Posts by RD

your avatar looks like satan

i will try it out when i have time. But i will i promise

the screens always look nice for BF, but ingame when you see the animations, explosions, movement and physics it all looks like michael jackson

what corner?

superb, but take some prettier screenshots

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Am I the only one that thinks that religion and the big bang can co-exist quite peacefully? I mean... if you can logically trace the history of existance back to a single atom that exploded into multiple and infinite universes... isn't that theoretically something God could do? I mean, if you have faith isn't that a good thing to have faith in? Instead of trouncing it for the sake of trouncing it?But hey, that's just me.

There seems to be four of us.

Awesome

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I just think that it is ironic to think about the issue in an isolated state, regardless of the century or time or place: the penalty for converting away from a religion is death. The irony comes from a Western perspective where there is a general freedom of religion.However, if where you live religion is equated with nationalism and loyalty and the state, then converting away is sort of like defecting to another government. Not to long ago in the US there were witch hunts for communists. Or think about foreign spies on domestic soil. Treason has historically been a capital crime.

So from that perspective, it's not surprising there was all this muck muck over the local courts contemplating a death sentence.

In the US (and other western states) this becomes a big media issue simply because it's news that will sell, pure and simple. On the flip side, in a way it is an important story simply if it gets westerners more of an opportunity to understand other cultures. To Fletch's point, what are we expecting of cultures that haven't experienced anything else?

It ISNT surprising, and it is all perfectly understandable that they want him dead. I dont mind discussing the broader picture if ppl could grasp it, but unfortunately it all ends with the conclusion that not so long ago we were just like them, and that we shouldnt expect anything else. Its kinda generalising the discussion to a point that isnt necessary.

What we should expect from groups like these, is the same we expected and still expect from the KKK--> to die. When the KKK was lynching blacks, we didnt investigate world history to find out its normal. It has never been normal for us, and we fought the KKK. For these cultures its as normal as it is for the man to be killed.

It deserves to be in the media because this isnt an isolated incident. Ppl have been sentenced to death for converting for a millenium now. In most countries today you get away with losing your social life and going into hiding

I think what Nexus means is that science has disproven alot of what we thought was biblical, but what was actually disproven was our idiotic interpretation of the bible.

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Western Civilization isn't that far off from this sort of behavior. A hundred years ago we were lynching black people for looking at white people. Two hundred years ago we were burning people for witchcraft. Five hundred years ago we were destroying entire civilizations based upon religious wars. This isn't a fight over Western vs Eastern ideas. It's a matter of trying to bring in civilizations into a global society. A lot of these countries have been kept down economically and technologically by advancing Western Civs for a long time. Now they're being dragged into this global state, and they haven't really had the interim period to mature their own civilization.

It reminds me a lot of the failure of communism. Communism required that countries move from an agricultural based society to a fully functioning industrial society before moving to communism. But coutnries tried to move directly from agriculture to communism, and it caused a lot of fuck ups. Now we have 18th century societies being given new weapons, the internet, thousands of works of literature and art, and so much mroe all at the same time, and the expectation is they behave like a 21st century society. It just doesn't work.

Its irrelevant how long ago this happened in the west or that it happened at all.

But, if your comparison to our society not so long ago or to a lynching 5years ago, was valid, than it is possible to mature an Afghan like society in 5 years to an advanced superpower. Maybe globalisation, technology and poverty are to blame for some part, but the KKK, the witchhunts and crusades 500years ago werent done because we were poor or technologically behind, it was for a large part Christianity. And in this case religion also has evrything to do with it.

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why?

What's free and democratic about executing a man who changed his religion? In a truly free nation, this would have absolutely nothing to do with the State, and would be kept within the religious organizations that were affected.

Western nations in Afghanistan (Canada, US, etc.) are there spreading the right to live as democratic and free people to the country, and presented with this opportunity they turn the other way.

Yeah, but why do they turn the other way?

He does look like h20.

Anways it looks like you have a sweet concept artist, but try let him work on relevant stuff and not wallpapers

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Any random western country?

I know you have heard of Salman Rushdie.

Hes still alive, the blessed man, but some of his friends arent or have been the brutalized victim of assassination attempts, such as a Norweigian hero daring to translate the book.

Hes seeking asylum now. Wonder what country he will be safe in

just rename classics then, its not getting used anyway

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Only speaks to the great difficulty in spreading Westen values in these Middle Eastern countries. In many cases, they shun freedom, democracy, and the right to live where we would embrace it by choice.

why?

Its time for another Islamic discussion. Discuss

The thread is for peeps like Kosmo who call me a racist for pointing these things out (I think it is an insult to humanity to ignore things like this, so that makes you a demon :wink: ) and also a little bit for Daan0 who didnt believe it was true

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... index.html

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But clerics have questioned Karzai's authority to order Rahman's release and have warned of a possible revolt if he tries."The Quran is very clear, and the words of our prophet are very clear. There can only be one outcome: death,"

This is source right? Couldnt find it on the site

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The last few days have been quite a journey for me. I haven't left my university residency room for anything except going to the bathroom, showering, occasional cigarettes and joints, and picking up my food deliveries ever since i got this game the morning of the store release.I can probably say ive played the game more than anyone else on these forums by this point.

I beat the main storyline of course as well as a great deal of the lateral content.

This game is very complex to review because of the strange balance of severe game flaws and truly inspired content.

Before i start my long-winded pessimistic-minded review let me first say this was not a game for me, it was an experience (excuse how corny that sounds) the only other game that has done this for me has been half-life. Oblivion is one of the best games ive ever played.

Having said that, the game is very short on late-development content. The basic mechanics of the game are impeccable however.

The best analogy i can use to describe oblivion is that traditional games are like a well, they are very narrow but have a great deal of content within the thin limitations of its scope (IE medal of honour series, anything linear) oblivion by contrast is like a vast shallow lake. At the outset it seems massive beyond comprehension, but if you delve deep enough into any particular area you hit dirt very quickly.

The late development content i mentioned as lacking would be simple things like extra items, spells, quests, special enemies, etc... I'll get into this more in a moment.

The inpired content is basically everything thats not listed below as a flaw, the terrible thing is that the flaws ive listed would require SO LITTLE additional effort on the part of bethesda to restore meaning to oblivion for me.

some flaws-

There is a total lack of ORIGINAL enemies in the game, so frequently you get to the end of the dungeon and realize you have to turn back, and youre left scratching your head as to where the big dungeon boss was supposed to be. Instead you have to satiate your killing needs on the same enemies repetitively over different level ranges. This also means there is very few enemy-linked special item drops.

The game has been lobotomized quite a bit to suit the console user.

There is VERY little item content, pathetically little really. There is only a few armor classes in each range, and once you get the best one (which wasnt even hard) there is essentially no more upgrading to do. As for weapons, i found the umbra sword around level 10 and i have been using it for the past 15 levels, kinda pathetic as far as item content goes.

Ironically the game has massive item content in areas where its totally useless, things like calipers, a bucket, millions of varieties of pants and shirts youll never wear because its somehow more practical to wear armour if youre in combat.

There is no more spears, crossbows, throwing weapons, etc.. etc...

In a game like this, the players material motivations should be dangled in front of him - that one staff/sword/axe youre just dieing to buy but you cant afford - that armor set youre desperately trying to collect by looting and stealing. Oblivion fails at this rather badly. I found i reached a threshold after which upgrading was almost irrelevant, what was worrisome was how quickly it happened. Now i have like 200,000 septims from loot-sales and nothing to spend it on - at all -

The most serious flaw in my game experience:

I dont want this to sound like an elaborate boast, but the particulars of my character are such that he is utterly unbeatable, he is such a tank i can just stand and take blows for hours. I happened to find a few EXTREMELY overpowered items early in the game (with the aid of a few billion quickloads) and it made the game almost broken. So much so i beat the end of the game as though it was little more than an annoyance. Pushing the difficulty slider up extra-extra high is an option i realise, but i just cant handicap myself that much, that would be like tossing your best items away just to restore the challenge.

When i play oblivion now, its an exercise in going into extremely remote areas TRYING and continuously failing to find enemies that can challenge me. This is essentially because of how bad the level-scaling system is (to those not in the know, the game scales the difficulty of nearly every enemy you encounter and every item you find to the level of your character) If your character's actual strength exceeds his or her level as was the case with me, you will find the game pretty boring.

Attach that to the lack of upgrades in equipment, and it now feels like its pointless to play anymore.

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I guess i will set the difficulty extra high then. And hope for some patches

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I don't get this one as it's only correct whenever Mojo already has posted in a thread. If he has not and then Mino makes a post with that image hosted on mapcore, then it will result in an increased amount of mapcore bandwidth used. If however mino had hosted on some random site instead then no additional mapcore bandwidth would be used.

Mapcore is 99% forum, so by visiting the forum you already use the bw of almost all images hosted on mapcore