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  1. 3 hours ago, Reality vs Adventure said:

    The way I see it, humans have a responsibility to protect the environment they live in or do what they can to protect Earth and all life in it. Think about your house, or living area; You keep it clean right? You have sanitation to get rid of waste; you protect it; you want it to be comfortable; you have food to eat and clean water. You wouldn't just stand by and let some vandals spray paint it, break down the walls, and leave toxic sludge where you sleep; right? Now go outside, and look around you. That is also your home. Protect it. 

    Hahaha... Don't take this the wrong way, but this makes me think of George Carlin's talk about "saving the planet."  He makes fun of the whole concept, but in a way is similar to what you're saying; he says that people don't really care about the planet itself but rather just having a "nice, clean place to live."

  2. I would absolutely want to.  I would hope it would eliminate some anxiety about my fear of death, and then I could plan my life around that information; If you know how long you're going to live, it's much easier to make realistic plans about what you would and would not like to do in your life and prioritize properly.  Also, when the time gets close you can do things you probably wouldn't normally want to, like shoot up some heroin or something, because you don't have to worry about long term consequences.

  3. I can and do beat any video game that I play (and like enough) through obsessive persistence, with a few exceptions (so far):  Though I tried EXTREMELY hard, I haven't yet been able to beat Gradius 3 (PS2 version), and...

     

     

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    Rodin from Bayonetta 2

     

     

     

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    It's been at least a few years since I tried either of these, but they are a couple of life goals for me (along with Gradius 4 and 5, which I haven't really tried yet).

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  4. On 7/18/2021 at 1:49 PM, StaceyPowers said:

    @Steerminator Out of curiosity, does your friend also react this way to people when she is frustrated with them? I.e. they go from being okay in her eyes one second to being totally wrong and awful the next?

    Uhhh, I'm not really sure I'd categorize her precisely that way.  That just sounds like a whole lot of dumb people in general to me.

     

  5. Welll I don't really know.  I've been playing video games since I was 5 years old, and I've been obsessed ever since.  I'm the exact opposite of competitive, I play for my own enjoyment.  But playing games always makes me feel good, and I know that, to me, video games are an extremely important part of my life.  There's really not anything else I'd want to do more.  So, yeah, I would say playing games and thinking about all the games I have played (and games I'm looking forward to playing in the future) makes me feel very good about myself.

  6. 9 hours ago, Empire said:

    You are starting whit a wrong premise. You are not seeking an absolute answer, you are trying to absorb and understand more than your point of view, changing your own idea (maybe) in the process. I like to think philosophy it's like evolution, always changing with time and it's the process of studying it that enlight you, not read an answer from other people.

    I mean look at the definition:  "the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence." No one is ever going to know everything about life, because there are an infinite number of things to learn.  But the more you learn, or come to understand, about the world in a philosophical sense, the better off you're likely to be.

  7. Not necessarily.  I'm a really big fan of roleplaying in games, so If a game has many different paths that you can take depending on your choices, and also depending on the complexity of the system, I will often play through a game multiple times trying to roleplay as a different kind of person.  Like, once be a pure hero, another time be a pure villain, other times be more neutral, and variations of those.

  8. You ever hear the expression time is money?  😄  You definitely want some of both, but none of neither.  You can't really do anything without free time, but you need money if you want, like, you own place to live and various other comforts.  It goes without saying that the amount of money you need increases vastly the more people you want to support.

  9. I like the idea of a big party, but small gatherings seem to be a lot better the vast majority of the time.  For me big parties inevitably end up with long periods of time standing around not knowing what to do, and also a bunch of awkward conversations with small groups of people that I don't know.

  10. I think a lot of old arcade games were made without "being beaten" in mind (Do they even make arcade games anymore?  I have no idea).  Of course this makes sense, because those old ones like Galaga and Pac Man are very simplistic, and progression was, I think, typically measured more by one's score than how "far" they got.

    I remember my friend a long time ago telling me a story about how when they made the original version of Pac Man, the way it was programmed didn't allow for a person to get past the 255ish level, but they didn't give any thought to this because they figured no one would ever get that far (of course someone eventually did).

  11. On 3/24/2021 at 3:22 AM, skyfire said:

    Indeed a lot of platformers are so easy including mario which does not add much challenge but some are so hard that even small move change and you end up restarting. 

    This.  Like, so many action/adventure type games from the NES and SNES/Genesis era are very challenging.  The original Super Mario Bros. is pretty difficult if you try to beat it without warping straight to world 8.  A few others that come to mind are Ninja Gaiden, Zelda 2, Ninja Turtles, most of the old Castlevanias and Mega Mans, Contra 3....

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