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Because it is a horrible and childish thing to wish upon someone who disagrees with his statement.

Let alone upon the child.

Hooray. At least this time I didn't win prizes for things my game didn't actually have.

Congratulations, everyone else.

for everyone

How did I not see that one?

So...  When do we actually get to play the games?  At the time of voting?

Goodness, no. That might taint the results. You'll get the games when everyone's done voting.

Well technically it's one room you're allowed, but this could be a million rooms in one .crm file or one room divided into many .crm files showing close-ups and different angles.

That was true of the previous two competitions, but there is no such restriction this time. Reread the initial post.

Shouldn't have bothered, but since I did...

I did this far too quickly and ran out of time before I could make it not suck, since I'm going to be gone most of today.

I don't know about political correctness, but surprisingly enough the fact that "meh, cricket is stupid" isn't the same thing as "meh, he didn't deserve to live anyway" seems to need pointing out.

Miss Santa should be able to get around quick also.

She'd never get to her yoga classes on time otherwise.

Hokum.

Personally I'd rather eat tacks than use Scheme (Wikipedia article, for those who have no idea what it is) for anything at all, but if you're good at it yourself and are just interested in using it for your own game, then why not? You'd probably have to do quite a lot of work getting some interpreter to interface well with the rest of your engine, mind - I'm not sure if there are any available that are particularly suitable for games; and for some common tasks (especially cut scenes and the like) you'd probably either have to introduce imperative-ish impurities, which may get you assassinated by ninjas in the employ of the Knights of the Lambda Calculus, or somehow combine it with something more typical.

If you're hoping to attract The General Public to your engine, however, I'd definitely advise against using Scheme. I think the functional programming paradigm is probably a lot harder to understand for most people than, say, the usual imperative/procedural/OO approaches.

In terms of consequences, if his time at the wheel helps lead to the US sliding into out-and-out batshit fascism as Germany did, (which I think is a possibility, though happily it still seems like a fairly remote one; indeed, more so now than, oh, a year ago, I'd say) he will be. That obviously has the potential of doing far more damage, on all levels, than the Nazis did.

His administration has done quite enough to be considered a pretty bad thing to have happened to the world. Worse than Hitler? So far, nah.

No, but you came across to me as saying that all "white trailer trash crack whores" (and by extension, anybody in similarly crappy circumstances) basically got that way because they weren't trying hard enough and therefore don't deserve any compassion. I'm sorry if I was misinterpreting you there.

Um, I don't know the specific scenario used in your class there, but even if it only involved a couple unarmed officials, good luck hiding the bodies and hoping nobody knows they were anywhere near your neighbourhood. Because otherwise, they're going to be looked for. And if people keep disappearing when they get to you, eventually they'll come by armed well enough to take out even the killing machine that is you, and they'll find your guests.

So... if you want to be part of an armed resistance to the occupators, that's all very nice and noble and all that, but attracting attention to yourself when you're simply trying to do a little good by hiding somebody is a bad idea.

I am interested to see where you stand on this, though. If C really isn't an option in the situation, do you really think B is better? Did you then?

I think in some ways this ties back in with what Andail cricitised about your earlier post: perhaps there is a way out of every miserable situation that somebody could be in, but that you saw and had the strength to take one out of yours (good for you, congratulations) doesn't mean that everyone can, or even that you yourself could in every situation! "Poor people are poor and their lives suck because they're a bunch of lazy, cowardly assholes" is not, in my view, a good attitude.

I don't really have an opinion about Cage, but:

Mostly becuase the Germans love David Hasselhoff.....

Not true. Why is this idea still alive? I keep seeing it pop up here or there. I seem to recall that he did have a brief burst of inexplicable popularity here in the early 90s or so, but that's over and has been over for roughly a decade. Seriously, almost every time I hear anything about him at all is people on the internets saying this.

Regarding Poe, I vaguely enjoy this, though I do think it would have been more amusing if they'd done the entire poem in that style.

[coz]

I can't say that I'm very familiar with most classic "horror" movies, though I've certainly seen and liked a few, some genuinely and some in that execrable postmodern ironic way which may or may not be all the rage with the kids these days (by which I mean to imply, more or less, that I am the kind of person who enjoys MST3K).

Books - I can't say that I like what I've read from Stephen King very much, though I did mildly enjoy Kubrick's version of The Shining. I liked Wolfgang Hohlbein (a ridiculously prolific German author) when I was 12 or so, which I think is the age he writes for anyway. At least I hope so, for his sake.

Lovecraft, of course, amuses greatly. Indeed I generally seem to like elderly examples of the genre (and its forerunners) more. I'm not sure why that is - perhaps it's that when sufficient time has passed, the uninteresting stuff has been largely forgotten, or perhaps I'm just a huge snob.

1. No I'm very evil!!!
2.It's coz ... thats short for because (you didnt know that?? ohhh really didnt...??!!! ohh cute...)
3.yes , its my style... yeah... hehu... (many "..."s just to anoy you)

Perhaps jetxl's post was a little more blunt than necessary (he does that, I've noticed, though I hear he's a reasonably nice guy in person); but if you're going to respond to it like that, then I feel I should point out he's not the only one annoyed by excessive informalism in writing. (Then why does almost nobody ever say anything? Because nobody wants to look like the world's greatest pedant, and because it would get terribly tiresome doing this to every other new person that comes along.)

I'm not going to tell you to use a spellchecker. Instead, spell things correctly in the first place. (I'm only half joking - I keep coming across people apparently using odd out-of-place words, words similar to others that would make rather more sense there. I can only guess that this has something to do with spellchecker abuse.)

The first stage of Inspiration is Denial.

I'm the world's most uninspired person!

...darn, still true.

This, for example:



My answer to the initial question, of course, is Superman, trite as this may sound to some by now.

This may be going too far off-topic, but... 1/5? How does that work? Do you have five biological grandparents?