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Reply to Elemental: AI difficulty levels in Elemental Dev Journals JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Lavitage" reply="30" id="2634774"]If difficulty levels only modify what the AI does rather than the player, one option you could consider is allowing each AI in the game to have its own difficulty level. The standard method of "pick one difficulty, every AI gets its bonuses or handicaps" would still be the default, but there'd be somewhere on the AI players screen where you could pick on an individual basis. We could play games like setting one AI to the very highest level with al

Reply to Gravity is Wrong in Physics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Can you imagine any kind of possible (or impossible) evidence that would disprove "Intelligent Design"?[/quote] Assuming the "designer" isn't some omnipotent invisible energy being who goes "POOF!, Now life exists on this ball of dirt", ID can be disproven by the lack of life anywhere else in the universe.

Reply to Poster Children for Insanity in Religion JoeUser Forums

But unless you can prove beyond reasonable doubt that scripture is true, all it is is propaganda from your choice of religion. Note, I'm not picking on just christianity with this statement but all organizations currently recognized by most governments as religions.

Reply to Poster Children for Insanity in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Leauki" reply="116" id="2630001"] [quote] How is creationism any less tautological? How isn't it more tautological? All you have to support your claim is the propaganda put out by the church! Give me a trillion dollars and the technology to extend my life to at least 1100 years old, and I can provide proof that evolution happens. Could you say the same about creationism? [/quote] You are making several mistakes. Cr

Reply to Poster Children for Insanity in Religion JoeUser Forums

How is creationism any less tautological? How isn't it more tautological? All you have to support your claim is the propaganda put out by the church! Give me a trillion dollars and the technology to extend my life to at least 1100 years old, and I can provide proof that evolution happens. Could you say the same about creationism?

Reply to Obama’s “Hope & Change” now seems “Hopeless & Changing” in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

You mistake being able to read the general alignment of this site with following the democrat party line. As it turns out I'm a registered republican, but I have a distinct lack of interest in politics, or the viewpoints of any of the major parties.

Reply to Obama’s “Hope & Change” now seems “Hopeless & Changing” in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

On the other hand, if it had been a republican president who forced this down your throat, you would be singing his praises.

Reply to Poster Children for Insanity in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="72" id="2627309"] OK, let's look at world population from the Evolutionist's timeframe. They claim humans have been here for 1 million years. So then, in a million years, with a modest estimate of 2.2 children per average family, the world population would have grown to 10 to the 2070 power. That's one with 2070 zeros after it. That number has no name and is so large that our entire universe could contain only a small fraction of people.

Reply to Poster Children for Insanity in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="58" id="2626277"] The info comes from Ariel A. Roth's "Some Questions about Geochronology" in Origins, Vol 13, No. 2, pgs. 59-60 He addresses # 5 above basically saying that taking all these factors into consideration, the population of the earth going back to Noe suggests the earth is young not 4:5 billion years old. [/quote] Ok, I missed this part because I was busy writing rebuttals to the points in the yo

Reply to Brits vote iphone 8th greatest invention ever. in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

They'd be on there too, but most inventions of the modern age hinge on electricity and ever-shrinking circuitry.

Reply to Poster Children for Insanity in Religion JoeUser Forums

responses to the points listed in the video 1) Does not take into account i) Capture of the alpha(helium) particles within the elements that release alpha particles by radioactive decay, especially considering the necessity of a positively ionized element to acqure electrons, and alpha particles are easily stopped by a sheet of paper. ii) Capture within the same non permeable rock as natural gas. iii) Blow off of the upper layers of the atmosphere by Solar

Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

He was going to purchase and mod it before it was revealed that it was going to requre Steamworks.

Reply to The Chatroom in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Twilight_Storm" reply="3536" id="2625605"]Name who has this conversation and from what game for another(Anyone can play): So, do you ever miss those conversations we used to have in the elevators-? No. Oh, come on, it was great! We'd all ask you about life in the flotilla, and you'd tell us how much you missed your home- I have a shotgun. Right...Let's talk about something else... Not the exa

Reply to Poster Children for Insanity in Religion JoeUser Forums

Explain to me how having an initial population of 2 with limited genetic variability as, assuming the creation story to be true, Eve was essentially a clone of Adam, is capable of sustaining itself past the 3rd or 4th generation without every single child having an extraordinary number of genetic diseases. By the 7th or 8th generation, they would have to breed nearly constantly to even have a hope of increasing the population and by the 50th generation, humanity would have eradicated

Reply to Poster Children for Insanity in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="47" id="2625434"] Apply that to teaching students about the Declaration of Independence which contains the word "Creator"...do students have to believe in the Creator to be taught the DofI? [/quote] No, they just have to know that the majority of the western world world at the time of the writing of the DoI, including the English Empire, from whence the majority of the population of the fledgeling US came from as eithe

Reply to Poster Children for Insanity in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote who="KFC Kickin For Christ" reply="42" id="2624385"] You can't just put some atoms in a test tube and generate life.[/quote] The problem I have with this statement in particular is that it has absolutely nothing to do with evolution. The theory of abiogenesis on the other hand matches the event you are describing here. The fact is, there is no such thing as rapid macroevolution, and any expe

Reply to Court rules out some life sentences for juveniles in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

[quote] and they fully understand the crimes they commited and the consequences thereof[/quote] Key words in that paragraph. How do you make the determination that they actually do fully understand the crime the committed and the consequences of it? Shove them in a room and have them taught why what they did was wrong before the trial just so you can thow them into the already overcrouded american prison system forever?

Reply to Turning off uninhabitable planets in Dark Avatar Stardock Forums

I could have sworn there was an option to turn the frequency of extreme planets way down if not all the way off during map creation.

Reply to Can Stardock PLEASE buy the rights for Warcraft RTS? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Nah it'll be handwaved as a dream sequence, or start several hundred years after the events of WoW, or have the standard alternate timeline plot.

Reply to I just pre-ordered Elemental and am wondering how to particate in the beta program in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

IIRC at the moment the beta is closed, but Brad said it would open again at Beta 2.

Reply to Fox News considered a "Trustworthy Source Of daily New"? Who would have thought. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I had looked at the graph before I posted, but it still doesn't change the basic statistics principle that in an entirely voluntary survey, only those who care will respond resulting in skewing towards one station or another. So unless this particular portion of the poll had several people go around to homes throughout the country and force people to answer truthfully, there is no way that it is going to be an entirely accurate assesment of the trustworthyness of any of these stations. H

Reply to Fox News considered a "Trustworthy Source Of daily New"? Who would have thought. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Better question is was it a voluntary response survey? If, as I believe it was, it was completely voluntary to respond to, then only those who care will answer, resulting in skewing. In this case it is reasonable to assume that fox fanboys flooded the poll to make their station look good. Then again I dont really care about any of the "major" news stations so...

Reply to Do you think the average American is stupid? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

[quote quoting="post"]Do you believe most people here in America are stupid? [/quote] Yes, but then again I think everyone is stupid.

Reply to Goodie hut shield in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Well I assume that soverigns have some basic artistic ability, so they painted the seal on themselves.

Reply to Beta close to new members? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

email [email protected] . They should be able to help you out. Also check to make sure that you have show prerelease versions checked in your main menu (top left corner of impulse)