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I never read the book, but the movie was fun, and Sargon of Akkad's breakdown of the society was very informative and an ideal I would happily strive for. However, he made the video in a time where I didn't see the rampant corruption literally everywhere, and I don't remember any mechanism that...

I heard there's a new hack out for the PS1 where you put a modified save game on your memory card, and then a legit game can become a swap disk. Sounds a lot cheaper than the way I used to have to do it. I prefer to emulate these days anyway. I can get PS2 and older running on just about...

Well, my celebrations had a somber underbelly. Everyone knows Grandpa isn't doing too well, so everyone in the family was taking selfies with him. Otherwise, I hung out with my aunt and cousins until 2am before heading home. Even watched the old 1993 movie of Coneheads. Silly, stupid movie...

Scheming? I don't know. To eat food and hang out with family. Otherwise, I'm a bit sad because I smell a bad omen with work. Hopefully I'm wrong.

Good replies, both of you. I don't think I have much to add, but I didn't want them to go unacknowledged either.

Isn't that just a green version of that cat girl I see anime fans posting?

Ok, I guess I'm a proud extremist then. The thing is, I see it as a battle between people that want to be left alone and leave others alone in the process, vs people that want to meddle in everything and control what every person does at all times. The first group let the second group alone...

The circle I'm having trouble squaring is finding the proper mindset and language to accommodate the good Muslims I have met while also acknowledging all the overwhelming number of ghastly incidents that Vendor is able to cite. From Page 14 of the Global Terrorism Index This is the balanced...

If they can make explosives to be Goblin Sappers in Warcraft, I'm sure they can count so they know when things explode.

I'm far from an Islamic scholar. I don't have the patience to read through any large religious texts, be it Islamic, Christian, or Jewish. But I do feel like I've seen enough in the world and listened into enough conversations over my lifetime to get a decent feel for how a faith works. So...

Maybe? Depends if they passed a kindergarten level of education... Ooooh, I see. "Maybe" you have seen some hot midgets!

So, uh... see any hot midgets lately?

Your ability to act on them and/or the admission that you're thinking about a topic. When you have an analogy like saving a kid's life, it's clearly NOT about diddling kids, it's about something else, and you're using the dark idea as a stand-in for something else entirely. If you start...

Then you set this up badly. Yes, I saw Bluegates post so I know the genesis of this topic, but you immediately reframed it to be about discussing porn. Discussing the porn you engage with is still very different than engaging with a hypothetical.

I'm not in the sort of mood to debate definitions of things, so whatever you want to call it, I think the idea is similar enough. You want respect, and you give respect so you don't eject everything in your head out of your mouth. Now, there's a strong difference between engaging with the...

Houseman, just because you hand out Nword passes like candy doesn't mean I'm going to use it. Kidding aside, polite company is anyone you grant respect to, with the expectation that it will be mutual. So yeah, if that doesn't happen, then you're probably not on peaceful terms, and discussing...

Sounds like polite company to me. Even in an office, coworkers are still someone you have a relationship with and an office is also a public setting, just not quite as public as a park. So discussing a topic like porn with you is about the same as discussing it with a coworker. The only...

Are we still not having a discussion in polite company? I feel that we are. Now, just because our usernames aren't our real names doesn't mean we don't have an online persona to protect. Seems like if you want a pure test of this, then you should visit 4Chan. As for me, I don't have things...

In the case of the PS1, each disk had incorrect "wabble" data at the beginning of the disk. Burners would automatically correct for the wabble, and so it wouldn't be what the PSX was looking for.

Here's the thing Bluegate, the analogy is trying to make a point, and while you're right that it's in bad taste, you're completely sidestepping the question it tries to pose. That's OK if you think the analogy is bad, but then why wouldn't you try to explain what you find disagreeable, or how...

No, it's just something that shouldn't be discussed in polite company. Going down this line of thinking is going to end up where all the progressives are, where "politeness is a social construct that needs to be dismantled" etc etc. If you're feeling like you've lost the battle against your...

I have Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 3 I'm very proud of. Ended up with a copy of Earthbound too, but I never really connected with that one.

Keeping copies of media for yourself is the important thing, and not relying on streaming services for your entertainment. I have my 30TB server for exactly that reason.

Saw this today. I guess it's relevant.

Just replied to you over there 😉