TimTheEnchanter

JayboH.

You're so skeptical, you wouldn't know a Sasquatch if it violated your hind end.

Yay?

And if half of this is you assuming that Mercedes didn't actually say it, she did.

And how do you define 'adding' to a society? So vegging out playing CoH is somehow worse than vegging out watching Jersey Shore?

Traditional artists don't make money?

Sales seem to imply otherwise though. 'Linear' MMO's that tell you everything you're supposed to do have always fared better than sandbox ones that tell you to do whatever it is you want to do. The only exception to that is perhaps Second Life, but I can't even really classify that as a game. It's more like a vision of what we all thought the internet of the future would be back in the 90's. AND it was F2P when F2P was unheard of.

The store has been very finicky since this weekend. You have to refresh it 10 times or so before it loads properly.

And I got the same ticket response you did. Just haven't been in to check yet.

Heh. ERP must've became the shining standard.

Now there's something I think we can ALL agree is a religion 8)

...yet.

That doesn't work around here. There's a task force running around these forums, hunting down all forms of faith because they feel it is their moral obligation to destroy them.

God has very little to do with religion. The possibility that the universe was birthed through sentient means is an idea. Assuming no Earthly religion has all the answers, religion is merely the tool created to take the idea of a god and use it to control the masses.

Just speculating on where atheism is headed based on the scale of atheist zealotry and arrogance in this thread. Mind you it's probably not a reflection on all atheists. But then, no religion ever got judged by its regular followers. Only by its extremists and crusaders. Atheism will be judged by the world no differently. And since both are advocated for by humans, despite Atheism claiming that removing god will somehow bring world peace, I see no reason to think a world of Atheists will be any less bloody. People will kill each other for any reason under the sun.

Alright, we'll do that. *waits 3 months* WHAT information?


Ironically, that it changed to an asking price contradicts the purpose of propaganda.

As an asking price it is actually less villifying. Turning down an 80mil offer implies the asking price is even higher.

I think you miss the point a little. Disney is the type of company who will march into a kindergarten class with an army of litigators and force a classroom to remove a Mickey from the wall that someone drew there.

In contrast, George Lucas only had one rule when it came to fan creations: don't sell it. Everything else was acceptable. He gave us free access to play in his galactic sandbox as long as we don't profit from it. There's even a Lucas-endorsed contest for Star Wars fan-films that has been running for a number of years.

Disney could easily kill all of this, unless George managed to get a clause into the contract about it, or otherwise convinces Disney that being so aggressive with legality is completely unnecessary. Highly unlikely though. Disney reached Paranoid Pictures status when they registered "Snow White" as a trademark. It's still pending I believe, but if it's granted, that will create an unbelievable shockwave of legal issues. Done with the disguise of not wanting anyone to make naughty parodies of the character, granting of the trademark will have essentially enabled Disney to steal a public domain property, because the name "Snow White" not only covers their adaptation, but ALL uses of the name, including the original fairytale.

And atheists wonder why so many view them as arrogant bullies. They never seem to pay attention to their use of words, even the celebrities.

And this isn't a specific response to what you said or an attempt to keep you fighting a stalemate. Just an observation of a lot of the anti-religious talk here. Quoted for example, rather than as a reply.

So NOW Plan Z is a Nemesis plot to lead on and exploit people?

I fully agree with that assessment. Based on when you chimed in though, I'm putting this disclaimer out there now about my spiritual discussions in this thread: I have not been advocating for the possibility of any specific god, just the possibility of a god at all.

You mean all I need to do to prove to myself there's no god is to point a surveillance camera at my fireplace on Christmas Eve?

Why didn't I think of that?!

Oh, wait. That might just mean I'm naughty instead of nice. Nevermind.

That is relative to what was the accepted reality at the time in which deviation of thought occurred. Atheism is currently the deviation, so if anything, disbelief requires more faith. Certainly not as hard as what the pioneers of the movement went through, but it's still an uphill battle.

The only way one could not believe in a god without faith, is if they were somehow able to grow up in a society where the idea of gods was never presented to them. For better or worse, we do not live in such a society.

I have absolutely no clue what god it is, and I do not claim to.

It may be the spaghetti monster. And if the behavior of some individuals in this thread is any indication, give the zealotry snowball another 50 years to roll, and the flying spaghetti monster will be passing the Petri Dish around for Tithe offerings, and followers of the old gods will be getting burned at the stake for defying the teachings of Darwin the Prophet.

(considering that each of those numbers is for a completely different theory with different mechanics, I saw no point in making a tldr; post to differentiate between them, since it's completely unnecessary for the point I was making. I only used it to exemplifying how little of our world we actually know. Perhaps I should've just used string theory as an example. Science says it may be possible, but due to its nature, there likely will be no way of ever testing its validity)

Assuming there's no god requires just as much blind faith as assuming there is one.

No advertising = no sales.

Different scientific theories suggest that there may be 5, 10, 26, or even more dimensions in the universe... or should it be referred to as a multi-verse? As humans we can perceive only 3 of those dimensions, but it is already a "fact" that there is no god existing in any of them. Amazing, isn't it?

Yes, that is a bit unusual.

It also reminds me of the response one reporter got from NCsoft West, saying something like, "We are declining to comment because the questions are about City of Heroes."

It's like orders were given across the board for absolutely everyone to remain silent about the game.

It only explains that one person used a poor medium of communication to try and get an answer.

It does nothing to explain why people are now assuming this one failure to get a response is the only reason anyone has been saying that NCsoft has been ignoring offers.

AC/DC would be impressed.

That doesn't explain it.