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Orogun01
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8 hours ago, the_dog_days said:
Tang Sanzang is totally his bottom.
Well, that's obvious why else would you put up with an annoying immature immortal for?
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30 minutes ago, Keyrock said:
@WormerineI remember when I first saw that trailer... I still don't believe that footage is real gameplay. Anything with Sun Wukong has my interest, that's for sure.
I doubt Sun Wukong will have romance options.
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Never be said I missed a chance to post this gem
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11 hours ago, BruceVC said:
But only until Quantum Computer is integrated into gaming
Do you guys know how much more complex and amazing MMO and online games can potentially become ....I dont see it playing a major role in single player games because of how the PC technology always grows at an amazing rate for single player games but your online gaming experience should change in a hugely more advanced way....you just need the games to take advantage of QC
Ahh, I imagine a glorious future where kids will feel the pain of online gaming DSL gaming every time their quantum computer connection goes down because their sister made a tweet.
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10 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:
Yeah, I don't know about game development techie stuff to even guess. But it's probably partly going to depend on how well/effectively and comprehensively they implement high-res. textures, draw distances, and certain types of effects (ray tracing maybe?) as well as how effectively game engines deal with such. At least for some types of games.
I'm not an expert on the stuff but I still feel like I should point out that processing small portions at a time is faster than processing a whole world. That's where smart design comes into play and you have a string of beautifully rendered small areas connected to each other. Specs matter only insofar as good design needs them to do, all else is just marketing.
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I can't believe this thread is still going....one day an AI will look back at the Obsidian Forums and declare us the nuttiest bunch that ever posted on the internet. And don't come at me telling me about 4chan we have higher standards here.
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39 minutes ago, Gromnir said:
again, this just isn't true. the thing is, we ain't had draconian gun laws in the US since the mid 20th century. is ironic, but the wild wests stories is mostly fiction because o' draconian gun laws. recall, the ok corral killings resulted from enforcement o' municipal gun laws. old west towns w/o such gun laws ordinarily had gun murder rates many times that o' those which had law and order and gun laws. do a little research on bodie, ca, in the late 1800s and then compare to wichita, abilene or dodge city.
as early as 1619 in the colonies, one could receive the death sentence for selling firearms or gunpowder to native americans.
concealed carry laws, btw, were the norm rather than an exception going as far back as the founding, and extreme stiff penalties were enforced. were 29 states in 1847, and nineteen had concealed weapons prohibitions or outright prohibitions on pistols.
most US gun law restrictions were municipal, but in 1875, wyoming banned possession o' any firearm (pistol or long rifle) within the limits o' any city, town or village.
etc.
again, until 1934, draconian gun laws were the norm and they were the norm 'cause they worked. those old west towns which is misrepresented in movies provide some o' the best evidence for just how effective were such laws. is worth the effort to do a little self education and compare places like bodie to wichita in the mid/late 19th century. compare homicides as a whole and deaths from firearms in particular.
for all the folks who thinks gun possession is some kinda God given right which were codified in the Constitution and is only now under threat by far-left libs is revealing a profound lack o' historical awareness.
HA! Good Fun!
ps to clarify in case it were missed, we haven't had genuine draconian gun laws in this country in a long time. argue such is a good or bad thing, but is difficult to claim such laws were ineffective when they did exist.
As I'm not an expert in law I would have to defer to you in this matter, and whilst I do find your examples of Wild West gun legislation interesting(that should be a topic by itself) the loose interpretation of gun ownership of recently integrated Western states should not be the a good example of gun legislation, nor should it be any State interpretation of the constitution. That's why we have the Supreme Court.
But really, we are just arguing the meaning of "Draconian". To gun folks any legislation is too much, to anti gun folk anyone owning guns is too much. My happy middle is you can own a cannon but you can't fire it because it would be a public disturbance,I think there's a precedent for that. -
26 minutes ago, Gromnir said:
where the numbers is not clear is the suggestion the assault weapons ban made Americans safer. too much sketchy info to prove such. in fact, Gromnir has argued numerous times how bans on so-called assault weapons is stoopid 'cause is handguns which cause a disproportionate number o' firearms deaths, with blunt force weapons signifficant oustripping long rifle as cause o' death in US homicides. if goal is to make americans safer, the focus on assault weapons misses the point.
I agree with you and I think most second amendment advocates would, the focus on "assault" rifles often comes from politicians that have never shot a gun, and have never bothered their bodyguards what they think about guns. It is highly hypocritical to advocate for disarmament when being surrounded by armed security.
29 minutes ago, Gromnir said:wasn't our argument that assault weapons ban made americans safer or reduced gun violence. what it did do were make it less likely for folks to use such weapons in crime. laws regarding machine guns and assault weapons has indeed worked. is proven that with terrible enough punishments, people stop using those kinda weapons to commit crime. the argument that criminals don't care 'bout laws and thus ignore such laws is not supported.
I didn't take it as such, I just wondered about the figures and whether or not the gun ban actually correlated to a reduction in gun crime. I can only guess at what other factors could explain the reduction of gun crime, particularly since the same type of gun ban did nothing to curb violence during prohibition. My guess would be a consolidation in organized crime and their transition into political entities, but I"m mostly coming from the lesser known history of the Cuban mafia during the 80's and early 90's. I can also think of Giuliani and his crackdown against organized crime during the 80's through the early 90's.
35 minutes ago, Gromnir said:create a draconian law which prevents gun ownership would likely save lives. is a pointless discussion however as "strict gun laws" cannot actual exist in this country.
HA! Good Fun!
I would have to point out how draconian gun laws have not reduced crime in States that have implemented them and has created an underground market for guns from foreign sources.
One big point that its ignored in the gun debate when comparing US to other countries is the presence of organized crime. I doubt Sweden or Australia has a large Mafia presence, but anti gun advocates love to use them as examples of why a wide gun band would work in the US.
In short, our situation is unique and has to be analyzed by American standards. You bring some good points, but at the same time that low level of crime happened at the same time when there were crackdowns against organized crime. -
19 minutes ago, Gromnir said:
the assault weapon ban, because o' how severe were the punishments, did indeed lead to a reduction in a certain class o' weapons being used in crime. not even @Guard Dog would deny such.
Honestly, this isn't a challenge but I would love to see some figures to back this up. I'm only going off from what the statistics have been since I've been interested in the topic (2009-2020) but most crimes are committed with handguns not rifles. So I have to ask how frequently were assault rifles used in crimes during the 90's and how big was the drop after signing the Assault weapons ban.
Was it effective or was it another dud like the National Firearms Act? -
2 minutes ago, Hurlshot said:
Whoa whoa, Orogun is the one making a gun argument here, stating states with strict laws have worse gun violence.
I tend to point at poverty figures over anything else.
I would love to see some numbers, but just off the top of my head some of the poorest rural districts have low gun crime. If we are talking correlation, then there needs to be both motive and opportunity when it comes to crime.
Regardless of which, my original point is that overbearing gun regulation doesn't solve gun crimes. -
3 minutes ago, Hurlshot said:
Wow, you clearly didn't look at the links.
Here you go
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_stateEdit: I guess we should argue the difference between rate and number of deaths
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25 minutes ago, Hurlshot said:
I'd love to see where you are pulling that information from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_United_States_by_state
Pretty easy to find a ton of data that says the exact opposite of what you are claiming.
Sir, those are obviously per capita comparisons of firearm deaths, not gun crimes. But feel free to believe that Alaska is a den of organized crime and not a frozen wasteland where people are suiciding.
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1 hour ago, Sarex said:
We were talking about border towns with paramilitary assailants, that is something that is absolutely under the military purview.
Police is not trained, or responsible enough to handle military grade weapons. An argument could be made to give them access to military grade body west, but not for weapons.
That such a scenario is common enough, where civilians are committing crimes with heavy weaponry, is something that should be handled at the root of the issue. Not fighting fire with fire.
Except that even in border towns the assignment would go to the cops because its a 911 call.
Police self train more than people think, but that's a great argument for more funding of police.
What's the root of the issue, guns? The highest rate of gun crime is in the states with the strictest laws, and before you go off on illegal smuggling across state lines you should research the ghost guns coming in from the Philippines. Plus the majority of crimes are committed with handguns, not the "assault" rifles everyone wants to ban. -
48 minutes ago, Sarex said:
They should then call for military help, just like civilians call for police help. There should be a hierarchy.
Response times matter.
Image the following situation: 911 receives a call about a shooting in progress, the assailants are equipped with semi automatic rifles. If the cops go over there and assess the situation without the proper equipment then 2 things will happen:
1- Cops are in a active combat zone whilst outgunned
2-The situation will continue while the military rushes to the scene.
Putting aside the fact that it is not the military's job to respond to domestic crime, you now have double the response time and since military personnel is not actively patrolling an area a larger response time.
I understand why you think that way, but it is a severely impractical way to deal with real situations. Better that the cops are over-prepared for a shooting situation than having to wait until the military gets there. -
47 minutes ago, Gromnir said:
eliminate police access to militarized weapons is a bit o' a different issue.
That's complex issue, big cities might just do with a specialized force like SWAT but border towns might end up in a shootout with a paramilitary group. So they do need access to military equipment.
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Anybody want Tropico 6 ?
I can't play that game, it gives me flashbacks. -
12 minutes ago, melkathi said:
Does the AI in all total war games cheat?
Level 1 Tier 1 units suffer almost no damage against a fully buffed mixed army of level 4+ units
Which Total war game are you talking about? Units and AI vary from game to game, for example in Shogun they quickly rout if you kill the general.
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@BruceVC If we are talking about geopolitics, then isolating Cuba makes sense. Specially since in recent years they have been funding leftist revolts across Latin America (though I suspect the financing comes from China) I honestly fear that we are heading towards a repeat of the Cold War against Russia, with several proxy wars in Africa and Latin America.
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3 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:
I do have a copy of both 98 and XP but not the PC that can run them (hardware compat. issues I guess). Hubby might be able to cobble something together out of old parts/pcs but not sure it's worth the trouble.
And yeah...one game I had a Monk who was always in the right place right time, see an artifact left and stroll over, go "Ahhh!" and siphon them up. Multiple protection rings and even a teleport one. He was nigh invulnerable.
(edit: observing a teleporting Monk is probably how I noticed it was possible).
Why not just set up a virtual machine and run an emulated windows?
https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-set-up-windows-xp-emulator-for-windows-10-4772549 -
2 hours ago, BruceVC said:
What I wanted to ask you is generally what do Cuban American families teach there kids about Cuba and the old days of the violence of the revolution if anything? So the story above is where a Cuban dad was forced to leave Cuba due to the revolution at some point. He has created a new life in the USA and has a daughter who he decided didnt need to know the history of Cuba and he is perfectly entitled to decide what his daughter should know about the reasons he left Cuba. This decision does have a logical and reasonable reason or reasons to it particularly around how any parent could decide " this is a new country and my kids dont need to know the exact and sometimes violent reasons for our forced leaving of Cuba"
But I have also met people from other conflicts outside of Cuba who now live in another country very happily but they have a view where the kids are well aware of the history of forced migration. They are not bitter and jaded but they always remember the history and all kids understand this in there own way. Both groups have valid reasons for the actual decision on what younger generations should be aware of and there is no right of wrong approach
I fall into the second group and its purely from a perspective of the importance of where you came from and why and how this does need to be remembered but it doesn't define your new citizenship
There were events of sponsored violence, where agitators would rally people to publicly shame undesirable elements (dissidents, gays, people that listened to the Beatles and had long hair) The cops were also free to detain any person they considered part of these groups and that continued during my lifetime there. It was thankfully a regulated affair, the purpose was intimidate without putting enough pressure that would cause revolts. Part of the reason as to why the Cuban regime has lasted for so long is the fact that they know how much to pressure without causing the population to crack.
I think we don't like talking about it because its a depressing topic, also the stories are varied. Some might have just left because of economic reasons and not be privy to any of the other events.
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2 hours ago, ComradeMaster said:
I will say this though, U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba for many many decades certainly does not help there internal conditions at all -in fact it hurts the population- but fans of neoliberalism are not hesitant to blame it on the Cuban government and the 'socialist' boogyman. It's beyond ridiculous what the U.S. government has been doing since 1945.
It's kinda of an open secret that the reason for the political sanctions were held by Cubans in exile because of connections to the cocaine trade. I mean it's one of those unproven theories but its been there for years. I've only heard it in rumors and anecdotes of people close to those involved in the smuggling.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/did-castro-use-cocaine-to-keep-the-economy-afloat-1073865.html
Its however the government refusal to both give better deals to foreign investors and the fact they stamp out any private enterprise that becomes successful, that had the biggest hand in keeping the GDP down.
During my two years studying to become an accountant in Cuba we were taught that surpluses were a bad thing. It still rattles my brain about how obtuse the system is that they would have rather kept up the rationing instead of allow a private sector to grow. -
10 minutes ago, BruceVC said:
Orog was it you or GD that told us the story about the Cuban American father whose daughter comes home from university and lectured her Dad about how "socialism " was not so bad and that he had the wrong idea about Cuba in the years of Fidel.
Probably GD or someone else.
10 minutes ago, BruceVC said:I thought of a very interesting question I wanted to ask you around this and part of it is this reality of the daughter being so uninformed of the reality of Cuba
I think there's propaganda from both sides and the reality lies somewhere in the middle. I wouldn't go as far as to say that the Cuban government is good but I also don't think its as bad as the Khmer Rouge or some more genocidal regimes. But that's cause by the time I was born a lot of the killings of dissidents had stopped.
12 minutes ago, BruceVC said:To be fair to the daughter I know many Universities in SA and UK that are breeding grounds for these " socialist " movements that always want to change the world for the better of all mankind and its easy to align with them because they are mostly well meaning and do have legitimate global goals like climate change and concerns around cruelty to animals. So you can imagine how young and innocent students can be beguiled by certain " views " these university groups have.....but most people dont follow these socialist movements outside of university
Is a lot of these well meaning ideals that are exploited by foreign disinformation/subversion campaigns. It matters not that they don't follow the movements just that their ideals align with the movement. To follow with one of your examples, climate change. The science around climate change has been politicized, I've seen interviews with climate scientist that rightly called the movement an end of days cult. I'd dare say that a lot of environmentalists have regressive Luddite ideas when it comes to industrialization, ignoring the fact that it is technological advancement which will give us climate control.
My point is that countries that have no climate considerations can rapidly industrialize and become technological superpowers (e.g: China) vs how climate considerations has slowed progress in the US and raised the cost of entry into tech industries.
You can see the benefit of promoting certain ideas that will influence the development of your opponents, coincidentally I'm currently playing Endless space and I'm turning everyone into a pacifist so that they will be crushed by my warmongering Hisso.-
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2 hours ago, Guard Dog said:
so which of the two candidates is promising to cut federal spending? That would be neither of them. Someone explain to me how important this election is again. Someone better wake up Honorius the Visigoths are at the wall
As the Visigoths later became the Spanish and the Spanish would later beget the Hispanics, and as a Hispanic I find your reference to Visigoths and walls racist sir.
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(edit: observing a teleporting Monk is probably how I noticed it was possible).
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This is the greatest song that has the lyric "Her placenta falls to the floor" in it.
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