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I've actually taken to setting up an spreadsheet listing the games I haven't finished yet. I went so far as to download Open Office just for doing that. You know you have too many games when you have to make a spreadsheet to organize them and items 7 - 45 are just the ones you haven't finished (and they're organized by series, so Silent Hill only gets one entry for all 5 games). Even worse is that's the short list of only unfinished games. Organized by title, platform, genre, and the priority which I should finish them. Need to update the list to include books, too. Oy. Tomorrow I'll probably throw my books on there. Got The Dark Tower series (I'm on Song of Susannah) on their as the highest priority item along with my NWN2 modules. I should put The Wheel of Time (with a note to restart from the beginning), the two Salvatore collections I recently received, and the ton of Star Wars books I have that have only been collecting dust. And quite a few more, including the programming and webdev books I have. I may start expanding this to include my entire library. That's actually a neat idea. Cataloging my game, movie, and book library into Spreadsheet form. I'm an exciting person and tons of fun at parties!

How was Bloodlines ending unfinished? Someone else said that here and someone else responded in much the same way I am. It seemed quite complete.

If this is update related at all, it's a corruption issue. Which means you would have to delete the update and then re-update.

I'm not sure I disagree with your overall point as much as your language. The notion that it is a limited number of parties responsibility is anathema to me because I firmly believe it is the responsibility of all who have the ability to effect positive change. Oh god, I'm an angry hippy! Someone shoot me before I start smoking pot and growing my hair back out long. Wait, what's that noise? It sounds like... a drum circle. IT'S DRAWING ME IN!

I doubt the belief that the religious are behind the anti-violent videogame movement. Unless you're arguing that the non-religious are okay with murder. Those in the movement just happen to often congregate behind religious banners, probably due to their being so many of them.

Honestly, I don't care. The prince pardoned and released her. And that I think was the ultimately right decision. Heheh, oh boy. This is a loaded question for me which is why I won't go into detail. I'm a guy who denies the existence of free will, which is why I so greatly despise the word "blame." But, no, he does not.

It's a stupid and extremist idea. 1) The government would be to blame. 2) The government would be acting as an agent of its people in this instance since the government's original decision was simply jail. If they changed it, it would be at the request of the people. A child does not act as an agent of a forum. A government does often act as an agent of its people, at the request of its people. We do indict murderers-for-hire. Murder at request. And often enough, we give the requester the harsher verdict. No, blame is an indicator of responsibility for a solution. Jeez you're depressing. Be progressive. Stop pointing fingers and saying this or that, or both, is responsible. If you actually care about solutions, drop the "blame" bull****. It's not an indicator of responsibility, it's just an attempt to shame into a position. If "blame" were responsibility for a solution, then everyone is to blame for everything and the word becomes meaningless in most contexts it is used in. Because it's everyone's responsibility to solutions for major problems. Even the responsibility of those with no fault.

Just how many times did you guys bring my name up in that thread? Geez. I didn't know I was so popular.

Do you even know what this thread is about? These aren't people who believe they're rebelling against a great invasive evil. They were wanting a schoolteacher to be shot because she listened to a harmless suggestion from a group of muslim students. Blame is a stronger word than you seem to give it credit for. It's meant to humiliate, punish, or shame. None of these promote understanding. Unless you're also a fan of M.A.D. They encourage hostility and defensiveness. Even if mutually applied. I'm saying, quite explicitly that the only people to blame for the idiocy that is people wanting a school teacher to be executed for naming a teddy bear at the recommendation of her students are the people who want a school teacher to be executed for naming a teddy bear. It is illogical and it is downright moronic to think that anyone else should bear responsibility for such a stupid idea than the people who put it forth and supported it. You can quote me on that and put it in your sig, if you like. If blame worked any other way, then we would have to take survivors of school massacres to trial for everytime a taunted or disenfranchised kid blew away another student. Those who taunted the perpetrator may have fault, but they're not to blame.

Bunk. Perhaps you're not trying to excuse it, it just that your argument is very typical of such an argument. That's the entire point of "blame." Which you say you're not advocating, despite it being so critical to the meaning of your thesis. People who act like idiots are to blame for themselves acting like idiots. The finger of blame is being pointed at "the west" for the climate that encourages the people who want a schoolteacher to be shot for putting forth that a schoolteacher should be shot. Anything beyond "person->action" or direct coersion (gun to the head) is an accessory cause. They're things that contribute, but are not the final deciding matter. If you gave a crap about understanding, you wouldn't have brought up the word "blame" in the first place. Let alone levelled the finger of it at anyone other than the people who were behaving in a manner displeasant. But, if your advocation is not to blame, maybe you didn't mean it when you said it.

Blame only applies to direct actions. When you speak of accessory causes, you no longer have the right to even speak of "blame." Stop the pointing of fingers, it does nothing to promote understanding and solutions at that stage. And who says that it's the entire West that is persecuting? THATS my point, it's some of the West who persecute, it's NOT all of the West, because I'm not doing jack and I'm part of the West. That schoolteacher didn't do anything either. You're trying to excuse idiotic actions of some by blaming someone else, yes, you're 'shifting blame.'

Again, the door swings both ways. An idiot who feels he's under attack by a foreigner, so his reaction is to overreact against foreigners. The question is who am I talking about? Westerners or Muslims? You're shifting blame into an endless cycle. It's the West's fault that these Muslims are idiots. It's these Muslim idiots' (note: not saying all Muslims are idiots, I'm speaking in context) fault that the West persecutes them. Sounds an awful lot like shifting the blame. Which is quite often the athithesis of addressing problems.

So, what you're basically saying is that "nobody can be expected to behave in any way other than the manner most befitting of an absolute jackass."

Doesn't that door swing both ways?

Windows XP? Enable filesharing on the appropriate drives and look for the computer on the network (My Network Places -> Show Entire Network).

I'm familiar with that, but how does it link to Planescape: Torment's sensory stones? The ones in Mask did not come across as remotely as interesting or insightful.

What do you have against Nestle?

Mature folks also aren't really interested in getting a stiffy every time they play a game, either.

Update: She's been pardoned and released. She's expected to fly back to the UK soon.