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One friend of mine works with mentally handicapped people. My friend is a really smart person, and her IQ has not dropped because of her interaction with people who have a low IQ. Your theory is faulty. You are focusing on the analogy too much. That's the bad thing about analogies. My point is, if your solution in dealing with these types of people is leaving, look at your own country. Your government hasn't always made the best decisions. And if I am not mistaken, they supported the "war on terror". Why aren't you leaving the likes of them? Somebody evil will get elected. If you vote, that won't change, if you don't vote, that won't change. You choose the less evil option, because an evil option is getting chosen no matter what. So are you just sitting around, not voting, gaining courage in reality, or are you just hypothetically dealing with these matters online? If you are not getting courage to start a revolution by not voting, what are you doing to help your nation by not voting? How do you know you are not the mind controlled one? How do you know that your government has not planted the thoughts in my mind? And don't link me to more websites. They hold no empirical truths, they don't even describe their tests so that I can recreate them. If it can't be recreated, it ain't the scientific method. Good point, but I don't nod it, and you don't nod it, so what are you getting at?

I just felt that it deserved an honourable mention amongst the final candidates.

1) 1 2) 7 3) 9 4) 3 5) 2 6) 16 7) 5 10 9)

Right, my friend was showing me his cell-phone that had the newest Nvidia chipset and a dual-core CPU from intel, 200 mb of RAM also.

That's really ingenious actually. A cheap way that bypasses the government's work on preventing ELF shields. How do you suggest combating the chemicals? I was thinking avoiding tap water and looking for deals on foreign bottled.

That's pretty scary stuff. I was looking online at aluminum foil, which brand would best. You have to be careful when buying in the US, since the governments has payed the companies with our tax money to add plastics in Aluminum Foil products so your shield is less effective. Also, I have a headphone on that is kind of broken, and I have a wireless keyboard, and whenever I type a letter, I can hear some feedback in my headphone. Obviously if this simple keyboard can affect headphones, then our minds really are suceptible!

I love you guys.

Also, Metadigital is in the UK, not the US, and he seems to have a similar mindset to some people in the US. Is the UK affected also? More importantly, how aren't you being affected? (So I can not be affected with you)

Right, it was easy to pretend because we all enjoyed it anyway. I vote Pixies for Online Campaign CEO.

noone may make me vote if it shall cause the death of an innocent baby. if noone votes, revolutions occur and even a revolution is better if it shall not cause the death of innocent babies. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Maybe this would be explained easier with an analogy. It won't be perfect, but analogies aren't. Pretend that you were amongst a group of people, say 20, and they walk around and do things that they collectively decide to do. Then pretend that some of them decide they want to kill an innocent person. Will turning away and not giving your opinion help the innocent person? There are many other factors in elections of course, they are more complex. But you should choose the least evil of the options, not because you want that person to be in office, but because you prefer them over the others. Innocent babies are gonna die no matter what, so you vote for fewer babies to die, see? Now as for your revolution thing, they don't occur simply because people don't vote. You have to start them somehow, and the not-voting part is one of the effects of the revolution, not the cause. If the average US citizen felt oppressed, I have no doubt that there would be a revolution. We aren't all fools ya know. I know many beautiful minds that would stand up in the face of egregious oppression and create their own government if necessary. It hasn't even come to that though, so nobody cares much right now. It might be gradually slipping, but the government won't have too much power before the citizens can do something about it (at this point in time). There's always the danger of a dystopia though, so we keep mindful of that and continue on for now with our easy lives where the most oppressing thing is rising gas prices.

Right, but I didn't pay for it, so it was a pleasant bonus to my NWN collection.

I think it is time we told you the truth. Behind your back we decided to attempt the ultimate role-playing challenge: to pretend that we enjoyed it. We knew that if you were crazy enough to make up threads like that, then you were unstable, volatile, and any opposition would do irreparable damage to your mind.

True that. I'd accept Pixies though. I mean, it couldn't be that bad... could it? Wow, I'm desperate.

WHAT?! THOSE DON'T EXAST! But really, I didn't expect you to be able to do anything after hearing about your situation. This is kind of a call-out to anybody. I'll even take Bales.

I just finished playing the NWN "premium module" called "Witch's Wake". It came with the package when I picked up NWN for the first time a few months ago. You could say this is a retelling of my experience with the module. I recommend that you stop reading now, unless you are bored and have nothing else to do; my writing is ill-composed and not especially entertaining. Spoilers are below, so if you plan on playing it and haven't, you probably shouldn't read, but if you don't care, go ahead. I just feel like telling almost every single thing that happened. The game starts you off in an arctic battlefield where you suddenly hear the voice of a nice narrator lady (you'll be hearing a lot of her voice throughout the game, as nearly everything is narrated by her). She explains what your senses are experiencing and how you notice a guy who is hanging a few feet above the ground on a pike. He's not really dead yet, so it must hurt. I walk over and it ends up that he is a prince and I was a part of his army, and we are in a huge battlefield. He dies and leaves me with the parting words, "Tell the king that she's dead." It turns out that I have amnesia. Surprise. That's a very common plot device with these types of things, but it actually ended up working for the story's benefit in my eyes. I wandered around and looted bodies and made money by giving junk to some old lady that gave me money for looting the bodies for her. I left the battlefield and went where the game took me. I ended up in a cemetary and met this "old hag" who was actually a young, nice looking hag. There was a tombstone with my name on it that I saw when I entered her cave thing, which was weird, but in the conversation with her I chose the stuff that said it was nice and that she did a good job making it. She was proud of it. Then she wanted to tarot-card me, and I politely declined. She said it was very important but she couldn't force it on me. I said I would stick to my first choice. So she tells me to go in search for the "Cardovinha stone" or whatever, and that if I did that, I wouldn't fail. Or something like that. So I travel through kobold tribes and goblin tribes and zombies and I get to a town of dwarves. They aren't particularly mean or nice, and I find out through different means that the Cardovinha stone draws water near it and is like their relic. I try and find it by going in a well and end up barging in on the town ruler's meeting. They think I was there to try and steal the stone (I guess I was). It is lost at the moment though, is what I picked up from before. So they throw me into a mine where they threw another one of my buddies. I fight through these incredibly deadly rats, and end up finding this guy. He wrote a bunch of stuff on the walls that I read while I was walking through the maze-like mine. He wrote about how he was losing his mind and would write the stuff on the walls to remember it. He seemed to know as much as he wrote when I met up with him, which was that he was a soldier like me in the same army. He says the army we were in was hunting a witch, and that we had rather cornered her in the region. I tell him the message I'm supposed to tell the king. And he tells me about how he took the Cardovinha stone for some reason he can't remember and how he forgot where he hid it before the dwarves captured him and threw him in the mines. He knows that he did take it and hide it because he wrote that down earlier. I realize something. The young hag that had me go after the Cardovinha stone also had this guy do the same thing. She was the witch, and had effectively wiped the last of the army out by sending them off to harm the dwarf village which she obviously didn't want to have the stone. I talk to the elf-man soldier in the mines until it gives me an option to say, "The hag is the witch, isn't she?", which I end up saying and the story ends abruptly with a ghost coming out of the wall and saying, "Battles are fought in the hearts of the soldier." or something corny like that. The dying prince must've been wrong in saying the witch was dead, which is easy for me to believe, since he was dying on a pike when I head him say it. Or maybe he wanted the king, who had a nonsensical vendetta against her, to give up. "Haha," I said, "Good plot twist, that I just blindly did the enemy hag's bidding, and didn't even do that, because my buddy already did it." Then I found out that there was supposed to be more to the story when I was looking online. Some kids were saying how they couldn't wait for the second part, and for all the loose ends to be put together. There weren't really any loose ends though. So I think my interpretation of the game is technically wrong, but the game is complete in my eyes. It's one of those outer limits things. Anyway, it's better than it would've been, because the maker of the mod cancelled any further sequels of the mod a few years ago, so I would've been sad that there wasn't any more. This post is very wordy and unnecessary, but I already typed it, so whatever: "Post New Topic" Edit: I forgot to add if I liked or disliked this mod and why. I like it because the modder made up his own setting and it was pretty in-depth and I wanted to learn more about it. The areas that you travel through during the game are really well-made. The highlight was this forest after the cemetary, and it had light shafts going through it and a lot of greenery and tall trees. It just was well-made. Premium quality for sure. But nothing to buy, simply because it is so short. But I am glad I played it.

I'm still up for this if we ever get a GM for whatever anybody wants to play.

Let's replace 4 with

Huh? My thought processes are clogged by how much this idea is

Like downloading the information and putting it in another brain? It would be like the 6th day, with ARNOLD!

+--> QUOTE(Hades ) Is it fair to blame Wikipedia for the acts of stupid people? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, but is Wikipedia being affected by stupid people? Yes. Who to blame isn't the aim of the speech, what is happening is.

That's not the only problem though. Like I said earlier, one problem is that people use Wikipedia as the source of their information, no references. Jason Scott presented this idea in the form of an analogy to illegitimate children: People believe Wikipedia, even when there aren't sources. This isn't really dangerous now, as you have even said, it is pretty accurate. But as it becomes more and more popular a venue, you get all sorts of people coming to try and make up their own history: There are a few examples in the speech that tell about how there are basically editing wars on all sorts of subjects, and they get closed down because of how much junk is getting thrown around. People write scripts to alert them of when a change is made to the site, and maybe a script to delete any changes. Jason Scott didn't mention it, but this happened to the wiki entry on those idiots known as Myg0t. The page is closed down because people didn't want this or that being said, and people wanted to say this and that. I read some of the deletion review for it, why it got closed and junk. I'm pretty sure there was a constant war of editing before it got shut down. One reason for nominating it for deletion being "Trollvertisement". Wikipedia's great, fantastic even, as long as it stays as a recreational/general usage thing. Like what Hades uses it for, or what Feng said about keeping current with the comic continuation. Or just to web browse and surf, for fun. NOT the sum of human knowledge.

That Alias avatar is really costing you...

I wouldn't choose to be killed and let another person impersonate me. That is the case here. You, the you that thinks now, is choosing to die, and you will never think again. Someone else that thinks they are you will impersonate you and pretend and believe they are you, but they won't be you. You will be dead.

If your wikipedia link doesn't have valid references, then you should get smacked for it. That's what should happen, but it doesn't.

Well, one could technically go onto wikipedia and write their own thing, and then take that information as from wikipedia, then cite it.