I wasn't making an exhaustive list, just mentioning two in which the eventual outcome is the same no matter what you do. (Defcon and Darwinia are made by the same people, incidentally.) Another game I have always considered artistic is tranquility.
So now it's come to this--the Hollywood Perpetual Copyright Party vs. the Petroleum Industry Party. Except the Petroleum Industry Party also wants perpetual copyrights for Hollywood, both parties want to prop up the farm industry, and for all we know, the Hollywood Perpetual Copyright Party will end up helping out the oil industry as an added bonus (or a bone-us to the common people).
The US got where it is today because people did pack up their bags and left their country to solve their problems. Maybe a good brain drain will start to motivate a solution.
Whereas you are quite happy to assume everyone that lives in a developing nation is corrupt, evil and not worthy of a chance at a better life.
No, just their dictators and politicians. And who isn't to say these countries aren't impoverished specifically because of corruption, and not the other way around? In reality, it may be a feedback cycle--corruption leads to further poverty, and poverty leads to further corruption. But as North Korea has proven to us over and over again, simply sending aid to a corrupt regime fixes nothing and strengthens the regime.
Missile Command. You can't escape your fate, and that makes it all the more ghoulish. Defcon. You can at best change the magnitude of the global nuclear holocaust, but you can't avert it. Both of these are poignant and, dare I say, artistic games.
Is that why Slashdot's banner ads are for tech employers, tech employment services (Dice), and IT services? It seems like Slashdot is a great place for targeted advertising to professionals.
Well, if you're the type that can think of putting access to/etc/passwd into, say, an object that's destroyed just before dropping root, then you can probably think of a way to prevent yourself from calling dangling pointers too.
Can you do both at the same time, while dealing with dozens of other headaches? Do you really want to? There's something to be said for reducing the programmer's mental workload so he can more efficiently think about the problem he's supposed to solve. Of course, making it more difficult does make it easier for more talented programmers to find work since less talented programmers would be forced out of the profession...
But even restraining the guy that punched you would require some level of violence, and if you have to knock his teeth out in the process that's unfortunate but effective. Violence (and maximum violence) aren't panaceas, but they aren't totally useless, either.
Well, more people would be dead, so in that respect the situation would be worse. On the other hand, the main difference between WWII and Iraq in this respect is that in WWII, we had completely broken the will of the German and Japanese people.
The criteria here is not morality--it's effectiveness. And this canard that violence isn't effective is just pure bullshit. Violence can be effective in a very permanent and complete way. We often shrink away from it for reasons of morality (something I am fully in support of), but violence is only ineffective when you fail to provide enough of it. Which is a good reason not to go to war (i.e. Iraq) unless you have no other choice.
Except in Iraq, there wasn't *enough* swift, brutal killing to get the job done. (Not that I favor swift, brutal killing--just that it goes to show how much is really necessary for war to accomplish anything.)
Emails are private, so nobody can see how many hot chicks are emailing you all the time. That's boring! Walls prove to everyone just how popular you are.
That's hardly a counterargument, there are just as many people who hate their own race as there are people who hate other races--and if I grew up seeing Africa in the state it's in now, I would probably have a low opinion of its people as well. But your original remark is still just plain idiotic, and I have no desire to concede anything otherwise. Africa had thriving civilizations when my ancestors were freezing to death in the woods of Germany and North America. At the time it was my ancestors' bad luck to be that far from home. Things have neatly reversed themselves for now, but nothing is permanent.
"Acquired immunodeficiency" is a perfectly good term. "AIDS", or "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome", is a specific form of acquired immunodeficiency, specifically that caused by HIV. Please return to third grade and review the difference between common and proper nouns.
Racist? Where did you get the notion that there is only one race in Africa? Africa is a very diverse continent, just like Asia, with hundreds of races...
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Pathways and Marathon took place in the same universe, which is arguably connected to the universe of Halo.
No, he would just nationalize the servers.
It's even a self-fulfilling prediction, because Intel doesn't want to break Moore's Law.
Heroin is less time-consuming.
To the exact opposite of the Catholic Church, I'd imagine.
I wasn't making an exhaustive list, just mentioning two in which the eventual outcome is the same no matter what you do. (Defcon and Darwinia are made by the same people, incidentally.) Another game I have always considered artistic is tranquility.
So now it's come to this--the Hollywood Perpetual Copyright Party vs. the Petroleum Industry Party. Except the Petroleum Industry Party also wants perpetual copyrights for Hollywood, both parties want to prop up the farm industry, and for all we know, the Hollywood Perpetual Copyright Party will end up helping out the oil industry as an added bonus (or a bone-us to the common people).
The US got where it is today because people did pack up their bags and left their country to solve their problems. Maybe a good brain drain will start to motivate a solution.
No, just their dictators and politicians. And who isn't to say these countries aren't impoverished specifically because of corruption, and not the other way around? In reality, it may be a feedback cycle--corruption leads to further poverty, and poverty leads to further corruption. But as North Korea has proven to us over and over again, simply sending aid to a corrupt regime fixes nothing and strengthens the regime.
Missile Command. You can't escape your fate, and that makes it all the more ghoulish. Defcon. You can at best change the magnitude of the global nuclear holocaust, but you can't avert it. Both of these are poignant and, dare I say, artistic games.
Is that why Slashdot's banner ads are for tech employers, tech employment services (Dice), and IT services? It seems like Slashdot is a great place for targeted advertising to professionals.
Can you do both at the same time, while dealing with dozens of other headaches? Do you really want to? There's something to be said for reducing the programmer's mental workload so he can more efficiently think about the problem he's supposed to solve. Of course, making it more difficult does make it easier for more talented programmers to find work since less talented programmers would be forced out of the profession...
But even restraining the guy that punched you would require some level of violence, and if you have to knock his teeth out in the process that's unfortunate but effective. Violence (and maximum violence) aren't panaceas, but they aren't totally useless, either.
No way is Fox News going to do that. That's Al Gore's strategy!
Well, more people would be dead, so in that respect the situation would be worse. On the other hand, the main difference between WWII and Iraq in this respect is that in WWII, we had completely broken the will of the German and Japanese people.
The criteria here is not morality--it's effectiveness. And this canard that violence isn't effective is just pure bullshit. Violence can be effective in a very permanent and complete way. We often shrink away from it for reasons of morality (something I am fully in support of), but violence is only ineffective when you fail to provide enough of it. Which is a good reason not to go to war (i.e. Iraq) unless you have no other choice.
That would have actually been effective as well. Not moral, but effective.
Except in Iraq, there wasn't *enough* swift, brutal killing to get the job done. (Not that I favor swift, brutal killing--just that it goes to show how much is really necessary for war to accomplish anything.)
Emails are private, so nobody can see how many hot chicks are emailing you all the time. That's boring! Walls prove to everyone just how popular you are.
Which is why World War II, with all its terror bombings, nuclear weapons, and civilian deaths, failed to provide lasting peace to Europe and Japan.
Dumbledore is a Cylon?
Is the Pope Catholic?
That's hardly a counterargument, there are just as many people who hate their own race as there are people who hate other races--and if I grew up seeing Africa in the state it's in now, I would probably have a low opinion of its people as well. But your original remark is still just plain idiotic, and I have no desire to concede anything otherwise. Africa had thriving civilizations when my ancestors were freezing to death in the woods of Germany and North America. At the time it was my ancestors' bad luck to be that far from home. Things have neatly reversed themselves for now, but nothing is permanent.
"Acquired immunodeficiency" is a perfectly good term. "AIDS", or "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome", is a specific form of acquired immunodeficiency, specifically that caused by HIV. Please return to third grade and review the difference between common and proper nouns.
Is it useful to distinguish sore throat caused by strep from sore throat caused by the flu?
...and you're bigoted against them all.