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At 4/13/10 09:32 PM, malachi117 wrote:

At 4/13/10 08:48 PM, zero-gravity wrote: For doubles battles, the best combo is Gyarados and Rhydon (or w/e its evolved form is).

Holy fuck no, not even close.

I beg to differ. Gyarados has a retardedly high attack power with a good move line up. Plus since he is part flying, Rhydon can use earthquake and only damage the other team. On top of this, you are virtually invincible to electric pokemon because of Rhydons lightning rod ability meaning your gyarados is free to do a ton of damage. Plus the types compliment each other. Anything that can threaten rhydon can be dispatched by gyarados and anything that threatens gyarados can be dispached of by rhydon. The only pokemon type that would pose a serious threat is ice types, but there aren't any good meta-game ice types.

At 4/13/10 09:18 PM, Ragnarokia wrote:

I would say Yogg-Saron alone in the darkness, even in full ICC gear this is hard to do and the slightest mess up can cause a wipe, and theres lots to mess up. When Ulduar was the final raid this was a real boss for pros. The Lich King is a hard fight but compared to Yogg-Saron tactic wise its much easier, Yogg-Saron is only really easy now due to their being 2 raids after it.

Well as long as we are on the topic of WoW, how is algalon the observer in comparison to those two?

I find it funny how the opposite side is trying to prove that statism is bad, when that isn't the issue. You are supposed to convince us that corperate gov is good. The two are not mutually exclusive, we can hate both.

yes you can argue the ideal economic output and the methods of implementation, but simply addressing the idea of moral hazard and conflict of interest shows that corperatized government is nothing more than a statist totalitarianism wearing a mask. It would be nothing more than an aristocracy with a different name and given the nature of laws, it simply cant survive, not by any economic flaws, but by its very definition. If a corporation controls everything, then it becomes the government, and thus you have a dictatorship and if it is multiple corporations, then it is an oligarchy.

At 4/13/10 08:40 PM, sorryhalofreak wrote: Today after 48 hours of gameplay on pokemon soul silver i have beat red. What should i do now? Which starters should i pick?

Starters suck. Its all about the Heracross. You get one of those bad boys, you are set. For doubles battles, the best combo is Gyarados and Rhydon (or w/e its evolved form is). If you really want to use a starter, the best is blastoise: his special attack and defense are superior to that of venusaurs and charizard's defense and health is just too low to be effective, considering there are better blitz attackers in the game like Heracross that make charizard obsolete. Plus, durable pokemon help you progress through the game easier because it means less white outs.

At 4/13/10 08:25 PM, SmilezRoyale wrote:

I'm glad someone finally decided to learn about fascism and discover that it is in fact, a very mainstream, collectivist, anti-freedom attitude that is held by almost everyone.

"Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State" - Mussolini

By the way, Hitler's Philosophy was not very much different from Mussolini, the only difference is a matter of Degree. Hitler's economic and social policies simply emulated Mussolini's but with more gusto.

I specifically said EXCEPT FOR THE WHOLE SUSPENSION OF LIBERTIES THING, so stop your sarcastic bitching. But you have to admit that some of the other ideas are useful. Anyone with a brain can tell you that secret police and brainwashing youth groups are not in anyway cool but some of the IDEOLOGIES not the IMPLEMENTATIONS are at least valid.

This is my first poem that i have ever published in any fashion ever. Im not experienced at poetry so dont expect anything too great, but some critiques and constructive feedback would be nice. But otherwise, enjoy!

A sovereign thought gracefully dances
With a dream so obscure
But a life is so troubled
When its just not so clear
Like a gentle oceans breeze
this life passes on its way
like the dream in itself
Its temporary stay

But the mind struggles on
Refuses to bow
Better to die standing
Then give up here now
Will this life forward
Even if it means nothing
It can work toward
A goal as absurd

altruism fades
Into a shade of color
Whose vibrancy has faded
And must be renewed by another
Even if i die
With this will in my hand
I will not kneel regardless
If i can still stand

Because a life is just a dream
But a dream is eternal
Whose manifestation is a birth
Of an even greater miracle
than the life that willed it
Even if i fade
The movement will live on
From the union of the dream
and thought that it was found upon

At 4/13/10 08:26 PM, BenelliM4 wrote:

Ever heard of the Pandemonium Warden from FFXI? Thank Heavens I don't waste time on MMO's, 'cause this thing supposedly used to take 18+ hours to kill. It was later patched to lessen the physical body stress on players. Yes, you heard right, 'physical body stress,' as in increased heart rate and blood pressure, and overall drop in well-being. From an MMO boss.

Yea, i heard about it. I didn't mention it because of the exact reason you said yourself: It got patched. SE hired the best guilds and players to take it on and one of them said "We had to stop because we were concerned for our health. Not our character's health. I mean our actual health." or something along those lines. But yes, i will admit that it was just a tad extreme. I think they got 8 hours into the boss and just gave up.

Looking at the story lines of some of the games coming out these days. I think Newgrounds could muster up a think tank that could create a better story than these multi-billion dollar game production companies. I mean really, its kind of sad the amount of work that is put into the storyline of some games these days.

I mean if you guys want to, we could put this to the test xD

lol but im sure we all have better things to do

Yiazmat from FFXII

Its an 8 hour boss fight.

Now many of you may see this and say "WTF???" but hear me out. Im not talking about Hitler Nazi fascism, im talking about the fascism that is described by Benito Mussolini in his 2 page essay "What is Fascism". Now obviously the large drawback is the loss of freedom, but if you were to correct that problem it wouldnt be that bad. Lets analyze what he calls for in fascism:

Heroism
No more false optimism
Do whats good for the country
Every individual is ready to defend their country
Only have rights that are absolutely crucial

Basically, this is not a form of government that is based on idealism in any way what-so-ever which is very much why the fascists were against the socialists and marxists. This is an ideology that is very realistic and has very realistic standards goals. Although we treat fascism like its satin, i think the basic message its trying to send (ok yes, loss of rights and all that great jazz sucks) is a very good one for a world today that is so focused on false promises and laziness. I think although we shouldn't become fascists, oh god no, i think we should at the very least draw upon some of the ideas that the fascists had and use them to fix the ever growing apathy, laziness, and self absorbed greed that plagues our country.

Do you think Zero Punctuation will weigh in on this at all?

At 4/12/10 08:20 PM, 36Holla wrote: I'm curious why they're following you around and in what game is this happening?

Care to tell us?

Actually, before he does. Lets put down bets. My bet $5:

Game: CodMW2
Reason: The guy got pwnd and either wants to suck his dick or wants to kill him

I flame and troll the shit out of people on Xbox Live for fun anyway, so when somebody stalks me, i dont see it as an annoyance, i see it as a silver platter.

FEC v. Citizens United helps it out big time.... unfortunately.

Quite frankly, i would rather have a Communist leadership than having "The Federal Government, brought to you by McDonalds" for quites simply the fact that its a conflict of interest. If you completely privatize the government, you create a government that isn't looking for the best interest of the people, but now a government who is trying to make a profit. Basically, it becomes an economic despotism and aristocracy.

Communist Dictatorship > Economic Despot

At 4/12/10 07:16 PM, Prinzy2 wrote:

Same here, personally I'd rather play as the villain in most of the games rather than some underdog hero who only defeats the villain because he wasn't crushed like a bug in the beginning of the game.

That's why I like the Devil May Cry series so much, sure Dante get killed after a handful of hits at the beginning of the game, but he has strong character. Compare that with something like FFX where Tidus is a gigantic pansy throughout most of the game, yet becomes all-powerful at the end, makes me wonder why most of these video game companies haven't gone under.

This is so true, but its not even just that. Take games like Halo or God of War where, while they are good, are so 1 dimensional in their execution. What are the purpose of Kratos and Master Chief? Kill everything. What ever happen to "tactics" or "character depth". On the opposite end you have characters like Tidus who are little pansy boys and sure they have a lot of character depth, but you simply can't like them because, well simply, they are pathetic. Why can't someone simply be somewhere in the middle and his strengths be his cunning or charm/wit? I think Dante comes the closest to this, because he isn't super macho, he sure as hell isn't a pansy, and he has a shit ton of wit.

At 4/12/10 07:08 PM, The777Demon wrote: At least the villains tend to be intelligent.

I usually sympathize with the villains of videogames rather than the hero. At least the villains have vision.

Has anyone ever noticed how there is a severe deficiency of "intelligent" video game heroes? What qualities are usually expressed in the main characters of video games: Courage, Strength, Valor, Good Looks, etc. but never have a seen a videogame character whose main trait or attribute is his cunning/intelligence. It would be a nice change in pace in today's modern games from gun ho lets hack and slash and kill everything in site with pure blitzkrieg brutality with a character who spends more cut scenes saying shitty motivational one liners or talking about how much he is going to kill shit to a character who kills when he needs and does so in strategic ways, does larger damage in cunning ways, has very witty intelligent one liners, and contains some emotional depth. Many of you may say "but thats not entertaining!!" i say bullshit. If you had a character like that, it would force the gameplay to employ more strategy thus making the game more fun, the story line would be more compelling with more developed characters with more profound personalities than your average joe shmoe shoot em up hero. Also, we need more chicks as main characters. As much as i wasn't a big fan of FFXIII i do have to say having the main character as a chick w/o making it totally sexist and stupid was actually a nice change of pace as well.

I can't seem to find 4chan. Can anyone find its statistics on this?

At 4/11/10 08:51 PM, SadisticMonkey wrote:

sigh....it would be good if you weren't so dumb okay.

Its funny because intelligent people usually contribute to the topic and hand and have intelligent ways of refuting their opponents. Funny post you got there eh?

At 4/11/10 09:15 PM, Bacchanalian wrote:

I'll try saying it a different way.

Your seem to be accusing me of comparing a quarter and a nickel to the collective worth of several quarters and nickels together. Which misrepresents the relationship between quarter and nickel.

Am I understanding your charge against my argument thus far?

Not really. Im saying that you are pointing out the difference between a $100 and a $50 is minuscule when you reduce the comparison to being between a nickle and a dime. But i am saying that yes, you can enlarge the scope to show how minuscule it is, but it doesn't change the proportions.

That just proves what i said.... yea...

"keep the strong ones, they will be used for manual labor."

Was that just a big red herring then?

Nope, addressed in my next post silly. I should have said "stronger" ones.

Can you itemize these tainting variables so that I can better avoid them?

I could sit here forever and do so, but im just going to give a few as an example. People not working to full potential, natural disasters, or anything else that would be considered an statistical outlier on a graphical scatter plot portrayal of how the idealized system should work.

But i am 42

You can't use transform on another ditto or 42..... its..... its....... IMPOSSIBLE!!

At 4/11/10 09:01 PM, zero-gravity wrote:

That just proves what i said.... yea...

sorry, let me expound apon that. Anybody can do tasks, some can do it more efficient than others.

At 4/11/10 08:57 PM, Bacchanalian wrote:

At 4/11/10 08:47 PM, BringMeTheDarkness wrote:

You're analogy is dealing with a different kind of scale than I am.

I'm not looking at 1 and 2 in light of 10 and 20. I'm looking at 1 and 2 in light of several 1s and 2s.

LOL wut? you used a universal comparison and now telling me that wasn't what you were doing despite the definition you provided that fits perfectly into the analogy that i provided.

No. You didn't just say that. You added some color to it. You don't have to be a "strong one" to execute quite a few tasks.

That just proves what i said.... yea...

I'm kind of curious where you think auto-repair fits into the spectrum of planning and execution.

hypothetical and general concepts my boi. Im only interested in the theoretical outcome given the presented variables, not the actual one thats tainted by other variables.

Can you stop that? It's kind of annoying.

When you prove it isnt i will.

At 4/11/10 08:32 PM, Bacchanalian wrote: You sure people in general just aren't very productive?

Universal comparisons dont fix nor prove anything now do they.

Except you're not engineering more intelligence. You're engineering less stupidity. If you spend several hours picking out little chunks of fat from a sausage link, it doesn't mean you've added more lean meat.

Nor is innovation the sole manifestation of production.

Never said it was, thats not the sole part of my Malthusian economic argument, but innovation is necessary to increase the means of production. Your right, keep the strong ones, they will be used for manual labor.

At 4/11/10 08:28 PM, EyeLovePoozy wrote:

Poozy's supposedly original heartfelt answer.

Wait wait wait........ so basically what i said...... cool.

At 4/11/10 08:20 PM, blammerbadstuf wrote: I'm not surprised by the fact that almost everyone here is so casual about killing, I'm just amazed that everyone thinks that they could just openly express these views and not expect to get blows to their self respect as people.

Friend, you need to read more Nietzsche. There are no universal morals, only individual ethics. Also, im not being totally serious if you couldn't tell.

At 4/11/10 08:20 PM, Bacchanalian wrote:

At 4/11/10 08:17 PM, zero-gravity wrote: Potential for production.

Unintelligent people are inherently unproductive now?

Never said that. I just said that intelligent people are generally (and i use that word with the utmost caution) more productive. Thats not to say that unintelligent people are unproductive.

More intelligence = More innovation.

This isn't stereotypical or biased, its a fucking fact of life.

Kid, lets have a talk shall we?

YOUR LIFE IS FINE YOU DUMBASS

Your dad doesn't hit you. He allows to join a large variety of extracurricular activities which you seem to express that you enjoy. All of his shit is mostly empty threats to get you to grow up to not be a bum so you can have a successful life. Its obvious that he cares about your well being. Many kids would kill to have the dad that you have right now.

SO SHUT THE FUCK UP AND QUIT YOUR BITCHIN'

At 4/11/10 08:15 PM, Bacchanalian wrote:

At 4/11/10 07:43 PM, zero-gravity wrote: Well you see sir, i come from a middle class family and have high academic test standards, putting me at the bottom of the killing pile.

So then 'productivity' isn't the only criteria, but also intellect?

This is starting to sound more like self-superior masturbation than pragmatism.

Potential for production. We need have some future forecasts going obviously.