Posts by Lace Sabatons

Wow, that's a huge collection of material. Nicely collected, Kaynil!

Calian shows up a few times in the Spira Online screenshots. He was one of the first gay people I ever met, and is the one who first forced me to compare my ideas of gay people as shadowy evil-doers, and gay people as real actual people. I like that dude.

Here's one with particular meaning for me. April 2003:

http://web.archive.org/web/2002040202…lhq.com/forums/

There's a subsection for "Hosted Forums" where ZeldaGC and ZeldaConnection's forums are hosted. ZeldaGC is how I eventually found TSR, and you can see my name showing up a few times throughout that snapshot.

I've actually played OoT all the way through once. I played it a second time in 2008 or something, but I only got to the shadow temple, and never actually finished it.

If you invent a time machine, I'll write a script.

I imagine it's non-fiction?

Of course, why wouldn't we be allowed to? I've posted several myself.

If they become overwhelming, we might want to reconsider it. But there's no reason to be preemptive about this sort of thing.

I somewhat disagree.

Guides for any game out there (or any task, for that matter) are plentiful and easy to find. There's no point for writing one just for this forum. And we can already post reviews in any of the many gaming sections that already exist. Those forums already update slowly. There's no point in splitting up the topics more.

I've never really played any Sonic games aside from the original 3, but I diiiiiiiiiiid watch the whole 100+ part Game Grumps lets play for '06. So while I can't myself say the game is bad, I can certainly say that I 100% believe it's bad.

The thing is, Sonic has a really rabid fanbase.

Honestly, I think a hefty share of people who like Sonic '06 are really just such big sonic fans that they'd like any sonic game.

It was always a serious discussion. I opened with an analogy that apparently didn't land very well.

The choice to play their limitations for comedic effect was a good one. It actually plays really well I think.

I'm glad you JUST DID IT.

So, I get it. Someone said a really good game is shit, and your first reaction is "WTF? What are they smoking!?" and that's a legit reaction.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut.

Reviews are only good if the reviewer gives the score they think the product truly deserves. If we start holding reviewers to our own opinions, or to the opinion of the masses, then we've already corrupted the process. There's functionally no difference between a reviewer giving a game a good score because it's popular, and a reviewer giving a game a good score because they were paid to do so.

I was making a Youtube joke because "That Guy with the Glasses" is a famous youtuber. =P

I like how Terraria periodically releases a new trailer every time there's a big patch. Their trailers are very simple, and gameplay focused, but I enjoy them a lot:

I honestly thought this was not a serious post at all and the tag was just poking fun at this. I think at times you overestimate our knowledge, haha.
Only after you answer SP I understood better were you were coming from. I think if we teach a robot to fish we all eat but if we mass produce Robots with the ability to fish we all starve.

I think the idea of humanity free of their labours to pursue knowledge puts way too much faith in humanity. I think without labour things can go in very different ways as not everybody values knowledge or learning as much as other individuals and even those who do the topics of their interest are also so diverse as their intentions once gained certain knowledge. I think the internet is a good reflection of what kind of things we pursue. The other extreme is scary but what makes it feel closer to reality for me is how great of a business is War and the constant fight for the upper hand. Before military suit armours or Robotic Armies I am more concerned with nano-robots. As technology allows for more capacity being planted in smaller chips.

I like the rules of the robots regarding human interaction but I don't think we should build something that can screw us over if they decide to disregard the initial purpose. When I was in school I laughed at the notion of Robot with awareness. Now while I am not believing a Robot can see itself as "I", it is possible to program self-learning techniques. I also guess Hall did leave an impact when I watched the Odyssey, haha.

I do put a lot of faith in humanity. We're deeply flawed, and we're often stuck moving at the pace of the most regressive among our number, but I believe in the infinite potential of our species for greatness. It's true that in our world today, not everyone values labor, or knowledge, or learning. But I think that, someday, their children could.

If we revised our education system to promote a love of learning and of productivity, then I think the majority of humanity would come to love those things. They'd become the sort of people who could truly thrive in a society where the ability to live was freely given, rather than paid for in drudgery. Unfortunately our education system isn't geared towards that end. In my opinion, education is one of the most important failings of the United States. (And honestly, I don't know of a nation on earth that really lives up to the potential of what a public education COULD offer.)

With regards to AI, I think that's a different issue. The majority of human labor could be replaced without the full leap to truly intelligent machines. But, to briefly touch on the idea: I think the response of machines will greatly depend on how we treat them. Will we treat them still as our slaves? Then perhaps they will come to resent us. Will we treat them with hatred? Then surely they will return hatred to us.

Or, when artificial intelligence is truly created, will we greet it as a sibling? A creature that is wholely and truly a person without being human. An equal partner in our own explorations of the universe? That's the future I like to hope for.

Although, again, I don't think it necessarily connects to issue of automation being used for the general good as opposed to being used for the enrichment of individuals.

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I guess I am a theist, if that is the term. I still believe in the Christian God but I can't see eye to eye with organized religion and of course with people just trying to get under your skin because you don't think like they do.

Given your specification that you believe in the Christian god, I think you might be more appropriately termed a Christian who doesn't participate in organized religion. “Theist,” while technically referring to anyone who believes in a god, is typically used to refer to people who believe in a deity, but not in any specific conception of one.

At least, I think that's true. I actually don't have internet as I type this, so I can't double check my work on that. Not that it matters anyway. The term you use to describe your beliefs is much less interesting than the content of the beliefs themselves. Reducing a subject like metaphysics to categories is boring.

So, first off, thanks for really laying some stuff bare, Kaynil. I realize talking about this stuff on the Internet can feel vulnerable.

What does your worship look like? The act of going to church and participating in a group is such a huge part of the Christian culture I'm familiar with. What does it mean to be a Christian who doesn't organize? Is there an active component to your faith? (A regular bible study, or regularly caring for the poor?)

If you don't mind delving into your childhood a bit, what is it like growing up with influences from Jehova's Witnesses, Catholicism, and Pentacostal sources? Those are all very strong minded beliefs systems, none of which like each other much in my experience.

If I may ask, what was the simple stuff you started to resist when the cracks first started forming?

I confess, I often just assume people are atheists these days. The sort of folks I tend to deal with usually are in my experience.

Ocarina of Time's water temple was hard.

Man, even last time I played that game, I thought "Well, I'm an adult now. Certainly this won't actually be challenging THIS time."

But naw, man. It's still a confusing maze of a dungeon.

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Yesterday, while packing, I came across our copy of Mario Galaxy, and considered whether or not I should keep it out for a few weeks so I could play it before we move.
But I decided to pack it instead because I'LL NEVER JOIN YOU.

On topic, while packing my SNES games, I found that I really don't own many SNES games. It's a bummer. I want more SNES games.

I started playing World of Warcraft again.

I found a free private server that does its best to emulate the vanilla experience. It's everything I've ever wanted.

Holy shit these are actually pretty funny.

"Titanium walls, totally zombie proof."

It's funny, I actually just watched that video a few weeks ago, and I completely watched it again when you posted it.

I wonder what a good super mario movie would have looked like. Live action, with 1995's special effects. It's difficult because Mario has an inherently cartoon-y feel to it, and cartoons pretty much never translate into live action well. Either they make the mistake of the Mario movie, and everything is so far removed from the source material that it doesn't really connect. Or, they make the mistake of the Flinstones movie, where everything looks just like the cartoon and, thus, looks uncomfortably out of place with the flesh and blood actors.

Perhaps a better plot would be:

Mario and Luigi are plumbers. Plumbing is a tough job, sometimes they are sad.

Mario is on a plumbing job, and falls into a large pipe. He falls out in a strange, colorful land.

He meets Princess toadstool, and her muppet-like Toads. (Perhaps she's a human who fell into this hole a long time ago?)She explains that they're being harassed by this evil monster named Bowser.

Mario is out of place. He kinda wants to get home, but he's intrigued by how important he seems to be in this world. He's like John Carter of mars. The strength he developed in the human realm makes him super-strong in the toadstool kingdom.

Now, personally, I like the idea that Mario and Toadstool don't have a romantic relationship. But in this movie, I think Toadstool should be suspiciously like Mario's perfect woman. Perhaps there's a scene with Luigi earlier where he describes his perfect woman, and Toadstool oddly fits the bill.

Occasionally, we cut back to Luigi in the real world, worrying about what might have happened to his brother.

In the course of his adventures (after some appropriate character development) Toadstool is kidnapped.

Mario faces bowser, who is never shown in full. We only get closeups of his face and tail and such. Also, bowser doesn't speak, he just roars. Bowser is a dragon, not a character.

Mario defeats bowser, perhaps by luring him onto a bridge, then cutting the bridge.

The movie ends with Luigi finding mario, and talking to him through a warp pipe. They have a heartfelt moment together, and Mario decides to stay in the Mushroom Kingdom. The two brothers have a tearful goodbye, and Mario kisses Toadstool.

We are left to wonder: did mario really travel to a magical land (as all the children in the theater would clearly believe), or was the whole thing a vivid hallucination brought on by head trauma? One where he gets to have the kind of exciting life that being a plumber didn't offer him, and meet the girl of his dreams? One which, in the end, kills him?