The Gaming Den

I've finished reading some introductory Austrian literature. Frankly, I think the school has some interesting ideas that I'd like to see them develop further. However, their rejection of empiricism puts them in a pretty weak position - if they tried to combine praxeology with real-world statistics t...

I just watched How to Train your Dragon with my cousin. For a dreamworks movie, it was surprisingly good.

Is your plan to change our culture, economy, and demographic makeup such that our country would naturally have lower gun crime, or are you just looking for a couple of legal measures that would reduce gun crime?

Did anyone else think No Country for Old Men was stupid? Like the guy flips a coin for people sometimes but other times he kills them for literally no reason, wtf

I felt idiocracy was not so much eugenic as it was anti-dysgenic. A small distinction, but there you go.

If a corporation is a person, isn't owning stock in one slavery?

CatharzGodfoot wrote: Adopting protectionist policies is not the same as banning international trade.

When someone says their international relations policy is "prime directive" what else am I supposed to think?

Here's the thing, dog. I'm ultra-nationalistic, which means that any policy that I support must help my countrymen. If ends up harming them, then it gets thrown into the wastebasket. When I see manufacturing plants close up shop to move down to Mexico and a poverty-perpetuating service economy slow...

This is both incredibly callous and foolish. No it's not. The whole premise is based on the laws of unintended consequences. This is really the great wooden sabot that causes many well intentioned plans of aid to go horribly wrong. I never said anything about foreign aid and charity(giving direct c...

What about the poor workers in developing countries who need these jobs to put food on the table? Oh, they aren't American, I guess their suffering doesn't matter. Prime Directive. This is both incredibly callous and foolish. World Politics isn't an episode of fucking Star Trek. We're separated fro...

hmm. Fair point, actually.

What about the poor workers in developing countries who need these jobs to put food on the table?

Oh, they aren't American, I guess their suffering doesn't matter.

Neeeek wrote:All term limits actually do is put the staff in charge instead of the elected officials. People in favor of them are just plain ignorant.

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Here's a thought: in order to run for public office, you have to have worked in the private sector for 5-10 years. Interesting idea? Why? I still do not understand the 'awesomeness of businessmen' falicy that the right has. Workign in the private Sector does not bestow some special 'i know what I'm...

Repeal the 17th amendment Voting for parties rather than candidates is a good idea - keeps the elections focused more on the issues Increase the House's term to four years. Term limits for every position is a great idea. 8-12 years, tops. Here's a thought: in order to run for public office, you have...

The simplest solution would be for all U.S. states to switch to the electoral college system that Maine uses, where electoral votes are decided by district(with the two senatorial votes going to whoever wins the plurality in the state). That would make third parties relevant, as well as solving a bu...

Landlords don't just sit around on their assess as the money piles up, they're responsible for maintaining the house and keeping it in a safe and livable condition. And it's not like tenants haven't fucked landlords over before. Good to hear that things have at least temporarily worked out for you maj

Bioware's games are like fast food. Cheesy and formulaic, and ultimately just empty calories. That said, the only games of theirs I've genuinely disliked are Dragon Age and Neverwinter Nights. The others were okay enough. BGII is the only game of theirs that really stands out, and that's probably be...

That was an awesome game. Something in my hazy memory says that it's not friendly to newer versions of windows. What/how are you running it? I just followed these instructions: http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131046 The cutscenes are autoskipped, but you can just watch them on youtube a...

Nobody wants to be a slave, even to probability

Right now I'm playing Thief: The Dark Project.

Still one of the best games ever made, even at twelve years old.

That said, Minority Report does indeed really really suck. I mean, it's not going to win any 'worst movies of all time' awards, but neither is Saw and I consider MR to be slightly worse than that movie. I saw the reviews. I think he comes off as whiny and a little pretentious but he's p. much on ta...

I like Obsidian, even if their games are unpolished.

How do you propose fixing these issues while keeping premiums, copays, and deductibles from being too high to afford? Any type of government regulation on the industry will result in the costs being passed on to the consumer. That's a good question, and it's way too big for me to fully answer witho...

In theory, I agree. And we need market reforms to go along with health insurance reforms to help keep costs down. (Tort reform, breaking up state-imposed insurance monopolies, and free trade between the United States and Canadian drug companies being three important steps to take.) And I would love...