Forgive my prying, but might I know what social expectations destroyed your marriages? Its just that I do know some married couples, and I cant really think of any pressures I mightve put on them due to their marriage.
Not necessarily. Consider the Mother 3 translation. The patch has been out for several months, and the project itself has been around for several years. Compared to allowing thousands of people play a pirated copy of a niche game (that'll probably never make it here), trying to generate hype for a game is such a trivial offense.
Actually, getting characters to learn those spells takes too much time. There's a way of screwing with Setzer's slot ablility to always get the instant kill effect, which I believe is what the speed runs use.
Do you think it's fair males dominated women through out history? How about our lovely history of slavery? No shit it's all life. But we're not a bunch of dumb animals, we can alter our actions based on morals and logic. We've done it before after all.
A google search shows non-invasive prenatal DNA testing exists, and breastfeeding is a small (and if one chooses to, or has to use formulas unnecessary) part of the 16-18ish years one spends with a child. Ultimately you do seem to agree with mcgrew, one must trust the woman you're with, and if she happens to disagree, the male is screwed. The only difference here I believe is you think this is fair.
No. Vigilantism is backlash against moral outrage. Yes in some cases it had a good cause. In other cases it tried to stop blackie from having consensual sex with whitie. There is nothing inherently moral about vigilantism; it's all about appeasing emotional desires. Never ever treat it as a good thing.
I believe mcgrew was trying to point out that the father of a baby has little or no say in whether or not a baby is terminated. Also, if the baby is brought to term against the males wishes it does seem off for the mother to be able to then demand child support from the father.
People say that, but they never offer data to back it up, really. In my experience, the few friends I knew who got into the more deviant side of porn just kept getting deeper and deeper into it. Can't say that I know any loli fans (that I know of), but it seems that once you get a taste for the horrible, it plays a larger and larger part of your sexual fantasies.
Many gamers evolved from stomping goombas to killing hundreds of virtual people w/o batting an eye. Humans just like increasing their thresholds, and trying new thing.
As for the effects of deviant porn, forget the deviant part. Take regular porn, and see how that affects sexual appetites in people, or yourself for that matter. I don't see a reason why the horniess of a loli, guro, and rape loving person would be much greater or different than another who just likes vanilla porn.
I always used a definition similar to wikipedia "exceptional natural capacity of intellect and creative originality." While the 11 year old is obviously academically gifted, he's yet to demonstrate the abilities that separates the Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, heck even that guy who can code really really well, from us Joe Schmoes.
Well the issue here I think is "proper education." I personally don't think the U.S does a good job with either alcohol or tobacco, so I'm a bit pessimistic about weed education.
Well duh? If pot is legalized more people would use it. They'll be more stupid people who use it, and accidents related to pot use will go up. You might as well argue we don't know if piracy will increase if it's legalized.
I vote for letting Seoul and Tokyo decide that on their own. It's not like the Japanese and Koreans are ignorant savages that need smart white man to tell them how much their lives are worth.
For better or for worse, it counts as a sequel since it chronologically shows events that happened after a previous work (then again with CT's time traveling I don't know how true that is). One might say it's not a direct sequel, but CC fits the definition of just sequel.
Oh I dunno, as long as one is willing to lend the less fragile, or expendable items for school like pens, notes, and art supplies, I don't think it'll hurt reputation as much as you might think. It'll also help if you weave a sob story where you (or someone you know) got into a shit load of drama because a machine broke while it was borrowed.
I believe anon's point was if we who live in the "land of the free" can have people who blindly support the government no matter what, then what hope does your average Chinese have?
But similarly there are many cases that people have pirated games, loved them then bought newer games when they came out that were part of the series that they wouldn't have ever bought if they hadn't been exposed to it via piracy. Yes, there will be people who will never pay for anything, but there will be far more people who will use it as a demo service. Not every game system will be pirateable within a reasonable amount of time (such as the Wii which took ages to crack), and if someone became hooked on a series they would buy the other games in the series for the un-pirateble system. Its the same way with music too.
Far more people will use it as a demo service? How'd you come up with that one? While one can't easily analyze piracy, looking at free services like webcomics show that the vast majority of people who regularly read and enjoy them don't buy the comics. And these are stuff created by small time folks. Games have the additional problems of being created by "evil corporations" which makes piracy practically moral to some, and in the case of handheld games, piracy allows one to carry multiple games in a single flashcard. Which is so convenient, everyone I know (both pirates, and one demo user) use a flashcart on the DS.
You asked DrXym to cite reasons why he thinks most people use custom firmare/R4s to pirate games. So, why do you think most people would use "backup/homebrew players" to demo games?
Someone is confused with the DS homebrew scene;)
He doesn't seem confused to me. Current (and not too current) models of R4s (and all flashcarts I'm aware of except one) can play nds roms loaded into a microSD card.
...Ok this I cannot believe. Japan first used WinMX I believe, then arrested the maker of it's sucessor Winny, relentlessly analyzed the next top dog Share until they could identify the people using it, and I imagine the latest P2P program Perfect Dark is under the same scrutiny. Japan most definetely uses P2P. I don't suppose you've any links stating otherwise?
Japan is and always has been the only country in Asia whose values mesh well with the West--chivalry and Calvinism, basically, although they go by different names.
...Say what? The U.S never cared about chivalry when the chips were down. We fought dirty (aka. to win at all costs) ever since the Revolutionary War. Also, Calvinism? The theological system and approach to the Christian life that emphasizes God's sovereignty or control over all things? Dude, Japan is what 1% Christian? The only Asian country that I know of with a significant Christian populace is South Korea. Methinks your extended stay in Japan has either eroded your English, and/or given you a bad case of weeabo.
Koreans are crazily patriotic. They denounce everybody. They insist on serving kimchi with French food (I love kimchi, but, um... Do we serve ketchup with pulgogi in the US???), just to assert their Korean-ness. It's insane. They bitch and moan about Japan and burn the Japanese flag every time a politician has the audacity to honor Japan's war dead, despite the fact that a large percentage of their business comes from Japan and they have just basically copied the Japanese economic model--even where it makes no sense to their situation. Korea is nuts. Both Koreas. Crazy. A history of playing second-fiddle to whomever else was in power has bred a keen inferiority complex, which they overcompensate for. So saying they hate America is not really the whole picture. They hate everybody.
Huh... I find a bit hard to believe a significant number of western style restaurant even in an Asian country would actually serve their native cuisine alongside the exotic food. What would be the point of that? One or two might, but most I just can't believe. For better or for worse, the Japanese war dead equals invading monsters who looted, raped and pillaged both literally, and metaphorically to the Koreans. I agree it's silly to get mad, but it's easy to see honoring the dead as justifying the actions of those who died to support an evil empire, and I can see why that's unforgivable. While a history of living in China's and later Japan's shadow would make a nation have a complex, how exactly does this make S. Korea nuts? What exactly have they done that's crazier than the U.S. or Japan? I've found that the youth from both nations at least are equally patriotic, but course this is just personal observation.
On a trivial note: I doubt bulgogi is ever served with catsup. Wouldn't make much sense to add more flavor to heavily marinated meat that's supposed to be eaten with rice.
What fear do you have? Do you live in South Korea, or Japan? Can I risk your family and friends to overthrow a dictator? If NK decides to do something, the first who're going to get hit first is SK and/or Japan anyways. I'd say they should be the ones deciding if their lives are worth risking.
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Forgive my prying, but might I know what social expectations destroyed your marriages? Its just that I do know some married couples, and I cant really think of any pressures I mightve put on them due to their marriage.
Not necessarily. Consider the Mother 3 translation. The patch has been out for several months, and the project itself has been around for several years. Compared to allowing thousands of people play a pirated copy of a niche game (that'll probably never make it here), trying to generate hype for a game is such a trivial offense.
Actually, getting characters to learn those spells takes too much time. There's a way of screwing with Setzer's slot ablility to always get the instant kill effect, which I believe is what the speed runs use.
Well, Windows has been dying for much longer, so who knows?
They aren't. Have you seen the kinds of convoluted hoops one has to jump through?
Might I ask what game Milla is from?
Do you think it's fair males dominated women through out history? How about our lovely history of slavery? No shit it's all life. But we're not a bunch of dumb animals, we can alter our actions based on morals and logic. We've done it before after all.
No, notice things like Star Trek Dr. Who, and Shakespeare. Entertainment has been serious business long before video games were around.
A google search shows non-invasive prenatal DNA testing exists, and breastfeeding is a small (and if one chooses to, or has to use formulas unnecessary) part of the 16-18ish years one spends with a child. Ultimately you do seem to agree with mcgrew, one must trust the woman you're with, and if she happens to disagree, the male is screwed. The only difference here I believe is you think this is fair.
No. Vigilantism is backlash against moral outrage. Yes in some cases it had a good cause. In other cases it tried to stop blackie from having consensual sex with whitie. There is nothing inherently moral about vigilantism; it's all about appeasing emotional desires. Never ever treat it as a good thing.
I believe mcgrew was trying to point out that the father of a baby has little or no say in whether or not a baby is terminated. Also, if the baby is brought to term against the males wishes it does seem off for the mother to be able to then demand child support from the father.
People say that, but they never offer data to back it up, really. In my experience, the few friends I knew who got into the more deviant side of porn just kept getting deeper and deeper into it. Can't say that I know any loli fans (that I know of), but it seems that once you get a taste for the horrible, it plays a larger and larger part of your sexual fantasies.
Many gamers evolved from stomping goombas to killing hundreds of virtual people w/o batting an eye. Humans just like increasing their thresholds, and trying new thing.
As for the effects of deviant porn, forget the deviant part. Take regular porn, and see how that affects sexual appetites in people, or yourself for that matter. I don't see a reason why the horniess of a loli, guro, and rape loving person would be much greater or different than another who just likes vanilla porn.
I always used a definition similar to wikipedia "exceptional natural capacity of intellect and creative originality." While the 11 year old is obviously academically gifted, he's yet to demonstrate the abilities that separates the Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, heck even that guy who can code really really well, from us Joe Schmoes.
Well the issue here I think is "proper education." I personally don't think the U.S does a good job with either alcohol or tobacco, so I'm a bit pessimistic about weed education.
Well duh? If pot is legalized more people would use it. They'll be more stupid people who use it, and accidents related to pot use will go up. You might as well argue we don't know if piracy will increase if it's legalized.
I vote for letting Seoul and Tokyo decide that on their own. It's not like the Japanese and Koreans are ignorant savages that need smart white man to tell them how much their lives are worth.
For better or for worse, it counts as a sequel since it chronologically shows events that happened after a previous work (then again with CT's time traveling I don't know how true that is). One might say it's not a direct sequel, but CC fits the definition of just sequel.
Oh I dunno, as long as one is willing to lend the less fragile, or expendable items for school like pens, notes, and art supplies, I don't think it'll hurt reputation as much as you might think. It'll also help if you weave a sob story where you (or someone you know) got into a shit load of drama because a machine broke while it was borrowed.
I believe anon's point was if we who live in the "land of the free" can have people who blindly support the government no matter what, then what hope does your average Chinese have?
But similarly there are many cases that people have pirated games, loved them then bought newer games when they came out that were part of the series that they wouldn't have ever bought if they hadn't been exposed to it via piracy. Yes, there will be people who will never pay for anything, but there will be far more people who will use it as a demo service. Not every game system will be pirateable within a reasonable amount of time (such as the Wii which took ages to crack), and if someone became hooked on a series they would buy the other games in the series for the un-pirateble system. Its the same way with music too.
Far more people will use it as a demo service? How'd you come up with that one? While one can't easily analyze piracy, looking at free services like webcomics show that the vast majority of people who regularly read and enjoy them don't buy the comics. And these are stuff created by small time folks. Games have the additional problems of being created by "evil corporations" which makes piracy practically moral to some, and in the case of handheld games, piracy allows one to carry multiple games in a single flashcard. Which is so convenient, everyone I know (both pirates, and one demo user) use a flashcart on the DS.
You asked DrXym to cite reasons why he thinks most people use custom firmare/R4s to pirate games. So, why do you think most people would use "backup/homebrew players" to demo games?
Someone is confused with the DS homebrew scene ;)
He doesn't seem confused to me. Current (and not too current) models of R4s (and all flashcarts I'm aware of except one) can play nds roms loaded into a microSD card.
My Korean is a bit rusty but "adjosshi and ajumma" would translate as males and females in the ballpark of 50-70ish age?
...Ok this I cannot believe. Japan first used WinMX I believe, then arrested the maker of it's sucessor Winny, relentlessly analyzed the next top dog Share until they could identify the people using it, and I imagine the latest P2P program Perfect Dark is under the same scrutiny. Japan most definetely uses P2P. I don't suppose you've any links stating otherwise?
Japan is and always has been the only country in Asia whose values mesh well with the West--chivalry and Calvinism, basically, although they go by different names.
...Say what? The U.S never cared about chivalry when the chips were down. We fought dirty (aka. to win at all costs) ever since the Revolutionary War. Also, Calvinism? The theological system and approach to the Christian life that emphasizes God's sovereignty or control over all things? Dude, Japan is what 1% Christian? The only Asian country that I know of with a significant Christian populace is South Korea. Methinks your extended stay in Japan has either eroded your English, and/or given you a bad case of weeabo.
Koreans are crazily patriotic. They denounce everybody. They insist on serving kimchi with French food (I love kimchi, but, um... Do we serve ketchup with pulgogi in the US???), just to assert their Korean-ness. It's insane. They bitch and moan about Japan and burn the Japanese flag every time a politician has the audacity to honor Japan's war dead, despite the fact that a large percentage of their business comes from Japan and they have just basically copied the Japanese economic model--even where it makes no sense to their situation. Korea is nuts. Both Koreas. Crazy. A history of playing second-fiddle to whomever else was in power has bred a keen inferiority complex, which they overcompensate for. So saying they hate America is not really the whole picture. They hate everybody.
Huh... I find a bit hard to believe a significant number of western style restaurant even in an Asian country would actually serve their native cuisine alongside the exotic food. What would be the point of that? One or two might, but most I just can't believe. For better or for worse, the Japanese war dead equals invading monsters who looted, raped and pillaged both literally, and metaphorically to the Koreans. I agree it's silly to get mad, but it's easy to see honoring the dead as justifying the actions of those who died to support an evil empire, and I can see why that's unforgivable. While a history of living in China's and later Japan's shadow would make a nation have a complex, how exactly does this make S. Korea nuts? What exactly have they done that's crazier than the U.S. or Japan? I've found that the youth from both nations at least are equally patriotic, but course this is just personal observation.
On a trivial note: I doubt bulgogi is ever served with catsup. Wouldn't make much sense to add more flavor to heavily marinated meat that's supposed to be eaten with rice.
What fear do you have? Do you live in South Korea, or Japan? Can I risk your family and friends to overthrow a dictator? If NK decides to do something, the first who're going to get hit first is SK and/or Japan anyways. I'd say they should be the ones deciding if their lives are worth risking.
Now, now, like D&D gods and tinkerbell, politicians only have power if we believe.