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Had to buy and install a new Power Box-thingy for my computer today. Had a neighbors house catch on fire and take out the neighborhoods power. According to my Brother, some dude came by the house to get it back online, and apparently he missed the "Turn off the Feed to the House before you screw with the Meter" day of school. The house power was shut off and  snapped back on no less than 8 times, ruining a television, a fridge, and nearly ruining my new computer.

Seeing if I can't get Insurance to take care of things, but if it's my brothers word against this guys, he might be able to say the fire taking out the electricity was what did it.

Coming this Fall: Dwarf Fortress II: The Movie!

Cinematic Genius Uwe Boll takes us to Modern Day Scotland, at a small unmanned fort. The Captain of the Fortress, Kirk, and his group of 20 soldiers of all races, creeds, and genders must face the predations of a race of small bearded mutant creatures erupting from the earth with a taste for human flesh. Will he be able to protect his fortress from these Dwarves!?

Male, however I seem to give off enough Internet Estrogen to get that question asked of me very often. :s

Quote from: Micro102 on February 06, 2010, 09:54:42 pm

What about overall happiness? If slaughtering an innocent would bring happiness to everyone in the world that no other action could, would it be the right thing to do?

For this question, i will use an example. Lets say that this innocent is believed by all the citizens of a village to be a witch, including you. (This village is for arguments sake the entire world.) In your opinion, it is right and everyone else but the person believed to be a witch believes it is the right thing to do. If you kill her, it would have been the right thing to do, according to everyone in the world and you.

Why does everyone, including me think this "innocent" to be a witch? How much happiness will this really bring the world? I mean was it the death of Hitler that brought that world happiness, or was it the satisfaction that his very real threat was at an end? If this innocent never was a threat to the world, where is the happiness?

If we're going to use an example to prove that morality isn't easily defined then using a Two Dimensional example is a bad idea.

Back on Topic:
The last 3 episodes aren't suppose to be deep. They literally ran out of money and had to work with what they had. Then Eva got big, now you have the (far better) movie remakes coming out.
I always thought Eva was a fun watch though. I was always amused that Shinji was the embodiment of the Female Protagonist in anime at the time, while Asuka acted like the fireyheaded male lead, and Rei acted like the Stoic male lead.

You can't just set definitions of good and evil, as they change from person to person.

I don't see why not. It happens every day in real life. And that craps way more morally grey than Code Geass or DnD.

What do you mean by "Crusading"? If your talking about fighting evil, that would be more along the lines of Good. People like to think that Lawful translates as "More Good", but just being lawful doesn't mean you aren't capable of tremendous acts of evil.

For instance, you have the Devil's of the DnD universe. A Lawful Evil force that involves rigid hierarchy, a cut throat system of "Promotions" that allow Demons to rise up the ladder through the number of souls they take and finding loopholes in the system to quickly move up. They take souls through deals with mortals via contracts that always have a hidden clause that allows the demon to come out on top.

Being Loyal or Trustworthy fall more under Lawful Good. Lawful evil explores the ways strict laws can do more harm than good.

Quote from: Creaca on February 06, 2010, 07:48:04 pm

Yeah, the DnD is a little cliche and has some flaws. If you want a ~perfect~ Alignment system you'll want this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And before anyone asks. No they don't represent Alignments, they ~are~ the Alignments.

For instance, I'd peg Lelouche as a Batman and Sukaku as a Raynor-Taft

If you treat the law\chaos + good\evil axis as a continuous scale, rather than discrete points, and remember that in this context 'good' means 'helps others' and 'evil' means 'selfish\harms others' then it actually works really well.

Then why not just use the DnD 4.0 alignment scale? It's a strait line from Lawful good to Chaotic Evil. With Chaotic Good, Lawful Neutral and Chaotic Neutral and Lawful Evil all taken out of the mix.