D. Bq.:
When did Nesvideos officially become TASVideos?
and
Do you prefer direct, generic, factual questions like the one above? Or more philosophical, opinionated-type questions?
Slowly and progressively after tasvideos.org was acquired, which was in May 2006.
Do you prefer direct, generic, factual questions like the one above? Or more philosophical, opinionated-type questions?
Both are okay. Both have good and bad sides.
Direct, generic factual questions:
-- Good: Quick to answer when you know the answer; gives off satisfaction when you know you did something right
-- Bad: May be tiring if it's a FAQ or it just doesn't interest anyone or steps on a discomfort zone
Philosophical, opinion-type questions:
-- Good: Makes a good discussion; gives freedom in deciding how to answer, which way to approach it
-- Bad: May leave you stumped for a long time if you don't have a clear opinion on the topic
Bisqwit wrote somewhere that he would like to keep references to Nesvideos (with varying capitalization) so that "nesvideos" registers on search engines.
If I had known that before, I wouldn't have been so quick to change almost everything to "TASVideos".
Dear Bisqwit
If you could create a world wide law on roms and there use. What laws would you create that is fair to users and the companys who created the original games?
Why are some runs published only a few days after submission, while some stay in the queue for months?
Complexity? Popularity? Randomization Algorithm?
Sage advice from a friend of Jim: So put your tinfoil hat back in the closet, open your eyes to the truth, and realize that the government is in fact causing austismal cancer with it's 9/11 fluoride vaccinations of your water supply.
1) If you were forced to use some other OS than linux to do everything, which OS would you choose?
2) If you were forced to use an OS which is *not* unix-based, which one would you choose?
1) If you were forced to use some other OS than linux to do everything, which OS would you choose?
2) If you were forced to use an OS which is *not* unix-based, which one would you choose?
1: Windows XP, running Cygwin.
2: Probably Windows XP. However, such forcing would mean that I would not much do anything useful with it.
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Dear Bisqwit,
Are you familiar with the Spiritism phylosophy? If yes, what are your ideas about it?
"...as a Science, Spiritism is in search of the truth of our spiritual nature, not biased by one person/prophet opinion only."
Hi Bisqwit,
Do you think that life is pointless? If not, then why is that? To me there seems to be no point in living, unless you can do so forever. I suddenly realized that I can do anything in my life, yet it will never really matter, nor will anything, done by anybody, matter to anyone in the long run, since everybody will still be gone forever at some point. It feels pretty bad when you think about it that way...
Sorry for the odd question.
Dear Bisqwit,
Are you familiar with the Spiritism phylosophy? If yes, what are your ideas about it?
"...as a Science, Spiritism is in search of the truth of our spiritual nature, not biased by one person/prophet opinion only."
I wasn't aware that it is a philosophy. I've viewed it as experimenting.
In Christianity and Judaism, spiritism is associated with witchcraft. Christians and Jews believe that by practising spiritism, you may contact actual spirits, but that those spirits are not the kind of spirits you want to be involved with, and that they are most certainly not the souls of the departed. It is extremely dangerous.
References: 2.Kings 21:6; Samuel 28:5-20; Leviticus 19:31; Acts 8:8-24.
Do you think that life is pointless? If not, then why is that? To me there seems to be no point in living, unless you can do so forever. I suddenly realized that I can do anything in my life, yet it will never really matter, nor will anything, done by anybody, matter to anyone in the long run, since everybody will still be gone forever at some point. It feels pretty bad when you think about it that way...
Basically, you're asking about the meaning of life. :)
There are countless different views on that question, but I suppose you're asking about mine.
I can present you two views.
One is materialistic. As biological beings, we all contain certain "hardwired" rules in the brain and the rest of the body, that are tuned with the continuous reproduction of the human culture and species as the aim.
There are a few points in the human's life, that form a set of items that once completed, the human feels like they have accomplished their life and fulfilled it. Those are, namely: generation of offspring (i.e. making of children), and passing one's knowledge and ideals of the way of living to the said offspring (i.e. education and disciplining).
Individuals of a biological species have a finite lifetime, but as a species, each species aims to live forever. These rewarding items I listed are the means by which the species ensures (or tries to ensure) that they will, live forever.
In me, the desire to pass forth a copy of my entire knowledge and ideals of the way of living, is very strong. Biologically speaking, I see it as my purpose of life. A subsidiary goal is to improve the knowledge (to make the species better in general), which ironically pushes that major goal further and farther. Still, every time someone learns something useful due to my actions, I feel great satisfaction.
And the other is spiritual. As God would have it, each human being is meant to live together with God, enjoying a happy life that is mutually pleasant: God supplies the humans with everything they can possibly need, and the humans supply God with gratitude and awe of his perfect awesomeness. However, such a relationship does not work if the human is selfish, or works against God's wish. Therefore a sort of preliminary exam was created, to sieve out those who refuse that kind of relationship.
This mortal life is that sieve; in this life God calls us, several times in our life, and whether we accept his call or not, decides whether we get to enjoy the life we were meant to live. If we do, he will join our life with us, here, on Earth, and it will continue forever. If we don't, well, then we have no business in front of his might.
the humans supply God with gratitude and awe of his perfect awesomeness.
Is that what a bored deity would do? Create a species whose sole purpose is to tell the deity how awesome He is? ;-)
Perhaps :) But I think God has a perfectly altruistic motivation. A person who sincerely is praising [about things God does], is also sincerely happy. And God wants people be happy. For brevity, I left that explanation out from the previous message.
1) If a piece of paper was handed to you that disproved the existence of God (like this), and you reread it, and you are absolutely convinced by the piece of paper, what would you do? Would you change certain things in your life? or keep living exactly like you are now? Would you try to share your new found knowledge with others/the world or keep it to yourself?
2) Do you think that clip is offensive?
1) If a piece of paper was handed to you that disproved the existence of God (like this), and you reread it, and you are absolutely convinced by the piece of paper, what would you do? Would you change certain things in your life? or keep living exactly like you are now? Would you try to share your new found knowledge with others/the world or keep it to yourself?
2) Do you think that clip is offensive?
2) I find it silly.
1) Well, let's assume for the hypothetical situation that I would be "absolutely convinced" by it*, I would seriously re-evaluate certain things. Depending on the results of the re-evaluation (whether I can become convinced of having found the answers to things that bother me), I might start explaining that to others, assuming that doing so wouldn't rob them of the possibility of freedom of many things excluding the then-admitted false belief.
*This is the result I'm given when I put my character in a character simulation in that uncomparably meaningless to prognosticate hypothetical scenario. Since you put the words "absolutely convinced" there. If were to be faced with such evidence, I would probably feel the equivalent of dividing by zero, because it is my firm belief that such "disproof" is impossible to exist.
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What do you prefer: A Cucumber or a Zuccini?
If the world is going down, and you have 10 minutes to speak to anyone you want before you all die: Who would it be?
