claim some terrurhist put a bomb on your car;-)
Not true. One of the things they pound into your head when you take a CPR / First Aid course through the Red Cross
I'll do you one better. When I got my first aid training here in the Netherlands the instructor pretty much told us that if we ever visited the States we should only give aid in life-threatening situations, because the risk of being sued is too great to do so under other circumstances.
Orrrr.......they are symptomatic of a country whose religious foundation has eroded away over the decades such that it is more desired by society as a whole to teach kids how to have sex, to advertise sex in every imaginable way using teenagers, and teach them about Islam in schools than it is to teach them about Christianity, how to respect others instead of killing them, and to not act like a slut by age 15.
Seems you either have issues with the United States providing more freedom than your own country (which you neglected to mention in your rant about us) or you just have issues with Christians and feel that the U.S. is failing because of their sheer existence rather than their decreasing visibility and influence in American society. You failed to mention the correlation between the latter and the U.S's current situation.
Considering fewer Americans every year believe that homosexuality is sin, that abortion is wrong, that religion is important, and that proper parenting (setting rules for children to follow, keeping a watchful eye on them, caring for them, and an even distribution of male/female organs) is important, it is hard to imagine there are people like you who think that the laws of this nation are actually causing our downfall. You obviously haven't looked at the situation entirely. Maybe you have biases that prevent you from doing so?
Do you mind if I just blatantly copy-paste this text of yours every time I have to explain to someone why americans are considered a bunch of fucking idiots by the rest of the enlightened world? Would save a lot of time.
Oh, and just for reference, I'm Dutch. You know, the pot-smoking, booby-ogling, drinking at 16, gun-forbidding socialist hippies who considered the views your country are based on just right...a few centuries ago. Heck, we invented half of them. We stopped munching magic mushrooms though...some american kid came over and died taking them.
that being said, i wish the rest of the world would put a sock in the "change the situation" crap.
Oh, we will, just as soon as you guys stop trumpeting you're the land of the free and the home of the brave. Might ship the statue of liberty back to France while you're at it as well, they'll keep it safe somewhere till you deserve it again.
Oh well, who knows. If you guys can't change the situation yourself I wonder how long it takes for the UN to decide it's time to stop a rogue state possessing WMD's...;-)
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If you turned your "artistic statement" into a Slashdot comment and it would get modded down as "Troll", it's not a particularly good statement. Keep thinking.
Funny you say that. I personally define art, especially in the context of videogames, as an expression of an artist's vision capable of provoking a genuine emotional response(and no, throwing up in disgust doesn't count). Some games make me go "wow". Seeing Final Fantasy VIII's cutscenes did so. Some parts of various' games storylines made me sit back and ponder things.
To get back to your troll comment, a really proper troll can enrage people. Art is in the eye of the beholder I guess ;-)
As well as some really insensible ones.
The choices to be made in the main quests are pretty clear as far as I'm concerned, generally they boil down to taking a risk and letting someone/thing live, or playing it safe and killing them. Some of the sidequests have strange choices though, where doing the paragon thing means convincing someone using completely silly arguments, and doing the renegade thing sometimes shifts into downright psychopathic behaviour.
actually, that's one thing that makes America great. the realization that your civil rights are given to you by your creator (be it God, Yahweh, or whomever) leads to understanding that no mortal man can (rightly) take those rights away.
So there's really no point in resisting when they try to anyway, is there?
Iran's central government is lead by religious fanatics who the rest of the world do not trust their intentions. Once developed, the officials and the military will have access to the precious technology you developed for peace, and use it for war. It does not matter if the science and engineering communities inside Iran are religious nutbags or not.
Do you honestly believe this? For ages, rulers have used any means necessary to keep control. Let me give you a few examples:
- Do what I fucking tell you, or I'll club your head in. (all ages, really)
- Do what I fucking tell you, or I'll stop allowing you to use my land to plant on and send some knights to club your head in.
- Do what I fucking tell you, or the terruhrists are gonna kill us all! (sound familiar?)
- Do what I fucking tell you, or you'll burn in hell. (or whatever religion x says will happen if you don't behave)
Religion is a means to controlling people. Sure, there's plenty of folks out there who honestly believe, but they don't rise to these kind of levels of power without getting corrupted in the process. The folks at the top of the Irani foodchain really aren't all that dissimilar from their counterparts in say, the US. They just spread a different kind of propaganda.
Not only that, but php has a separate function for the most obscure of things, whereas with perl one typically falls back on the basic concepts of programming. Hence, someone who is already familiar with programming in general will probably a lot more productive after having spent 5 hours with perl for dummies than he would with the php equivalent, from what i gather.
That's a cutscene. I want a game where plot-important characters can die, and it A) doesn't invoke game over and B) matters.
Mass Effect, to some extent, does just that. Won't say anything else in case you actually want to try it.
Perhaps the rest of the peasants were on the other side of the bush.... waiting....
Eve Online inside joke: My next passive bait-Drake will be called Dumb Pheasant.
Only segments of the younger generation. It isn't like, a systemic flaw in those born after 1985. It's what they've been indoctrinated with by their crackpot parents,
I'm not typically one to blame tv for behavior, but I find the number of shows that contain some sort of government agency constantly struggling with regulations and regularly breaking due process to "get the bad terruhrist" rather alarming.
Interesting experiment, watch a couple of episodes of NCIS and watch them glorify operating outside their boundaries. I like the show as much as the next guy but that kind of content really starts to disturb me.
It's true that programmers fall victim to fad-ism, but the fact is that the learning curve of Perl is quite steep compared to that of PHP.
I've never quite understood this. Now, I put a relatively large amount of time into making my own code readable, well commented and otherwise maintain good coding practices. True, I have encountered self-proclaimed php writers who couldn't make sense of my code. Then again, those same php writers also had no clue how to write a loop or what a regular expression was, used copy-paste as much as actual typing and delivered huge files of spaghetti, so if you don't mind I'm not placing too much value on their opinion.
Is it really that hard to consistently write little black boxes that are both documented on the inside and outside? This is x, if you put y in you consistently get z back. Heck, Perl even allows doing everything in an OO fashion if that strikes your fancy.
Hmmm....GoogleDate. Actually sounds pretty plausible. Get on it guys!
It's called taxation...
That's ok, not my class anyway.
I put on my wizard's hat and robe...
The bulk of the human race is living in a fantasy world where about 5/6 of what they believe is utter bullshit. And it seems pretty constant across the globe. Different areas just have local varieties of bullshit.
Any chance we can convert the bullshit to biogas? ;-) Should solve the whole debate in a single go really.
No, no, no...
Im in ur mailserverz, eating ur spam!
One thing both political sides seem to increasingly agree on these days is that the judicial branch may be the weak link in the design of our Constitutional guarantee of rights.
Funny. From the outside it looks like it's the damn voters that put idiots into office and then allow them to get away with taking a dump on the constitution that is the weak link.
Unless it actually says property of the police deparment on it, you'd have no reason to assume it belong to them. And if I found some unmarked metal box on my car, I'm pretty sure there is nothing preventing me from removing it.
Remove it? Drive to the nearest police station and claim some terrurhist put a bomb on your car ;-)
Not true. One of the things they pound into your head when you take a CPR / First Aid course through the Red Cross
I'll do you one better. When I got my first aid training here in the Netherlands the instructor pretty much told us that if we ever visited the States we should only give aid in life-threatening situations, because the risk of being sued is too great to do so under other circumstances.
I'd like a card that says;
"I do not have a customer 'loyalty' card. No, I do not want a customer 'loyalty' card."
Would save me hours of wasted time in the average year. Can I patent this idea?
Can I have one that says: "No, I do not want a customer 'loyalty' card. I'd love a customer 'loyalty' blowjob though."?
I hadn't realized they pulled it. I've been boycotting Mass Effect because of this.... Maybe I should go check the reviews.
As far as I can tell it phones home every time the game is started. Certainly takes long enough to start to indicate so...
Tis a great game though.
Orrrr.......they are symptomatic of a country whose religious foundation has eroded away over the decades such that it is more desired by society as a whole to teach kids how to have sex, to advertise sex in every imaginable way using teenagers, and teach them about Islam in schools than it is to teach them about Christianity, how to respect others instead of killing them, and to not act like a slut by age 15.
Seems you either have issues with the United States providing more freedom than your own country (which you neglected to mention in your rant about us) or you just have issues with Christians and feel that the U.S. is failing because of their sheer existence rather than their decreasing visibility and influence in American society. You failed to mention the correlation between the latter and the U.S's current situation.
Considering fewer Americans every year believe that homosexuality is sin, that abortion is wrong, that religion is important, and that proper parenting (setting rules for children to follow, keeping a watchful eye on them, caring for them, and an even distribution of male/female organs) is important, it is hard to imagine there are people like you who think that the laws of this nation are actually causing our downfall. You obviously haven't looked at the situation entirely. Maybe you have biases that prevent you from doing so?
Do you mind if I just blatantly copy-paste this text of yours every time I have to explain to someone why americans are considered a bunch of fucking idiots by the rest of the enlightened world? Would save a lot of time.
Oh, and just for reference, I'm Dutch. You know, the pot-smoking, booby-ogling, drinking at 16, gun-forbidding socialist hippies who considered the views your country are based on just right...a few centuries ago. Heck, we invented half of them. We stopped munching magic mushrooms though...some american kid came over and died taking them.
Ok, that's it, no more Dungeon Keeper for you!
Clearly that's a gun in his pocket... ;-)
Jeez buddy, just apologize for what you said about her ass and those pants and tell her she doesn't need it.
What really causes global warming? I for one beleive that the earth is still trying to figure out the question that arrives at the answer 42.
Just wait till it figures out the optimal situation to determine the question would be to raise the surface temperature to 42 degrees centigrade.
that being said, i wish the rest of the world would put a sock in the "change the situation" crap.
Oh, we will, just as soon as you guys stop trumpeting you're the land of the free and the home of the brave. Might ship the statue of liberty back to France while you're at it as well, they'll keep it safe somewhere till you deserve it again.
Oh well, who knows. If you guys can't change the situation yourself I wonder how long it takes for the UN to decide it's time to stop a rogue state possessing WMD's... ;-)