As for hacks, it's the mf boss running bots that really get me. Maphack not so much, as many games have this feature anyway, and I'm mixed whether blizzard should (get the wp map is revealed in every game), as after you learn the variations of the maps, and have played for years, gotten all the WPs, etc. it is a little tedious.
As I said earlier the largest determining factor outside our genetic makeup, which determines our personality, is our upbringing. Think of all the events that shape us throughout our childhood, when a person has nothing but bad experiences and abusive conditions of course they are not very likely to be good people.
On a grander scale morality is completely subjective to culture as well. There have been cultures of the past where bloodshed, rape, and many other things we would cringe at today were considered commonplace everyday activities. Growing up in this environment non of the enhabitants would view these activities as evil, they wouldn't know any better.
We all have different brain compositions (nature vs nurture) that make us think and react in different ways, just like every other animal species in existance, though to a lesser degree as most other animal species do not have the intelligence capacity to gather the consequences and benefits of their actions.
If you look at the prison population, it is largely african american. Yes, a small degree of this is the slight prejudice towards blacks in the legal system that I am ashamed to say that our society still holds, but mostly it is because a much greater percentage of african american children are growing up in horrible coniditons. No one can say they would not be doing the same things if they grew up in the same amazingly twisted abusive conditions that many criminals grow up in.
The thing I find funny about the contemporary Abrahamic faiths is their take on heaven/hell. Most denominations view you must accept their God or go to their hell. This is quite funny as religion is, and always has been, based on little more than culture. Around 75% of adults, wherever they reside in the world, will choose their adult religion based upon that of their parents, though many choose different denominations. So to get to heaven you have to be born in America or Europe to Christian parents (obviously not completely the case in their view, but a general sense of how amazingly twisted this view is in iteself.)
I am a weak agnostic atheist, meaning I will not claim that our knowledge presently disproves the possible exist of dieites. I do think however we have a clear picture of the evolution of religion, and that most organized religions if taken in anywhere near a literal realm have been proven false sometime ago. I realize that many denominations of many religions do not take a conservative view on their texts, but then again, when this is the case, as their are no pieces of information to run through the scientific process, a negative cannot be disproven, and both sides have to sit at a stand still.
As for myself, through my academic process, even if I was not to have come to the conclusion of so much information against the present monotheistic faiths, I'm not sure I could worship such a 'God' as the OT reprsents. Anyone who has truly studied the text knows that it is one of hte most twisted creations of the human mind.
I find eastern philosophy to have some beautiful aspects to it, and it is not a suprise to me that these polytheistic and pantheistic views have been relatively extremely peaceful when compared to the massive amount of chaos brought on by the followers of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
Everyone says they would want to die painlessly, I say you only get to die once right, might as well make it count. I think being crushd/steamrolled would be nifty, hopefully with many people around to see. The more gory the better, I want my death to haunt these people for some time
I remember one year, I think it was for WoW, but it might have been for DII, they made a fake patch list, that if true, would of totally screwed up the game.
This wasn't the site, it was at multiple places. This was just blizzard screwing around with people using the WoW engine. If they released World of Starcraft the graphics would look a lot better than that I assume. Blizzard does weird stuff on April 1 almost every year, and that was in 06.
What worries me is that quote from a Blizzard high up earlier in the year along the lines of, 'I can't wait to be here when we announce Diablo 3 in a few years, or whenever it is.'
Did that the other day as well. I think if you post a poll in the polls forums it has to be approved or something, mine never was, but maybe because I made a similar post.
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Floyd of course, as they did so much for expanding what musicians held as contemporary improvisation.
Alice in Chains
Zeppelin
Opeth
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On a grander scale morality is completely subjective to culture as well. There have been cultures of the past where bloodshed, rape, and many other things we would cringe at today were considered commonplace everyday activities. Growing up in this environment non of the enhabitants would view these activities as evil, they wouldn't know any better.
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If you look at the prison population, it is largely african american. Yes, a small degree of this is the slight prejudice towards blacks in the legal system that I am ashamed to say that our society still holds, but mostly it is because a much greater percentage of african american children are growing up in horrible coniditons. No one can say they would not be doing the same things if they grew up in the same amazingly twisted abusive conditions that many criminals grow up in.
The thing I find funny about the contemporary Abrahamic faiths is their take on heaven/hell. Most denominations view you must accept their God or go to their hell. This is quite funny as religion is, and always has been, based on little more than culture. Around 75% of adults, wherever they reside in the world, will choose their adult religion based upon that of their parents, though many choose different denominations. So to get to heaven you have to be born in America or Europe to Christian parents (obviously not completely the case in their view, but a general sense of how amazingly twisted this view is in iteself.)
I am a weak agnostic atheist, meaning I will not claim that our knowledge presently disproves the possible exist of dieites. I do think however we have a clear picture of the evolution of religion, and that most organized religions if taken in anywhere near a literal realm have been proven false sometime ago. I realize that many denominations of many religions do not take a conservative view on their texts, but then again, when this is the case, as their are no pieces of information to run through the scientific process, a negative cannot be disproven, and both sides have to sit at a stand still.
As for myself, through my academic process, even if I was not to have come to the conclusion of so much information against the present monotheistic faiths, I'm not sure I could worship such a 'God' as the OT reprsents. Anyone who has truly studied the text knows that it is one of hte most twisted creations of the human mind.
I find eastern philosophy to have some beautiful aspects to it, and it is not a suprise to me that these polytheistic and pantheistic views have been relatively extremely peaceful when compared to the massive amount of chaos brought on by the followers of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
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Not to Blizzard, they've done stuff like this since '99, or maybe even before. You people are taking it to seriously
Not saying a World of Diablo or Starcraft won't come out, Diablo being more likely, but this doesn't point to anything.
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Didn't sound very promising.
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