Posts by _LS_

    Nice setup @LinkSkywalker do you mind if I steal one of those monitors?

    But then I'd be a single-monitor pleb!

    Soubds like s plan.

    Yeah they are not very loud. I got them for the surround effwct but I want to replace them with proper hometheather speakers at some point. Our current desktop sorakers are worse so I'll probably start by replacing those. :XD:

    I bought them a few years ago after I spent months and months saving up to deck out my rig with all the features. (In 2012 I was still using a prebuilt HP from 2006. It was a bummer.) They were the very best speakers on Newegg, so I assumed they'd be pretty great. I really shoulda done more research on speakers at the time. They're not bad or anything. They're just not powerful in the slightest. I'd much rather get a 2.1 setup of really powerful home theater speakers.

    If you replace your home theater speakers first, then you can move the home theater set to one of your PCs. Two birds with one stone. yo. =D

    It's odd. I tend to disagree with egoraptor about pretty much everything. But his Sequelitis videos have always been *spot on* for me.

    I don't think OoT is a bad game, but I generally agree that it is deeply flawed and doesn't deserve to be on the pedestal that people place it on.

    I actually kinda regret getting these speakers. It's a 5.1 system, but the sound is pretty weak. I can barely get it loud enough to hear it in the next room without blowing the levels.

    Next time I'm buying computer speakers, I'm going to buy them from a speaker store, rather than a computer store.

    That's it! I'm placing @Edward_Stryfe under arrest. You're going to Zelda Connection Penitentiary pal, and you're not getting out for a long time.

    Ya know what they do to guys like you in there?

    They make em post more. That's what. Also macramé. It's actually a little better than the normal forum.

    There's something to be said for the value of work. But perhaps it could be a matter of education and social pressure. We should teach our kids to find something to pursue with all of their effort and drive. A man without a goal has no purpose.

    And yeah:

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    It's disappointing, because a lot of the scripts mentioned in the movie sound really interesting. I'd be curious to read some of them.

    The movie itself is bad, for sure. But I get what you're saying. For those of us who lived in that time, the idea of a video game movie was too revolutionary not to leave an impression on us.

    Yeah, I'm terrible at planning ahead. Whether or not I win often depends on how wholey my knowledge of the game dominates the other person. If I can take most of their pieces without letting them take many of mine, they I can set up a checkmate near the end of the game. But I just don't have the planning skills to checkmate on a full board.

    I'm an atheist, but not totally anti-theism. Religion can help people with life, and that's fine.

    Neato patito! Atheism bros. *fistbonk.*

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    What I don't like about how religion is handled mainly is when it's forced onto people at a very young age, children don't get the chance to question what they're being told is true or untrue.

    I agree that indoctrinating children into a belief system is bad, but really how do we oppose it? Obviously any sort of legal opposition would be insane. Except perhaps in the most extreme cases (parents should not be able to cite religious reasons as justification for keeping their children away from mandatory reporters*.) There is some social pressure never to be "too" religious, but for the hardcore, that social pressure just reaffirms their belief that they're on the right side.

    I actually think this is a lot less of a problem than I used to. It's bad, for sure. But indoctrination like that just doesn't stick. My parents were pretty crazy fundamentalist Christians who worked hard to make sure their children all loved the Jesus. But out of 6 of us, only 1 actually bought what they were selling. I know people from even more hardcore backgrounds (where they were literally kept away from anyone who believed differently than they did until they were an adult), and even those folks often escape from the ideals they were raised on.

    In the U.S., we absolutely need to start having a serious conversation about children's rights. But I'm much more concerned about the right to an education, the right to leave home, the right to work, etc.

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    Whatever religion or belief someone follows, I don't think it's anybody's business to even know it, let alone criticise.

    It's certainly not anybody's business to know another person's religion. If someone wants to keep that private, all they have to do is not talk about it. But if they do choose to talk about it, whether or not it's fair to criticize depends on what context they're talking about their religion in.

    For example, in this thread, I've asked people to share this private thing with me. I want to know your metaphysical beliefs because it interests me. If you choose to answer I will question, but I will not criticize. And I will stop if asked to stop.

    But if I'm told I should believe the same way another person believes? Then of course that should be criticized. The same way I'd criticize anything someone asked me to believe that I thought was untrue. Same if a religious belief is used to justify an action, or a claim. There are lots of legitimate reasons to criticize religion.

    Just don't be an asshole about it.


    *In the U.S., Mandatory reporters are any person who is obligated to contact child protective services if they suspect abuse. If your neighbor sees your kid with a black eye, they don't legally have to do anything. But if a teacher, doctor, or police officer sees your kid with a black eye, they're legally obligated to report it. Many parents will "homeschool" their children to prevent anyone from discovering their abuse. This sort of arrangement is often founded on whackjob religious nonsense, though not always.

    Dunno, but what would happen if you teach a fish to robot?

    You gotta respect the [Serious Discussion] tag, bruh. Or I will permaban the fuck outta you. I don't care if you're sleeping with my boss, I take this shit serious, ya dig?

    When it comes to robots, and more relevantly, the automation of human labor, there are two schools of thought. The first is the science fiction future, like we see in Star Trek. We envision a world where technology has freed us from our labors, and we all live lives of intellectual, scientific, and artistic pursuit. The jobs that need to be done are all being done, and so, nobody has to work.

    The other vision is one that is unfortunately more grounded in reality. Detroit was an economic powerhouse in America. They made cars, and they made them well. But then we figured out how to automate car production, and everybody in Detroit lost their jobs. Now it's America's biggest slum. You can literally buy a house in Detroit for $1, because owners are that desperate to unload worthless properties they have to pay taxes on. Animals are literally reclaiming parts of the city. There's a reason Robocop is set in Detroit: a city where poverty (and thus, crime) runs rampant. And a city where police being replaced by machines would have an extra layer of meaning.

    In the real world, the jobs that need to be done are being done by machines. But only the machine owner profits. The rest of us starve.