Society is so very quick to claim inherent prejudice because of past injustices, but everyone has abused everyone over history. Most races have been enslaved at one point or another by their own or invaders, but isn't it grand that such a system that had existed for so many millennia is finally gone from most of the world? Most races and groups were also persona non grata at some point, but we established a standard of rights that slowly but surely spread to protect everyone. Has there be...
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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. You seem to know that somewhat in your apparent hatred of the rich, pharmaceutical monopolies, et cetera. So, tell me why you seem to think that the solution to this problem is increase the power of government?
How about we lessen it. End corporatism, that thing that seems ever conflated with capitalism. Don't use the government to give corporations money or special privileges and the...
'triggered' is often abused. it's original meaning when it became a meme referred to people who were totally overtaken by their emotions as to lose all ability to make rational arguments, instead turning to petty insult and trying to discredit their opponent, as they had lost the ability to actually argue their points. it doesn't refer to people who felt spurred to make a response to something they disagree with, or to feel slightly annoyed with it, and reflect that in their s...
There were mounted machine guns that existed 100 years before the constitution, the puckle gun; and the first multishot revolvers existed 200 more years before that. The founding fathers lived in a time of great technological upheaval, a lot of it caused by one of the founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, making it foolish to think they wouldn't anticipate improved weaponry. They were also fine with privately owned cannons, which are like tanks or mortars of today.
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The real question is what warrants consequence. This is the great dilemma with controlling speech. I tend to be rather critical of offense censorship, as anything can be offensive to various groups, and to censor for such reasons can either lead to the removal of comments all together, as anything that is said can be offensive, or certain group's offenses being discarded as being 'wrong', thus making a biased echo chamber for people who care more about feeling they are right rathe...
The puckle gun, a machine gun, existed during the late 1700s, and was invented a century earlier. The founding fathers were also fine with people owning cannons. and the late 1700s was a time of massive technological development, to assume that the founding fathers didn't think weapons would become more powerful comes across as foolish.
I find it rather important to understand the purpose of the Bill of Rights, as to reflect the purpose of the second amendment. The Bill...
@Woolly_ All those games, with the exception of Halo 6, which still hasn't had an official unveil; are coming to PC. And that's the problem when @The_Infected mentioned a lack of exclusives.
I'm having issues with the Pro controller not sending input. I have to have the joycons turned off and removed from the switch to have the game let my use my Pro controller.
can we just take a moment to realize that these tweets have barely any likes? this just seems like controversy for controversy's sake.
Looks fantastic! I'm really excited that it'll be coming to PC later in the year as well.
It'll be interesting to see how that motion control works. It's nice that Bethesda is taking the time to take advantage of the Switch's features.
I hope this comes to the West.
it's just hair...
looks interesting. I hope we hear more about it at E3
"The game is reportedly set in ancient Egypt, and will kick start a brand new trilogy that will supposedly also include Rome" I hope that means we get to meet Brutus and Julius Caesar, seeing as the former is an assassin in-universe.
Good on you Nintendo. People wanted to play the game with different languages and you went and let that happen.
A 12 hour battery is in there? that seems like it would be really heavy.
please please please be good this time.
Well, to be fair they generally do work. shoulder buttons, thumb sticks, triggers, vibration, built in mics, et cetera were Nintendo innovations. You could also argue the success of motion control with the playstation move and kinect existing. The Wii U and Virtual Boy are really the only big failures, the jury is still out on Switch obviously.
Indeed. As I said, humans are generally crappy to each other, especially those they don't know. We are a problem solving species, and that in turn leads us to find patterns. The problem is that we do this even when they are illogical, such as with group generalization. We then frantically search for any bit of tenuous justification we can use to reaffirm those beliefs, attaching far too much emotion to the whole affair, until our world is very black and white, us vs them.