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Comment: Re:Flagrun! (Score 1) 135

by JoshJ (#26550509) Attached to: Valve Discusses <em>Team Fortress 2's</em> Future
There's a version of Avanti which has the offense start with the flag, and have to move it to the point, and which point it is changes over time. There's also a one-way CTF map called stb_cowtown which has only one team trying to get the flag, and the other team defending, and a total of 4 flags on the map.

Comment: Re:Someone actually listens to NPR? (Score 1) 128

by JoshJ (#26265863) Attached to: Penny Arcade On NPR

Without knowing specifically what the questions are that they were asked, it's impossible to tell whether this is relevant or the result of your usual right-wing persecution complex being fueled with a hackjob poll and repeated ad nauseam without any of the details (I've seen this sort of figure cited multiple times but never seen the original poll it supposedly came from) until everyone else believes it because it's been repeated so often.

Let's take the first one you listed- gays- and run with it.

Do you believe that homosexuality is an abomination?
Yes (Conservative)
No (Liberal)

Oh look, the media has a liberal bias! (We're not going to mention the fact that if you phrase the question like this the entire population would have a liberal bias.)

When it comes to something like this, always, always look at the original from the pollster; or else ignore it because there's no way anyone else can tell whether it's credible or not.

Comment: Re:wow (Score 4, Insightful) 844

by JoshJ (#26147507) Attached to: If Programming Languages Were Religions

There are at least a half-dozen quotes in the bible saying that unbelievers should be killed, and a bunch more saying that people who perform certain actions (which aren't unethical from a secular perspective) should be killed. And of course, there's "be not yoked with unbelievers".

It's not a Quran-specific thing. All the Abrahamic religions have no respect whatsoever for those outside of the religion. The mentality boils down to nothing more than "hate everyone who's not one of us".

Comment: Re:AI? In video games? (Score 2, Insightful) 87

by JoshJ (#25985765) Attached to: A Look At Modern Game AI

The problem is that internally the game "knows" where you are- after all, it has to track your location.

Every play against someone in counterstrike who was hacking? Wallhacks, aimbots, the whole nine yards? There's really nothing at all stopping the developers from doing that; and in fact some older games basically did do that, just with arbitrary delays before the AI snapped on you, deliberate fudge factors on accuracy, whatever it took to make the difficulty level sane for a human player.

It's possible to compartmentalize it, of course, so it doesn't know that; but you as a player have no idea which approach they took. If the AI is incredibly good in a game, it's possible it's "cheating" and doesn't really have to deal with hidden information.

Comment: Re:Lower-wattage bulbs (Score 1) 391

by JoshJ (#25952179) Attached to: Censorship By Glut
It's really quite amazing how much of a persecution complex conservatives have. They've been a huge part of political discourse for most of the past 40 years (and dominated since the early '80s) yet constantly scream that everything is biased against them.

If your worldview contradicts scientific evidence, it's not "bias" to point out that your worldview is wrong. There's no "anti-conservative bias" in pointing out the massive debt incurred by the Reagan and Bush administrations and the negative impact those have on the economy. There's no "anti-conservative bias" in pointing out that creationism is utter bullshit and evolution is the reality.

If reality has a "liberal bias" then the conservatives should stop being so fucking deranged, not complain that the media is reporting the truth.

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