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People who ask for advice, then ignore it. I'm not saying people should always adhere to advice, but when someone has difficulty in a situation, asks for advice, then pursues the dumbest option available to them, it's a bit silly. This typically revolves around people asking about relationship advice, as relationships are the most commond scenario for people acting like complete morons. This is why I try to only have single friends. And for that matter, people who define themselves by their relationships. They grind my gears. Because they often behave in the aforementioned idiocy more frequently than others.

Still playing Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete. Man, I miss Working Designs. The 2 Playstation remakes of Lunar games are all I know of their localization work, but they did wonderfully. They're probably nearly as responsible for how good those two games are as Game Arts, the developers.

And then again, Mass Effect sounded more like Gears of War than KOTOR!

If you guys need someone on full time for that, I'm mean with a blackjack.

You still didn't address the fictional technologies that refute your position but are also moot.

Personally, I think this calls for some despair.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/124098 I can't think of anything even remotely witty to say about this.

If they go so far as to have a selection of 3 heads (one ripping off Bond, one ripping off Bourne, one ripping off Bauer), it'll be more than I give a rat's behind about. I anticipate more interest in this as an action/adventure than a roleplaying game.

I hope I'm not seeing the rise of a regular shtick for you... Nah, the novelty will be gone before the day is over. OH GOD! I'm in despair! My fickle nature has left me in despair!

I'm in despair. The failings of the english language to properly communicate to Krezack informally and nonliterally has left me in despair!

I found it now. Yeah, that's a stretch. Most of them are features of story based games and nonlinear games. Which is not the same as an RPG. Hell, you've just nearly invalidated any consideration of Diablo as an RPG. Or MMORPGs. And JRPGs. Far Cry actually becomes nearly as much an RPG as Diablo was. Postal might even qualify more than Diablo. Because the combat simulation system was atypical for the time. It had little influence from quantitized statistics representing the character's ability. Or at least less so than was typical at the time (or even nowadays).

Who's to say "why" is even a valid question? "Why are we here" sounds like possibly the dumbest question in the world to ask.

I'm posting in a thread about philosophy and determinism and telling you to stop claiming that's the only definition of determinism. And the unbolded ones do not mean predictability. They mean the obediance to natural laws and the rejection of abiding to "free will."

I bought the first one used over Amazon. Haven't gotten around to playing it yet. I just had to make sure to snatch it up because it's not always so available.

You're going to have a very very hard time justifying this statement. Even if one considers Deus Ex an RPG, it is a giant stretch to label it typical.

Again, stop doing that. Stop confusing the definition with the extension of the philosophy. When I say "basic concept of determinism" I mean only what is explicitly stated by that definition. Not everything covered by the philosophy that definition associates itself with. What you're referring to are not basic in the least. They're just common. de

Tron 2.0 is tons of fun. It's made by Monolith, y'know?

His answer's better than mine.

What kind of people want 6 personal references? I'm a shut-in, dag nabbit. I'm stretching to find 2. Oh wait, yeah... the kind of people who give out jobs with guns.

What, even taking into consideration that fact that quantum mechanics is the government of the macroscopic world? Seems far-fetched to me. Causality doesn't imply predictability (determinism). Causality implies "if I do this, something will happen". It makes no assertions about what will happen. Istama: Like TA said, free-will is a combination of the illusion of chaos and non-determinism in the universe (and an illusion that will forever hold true for humans). And in the case of humans there is actually a strong case for true non-determinism re a multitude of various stochastic processes in the brain (from sensory input to metabolic equilibria to electron flow). There's nothing about predictability in there. Simply that everything that is is causally determined. HEY! What does causality mean again? Don't confuse the basic concept of determinism with the philosophy of determinists.

Ark of Truth was one giant Deus Ex Machina to the Ori arc. But these "Sci-Fi" shows have been doing that constantly since at least the original Star Trek. It was still better than anything to come out of the Ori arc.

I've known lots of people with St. Patrick's birthdays. Myself for example.

I'm completely behind the basic concept of determinism. Causality as an inviolate rule.