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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Ludious wrote: »
    I thought GOG was verboten and they lost all of their good will with their little charade.

    Planescape. Motherfucking. Torment.

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Anyone who thinks that in today and age that black people are as "smart" on average as white people is dumb.

    Anyone who thinks this is because of genetics is a bloody moron.

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    You know I never did play planescape torment.

    I'm afraid of how well it may or may not have aged.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    It was a terrible piece of marketing, but it definately worked at dragging my attention to it.

    Needs more Theme Hospital.

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    People tend to overreact to things because assholes will cling to an incredibly insignificant point and try to base large-scale politics and social structures on it.

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  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    was there ever some mod that brought Torment up to modern resolutions?

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  • ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    I thought GOG was verboten and they lost all of their good will with their little charade.

    I wasn't aware of such a thing. They apologized, in any case, and acknowledged how they handled the transition was poor. People are certainly excited about Planescape: Torment becoming available on GOG.

    wait what?

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    fuck gendered marketing
  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    You know I never did play planescape torment.

    I'm afraid of how well it may or may not have aged.

    It has aged fine. Torment is all about the story anyways, which is ageless; the gameplay itself has never been that impressive.

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  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator mod
    edited September 2010
    Arch wrote: »
    Its really like you missed my point entirely Will- yes these differences may exist on the "genetic" level. But what does that mean, aside from the simple fact that it does exist?

    Too often the argument line goes "Look, I know you don't like this but it is the cold scientific truth that X is better than Y at Z activity! So learn to deal with it!"

    When really it should be "Statistically, individuals in X group have been better than Y at Z activity, and there is a genetic basis for this." I mean there is a subtle, but real difference in the two statements.

    well, i prefer the tone of the second example you gave, of course

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  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Ludious wrote: »
    was there ever some mod that brought Torment up to modern resolutions?

    it looks just fine

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  • MikeManMikeMan Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I thought my cat and I were having a very nice cuddle, but then he launched hard off my boob.
    which boob

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  • Psycho Internet HawkPsycho Internet Hawk Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Will I seriously hope you are not going to start arguing the Bell Curve.

    no, i'm not. i didn't read the book.

    but i remember when that book was published, the reflexive response from the right was to say "well yeah we know that black people are stupid" and the reflexive response from the left was to try to nibble away at his statistics or data.

    and it basically seemed like an enormous exercise in confirmation bias on both sides. the left was not going to ever accept evidence of any kind of cognitive difference between races, and the right was going to do the opposite, even if it meant having to eat some crow about how smart askinazi jews are.

    Yes. This is because it's pretty much goosery to accept the idea of a "smart gene" that has any sort of prominent role in how people perform. Unless you assume that most of the Irish and Jews in America just randomly mutated at the beginning of the 20th century.

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I'm colorblind. People tell me I'm white and I believe them because 'da hood' make me scared.

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  • WitchdrWitchdr Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    So Will more Halos tonight?

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    "Look, all I know is that this cord was plugged into my house and your house was glowing like the freakin' sun. So, I put two and two together there and decided that you're pissing me off." -Carl Brutananadilewski

    In regards to the advocates of his former empire: “I was going to have them all executed… the Royal Advocate talked me out of it.” -Shadowthrone (Emperor Kellanved)

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  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Arivia wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    was there ever some mod that brought Torment up to modern resolutions?

    it looks just fine

    800x600 or whatever the max is makes me puke

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  • ArchArch Neat-o, mosquito! Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Fartacus wrote: »
    Yeah, this

    I mean, IQ probably does have some genetic basis, but the idea that differences in IQ would somehow correspond to the entirely unscientific 19th century constructions of race is an idea so stupid it would be hilarious if it weren't so commonly believed

    so why do physically provable things like tsachs or sickle-cell anemia or hypertension or blood type correspond to these entirely unscientific 19th century constructions of race?

    i'm not really convinced that race is that much of a thing, or that classical groupings make much sense. but it feels to me that it's being kind of desperately disregarded.

    You are missing the point in some cases- Sickle cell for instance corresponds not to "classical groupings" but more to geographical location. Which also correlates to "race".

    In north america, for instance, sickle cell is slowly being selected out of the population as it confers no advantage.

    The fact that sickle cell corresponds with being african american is not because they are african american, but because they came from an area where having sickle cell was a favorable trait.

    Do you get the point I am making? I don't think it is very clear, but I don't know how else to phrase it.

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  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Ludious wrote: »
    was there ever some mod that brought Torment up to modern resolutions?

    Yes, there are widescreen mods and high-res UI mods, etc. There is information in the GOG thread.

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  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Elldren wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    I thought GOG was verboten and they lost all of their good will with their little charade.

    I wasn't aware of such a thing. They apologized, in any case, and acknowledged how they handled the transition was poor. People are certainly excited about Planescape: Torment becoming available on GOG.

    wait what?

    What what.

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Elldren wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    I thought GOG was verboten and they lost all of their good will with their little charade.

    I wasn't aware of such a thing. They apologized, in any case, and acknowledged how they handled the transition was poor. People are certainly excited about Planescape: Torment becoming available on GOG.

    wait what?

    GOG isn't dead. Long live GOG.

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  • GimGim a tall glass of water Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Elldren wrote: »
    I want to see that film

    20081203045redflagongre.jpg

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  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator mod
    edited September 2010
    Arch wrote: »
    Will I don't think I ever proposed a model of "Your product, only free."

    I was simply wondering why, in this age of instant information transfer, it takes so long for legitimate copies of translated media to appear.

    You have really ascribed a sinister motive (piracy) to my wonderings! I don't want to pirate things, I have money! I would buy them if they were released in a format that more engenders itself to the speed at which I consume media (i.e. very quickly, and impatiently)

    no, i didn't mean to say that you are pirating this stuff.

    but what you're asking is why they can't keep up with the pirated fansubs

    and i guess my answer was "business concerns and also why try to compete directly against something that is your product but free?"

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  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Elldren wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    I thought GOG was verboten and they lost all of their good will with their little charade.

    I wasn't aware of such a thing. They apologized, in any case, and acknowledged how they handled the transition was poor. People are certainly excited about Planescape: Torment becoming available on GOG.

    wait what?

    They added it yesterday or the day before. Going for ten bucks.

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  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    The game looks sort of decent at a high enough resolution when you can see a large amount of the environment and it's less pixelated.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited September 2010
    Ludious wrote: »
    Arivia wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    was there ever some mod that brought Torment up to modern resolutions?

    it looks just fine

    800x600 or whatever the max is makes me puke

    I was so amused when I realized that this is lower resolution than my iPhone.

    Echo on
  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Irond Will wrote: »
    but i remember when that book was published, the reflexive response from the right was to say "well yeah we know that black people are stupid" and the reflexive response from the left was to try to nibble away at his statistics or data.

    "Reflexive."

    You love to use that word to dismiss people's opinions.

    There are people out there who study intelligence every single day, who are well-versed enough in the correlates between demographics and intelligence, that they can quickly critically assess a book like The Bell Curve.

    But if they do so, you impugn them as "reflexive."

    Is there some sort of waiting period? Do you want people to stroke their beards, stand around going, "Hmmm... hmmmm.... hmmmm!" before stating "hey, this idea is false?"

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    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • ArchArch Neat-o, mosquito! Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    the point I am making is that there is a genetic basis for things like, say, Sickle Cell. But that doesn't correspond with any genetic markers for being "black" or "african american" (say, the gene that makes them produce more melanin, and thus end up darker colored)

    The gene is a spontaneous mutation that can and could arise in any population, hell even "white" people can suffer from the disease! But it became fixated in african american populations because it was advantageous, not because they were black.

    The point here is that you can't really draw any conclusion from this, and the fact that it correlates to "classical grouping" is more of an anomaly.

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  • ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Kagera wrote: »
    Elldren wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    I thought GOG was verboten and they lost all of their good will with their little charade.

    I wasn't aware of such a thing. They apologized, in any case, and acknowledged how they handled the transition was poor. People are certainly excited about Planescape: Torment becoming available on GOG.

    wait what?

    GOG isn't dead. Long live GOG.

    ??????

    I feel I must have missed something

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    fuck gendered marketing
  • RustRust __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2010
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    You know I never did play planescape torment.

    I'm afraid of how well it may or may not have aged.

    It has aged fine. Torment is all about the story anyways, which is ageless; the gameplay itself has never been that impressive.

    moving around is sort of a gigantic pain in the ass, though

    i need to switch to mage class so i can stop feebly swinging at every thug who tries to ventilate me

    Rust on
  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I think therapy has basically torn the scab off my wound and while I will be healthier in the long run in the short term I am in agony.

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  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator mod
    edited September 2010
    Feral wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Elldren wrote: »
    Also fun fact: There is less of a genetic difference between your average black person and white person than between the entire genetic diaspora that is commonly called "black."

    In short race is a construct and should not be used as a concept in anything involving genetics.

    people seem to have a tendency to ascribe to genetics way way too much

    some people do this, yeah

    but other people have a tendency to dismiss the possibility of genetic differences way too much

    Maybe among university anthropology departments in the 1970s, perhaps.

    Today, pretty much all work in the social sciences is done in the bio-social-cognitive model which emphasizes the biological underpinnings of behavior (and the possible causes thereof, including but not limited to genetics).

    so are the bio-social-cognitive modellers who emphasize the biological/ genetic underpinnings of poor IQ test performance of black people then doing a racist thing?

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  • ArchArch Neat-o, mosquito! Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Arch wrote: »
    Will I don't think I ever proposed a model of "Your product, only free."

    I was simply wondering why, in this age of instant information transfer, it takes so long for legitimate copies of translated media to appear.

    You have really ascribed a sinister motive (piracy) to my wonderings! I don't want to pirate things, I have money! I would buy them if they were released in a format that more engenders itself to the speed at which I consume media (i.e. very quickly, and impatiently)

    no, i didn't mean to say that you are pirating this stuff.

    but what you're asking is why they can't keep up with the pirated fansubs

    and i guess my answer was "business concerns and also why try to compete directly against something that is your product but free?"

    And my answer is that a lot of other services basically do this, with large success. You dismissed this because you feel the target market isn't a desirable one.

    I don't know if this is true.

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  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    PS:T on an iPhone would be pretty fuckin rad

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  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator mod
    edited September 2010
    Elldren wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Also fun fact: There is less of a genetic difference between your average black person and white person than between the entire genetic diaspora that is commonly called "black."

    In short race is a construct and should not be used as a concept in anything involving genetics.

    there is less an average height difference between women and men (maybe three inches) than in the height variance in the entire genetic subclass of men (what - three feet to eight feet?)

    but women are still significantly shorter than men.

    That's not even a genetic difference though

    it's not genetic that women are on average shorter than men?

    what is it then?

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Elldren wrote: »
    Kagera wrote: »
    Elldren wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    I thought GOG was verboten and they lost all of their good will with their little charade.

    I wasn't aware of such a thing. They apologized, in any case, and acknowledged how they handled the transition was poor. People are certainly excited about Planescape: Torment becoming available on GOG.

    wait what?

    GOG isn't dead. Long live GOG.

    ??????

    I feel I must have missed something

    GOG went down recently with a message saying 'lol market conditions' and the internet cried because they couldn't buy as many old ass games online anymore.

    But it turned out to be some kind of hoax to garner attention for it's 2nd anniversary relaunch and the release of Planescape: Torment to their library.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited September 2010
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Elldren wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Also fun fact: There is less of a genetic difference between your average black person and white person than between the entire genetic diaspora that is commonly called "black."

    In short race is a construct and should not be used as a concept in anything involving genetics.

    there is less an average height difference between women and men (maybe three inches) than in the height variance in the entire genetic subclass of men (what - three feet to eight feet?)

    but women are still significantly shorter than men.

    That's not even a genetic difference though

    it's not genetic that women are on average shorter than men?

    what is it then?

    Patriarchal oppression.

    Echo on
  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Elldren wrote: »
    Kagera wrote: »
    Elldren wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    I thought GOG was verboten and they lost all of their good will with their little charade.

    I wasn't aware of such a thing. They apologized, in any case, and acknowledged how they handled the transition was poor. People are certainly excited about Planescape: Torment becoming available on GOG.

    wait what?

    GOG isn't dead. Long live GOG.

    ??????

    I feel I must have missed something

    They were updating their site from beta to 1.0. They just took down the site with no warning at all and decided it would be funny (or something) to tweet something that kind of implied the site was possibly getting rid of it's no DRM policy or being shut down for good.

    So, small company run by the programmers has bad marketing /message control.

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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2010
    Arivia wrote: »
    PS:T on an iPhone would be pretty fuckin rad

    maybe they'll remake it for the 3DS

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  • ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I think therapy has basically torn the scab off my wound and while I will be healthier in the long run in the short term I am in agony.

    <3

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  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator mod
    edited September 2010
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Also fun fact: There is less of a genetic difference between your average black person and white person than between the entire genetic diaspora that is commonly called "black."

    In short race is a construct and should not be used as a concept in anything involving genetics.

    there is less an average height difference between women and men (maybe three inches) than in the height variance in the entire genetic subclass of men (what - three feet to eight feet?)

    but women are still significantly shorter than men.

    Also they tend to have vaginas

    OH NO MY LEFTIST WORLDVIEW IS CRUMBLING

    But no seriously congrats you've figured out that there are distinct differences between difference people, good for you.

    Too bad that's not enough to make the logical leap to "women can't do math"

    but i didn't say that women can't do math

    what i'm saying is that this dismissive statistical sophistry doesn't help the position that you're trying to establish.

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  • ArchArch Neat-o, mosquito! Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Elldren wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Also fun fact: There is less of a genetic difference between your average black person and white person than between the entire genetic diaspora that is commonly called "black."

    In short race is a construct and should not be used as a concept in anything involving genetics.

    there is less an average height difference between women and men (maybe three inches) than in the height variance in the entire genetic subclass of men (what - three feet to eight feet?)

    but women are still significantly shorter than men.

    That's not even a genetic difference though

    it's not genetic that women are on average shorter than men?

    what is it then?

    Developmental biology has identified it as a mixture of parental physiology, genetics, and nutrition.

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