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I think either you're exaggerating about your church, or else the people are extremists. The people at my church wouldn't blame Satan for kicking them out of the park and all that stuff.

Though I AM prone to exaggeration, I assure you I'm not exaggerating this time. They ACTUALLY said that.
Whether they were attempting to use it in a metaphorical sense, or if they actually believed it, I don't know. Regardless, they DID say it.

physics say that time travel is impossible...
                                 

Says who?


Admittedly, it seems logical that if one travels back in time for a purpose, and creates such a purpose, there is no more need to go back in time, thus creating a paradox.

However, who's to say time is like a stream?

Just because we percieve time to only move in one direction and to be unchangeable doesn't mean that it DOES move in one direction and IS unchangeable.
After all, we can, in no way, percieve magnetism. However, we know that it exists.
Long ago, however, we didn't know it existed at all. So who's to say for sure that time can't go backwards just because we don't percieve it to?


If time were, for example, like a river with different branches (because rivers DO have branches... I think....), by going back in time, it's like building a dam at one particular part. You've stopped anyone from going in that particular direction, and so float off in another part entirely.



\ /
|


By going back in time, you build a dam at, say, the left \  of the extraordinarily simple diagram above. This doesn't create a paradox, leaving nowhere to go, as you can just as easily simply float down the /  of the 'stream'.


Now, if time were more like this:


\ /
  |
/ \


Going back in time could create a problem, as several streams can lead to the same event, by going too far back, you could unravel a completely different string of events that, short-term wise, have the same result, but long-term wise can be devastating.




Your thoughts?

And her socks.  They look way too baggy. Maybe that was what you were going for, though?

He has a point.  I hadn't noticed that before. No black lines would look much better.


And I like the lantern idea a lot better than my flashlight idea.


Be sure to show us some more screenshots when you make up your mind!

Her lips look two big.

Maybe if you just make her mouth smaller...?

Perhaps the character can have a flashlight?
Or, as 2ma2 said, light in one of the houses?


You said you couldn't do that because the temple is empty, but don't you need a good reason to get the character to the temple anyway? Something to investigate?

Such as a light from the window. It would solve two problems at once.  ^_^

I have to agree, the edit was great.

Pretty cool, it would work well in a tense game cutscene.

Really? When I was listening to it I was under the impression that this would be the music playing while the character walks through the Turkey village.

I can't really imagine a cutscene with this kind of music.

This seems like an extremely interesting and possibly enlightening topic.


Therefore I should probably avoid it...





Did I say that out loud?

2ma2: even existentialists with strong epistemological issues with the concept of knowledge...

AGGHHH!!!!! Too many big words!!!!

And miracles... well, the church has a convenient way to sort out miralces:
"Miracles only happens to those, who can help themselves".
So, basically it means: People, who can help themselves, doesn't need mircales - those, who can't help themselves doesn't deserve miracles!

Not many big words enough!!!!

An agnostic might say, "There is no proof of existence of god, and I don't personally believe in one" or "There is no proof of the existence of god, but I still believe there might be"
-MillsJROSS

Precisely.

An agnostic isn't necessarily someone who refuses to believe in God, but rather someone who refuses to question His existence, because they acknowledge the fact it can't be proven that He does exist, nor that He doesn't.


As MillsJROSS put it, an agnostic can believe in God if they want, or they can not believe in God if they want. But it doesn't mean that they HAVE to, by definition, believe one way or another.

Who knows?


Maybe we should ask God.

God's going to condemn me if I'm wrong, BUT.........



'Miracles'. I don't believe in those either.

I know this goes against what a lot of people (including myself) were taught, and I mean no offense to anyone, but I don't believe that there is any Divine Intervention.


If God is omnipotent, and knows and sees everything, then why would He wait until the last second to stop something bad from happening? Is He a procrastinator?


Perhaps He may prepare certain things (all working within His set of rules, with the 'Faith, not proof' philosophy) for that situation, but I don't think He actually intervenes.

In the General Discussion forum, there are a lot of silly topics, but hopefully no one minds a serious one, as well.


I've noticed a lot of Christians have been claiming things in the Lord's name that I seriously doubt the good Lord had anything to do with.

All due to a little thing called 'free will'. The ability to think for ourselves and choose our own actions.


The best example I can think of is the Youth Group at my church. They went on a missionary trip to Nevada, and came back some few weeks later to tell us all about it in a speech.

They told of how SATAN kicked them out of a park for practising religion in public.

They also spoke of how GOD allowed them to find another church that would help them.

How GOD informed the park director that it was a city park, and they could do whatever they wanted there.

How SATAN still wouldn't let them.


And they ended this speech with, "We knew we were doing the right thing because we were being prosecuted."


Now, while my entire church gives them a standing ovation and a few women behind me are crying because it's apparently some beautiful religious moment, I'm muttering angrily to myself and staying firmly planted in my seat.


I hate to tell them this, but (believe it or not) God isn't responsible for every little good thing, bad thing, mishap, convenience, inconvenience, or event that happens to you in your life.


(my grandmother would kill me if she read that)

Will the battles be in space, also? Or will they mostly be held on the planets?


Also: Are there any bosses/special enemies that might pop up at random times? Or is this just a 'blast your way through and have fun!" kind of game? (not to be insulting, of course)

I hear "As God as my witness" all the time.

Well, not ALL the time, people don't walk down the street shouting it at random times, but I hear it on Tv a lot.


I suppose it makes sense if you're not really listening...



I hate those new 7up commercials.  "Sablyminal (sp) Advertising".

They're not even pronouncing the word correctly, for God's sake!

The Legend of Zelda and the Lampshade of No Real Significance


^_^

I live in Arkansas...



And that's all anyone really needs to know about my location.

The Triforce, from Zelda.


It appears in many of the games, but for some inexplicable reason is always out of Link's reach!



A cat
A tree (not a tree seed, an actual tree)
An Oven
A microwave
A CD Player
Panic! At the Disco
A Disco Ball

Y'know, I once hid a friend's books in various lockers throughout the school and sent him on a scavenger hunt.


The relevance?


None, really. Just thought you'd like to know.




Here's a bad joke for you (no offense is meant to anyone in the following joke, and if offense is taken I apologize deeply for it):

There's this old priest in a Catholic Church, named Father William. He is bathed every Saturday night by Sister Mary, as the Church tradition requires.
However, Sister Mary, an elderly nun, had gotten a cold, and was forced to appoint another, younger nun to bathe him. So she enlists the help of Sister Helen, a beautiful blond her midtwenties.
"You must bathe him on Saturday night so he may be prepared for Sunday." she says to the young nun, "And no matter what, do NOT look at his private parts."
"I won't." promises sister Helen.


Well, next Sunday Sister Mary feels well enough to go to church. She quickly seeks out Sister Helen and asks, "How did it go?"
"Oh, Sister!" Sister Helen exclaims, "I've been saved!
"Really? How did that come about?"
"I was washing him, as you said, and he led my hands below to his private parts, where I averted my eyes. And he said to me, 'This is the key to heaven.' and he told me that if the key fit my lock, the gates of heaven would open. It was painful at first, but he told me all difficult journies are, and soon the gates of heaven opened, and it was truly bliss."
"He told you that?"
"Yes, sister."
"That old devil!" Sister Mary Exclaims angrily, "He told me it was Gabriel's Horn, and I've been blowing on it for forty years!"





God's going to condemn me for that.

As my Uncle Claude once said:


"My mother-in-law and I never got along. She always was griping at me and telling me to do things. One day I got fed up with it and told her I wasn't going to take it anymore.

'You'd better be nice to me!' she said, 'Because YOU are responsible for burying me when I die. And if you're not nice to me, I will dig my way up out of the grave and HAUNT you!'


Well, I got news for her.... I'm going to bury her face down. Let her dig."