Quote from: Mr Psychologist on August 14, 2015, 03:54:00 PM

So how long have they been in that pool?

21+ hours

Oh so that's like, the very first bit you spawn in then?

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Quote from: Revolver Snake on August 13, 2015, 11:53:39 AM

Or you can emulate anything pre-DS and just buy yourself a 3DS.

Emulate anything that came out before Diamond and Pearl (FireRed/LeafGreen/Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald).

What is an emulator and what does it do?

It's a downloadable program for your PC that allows you to emulate a game's ROM for free.

It's stealing.
As in, illegal.
As in, bad.

Don't do it if you have any self-respect.

It's not illegal to play a ROM of a game you own, IIRC. That's the reason that site for ROM downloads wasn't immediately nuked.

Yeah pretty much, since you can theoretically make your own ROM without much of an issue playing a ROM of a game you already own is fine.

I used to play pokemon emulators when I'd lost the cartridges, I could have easily downloaded the ROMs for the most recent 3DS games at the time too, but I don't think that's right (nor is it legal) given that I didn't own them myself. Now that I do, I could but I'd rather play them on the 3DS anyway <.<

But yeah, emulators aren't inherently wrong at all.
If you are using them to avoid paying for content, then yeah that's obviously bad.

I gave up on the concept of forgiveness when I gave up on Christianity.

Maybe I shouldn't say that, because I haven't given up on it completely, but I have multiple people in my life who I have no desire to forgive, and I find there are a lot of people out there not worth forgiving at all, and ideally should not even exist in this world.

Despite this, my true limit to forgiveness is when someone shows absolutely no remorse for their actions. I draw the line there and decide to just get rid of them from my life or dismiss them as unworthy of forgiveness from anybody. Sometimes I question things unrelated to my own personal circumstances, though. I dunno if I can really hate someone like Jefferey Dahmer. Can the guy help what he did? Is he capable of controlling his impulses? I don't know, so I try to reserve absolute judgment of people in extreme cases like that.

But then I also look at people like Whitey Bulger or Stalin or someone like that and I don't see a mentally disturbed individual like Dahmer, I just see parasites who aren't worthy of life, let alone forgiveness.

Indeed, that is one of the things I've been thinking on a little more lately.

When I hear of some horrific crime committed, and you look at the person behind the action. Chances are that the root of that stems far far back, someone who molests a child was likely molested as one themselves. Cycles of abuse and all that.

It doesn't make their actions any less horrendous, but it makes it hard to condemn the person who committed them when they themselves were a victim of it at one point.

I have a few favourites, ones with nice simple morals/concepts behind them <.<

The Fox and the Stork, The Fox and the Grapes and Mao-Dun.

If you know aesops then the first two are probably easy to remember but I'll do a brief outline of them.

Fox and Stork
Fox invites the Stork for dinner and serves soup on a thin plate, the stork cannot eat the soup because of it's bill. The stork retaliates with an invitation to dinner for the fox, the fox is then presented with a soup served in a long thin jar - The fox cannot reach down into the jar to eat the soup but the stork can.

Do unto others, Do bad things and Karma will bitch slap you, One bad turn begets another.

Fox and the Grapes
Fox is walking along and spies some grapes hanging from a tall vine, he tries and tries to leap and eat the grapes but he is unable to. He walks away cursing the grapes stating how sour they must be.

If there is something you cannot have, but want, it's easy to become embittered towards it and to hate it out of spite.

Mao-Dun
A chinese parable I guess is the word that sums up balance, paradoxes and yin/yang pretty nicely.

A blacksmith is advertising his wares in the market and proclaiming his Spear (Mao) can pierce any armour. He then states that his Shield (Dun) will stop any blow. An onlooker asks what would happen if you attacked the shield with the spear, the blacksmith cannot answer.

There are a few ways to look at this
-Don't make claims that unravel when held next to one another, it makes you look like either a liar or a fool.
-There is no absolute, you cannot have something that is unstoppable and something that is immovable. At the same time, neither of those things can exist without the other and so neither exists in the first place. You cannot know something is immovable unless nothing can move it and that would require something unstoppable to go up against it.
-Then there is the yin/yang bit which the link explains quite nicely (Far better than I could) so I'll just copy and paste it here.

1.    Everything has an opposite.
2.    Yin and Yang make a whole.
3.    Embracing both polarities means peace and neutrality.
4.    There is no absolute Yin or Yang. There is always Yang existing in Yin, and Yin always existing in Yang.
5.    There is neither good nor bad, right nor wrong.
6.    Because of the interaction between Yin and Yang, everything in the universe is always in a state of change, so be patient.
7.    Create through being; accomplish without doing.
8.    Dance with the tides, but always be aware of where we are and who we are, so we will not be unconsciously driven by one of the polarities.
9.    This is a great gift while being in embodiment: to experience the polarities and paradox. So be grateful.
10.    Everything is important; nothing is important.

I'm not fully sold on that^, but it's a nice way to have the concept explained either way.

This thread is unavailable. It is awaiting Ninja Justice.

20 minutes isn't too bad for a response time to be honest.

Nothing like a certain incident a little while ago where a certain thread was bombarded by a certain user with all manner of depraved imagery for about 24+ hours.

I wanted it to turn into just seeing a mob of Fellow Gourdions™ kicking seven shades of shit out of him.

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on August 13, 2015, 03:52:19 PM

true grit - Not heard of <.<

Psy, I usually say this in jest, but now I mean it.
Kill yourself.

oh

Must be that killing myself is better than seeing this film, so I shall avoid it. Thanks for the heads up.

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on August 13, 2015, 02:03:34 PM

Maybe I'm just not seeing any but I struggle to think of a decent film released this side of 2010.

There have been some good ones sure, but none are really leaping out and screaming 10/10 at me. Can anyone just like, spit film names that they think are good from '10 onwards until I see something that isn't shit/meh/alright <_<

the kings speech
true grit
drive
the artist
midnight in paris
007: skyfall
argo
chronicle
john wick
birdman, or, the unexpected virtue of ignorance
nightcrawler
kingsman
mad max: fury road
ex machina

the kings speech - Got that one on the shelf near me, I hear good things but never had the push to watch it >_>
true grit - Not heard of <.<
drive - I'm just not even gonna go here because well, it's better that way.
the artist - Not heard of <.<
midnight in paris - Not heard of <.<
007: skyfall - Enjoyable, but Adele singing the intro soils the film fully for me.
argo - Heard of, missed the chance to see
chronicle - Rings a bell
john wick - Not heard of <.<
birdman, or, the unexpected virtue of ignorance - Heard of, was thinking of going to see it but for some reason that I don't remember I didn't and I subbed for one of my other friends who likes arty films a lot more than me >_>
nightcrawler - Heard of, I know it has Jarhead in it and uh... mordo had an avatar from it I think.
kingsman - Heard of, seems to be well received but um I never go to the cinema >_>
mad max: fury road - I do want to see that, not sure if I'll get to though.
ex machina - Same as the above, I think I already missed that one but netflix-senpai will save me I hope.

>_>

Maybe it's just me living under the rock and all that then, I struggle to watch films nowadays unless it's like 11/10 holy shit inject it into my veins because I just lose attention/interest >_>

I just... I've spoiled myself with video games I think. If I'm not actively shooting/dismembering/maiming/pillaging what is on the screen... it's hard to stay focussed. Unless what I see is doing that for me ala justified/the raid(2)/black lagoon etc

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on August 13, 2015, 02:00:12 PM

I hate how for bongs it means you have to go to GAME to get a code.

Even better dude, this time it's a Smyths store, which I've never seen one in my life

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/08/shiny_rayquaza_distribution_event_for_pokemon_omega_ruby_and_alpha_sapphire_launches_in_north_america

Ah for gods sake.

I know of one near me unless it's closed down, but jesus christ nintendo stop this idiocy pls.

I hate how for bongs it means you have to go to GAME to get a code.

!songrequest

If only I had a phone that could run it ;-;

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on August 13, 2015, 09:31:45 AM

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Quote from: Zonda on August 13, 2015, 09:27:11 AM

Are you Mojo

Numb Digger. Part troll, part shitposter, part edgelord. Yes, I am cancerous.

Well now, if it is you then it's good to see you around again >_>

Oh hey Psy! You're the muzzie britbong, right? Good times

Mashallah brother

I dunno mang

sometimes when i really think about it, computers amaze me

like these things are built from earthly materials and other not so earthly materials

its like how the fuck do you make this shit with inanimate materials

Because the omnissiah gives them life <_<

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on August 13, 2015, 03:22:09 AM

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Quote from: Mr Psychologist on August 12, 2015, 04:00:39 PM

Tim Roth and Boyd Crowder

e.e

I forget Boyd's actor's name but it doesn't matter, this should be a good film <.<

walton goggins

you know, im always happy when i find someone other than me who watched justified. that show was so good and walton goggins was SO perfect as boyd crowder.

Ye.e

It's easily one of my favourite shows, pisses me off to no end that they took it off bongnetflix a while ago. Is it still on the yank one? >_>
I might uhhh go on holiday there. Sporadically. From the comfort of my desk.

Ahem.

no clue, i dont have netflix but a quick googling reveals that we dont have it either

blyat

Ah well, time to buy the boxsets
RIP wallet