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Mazinger, EN, armor, attack. Also, maybe a current roster or something in roll call post or OP? Maybe just a machine/pilot list or so.

... it's not cost stopping the US from feeding the world, Imm. We could already siphon a fairly meager amount from parts of our (tax funded) budget and pretty much do just that. Couple other nations chip in? Be bloody cake. Cost per capita would likely be hilariously negligible. I would happily contribute $1 USD a week for the purpose of feeding the entirety of humanity. Hell, maybe even 10. It'd be feeding me, too.

@Immortal: Hey, if you can point at a single nation or group at any point in post agrarian history -- especially since, say, industrialization started -- that has maintained anything even remotely approaching stability while practicing what you're preaching, I'll give that you might have a point.

Problem being, it's generally a really bloody terrible sign (especially re: continued existence) for a group of any number to be allowing its members, even the sort you're railing about, to starve to death, or to be executing them as par for course. It doesn't work now, it hasn't worked in the past, and, extrapolation being what it is, it's pretty bloodly likely not to work in the future.

As for the intelligence thing, yeah, you're abusing evolutionary theory with that rigamarole. Major physiological changes (such as a majorly notable upswing in intelligence) don't occur in a period as small as recorded history. On the bright side! We've had pretty good indicators that general intelligence among human beings has seen a notable upswing in the last few centuries! Folks are pretty sure that has more to do with better eating and living conditions than anything related to the evolutionary aspects of culling off the weak, though. Culling the weak basically stopped doing anything to us about five seconds after we sharpened the first stick.

Anyway, yeah, social darwinism was a failed theory before it even got its name. It's been torn to so many pieces since people started spouting it, it's almost farcical at this point. Hence I might be going off on people a little with this, maybe. It's somewhat irking to see people advocate a conceptual system so baldfaced broken.

Quote from: King DZA on May 09, 2012, 06:12:40 pm

If people would stop focusing on looking for other people to make things right, and instead put more effort into seeing how they can best contribute themselves, things wouldn't have to be as complicated.

Do you really believe that the general populace would ever consider this? I personally believe the general public is close to incompetent, they are given food if they do nothing. The weak always survive, even when they are close to useless, all because "everyone deserves to live". I say thats bull, if you don't contribute you don't get a slice of the pie.

Hey, yeah, screw children, the temporarily injured, the elderly, and any and everyone incapable of defending themselves from exploitation. No work, no food, deserve death. It's a wonderful world view that necessarily entails goddamn everybody dies. I see no problems!

As for low level government, DZA, which is basically what you're talking about, it's a wonderful idea that consistently breaks down once you hit a certain population density -- simple fact is that sheer logistics demand a certain degree of authority figures after things hit a certain point. It's certainly a lower and less pervasive degree than we've got (mostly because of the whole power seeks more power thing), though. Communications technology might be cutting into the extent that's necessary (See some of the Arab Spring stuff, ferex), but it's still years from actually coming into full maturity.

The why of it not really working is just scope, more or less. People working as individuals, even in tandem, have serious problems dealing with issues beyond the level of information they're able to process. You end up needing specialists in processing and disseminating that information appropriately -- i.e. authority figures. That gets the ball rolling, and then we end up where we're at. There's potential for technological solutions in the future, but at the moment all we can try to do is mitigate the damage to the extent we're able (currently failing pretty hardcore, but it could be worse).

Condolences if it manages to get through, bleh.

At least you'll be able to laugh that more heterosexual rights have been stripped than homosexual ones. It... it's something. Better than absolutely nothing, for some variance of better.

M'still kinda' pissed about amendment two... and it's been over a year now

4. I only have ~3.5 GB of RAM on this computer (3 GB! On a 64-bit computer! It's a travesty!) and 1.5 GB are being used at once, usually, so that's really not an option. I brought the allocation up to 1.5 GB and it didn't work.

Try going down, seriously. It's what stopped the saving chunk BS for me -- I set the memory allocation for minecraft to min 256, max 512 (via multiMC).

Might not help mystcraft, though, as my build's not running it. Still, give shot. From what one of the modders said, MC allocates a shitload more ram than it actually needs if you let it, which can apparently cause problems or something.

Ahahahaha, okay, so b39's out like, today?

One of the fun new features! Random classed elite monsters! No, not randbosses, just... y'know, regular elite monsters. With classes.

My first encounter with one is on Mire 2. It was a dire wolf archer. It murdered the alchemist I was escorting, and then me. I laughed uproariously, and then quit

Still, absolutely hilarious, and was completely not expecting it.

Went back to kinspike the bastard and check something. Best part! There's no visual cue you've just ran into something classed, as per the little purple box around random bosses. Kick to the ass! Ahahaha!

E: Temporal warden classed wolf on same level! I'm crawling in classed asskickers I can't identify at a glance! Whee! It's like playing Portralis, ahahahaha!

I turned off millenaire, threw all the mystcraft stuff into the modpack.jar, turned off better dungeons after it didn't work the first time to be safe, and now it crashes with "saving chunks" after I spend more than 2 seconds unpaused. This with the latest devbuild.

Dunno if it'd help, but try forcing minecraft to allocate no more than 256 memory. I think technic's got something like that in the options, though I don't remember how low it goes. Just set it as close to 256 as you can, the give it a shot.