Recent posts by Searth on Kongregate

Topic: Off-topic / [game] throw something at the next poster

I eat it. I throw the very essence of life at the next person. It has a note saying it should only be used to animate pets that died recently.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Religion Poll

The categories can be misleading since catholicism is part of christianity, secular humanism is an atheist philosophy, and maybe others don’t exclude eachother either. It is good to see so much different beliefs here.
I’d also like to note how the kongregators differ greatly from the world population.

Where are the muslims, hindus, and Chinese universists? Together they make for 40% of the world population! (Okay, most of them probably don’t speak English.)

Topic: Technical Support / Forum trouble in IE. [Fixed]

2: is the post over 1500 characters long?

Okay, I divided my post into two so now the formatting works as it should. Thank you, GHXpert59.
This and using a different browser fixes everything.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Animals That Amaze

If the embedding works, this talk about the intelligence of crows really got my interest some time ago. It’s ten minutes long, but if you’re interested in popular science, animals, or an easy way of collecting tons of garbage/coins without having to do the work yourself, it’s certainly worth watching.

Crows are versatile, intelligent birds that adapted to life near human populations. They do remarkably well on logic puzzles (that is, if it gets them any food) and some say the variety of sounds crows make can be considered a language. (source).

Topic: Technical Support / Forum trouble in IE. [Fixed]

I didn’t find a thread like this so I started one here.

The reason I used IE in the first place was firefox crashing instantly when starting the program. I’ll have to reïnstall it some day.

So, I used IE to edit a post that was messed up completely (even in firefox). I also noticed the site logo was wrong, and two other issues, so I decided it would be worth a post and took a screenshot where all four problems were present.

I downloaded Google Chrome and everything works fine now, except for the formatting of that certain post in the Animals That Amaze thread.

Any other people experiencing the same problems?

Topic: Serious Discussion / Purpose of life - why are we here?

I don’t believe it’s possible to find a good answer other than philosophical ones here. Because things don’t need to have a purpose other than to exist, and what happens with this existence is no more than the result of how the universe works at every scale.

For me, the purpose of life is to be content myself while doing as least harm to others or things that affect them as possible (and helping them). I’m not saying I live by this idea all the time, if that would even be possible, but it’s a positive conviction nonetheless.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Animals That Amaze

Not?

About the ants disease, I really hope it’ll stick to little insect brains.

EDIT: I’m sorry for the double post, but if I put everything in one post the formatting doesn’t work. I made a topic about it.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Animals That Amaze

Amazing stuff, all of it (especially the popple).

I know bacteria aren’t animals, but they move and all so I present you:

Desulforudis audaxviator, a bacteria found in South Africa, three kilometres underground, that needs no more than radioactive rocks to survive. It was discovered in october, and it is the only known organism that doesn’t depend on other organisms. It keeps my hopes up for life in outer space, where there is no air, no organic substance, and maybe no sunlight. I actually think we should put it on other planets, so when we screw this one, at least life will be safeguarded.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Karma.

Karma is supposed to keep the world in balance some shape, way, or form. It does this by canceling out the rights and wrongs and leaves a clean slate.

Where the hell did you read that?

Topic: Serious Discussion / Death at Kongregate

I remember talking to him about his tone-board game. Too bad I didn’t get to know him better.
May he rest in peace.

Topic: Off-topic / Todos los que hablan español, saludos!!!!

He español en el colegio, pero es muy simplo.
But I see this is getting a bit of a spam topic.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Children, unfairly classed like animals?

What? I’m seventeen and from my experience I haven’t encountered much discrimination. People might not take you seriously when you’re a teenager, but that makes total sense. You might still have to learn to control yourself and find your way and a view in life. You could call me a spineless fuck for that but I’m comfortable with a position where I have very little responsibility and all the time to search for wisdom and amusement.

I don’t know where you live but here, in Belgium, it might be different. Kids usually don’t get thrown off buses by adults who don’t like their school. And if you get assaulted for being a kid you should get the cops.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Karma.

People seem to see Karma as ‘if you act good, good things happen to you… magically’ while it’s actually a Buddhist/Hinduist way of naming everything someone does. There’s no higher force involved. There are not necessarily consequenses (usually there are, but in a natural way). I don’t think it’s bullshit.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Is this a good reasons to start a fight?

If by a fight you mean disagreement, sure, but of course you shouldn’t hit him in the face or anything like that. That’d be kind of stupid.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Save the Yellowstone Wolf! Their going to remove the protection on them!

Could you please cut that wall of text into allinea’s?

I don’t know how bad the wolves are doing, but if Bush did it it’s probably a bad thing to stop protecting them.

Topic: Serious Discussion / the large hadron collider will lead to the end of the universe, but not in the way most people think it will

So, Birdoprey, if I understand you are saying that we will discover the axis of numbers to be round, because the end is connected to the start. This would mean, for example, that hundred is smaller than one. Weird shit. But how does this knowledge change the laws of the universe? They have been there for ages, right? It would be just another discovery, only a big one.

Also, you’re talking about ‘the objective of the universe’ and of consciousness as if it is something immaterial caged in our heads (correct me if I interpreted it wrong).

So, what is all this based upon? It doesn’t really make sense to me. Sounds great for a science fiction thriller though.

Topic: Off-topic / Who is the weridest person ever you have seen???

Any psychologist that can explain why many people feel weird or say they are? (Or is this typical for people who live partly on the internet?)

I always thought we’d call someone weird because we wouldn’t have to try and understand that person. In that sense, I think Hitler was weird.

Topic: Off-topic / Top ten list of everything in existence.

1. Tranquilizing darts
2. Penguins
3. Nineties boysbands
4. Hippies
5. Russians
6. Tomato-peanut butter sandwiches
7. Mars Attacks! (movie)
8. Kiwi (bird)
9. Hip-hop gangsta culture
10. That one south park episode with WoW

I’m sure there are better things I can’t think of right now.

Topic: Serious Discussion / A small step for man, a giant leap for the black man

As a European, I learned a lot from that ‘timeline cloud’. Good way to keep our internet-minded image-flashing brains filled with good information. Looking at history, I’d think there will be new racism, but less severe than it used to be. And as generations refresh, I hope racism will become an absolute rarity.

Topic: Serious Discussion / World's First Air-Powered Car problem sloved?

I heard about the aircar some time ago and it sounded extremely promising. I made a post about it, let me just find it…

Here it is!

Yeah, it was quite frustrating since I only got some response from Aldir. At least now you’re really discussing it : ).

I clicked edit in that post and now the entire lay-out is gone. Any ideas on that? (You can whisper me if you know how to fix it)

Topic: Off-topic / Sugar glider or pygmy hedgehog?

Why is this discussion going on forever? Everyone knows sugar gliders are the coolest!

(This thread had exactly 6.000 views when I clicked it!)

Topic: Off-topic / What the heck is a white hole?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hole

Quite often, it’s as simple as that. Guy_In_Armor, I don’t know where you heard that, and Panda_Man, there is no such thing as a leviton. However logical your explanations may sound, they are not really scientific (but yeah, this is the off-topic section).

Topic: Off-topic / Eye frames per second?

It doesn’t work with fps. If you look at a car tire, and it’s rotating backwards, the car’s either in reverse or you’re watching a movie. I’m going to do some experiments using gamemaker and I’ll let you guys know.
EDIT: stupid me, I didn’t realize my screen only showed 60 frames per second. :D. Well, at 60 fps it’s easy to see something flashing. I can’t imagine it wouldn’t be at 200 fps.

Topic: Off-topic / what do you realy hate?

UzumakiNaruto, don’t give kingzak any more attention, please.

I hate people who say they hate people. I mean, I don’t really like them.

Topic: Serious Discussion / GM food (Genetically Modified Food)

One more important CON: Farmers are being heavily exploited. This works as follows:

-A company (I’m thinking about Monsanto) sells seeds of genetically modified crops. These crops are better than others, but require a lot of pesticides. Pesticides kill most plants, but the crops have been made invulnerable to a certain pesticide that is also sold by the company (I’m thinking about round-up).

-Because of all the pesticides used no other crops can grow and farmers have to stay with the GM-stuff. The crops have been modified in such a way, however, that they don’t produce seeds. New seeds have to be bought every year.

-The company is making a lot of money. Money is power. In countries like Brazil it is common for rich people to be gouvernor or have a lot of influence in the government. Unnescessary to say this is an extremely bad thing for nature and the health of the people dealing with the pesticides.