Taken from: http://www.dreamslaughter.com/BTB%2001.html
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
~ Stephen Roberts
They made a wasteland and called it peace.
~ Tacitus
If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
~ Thomas Szasz
You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do.
~ [Usenet]
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
~ Gene Roddenberry
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
~ Jean Rostand
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
~ Elbert G Hubbard
I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
~ Mohandas Gandhi
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
~ John Maynard Keynes
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
~ Susan B. Anthony
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.
~ Orson Scott Card
It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
~ Mother Teresa
If we'd been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe what they believe.
~ A church sign in Northern Ireland
Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?
~ Mohandas Gandhi
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
~ Nietzsche
Humanity without religion is like a serial killer without a chainsaw.
~ Unknown
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
~ Tom Robbins
Peace is over rated. Any slave can have peace. Just pick the cotton.
~ TheSong
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
~ Buddha
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
~ Jack Gurney - "The Ruling Class"
When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.
~ Archbishop Helder Camara
I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ ‘No,’ said the priest, ‘not if you did not know.’ ‘Then why,’ asked the Eskimo earnestly, ‘did you tell me?’
~ Annie Dillard
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
~ Oscar Wilde
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
~ Ambrose Bierce
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
~ Confucius
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
~ Whitney Young
Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of awesome mystical power. We know this because they manage to be invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.
~ Steve Eley
The corporation is a true Frankenstein's monster, an artificial person run amok, responsible only to its own soulless self.
~ William Dugger
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? It is because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
~ J. Krishnamurthi
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
~ Philip K. Dick
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
~ Sophocles
May your fondest wish be granted.
~ Traditional Chinese curse
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.
~ Mark Twain
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
~ Andre Gide
In order to learn, one must change one's mind.
~ Orson Scott Card
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
~ Benito Mussolini
There must be more to life than having everything.
~ Maurice Sendak
If we do not like the world the way it is, then it is because we are not okay the way we are.
~ deeshan
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
~Vernon Saunders Law
It is your business, when the wall next door catches fire.
~ Horace
Once you have seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.
~ Arundhati Roy
All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
~ Karl Marx
There is enough for man's need but not for man's greed.
~Mohandas Gandhi
Before you speak, ask yourself is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?
~ Shirdi Sai Bab
If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.
~ Japanese Proverb
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
~ H. L. Mencken
if you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always gotten.
~ Jim Rohn
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
~ Albert Einstein
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?
~ Epicurus
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
~ Voltaire
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
~ Josef Stalin
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
~ Albert Einstein
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
~ Francois Fenelon
News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising.
~ Ex-NBC news president Rubin Frank
All warfare is based on deception.
~ Sun tzu
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?’
~ Quentin Crisp
The church tries to save sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
There are three truths: my truth, your truth, and the truth.
~ Chinese proverb
If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.
~ Steve Allen
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
~ Gary Zukav
Do you love your Creator? Love your fellow beings first.
~ Prophet Muhammad
A treatise upon human nature: It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
~ David Hume
One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.
~ Jake Simmons
Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
~ Holly Near
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
~ Elwyn B. White
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
~ Sir R. F. Burton
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
~ Sun tzu
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of another. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
~ Immanuel Kant
Know thy enemy and know thy self and you will win a hundred battles.
~ Sun tzu
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
~ James Branch Cabell
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.
~ Julien Benda
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
~ Margaret Mead
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
~ Josh Billings
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
~ George Orwell
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
~ Karl Kraus
It is better to be generous than just. It is sometimes better to sympathize instead of trying to understand.
~ Pierre Lecompte de Nouy
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
~ Basho
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
~ Hector Berlioz
A man who is afraid will do anything.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Each of us is confined to a world of our own making.
~ Shawn Mikula
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
~ Albert Einstein
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves; it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
~ Agnes Repplier
Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.
~ David Starr Jordan
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
~ Robert Frost
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
~ Lao tzu
The biggest conspiracy of all is the claim that there are no conspiracies!
~ Michael Rivero
Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.
~ Mother Teresa
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
~ John A. Locke
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
~ Mark Twain
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
~ Voltaire
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
~ Otto von Bismarck
Quarrels would not last long if only one side was wrong.
~ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
~ Karl Marx
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
~ Napoleon
It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
~ Moliere
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
~ Napoleon
Living is change; Growth is optional.
~ Juan Wa Chang
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever has not kindness has not faith.
~ Prophet Muhammad
Always remember you are a totally unique individual; just like everyone else.
~ Unknown
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
~ Henry Miller
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
~ Lao Tzu
I complained that I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.
~ Persian proverb
You are responsible for all that you do, all that you don't do, and the consequences thereof.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
PvP PvE? PvE PvP?
Is it possible through careful manipulation of player experiences and interactions to make a PvP experience feel like a PvE experience for one side, without making the other side feel like they are constantly being defeated? If a player monster is able to interact with multiple instances simultaneously, it might work. They could have separate "health" scores for each instance, and "dying" in one just causes them to no longer interact with that instance, instead having it get replaced by another. From the monster's perspective it could seem that they never actually die, instead the heroes just keep disappearing. If there is a score system for causing havoc and harm to the heroes, the monsters could compete with one another for points, and brag whenever they actually get a kill.
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