>> ^rich_magnet:

Maybe it's a language barrier, but I can't really tell what's happening in this reportage. I think I need to rewind and see it about 15 more times, in ever slower-mo. Maybe then I'll see what's going on.


Well this peace is so deep in subtext , I definitely think think its a valid commentary on the class system in India.

Ah Christians.

Rewind around a hundred years and you were all frightened of one another and never called yourselves christians. What you say? Methodist, Baptist, Quaker, Catholic, Lutheran - all these different groups thought of themselves as distinct and regarded the 'others' with suspicion. This was one of the reasons they all agreed to a separation of church and state to begin with.

Most of the 'Christians' fought against things like birth control (not just catholics - protestants of all ilks too), women's right to vote, the end of slavery, and tried to censor free speech.


If there is anything to be admired about Christianity is that it is amazing in its ability to adapt to the times. That is - completely contradict most of what it used to say.

Where did this guy go? I like his thought process before he goes off on a multi-comment rant.>> ^Cronyx:

(I split the following up into a few posts because it was too large.)
I don't claim to be an expert, or an authority on this stuff. I will say that I've been fascinated by it on a personal level for over ten years. It started back in the ZDtv days (before TechTV), when Michio Kaku was on an episode of Big Thinkers. I read anything I can get my hands on, and watch all material that comes my way.
Take the following for what it's worth, I'm not trying to proselytize an agenda, just share some of my private thoughts.
I've got a number of analogies I could use here for describing the entire (11 dimensional) universe. Two of my favorites are a VHS tape and hologram baseball card. They both kind of work the same way in so far as how they relate to the thought experiment. I'll explain both.
In the case of the VHS tape, it has your favorite movie on it. You know it word for word, line for line. You've seen it a hundred times. But no matter how many times you watch it, the story will always end the same way. But, from the point of view of the characters (I'm talking in a 4th wall sense; the characters themselves, not the actors playing them), have no idea what will happen next. In fact, the same was true for you the first time you saw the movie. There may have been some foreshadowing, but hell, there's some of that in real life too.
The point is, with the tape, you can fast forward, rewind, pause, browse the timeline however you choose. But the characters are oblivious to this. You aren't really manipulating their timeline, you're just browsing it for your own perspective. If you eject the tape though, you're holding the entire timeline. You've collapsed their universe into a 3 dimensional object. It only has a 4th dimension when you put it in the VCR. When you watch it. But even during the novel first experience of the initial viewing, the end of the story was there. It was always there, predetermined at the end of the tape.
On to the baseball card for a moment. Now, given various factors in the developing process, that hologram card has a lot more information than what you can see at one time, flat on. You have to tilt it one way or an other to get a different view -- to access more of the data. And yet, viewing the different angels don't create that data. Knowing they're there doesn't make them exist. It only makes you aware of them. Holding the card, you still hold all the potential that image has all at once, in that one object, even if you can't be privy to it all at once.

>> ^ChaosEngine:

I don't think yahtzee dislikes the idea of cover, just the stupid, context-sensitive, stuck-to-wall style of cover.
And as for regenerating health, it has a number of problems. First, it rewards not playing the game. Pinned down? Instead of making a tactical decision about the risk of a fraught run to get that health pack, you're waiting. It robs the game of tension.
And the devs hate this. So how do they counter? With endlessly respawning enemies until you reach a certain point. So you frequently end up making a frantic dash to what you hope is the next checkpoint instead of engaging the enemies.


I like the *cough* "stupid" context-sensitive style of cover. Rather than strafing back and forth, I just pull the left trigger. Instead of stupidly exposing my entire profile to fire, I only expose part of it.

Health packs don't result in me making a tactical decision to grab them during firefights. It makes me backtrack and search for health packs I passed by because I didn't need them at the time, but now need after my last firefight.

Also, the kind of tension you're talking about isn't about health packs, it's about death being some sort of big deal. Most games these days dying doesn't rewind you much, and they almost never just boot you back to the main menu and tell you to restore from your last save.

I think that's a good thing, because I find big death penalties to be a really lazy way for developers to try to get you emotionally involved in the gameplay. It can also easily backfire, and frustrate people to the point where they stop having fun, and decide to never buy another game in that series again.

Also, I've got a bone to pick with dag. Although you generally have great taste in movies, Knowing was fucking horrible. Fuh. King. Whore. Ih. Ball.

Issy and I had some friends over, and I said "Hey, I've got Knowing on DVD from Netflix."
"It got bad reviews"
"A friend with good taste recommended it"

Then we started it up and, like.... WOW. The plot, the twists. Yikes. The best part was the flaming moose...




... which we rewinded 5 or 6 times. It wasn't boring. I'll give it that much.

hah! i love the sound the 2nd guy makes.. i had to rewind to listen to it again.

waaaaoooooooU---

The fake rewind moves are very effective.

>> ^Yogi:

Whoa Wayne Brady lost weight.
and some hair..looks like he's developing a bald spot

@blankfist maybe it's just a spot of illness, but you're writing drivel.

You seem to be saying that entities can't own property. In reality, entities own lots of property. In fact, I'd go so far as to say virtually all the property of any significant (over $1 billion) value is owned by a corporation or government.

That's not a commentary on whether I think that's the way things should be, merely an assessment of how things actually are.

But let's sidestep this issue by rewinding the clock a bit. Say we were subjects of the British monarchy in the 1700's, and the allodial title to the land we lived and worked on belonged to King George.

Does he really have a stronger claim to the power to levy taxes and enforce laws than our more diluted system of government, simply because all the property belongs to a single person?

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I can't believe you admitted it. I am laughing the hardest I have laughed all day at what you said. I can hardly type....retype....retype....
>> ^legacy0100:

I Can't believe I just did that...
I find myself rewinding the video just to get a better look at this 77 year old woman's boobs. I am really confused as to what to make of myself right now.

I Can't believe I just did that...

I find myself rewinding the video just to get a better look at this 77 year old woman's boobs. I am really confused as to what to make of myself right now.

I keep rewinding and it gets funnier. It is like a more sadistic narcoleptic cat.

My favorite quote of the movie, took me 10 rewinds to remember it years ago! great post!