The only way I could see a the shutdown of CoH being part of a conspiracy to alter social behavior, is if there is a being much higher up than any government behind it. And considering the numbers, I don't think the CoH community is much of a concern. And if anyone in power is worried about that, they'd be better off spending their time getting rid of any video game, ranging from Arkham Asylum, to Quake, to Rainbow 6... anything that can teach tactics and strategy to civilians.
STOP.
Wait, wait, wait wait wait.
Wait.
The Koreans and the NWO are doing a team-up?
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NCSoft took it out for a whole lot of reasons. None of which has been sufficiently allowed to see the light of day. You may be, in some part, right, but I would get the majority of it is nothing of what you speak. It was a business decision... and it could also have been a personal vengeance vendetta against someone(s)... and we certainly dislike their choice of what studio to kill (as to me, this is the crux of it... not the *game*, but the *studio* was the target of all this, for bean-counter reasons) and a part of that, shutting the game down, but...
Yeah, not so much on your conspiracy theory, sorry.
However, I agree, the defense of video games, especially ones like the Mortal Kombat series, Quake series, Halo series, TF series... one where wanton destruction, mayhem, and killing is so much fun it just can't be helped, the maniacal giggle fits that always comes to me when I play them and see a ridiculous death happen...
Wait, I don't think I'm helping that defense... uh... sorry y'all.
/Well, actually, yes I am. Because, having played those games... I have *absolutely not one tendency to go out and reinact them*. I.e., the game didn't make me go all stabby and shooty and such.
//But the problem is, if even .000000001% of the populace who plays these games goes out and does get all stabby/shooty/such, that's not a low enough percentage... even if the game itself wasn't the cause.
///And even *especially if* the games weren't a factor... like maybe they didn't play them at all, but instead it was the insanty of "Barney meets the Teletubbies and ride My Little Ponies to see Sesame Street" that sent them over the edge.
////You know you all want to see that. Heck, *I* wanna see that...
they are already trying to do so, it's in talks now, such is included in the topic of violent videogames, they link the violence and strategy to the recent shootings. the way the NWO sees it, any numbers over 10000 are an issue to be stopped. cause 10000 is a decent sized army.
you see thats why suspected nitwits and mentally challenged people should be kept on a watch by parents/guardians/nieghbors at all times otherwise such suspected mentally unstable people should be in insane asylums where they belong. for example, my nighbor has two sons, one doesn;t speak at all and the other one speaks but it's pure gibberish, they are in middle and highschool (how the %$#@ are they passing the grades?) and still think like little kids, they are highly convincable, if they saw a violent game I know it would influence them to try and enact some of it... but you see they havn't done it yet but we know they are capable of it.
for that reason asylums were created and yet, they are not used until a crime actually happens...
this is something that needs to be discussed in our sane peoples rights to play violent games. ok so yeah I'm the one who says he's wonkers, but as a psychologist once said "people who are intelligent enough to claim to be insane are usually not"
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Video games are just the latest target. Before that it was Movies, Comics, T.V. all of witch shook off the chains that been bound to them. I don't see this as being part of a NWO scheme other then Distraction method. While we are up at arms over games we ignoring more "Speed and Red light" cameras being put up. Ignoring Police on schools (yeah they say it's to protect the children... How soon till tracking bracelets are on those kids? Or tracking micro chips in the skin? Kidnappers would have a harder time with that!). Safety always comes with the cost of Freedom.
Any world order that spent generations studying human behavior would want us to be lost in a game. By having us Log in we are automatically saying "We are here." With each data transfer we are tracked. On top of that if we are escaping reality in a game. We aren't paying attention to reality.
Then again I might be giving them to much credit. I'm a very calculating manipulative evil mastermind. Good thing for the world i'm also lazy.
Less tin foil hat and more pointing out the double standard.
"Don't take my guns! I need them to fight if the government goes bad."
I see talk of Armed guards for schools and I think "Government schools need to be fortresses with Government funded guards with guns guarding the children." So the question goes if the Government goes bad what would you do to get all those innocent hostages out of school?
1 decent sized army who at best can only get access to shot guns and semi-auto rifles... vs. the most technologically-advanced military in the world. They probably wouldn't even need to use troops, just a couple drones.
Less tin foil hat and more pointing out the double standard.
"Don't take my guns! I need them to fight if the government goes bad."
I think I've figured out who Joshex really is!
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I have actually been using this alias 'Joshex' for a very long time it actually is my real name after being subjected to a type of encryption that I developed.
We never act on it. But the thoughts are there. The knowlege is there. We just don't do it. That's the only, slim difference between sane and insane, when you get down to it... DID you do it. Not would you. Not could you. Because that's what you're talkin' about... predetermination of who's really honestly going to be insane enough to go on a killing spree, without having any shred of actual proof they'd go through with it beforehand.
"Don't take my guns! I need them to fight if the government goes bad."
1 decent sized army who at best can only get access to shot guns and semi-auto rifles... vs. the most technologically-advanced military in the world. They probably wouldn't even need to use troops, just a couple drones.
ooops. got a tad carried away.
Sooo...where did I put that dang blasted foil hat?
I vote for the name the Paragonian People's Front!
Nah they would just blame it on BushWhere is the "thank" button when you need it!?
Where is the "thank" button when you need it!?
I'd just be curious to know what proportion of posters to this thread have ever actually touched tin foil.
I'd just be curious to know what proportion of posters to this thread have ever actually touched tin foil.
Got a roll that was made around the WW2 era when they was destoying an old building on an military installation. Apparently it was a long forgotten storage unit.
I noticed that it was stiffer than the usual foil but may have been due to age and also left a metallic taste on food after a while (dont ask! but yes Vodka had something to do with that).
I'd just be curious to know what proportion of posters to this thread have ever actually touched tin foil.I used to make tin foil masks when I was a kid.
Edit: Though you told me not to ask, I'm still very curious as to why you would use something so old on your food... But, I won't ask.
Tin foil from that era was actually made of either tin or steel. Now-a-days it's aluminum which is much lighter, more malleable, and less oxidizing. The last part is probably what was probably responsible for your food, which is why most steel cans are aluminized or galvanized today and soda cans (holding acidic soft drinks) are made with an alloy that is about 70% aluminum.
Edit: Though you told me not to ask, I'm still very curious as to why you would use something so old on your food... But, I won't ask.
I remember a forumite's post about the announced 21st of december catastrophe, turning out to be a dud, actually was quite the catastrophe. Let me apply it to conspiracies and image it to you:All of these words are English, but they combine to make no sense. ???
All the rumours, theories and fears of conspiracies out there hide indeed a far more horrible truth.
That is that the only true conspiracy is this.
All of these words are English, but they combine to make no sense. ???Maybe because you only see what you can see. You probably think "something is missing", to that I'd made is clear "nothing is missing"
I remember a forumite's post about the announced 21st of december catastrophe, turning out to be a dud, actually was quite the catastrophe. Let me apply it to conspiracies and image it to you:So, the true conspiracy is that there are no conspiracies?
All the rumours, theories and fears of conspiracies out there hide indeed a far more horrible truth.
That is that the only true conspiracy is this.
It is perversely more comforting, to many, to imagine that there are those who are capable of comprehending and guiding the fantastically complex world that we live in to their own secret ends, than to accept the more probable reality: that there's no God or secret puppetmasters at the wheel, the world is too big and complicated for any one person to understand, and that everyone is bumbling along more or less at random, following our own selfish agendas that sometimes bump into each other.
(Oh, and not only are you not important enough to try to deceive, but in fact no one outside your immediate circle knows or cares that you exist.)
Maybe because you only see what you can see. You probably think "something is missing", to that I'd made is clear "nothing is missing"
(or is my drift too hard to catch ?)
Me I believe people try. Key word is TRY."Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead."
Human nature is well... human nature, someone somewhere will always try to take over. Even from inside some kind of NWO you will have brown nosers and back stabbers trying to be the big boss. You also have gossiping and whispers and people who leak stuff just to leak.
seriously, dracula a belmont? what pothead came up with that in the scrum session?
seriously, dracula a belmont? what pothead came up with that in the scrum session?
Don't blame potheads for that awfulness. It is clearly a well organized attempt by vampires and werewolves and now zombies apparently to be sexy, and human, and have feeling and stuff so when they really come they can just tear us limb by limb with the slightest of ease.
Although after hundreds of years of writing and not drinking the blood of some unlucky sap, she adapted a new hunger. This one can only be satisfied by the life force of a game. But only a game that has been built up and with a lot of time invested into it. Bad games give no nourishment to such a powerful vampire, maybe one of those twilight vamps but not the almighty SM. And that is what happened/is happening right now. The other stuff you guys are talking about is just downright crazy.
....See the female vampires were able to do this to men already they just used their sexy gaze powers that they get when they become all vamped out. The men however couldn't do this. They were to busy wearing capes and doing other stuff to really get the whole thing down. So one day Blade comes around and cuts up a few people here and then cuts a few people there, until finally he fights the main female vampire, Stephenie Meyer.
So, the true conspiracy is that there are no conspiracies?Indeed ! That would be terrible now, wouldn't it ?
Indeed ! That would be terrible now, wouldn't it ?
Somebody did catch it. :-)
Indeed ! That would be terrible now, wouldn't it ?
Somebody did catch it. :-)
then someone tell me why everything that is about good fighting evil is being dumbed down to make people think evil is good?Because writers tend to fail when working on stories with a less black-and-white sense of morality.
seriously, dracula a belmont? what pothead came up with that in the scrum session?One who comically missed the point of where the Dracula name came from in the first place, I guess?
Because writers tend to fail when working on stories with a less black-and-white sense of morality. One who comically missed the point of where the Dracula name came from in the first place, I guess?
:'( :gonk: :'( :'( why... why must the world take away everything I enjoy.. do they want me to feel completely alienated from videogames so I end up finding other ways to fulfill my fantasies? like my lazer base on the moon....
Indeed ! That would be terrible now, wouldn't it ?
Somebody did catch it. :-)