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[furrykef]

I've beaten Super C and I didn't spend countless hours playing it. Same with the original Contra, whose difficulty has been greatly exaggerated. I didn't need to even consider the Konami Code to beat it.

[TheRedStranger]

I've beaten Super C and I didn't spend countless hours playing it. Same with the original Contra, whose difficulty has been greatly exaggerated. I didn't need to even consider the Konami Code to beat it.

 

 

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[ZanetheWolf]

Exactly. It's not all that hard when you know what you're doing.

[ILOVEVHS]

Quick everyone - Name your favorite Strategy Game and say why you like it.

I love Pikmin for it's atmosphere and it's use of puzzles and multi-tasking.

[TheRedStranger]

 

Quick everyone - Name your favorite Strategy Game and say why you like it.

I love Pikmin for it's atmosphere and it's use of puzzles and multi-tasking.

 

 

Good show, ole boy! Anyone else?

[Reed Teran]

 

 

 

 

"So then you get the the argument, well, this is not a stimulus bill, this is a spending bill. Whad do you think a stimulus is? That's the whole point. No, seriously, that's the point." - Barrack Obama. 

 

Now you see the fatal error in his Keynesian thinking. Throwing money - our  tax money - you do not have at problem causes inflation, debt, and merely displaces existing money thus stealing jobs from the people like our serving vetrans (I know a Purple Heart Vetran who was just laid off for this reason), benifits for the disabled, benifits for hospice (the Affordable Healthcare act has slashed funding on Hospice already and that leeching is made worse by bad stimulus), and puts a horrid tax-strain on small and developing business. This is all an idiotic gamble merely creating jobs somewhere else, somewhere the goverment thinks is best (mostly the stiumlus money given to those who pay to keep them in power like from various groups spanning from Agribussinesses to GM) and to whomever best fits their ideals (542 Million of our tax dollars go to Planned Parenthood) rather than where the people desire and to bailout industries and to grease the palms of special interest groups that lobby for these policticians. Combine this with the insane regulations as of late, businesses must be selective over who they hire (causing youth unemployment to soar as these bussiness are uncertain how productive the indvidual will be they are hiring versus the cost of the benfits they must give them according to coercive laws like the Affordable Healthcare Act). So ultimately Keynesian spending, especially when  mixed with crazy regulations forced on the free-market by our current goverment, has hurt our nation's economy more than ever. We then must think on more than just what we have lost due to all these sloppy politcs but what we could have gained if the American people, the consenting governed, fought this corruption and economically shortsighted approach to benifiting the American people, in science, in education, in industry, and in overall progress. 

 

I'm not sure if Obama has heard - but us Americans are not fond of taxation without represenation." And by this we don't mean representation of the NRA, Planned Parenthood, or GM - we mean the people. The best way to get rid of this problem is to take the profit out of politics. I mean these guys get paid 175,000$ a year just to bicker at each other, not inculding the money they get under the table due Graft (Graft defined simply: - Congress proposes a bill to raise property value in a town. Congress then votes the bill as good.  Congressmen takes your tax money to fix up that slum. What happens behind the scenes: certain Congressmen bought the slum for cheap then used your tax money to rebuild those slums into expensive property and use your tax dollars as they rent or sell out for a huge profit). 

 

My views on the actions of this new president of ours and these politics in general can be summed up in one of my favorite quotes from my favorite games:

"Politics, how tiresome." -Prophet of Truth, 9th Age of Reclamation, Halo 2

After whining about his antics for so long and so much, I just gave up. No matter how much you express your opinions on the matter, he's the guy with the big boy pants and the choice to do what he wants, how he wants. If he was a bit more callous, he'd just run sweeps on people and criminize the nay-sayers just like his supporters did during his first election, because "anyone who doesn't vote for Obama is a racist".

No matter how much you satirize, criticize, and voice your concerns about him, nothing will change. He'll continue to do what he deems best in his opinion until he is elected out of office, just like every president before him.

 

 

Not true at all. Remember in 1816 the American people held a populist revolt after Congress decided to raise it's own pay. Congress was forever altered by the will of the people in one day and still today there has been no direct pay raise of the sort in Congress.  John Randolph of Roanoak, a Congressman of Virginia at the time, called the public's punch to goverment's face as: "the great Leviathan rousing into action." More than half of those in the The House of Represenatives complicit to the decision declined to campaign for another term and 15 of the 81 who gave consent to the raise in pay that did choose to campaing for reelection barely made it through. Even the famous Kentuckian Henry Clay got in barely after he promised to reverse the bill he voted for and forever fight such bills likend to it. We must then remember how this country was founded - grass roots revolt no reform from the English Court from the top.  

 

The more they "Criminalize" the more illgetimize themselves to the consenting governed. Look at the Edward Snowden controversy and Louis Lerner - Lerner is being held in contempt and the senate will change faces soon as the democratic super-majority is threatend by a conservative backlash. Obamacare is massive failure. His gun-control schemes have failed. Every "change" he has wished to make has been eroded at greatly one way or another, even with a Congress majority in his favor. If the people did not fight such...imagine how much worse this all would have been.

 

Also remember, again,  rule is based on the consent of the governed. If we do not consent and grass roots initiatives kow-tow to the above defeatist mentality then we then consent to injuistice and the abuse of power through our inactivity to fight it. And that's no good...

 

In the end Obama really hasn't got his way or brough the "hope" he thought best for America. He's just been another wrench in the wheel after the last inept administration. The private world moves on if not from a stumble. No regulation or red tape in the world can stop production and action truly wanted - people find ways to subvert if not subdue. The people though have the choice to give in and give up liberty to the special intrests of idealogues or think about what's good for the future of America.  

 

I think this puts it best.

 

And so you believe you'll be heard by declaring this on a forum based around a StH show that dear Barack probably has never even heard of? Try going to more politically active areas to voice yourself, so maybe the chaps in the modern-day SS that you call the FBI know where to point their weapons.

As for myself, I say that rambling and political activism solves none of the problems of the day. Through blood and iron, we could make these godforsaken suits pay the good way. Through rebellion and purgation, we shall cause the fools who have never even CONSIDERED using a firearm to cower in fear as the populace serves them their opinion on the latest laws and decisions at the end of a sword. Imagine...the whole of the common folk rising against the one percent, backing their ideals with ACTION!

But yet, the excuse of morality prevents these actions from coming to fruition, the concept of a man hurting another man is nowadays only for criminal intent. Morality has turned the brave idealist armed with his sword and opinion into a whining fool who changes nothing.

Your example was in the age of the 1800s. The age where there was more fire in the hearts of men, more bravado to use to rise against the monster of authority and order. Now, if we were to take arms as our ancestors did in that era, we would be murderers and traitors, and instantly arrested and executed or imprisoned for life.

This is why I scoff at these rallies, these "99%" fools and these Occupy imbeciles. There are only words. Only violent gestures. Only fools waving signs.

No fighters. No rebels. Only complainers and whiners, brandishing signs instead of weapons. Causing mild disturbances instead of active siege and rebellion against the wrongful authority.

 

We are lost in our own causes.

[Uncle Ben]

Can we just hit the reset button

[chief]

Boom!

[Uncle Ben]

OHH SHIT, CHIEF IS A POSSESSED GOAT!!!

[RedAuthar]

Quick everyone - Name your favorite Strategy Game and say why you like it.

Final Fantasy Tactics. First Strategy game I played that I couldn't cheat in to win anyways. I actually had to work at it and actually use strategy.

That and the story is pretty good. Like all FFs it makes little sense but still.

OHH SHIT, CHIEF IS A POSSESSED GOAT!!!

You say that like it is a new thing

[Uncle Ben]

 

OHH SHIT, CHIEF IS A POSSESSED GOAT!!!

You say that like it is a new thing

 

 

I thought he was a possessed beaver....

Also, watch and experience the glory of URF mode in League

 

[TheRedStranger]

And so you believe you'll be heard by declaring this on a forum based around a StH show that dear Barack probably has never even heard of? [One, the issues I have discussed  not merely focused on one man but, as a populace, our poltical unawarness and economic ignorance. Even if it did, remember Clinton and Nixon were pushed away from office by being caught in scandle against the wishes of the people - your arguments really don't hold water in lieu of Watergate.  Also note that awarness is the first key to any proaction, and if you talk anywhere you will be heard, that's why they are called forums - you continuing the conversation actually undermines your own claim. It is not about the where but the whos. If one person listens and learns there is great potential for grass roots change via a domino effect as they become more politically aware and more attention is brought to the issues by muliple sub-cultures like our own which can give their own unique insighs and thus ideas for action and motivations for action. Remember in history some of the greatest change to human history came in place as mundane as the White Horse Inn (Reformation) to Facebook (Arab Sping). Where people speak, whereever that place is or what is was intended for, there is potential to be heard. This argument also demeans the people being spoken on this forum as politically irrelvant merely due to their common intrest. We must also note as well not that is the general discussion are of the board.] 

 

Try going to more politically active areas to voice yourself, so maybe the chaps in the modern-day SS that you call the FBI know where to point their weapons. [A place does not have to be poltically active to bring education to the users of forum. Right...you are making a lot of naked alarmist assertions there. Look, in the modern world where information spreads like wildfire and people get caught easily tageting people such as myself (like the aformentioned case with the IRS).]

 

As for myself, I say that rambling and political activism solves none of the problems of the day. [Actually lobbying and activism has historically caused massive change of many types both liberal and conservative, good and questionable: for example in West Viginia in the early 20th century it lead to developing unions for Coal Miners, the NRA, the writers of The Rag inciting Roe v. Wade, the Scopes Trial, the Dread Scot case, people in private business like Hershey help creating modern USDA food regulations, Knetucky's Michelle P Waver Progam (which I helped advocate for as part of the A.I.A for the disabled) and then there is the Civil Rights movement. and then again there is the independance of India a whole nation...]

 

["] Through blood and iron, we could make these godforsaken suits pay the good way. [" - Maximilien Robespierre, during the Reign of Terror. XD] Through rebellion and purgation, we shall cause the fools who have never even CONSIDERED using a firearm to cower in fear as the populace serves them their opinion on the latest laws and decisions at the end of a sword. Imagine...the whole of the common folk rising against the one percent, backing their ideals with ACTION! [Action with not informed motivation is stragey for mindless destruction, self-liquidation, and failure as history proves. I'm not against informed action back by definte reasons but only when that action is made necessary by another's violence or threat to acting parties livelyhood. But much of the issues above can be fixed through Consumer Soverignty and rational voting of the populace. Your vehemence indeed reminds me a lot of those of French Revolution, whose revolution lead to more injuistice and paved the way for more injustice and despotism and then more i. Any action without a knowledge of the issues will end in ruin - you might as well be occuyping Wal-Street again. Violence beyond necessity and not backed up with sane moral grounding merely problems a solve, it does not solve any problems. History has proven such with the Khmer Rougue, Stalin's 5 year plans, and Hitler's expasionism for liebschriend.]

 

 

But yet, the excuse of morality prevents these actions from coming to fruition, the concept of a man hurting another man is nowadays only for criminal intent. Morality has turned the brave idealist [a broad and empty term - what ideal? You just refuted yourself yet again, you have admit you must have an ideal to lead action, as action is defined by motivation which defined by belief on what actions to take which is very definition of morality] armed with his sword and opinion into a whining fool who changes nothing. [You have refuted yourself - this is a moral claim about morality and thus it is a moralization. XD] And again when compared to history your claims are wanting and they also assume that all Morality somehow always leads to inaction, which is confuted by these various examples in history.] 

 

Your example was in the age of the 1800s. The age where there was more fire in the hearts of men, more bravado to use to rise against the monster of authority and order. Now, if we were to take arms as our ancestors did in that era, we would be murderers and traitors, and instantly arrested and executed or imprisoned for life. [That is the fallacy of Hasty Generalization. You can't judge the mettle of over 300 million and what stakes they would take to reform their goverment when pressured. Even as water eats through stone so could one aware group eat through poltical corruption. If anything we would have more that would bolt to action, and even with this said it proves it's the knowledge of a corruption leads  to action against the corruption.]

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This is why I scoff at these rallies, these "99%" fools and these Occupy imbeciles. [I scoff as well. I thought Occupy was a joke! For one exsisting in one spot as dirty hippy is not being active...it's being, well, inactive. XD  But remember what I said above. I say we should do more than stand there, but you seem to be of postion to merely promote arbitrary violence as if it will magically solve problems. Revolution is not blind massacre.] There are only words. [As of now aren't your words only words as well?]  Only violent gestures. [Aren't your words now only violent gestures?] Only fools waving signs.

No fighters. No rebels. Only complainers and whiners, brandishing signs instead of weapons. Causing mild disturbances instead of active siege and rebellion against the wrongful authority. [Again you ignore what has been done to lessen and subvert the problems at hand. For example during the goverment shut down a handful of the GOP elected were able to save us from goofy expenditrues of billions of dollars on places such as the Smithsonian and welfare subsidies for digital-tv anttenas and ever since the Afforable Health Care Act came about it has been whittled away by both state and federal powers alike.]

 

We are lost in our own causes. [No...we have lost our causes. A cause is the instigator of effect, that effect is action.]

 

If you wish to continue this do so in PM, Reed. Me and Ben were talking to each other, we were not looking for debate - that is for debate section of the forum. In the end your ironic activism against activism for somehow violent inactivism won't stop us from talking about general things such as this on the general forum.

[Reed Teran]

Right then...The Inquisition fights elsewhere then.

NOBODY EXPECTS THE DEBATE INQUISITION

[Uncle Ben]

So the Pentagon has a whole detailed plan to deal with the Zombie Apocalypse. And its rather hilarious

 

http://i2.cdn.turner...alypse.plan.pdf

[TheRedStranger]

So the Pentagon has a whole detailed plan to deal with the Zombie Apocalypse. And its rather hilarious

 

http://i2.cdn.turner...alypse.plan.pdf

 

They made a fatal error! Check out "Vegitarian Zombies" and the erroenus example given. For shame!

 

Seriously though...is this really a thing? Did my tax-dollar pay for someone to doodle this out.

 

Page 26 actually has intresting information that would be indeed be revelvant during a pandemic however.

[furrykef]

Quick everyone - Name your favorite Strategy Game and say why you like it.

Age of Mythology, because I have a soft spot for the classical era, and because it offers quite a lot of variety but with a much nicer learning curve than Starcraft 2.

[TheRedStranger]

 

Quick everyone - Name your favorite Strategy Game and say why you like it.

Age of Mythology, because I have a soft spot for the classical era, and because it offers quite a lot of variety but with a much nicer learning curve than Starcraft 2.

 

 

I do as well.

 

It sounds like a worthy buy then.

[Uncle Ben]

 

So the Pentagon has a whole detailed plan to deal with the Zombie Apocalypse. And its rather hilarious

 

http://i2.cdn.turner...alypse.plan.pdf

 

They made a fatal error! Check out "Vegitarian Zombies" and the erroenus example given. For shame!

 

Seriously though...is this really a thing? Did my tax-dollar pay for someone to doodle this out.

 

Page 26 actually has intresting information that would be indeed be revelvant during a pandemic however.

 

 

I think its real but a joke at the same time

[TheRedStranger]

 

 

So the Pentagon has a whole detailed plan to deal with the Zombie Apocalypse. And its rather hilarious

 

http://i2.cdn.turner...alypse.plan.pdf

 

They made a fatal error! Check out "Vegitarian Zombies" and the erroenus example given. For shame!

 

Seriously though...is this really a thing? Did my tax-dollar pay for someone to doodle this out.

 

Page 26 actually has intresting information that would be indeed be revelvant during a pandemic however.

 

 

I think its real but a joke at the same time

 

 

 Now I know the CDC has used the pop-sensation to spring board disease awarness and many groups have used the fiction to make disater-preparedness education engaging. After all if you can survive the zombie apocalpse, you can survive anything.

[Uncle Ben]

I think they were just having fun with it