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Oh really? Oh no, My raging teenage fantasies have been about black bars and pixilated boobage. I thought that was natural! You mean girls boobs aren't REALLY made of blocky squares?! (if you can't tell I'm joking, no "lol" is gonna help that.) Now I think the ultimate in pointless censoring is the stuff on some older Japanese hentai. (Yes, I've looked with lust at hentai, shoot me now) I mean they show gratuitous nudity, the weirdest sex on the planet, and then get in a piffle if a strip like a black shoe lace across the base of the glans isn't there, oh no think of the children!

Besides, we love seen all OTHER people suffer, not just woman. Some mentioned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude]
Schadenfreude[/url] And we all have done this as kids, at the very least. I  would maintain that a significant part of the feeling of accomplishment is  at least INDIRECTLY Schadenfreude. Disagree? then what if someone came up to you and said "You WIN!" and gave you a 100 dollars, or local currency equivalent. After you got over the initial suspicion  you would be pretty happy, right? But what if you saw him go to everybody in he met ,and did the same thing. You wouldn't feel as happy, huh. And you would be downright sad, if he went up to someone else and gave them $1000.
Lesson: despite all the urgings Age of Aquarius junkies, plus many religious texts, to win, really win, someone else has to lose! ERGO, a significant part of happieness, (and I mean that in the way the diet pill ads WANT you to think,) comes from watching other people suffer, and not just woman.

I know what you mean, his pouty 5 o'clock shadow makes him look like the bad-boy in a boy-band.
Now in this paintover, all I did was completely redraw the head. nothing else is touched. say what you want about the pose, but its WAY better then the dozens of hyper symmetrical trilby clones running around.
I based the head on how I remember from the book, with a little sam vimes thrown in, as well as the guy who played the priest in the DiCaprio Romeo and Juliet.
you see I remeber the guy having a wife and teenage son, not exactly mr young buck action hero I'm seen here

In my opinion society is gonna go nowhere if it keeps insisting on basing equality on a lack of difference. There is physical and in all likelihood mental differences between men and woman. There is physical , if cosmetic, differences between a man whose ancestors more or less originally  come from Africa and one who comes from Scandinavia. . There are cultural differences between a Buddhist man from japan and a Catholic in south America. But none of these things make racism or sexism or religious wars or discrimination, right.

Some keep saying, well we are all the same on the inside. True enough for the most part. But the differences we do have define us as human beings, make us individuals., we shouldn't just ignore them. But that is what I am seen today. The great melting pot is trying to dissolve away the differences, creating a new monoculture instead of rejoicing in the differences. We need to make a soup, with a common broth, absorbing from others, yet maintaining our cultural identities, and our heritages.  We need to say. this man is not my brother, but he is something more , my friend. We need to be friends with our neighbours, not brothers and sisters. We must have diversity, not inbreeding.
We need to strike a balance between  extreme ironic multiculturalism, were no ones culture is considered important, and a stand cannot be taken, and the evil of integration, which all it does is create a new we and a new other, without learning to live with other. We need that, to learn how to live with the other.

Because though some people might say those differences are unimportant, that is tantamount untrue. Not to mention insulting to the people who hold those beliefs, who have those differences. They find them very important indeed. We need to live with the differences of others and be willing to learn from them, but not become them. We need to learn to happily coexist, not merely tolerate them. We cannot keep saying the differences aren't real, because even the cultural ones, are real to the people who have them.

Lets make soup, not mush and not war.

"God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."
here is an example from an old book, where man is used to refer to all of mankind, humanity, people, not just members of the male gender. Not all translations use Man some us Humans some probably even use People. but it is still a good example of how Man can mean everybody of the Homo Sapiens species in the English language. Going rather off topic, this is why I refer to God as He, even though I belive He isn't just He. I believe God is some sort of person, and we only refer to non-people as 'it'.

Woman are equal to men, but aren't the SAME as men. Now research needs to be done so we can find the difference between the cultural differences and the more fundamental, shall we say, genetic differences. Woman think about things differently then Men, my theory why is that, among other things, our theoretical optimal reproductive strategies differ so much. Now by optimal I don't mean what is best for a society, or for the individual, just what will bring about the most number of genetics one spreads around. For a man, It is the most different woman, for woman it is the most willing to commit man to help raise the best mans genes. Its a question of quality over quantity basically, maybe a bit too basically.

I think thats even more dangerous.why can't they just not allow overdrafts. If your bank account don't have it, then you don't get it, its that simple. plus atm's should have more then 20's in them ( at least thats all they have ever had in any bank I've gone to in canada)

I dont know the old guy up front seems to like it, then again he has a full head of hair.

Oh I don't know, we survived the cold war didn't we? admittedly now its even more dangerous with all the new players in the nuclear "game" but well.. anyway what I hope for is that we get off this tired old earth, take our squabbles elsewhere, immigrate our populations,   as well as our industry, give this old world a break as it most assuredly deserves. Lets go to the moon and actually LIVE there. lets go to Venus and create balloon colonies in atmosphere where breathable air is a lifting gas, and the pressure and temperature is surprisingly earthlike. lets go to mars for lots of water and light gravity so export is a reasonable option. Lets EXPLORE!

No, in fact you are wrong. Our knowledge of physics tells us that faster-than-light travel (aka hyperspace) is, on a very deep level, entirely impossible. Not that "we'll figure it out in a few decades" but that it really, truly is impossible.
Cryostasis isn't hyperspace. Cryostasis is wildly impractical for a large number of other reasons.

okey yes, from where we stand today, hyperspace is impossible and DUH!  cryostasis isn't warp drive. but
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is. admittedly its the barebones of a theoretical possibility that, AS IT STANDS, is completly impractical. but maybe a refinment may lead to a solid theory may lead to prototype may lead to something that may not be warp drive but be just as good. And work is been dome on cryostasis. In fact very short term uses are becoming almost practical for delicate surgical work and holding a pationt who would otherwise suffer from lack of oxygen. Its noty practical now, yes. But work is been done and I think your been a tad pessimistic.
We have walked on the moon, many leading scientests and engineers did say it would be impossible. same with flight, heck I am sure some shamen said the same thing about making fire. On the other hand all those dead bodies stuck in the freezers creeps me out.
brrrr!!!

I sometimes ponder whatever other forms of  intelligent tool using life forms could  take. Some of my faves are centaur like ( think of the advantages, hands and your fast) it allows for diverse body plans from praying mantises, lobsters and crabs, to elephants. (yes I think of elephants as centurion life-forms. Why? Trunks=hands) On a world with high air pressure, I imagine something of a crovid nature would develop perhaps. that is a winged tool user that uses its beak as much as its claws.
oh and actually the uncanny valley is actually when something looks ALMOST like us. when it acts ALMOST like us. want a good example? Most modern 3d game cutsceings and
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I thought this would be about the movie starring Kidman and her face of stone.
Go ahead and read "The Mask" by Stanislav Lem. Not a SF story in the meaning of "aliens and starships", but one that shows how alien we ourselves can be to each other.

Oh I agree, I think each of us is locked in our own skulls, in absolute loneliness, struggling to make some kind communication, with among other things, modulated sound waves and meat sticks. The fact we communicate some portion of our souls/mind desires to others never ceases to amaze me. Its magic to me in the sense of inspiring wonder. If we do ever meet aliens, wether we make them ourselves through engineering or genetics, or meet them upon the yawning gulf of space, we are gonna have a hella time communicating with them. But if we do, I think that though they will not be human they will be people, with goals and loves and hates that will be all there own, and there will be something familiar too. They are most likely to still be organisms, despite all that 2001 monolith, science gods stuff. And organisms wether asexual or multisexual to a point beyond human comprehension, will still reproduce, still feed, still love still hate, even if they do it in ways we can't understand. They ,I hope, will be people. I also fear this. For we, with all our damning ways, are also people.

yes I've read xenocide, great book, Enders game and the one were they discover ftl travel I didn't like the end of Enders game felt like it squashed two characters into one. anyway, ya its impractical, but that's not the wonderment. SF is based on the what  IF... question.. I actually liked the star trek human like aliens. okay sure yes its so wrong technically, but what it did do was make it easy for the aliens to be people, characters, not metaphors nor space goblins. and about ftl for real? Well according to the laws of physics, as we know them yes, complete bogus. but the atomic bomb would be complete bogus to a mid 19th century physicists, atoms after all were the "indivisible ones" and maybe not.   the Alcubierre drive is completely impractical at this point, but maybe there is a way of weakening space so that it bends more easily.

This thread is MEANT to discuss any questions and ponderings any people, and AGS users, might have,about aliens.  Lets say we finely meet some, what will we do then? Will they exterminate us, will they answer all our big problems? Will we even be able to understand them? Will they in any way be like us? Some say they will be benevolent, and I think that's bull. But I don't think they will be slavering monsters from beyond, cuz we are not slavering monsters and we've barely got our feet off the ground. AS a personal though I think they will likely be benevolent, TO THEMSELVES, but will be very resource hungry. But what are your thoughts? Are some  UFO's alien spacecraft? who knows? I think its most likely bogus, but hey I could be wrong. One thing that irks this Homo Sapiens is the common reason to live in harmony with the rest of the human race is... that we are all brothers. All well and good, FOR US. But what about when we meet something that is in no way related to us WHATSOEVER. What then? Does that give us license to kill them all, does it make them not PEOPLE?. These and other questions as they arise are what I hope to talk to you all about. SO get a chair and start typing, could be a long night.

With the right music, you can change the mood from erotic to sexy to sleazy and use the same graphics.  Done right, that could be a powerful part of the game.

or it can seem like an ad for AXE

I saw the german version before the english one came out, I am not sure which one made me laugh more! ( I don't know german)

I agree it is more sexy, granted its probebly not more titilating for most guys but its still more SEXY. its like a virtual old style burlesque without LITERLY being one. A good TEASE can be very effective.

ever see "the meaning of life?" that had christmas AND boobs, dozens in fact, at the same time! If those geniuses can do dozens, I am sure you can stick at least one in there.

Western society seems to allow violance more then sex. We have had bloody balleds andslaughtering sega for eons but sex didn't enter into it on them same level. I wonder why? maybe its the climate for northern europe.

what's his occupation, he looks to me like that alien bouncer you don't want to get on the wrong side off. Since an alien doesn't look human, exaggeration helps with referencing the emotions.