Well, when the game was in development it looked really promising. I wasn't into NWN1 because its singleplayer was so lacking, but NWN2 seemed like it was putting more emphasis on the singleplayer campaign. I was also in desperate need of a good RPG. I guess I just wanted to really believe that the game wasn't as bad as the user reviews claimed.
The more hyped a game is, the more disappointed I am in it.
22 here. I played my brother's C-64 when I was little. Later on I bought an Amiga 500, though at that point it was starting to get phased out by the PC.
When I originally built my PC I hand picked everything, even the case, power supply and cooling fans (for the CPU and case). Since then I've had numerous technical issues and assorted headaches, and I'm not so enthusiastic about building stuff anymore. Still, I'm sure I'll once again hand pick every nut and bolt for my next build, though I'll probably have it assembled by the shop.
I know one instance were user reviews turned out to be spot on while professional reviewers were, frankly, full of shit and probably on the publisher's payroll. I am referring, of course, to Neverwinter Nights 2. It has a Metacritic rating of 82, while the user reviews were almost entirely negative. The official forums had two sticky threads, one for negative reviews and one for positive reviews. The negative thread was restarted about four times before the first positive one was even full (the threads were replaced with new ones after a certain amount of pages). The forums were overflowing with complaints. I ended up buying the game anyway, againts my better judgement.
The Middle-East is called the Middle-East for a reason. And yes, Christianity and Judaism formed in the same area, but that doesn't matter. They're still polar opposites with almost nothing in common.
No. A lot of people don't have children, and a lot of people who do have children either store their gun in a safe manner or teach their children not to touch it.
Ignoring that sealtbelts and fire alarms carry no risk to users while a loaded gun very much does misses the point at a stratospheric level.
A gun doesn't carry a risk either, if you are trained to use it. If firearms were such a huge risk to the user, I think the Finnish Defense Forces would have pretty bad mortality rates.
That Brazilian "terrorist" who was killed by UK police in the tubes for running away while carrying a bomb? He wasn't a terrorist. He wasn't running. He didn't have a bomb.
Yes, I think everyone knows that by now.
Your example is just one of many.
Except, of course, that they were Muslim terrorists who were preparing to launch a terrorist offensive for religious reasons, and they had equipment, they had trained for it and they planned for it.
It must be interesting to live in a world where every single instance of Islamic terrorism or planned terrorism didn't really happen or was staged by the government.
These same terrorists also planned to storm and blow up the Parliament, take hostages and then behead them if their demands were not met. They weren't simply buying nitrate for no apparent reason.
That's not a very good comparison. Me keeping a handgun next to my bed isn't going to harm anyone, and yes, the idea of carrying a gun, wearing a seatbelt or buying a fire alarm is to pre-empt problems, and there's hardly anything insane about that.
Not necessarily a recognized military force. A "military force" that wears no uniforms and adhers to no rules is hardly legitimate, and shouldn't be treated as such.
Well, if you reject anti-terror laws, then how do you propose to combat terrorism? Many people are againts anti-terror measures, but have no better solutions, or any solutions, to offer.
The Dark Ages aren't called the Dark Ages because they were the Age of Darkness where Evil ruled the Land. Look it up on Wikipedia.
The influence of Christianity is constantly downplayed because people hate Christianity and Western culture. I'm not sure what caused this immense and uncritical self-loathing in the Western world, but things like post-colonial guilt complex* and postmodernism are probably part of it.
* strangely enough, colonialism is never wrong if it's done by non-whites, but that's another story.
What three major Western religions? I can only think of Christianity and Judaism. What's the third? Also, is it possible that this fad of bashing Christianity* while systematically ignoring its achievements and importance could slowly go away?
* that's what people really refer to, even if they say something like "all organized religions."
With the way the game was released, there is NO WAY they could have achieved it technically back in the mid-90's.
They could and they did. I saw demonstration videos that used the same portal technology we see today. The game even had simple Havok-esque physics, though of course nothing like today's stuff.
As far as I know technical limitations prevent developers from making MMOFPS games at this point.
A 40K FPS doesn't sound appealing to me. How would it differ from any other FPS out there? You may as well play BF2142. I'd love to see a 40K game in the vein of the first Space Crusade, where you control a small team of Space Marines, with RPG elements.
Society has predisposition'ed Us to go one direction because it has always benefited society.
It's not social, it's purely biological, and humans were around long before "society" emerged. A lot of human behavior is biological. Since reproduction is the key to keeping the species alive, it stands to reason that heterosexuality is a biological trait (because it takes a man and a woman to reproduce), and homosexuality is an abnormality of some sort (note to hysterical PC leftists: "abnormal" does not equal "kill them all in gas chambers").
Even animals exhibit homosexuality, and they certainly have no conscious ideas about how society should work.
I'm sure you do, but a few friends (who, of course, have been selected in a biased manner since you wouldn't befriend people you don't like) are not a representative sample of the global Muslim population.
Moderation is moderation, and its the usual state of humans who have better things to worry about , like getting to work on time and making sure the kids are doing the homework.
You're approaching the subject from the common perspective that all human beings are fundamentally the same, ie. adhere to contemporary Western values, whatever those values are at the current moment. What passes off as abnormal here might be perfectly normal elsewhere, and vice versa.
Your sad little dreams of the 'sky daddy' are the most robust example of 'groupthink' I can recall!
What sky daddy? I'm barely religious, and certainly not a practising Christian.
Also hilarious, is that you bash 'leftists' for their 'groupthink'. Leftists are progressives...
In my experience leftists are wannabe fascists who want to crush all dissent and force everyone to accept their dogmatic groupthink that isn't based on anything that could be called rational. I see it day after day, particularly here at Slashdot where any opinion that doesn't fit into the leftist mindset is modded flamebait or troll. Even my last post was modded troll, because leftists can't stand anyone who disagrees with them (and they're so laughably stupid that they didn't even realize they're proving my point by modding me down). They even "bury" Digg posts that they don't agree with. Their bullshit is exposed for what it is as soon as it's debated openly, so leftists stiffle debate as much as they can. Failing that, they simply insult the opposition.
and since you obviously see the world in black and white
Elaborate.
you must be a rightist...or conservative.
I wouldn't personally label myself anything, but I guess I'm on the right side of the political spectrum.
Conservatives don't like change...they want things to stay the same way they've always been and the same way everybody already does them...which is GROUPTHINK!
I have no opinion of that, except that change is not inherently good.
By the way, groupthink is defined like this:
Groupthink is a type of thought exhibited by group members who try to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critically testing, analyzing, and evaluating ideas. Groupthink may cause groups to make hasty, irrational decisions, where individual doubts are set aside, for fear of upsetting the group's balance. The term is usually used as a derogatory term after the results of a bad decision.
I think it especially applies to leftists because they certainly never critically test any of their ideas, and dissent is aggressively supressed, even when it comes from outside the group. Groupthink in the sense that all or most members of the group share the same ideas is not what I'm referring to when I use the word (also, if the ideas can be independently verified through rational thinking, it's not really groupthink), and you also have to consider how harmful the groupthink is. Christians groupthinking that God exists is not harmful, whereas leftists groupthinking about critical issues like immigration or racism is extremely dangerous in the long term for a lot of people.
But simply put, I largely use the word as a derogatory term for people who hold an irrational dogma that's based on belief, hope and political correctness. This dogma shatters as soon as it's subjected to critical analysis, and therefore such analysis is strictly forbidden. These groupthinkers actually hold many dogmas, one of which dictates that dogmas cannot be questioned. Note, that I'm referring to earthly matters, not religious matters that can't be verified by anyone.
If this was a troll, good job.
This is the third or fourth time during the past week that a leftist has suspected me of trolling because I have a differing opinion.
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Well, when the game was in development it looked really promising. I wasn't into NWN1 because its singleplayer was so lacking, but NWN2 seemed like it was putting more emphasis on the singleplayer campaign. I was also in desperate need of a good RPG. I guess I just wanted to really believe that the game wasn't as bad as the user reviews claimed.
The more hyped a game is, the more disappointed I am in it.
22 here. I played my brother's C-64 when I was little. Later on I bought an Amiga 500, though at that point it was starting to get phased out by the PC.
When I originally built my PC I hand picked everything, even the case, power supply and cooling fans (for the CPU and case). Since then I've had numerous technical issues and assorted headaches, and I'm not so enthusiastic about building stuff anymore. Still, I'm sure I'll once again hand pick every nut and bolt for my next build, though I'll probably have it assembled by the shop.
I know one instance were user reviews turned out to be spot on while professional reviewers were, frankly, full of shit and probably on the publisher's payroll. I am referring, of course, to Neverwinter Nights 2. It has a Metacritic rating of 82, while the user reviews were almost entirely negative. The official forums had two sticky threads, one for negative reviews and one for positive reviews. The negative thread was restarted about four times before the first positive one was even full (the threads were replaced with new ones after a certain amount of pages). The forums were overflowing with complaints. I ended up buying the game anyway, againts my better judgement.
The Middle-East is called the Middle-East for a reason. And yes, Christianity and Judaism formed in the same area, but that doesn't matter. They're still polar opposites with almost nothing in common.
I think that's semantics... the US has declared war on terrorists, and they are certainly not treated as legitimate combatants.
No. A lot of people don't have children, and a lot of people who do have children either store their gun in a safe manner or teach their children not to touch it.
A gun doesn't carry a risk either, if you are trained to use it. If firearms were such a huge risk to the user, I think the Finnish Defense Forces would have pretty bad mortality rates.
Yes, I think everyone knows that by now.
Except, of course, that they were Muslim terrorists who were preparing to launch a terrorist offensive for religious reasons, and they had equipment, they had trained for it and they planned for it.
It must be interesting to live in a world where every single instance of Islamic terrorism or planned terrorism didn't really happen or was staged by the government.
These same terrorists also planned to storm and blow up the Parliament, take hostages and then behead them if their demands were not met. They weren't simply buying nitrate for no apparent reason.
That's not a very good comparison. Me keeping a handgun next to my bed isn't going to harm anyone, and yes, the idea of carrying a gun, wearing a seatbelt or buying a fire alarm is to pre-empt problems, and there's hardly anything insane about that.
Not necessarily a recognized military force. A "military force" that wears no uniforms and adhers to no rules is hardly legitimate, and shouldn't be treated as such.
Well, if you reject anti-terror laws, then how do you propose to combat terrorism? Many people are againts anti-terror measures, but have no better solutions, or any solutions, to offer.
I first got errors. Then it froze all my browsers, and the problem persisted even after I restored my Firefox session. Lost a forum post I was making.
Blizzard's WoW site has never been very stable.
The Dark Ages aren't called the Dark Ages because they were the Age of Darkness where Evil ruled the Land. Look it up on Wikipedia.
The influence of Christianity is constantly downplayed because people hate Christianity and Western culture. I'm not sure what caused this immense and uncritical self-loathing in the Western world, but things like post-colonial guilt complex* and postmodernism are probably part of it.
* strangely enough, colonialism is never wrong if it's done by non-whites, but that's another story.
But Islam is not a Western religion... it's our polar opposite.
What three major Western religions? I can only think of Christianity and Judaism. What's the third? Also, is it possible that this fad of bashing Christianity* while systematically ignoring its achievements and importance could slowly go away?
* that's what people really refer to, even if they say something like "all organized religions."
They could and they did. I saw demonstration videos that used the same portal technology we see today. The game even had simple Havok-esque physics, though of course nothing like today's stuff.
As far as I know technical limitations prevent developers from making MMOFPS games at this point.
A 40K FPS doesn't sound appealing to me. How would it differ from any other FPS out there? You may as well play BF2142. I'd love to see a 40K game in the vein of the first Space Crusade, where you control a small team of Space Marines, with RPG elements.
Yeah, that post was gay.
Heh, another post arbitrarily modded as troll. You can't even predict this shit anymore.
It's not social, it's purely biological, and humans were around long before "society" emerged. A lot of human behavior is biological. Since reproduction is the key to keeping the species alive, it stands to reason that heterosexuality is a biological trait (because it takes a man and a woman to reproduce), and homosexuality is an abnormality of some sort (note to hysterical PC leftists: "abnormal" does not equal "kill them all in gas chambers").
Even animals exhibit homosexuality, and they certainly have no conscious ideas about how society should work.
Since when did I not?
Uh, what? I haven't even said anything about gays. Are you replying to the correct post?
CS:S comes with HL2, or at least in the original retail release it does. But it can be bought separately.
You're approaching the subject from the common perspective that all human beings are fundamentally the same, ie. adhere to contemporary Western values, whatever those values are at the current moment. What passes off as abnormal here might be perfectly normal elsewhere, and vice versa.
What sky daddy? I'm barely religious, and certainly not a practising Christian.
In my experience leftists are wannabe fascists who want to crush all dissent and force everyone to accept their dogmatic groupthink that isn't based on anything that could be called rational. I see it day after day, particularly here at Slashdot where any opinion that doesn't fit into the leftist mindset is modded flamebait or troll. Even my last post was modded troll, because leftists can't stand anyone who disagrees with them (and they're so laughably stupid that they didn't even realize they're proving my point by modding me down). They even "bury" Digg posts that they don't agree with. Their bullshit is exposed for what it is as soon as it's debated openly, so leftists stiffle debate as much as they can. Failing that, they simply insult the opposition.
Elaborate.
I wouldn't personally label myself anything, but I guess I'm on the right side of the political spectrum.
I have no opinion of that, except that change is not inherently good.
By the way, groupthink is defined like this:
I think it especially applies to leftists because they certainly never critically test any of their ideas, and dissent is aggressively supressed, even when it comes from outside the group. Groupthink in the sense that all or most members of the group share the same ideas is not what I'm referring to when I use the word (also, if the ideas can be independently verified through rational thinking, it's not really groupthink), and you also have to consider how harmful the groupthink is. Christians groupthinking that God exists is not harmful, whereas leftists groupthinking about critical issues like immigration or racism is extremely dangerous in the long term for a lot of people.
But simply put, I largely use the word as a derogatory term for people who hold an irrational dogma that's based on belief, hope and political correctness. This dogma shatters as soon as it's subjected to critical analysis, and therefore such analysis is strictly forbidden. These groupthinkers actually hold many dogmas, one of which dictates that dogmas cannot be questioned. Note, that I'm referring to earthly matters, not religious matters that can't be verified by anyone.
This is the third or fourth time during the past week that a leftist has suspected me of trolling because I have a differing opinion.