I guess it's moronic corporations like EBGames that make me want to do something a little different. This time I'm trying to attempt to get a cheap 360 from http://xbox360.jasonandmary.com. Though I get annoyed that they claim thier product is free (it's not, you have to try an offer like NetFlix) and that you have to sign up 10 friends, it would be worth it not having to do buisness with EBGames or any of the other game ripoff shops.
I wasn't aware that God was about good feelings and aweness. It's about truth. C.S. Lewis wrote about this whole combining everything idea in his book "Mere Christianity". I think he amounted it to be just an excuse. A way to have the "good feelings" of religion without the concequences.
As for Quantum Mechanics and Chaos Theory, what decides which way the domino falls? After a time passes in our linear existance, we can't go back. Time moves only one way. That is how time is designed. So the domino had to fall in exactly the way it did. If observed again in the exact same point in history with the exact same conditions (again impossible since going back in time would change the exact conditions) it would fall exactly the same way. It fell exactly the way it did. Thus free will in this dimension is impossible. An atom cannot choose or make decisions just as a rock does not choose or make decisions. Thus since free will exists, it is nothing but supernatural. I have a spirt in me that exists beyond the physics of this universe controlling a set of atoms in this universe.
I guess I use my free will to believe I have free will and not to accept my free will as an illusion. Call that ignorance, but I'm pretty comfy with my life. I pray. My prayers are responded to. It's cause & effect. I observe it. Just as I feel the wind. It's not about being in awe or good fuzzy feelings. If believing that you are evolved stardust gives you fuzzy feelings, then more power to you. Enjoy your fuzzy feelings while they last. I come as a witness and nothing more.
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It seems that R* has taken a major blow by JT himself. Rather than trying to prevent scientific evidence to refute the ideas Jack Thompson is presenting, they make a parody site. I can imagion how a court case in the future will look.
Jack: "Interactive media simulate the brain more than passive media and thus influences a child's behavior more."
R*: "You're a @%$# #*@^er! *snicker*"
Give me a break. If R* wants to legitimize their games, they should fight smarter, not prove that the corporation is run by 12 year olds.
I don't feel science is a threat to Christianity. I feel that theories that contradict the idea that God made humans and also made them uniquly different than all the other critters on this earth. I think that the idea of evolving from other critters is simular to what happend in Numbers when Moses did not believe that just speaking to the rock could create water. He struck it instead and thus forfited the promise land.
You talk about free will. I guess this is why I think that there is a creative God that exists and created the Universe. The idea of atoms banging around and combining in such a way to create a cluster of atoms that can choose to go left or right is in my opinion, impossible. If you hit a series of dominos in exactly the same way under the exact same condition then they should fall down exactly the same way. How can the ability of a domino to choose which way to fall be evolved? I don't think it can be done. It's as impossible as creating true AI. Eventually something, even a psuedo random number, has to control the AI.
As for major religions rejecting Hell, that's their problem. Jesus talked about Hell more than he talked about Heaven. To say that it either doesn't exist or isn't a place of torment is to make Christ out to be a liar and thus undermine Christianity alltogether. The logic is usually, "God's a good God and thus doesn't send people to Hell." The logic is rediculous if one examines what it is to be good.
A judge has to choose whether to set a guilty rapist free. If he's a good judge, does he set him free? Even knowing that the rapist is guilty? How would that make the victims feel about the judge?
Now let's apply this to the real world. Jesus says that if a man looks at a woman lustfully, he has already committed adultry in his heart. If a man hates his brother, he has already murdered him in his heart. We have all lied. We have all disobeyed our parents. The list goes on and on. So should a good God let a murdering, thieving, adulture in Heaven? Guess not. But God knew we could never be perfect, so he made a sacrifice for us. If someone burst in that courtroom and said, "I'll take his place in the chair on the condition that he admits he was guilty and trusts me to take his place." Would it be logical for the rapist to say "No"?
This idea can also be seen in The Lion, The Witch, & the Wordrobe. Someone had to take the place of the boy's sin. Aslan paid that price. There is no forgivness without the sheding of blood.
The N64 would be easy to do with the new controller. The C Buttons could be the + at the top. The R & Z buttons could be Z1 & Z2. A & B are already on the main remote. The Analog would be the Analog addon.
Who used L & the + pad anyway? (Except for Kirby 64, but that can be recompiled.)
As for SNES. I havn't a clue...
A natural evolved behavior? You mean like homosexuality? Hmmm... I wonder where that evolved from.
Things like washing our hands is counter intutive to a culture that doesn't know what germs are. I noticed you didn't comment on that. Please, tell me how the Jews evolved to wash their hands before eating before the discovery of germs? It was written in their laws. Also, why didn't the Jews reject this God of theirs? He was strict, they didn't like him much because of His rules, why didn't they just create another one like the Pagans did. The Pagan's gods & goddesses had temple prostitutes and all sorts of "fun" stuff. Imagion going to church and getting laid. Sounds logical that a made up god would satisify one's desires while a real God would direct one to do what is right for the good of the people (like washing your hands before eating, getting rid of mold, not eating harmful food, etc...).
In a way, Evolution is like the temple hookers. You now can say, "I didn't mean to hurt you, baby. It's just my instinctive evolved behavior to create as many offspring as I can. It's not my fault I cheat. I just evolved that way."
Also, why is it so important to have everybody reject God anyway? To make you feel more secure about your decision? I don't get "Heaven points" or anything like that for the amout of people I witness to. I do it because I don't want people to be tormented in Hell for all of eternity. No credit is given to me.
Darn typo. Anyway, what I meant to say that you hit the nail on the head. Science is a religion. It is a systems of belief that requires faith. You also admit that science uses schools to condition minds the same way a cult would.
Judeo-Christianity is not ignorance. Although it is based on ignorance. For example, the Jews had no idea what a germ was or how it could kill you. So God came up with ceremonial cleansings. You touch a dead body, you take a bath. You see mold in your house, you must cut off that piece and burn it. You had a disease, you take a bath and don't come back to camp until you're better. Sure the Jews were ignorant. So the whole idea of taking baths and washing hands should have never been thought up.
The Jews were also forbidden to inbreed. Leviticus gives a whole list of people you can't have sex with. The Jews had no idea what genetics were. Good thing they were told what to do.
The Jews were forbidden to eat certain things. Those things could not be cooked properly by a nomadic race, but they didn't know that. They just thought God was being mean. If their God was not real, wouldn't it have been better for them to just come up with a new one? They sure grumbled a lot at Him.
We 'science types' usually do. The problem is that if we start saying 'we believe' too much in public, our ideas get attacked as 'just another form of religion'.
I mean, the version of Darwinism that was taught in my school has pretty much been shot to heck, but my Biology teacher sure enough said, "This is how it happened."
That is because the science taught at school has to be simplified hugely. The version of almost any scientific idea taught at school is largely wrong. The idea is to open minds to the principles of science.
is another religion. Also you point out that school is a place to condition minds. Very much in the same way cults do.
Gee, I was looking for something interesting to mod up and found nothing. Everybody is saying the same thing.
I disagree with you guys entirely. What the ESRB is looking for is hidden content within a game. You guys are still pretending that someone on the outside came up with hot coffee, but that's not true. Rockstar came up with Hot Coffee. End of story.
Yes any game can be modded, but that's not exactly what they are looking for. Perhaps, for example, they are wanting the Sims to make it not as easy to take off the blur.
I see a lot of posts mentioning that the ESRB does not test games. This is total bull. They do hire expert game players and do test some games. I don't know exactly what prompts them to test a game, but they do.
Now about bits and bytes. It's true that you can take bits and bytes and make anything you want out of it. It's also true you can take the letters from War & Peace and put white out over it and type in the letters to Harry Potter and the Half Blooded Prince. But nobody does that. And nobody would count that as War & Peace violating Rowlings Copyright. Changeing a few bytes is one thing. Changing a bunch is another. It's more about effort than anything.
As for game developers leaving their slop in their code. If you enter the debug menu cheat to Super Smash Bros, change the game to Develop mode. And press Up on the + pad, the female characters will lose their dresses. This was so the developer could test their movements without the bulky dresses in the way. AND GUESS WHAT!? THEY ARE DRESSED UNDERNEATH THEIR DRESSES. So the idea of needing nude models in the code is total crap as well. Quit being a bunch of whiny babies.
Why can't I protect my kid from your kid? Your kid is playing a harmful game that desensitizes him to killing. He pulls the trigger in the videogame (unlike a movie). Thus he is desensitized faster. Why does my kid have to be murdered by your child?
Just because you want to sit on your hands and treat him like a knowledgable adult, doesn't mean that you have the right to make other people suffer at your ignorance. Ever hear the saying, "If only I knew then what I know now." That's what it's about. Giving all kids (Even the ones with bad parents) the right to learn then so that they have a chance in not making harmful descisions.
Look at smoking for example. Most smokers start when they are underage. They don't know any better and they are still disillusioned to the consequence. You don't hear of a 35 year old adult deciding that he wants to be "cool" and smoke. Let's think about it.
Because it's bad enough having those immature 16 year olds out on the road. I sure don't want a 14 year old driving. And if the majority of voters with me, then so be the will of the State. In my state, you have to be 18 to get a full license.
Adults will still have rights to play games. It's about protecting the children. I think there is an implied right for parents to protect their kids and if a State wants to reinforce this, then they should.
Okay, let me explain what a "good game" is. A good game is a game that anybody will agree is a good game. Take Madden for instance, only NFL fans would like Madden. Now let's take Super Mario Sunshine, only Mario fans (like myself) would think it was good.
Now let's take Zelda. There are very few people out there who would say that Zelda is not a great game. Remember, not all gamers are 14-25 year old males. And not all 14-25 year old males like the same kinds of games. Thus like I said, the only good game on that list is Zelda.
Sheesh the only good game on there was Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I laughed when it said that there wasn't a man alive who hasn't played Madden. What a joke. I'm sure there are plenty of gamers who have the sense not to play such a game.
My list would have been much different... But I have to get back to work... (Darn clock)
I'm not sure I care. I don't buy ANY used games from EB games. I think they're all a rip off. So I buy my new games from Wal-Mart and my used games from eBay.
What's wrong with the "family oriented" (At least you didn't say "kiddie") image? That's why I have a Gamecube. I like those kinds of games. Personally I like the XBox/PS to have most of the M rated stuff and the Nintendo consoles to have the E rated stuff. It makes console buying desisions easier.
Looks like all of the FPS/Halo Fanboys/Sony Fanboys have it ALL WRONG!!! I have been arguing for YEARS that E is for EVERYBODY. Unfortunately, I often get read articles like "nintndo iz teh suxors!!1 nbody plys tohse kiddy games" (Especially in EGM).
My theory is, is that while M$ and $ony are battling it out to retain control of the VERY SMALL, percentage of potential gamers who like FPS and games that they play with one hand, Nintetndo will pick up THE REST OF THE MARKET. That is all of the people who use to play games in the 80s, but stopped since EVERY game was a FPS or a Booby Fighter.
So to sum it up for all of you drooling over the next generic FPS or illegal activity simulator, nintendo roxs 11!!!one! $ony adn Micro$oft are teh suxors!!1 Just wanted to write in a way you could understand.:)
*sigh* I think the dollar defends anything Nintendo does, not the fanboys. People are spending their dollars on Gameboys and Nintendo DSs, not PSPs. I spent my dollars on two DSs.
I think I'm getting a lot of bang for my buck when I can buy a single copy of a game and play it on two DSs. You just can't do that on a PSP. Well, you can't play much of anything on a PSP except overpriced movies, which is another reason I bought 2 DSs instead of 1 PSP.
I'm trying to picture me buying me the cool system and then inviting all my pals to watch Spiderman 2 on my PSP. We can sit it on top of my HDTV and hear it in glorius PSP sound. Perhaps some binoculars & hearing aids will help hype up the party.
I guess it all comes down to, do you want to be cool and spend a lot of hard earned money? Or do you want to play some interesting new type a games with your friends & have fun.
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I guess it's moronic corporations like EBGames that make me want to do something a little different. This time I'm trying to attempt to get a cheap 360 from http://xbox360.jasonandmary.com. Though I get annoyed that they claim thier product is free (it's not, you have to try an offer like NetFlix) and that you have to sign up 10 friends, it would be worth it not having to do buisness with EBGames or any of the other game ripoff shops.
I remember her complaining about them abusing their credit card. Anybody else had this experience?
I wasn't aware that God was about good feelings and aweness. It's about truth. C.S. Lewis wrote about this whole combining everything idea in his book "Mere Christianity". I think he amounted it to be just an excuse. A way to have the "good feelings" of religion without the concequences. As for Quantum Mechanics and Chaos Theory, what decides which way the domino falls? After a time passes in our linear existance, we can't go back. Time moves only one way. That is how time is designed. So the domino had to fall in exactly the way it did. If observed again in the exact same point in history with the exact same conditions (again impossible since going back in time would change the exact conditions) it would fall exactly the same way. It fell exactly the way it did. Thus free will in this dimension is impossible. An atom cannot choose or make decisions just as a rock does not choose or make decisions. Thus since free will exists, it is nothing but supernatural. I have a spirt in me that exists beyond the physics of this universe controlling a set of atoms in this universe. I guess I use my free will to believe I have free will and not to accept my free will as an illusion. Call that ignorance, but I'm pretty comfy with my life. I pray. My prayers are responded to. It's cause & effect. I observe it. Just as I feel the wind. It's not about being in awe or good fuzzy feelings. If believing that you are evolved stardust gives you fuzzy feelings, then more power to you. Enjoy your fuzzy feelings while they last. I come as a witness and nothing more.
It seems that R* has taken a major blow by JT himself. Rather than trying to prevent scientific evidence to refute the ideas Jack Thompson is presenting, they make a parody site. I can imagion how a court case in the future will look. Jack: "Interactive media simulate the brain more than passive media and thus influences a child's behavior more." R*: "You're a @%$# #*@^er! *snicker*" Give me a break. If R* wants to legitimize their games, they should fight smarter, not prove that the corporation is run by 12 year olds.
You talk about free will. I guess this is why I think that there is a creative God that exists and created the Universe. The idea of atoms banging around and combining in such a way to create a cluster of atoms that can choose to go left or right is in my opinion, impossible. If you hit a series of dominos in exactly the same way under the exact same condition then they should fall down exactly the same way. How can the ability of a domino to choose which way to fall be evolved? I don't think it can be done. It's as impossible as creating true AI. Eventually something, even a psuedo random number, has to control the AI.
As for major religions rejecting Hell, that's their problem. Jesus talked about Hell more than he talked about Heaven. To say that it either doesn't exist or isn't a place of torment is to make Christ out to be a liar and thus undermine Christianity alltogether. The logic is usually, "God's a good God and thus doesn't send people to Hell." The logic is rediculous if one examines what it is to be good.
A judge has to choose whether to set a guilty rapist free. If he's a good judge, does he set him free? Even knowing that the rapist is guilty? How would that make the victims feel about the judge?
Now let's apply this to the real world. Jesus says that if a man looks at a woman lustfully, he has already committed adultry in his heart. If a man hates his brother, he has already murdered him in his heart. We have all lied. We have all disobeyed our parents. The list goes on and on. So should a good God let a murdering, thieving, adulture in Heaven? Guess not. But God knew we could never be perfect, so he made a sacrifice for us. If someone burst in that courtroom and said, "I'll take his place in the chair on the condition that he admits he was guilty and trusts me to take his place." Would it be logical for the rapist to say "No"?
This idea can also be seen in The Lion, The Witch, & the Wordrobe. Someone had to take the place of the boy's sin. Aslan paid that price. There is no forgivness without the sheding of blood.
I think we've all done that before! :) But my sisters still do it. So whenever I visit, I let them play slower games like Animal Crossing.
The N64 would be easy to do with the new controller. The C Buttons could be the + at the top. The R & Z buttons could be Z1 & Z2. A & B are already on the main remote. The Analog would be the Analog addon. Who used L & the + pad anyway? (Except for Kirby 64, but that can be recompiled.) As for SNES. I havn't a clue...
Things like washing our hands is counter intutive to a culture that doesn't know what germs are. I noticed you didn't comment on that. Please, tell me how the Jews evolved to wash their hands before eating before the discovery of germs? It was written in their laws. Also, why didn't the Jews reject this God of theirs? He was strict, they didn't like him much because of His rules, why didn't they just create another one like the Pagans did. The Pagan's gods & goddesses had temple prostitutes and all sorts of "fun" stuff. Imagion going to church and getting laid. Sounds logical that a made up god would satisify one's desires while a real God would direct one to do what is right for the good of the people (like washing your hands before eating, getting rid of mold, not eating harmful food, etc...).
In a way, Evolution is like the temple hookers. You now can say, "I didn't mean to hurt you, baby. It's just my instinctive evolved behavior to create as many offspring as I can. It's not my fault I cheat. I just evolved that way."
Also, why is it so important to have everybody reject God anyway? To make you feel more secure about your decision? I don't get "Heaven points" or anything like that for the amout of people I witness to. I do it because I don't want people to be tormented in Hell for all of eternity. No credit is given to me.
Judeo-Christianity is not ignorance. Although it is based on ignorance. For example, the Jews had no idea what a germ was or how it could kill you. So God came up with ceremonial cleansings. You touch a dead body, you take a bath. You see mold in your house, you must cut off that piece and burn it. You had a disease, you take a bath and don't come back to camp until you're better. Sure the Jews were ignorant. So the whole idea of taking baths and washing hands should have never been thought up.
The Jews were also forbidden to inbreed. Leviticus gives a whole list of people you can't have sex with. The Jews had no idea what genetics were. Good thing they were told what to do.
The Jews were forbidden to eat certain things. Those things could not be cooked properly by a nomadic race, but they didn't know that. They just thought God was being mean. If their God was not real, wouldn't it have been better for them to just come up with a new one? They sure grumbled a lot at Him.
Oh well...
is another religion. Also you point out that school is a place to condition minds. Very much in the same way cults do.
Gee, I was looking for something interesting to mod up and found nothing. Everybody is saying the same thing. I disagree with you guys entirely. What the ESRB is looking for is hidden content within a game. You guys are still pretending that someone on the outside came up with hot coffee, but that's not true. Rockstar came up with Hot Coffee. End of story. Yes any game can be modded, but that's not exactly what they are looking for. Perhaps, for example, they are wanting the Sims to make it not as easy to take off the blur. I see a lot of posts mentioning that the ESRB does not test games. This is total bull. They do hire expert game players and do test some games. I don't know exactly what prompts them to test a game, but they do. Now about bits and bytes. It's true that you can take bits and bytes and make anything you want out of it. It's also true you can take the letters from War & Peace and put white out over it and type in the letters to Harry Potter and the Half Blooded Prince. But nobody does that. And nobody would count that as War & Peace violating Rowlings Copyright. Changeing a few bytes is one thing. Changing a bunch is another. It's more about effort than anything. As for game developers leaving their slop in their code. If you enter the debug menu cheat to Super Smash Bros, change the game to Develop mode. And press Up on the + pad, the female characters will lose their dresses. This was so the developer could test their movements without the bulky dresses in the way. AND GUESS WHAT!? THEY ARE DRESSED UNDERNEATH THEIR DRESSES. So the idea of needing nude models in the code is total crap as well. Quit being a bunch of whiny babies.
Just because you want to sit on your hands and treat him like a knowledgable adult, doesn't mean that you have the right to make other people suffer at your ignorance. Ever hear the saying, "If only I knew then what I know now." That's what it's about. Giving all kids (Even the ones with bad parents) the right to learn then so that they have a chance in not making harmful descisions.
Look at smoking for example. Most smokers start when they are underage. They don't know any better and they are still disillusioned to the consequence. You don't hear of a 35 year old adult deciding that he wants to be "cool" and smoke. Let's think about it.
Finally, it takes a villiage to raise a child.
Because it's bad enough having those immature 16 year olds out on the road. I sure don't want a 14 year old driving. And if the majority of voters with me, then so be the will of the State. In my state, you have to be 18 to get a full license.
Hmmm... You'd think that after 65 bazillion years, a lifeform would have evolved that uses methane instead of water. Ah well...
Adults will still have rights to play games. It's about protecting the children. I think there is an implied right for parents to protect their kids and if a State wants to reinforce this, then they should.
That's hillarious. That'll teach those lesbian lifetime watching cows.
Okay, let me explain what a "good game" is. A good game is a game that anybody will agree is a good game. Take Madden for instance, only NFL fans would like Madden. Now let's take Super Mario Sunshine, only Mario fans (like myself) would think it was good. Now let's take Zelda. There are very few people out there who would say that Zelda is not a great game. Remember, not all gamers are 14-25 year old males. And not all 14-25 year old males like the same kinds of games. Thus like I said, the only good game on that list is Zelda.
Sheesh the only good game on there was Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I laughed when it said that there wasn't a man alive who hasn't played Madden. What a joke. I'm sure there are plenty of gamers who have the sense not to play such a game. My list would have been much different... But I have to get back to work... (Darn clock)
Anybody ever get the feeling that Wired is a tabloid?
Excuse my ignorance. What's a moondoggie?
*cough* The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap *cough*. Yeah, I wish they would make more 2D Zelda games as well. How long has it been?
I'm not sure I care. I don't buy ANY used games from EB games. I think they're all a rip off. So I buy my new games from Wal-Mart and my used games from eBay.
What's wrong with the "family oriented" (At least you didn't say "kiddie") image? That's why I have a Gamecube. I like those kinds of games. Personally I like the XBox/PS to have most of the M rated stuff and the Nintendo consoles to have the E rated stuff. It makes console buying desisions easier.
Looks like all of the FPS/Halo Fanboys/Sony Fanboys have it ALL WRONG!!! I have been arguing for YEARS that E is for EVERYBODY. Unfortunately, I often get read articles like "nintndo iz teh suxors!!1 nbody plys tohse kiddy games" (Especially in EGM).
:)
My theory is, is that while M$ and $ony are battling it out to retain control of the VERY SMALL, percentage of potential gamers who like FPS and games that they play with one hand, Nintetndo will pick up THE REST OF THE MARKET. That is all of the people who use to play games in the 80s, but stopped since EVERY game was a FPS or a Booby Fighter.
So to sum it up for all of you drooling over the next generic FPS or illegal activity simulator, nintendo roxs 11!!!one! $ony adn Micro$oft are teh suxors!!1 Just wanted to write in a way you could understand.
*sigh* I think the dollar defends anything Nintendo does, not the fanboys. People are spending their dollars on Gameboys and Nintendo DSs, not PSPs. I spent my dollars on two DSs. I think I'm getting a lot of bang for my buck when I can buy a single copy of a game and play it on two DSs. You just can't do that on a PSP. Well, you can't play much of anything on a PSP except overpriced movies, which is another reason I bought 2 DSs instead of 1 PSP. I'm trying to picture me buying me the cool system and then inviting all my pals to watch Spiderman 2 on my PSP. We can sit it on top of my HDTV and hear it in glorius PSP sound. Perhaps some binoculars & hearing aids will help hype up the party. I guess it all comes down to, do you want to be cool and spend a lot of hard earned money? Or do you want to play some interesting new type a games with your friends & have fun.