06-13-2011, 06:23 PM
Hi,
Yeah. Amazing how the people who think they've found a simple, extreme, solution for everything accuse anyone not at their extreme of being at the opposite extreme. It's as if their minds are too small to hold anything but the endpoints of the scale.
I missed that. Should I be offended? Next time there's a get together, I'll ask my gay friends.
They are moving that way.
Exactly. The excesses of unrestrained capitalism are well established in history. But only a fool would propose to cure severe dehydration by drowning the patient. A fool such as Marx.
Lingle is right (IMO) in principle, although a bit off in his reference. I think it was Winnie (Churchill, not Pooh) who said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others we've tried. Perhaps we've just not yet found the "genu wine Indian Guru / Who's teaching us a better way" to get on the cover of Forbes. Unlimited democracy is mob rule. Put too many limits on it, and it ceases to be democracy (except, perhaps, in name). Similar things can be said of capitalism. Both the political form (democracy) and the economic theory (capitalism) need to be bounded to be useful.
The only changes I'd like to see is bug fixes. Get MS right (increased protection at increased levels and fix stun). Eliminate shooting/seeing through corners. Calculate the intersection of a ranged weapon and a moving target correctly. A few others that I can't recall right off the bat, but that would come to mind after a little while of playing the game. Oh, and jack up the difficulty in NM and Hell so that they pick up from the end and not the middle of Normal and NM respectively (and make them directly accessible in SP).
The graphics are just fine. Between the graphics and the music, the Gothic nature of the game is well served.
--Pete
(06-13-2011, 03:46 PM)kandrathe Wrote: ... you are a conservative tea partier? Rofl!
Yeah. Amazing how the people who think they've found a simple, extreme, solution for everything accuse anyone not at their extreme of being at the opposite extreme. It's as if their minds are too small to hold anything but the endpoints of the scale.
(06-13-2011, 03:46 PM)kandrathe Wrote: Or, the implication that you engage in a homosexual act?
I missed that. Should I be offended? Next time there's a get together, I'll ask my gay friends.
(06-13-2011, 03:46 PM)kandrathe Wrote: China ... could be the most powerful nation on the planet ...
They are moving that way.
(06-13-2011, 03:46 PM)kandrathe Wrote: I don't favor the abuses of capitalism, but I do think we need to rely on the fruits of capitalism.
Exactly. The excesses of unrestrained capitalism are well established in history. But only a fool would propose to cure severe dehydration by drowning the patient. A fool such as Marx.
(06-13-2011, 03:46 PM)kandrathe Wrote: "It might be said that the market, like democracy, is the worst economic system available except all the others." -- Dr. Christopher Lingle
Lingle is right (IMO) in principle, although a bit off in his reference. I think it was Winnie (Churchill, not Pooh) who said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others we've tried. Perhaps we've just not yet found the "genu wine Indian Guru / Who's teaching us a better way" to get on the cover of Forbes. Unlimited democracy is mob rule. Put too many limits on it, and it ceases to be democracy (except, perhaps, in name). Similar things can be said of capitalism. Both the political form (democracy) and the economic theory (capitalism) need to be bounded to be useful.
(06-13-2011, 03:46 PM)kandrathe Wrote: I would love to see D1 reworked with more modern graphics, ..
The only changes I'd like to see is bug fixes. Get MS right (increased protection at increased levels and fix stun). Eliminate shooting/seeing through corners. Calculate the intersection of a ranged weapon and a moving target correctly. A few others that I can't recall right off the bat, but that would come to mind after a little while of playing the game. Oh, and jack up the difficulty in NM and Hell so that they pick up from the end and not the middle of Normal and NM respectively (and make them directly accessible in SP).
The graphics are just fine. Between the graphics and the music, the Gothic nature of the game is well served.
(06-13-2011, 03:46 PM)kandrathe Wrote: Competition has been a characteristic of humanity since a cave man one day hauled in the bigger antelope to camp, and scored the hottest gatherer babes. Then the other geeky cave men invented socialism.
--Pete
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