Recent posts by norumaru on Kongregate

Topic: Serious Discussion / ---Pennergame---

spamming referral links makes baby kittens cry.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Zombie apocolyps.

What’s Apokolips have to do with zombies? Darkseid needs slaves, not brainless eating machines.

Topic: Serious Discussion / bill oriely

Well, to the OPs question: he’s still on the air because he draws controversy and entertains. in the eyes of a network CEO, anything that gets viewers is fine.

@Aaron_: that video is hilarious. He caught him doing exactly the thing he’s knocking others for.

Topic: Art / Looking for someone to redraw this...

a pirate shuriken.

Topic: Music / Cover songs that are better than the original?

I Will Survive by Cake. Awesome coolness.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Why Do People Take Illegal Drugs?

They are peer pressured into doing them and they get hooked, they do it to defy authority, they’re tricked into thinking its something else, and the list goes on and on because every drug user has their own reason.

i don’t know any drug user who started out because of one of these reasons.

i don’t mean to be ageist, but maybe some of the people in this thread are a little young to really comment on the issue.

Topic: Serious Discussion / God, the Bible, and religion - a Kong search for truth

you could technically say that pain is a delusion and its all in your head.

ever heard of nerve signal transmission?

i mean, come on, this is ridiculous.

I became a Christian because I recognized the truth.

i’m gonna whip out my favourite Phillip K. Dick quote:

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Questioning moderation

i meant talking to people on the forums, as in the username is not attributed with any mod insignia (like an icon next to the name or in the profile). to know if someone is a mod, you’d have to sift through the forum pages, looking if his name is included in one of these lists. furthermore, what joshhh said. but whatever, btt.

[edited. you’re right, RMcD.]

Topic: Serious Discussion / Questioning moderation

actually, how do you even know who is a mod?

at least on the forums, there’s no way of telling, or am i mistaken?

Topic: Serious Discussion / Atheistic / Agnostic Literature

actually i’m rather fond of dawkins’ earlier books. i didn’t read The God Delusion because i find the attack unneccessary and counterproductive, but The Blind Watchmaker and Unweaving The Rainbow are both very good reads. The Selfish Gene can get you down, but on the other hand it elaborates a lot on the “So atheists believe everything happened by itself, then why do we have $superior concept?” argument.

I’ve heard good things about The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond, but haven’t read it myself.

I recommend venturing over to IIDB and looking at the stickies in the subforums which topics might be of interest to you, almost all of them feature extensive resource and recommendation lists, as does the “Media” section. there will be far too many suggestions for you to read, and quite frankly, i haven’t read most of these, but i trust their recommendations and think you’ll be fine if you just skim through the lists and pick the ones that sound interesting to you.

also, this speech given by Douglas Adams. Everyone should read this.

Topic: Music / Dumbest genre of music.

All it is Retards Attempting Poetry(RAP).

because most metal lyrics have such profound meaning, like “RAAARGH!” or “I eat babies! Ain’t I just shock-a-licious?”. i mean, show me one music genre that des not, when the chips are down, use and re-use a lot of scene stereotypes and repeating, silly content. Singer/songwriters mostly boil down to “I am feeling good and lookin’ fine” or “i am forlorn and lonely”. Pop, RnB and techno: “DANCE!!!”...etc. every scene has the two evergreens “he/she left me” and “I lover him/her a lot”.

saying you don’t like rap is pretty close-minded, because i’d bet i can name at least 3 music genres that rely on or frequently use rap that you haven’t ever heard of. it’s like saying “guitars are stupid”. there’s much more to rap than just gangster rap or the billboard charts hiphop for the masses (which i despise both) MTV is feeding the world.

“can’t argue about personal tastes”, said the monkey and bit into the soap.

Topic: Serious Discussion / IQ, A sign of intellegence?

there’s quite a wide variety of tests, and i never get the same results. The GDR, where i was born, tested infants’ IQs and i scored pretty high (i don’t see the need to put it here, though), had a follow-up test at age 16 that turned out with an even better result, but i scored “only” 118 on the one from the front page. i’ve taken some others, too, and the results vary between these 118 and even above my scientifically supervised score. i found out that i score high, if the tests have a lot of semantic logic and/or visual logic, but i fail if it (like the one from here) has a lot of maths.

so, long story short, i’m not trusting any of ’em.

furthermore, an IQ says nothing about school grades. i used to get bad grades in elementary, because i couldn’t really be bothered, (being able to read since age 5 doesn’t help making school interesting) but when it dawned to me that i would only go to another boring school, i put some effort in it and got good grades.

Topic: Serious Discussion / AX: Video Games cause crime.

they could never get all violent games off the streets. what happens on the internet, stays on the internet – forever. every game that was available for download wil still be somewhere in 15 years.

a good example is Wolfenstein 3D. that game is banned in germany due to excessive use of illegal symbols, yet everybody who owned a computer played it until we realized that it sucks like an automatic suckin’ machine. we actually played it out of pure spite, because it was banned (and because you got to shoot hitler in a mecha suit). nobody had any problems getting his hands on the game, and that was around 1993, way before massive internet downloads.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Questions about Christianity

Wait he abolished purgatory? As in he just said, “Nope no more purgatory for you folks.”?

yep. tbh, i know people who got put in the loony bin for less.

the pope is god’s spokesman on earth and thus infallible. so eat it, heathen suckers. it’s like omni-benevolent… with a vengeance!

Topic: Serious Discussion / Questions about Christianity

Its my understanding that those that haven’t had a real chance to learn of Christ’s teaching are sent to purgatory. Also the essence of purgatory seems to vary a bit depending on who is teaching.

Pope Benedict XVI abolished purgatory on the 20th of April, 2007, so the chinese children are sh*t outta luck.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Is God Real... Is Heaven And Hell Real? If Not, Then What Happens When We Die?

well, one could ask the very same question from another position ;D (granted, you sometimes show a lot of insight, but sometimes, well… not.)

Repaer: I suggest reading into the matter some more. believing something, anything, without a good knowledge foundation is dangerous.

i’d always suggest starting with Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins (who recently became a crusader, lamentably), but that’s only because i am quite fond of that book and it really answered a lot of questions for me when i was just beginning to become an atheist and was really confused as to how to handle some issues.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Goth's and Emo's: Whats the difference?

Gothicism, I believe, is a religion.

surely not. it is a cultural movement just like any other.

putting people into categories by “signs” like “cuts hmself” doesn’t work. this one is especially nonsensical because people with varying degrees of varying mental disorders all over the world cut themselves, and many may never have heard the term “Emo”.

in the end, a person pertains to a cultural scene when he 1. defines himself thusly (e.g. “I am Joe, and i am Emo.”) and 2. dresses and behaves according to the codes and customs of the scene. nothing more, nothing less.

i’ve never known a goth who cut himself, and i’ve known my fair share. from what i know, i’d say that goth people tend to wear black only, listen to much heavier music and share a fascination for the occult, but these are only some signs – assigning other people to scenes you always end up using pretty arbitrary and superficial definitions.

the best thing to know for sure would be just walking up to someone and ask him or her about the culture the person subscribes to (great way to meet girls, btw). i did that several times. important is to be genuinely interested and as unprejudiced as possible, because otherwise the person will abandon the conversation quickly for obvious reasons. the first question is always awkward, especially if you don’t know the person at all (not from your school or anything), but most people who really subscribe to a cultural movement will tell you about it when asked (exception: the fight club).

Topic: Serious Discussion / nader 08?

That is, he absorbs votes from people that “would have” otherwise voted for one of the R/D candidates.

Somebody once said to me that because I voted for Nader, I “gave” Bush my vote.

oh, i love this one. they are practically telling you that you’re ruining democracy by voting for the one you agree with (how dare you, anyway?) and sadly there’s a lot of people who buy into it. you did not give bush your vote. you gave Nader your vote. but that is a problem of the “winner takes it all” election system. here in germany, we have proportional representation, and it helps keeping at least some of the other parties in mind.

the big parties have scared people into thinking that if they don’t vote for someone they actually don’t like, they will get someone they don’t like, and nobody wants that, do we?

i would really want to know how elections everywhere would turn out if the people 1. actually knew more than the maybe 4 or 5 main parties, and 2. would not vote for whom they think will win, but for the one who they really agree the most with.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Is Sex before marriage allowed in Islam;Christianity.

or condemnation of oral sex, or if you’re talking hardcore fundies, condemnation of anything besides missionary position during the woman’s fertile days, topped off by a ban on masturbation.

Topic: Serious Discussion / God, the Bible, and religion - a Kong search for truth

me too.

Topic: Serious Discussion / God, the Bible, and religion - a Kong search for truth

they’d get very upset, and would have every right to it. that is my point. their own book specifically tells them to. but they chose not to obey it.

Topic: Art / Art for the Necronomicon

love both of the last ones.

sakket’s looks a little too bland for my taste, i think it should be more unsettling or creepy… somehow… but you know you still got my internets, that kirby alone earned it.

my other copy of the internets goes to pomppo. your stuff is awesome.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Getting A Girl...

i know this is kinda off topic, but i never understood why all of this has to be so awkward. i mean, most people want a partner, most people are heterosexual. why is it so frowned upon to tell someone you’re attracted to them? how come a line like “you know, i really like you a lot” actually lowers your chances in most cases? if i had told every girl i had a crush on or found attractive that i did, i’d have lost a lot of good frinds by now. for me, this is not really a problem, i have two female friends who at smoe point were inlove with me and told me. they both assumed that it would end the friendship, but i said “sorry this is not mutual, but i don’t see why we can’t hang out anymore if you can cope with it” and managed to keep both of these friends.

Topic: Serious Discussion / God, the Bible, and religion - a Kong search for truth

maybe they should prophecy outside?

Topic: Serious Discussion / Plans for world domination...

easy. sudo.