Recent content by Baalthazaq

"No" is the most popular answer. "No" is entirely equivalent to saying "Our laws are perfect, our people are the problem". And your people commit mass shootings at a rate 43 times higher than the rest of the world. What sort of problem, and this is entirely on topic, and a valid question...

China. Caliphate. Persian Empire. Islamic Golden age. Spanish Empire. Jewish Golden Age. Ottomans. Japan. Mongol Empire. Egyptian Empire. Etc. You have an interesting definition of white. Every period of history has dominant groups. "Imagining things" isn't quite right, but you're not really...

I've already argued that most players seem to confuse Alignment with personality [http://gulf-roleplaying.blogspot.com/2012/07/d-alignment-system-is-perfect.html]. Here I think the problem isn't so much that as simplifying "believes in law" as "follows the rules". Just because I think that...

Worst thing ever in a videogame... no idea. I remember the first time I ever got upset at something I did in a videogame, was when I was about 12 in my first ever RPG (I can't even remember what it was called), but I attacked and killed what I thought was an orc and wolf but turned out to be...

Ah, so you're expanding the cosmology more than anything. That's fine, just keep in mind if you want an alignment defined cosmology, you're going to end up with a rapidly expanding universe for every alignment you add. 3x3 becomes 3x3x3, so all of a sudden you have 27 you need to come up with...

I'm not sure you know what the alignment system is for. All personalities and people can fit on any alignment scale of opposites. Ugly -> Attractive. Shallow -> Deep. Liberal -> Conservative. Left -> Right. Happy -> Angry. Fat -> Skinny. Short -> Tall. Pro-chest-hair -> anti-chest-hair...

So: Am I pro-mutant, pro-war, pro-disease, or pro-sex..... How is this a competition, and why is pro-sex second?

Ooooh sensitive. B already implied C. I'm a FULL time wise-guy, don't short change me. D... yes. I'm trolling a thread by offering the majority opinion. If someone modifies an existing thing by a small amount, that does not intrinsically make them a better designer than the designer...

FortressCraft is obviously heavily inspired by Minecraft. So much you could consider it a ripoff. But Minecraft practically ripped of Infiniminer, so if anyone has something to ***** about, its the former Infiniminer devs. Minecraft deserves the credit for making the game concept interesting...

For a game that came out 10 years ago, I'm going to cut it a lot of slack. Besides I don't think the hype still surrounds it. The hype 10 years ago was (mostly) deserved, and the hype now is very limited. Is anyone really raving about WoW like they do for any of the titles on your list?

Skyrim. It was good, but sweet Jesus, the soiled-panted fanboys are so OTT. The amount of abuse you endure when you don't soil yourself at the thought of it. "BUT YOU PLAYED IT, HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE IT". Any attempts at reasoning with said people, and how they exaggerate your feelings. Me...

Portal 2 does with 3 Characters, what Skyrim can't in 3000. Portal 2 has a world that's believable, and engaging characters despite all 3 of them being comic relief. One lives in a potato for half the game ffs. Yet you feel those characters are more real than all the ones in Skyrim combined...

ACTUALLY you can uncap it with various mods, so you used to have a point, but now you edited it to make it wronger. :P And yes, I'm trolling just a touch. :P

There are two key mistakes in your post. "It's the bottom 99% taking out debts". No. That accounts for 20% of the problem. The derivatives market. Investment Banks taking out debt equal to 30 times their assets. Fraudulently selling derivatives they knew were going to fail. Etc. That...

Society, both in the real world and in the hypothetical example, does not function this way. High paying salaries are not usually paid "by the hour" with some exceptions. (Consultant style work and freelance work). Hell, some are even charged by the hour to a client "My Quantity...