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  1. Re:I still call them Doom clones on German Ban On Doom Finally Lifted · · Score: 1

    But... but... Descent!

  2. Re:We've come a long way, baby. on German Ban On Doom Finally Lifted · · Score: 1

    Reducing enemy variety to dudes in differently colored shirts while finding new shades of brown.

    Oh and working out how to make the FPS slow enough for console controls.

  3. Re:Best weapon ever in Doom on German Ban On Doom Finally Lifted · · Score: 2

    It specifically worked by killing everything in the direction it was pointed in, AFAIK it does line of sight calculations from the player and projectile to determine what to hurt, it's not simply a distance-to-impact thing. On the other hand that means you can avoid it by breaking LOS to the shooter before the ball impacts.

  4. Re:Summary is misleading on German Ban On Doom Finally Lifted · · Score: 1

    The standards have been relaxed so much that Relic's Warhammer 40k games which include very over the top execution kills only get a USK 16 rating,

  5. Re:No on German Ban On Doom Finally Lifted · · Score: 1

    Which is really odd since I've seen a copy of some Doom collection (1&2) with an USK 16 sticker on it a few years ago. Only saw it once though.

  6. Re:AT&T's Response on Justice Dept. Files Antitrust Complaint Against AT&T and T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    The main problem is that T-Mobile (the international parent company) wants to drop its US division, there's no telling what will happen if nobody buys that division from them.

  7. Re:Not impressive on Notch Shows Minecraft Adventure Update · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing making the world generator produce villages was the toughest part. NPCs wouldn't be that complex to code.

  8. Re:You know it might look a lot better on Notch Shows Minecraft Adventure Update · · Score: 1

    For the actual gameplay footage they should've used a screen capture tool, not a camera.

  9. Re:Fix the crashes on Notch Shows Minecraft Adventure Update · · Score: 2

    2) Currently mods conflict too often with each other. It obviously has to do with how Minecraft is programmed since other games don't usually have this problem.

    No, other games don't have that problem because they don't allow more than one mod to run concurrently. Games where you can pile multiple mods on top of each other (Total Annihilation unit packs, UT Mutators) can end up with conflicts.

  10. Re:Cover doesn't stop everything on Deus Ex: Human Revolution Released · · Score: 1

    I heard that the AI is extremely exploitable though.

  11. Re:Trust Ruskies...or NASA? on Russian Supply Vehicle To ISS Burns · · Score: 1

    However you could make it clear that your MAD policy covers missiles that only deposit bombs in orbit for later use. A space program isn't enough to protect them from a nuclear strike. Think about the Cuban missile crisis, warheads in orbit would be considered even closer than Cuban nukes.

  12. Re:You know you're screwed when... on Controversial Cybercrime Bill Introduced In Australia · · Score: 1

    Yes but unfortunately getting a majority share is a slow process so the bribers can adjust their corruption plans accordingly.

  13. Re:"competing freeware program" on RealNetworks Sues Dutch Webmaster Over Hyperlink To Freeware · · Score: 2

    I've been blaming RealNetworks and their shitty product even back when I was using AOL (!). How that company still exists is beyond me.

  14. Re:You know you're screwed when... on Controversial Cybercrime Bill Introduced In Australia · · Score: 1

    Minority parties don't get to make policies so they can display more backbone. If they were actually given the power to implement things I bet they'd get corrupted quickly.

  15. Re:You know you're screwed when... on Controversial Cybercrime Bill Introduced In Australia · · Score: 1

    Meh, minority parties are generally smarter than big ones. I'm voting for the Greens in Germany because they also have the sanest stance on privacy and such (to be fair the liberals are also very anti-surveillance but they're going too far with their anti-regulation talk when our economy is actually less fragile than that of less regulated countries), not because I care about their approach to saving the environment. In a representational system those votes for minority parties strengthen their role in govt coalitions which means the big parties have a harder time passing more authoritarian laws.

  16. Re:Trust Ruskies...or NASA? on Russian Supply Vehicle To ISS Burns · · Score: 2

    You don't need bombs in orbit when you have ICBMs. Bombs in space are easy to track, ICBMs on the ground are not. ICBMs go into space before dropping on their target anyway so the difference is only that you're using the rocket part long before you drop the bomb part.

  17. Re:Tampering on GameStop Opening Deus Ex Boxes, Removing Free Game Coupon · · Score: 1

    I believe it's caused by games becoming too damn disposable, you beat them once and have no desire to ever play them again. At that point it would be pot attachment to NOT sell the game off.

  18. Re:Of course on Does Religion Influence Epidemics? · · Score: 1

    Except this breeding mostly happens in black Africa which exports mercenaries to the arab countries. Whoops, we killed the civilian population but the dictator's soldiers are immune...

  19. Re:Chistians Beating Children on Does Religion Influence Epidemics? · · Score: 1

    That's a confessional thing. Catholicism had heaven or hell according to your actions but Luther changed that into "if you believe you go to heaven, if you don't you go to hell".

  20. Re:I think we've known this... on Does Religion Influence Epidemics? · · Score: 2

    We understand it. We also understand that it goes against basic human nature and especially against very strong instincts so teaching abstinence is ineffective.

  21. Re:Religion can also be a survival manual on Does Religion Influence Epidemics? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah but it's kinda silly that we've got people adhering to food safety laws from millenia ago, before the refrigerator was invented.

  22. Re:Translation: Religion is born .... on Does Religion Influence Epidemics? · · Score: 1

    Fear and ignorance go hand in hand, what you don't know can scare you since you don't know if it's dangerous. But you cannot know everything as the world is too complex for a human to understand entirely within one lifetime. If you could augment humans with all that knowledge right from their childhood it might be possible but the risk of manipulation by humans is too damn high, who knows what "truths" China would implant into people?

  23. Re:Translation: Religion is born .... on Does Religion Influence Epidemics? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As Socrates said, at least I know that I know nothing. Those who replace "I don't know" with "it was God" forfeit their ability to learn more and those who militantly cling to their answer even as "I don't know" gets replaced with a proper explanation hold us back.

  24. Re:So on Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism · · Score: 1

    Talking about a creator when there is absolutely nothing that suggests one is not science, that's the important point. We can assume a creator or we could assume a spaghetti monster or we could assume random luck. If it doesn't make a lick of a difference it's not relevant to science.

    Besides, creationists argue doublethink. On one hand they bring arguments like yours that the actual influence of a creator may not be detectable at all so we cannot disprove it while on the other hand arguing that creationism is a replacement for evolution.

  25. Re:My main criticism.... on Deus Ex: Human Revolution Released · · Score: 1

    I meant black ICE as in "botch the hack and you die".