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Forum Games / Re: Ask a stupid Qusestion get a stupid answer

« on: July 03, 2008, 04:34:47 PM »

Ignorantly.

Did colors exist in the 1950s?

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Forum Games / Re: The one-word story

« on: July 03, 2008, 04:32:57 PM »

are

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Fan Creations / Re: SMSLFL

« on: July 02, 2008, 11:57:06 PM »

But  the street lamps put Mario at a higher altitude, where the air is thinner. Now he has to finish the level before he passes out! Also because the wounds never healed up and he's still losing blood.

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Abortion

« on: July 02, 2008, 11:46:46 PM »

See, the reason I say it's better to kill a baby or mentally ill patient than a normal human is that regardless of what you say, they can't appreciate their 'human life' the way a regular being can. Look at it this way: if you were forced to kill one person out of a group of three, who would you kill? A newborn baby, a 10 year old boy who's just starting to understand the world around him, or a 30 year old mother supporting her two kids? If you have any sense of moral well being, you'd kill the baby. The baby is thoughtless, mindless, it can't understand it's being killed, and it isn't missing much.

Even if it is better to kill a baby in that situation, does that justify killing one for convenience? In an abortion, it's not a choice between killing the baby or killing the mother, it's a choice between killing the baby or having the mother go through a few months of discomfort as a result of her irresponsibility (again, ignoring the <1% of abortions that result from rape or incest), and then giving the baby to one of the thousands of people who want one. Is a baby's life really that worthless?

I believe everyone has the right to exist, and that if we don't protect that right -- especially for the ones who have no way of protecting themselves -- we have failed as a civilization.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Which games should I buy?

« on: July 02, 2008, 11:39:45 PM »

I'll have to third The World Ends With You. Amazing game. Also, Sonic Rush and Sonic Rush Adventure are pretty good, if you ignore the story segments.

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Forum Games / Re: A Mario Story: You Add ONE Sentence to the Tale II

« on: July 02, 2008, 02:40:46 PM »

Little did he know that very soon, perhaps even in the very next sentence, he would discover precisely how box-wetting gave meaning to his entire life.

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Forum Games / Re: The Pointless Topic!

« on: July 02, 2008, 01:43:20 PM »

Best. Soap. Ever.

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Forum Games / Re: A Mario Story: You Add ONE Sentence to the Tale II

« on: July 02, 2008, 01:10:15 PM »

"Snake is-a The Rock?" asked Doc Kirby, imitating Mario McFly's Italian accent, which Mario McFly has despite his Irish name.

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Abortion

« on: July 02, 2008, 12:59:51 PM »

I'd be honored to save a child from death, though it would probably be better to give him to one of the thousands of families far more prepared to adopt. Seeing as I have no steady cashflow, no residence of my own, a limited amount of maturity, and massive student loans, I know I'm really not ready to raise a child yet -- which is one of the reasons I choose not to have sex.

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Abortion

« on: July 02, 2008, 01:26:26 AM »

You don't think it's worse to kill an innocent, defenseless victim?

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Forum Games / Re: The Pointless Topic!

« on: July 02, 2008, 01:09:42 AM »

I just noticed that the sprites of the Mad Goombas from Super Princess Peach look a lot like the Goombas from Great Mission To Rescue Princess Peach.



I could illustrate this better if anyone on the internet had the Mad Goomba sprite, but the unused Glad Goomba on the left there is pretty close. And I finally got a CT.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Chrono Trigger DS confirmed

« on: July 02, 2008, 01:01:45 AM »

WOO!

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Abortion

« on: July 02, 2008, 12:53:01 AM »

I dunno. Pro-life people, I just don't get it. A fetus isn't a human being. It's a human fetus. I will give it to them that yes, it's a form of life and that ending a form of life is morally wrong, but still! Abortion is not murder! I'm so sick of hearing that.

Did you read my thing? Where did I go wrong?

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Abortion

« on: July 01, 2008, 08:52:37 PM »

60% A, 40% C

Well, for A, provide your rebuttal to my arguments that it is. For C, please don't do that. We're trying to have a debate about abortion, not religion.

Appeals to religion are invalid, except for defining your own PERSONAL(READ: not mine or anyone else's) moral code. Nice try, though.

Actually no, but that's not what the debate is about or what I'm doing, so never mind.

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the government is as secular as it is a democracy. I think there's a reference to religion on both our nation's pledge and our currency.

...Neither of which refers to a specific religion, or, more importantly, was created by the founders. There is separation of church and state, meaning there is no forced state religion and no formal ties between the government and any state church. On the other hand, allowing churches to exist and to espouse their views in public, listening to their petitions, and having religious adherents in the government is part of being a democracy.

Explain how -science- exclaims that a faetus is exactly the same as a person. To me, a faetus is as much a human as, I don't know, a pine cone is an actual pine tree. I'll acknowledge the last point about the religious right, though. I'm just bitter.

Basic science shows that the fetus is a living homo sapiens, with its own DNA distinct from its mother's. Logic and philosophy show, IMO, that none of the differences between a fetus and an adult human make it less of a person and justify killing it (my main argument is over here, for reference.

A pine cone would be a better analogy for a sperm or an egg on its own. Once there's a fertilized zygote, it's more like a sapling -- just like a tree, except a lot smaller. But really, analogies to plants are inadequate, since we don't think killing trees is that bad anyway. (Also, it leaves out the fact that 99% of the people cutting down their trees planted the trees themselves)

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General Chat / Re: The HOPEFUL thread: Be happy here!

« on: July 01, 2008, 03:29:56 PM »

Maybe a tennis RPG?