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Generally egomaniacs will have their sigs either 1. be about themselves or 2. are themselves.

Are you suggesting that Realm and Eugenitor are the same person!?

I'm obsessed with DnD, despite the fact that I don't play and never have.

Have you at least played any games based on the ruleset? Like NWN?

I don't know whether this goes in the happy thread or the sad thread, but I'm laughing so I guess it goes here (there might be some Alanis-style irony in posting it here, too). Holy shit, guys.

Fucking amazing.

Made my week.

Yes.

I would just like to say that I also enjoy this. The terrible puns are all great, and so are the faces.

As for any problems with chapter two, I enjoyed it. Most of the Neutron pages were hilarious, so I don't see how anyone could begrudge you for them. Maybe if it continued like this, but that doesn't seem likely so it doesn't seem like a big problem.

Keep it up dude!

I have not read the Fountainhead in a long time so I am not sure. He probably feels that all of society is undeserving of the spot because they do not live according to his morals, and therefore do not deserve it, meaning he would develop it to deprive them of it. Also she felt that humans should develop all the earth so long as it was in their best interest. She wrote it in the 40s and set that scene in the 20s (?) and so the idea that conserving it would be a good idea was totally off the radar for her.

Ah, thanks. It wasn't really conservationism that bothered me but more that I really enjoyed her description of it and it made me think "Ah damn, why would you destroy something so beautiful?" Oh! Roark has no artistic sensibilities. Starting to make sense.

Marxist communism isn't REALLY a political system. It's more the concept of a natural evolution from a capitalist society to one of, essentially, organised anarchism.

To quote Wikipedia: "In Marxist theory, communism is a specific stage of historical development that inevitably emerges from the development of the productive forces that leads to a superabundance of material wealth, allowing for distribution based on need and social relations based on freely-associated individuals."

Every single possible dream of every person (or at least every socially acceptable dream) leads to the concept of Marxist communism. The idea that there is so much wealth in the world that there is no need for it to be situated amongst the few.

I don't disagree with you about the current distribution of wealth. What I do disagree with is that communism is a good ultimate, as in final, goal for humanity. A decent communist state could be set up in the next couple centuries. Seems pessimistic.

I'm also not sure that a free market economy is necessarily exploitative. It might just be that people are necessarily exploitative, and then communism ends up just as bad, right? (I could easily be wrong about this since I really know jack shit about economics)

I don't understand what you mean by "every single possible dream. . .leads to the concept of Marxist communism." Are you suggesting that my dreams are inherently communist without my knowing it? That everyone's dreams are? I don't agree with that either. My dream is to learn about and experience as many interesting things as possible.

Not to mention the Roark bullcrap. I bet she was masturbating whilst writing that book seriously.

Haha, yeah. I totally see that.

I've actually read about objectivism, as explained by objectivists, and had dealings with a good number of the bastards in the past. They were all, without exception, horrible people, as can be expected from following such a contradictory clusterfuck as Ayn Rand's rantings, most of which were guided by her desire for power for herself at the expense of her followers, see: the article I linked to. Written by a prominent Libertarian no less.

I'm sure most objectivists are okay people when you aren't arguing with them about objectivism. Even if the philosophy is inherently evil it's hard to apply a philosophy to your day-to-day activities.

Quote from: Sir Pseudonymous on November 26, 2010, 09:43:27 pm

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I will mention Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand was a bad author, a horrible person, and an even worse person to base your political standpoint off of. Even libertarian cranks denounce her.

Exactly as I predicted. Perhaps we could look at her philosophy and not degenerate into a flamewar?

Sure, I'm reading the Fountainhead right now.

Why does she spend time describing the beautiful granite cliff face and lake on page one only to have Roark talk about consuming all of it on page two? Does she want us to think he's an asshole for willingly cannibalizing his own peaceful spot or does she just not see why that would bother anyone?

Also, isn't Roark totally a Mary Sue? It's painfully obvious Rand wants to bone him. "His face was like a law of nature." lol

The prose isn't bad though.

e: I do kinda side with him over the Dean. But he's a little extreme in his utilitarianism for even me.

Firstly, morality is different from political theory. The two overlap, sure, and one has to have an understand of ethics to have any real understanding of politics, but ethics is something we have to have.

Secondly, I'm not advocating fence-sitting. What I'm advocating is knowing I am not educated enough to form any sensible positions on the subject so reserving judgment until I'm at least remotely qualified.

Of course I have a morality, and of course I act consistently with that morality. I'm not the type of person to sit by and watch bullying, but I am the type of person who keeps his mouth shut on something he knows he's clueless about. Politics is a quagmire that I'm not ready to get involved in yet. And there are way too many books on linguistics I have to read before I can even consider touching economics.

I liked the scab coral just fine, that was a cool idea. But their

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'Limit of Life' or whatever your translation called it was just stupid. If there's too much stuff alive, the universe implodes?

That bugged me.

Oh yeah, that was stupid.

Too late, I've been trying to get people to watch this for ages(aka, since the beginning of this thread), and you only showed up when I've finally given up on humanity. You will have to live with the realisation that people who like Texhnolyze always die alone.
This is the end, fare thee well. Goodbye cruel world, etc.

;_;

I guess I already knew that anyway, since pretty much no one has even heard of it. In spite of being done by the same people who did fucking Lain.

I am watching right now. Its fine so far, but nothing stand-out.. Ep. 3 completed.

You must mean Eden of the East. I was being a little overzealous. It's pretty good though, I just think I have nostalgia vision for it because it was broadcast the same time as K-On.