Recent content by Pain Is Inevitable

I was watching the championship while this happened, and while the first game was really silly and over the top, the rest of the games played out normally and at no point did it seem like either team wasn't playing the game seriously with the intention of winning. Oh well, they broke or at least...

Piracy is not in itself a problem. People not buying your products is a problem, and the reasons someone might not buy, say a game, can be myriad. Maybe it is being sold for too high a price for what it is perceived to be worth, maybe the advertisement for the game has been lackluster and the...

Less open wounds for you to bleed from is always a good thing, everything else being equal. ALWAYS. Besides, it's not like bullets are made of radioactive materials or poison that will kill you if you don't immediately remove them from your body. A lot of soldiers have lived with bullets...

A universe that can keep existing forever, either because the processes that drives it are perfectly circular or because it will collapse and expand indefinitely to "refresh" its chemical composition, might be the only THING that can ever exist that can be said to be perfect, as in it cannot be...

Any expansion into space outside the solar system might very well end up being a pretty slow and gradual endeavor with no physics-defying magical warp-gates or FTL-speed engines involved. If we don't mind spending a few hundred thousand years, achieve immortality and find a way to get enough...

I wouldn't. Flat taxes are sooooo 19th century.

Right and wrong doesn't matter, except when you need to justify your thoughts and actions to yourself and others. As for what has happened here, well, maybe he was just having a bad day when this happened, maybe there is something more mucking about under the surface. No way for anyone to know...

Social democracy. Capitalism is a necessary, but ruthless force that must be tempered by government oversight, progressive taxation and social services to prevent the rich from turning into barons and the poor into serfs.

I would if I could, but I can't. Damn shame.

To be honest, I don't think anyone will dispute that the (theoretically) best solution will always be to have the player and AI play by the same rules, and scale the difficulty by how well the AI plays within those rules. In reality we have the situation where using more resources to make the AI...

This particular case does seem very frivilous and if no details have been left out then I agree completely with the judge's decision to throw it out. Still, we should not forget that there are hundreds of thousands of children and teens out there that face very real abuse from their parents...

Not really. Maybe if my country had a flag that represented more than the brutal rape and conversion of my country 1000 years ago to christianity, I'd care more about whether someone disrespected it.

No, it's a sexist myth.

"HOMOSEXUALS ARE DESTROYING THE HUMAN RACE!" I'm pretty sure that wasn't what you intended to convey in a light-hearted tone there, but it's technically what you just said. That is funny to me. /thread

I'd never date a Muslim girl owned by her father, so I don't think this problem would ever really come my way.