AFAIK playing with toy guns is a staple of growing up for ~every boy.

This story sounds nutty.

-scheherazade

This needed to be the first post!

Referenced article can be found here:
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2013-05-09-1.html

Card very clearly qualifies that the quoted statements are entirely a 'what if Obama decided to act like Stalin or Hitler' mental exercise and not his personal beliefs. The stuff he throws in prior as his actual opinion is far more moderate and not nearly so nutty. This has gotta be one of the lowest points I've seen from Cenk...

So wait. They make the game on PC, squeeze it on console hardware...and then don't announce a PC release? I thought the idea of developing just for consoles meant you could fine tune the engine for specific hardware, but you say that they make a PC "version" and then scale it backwards. Sounds nutty.

I'd wager a lot of this stuff IS running on the ingame engine, in real time, but that its heavily scripted with very little actually interactivity.

Anyway. The heist focus sounds cool. Also, for me GTA is a driving game at heart. I used to do laps of Vice City in the Sabre Turbo trying to beat my best time. Shooting at people was a minigame inbetween driving. If they can flesh out the minigame thats cool, just not at the expense of driving.

As nutty as he is, I find him irresistibly endearing.

One day he's going to do this to the wrong kind of squirrel, and while he's standing there cackling and congratulating himself on another of man's triumphs over nature, the squirrel is going to unfurl her little arm flaps, perform a graceful 180 degree bank and enter a steep high-speed dive, razor-sharp incisors leading, and screaming death from above as she homes in on her new found nutty prey.

Kinetic energy is their ally. Never forget.

>> ^Kofi:

I get the feeling that if you grew up with the Harry Potter paradigm then she was someone you had a crush on. Now that she is grown up it's legitimate to sexualize her. No doubt she is pretty but she still seems like a 12 year old to me. Cute, yes. Sexy? Nope.

I didn't grow up with it--I lived through the entire 80s and 90s. I have never seen a single Harry Potter anything and I have no desire to do so. I don't find her "sexy" or "attractive" or "cute" or anything like that, and suggesting that someone would dig on underage chicks says a lot more about you than it does about the person you're accusing of such a thing.

>> ^Quboid:


I think she's very hot (and I haven't seen any Harry Potter films and don't have any weird under-age mental images) but the 'net's opinion of her seems nutty. Why do people think she's any less vacuous or self centred than anyone else? I can't help but feel that it's at least 90% because they find her attractive, which is ironically vacuous.

She is slightly pretty, but hot? I'll have to disagree with you there. Her hairy upper lip doesn't really do it for me. I find her rather average. Maybe it's the "girl next door" thing she has going on that get some guys feeling all tingly. No idea.

>> ^ForgedReality:

I honestly don't understand the big deal about her...


I think she's very hot (and I haven't seen any Harry Potter films and don't have any weird under-age mental images) but the 'net's opinion of her seems nutty. Why do people think she's any less vacuous or self centred than anyone else? I can't help but feel that it's at least 90% because they find her attractive, which is ironically vacuous.

>> ^PlayhousePals:
>> ^pumkinandstorm:
Awwww, he seems so afraid of something...poor kitty.

hmmm ... I interpreted it as a neurotic cat that was probably like this on occasion. Not too scared or it would have ripped that guy petting it to shreds! Too much of the old nip perhaps ... who knows. It's the same sound some cats get when you scratch the base of their tail [neither of mine do however] =o)


Kitty crack!!! That would explain it! Damn nip makes them all so nutty.

Those nutty Canadians!!

and, if you will bear with my nuttiness and take a logical leap with me:

at the heart of climate change is a psychological issue: an entire species that acts as if the world revolves around them. each unique little special snowflake.

if you are teaching your kids this, you are perpetuating the problem.

>> ^shagen454:

The guy has to be a little crazy to do that. Not that I find anything really wrong with it and I love that he did it; but the guy is obviously a little nutty.


You'd have to be crazy to go to all that effort and then not even break in and steal the thousands of dollars of camera equipment inside... Shit, that one still camera looked REALLY nice. There was other equipment in there too.

If they can afford that kind of hardware and just leave it out on the side of the road and drain the battery, why can't they pay some rent-a-cop to do the same thing?

The guy has to be a little crazy to do that. Not that I find anything really wrong with it and I love that he did it; but the guy is obviously a little nutty.

"mmmmm.....nutty"

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Then, in that same vein - could you make the case that religion is not necessarily the cause of atrocities either. Correlation is not causation. Or in other words - Nutty sociopaths may be religious - but it's not why they commit atrocities - just a side effect.

>> ^Fletch:

^ Not completely true, and I would argue that the cult of personality surrounding Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Mussolini, et al, is at the very root of religion. They may or may not have been atheists, but they were definitely using religion of a sort to gain and keep power. Dogma is dogma, and blind faith in dogma or a leader IS religion, whether that faith is whipped up through nationalist rhetoric or pious devotion to a deity. "Christian" is just a different flavor on the same banana split.
Hirohito was viewed as a living god. Hitler killed Jews because he felt it was god's will. This whole "atheism was responsible for the Holocaust" bullshit is just that... tired bullshit. It's the reactionary mantra and selective parsing of history by blissfully-ignorant religious zealots who can't compute, or, just refuse to accept the utter devastation religion has wreaked on the human species IN THE NAME OF GOD.
Lack of belief is not a belief, and connecting atheism to 20th century atrocities is several logical fallacies all rolled into one dumb assertion. Believing it and saying it over and over doesn't make it true, and just because some murderous bastard was an atheist doesn't mean some nutter's concept of atheism was the cause.
>> ^dag:
^Shiny makes a good point - Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot - the biggest baddies of the 20th, we're all atheists. Might it be that extremist ideologies of any kind are the problem?

On the bright side the only place this BS appears is on nutty christo networks and a little site that sifts talking cats.