I bet only because their mother is junkie, prostitute and serial murderer at the same time or something like that. Anything less would result in custody for her..

I just see what people are doing. I'm not going to pretend that they're doing something other than I see them doing. Everyone are aware of subjective nature of religion, and bring it up when it suits them. I'm the same person like any other so I know this first hand. I'm just more honest about it.

Stop contradicting yourself. They don't chose it because it's custom forced on them by parents. Most of them don't know much about god and only parrot it because they forced to repeat church's dogma by peer pressure. Some people might think there's something out there but don't agree with all of the church dogmas or don't know them and end up making up something of their own. The very notion of god is content-free. The real question here is are you affiliated with particular religious institution? And number of affiliated people is significantly less than that of those who could contemplate notion of god and redefine it according to their whims.

If people assert "belief in god" it doesn't even mean adherence to particular church or religious institution. In fact most people tend to get disillusioned with particular religious institutions of their geographic areas long before they stop referring to god and notions like that.

As an ignostic I can note that it doesn't mean much because everyone have different vision of this term, and ascribe different meaning to the statement. In fact one person can ascribe different meaning to God depending on context or his mood or point he wants to make thus making the term utterly meaningless.

The guy just decided to go vector way and to deflect possible criticism from old fans wrote this article. It provides a lots of points for and against but I believe none of them is decisive. What can only be really decisive is a chance to explore new frontiers, in this case by changing art direction.

The cops don't really need backdoors to security systems. The proper way is to use cryptanalysis to break those cyphers. It's a hard task but government has access to supercomputers. They don't need backdoor to all ciphers just like they don't need master key to all locks. Their push against cryptography is irrational and will in fact compromise security. No encryption means easy access to credit card credentials and what not for criminals. Backdoors mean that criminals can use it too. Only matter of time before it leaks.

All this is irrelevant. Linux already is used heavily by technical people who bother to install their OS. Vast majority of people don't install their OS and use whatever OS vendor installs. Windows managed to get its market share by dealing with PC vendors. Quality was never something OSes competed on. Subverting vendors with evangelism is only thing that matters.

There always is room for improvement, but in this case that improvement is done in one step forward two steps backwards sort of way. Indeed a lot of history exists but people who actually make games mostly ignore it. I feel that areas I named have in some ways even regressed since 1990s and something needs to be done about that. Maybe good intentions are involved here, but as saying goes road to hell is paved with good intentions..

You may make up as many excuses as you wish. But did it contain Rome? No. Did it speak Latin? No. There you are. As time went by Byzantine has changed both politically and culturally and at end of its days had no more claim of being Rome than Sultanate of Rum or orthodox Tsardom("Tsar" is from "Caesar") of Russia, "third Rome".

Uhh.. I think you better look up those words in a dictionary. No matter Greek or no all rulers tend to resort to them, some more, some less. Mapping it to some nationality traits is nonsense. The very notion of nationality is nonsense. All this is sophistry and waste of time.

What does it have to do with Mongols? You mean that original invaders were of mongoloid phenotype? Nobody ever cared about that at that time. Islam vs Christianity mattered a lot more. And whole concept of nationality didn't even exist. Just some powerful warlord conquered Anatolia from Byzantine and made it his property. Was he mongoloid of Turkish origin? Nobody cared.

"propaganda and murder" isn't a trait of a people, but tools of ruling elite, including some Byzantine(that is Greek who pretends to be Roman) emperors.

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Also AI design, GUI design, plot writing, game ruleset design.. Everything except graphics.