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As in the violence discussion, there is no systemic threshold to determine the level of maturity, therefore you have to take a stance, and as always with governments, they would rather have people feeling frustrated than the other way round.

Pausing the whole debate thing for my little person, I will teach game design in the upcoming year, which I am happy about, since life has been a real bitch for the past two month, sorry for interrupting, you can now resume reading about an interesting topic.

You know, if people like golf games I don't see why you shouldn't give them 1 every year...

Why adult subject should not be exposed to child contact ? Would you really like GTA to become a pink and cuddly game ? It's to protect the games of course ! From the evil child who would destroy them !

Yeah, you can put on the top ghost and grind a sweet ghost is what they say about the game...

I've been in favor of that, but I never saw it's implication the way you put them ThunderPeel, I am officially dumb. But on the other hand, call me an old fart if you like but seing 10 yo kids playing GTA was kind of bugging me, just because parents don't know and sellers don't care as long as they sell PEGI meant nothing...

Never played that, is it good ?

A fistfight is to me when two people are kicking each other, it did not happen because I stood up when she said I was retarded like all the other left handed people, and she pushed me a few time to try to get me back to my place, so what happened is I was really pissed and wanted to retaliate and push her back which I did not. This is what qualified as "I almost got into a fistfight with her" I would admit it was an hyperbole

I had a teacher whose name was Mrs Lame... In french it's not so fun (means blade) but in english it's pretty awesome. Also, she taught philosophy and I almost got into a fist-fight with her because she said that gays and left-handed people were aberrations of nature. And that men can't live without god but I was expelled when I raised my hand to retaliate... I might have had the wrong finger raised...

Even in effective violence I feel that there is such a huge spectrum of useful because it pretty much depends on the cause... In the rules you propose it might be useful after all to get rid of a part of the population because it will surely free jobs for others, there is little chance that the immigrant's nation to which you cause harm will retaliate also so it might end the violence loop and obey your rules. No but I'm not saying it has to never ever be subjective but is has to be narrowed enough that you can have a basic idea of what the borderline cases are and what is easily classified as bad violence. My guess is that : History of democracy is short but when stretched far enough, we will see a pattern emerge : =>Extremes take power, they do what they were elected to do : extreme things. In the long term, the majority of people will converge towards the other extreme but not too far because they are done with extremes. =>A few generation later, people will tire of moderated view because the system overloads, it can't do everything for everybody, people tire of politics and want things to change radically, in the opposite movement, they move towards extremists who promise a drastic change. And then extremists take power and in a few generation you'll start the cycle again. I guess we would have to meet in a thousand years to check if that's true but you can already see that in Europe, we can feel a rise of extremisms, I might be stupid but I think that will happen. But by extremists, I don't necessarily mean right or left, ecologists and so on are too and it might happen when people will see the see level rising and began to be scared, they will elect the ones who promises change.

Oh but she obviously is, you just shouldn't write it on the internet is all I'm saying...

Did you actually come up with that on the fly ? Because it took me like a minute to find...

Or it's insurance

and just got posted on ted http://www.ted.com/talks/ex_moonie_diane_benscoter_how_cults_think.html

Not my experience But if powers do know that they risk nothing from the population, what will they care if you're marching or not. Consciously or not governments are afraid of a revolution and (rightfully) not of people saying what they think. What I meant to say is that I saw it but hardly do anymore, coz' being molested makes you want to act first rather than take beatings hours on end throughout the year. So not talking about self defense, where is the legitimate violence ? Because you can, in a case of self defense draw a very clear line : the one who hits first had it coming whatever he might say. You are all hated right now, I won't say by who but something tells me he's posting on that thread...

"This game sucks, it has bad graphics, bad sound and uninteresting gameplay, I'm giving it a 0" 6/10 - IGN.com

Yeah... There is something with all unrational people that might be scary. Religious people and extremists (nazis for instance but I would hesitate to put communists in the same package because in essence, communism does not include exterminating any particular type of person, although it is hard to imagine a communist application without aberration as opposed to nazis who deliberately state that some men are inferior to others and should be removed from the face of the earth). I really have a problem with religious people, in fact I had last year the cutest girlfriend who was really smart and so on but... Jeez how can you be an intelligent person and refuse to question something as obviously doubtable as god ? That's pretty much what got us to break appart... We could not discuss any slightly abstract idea without bringing god into the picture and being both embarassed from not wanting to go over the same discussion again...

This has been said by a girl friend who spent two years in South Africa and said she had a contract to respect but is pretty much never going back there like ever. I might be the prickest prick to say that but a few of the real africans I know form sub-saharian africa have a little problem with domination... Few enough so I might say it might have a cultural origin but not sure I'm not being an actual racist here... I'll ask them to be sure And the worse part is it's against it's will !

Speaking of that, does GTA work on Crossover mac or something ? I'd fucking love to play with you guys but I ain't buying a PC for that

Feeling peaceful ? JFQgIryZSo8

No, it's not really a different thing, to me at least, it's a millennium old topic : is violence in itself to be justified, once you say that you can use it, it's a matter of threshold because there's not really a systematic (oh man, GD speaking there) way to make a model on which you can justify violence or not. There is a comedy in France that's called OSS117, I loved the first one, and the second one was a bit too much for me but it had the merit to ask, although probably not conscientiously , through shocking jokes the question : "Don't shoot, listen, I know it sounds crazy but I know people in high places, we could arrange a deal, just like jews, nazis could have a country of their own". So do we have to say nazis are all the same and throw them bricks ? And they used a very similar joke at the end of the movie the Nazi general is trapped and goes "When you cut us, do we not bleed ? Are we less human blablabla" which as a friend pointed out "is a quote from the good samaritan parabola in the bible, but in the original one, it's a jew that is talking"... Where is the limit ? Where is the rule that justifies violence on certain occasions and not in others ? That's because you never raped a Nazi... Wait... What did I just said ?

Watch this and pray heaven for the end of all things to come as soon as possible.

Was it Obama or Chuck Norris that could divide by zero ? Also, I don't really get why you can't.. I mean, cut a pie in zero parts, either you just remove the pie, there are no parts... aaaah mathematical abstract objects... They'll be the end of me !

Hey, we're in the life part of the site, I can tell my life story... here it is : For seven month I have been beaten sometimes to an extent you can harldy imagine by six kids when I was in what I think you call Fifth form I think ? When you're like 16. So yeah, I was basically once beaten till I fainted in the street where they took me after class and no matter what I said I got beaten. You could try telling it to an adult, they're punished and then they hate you for it and their friends come along, you can try giving them what you got you still get the feet, same thing if you don't... So yeah, I pretty much have experienced that. And then, I started rock climbing and gymnastics, and when I started to compete in those sports I said, meh, I might be stronger than I imagine, an arm was broken and five asses were kicked that night and they tried to come back a few times but I still was stronger than six of them so they did not advertise it too much. I have no shame at all to have such violence in me and that I sometimes consider the fact that when playing fighting with girls I have to be very careful because I could break them, but I have a brain and a conscience which in my opinion makes me different from animals... and nazis...

AAHAHAHAHAHA I pictured a Wizard under the full moon who's ass has just been exploded and he's in his blue robe looking at the sky with a little tear screaming The Wizaaaaaaaaaaaard in a crying voice.... I'm laughing my ass out