All the old punishments existed for a reason. We threw them out wholesale without really analyzing whether or not that was the best course of action. I think stockades are a good low level punishment mechanism for stuff that doesn't warrant a proper prison sentence, but where a monetary fine doesn't do enough to discourage the behavior.
The anti-civilization behaviors require some sort of corporal punishment because the people committing them doesn't have the higher level abstract thinking necessary for other punishments to be an effective deterrent.
Anyone who does this stuff needs to spend a day in the stockades or be dumped overboard in international waters, their choice. I'm tired of barbarians roaming the streets unchecked.
It sure feels that way. Time stopped progressing right around then as the world went crazy.
I'm starting to understand how the Taliban won elections.
Mate seeking behavior when you already have a mate is grounds for taking all his worldly possessions and running off with the children, but as soon as the shoe's on the other foot we see people start twisting themselves into knots to excuse it or suggest that it's somehow a one-off exception and totally isn't cause for concern.
This woman should be getting flogged in the town square as a warning to all the others who would follow her example.
No White person with any wits would willingly live in Baltimore.
I'll say. I just picked up Symphony of War this week and it's been like discovering Ogre Battle 64 all over again. There's very few games that scratch that itch of feeling like a battlefield commander rather than one that sits on the hilltop.
I was afraid of that.
People need to stop anthropomorphizing AI. Referring to it as "him" ingrains thought patterns that impart more agency and reasoning to it than it actually has. This is not something we want to encourage as it exacerbates the problem of people considering AIs as oracles of truth.
Who, Torba?
I think we're hitting a saturation point where games are starting to be treated like books in terms of consumption. I don't need to read books that came out this year and are being marketed as the new hotness because I can just go to my local library and pick up something by Isaac Asimov or Tolkien or a hundred other authors whose great works have outlived them by several generations. Likewise I don't need to play games that are coming out this year if I can go scrounge up some masterpiece that was released six years ago.
The big players in the industry still haven't caught on to this new state of affairs despite how everyone and their dog has been memeing about their Steam backlog for over a decade now.
Power vacuum can go either way and it appears from the outside that the muslims are a lot more willing to use violence to seize that power than the native population right now.
Well, you phrased it unclearly, which is what he was responding to.
That's fair.
Well, I guess I can forgive you since you were 5 at the time. But both sides have to want peace for war to end.
Uh yeah, I figured that out back then. Way to miss the point.
Another anti-Christ is occupying the papacy I see.
My assertion is that you can be retarded and wrong in some ways but there are some things on which if you're wrong it's because your moral compass is one of evil and no amount of retardation excuses that. Opposing freedom of speech is one of those non-negotiables in my book. It can't be hand waved away as someone just being young and dumb. It's one of those fundamental moral principles that you either have or you don't, even in the face of the total retardation of youthful indiscretion.
Candace may be useful in the moment, but I do not trust her.
Something has been deeply wrong for a long time. I remember thinking as a small child how the Israel/Palestine conflict should have been resolved already if either side was actually interested in peace. That was 30 years ago and they're still going it at it like nothing has changed because they're both committed to an eternal blood feud.
The fact that America is involved or interested in that in any capacity whatsoever is all the evidence one needs that something is deeply wrong here. Why should my country care about some sand dunes halfway across the globe? They're not part of our empire, they don't have resources we're after, they're not our friends or neighbors. They're just a bunch of strangers in some foreign land making war with each other the same way they have been for generations. It's not our business yet for some reason we keep devoting astronomical amounts of national resources and efforts into meddling over there.
The only way it makes sense is if something has gone horribly wrong and our government is serving foreign interests rather than American ones, which means the government needs sorting out.
Tony, what is this antisemitism you're posting?
"Why don't you want to get a flu shot?"
Gee, I wonder.
Everest is basically a theme park now though, so how does that factor into this?
Why is someone named "Parisa Dehghani-Tafti" anywhere in this country?
Let's start there.
I suspect the lack of car bombs in recent years has a lot to do with that. The populace has given their government no reason to be afraid of them.
You are the self admittedly autistic one here. Stop with the apologia.
I want them all viciously thrown out. That was the entire point of electing him.
Why are we even there? Let the sand people rot and figure their own shit out. It's not our problem.
That's not a crystal ball, that's a collection of reruns from the past several decades. I know a VCR when I see one sir.