I have found my new favourite cheese: Abondance. Comes from France and tastes sorta smokey.

Deci isnt perma'd

Indeed, but he isn't perma'd afaik

10 days left on his current ban from the log

Damn, my mistake.

Ah feck it, why not.

Quote from: Trayvon Martinez on January 09, 2016, 02:42:26 PM

Just call everyone faggots and tell them to kill themselves and you'll fit in fine here.

Your avatar is creeping me out.  Faggot

He's got the hang of it lads.
Also, post your most controversial opinion on the Serious board (politely) and watch it go in flames.
Welcome to the madhouse.

Oh that's what I saw recently...

Was wondering why was there this trippy shit on Christmas TV.

Pineapple Juice

Give it a few weeks, probably Tequila and Cobra Beers.

lol.

Without piracy I wouldn't have found most of my favourite artists, whom after pirating one or two albums I then went on to legitimately buy them (and then some more), as well as t-shirts, live albums, gig tickets, etc...

While this is anecdotal, this certainly applies to others, even my mother who isn't exactly tech-savvy and discovers music through piracy and then buys shit-tonnes of albums soon afterwards._{Okay, that may have been anecdotal as well, but it shows it isn't just applying to an individual...} This is also backed by several studies showing that pirates buy more content than non-piraters (percentages and magnitudes vary depending on where the research came from).

They took a dive because either they sucked or they didn't spread the word about their music to get heard. The music industry itself that manage the whole thing are cancerous and don't really support artists unless they make it big or... well, making it big is the only way.



 

2nd Friday of the New Year...



Get in here

Quote from: Pysgnirish on January 07, 2016, 12:26:10 PM

I enjoyed reading that summary. I've got a few questions on the fringe;

If all life isn't worth living, how do you propose teaching this philosophy to other animals who strictly follow the hardwiring?
(Without infringing on an animal's free will or doing so inhumanely).

Fruit asked me the same question a couple weeks ago, and it's a great question to ask, and not one that I have a wonderfully developed answer for. Obviously, going out in the wild and manually sterilizing every animal in existence would be a ridiculously futile endeavor.

We'd have to come up with something like the suppression field from Half-Life 2. Not sure how that works--some form of electromagnetic radiation that's strong enough to kill sperm cells on contact, maybe? I dunno.

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Also, given that the end result is extinction, why deal with "lesser" problems such as sexism, animal cruelty, etc? Why attempt a utopia if the only apparent utopia is simply not existing at all?

Simple enough. An anti-natalist must come to terms with the fact that his ideas are vastly unpopular. People are going to be having children for many, many, many years from now. We're not going to make any real dents in the birthrate any time soon.

So, knowing that, it would be in the anti-natalist's best interest to do his part in making the world a better and more comfortable place to live in for all those inevitable sentient beings.

I mean, if we manage to get rid of hunger, poverty, and everything else that makes the world fucking suck, maybe procreation could be justifiable after all. But that's a tall, tall order.

That's the idea, though. We're not attempting a "utopia"--we're just trying to make the world suck less. The whole reason we're anti-natalists is because the world sucks so much--so why not do something about it?

That all sounds fair enough, thanks for answering.

Fallout 4 certainly picked up on the lacking gunplay of it's predecessors.

Humans and animals flinch a lot to gunfire, although enemies like supermutants still tank through damage unless you have a shotgun. And oh my god the guns are fantastic. Shotguns are still the meaty death dealers, but are joined with heavy sounding hunting rifles, 10mm pistols and even the weak plinky pipe weapons (which are supposedly hand-made, so it makes sense).

If you ever get round to it, play NV and 4 as well, in that order.

Thank you for that absolutely pointless bit of information.

I enjoyed reading that summary. I've got a few questions on the fringe;

If all life isn't worth living, how do you propose teaching this philosophy to other animals who strictly follow the hardwiring?
(Without infringing on an animal's free will or doing so inhumanely).

Also, given that the end result is extinction, why deal with "lesser" problems such as sexism, animal cruelty, etc? Why attempt a utopia if the only apparent utopia is simply not existing at all?

Something that wasn't discussed because it resulted in a teacher getting convicted of paedophilia. Rumours spread of a girl in sixth form getting sexually harassed led to some investigation, and away it went. Got into the local news and all.

Other than that, there was the occasional incident when one of the kids from the special ed. class tore apart a classroom  or headbutted a window. And the odd pregnancy scare, although one girl in the year below (15 years old or something) had a child.

Oh and one of the learning support teachers (for one of the disabled kids) had her period in the middle of a class, it pooled into the seat and the lesson was abandoned.

Almost certainly not smoothly for competitive play. I'm not even sure you could get it to reach 24 fps unless you stared at the sky or the walls for the entire game.

Best you can manage is if you put all the settings to Very low or Off where possible, and modify the Steam properties to run it at a lower DirectX level. "-dxlevel 81" forces the game to run in DirectX 8.1, a great boost for Source games at the cost of quality. Anything lower starts to get too crap to play e.g. "-dxlevel 80" or it crashes, e.g. "-dxlevel 70".

That's a strange day to do that...

I might end up on a Wiki-binge, but nothing overly scientific unless it already piqued my interest.