Animal Crossing Is Tragic
Created on: November 18th, 2007
No, this is not MY mother that's being talked about. Also, to people Digging this: STOP. Max is not a millionaire. If this becomes another HTPAT, it will probably get changed again and NO ONE will get to be touched by it.
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It's on a console (not online), but the game plays out like an online community. Days pass by in real-time in the game, regardless of whether or not it is turned on, and NPC's will notice how long you've been gone. Up to 4 people can make characters in one town, but (being on Gamecube) only one can be "logged on" at a time.
Now that I think about it, you can send presents to other people who own the game by giving them specific passwords to say at the store. To do this, though, you need to know and enter the other person's in-game name and town name, or else it doesn't work. So, theoretically, this could be an online game.
http://www.gamespot.com/gamecube/rpg/animalcrossing/. It's a strangely addictive game. I played it for six months on a regular basis. Then one day I said what the hell am I playing and never touched it again. Then someone broke into my apartment and stole my Gamecube, Xbox and all my games along with a lot of other stuff and I never saw them again.
I thought that people with multiple sclerosis were still human. It's a debilitating disease, not a dehumanizing disease. Ethics and morality still apply to sufferers of multiple sclerosis. You treating them as less-than-human is highly insulting, and I'm sure you do the same for any disabled person. Her case speaks to the superficiality of many societies, however, regardless of her medical situation. Just because you're dying sooner doesn't mean you should waste what you have left; in fact, the opposite.
i think the thing is, korf, she couldn't really DO anything at all for her kids. im getting the feeling her kids were grown at this point and they were still living together because her quality of life would've sucked *ss without people around. since she was kind of bed ridden, and couldn't physically do anything with or for her kids, this was the next best thing
Morality is relative and worthless. That doesn't mean that people don't believe in it. Anyways, what she did is clearly unethical, and most non-amoral people would find it immoral. MS people that can play video games can spend time with their kids. As for your other speculation, it's speculation. Anyways, this was all a big farce, and a good one, but if this were a real person, it would be either a tale of tragic delusion or serious negligence. Either way, it's not generosity.
Are you joking? Most people only believe that morality is POSSIBLE if passed down from an omnipotent Creator. That's called dogma, not reason. Morality is the concept that there are immutable "right" and "wrong". That's a silly concept. Some people develop their own morality based on something such as humanitarianism or some such ideal, but you can always make up your own so as to make you good and everyone else evil. Thus, vapidity.
Logic *is* immutable. And yeah there are immutable rights and wrongs. Every action can be seen from its consequences to be beneficial, destructive, or neutral to human life. So if someone likes diet coke over pepsi it's not a moral issue. But if they like killing random people and dancing in their flayed skin remains for S&G then guess what buddy, that is *universally evil*. Read moar Ayn Rand.
"Every action can be seen from its consequences to be beneficial, destructive, or neutral to human life." I certainly wouldn't agree with that, especially not to only one in isolation. I certainly would not agree that all moral systems must hold that something that is beneficial to human life is good, destructive bad, etc. In fact, just trying to wrap my head around the glaring inconsistencies of that idea is making my head hurt. Provide a logical proof and we'll talk, but YOU CAN'T. Kant can't, either.
"I certainly would not agree that all moral systems must hold that something that is beneficial to human life is good, destructive bad, etc." If human life is not the highest ideal in your moral beliefs then you are inherently destructive to others and self destructive, as when given a choice, you choose something else other than your own or your fellow human beings lives. Thus moral relativity just becomes an excuse to justify being a criminal. Screw Kant, read Rand. Srysly.
"Korf, you're missing one big point in your rant. She stopped playing the game as her symptoms worsened." I don't see what that says. It's a fake story, but when her symptoms worsened she was in a less fit state t spend time with her family as she had just wasted the last healthy portion of her life on a video game. As for Randian guy, "Ayn Rand said it" is not a logical proof, and objectivism is a silly philosophy. Just because someone argues for a moral system doesn't make it the only one.
Korf, I don't really buy the story either. But you're also basing a lot of assumtion into what is really not explained. She can still spend time with her family and still obsess over the game. When you're wheel chair bound and kids have school or work there is a lot of free time during the day. There is also free time during the evening if kids are off doing other things.
That's a good point, although obsession was a poor use in the sentimentalized context if it is to be taken lightly. That the mom spent all that time getting in-game presents is entirely frivolous, though, and her time really could have been spent better on anything including watching paint dry. At least she'd have a unique experience to talk to her kids about.
Then what is truth and reality? Is electricity not real because I can't actually see electrons flowing through a wire? Is gravity not real because I can't actually experience it directly, only observe its effects on myself and things around me? If you truly know nothing then you cannot deduce anything and logic becomes meaningless. If *that* were true then humans wouldn't have walked on the moon much less figured out how to make fire.
Heh, nice logical comeback. I see where you are coming from, and I do respect your intelligence but I disagree, profoundly, with your world view. A lot of flaws in Kant's philosophy and some good ideas on answers to the problems he posed with his arguments can be found on this site http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/ Check it out, or not.
"no one rags on you guys when you f*cking straight copy a movie sequence" ... of course I do. This site is supposed to be a creative outlet for its members, not an image dump. If you can't conjure up any creative energy, then go somewhere else and dump your images in the appropriate channels. If you're looking for "cool stuff from around the internet", there are plenty of websites for that. Posting this here is akin to going to 4chan for intelligent conversation or putting a toilet on the ceiling.
Much of ytmnd content is rehashed from something else. While this isn't an original work it is something I haven't seen before and appreciate. As for depressing, the holocaust is something that is extremely depressing to study and learn about, but the benefits are that you can recognize what happened in the past to prevent it from happening in the future. That's a lot more important than being happy all the time.
Much of ytmnd content is rehashed from something else. While this isn't an original work it is something I haven't seen before and appreciate. As for depressing, the holocaust is something that is extremely depressing to study and learn about, but the benefits are that you can recognize what happened in the past to prevent it from happening in the future. That's a lot more important than being happy all the time.
It was said by Otto von Bismark, that "Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others". By learning of the experiences of others and their stories, no matter how painfull, we re-think and re-evaluate our own lives, hopefully making us wiser, stronger, and more capable of better choices and priorities in life.
I'm not rating the story. The story is fine. I'm rating RySenkari's site, which is "A Story Stolen From The Internet." Don't let his title mislead you. If RySenkari were to post a poem by Robert Frost, would you go "5, good poem"? Rating content rather than rating a site's merit is stupid. If you want to post stolen content, post it on the forums where people won't rate it as your own or provide a link to it on the forums. The front page is for sites which are made by the sites' creators.
What about the fact that, not being a Korean Animal Crossing forum scanner, I wouldn't have seen this content. I wasn't gonna vote until Korf's illogical "content vs. site" argument. The dude admits it is not his own story, puts the sad Zanarkand music on it, and it's a sweet little thing. Who cares if it was posted elsewhere, this is the first place that most of YTMND has seen it, and it's muddafuggin heartwarming. 5.
"The original message board post with the story at IGN no longer exists, and the site of the artist who drew this is in Korean. So the two original images are the closest I can get." Also, he stole this from 4chan, and who knows how many other places this has been posted. The point is: If you want stolen content, go to 4chan. YTMND is supposed to be a creative outlet, not an image dump.
When sh*t like this gets popular and digged a thousand times, a thousand more RySenkaris come to this site and post stolen material with some stupid sentimental garbage and it will shoot to the top. Imagine that. You'll have nightmares, too, hank. And, no, I don't have nightmares and, no, I can't hear myself "speak" on ytmnd, and, no, I'm not typing in a vacuum. That someone is engaging in a conversation doesn't mean that they "just want to hear themselves speak." That's silly anti-intellectual propaganda.
Have a tough time grasping metaphors? Would it be better if I said he loves reading what he types because that sounds stupid to me? You've never met anyone who rattles on and on when everything that needed to be said was said within the first two sentences? When I read Korf's comments the sound of Frasier Crane enters my head.
When I read hanktherapper's comments the sound of Frasier Crane enters my head. (Actually, the sound of George W. Bush might be closer.) All you're opening up is a game of rubber and glue. Nobody is going to win. If you think I am expounding too much on a simple topic, whatever. I'm saying what I feel like saying and other people are reading it. If that's such a horrible thing then I guess I'm just going to have to live with myself. Your comments are mere mudslinging.
Well this was a nice change of pace. Of course I'm too cool to cry *forces back tears*. I am now awaiting someone to take this and turn it into a fad or something. We'll have people throwing NEDM in there. People adding strobe lights and calling it a rave. The boy will be replaced with sonic and the mom with the Terminator.
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