- Siaynoq
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Mar 21, 2011Siaynoq posted a message on D2 Ladder Reset - Season 8This could be the right time for me to finally reinstall D2.Posted in: News
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Mar 21, 2011Siaynoq posted a message on Seventh Batch of Screenshots and ArtPosted in: News
That's not why I feel that way. I just think it's strange for them to be all, "Like us on Facebook! And we'll reward you with a couple screenshots!"Quote from ScyberDragon
Yeah. I think that the main problem is that we all want to be playing the game. So, any picture, no matter how awesome, will not fill that void.
And here we all always coaching each other, saying, "Come on guys, only X number of likes to go..." And it just makes everyone look like jackasses.
But like I said, I'm pretty cynical about all this stuff anyway. And I actually am okay with waiting just cause I'm not ready to buy a new machine yet. :happy: -
Mar 21, 2011Siaynoq posted a message on Seventh Batch of Screenshots and ArtMm hm. But I think all our expectations have become too high over what is essentially a marketing gimmick.Posted in: News
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Mar 21, 2011Siaynoq posted a message on Seventh Batch of Screenshots and ArtI wish I could stop being so cynical about these releases. Cause yeah all I can think is how I saw that picture a long time ago. And I'm no more impressed just cause it's in high resolution. Again, I remain happy I never "liked" Diablo on Facebook.Posted in: News
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Mar 19, 2011Siaynoq posted a message on The Man Behind the CainI wonder if Blizzard regrets ever not investing more development into NPC characters and having them in Diablo 3. Like we know Adria will be there and that's pretty interesting. But like, from D2 are there any other confirmed cameos? I think there's an article about this somewhere on the site. Wasn't Anya going to be coming back cause she seemed pretty important as the new leader of the Barbarians.Posted in: News
But from D1 to D2, Cain doesn't really develop that much as a character. He has some circumstantial things going on and I suppose he does seem a bit more weary even by D2, but the other developments seemed more like you just had to imagine them. And since Diablo was always more plot driven than say Warcraft or Starcraft, there didn't seem as much room to develop the characters. Your own character couldn't possibly develop in any way, and the NPCs' lives couldn't be affected by anything you did. Everyone in the game always just seemed to self-contained and isolated.
So I guess my point is I'm very interested to see how character development will play a larger role in D3 and I have the game overall has more of an RPG feel to it because of it. -
Mar 19, 2011Siaynoq posted a message on The Man Behind the CainYeah, for the most part that's true. But if he seriously had a line akin to, "Way to kill Diablo! Im'a go lie down for awhile now."Posted in: News
He'd then know that much at least. -
Mar 19, 2011Siaynoq posted a message on The Man Behind the CainMy prediction is that Cain actually dies before you reach the end of the game and Leah reluctantly takes his place.Posted in: News
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Mar 19, 2011Siaynoq posted a message on The Man Behind the CainGouph's a handsome fella and a real gentleman. It was nice of him to give such a lengthy interview. Voice acting seems like such a fun job, yet it must be really difficult to get your foot in the door with that line of work.Posted in: News
When you think about it, he must know a lot about how the story goes and how the game ends if he really paid attention what he was saying. I mean there's got to be end cutscenes with Cain talking about how you just killed Diablo and deserve a long rest again. Or something like that. -
Mar 11, 2011Siaynoq posted a message on Fifth Batch of Screenshots and ArtI really like that concept drawing. The whole idea of the treasure seeker is way cool. Still though, this underwhelming batch of screenshots makes me happy all over again for permanently deleting my Facebook account.Posted in: News
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Mar 4, 2011Siaynoq posted a message on Fourth Batch of Screenshots and ArtI'd like to think the Warrior succeeded at least in closing that passage to Hell.Posted in: News
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Mar 3, 2011Siaynoq posted a message on Fourth Batch of Screenshots and ArtMaybe it's an ethereal dartgun.Posted in: News
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Mar 3, 2011Siaynoq posted a message on Fourth Batch of Screenshots and ArtMy money could be on that he wears a shield on his back. Maybe it's a type of armor but works more like an enchanted ceremonial shield of some type.Posted in: News
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Mar 3, 2011Siaynoq posted a message on Fourth Batch of Screenshots and Art@jamoosePosted in: News
Yeah I wondered about that too. Is it part of his armor configuration that he keeps the shield on his back? Cause it could seem impractical to sling the shield over your back every time you use that skill. -
Mar 3, 2011Siaynoq posted a message on Fourth Batch of Screenshots and ArtInteresting that a weapon would be used only as a skill. I think that's the first time I've seen it in action though. Looks pretty righteous.Posted in: News
I just hope the WD doesn't come off as too "dumm diddy ay dumm diddy ay" -
Mar 3, 2011Siaynoq posted a message on Fourth Batch of Screenshots and ArtDid we know there would be dartguns?Posted in: News
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Our antiquated drug laws are a huge part of what ultimately leads to violent crime in the U.S.
Not to say users aren't committing many violent crimes, but the drug lords who fight for supply and territory do commit many violent crimes.
This also brings me to what I do find offensive about sensational stories like this theater massacre. And that's that people in urban areas, decaying cities live in some of the worst crime ridden areas of all and a lot of that crime stems from poverty and ridiculous drug laws. But it's not really news that some poor neighborhoods are getting shot up all the time over drug dealers fighting for real estate.
We're so fascinated by the random shooter who was seemingly normal and had a good life going for him. And yeah I'll admit I'm fascinated by it also, but only to a point. Beyond that point, I really don't think there's a lot to learn in terms of societal behavior by the killing spree of this guy. I mean, even suicide bombings happen frequently enough that we have begun to find sociological explanations for them and have even dispelled the myth that suicide bombers are not necessarily insane as opposed to just extremely socialized. But a lone shooter like this, there is a deep psychological explanation for his behavior perhaps, or maybe there is not that even.
What I'm saying is I think it's overestimated in what there is to learn from this incident. Yet the media will plug it into their overextended news cycle and bring in analysts and pundits and just as I knew they would, they will politicize and sensationalize what happened. And I think that's offensive just because there are other incidents of gun violence, such as those connected to gang violence and the drug trade. And we understand the patterns and the solutions to these kinds of deaths by firearms, only they happen more over time and not all at once in a nice bundle of a news story.
I mean, sure enough, it seems much of this conversation has devolved into a gun control debate. But like I said, gun violence is a symptom of a much larger problem such as poverty or outdated drug laws. We all remember prohibition. Well none of us were alive during that time, but we were all taught about it. They could've done all the gun control in the world during that time and still people would've been getting gunned down like crazy. And why? Because there was money to be made in bootlegging. And because people had to fight over product and territory because they could not do it by legitimate means. It's no different today with the war on drugs. And that's one of the real causes of gun deaths each year.
So if you restrict guns more, you're kind of applying a treatment, but that's still ignoring the fundamental problem. There are still too many incentives connected to owning a gun (legal or otherwise). Even regular middle class folk who live in the suburbs, they own guns a lot of the time out of fear. They feel they must protect themselves because their neighbor's house or car was broken into and now they're scared. Most property crimes are caused by people who need money for drugs or they are simply in poverty and they're resorting to a life of crime to help sustain themselves.
So poverty, drugs, these are the things I see leading to all the violence in this country. But Americans are tired of that conversation. And no politician wants to decriminalize drugs or lessen the mandatory sentencing laws for drug offenses because that makes them appear soft on crime. And being soft of crime doesn't get you reelected. And unfortunately, poor people don't really vote that much.
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If you wanna build your own I can give you a complete breakdown on hardware.
edit: Sorry I did just read that a bit more carefully now and I see you are willing to build a custom one so let me look at some things and I'll give you an idea of what you can get for what.
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Like, gun control is a good thing. But, it's actually not the solution to these problems here. As to why I might think gun control is a good thing is actually not even part of this argument. I say that though cause I think most people would agree that no amount of gun control was likely to have stopped what happen in that movie theater. There are many externalities to the things we accept in daily life. We wanna have our guns? Then we gotta accept this sort of thing may happen from time to time. So you wanna try and stop it from happening through more stringent gun laws? Well, you might actually. But it just depends on how determined that person is to get the gun. And we also know that an outright ban of guns wouldn' make guns go away. It just means they would exist in a black market which the existence of causes all sorts of problems on its own just the same way the market for illegal drugs do.
Yes, I'm sure all the Texans would've been saved in a dark movie theater cause if they have permits to carry guns like that, well then they must all be expert marksman and trained to respond in a calculating way to being shot at. LOL
But see? It's hard to talk about these incidents without eventually someone just saying how they should/shouldn't have the right to own or carry a gun. But I don't think that's the point here.
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But my problem goes back to what I was saying earlier. That the majority of gun violence in the U.S. and Mexico is a result of gangs and organized crime who benefit from the sale of illegal drugs. Work toward taking away their market share of drugs and thus their financing, and the statistics of gun violence would drop like crazy.
However, greater gun control in the end may do very little to deter that crazed lone gunman who's set on shooting a bunch of innocent people for no reason. That's all.
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But I do get your point. There are lots of people everyday who do not even dangerous things, but really really stupid things and I hate that they get any press coverage at all. But they do regardless.
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Not sure what you mean by that exactly. Like, are you saying they shouldn't even report on this? Or by informed do you mean we just shouldn't look more into what is seemingly there. Cause yeah I'd agree in the sense that we shouldn't politicize this incident or try to make in into anything that it's not.
I personally don't think the gunman had the motive of being recognized though or anything like that. And I'll especially hate if people try to apply Joker's lame logic here in this discussion as well since the gunman claimed he was the Joker.
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I mean, yeah that would be fucking scary if shootings were in fact becoming a regular pattern. But the last major domestic shooting we had like this was....2009 I believe? When that military guy shot up a lot of people on the military base. There was Virginia Tech of course, too. And sure, these stories totally stand out above all other headlines, but they remain the exception. So I just hate how people use these kinds of incidents as a rallying cry for political causes.
But there's nothing to make of this other than the fact that this was a crazy fucker with a gun. And yes, we can also make the argument that gun control would have prevented him from doing as much damage cause if he had only a single pistol then obviously he couldn't kill as many people. And while that is true, I also believe people will find ways to get what they want and find all sorts of ways to kill lots of people no matter what.
That said, I'm personally in favor of gun control but I don't think advocating gun control means you're anti-gun. I just think we need a policy that more accurately reflects the times we live in instead of relying wholly on an archaic document as a justification to be armed to the teeth. The longer we rely on the wording of the Constitution as the sole basis for our laws, the more out of touch those laws become as the drafters of the Constitution simply could not envision the kinds of problems our country would have today.
I'm just all for having an open discussion about this and examining the policies of guns and gun control from a less partisan point of view and more from a simple public policy view based more on relevant and recent data. But people instead invoke this holy document that is just so infallible supposedly clear as day for making all our laws and we need to move beyond this silly reverence we have for the Constitution. Yeah, I get it. It's a brilliant document and it always will because it was really visionary for its time. But it just doesn't have the same relevance it used to.
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But the kinds of gun violence that do have a more identifiable pattern, such as that associated with gang violence, we know the solutions for those problems. Politically, however, our leaders are too afraid to make those changes cause we're afraid doing a thing such as legalizing a drug leads to a slippery slop where society becomes completely amoral. And voters are too stupid to not be idealistic for a second and try to view problems in a more pragmatic way.
Instead of thinking "People will always do drugs so how can we reduce their impact on society," they instead think, "Drugs are wrong and should be illegal no matter what." Right now Mexico is riddled with gang violence, all who thrive on the sale of illegal drugs, and all who drop tons of bodies each day using guns. That's because there is profit in what they do. You take away their abilities to make profits of such a thing, and gun violence would drop like crazy.
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