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Cold Fear. :ph34r: <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Fiftieth State. I wonder if they'll start with the US territories, after that? Guam is game number 51 ...

You read about the Christopher Lambert movie, in the book you found in a dusty corner?

I thought that was called Nikita.

Induct him into the simulation? A fate worse than bible study class ...

Small ante-up should suffice in the first instance. Then a short interview ...

Resolution doesn't make much difference: it's all the shadows in Chaos Theory that slow everything down. You'll have to switch off all the eye candy, and even then it'll only make a few fps difference. Or else wait whilst a slideshow flickers in front of you as you wait for your keypresses to have some effect ...

Cold Fear. :ph34r:

They're fast, but they're noisy.

Yes.

Erratum amended.

Hawaii is the Pole Star above the horizon ...

I'm glad we all agree.

Hope you've got a good rig. I really enjoyed the first one, then I bought Chaos Theory and I got a bit bored after a few missions ... I'll definitely go back, but the resource drain is significant (I was down to under 25fps) which didn't help.

Well, I would suggest that the options are there (for the "Lawful Good" character to axe-murder all the liitle children in the route to the dragon he must deal with): certainly this would have a dramatic effect on the PC's alignment ... :D I don't think the game's engine is there to nanny the gamer, merely to provide the framework for people to do anything. Reputation, I feel, helps balance the alignment choices made by the character; this can be augmented by some sort of historical "background" quality as well, for in-game NPC biases (oh, you're a dwarf: we elves hate your kind).

Pilots on commercial flights don't want every gorram curtain-ring salesman whittering on in a quad-band hail of smarmy gibberish whilst they are flying, in case the very powerful transmitters in the 'phones aren't prevented by their shielding from interfering in the cockpit's avioinics. A private pilot (or a commercial pilot) using their own telephone won't interfere with the critical phases of the flight path (typically take-off and landing) because the pilot ought to be aware of these times and manually overide the slim probability with their prerogative and its off switch.

Beyond Belief Whether or not you call yourself religious there are things you believe in. The notion that humans are essentially benevolent, perhaps

What about studying the mathematical relationships of the face after deciding it is beautiful, and discovering a pattern? A beautiful symmetry of numerical precision that echoes the viage in its putritude. Ex post facto a posteriori deductive reasoning can be acceptable, especially with a perfect abstraction like mathematics.

It is not required, but once you have it, it enhances the beauty. When I look at a sunset, the fact that the light took just under nine minutes to reach my eyes, from the 4000

I thought you were proud of your fundamentalist belief in the Bible as the absolute divinely-inspired word of God? Strong evidence that there is no God? I have a few questions regarding that point if you don't mind. If there is strong evidence proving the non-existence of God, why would the majority of earth's population remains religious and the percentage for pure athiests stays less than 10%? Why would so many greatest minds throughout human history strongly believe in the existence of god? People like Newton, Descartes or Socrates; on top of being the greatest scientists, they are also great philosophers and made many breakthroughs in the field of religion. I agree with you that there is little physical evidence for a universal god or a creator, but over 5 billion people alive today and those great names I just mentioned can easily stand as proof that a personal god exists. Of course, whether the proof is substantial is still up for debate, but you must realize that at 1:5, athiests do not have great odds here. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What's that, julian's probabilistic rationale of the existence of God? So God does do dice? Be careful with this argument. I would agree that there is no compelling evidence for or against the existence of God. From the COED(11ed): faith n noun 1 complete trust or confidence. 2 strong belief in a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof. → a particular religion. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French feid, from Latin fides. Faith requires no proof. In fact, with proof, there is no need for faith.

That's Buddhism, isn't it?

You have a lot of "those days", don't you Mothie? A quiet word in your shell-like ear: To be offended by others when they challenge an article of your faith, if you have insufficient faith then you may feel insecure. You may take it as a fault in you. If you are confident in your own judgement (as subjective as that is) then you will not feel under attack. Others are free to believe as they choose; you should extend the same courtesy that you enjoy: the right to make up one's own mind.

Interesting fatalist belief, there. But you are mistaken, hope changes the way a person feels whilst living. ... Already I can see the chain reaction; the chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion, designed specifically to overwelm logic and reason, an emotion that is already blinding you from the simple and obvious truth ... ... Hope. It is the quintessential human emotion: simultaneously the source of [humans'] greatest strength and [humans'] greatest weakness. ... The Architect, Matrix Reloaded

I started a poll a while back aimed towards people who don't believe in the existance of souls. Basically the question was since it doesn't exist to you and it's worthless, would you sell it to a person that approached you and offered you $500 for it, contract at the ready and all. To be fair most people stuck to their guns and said yes but there were a few that wanted to know if the guy knew something that they didn't about the value before signing up. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sounds like an intriguing new basis for an economic miracle (*chuckle*). Can you imagine people buying their own spirits back after they are floated on the soul exchange? :D

Ah, but which one? ? Actually I was introduced to the link on this forum (Jags / Nartwak / apologies if I have mistakenly omitted your name here, whomever it was ... ) Attention. Seriously, congratulations on solving one of the great metaphysical quandaries of civilization: from Socrates to Ren