Why don't you say the same thing about Muslims and Buddhists? Afraid they might blow you up or sit on you?
Ah, I believe this is called "fatwa envy", gotta love it. Do you wish you had the guts/stupidity/mental imbalancement to be able to become violent to someone that has simply said things against something that you believe in? That's only mildly less concerning than the people that actually do.
There's a Christian pastor close to where I live that just issued a challenge to his congregation, for all the married couples to have sex every day for a week. Another a couple of hours drive away recently issued a similar challenge, but it was ever day for a month.
I bet you'd never expect that from a Christian, would you. Especially a Christian leader
Wait, what? Christian leaders attempting to take control or dictate terms of their congregations sexual lifestyle? This is exactly what we'd expect of them. Exactly. This holds absolutely no suprise, and I'm confused as to how you could possibly parade it as a positive point at all.
But you won't do that, because you'd rather not even have any information that conflicts with what you believe.
This was basically the point he was trying to make. And as most people know, the easiest way to become and athiest is to actually look into religions as see what they believe and what they are about. If that doesn't work then it's only for a overabundance of I... just... I don't know... GHFJZZ&^%$!$!ZZZZ####ERROR CODE#542-HYPOCRISY_GAUGE_OVERLOAD - PLEASE REBOOT SYSTEM
Take for instance, the hypothetical game "Bert and Ernie's Fucking Amazing Adventure!" where characters perform no violent actions at all and there is no sexual content in the game. The only catch is that every other word is the foulest profanity known to man. The game will probably be rated 'M' simply due to the language content, but being completely devoid of sexual or violent content, it's still fine for a child to play assuming you don't care if they pick up any fowl language.
So which is it, they swear all the time or Ernie won't shut up about his fucking rubber ducky.
Be careful, anyone that finds that disturbing is almost certainly likely to also be included in the definition of an unreasonable. The true danger will come when it's finally allowable to pass laws against unreasonable adults. In the mean time they'll have to make do with attempts to enforce everyone to be a reasonable adult.
that they
offend against the standards of morality,
decency and propriety generally accepted by
reasonable adults
Holy shit talk about a completely all-encompassing and subjective ruling. Did you cut out the phrase BELIEVE IN JESUS at the end of that or are we simply to assume it? Although on the other hand such a generic phrasing might allow for a fair bit of wiggle room. That quickly becomes a discussion on just what exactly is a reasonable adults take on such things. Just thinking out loud, you know, for when I realise I can't afford my own lawyer.
This isn't the first time I've read this. Is this the actual truth?
I ask the question seriously, no "err, just for a friend" jokes here. Is normal good-old hardcore porn actually illegal here? Or are we talking the more fetish-type stuff?
I don't completely understand how that is the case, because I've seen the contents of more than one XXX store and they definitely aren't selling Disney movies. And from the front covers of some of the magazines it's not even like they are edited versions of actual hardcore movies.
Can someone provide links to this as fact, or is this just more Family First dreaming?
And yes, it's clearly not the case in the nation's captial.
If there is one bit of pure entertainment to come from the whole piracy thing, it's the completely broken logic. At some point in time someone will say, or at least imply, that because someone can't afford it, it's okay for them to illegally duplicate it. Basically, if you can't afford everything, you pick and choose what you can afford, and then you're simply justified in copying the rest. If I have to explain the error in that logic any further then I'm not sure I can.
I find it quite hard to not get frustrated over peoples attitude to piracy. Everyone copies stuff, but not everyone talks about it as their it's the Cthuhlu-given right. And that's the most irritating part, and it's actually all I get really pissy about. People talk about piracy as though it's completely acceptable to pirate something with no intention of ever purchasing it, they even talk about it as though it's a 'cool' thing to do (at least mainly the kids on say, gamefaqs), and that inevitably leads onto the sort of logic I previously suggested.
This next part is my personal experience, and it doesn't appear to be as prevalent in online discussion, but the next stage is massive hypocrisy. I tend to discover, in most peoples cases, that while they are happy to copy games, they can't believe that anyone would copy music and not support the artists, or they will purchase all their music and stare at you blankly when you try and explain how you buy all your games for the same reason that they buy all their music. Are game companies too faceless? I personally know that I will have a bias towards specific devs and in some cases specific publishers (for their acceptance of smaller niche devs or genres), but even then I don't know much about the actual people involved as much as I do the name or logo.
You can't have a 'different attitude' to piracy, you either respect that people deserve to be paid for their efforts, or you think it's okay to take a copy without supporting the person responsible. If you can't afford it, you don't get it, welcome to Economics 101
And then the best part is that stupid companies decide that the solution is horribly restrictive DRM or painfully intrusive copy protection methods, and then the whole vicious circle starts again because suddenly THAT becomes the new validation for piracy. The circle had to start somewhere, and it didn't start with people DRM'ing things for no reason. Also, things have gotten so bad with piracy and sales expectations, and it's now become natural for publishers to assume that sales figures that don't meet forecasts are basically down to piracy. Yay for the beggining of the downward spiral that will eventually lead to nothing ever being sold, only licensed under DRM, and only available through specific players/servers that will become obsolete just in time for you to have to pay for the newest one to be able to listen to the same stuff you thought you already owned. It's already happening now.
Also, I get more sulky about this stuff because it's major impact is PC gaming. FPS's move to console, RTS's move to console (don't come back), and RPG's move to console and need 2 gigs worth of mods to be playable because the console version tends to assume you're too retarded to deal with anything more complex than PRESS HERE TO QUICK TRAVEL TO YOUR NEXT LOCATION FOR FREE.
There was no point to this post, I'm just venting, and in a nice co-incidence a friend of mine had told me this morning that I shouldn't "get my knickers in a knot over just because someone has a different attitude to piracy than you do. Not everyone has our level of disposable income so they will rank the personal value of the item being pirated differently." And that set me off. So I'm happy to throw myself at the altar of the karma gods just to vent my spleen.
I thought they were a local outfit, so it's very interesting to see the extent of their reach.
You seriously thought it was local, and honestly didn't expect that they were simply working out where you were and putting that name in? If it's such a slow news period, then I patiently await the next/. article that discusses investigations into your naivety.
the calibration images were 'nominal.' That's NASA-speak for 'fine and dandy
It also sounds so much better when spoken by a sultry female computer, normally just after your Jade Falcon TimberWolf as touched down on a hostile alien world.
Hubble speaks in a sultry female voice, right, right?
Meaning the quality control they were looking for was basically a straight up copy of Renegade with 2008 armies. When that didn't happen, it's cancel country.
Also, I'm depressed because I can't find more real life gamers. Each time I change jobs or someone else gets employed where I'm working I always casually ask about if they have an interest in games (being that I work in IT I'd hoped it was more common than I'm finding), and more often than not the answer is that they don't have any.
So yeah I'm depressed, but only because I feel like my entertainment pasttime/hobby/whatever is repeatedly singled out like we're some sort group of freaks, and that it's basically completely acceptable in a social environment to look down upon people that play games, and then when I do find someone that 'is into' games, that simply tends to mean that they are a huge fanboy of one particular console producer in particular.
I was actually under the impression that everyone disliked the way that Sin Episodes implemented this because the game did degenerate into quickload fest because the enemies got so hard if you went really well in the beginning. I'm certain there was a lot of gnashing of teeth etc at the fact that the game would present you with a brick wall diffculty wise if you went too well early on.
I know that I personally found this to be the case; playing it on Hard I got to the point where I had to save after every combat because I had to learn exactly where everyone was coming from in the next combat otherwise I would inevitably and repeatedly get killed. In the end I re-started the game on Normal, and frustratingly enough completely breezed through it with limited challenge.
I knew there was another game that had good AI and I couldn't think of the damn name. I don't even think FEAR had any of those dodgy Far Cry holes in the AI that were easily exploited, at least not as far as I can remember.
Also, it's interesting to note that my OP score is steadily moving down again after reaching (as far as I saw) 4 before the Halo fanboys with mod points got a hold of it. As expected.
Has there ever been a first person shooter for where the difficulty level isn't simply an indication of how close you want your enemies to aimbots?
I can easily think of the negative extremes, such as Soldier of Fortune 2, with the infamous jungle level, and my own personal experiences with being shot through thick jungle, repeatedly having grenades land perfectly at my feet from enemies that haven't even seen me yet, and training a sniper scope onto the back of an enemies head at maximum range, only to have him suddenly turn around and go sneaking towards me. And Call of Duty, where increased difficulty was just the games way of asking exactly what percentage of the entire opposition army you wanted to face at once.
I appreciate that Halo tends to take a beating every time it's put forward as a paragon of game design and gaming in general and that the Halo fanboys with mod points will destroy me, but seriously, one of the gripes is with the claim that Halo's AI is somehow fitting of the Legendary title on it's hardest difficulty, when anyone playing the game sans rose-colored glasses has trouble not noticing that the enemies now simply fire faster, harder and lead perfectly.
"It's not like we just cranked every enemy's health by 200% and called it Legendary," he said. "There was a good amount of custom changes made per mission as well...[snip]... What did make a difference was the time spent tweaking and fixing issues to make the game fun on every difficulty level. All titles had more bad guys, stronger and more accurate enemies with faster projectiles. And they used similar numbers for each of these parameters."
So in other words they made the enemies fire faster, harder and lead better. Thanks for clearing that up.
On the plus side, Far Cry's AI was reasonable, but had noticable holes, such as when it somehow thought it was hidden yet you could clearly see it sneaking towards you down an open dirt track, seemingly with an "If I can't see him then he can't see me" attitude. And if I remember correctly it improved further in Crysis. Although the thing that seems to happen with games like that is as soon as you claim that the AI is brilliant any single example of the AI not working flawlessly has people uploading videos to youtube showing that the AI is completely garbage because of this one time it got stuck on that shark outside the hut or something.
Are there any really decent examples of FPS AI or do we have to still be happy with running the Reaper Bot in Quake?
I've actually had the chance to test this exact theory in a simulation and discovered that, yes, it is possible for a Tireme to make it's way across vast oceans, but the chance of it sinking per turn is incredibly high.
Although once you get to the other side it's likely you'll simply be killed by babarians anyway.
Finally a thread in which I can bitch about these fucking stupid game prices in Australia. It's off topic from the main article but I don't care anymore.
I keep making the mistake of going to local game stores like EB or JB HiFi and am constantly reminded of why I might as well just so all my game shopping online.
Problem is that sometimes I want games quicker than a weeks shipping. But seriously, we really do get asked to tolerate some utter fucking bullshit. When a game is cheaper even after you include shipping you know that something is very wrong with this setup.
The War3 BC ripoff isn't just limited to your local store, or EB. At JB it was $30 in a sale for a couple of weeks at JB, now it's gone back up to $70 at some stores. Burnout Paradise was $60 for a while, and I went down to finally pick it up over the weekend and it has gone back up to $100. The Art of Fighting Anthology on PS2 was released at $50 locally. I picked it up for $20 online, shipping was $10.
People always assume that when I mention I got my PS2 and Xbox consoles modded it's because I want to pirate endlessly, and I have to explain that I have, at last count, 120 original PS2 games in my collection, and I would suggest that at least 80 of these are NTSC, and that the $250 I spent on the modding process paid itself years ago with the money I saved being able to purchase games from online stores. Same goes for the Xbox.
And this is also why it eternally shits me that the 360 isn't region free. Not just because I can't play Culdcept Saga or Raiden Fighters Aces, but because I have to pick and choose the region free 360 titles and pay a stupid fucking "prettiest beaches tax" or whatever Yahtzee called it just to play them. I DON'T EVEN GO TO FUCKING BEACHES. And then when I do pay a premium, the game is Too Human and it fucking blows.
Okay, that was cathartic, although ultimately pointless. At least I feel better. Now I'm just going to go quickly call ramirez a stupid dickhead and then get back to work.
I propose that it's merely incorrect interpretation of the articles language.
All cows face in random directions, north, south, north north west, another cows butt, etc etc.
But, like pictures of people naked in windows and coming out of porn stores, Google Earth has managed to take photos of not often occuring events, such as cows raising their hooves and pointing.
Everyone is just confused by the language employed. A cow facing west has no trouble pointing north. Bendy at the knees, you see.
Back in my day, we didn't have no stinkin compass to help us find our way to school, which was often 15 miles away through rugged countryside. Nope, back in my day we each dun had a cow in our backpack that we pulled out and threw up in the air. Darn thing always would land on the ground facin north. Never did understand what why that happened, no siree, but it dun always worked.
Conserving heat by standing still together is one thing, but a lesser known fact is that by also huddling together while actually moving they also converse moomentum.
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Why don't you say the same thing about Muslims and Buddhists? Afraid they might blow you up or sit on you?
... just ... I don't know ... GHFJZZ&^%$!$!ZZZZ####ERROR CODE#542-HYPOCRISY_GAUGE_OVERLOAD - PLEASE REBOOT SYSTEM
Ah, I believe this is called "fatwa envy", gotta love it. Do you wish you had the guts/stupidity/mental imbalancement to be able to become violent to someone that has simply said things against something that you believe in? That's only mildly less concerning than the people that actually do.
There's a Christian pastor close to where I live that just issued a challenge to his congregation, for all the married couples to have sex every day for a week. Another a couple of hours drive away recently issued a similar challenge, but it was ever day for a month.
I bet you'd never expect that from a Christian, would you. Especially a Christian leader
Wait, what? Christian leaders attempting to take control or dictate terms of their congregations sexual lifestyle? This is exactly what we'd expect of them. Exactly. This holds absolutely no suprise, and I'm confused as to how you could possibly parade it as a positive point at all.
But you won't do that, because you'd rather not even have any information that conflicts with what you believe.
This was basically the point he was trying to make. And as most people know, the easiest way to become and athiest is to actually look into religions as see what they believe and what they are about. If that doesn't work then it's only for a overabundance of I
Take for instance, the hypothetical game "Bert and Ernie's Fucking Amazing Adventure!" where characters perform no violent actions at all and there is no sexual content in the game. The only catch is that every other word is the foulest profanity known to man. The game will probably be rated 'M' simply due to the language content, but being completely devoid of sexual or violent content, it's still fine for a child to play assuming you don't care if they pick up any fowl language.
So which is it, they swear all the time or Ernie won't shut up about his fucking rubber ducky.
Be careful, anyone that finds that disturbing is almost certainly likely to also be included in the definition of an unreasonable. The true danger will come when it's finally allowable to pass laws against unreasonable adults. In the mean time they'll have to make do with attempts to enforce everyone to be a reasonable adult.
[/tinfoilhat] (I hope)
that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults
Holy shit talk about a completely all-encompassing and subjective ruling. Did you cut out the phrase BELIEVE IN JESUS at the end of that or are we simply to assume it? Although on the other hand such a generic phrasing might allow for a fair bit of wiggle room. That quickly becomes a discussion on just what exactly is a reasonable adults take on such things. Just thinking out loud, you know, for when I realise I can't afford my own lawyer.
This isn't the first time I've read this. Is this the actual truth?
I ask the question seriously, no "err, just for a friend" jokes here. Is normal good-old hardcore porn actually illegal here? Or are we talking the more fetish-type stuff?
I don't completely understand how that is the case, because I've seen the contents of more than one XXX store and they definitely aren't selling Disney movies. And from the front covers of some of the magazines it's not even like they are edited versions of actual hardcore movies.
Can someone provide links to this as fact, or is this just more Family First dreaming?
And yes, it's clearly not the case in the nation's captial.
... and it had to enter the loop at some point.
If there is one bit of pure entertainment to come from the whole piracy thing, it's the completely broken logic. At some point in time someone will say, or at least imply, that because someone can't afford it, it's okay for them to illegally duplicate it. Basically, if you can't afford everything, you pick and choose what you can afford, and then you're simply justified in copying the rest. If I have to explain the error in that logic any further then I'm not sure I can.
I find it quite hard to not get frustrated over peoples attitude to piracy. Everyone copies stuff, but not everyone talks about it as their it's the Cthuhlu-given right. And that's the most irritating part, and it's actually all I get really pissy about. People talk about piracy as though it's completely acceptable to pirate something with no intention of ever purchasing it, they even talk about it as though it's a 'cool' thing to do (at least mainly the kids on say, gamefaqs), and that inevitably leads onto the sort of logic I previously suggested.
This next part is my personal experience, and it doesn't appear to be as prevalent in online discussion, but the next stage is massive hypocrisy. I tend to discover, in most peoples cases, that while they are happy to copy games, they can't believe that anyone would copy music and not support the artists, or they will purchase all their music and stare at you blankly when you try and explain how you buy all your games for the same reason that they buy all their music. Are game companies too faceless? I personally know that I will have a bias towards specific devs and in some cases specific publishers (for their acceptance of smaller niche devs or genres), but even then I don't know much about the actual people involved as much as I do the name or logo.
You can't have a 'different attitude' to piracy, you either respect that people deserve to be paid for their efforts, or you think it's okay to take a copy without supporting the person responsible. If you can't afford it, you don't get it, welcome to Economics 101
And then the best part is that stupid companies decide that the solution is horribly restrictive DRM or painfully intrusive copy protection methods, and then the whole vicious circle starts again because suddenly THAT becomes the new validation for piracy. The circle had to start somewhere, and it didn't start with people DRM'ing things for no reason. Also, things have gotten so bad with piracy and sales expectations, and it's now become natural for publishers to assume that sales figures that don't meet forecasts are basically down to piracy. Yay for the beggining of the downward spiral that will eventually lead to nothing ever being sold, only licensed under DRM, and only available through specific players/servers that will become obsolete just in time for you to have to pay for the newest one to be able to listen to the same stuff you thought you already owned. It's already happening now.
Also, I get more sulky about this stuff because it's major impact is PC gaming. FPS's move to console, RTS's move to console (don't come back), and RPG's move to console and need 2 gigs worth of mods to be playable because the console version tends to assume you're too retarded to deal with anything more complex than PRESS HERE TO QUICK TRAVEL TO YOUR NEXT LOCATION FOR FREE.
There was no point to this post, I'm just venting, and in a nice co-incidence a friend of mine had told me this morning that I shouldn't "get my knickers in a knot over just because someone has a different attitude to piracy than you do. Not everyone has our level of disposable income so they will rank the personal value of the item being pirated differently." And that set me off. So I'm happy to throw myself at the altar of the karma gods just to vent my spleen.
I thought they were a local outfit, so it's very interesting to see the extent of their reach.
/. article that discusses investigations into your naivety.
You seriously thought it was local, and honestly didn't expect that they were simply working out where you were and putting that name in? If it's such a slow news period, then I patiently await the next
You can actually predict the weather by these particles. Everytime they get together with one another, it rains.
This had better mean that the Australian govts retarded internet filter will filter out Trolls as well.
the calibration images were 'nominal.' That's NASA-speak for 'fine and dandy
It also sounds so much better when spoken by a sultry female computer, normally just after your Jade Falcon TimberWolf as touched down on a hostile alien world.
Hubble speaks in a sultry female voice, right, right?
Meaning the quality control they were looking for was basically a straight up copy of Renegade with 2008 armies. When that didn't happen, it's cancel country.
I'm gonna be featured on CSI:MIAMI ... w00t!
Also, I'm depressed because I can't find more real life gamers. Each time I change jobs or someone else gets employed where I'm working I always casually ask about if they have an interest in games (being that I work in IT I'd hoped it was more common than I'm finding), and more often than not the answer is that they don't have any.
So yeah I'm depressed, but only because I feel like my entertainment pasttime/hobby/whatever is repeatedly singled out like we're some sort group of freaks, and that it's basically completely acceptable in a social environment to look down upon people that play games, and then when I do find someone that 'is into' games, that simply tends to mean that they are a huge fanboy of one particular console producer in particular.
I was actually under the impression that everyone disliked the way that Sin Episodes implemented this because the game did degenerate into quickload fest because the enemies got so hard if you went really well in the beginning. I'm certain there was a lot of gnashing of teeth etc at the fact that the game would present you with a brick wall diffculty wise if you went too well early on.
I know that I personally found this to be the case; playing it on Hard I got to the point where I had to save after every combat because I had to learn exactly where everyone was coming from in the next combat otherwise I would inevitably and repeatedly get killed. In the end I re-started the game on Normal, and frustratingly enough completely breezed through it with limited challenge.
I knew there was another game that had good AI and I couldn't think of the damn name. I don't even think FEAR had any of those dodgy Far Cry holes in the AI that were easily exploited, at least not as far as I can remember.
Also, it's interesting to note that my OP score is steadily moving down again after reaching (as far as I saw) 4 before the Halo fanboys with mod points got a hold of it. As expected.
Has there ever been a first person shooter for where the difficulty level isn't simply an indication of how close you want your enemies to aimbots?
I can easily think of the negative extremes, such as Soldier of Fortune 2, with the infamous jungle level, and my own personal experiences with being shot through thick jungle, repeatedly having grenades land perfectly at my feet from enemies that haven't even seen me yet, and training a sniper scope onto the back of an enemies head at maximum range, only to have him suddenly turn around and go sneaking towards me. And Call of Duty, where increased difficulty was just the games way of asking exactly what percentage of the entire opposition army you wanted to face at once.
I appreciate that Halo tends to take a beating every time it's put forward as a paragon of game design and gaming in general and that the Halo fanboys with mod points will destroy me, but seriously, one of the gripes is with the claim that Halo's AI is somehow fitting of the Legendary title on it's hardest difficulty, when anyone playing the game sans rose-colored glasses has trouble not noticing that the enemies now simply fire faster, harder and lead perfectly.
"It's not like we just cranked every enemy's health by 200% and called it Legendary," he said. "There was a good amount of custom changes made per mission as well ...[snip]... What did make a difference was the time spent tweaking and fixing issues to make the game fun on every difficulty level. All titles had more bad guys, stronger and more accurate enemies with faster projectiles. And they used similar numbers for each of these parameters."
So in other words they made the enemies fire faster, harder and lead better. Thanks for clearing that up.
On the plus side, Far Cry's AI was reasonable, but had noticable holes, such as when it somehow thought it was hidden yet you could clearly see it sneaking towards you down an open dirt track, seemingly with an "If I can't see him then he can't see me" attitude. And if I remember correctly it improved further in Crysis. Although the thing that seems to happen with games like that is as soon as you claim that the AI is brilliant any single example of the AI not working flawlessly has people uploading videos to youtube showing that the AI is completely garbage because of this one time it got stuck on that shark outside the hut or something.
Are there any really decent examples of FPS AI or do we have to still be happy with running the Reaper Bot in Quake?
... so can someone please create a idalsolikeapony tag and place it on this please.
Ponies don't just fall out of the sky you know.
Only space stations do that.
And even then only after getting some "help".
Not that we're, you know, considering that at all.
I've actually had the chance to test this exact theory in a simulation and discovered that, yes, it is possible for a Tireme to make it's way across vast oceans, but the chance of it sinking per turn is incredibly high.
Although once you get to the other side it's likely you'll simply be killed by babarians anyway.
I blame lack of sleep.
All the rest of us were blaming the fact that you're obviously a stupid dickhead.
Finally a thread in which I can bitch about these fucking stupid game prices in Australia. It's off topic from the main article but I don't care anymore.
I keep making the mistake of going to local game stores like EB or JB HiFi and am constantly reminded of why I might as well just so all my game shopping online.
Problem is that sometimes I want games quicker than a weeks shipping. But seriously, we really do get asked to tolerate some utter fucking bullshit. When a game is cheaper even after you include shipping you know that something is very wrong with this setup.
The War3 BC ripoff isn't just limited to your local store, or EB. At JB it was $30 in a sale for a couple of weeks at JB, now it's gone back up to $70 at some stores. Burnout Paradise was $60 for a while, and I went down to finally pick it up over the weekend and it has gone back up to $100. The Art of Fighting Anthology on PS2 was released at $50 locally. I picked it up for $20 online, shipping was $10.
People always assume that when I mention I got my PS2 and Xbox consoles modded it's because I want to pirate endlessly, and I have to explain that I have, at last count, 120 original PS2 games in my collection, and I would suggest that at least 80 of these are NTSC, and that the $250 I spent on the modding process paid itself years ago with the money I saved being able to purchase games from online stores. Same goes for the Xbox.
And this is also why it eternally shits me that the 360 isn't region free. Not just because I can't play Culdcept Saga or Raiden Fighters Aces, but because I have to pick and choose the region free 360 titles and pay a stupid fucking "prettiest beaches tax" or whatever Yahtzee called it just to play them. I DON'T EVEN GO TO FUCKING BEACHES. And then when I do pay a premium, the game is Too Human and it fucking blows.
Okay, that was cathartic, although ultimately pointless. At least I feel better. Now I'm just going to go quickly call ramirez a stupid dickhead and then get back to work.
I propose that it's merely incorrect interpretation of the articles language.
All cows face in random directions, north, south, north north west, another cows butt, etc etc.
But, like pictures of people naked in windows and coming out of porn stores, Google Earth has managed to take photos of not often occuring events, such as cows raising their hooves and pointing.
Everyone is just confused by the language employed. A cow facing west has no trouble pointing north. Bendy at the knees, you see.
Back in my day, we didn't have no stinkin compass to help us find our way to school, which was often 15 miles away through rugged countryside. Nope, back in my day we each dun had a cow in our backpack that we pulled out and threw up in the air. Darn thing always would land on the ground facin north. Never did understand what why that happened, no siree, but it dun always worked.
Don't confuse the issue here, this is about hard science, not your beliefs.
Conserving heat by standing still together is one thing, but a lesser known fact is that by also huddling together while actually moving they also converse moomentum.
And it's less popular sequel, Starboardhole
Yeah, I've got nothin'