mapping/brawl maybe/speed run, I made a post earlier but I guess someone either a) replied before me and I didn't notice, so it didn't get posted, or b) it got deleted, which is kind of random because it was fairly benign from what I remember

Is this going to be decided by vote?  Does it need to be done on an emulator?  Are there ways of checking for TASing etc?  Will we be told what emulators are best for recording/etc or are we all expected to be experts in the art of speed runs?

Thank you Arnold we were all in the dark about why the flat earth theory was absurd

Uh preferably if you're going to pick Megaman do like Megaman X or something, not some old piece of shit where megaman is like one foot tall

Actually I'm sure they're good games but I haven't played them and the speed run event should conform to what suits me =[[[

Um?  What?  For like 500 years Islam was ahead of the entire world in terms of Science and Mathematics.

How about something from Contra 3.  Hmmm maybe not since I don't have a controller hooked up to my computer.  I'd say a non-traditional Mario level sounds good and I'd totally go for Mario 2-3 in Mario 3 since I'm a Mario 3 pro

I guess what I was saying with my post was this.  Maybe 99.9999% of people think that the flat earth theory is ludicrous, which it is.  Yet something like 25% of Americans think that 9/11 was an inside job (including some people who think that lasers did it), I think around 30% don't believe in evolution (that number might be off but it's a lot), and so on.  It's interesting how these views, like any other position, become attributed to some side of the political spectrum.  So if you don't believe that 9/11 was done by the US government, you're a conservative sheep who has Bush's dick in your mouth.  If you believe in evolution, you're a filthy, muddy minded liberal atheist.

Does anyone else think that it's moronic that an opinion in the scientific community translates into a political view?  I can make a list of scientific theories/facts that either the left or right wing has to disagree with:

Left Wing:
"9/11 was an inside job"
"Moon landing was a hoax"
"AIDS was made by the government to impoverish black people"
"The US government watches people through chips planted in their brains blah blah blah"

Right Wing:
"Evolution is a lie"
"Global warming is a hoax"
etc

Hm, surprisingly I couldn't think of more scientific facts that the right wing denies, despite the fact that in politics "right" is pretty much synonymous with "wrong"

edit: Do any of the flat earth people actually ever postulate a motive for why government officials would trick us into thinking the earth is flat, or is it really all just satire?

Why is the flat earth society met with so much ridicule yet 9/11 conspiracy theorists and people who believe evolution is a lie are seen as just having a differing opinion?

Wyrm you missed the point.  When drugs are illegal they are still unhealthy.  Do you believe that more people would do heroin if it were legal?  When you ask people why they don't use drugs, which of the following reasons do they give you:

1-It's unhealthy
2-It's illegal

(hint: no one answers with #2)

I think that drugs become healthier when legalized because then the government has an obligation to regulate it, and organized crime doesn't involve itself with it.  Remember that the majority of overdoses happen because of bad mixes.  Lots of people also get HIV through intravenous drug use, another huge problem with hard drugs.  None of these things can ever happen if drugs are legal because the government has to regulate their content and control their potency.

As for people who use drugs, again I'd say that things like mushrooms/etc that people enjoy occasionally but aren't fiercely addicted to are fine and I don't think it's necessarily irrational to do that.  I think if you want to live as long as possible, if that is one of your priorities in life, then you probably shouldn't do drugs of any kind (unless they're medicinal).  That works for me because I want to live forever, and because I derive enjoyment out of things like videogames, rpg making, things that I don't need drugs for.  If other people derive enjoyment out of drugs, and would live a more fulfilling life if they lived one less year but got to be stoned more often, that's fine and neither the government nor anyone else should judge them for that.

edit: maybe this sounds incoherent, I used to be very close-minded about drugs and now it's the total opposite, so sometimes I might say contentious things like "taking mushrooms occasionally is rational".  I might be wrong because I don't have much experience with drugs myself

The only drug I have experience with is alcohol so I'd say that apart from soft drugs (alcohol, marijuana, etc), habitual drug use is irrational and generally not a good thing.  However if you take mushrooms like once a year I'm sure you won't die and I can see what people get out of that.

I'd also like to add that as for the legality of drugs, I think every drug should be 100% legal for three basic reasons:
 
a) The government should never be able to encroach on your body rights unless it is absolutely necessary (if for instance there's a bullet inside of you that would implicate you in a murder, then the government should have the right to take it out to analyze it, but the government can't prevent you from smoking a cigarette or eating bacon or cutting yourself if you're emo)

b) legalizing drugs means that they become government-regulated, taking profits out of the hands of criminal organizations and making drugs healthier on the whole.  I think there might be a marginal increase in the rate of drug use but nothing huge, since I think if anyone really wanted to do heroin, they would do it whether it was legal or not (I know it seems counterintuitive, but think: have any of you actually wanted to do heroin? There are lots of barriers, like the fact that it's absurdly unhealthy, keeping people from ever wanting to do that)

c) when drugs are legal, drug-users are treated as people suffering from an illness, and not as criminals, so they can actually seek help for their addictions.

Again, I may think that drugs aren't right for me, but that doesn't mean I should be allowed to decide whether they're right for everybody.  Plenty of productive, intelligent people do drugs so it isn't a universally bad thing.  I just don't like it myself.

I'm high-fiving this one, Dudesoft. Legion was pretty much my arch-nemesis back in the day but nowadays I'm having a whale of a time.

also TFT's post on Township was really fucking satisfying (Click to reveal)

I think I remember being around when that post was made, though I didn't know who legion was I thought it was brilliant.  Oh, and that's who TFT is?  <3333 he's like my idol.  Sort of.

As for sensitivity on the internet, I don't really get it, I mean it is the internet.  Although certain people on #gamingw are so retarded it's kind of cute.

I know if I ever worked on a game with someone the story would be totally up to them.  It would be douche-like to try and change someone's vision.  Suggesting ideas is still cool though.

I love the bright flashy graphics in this game.  Was this done with the RPG Maker?  Seriously?

edit: haha holy crap I just read the description.  You sir are brilliant.

The best PoP game is the one on the SNES.  Now that is fun.