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General Discussion / Re: The $%*! frustration thread
« on: June 20, 2009, 01:23:44 am »
So earlier in the week I bought a brand new car - Nissan Sentra. And today, my dad asked if he could drive it to the dealership to make a copy of the key for me. Being the nice guy that I am, I said "sure dad, drive my brand new car, just don't wreck it or anything, haha". So what do you think happened?
He fucking wrecked it.
I'm not joking. You can't make this shit up. It's like the universe decided to take a giant shit on my life this past month. Maybe it's gods vengeance for not technically believing in him, to strike me with a kid not only named Jesus, but Jesus deJesus. The Jesus of Jesuses! Then, when I finally get a new car - guess what? Aaaaawwww psyche, fuck you.
He fucking wrecked it.
I'm not joking. You can't make this shit up. It's like the universe decided to take a giant shit on my life this past month. Maybe it's gods vengeance for not technically believing in him, to strike me with a kid not only named Jesus, but Jesus deJesus. The Jesus of Jesuses! Then, when I finally get a new car - guess what? Aaaaawwww psyche, fuck you.
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General Discussion / Re: The "WTF? Check this link out!" thread!
« on: June 18, 2009, 01:02:00 am »
"Biocentrism: How life creates the universe" - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31393080/ns/technology_and_science-science//
Awesome, awesome read. Although, I've gotta say, almost everyone who experiences a psychedelic trip aspires to a biocentric view of the universe shortly thereafter. The article talks about how a lot of scientists are appalled by the idea, and have been since the advent of quantum physics. For some reason the concept becomes much easier to accept when you see the entire universe shatter and reconstitute before your eyes.
I once heard someone who I could only describe as a counter-culture evangelist spouting about how he discovered the secret of the universe during a particularly intense LSD trip. He had no education in science of any kind whatsoever, but what he was describing is pretty much word for word what the article says. That was a long time ago, and back then I wrote him off as a lunatic that tripped one too many times. Not anymore though. Some types of knowledge is better acquired from journeying to the depths of the mind, than by carefully constructed experiments in a laboratory.
Awesome, awesome read. Although, I've gotta say, almost everyone who experiences a psychedelic trip aspires to a biocentric view of the universe shortly thereafter. The article talks about how a lot of scientists are appalled by the idea, and have been since the advent of quantum physics. For some reason the concept becomes much easier to accept when you see the entire universe shatter and reconstitute before your eyes.
I once heard someone who I could only describe as a counter-culture evangelist spouting about how he discovered the secret of the universe during a particularly intense LSD trip. He had no education in science of any kind whatsoever, but what he was describing is pretty much word for word what the article says. That was a long time ago, and back then I wrote him off as a lunatic that tripped one too many times. Not anymore though. Some types of knowledge is better acquired from journeying to the depths of the mind, than by carefully constructed experiments in a laboratory.
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Time, Space, and Dimensions / Re: Creation of Chronopolis after the Time Crash
« on: June 17, 2009, 02:30:28 pm »The real question is: how would the new Chronopolis find the Frozen Flame and would the old Chronopolis be able to resist the temptation to claim it early.
That's not really a question since Chronopolis, or the boundary that surrounds it, presumably has TTI. Chronopolis wouldn't have to be built again and it wouldn't have to find the Frozen Flame.
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Time, Space, and Dimensions / Re: Smart Time
« on: June 16, 2009, 11:26:50 pm »
They travel through time (mostly) via wormholes. A wormhole is a physical object in space-time that connects two different points of space and time. Thus I never really viewed them as "exiting" the timeline in the sense that they are completely ceasing to exist within spacetime. As far as TTI is concerned, I always viewed the emergence (and disappearance via TB) of an individual within a location of space and time as the property which is conserved. If it wasn't, then conservation of energy would be violated. So, it makes sense not because of any semantics of being in the timeline or outside of it, but because if the instance of time travel wasn't conserved via TTI then huge energy conservation problems would arise.
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General Discussion / Re: Video Game Discussion Thread
« on: June 16, 2009, 11:22:37 pm »
Maybe I just haven't gotten far enough, but (so far) it is incredibly cliche, with boring ass characters and lame locales and dungeons. The towns themselves are utterly uninteresting with very limited exploration possible, which makes the entire setting of the story feel cramped and even more linear than it already is.
Maybe I'm just biased after getting done with Mass Effect, but I guess I just expect RPG's to be better than this nowadays.
Maybe I'm just biased after getting done with Mass Effect, but I guess I just expect RPG's to be better than this nowadays.
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Time, Space, and Dimensions / Re: Creation of Chronopolis after the Time Crash
« on: June 16, 2009, 09:05:39 pm »
It seems like a predestined paradox to me, which is why I always just assumed that after the Time Crash Chronopolis was not founded again in the future timeline, despite FATE's logic that she must protect changes to the timeline so that Chronopolis could be founded. I have several reasons for this (all of which assume TTI is an accurate portrayal of time travel in the Chronoverse).
1) The boundary of the Sea of Eden would be protected by TTI. Chronopolis would not need to be founded again after the Time Crash for all of the events of Cross to be preserved.
2) Even if Chronopolis was physically moved into the past (discard boundary theory), FATE would not need to be concerned with the preservation of the timeline because Chronopolis would once again be protected by TTI.
3) FATE does a really shitty job of protecting the timeline from alteration anyways. Not only is contact repeatedly made between the mainland and El Nido (and vice-versa), but Chronopolis' mere presence there completely changes history and the area around which Chronopolis was originally built in the future.
So, I think it is reasonable to conclude that Chronopolis doesn't need to be founded in the future after the Time Crash occurs. I also think it is reasonable to conclude that FATE has nothing to fear about altering the timeline. So either FATE has a) an incomplete view of how time travel works (unlikely considering Belthesar's influence) or b) was specifically programmed by Belthesar to be concerned about the integrity of the timeline for some alternate purpose - perhaps related to his grand master plan? Perhaps Belthesar wanted to minimize major changes to the timeline so that he could limit the number of variables that he had to predict when orchestrating his plan? The more that El Nido was isolated from the rest of the world, the easier it would be for his plan to succeed, after all.
1) The boundary of the Sea of Eden would be protected by TTI. Chronopolis would not need to be founded again after the Time Crash for all of the events of Cross to be preserved.
2) Even if Chronopolis was physically moved into the past (discard boundary theory), FATE would not need to be concerned with the preservation of the timeline because Chronopolis would once again be protected by TTI.
3) FATE does a really shitty job of protecting the timeline from alteration anyways. Not only is contact repeatedly made between the mainland and El Nido (and vice-versa), but Chronopolis' mere presence there completely changes history and the area around which Chronopolis was originally built in the future.
So, I think it is reasonable to conclude that Chronopolis doesn't need to be founded in the future after the Time Crash occurs. I also think it is reasonable to conclude that FATE has nothing to fear about altering the timeline. So either FATE has a) an incomplete view of how time travel works (unlikely considering Belthesar's influence) or b) was specifically programmed by Belthesar to be concerned about the integrity of the timeline for some alternate purpose - perhaps related to his grand master plan? Perhaps Belthesar wanted to minimize major changes to the timeline so that he could limit the number of variables that he had to predict when orchestrating his plan? The more that El Nido was isolated from the rest of the world, the easier it would be for his plan to succeed, after all.
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General Discussion / Re: Video Game Discussion Thread
« on: June 16, 2009, 08:19:36 pm »
So I'm playing through Tales of Vesperia...I haven't gotten very far in, and I've gotta say that for all the hype I've completely lost interest in this game. The characters, the story, all are utterly uninteresting to me. Just regurgitated RPG plot x 100 that I've seen a thousand times before.
Usually either an RPG's story or characters will grab me and pull me into the game very early on. But not this time. I'm going to play this game for a couple more hours and hope that it gets a whole hell of a lot better, eitherwise it's back to the game store with it.
Usually either an RPG's story or characters will grab me and pull me into the game very early on. But not this time. I'm going to play this game for a couple more hours and hope that it gets a whole hell of a lot better, eitherwise it's back to the game store with it.
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General Discussion / Re: The $%*! frustration thread
« on: June 16, 2009, 05:49:19 pm »
Frustration: Cleaning. Specifically, cleaning my apartment. I hate it. I hate dusting, I hate vacuuming, I hate doing dishes. I mean, this is the 21st century, aren't we supposed to have robot slaves for that shit by now? The Jetsons ruined my childhood view of the future and got my expectations way too high I think.
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General Discussion / Re: Video Game Discussion Thread
« on: June 15, 2009, 02:09:55 pm »I am loving me some Mass Effect. I had never played it before... My goodness, I love it.
Glad to see more people are being converted. I'm not a fan of shooters...like at all, and so I was extremely skeptical at first. But they handled the RPG element of it perfectly. It just felt like a regular RPG where the fights were shooter style instead of swords/magic. Even with all the hype, I honestly half expected it to be a straight shoot-em-up game with a moderately interesting story. It was waaay better than I expected. And the emphasis on planetary exploration was so addictive and fun. Best RPG on the 360 and the best sci-fi RPG I've ever played, hands down.
I hope Mass Effect 2 doesn't disappoint.
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Site Updates / Re: Month That Could Have Been -- Chapter 7; Alpha Leakers Banned
« on: June 15, 2009, 01:41:22 am »
This one was claimed to be a "95% version", not 98 - which is why I mentioned it. I figured it may be a new leak or something.
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Site Updates / Re: Month That Could Have Been -- Chapter 7; Alpha Leakers Banned
« on: June 14, 2009, 08:35:03 pm »
So I stumbled across a download for what someone claims is a 95% complete version of CE beta. I'm assuming you guys already know about this and that it's bullshit anyways, right? Is this the one that is really the alpha that teaflower and co. leaked claiming was the beta?
Oh well, I guess there's no way to stop people from continually leaking it...
Oh well, I guess there's no way to stop people from continually leaking it...
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Time, Space, and Dimensions / Re: Theory on time, and my "big revelation".
« on: June 14, 2009, 08:23:28 pm »
Got it. The circle analogy was perfect. It's also interesting to me that in both yours and my more traditional example the End of Time is not reachable as a point on the timeline alone. In yours the distance to it is constantly halved ad infinitum, and in mine it exists as a parallel dimension of time.
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General Discussion / Re: The $%*! frustration thread
« on: June 12, 2009, 11:26:28 pm »
I'm sick. On my birthday. Fucking lame.
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Time, Space, and Dimensions / Re: Theory on time, and my "big revelation".
« on: June 12, 2009, 10:24:42 pm »
I understand what you are trying to explain with this model, but what is confusing to me is that time is represented two dimensionally here. There is an x-direction and a y-direction to time, with (presumably) the timeline and observers to the flow of time existing at all points on the line, right? Well, a 2-dimensional representation of time makes sense to me in the sense of Time Error - in that there is a perpendicular axis to the normal flow of time. A 3-dimensional representation of time even makes sense to me if The End of Time was along the z-axis, thus being both perpendicular to the timeline and to the Time Error axis. But a two-dimensional representation of time that is a spiral? That is just strange, and both dimensional aspects of it would have to be explained by you for your theory to make sense I think.
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General Discussion / Re: wii wired controllers
« on: June 11, 2009, 09:47:25 pm »Console companies are totally in cahoots with battery manufacturers...Wireless controllers have been around since even the 16-Bit era (maybe further back even) and they never took off. You know why? Because it's a frivolous, unnecessary expense...So they made 'em the system standard, of course! Lame. The more stuff they cram into controllers, the more that can possibly go wrong with them. Remember NES controllers? Those things were fucking BRICKS. You could literally use them in gladiator bouts against 20 odd men, come back, plug the fuckers in and they'd STILL work...Nowadays if you drop a controller from even waist height, you cringe (if it's a friend's you know you're getting the evil eye)...
I may be blowing things out of proportion...At least about the gladiator bouts anyways...>_>
Meh, I love my wireless 360 controller. Nothing beats the ultimate of laziness of lounging on my bed while playing XBOX and eating Pringles.
I also used to rave about the PS2 controller, as every other systems controller just didn't match up. But I've gotta say the 360 controller has really grown on me. Between the two, I'd say it feels more natural than the PS2's.