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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Community
« on: December 10, 2013, 09:26:30 PM »
I quit watching Community during the fourth season because it wasn't very good anymore. Will season five be not terrible now that Harmon is back?

We don't know. Hopefully.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles
« on: December 10, 2013, 10:09:58 AM »
I'm not sure why people seem to think that playing games on PC requires any special knowledge. Very few games require you to actually build a powerful PC, and even then there's plenty of retailers that provide parts lists and assembling services. Sure, it'll cost more than a console, but the games cost a lot less. Installing games is also easy as heck, thanks to ubiquitous online game retailers. Occasionally, you might have problems with playing or installation, but it's usually fixed by googling it for help. The only gaming that has required special knowledge has been playing emulators, or getting pirated games to run.

Secondly, I prefer games to be something I can share with people around me (Flatmates, partners, family, friends, parties) and you can't really do that with PC games. It's why the Gamecube was my favourite of the last-gen consoles - you could stick four controllers in and have a great time with Mario Kart, Smash Bros, FPSs, etc.

I suppose this is where the difference lies. Whenever I play with friends, it's always boring run'n'guns like CoD or Halo, since no one owns the Nintendo consoles. Playing almost exclusively on PC nowadays has exposed me to a huge social atmosphere, and given me friends from a huge diversity of gaming communities.

I also miss those games immensely. I grew up on Smash Bros 64 and the Mario Karts. Good times.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles
« on: December 10, 2013, 09:07:54 AM »
I'm not a PC gamer because I'm not a computer expert.  It's a simple as that.  If assembling, modifying, and customizing computers came as easily to me as it apparently does to all the enthusiasts on the Internet, then I'd probably become one too.  You can say it's "easy" or "obvious" all you want, but it's not to me.  And I'm not alone.  Like it or not, the vast majority of people don't understand computers well enough to become a competent PC gamer.  It's not because we're stupid or lazy, or because we're all strictly "casual" gamers, it's because we have different interests, different strengths and weaknesses, etc.  People are like that.  Consoles are popular because they don't require that level of investment and technical expertise.  And alas, the PC gaming community will most likely never understand this, and will therefore never understand why the rest of the gaming community sees them as arrogant pricks.

I'm a dumbass but still managed to put a PC together. There's plenty of websites, stores and people out there that will tell you exactly what to buy depending on your needs. Putting it together is basically just lego, but slightly more complicated.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles
« on: December 10, 2013, 02:49:02 AM »
I can make a statement for everyone, because the only thing I'd ever touch is a Wii U.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?
« on: December 09, 2013, 08:04:42 AM »
Well, babies also don't know algebra, but not knowing it (or even that it exists) does not leave one to say, 'I don't know if algebra exists.'

That would be the default position of someone who never encountered algebra, yes.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?
« on: December 09, 2013, 03:38:11 AM »
People are born believing in nothing, so I would say that the default position is agnosticism.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?
« on: December 08, 2013, 11:42:46 PM »
Theoretically possible. Statistically highly unlikely. For every single atom to be just right even on Earth to allow for intelligent life is a 1 in several million chance. That it happened elsewhere also? Much harder to conceive. But, I weary of the battle since neither of us is likely to win the other over to our point of view. What say we change the topic?

Even assuming this random figure, life would have to happen somewhere and who is to say Earth isn't it?

Also, abiogenesis doesn't require "every single atom to be just right".

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles
« on: December 08, 2013, 11:40:55 PM »
That's terrible, of course kids would fall for something like that. Why the fuck did Microsoft leave that accessible.

It's 4chan, if people take anything said seriously over there then they deserve the lesson.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles
« on: December 08, 2013, 09:10:20 PM »
Not surprised Xbone users would fall for that.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing (the Video Game Version)
« on: December 07, 2013, 10:00:46 PM »
I'm up to Lorule now in ALBW, and it's been very enjoyable so far. It's much easier than ALttP was, but I guess that's to be expected. The puzzles are enjoyable, and the 2D mechanic is really good both as a puzzle tool and a combat tool.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Nelson Mandella is dead
« on: December 07, 2013, 03:11:26 AM »
5 spelling errors & 1 punctuational error. Perhaps I should count orthographic errors. For those who don't know, the orthography of a language is the overall way of writing a language & covers spelling, punctuation, grammar, syntax, & the like. 6 orthographic errors, then. & if you actually give me something worth replying to, I shall do so. Until then...

Don't respond to him or acknowledge him if he doesn't make a good point. It just encourages the trolling.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Nelson Mandella is dead
« on: December 07, 2013, 12:24:06 AM »
Well, most Americans never knew, but both he & his 1st wife used to order shit to be blown up, or burning necklaces applied to their rivals in the ANC & Inkatha Freedom. & that says nothing about the Whites he ordered killed, many of whom had nothing to do w/ the government or the military. He wasn't a nice man. But we Americans are nice & stupid, & helped the terrorist into power. Apartheid was nothing nice, & needed abolished, but what they have now is even worse.

Sources for all of this stuff? Not accusatory, I genuinely know very little about Mandela.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Nelson Mandella is dead
« on: December 06, 2013, 09:11:58 PM »
And what the heck do you mean your not a fan? Are you a rascist?
Nelson Mandela was a terrorist and I am white. He did nothing for whites. He was the racist. Be careful with the accusations you throw about.

How was he a terrorist?

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Technology & Information / Re: Laptop needed
« on: December 06, 2013, 08:37:45 AM »
Avoid any of the touch screen crap.
that isn't as helpful as I suspect you intended it to be.
Avoid windows 8 too.  But that's nearly impossible.

lol, good luck with that. The market is saturated with W8 + touch screen machines. There are a few brand around that don't have these features, but they're typically gaming laptops in excess of $1300.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: December 05, 2013, 08:01:45 AM »
I allowed myself to watch human centerpiede 1and 2. I won't do that again. I never thought I would see a better shock film then 'a Serbian film'. Watch a Serbian film if you havnt seen it. But it's pretty heavy.

No, don't watch that movie. Absolute piece of shit. It wasn't even shocking, just terribly fucking boring and uninteresting.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing (the Video Game Version)
« on: December 04, 2013, 03:47:58 AM »
I've been playing Counter Strike: Source a lot.

I recently bought CS:GO for $3 so I've been playing that. I like it more than CS:S, except that every server seems to have AWPs turned on so I can't escape the damn thing.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing (the Video Game Version)
« on: December 04, 2013, 01:48:12 AM »
Played about an hour of A Link Between Worlds, and I'm liking it on the 2DS. The joystick is much better than the dpad was for controls in A Link to the Past and I'm liking the early story more. Besides that it's pretty similar so far.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?
« on: December 03, 2013, 08:09:11 PM »
I understand this may be nit-picky, but "Atheist" isn't a religion. It's the lack of a religion, if anything.

A religion is a set of beliefs about reality. You don't have to believe in God to be religious. I think atheism entails a particular set of beliefs about reality and it therefore can be defined as a religion.

Religions have holy texts, and a system of belief. Atheism has none of that, it's just the lack of belief in a God.

The God Delusion and the belief that gods are the product of man's imagination.

Atheism still isn't a religion though.

There are atheists that have never heard of (or are incapable of reading) The God Delusion.

Is this the whole "even babies are atheists" schtick again? Because if it is, you are an idiot.

Babies aren't the only ones incapable of reading.

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Announcements / Re: Help wanted to make this place better
« on: December 03, 2013, 08:57:57 AM »
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Pick 2.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?
« on: December 03, 2013, 05:23:25 AM »
I understand this may be nit-picky, but "Atheist" isn't a religion. It's the lack of a religion, if anything.

A religion is a set of beliefs about reality. You don't have to believe in God to be religious. I think atheism entails a particular set of beliefs about reality and it therefore can be defined as a religion.

Religions have holy texts, and a system of belief. Atheism has none of that, it's just the lack of belief in a God.

The God Delusion and the belief that gods are the product of man's imagination.

Atheism still isn't a religion though.

There are atheists that have never heard of (or are incapable of reading) The God Delusion.

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