What is wrong with you? Are you so desperate for stories other than stinking Linux updates that you have to take news and make up crap to have it be related to Internet junkies, computer users, video game players, etc.? This "geek" profile has nothing to do with anyone who uses computers, the Internet, etc. It's looking for outsiders, bullies, unstable kids, drug users, Satanists...people who are already very obviously harmful and dangerous. These are not necessarily people who sit on their computer more than they do anything else. You call yourselves geeks, and that's your right, but a lot of us who are online a lot aren't actually "geeks" or outsiders. In fact, I'd be surprised if most people I see day to day even know I use a computer. "Themes of violence and death" does not mean "video games." Well, it does if you're hurting for an article. "Themes of violence and death," in their meaning, is more like hanging a noose in one's locker or getting enjoyment out of gory movies or wearing clothing with skulls or weapons on them. Games aren't about death and violence. They're about challenges, and having to think strategically. Yes, there is killing. Yes, there is violence and blood, but those aren't the points of games, and very few games actually have a theme of "violence and death." The point is to be challenged, to have to think, to have to act, and really to have fun. But, maybe not when you're hurting for an article.
I'd like to know what you did before you became an elite programmer of game engines. Where did you go to college? Where, if not there, did you learn how to program? What sort of things prepared you to become the best FPS creator in the gaming industry?
What you're saying makes it seem as though you're sympathetic with the government giving itself more powerf. The point of a representative democracy is for us (the people) to elect officials that will/do as we want them to do/, not to obtain power for themselves upon being elected and then pass crap to give themselves more power when we (the people) take some away. The government is supposed to be ours, and by what's written in the Federal papers and the Constitution, it is clear that the people are, in fact, supposed to rule the country, not the government. Luckily, from what I've seen, the Supreme Court is very willing to follow the Constitution, and so when the government (federal or local) passes laws that I/know/ aren't constitutional, you will all see me not following them. The Supreme Court will hear a case that brings a spotlight to a law that isn't constitutional, and will rule in favor of the defendent.
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What is wrong with you? Are you so desperate for stories other than stinking Linux updates that you have to take news and make up crap to have it be related to Internet junkies, computer users, video game players, etc.? This "geek" profile has nothing to do with anyone who uses computers, the Internet, etc. It's looking for outsiders, bullies, unstable kids, drug users, Satanists...people who are already very obviously harmful and dangerous. These are not necessarily people who sit on their computer more than they do anything else. You call yourselves geeks, and that's your right, but a lot of us who are online a lot aren't actually "geeks" or outsiders. In fact, I'd be surprised if most people I see day to day even know I use a computer. "Themes of violence and death" does not mean "video games." Well, it does if you're hurting for an article. "Themes of violence and death," in their meaning, is more like hanging a noose in one's locker or getting enjoyment out of gory movies or wearing clothing with skulls or weapons on them. Games aren't about death and violence. They're about challenges, and having to think strategically. Yes, there is killing. Yes, there is violence and blood, but those aren't the points of games, and very few games actually have a theme of "violence and death." The point is to be challenged, to have to think, to have to act, and really to have fun. But, maybe not when you're hurting for an article.
~Xenogenic
John,
I'd like to know what you did before you became an elite programmer of game engines. Where did you go to college? Where, if not there, did you learn how to program? What sort of things prepared you to become the best FPS creator in the gaming industry?
Thanks.
Xenogenic
What you're saying makes it seem as though you're sympathetic with the government giving itself more powerf. The point of a representative democracy is for us (the people) to elect officials that will /do as we want them to do/, not to obtain power for themselves upon being elected and then pass crap to give themselves more power when we (the people) take some away. The government is supposed to be ours, and by what's written in the Federal papers and the Constitution, it is clear that the people are, in fact, supposed to rule the country, not the government. Luckily, from what I've seen, the Supreme Court is very willing to follow the Constitution, and so when the government (federal or local) passes laws that I /know/ aren't constitutional, you will all see me not following them. The Supreme Court will hear a case that brings a spotlight to a law that isn't constitutional, and will rule in favor of the defendent.