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Oh no, not this thread again.

Has to happen occasionally.

Out of curiosity, did the last one get locked?

... seriously, no one gave the obvious answer? The cause of thread death is no one posting in them. It's not a complicated issue

Well, I was specifically not going as far as outright cheating

I usually do cheat up infinite money in... well, most RPGs that have infinite money sources, really. Gets me neat loot while both saving time and -- usually -- making the game a bit harder, since I'm lower level than I would be had I ground my way to the loot naturally. That tends to be as far as I go, though.

... since I have no idea who Cameron is, I'll go with the Avatar whose technological progression makes more sense.

Which is to say Avatar, the Last Airbender. Odd choice, but interesting.

Don't have two channel headphones right now, so can't listen, but... binaural stuff? That's... old tech. Like, nineties stuff, I think. Older, even, the general research into it's over forty years old.

Check out SBaGen for something fairly neat related to it. I've played around with it a fair bit, and it can make for some very interesting experiences, both awake and asleep. I've found certain sound patterns (It comes with a fairly large set of pre-programmed stuff, and you can make your own if you're feeling frisky) and combinations of 'em can help with both headaches and concentration, strange as it may be.

Plus it's just a really interesting sound. There's a few more non-commerical programs related to it, too, I think, and more than a few commercial ones (usually marketed as sleep aids and suchlike.).

S'neat to see 'em applying it to games, though, and somewhat worrying. Certain patterns of that stuff actually messes with brain function

*agnosti-fistbump*

Though there's still occasional reasons to bother playing with the concepts involved! Theology's actually rather fun and interesting, especially from a conceptual system-building position. A more abstract sort of art, in a sense ♪

Yeah, a second reading got a lot of disconnected points that don't seem to back up that final point. [rant] That last point is a point I hear fairly often, can accept as a possibility, and happily deny as anything I'm interested in pursuing. Human is human, what psycho-physiological differences exist between the genders are not sufficiently large to make a significant difference and should be largely discarded as part of the cultural dialogue. The sooner we drop the notion of some physical triviality defining what we're "for," the better off we'll be. Understand the point it's making and where it's coming from, but I can't really accept it as valid until we find some social role that one of the genders is genuinely better at -- not statistically, but in the greatest example thereof. Until we find that the most caring man is less caring than the most caring woman, and the most logical woman is less logical than the most logical man (data points often held up by those pursuing th'line of thought in question), I pretty readily throw that position out the window.[/rant]

This sentence, though... especially the underlined part

Anyone serious about thinking through the role of women in today’s civilization is doing worthless work unless they take the controversies on the right hand in hand with the unsuccessfully suppressed tensions on the opposite side of the spectrum, where disagreements far more volatile in their profundity roil respectable liberalism.

That doesn't make sense! *grammar headache* Quick E: Or maybe I've just never seen roil used like that before. Hrm. Still painful to look at.

It has apparently reached the point I have to disable javascript and plugins to read many news sites (without maxing CPU, slowed browser functioning, etc.).

People designing these sites! You're doing it wrong.