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I guess this is a bad time to announce my new game, The Old Parchments: Airain, huh?

But seriously, wtf Bethesda? You used to be cool...

And I think "The Elder Scrolls" actually came from them being a key item in the Dungeons & Dragons campaign one of the developers used to run...they liked the world he game up with for the campaign so much they used it for Arena.

I'll admit I was largely on Bethesda's side with the whole interplay thing.

Selling Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics as the "Fallout Trilogy" is being deliberately misleading with no real excuses. Someone in Interplay is either a moron or malicious there, and neither say good things about them as a company.

Interplay promised Fallout Online would be at least close to completion by a certain date, and signed a contract with Bethesda assuring that they would aim to meet that date. They missed that date by a lot with no sign of any progress. You contract someone to fix your roof in a week and a month later they're sitting up there next to the whole in your roof drinking beer, you're gonna get pissy.

This is just starting to take the mick.

Quote from: Nadaka on August 01, 2011, 03:55:23 pm

When you know how to computer science, picking up almost any new language takes a week or less.

Including stuff like Brainfuck, Forth or J?

Brainfuck is just a Turing tarpit ^^ I learnt about them doing Computing at A-Level (School whilst aged 16-18 for the non-British). I assume most Computer Science theory would go into turning machines at some point

Most esoteric languages are simple concepts expressed in ways that make them look otherwise

From what I've read most of the founding fathers were Deist, a philosophy very closely related to modern day Atheism.

America's "In God We Trust" was adapted during the Cold War, a time when anybody different was considered potentially the enemy. It's a safe bet it was a result of the wave of paranoia and propaganda from that time.

I'll admit I had my first girlfriend when I was 14, but that was an odd case ^^

Ironically, it was being a nice guy that got me the girlfriend (she had previously told me she was self-harming and I was fascinated by why someone would do such a thing so being all sympathetic and supportive). Unfortunately, being a nice guy was incredibly boring and eventually I started letting my worse side get the better of me, a snide comment there, a snarky remark there, and she dumped me with the line "You're too much of a bastard, and make me worse when I'm around you" xD

Ah, my bad ^^ Well now I know, and the more you know...

GI JOE!

If you can suggest an alternative phrasing, I'll use that instead.

That's just English.

And it will always annoy me endlessly. Like if I say I don't like something, people assume I dislike it. There's a world of difference between the pure apathy of "I don't like" and the active attention required to "dislike". Or "abnormal" meaning bad, even though being incredibly intelligent also qualifies as "abnormal"...

It's really annoying ^^

Black and white morality is a sign of a young child or a disturbed adult. Seriously, a lot of rather bad psychological conditions lead off with "Black and White thinking".

Personally I subscribe to the idea of "The Myth of Morality", that morality doesn't actually exist but is a rather useful lie society uses to keep people in line. Morality is an individual weakness, but if everybody was strong enough to ignore it we'd have what always happens when you have a gathering of the strong and independent: chaos, war, and eventually domination. Individual weakness, but herd strength.

And that's why morality rarely applies to people outside of our herd. It's why gang culture forms to the harm of those not in the gang, it's why school is hell (so many cliques)...the instant you stop considering a person inside your herd, you can do anything to them and it's only fear of the consequences that'll stop you.

I have never heard the term "noughties" used to describe the last decade. I always assumed it was going to be called "The Second Gulf War" era.

I think it's mostly only used in the UK, tbh.