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Quote from: Max White on November 28, 2012, 08:41:28 pm

Quote from: Sirus on November 28, 2012, 08:34:32 pm

Forgive the obvious question, but if you like your old place so much, why did you move?

Room mate moving and I couldn't find anywhere else.
The asshole literally gave me five days notice.

You don't go to school with MetalSlimeHunt, do you? Sounds like you have his roommate's twin.

Wrong side of the planet

Though I guess it'd be pretty interesting if they managed it anyway. Quantum doorways, or... something.

In sad-things, I get to have a six hour ride tomorrow, followed by formal wear the next day. May end up shaving before it's over with, I'unno. Not looking forward to... any of it, except seeing the aunt (she's having retirement parties in a couple days.) again. Frumple and formal don't mix well. Plus they're trying to get me to wear an undershirt and my instinctual response to people that try to get me to wear layers in Florida is murder. Little bit of headbutting the last few days.

Some days it's annoying to have such tremendous difficultly grokking the whole... clothes, thing. Like... matching socks. Matching socks can go blow themselves. They fit, they're comfortable, and no one will see them. Does it really matter that one's purple and the other not? So far as anyone besides me is concerned, they might as well be Schroedinger's Sock, all colors and none simultaneously. Representative case. Other stuff like that going down. No one's actually able to give me a reason why, so I get stubborn. Like the undershirt. So long as it can't be seen, why does it matter what's on it or what shape it takes? Can turn one of my t-shirt's inside out and wear that, no one but me could tell the difference and I. Don't. Care.. But no, food people raise fuss. My comprehension checks are failing.

Meh. At least it's finally getting decently chilly, and I hit the realization that I can close the AC vent and keep it feeling alright in my room. It's something. I need cold occasionally to stay even this rough facsimile of sane.

Adventurer = true. Add the line to allow_build.profile, somewhere in your t-engine folder.

Adventurer's are... pretty great. Only problem thus far is starting melee ones are a total PitA for the first few levels. Because your primary resource is, basically, category points, you can't really afford (from an optimization standpoint) to waste one unlocking combat training when you can pay 50 gold to get it.

So that means killing Prox or whoever, in melee... without combat accuracy. Protip: It takes a long bloody time to kill Prox when you only have an accuracy score of seven.

But... yeah. It's great. My greatest obsticle to getting characters into the end game is getting halfway there and going, "It'd be really nice if I had <talent tree X> right now." With adventurer... you know what? I have that tree. Do I want to run a cursed with corrupted strength today? I can! Do I want to have every summoning talent in the game? Let's rock the mob. Basically every tank/healing talent in the game? Transform and roll out, because nothing's gonna' kill me this run! I might not be able to kill anything either, but by the dead gods I'm not dying. Wanna' have another go at breaking the movement speed system? Rampage/celerity/quick-as-thought/mobility tree/step-up. Let's do this. I vunder vat kind uv attack speed a hasted rampaging reaver vith momentum kan do! Find out! AHAHAHAHAHAHA.

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So yeah, they're neat. S'got some problems insofar as UI goes (You have to expand lots of trees in the class tree list before you can see the lower down ones, ferex), but the sheer possibilities are just... delightful. Wish they had a couple more starting cat points, though. Most classes start with 10-11 trees on average, iirc; Advens start with eight, counting the racial and what cornacs get. You can work with it, though. Yes, yes you can.

Romhacking.net has informed me there was a Zoids game... for the NES. Which led me to check the wikipedia page, and realize those things have been around longer than I have. Somewhat surprising! Didn't even know the things existed until th'anime hit CN, years back.

Yeah, this has been chimed in on before. In the states, it is literally impossible, legally, for a police officer to give a good word for you in court -- anything that benefits you, as a suspect, is considered hearsay and basically inadmissible, iirc. However, anything that incriminates you or negatively effects your case, is considered admissible. As Aklyon says, there's a reason the wording on the miranda rights goes, "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." A cop's word literally cannot be used for you, if it goes to court.

So I'd be pretty damn careful about saying anything unless you've got some good blackmail on someone important or some pretty serious pull in your area. Chances are better than not it won't do anything good for you. Doesn't mean you have to be rude, per se, but you want to be really, really careful with your words.

Ever wonder what Spongebob would look like if imitated by John Carpenter's The Thing? Here it is!

Spoiler: Warning: Spongebob (click to show/hide)

http://i1045.photobucket.com/albums/b453/darigelap/Copyofspongbob-gif-spongebob-squarepants-11536815-652-619.gif

That...

... that looks a lot like the hugs and kisses elemental. Only, uh. Less. Less disturbing. *cough*

... that graph makes me want to strangle people. Just... just putting that out there. When you do something like that. You go from zero up. Because that shit is deceptive as hell. Lies, damn lies, and statistics? There's your statistics.

Hell, might even be accurate, or the point being made a good one. But how that's presented? A graph maker needs to be kneecapped. That kind of crap doesn't help the dialectic.

Probably just a bit tired (about to take a nap) but... that rubs the wrong way, man. Don't even necessarily disagree with the point you're making, mainiac (at worst, I'd say it's probably simplifying the situation far too much, but whatev'.). That's just a terrible graph. All of my half-conscious hate, for that graph.

Quote from: dei on November 27, 2012, 01:59:21 pm

anything with an -ism is a set of beliefs and values.

Embolism.  Volcanism.  Alcoholism.  Chromaticism.  Criticism.

Well, s'not really saying much. Everything period is a set of beliefs and values, because that's the only lens humans have to interpret the world around them. Concept system, away!

Seriously though, Re: The title question, it'd depend on what you call a god. Some definitions of god would be implied by materialistic pantheism. Some wouldn't. Certainly standard monotheist divinities are largely excluded by it, but if one considers all of physical existence to be the totality of god or to comprise the essence or foundation of god, well, then god is implied. Because you've defined "god" as the totality of physical reality or whathaveyou. You could easily refer to the same concept as "nature" or "existence" or... whatever, really. Reality is what exists (It is the "I am the I am", so to speak), you've just decided to call that "god".

As the aside, my philosophy teachers probably would have shot me if I tried to turn something like the text earlier in the thread to them Conciseness and clarity are the two fundamental virtues of philosophic writing, yeah. Sad thing is I've seen basically all of that much better put, I've just... forgot where. I am a terrible student

Though... as for actual comments, I would say that the only reason we can't full describe human behavior and everything related and stemming from it via mathematics is that we haven't finished the work for that, yet. Give it time, and we'll manage to quantify everything. Emergent phenomena is less a thing in itself than it is a perception of a thing whose actual existence is that which creates it, yes. Human perception is just a not-yet fully defined chemical/neurological system. Nothing particularly non-physical about that