Unfortunately, they seem to have forgotten that beauty is subjective.
I'm glad I've heard no one mention Intelligent Design in Singapore. I've seen screenshots of college science forums filled with Christian quotes. "For this and this, all your answers can be found in the Bible. In that chapter, the Bible says that blah blah blah blah..." That doesn't happen here.
Religion is religion. But when religion becomes part of science, or vice versa, something is quite wrong somewhere. No one should mix them up. They are quite different.
For one, religion is quite comfortable with self-contradiction, eg lightning rods on top of churches. Science isn't. It may be that Darwin was wrong somewhere and his theory of evolution wasn't quite right, but that doesn't automatically imply that everything was made in seven days (and why seven days anyway? Why not just a split-second?).
So today I was in a DotA match in Garena that kinda killed some of my misconceptions about maphacking. Maphacking is basically a cheat that allows a player to see his enemies' positions constantly.
First thing I noticed about real maphacking is that you cannot always tell if someone is doing it. It can be done very discreetly, such that we don't always act on what we know. In fact, my team didn't know that the host (fellow teammate) was using a maphack till he announced to the team in midgame.
Second, just because a player has great strategic advantage derived from this cheat doesn't mean the team is guaranteed a win. Apparently, either the maphacker in the game was a retard or he was doing it way too discreetly so that he appear a retard.
In short, we lost despite having a maphacker in the team. 天理何在?!?!?
Let me elaborate on this fantastical tale of magical beings, alchemy and epic fail.
Once upon a time at a comp not quite far away, there was me in Garena looking for a DotA game. I easily found one and joined it.
Nothing out of the ordinary. The moment the game began, the host told us he was going to farm on the Neutral Creeps and leave all 3 lanes to us. We were fine with that. Another guy said he was going to choose Sniper and solo the top. Okay too.
Bottom lane was the one outnumbered. Our team's Alchemist did his best not to feed while his 2 opponents prevented him from killing anything. An Alchemist should not solo in the first place, according to the other players. But I was NOT going to the bottom lane because I was planning to farm some NCs at lvl 5.
Turned out the Alchemist was pretty decent and didn't feed much, but he soon lost the two towers. Not pro. Meanwhile, I was at the mid lane with another guy, in a 2v2 battle . The opponents were very good and denied a lot of our creep kills. We were annoyed, but we couldn't gank him because there simply wasn't anyone else. Furion was farming all the NCs while the bottom was doing all he could to slow them down.
At the top lane, the arrogant Sniper fed the most somehow. Eventually he asked for help, when his first tower was destroyed. Furion doesn't answer. Bottom was silent. Us, we could weren't quite eager to help since it was pretty much a stalemate at our lane.
Eventually they started hunting us. The Alchemist was violently bullied and this hastened the destruction of the bottom towers until they reached our base. We were alarmed but Furion didn't seem to do much.
Then Furion announced his supreme advantage of epical proportions. Born in the murky depths of the Internet, right from the hackers' legends passed down since the ancient times, the omniscient powers of a MAPHACK was ours! Victory was at hand! God was a Sentinel and fought on our side! Allah Akhbar!
Thus started a string of beacons from him in the Fog of War. Each time he did that, someone was there when we arrived. Each time they hunted us in our NC area, we ganked the first enemy to reach there. However, we suffered more casualties than them. Though we prevented further ganking from them, we were unable to fight them off adequately.
Furion was fat with all his constant farming, but he was also a casualty in every confrontation with them. Everyone wanted him dead because he was fat. As for me, because I couldn't farm NCs, I was weak. Also, I couldn't help them much if they couldn't hurt the enemies enough. After all, my skill damages injured enemies only.
And thus we fed them too much despite having a maphacker, leading to our loss. We were quite speechless at the end.
The Dune books aren't all that great. The second book was, in fact, bordering on boring. So I skipped the third book and went on to reading Confessor from the Sword of Truth series.
I control the spice, thus I control the Universe. RAWR!
Confessor is a much needed improvement from the literary fare I've been having in the last few months.
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