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Well, according to colrom's logic, a bit more niceness and I'll repent of my misunderstandings and become born-again. "

Haven't read Heidegger yet. I am due for Hobbes, next, after I finish The Glass Bead Game.

Does the game include the Japanese germ warfare, where they drop bubonic plague spores in a bomb? "

That's correlation, not causation. You need to improve your reading comprehension.

I can wait for you to translate it. I was thinking of doing a philosophy course at Bologna, but I need to check that they conduct lectures in English ... it's hard enough without having to transliterate from Italian. :D

Let's NOT discuss the US in this topic, because that will just make me close it.

Right, so because it offends your sensibilities and YOUR ethical framework, WE can't discuss it? So you are okay with killing someone who has a gun to your head, even though you don't know if they are going to kill you, because you can't predict their future actions, but a country can't intervene in, say, Sudan to prevent the genocide in Darfur, or in Kosovo ? Your position is untenable. Hence why I am calling you on it. Or do you need God's spokesperson to tell you who is evil, so that you have permission to kill them?

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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. It's all down to CONSPIRACIES!

So the people of Iraq voted for a US government, did they?

Yeah, nut I still don't understand why he states "In general people tend to support those they think lie most effectively about important matters." Why do people tend to support those they think lie most effectively about important matters? Y'see, why I picked this up is because it's another attempt to paint people who don't subscribe to colrom's dogma as "misguided". Obviously people must want to vote for good liars, because they can't be voting for any REAL policies.

This was an Iraqi execution; they were at pains the ensure the US had nothing to do with it.

Nice surreal touch, but NO.

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao Tzu

Atheists are among the least trusted minorities in the country; I'd be very surprised to see any get elected at all. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> In general people tend to support those they think lie most effectively about important matters. In the US, this pretty much eliminates folks who are forthright about being atheist. But liar atheists who pretend effectively to be religious are no problem. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> WTF? What makes you say that?

It's a tough one, alright. Certainly he (and his sons) killed and tortured many many thousands of people (apparently there were thousands of people writing in

So you are saying that, no matter how evil Pol Pot, Idi Amin, or Saddam Hussein were, they should not be coerced with force to prevent them from hurting other people

But really, what kind of trouble could gerbils get into driving a "couch"? " <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You've never seen the result of a sofa road-kill, obviously ... "

Rationalize much? *snip most of the sanctimonious drivel* <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I wasn't implying that there was no art in the video game medium (apologies if that is what you took away from my comment); I was more laughing at the "games HAVE to be art or else they are WoW / Britney Spears / popular therefore not culture".

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's meant to be Diablo+6 years, basically. So just Diablo with updated graphics (and gameplay?).

Wow, that is quite a detailed game.

No but we do have a Wiki going to keep track of who is doing what. Niah is also working on a base module for team use with common scripts for custom items, death, respawining, etc. But it is up to the builder to use it or not. I am using it. The builders are doing their own project, we are just working together to make some of the projects tie together. For example my mod is The Company of the Wolf. It is for new level 1 characters and will take you to level 5-6 depending on how you play it. Phoenixus mod begins at level 6. To keep it flowing my mod will include some events that lead up to his. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's good. I was more interested in the hard-won experiences of resource allocation for a project. By that I mean, what the critical path is (what needs to be done first, then next, etc, until the project is finished) and what those parts require (as in people's time and effort).