... jesus christ. What EA should maybe do is make deals with PC companies and create a PC platform specifically for games, and share the costs of hardware development and deployment all around... good luck on that though!
"Well, let's not forget Stalin, Hitler, Communist China, and others. Shining examples of people not controlled by "nutjob" religious ideas, eh?"
Let's just say if it was not for people killing weaker or inferior people, we would not be as smart or intelligent as we are today, that fact must be faced. That evolution performs a natural slow eugenics. While both atheists and christians accuse each other of "atrocities" if it wasn't for those "atrocities" many of us would not exist. History is more complicated then "oh you killed, so you are a bad person!" In this fucked up universe, we are pitted against one another for resources to survive and prosper, and I hope one day competition will be not be needed because technology and inferior minds will slowly and peacefully eliminated by having them die off or seen as mentally ill and therefore going in for personality reconditioning.
The will of man is nothing more then the will of glorified bacteria, feeding his feral hunger. I don't know about you but I've had enough of both atheists and christians and their stupidity, why not go and make real advances in science and technology and change the LANDSCAPE of human behaviour? That is the only fucking thing that will change thus god damn world for ffs.
"I'm not saying the SF series should be scrubbed down to a stupid level, I'm only curious to see what approach they take, assuming the current team has given the issue much thought."
Street fighter was a technical game, most of the best fighting games are technical games FFS... why would you want a game that required no skill? As far as I'm concerned after SF2, the addition of 50 different versions (hyper fighting, super street fighter, etc, etc) was the problem. They should have just done what good game developers do:
More of the same with better graphics and new characters. SF2 was such a tight game, it's a damn shame they lost the vision, after I saw SF2 the animated movie (the original), I was pumped that they could make another street fighter based off what they built up on the movie. I was very surprised that Streetfighter could be turned into a viable entertaining anime movie given the scarce and strange backgrounds of the characters and the nature of street fighter itself.
The Street fighter 2 formula was never broken to begin with, one of the real issues comes with hardcore mastery... and developer confusion in what to add (more moves? more characters? where do we go from here?). As a longtime player once you've mastered character moves and memorized AI patterns, the next incarnations have to up the cheezyness factor to deal with supreme SF2 mastery, after all SF2 is a 1 on 1 fighter... I think what should have been done is to do an Street fighter game with a tourney mode and a single player story node, after all after the SF2 anime movie, they could take it in many interesting directions in the tradition of a 2D side scrolling final fight (rendered in 3D or pseudo-2D/3D of course).
"Most households don't need a frigging TB of HDD space."
Just like how 640K of ram was "enough for everybody"... hmmm. Just like how supereme commander doesn't need 64-bit memory addressing... either way, the thing is we'll find ways to use it and the consumer is not the only customer of hard drive technology don't forget. The medical and scientific community need enormous amounts of storage for the volume of data that is being generated for research purposes.
I'm already filling up over 2 terabytes of hard disk space, so speak for yourself. I can store many more high resolution photos without having to burn them to disk. My photos that come off my camera are between 3MB each, and I take doubles or more of everything to make sure I have more then enough to choose from in case something didn't come out right.
"It's not *sorting* them, but at least *finding* things is the purpose of Spotlight in OS X. Seems like you don't really need to sort it, if you can easily find it wherever it is."
You obviously have never had a lot of stuff you need to archive and backup... sorting is absolutely necessary.
"No matter how much I add I always feel like I'm running out of space. I'm always shuffling around a couple hundred gigs here and a couple hundred gigs there to try to fit stuff in"
I think it's time for someone out there to make the next killer application! Auto-sorting program, with editable Wiki sorting templates one can download, so that everyone can pitch in on identifying files, labelling them (tags, etc), and then sorting them. The fact is we're dealing with enormous amounts of data that need to be sorted intelligently. I've had significant problems and I only have a terabyte or two of hard disk space (combined).
I've often wished there was an auto-sorting program in which you can mark or flag directories or files and it will automatically sort them intelligently without your intervention.
"The only sure way to help countries of the third world is for countries like the US to open up their subsidized markets. The corn market in the US for example is subsidized to an extent of almost 10 billion dollars in 2005!"
Subsidies are necessary, you're not thinking about how the world works. A country should never let a large proportion of it's food production all be outsourced. What happens in case of war or political/trade fallout? Yeah I thought so too. Whle free-market apologists will cry "protectionism" the US was BUILT by protectionists. They understood from gaining their independence that you need to have control over industries that are of strategic value in case of war/disagreement/embargo/etc.
His memory misfired, I hate anal retentive people. Just get a grip and read between the lines. Some peoples memories are not as good and there is no edit function on slashdot.
... seriously, it's way too early to speculate, we can have this conversation again sometime in the next year and a half. We have yet to see how the "casual" market will work out with the Wii, and not to mention what kind of success 3rd parties publishers will have on the Wii.
Yep, I knew it. These guys want to know everything, I can just imagine what kind of black-deals they can cut with major corporations for competitive advantage, using the data being fed by these satellites to determine patterns in human behaviour and using that for strategic investment. And that is only the tip of the iceberg...
Tinfoil hat you say? One only has to look at history, Alexander thought himself a god (or wanted to be one) and man is obsessed with improving his power to dominate and control both peaceful and hostile populaces, the truth of the matter is, why let the future happen to you when you can start to predict it, and thereby shape it?
That is what the power mongers of this world want, is some modicum of ability to guide and shape history in their favor. And if you were at the top, among competitors that may beat you to it... you'd want it too.
"As a starting point for research, I can't even say it's a good idea because things are stated as fact that are personal observation (anecdotes) or opinion, and that can quickly taint your view of whatever you are searching and lead you down a bad path."
Real "facts" have the same problem, go look at some old science textbooks, lots of stuff experts agree are "facts" are thrown out down the line or uncovered to be a complete farce. Just because wiki isn't always accurate, doesn't mean "genuine" facts from other sources is.
... for me is that, old games tend to get stale because you've played newer games. When I go back to Final fantasy 1 for instance for the NES, on console emulators (since NES is no more). I find myself wishing for the same game (same core gameplay) with enhancements to the story and whatnot. I feel that remakes should keep the core game but make the original crappy aspects BETTER, much of final fantasy 1's story is great in the sense of keeping you going from point a to point b, but it is a "skeleton", it's very basic and there to plug gameplay. But the art and atmosphere of the game is pretty awesome and would make for a great immersive world if some writer could add personality to the art style, and the music which had come together nicely for immersion. Not to mention I would love an updated version of four fiends and all the monsters from the original. The artwork was top notch and you can even see it through it's cheezy 8-bitness. The 2D final fantasies from the NES and SNES era have some of the best artists I have ever seen, bar none, for fantasy characters and monsters.
Next I really think some game remakes should be made by fans, especially when companies go defunct or they sit on top of a game property for too long. Gamers should have co-ownership of properties they INVESTED in, and are laying foul for a decade or more because I think if a company's new team is re-making a remake of a classic and do a piss poor job, if they botch the job fans will be right pissed.
I respectfully disagree. You are not watching the action from some physical and psychological distance. You are role-playing the character. You are being explicitly rewarded for the growing sadism of your kills.
Let me respectfully DISAGREE. Many horror movies are much worse then you will ever find in modern games, and to top it off most games havea cartoony bent and feel to them. Should we call the censorship police on bugs bunny and all the other violent cartoons for kids?
This reminds me of the "blood" in mortal combat and streetfighter controversy during the mid(?) 90's. The truth of the matter is "Physical and psychological distance", is you just BACKWARDS RATIONALIZING your position.
Go watch the saw 1, 2 or 3, it's people who watch and enjoy movies like that, that are sick motherfuckers. You will never find something on the level of SAW in a video game.
"I'd like to see an article that spells out in detail how we ended up with the Microsoft monoculture."
We ended up with a monoculture because computing is fucking hard. Period. I think that's the often overlooked factor in all this Windows Vs Linux Vs mac bullshit is that software development is complicated and slow because the tools themselves are not that good. Application compatability is paramount, the reason DOS died a long slow death was because of the widespread use of DOS applications everywhere (read: Games), a similar thing will begin to happen once we move to 64-bit memory spaces, Supreme Ccommander (a game) is practically is begging for 64-bit memory addressing and the removal of the 4GB addressing/ram limit now in current desktop PC's, and this is not counting the plethora of other non-gaming applications that would benefit (like databses, etc) from 64-bit addressing.
Look at how long it to get to the point where VM's are halfway decent, look how long it took to get to a point where we had a genuine 32-bit operating system that practically didn't crash (windows 2000 / XP) unless you happen to get poor hardware/drivers or bloat the sysem up too much with junk.
"Backwards compatibility is important, but mainly in the first six months to a year after a console launches"
Backwards compatability is more important then you think. As time moves forward the ability to play old games when one gets the nostalgic feeling 10 years down the line, really matters. The truth is the whole Console and arcade emulation community is built on saving and playing old games. I think sony is writing off backwards compatability pre-maturely because OLD GAMES will get discovered by NEW GAMERS (i.e. new people) new kids are constantly being born who have not played all the "oldbies" and there were a lot of old games from the PS2 generation I have never played myself as I didn't have the time. So when a person finally gets thetime (Retirement, vacation, whenever), backwards compatability comes into effect. Just because it's not used 100% of the time or often enough, doesn't mean it will NEVER be used.
Not to mention Nintendo did a lot right with the Wii and downloadable SNES and other games. If enough interest (sales) is generated, wouldn't it be awesome to have sequels to old 2D games and continue old franchises? I think so. It's too bad Nintendo only equipped the Wii with 512MB of flash, but in the future I think downloadables will be a lot bigger then they are currently.
Sony is getting the reason for backwards compatability all wrong in the first place, for library of games that you don't have access to that will eventually be emulated on PC's as time goes on. Don't do it now and someone will find a way later. I think what companies need to do is find a way to update and release old games... this is one of the problems unfortunately with making commercial games - you can't tape community creativity like say these guys:
"Quite the contrary, my experience has been geeks, true geeks who really know technology are the ones far more likely to shrug and take no money for helping someone with technology. That's not to say they're not willing to make a living at it... just that they're not ripoff artists. "
Not all of us geeks are nice, I used to work for a geek computer store when I was younger, and the guy there required me to lie to people to keep my job, and whenever some major compnonent of a computer was fried (Ram, motherboard, hard disk), he'd want me to tell them more was broken so he could sell more.
The truth is if people weren't so bloody fucking ignorant they wouldn't be taken advantage of, if you don't want to be taken advantage of, educate yourself or ask for someone you know who has the ability to screen for bullshit!
". However, given that the poles are due for a reversal, it's been assumed by people worldwide who know about such things that this means doom for most migratory birds."
The magnetic fields are not the only thing birds use to navigate. I wish the articles would not make it look like the only universally relied upon function to navigate.
Money is debt. Anyone who does not own thier own self-sustaining property (food, housing, etc) is in permanent debt to the people (familiy, industries, etc) who control the money supply.
Only once you get enough money to control a significant amount of passive profit generating assets does the nature of money change, by being able to control assets with higher capital flow then what you consume.
"Come to think of it, if people need parenting advice, they shouldn't be having kids. "
This is the stupidest thing I have EVER heard. Children have minds of their own, even if you are the best parent in the world. People are born with a law of being (ala goethe)
Goethe argued in his scientific works that a "formative impulse", which he said is operative in every organism, causes an organism to form itself according to its own distinct laws, and therefore rational laws or fiats could not be imposed at all from a higher, transcendent sphere; this placed him in direct opposition to those who attempted to form "enlightened" monarchies based on "rational" laws by, for example, Joseph II of Austria or, the subsequent Emperor of the French, Napoleon I.
"If you don't want to pay for the game but you steal it to play it anyway (or sell/distribute it illegally), then suck up the consequences."
Playing a game and NOT PAYING FOR IT is no different then NOT BUYING IT. The logic here is just brutally stupid. I pay for games I deem worthy of my money. Everything else who's quality isn't up to snuff gets doesn't deserve my money.
"In the end though, AI or actual intelligence is a very complex system. If the system says you're sad, you'd rather look into why you're sad and try changing things in your environment or actions."
Depression results from screwip up with someones emotional centers, this is not the ONLY pathways to depression I'm sure but... I've got quote a few things I've figured out on my own
A list of shit I've figured out:
1) One doesn't get enough sex or human contact 2) Poor social relationships 3) Overwork / Stress 4) Religious or societal indoctrination (i.e. how should I value myself? etc, many peoples psyche gets scarred in todays schools when they are young, or at home). 5) Over sensitive nervous system... i.e. anxious/fearful phenotype.
I am quite sure that Freud was onto something about supressed (or "repressed") desires and instincts, even if he didn't have the technology or time to figure it all out. I can tell you from experience that I had been with many women and when I found a woman that was like me my depression was lifted quite quickly if not immediately, I wish I could have paused those moments in time and analyze what my autonomic nervous systems were doing and releasing inside my body, I had never felt anything like I felt for this girl, and it wasn't simply "love", it was like she had healed a hole in my soul.
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... jesus christ. What EA should maybe do is make deals with PC companies and create a PC platform specifically for games, and share the costs of hardware development and deployment all around... good luck on that though!
"Well, let's not forget Stalin, Hitler, Communist China, and others. Shining examples of people not controlled by "nutjob" religious ideas, eh?"
Let's just say if it was not for people killing weaker or inferior people, we would not be as smart or intelligent as we are today, that fact must be faced. That evolution performs a natural slow eugenics. While both atheists and christians accuse each other of "atrocities" if it wasn't for those "atrocities" many of us would not exist. History is more complicated then "oh you killed, so you are a bad person!" In this fucked up universe, we are pitted against one another for resources to survive and prosper, and I hope one day competition will be not be needed because technology and inferior minds will slowly and peacefully eliminated by having them die off or seen as mentally ill and therefore going in for personality reconditioning.
The will of man is nothing more then the will of glorified bacteria, feeding his feral hunger. I don't know about you but I've had enough of both atheists and christians and their stupidity, why not go and make real advances in science and technology and change the LANDSCAPE of human behaviour? That is the only fucking thing that will change thus god damn world for ffs.
"I'm not saying the SF series should be scrubbed down to a stupid level, I'm only curious to see what approach they take, assuming the current team has given the issue much thought."
Street fighter was a technical game, most of the best fighting games are technical games FFS... why would you want a game that required no skill? As far as I'm concerned after SF2, the addition of 50 different versions (hyper fighting, super street fighter, etc, etc) was the problem. They should have just done what good game developers do:
More of the same with better graphics and new characters. SF2 was such a tight game, it's a damn shame they lost the vision, after I saw SF2 the animated movie (the original), I was pumped that they could make another street fighter based off what they built up on the movie. I was very surprised that Streetfighter could be turned into a viable entertaining anime movie given the scarce and strange backgrounds of the characters and the nature of street fighter itself.
The Street fighter 2 formula was never broken to begin with, one of the real issues comes with hardcore mastery... and developer confusion in what to add (more moves? more characters? where do we go from here?). As a longtime player once you've mastered character moves and memorized AI patterns, the next incarnations have to up the cheezyness factor to deal with supreme SF2 mastery, after all SF2 is a 1 on 1 fighter... I think what should have been done is to do an Street fighter game with a tourney mode and a single player story node, after all after the SF2 anime movie, they could take it in many interesting directions in the tradition of a 2D side scrolling final fight (rendered in 3D or pseudo-2D/3D of course).
"Google is starting to get closer and closer to that satirical picture where someone googles "Where are my Car Keys" and Google actually knows"
You're right, but it goes much deeper then that.... "If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him."--Voltaire
"Most households don't need a frigging TB of HDD space."
Just like how 640K of ram was "enough for everybody"... hmmm. Just like how supereme commander doesn't need 64-bit memory addressing... either way, the thing is we'll find ways to use it and the consumer is not the only customer of hard drive technology don't forget. The medical and scientific community need enormous amounts of storage for the volume of data that is being generated for research purposes.
I'm already filling up over 2 terabytes of hard disk space, so speak for yourself. I can store many more high resolution photos without having to burn them to disk. My photos that come off my camera are between 3MB each, and I take doubles or more of everything to make sure I have more then enough to choose from in case something didn't come out right.
"Look at what's available on any p2p net. People routinely botch file extensions, butcher track names, spell things incorrectly etc"
That's why you'd have configs on Wiki with moderation, and have a support forum, anyone who would f-ck with it would get banned.
"It's not *sorting* them, but at least *finding* things is the purpose of Spotlight in OS X. Seems like you don't really need to sort it, if you can easily find it wherever it is."
You obviously have never had a lot of stuff you need to archive and backup... sorting is absolutely necessary.
"No matter how much I add I always feel like I'm running out of space. I'm always shuffling around a couple hundred gigs here and a couple hundred gigs there to try to fit stuff in"
I think it's time for someone out there to make the next killer application! Auto-sorting program, with editable Wiki sorting templates one can download, so that everyone can pitch in on identifying files, labelling them (tags, etc), and then sorting them. The fact is we're dealing with enormous amounts of data that need to be sorted intelligently. I've had significant problems and I only have a terabyte or two of hard disk space (combined).
I've often wished there was an auto-sorting program in which you can mark or flag directories or files and it will automatically sort them intelligently without your intervention.
"The only sure way to help countries of the third world is for countries like the US to open up their subsidized markets. The corn market in the US for example is subsidized to an extent of almost 10 billion dollars in 2005!"
Subsidies are necessary, you're not thinking about how the world works. A country should never let a large proportion of it's food production all be outsourced. What happens in case of war or political/trade fallout? Yeah I thought so too. Whle free-market apologists will cry "protectionism" the US was BUILT by protectionists. They understood from gaining their independence that you need to have control over industries that are of strategic value in case of war/disagreement/embargo/etc.
His memory misfired, I hate anal retentive people. Just get a grip and read between the lines. Some peoples memories are not as good and there is no edit function on slashdot.
... seriously, it's way too early to speculate, we can have this conversation again sometime in the next year and a half. We have yet to see how the "casual" market will work out with the Wii, and not to mention what kind of success 3rd parties publishers will have on the Wii.
Yep, I knew it. These guys want to know everything, I can just imagine what kind of black-deals they can cut with major corporations for competitive advantage, using the data being fed by these satellites to determine patterns in human behaviour and using that for strategic investment. And that is only the tip of the iceberg...
Tinfoil hat you say? One only has to look at history, Alexander thought himself a god (or wanted to be one) and man is obsessed with improving his power to dominate and control both peaceful and hostile populaces, the truth of the matter is, why let the future happen to you when you can start to predict it, and thereby shape it?
That is what the power mongers of this world want, is some modicum of ability to guide and shape history in their favor. And if you were at the top, among competitors that may beat you to it... you'd want it too.
"As a starting point for research, I can't even say it's a good idea because things are stated as fact that are personal observation (anecdotes) or opinion, and that can quickly taint your view of whatever you are searching and lead you down a bad path."
Real "facts" have the same problem, go look at some old science textbooks, lots of stuff experts agree are "facts" are thrown out down the line or uncovered to be a complete farce. Just because wiki isn't always accurate, doesn't mean "genuine" facts from other sources is.
... for me is that, old games tend to get stale because you've played newer games. When I go back to Final fantasy 1 for instance for the NES, on console emulators (since NES is no more). I find myself wishing for the same game (same core gameplay) with enhancements to the story and whatnot. I feel that remakes should keep the core game but make the original crappy aspects BETTER, much of final fantasy 1's story is great in the sense of keeping you going from point a to point b, but it is a "skeleton", it's very basic and there to plug gameplay. But the art and atmosphere of the game is pretty awesome and would make for a great immersive world if some writer could add personality to the art style, and the music which had come together nicely for immersion. Not to mention I would love an updated version of four fiends and all the monsters from the original. The artwork was top notch and you can even see it through it's cheezy 8-bitness. The 2D final fantasies from the NES and SNES era have some of the best artists I have ever seen, bar none, for fantasy characters and monsters.
Next I really think some game remakes should be made by fans, especially when companies go defunct or they sit on top of a game property for too long. Gamers should have co-ownership of properties they INVESTED in, and are laying foul for a decade or more because I think if a company's new team is re-making a remake of a classic and do a piss poor job, if they botch the job fans will be right pissed.
I respectfully disagree. You are not watching the action from some physical and psychological distance. You are role-playing the character. You are being explicitly rewarded for the growing sadism of your kills.
Let me respectfully DISAGREE. Many horror movies are much worse then you will ever find in modern games, and to top it off most games havea cartoony bent and feel to them. Should we call the censorship police on bugs bunny and all the other violent cartoons for kids?
This reminds me of the "blood" in mortal combat and streetfighter controversy during the mid(?) 90's. The truth of the matter is "Physical and psychological distance", is you just BACKWARDS RATIONALIZING your position.
Go watch the saw 1, 2 or 3, it's people who watch and enjoy movies like that, that are sick motherfuckers. You will never find something on the level of SAW in a video game.
Saw 3
"I'd like to see an article that spells out in detail how we ended up with the Microsoft monoculture."
We ended up with a monoculture because computing is fucking hard. Period. I think that's the often overlooked factor in all this Windows Vs Linux Vs mac bullshit is that software development is complicated and slow because the tools themselves are not that good. Application compatability is paramount, the reason DOS died a long slow death was because of the widespread use of DOS applications everywhere (read: Games), a similar thing will begin to happen once we move to 64-bit memory spaces, Supreme Ccommander (a game) is practically is begging for 64-bit memory addressing and the removal of the 4GB addressing/ram limit now in current desktop PC's, and this is not counting the plethora of other non-gaming applications that would benefit (like databses, etc) from 64-bit addressing.
Look at how long it to get to the point where VM's are halfway decent, look how long it took to get to a point where we had a genuine 32-bit operating system that practically didn't crash (windows 2000 / XP) unless you happen to get poor hardware/drivers or bloat the sysem up too much with junk.
"Backwards compatibility is important, but mainly in the first six months to a year after a console launches"
Backwards compatability is more important then you think. As time moves forward the ability to play old games when one gets the nostalgic feeling 10 years down the line, really matters. The truth is the whole Console and arcade emulation community is built on saving and playing old games. I think sony is writing off backwards compatability pre-maturely because OLD GAMES will get discovered by NEW GAMERS (i.e. new people) new kids are constantly being born who have not played all the "oldbies" and there were a lot of old games from the PS2 generation I have never played myself as I didn't have the time. So when a person finally gets thetime (Retirement, vacation, whenever), backwards compatability comes into effect. Just because it's not used 100% of the time or often enough, doesn't mean it will NEVER be used.
Not to mention Nintendo did a lot right with the Wii and downloadable SNES and other games. If enough interest (sales) is generated, wouldn't it be awesome to have sequels to old 2D games and continue old franchises? I think so. It's too bad Nintendo only equipped the Wii with 512MB of flash, but in the future I think downloadables will be a lot bigger then they are currently.
Sony is getting the reason for backwards compatability all wrong in the first place, for library of games that you don't have access to that will eventually be emulated on PC's as time goes on. Don't do it now and someone will find a way later. I think what companies need to do is find a way to update and release old games... this is one of the problems unfortunately with making commercial games - you can't tape community creativity like say
these guys:
http://www.opcoder.com/projects/chrono/
It's a damn shame they had to get shut down, a remake of chrono updated for 3D with those kinds of skills would have been awesome.
That's what they said about atoms before we could sense and 'observe' them.
"Quite the contrary, my experience has been geeks, true geeks who really know technology are the ones far more likely to shrug and take no money for helping someone with technology. That's not to say they're not willing to make a living at it... just that they're not ripoff artists. "
Not all of us geeks are nice, I used to work for a geek computer store when I was younger, and the guy there required me to lie to people to keep my job, and whenever some major compnonent of a computer was fried (Ram, motherboard, hard disk), he'd want me to tell them more was broken so he could sell more.
The truth is if people weren't so bloody fucking ignorant they wouldn't be taken advantage of, if you don't want to be taken advantage of, educate yourself or ask for someone you know who has the ability to screen for bullshit!
". However, given that the poles are due for a reversal, it's been assumed by people worldwide who know about such things that this means doom for most migratory birds."
The magnetic fields are not the only thing birds use to navigate. I wish the articles would not make it look like the only universally relied upon function to navigate.
"With a paper system, you're reduced to rigging the results one vote at a time. With electronic voting, you could change thousands of votes at once."
How is this different from redistricting or buying votes?
Money is debt. Anyone who does not own thier own self-sustaining property (food, housing, etc) is in permanent debt to the people (familiy, industries, etc) who control the money supply.
Only once you get enough money to control a significant amount of passive profit generating assets does the nature of money change, by being able to control assets with higher capital flow then what you consume.
"Come to think of it, if people need parenting advice, they shouldn't be having kids. "
This is the stupidest thing I have EVER heard. Children have minds of their own, even if you are the best parent in the world. People are born with a law of being (ala goethe)
Goethe argued in his scientific works that a "formative impulse", which he said is operative in every organism, causes an organism to form itself according to its own distinct laws, and therefore rational laws or fiats could not be imposed at all from a higher, transcendent sphere; this placed him in direct opposition to those who attempted to form "enlightened" monarchies based on "rational" laws by, for example, Joseph II of Austria or, the subsequent Emperor of the French, Napoleon I.
"If you don't want to pay for the game but you steal it to play it anyway (or sell/distribute it illegally), then suck up the consequences."
Playing a game and NOT PAYING FOR IT is no different then NOT BUYING IT. The logic here is just brutally stupid. I pay for games I deem worthy of my money. Everything else who's quality isn't up to snuff gets doesn't deserve my money.
"In the end though, AI or actual intelligence is a very complex system. If the system says you're sad, you'd rather look into why you're sad and try changing things in your environment or actions."
Depression results from screwip up with someones emotional centers, this is not the ONLY pathways to depression I'm sure but... I've got quote a few things I've figured out on my own
A list of shit I've figured out:
1) One doesn't get enough sex or human contact
2) Poor social relationships
3) Overwork / Stress
4) Religious or societal indoctrination (i.e. how should I value myself? etc, many peoples psyche gets scarred in todays schools when they are young, or at home).
5) Over sensitive nervous system... i.e. anxious/fearful phenotype.
I am quite sure that Freud was onto something about supressed (or "repressed") desires and instincts, even if he didn't have the technology or time to figure it all out. I can tell you from experience that I had been with many women and when I found a woman that was like me my depression was lifted quite quickly if not immediately, I wish I could have paused those moments in time and analyze what my autonomic nervous systems were doing and releasing inside my body, I had never felt anything like I felt for this girl, and it wasn't simply "love", it was like she had healed a hole in my soul.