Where lies the limit that separates men from women? If a man has to look like a woman to look good, is Man a man no more?
What, then, is the difference between a good-looking man and a transvestite?
If Mr Christ ever existed, he was one heck of a chameleon. A fact people have to remember is that according to the stories, he was born in the Middle East. Take into account how large the world was in those days, especially with the main form of public transport being animal-powered wooden boxes (most likely without government subsidies and student discounts), the probability of having a mixed racial heritage was highly unlikely.
Due to the constant movement of Earth's tectonic plates, it's also uncertain where the Middle East was over two millennia ago. Hence, we have a significant amount of confusion as to which racial group Jesus belonged to.
First we have our most popular candidate. The majority of Christians are white, the Pope is white, hence Jesus was white, maybe even Nordic according to the Nazis (Viking Jesus?).
Since the Middle East is full of Arabs, Jesus was more likely to be one of them. Jesus being an Arab could have been true. After all, there are quite a few Arab Christians in the Middle East today.
Or he could have been this sort of Middle Eastern: less tanned and slightly more Jewish-looking.
Then again, he could have been of African descent. I mean, Egypt is just next to the Middle East. Who can say his "dad" didn't have a liking for "black booty"? Or it could have been that Hollywood was actually right in hiring Morgan Freeman to portray the Christian God accurately?
Or maybe Mary was Chinese. With it being a virgin birth, it didn't matter what race the father was. The Chinese have been known to travel to many parts of the world, especially for trade. The Romans themselves had been great fans of Chinese silk, so it's not an impossibility if some Chinese had settled in Bethlehem and whoever/whatever impregnated her turned out to have some sort of Asian fetish, if he wasn't Chinese himself in the first place.
Therefore, Jesus could have been Chinese. Not to mention that the continents have been moving quite a bit over time, so who knows?
Coming next: Was Siddhartha Ghautama an Indian or an Indian?
From http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/It's as if other countries have any say in that. Anyway I voted no. Rape simulation games are part of the Japanese culture, albeit a small bit of it. It's not like they're even trying hard to spread the love of such games outside Japan.
Don't get me wrong, I avoid that stuff like the plague. But if there are people who like this sort of thing, why stop them? It's not like they are actually raping women on the trains. The Japanese economy sucks, their young men are mostly suicidal and their women are generally fugly. To deprive them of 3D virtual interactive sex would be pure evil.
It is true that they have access to all kinds of kinky sex toys already, but there is a big difference between sticking the phallus into lubricated foam (onacup) and doing the same thing while staring at a voluptuous woman with perfect, oiled skin.
I say let them do whatever they want, as long as real people aren't involved in the actual act. Or else, what's the point of buying fantastic high-end video cards? Gaming? LOL!
Oh wait, I do that...
I don't know about everyone else, but IMO as long as something isn't real, you can have as much of it as you want. When the day comes that people can no longer differentiate between 3D sex from the actual thing, there will be peace. After all, sex is a major motivation for most humans in many things, including the struggle for success. Where there is competition, there is conflict.
This brings us to the question of whether the virtual world in the Matrix was really wrong. Really, is it? If all five of your senses tell you that it's real, why insist that it is fake? Lots of people have settled for much, much less! In such a world, every person can live like kings and none will ever know the difference. Or they can just remain in a dreamless sleep permanently, but there's nothing to discuss in that situation.
What I have in mind is a cross between the Matrix and the pods used by Dr Stanislaus Braun in Fallout 3. In the game, Dr Braun and a few families assigned to his command were basically immortalised by living in a virtual simulation in which he had complete control of his surroundings. Theoretically speaking, if humans can have a surplus of everything, there would be no conflict.
If every single soul is happy and no one is fighting, is it really that bad? What if, say, all participants are given the choice of leaving the simulations upon reaching adulthood (babies are grown in pods like in the movie)?
Fact is, most people are willing to trade freedom for peace, as Law has proven. If everyone is given the choice to renounce all ties with reality for perfect peace in a completely realistic simulation where there is no hunger, war or disease, I'd say it would be a tough choice for most. Don't forget, billions of people around the globe are working their entire lives to enter a world exactly like that in the afterlife. An alternative like that would be as good as a shortcut to an inferior version of Heaven.
The original video for Benny Benasi's Satisfaction
Looks weird. I'll have to agree with the 12 million views that the following song suits the video much better. I get the meaning behind the whole concept but the idea of the slowly changing faces and posture just feels fundamentally incompatible with the tone of the music.
Music is Holy Ghost by 009 Sound System. If they could remove all those words associated with the original Satisfaction and extend the video to suit the length of Holy Ghost it would be even better. Too bad they can't. Original music below.
If not for my phone's inability to produce bass beats, I'd use Holy Ghost as my ringtone.
(How to pronounce Machiavelli: mech - ee - uh - valley)
Re-reading Machiavelli's The Prince (Il Prince in Italian), I find it a very honest book because of the introduction, where the degree of desperation the author had in trying to suck up to Lorenzo de' Medici is shown. Imagine, a high level diplomat and politician being exiled to a rural village for the rest of his life. Makes perfect sense that he would do anything just to get into Lorenzo's good books.
To me, Machiavelli was condensing everything he had into that little book in his attempt to regain some sort of dignity and power. Not only that, but he also repeatedly discredited the previous head of state whom Lorenzo had overthrown, the very same guy Machiavelli worked for in the previous 18 years.
Here's a short summary of the politics in Florentine, the then-city-state where he lived:
1494: Niccolo Machiavelli began working for the Florentine government as a clerk and ambassador. Later in the same year, the ruling Medici family was expelled and the Republic of Florence was formed, headed by Piero Soderini.
1509: The home-grown militia army raised by Machiavelli successfully conquers Pisa.
1512: The Medici returns with the help of the Pope and Spanish mercenaries, defeating the Florentine army. Soderini was exiled to Dalmatia while Machiavelli was tortured before also getting exiled to a village in the middle of nowhere.
I think it is obvious how badly he would want to return to some form of glory he used to have. The introduction might have been normal in those days between a commoner and a member of royalty (the Medici family were as good as royalty), but it also feels like it's brimming with ass-kissing.
Instead of making a joke, her popularity became the joke. "... I mean like internet bullies shouldn't do something like that because it's not professional at all."
I shed tears because it's Miss Singapore.
Point 1:
I think she meant to say "matured" instead of "professional".
Point 2:
Internet bullies can neither be matured nor professional. If they are matured, they wouldn't be bullies in the first place. If they're professional... whoever has heard of a professional bully?
Point 3:
Singapore internet bullies are MILD. Spamming insults and opening a Facebook group to piss her off can cause her to be "badly affected"? What if someone decides to find out her address before spamming it on Facebook/Twitter with fake accounts? Someone has already tried to molest her, so a stalker is really quite possible. It just depends on how internet-savvy that pervert is.
The mean thing by doing that isn't that it makes her address known to the public, but what can done with this bit of data.
I'm not familiar with the local gossip news but from the comments I can tell that this isn't the first of her failed attempts at gaining some positive attention. I'm not going to say that she should give up on regaining her fame, but her notoriety makes it necessary for her to rethink her strategy and next move. I believe it is apparent that she needs to be much more matured from now on if she is to remain in public view.
What do you get if you have an easily moddable game, and combine it with a playerbase of mainly young men?
Easy, you get a virtual porn studio.
This is what is happening with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Despite the incredibly disgusting skin textures and character models provided by the original creators of the game, it now has enough mods to turn your characters into beautiful goddesses or kawaii catgirls. To make it even more amazing, there are nude mods that work with many of these.
These looks NOTHING like the original!!
Topping it all are the sex mods which makes the characters commit very indecent acts of lust. These mods can be used together with pose mods which direct the characters to make certain poses. Softcore and hardcore.
Yes, I am surprised. No other PC game has been twisted to such an extent that anyone can make virtual porn with just a few clicks. Not even Fallout 3. Well Fallout 3 does have sex mods but the characters lack the large number of texture/model mods that Oblivion modders have created.
The screenshot below is from my version of Oblivion. When I saw the screenshots on 4chan of course I got curious as to what these mods can do. Due to my laziness I did not bother to browse through all of them. At the moment I'm using only a handful of mods including HGEC, Kunoichi Armour Set and Montana's Sexy Companion mod. It should be obvious to any Oblivion player how incredible the difference is compared to the vanilla (aka un-modded) version.
If not for the user interface (aka UI, which is the collective term for the HP/MP/Stam bars, compass and etc at the bottom) , it would have been easy for you to believe that this is from yet another Japanese hentai game. It might still have been photoshopped, but you'll have to take my word for it when I say it isn't.
They could have taken it towards another direction, eg make all sorts of movies (aka machinima) but no, they had to make a veritable sex game out of it. By the way there is only 1 website that I know of that has all possible mods for this game and it has a Fallout 3 counterpart too. Interestingly, TES Nexus is so full of adult-oriented mods they have a Top 100 list just for them, in addition to the original Top 100 mods list.
I'm not exactly unhappy about the way it has turned out (all heterosexual men must like what are in the screenshots), but I am somewhat disappointed. Bethesda has given us what might as well be a virtual Hollywood with enormous potential. If the armour set above can be made, then think of what sort of characters can be formed. It can be even more fantastic than those in the Final Fantasy games.
The truth is that reality is never as nice as that. This is what the modding community decided to make of it. I guess this just proves that men, especially younger men, think with their little heads more frequently than the one located between the shoulders.
In case anyone is interested, here is a list of console commands (enter console by hitting ~ which is next to your 1 and ! key) and a tutorial for them. These are necessary to go into 3rd-person view, activate god mode and teleport to anywhere. Teleportation is important because some mods can screw up your game's scripts, causing your characters to get stuck in some parts of the game including the beginning where you're waiting for the guards to open the cell gate.
Answer to the riddle at the end of the previous rant is "language".
The iPad was hacked within 3 days in such a way that it gives the hacker root access to the operating system (OS). Root access = root admin = complete control of the entire device, including the ability to install anything (as long as it can work on the iPad) and tweak the system.
3 days. What will Apple do next?
ROFL! The Americans killed their own reporters in Iraq too! Reuters is NOT happy about this and has the article with the photo on the front page with a nice "Come on, let us shoot" quote as the headline. The report includes a comment from the editor-in-chief saying that "if those killings were lawful under the rules of engagement, then the rules of engagement are wrong, deeply wrong".
The article, though somewhat mildly phrased, is actually slightly biased as usual (I think a lot of journalists are good at that, making subtle changes to the way everything is portrayed by adding a little more details here and taking away some details there), in that they did not mention who the others were in the group their ex-colleagues were with.
They also did not explicitly state that the rest of the group were armed, except at the end where they said the military spokesman said they had released documents showing "weapons on the scene". Notice that there is no mention of whether these belonged to the group? A subtle omission there to make that statement weigh less.
In addition, they only stated that their own journalist was identified, albeit mistakenly, with a RPG launcher which was in fact his camera. To add fuel to the flame, they included the immaturely-phrased request from one of the soldiers in the helicopter, "Come on, let us shoot."
Finally to firm up the opinion in the readers that the soldiers are really just children with guns, they have their editor-in-chief say something really direct, just in case some readers were still unsure about what to think.
"I believe that if those killings were lawful under the rules of engagement, then the rules of engagement are wrong, deeply wrong," he said. The fliers in the video act "like they are playing a computer game and their desire is they want to get high scores" by killing opponents, he said."
When people hear about the dangers of war journalism, they think of the poor guy who got beheaded with a blunt knife on TV. This is probably something new to think about.
"Yeah, right through the windshield!"
2 children were at the front seat.
"... I don't know how the children were hurt."
"Serves them right for bringing children to the battle."
The Pope vows to bring paedophilia down to a more acceptable levels.
"This is absolutely unacceptable," Pope Benedict said. "It seems a weakening of faith in God has prevented our priests from exercising moderation when sexually abusing helpless minors."
"And let me remind our clergy of the holy vows they all took when they entered the priesthood," he continued. "They should know that they're only allowed one small child every other month."
The pope said he was deeply disappointed to learn that the number of children sexually abused by priests was almost 10 times beyond the allowable limit clearly outlined in church doctrine.
Okay, I guess that works too. Moderation in everything, right? Or is it "No Child Left Behind"?
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