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Wow, I can't believe that even after all this time, nobody's ever bothered to pick up this gem and make new maps for it.

At 3/31/09 05:14 PM, Scarab wrote: I wouldn't know whether American politics have been truly exempt from the extremist element or not, so I'll take your word for it. While I try to keep up with the world, it is hard for me to really magnify how things are going underneath, where things can really matter.

Well, historically, the last recorded act of particular extremism by any American legislators was that of Strom Thurman, a famous and well respected senator who was staunchly racist. He filibustered the Senate for a record 24 hours. Even legislators who were definite supporters of the civil rights of the black community applauded the man for his valiant efforts, even if they were on the side of racism.

Despite heated debates, the will to take any kind of action toward or against many important issues remains quite calm. Most of the issues that involve extremism are the marginal ones, including those that involve sexuality and abortion. Though certainly interesting, they have little real impact should any major decisions be made on them.
The issue of health care reform remains warmly debated, but I have yet to see major, or even significant protests from those disenfranchised by health insurance companies. People are very clearly horribly injured and even die from the actions or intentional inactions of these companies, but there haven't been any real mobilization by the injured or their families. Extremists on the issue of abortion have been known to go out and murder physicians, citing their practice as murdering unborn fetuses, but when a wife, husband, or other loved one dies because the insurance company flatly denied to pay for life saving treatment, there has been starkly little media coverage of any executives murdered over such a thing.

With all of the murderous rampages and shootings that go on in the United States, I'd expect at least one of those to occur due to an angry husband seeking vengeance for his neglected wife. Shootings have been known to occur for much lesser reasons, after all. Last week, a shooting was conducted at a nursing home by an individual who apparently had no relation to the facility. He apparently disliked old people, I guess. I wonder if this apparent nonchalance is because spousal relations in America are also under the same apathetic nature as everything else.

At 3/31/09 04:12 PM, Scarab wrote: Of course I would care, maybe not neccesarily in the example you posted, because it doesn't apply to me so much, but in an ideal world I like to care about the things that go on in the world. You can call me weak or kill me or whatever for treating the various problems in the world at least half-seriously.

The thing about nothing being done is that the common masses don't really have the power to do anything, and when it seems like popular opinion is swinging towards a desire to change, it's taken out of balance by all the people who want different things. No one can agree with each other, and any attempt to change what's going on around is weakened serverely through lack of a united front. That's when people get taken advantage by people who work only for themselves once more.

The ability to protest and to urge those in power to change is hindered also by the ties the people have to their work, or in the case of a student, their education. A working man (or woman) has to work to support his (or her) family. Failing to do so by going off on a crusade that will probably prove ineffective anyway may leave him (or her) jobless, and unable to survive properly. With students, they sometimes risk their education in an attempt to get together and fight against the things they disagree with. Note the students in Burma a few years ago who left their exams to join protests, thus dooming them to failure in education for that time.

There are too many issues for the masses to deal with to have to actually change things. You may think the Internet has improved the situations of those who want to change, and that people can organise themselves better than ever. While that's true, on the other hand, the Internet allows people to really develop different views, away from a bond that is really needed. Worse, extremists on all sides are looking to recruit from those disillusioned otherwise.

Criticise this conflict rant... now.

Much of the power lies with the people, whether legal or not. Fifty years ago, people were passionate about preventing blacks from achieving success. They protested, vanquished those who opposed their efforts, and even brought local law enforcement agents and national agents to their side. Of course, it was in order to oppress and needlessly injure an innocent populace, but if the people once again used that fervor for the cause of current issues, much could get done.

Of course, the "extremists on all sides" doesn't really apply to the United States. Most other nations, however, would certainly have this apply to them. You often see violence and riots from individuals on all sides of a debate, along with legislators attacking each other physically because of their personal views. If only the United States could be that passionate. I'd personally like to see Texan firefighters spraying abortion rights activists with heavy water hoses, and Californian police harassing anti-abortion activists. This would disprove the general indifference and apathy of the American people.

Then again, there was that case of anti-war police officers in a Nevada airport harassing then brutally beating an Iraq war veteran a few years ago.

At 3/31/09 03:40 PM, Sensationalism wrote: I hear what you're saying. We need to PROTEST and RIOT.
Hell yeah, I'm down!!

We NEED to...but WILL we?
I've visited Houston during one of the few Exxon protests when petrol was $3 a gallon throughout most of the rest of the country. Compared to what I've read in American history books, it was pathetic. The hand-made signs even paled in comparison to those of coal mining protesters in old black and white photos from the 1800's.

Some months before, in the same city, JANITORS gave a larger and more passioned protest in the streets. JANITORS complaining about getting better cleaning supplies, better pay, and benefits. Not about war, not about legal ethics, not about any recent major political outrages or abuses.

At least the coal miners were protesting due to the coal companies paying bribes to local officials and hiring a private security force to oppress them.

You know, on the news there are always stories about economic crises, civil rights violations, corporate abuse of power, and other such things that should get people riled up.
It seems, however, that people don't really get riled up about it. I mean, if a story came out today in which internet pornography was banned by NATO and they went ahead and sent troops out to, say, United States to bust pornographers, what would you actually DO?

I mean, other than go on blogs and post your outrage, what would you actually do? Would you go to the place and peaceably protest? Would you just sit around and complain? Would you attempt to take legal action or legally support anyone who does? Would you do something else?

It seems like all that people do nowadays in the United States is just sit around and complain. It seems to be quite prevalent.

At 3/31/09 03:21 PM, Igotaname13 wrote: Well I infected Madagascar on my first try. Wasn't that hard.

You say that as if you could infect it intentionally. Infection just sorta happens passively in this game. It's not like Thing-Thing, where you actively move about and destroy things.

This will work nearly ALL of the time.
Step 1: Start New Game in any region
Step 2: Sell your symptom
Step 3: Leave the game running and check back every hour

You will eventually end up infecting every country after the better part of a DAY OR MORE. This is the ONLY method to beat the game nearly all of the time. Chance of infection is apparently based on the likelihood of an infected person randomly emigrating to another country. Either through the border or by long-range vehicular means, it seems to be a random selection of the population moving between the regions.
You will lose if your starting country begins with an out of control infection rate.

This will work about A TENTH of the time
Step 1: Start New Game in any region
Step 2: Sell your symptom
Step 3: Purchase level one from all of the resistances except drug resistance
Step 4: Leave the game running and check back every hour

This method is used to maintain a stable number infected individuals. Without drug resistance or symptoms, death rate remains at zero and some of the newly infected will become cured. This leads to a net gain of zero infections, while maintaining a minimum number of infected individuals.

If the number of infected constantly increases without stopping in a particular country, you have already lost. The number will eventually become overwhelming within a single hour of playing the game. Such a high infection count will lead to the cascading shut down of all nations, thus leading to you losing the game.

This will work less than A FOURTH of the time
Step 1: Start New Game in Madagascar
Step 2: Sell your starting symptom
Step 3: Maintain slow infection rate of no more than a few new infections each game hour with resistances
Step 4: Leave the game running and check back every 30 minutes

Madagascar will randomly acquire/ship out ships at a ridiculously slow rate, with an acquisition/leaving occurring with a low probability every 10 days, average probability every 30 days, and high probability every 60 days. By maintaining a net infection rate that is still very low, the number of infected will increase gradually, gradually increasing the chance that a leaving ship will happen to contain an infected person on it.
The number of infected in Madagascar will increase exponentially, however, and thus cause a great increase in the likelihood that by the time you are able to leave the island, the number of infected in Madagascar will lead to the other region to take preemptive measures, thus preventing you from infecting that region.

Really, it seems that maintaining a low infection rate is the only way to win the game. Luck seems to be the major player in this game, not the user. Of course, a fanatical level of patience is required if you want to beat the game without fail. In the end, it's really not worth it to spend all that time just to beat a game like this.

Oh yeah, if you're a total noob to this game: Once you've infected all nations, max out your resistances and methods of transmission until all hospitals are shut down. Once that happens, buy a symptom that has some kind of lethality rate. You can then just wait patiently while the number of dead start increasing.

I'm trying to find a defense game.
It involves defending some buildings on a planet from incoming asteroids by rotating the whole planet, thus allowing asteroids to hit spots on the planet that aren't occupied by buildings. It was featured on the front page some time ago.

I can't do a search for the game due to the fact that there are a ridiculous number of games associated with the search terms "planet" and "asteroids."

Anyone know the name of the game?

It's best not to attack Iraq until you're ready to start drilling. That saves alotta time and effort.

At 11/10/08 10:28 PM, Prinzy2 wrote: Do you ever stop sending troops to Iraq?

No, no, you don't. It really doesn't matter after you've filled the entire Iraqi population with troops.

Here are the endings for this game:

Fired
Get the shareholders angry. Easiest ending

MAD
Get the production of oil low enough, jacking up the price to the point where GDP becomes -4% and price becomes $300.

Early Retirement
Get oil addiction below 30%.

I hate you, Madagascar. I hate you. I hope you die in a fire.

Oh my God

OH MY GODDD!!!!

YOU FOUND IT!!!

The flash I've been questing for!

Youwinaninternetsiloveyouiwanttohaveyourbabie s

You are so awesome, thank you.

Didn't help at all.

There was a v1.0, another edition after that, then an online updated version that is updated every now and then with new cards and features. All of them were submitted and are under the artist's listing of submissions

Still don't know who made it or what its name is. It has nothing to do with Chrono Trigger

I remember there used to be this really fun battle card game. I think it was called Magus something. It involved a pair of warlocks battling. Anyone know the name of it? It was around Newgrounds somewhere, but now I can't find it.

According to the stats, you should be able in increase your infectivity to up to about 6 before a country develops a cure.

There's less than 5% chance that you will win, so don't even bother.
Aim for infectivity first. It will be statistically impossible for you to effectively fight the cure with drug resistance.

Collect points early on to increase infectivity and spend them like mad on expanding infection and infecting other countries when you reach 1% to prevent yourself from losing.
Buy planes when you need them, although it would be better to invest in stats than anything else, unless you're at 1%

because there are no mesiria topics.

Anyway, I'd like to know what the stats are for the battle system

level 2 90HP Battle 1-2 Get Leather Braces and Leather Jackets
level 3 100HP Battle 6-7 Get Steel Rapier-Bat 9
level 4 115HP Battle 10-11
level 5 130HP Battle 16-17
level 6 145HP Battle 22-23

After that I keep dying in unlucky circumstances.
Oh, I wish I knew Flash so that I could just go in and change the stats so I could see the ending.

Secular reason against gay marriage?
OH GOD, the paperwork, the families, the legal mayhem
Do you realize what people like me have to go through just for straight marriage?
I shudder to think of the day when gay marriage gets legalized.
I'll have to start buying gauze in crateloads from the papercuts alone.

Okay, I don't even know where to start with this, so I'll just pick something random.
Ahem...
Women and men are different...just LOOK at'em. Different development, mind-altering hormone cycles, and even physiology. They should be in different parts of the military, just like you should use a HWP specialist against a tank rather than a trained sniper, their differences in physiology and funding required to train them means that they need to have separate positions.
Now, of course, there will be exceptions. There will be women who are just as physically able as a man in combat duties and thus should get that job along with most of the men, and men who are better at sitting at a desk, making complicated decisions, who should get that job along with most of the women (in reality, men seem to get most of those jobs for some reason, but that's beside the point.)
Women require more effort to train for combat, and, in general, will be less likely to be put into combat. I, personally advocate women be allowed into front line combat situations. No doubt, though, due to inherent differences in gender physiology and sociological upbringing, there will likely be an overwhelming number of men still in those kinds of jobs. It will still be overwhelmingly dominated by men.
What I certainly don't advocate is some kind of artificial segregation our affirmitave action to skew the demographics in those jobs. That would be just plain retarded. You can't have an entire platoon or ship consisting of only men or women unless, out of some wild coincidence, their skills/demeanor completely and totally prohibited men and women from being together. Now I'm sure that someone's gonna reply to this reiterating the argument that the women might get raped. Well, tell me this: If a woman becomes physically and mentally fit as a man, being just as good as, or superior to her male counterparts, would you want to rape her? At that point, she'd essentially be a dude. Could you rape her, even? Would you be willing to have sex with her, even if she started seriously coming on to you? Or would you rather just go to the bathroom and relieve your uncontrollable urges there? Think about that.

I don't know what's better. I really don't

(A little sidenote: I'm a university student typing this up on a university computer, so I know what I'm talking about. At least, I know what my history and political science professors were talking about. I got A's in those classes.)

But I do know one thing:
The current system we have now is the best that we have.
And I can honestly say that, as a 4channer would put it, it BLOWS. It fails on so many levels.
To give you an idea of what our system is like, take a look at WOW (World of Warcraft for you noobs out there).
The system of this earth would be like WOW with NO mods. If there were any mods, they would be the UN. To get a clearer analogy of this, go play Stickarena over at Xgenstudios. They got mods, but they can't do jack about all the hackers. They just don't have the power. Now I'm sure that someone out there is gonna say that maybe the mods need more power. After which, someone's gonna give a post that says "Oh no, they shouldn't be allowed to wield so much power! They might abuse it!" or something along those lines. Whatever. I'm just here to present some ideas, not necessarily argue one point over another.

Anywho, our current system, as it is now (largely capitalistic) seems to be good because, for one thing, the people at the top, and benefitting most (us) are writing these forum replies. We also have computers, and the people at the bottom don't, but that's beside the point.

The point is that it's a dog-eat-dog world. Personally, I like the way it is. That's because I'm on top. I'm in a university, learning my skills. I'm going to go somewhere in life. I'm one of the lucky few in this capitalistic society of ours. Considering the heated debate and heavy spelling errors in the past posts, I can only assume that many of the posters don't have that great of an education, are poor, or are otherwise disenfranchised in some way, shape, or form. That's good. VERY good.
The more people on the bottom, the easier it is for people like myself to make it to the top. I, personally also detest that fact. I don't want to take advantage of people, stepping on heads in order to get to the top. I don't want to LIKE the way it is.
But it's a fact of life. That's the way it is. You can argue over the "what if's" and speculate over what thing would be like all you want.
But unless you get out there in the world
Unless you actually do something
Until you make a change
Whether by accumulating wealth and making changes after buying your way to the top
Or collapsing everything by taking out obscure, yet quintessential support columns in our system
Or by forming a grassroots organization and rebelling...

Nothing will be accomplished.

So, I tell you this:
Go out, and do something.
And I pray to God that it's the right thing.

Can't believe this...
What I don't understand is the fact that if it's blammed, why isn't it automatically removed from the front page to make room for another title? ANY movie would make a better front page special than a blammed one. Does anyone have any idea why the user was deleted?

OK, let's recap here. One theory suggests that the game isn't working because of a Microsoft fault in Service Pack 2 that's stopping the download because it thinks that the preloader is part of an illegal mp3 download. Apparently, the preloader is too long in this scenario. Another one is that the cache in your computer is causing something to go haywire. Then the remedy to this theory would be that you delete everything in your temp and cookies folders, etc. Another suggests that you need a new browser. Then there are those that blame the fault on the Newgrounds servers for messing up. Another theory is that it's the author's fault. This is unlikely, as the problem would have to have come up in more instances, such as...nearly all of them. Personally, I believe that it may have something to do with the fact that sometimes servers get screwy when you've overloaded them. My remedy in this theory is then to sit there and keep refreshing the page until you finally get through. This happens often in other flashes on Newgrounds, so it's no big suprise to me. I believe that all of the other things that peeps have said worked is just a way to waste time to the point that they get a lucky click. So I say: just sit there and keep clicking, and you'll probably get lucky and go through. Note: I haven't been able to get through.