Recent content by bauke67

I know three languages fluently, being English, Dutch and Frisian. I know bits of German, French and Greek and Latin, but not very much. In any case the former three are the only ones in which I think and speak and I can go from one to the other without noticing it. In fact very often I sort of...

This would be great. I would also like a remake of Myth(because the original is somewhat aged and I'd like to experience it as Bungie references it sometimes in the original Halo trilogy), or some other nostalgic RTS game like Lord of the Rings Battle for middle earth.(to be fair, that last...

Hmm yeah that sounds agreeable, but now it looks like we're not in disagreement anymore. The tree with offshoots is, I suppose, a reasonable approximation of reality. I guess the real question then becomes: how do we value/treat those branches? Are you sure you support this metafor, because it...

That's not a counter-argument though. Even if all those anomalies are somehow caused by humans, that does not in any way discredit their existence. It does not force them into your binary system. Even if you want to label them "freaks", which would just be insulting to them, that still nets...

This is actually quite scientifically inaccurate. Evolution does not have intentions or even hard blueprints. It's more or less a random process that just happens to recur. You can find many instances of people being born with super weird genetic abnormalities that cause them to be very much...

I always turn on the subtitles in case one of the characters starts mumbling and I'd miss it. Also it ensures Iunderstand what was meant better, since I can see the spelling.

You mentioned the toiled lid war as a thing making life hard for heterosexuals everywhere(and all other sexual orietations probably). Well, I would like to propose a solution to that: Men should always put it up when they use it(unless they're sitting). This avoids getting the seat dirty...

I've been told repeatedly that I'm a very nice and fun person when I'm drunk. I tend to get very enthousiastic about meeting anyone I know slightly, if I haven't seen them for more then five minutes. One thing that stands out is the time I spent half an hour telling everyone in the same...

Haha, if we start viewing questions as a bad thing we might as well stop doing philosophy:p I think we pretty much agree on this subject though. But suppose we do have this pile of sand, composed of a few million yellow grains, and we start replacing grains. Each new grain will be blue instead...

Of course no one really cares much wether it's the same computer, and only a few history/mythology fans might care wether it's the same boat, but wouldn't you say that the broader issue these examples are dealing with does matter? The subject of identity is on a personal level of the highest...

I think the important thing to remember here is another ancient Greek thought experiment(ofsorts), the one Heracleitos was famous for. You can never step into the same river twice. By the second time, the water will have moved, and it will be a slightly different river you step into. By the same...

Yeah that's true, it also depends somewhat on the lore surrounding the magic and what powers it gives you exactly, but that sounds like a really nice system.

Videogames have this nasty habit of "balancing" things out, but realistically, how can shooting fireballs from your hands at will not be the strongest option? Without the constraints of videogames a mage should be able to wipe out armies with their unlimited power, whereas the other classes...

Fair enough but if it's an official interpretation of the original films then I thought maybe it still counted. But I guess we'll see in december huh?

Just a quick thing I'd like to point out, and that I personally find very amusing: the article quoted mentions lying as uncharacteristic of Jedi. This is incorrect. Firstly Obi-Wan and his "bending" of the truth: "oh your father was dead, in a way" Then the very characteristic Jedi mind-trick...