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I'd prefer treating every particular aspect, political or religious, on its own.
For example, I think the only way to successfully preach whatever religion one represents, is by displaying what it means in regular life, with one's own lifestyle. Until that lifestyle is there, preaching will cause scorn (think Nietzsche) or blindly following the word, just because someone's religious feeling so happened to find supernatural meaning in that word. What exactly it means to preach with your lifestyle may be really hard to describe, but the common understanding would be "this person is so wise that I don't remember anyone quite like them, and all their words have neat real-life applications and obviously improve the situations we're dealing with, daily". If one is a saint and feels like preaching, infinite amount of patience and tact is required to inspire people indirectly (start by doing the legwork for them). Only then they may come up with formal religious questions such a person could give direct answers to.
Politics is much much simpler, because there are some approaches to daily life that make it better simply because the overall awareness has increased, and more minds have been struggling to solve it, each one from their own POV. In problems society is directly facing, the more people participate in brainstorming, the better. They don't even have to all be wise! Dealing with some routine directly, one will have both the common idea about it and some unique perspective. By having the freedom to unite and discuss some problematic subject, they will also invent ways to improve that communication, naturally developing improvements to the actual problem eventually. Lack of open discussion may lead to lack of awareness, and to not solving the problem.
What I wouldn't want to see in submissions is blunt declaration of some stance that doesn't directly make life better, and is at the same time really strict, and irrelevant to TASing. That would be declaration for the sake of declaring, preaching with just the word alone instead of how you approach things. Yet that doesn't mean we need a new rule that bans such declarations, because that description is super vague.
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If the experiment with rats and heroin is real, I think the only good way to make people generally need drugs less is working hard on improving the social life in all aspects. Bonus points if people have some room for designing healthy horizontal social relationships by working together on those problems! The less fun the social life is, the harder one tries to recreate via questionable substances.
That's my personal opinion so far, but I don't know the statistics at all. Do you know if it's been proven either way by actual experiments and researches?
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Patashu wrote:
And I basically agree, but additionally to that think that if you weigh all the evidence, then you come to the conclusion that decriminalizing marijuana is a net good. It's not some miracle flawless perfect substance, no. But more importantly, it's not the devil.
Honest curiosity since I don't know the subject: there seem to be a lot of ideas that would help reducing the current level of harm related to smoking and drinking (and selling those substances), but are there some good ideas that would help people not to even start consuming them? If something is decriminalized, it's ought to become widely available, so that kinda automatically invites more people to at least try, just because "it's ok now". Or is it always a fight between a black market that's always there and always offers whatever is illegal, on one side, and implicitly inviting the undecided laymen into the "now legal" area, on the other side?
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I'm not saying anything about alcohol or cigarettes, nor about (de-)criminalization of them or marijuana.
I don't think it's sane to deny the problems you're describing. I don't think it's sane to keep things as they are in that area, because they don't solve any real problems right now. I just think that any verdict should be well-balanced, even if it can't affect what politicians may decide. So I added a couple relevant aspects to the general stance.
Also it would help a lot if you used the forum tag for quotes instead of just "".
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However, a few parts rub me the wrong way, because they feel like an attack on any reader who doesn't agree. Specifically, the paragraph about "refusal to speak is implicit support of the status quo" and the final "Silence is Violence". I think the statement would be perfectly fine if those were removed. A possible site rule could be: submission texts may contain any extraneous/personal information or opinions, as long as they don't make anyone feel unwelcome.
<feos> "Silence is Violence" is an accurate description of problems with police, courts, and prison system in russia
<feos> they turn into literal hell if there's no external light peeking inside
Increasing awareness of the problems is a way for the society to try protecting itself from increasing violence. Because for some reason, people who are being (more and more) violent if no one knows about it, or if those who know it support it, suddenly stop feeling so powerful when they appear all over the news.
The more transparent the system is, the more humanistic it is.
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Patashu wrote:
I'm not an expert in this field, but I know that Marijuana is objectively less dangerous to use than cigarettes and alcohol; the main reason why it's illegal is historical reasons, not due to evidence based reasoning (look up the War on Drugs).
Directly less dangerous doesn't mean it won't have indirect consequences. For example, one may start with using it rarely, then more frequently, then finds oneself psychologically dependent on it, and can't stop anymore. Still no direct harm probably. Now imagine getting pure marijuana becomes problematic. One has to switch to cheaper replacements, and that's where it may start slowly damaging how your body functions, up to death, or committing crimes while not fully conscious.
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Arc wrote:
It should be categorized as abuse of the submission mechanism.
What rule does it go against, or what loophole in the rules does it abuse?
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Wached in the emulator and didn't have any problems with the visuals. Blinking is how this game is able to show more than 3 colors on a scanline, and indeed it was common on A2600. Probably on a real TV it's even less questionable, because the luminophores don't fade instantly when the color turns off. Well, the jumping sound is annoying, and the movie is boring as hell, but we don't reject just for that.
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If the music loops, and the picture does not change, find the frame when the first full loop ends
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DIP switches will be added soon-ish. Sound fix may not be soon.
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It doesn't support savestates
https://github.com/EKA2L1/EKA2L1/issues/47
Also dumping ROMs from phones doesn't seem to work if you haven't patched your phone, because the firmware servers are dead.
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Blazephlozard wrote:
If the credits play regardless of place, 1st place could be considered a full completion
Based on what criterion?
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Are you saying it's 4:3 when you save an emulator screenshot in actual mame?
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grassini wrote:
If anyone wants to give a try at improving goro and suceeds, i don't mind sharing authorship at all. In fact, I encourage the attempt.
Does anyone feel like trying?
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DrD2k9 wrote:
1) What qualifies as significantly different game-play?
The difference that would lead to different branches for moons, or to having 2 game versions published side by side, or to having 2 game modes as branches in vault.
DrD2k9 wrote:
2) Is this even definable in a way that would cover the majority of situations?
You can't guess or predict in advance, every game is different.
DrD2k9 wrote:
3) Are we more concerned about the appearance of different game-play or are we more concerned about actually different game-play from a mechanics perspective? (or some other differentiation).
4) If this a problem where we can't establish a more clearly defined/worded rule that would cover most situations, should we require a multiple judge consensus on whether a particular situation is applicable to the rule? (This may already be a common practice, at least as it seems to have been demonstrated with the 1-On-1 situation.)
It's not "oh no, we have no idea how to apply this, let's require a month of brainstorming for every occurrence". It's a step forward in the boiling-down process. For sports games, it now resulted in at least one idea of what may be sufficiently different in terms of that rule: the rules and mechanics of the simulated game. Only by trying to apply an existing rule you can know if it fits reality. If it doesn't, we just apply my signature and see if we need tweaks.
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