Marcvs Caesar
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If I'm not mistaken "niger" is the latin word for black. Why is it "offensive"?
Its really irrespective what words use to mean, its what they symbolize now that matters
What does it symbolyze? Is it related to the Atlantic slave trade?
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If I'm not mistaken "niger" is the latin word for black. Why is it "offensive"?
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I never fully understood "antisemitism", from my perspective Judaism is the least worst of the Abrahamic religions. Is it a product of christian mythology?
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What's "Australia" doing among those six continents? Don't tell me you think Australia is a continent...
Australia is counted as continent in all generally used landmass continent divination systems but three continent divination (Afro-Eurasia, America, Antarctica).
Commonwealth of Australia, Australia as short has got it name from Continent that it locates, same way as United States of America is sometimes called America, although acronym USA is more popular.
Sometimes term Oceania is used to denote Australia continent, even though it is officially name for region that locates about in same area, although both Oceania and Australia (continent) have regions that other don't have. In technical content other terms to used to denote Australia continent are Sahul, Australinea or Meganesia (from wikipedia), when there is need to distinguish it from the Australian mainland.
Although in questionnaires and even generally speaking term Oceania is preferred as Micronesia and Polynesia aren't part of any continent (in continent divination systems that are based on landmass continents).
This is the first time I have seen the term "Australia" being used.
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What's "Australia" doing among those six continents? Don't tell me you think Australia is a continent...
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Which should go to show that we don't really care whether someone finds something offensive.
Then you're against political correctness! Wonderful.
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Is that better or worse when being offensive is considered politically correct?I consider political correctness offensive.
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Oh man, that was deep thoughts. Too much coffee again.
That is offensive, I expected better from a moderator.
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I consider political correctness offensive.
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About to begin watching Attack on Titan? Worth a damn?
Yes.
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"Adult language"? You mean vulgar language.
Madscientist, you are certainly entitled to your opinion! Although, they would never have made those thing's sensored had it not been for the research that has shown over the past few decades the games kid's and the troubled people who were playing were directly related to the mass shootings and massacre's involved. Not everyone playing a game will go on a shooting spree or hack their family up with an axe because they saw it in a movie or a game, but as a content creator there is a level of integrity involved because you're planting seeds into peoples minds. It get's taken a step further when the mechanic in the game is forced vs being an option. Further it's worse when it's something you are forced to practice at to be more effective. I'm not opposed for adult themes and situation in a game or story, but everything should have context and serve a purpose.
[citation needed]
How foolish. Depression, bullying, abuse, discrimination, etc are far more likely causes for that sort of behaviour. If you want to blame something then blame society or the parents, we're all products of our environment after all.
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Here's a good video about realism in games.
The video fully represents my thoughts on the topic.
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You guys didn't see the dragon's note at the top of the forum. Read it and understand.
@Marcvs - I never did base that on two people, as I previously stated in this thread, before you joined the conversation. That said, I'll drop this conversation all together at this point as things are being misperceived and this is a topic that folks tend to get passionate about, sometimes hot about. Though I don't think we're even at a lukewarm stage yet, someone apparently already thinks otherwise.
I just want to say that maybe the archetype you perceive is due to the social and political movement called New Atheism.
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Crime rates in Japan have exponentially more to do with the culture there than the way laws are enforced. This is generally true of anywhere.
True, the culture is a major reason but so is the law and the way it is enforced.
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You say you're an atheist, and that you pretty much view God the way Fry does, which pretty much is just a confirmation of what I said, then go on to say what I wrote, which you just confirmed, was nonsense. Misunderstanding what I wrote? Or does it bother you that you have an archetypical view perhaps?
Which god? The christian god? Yes I'm an anti-christian and yes I think to some extent along the same lines Fry does. But not every atheist is anti-christian, in fact most probably aren't. To call it an archetype based on the views of two people is indeed nonsense.
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I think the world has a lot to learn from Japanese law enforcement. Crime rates in Japan are among the top lowest in the world and the public often turn to the police for aid.
The American police look more like thugs than anything else, at least that's the impression I get.
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Interesting?
That's the pretty much the most common archetypical atheist viewpoint.
Nonsense. His argument was more anti-christian/muslim/jew than anything else.
Personally I'm an atheist because basically I have no reason whatsoever to believe in deities (much less religion). I'm not against religion itself, I quite like the hellenistic religions and I've always admired "greek" mythology. I am however against the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) in particular. Those I despise.
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Yup, which is why the show will be better. I just don't believe a 13 year old Dany could do what Dany does. Even 18 year old Dany. Not to mention 14 year old Robb and Jon. Or 11 year old Sansa. RIDICULOUS.
Not really. Quite realistic.
Just because you yourself perhaps was incapable of all that or maybe even many of the people you knew were, doesn't mean everyone is. Especially in the context of the times. ie: your average teenager of yesteryear was very arguably capable of a lot more than your average teenager of today (they're too busy playing with electronic toys and living insulated lives). At no point in the books did I ever think, 'Na... someone that age wouldn't possibly do that'. I can easily see a kid doing everything that Arya does, and if there's a character that most who think as you do can't wrap their heads around, it's probably her. Some kids are capable of far far more than many adults will ever give them credit for.
It doesn't help that most adults in our current society treat children like idiots and try to isolate them from the real world. If I had children of my own, I would never do that to them.
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Thank you.
Mushishi Zoku Shou and Durarara!!x2 Shou are each the second season of their particular series. Tsukimonogatari and Hanamonogatari are a part of the Monogatari series that starts with Bakemonogatari, highly recommended. Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works is an alternative "path" of the Fate/Stay Night series, I much prefer the prequel Fate/Zero though.
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Gintama is getting a new season. I'm looking forward to nearly die of laughter again in the coming spring.
So, were there any good animes in 2014?
In order of preference: Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei, Kiseiju: Sei no Kakuritsu, Mushishi Zoku Shou, Tokyo Ghoul, Zankyou no Terror, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, Tsukimonogatari, Barakamon, World Trigger, Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works, Noragami, Nisekoi, Aldnoah Zero, Hanamonogatari, Black Bullet.
2015: Durarara!!x2 Shou, Tokyo Ghoul √A, Aldnoah.Zero 2.
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In normal behavior, when one is either directly or indirectly bad mouthed, the normal response would be to either to dish it back out and engage or walk away. Those that are non-confrontational in nature would be more likely to walk away and disengage from discussion rather than participate.
See what's happening here?
*edit* looks like the post I was responding to was disappeared.
How often do members of the forum 'bad-mouth' others? I think it's pretty rare.
Yeah, a mod probably censored it. Oh, well.
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There's only one thing that bothered me, the shiny loot markers. Are they really necessary?
Yes, sometimes you can't see the "loot-bag" from corpses because of things like tall grass or just the color of the background and the loot-bag.
So the solution is to give the loot a, fairly immersion breaking, yellow marker? The people responsible for it didn't think very hard did they? I hope there's a way to disable it...
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There's only one thing that bothered me, the shiny loot markers. Are they really necessary?
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@Marcvs Ceasar: Care to elaborate your statement/question? There's nothing much for me to go on or reply on. I am not the subject, please: What did you think about the conference?
All I can deduce is that you're opposing it, why? Fear? Trust? Opinion? Rebellious? Insecurity? Principle? Egoism? Selfishness?
I want singularity to happen, one planet, one race, one government. I'm all for a one world order or a one world council. Globalism yo.
What do you think governments need in order to operate properly? It's control. And control derives mostly from intelligence, information. There's one aspect that you should always take into consideration: Human nature. Giving too much control to someone or a group of people is too risky.
About the conference, well aside from the silly diplomatic flattery and national self-interest, there was one thing that bothered me and that is the reaction to the Islamist fanaticism. Religious pluralism is, in my opinion, foolish. I agree with the stance that the Roman Empire had towards religion, if a religion can't tolerate other religions or our values then it should be banned. Same way Christianity was banned in the Roman Empire for its intolerance.
I also want one planet, one government and globalism but not at the cost of my values.
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Ideally, it wouldn't be different than handling Orders in a warehouse. Which I have done. Lots of private information and private documents of goods, pricing, inventory, buy/sell stuff that fundamentally becomes numbers on a computer.
I don't remember any of that data today that I processed, paperwork that gets archived etc. I presume this is what Snowden was doing, and it became a super big deal when he leaked it (because people are people). I do think it was healthy that he blew the whistle, otherwise there wouldn't have been much of a discussion about it.
How do we not know that the Snowden case was just an orchestrated plot to start a discussion too? Right? *shrug* it's far-fetched of course, but I can't help to look at that angle too.
It is harmless if a cyber security a la Big Brother would work like this, and work out the kinks in the system (the kinks being terrorists). But, a friend of mine said something smart about it and that's... well... we don't know how the next President in America will use the power, or the one after that, or even in 100 years and so on.
It is a risk, of course, to engage in such a practice. Because we can't say how future leaders will abuse an initially good intentioned idea.
Myself? I don't care if the government or police or whatever looks at my information or whatever, as long as they don't make stuff public or try to shame me or whatever. I have nothing to hide to them, some stuff maybe a bit reluctantly, but I don't mind as long as they don't use it to put pressure on me (I.E. Blackmailing or overstepping legal boundaries, or private prisons/police trying to fulfill their provisional quota *shakes fist* I hate that system but that's another discussion. Private owned prisons/police = *insert middle finger*).
But let's say that one agent has a list of 1'000 people to process in a week or whatnot, and I am in the compiled list of intelligence they get automatically, I wouldn't mind them going past me whilst going for that terrorist that might exist within one of those 1'000 people.
Not to mention social studies, psychology, history. Imagine the leaps of discoveries that could be made to accomadet society! Though, a "Minority Report" (the movie) society/mentality does feel a bit scary, even if it'd be much safer for the majority. Untested grounds.
EDIT: And I am fully aware and conscious of this being a public statement ^_^
You haven't realized how valuable information is have you? That sort of thinking is naive at best and ignorant at worst.
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Can't proceed after leaving the first dungeon
in Pillars of Eternity: Technical Support (Spoiler Warning!)
Posted · Edited by Marcvs Caesar
Same problem here.