> You can no more prove Creationism is fiction > than I can prove it is non-fiction
The burden of proof is on the claimant. And once someone tries to prove creationism, they fail miserably. Nipples for men, etc. that evolution explains fine but creationism must throw up its hands and say "we just don't know the purpose yet."
> You cannot prove God doesn't exist
I no more need to prove this then I need to prove purple unicorns don't exist. The burden is on the claimant.
Hint: Religion has been shoved into the philosophical corner where "believing without proof" has transmogrified into "God cannot be proven because he wants you to believe without proof." I think logic has done it's job with God, thanks.
> but you're absolutely, totally, unalterably sure he doesn't,
Even if God existed, I would not worship it since He sits there while children are raped to death.
> though you cannot prove God does not exist and did not create the universe.
Who created God? You aren't just using the string of letters G-o-d as a synonym for "we have no idea how it got created", are you?
I do not scoff at beliefs, but I don't hide from asking embarassing questions, either.
Perhaps the ultimate example of stealth in a game that shouldn't have it was the recent Hulk game associated with the movie. Playing as Banner was like...
like...
like being forced to not be a Jedi for the first half of a Star Wars game.
Which was done -- twice in a row.:) Er, three times. Pluse other times when you had no option to be a Jedi at all.
Technically the baby isn't innocent. He contains original sin, and thus will be thrown into Hell if he isn't baptized.
I guess aborting him is a really bad thing to do, beyond just the "murder" concept. Yaweh-the-good-and-kind will heave him into a lake of molten lava, where the baby will lie in indescribable agony for all eternity.
Before you flamebait me, it's your religious concept, not mine. Read my.sig.
Let's also not forget that "information wants to be free" in the same sense as "candy bars in the local stop-and-go store down the street from the grade school want to be free".
The observation of the information moving, thus appearing to "want to be free" is actually movement as people take it without paying.
2) As someone brighter than you pointed out, "information wants to be free" is intended in the poetic sense of "water wants to flow downhill."
3) As well over a dozen posts have pointed out, "it ends a life" is meant as "it ends an innocent life" by those in favor of it.
I should hasten to point out, though, that the Old Testament is loaded with Israelites putting Canaanites or whoever to the sword after conquering a local village -- every man, woman, and child. So "innocence" is not a valid defense as to preserving a person's life, according to the Bible.
Sure, but there's also the point that only execution can properly express society's revulsion at murder.
Redeemable or not.
I am pro-abortion and pro-death penalty. I am concerned about innocent getting executed, as well as apparent lack of equality when applied to different races. But I do support the core concept.
Troll aside, your observation of "Diversity" is incorrect. It is a politically palatable chimira for crypto-affirmative action.
Once affirmative action started taking on a taint thanks to racism (suddenly it's wrong -- so very wrong! to bypass a mildly more competent white guy for a black guy, nevermind that white guys didn't care about black discrimination for decades) those promoting minorities needed a new argument. Hence diversity is a New God to be kneeled to. We wave our hands, kowtow to the importance of Diversity, and all the while the little man behind the curtain is good old-fashioned affirmative action.
> Surely there are better examples of censorship among Republicans.
Than covering a boob on a famous statue? Shirley, you jest. It seems to describe everything wrong with censorship and exposes small-mindedness and the evil hardcore Christians have in their hearts. By hardcore Christians, I mean those who would impose their will on us, rather than turn the other cheek.
> When have men in power ever cared > about "leveling the sexual playing field?"
Exactly. They get theirs because they have money and power. Cynical, but true. And they get power leading the common yokels on cruscades, and sadly sex is one of them.
> I particularly dis-like Christianity for this > reason. In Christianity, all you have to do is > accept Jesus as your personal savoiur,
No, that's TV preachers and whatnot. Catholicism, which is still 75% of all Christians or more, still expects good works out of you. Presumably most other denominations do, too.
After all, did not Jesus say a bad tree cannot bear fruit, but a good tree cannot fail to bear fruit?
He forgot to mention that the game was confused. Was the goal a traditional RTS, or were you supposed to use your monster all the time? I think about level 2 I couldn't progress any further as the glowy edge of my area was butting against others, and I could not figure out how to do more forward progress. Put it back on the shelf, cursed that I also had bought the expansion pack, and moved on with life.
By the way, I also got the giant sheep, so I'm not completely dense about the game.
...and thus the US retires to elder statesman status. Which is to say, it passes tons of socialist laws and ceases to produce anything useful to future development, as Europe did before it.
I guess Chinese language will be the first to the stars after all.
the crux of the problem is that most games don't reward roleplaying. in fact, roleplaying means you are gimping yourself, since you aren't killing monsters, getting loot and progressing the storyline.
I agree with you except the last phrase, "progressing the storyline." It doesn't really progress because of your actions (with a few exceptions noted later.)
In City of Heroes, I just stopped the Council from releasing a warehouse full of Superadine, the drug that makes street thugs into low-level supervillians.
Ok, fine.
Now tell me that there was one single spawn point anywhere out in the main city of trolls or outcast or bonecrushers anywhere that disappeared, even temporarily. One spawnpoint that even reduced the rate of spawn, even temporarily.
Hello? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
Yes, the company will move the story along, slowly, to coincide with major publishes and/or expansion packs, in one-time events. But the only "player-led" change I can recall was in Star Wars Galaxies where each server would get/prevent the Rebels from getting one minor power depending on who won control of the most cities for the most days for a particular month or two.
And, though it isn't roleplaying technically, the most exciting thing, invasions, are sorely lacking from MMORPG's. Too many whiners that it's messing up their plans to group with their friends and camp orcs somewhere. SHIT, GOOFBALLS, THERE'S AN INVASION!
But spare me City of Heroes style invasion, which are just temporary spawn points of new monsters. I wanna see the possible loss of control of safety of a whole city area, not just a 2-week long temporary camp spot.
> You know... role playing. Acting out a > character isn't really fun for most folks > unless there are other people around doing the > same.
In 3 years of playing Everquest, I met precisely one paladin who refused to group with necromancers.
And the only real roleplayers I ever saw were the first 6 months or so being an ogre -- everyone who played an ogre role played. It wasn't too hard, just type like you're dumb, but it was there and it worked.
When I retired that ogre, he was level 19, and almost had a full set of banded armor -- minus one wrist -- and was dual wielding Minotaur axes. That's how long ago it was.
> Also have decay present, so the longer you go > without picking up that sword, you lose your skill.
I loathe decay of skills systems. I worked for it -- it isn't "fun" to lose it because some buffoon game designer sees the need for a "drawback".
If you have a skills-based system, I'd much rather see a Star Wars Galaxies method where you consciously give up this or that skill rather than have to practice skills you want to keep constantly like you're some idiot chimpanzee jumping thru hoops. No thanks!
And this all assumes skills-based systems solve the "tank mage" issue. Note that D&D, technically class-based, is effectively skills-based now, with crap like Fighter-to-level-4-then-Barbarian-rest-of-the-way characters who can use full armor but get the 12 hp per level bonus of a barbarian. And we won't even get into the idiotic high level thief "use anything" skill.:(
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> You can no more prove Creationism is fiction
> than I can prove it is non-fiction
The burden of proof is on the claimant. And once someone tries to prove creationism, they fail miserably. Nipples for men, etc. that evolution explains fine but creationism must throw up its hands and say "we just don't know the purpose yet."
> You cannot prove God doesn't exist
I no more need to prove this then I need to prove purple unicorns don't exist. The burden is on the claimant.
Hint: Religion has been shoved into the philosophical corner where "believing without proof" has transmogrified into "God cannot be proven because he wants you to believe without proof." I think logic has done it's job with God, thanks.
> but you're absolutely, totally, unalterably sure he doesn't,
Even if God existed, I would not worship it since He sits there while children are raped to death.
> though you cannot prove God does not exist and did not create the universe.
Who created God? You aren't just using the string of letters G-o-d as a synonym for "we have no idea how it got created", are you?
I do not scoff at beliefs, but I don't hide from asking embarassing questions, either.
My favorite cliche that can't happen too many times:
Female customer: Do you have this in a 4?
Female clothing store employee: Yes, here you go.
Female customer: Where are the changing rooms.
Female clothing store employee: Right over here (leads her past racks.)
Female customer: Thank you. (enters changing room)
Female clothing store employee: Here, let me help you. (pulls curtain closed -- behind her.)
Female customer: Oh! (mouth opens, then they both turn, one behind the other, and look in the mirror. Music with a heavy beat starts...)
Perhaps the ultimate example of stealth in a game that shouldn't have it was the recent Hulk game associated with the movie. Playing as Banner was like...
:) Er, three times. Pluse other times when you had no option to be a Jedi at all.
like...
like being forced to not be a Jedi for the first half of a Star Wars game.
Which was done -- twice in a row.
Woo
hoo
Technically the baby isn't innocent. He contains original sin, and thus will be thrown into Hell if he isn't baptized.
.sig.
I guess aborting him is a really bad thing to do, beyond just the "murder" concept. Yaweh-the-good-and-kind will heave him into a lake of molten lava, where the baby will lie in indescribable agony for all eternity.
Before you flamebait me, it's your religious concept, not mine. Read my
Let's also not forget that "information wants to be free" in the same sense as "candy bars in the local stop-and-go store down the street from the grade school want to be free".
The observation of the information moving, thus appearing to "want to be free" is actually movement as people take it without paying.
Ignoring your ignorance:
2) As someone brighter than you pointed out, "information wants to be free" is intended in the poetic sense of "water wants to flow downhill."
3) As well over a dozen posts have pointed out, "it ends a life" is meant as "it ends an innocent life" by those in favor of it.
I should hasten to point out, though, that the Old Testament is loaded with Israelites putting Canaanites or whoever to the sword after conquering a local village -- every man, woman, and child. So "innocence" is not a valid defense as to preserving a person's life, according to the Bible.
Them's there a fancy word for bein' neurotic.
Neurotic: Holding two contradictory ideas as true at the same time.
Psychotic: Having a complete break with reality.
Sure, but there's also the point that only execution can properly express society's revulsion at murder.
Redeemable or not.
I am pro-abortion and pro-death penalty. I am concerned about innocent getting executed, as well as apparent lack of equality when applied to different races. But I do support the core concept.
Troll aside, your observation of "Diversity" is incorrect. It is a politically palatable chimira for crypto-affirmative action.
Once affirmative action started taking on a taint thanks to racism (suddenly it's wrong -- so very wrong! to bypass a mildly more competent white guy for a black guy, nevermind that white guys didn't care about black discrimination for decades) those promoting minorities needed a new argument. Hence diversity is a New God to be kneeled to. We wave our hands, kowtow to the importance of Diversity, and all the while the little man behind the curtain is good old-fashioned affirmative action.
Politics: The sport of buffoons.
> Surely there are better examples of censorship among Republicans.
Than covering a boob on a famous statue? Shirley, you jest. It seems to describe everything wrong with censorship and exposes small-mindedness and the evil hardcore Christians have in their hearts. By hardcore Christians, I mean those who would impose their will on us, rather than turn the other cheek.
> When have men in power ever cared
> about "leveling the sexual playing field?"
Exactly. They get theirs because they have money and power. Cynical, but true. And they get power leading the common yokels on cruscades, and sadly sex is one of them.
> I particularly dis-like Christianity for this
> reason. In Christianity, all you have to do is
> accept Jesus as your personal savoiur,
No, that's TV preachers and whatnot. Catholicism, which is still 75% of all Christians or more, still expects good works out of you. Presumably most other denominations do, too.
After all, did not Jesus say a bad tree cannot bear fruit, but a good tree cannot fail to bear fruit?
And now, The International Star^H^H^H^HPlanet Registry will let you name your own planet in our very own solar system!
Just send $19,999.95 to Impy the Impiuos Imp c/o PayPal, and you can name a planet after your loved one!
The name will be resigtered in book form in the U.S. Copyright Office, so you'll know it's true!
And god knows how many more years it would have been in there had Hot Coffee not shown up.
Presumably all games labeled "nudity" and "strong sexual content" will also be labeled "informational".
Ah, yessss...Leisure Suit Larry was very informational!
Telling a store it can't sell a game with porn in it to children is awful, make no doubt about it.
And, of course, forcing stores to do this IS making parents make a conscious decision as to whether the child should have this or not.
If a kid's lookin' fer a lil' extra on a P2P network, I don't think GTA is the first thing on his list to download.
Suggest: search for "oil" + "all-girl"
He forgot to mention that the game was confused. Was the goal a traditional RTS, or were you supposed to use your monster all the time? I think about level 2 I couldn't progress any further as the glowy edge of my area was butting against others, and I could not figure out how to do more forward progress. Put it back on the shelf, cursed that I also had bought the expansion pack, and moved on with life.
By the way, I also got the giant sheep, so I'm not completely dense about the game.
...and thus the US retires to elder statesman status. Which is to say, it passes tons of socialist laws and ceases to produce anything useful to future development, as Europe did before it.
I guess Chinese language will be the first to the stars after all.
> "A company cannot be allowed to profit from deceit."
What about politicians?
I agree with you except the last phrase, "progressing the storyline." It doesn't really progress because of your actions (with a few exceptions noted later.)
In City of Heroes, I just stopped the Council from releasing a warehouse full of Superadine, the drug that makes street thugs into low-level supervillians.
Ok, fine.
Now tell me that there was one single spawn point anywhere out in the main city of trolls or outcast or bonecrushers anywhere that disappeared, even temporarily. One spawnpoint that even reduced the rate of spawn, even temporarily.
Hello? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
Yes, the company will move the story along, slowly, to coincide with major publishes and/or expansion packs, in one-time events. But the only "player-led" change I can recall was in Star Wars Galaxies where each server would get/prevent the Rebels from getting one minor power depending on who won control of the most cities for the most days for a particular month or two.
And, though it isn't roleplaying technically, the most exciting thing, invasions, are sorely lacking from MMORPG's. Too many whiners that it's messing up their plans to group with their friends and camp orcs somewhere. SHIT, GOOFBALLS, THERE'S AN INVASION!
But spare me City of Heroes style invasion, which are just temporary spawn points of new monsters. I wanna see the possible loss of control of safety of a whole city area, not just a 2-week long temporary camp spot.
> You know... role playing. Acting out a
> character isn't really fun for most folks
> unless there are other people around doing the
> same.
In 3 years of playing Everquest, I met precisely one paladin who refused to group with necromancers.
And the only real roleplayers I ever saw were the first 6 months or so being an ogre -- everyone who played an ogre role played. It wasn't too hard, just type like you're dumb, but it was there and it worked.
When I retired that ogre, he was level 19, and almost had a full set of banded armor -- minus one wrist -- and was dual wielding Minotaur axes. That's how long ago it was.
McChicken McBiscuit Chicken McGristle, yeah, companies love to do that.
Presumably on the plane you weren't watching "Where the Boys Aren't, Vol. 37".
> Also have decay present, so the longer you go
:(
> without picking up that sword, you lose your skill.
I loathe decay of skills systems. I worked for it -- it isn't "fun" to lose it because some buffoon game designer sees the need for a "drawback".
If you have a skills-based system, I'd much rather see a Star Wars Galaxies method where you consciously give up this or that skill rather than have to practice skills you want to keep constantly like you're some idiot chimpanzee jumping thru hoops. No thanks!
And this all assumes skills-based systems solve the "tank mage" issue. Note that D&D, technically class-based, is effectively skills-based now, with crap like Fighter-to-level-4-then-Barbarian-rest-of-the-way characters who can use full armor but get the 12 hp per level bonus of a barbarian. And we won't even get into the idiotic high level thief "use anything" skill.