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Quote from: Zironic on July 22, 2009, 09:56:09 am

Quote from: Ampersand on July 22, 2009, 07:41:58 am

Quote from: Cthulhu on July 21, 2009, 06:33:56 pm

Sentience means they can handle unforeseen problems. 

Also, it wouldn't be much of a movie if they just turned the robots off.


Also also, I didn't see the whole series, just the first movie, so maybe they explain this, but I don't see the rebels' rationale.  "Hey guys, we dismantled the Matrix!  We freed you from your idyllic lives so your starved and atrophied real bodies can fight to survive in the sunless hell that is the real world!"  I would punch Neo so hard if I woke up tomorrow in that world.

In the end, people are allowed to continue living within the matrix with the full knowledge that they live in it, with all the arbitrary limits the simulation imposed lifted.

Whats the argument against it. "well guys you can stay here and enjoy this burnt out shell of a planet that is unlivable or you can come to a world where anything is possible and if you know it's not real you can't die."

hmmmm.

But you would be living a lie!

I rather stay out.

Whatever, I'm out of here, these people cheat.

How can like half the players have twice as many points as me when I've gotten just about every question right, promptly?

Turbo controllers.  Hax.  Firin lazors

I do like the way it trips people up though.  Earlier one of the questions was "What's the scientific name for a cold-blooded animal?" and one of the answers was "Cryotherm".  That tripped up pretty much everyone.  Not me, though.  I'm Cthulhu.

To head off yet another graphics-rage shitstorm, talking about three-dimensional graphics for Dwarf Fortress is still valid, since it is theoretically the supposition and extension of the fully 3D Slaves to Armok, and "full tile graphics support" is more specific, especially for people just walking into the vote.

I'm mostly saying this just to keep this tired-ass argument from happening again, which Toady already said not to do earlier in this very thread.

Would Gods eventually have powers, sortof like megabeasts?

Sorry, I haven't been keeping up with this topic, but I am trying 40d13 (MacOSX 10.5.7) for the first time now. Please forgive if this has already been reported, but my Designate menu (while narrow) looks like this:


If I hit TAB until the menu is wide, it looks better, more readable, but the keystokes don't line up in a column.

Spoiler: image source (click to show/hide)

The guy that made that part of the web page almost a decade ago said it was a NASA image from the ISS or something, though I have absolutely no idea if that's accurate.

Spoiler: name source (click to show/hide)

The name is actually from Aliens, yeah.

Sentience means they can handle unforeseen problems. 

Also, it wouldn't be much of a movie if they just turned the robots off.


Also also, I didn't see the whole series, just the first movie, so maybe they explain this, but I don't see the rebels' rationale.  "Hey guys, we dismantled the Matrix!  We freed you from your idyllic lives so your starved and atrophied real bodies can fight to survive in the sunless hell that is the real world!"  I would punch Neo so hard if I woke up tomorrow in that world.