Recent content by ReiverCorrupter

I skimmed it, and while quite interesting, it clearly only points our one potential cause of criminality. While it would suggest that we treat anyone who had that particular trait, it wouldn't be enough to stop all criminality. They aren't even sure what the exact cause is. They postulate that...

Dude, we have over a million gang-bangers. I've said this repeatedly. And no, I'm not overstating it. There are over a million gang-bangers in the U.S. If you had a million gang bangers then you'd have the same problems as us. As to why we have a million gang bangers, yes it's largely due to...

To be honest, the criminals in your country probably don't use guns because your country makes it difficult for them to get guns. If you're willing to have the necessary laws and enforcement gun control can be effective. My entire point, however, is that the gigantic criminal subculture of...

I'm aware of all that. Emotional involvement is frankly rather unimportant in the grand scheme of game development. While some games are supposed to emotionally engage the audience, the best selling games seem to just be games, i.e. CoD, Mario, etc. You can talk about the medium growing as an...

Agreed. (Although hopefully they'll join someone a bit more sane than Molyneux.) But I wouldn't just blame impoverished AI for the increased linearity of games. The constraints placed on them by voice acting play a huge role as well. Just look at the depth of different options and...

That's because AI is incredibly difficult. In fact, there's still a lot of debate over what AI would really be and whether it's even possible by simply writing enough code. A lot of people think (particularly in robotics) that AI can only be possible by setting up hardware that is capable of...

Huh, that's another point that I hadn't even considered. You're right. I think part of the reason why a lot of people see games as children's toys probably has to do with the lack of photorealism. They perceive them as being cartoonish. Sure, we can call those people ignorant but the fact of the...

Yes it is. These guys are way too focused on emotional involvement. Let's put the whole "what do games really need to be artistic and meaningful" thing and just focus on the fun interactive side of games for a second. Photorealism is necessary simply in terms of what it will mean for the...

This. ^^^ It's pathetic that we only get upset about the extremely rare shooting sprees that affect the middle class while young black and Latino men are dying in the streets every day due to gang violence. There are 300 million people in America, you aren't going to stop the random psychos...

I never said guns were the best solution to anything. I'm not sure where you're getting that idea. I'll quote myself again: There are two discussions here. One is about whether you should personally own a gun, the other is about whether you have a right to own a gun. You seem to be focused...

Meh. I'm not necessarily trying to change your mind, I'm really just killing time. I do enjoy a good debate. In fact, I'm studying to be a professional philosopher, so it's actually good practice for me. At the very least it provides me an opportunity to get my thoughts on paper. I'd actually...

In regards to the whole tyranny argument... First of all, I'm not really arguing that gun control will necessarily lead to tyranny. However, I would like say a couple things about it the relation between the two. I'll start off by saying that tyranny and anarchy are two completely...

This is a good question, one which I've put some thought into. I'll give you the short version and then the long one: LONG VERSION: I think the solution to the vast majority of gun deaths is: 1) legalizing drugs so that the gangs have nothing to sell and thus nothing to fight over...

Well... you seem to have missed some of my major points. There are several different things that you said that are worth responding to separately, so I'll post different responses to each of them. Let's just put aside aside the typical liberty vs. safety arguments (as I said in my post, I...

Leave Germany alone, it takes them a lot of effort to repress their impulse for world domination. They have to get their children while they're young so they can scrub the will to power out of their cerebral cortices.