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I mean shit as in matter, not as in badly done matter, so it was supposed to be in no way offensive but merely some jive-talk from the hood.

This shit still running? ._.

I can see minecraft players building the great cities of the future just by co-operating and piling dirt.

I must say, that ateliers beautiful, even cheesy words are the best this thread has come up with in a long while.

and in Japan it was the children that caused the bombings?

You're telling me an German infant in a cot was an active and morally culpable participant in the war effort?

Yes, because his daddy was enthusiastically off to war knowing that wife and baby were safe and secure at home.   

So in the very sense all of the children in the US were also responsible of dropping the bomb and all the people in Germany who hated the Nazis (yes, believe me, there were some), were all responsible of the genosides? That's just stupid. Active and culpable doesn't mean someone who takes a vacation in Hawaii while Al Qaida flies planes into WTC towers. But according to you logics, these people are the ones, that are part of a nation that gives the opponent a reason to act as they do. If it were so, we'd all be responsible of everything everywhere.

I'd vote for Dualnames for not only describing coffee, but bringing a view to it that was completely new for me.

Well of course the whole purpose of hanging around in discos and bars is to get effin drunk, otherwise they wouldn't serve alcohol

Well, those people are not to be taken seriously then, because as most other university towns in northern Europe, clubs of Tampere are packed with single girls, dancing with each other or sadly waiting until their so-called boyfriends get drunk enough to make a move. At least this is what I saw this summer when visited friend there. What do they need prostitutes for?

Funny, how when during all those years I lived in Tampere it felt like quite the opposite. The city has a big tech university that covers at least 50% of the youth there, and little for girls 20+ to do. So what I've experienced in Tampere is that usually there's just guys everywhere, too much sausage on the dance floor, you know?

The swastika, red-black-and-white, the iron cross, Scwartze Sonne, the Vicroty Salute, the term "Final solution"...

These are all symbols and terms that can mean many things, but which most people are silly enough to still connect to the long-gone Reich. I do not see why this needs to be. I find it just plain silly how people are still scared of the symbols like they are the name of Voldemort from Harry Potter. "Shhhhh, Harry! You don't say that name or He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named will return with his silly mustache and murder all the Jews!"

I can relate to this. I've been studying freedom of opinion and speech in Germany after the war, but realised quickly, that there really aren't anything published under said label except for essays on nazi-zeit Meinungsfreiheit, which we all know is like beating a dead horse. Of course people associate images and sounds to those feelings that they're most often connected to. If a logo reminds you of a group, company etc, it's good and works. These symbols became the symbols of fear for a lot of people, and the idea has been passed on in history books. It is easy for neo-nazis to use these again because they already have the expected meaning and thus need no explaining. For example the rainbow wasn't an obvious gay-thing until it became so common, that you don't see straight nazi-arians wearing rainbow t-shirts. It's the same with the US flag. It's not something you just put as the logo of your company because it's already in use and has a meaning, to all people on earth, most probably. These are highly influential symbols that always deliver the same message. If Germany for example started putting swastikas up everywhere on red flags and tanks and cannons, people would react accordingly. They couldn't say "it's just a logo" in a world, where every color even has its own meaning.

But I guess all is well as long as you don't found a party or something.

Hell, in Finland there is this thing caled "piraattipuolue", which is basically a party for software pirates who "defend people's rights".

LINK: http://www.piraattipuolue.fi/english

I know one of the guys leading a group here in Tampere, he's actually hoping to get RID of copyright laws as "they hamper peoples freedom, man". A man actively participating in a legit party in Finland is seriously saying "we should not have to pay for Windows".

Also, one of the candidates of this party for the cabinet is a pornstar who actually filmed and distributed an election porn flick on the internet (google it if you dare: "vaaliporno 2011", it's so ridiculous its funny!).

Me starting a political party in this country doesn't seem that far fetcheched now, does it? I'll have to look into that in a few years.

The same people in Tampere told the newspapers, that we'd be able to provide work for every immigrant woman, if we make them all prostitutes. And everyone will be happy, the get money, we get laid.

So, what's up with the riots? It's all done by now, right?

It's because all them new wave people keep eating lettuce in stead of good old meat, and all the cows are left around to fart their asses off.

Could be that when making juice, a lot of sugar is added. If your body doesn't like it, it might protest Dunno... useless post nr. 1.

why women comedians aren't funny?

Because men don't like to hear jokes about periods, pregnancy tests, weeing and peeing in your panties and shopping. Or cleaning your house in god awful tights, where only the tights seems to be the joke. Yeah, I've seen a couple of episodes of smack the pony.

  Someone I know suggested we take all hoodies out of the country  and onto an isolated island on the Pacific... Now, wouldn't that be great? Until they'd figured how to build boats and come back we'd get ourselves few years of peace and quiet...

Battle Royale, anyone? But hide th cameras, or they'll steal them

I hear Tuesday night was not so bad and the locals say it's quite safe to go around, especially in tourist areas...

If in fact, Great Britain has become a totalitarian state and an unable country like Russia at its best, such riots are expected, and then there needs to be a solution to them. Either you learn how to extinguish your peoples opinions day after day or you find out what's wrong, like civilized countries do, and try to work it out. Hell, the society is there because of the people, and if they keep fucking with them, things like this are bound to happen. And this can be considered an educational example. No, you can't go shooting them, you'll have another riot, which you'll then shoot down again. You'll start a culture of riots and chaos like in countries that really have nothing to do with democracy. GB is going there, fast too, but the cure is to weigh the options, why are the people acting up as they are and what can be done? The solution is a national change in politics, in the approach, that is what makes everyone frustrated, and NOT by shooting them until they go home, lick their wounds and come back again to collect some more rubber.

At this point the guy shot down in his car means nothing, people are angry at the ones who tell them what and how to do, and it's going to continue until something is done. You can't give someone a reason to fight and then complain when he's doing so.

He's good, but the composition is dull. Would be ok, if it played with some end credits of a movie or something.

Tame it with the meat. It's your flight back home.

It's basically the same thing with books and movies, art pieces and songs, everything. You want to make sure, that everyone will be able to figure out what your game is like. For example, a game about Stargate SG-1 should not be named "space-game" because it'd lose the fanbase. There's much to gain with a name like the one mentioned first. Also, if you're planning to make sequels, you should have a common name for all of them. In this case something like *insert name here* -quest I-IV would work just fine, and you could make sure, that people who loved the first one would also try out the next one.

If not here are some suggestions. Pick a place, a character or a specific time that is a theme in the game. Use it to give a hint of what's going to come. You might even want to emphasize the motives of the story rather than the protagonist, as in "The hound of the Baskervilles, where Sherlock Holmes isn't even mentioned. The name isn't obvious, but it gives you a clue, that there's a dog in it, which will be pretty much clear from the beginning too, so it's not too revealing. A name like Medieval: total war let's you know, the time period, so you'll find ti easy to picture the scenery without playing, and of course, the Total War is to show you that it's not just a feudal regime simulator. Monkey Island refers directly to a motive in the story and the ending scene that the player is expecting throughout the game.

If you have the opportunity, you could pick up a known phrase or even an idiom and alter it a bit to sound appropriate or even funny, and most importantly, like something that applies to your game. Ben There & Dan That is a great example of this. You immediately realize that these sound like the names of the characters, and the name of the game sticks to you because it's easy and often used. The Tale of Two Kingdoms is great because most, well, some will immediately notice, that it suggests to Charles Dickens's novel A Tale of Two Cities (at least that's what I get). If you have a political theme, you could try a political book/film, if a fantasy theme, why not try using some fantasy novel name.

In the end, what you want from your name is for it to be remembered and easily linked to its context. If it's a game about a man trying to get out of a room, don't name it "James the Clowns happy hamburger surprise".

To me helipad sounds like something we should check out. It's probably a small place that we can use for escaping later, while at the farm, the story will just go on, and we'll soon forget about this place, just like with all the doors int he hallway. So I vote for helipad