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Duhhh, a placebo is hardly going to work unless you claim that it will.

Duh, to you too. Did I ever say anything that would contradict that?

Kind of like how magicians never say "actually, the bunny was in the hat the whole time... you just paid to see me man-handle a rabbit." Are magicians fraudulent because they aren't actually sawing your grandma in half?

Magician and doctor are two entirely different proffesions and you can't really compare magical tricks to medical treatment.

And if the homeopathist... person believes in the cure themselves, it's naturally going to make the patient believe in it too. Which will cure them even better.

And if we all sit in a circle and believe really strongly together we can make ourselves levitate!

I'm not saying psychiatrists are fraudulent quacks, I'm just saying that there isn't much difference between doctors and herbalists and psychotherapists and psychics...

There is a huge difference which is obvious if you just look at those people. If you don't see it though I can explain it to you if you wish.

I know plenty of people who...

I could stop right here. Anegdotal evidence is no evidence.
Dividing medicine into "mainstream" and "alternative" is a false dichotomy. There is only medicine that either works or doesnt work(at which point you cant really call it medicine and homeopathy false under that). "alternative" is the stuff that didnt go through the scientific filter. "all the drugs in the world" is an absolute and unfounded statement and i can't really take it seriously. You may debate the effectiveness of "alternative medicine" all you want. Scientific evidence speaks for itself.

Like you said yourself, homeopathy works just like a placebo. That is, only on a psychological level. But that's not what homeopaths claim. Homeopathy claims actual physical effects. And homeopathic remedies are not exactly cheap.

You're right about the patients confidence in the effectiveness of medical treatment. But mere belief won't help you if the "medicine" you use is just expensive water. Real doctors use placebos along with scientifically proven and working medicine.

About the palm reading thing: i wouldn't pay anyone just to tell me I'm going to have a good day. And people who pay for such services are apparently naive and vulnerable for more dangerous delusions(let's say faith healing). It's not like you can achieve happines only by deluding yourself and living in "blissful ignorance". We don't have to make up stories to enjoy life. The universe is fascinating, mysterious and "magical" enough on it's own.

Homeopathy and palm reading is bullshit and it's fraud to use either to take money from people. It's perfectly justified to be against it.

I'm in the room atm, if anyone wants to keep me company.

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No problem. I just thought it would be good to block it from random non-ags people, but I guess we can live without password protection.

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Awesome. I have to get my soundcard fixed asap.

There is load of freeware programs, like Blender, Anim8or, Wings3D and so on. None of them is as powerful though (not sure about Blender).

Blender is pretty powerful. It can easily compete with commercial 3d software.

I'm going to disagree with the following:

3. Graphic isn't important.
5. Try to make something oryginall.

Point 3: that's an old dogma that many people regurgitate. Graphics may not be the most important thing in a game but that doesn't mean they are not important at all.
Point 5: original doesn't automatically mean good. Simply make something that is enjoyable(for you) to play, doesn't matter if we have seen it before.

I have a hypothetical situation:
Let's say the player is in a friend's apartment where there are multiple pick-up-able object such as pictures, dishes, books, cabinets, dvds, etc. Now the player doesn't have any need for any of these items and they are just background images. So what should you tell the player? "I'm not going to steal from my friend?" "I don't need this item?"

The same would apply for useless inventory items found all around. "I don't need this?" or, let the player pick them up and carry around useless trash?

As some people already said, sometimes it's ok to make it impossible for the player to pick up certain things, if there is a good and rational reason. But honestly, I prefer to carry useless junk than have the player character play the game for me. "I don't need this"-type messages have been overused.

What SSH said. I haven't played that many adventure games and I've seen that too often. Annoying. Don't ever tell the player "You don't need that" or similar stuff. Let him pick up what he wants and figure out himself when, where and how to use it.

The problem is i can draw on paper but iam pritty damn rubbish at drawing on the computer any tips or tricks would be helpfull

Why don't you show us some handdrawn stuff.

 

Nice. Looking forward to it.

A civilization of intelligent squirrels who travels from earth to another solar system to live peacefully...

I think Emerald meant something more inventive than just changing humans to squirrels in Sid Meyers Alpha Centauri.

What's the main characters motivation to save them? It's not that obvious to me.

I like the graphics.