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To fucking hell with the Left and the Right for using these innocent victims as tools for their agendas. For them these shooting victims are a means to an end and nothing more. This happens every time there's a shooting and I find it increasingly hard to stomach what these political vultures are doing. In this day and age there is no respect offered to those who lost their lives. The victims deserved better than this.

You see I've sorta shot myself in the foot in this regard. While I did stop due to my own conscious I had to provide a reason for wanting to stop early to my supervisor. I told him everything and now I can't go back because he doesn't want my toxicity affecting everyone else working even though I've never openly expressed it. So yeah I'm screwed.

Nox is really good, I always got the impression that Westwood was trying to compete directly with Blizzard by with C&C and Nox. I've played some very obscure games like Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader and Sacrifice.

I've been really wanted to talk about ego for quite sometime now and how it's affected me personally. Before, I didn't quite have the words I was looking for to describe ego. But now I think I do. So let me give you some context. I've done a variety of jobs volunteering over the course of a few years. Only just recently I began to ask myself "Why am I helping?". The reason I asked this question was because there's been what I can only describe as a "shift" in terms of how I feel about the work that I'm doing and whether it's genuine or not. The answer I found wasn't the straight forward "Because it's good to help people", oh no it was much darker than that. Sure that's how it felt when I initially started but it didn't last. My answer was "Because I hate ineptitude.". Then reality sank in and it hit me like a truck. I've been unconsciously hating everyone that I've ever helped and how I coped with that hatred was by helping them. In my mind I was succeeding where they have failed and was purging them of their failure. As you can imagine this built up my ego quite a bit. It's as if I was a righteous crusader trying to purge the damned. It didn't matter if they were old, homeless or mentally unstable. In my mind they were all failures and they had to be cleansed of their sins. As I continued to Volunteer this sense of superiority grew, to a point where it was primal for me to pass judgements like that. I couldn't help but draw parallels to the Nazis. To me it didn't matter that I helped people whereas they killed and tortured people. If such notions can do evil just as easily good then I want no part in it. I felt morally the only thing I could do was stop and I haven't volunteered since. I didn't like what volunteering had brought out in me. If action alone is what separates me from the absolute scum of this Earth then that is the thinnest fucking line I've ever seen. Actions are defined by culture. The Nazis believed what they were doing was absolute good through superiority so what makes my intent any different? That feeling of superiority is still the same no matter who's hands it's in.

From my experience you really don't need a mic. I joined a few of the VCO ops missions and everything went fine.

@Descriptor you've just admitted that what you're arguing for is futile. If it is futile then there is about as much point in trying as there isn't in not trying. However I would argue that trying to accomplish something futile is purely Sisyphean. Whereas if you don't care there's still a chance of you moving on to something else more important due to the lack of investment. You've only got only some much time on this Earth why would you do that to yourself? Sisyphus wasn't cursed by the gods. The gods cursed the boulder so that it would tumble everytime Sisyphus made progress with it. The actual tragedy of his story is that Sisyphus dooms himself to push the boulder up a hill and cannot see anything outside of it. I know re-interpreting classical works isn't best metaphor in the world. But you've completely lost me with what you're arguing for. Plainly speaking it makes no sense.

The same could be said for those who do vote as well due to the spoiler effect. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. What does it matter at that point? Do you think your single solitary statement will set some sort of precedent for the future or something? It's just a statement. Individualism dies within any democracy and this is a corrupt democracy at that. Not that I have any better suggestions for systems of government. Then I'm afraid we've reached an impasse. No offense but where you see a possibility for a better future I see only a comforting illusion. IMO we're overly concerned for the future. We've fucked up in numerous ways and there's no going back. We need to be for the here and now in terms of survival instead of focusing on an overly optimistic future.

Warning, the Youtube video below contains existential horror and dread.

Except voting third party is pointless due to the spoiler effect. At that point you're abiding purely by principle and I'm not a person who abides by that. IMO it's not worth wasting my time over. The only difference between you voting for a third party and me not voting is that you have faith whereas I don't. I'm central in regards to politics so I'm statistically screwed. I'm not willing to pretend that I hold all the answers to fix what is an ancient and entrenched political system so I've chosen to opt-out. Call it cowardly, I call it sane. You can either scream at everything wrong with the world or you could simply move on, not bothering to giving it a passing glance. Odds are you don't have any power to begin with so what's even the point? Or who knows, I could vote for Trump and rub salt into the wound that is his inevitable presidency. At this point I could honestly care less if the world burns. Or not, the world didn't end when George W. Bush became president despite all the flak he got now did it? Now I'm not saying he was a great president but we're still here aren't we? In this shitstain of a world.

Nope, it's completely legal to not vote in the US. I've also heard it's illegal to not vote in Canada too so it's not just Australia. I don't really get the sentiment behind making it illegal to not vote. My not vote is basically saying " Our political system is fucked, get it fixed or I'll have no part in what is ostensibly a game known as "The Democratic Process"" and from what I understand my opinion is part of the silent majority's in this regard. I apologize if I sound pretty sour on this issue but it's how I honestly feel.

I'm not voting because I just don't care. My politics aren't represented in the slightest nor do they align with the general public's so I'm effectively screwed.

What if you were a Veteran and also a Veterinarian? Does that make you a double Vet or a Vet Vet?

tKjZuykKY1I Might as well put up a graphical warning since Jeb_CC did. But I mean it's the freaking Darkness, what were you expecting? Still fantastic though.

These were my exact thoughts when I saw the poll. I'm guessing BTGBullseye is going by what Bernie Sandals's actual politics are as opposed to the party he's running under.

I don't think it's left leaning. Though at one point Ross did express interest in the idea of getting paid for just being a citizen. Then again he wasn't given any alternatives so I suspect he was just pinned into a corner. There's as many right leaning people here as there are left leaning people. The very definition of balanced.

Both extremes I presented are assumptions so that I'm able to establish a scale from knowing nothing to knowing everything. We haven't destroyed all knowledge nor have we obtained all of it. The only agenda Ross has is that he wants to prevent games being killed. An agenda I was already in full support of years ago before he started this movement. My overall opinion is pretty similar to Ross's and that probably goes for everyone on this forum. That's a huge difference from just taking on opinion based on what the media has present the subject as.

Interesting point, from my perspective humans have the capacity to know everything or know nothing and between those two extremes are grey areas. I would tend to say the vast majority of people lean more towards the latter and when I say extreme I mean it. Rather then simply not care about a subject these people will go out of their way to destroy said subject because they feel it poses some sort of threat to them. What kind of threat? Well they couldn't tell you outside of their kneejerk reactions. The focus is on the potential of a threat rather than if a threat actually exists because that's the way the media has always presented it's illusions. This is why IMO gun control nuts are on the same level homophobic nuts. Once you boil them down they're just attempting to destroy something they have no understanding of. These people also lack free will but that's a completely different topic. The only difference is that the left is currently being favored by the media presumably for financial reasons. 10-20 years ago the right was favored by the media because it made financial sense at the time. The media are shills for wherever the money and power is flowing from. The media will run an inevitably suicidal and destructive course in which it will fragment everything because the media knows how to influence/control people. But to answer your poll we'll inevitably be influenced by the media(myself included) to some degree even if we'd like to think that we're objective people, independent from influences. In summary we are all stupid though some more so than others.

Oh I'm not worried, just annoyed. Stupid people are like pests to me. It doesn't help that they usually don't shut up either. It's too bad you can't kill them with a fly swatter, You could smack them in the face repeatably with one though and that would probably shut them up if only momentarily. Though seriously it doesn't help that I'm part of a species that is 95% stupidity. Being smart is by no means a luxury. In fact it's more of a curse the more you think about it. You become aware to all the stupidity around you and that awareness is maddening because you can't do anything to eliminate it in any way, shape or form. It's like the force except dumb. I'm sure as hell not fine coexisting with these morons. If only they could embrace their inner lemming and jump off the nearest cliff. The world would be so much better off. But still life goes on I guess.

Hi Ross here are my questions. 1. Have you ever been apathetic, pessimistic or misanthropic? I'm all three, I find it hard to care, expect the absolute worse and hate humanity in general. As much as I wish there was hope reality seems to say otherwise and I find that people are far too blissfully unaware of it. It's almost as if they're deliberately ignoring just how shitty the world is because they can't handle it. 2. Have you considered getting a crock pot to cook your food for you? You basically chuck whatever you want in it, set it between 4-6 hours and then you're done. They're stupidly simple to use, have saved me a ton of time that I've used to work on my projects without having to make compromises with what I'm able to eat. 3. What element of turn based combat do you despise the most? For me it's limited actions and hit/miss chances. Fallout 1 & 2 in particular drove me up a freaking wall because of those elements.

Unreal Tournament Pre-alpha. It's just what I wanted. Completely untouched Unreal Tournament gameplay with a graphics update. I can't believe it's been 8 years(damn I feel old) since epic abandoned UT for Gears of dude bro space marines. For a long time I thought the series was dead. Still better 8 years later than never in my book. I find it funny that while DOOM hasn't been DOOM since DOOM III UT is completely the same except graphically which IMO is a good thing. It's nice to know that developers have a conscience not to desecrate gameplay this sacred for the sake of "innovation".

Very uncomfortable, kinda psyched out and I have no idea why. My guess it's probably from lack of sleep but to be perfectly honest I have no idea.

But there's a difference between being immature and being a sexist asshole(Though neither are mutually exclusive by any means). I'm completely immature and make awful sex jokes every few minutes yet I still treat women the same way I treat men. Why would I arbitrarily respect one gender over the other? From my perspective a line has been crossed when a man says in his head "No, I am not on the same level as you because you're a women and I'm going to use you purely for sex because of it.". That mindset is something I'll put my foot down over because I'm not okay with it.

I'm kinda meh about Civ VI. I've only played IV and to be honest it felt very simplified compared to the other turn-based games I've play such as XCOM and HoMM.

But I was referring to Jeb_CC's post which is in the random thread.