Christians who judge others haven't read their Bibles.
Sounds like you're doing a little judgment of your own, doesn't it?
...I look at Jesus' words and actions as significant and the previous story before Him and insignificant in terms of how we live. In my opinion, when Jesus said "Judge not others" He meant it. Look. Way too many people make this misunderstanding. The passage says "Judge not, lest you also be judged" (or something to that effect, depending on your translation). It DOESN'T say, "never judge anything at all, ever." It says, watch yourself, because the same rod you use to measure others might come back and bite you in the ass one day (I'm reminded of some very famous televangelests).
In fact, just moments after Jesus instructs us to "judge not", he says:
Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces (Matt. 7:6).
Well, clearly, he didn't mean LITERAL dogs and swine. How would we know if they were dogs or swine if we didn't JUDGE the behavior of others? Clearly, we're supposed to make assessments of others based on their actions, and had you read your Bible, you'd know that's what Jesus meant.
I realize this seems off-topic, and I'll likely be modded down to oblivion, but as it IS a Christian group that's the subject of discussion here, I think this rebuttal is only fair. Flame on:)
This non-story is a little sensationalist on *both* sides.
First of all, the press release isn't bashing the Wii, or calling it "Satan's PORNtal" or anything like that. They even go as far as to point out that the Wii includes parental controls:
"Even though the Nintendo Wii has parental controls, parents don't see a need for them because they are unaware of the porn capabilities."
It looks like they're just using the Wii's popularity to push their agenda, that agenda being discussing the issue of porn with your kids -- a perfectly respectable goal. FTA:
So the solution lies in parents getting the facts and then talking to their children about expectations for online activity. Foster believes that, "Whether it is the home computer or these new gaming consoles, porn is easily accessible. The Wii is an amazing console and tons of fun but parents need good info on how to keep kids safe."
Encouraging parents to talk to kids about online behavior? That's a good thing. The Wii tie-in is nothing but marketing to attract parents.
Everything in a casino is engineered to encourage you to keep playing. From the obvious (as you said, huge jackpot signs, loud noises when someone wins) - to the not-so-obvious (carpets on the gaming floor are often intentionally ugly to encourage you to look up at the gaming). Have no noticed there are no clocks *anywhere*? That is, except for the computers. If I'm playing blackjack, which I do once or twice a year, I try to grab a 3rd base seat near a computer if I don't have a watch or phone on me.
Some places even have huge fish tanks as you're exiting, some would say to calm you down after a big loss so you're more likely to come back.
Yeah, I was just being kind of snarky 'cause it seemed like the reviewer thought this was something completely novel with BC.
Exiting directly after beating a dungeon boss seems logical to me, but I grew up with Zelda. Doesn't it just seem lazy when game devs make you walk out of a dungeon, fighting mobs, for added (artificial) challenge?
To make the process of instancing even better, Blizzard has grouped the instances in each zone together as "wings" of increasing difficulty within a larger structure that has an overall theme.
Uh, you mean like the Scarlet Monastary? (That's pre BC for both of you who haven't played)
Yeah, between that and IntelliTXT, I pretty much gave up.
What if your hard drive decides to enter the Elysian Fields in this very moment? Sure, you could simply get a new hard drive to substitute for the defective one with a quick run to your favorite hardware store. And with last night's backup you might even reconstruct your installation quickly. But what if you don't have a backup? We have experienced the truth to be more like this: many users don't even have a backup, or it simply is too old and thus useless for recovering any useful files at all. In case of real hard drive damage, only a professional data recovery specialist can help you - say bye-bye to your vacation savings!
You know what I'm sick of? Media companies that think they know what I'm going to like, or what's going to encourage me to buy stuff from them. Videos on YouTube, huh? Wow, way to stay on the edge there, BBC. I think the draw to YouTube is mostly from user-generated content. That's what makes it special. Granted, a good deal of that content is "clip from $SHOW that I thought was hilarious" -- good! Don't saturate me with all your comittee-selected video clips and ads at the beginning and end. Let the users decide.
[YouTube went from] a company making no money, to a company worth almost $2billion to Google
My first car -- which I still own and drove for more than 250k miles, is worth a lot to me. That doesn't mean it's making me money.
They shouldn't have any authority as to what goes on inside a student's home. In fact, they shouldn't have any authority what goes on outside of their campus.
Oh, but they do, at least in the US.
You can be visited by a truancy officer if your kid isn't at school, or is observed outside of school during school hours. Your child can be taken into state custody by CPS if they think something "isn't right". Families are often harassed for home schooling their children. Believe me, America's public school system is a huge, powerful, and very scary force.
If there were a +Sad modifier, I'd use it on your post. I understand what you're saying -- that blocking offensive communication on the Internet is pretty easy -- but I think you're discounting the effect of the harassment. If you've ever received a harassing phone call, you know what I mean; you can hang up easy enough, set a custom ringer to silent, but it's still kind of unnerving.
Does this mean there should be regulations? Eh. I don't think that's the logical conclusion. It just made me kind of sad to see your lack of empathy for that girl.
Educating these children with computers [...] would serve them to help areas in their country that *do* have starving people.
Oh, kind of like it works here in the US, huh? Seriously, ever since kids got computers, I haven't seen a single starving bum on the street. Praise technology!
Really, what in the world would make you think that?
But since Bush doesn't want to impact the profitability of this war[. ..]
Wait, do we hate Bush because he's spending too much money on the war, or because he didn't finance it enough to let the troops do their job? I'm so confused!
Action adventure games do involve a fair amount of item collecting and puzzle solving. But they also involve a lot of fighting, frequently repetitive fighting [...] It's all about action with some puzzles vs. all puzzles, all the time.
"All puzzles, all the time"? Sounds like Tetris to me; I wouldn't exactly call that an adventure game.
I think this depends heavily on the game. "Fighting" isn't a genre-defining element. Take WoW for example -- actually, KotOR works, too. There's a lot of fighting in those games, but it's not hack-and-slash so much as it is old-skool damage rolls. The cerebral qualifier you're talking about comes when you take the time to outfit your character to do the most damage you can (when it comes to combat) or up your skills (for quests, etc). In fact, now that I think about it a little more, those games are built around questing, where fighting is just the means to an end.
Anyway, my point is that the presence of a fighting element in a game isn't enough to define it in a genre.
So 11% of the movies were taped with a camcorder. Ok, fine. What happened after that? They had a whole 10 people download it before word got out it sucked horrendous road kill?
I understand your point, but I think the argument here is that we don't know what happened after the movie was taped, and we never will.
I particularly liked how Geist dug up the fact that the MPAA itself says that there have only been 179 movies recorded with a camcorder over the past three years out of the 1,400 that the Hollywood studios released."
You can't be serious. That's 11% of theatrical releases! Could you imagine if a retail store had an 11% shrink rate? (Hint for those unfamiliar with retail: 11% is head-rolling territory).
Look, I disagree with the RIAA as much as the next/.'er. But this statistic simply doesn't prove what the author was hoping to prove.
I know someone who finds the lyrics from fall out boy meaningful isnt someone i want to talk to.
They call kids like us vicious and carved out of stone
But for what we've become, we just feel more alone
Always weigh what I've got against what I left
So progress report: I am missing you to death
[Chorus: x2]
Douse yourself in cheap perfume it's
So fitting, so fitting of the way you are
You can't cover it up
Can't cover it up
On a related note, the common geek tendency to disparage everyone who doesn't have the same eXtreMely obscure/not-yet-trendy/running counter to current popular opinion taste in music as he/she does is very lamentable. Seriously, most people don't use their taste in music to define themselves, so judging people on that is very narrow-minded.
Agreed. This is why ask questions about likes: "So, what do you think of Brand New's new album?" or, "Are you a fan of Fall Out Boy?". Sometimes I'll work in a band reference and see if they pick up on it. Like recently while watching a friend of a friend play WoW, after he died and rez'd in the graveyard, "Hmm, so what's it feel like to be a ghost?" -- he gave me a blank stare.
Sometimes I'll just play music I like in my office and see who says they like it. At my previous job, there was a gal there who didn't listen to the same stuff as me -- I couldn't name a single band I liked that she had heard of, short of the classics (Tom Petty, CSN&Y, etc). So, I made her a mix CD after she asked to hear some of the stuff I liked. She turned out to be one of my best friends at that job, and we still stay in touch.
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Christians who judge others haven't read their Bibles.
Sounds like you're doing a little judgment of your own, doesn't it?
Look. Way too many people make this misunderstanding. The passage says "Judge not, lest you also be judged" (or something to that effect, depending on your translation). It DOESN'T say, "never judge anything at all, ever." It says, watch yourself, because the same rod you use to measure others might come back and bite you in the ass one day (I'm reminded of some very famous televangelests).
In fact, just moments after Jesus instructs us to "judge not", he says: Well, clearly, he didn't mean LITERAL dogs and swine. How would we know if they were dogs or swine if we didn't JUDGE the behavior of others? Clearly, we're supposed to make assessments of others based on their actions, and had you read your Bible, you'd know that's what Jesus meant.
I realize this seems off-topic, and I'll likely be modded down to oblivion, but as it IS a Christian group that's the subject of discussion here, I think this rebuttal is only fair. Flame on
Agreed, and the summary's characterization of the press release as a "smear campaign" is simply inflammatory flamebait.
Shame on you, editors.
First of all, the press release isn't bashing the Wii, or calling it "Satan's PORNtal" or anything like that. They even go as far as to point out that the Wii includes parental controls: It looks like they're just using the Wii's popularity to push their agenda, that agenda being discussing the issue of porn with your kids -- a perfectly respectable goal. FTA:Encouraging parents to talk to kids about online behavior? That's a good thing. The Wii tie-in is nothing but marketing to attract parents.
Everything in a casino is engineered to encourage you to keep playing. From the obvious (as you said, huge jackpot signs, loud noises when someone wins) - to the not-so-obvious (carpets on the gaming floor are often intentionally ugly to encourage you to look up at the gaming). Have no noticed there are no clocks *anywhere*? That is, except for the computers. If I'm playing blackjack, which I do once or twice a year, I try to grab a 3rd base seat near a computer if I don't have a watch or phone on me.
Some places even have huge fish tanks as you're exiting, some would say to calm you down after a big loss so you're more likely to come back.
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Yeah, I was just being kind of snarky 'cause it seemed like the reviewer thought this was something completely novel with BC.
Exiting directly after beating a dungeon boss seems logical to me, but I grew up with Zelda. Doesn't it just seem lazy when game devs make you walk out of a dungeon, fighting mobs, for added (artificial) challenge?
To make the process of instancing even better, Blizzard has grouped the instances in each zone together as "wings" of increasing difficulty within a larger structure that has an overall theme.
Uh, you mean like the Scarlet Monastary? (That's pre BC for both of you who haven't played)
You can be visited by a truancy officer if your kid isn't at school, or is observed outside of school during school hours. Your child can be taken into state custody by CPS if they think something "isn't right". Families are often harassed for home schooling their children. Believe me, America's public school system is a huge, powerful, and very scary force.
If there were a +Sad modifier, I'd use it on your post. I understand what you're saying -- that blocking offensive communication on the Internet is pretty easy -- but I think you're discounting the effect of the harassment. If you've ever received a harassing phone call, you know what I mean; you can hang up easy enough, set a custom ringer to silent, but it's still kind of unnerving.
Does this mean there should be regulations? Eh. I don't think that's the logical conclusion. It just made me kind of sad to see your lack of empathy for that girl.
hara kiri for the win!
Really, what in the world would make you think that?
Isn't this what robots.txt is for?
Wait, does this mean a Google product is out of beta? Stop the presses!!!
I think this depends heavily on the game. "Fighting" isn't a genre-defining element. Take WoW for example -- actually, KotOR works, too. There's a lot of fighting in those games, but it's not hack-and-slash so much as it is old-skool damage rolls. The cerebral qualifier you're talking about comes when you take the time to outfit your character to do the most damage you can (when it comes to combat) or up your skills (for quests, etc). In fact, now that I think about it a little more, those games are built around questing, where fighting is just the means to an end.
Anyway, my point is that the presence of a fighting element in a game isn't enough to define it in a genre.
Dude, my buddy's *apartment complex* in Berkeley had one like 3 years ago. What's this news about?
Look, I disagree with the RIAA as much as the next
Sometimes I'll just play music I like in my office and see who says they like it. At my previous job, there was a gal there who didn't listen to the same stuff as me -- I couldn't name a single band I liked that she had heard of, short of the classics (Tom Petty, CSN&Y, etc). So, I made her a mix CD after she asked to hear some of the stuff I liked. She turned out to be one of my best friends at that job, and we still stay in touch.
I know I am in the company of truly like-minded geeks when this comment not only exists, but is modded +5 Funny.