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Comment on Free Gaming Alliance by Free Gaming Alliance – Continued « .simplicity

Free Gaming Alliance – Continued « .simplicity — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:30:13 +0000

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Comment on Sirrf version 0.2.1 released! by Nick

Nick — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:44:55 +0000

Congrats on another release, good luck at the university! We’ll keep in touch. I haven’t coded as much lately, lots of social stuff to attend to, and now college starts… I wonder what we can code a year from now.

To 0.3.0!

Comment on Free Gaming Alliance by Michael

Michael — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:42:24 +0000

It’s good to see that more and more FOSS gaming initiatives are being set up. Promoting of FOSS games is indeed more than welcome. Thanks for sharing!

Comment on Free Gaming Alliance by Dread Knight

Dread Knight — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:47:05 +0000

I’m the founder of Freezing Moon organization. We’re developing free open source cross platform games using blender and it’s game engine.

Check out our website
http://www.FreezingMoon.org

Comment on Free Gaming Alliance by Dread Knight

Dread Knight — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:45:51 +0000

Hey, I’ve found something interesting http://www.opengamingnow.com/

Comment on Aia @ Science Congress Leiden 2009 by Aia @ Science Congress Leiden 2009 (Event Coverage) « .simplicity

Aia @ Science Congress Leiden 2009 (Event Coverage) « .simplicity — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:53:26 +0000

[...] might remember that the Aia project was nominated for participation at this year’s Science Congress of the University of Leiden. Well, at June 12th [...]

Comment on Plug-ins: Scripts and Shared Libraries by Nick

Nick — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:48:07 +0000

Thanks! Nice to hear that from someone else than close friends, hehe. I’ll try and keep ‘em coming, should have some more time now I’m done with my final school exams. See you around!

Comment on Plug-ins: Scripts and Shared Libraries by FuzzYspo0N

FuzzYspo0N — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:01:31 +0000

Hey, this is a good read for people wondering about scripts and what not. Nice

Comment on Annoying people by Nick

Nick — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:39:46 +0000

Life isn’t rational nor irrational. There’s plenty of rational stuff to which my post applies, and yes also plenty of irrational stuff to which it doesn’t. For instance, I do believe one can predict human behavior to a certain level, by looking at the past, and sometimes plain logical thinking will do. Take a country with lots of unsatisfied people for example, one can predict that crime will be on the rise, people will in general tolerate less and will be looking for a strong leader that (from their point of view) can change their world.

I claim that it indeed is beneficiary. How can one make decisions without (a bit of) logic? The decision making I was referring to was mostly based around keeping (bad) habits. A bit abstract example: A decision is made: X. After 10 years, X can be replaced with a better version of X: Y, due to a change in the variables, be it technology, cultural, whatever. A decision has to be made, the choice between X and Y. But people got attached to X! They don’t want change, they just want things to remain the way they were, without any other real arguments.

This was the decision making I’m referring to. Say X and Y are sorting machines, the change in variables being “better technology, less costs” but people just don’t want to learn the new ways of operating, despite the long-term advantage. The rational choice is to go for the long-term benefits, while irrational choice would rather want instant gratification.

Well I used to have the arrogance that I could ignore the “y-people” you know. I learned that the hard way, but this post wasn’t really about social decisions. More about machinery, new ways of teaching and school exams for example.

Can you give me an example of a cold and inhumane decision in which logic and rationality aren’t the best ways to go?

Comment on Annoying people by Gadamer

Gadamer — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:13:19 +0000

Fact is, life ís irrational. You try to comprehend and control this irrational phenomenom by sole rationality, and you should know such a method is by definition [i]logically[/i] impossible.
Rational phenomena such as gravity can be explained and predicted by logic, but people cannot. And even íf we could, there would be to many variables involved to retain a workable moral.

But what’s more, you claim you’re attempts of increasing the amount of logic in some conversations are beneficiary to the amount of progress in decision making. A few critcal remarks; can you define the ‘decision making’ you’re refering to, and the way ‘progress’ relates to it? Second, but more important; in what way does it make ‘decision making’, or maybe more concrete ’social life’, become easier by joking about, generalizing and even insulting ‘y-people’?