I'd suggest that the primary drive is to mate, not necessarily with many different people.
Although... most animals (not all) do tend to have lots of 'partners' in life. Maybe the emotional response that is most advanced in humans overrides (for some folks) the need to 'spread the seed' everywhere, if they have a satisfactory mate?
Men/boys (your main game demographics historically) like to look at attractive women. There is nothing wrong with this, it is a natural response.
Men do not have to stop acting like men just because a few women (I say "few" because I most women I know are OK with guys looking at girls, as long as it's not overt and rude) take offense. I say, let 'em make games w/beefy guys as the characters, if the female market will bear it.
Suppressing biological drives is tough... attempting to suppress the most important drive is a futile exercise.
Well... I've played a lot of shooters, and I've fired a lot of guns. The mechanics of course are completely different. It may be true that a game involving guns might interest someone in them, but the folks who say that the games "teach the kid to shoot" are off their rocker.
I live in LA, full of gang tags... shortly after picking up GTA:SA, I noticed a purple tag on an overpass... first thought? "Fucking ballas... where's my paint?"
Maybe I'm becoming an old fogey (at 28?) but it seems to me that kids in the age range where they were playing realistic driving games before driving are nuts. Following too close, diving in an out of traffic, etc.
Not that my generation didn't have games (pole position and rad racer are less than realistic, tho). Not that we are all good drivers... but I seem to see a LOT more 20 year olds driving like it's the daytona 500 than I used to.
I'm with ya on that this is overkill, but the laser IS a threat to the air crew.
Have you ever been hit squarely in the eyes w/a laser pointer? I have, at a small concert (some jerk on the other side of the stage was shining it across and kept hitting me). It is temporarily blinding. I didn't expect it the first time and all I knew was that my world went bright red and I was disoriented, almost fell.
It is NOT a pleasant experience, and I'd hate to have it happen while driving, much less flying.
Taken to an extreme: There is a new prisoner control tech that is basically a super-laser flashlight (green in this case) that overwhelms the senses and makes the prisoner fall down. Not nice, but better than a baton.
Was the guy lighting up the plane to guide a missle? No. Did the pilot know if someone was attempting to blind him? No. Did the pilot know if a laser sighted pistol was being aimed at him? No.
The last 2 are reasonable assumptions, and reason enough to consider the plane in danger.
The guy was stupid and doesn't deserve to lose 1/2 his life for this stunt, but he did a dangerous and threatening thing and should be punished.
Doing it again to the police chopper? That was just dumb.
Eh, concensus is overrated. I was intrigued by the statement that "everyone knows it's wrong to steal), methinks the poster was falling prey to a common fallacy: thinking everyone believes what they (the poster) do.
right and wrong become rather interesting concepts for lack of a definer of morality:)
1) They weren't refusing service, they were attempting to police what people buy. 2) I clearly said I wasn't beligerant. Confusing disagreement with agression is a dangerous mental path to walk down. 3) A cash transaction isn't a contract, of course kids can buy things.
There's a difference between what private businesses attempt, and the LAW.
Years ago I read (sorry, can't remember the source) that while Clarke invented the 'black dot' in 1968, humans (actually Voyager 1 or 2) didn't discover it for a few more years.
I had a cashier pull this about a year ago (I'm 28) and I refused. I was nice about it, but mentioned that there was no law against a minor buying it (a profane comedy dvd), nor did she have the legal authority to stop anyone from purchasing it.
This wasn't an attack, it was an unstoppable and unpredictable event. Yes, it's sad. No, it's not an ongoing threat nor can we do anything about it (except send food and hope for the best)
So far as I can see (and I live in CA, Earthquake country), the media is covering this quite a bit... But it's not incredibly important to someone on the other side of the world.
Incidently, several thousand people starved to death today, more died in accidents, civil wars and from disease. Why no outrage over the poor media coverage for these?
I actually encountered the IPU fairly recently. I haven't been a usenet reader on anything like a regular basis in years. The IPU has a number of websites dedicated to her equine excellence.
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Not necessarily... it might be a wooden witch...
Wine
Is
Not (an)
Emulator!
I'd suggest that the primary drive is to mate, not necessarily with many different people.
Although... most animals (not all) do tend to have lots of 'partners' in life. Maybe the emotional response that is most advanced in humans overrides (for some folks) the need to 'spread the seed' everywhere, if they have a satisfactory mate?
Men/boys (your main game demographics historically) like to look at attractive women. There is nothing wrong with this, it is a natural response.
Men do not have to stop acting like men just because a few women (I say "few" because I most women I know are OK with guys looking at girls, as long as it's not overt and rude) take offense. I say, let 'em make games w/beefy guys as the characters, if the female market will bear it.
Suppressing biological drives is tough... attempting to suppress the most important drive is a futile exercise.
Well... I've played a lot of shooters, and I've fired a lot of guns. The mechanics of course are completely different. It may be true that a game involving guns might interest someone in them, but the folks who say that the games "teach the kid to shoot" are off their rocker.
I live in LA, full of gang tags... shortly after picking up GTA:SA, I noticed a purple tag on an overpass... first thought? "Fucking ballas... where's my paint?"
Maybe I'm becoming an old fogey (at 28?) but it seems to me that kids in the age range where they were playing realistic driving games before driving are nuts. Following too close, diving in an out of traffic, etc.
Not that my generation didn't have games (pole position and rad racer are less than realistic, tho). Not that we are all good drivers... but I seem to see a LOT more 20 year olds driving like it's the daytona 500 than I used to.
Or maybe I'm just a fogey...
Linus initially wrote linux as an exercise in understanding a particular hardware architecture (80386?)... it appears to have gotten out of hand..
The Anthropic Principle?
I'm with ya on that this is overkill, but the laser IS a threat to the air crew.
Have you ever been hit squarely in the eyes w/a laser pointer? I have, at a small concert (some jerk on the other side of the stage was shining it across and kept hitting me). It is temporarily blinding. I didn't expect it the first time and all I knew was that my world went bright red and I was disoriented, almost fell.
It is NOT a pleasant experience, and I'd hate to have it happen while driving, much less flying.
Taken to an extreme: There is a new prisoner control tech that is basically a super-laser flashlight (green in this case) that overwhelms the senses and makes the prisoner fall down. Not nice, but better than a baton.
Was the guy lighting up the plane to guide a missle? No.
Did the pilot know if someone was attempting to blind him? No.
Did the pilot know if a laser sighted pistol was being aimed at him? No.
The last 2 are reasonable assumptions, and reason enough to consider the plane in danger.
The guy was stupid and doesn't deserve to lose 1/2 his life for this stunt, but he did a dangerous and threatening thing and should be punished.
Doing it again to the police chopper? That was just dumb.
If he asks - he will simply be given it.
You have more faith in the human animal than I do.
Eh, concensus is overrated. I was intrigued by the statement that "everyone knows it's wrong to steal), methinks the poster was falling prey to a common fallacy: thinking everyone believes what they (the poster) do.
:)
right and wrong become rather interesting concepts for lack of a definer of morality
Why is it wrong to steal? I'm curious.
Heh, speaking of beligerant...
Since you're clearly correct about everything (including my behavior in an incident that you did not witness), I'm not even gonna try to continue.
1) They weren't refusing service, they were attempting to police what people buy.
2) I clearly said I wasn't beligerant. Confusing disagreement with agression is a dangerous mental path to walk down.
3) A cash transaction isn't a contract, of course kids can buy things.
There's a difference between what private businesses attempt, and the LAW.
Years ago I read (sorry, can't remember the source) that while Clarke invented the 'black dot' in 1968, humans (actually Voyager 1 or 2) didn't discover it for a few more years.
Nifty, no?
I had a cashier pull this about a year ago (I'm 28) and I refused. I was nice about it, but mentioned that there was no law against a minor buying it (a profane comedy dvd), nor did she have the legal authority to stop anyone from purchasing it.
Poor thing didn't know what hit her...
Call me when they find a monolith...
Or some bucket, if you will...
I used to have a sticker that (sheerly because I was being nasty to tailgaters) said "Save the Planet, Kill Yourself"
Sure enough, I had a number of people complement me on my environmental awareness...
I haven't seen anything else on CNN in 2 days...
This wasn't an attack, it was an unstoppable and unpredictable event. Yes, it's sad. No, it's not an ongoing threat nor can we do anything about it (except send food and hope for the best)
So far as I can see (and I live in CA, Earthquake country), the media is covering this quite a bit... But it's not incredibly important to someone on the other side of the world.
Incidently, several thousand people starved to death today, more died in accidents, civil wars and from disease. Why no outrage over the poor media coverage for these?
I actually encountered the IPU fairly recently. I haven't been a usenet reader on anything like a regular basis in years. The IPU has a number of websites dedicated to her equine excellence.
Or devolution, as the case may be. Poor little Om:
Om: "May lighting strike you dead!"
Brutha: "Will that really happen???!!!"
Om: "No..."
Yep, and it's possible that an Invisible Pink Unicorn (mhhnbs) really created the world... so you'd better believe that too.
Go ahead, PROVE the IPU (pbuh) doesn't exist!
Ain't faith fun?
And that is all I have to say 'bout that.