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Bisqwit wrote:
I'm talking about biology. Male brains and female brains are hardwired differently. They focus on different things, and approach things differently.
Similarly, male and female bodies have different properties.
It is in my honest opinion total nonsense and an utter misguided delusion to think that genders are equal.
Well said.
I'd also add to what you're saying being a religious topic and all that the Bible opens up by saying that God created man and woman together, and did so in the image of God (whatever that means). The Bible's opening remark is clearly claiming that design intended for equality in importance. The Bible also goes on to use lines like "one cannot exist without the other", or "equal but different".
IMO, anyone who tells you women should be uneducated or are dumb animals or somehow less important than men should have their ideas tossed. Thankfully none of the books that I consider important make such claims.
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Aqfaq wrote:
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In every society that we know of in history, and including today, women are not the major leaders or dominating characters if represented in leadership at all.
Correct. Why do you think that is?
Men being the stronger half of the species, they took control early on.
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Can you name a few historical ideas that may have contributed to the fact that only very recently the societies around the world have become to understand the importance of gender equality?
I don't attribute what's currently occurring in societies as gender equality. Rather, Barbarism in the civilized world is at an all time low, and absent societies revolving around macho force, women are able to somewhat compete. The rise of the handgun has also moved control from the strong to anyone who possesses one.
Aqfaq wrote:
1 Timothy 2:12 --> "I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet."
The Bible was undeniably written by uncivilized men who had no concept of gender equality.
Don't use a quote from one book as a blanket idea for all the books that make up the Bible. The books in the Bible were written over millennia by different people in different places. Various devout may want to claim they're all in agreement on all points and divinely inspired, but that's clearly false. Precisely because of verses like the one you just quoted, there have been many religious groups throughout the ages who have rejected many of the books and deemed them worse than garbage. Look up Apocrypha and related subjects.
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moozooh wrote:
Aqfaq wrote:
Bonus question: What would the Bible look like, if it was written by common patriarchal men at a time when male chauvinism was prevalent in the society?
Ohhh, I think I know that one! The correct answer is, it would look the same!
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Indeed correct, except for perhaps the book of Esther which claims to be written by a woman (at least in part).
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Warp wrote:
But then when someone points to the Bible, eg. to the passages were God orders the extermination of entire infidel nations by his chosen people, sometimes even so egregiously that God orders them to exterminate all men, but leave the young women as spoils of war, these Christians will defend those passages and consider them justified, and even good.
You ought to see how from an external point of view there isn't really all much difference between the two things. Both religions are defending their own holy book.
To counter your above point, did you ever notice how the first few books of the Bible (the most significant part of the old testament) limit those extermination laws to the land of Canaan and its surroundings?
Consider these verses:
Deut 4:19: and be careful lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath allotted to all the nations under the whole heaven.
and 32:8-9: When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the children of men, He set the borders of the peoples according to the number of the divine beings. For the portion of the LORD is His people, Jacob the lot of His inheritance.
A careful reading shows the books are saying to only kill people and enforce a single religion in a single country. It says to smash idols - in a single country. The punishment listed for not keeping the laws? Exile from the country.
Nowhere does it say to go out to other countries and convert them or smash their idols, or declare war on them. On the contrary, the other nations can have their own divine beings and have the stars and host of heaven to worship.
Consider Kings II 17 24-28:
And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD; therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them. Wherefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying: 'The nations which thou hast carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land; therefore He hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.' Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying: 'Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.' So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
Be that as it may that the Bible could be read in a negative fashion for condoning genocide and disallowing freedom of religion, it limits this viewpoint to one location. According to the Bible (early parts), it's fine for people to have whatever free-for-all they want elsewhere. In the above jurisdiction however, they will be killed be it by the people, or by the animals. These early books do not condone world domination or proselyting the whole world.
If the Qur'an says somewhere that it limits its applicable scope to one area, say Saudi Arabia, then I'd agree with you that they're very similar. However, to the best of my knowledge, the Qur'an does not limit its scope to one location and one set of people, and does convey a message leading towards world domination.
The Bible seems to say "if you don't like these laws, feel free to leave, but if you stay, obey them". I don't think the Qur'an ultimately gives you that option.
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To conclude, I don't see the Bible sending out a message "go forth and kill the infidels". I see "I'm wiping out country so and so due to their evil behavior towards each other" (Noah, Jonah, Jeremiah) or "Go forth and decimate your enemies who attacked you, leave no man standing to further attack you".
In the one exception being Canaan and its surroundings, the Bible records messages sent by Moses asking if they can pass through the land to their destination peacefully, or mentions that the current inhabitants have the option to leave if they want to. And still, even in the case of Canaan itself, the Bible records that the people had evil behavior, such as the Sodomites, the town that raped Dinah, or Leviticus 18:3,21 they make human sacrifices of their own children, among other things. It doesn't say to kill them for not "believing" or some such.
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Aqfaq wrote:
Apparently, there are only 188 named women characters in the Bible, but a whopping 1181 named male characters. Why?
The characters of the Bible are there as part of a historical setting.
In every society that we know of in history, and including today, women are not the major leaders or dominating characters if represented in leadership at all. It's true there are women in politics, but they're an overwhelming minority, and this is true everywhere.
Given that, I'm surprised by your figure that women make up over 10% of characters in the Bible (is the figure even accurate?).
As much as the Bible tries to convey a utopian lifestyle, such has never occurred anywhere for any considerable amount of time, and to present any message otherwise would be utter fantasy. If you find any book which contains a significant amount of history with women in leading roles throughout (aside from a women's biography), you can throw the book in the utterly-fictitious-contains-no-kernel-of-realistic-history bin.
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If you want to pass me a zip file, I'll host the zip file on the site. Users will have to go through the entries themselves though.
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SmartFrame wrote:
well despite the fact that even if you aim to get the arm cannon upgrade it will show a cutscene with dr.light saying you got it which would waste time..
Uses time for getting the upgrade, but not for Beat.
SmartFrame wrote:
i understand your point, but I believe dying a lot and abuse the fact that you get all your weapons be refilled after a game over is not the way of handling this game :P
It all boils down to what type of run you're doing. If you're aiming for a 100% run, it certainly is an option to consider.
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SmartFrame wrote:
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Quick note: The "B E A T" letters are not collected, since it costs 30 seconds to receive Beat
Not necessarily. If you get game over for whatever reason, you get Beat, and the Beat acquiring cut scene is never played.
well.. to get the game over screen i have to die at least.. 3-4 times?! so even that would just waste time, but thanks for letting me know that a game-over would cancel it out :)
Whether it wastes time or not depends on what else you're doing. If one would be intentionally dying to get energy refills, or access the upgraded arm cannon, then it wouldn't waste time.
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Quick note: The "B E A T" letters are not collected, since it costs 30 seconds to receive Beat
Not necessarily. If you get game over for whatever reason, you get Beat, and the Beat acquiring cut scene is never played.
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To add to what Mothrayas is saying, at the end of the day, we don't particularly care how you make your TAS, you can use a pencil and paper for all we care. But what you submit must be a movie file supported (such as BK2), and sync properly on accepted emulator versions for it.
This generally best occurs when you use the appropriate emulator itself, but conversion tools do exist, and you're welcome to create your own conversion tools if you so desire.
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We are going to be phasing out support for older N64 emulators. So if you create or are thinking about creating N64 runs, please read our important announcement.
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There was a previous thread pushing this idea.
It was announced 2 years ago that users should move onto something newer. Yet plenty of runs are still being made with Mupen64-rr, despite how horrible the emulation is, and that plenty of games aren't emulated quite right, even if you can complete them, and the video output in finished movie files for mass consumption is buggy and problematic. It also annoys our encoders to no end with ridiculous quirks.
Mupen64-rr itself is no longer maintained, but there are forks that may end up going somewhere. In any case, we do have a newer emulator with more accurate emulation and sane rerecording tools - BizHawk. It may be lacking certain features you want, if so, ask their developers to add them. You may be unused to its interface - get used to it. BizHawk also offers some tools that did not exist in Mupen64-rr which you might end up liking.
We are deprecating use of Mupen64-rr.
I would like to say: "You have until December 31 2016 23:59 UTC to complete any runs you have started using Mupen64-rr, no exceptions will be made, unless you have been granted a continuance on your existing run." and: "If you feel you have a long run that already had a lot of work put into it, and will need a while to be completed, you may request a continuance in this thread. We will accept continuances until December 15 2016 23:59 UTC."
But if I said that, some people would probably explode. So I'm not going to say it outright. However, we will be disallowing Mupen64-rr sometime in the future, even though no hard date is yet set. You've been warned.
For developers, if you'd like to work on another N64 emulator and get it to a reasonable level of emulation and rerecording capabilities and performance, we can consider accepting that. You have over a year to get such an emulator ready.
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I saw who submitted this and just had to comment.
Nice to see you again Genisto, we've missed you.
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I certainly like the idea of providing the MP4, and Google Drive is a nice choice. However, the link you posted: https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive?ltmpl=drive
Is a general page for users to see their own files, it does not in any way link to your file. You'll need to make your MP4 file public, and get a public URL for it.
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I'd like to add that Windows is the most susceptible, Linux much less so.
We've had patches for this in our tree for a while now, and I found a few more of these bugs (and patched them) than the three discovered here.
New builds should be out soon.
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andypanther wrote:
Ok, thanks for explaining this! I'm just a notorious flash-hater ^^
As am I. I'll get to it soon.
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Okay then.
was0x, do you think any of MESHUGGAH's notes can help you improve the current run? Is there a reason for doing the things you did?
usedpizza: Are you interested in trying to improve upon this run?
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MESHUGGAH are you looking to post a faster run?
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A new version of our most advanced and feature heavy SNES and Gameboy emulator - lsnes has been released, and can be downloaded from the lsnes wiki page.
This new version has many important fixes and new Lua functionality.
A full list of new features and changes can be found in the lsnes rr2 discussion thread.
For those of you not familiar with lsnes, it emulates the following platforms:
*Super Nintendo
*Gameboy
*Super Gameboy
*Gameboy Color
*Gameboy Color in Gameboy Advance mode
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jlun2 wrote:
Wow. Judging underway and already a potential improvement. That was fast.
Did I miss a post? What's this about an improvement?
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Yes I know about the modes, I just wasn't aware as to how it was achieved. Thanks for the info. Guess we should label this uses password or something?
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I haven't seen this yet, but want to clarify the 2nd quest bit. Why is this labeled so? Does the FDS version allow starting with the 2nd quest?
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I stand corrected then. So the game does try but fail to allow one to stand on it at times.
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Even if it uses a glitch just once, it already breaks its own rules.
Being pushed out of walls you're stuck in is also an intentional feature. It's also not like the game makes any effort to prevent you from placing beams near the ceiling, or the player creating and standing on one.
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