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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 21:48
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Base 10 just so happens to be easier to use because of our, um, digits. -------------------- 私のバラドですそしてころしたいいらればころす Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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http://www.geocities.com/terrorsmartyr/scenarios/bandits2.html  : SKIP THE PART WHERE I LOSE-------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 07:22
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 07:06
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quote:FYT. -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 18:26
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I would indeed. Just as the primary factor in buying pizzas is which pizza companies are in people's minds, so too do games rely on shelf space to get sold. If Walmart denies a game the shelf space it needs, then it's imposing its tastes on the people. But okay- what if the people actually don't like it? Well, I seriously doubt that there wouldn't be at least a FEW buyers- if not only those who simply try it- but if it's a flop, then maybe the people who take it off of the shelves aren't censoring directly. But what they put back onto the shelves isn't any better. Okay, so for them to only put decent things on the shelves might be a catch-22 of corporations deciding tastes for people, but: 1. When a retail outlet puts stuff that isn't market-oriented crap on the shelves, it's being responsible, which is a risk that would basically be the antonym to what being corporate means. (Why, for instance, are staticians hired to calculate the profits of every action a corporation does? Introducing an "x-factor" would basically be a foil to that line of thinking.) 2. Mass-marketing started the fire, and cannot claim a moral high ground while still fueling it. We don't live in a world where people are treated to art of any medium on a regular basis. What we get instead is repetative and trite genres in our "music", boobs for the sake of subjugating females on the television, and harry potter. (Don't forget to toss in chauvinist views on sex and romance, as well as a protestant work ethic.) Believe it or not, the same people who started this epidemic (or at least those in the same positions who serve to reap the same benefits with the same actions) are the same people who continue the epidemic and claim that the epidemic cannot be cured. Will people become more enriched and less archetypical if corporations instantly let people loose from their filth? Maybe, maybe not. But it's a good place to start. -------------------- 私のバラドですそしてころしたいいらればころす Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 17:52
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Salmon was being sarcastic. Do I mean corporations not including words because they won't sell? Well, partially- not just words, but I suppose you get the idea. And maybe it's not even that they won't sell, but rather that they'd be sued or have laws crammed down their throats from the "children-defending" censors. Of course, sometimes I think that it might be GOOD- Just looking at how badly corporations massacre "art", I would likely be twice as repulsed by what they could do with genetalia and more brutal murders. On the other hand, the game of the torturer still lurks in my mind. . . -------------------- 私のバラドですそしてころしたいいらればころす Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 17:06
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"TM - When you say that censorship lobbyists should be murdered in cold blood, I find it difficult to tell where you're being serious and where you aren't." Are you really that dense? If you are, I apologize. If not, your excuse is as poor as it is vitriolic. "What I mean by you being in "Your own little world" is that you're ranting away in a very passionate manner without seeming to worry about whether it makes any sense to the person on the other end of the conversation." 1. Then ask for clarification. When asked, I will provide. 2. Drew and Thuryl got it just fine. You may have to accept that your breadth of understanding is not universally shared. -------------------- 私のバラドですそしてころしたいいらればころす Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 16:37
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"You"- I like that idea. As if, were I to turn off the games and television, entertainment would ultimately become worthwhile and meaningful. People like corporately homogenized crap? People are corporately homogenized crap. On the most basic level, people- this generation especially- were formed ENTIRELY by liberal, bourgeoisie values. Boobs! Che shirts for $15 apiece! Cultural non-rebellion! Maybe this is what people "really want", but that it is what they were always told to want renders the whole situation a bit specious. So okay. I can turn off the boob toob. But when I do, what will change? People will still demand bloodless non-art because they were raised on bloodless non-art. Worst part is, the curve is getting worse. Relying on your "solution" poses a catch-22 that does not speak well on your devotion to "democracy". PS- Is "my own little world" australian for "I will not make even the most half-assed attempt at understanding the content"? I'm not very familiar with the australian dialect, but after repeated uses, I'm beginning to glean some meaning from it. PPS- You will notice that, even when I find an argument absolutely illogical and insufferable, we at least extend the politesse of a response. I have never written an entire rebuttal by calling opponents ignorant, even when they are. Or maybe you're ignoring me because I'm denying the rights of businesses- in which case you are neither justified in doing so, nor are you preaching a particularly christian doctrine. I won't presume, but you don't give me much room not to. -------------------- 私のバラドですそしてころしたいいらればころす Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 15:37
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You wouldn't look like a damfool since you didn't claim to have known the language. Misinformed, perhaps, but everyone is on a great deal of things. Anyway, you bring up an interesting point- the kanji are the chinese characters, but the hiragana are actually derived from the kanji. A few examples: 安 => あ 止 => と 弓 => こ 女 => め 川 => つ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Hiragana_origin.jpg Do not ask me how some of these are related. Indeed, the kanji are absolutely infuriating. -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 15:25
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"No government intervention necessary to ensure censorship?" For someone who is eager to end censorship lobbyists, that you would turn over the onus for discerning good art to corporations is rather vile. Skip games in general- that we trust virulently irresponsible corporations to entertain us in all facets of life is negligent to an extreme. Sure, the only foil to corporate censorship is the consumer driving the corporations to change, but who will lift a finger against the bullet train of superfluosity and inane pornography when it is what we were fed to accept? I don't think that anything should be banned or enforced or anything. I just think that two things are absolutely imperative: 1. Encouraging people to not allow mindless foms of entertainment to take center stage 2. Murdering all censorship lobbyists in cold blood And PS- trusting corporations to such an extent is a prime indicator of your liberalism. -------------------- 私のバラドですそしてころしたいいらればころす Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 09:56
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The hiragana are also more curvaceous than the katakana, and are used for grammatical particles, noun honorific prefixes and verb endings. Ex: お肉を食べましょう The first hiragana is an "o", which is the prefix used for japanese nouns. In this case, it's niku (meat). For chinese nouns (ie, "han"), go- is the prefix used (ie, "gohan"). The second hiragana is "wo", which is (essentially) the accusative particle. Particles work on what goes before them, meaning in this instance that something will be done unto the meat (and not the verb). The third set of hiragana are "bemashou", which is the -mashou conjugation of "taberu" (to eat). The -mashou conjugation is polite and suggestive, saying "Let's eat". So the sentence says "Let's eat meat". The katakana are much more linear and angular, and are used for directly borrowing words from other languages. Pretty simple. Examples: コンピュター (Konpyuuta => Computer) デパート (Depaato => Department Store) アニメ (Anime => Animation) -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 09:06
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You people suck. Give Deacon back his forum. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 08:59
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The Empire as I see it is sorta like Rome without the Emperor-worship: we don't care what the hell you practice, as long as it's not subversive. (Which is why, for instance, the Anama are persecuted, and just the Anama.) [ Tuesday, November 08, 2005 09:00: Message edited by: Shingai no Junkyousha ] -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 08:54
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quote:...bravo. -------------------- 私のバラドですそしてころしたいいらればころす Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 08:51
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Is this man's webpage better than Babelfish? Because, like, any time I use kansai-ben, Babelfish acts like a damnfool. -_- PS- Well played, Aran, but the most cogent indicator of which tongue I'm speaking in is that I'm using the hiragana. And why the heck would I learn chinese, anyway? Name one good anime to have come from China. ~_~ -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 08:45
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Communism. :P No, really. You're asking me, "How can we make CEOs responsible?" That's a question without any reasonable answer- you may as well ask how to get Emi and Avex to stop putting mass-manufactured crap on the Oricon every week. So what's the answer? Well, if people actually generate a demand for well-crafted, artful games, they'll get what they want. If they want Dead or Alive Volleyball or San Andreas, they'll get what they want. The customer ain't always right, but them's always the customer. Of course, there are still censorship lobbyists who would lob lawsuit after lawsuit on video games that they think are indecent- the same people who have absolutely no vested interest in it. So before games that are truly marketed to adults begin trickling out, the reactionary, ¢hri$tian lobbyists will have to be shot. But, you know, big loss. :rolleyes: -------------------- 私のバラドですそしてころしたいいらればころす Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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New one. -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Monday, November 7 2005 21:50
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"Sure. But the fact that an ad for pizza isn't going to make you pick up the phone and call Dominos unless you actually want to eat a pizza doesn't change the fact that advertising means more pizzas get sold." Well, yeah. Merely by virtue of the fact that people know your product, they will know where to get pizzas when they want one. One of advertisers' biggest goals in advertising is to get you to know that their product exists. "Rightio. You're the one getting sick thrills from playacting a torturer, and I'm the vile monster. Whatever you say." You're a vile monster because you are small-minded and have a worldview so narrow that it may well pass through the eye of a needle. To bring your logic to its natural conclusion, you may as well ban all poetry like the debaucherous smut it is. But first, you'd have to ban the bible. "1. We're talking about Australia/New Zealand, not America the magical land of no-censorship. No Wal-Mart here." So wait- you make general statements on censorship, bringing the argument into the level of abstraction, and then chide me for bringing up particulars? Good job. "2. Ignoring that, if Wal-Mart decides not to carry Game X, that's not censorship anyway. That's business. You want ultra-violent games, obscure French art films, or silver-tipped toenail clippers, go somewhere that sells them." Where? I have not, at ANY retail outlet, seen a place that carries AO games. And perhaps not even because all business agree not to CARRY them, but consider this: Computer game companies need to make money to stay alive (unless they're EA). Even if they DO make a AO game and some computer joins out there DO put it on their shelves, the number of people who will have ready access to it are infinitely smaller when just a few companies (Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc) decide to nix it. At that point, the games cease to bring in a profit and cease to be made. You are arguing, essentially, for corporations as the final arbiters in the quality of an artform. And that to me is utterly abhorrent. "3. Down here, our game stores do carry games with the maximum ratings, and they are regularly played by underage kids." Good for you. No really, I mean it. Of course, I'd love to see actual limits pushed- not just bigger digital breasts on "heroines" and hardcore sex scenes in gangster shooters. I'd love to see sex in a meaningful role in games- for instance, what of a geisha girl who is regularly abused in grotesque ways by her master, who yearns to murder him for both her freedom or vengeance? Yeah. I am ready to play this game. (But, you know, that stuff doesn't sell. But if we just have the sex scenes with the geisha girl be more erotic, and allow the player to play them repeatedly, and maybe not even force the player to kill the master, but rather to seduce him... Corporations could easily reduce good ideas to pornography. But that's not the subject of this debate.) So, I suppose, your point is irrelevant at best when describing a generalized notion of censorship. "4. Are you seriously telling me that underage kids don't play Grand Theft Auto in America?" HAH. You know San Andreas? The only installation in the series to get the Adults Only rating? Yeah. They were basically bullied into releasing a "sanitized" version to get the rating knocked down, so the game would be put back on the goddamned shelves. When a franchise that is madly successful cannot overcome a simple rating, you begin to realize the incredible power these forces have over game developers. "5. Not sure what exactly you're referring to in the last paragraph - but it sounds like you'd agree that violent pornography like that deserves to be banned?" Not as much "should be banned" as much as "should never have been made in the first place". That doesn't mean I'm for stompin' em out, I just think that it's a tragedy that we can't approach these subjects with maturity. Just imagine how much better our society would be if we began entertaining our kids and adolescents with actual art. But, you know, that doesn't really foster consumerism in the long run, so to hell with it. EDIT: Okay, yeah. Thuryl summed up my argument for your #5 more tersely. [ Monday, November 07, 2005 21:53: Message edited by: Trrr's Mrtr ] -------------------- 私のバラドですそしてころしたいいらればころす Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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...that is so lame, and I should have expected it. -_- -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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quote:You're missing a key point- if a book (especially one that horrible) is enough to make people go on murdering streaks, there was clearly something wrong with those individuals to begin with. quote:A lot. Hell, now that you mention this, I want to play the game already. Okay, it might be short- but I am hooked to the premise. If made well, it could be a bleak and beautiful poem. In fact, I want to feel both the tension and exhilaration as I plunge the thumbscrews into my next victim, even when he has already answered my question. I want to have a game that does not shy around the mind of a torturer. I want to havea game that will move me to identify with his brutal lust for blood. But not just in the way that I might revel in violence- I want a game that will teach me the fear and pain of the torturer, as well as the vile pleasure he gets from his black art. And if you're smallminded and meek enough to say that this makes a killer out of me, you are both a reactionary philistine and a vile monster. quote:No, it won't be. Have you ever heard of Wal-Mart? Apart from the "strictly voluntary" servitude of Mexicans, they're also responsible for killing off any game that dares to receive a M-O (mature only) rating by not putting it on its shelves. Other retail outlets work in a similar fashion. If a game pushes too many anti-corporate buttons, it is killed instantly since it will never, ever, ever see a place on a shelf. The game about the torture will only exist in my dreams since your precious censorship has killed it before it has even been born. Not that this prevents blatant and tasteless sexual and brutal pornography from going up on shelves- but that's an argument of taste, not censorship. -------------------- 私のバラドですそしてころしたいいらればころす Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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quote:PS- Way to go. You can actually recognize languages that are unreasonably dissimilar from one another. Way to go. (Sorry for the double post, but editing in my previous post would sacrifice the integrity of the nipponese, and I'm not in the mood to type it over again.) -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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And you SAW HIRAGANA, but you still didn't know WHAT THEY WERE... (そ し て 貴 方 は 平 仮 名 を 見 ま し た が 貴 方 は そ の 仮 名 を ま だ 知 り ま せ ん ) EDIT: Goddamnit, why do these boards force me to put spaces between every character? [ Monday, November 07, 2005 05:34: Message edited by: Trrr's Mrtr ] -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Magi can get 6AP from AP-boosting items. EDIT: Or alternatively, you could give magi high DEX to make them more difficult to hit and quicker-acting in combat. [ Sunday, November 06, 2005 21:53: Message edited by: Trrr's Mrtr ] -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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quote:DIE. -------------------- 私のバラドですそしてころしたいいらればころす Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Eh, #1 would be myself (if allowed), and the rest down the line would be various friends. -------------------- 私のバラドですそしてころしたいいらればころす Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
