EmperorofIceCream

Reply to Others are. So I will. in Misc JoeUser Forums

I got the patch, as soon as I'd installed the game. I finished all the tutorials with the exception of the third one. I couldn't wade through all the trading I had to do to get whatever McGuffin I was supposed to get. So i went to the campaign and I got to the first fork in the storyline - but I went after the bloodair instead and I am also getting my ass kicked. This is the first opportunity I've had to play so far this week, so I expect to get thrash

Reply to Others are. So I will. in Misc JoeUser Forums

Sucks to be You, eh? Yup. I am undeniably the epicenter of all suckitudiness.

Reply to Others are. So I will. in Misc JoeUser Forums

To: OckhamsRazor Play the tutorials - they're fun in their own right and you'll pick up a bunch of time-saving pointers. But be prepared to devote a considerable amount of time to it. The game only saves at the completion of a mission objective.

Reply to Others are. So I will. in Misc JoeUser Forums

To: Gene Nash Diesel's performance is exactly as it was in 'Pitch Black' - which I also loved, mainly because of the flying hammerheads. But I was very fond of the Necromongers and their Lord Marshal, as well as their preference for an aesthetic of torture and perversion. Jolly fellows, all.

Reply to You're Only a Christian if You Believe JUST LIKE ME in Religion JoeUser Forums

arg, lw on Hubby's account..brb.

Reply to Others are. So I will. in Misc JoeUser Forums

Follow up, would you? Certainly looks cool. Aside from the aesthetics of ship-design (and one of the things that appealed in the demo I played was the similarity of the ships to Geiger's Alien designs) the game environment is quite beautiful - and oddly restful, considering the considerable carnage that takes place. The control system is not exactly intuitive. As you begin to master the intricacies of grouping (not really that intr

Others are. So I will. in Misc JoeUser Forums

I recently bought a new game. Buying a new game is a Big Issue for me - because I hate, hate, hate being disappointed by a new game. And I tend to stick close to what I know, for that reason. So generally I buy updates to either the Doom or Quake franchises. I have only two reasons for buying a game at all: 1) it's full of blood, carnage, horror,

Reply to Wife Aggro in Gaming JoeUser Forums

To: little-whip Awwwww. V^^^^^V bites you.

Reply to God Talking to People in Religion JoeUser Forums

I didn't agree with Ockham either. Shouldn't God be allowed to influence things in His own creation? Well, sure. But along with that goes the responsibility of the influence. Having an influence on someone makes you responsible for all their actions forever after? How wonderfully convenient that would be. "YOU had an INFLUENCE on ME - so it's your fault." Did you mean to say quite that?

Reply to God Talking to People in Religion JoeUser Forums

This is the image that was spontaneously generated in my mind, after having read through the responses. A naked man has one end of an old-fashioned 'ear trumpet' (looks a little like a French Horn) inserted into his anus. The other end is next to his chin. He occasionally bellows gibberish into the open end, and then listens to his arse as it answers him. God is perfect. He did not make a mistake. Did you know that he had the Savior planned from the foundation

Reply to Humanity. The ape that thought it could. in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

To: stubbyfinger Man is the only species ever to have control over his environment, even now if an asteroid like the one that ended the dinosaurs came there is a good chance we could stop it. In time we’ll have control over all the variables that could threaten our continuation. On which planet

Reply to Humanity. The ape that thought it could. in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Laughter will be just as forgotten as everything else. Did I say anything else? Laughter is as meaningless, in the long run, as every other human act. The difference is that it's a measure of the degree to which I escape the fear of death and all it entails. But whether I escape or not has meaning only

Reply to Humanity. The ape that thought it could. in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Everything dies in nature to facilitate evolution And? Do you think the thing evolved from appreciates the thing evolved into? Do you feel any kinship with the protoplasmic slime you evolved from? Earlier hominids are dead and gone. Do you think the fact of your existence, if they could be made aware of

Reply to Humanity. The ape that thought it could. in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

To: ThinkAloud The way you look at death is not realistic or logical. Neither is death. Death is not realistic because it exceeds the only measure of reality we have, our experience. Death is hyper-real. Neither is death logical because death is an absolute end to the term of every argument, no

Reply to Humanity. The ape that thought it could. in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

deep in the summers decay you preferred the gaudy death throes of the day. As ever, darlin', you're the only one who gets it without the need for explanation.

Reply to Tyranny Is Coming to America in Religion JoeUser Forums

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Humanity. The ape that thought it could. in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

A disclaimer for the dense: I use the word 'Man' in its general and now much derided sense of humanity generally. The term 'humanity generally' includes the female members of the human race - in other words, in my usage 'Man' includes woman. This is an old way of writing and is no longer considered to be politically correct. I don't care. I don't care if you ca

Reply to Supposed "Christians". in Religion JoeUser Forums

Ironic that so many Christians piss and moan about their religion being driven from public life, yet didn't hesitate to try to do the same to this fellow. So what do you think, JU? How do you share your message? I don't, unless directly asked to, and even then, I often refuse because most of those asking have no serious interest, they're either looking to have their own stereotypes reinforced or seeking some 'flaw' they can exploit in order to

Reply to Hunger?WE Americans do not know what real HUNGER IS! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. And? So long as neither you or those you care about are among them why do you care? I believe something like 40 000 people die annually in road traffic accidents in the USA. The number is greater so why don't people care more about road traffic deaths than supposed starvation? Especially in America, if you starve to death in the middle of fabul

Reply to Human Sacrifice in Religion JoeUser Forums

To: little whip I gave you an insightful for the comment, darling. And, if It feels anything or responds in any way, It almost certainly feels nothing but amusement. At the idea of sacrifice as bribe in the first place; and at the even more ludicrous lengths we go to in order to satisfy our sense of convenience in the second. V^^^^^^V bites you.

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Human Sacrifice in Religion JoeUser Forums

Human Sacrifice is, generally, meant to propitiate the Gods (may they live forever, all the Gods, even those that be dead). As in the movie 'The Wicker Man' (where to my mind the Ritual was misused and misrepresented) types of life, particularly fecund life like rabbits and hares, were gathered up in a wicker framework having the form of a man, and into which a

On being a not-quite-American in Misc JoeUser Forums

I'm an immigrant. I'll never be an American in the way that someone born, raised, educated here is an American. That's OK. There are pubs in Britain I know where you can have lived in the same locality for twenty years and you'll never be a 'local'. It seems to me that immigrants to a country have a perspective that the native-born will never, can never, p

Thank you, America in Misc JoeUser Forums

Happy birthday, America. And thank you.

Reply to The ACLU-On The Prowl in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Calling the ACLU evil is hyperbole, pure and simple. It's aninstitution which promotes a certain viewpoint on the part of citizens who wish to make use of its services in the interest of that viewpoint. A perfectly legitimate function for an institution in a democracy. You personally may find that viewpoint objectionable, nonsensical, treacherous, depraved, or whatever. But that doesn't make it so. As for the rest of this 'debate', with rare exceptions its been conducted at the