Nick_i_am

Go play the demo. ...wow, I feel evil.

haha, you're all stupid. ...except Pixies, <3<3 Pixies

The game that made grown men cry, and not in the good way

...even Daikatana?

You arn't a true fan.

Dawg!

This just in: SC2 will be the greatest game of all time!!!

Duh, Starcraft was the greatest RTS, nay, the greatest game that ever existed.

Yes, I agree.

...What?

The point that 213374U seems to be getting at though, is that, while the worshippers are obviously shaped by the culture they live in, which in turn may or may not be shaped by the religion, the religion itself may not be helping by its very nature. I can't comment on this directly since I am just trying to summerise what I think he is saying. Incidently dont many muslim states have very close ties between state and church, such that saying that someone has been 'culturally brainwashed' when the religion is such a fundimental part of the culture is almost as good as saying 'religiously brainwashed', since the main differance of the 'advanced countaries' is that they don't have the same continuity between state and church. Would this be in any way accurate, or have I gained a completely incorrect impression?

It's not like librals arn't bias against republicans either, it's when one side tries to gain the moral high-ground when they are both doing essentally the same thing in a slightly different way that I happen to find it amusing.

Been done, it sucked apparently, and not suprising since writing a novel of the game in the first place completely misses the point. Computer games ARE the 'ultimate' storytelling medium, where you can both tell a story AND let the user interact with that story in the way that THEY want to. But it's also such a young medium that bearly anyone is even starting to use it right. For example, I KNOW my parents would apperesiate almost every aspect of planespace, and I even asked them directly 'if you were to take one of your favorate stories and put in an element of 'interaction' could you deny the boon to immersion and overall experiance'. They could not deny that the statement was true, and yet, that's not what stops them 'playing computer games', and this is similar to why computer games are so 'under appresiated'. This 'under appresiation' isn't unfair either given the current trends the most popular computer games follow.

Not in my opinion <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So any instance of this happening (because it cirtainly seems to, unforchantly) is a case of social/cultural factors using religion as an excuse, rather than the religion itself?

I'm pretty sure that the release of DN Forever is one of the signs of the apocolypse.

Just to clarify, yeah, this was my point. The RELIGION hasn't fundimentally changed since then, just the worshippers and the society around it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Case in point: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4690224.stm 'Guilty of 6 charges of soliciting to murder Guilty of 3 charges related to "stirring up racial hatred" Guilty of 1 charge of owning recordings related to "stirring up racial hatred" Guilty of 1 charge of possessing "terrorist encyclopaedia"'

Incidently, havn't the 'people of the middle east' been publicly making fun of jews for ages anyway?

ROFLASKFASJHFASHFAS If this goes forth, and ANY Muslim complains about the Mohammed cartoon, then yeah, there really is somthing wrong here. ...like there wasn't before.

It's not like the Exile didn't have a backstory too.

But is that 'lack of opression' or is it just somthing else equally stupid? Whatever words given to it as explaination, they STILL can't drive.

You rock dawg.

Yeah, Halo and Diablo are the best dawg!

Yeah! Blizzard rocks dawg!

Erm, this thread was started by LoneWolf, you're obviously confused.

Damn straight dawg.