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I'm not sure what you're talking about here. Are you promoting some kind of genetic prejudice as a means of discriminating against other cultures? I disagree with your interpretation of "better," but I agree that it is absolutely true that cultures are not infallible, and that some cultures...

"absolute" logic? "Immediate" reason? "Secularism," when referring to institutions, simply means that they have no connection to religion. It is just a label for an institution which is "non-religious." For an absurd example, the National Football League is a nominally secular organization...

I decided to write something very loud. www.matthewklingensmith.com/veryevil.mp3

It's hilarious how oversized some ships are in SCI-Fi. For instance, many of those "frigates" are larger than modern skyscrapers! Its made even more ridiculous by the fact that you can see clearly defined windows on them, implying the windows must be 10's of meters high. Yeah, why exactly do...

ZT, you're my favorite troll.

Because people use their beliefs to justify their actions. I would prefer people to have a logically sound, sane set of beliefs, because it makes the world a safer place. This is especially true in countries where religion is hopelessly entangled with the state, like in, say, Iran. Even in...

The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke 5/10 Earth is destroyed by a supernova, and sends out hundreds of slower-than-light colony ships to the stars in the 1000 year period before the sun explodes. The first ships are robotic "seed ships" that carry frozen human embryos and use...

After that montage there are a couple of chapters about his life as "The Last American," and the semi-godlike status he is given by his grandchildren and great grandchildren. I thought the montage was a bit boring as well.

The Road 9.9/10 An epic novel. The desolation, despair, and nihilism of this novel hit you like a truck. The absolutely honest realism makes you understand what an apocalypse would really be like: horrible. However, the novel has some other important themes, namely: how we strive to be...

I too, found Mersault to be a nauseating character. The entire think stunk of pretension to me, and I couldn't find myself caring about anything that was happening. I think that was the point of the book though.

Wow, this looks really terrible, like some kind of mediocre God of War clone. Why does he carry a giant scimitar? Why can he leap 50 feet in the air? On second thought, why is Dante even fighting demons? Isn't his character just supposed to run around and faint a lot? I hadn't really heard...

This. This god damnit. The only interesting thing that happened to me in the Eve trial was that I came upon a cargo container in a completely empty, desolate asteroid field. I thought that it was a game mechanic and I was supposed to scavenge from these cargo containers. It turns out the...

I just saw the movie and I was pretty disappointed. It loses a lot in translation, mainly the exposition provided by the man's inner thoughts. They also edited scenes to make them really choppy and short, for instance: and also Also, the kid was way too old. It looked ridiculous...

Yes. Actually, its much more enjoyable than I first imagined. Every playthrough is different. Like, different characters and everything.

But there's only one picture :(

The game is so damn hard. Playing it feels like coding a kernel in ANSI C.

That new Silent Hill Game: 1. Extremely short, disappointingly so. Shorter than Portal, even. I think this game is wider than it is long. 2. Good story, fairly impressive twists and turns, reminded me of an M.Night Shalyman film. 3. Good puzzles, some were a bit too hard and random...

Of Extraordinary Spammers.

I WAS going to pick robot uprising, but after my experiences doing research in robotics, I realize that a robotic uprising would not be very exciting. All it would take to stop the robots would be confusing their sensors with something as simple as bad weather or even changing times of day! I...

How do you think civilization as we know it should end? Pick your doom, and explain why.