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[MaximumZero]

Severe concussions are kind of like happiness, in that you can't help but feel like drooling a little when you have them.

[Neonivek]

I guess. I cannot fathom how my computer can't run it at normal speed. This computer can play Empire: Total War at normal fucking speed. Baldur's Gate is not that graphics intensive. I guess it's my screen resolution or something. Combat is simply impossible when you have to reselect your character, click your move and hope he does it X5 tries.

Got Baldur's Gate on Steam. Fuck yes.
It runs unbearably slow.
The universe giveth, and taketh. Usually it taketh and then kicketh in a very sensitive region at about the same time. Goddamn. Why can't I just have something that makes me happy? Is that really so fucking difficult?

Huh. You'd think an older game like that would run fairly well.

My point exactly. My computer isn't top-of-the-line badass, but it runs newer games quite well.

Actually Baldur's gate on Steam isn't the old one, it is the new remake.

It runs slow because the people who made it made it BADLY... also it isn't running slow it is just slow in general.

[Euld]

Sounds like they didn't know how to optimize anything?  Mmph :/  That's pretty sad, and tragic...

[FearfulJesuit]

Well, this has probably been going on for a hell of a long time. Found out about it from my mother, who assumed I knew. She was telling me that all of the extra money he had he was hiding around the house, and I shit you not one time she found a roll of thousand dollar bills hidden in one of the vases. What pissed me off the most though, is that throughout most of my childhood my dad basically always tried to convince my family and everyone else that he was poor. When in reality he kept all of this money for himself.

I'm not going to turn him in or anything, this just puts the final nail in the coffin towards the alienation between us that's been happening ever since I was a teenager.

...Where on earth did he get thousand dollar bills? Haven't they been out of commission for the better part of a century, or something?

[ChairmanPoo]

Well, just found out today that my dad committed a hell of a lot of tax fraud and tax evasion when I was little, and probably is still doing it today. I always wondered how we had so much money when I was young, kind of weird I didn't suspect that my dad wasn't doing anything shady before. Guess I'm just pretty disappointed and sad that a guy I had a great opinion on turns out to be a greedy asshole.

Probably not smart to post this on a public forum. Or anywhere, really.

[10ebbor10]

Stumbled upon the Atheist Apocalypse comic again, good read, great idea, hope to see it become reality

Spoiler: Really TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL!!! (click to show/hide)

It worries me that this kind of stuff turns up more and more. It's just mindless misguided idealism for now, but a dissillusioned idealist is a dangerous thing.

[Euld]

Mindless misguided idealism? o_O  What do you mean?  No really I'm curious.

[kaijyuu]

Idealist here, also confused.

Also comic had way too much text. Preachy at that, too.

[Loud Whispers]

Mindless misguided idealism? o_O  What do you mean?  No really I'm curious.

Good intentions, bad actions? It is quite common.

[Neonivek]

It is sad that the Atheist Doomsday will likely actually be a doomsday, though not in the way you would expect.

With science comes the use of knowledge against wisdom or against the common good
With Progress comes the progress of some but not others as well as the progress in place of positive progress
With Reason comes the pride of knowing and ignorance in other clothing
With Equality comes misunderstanding where equality is confused for a substituted equality

Mind you, that is just one way.

We have yet to hit the "Corporate Crisis" juuuust yet. Though we are getting there.

[Euld]

So your concerns can be pretty much summed up as... "corruption and hypocrisy will probably screw it up."  I'd say that's a pretty reasonable concern.  Happens with every movement I suppose.  But I wouldn't say that just because this is an Atheist Doomsday doesn't mean corruption and hypocrisy will happen 100%.  If corruption and hypocrisy screwed it up, then that would kind of defeat the purpose of an Atheist Doomsday to begin with.  The vibe I get from this comic is this would be a sudden (or maybe a decades or generations long) process where greed, hate, racism, and all those human vices that result in corruption and hypocrisy would be slowly gleaned out of humanity.  Then we as human beings can stop hurting each other and stealing from each other and realize there's productive, helpful things we could be doing instead.

Hm, so to sum it all up, I see your concern and acknowledge how problematic it would be, but I disagree with the notion that actively trying to advance Science, Progress, Reason, and Equality will automatically result the opposite, or worse problems.

[Neonivek]

Actually to me what the comic is actually about is how specific people are highly exaggerating the evils of science, reason, progress, and equality and treating it like an evil and a sign of the Apocalypse.

This comic is basically getting "take that" and saying that "if this is the end of the world, then this is the end that I'd be all for".

I am just saying that... unfortunately joke aside... I could imagine an end of the world being spearheaded by those exact four tenants making the comic a LOT less funny (ESPECIALLY the Horseman of Progress...)

[Descan]

Pretty much all the problems with it that people (not necesarilly those of this board) tend to have is that they're on this idea that any progress/science/reason/equality will obviously also tack on deception and the violation of consent (at least, more violation and deception than occurs already. It's a violation of consent to prevent you from discriminating based on race/sex/orientation/whatever, but that discrimination is a violation in and of itself, and one trumps the other.) :I

[Dutchling]

Send email to student help desk: "I need this and that before the 23rd"
Got a response: "You email will be answered on the 24th"

:c

edit: Descan, every time I see your avatar, I think it's Kai's gf.

[Descan]

MAYBE I AM KAI'S GF.