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Daily Feature 15 in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Is it "Satanic hate"? Some people have called my attacks on the false Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to come from "Satanic hate". Well, here's what I have to say to it. Now, if a person goes out into the woods, makes a hoax, brings it back, and then claims it as a religion, is it a religion of truth, or one of Satan? Therefore, I belive Joseph Smith to be a liar and a deciever of all men. When I hate the LDS church, I hate no

Reply to Why PC Gaming is Dying in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote]Oh really? Why are there virtually no indie and no open source games that rank anywhere near the best of all time, then?[/quote] Do you even know about Indie and Open Source games? Rogue was a small project, it has its own genre. Open Source? It's a matter of opinion, but I can play tens of thousands of good Open Source games that make the commercial games feel like rip-offs.

Reply to Why PC Gaming is Dying in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

No, it means you make one good, playable game, and add in ads and a couple new features (cycling them in and out occasionally until they're forgotten), and building crappy game engines that allow you to swap models and gameplay features in and out to utilize franchises cheaply and efficiently while needing upgrades only once every five years when the consoles come out.

Reply to Why PC Gaming is Dying in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Hey, you're forgetting, I'm more open-source/indie than commercial. Quite frankly, the profit devotion puts me off too. Quality suffers too much. Yep, large-scale and profits-first means that you get a huge group of people coming up with as many ways as possible to make it impossible to play the game.

Reply to Why PC Gaming is Dying in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I never said it would die off, merely that it is dying, and has a potential to do so in the event of a catastrophe. It's simply likely that the fall (or exodus) of commercial titans will turn it into having 10% of the activity from said titans it used to have. This would leave an open-source and Indie majority.

Daily Feature 14 in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Why Do You Call it Hate? I've had people complain that I'm a "troll" or too hard on them. You know what I say? If you cannot justify your beliefs, must you classify mine as hate? Quite frankly, I'm only capable of hating those who've wronged me. As far as I know, no major group has hurt me as a general rule, so therefore I hate no group. Plus, I usually only hold grudges so long as they can keep on burning. I'm not gonna continue haunting

Reply to Why PC Gaming is Dying in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Yep, PC games require an obscene amount of setup. With only 8 GB free at my best times, I can't buy $60 games in their PC equivalent because they require four GB at least (or so I hope).

Reply to Daily Feature 13 in Blogging Stardock Forums

Ah, yes, but I'm not sure if I could qualify for "student" editions. Either way, $249 is still WAY too much. You can get shareware equivalents for as low as $25, and LiveSwif is free.

Reply to Obama - Another Environmental Wacko Socialist in Politics Stardock Forums

SUV's and 70 degrees sounds good to me. Global Warming: Scaring Idiots Since 1965.

Reply to Respecting Your Fellow JUs in Blogging JoeUser Forums

[quote]Why would you even expect to? Do you respect every one of your coworkers, neighbors, strangers on the street? Understand that there's a huge difference between TREATING someone with respect and actually FEELING respectful of them.[/quote] Yes, I do actually respect every one of my coworkers, neighbors, and everyone I bump into on the street. It's the people here who are jerks and unworthy of respect. Do not forget that Caligula had a slander campaign launched against him

Reply to Why PC Gaming is Dying in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

@ Windows Update: Yes, you can use Windows Update, but in a crash, you can damage your system. BSOD'd during .NET update, 8 months of brokenness until I cleaned it up. PCs only "just work" for those willing to sacrifice their freedom. @ 360 RROD: Mine's been around multiple years and hasn't had a single hardware problem. Not even a slight one. The third party controllers keep breaking, though.

Reply to I have a Question. in Just Hanging Out Stardock Forums

It's little points you get if people like you. Don't worry, you'll get some sometime if you stay active. Even I have karma, so you should have no problem. People do like it if you're nice, though, so if you're nice, you'll get karma. Or outstandingly hard-headed. I get it from the hard-headed one.

Daily Feature 13 in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Movie Review- Iron Man Iron Man is one of the best movies of 2008. It's got action, a decent plot, and a timeless tale of redemption. It starts out with the decadent Tony Stark, a rich son of a weapons tycoon being hit by an ambush. Once he realizes that the people ambushing him have his own weapons, he turns from a decadent leisure-boy into a one-man army. It's basically an explosion-filled action flick with a moral lesson behind it. Fiv

Reply to Smart advice in the most unusual places in Blogging Stardock Forums

The advice means this to me: "If you wanna become a vigilante, wear a mask."

Reply to 18 Things a Grown Man Should NEVER Have in Blogging Stardock Forums

Black eyes are overrated. Broken arms are cooler. ;)

Reply to Why PC Gaming is Dying in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

The 100+ hours is a criteria that makes them actually proven finished, if it can make you feel as good in a shorter timeframe, then let it. Yes, it is hard to download drivers, it'll screw up your freakin' computer if you do it wrong (though this is rare), it'll take your time, and it'll make you have to wait to use your PC until it's finished. Patches suck too, because you need to get out of what you're doing. The PS3 has most of these problems too, though, with patching and dr

Reply to Brad's thoughts on Digital Distribution (a work in progress) in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I actually always go physical, never really digital. Maybe it's just darn credit cards. Or maybe I'm just too stingy, but I'll buy a physical copy before digital most any day. The exception being small ($10 or less) purchases other than music, I always prefer a disk I don't make.

Reply to 18 Things a Grown Man Should NEVER Have in Blogging Stardock Forums

Well, I guess I have less than $20 in my wallet occasionally, but only when I'm lounging and don't expect to spend any.

Reply to Why PC Gaming is Dying in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

EA makes some good games, but not enough to warrant buying more than one or two. A game only needs a couple features, the question is: "Is the game the full length?". If it can keep you for 100+ hours, it's finished, regardless if it's pretty much just an interactive movie, with no depth, and you have only one or two commands available, versus a game with 20,000 unique things to do, but will only keep you long enough to try each.

Reply to 18 Things a Grown Man Should NEVER Have in Blogging Stardock Forums

Woot! I don't have any. (Never played a PlayStation for more than 5 hours. Arguably, also, the futon ain't mine.)

Reply to Why PC Gaming is Dying in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Nah, you can find good PC games that aren't rip-offs. Avoid anything EA makes. The only problem with expansion packs is that the original game is unfinished, or they don't add very much. Stick with games that have trials, and good reviews, before buying.

Reply to Daily Feature 12 in Blogging Stardock Forums

It's awesome. Go see it.

Daily Feature 12 in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Movie Review- Prince Caspian Yes, I get out of my house occasionally. For instance, yesterday I went to see Prince Caspian. Two words: Epic Awesome. Seriously, I may enjoy the battle scenes too much, but they're good. However, the book-accuracy is questionable, it's more of a theological work than CS Lewis' work. Yes, a Disney movie has more theological depth than the work it's based on. I may be putting Lewis' work in the same air as Tol

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You're welcome.

Reply to Why PC Gaming is Dying in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

First off, I'm pro-war, considering that the terrorists won't be happy with having a candy tossed at them, the war is technically legal, provoked, and just. However, having an affair is a measure of deep seated mental instability.