Actually, I was born in 1998
I have never played a trading-card game, except when my friends forced me to play M:TG last year

It was kinda fun but I would never admit that to irl friends

Welp, I'm done here.

he looks like an upside-down pokeball I think. Whawtever, it doesn't matter. Pocket Monsters was some Japanese craze in the early '90s, it came to the West in the late '90s somehow, and most of you fags were probably born after 2000 and found your older brother's poke card collection and think you're cool. Well, you're not. Socially awkward children were the ones who played with the cards and went around at recess yelling "carmander attack! I choose you!" and the rest of us normal-functioing folks were just like, "uh.... what the fuck? Can't you just enjoy normal things like toy cars or sports or normal action figures#? Why do you have to be super into this weird Japanese thing where all you do is "collect" fake animals and roll dice so they can evolve or some shit. It's like just memorizing a list of 100 names with three modifications to each name (fior the different evolution levels) and then circle-jerkeing with other social outcasts to see who memorized the most.

I mean, the pokemen don't actually do anything, right? I mean, they "use" an atttack, but it's just like faggy turn-based button random shit. No skill involved. You just like choose a random attack and hope it works. Not like trying to learn your enemies' patters and find their weaknesses and learn to attack. No, it's just pure random. I could literally program a robot to play the game and probably come out with the same results as you.

Fuck pokeman, seriously.

Actually, I was born in 1998
I have never played a trading-card game, except when my friends forced me to play M:TG last year

It was kinda fun but I would never admit that to irl friends

Dude, you said that "Ash" was a pokemon.

yeah, he's the one that looks like a ball or a magnet or something. Red and white.

Welp, I'm done here.

he looks like an upside-down pokeball I think. Whawtever, it doesn't matter. Pocket Monsters was some Japanese craze in the early '90s, it came to the West in the late '90s somehow, and most of you fags were probably born after 2000 and found your older brother's poke card collection and think you're cool. Well, you're not. Socially awkward children were the ones who played with the cards and went around at recess yelling "carmander attack! I choose you!" and the rest of us normal-functioing folks were just like, "uh.... what the fuck? Can't you just enjoy normal things like toy cars or sports or normal action figures#? Why do you have to be super into this weird Japanese thing where all you do is "collect" fake animals and roll dice so they can evolve or some shit. It's like just memorizing a list of 100 names with three modifications to each name (fior the different evolution levels) and then circle-jerkeing with other social outcasts to see who memorized the most.

I mean, the pokemen don't actually do anything, right? I mean, they "use" an atttack, but it's just like faggy turn-based button random shit. No skill involved. You just like choose a random attack and hope it works. Not like trying to learn your enemies' patters and find their weaknesses and learn to attack. No, it's just pure random. I could literally program a robot to play the game and probably come out with the same results as you.

Fuck pokeman, seriously.

Actually, I was born in 1998
I have never played a trading-card game, except when my friends forced me to play M:TG last year

It was kinda fun but I would never admit that to irl friends

lol

look at it anyway you want, you're still an atheist if you are unconvinced in the claim of a god

horrible waste of a get
you should be ashamed.

no, ismists believe that there is a need to separate people into two classes: theists and atheists. I don't think we need to do that because we have no need for it! The spectrum of belief in a deity is not discrete and is by no means simple. There is no need to say "if you're not a theist, you're an atheist". Why do you need to say that? Why not just go "oh, you don't give two fucks about whether or not people choose to take ancient stories literally or not? that's cool".

It's more of a mindset: of course if you or I decide to make the decision between "belief in a deity" and "denial of existence of a deity" or "inability to determine existence of deity", then we could call ourselves theists or atheists or agnostics. But you can just as well replace the word "deity" with the word "Crystal Pepsi" or "chococalte-flavoured dog shit" and it doesn't have any bearing on our happiness or our self-conceived purpose in life (unless our self-defined purpose is to be a theist/atheist/agnostic)

You catch my drift? Just ignore -isms and they won't bother you. Let someone else give two fucks about what you believe or don't believe. Just live your life and be happy.

lol

its impossible to not be any ism
if you don't believe in a god, that is atheism

if you specifically believe there exists no god, but you feel somehow that it is important to clarify whether there is a god or not makes you an atheist.

if you believe your beliefs have literally no bearing on the nature of the universe, you're just a person. I simply don't believe belief does anything for us except misplace our energy. My brain is the one interpreting signals into my personal reality, and it tells me my reality is probably shared with those around me, but I can't trust it because it is self-referential logic: my logic interpreter tells me it is my logic interpreter and interprets everything in my whole universe. I can't even step outside myself to see my brain from another viewpoint. It's scary shit. Whether I believe I'm alone in the universe or if I'm just part of someone's dream or if there is one god or infinite gods is super irrelevant. I just gotta find a way to be happy and not panic, and if it gets too heavy, just find a way to kill myself.

look at it anyway you want, you're still an atheist if you are unconvinced in the claim of a god

horrible waste of a get
you should be ashamed.

no, ismists believe that there is a need to separate people into two classes: theists and atheists. I don't think we need to do that because we have no need for it! The spectrum of belief in a deity is not discrete and is by no means simple. There is no need to say "if you're not a theist, you're an atheist". Why do you need to say that? Why not just go "oh, you don't give two fucks about whether or not people choose to take ancient stories literally or not? that's cool".

It's more of a mindset: of course if you or I decide to make the decision between "belief in a deity" and "denial of existence of a deity" or "inability to determine existence of deity", then we could call ourselves theists or atheists or agnostics. But you can just as well replace the word "deity" with the word "Crystal Pepsi" or "chococalte-flavoured dog shit" and it doesn't have any bearing on our happiness or our self-conceived purpose in life (unless our self-defined purpose is to be a theist/atheist/agnostic)

You catch my drift? Just ignore -isms and they won't bother you. Let someone else give two fucks about what you believe or don't believe. Just live your life and be happy.

lol

is theism better?

"-ism"s are bad. Think for yourself, question authority, pursue happiness. Super easy.

its impossible to not be any ism
if you don't believe in a god, that is atheism

if you specifically believe there exists no god, but you feel somehow that it is important to clarify whether there is a god or not makes you an atheist.

if you believe your beliefs have literally no bearing on the nature of the universe, you're just a person. I simply don't believe belief does anything for us except misplace our energy. My brain is the one interpreting signals into my personal reality, and it tells me my reality is probably shared with those around me, but I can't trust it because it is self-referential logic: my logic interpreter tells me it is my logic interpreter and interprets everything in my whole universe. I can't even step outside myself to see my brain from another viewpoint. It's scary shit. Whether I believe I'm alone in the universe or if I'm just part of someone's dream or if there is one god or infinite gods is super irrelevant. I just gotta find a way to be happy and not panic, and if it gets too heavy, just find a way to kill myself.

look at it anyway you want, you're still an atheist if you are unconvinced in the claim of a god

horrible waste of a get
you should be ashamed.

no, ismists believe that there is a need to separate people into two classes: theists and atheists. I don't think we need to do that because we have no need for it! The spectrum of belief in a deity is not discrete and is by no means simple. There is no need to say "if you're not a theist, you're an atheist". Why do you need to say that? Why not just go "oh, you don't give two fucks about whether or not people choose to take ancient stories literally or not? that's cool".

It's more of a mindset: of course if you or I decide to make the decision between "belief in a deity" and "denial of existence of a deity" or "inability to determine existence of deity", then we could call ourselves theists or atheists or agnostics. But you can just as well replace the word "deity" with the word "Crystal Pepsi" or "chococalte-flavoured dog shit" and it doesn't have any bearing on our happiness or our self-conceived purpose in life (unless our self-defined purpose is to be a theist/atheist/agnostic)

You catch my drift? Just ignore -isms and they won't bother you. Let someone else give two fucks about what you believe or don't believe. Just live your life and be happy.

lol

There's hordes of examples of "microevolution" (which is just evolution btw)

Yup

Yes! Blender with the cycles rendering engine and some Photoshop for color correction and brightness. Thank you. ^^

Nope, this is also one more drawback from this game
previous entries had singleplayer, this one does not

ok. I guess I'm going to have a look-see and find out which games have story modes and I'll head on over to TPB.

Just how old, sheltered, or impoverished are you that you haven't even heard of Battlefront yet.

turned 31 today! I'm sure I heard of loads of things you've never heard about:

The song Roundabout by Yes
Karl von Stockhausen
Musique Konkrét
Wright's Chicken Farm
singleton design pattern

See, in every social group there are sets of norms. Amongst my programming comrerades, for example, the singleton design pattern is standard knowledge. Amongst my music-loving friends, everyone knows the band Yes and their most popular song ever, Roundabout.

So yeah, 15-year-old pimply-faced millenials all play the same fucking games and ultimately LIVE for said games, but I just don't run with that crowd. I don't sit up at night looking for the newest game. I did my video game shit back in the '90s when I was young. Becuase of FJ, I've recently remembered how cool video games actually are and have been re-playing a bunch of my old faves (Ocarina of Time, Donkey Kong Country, Thief) and have seen a few games on here that look interesting: Portal, Fallout 3D. And there are a TON of games I missed out on that I could catch up on: GTA 3D, Half-Life, Deus Ex. But there's only so much time I want to devote to video games, so I pick and choose. And honestly there's nothing better after a hard day's work than coming home and playing some Age of Empires 1 and destroying the Greeks.

So yeah, it's OK that not everyone is into the same things you are. I know the average FJer is young, loves video games, anime and Pokeman, but I just don't fit that mold. Accept it and don't fake fun of what you don't understand.

Okay, fair. You've had an 11 year head start on me. But you confirmed one of the possibilities of my question, which was age. Of course if you're older I wouldn't expect you to care or pay attention to 'modern' video games, except if you had kids that did.

Happy Birthday, mine was 5 days ago.

happy birthday to you too, friend. You should play Dig Dug or Bubble Bobble or Marble Madness and I'll play a newer game like Battlefront if I can pirate it.

No.
They sell the base game 60to 70$
Charge you an online pass to play online. Usually like 20$
And each additional DLC is 20$
So you end up paying 120$ for a playable game

I like your beard.

also you cant pirate this game, as it's online only game

I thought you could do "story mode" or 1-player thing where you go through levels and shit. I don't really like multiplayer games where everyone just kills each other. It gets boring real fast. I really like long games with a story and puzzles to solve and some action. Like Ocarina of Time or Thief.

Nope, this is also one more drawback from this game
previous entries had singleplayer, this one does not

ok. I guess I'm going to have a look-see and find out which games have story modes and I'll head on over to TPB.

DLC is just pay for more game. Well thats what its supposed to be.
EA usually purposely takes out features to sell them back and makes their games difficult to pirate.
Since Battlefront 2:
No space battles
Less movie characters
No clone wars battles
No story mode
Just to name a few

really??? So, it's not like they offer add-ons, but they really literally sell half a game and then in the game you can pay to unlock normal features like story-mode????

That's utter shit. Well, if maybe it doesn't cost too much, like $10 for the original game and $10 for story-mode, then it's the same as a normal $20 game, but the benefit is for people who only want the multiplayer mode or something.

I dunno. I just got a new computer and will try to play some newer games and see what the fuss is all about. I gotta say the graphics look 100000x better than I could have ever imagined growing up with Atari/NES and shit.

Just how old, sheltered, or impoverished are you that you haven't even heard of Battlefront yet.

turned 31 today! I'm sure I heard of loads of things you've never heard about:

The song Roundabout by Yes
Karl von Stockhausen
Musique Konkrét
Wright's Chicken Farm
singleton design pattern

See, in every social group there are sets of norms. Amongst my programming comrerades, for example, the singleton design pattern is standard knowledge. Amongst my music-loving friends, everyone knows the band Yes and their most popular song ever, Roundabout.

So yeah, 15-year-old pimply-faced millenials all play the same fucking games and ultimately LIVE for said games, but I just don't run with that crowd. I don't sit up at night looking for the newest game. I did my video game shit back in the '90s when I was young. Becuase of FJ, I've recently remembered how cool video games actually are and have been re-playing a bunch of my old faves (Ocarina of Time, Donkey Kong Country, Thief) and have seen a few games on here that look interesting: Portal, Fallout 3D. And there are a TON of games I missed out on that I could catch up on: GTA 3D, Half-Life, Deus Ex. But there's only so much time I want to devote to video games, so I pick and choose. And honestly there's nothing better after a hard day's work than coming home and playing some Age of Empires 1 and destroying the Greeks.

So yeah, it's OK that not everyone is into the same things you are. I know the average FJer is young, loves video games, anime and Pokeman, but I just don't fit that mold. Accept it and don't fake fun of what you don't understand.

Okay, fair. You've had an 11 year head start on me. But you confirmed one of the possibilities of my question, which was age. Of course if you're older I wouldn't expect you to care or pay attention to 'modern' video games, except if you had kids that did.

Happy Birthday, mine was 5 days ago.

happy birthday to you too, friend. You should play Dig Dug or Bubble Bobble or Marble Madness and I'll play a newer game like Battlefront if I can pirate it.

No.
They sell the base game 60to 70$
Charge you an online pass to play online. Usually like 20$
And each additional DLC is 20$
So you end up paying 120$ for a playable game

I like your beard.

Yeah because during Darwin's time there was barely any known fossils. Nowadays the fossil record accurately shows the development of life so much within the framework of evolution that it is one of the best the best known evidences that it is a fact.

>microevolution, yes. Macroevolution? No.

I've never understood creationists that use this argument. It's like them watching a counter that ticks up by one every year, saying "yep okay I agree that it's increasing" but denying that it will ever reach 1000 because "It can't be observed within our lifetime!"

There's literally no difference between the two besides timescale, and to say that the former is true also confirms the latter.

again, I no longer believe it, but to play devil's advocate: if you observe a clock hand ticking every second, you can't make the jump that after a while the clock hand will tick every 100,000th of a second. If we observe how a single-celled organism's second-generation has twice the number of flagellae then you can't really be 100% sure that after 100 million years a single-celled organism could evolve enough in order to contain milllions of cells and become hair and teeth and bone and shit. It is indeed a HUGE leap. And yeah, we can never observe it, and we don't really see much microevolution at all - mostly genetic deformities combined with Darwinism and we still don't have absolute proof. I think the only microevolution we can prove is the small incestuous town in Switzerland who is immune to heart disease. But it wasn't nature - it was a biological mutation that was allowed to continue because two people with the mutation fucked each other and that increases the chance it gets passed down, and then you gotta keep it going so the mutation doesn't die out. It's likely it will die out very soon unless we synthesize the mutation and give it to everyone.

I mean really - think about just how fucking long single-celled organisms just moved around and did nothing before one decides "hey, I need a reproduction mechanism"? I mean, can a single-celled, non-reproductive organism with not even a mitochondria "decide" things? What about "living organisms" before DNA was made possible (before GATC existed)? I know the rule of averages and also considering multiverse theory there is a 100% chance that we live in the universe where it truly did take ~16 billion years for the universe to eveolve and produce us. But maybe that's just as hard to believe as that some unseeable spirit spoke it into existence. The best part? We can prove/disprove neither!

There's hordes of examples of "microevolution" (which is just evolution btw)

It has a LOT less features than previous entries and selling some back as dlc.
Graphics are the only thing going for it.

DLC? I've never played a gaime with "downloadable content" before. How does it work? Like, you play the game and then you get to the last level and it's like "in order to defeat this boss you gotta pay $10"?

Which features does it lack? Can't I just pirate the game on pirate bay to avoid DLC?

also you cant pirate this game, as it's online only game

I thought you could do "story mode" or 1-player thing where you go through levels and shit. I don't really like multiplayer games where everyone just kills each other. It gets boring real fast. I really like long games with a story and puzzles to solve and some action. Like Ocarina of Time or Thief.

Nope, this is also one more drawback from this game
previous entries had singleplayer, this one does not

ok. I guess I'm going to have a look-see and find out which games have story modes and I'll head on over to TPB.

DLC is just pay for more game. Well thats what its supposed to be.
EA usually purposely takes out features to sell them back and makes their games difficult to pirate.
Since Battlefront 2:
No space battles
Less movie characters
No clone wars battles
No story mode
Just to name a few

really??? So, it's not like they offer add-ons, but they really literally sell half a game and then in the game you can pay to unlock normal features like story-mode????

That's utter shit. Well, if maybe it doesn't cost too much, like $10 for the original game and $10 for story-mode, then it's the same as a normal $20 game, but the benefit is for people who only want the multiplayer mode or something.

I dunno. I just got a new computer and will try to play some newer games and see what the fuss is all about. I gotta say the graphics look 100000x better than I could have ever imagined growing up with Atari/NES and shit.

Just how old, sheltered, or impoverished are you that you haven't even heard of Battlefront yet.

turned 31 today! I'm sure I heard of loads of things you've never heard about:

The song Roundabout by Yes
Karl von Stockhausen
Musique Konkrét
Wright's Chicken Farm
singleton design pattern

See, in every social group there are sets of norms. Amongst my programming comrerades, for example, the singleton design pattern is standard knowledge. Amongst my music-loving friends, everyone knows the band Yes and their most popular song ever, Roundabout.

So yeah, 15-year-old pimply-faced millenials all play the same fucking games and ultimately LIVE for said games, but I just don't run with that crowd. I don't sit up at night looking for the newest game. I did my video game shit back in the '90s when I was young. Becuase of FJ, I've recently remembered how cool video games actually are and have been re-playing a bunch of my old faves (Ocarina of Time, Donkey Kong Country, Thief) and have seen a few games on here that look interesting: Portal, Fallout 3D. And there are a TON of games I missed out on that I could catch up on: GTA 3D, Half-Life, Deus Ex. But there's only so much time I want to devote to video games, so I pick and choose. And honestly there's nothing better after a hard day's work than coming home and playing some Age of Empires 1 and destroying the Greeks.

So yeah, it's OK that not everyone is into the same things you are. I know the average FJer is young, loves video games, anime and Pokeman, but I just don't fit that mold. Accept it and don't fake fun of what you don't understand.

Okay, fair. You've had an 11 year head start on me. But you confirmed one of the possibilities of my question, which was age. Of course if you're older I wouldn't expect you to care or pay attention to 'modern' video games, except if you had kids that did.

Happy Birthday, mine was 5 days ago.

happy birthday to you too, friend. You should play Dig Dug or Bubble Bobble or Marble Madness and I'll play a newer game like Battlefront if I can pirate it.

No.
They sell the base game 60to 70$
Charge you an online pass to play online. Usually like 20$
And each additional DLC is 20$
So you end up paying 120$ for a playable game

I like your beard.

Not really something you should share with everyone

I didn't intend to, but it does seem like that. I thought the "IQ Test" was basically getting the instant karma slap in the face, so I wanted everyone to know that the 20 could also be interpreted as his actual IQ. But now that I see it again, it does seem ridiculously obvious. Oh well.

no, he was just stating his actual IQ

that's the joke

I purchased a Mac Mini so I could perform tests on Safari (I'm a web developer and Safari for Windows was discontinued), but I just use my PC keyboard and got some program to be able to use it with Mac. Otherwise I couldn't use the damn thing. I'm used to using the arrows and shift and ctrl keys to select and manipulate text, and like, when I hit SHIFT + END, I expect to select from the caret until the end of the text field. What does Mac do? Absolutely nothing. Fuck Macs.