Jews For Jesus are not Christians. I have some friends who are Jews For Jesus. They believe Jesus was a real person, that he was horribly treated, but they don't believe he was the son of God and they don't follow him. I sure hope we can all agree that is a prerequisite to calling yourself a Christian. If you do believe Jesus was the son of God but you don't follow him, great, you've just ruled yourself out of both categories, you're not Jewish and you're not Christian.
And sex before marriage is bad because you can get pregnant or diseases. Along comes birth control and condoms (which are hundreds of years old) and yet religious people continue to keep these beliefs. It's the same thing. It happens not just in religion but any time people hold beliefs and forget the justification behind those beliefs. It happens in the MMORPG design community. Every one of these games has some feature in it that the designer picked up from the first online game they played which has no real purpose. It's there because they think about that first online game as an ideal because it is shouded in nostalgia for them and assume that anything that was good for that game is good for the game they are designing now. Nevermind the fact that times have changed.
I largely agree with you and it's precisely the point I was trying to make. Schools should be locally run things. I refer to "local government" as "the community" that's all.
Yep, and maybe you're Jewish and you don't believe in kosher. Or maybe you're Catholic but you don't believe the Pope is God's representative on Earth. i.e., maybe you're a big hypocrite.
The government is supposed to be run by the community. The will of the people is supposed to be imposed by the government, under the rules of the constitution. By setting up community groups without government control you are circumventing the protection provided by the constitution. Why would you want to do that?
How can you claim to be a Jewish Zionist if Zionism is against the principles of Judaism? Why not just claim to be a Jewish Christian? or a Jewish Pork-lover?
That is the term that was used in England in the 18th century for Roman Catholics. It was used during the English Reformation to indicate one who believed in Papal supremacy over the Anglican Church. Over time, as the political nature of the struggle between Protestants and Catholics became heated, it became a pejorative for Roman Catholics. Which is why it isn't used today. Zionism, on the other hand, is a perfectly acceptable term which refers to Jewish people who believe they should live seperated from others in their own nation. This is considered by many Jewish people to be contrary to the principles of Judaism.
Which is a good reason not to go to a private school and actually work to improve your public school system. Of course, exactly the opposite is happening as people have lost all concept of community.
Quick question. Why is it no-one ever calls Catholics "christians", but everyone calls Zionists "jewish". Sure, it's accurate to call a Catholic a Christian but by it's pretty inaccurate and insulting to all the other Christians who don't share the beliefs of Catholics.
Cause we still don't understand how the universe was formed. Astronomy is the pure research that drives the study of physics. We have no hope of developing a unified theory without further astronomical research. Want nuclear fusion? Want new sensors, or new materials? It all comes back to physics. Our fundamental understanding of the rules of the universe is what defines our capabilities. Similarly for particle accelerators and other pure research.
You think paint programs are hard to use? Try 3d modelling programs. Fuckin' impossible to make anything that looks remotely good without being a professional.
To build a Dyson sphere you would presumably need to be able to convert energy into matter. If you can do that then why would you ever throw any energy away? Superbeings can find a use for any amount of energy.. they're not going to piss it away into space so we can detect it.
Yeah, you monitor and review GMs actions and fire the ones that do a shit job. Besides which, who said anything about the GM having the ability to create new items? They could simply be supplying information to the user or selecting objects from a preapproved library and adding them to the world. Of course, then you could say that any interaction between a player and a GM is cheating as the GM (by definition) has intimate knowledge of the game. Great, yes, that's possible, but frankly, you've gotta balance what is "fair" with what makes money. If players want to pay your company for professional in-game "help" then you should supply it.
It would certainly be interesting, but I think we're getting away from current games pretty quickly. In any case, you're gunna need some cool voice modification software so every NPC your GM is puppetting doesn't sound alike. In which case your argument about accents is kinda mute.
I actually find MSPaint a million times easier to use than fuckin' Photoshop or The Gimp. If I make a screenshot under Windows I'll always use MSPaint to crop and scale it, erase unwanted details, edit at a pixel by pixel level, etc. What's truely funny is that MSPaint could be simpler. For example, when you scale an image in MSPaint you have to enter a percentage of the current image size instead of being able to just enter the number of pixels you want it to be.
Shya. Maybe as an "elder game" but frankly, as a player I want someone I am paying to be my GM.. that way they are doing their job and I don't have to worry about their entertainment as well as mine.
Yes, you would need a power system like fusion to be actually able to do it.. but you can't call it a "waste". If you need to get to Mars in 48 hours you need to use that much energy. To do it with chemical rockets would require a lot more fuel than a skyscraper could hold.
And how many of those players want to pay $25/hr for a GM? Frankly, if you can make that kind of money off a player you can afford to set up a few thousand terminals in India and train that many GMs.
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Jews For Jesus are not Christians. I have some friends who are Jews For Jesus. They believe Jesus was a real person, that he was horribly treated, but they don't believe he was the son of God and they don't follow him. I sure hope we can all agree that is a prerequisite to calling yourself a Christian. If you do believe Jesus was the son of God but you don't follow him, great, you've just ruled yourself out of both categories, you're not Jewish and you're not Christian.
And sex before marriage is bad because you can get pregnant or diseases. Along comes birth control and condoms (which are hundreds of years old) and yet religious people continue to keep these beliefs. It's the same thing. It happens not just in religion but any time people hold beliefs and forget the justification behind those beliefs. It happens in the MMORPG design community. Every one of these games has some feature in it that the designer picked up from the first online game they played which has no real purpose. It's there because they think about that first online game as an ideal because it is shouded in nostalgia for them and assume that anything that was good for that game is good for the game they are designing now. Nevermind the fact that times have changed.
I largely agree with you and it's precisely the point I was trying to make. Schools should be locally run things. I refer to "local government" as "the community" that's all.
How about I just call you a cocksmoker? Would that be ok?
Uhhh, no, that would be Mike, the guy who owns biodome.org.. as it says, on the page, at biodome.org.
Yep, and maybe you're Jewish and you don't believe in kosher. Or maybe you're Catholic but you don't believe the Pope is God's representative on Earth. i.e., maybe you're a big hypocrite.
The government is supposed to be run by the community. The will of the people is supposed to be imposed by the government, under the rules of the constitution. By setting up community groups without government control you are circumventing the protection provided by the constitution. Why would you want to do that?
That's cause you're a pussy. Seriously. Grow a spine.
What's wrong with eating pork? It's just superstitious bullshit.
How can you claim to be a Jewish Zionist if Zionism is against the principles of Judaism? Why not just claim to be a Jewish Christian? or a Jewish Pork-lover?
That is the term that was used in England in the 18th century for Roman Catholics. It was used during the English Reformation to indicate one who believed in Papal supremacy over the Anglican Church. Over time, as the political nature of the struggle between Protestants and Catholics became heated, it became a pejorative for Roman Catholics. Which is why it isn't used today. Zionism, on the other hand, is a perfectly acceptable term which refers to Jewish people who believe they should live seperated from others in their own nation. This is considered by many Jewish people to be contrary to the principles of Judaism.
Which is a good reason not to go to a private school and actually work to improve your public school system. Of course, exactly the opposite is happening as people have lost all concept of community.
Quick question. Why is it no-one ever calls Catholics "christians", but everyone calls Zionists "jewish". Sure, it's accurate to call a Catholic a Christian but by it's pretty inaccurate and insulting to all the other Christians who don't share the beliefs of Catholics.
Cause we still don't understand how the universe was formed. Astronomy is the pure research that drives the study of physics. We have no hope of developing a unified theory without further astronomical research. Want nuclear fusion? Want new sensors, or new materials? It all comes back to physics. Our fundamental understanding of the rules of the universe is what defines our capabilities. Similarly for particle accelerators and other pure research.
You think paint programs are hard to use? Try 3d modelling programs. Fuckin' impossible to make anything that looks remotely good without being a professional.
To build a Dyson sphere you would presumably need to be able to convert energy into matter. If you can do that then why would you ever throw any energy away? Superbeings can find a use for any amount of energy.. they're not going to piss it away into space so we can detect it.
Yeah, you monitor and review GMs actions and fire the ones that do a shit job. Besides which, who said anything about the GM having the ability to create new items? They could simply be supplying information to the user or selecting objects from a preapproved library and adding them to the world. Of course, then you could say that any interaction between a player and a GM is cheating as the GM (by definition) has intimate knowledge of the game. Great, yes, that's possible, but frankly, you've gotta balance what is "fair" with what makes money. If players want to pay your company for professional in-game "help" then you should supply it.
It would certainly be interesting, but I think we're getting away from current games pretty quickly. In any case, you're gunna need some cool voice modification software so every NPC your GM is puppetting doesn't sound alike. In which case your argument about accents is kinda mute.
I actually find MSPaint a million times easier to use than fuckin' Photoshop or The Gimp. If I make a screenshot under Windows I'll always use MSPaint to crop and scale it, erase unwanted details, edit at a pixel by pixel level, etc. What's truely funny is that MSPaint could be simpler. For example, when you scale an image in MSPaint you have to enter a percentage of the current image size instead of being able to just enter the number of pixels you want it to be.
Ya know, the unix philosophy suggests that each of these tasks should be a seperate tool.
Shya. Maybe as an "elder game" but frankly, as a player I want someone I am paying to be my GM.. that way they are doing their job and I don't have to worry about their entertainment as well as mine.
Mostly Men Online Role-Playing Girls.
You must be living in some different universe to the rest of us where MMORPGs actually include speech.
Yes, you would need a power system like fusion to be actually able to do it.. but you can't call it a "waste". If you need to get to Mars in 48 hours you need to use that much energy. To do it with chemical rockets would require a lot more fuel than a skyscraper could hold.
And how many of those players want to pay $25/hr for a GM? Frankly, if you can make that kind of money off a player you can afford to set up a few thousand terminals in India and train that many GMs.