[Which is scariest?]

There are a million things to scare us. Out of these 5, which would scare you the most?

[What's the difference between mage, sage, wizard, sorcery, types of magic]

2 hours ago, The Blackangel said:

Often the title of the magic user is a clue to whether they're good or evil. A wizard is usually more toward the good side, while a sorcerer is usually termed so because it's more of an evil magic user.

How come I never come across a female wizard? They are always a sorceress or a sage. So there are female wizards too right? 

[Ariana Grande or Selena Gomez?]

Selena tries too hard to be something she isn't. Just doesn't seem natural. Ariana seems a bit immature for her age. I saw her perform during a modeling runway and she kept getting in the way of the models and distracting them as if the show was for her only. 

[What's the difference between mage, sage, wizard, sorcery, types of magic]

I keep getting confused. What are the differences in a mage, sage, wizard, sorcery, priest, and any other magic users? What are the different types of magic? Is it just arcane and divine? 

[How fast you think storage will be eaten up by new gen consoles?]

It's marketing. Start small, then offer more later for people that want to sell their current used model and buy the new one. In a way, it motivates you to finish games faster to make space so you can buy even more games. Plus the new models go through an experimental stage, work out the bugs, then come out with a newer series with more gb. Or simply offer large tb from the start at a more expensive price. If someone is looking to buy the system and sees the price for the higher gb, they can get turned away from buying any new system. Start small, get more sales. Offer more later, get even more sales. Add extensions onto games for even more game sales. Try this organic jar of pickles. Now come back for the bigger jar with garlic. You like that? Now try it with less salt. Throw some pepper in the next one. 

[Would you want to rule benevolently or malevolently?]

8 hours ago, Jakeyjake said:

I don't agree with your statement that you can't just choose what you want to sympathize with.  I don't think I would sympathize with someone who would hit a dog, for example.

But what if that dog was the size of little people or size of a bug you don't mind crushing? Would you still have sympathy for that dog?

Humans have the ability to be rational and look at a situation and separate the offender and the abused. Who had more suffering? The person hitting the dog, or the dog getting hit? And for this instance let's say the dog did not bite anyone. So of course no rational being would sympathize with the person hitting the dog.

If the dog bit the person, then you could sympathize with the person. But if the dog was the size of a puppy, or even a puppy itself, and bit the person, would it still be ok to hit the dog risking serious damage? We have the ability to make a rational decision and not react in quick anger to seriously injure the small dog.

Not being able to sympathize to all that suffer, after rationalizing the situation; or having sympathy for an offender without rationalization makes you complicit in the support of abusive behavior. And not being able to sympathize with those you hurt makes you the abuser.

[Would you want to rule benevolently or malevolently?]

I thought about the same thing, that if I left them be then they would fight each other or consider me a threat and go after me. To move first and force them into submission is the basic core of fear that is an animalistic instinct. You allow yourself to be a devolved humanistic species that lives in fear and reacts on the fight or flight response without the ability to rationally contemplate things, control their own reaction, or to fully feel sympathetic. A human with a higher intelligence is capable of having sympathy for all. You can't just choose what you want to sympathize with.

To look down on or underestimate any intelligent species will always result in conflict. And conflict never truly has winners. Either side will always look for opportunities to strike until compromise is made. And even if you try to subvert them without use of destruction, then there is always a high chance of retaliation. Retaliation sees no rules and it means payback will be a bitch if they ever get the chance in any way or form. Becoming the offender that you fear others will become is tribal. Humans have the ability to perceive a threat, and make decisions after looking at all options. To inhibit that ability and let fear take over, makes your consciousness devolve into a species always reacting and not thinking.

Being a giant and much more powerful gives you the right to feel secure and to trust in the smaller people. Fearing that civilizations can't survive without your intervention or to conquer them before they get you is classic authoritarianism. If they attack you, then you can obviously defend yourself. You would have the right to cripple them till they surrender. Then negotiate your future co-inhabiting the land. And I would think the little people wouldn’t have reason to attack you, or feel justified to attack if you hadn’t done anything wrong. If you made it clear you were there to help and gain their respect, they wouldn’t have reason to perceive you a threat.

Don’t mean to take all the fun out of imagining yourself as a God or the all and powerful. But to be powerful, does that mean you have to conquer or force into submission? You can rule by leading a productive society. They can build you a giant tv if you help carry supplies from a mountain so they can build cities.

When it comes to food, and the little people are preparing it for you out of forced labor, then they can easily discover poison too and put that in your food to liberate themselves. There is always opportunity for liberation when dominated.

[Are games ever going to be so photorealistic they're confused with real life?]

47 minutes ago, Shagger said:

Video games have a control choice and player input element that other entertainment media's lack, but even so nobody sane would confuse real life with something they see through a screen and sense, as well as interact with, through a control interface. Movies and TV shows have been photorealistic for decades because they are literally filmed, and have not had that effect. The concerns you express are exactly what and certain groups and governments want you to believe, so they can keep using entertainment media as a scapegoat. With all due respect, it's ridiculous to believe that games, no matter how real they look, have that much power to influence.

That's a pretty good point with movies being photorealistic. Old Joe way out in no man's land surrounded by flat Earthers might see a youtube clip of aliens attacking the WH from a spaceship and think it's real. Or pop some shrooms and get into a top notch virtual reality of pirates floating down Hoover Dam going to rob Vegas town. And it will be copyrighted so crazy papa can't glue scenes into a campaign commercial showing mobsters and monsters trying to hop the WH fence. But, in kookoo land everything is possible. 

My cat thinks that other cats in games are real. If you can fool a cat, you can fool 95% of humans, especially the American ones. Hmmm, tonight should I go to Greece or Egypt? Forget about that plane ticket and the hotels, tourist traps; Im gonna pop in some Odyssey. Then check out Afghanistan in MGS. 

[Upcoming Apocalypse Games]

I personally loved Dying Light. And part 2 is something I am really looking forward to more than any other game coming out. I hope it is for ps4 and ps5. The new Horizon has got to be a must for me. I didn't know there was a sequel in the making. I need to finish up Horizon Zero Dawn. 

[Would you want to rule benevolently or malevolently?]

Well, you made clear your intentions that you would want to dominate them. You should answer your own question. I've made my answer clear already. To extend on humanity, would you feel you lost humanity? What is your interpretation on humanity? I have a post where I think humans are parasites. But that is simply a truth of devouring resources of the environment we live in and destroy it. That's on a mass scale. 

Individuals are different. Strains are different. You have enough consciousness to know right from wrong. To feel sympathetic. If you lack that basic core of humanity to sympathize, then you become the parasitic strain. It is the devolved species of humanity that can't sympathize. It becomes animalistic, to kill, to dominate, to urinate around your territory. Higher intelligence makes all life valuable. And by intelligence, I mean the consciousness to know right from wrong. 

[What are you listening to right now?]

 

[Share your stories of self-isolation]

If you get a flu shot and develop bumps or skin rash, then get to a hospital. You can have cardiovascular arrest over night. The bumps are swollen lymph nodes. Older especially needs to watch out. If that happens, it means you have been previously exposed to Covid. We all know trump is a complete failure in this. And many of you are in the UK. I see Borris as being just an idiot as trump. Same rhetoric. Wise up all across the board. Protect each other against both Covid virus and Nazi virus. Stand together and don't get pushed around by authoritarians. 

[Michigan governor kidnap plot]

The FBI stopped a group of men from militias that plotted to kidnap the governor of Michigan in USA. This is a week after trump couldn't condemn white supremacy. For those that think I talk too much politics, well you must be clueless to what is going on in the USA. You thought I was paranoid. Well now I can say you better wake the fuck up. This isn't an isolated incident. These Nazis are spreading even to your countries. I'm glad you have shown a bit of toleration towards me. But now you better start fucking listening. 

[Upcoming Apocalypse Games]

I've got apocalypse fever. My head hurts. Woke up today feeling dizzy. When I went to get something to eat, I just stood there looking inside my fridge and I threw up. I found myself walking around outside and couldn't remember what happened. I started walking and people were running from me. I noticed there was goo all over me. It was pieces of flesh and matted hair. Blood was all over me. I saw a body down the street torn to pieces. I realize then, I've become a monster. All I want is brains. Damn human skin is stuck between my teeth. It's salty like a pig. 

[Too many remasters and too little new IPs]

11 minutes ago, The Blackangel said:

How I long for the NES & SNES days.

Nukes? no. Space shuttles? no. Automobile? no. Human's greatest achievement was the NES. Even aliens marvel at it as on of their world wonders. 

[Upcoming Apocalypse Games]

 

[So apparently Days gone is not that good.]

Not so bad a game. It's a zombie apocalypse in the forest. Graphics are good. Story is average. Sucks having to keep looking for gas for the bike. Maybe the expectations were too high. I played the game with low expectations and was surprised how easily I got into it. At first I thought it was going to be the racist biker take on the apocalypse, but not the case. It's got some pretty good  little towns, outposts, and quarantine zones all destroyed and sprinkled throughout the map. Pretty eerie. I don't know why it had such bad reviews. 

[Portrayals of war in video games]

The worse part of war is becoming a POW. I don't know of any battles or war in a game that emphasizes torture. So we can throw images around and blow things up. Swing swords or have battle simulations. But it's all impersonal. Best portrayal of war would be the torture involved. You can have 100 tanks rolling and shooting. But it will never say more than lining people up and hacking at them. Whatever war befalls in the near future, you can guarantee Nazis will be involved. Don't get taken alive!!!

[Too many remasters and too little new IPs]

1 hour ago, Shagger said:

The gaming industry struggles because whilst digital distribution is very popular and very accessible in times like this, even in the best circumstances developers simply can't capitalize on temporary, sudden evens quickly enough. Games just take too long to make. The new consoles have managed to remain on schedule, but not with struggle and not without cost.

We should be expecting hell of a lot from the gaming industry next year and years to come since the new systems are coming out and more people at home. Makes me excited for this new wave. That's if they don't stay stuck in remastering everything when the world needs them to make something new!!!

[Too many remasters and too little new IPs]

It's also to get people into the newer systems. But they should have made games compatible like they are doing for ps4 to ps5. But that usually is a trend when there is lack of new creativity or resources. The movie industry has been like that for a while. It's been changing though. Once everything is remastered or remade, they will be forced into their creativity again. It's a cycle. You would think out of any entertainment industry the gaming industry would be thriving due to the pandemic. They haven't pounced on the opportunity. Except for the new systems coming out. 

[What are your favorite music genres?]

Guess I was a bit rude on that one. All ages have talent. Just not the soul that I prefer to listen to. 

[The Walking Dead]

4 hours ago, ARx182 said:

I'm a massive fan of The Walking Dead (TWD) TV series so I bought the first TWD game and it's amazing. I'm going to buy the second game in the series some time this week, hopefully it's as good as the first one. It's also great how cheap they are. Less than £2 for a game is too good to turn down, but in fairness, it is quite short so that makes sense.

Yes, the second one is pretty good too. You should play all 4. Definitely a memorable series. 

[What are your favorite music genres?]

43 minutes ago, The Blackangel said:

I grew up on 80's rock, and still love it to this day. I'll never quit listening to it. Everyone knows music attained perfection in 1986. It's a scientific fact.

Me too. I think why the 80's was so good was because so many of the artists were adults when they made music. Today, these punks come out with music before their balls dropped or had their first period. Makes a difference in the soul of music. And back then talent was harvested. Today, talent is getting a good record label push junk. In the 80's, technology in music was booming, mixed with freedom of expression. Today, it's repetitive with peer pressured freedom of expression to fit in. Some are unique of course. But to tailor to the masses instead of the music itself, has made all modern music fall off planet Earth leaving 80's the stand alone best talent. 

[Last Game Played]

Resident Evil 7

[Favorite and Least Favorite Board Game]

I love board games! One on one I have to say Chess. More players, I would say Life and Risk. I bought a 4 player chess set for my sister a while back, but never played it. Have to try it one day. I also have Risk on my PS2. I don't really have a least favorite.