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Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee! Java! Mochachino! (Grant Heslov's best scene in Dante's Peak)

You kiddos are aware that this was faked...they were hired actors by the game developer, EA.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31125247/ns/technology_and_science-games/

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174773

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/05/ea-confirms-dantes-inferno-protest-was-staged/

This is from "I'm Alan Partridge: Series 2". Steve Coogan at his best.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Partridge

This particular episode ends with one of my under appreciated sifts.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Alan-Partridge-Dante-Fireplaces

Dune - Frank Herbert
The Divine Comedy - Dante
Paradise Lost - Milton
1984 - George Orwell
The Little Prince

Thus Spoke Zarathushtra - Nietzsche
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Dhammapada
Othello - Shakespeare
The Divine Comedy - Dante
The Fabric of Reality - David Deutsch
Sophie's choice - William Styron
Le petit Nicolas - Jean-Jacques Sempé

>> ^EDD:
Unless they borrow heavily (gameplay-wise) from Shadow of the Colossus, which they should if they plan to have any meaningful references to Alighieri's poem, it will probably be a God of War clone more than anything.


Yeah, a God of War clone is exactly what came to my mind while watching this trailer. Meh.

The Divine Comedy is one of the best books ever written. I might have expected a game based on the books to have a more paced, problem-solving gameplay/atmosphere rather then devil-may-cry action.

In the books, the main character, Dante, is a poet, not a warrior. He was something of a coward who needed constant encouragement from his guide, Virgil, who saves him from becoming lost in hell more than once, and actually leads him through. (Though to be fair, what living soul wouldn't be frightened of the hell Dante describes?)

But still, the artwork looks imaginary and wonderful. I am interested to see how they adapt the story. It may even be a good game.

>> ^supersaiyan93:
It's sad that so many people got effected by the greed at Citi, and I do genuinely feel bad for the 35,000 people losing their jobs. However, there is NO sympathy from me if Citi were to go under tomorrow.

^Agreed absolutely.

>> ^rougy:
You know who needs a taste of the ol' hammer?
Those credit card fuckers.
One of mine just raised their default APR to 29.4%.
It's legalized loan-sharking and it has to be stopped.


^The interest those credit card fuckers have been charging you and me and everyone else effectively devalues the money honest folk earn every day. It's a tax on money that isn't going to the government (which, arguably would do something useful with at least SOME of it), but into the pockets of the pocket picking CEOs at companies like Citi (who have a place carved out for them in Hell according to Dante).

Perhaps President Obama's words three months ago were more than a PR move. Here's hoping his efforts towards improving relations between government and American Indians gets approved in the Senate.

• Play Video Video: Obama, GOP leaders meet on stimulus AP
WASHINGTON – American Indians stand to gain almost $3 billion as part of the economic stimulus moving through Congress, money that could help some of the nation's poorest communities rebuild roads, improve health care and boost employment that has lagged behind the rest of the country for decades.
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday included $2.8 billion for Indian tribes in its portion of the nearly $900 billion economic stimulus bill, and a House version to be voted on Wednesday includes a similar amount. That includes hundreds of millions of dollars for schools, health clinics, roads, law enforcement and water projects.
Dante Desiderio, an economic development policy specialist at the National Congress of American Indians, which has lobbied for the money for the past year, calls the bill a "once in a lifetime opportunity" for tribes.
"It really has the potential to lift our communities out of poverty," Desiderio said.
Indian Country has a long way to go in terms of reviving tribal economies. According to the National Congress of American Indians, real per-capita income of Indians living on reservations is still less than half the national average, unemployment is twice that of the rest of the country, and eight of the 10 poorest counties in the United States are on reservations.
That group originally asked for $6.1 billion in the stimulus, an amount that they said would generate more than 50,000 jobs.
"It's not going to allow them to catch up, but its a significant boost," said North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee who inserted the money into the stimulus. "This is a group of Americans who have been left behind in many of the basic needs of life."
Julie Kitka, president of the Alaska Federation of Natives, asked Congress for stimulus dollars at a Senate Indian Affairs hearing earlier this month. She describes chronically underfunded Indian and Native Alaskan communities as "emerging economies" similar to developing countries around the world that can be hardest hit by an economic downturn. She says this is a chance for tribes to boost their economies for years to come
"It's an opportunity to do things right," she said.

1 - The Stand - Stephen King : In my opinion, one of the best fiction books ever penned.

2 - The Dark Tower (series) - Stephen King : The sheer richness of his created worlds just blow my mind. Dynamic characters absolutely litter the plot. His incorporation of various different stories from history and from his own works make for great fantasy.

3 - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever - Stephen R. Donaldson : This serious is just mind-bogglingly good. I love a hero I can hate, pity, and admire at the same time.
3b - The Pearlsong Refounding - Michael D. Warden : This is an odd sort of clone of Thomas Covenant, with a Christian sort of background. I actually like this story even more than Donaldson's, but since it's not quite original, I only put it as a side note.

4 - The Christ Clone Trilogy - James BeauSigneur : Terrible title, great series. Take the Left Behind style end of the world story and give it to someone who can actually write well and this is what you get. It certainly starts out slow, but picks up to be a unique perspective on the Christian end of the world scenario. It's by no means a "best book" but I really enjoyed its perspective. There are two printings of this series. If you're interested, get the first one! They totally nerfed the second printing, cut out a lot of the violence and basically a lot of the reality.

5 - Return to Earth (series) - Orsen Scott Card : Card might be the best living fantasy/sci-fi writer we still have living. This is only number 5 on my list rather than higher due to the fact that it sort of pitters out at the end like most Card novels. It's essentially loosely based on Card's Mormon theology. If you liked Dune, you'll probably like this one too. It deals very much with social issues involved with maintaining power and control... plus any book that takes place 11 million years into the future has got to be fun.

Honorable mentions:
The Inferno - Dante (The other two in this series however, meh)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Colridge
This Present Darkness - Frank Peretti
Paradise Lost - Milton (Paradise Regained however, meh)
Dune - Frank Herbert

BTW, I did enjoy the Chronicles of Amber (@ whoever recommended it to me a while back). Thanks.

The original question was, "Why is/isn't life sacred to you" so I'll try to stick to that. You actually had a number of different topics in your original question, but I'll do my best and take a stab at it (a rather ironic saying, considering we're talking about sanctity of human life and I want to stab at it).

First of all, why? For me personally, it's because I'm a Christian and believe all people are made in the image of God (you asked why). That makes human life pretty darn sacred to me. So even though our reasons behind it are probably very different, I would still agree with thepinky in saying that human life should be preserved at almost any cost.

However, just preserved just doesn't cut it. To live doesn't simply mean to exist. As a Christian I would say that life includes relationships with my neighbors (and I don't just mean my physical ones), a relationship with God, exploring our world and being good stewards of the Earth, promoting education, creative arts, and peace between different nations and people groups, and a whole slew of other things. In the Old Testament, death was not merely ceasing to exist, but the opposite of life. So the promotion of life is very important to me because of what I believe (again, you asked why), but it means a lot more than simply keeping someone alive in the physical sense.

In your example of the friendless suffering person I do think keeping him/her alive is the ethical choice, but you can't really stop there. Actually caring for the person means looking into why he/she is suffering and to be a friend. Going out of your way time and time again to be a friend to a depressed person can be irritating and time-consuming, but being ethical is not about the easy-route.


By the goodness of God we mean nowadays almost exclusively His lovingness; and in this we may be right. And by Love, in this context, most of us mean kindness--the desire to see others than the self-happy; not happy in this way or in that, but just happy.

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, "What does it matter so long as they are contented?" We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven--a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves," and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all." Not many people, I admit would formulate a theology in precisely those terms; but a conception not very different lurks at the back of many minds. I do not claim to be an exception; I should very much like to live in a universe which was governed on such lines. But since it is abundantly clear that I don't, and since I have reason to believe, nevertheless, that God is Love, I conclude that my conception of loves needs correction.

I might, indeed, have learned, even from the poets, that Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness; that even the love between the sexes is, as in Dante, "a lord of terrible aspect." There is kindness in Love; but Love and kindness are not coterminous, and when kindness (in the sense given above) is separated from the other elements of Love, it involves a certain fundamental indifference to its object, and even something like contempt of it. Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object--we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering. As Scripture points out, it is bastards who are spoiled; the legitimate sons, who are to carry on the family tradition, are punished. It is for people who we care nothing about that we demand happiness on any terms; with our friends, our lovers, our children, we are exacting and would rather see them suffer much than be happy in contemptible and estranging modes. If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense. - C.S. Lewis The Problem of Pain

>> ^spawnflagger:
can someone give the whole list, along with what game the character is from?


Solid Snake - Metal Gear Solid series
Mushroom - Mario series
Alucard - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Goombah - Mario series
Sonic
Yoshi - Mario series
Mega Man
Pikachu - Pokemon series
Kratos - God of War series
Link - Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker / Phantom Hourglass
Cloud - Final Fantasy VII & spinoffs
can't make this one out
Samus Aran - Metroid series
Kirby - Kirby series
Donkey Kong
Big Daddy - BioShock
Master Chief - Halo series
Triforce - mystical object from Zelda games
Dante - Devil May Cry series
Sackboy - Little Big Planet

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"De Monarchia (pronounced Monàrchia) is a treatise on secular and religious power by Dante Alighieri. With this Latin text, the poet intervened in one of the most controversial subjects of his period: the relationship between secular authority (represented by the Holy Roman Emperor) and religious authority (represented by the Pope). Dante's point of view is known on this problem, since during his political activity he had fought to defend the autonomy of the city-government of Florence from the temporal demands of pope Boniface VIII."