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Reply to Why having a conscience is "wrong", "evil", or "incorrect". in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]Not entirely, but it requires foundationless discipline to keep logic and reason. Have you ever had an addiction? It's a bad thing. Say farewell to logic.[/quote] Most people are too dumb to rely on their rational minds. They need emotion, or they crash and burn in confusion. Addictions are an unfortunate side effect caused by something that was both rare and desirable in humankind's past becoming suddenly ubiquitous. Or they can just be toxins. Most of the time addictions are go

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote]Many don't make it, but some do - and later on we read about big publishers buying them out and stiffling all that creative energy in the name of the allmighty dollar with "smart" business strategies such as rushing the product out before it is finished because Christmas is coming.[/quote] These teams form in the hopes of selling out. They wouldn't be prevalent if there weren't money in the game market. The market would have neither money nor prestiege. [quote]You could

Reply to Is racism still alive and well in the US? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

[quote]I'd vamoose if I were you, SlyDrivel, before someone tracks your IP and burns a cross in your yard, bwuahahahaha.[/quote] Was that a threat? [quote]I guess all those posters who have graced me with karma points (164 from 104 different users) are guilty by association as well.[/quote] They never kicked me off a forum for pointing out that you are a racist. If you defend a racist for being a racist, it makes you a racist, too. If you defend that same person for so

Reply to Why having a conscience is "wrong", "evil", or "incorrect". in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]See, secular humanity has one problem. They answer only to pleasure, like dogs answer to treats. They know not discipline, immortality, or hope, only drunkenness, death, and uncertainty. And they give up their will in order to gain what mere senses can percieve. Gone is logic, gone is reason, only desire and emptiness remain.[/quote] I disagree with this. The evidence is that Stardock exists, or any video game publisher for that matter. Let me tell you why. Theory predic

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote]I'd say it is actually the big publishers who have the longer track record of destroying the quality of games, than pirates.[/quote] While that may be true, $10,000,000 dollars can buy you a much better anything than what can be made in a garage, story or graphics or whatever. With that much, you could do what MASS EFFECT did and hire a whole team of writers to build a game containing more than 300 novels of script. And the visuals looked great, too. Garage game

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote]Pirates will never destroy a company while there is still a legitimate demand for the service it provides.[/quote] Tapeworms never kill their hosts. Pirates are annoying for two reasons: 1) They are thieves, criminals, and cheats. The moral outrage alone is unsettling, regardless of the actual damage. Maybe you could give your desert to a bully everyday without feeling hungry, but do you really want to? 2) They decrease the quality of the games we see.

Reply to Was Jesus just following an existing myth? in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote]If it pleases you to know I haven't forgotten the Inquisition which is always brought up as a handy stick by those who harbor animosity towards the Catholic Church. Just what do you think the existence of the Inquisition demonstrates…that Catholics are sinners? Yes, pronounced guilty. That at times Catholics in positions of power have abused their authority and acted most cruelly? Guilty as charged again[/quote] See, this is what I can't stand about Christianity. It does not hold

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote]It isn't taking advantage of others, it's being pragmatic.[/quote] Well, if they didn't exist, they wouldn't be needed. They aren't really necessary. Herbivores would find some other way to control their populations. Carnivores started as parasites of autotrophic species, and then the two co-evolved. The reason carnivores exist is that they [I]can[/I]. They may serve a purpose now. But, originally, they were pirates. On the other hand, I don't see our favorite pirates as

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote]I don't like the carnivore-herbivore relation, though. It's the way I'm made. (I eat a lot of steak)[/quote] Good ideas, but please try not to glorify piracy by saying its cool to be a "carnivore". If you only buy games without DRM because that's what you want, then you are doing exactly the right thing. That is as long as you aren't stealing the other ones.

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote]Do you get ID'd when you open your six pack at home that you were already ID'd to puchase in the first place? Are you retarded or something?[/quote] nope, and kids drink all the time at home and at parties. they get busted sometimes, but no one really cares. so it'll keep happening. are you retarded or something?

Reply to Is racism still alive and well in the US? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

[quote]Guilt by association? So since you black that would make you a racist as well? Your ouw words.[/quote] Only if you think all blacks are racists, which you clearly do. And that makes you a racist, too. And because you didn't see this, you are also retarded. That means you can join the other two in the retarded racist pit. [quote]we should all be exterminated.[/quote] I'm assuming you mean you and the other racists. [quote]Now, if you could only teach Oba

Reply to EU to Ban Pirates from the Internet? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

If games only cost $20, would all the people who complain they are too expensive actually buy them? Or would they continue to pay the competitive price of $0? I'll admit. Lowering prices would increase sales. But only so many people are willing to buy a game anyway, so lowering prices gives diminishing returns. More demand would lower prices because you can just sell more $20 copies of a game that costs 10 million to make. But the fact would be that you [I]can[/I] make money doing that.

Reply to The dangers of selling yourself out to a traditional publisher in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote]I say let them go over to consoles. PC Gaming is better off without companies like EA. The console will be the platform for shallows cookie-cutter releases designed to satiate the proles and the PC will be the platform where small and large game developers alike can release games the way they want, design games how they want and retain control over their own artistic creations with no publisher setting unreasonable deadlines or dumbing down/mainstreaming the game in pursuit of the almight

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote]And now I can't play a game I paid for because someone thinks its ok to check up on me like I'm some sort of criminal.[/quote] I get ID'ed at bars all the time. Does that mean I can't drink the beer I paid for? Only if I'm underage or don't have an ID.

Reply to EU to Ban Pirates from the Internet? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

[quote]Prices won't come down. Companies will charge what the market will bear. If they think that's $50 it's $50... If it's $20 it's $20...[/quote] Stardock's prices are certainly cheaper. If the demand increases dramatically (meaning a lot more people buy the games), then more competing games will be made and they will get cheaper to make. People will invest more in them. People will only pay a certain amount for a game. If "they" think it's worth $50, it's because enough of

Reply to The dangers of selling yourself out to a traditional publisher in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

Publishers are pirates. Agreed. But at least they offer a service. They are more like insurence companies than anything else. They cost more than they are worth, but you don't want to go without one.

Reply to EU to Ban Pirates from the Internet? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

[quote]Regards Zy[/quote] *claps*

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote]On the other hand, game companies hurt their own sales and themselves are promoting piracy by using DRM that makes games difficult to play. Plus piracy is not costing them as much money as they think it does for the reasons I briefly outlined above.[/quote] See, I have trouble believing this. I have experienced DRM, and it's not a big impediment. Even the 10 day recurring internet check wouldn't be that bad. I don't see what the big deal is if you are not a pirate, and I don't th

Reply to Was Jesus just following an existing myth? in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote]SlyDrivel, We practice Zazen. Link. Be well.[/quote] This man is a genius. You guys have to try this.

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote]TO ANY MODERATOR READING THIS TOPIC: I feel highly insulted by the user named "SlyDrivel" constant name-calling and insulting of other people. At the very least his latest posts have been pure trolling attempts, at the worst purely insulting. I ask that this topic be locked before it becomes a total flame thread and also ask that the moderators take some kind of action with the user "SlyDrivel" to ensure that him/her can no longer troll these forums.[/quote] Obv

Reply to Was Jesus just following an existing myth? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Sodaiho, how do Buddhists stay so calm when there are so many dumb people around them who have no scruples and continuously confirm that there is no hope for humankind?

Reply to EU to Ban Pirates from the Internet? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

[quote]If you've used the internet you've violated copyrights right left and center... Type in a google search for Mickey Mouse... hope you have 100 million dollars lying around because thats probably the amount you'll pay in fines if the laws were enforced... Er....what? That's about as logical as saying 'if you have children you are a paedophile'. And then I want all of the rest of you who have ever copy/pasted anything copyrighted or ever done anything illegal wrt copyright Ma

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote]BTW you seem very racist considering to think other countries are "Barbaric"[/quote] commie

Reply to Is racism still alive and well in the US? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Well, the question has been answered. Is racism alive and well? In short, yes. What do I think should be done about it? Nothing much. I have been very successful. Black people have opportunity in this country. We just need to work hard in school and at work and leave the ignorant racists behind in their jars full of hate. America is a wonderful place.

Reply to Was Jesus just following an existing myth? in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote]Obviously this is in response to me just blacklisting your sad pathetic silly little ass from my blog just a few moments ago, you sad little thing you. You first seem fixated on little whip am I now to have the honor of having you follow me around like a trained puppy?[/quote] nope. if you'll look, i'd been posting on this one long before you "black"listed me for calling a racist on your forum a racist. I think you defended her by saying "she just calls it how she sees it", refer