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Without philosophy, you are a mindless lemming being lead to intellectual slaughter. And I am not helping you through an amusing series of puzzles....

has taken a plunge! He likes Windows and being able to play Windows only games. However he loves Linux a lot more! He has set up KVM to run Windows 7 inside of Linux so that he can run the few things Wine cannot! Nerd heaven...

Game design theory tidbit : Complexity is in a game is fine. However, no game should be so complex that it is noticeably difficult to learn. A game can be time-consuming and a take a lot of effort to learn, however it should be designed so that the players do not find it a chore. The best way for games to handle complexity is for the game to be [relatively ] easy to learn, but difficult to truly master.

Well that was annoying! my Star Wars : Knights of the Republic II : The Sith Lords game would not install in my virtual machine. I think it was because the disc had some sort of invisible damage ( optical rot perhaps) preventing it reading the data3.cab file. CD Recovery Toolbox to the rescue! I highly recommend this program for anyone ( using Windows) that wishes to recover files from otherwise unreadable optical media.

A good software program does exactly what the users want it to do and nothing superfluous. The simpler the users needs, the less good software should try to. Rare indeed are the programs ( outside elementary Linux utilities) which do one thing, but do that one thing elegantly and simply . Radio Tray is a good example. It does nothing but play internet radio from the system tray. Thats all most people need, a way to select a station and then play it. All else is unnecessary fluff.

Warning : Those that like a lot of Micheal Baye films, or their brethren, may object to this : If art represents ones value judgments and cinema is an art-form : What do do todays movies say about societies value judgments? What do 90 minute action-schlock, Micheal Baye mental wank-fests with plots stupid enough to be written by 12 year olds tell us about societies value judgments?

Anyone that knows much about Marvel comic books want to answer a question for me? Why was the Hulks original skin color grey? Is Wikipedia on the ball when it says that color was chosen because it suggested no particular ethnic group? Or is it a case of the writers/artists simply choosing design elements for the sake of being different?

Thinking in terms of principles and attempting to integrate ones knowledge can work wonders. Lately I have been turning my mind to film criticism ( mostly just as a hobby, but also because my writing on storytelling in games has a lot to do with the subject of storytelling in films ). Pretty easy once I realized that my knowledge of writing in general has a lot of principles which apply to film criticism as well....

I got myself an artist ( well art student, but she seems capable of doing what I need done ) to help me with some projects. Woot!

Dear "mathematical logicians" : The first rule of logic is that the only thing that counts is the facts of reality. Logic is not simply making up mathematical rules regardless of reality and then sticking to them. Logic is the art of the non-contradictory identification of facts of reality, not mental masturbation involving symbols.

Africa is overflowing with barbaric savages. There, I said it and I do not give a damn if anyone disagrees or takes offense. Why do you think that they are constantly at war and millions of them live in Dark Age conditions? Because philosophically they are STILL in the Dark/Middle Ages. Big surprise that so many of them are primitive savages then..

To think or not to think. Sadly most modern philosophers implicitly deny the possibility of the former.

To think or not to think. To live or die. Why would anyone choose death, even if some crazy philosopher implicitly tells them to? (rhetorical question).

Dear scientists : Mathematics is not the art of assigning equations to "things as they appear", it is the science of formulating equations which represent causal relationships in a symbolic form.

I got back from making a coffee and my computer is about to shut down for some unknown reason and my cat sitting nearby is giving me a funny look. Coincidence? I think not! What is that kitty up to now...

"It's a national orgasm! A nationgasm, a 9/11, our 9/11, a good 9/11!" ( in reference to the Rugby World Cup, which "kicks off" during the 9th month of 2011 ) - this is the sort of offensively stupid comment that reminds me why I do not usually listen to anything radio DJs have to say on popular radio. Is this the sort of stupid crap people really want to hear? If it is, the general public are idiots.....

Those that refuse to learn the power of philosophy hardly have any business complaining when their inability to learn from their follies ruins them.

There are those that say that acting in one own self interest is to act against the "good of the nation". I say that those within the nation are not served by slavery to a collective zero.

Any of the programmers here worked with the programming language "Pliant"? I bet nobody has, and if any have (hah!) that they were not totally floored by how amazing it is....

Let us declare 9/12 as Obama Is A Freaking Jerk Day. I suspect he would consider that "unpatriotic", unlike trivializing the day Islamic murderers killed so many Americans. *rolls eyes* Doesn't apply when he eventually gets out of office you say? Well, it applies to those that operate under the same evil principles....

And they say *I * am a geek. I just found a 11 page bicker-fest on the topic of "Han Shot First". Deal with it, Greedo shot first, it is called a retconn and one cannot sensibly pretend it did not happen. Either it does not matter and one can use whatever version they like, in which case there is no point discussing such things, or there is an official version of what happened, a canon and one cannot simply ignore retconns. You would think people had more interesting things to do...

I heard that after 9/11, this media group that owned 800+ radio stations in the States banned some songs from being played on any of the radio stations which they owned. Alright, they have the right to do that of course. However I do not really see any sense in doing this, especially if you are going to do so in an apparently arbitrary fashion. For instance, banning Louie Armstrongs "Its a Wonderful World" and Van Halens "Jump"?

"In cases of temporal distortions, effect often precedes cause" - idiot Star Trek writers. That is a blatant statement of the fact that time travel ( at last time travel back in time) contradicts the Law of Causality. Sci-fi writers should not try to explain time travel if they are to use it in their stories , any "explanation" by its nature impossible. Better yet - don't use time travel in plots.

I must have won about three dozen internet lotteries this week, a lot o them Canadian ones. Pretty impressive considering there is no way I could possibly have entered them without having heard of them before. What shall I do with my fantasy fortune? Probably buy a fantasy mansion and invest in a fantasy business. Maybe while I am indulging in idle fantasy, I can fantasize about a politician with a brain...

You know are you a nerd when what was intended to be a short discussion on not judging movies according to non-essentials ( in relation to Return of the Jedi ) , turns into a 7000 character discussion , including at reasonably length discussion of Star Wars literary themes.