Recent content by LeeArac

S'gotta be Alaskan Malamutes. They're just gorgeous dogs. Which is why I got one. However, I would warn any prospective Mally owners to be very, very cautious. They are a SUPER difficult breed: Energetic, ridiculously greedy, insanely intelligent and as stubborn as a mule: No matter how well...

I love me some Jon Stewart, but was it really necessary to couple discussion of the US's repeated, gross breaches of its own damn laws with sub-Big-Bang-Theory levels of 'hahaha, nerds are /nerds/' humour?

A) What exactly is the difference between 'a full-blown lesbian' and just... a lesbian? I'm assuming the former is some kind of hair-cropped, denim-wearing monstrosity from your conservative nightmares? B) Maybe, but would it really /harm/ the character? Unless you're positing that women are...

No logic. No intent to be inferred. Just a question. How can they be bullied non-physically if they don't understand the concept of an insult? If they /do/ respond negatively to a 'truthful' insult, then they clearly /do/ comprehend, and it's a failure of empathy, not understanding.

Well then, legit question: If they're so blind as to the nature of giving offense via 'factual' statements, would they perceive being called an 'ignorant, self-involved Aspie' as bullying? After all: It's just telling the truth. Smacking anyone as a result of them being a verbal ass is -...

Because it annoys self-righteous people. And - as alluded to above - possibly because I have a death wish, and it's a nice cowardly way to go about it.

And you might want to re-read the post you were responding to. I might be wrong here, but I think when Psychobabble got to talking about removing all player interaction 'except for a few button clicks' /from a game/ it might have been a subtle hint that they were - just maybe - being a little...

"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured...the first thought forbidden...the first freedom denied ? chains us all, irrevocably... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged." - Jean Luc Picard, in "The Drumhead" Not much of a speech, but...

People find his voice /soothing/? Really? Soothing? I hate to say it, but maybe that's an American thing, because to a British ear he has a voice I want to smash repeatedly in the mouth. I expect it's similar to how Steve Irwin could be quite grating to the Australian ear (at least until you...

Morality is logical now? What? Pretty sure that's... not the case. For social animals like us, maybe, who actually DO need the presence and abilities of others of our species as a result of enlightened self-interest, sure... but for a hyper-intelligent machine mind? I really doubt it.

They have a really positive attitude to homosexuality in their games and employment practices.

Suggesting that the stolen generation was morally unconscionable is in no way unrealistic. By any measure it was an atrocity, and to simply pass it off as some kind of... inevitability that 'could have been handled better' is pretty short-sighted and revisionist.

I'll give you a gajillion dollars if you can find me one single person in the world who thinks violent video games are somehow harmful, but violent movies are just 'fine'.

Series 6 was among the best. So yes: That includes Gunmen and Rimmerworld - with Gunmen in particular being one of, if not /the/ finest episode in the whole show - but after Rob Grant left... it really did just nosedive. It seemed pretty clear to me that Doug Naylor simply couldn't carry the...

I'd like to applaud Al Baker for one of the most cogent and well-thought-out responses to this thread. Don't get me wrong, I /love/ my meat, and I couldn't give it up, but I don't let that sway me to thinking that there's really any way at all that it's ethically 'correct' to do so when it...