Recent content by Jon Quixote

From everything I've seen and read from Dawkins, he's just about the most soft-spoken and non-confrontational atheist I've ever encountered. He's practically the opposite of a Chris Hitchens, PZ Meyers, or Jerry Coyne. Now, that said, he's blunt when he writes about certain topics. There's...

Does someone want to explain to me why it's always "arrogance" when an atheist points out that religions don't have enough evidence to justify their claims; but religions can still claim to know the truth behind reality, and this gets to be called "humility"?

You're going to try and pull the "uncertainty principle" as an argument against a mechanistic, deterministic universe? Sorry: does not apply. (It's like when evolution deniers like to cite the 2nd law of thermodynamics, only to forget that living things aren't closed systems.) In the case of...

Boy, you really don't understand evolution, do you? Seriously. If there was a #2 misconception regarding evolution, it might be the notion that it can somehow be "guided." But it can't. That's the whole point: evolution by natural selection *means* that it just happens naturally, no...

People are speculating about a second coming when historians haven't really established that there was ever a first coming?

Runner-Up with Best Story... Final Fantasy IV. Runner-Up with Best Gameplay... Shining Force I. Game with Best Story & Gameplay... Final Fantasy VII.

The short answer, already issued by many: play a better edition of the game. The story is, of course, a little more complex than it might seem at first. There are more than just four versions of the game. There are four editions of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, but there's also Classic...

Eh... I'm gonna go with "no." A video game with stats and level-ups? That's a CRPG. A computer (or console) role-playing game. A pale shadow of the real deal. "RPG," meanwhile, is of course much broader, because real RPGs don't always have classes, skill systems, or experience levels...

This site [http://stores.lulu.com/relative-entropy] has two rather interesting hacks for old-school D&D.

All that the so-called "western RPG" has ever accomplished is to highlight what an inadequate substitute for a Dungeon Master a computer really is. The whole open-ended, non-linear, "blank slate for a main character" paradigm works very well on a tabletop with dice; not so much as a video game...

Depends entirely on the genre of game. FPS... mouse and keyboard. Gamepads with analogue sticks have no precision without some kind of autoaim, and I would never trust autoaim. RPG... depends. If it's a real RPG like Final Fantasy, a gamepad is the way to go. (A retro controller with a...