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6841
« on: October 13, 2015, 11:50:04 AM »
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6842
« on: October 13, 2015, 11:10:24 AM »
And yet we have an holiday where an old man reverse-burglarizes your house and spoils your children, and a holiday where we celebrate the rise of a lich.
Hypocrites, all of you.
6843
« on: October 13, 2015, 09:14:21 AM »
You're arguing whether horse shit or cow shit is better.
6844
« on: October 13, 2015, 09:11:12 AM »
"Lots of heart"
Wait, you get points for trying now? It's not a science fair project, it's a product.
6845
« on: October 13, 2015, 08:01:25 AM »
I hate all of you.
Nah. Stop acting edgy because you spent time in the clink, you're still drunky lazy Dassypoo.
Prison changes a man, babe.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have an appointment at the tattoo parlor to make. I'm finally getting my swastika and sig runes.
Make sure to get them somewhere easy to hide, wouldn't want to have anything nasty happen to your cozy Guard job.
6846
« on: October 13, 2015, 07:56:37 AM »
I hate all of you.
Nah. Stop acting edgy because you spent time in the clink, you're still drunky lazy Dassypoo.
6847
« on: October 13, 2015, 07:54:26 AM »
Using literally in situations that aren't literal. I find myself doing it all the time now, and I hate myself and want to die for it.
6848
« on: October 13, 2015, 07:46:06 AM »
To explain something or to learn something new. It may not seem like it after a heated discussion, but I don't think anybody can think straight if tensions are running high.
6849
« on: October 13, 2015, 12:36:12 AM »
I don't know about you, but no, I am definitely not made of sediment or volcanic ash. This isn't about "interfaces", we aren't monitors or touchscreens; our consciousness is the result of the brain. No brain (or equivalent) means no ability to comprehend existence.
When you break it all down it's all the same stuff; atoms, subatomic particles, oscillating fields. What I'm saying is that I believe that, while consciousness is the result of the brain, perceptual experience is a step beyond that and is not a result of the brain, but instead feeds out some data on the brain's state in the form of experience. I say this because while everything about my body and brain changes all the time, my experience and perception, as a thing unto itself, seems not to.
Perception is a result of consciousness; consciousness doesn't occur without a brain-equivalent. And if your perceptions have never changed, you might want to get your noggin' checked. That sounds like a learning disability to me.
6850
« on: October 13, 2015, 12:34:19 AM »
Consent can be broken if it's for a greater cause. I'm not going to go into detail-- because that's when things seem to get nitpicky-- but utility is a great indicator that something is going right.
6851
« on: October 13, 2015, 12:29:58 AM »
Actually I sometimes wonder if it's possible to "exist" as a rock.
Rocks don't have brains, or anything comparable to brains; they are just pieces of compacted sediment. You can't exist as a rock, no.
Rocks are made of the same things humans are, friend. So long as I cannot identify what "part" of me enables me to be here and experience this, I will conclude that such an interface may be more adaptable than that.
I don't know about you, but no, I am definitely not made of sediment or volcanic ash. This isn't about "interfaces", we aren't monitors or touchscreens; our consciousness is the result of the brain. No brain (or equivalent) means no ability to comprehend existence.
6852
« on: October 13, 2015, 12:27:50 AM »
How does that precise firing of electrical signals contain that specific idea, or thought?
My best explanation is that they don't carry "ideas", but your brain is hard coded to remember stimuli. "Muscle memory" is an example of that; you don't consciously know what you're doing, it's just an evolutionary response to adapt to your environment. If that means learning algebra, then your brain remembers the conditions in which it was stimulated in such a way that it sets a precedent for future encounters to be used and built upon.
6853
« on: October 13, 2015, 12:23:46 AM »
Actually I sometimes wonder if it's possible to "exist" as a rock.
Rocks don't have brains, or anything comparable to brains; they are just pieces of compacted sediment. You can't exist as a rock, no.
6854
« on: October 13, 2015, 12:16:53 AM »
would everything you've been through ever be justified in this life? Like, would anything ever make it all worth it for you?
I don't live my life with the intention of eternal salvation or damnation. Why would I need to justify my existence in the first place? I didn't really ask to be born in the first place, why is it my job to come up with a reason for it?
Life is what you make it. If life's down, it's because you've failed your ambitions or goals for yourself, not because you didn't live up to a book's definition of being a good person.
And I don't think being fertilizer really counts as an "experience"; you wouldn't even be unconsciously aware of it, much less consciously. Because you're dead.
No, not justify your existence, I was referring to justifying all the trouble a person will go through. Some people might be inclined to think that nothing in this life will ever make up for all the trouble they've experienced.
Uhm, sure, I don't disagree with that.
And I never said conscious, did I? That's what makes the whole thing interesting.
Well, that's what I was getting at; you don't need to justify life, because it's not something that really can be. Your life didn't start of your accord and (hopefully) it won't end of your accord. You don't get the choice, so there's no reason to try justifying it. You get the hand you're dealt, end of story. And that's stretching the OP a bit; it's pretty obviously referring to the concept of an afterlife or extended state of the brain's consciousness post-mortem.
6855
« on: October 13, 2015, 12:08:24 AM »
Damn right I would.
I'm going to die by a stroke when I turn 58?
Shit let's find out how I manage to survive a fall from the Empire State, this shit will make me famous.
You literally know that you will not die from anything other than what you witnessed. You can do fucking anything.
Start raping and pillaging even.
What are the cops going to do?
Shoot you?
You aren't destined to die by gunshot.
Unless you find out that you were flayed to death. That would suck to know.
Inject yourself with heroin before the time of death.
It would eventually wear off, and then you'd be flayed and have a heroin-hangover. It's not like you could overdose and die, either because that's not how you were destined to.
6856
« on: October 13, 2015, 12:05:33 AM »
Damn right I would.
I'm going to die by a stroke when I turn 58?
Shit let's find out how I manage to survive a fall from the Empire State, this shit will make me famous.
You literally know that you will not die from anything other than what you witnessed. You can do fucking anything.
Start raping and pillaging even.
What are the cops going to do?
Shoot you?
You aren't destined to die by gunshot.
Unless you find out that you were flayed to death. That would suck to know.
6857
« on: October 13, 2015, 12:01:36 AM »
I wouldn't blame the push for stricter moderation for this; one of the biggest remarks at the time was the lack of consistency in moderation. Strict moderation is supposed to make that simpler; less grey, more lock or not lock, ban or not ban.
6858
« on: October 12, 2015, 11:57:06 PM »
Do you honestly not understand the kind of message that you'd be conveying, that those states are conveying, by spreading this message?
That you can selectively choose which parts of history you can remember, and how to remember them? That's completely true though :^)
6859
« on: October 12, 2015, 11:55:08 PM »
would everything you've been through ever be justified in this life? Like, would anything ever make it all worth it for you?
I don't live my life with the intention of eternal salvation or damnation. Why would I need to justify my existence in the first place? I didn't really ask to be born in the first place, why is it my job to come up with a reason for it? Life is what you make it. If life's down, it's because you've failed your ambitions or goals for yourself, not because you didn't live up to a book's definition of being a good person. And I don't think being fertilizer really counts as an "experience"; you wouldn't even be unconsciously aware of it, much less consciously. Because you're dead.
6860
« on: October 12, 2015, 11:45:18 PM »
My own thoughts:
Uh, yeah, like, pumping more money into mental health isn't going to solve the problem that you can't force people to seek help, and that some folks like Seung-Hui Cho or James Holmes are loners who aren't going to have someone else report or refer them to mental health services. And they're sure as hell not going to think "hey, I'm not doing so well, I should seek help." If they cared about their own safety or that of others, or were able to do so, they would not have done what they did.
And making 'more beds' in psych wards is only going to put more pressure on an already overburdened health care industry (more spending isn't going to solve the problem of simply lacking enough manpower as is), and probably result in frivolous diagnoses similar to the prison industry and mass incarceration, because some places are only in it for the money, and more occupied beds = more profits.
Less than 3% to 5% of all US crimes involve people with mental illness, and the percentages of those crimes actually involving guns is lower than the national average of these crimes commited by people without a mental illness.
I call bullshit; something like half of the prisoners in the US (or globally) have ASPD.
Erm, got a source for that? I'm inclined to believe that the US' ginormous incarceration rate might make that untrue, but don't quote me on that, figuratively speaking.
Seena Fazel and John Danesh released a study in 2002 on it: 62 surveys from 12 countries included 22 790 prisoners (mean age 29 years, 18 530 [81%] men, 2568 [26%] of 9776 were violent offenders). 3·7% of men (95% CI 3·3–4·1) had psychotic illnesses, 10% (9–11) major depression, and 65% (61–68) a personality disorder, including 47% (46–48) with antisocial personality disorder. 4·0% of women (3·2–5·1) had psychotic illnesses, 12% (11–14) major depression, and 42% (38–45) a personality disorder, including 21% (19–23) with antisocial personality disorder. Although there was substantial heterogeneity among studies (especially for antisocial personality disorder), only a small proportion was explained by differences in prevalence rates between detainees and sentenced inmates. Prisoners were several times more likely to have psychosis and major depression, and about ten times more likely to have antisocial personality disorder, than the general population. This is due in no small part to deinstitutionalization in the US; instead of ending up in a psych ward, most people with severe mental illness end up homeless or in jail.
6861
« on: October 12, 2015, 11:34:44 PM »
I mean, I'm all for exposing government muck-ups, but exposing the identities of undercover agents is kind of a shit thing to do.
you should get on steam some time
Tomorrow, I should be asleep right now tbh
6862
« on: October 12, 2015, 11:33:03 PM »
Happy COLUMBUS day.
Fuck indigenous people. If they're so smart, how come they're all dead.
and an unwillingness for inter-cooperation until it was too late.
Reminder that the Iroquois destroyed an entire group of Native Americans (Algonquins, a loose confederacy of hundreds of tribes linked by a common language) after the French settled in NA. Reminder that, even during Pontiac's Rebellion, Native Americans sided with the colonists. Reminder that the Apache were warmongers who didn't care who they fought as long as they got to bully someone. It wasn't until Pontiac's Rebellion that there was even a semblance of unison among the hundreds of native American tribes, and even then he only got as far as he did because of the Delaware Prophet. The whole "noble savage" meme needs to die off. They were responsible for atrocities and amazing feats of their own accord, like any other "civilization" (quoted because I wouldn't exactly call the conglomerate of cultures one civilization honestly). Just like Europeans, they had their own struggles with each other over hunting grounds, status, and revenge.
6863
« on: October 12, 2015, 11:26:44 PM »
I mean, I'm all for exposing government muck-ups, but exposing the identities of undercover agents is kind of a shit thing to do.
6864
« on: October 12, 2015, 11:24:01 PM »
Hanna-Barbera cartoons
Star Wars
Pokémon
Useless trivia
6865
« on: October 12, 2015, 11:21:38 PM »
The only Season pass I've ever considered buying is the one for the Witcher 3, and that's actually because I wanted to support to the devs for a game I really love
I've just decided to buy the first DLC for now though >.>
It's not downloading for some reason though ;_____;
I thought TW3's DLC was free?
DLC is free, expansions aren't.
6866
« on: October 12, 2015, 10:34:52 PM »
remove all anime mods
Yeah, we need more manga mods.
#ねこ4Mod2016
Every edit comes with your choice of a Jon or a Tron!
6867
« on: October 12, 2015, 10:31:57 PM »
remove all anime mods
Yeah, we need more manga mods.
6868
« on: October 12, 2015, 09:59:56 PM »
I'll probably wait for a discount for many reasons.
1. Bugs/Balance
2. Price drop
3. The above two
Plus I'll be on Fallout 4 and another game which is escaping me right now.
Luci, you can't make a third reason that just restate other reasons. That's cheating.
6869
« on: October 12, 2015, 07:52:37 PM »
yeah, of course its more complex than i may have made it seem. but just opening a dialogue with the consumers/gauging their approval (without just looking at dollar signs and units sold) is what im really aiming for. thats all i want, is transparency and accountability.
If I seem apathetic about season passes, that's only half-true. I realize that there are issues with the game industry and that this is going to take a lot of time, effort, and good-luck on the part of consumers to fight this. Nobody wins by suing McDonalds; complaining about EA won't do anything. They've won worst company of the year for the past three years or so, right?
You don't win by complaining about season passes, you win by 1) not buying them, and 2) supporting developers who interact with their consumers, provide content for a reasonable price, and release a complete and quality product. Create examples of developers doing the right thing, and how that works out well for the developer. That gives incentives for others to follow suit.
well yeah duh.
but the thing is, you can affect consumer interest by spreading the good word that company x is selling a piece of shit. am i, azumarill, a lone faggot, going to make everyone stop buying call of duty? nope. but a bunch of different people talking shit about something sure can make it get real unpopular real quick.
I just disagree with that. Any publicity is good publicity. EA was awarded Worst Company of the Year two years in a row, they're publicly known as the company who destroys developers/turns them into shells of their former selves, and are self-aware of their notoriety enough to make their new CEO the villain of Mirror's Edge: Catalyst. Negative advertising just doesn't work here; all you can do is spend your money elsewhere.
6870
« on: October 12, 2015, 07:48:45 PM »
then you respond by not taking my post at face value.
youre gonna need to clarify this.
I explain that I'm genuinely trying to have a discussion with you, and that I don't understand why you think I'm being sarcastic
Then you respond by telling me I'm still being sarcastic and snarky. Again, sorry, but would that not make you a bit flustered to constantly have your responses being read out of context because of an imagined issue? I've never had problem with you, Azu, but I would be lying if I said that this back and forth hasn't put me off from talking to you for a bit. It's a bit frustrating.
ill own up to my fair share of improper conduct. i would just like for you to answer for this:
"I'm flustered because you'd imply that I didn't read the OP. I read it, and what I got was that everyone is making a mountain of a molehill here. Circlejerks are for teenage boys experimenting with their sexuality, not discussion.
And if you've gathered that impression of me from this thread, then you're sadly wrong; I'm just reserving my judgement for when we actually know something instead of being a reactionary half-wit."
If you don't see where I might have been a bit offended there, idk what to tell you.
Okay, straight up, I was trying to make a funny with the first one, not be snarky. That was supposed to lighten the mood, not make it worse.  And the second part was referring more to the entire reactionary nature of this thread, but I can concede that it was snarky. In my defense, you had already accused me of not reading the OP (to my knowledge at the time, because again, wasn't trying to be snarky ) which made me a little mad. If I talk about something, I like to know what I'm talking about first; implying that I'm ignoring blatant information is something that I take a bit insultingly. I just yelled at Verb for it the other day when he brought up an old argument, if you'd like consistency to back that.
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