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You have the gift of expressing propperly and in short what I think, my friend.

Are you using this as an excuse for practising? Because then, ok, use this thread and learn...

If you are using this thread for getting a good animation, functional and that is going to look perfect in a game, come on! Stop... You did it, you archieved it with the last edit, move on and start another paint for your game.

Glad to amuse you! ^_^ Agreed, nobody can justify this.

But we can do something about it...Apparently, things like that happens when people from the "West" go to Islamic countries. CJ posted "If you're travelling abroad, you always have to take into account local laws and customs, and be aware that if you break them you will be subject to their punishments"

Nightfable had to wear a shaddor when in Iran.

Ain' t now the fucking time US to make THEM to take our local laws and customs when they COME here? Australia is showing the path. Ain' t you happy with girls showing their calfs (EDIT: Calves, thanks Tuomas)? Go to your country! Nobody put a gun in your head to come here! Can't you stand girls without veil? Go to your country, with your camels and with your only-eyes-can-be-seen girls. Do you think that shaddor is a personal choice by your wife that harms no one and you are NOT going to try to impose it to us, your hosts? YOU ARE WELCOME! You can' t imagine how welcomed you' ll be.

How can I have the guts to post this having friend muslims members who can read this? Easy... Because this is not aimed to them. Babar and Gord10 behave normally in their countries and wouldn't be "noticeable" in the bad sense, if they visit us, or will complain if a girl shows her legs or her hair.

This is for those who force a man to marry with a goat because he has kept extra matrimonial relations with it. This is for those who force her wife to wear a black burka in summer. This is for those who burn embassies because of 5 or 6 silly doddles in a magazine 5,000 kilometres away from their country. This is not aimed to muslims. This is aimed to idiots covering theirselves in a nice culture to spread their idioticy.

Specially for them: Idiots!

If somebody wants to write a simillar essay with "idiots" using cristianism to spread their idioticy, I will concurr, as well. 

SSH, one quick question...

You said "In the USA, if she'd cut up a US flag to make a bear some clothes, she could be arrested, too..." In a clumpsy deffense of the possibility of a woman being lashed 40 times for nothing.

Imagine you read the news "A man arrested for dishonoring the american flag"

Would you authomatically think "Well, in Sudan you could be lashed 40 times for dishonoring Mahoma"?

Because, if you won' t, then it means you have some kind of fixation with America.

If your mind directly goes to "how can be this used to bash America?" at any little aspect, with any news, with every little thing you see, that would mean you have some kind of mental disorder. Presecutory mania, paranoia, something like that.

Relax man... Stop thinking in America every time you see that the World is not perfect, because, you know? In some bad things going on... Americans are not involved AT ALL!!! BELIEVE ME! Pass page! Go to the light!

The day we (Europeans) stop using America as "the joker card", using them as an excuse for everything going bad, and focus in us and how to be better, we will be in position to kick some Yankee asses!!! Till that moment, we will go on twisting and twisting in our slow spiral of decadency!!! Till the moment we stop making books like "We never were there" best sellers, in spite of trying to reach Mars before they do we won' t reach anywhere. The day we change "Haha... The Yankees pissed it off again"  for "What can I do to beat those fuckin' Americans?"  We will Rule the World!!! We will recover our lost dignity, we will be unbeatable!!!

ARE YOU WITH ME, ANDREW??? ARE YOU WITH ME EUROPEANS FELLAS!!! COME ON! SING WITH ME!

EUROPE!!!

P.S: What was this thread about??? 

EDIT: Haha! This post was suppossed to be in "Teacher insulting Islam or something" by Meowster. Never keep two windows with different threads opened, and go to eat before posting!

Oh, Helm, that makes me sad... But well, I don' t want you to be in a place that is unpleasant for you, I love you too much (Yup, I love this guy).

Hope to go on chatting in msn or Irc if we coincide there, and seeing you in mittens.

***Hugs, my friend***

I like AR chat sepparate!!!

... should I go wake my husband up? I can't keep my eyes off of the window...

I wish I owned some kind of weapon right about now...

That's what I get for not going to sleep at a reasonable hour.

a) You married?  :'(
b) Buy a Taser gun.. they are working neat in Canada lately.
c) Use aloperidol.

Come on, make a short brief... what is this post about?

Do you really want us to read that???

Ok, now we understand us each other (me understands you, basically...)

a) I don' t see that it's balanced right now, again, perceptions... who knows, maybe yours is right, maybe mine.
b) Let's assume that, Yeah! Now it's more balanced and it's easier for conservatives to express their opinions. You have told that for you that is ok, but maybe some people might want more security. Security for what? For expressing only one current of opinion? That was not security, my friend!  I think I havent' t totally understood your post, unless you mean something like:

"Now that there is more balance, people can put the guard down, therefore, now, you can see more stupidities than before"

I might agree with that.

Ohhhh, RickJ, I think I am lost in translation! In Spanish, Liberal and Conservative (Liberal and conservador) is the same word!   So, in English, a liberal is a word for those who are left oriented?

I think you must PM me, my friend, for explaining it to me again, or better, post it here for general laugh at the silly Spanish boy  :. Do you mean that before almost everyone would clap "left" opinions and that almost everyone would critic "right" ones?

I agree that that happened before... But that stills happens now, IMO. Anyway, I don' t see how a change in that attitude is wrong, though, since making an enviroment more pleasant to express opinions must be IMO good. (Unless you mean that there is more room now for "extreme right" opinions, that has to be allways censorable...)

[Political Winds of Change]

• Political Winds of Change - I use the terms "Liberal" and "Conservative" here loosely because they mean different things in different countries.  It seems to me that when I first joined the AGS forums "Liberal" opinions went mostly unchallenged and "Conservative" opinions were few and heavily criticized.   I have a sense that this is no longer the case and wonder if true what impact it would have on the forum?
  
  P.S. Nacho, thanks for the kind words
  

Hehe, you' re welcome... To Caesar what belongs to Caesar.

But I don' t understant the first part... Do you mean that it is easier to tell in this forums that you are liberal or conservative now?

HOW HARD WAS BEFORE???  

And I can' t realise how being easier to express an opinion (liberal opinions, in this case) can be bad to the forums? Maybe I understood the whole sentence in the oposing way it means... sorry. ^_^

Man! (Or woman) Here we have a member who has studied hard the basis of pixel art! Lovely graphics, lovely story... let' s see how it ends, but looks very promising. Good luck with this.

I don't think I ever posted immaturely or was ever disrespected or anything? I think I was just another guy. What I meant was that the attitude towards new members was fairly unwelcoming at the time and saying "Well if you just stick it out and post maturely that will be cool." doesn't really cut it if it is not the fault of the new member wanting to post, just that the current members are skeptical of new members joining thinking that everyone is just another Internet lame-ass who can be treated like jerks until they leave so that us, the elitist regulars can keep to ourselves.

Anyway I don't want to come across as a jerk already after just 4 posts on my new account but that was the impression I got the first time round. Maybe it's different now.

I think that your honestity will be appreciated and you' ll probably becoming more popular (in the good sense) that you would without posting, but what I meant was not "Maybe you posted like a jerk with your first account!" but "Maybe you didn' t tried enough" or "Maybe you had an intial (and false) feeling of not being welcomed, but you were".

Good luck with your second account, though! 

I think that no one can say "I REALLY tried to fit here, be I only got bad replies". God, even the most unpopular member finally ended being respected and having a reputation after having a bit of patience and posting in a mature manner (Flukeblake).

Oh! Quick European release! Thanks for the link and the info, Candall.

In the USA?

I' ve been like 20 times close to do this very same post, SSH. The problem is not the number of new threads, IMO, but the quality. Seems that nowadays most of them are "I have a blog", or "Somebody knows this website?" or "My screen has a blue blob in a corner, how can I solve it?".

I think that the reason is that heavy weights do not longer post, at least in an active way. No Helms, no DGs, not much Andail... The only posts that results interestings now (as far as I remember, maybe later I will remember more) are RickJ's. Apparently threads like this appear each two or three years, so, probably the level is just the same as it was, but maybe some of the "oldies" have a bit nostalgia of the way we "remember" the forums before.

Somebody knows about the results in percentage?