@CarlosRodela I hope people won't force you doin the gangsta dance the way they are forcing EA/BioWare to change the Mass Effect 3 ending... You look already all gangsta to me, just an eye patch and you can do a little dancin :P
It's just an ending of a game. Who cares, after a month or a year, it'll be all forgotten like the snow from last year. Germans like to say "ende gut alles gut" ("good end everything is good") :P PS: I'm contradicting myself on purpose. Calm down people it's just a game. There are lot's of books and movies also games with bad ending. And it has to be this way otherwise you wouldn't know what a good ending is :P
So far so good, but to be hones it wasn't as good as the previous shows but I think this is a normal end-user experience (the satisfaction curve can't go always up to nowhere, don't you think?). But my favorite is "If Star Wars ended like Mass Effect" XD Keep on going and I would still like to see you dancing the gangsta dance :P
@unaligned - (3/3) Also I'm very thankful what you have said in the 2nd paragraph about your experience of the word morality. Next time I'll make sure to be more careful when I will use it because it looks like that my and your culture have very different views on this matters. A lot of media in my country is talking now about homosexual couples adopting children, if this could be accepted by the law or not. Many use the term morality yet almost nobody experience it the way you have described. Hmmm maybe I should use the word "ethic" rather then "moral" for you to understand me what I'm trying to say. In the end I'm glad I learned something new ^_^ PS: I know it's a loooong comment but I hope it was wort the efforts ^_^
@unaligned - (2/3) I had conversations with people who heavily abuse alcohol are known to be aggressive towards family members etc. Things which are really bad and most people don't accept yet I didn't discriminate them only because I don't agree on what they are doing. Most people don't agree on stuff others are doing yet this doesn't mean they will discriminate each other. Same goes for homosexuality in my case. I don't discriminate them but I don't agree with their views on sex. I'm totally sure that a homosexual doesn't likes to be forced into the thinking that he is a bad person only because he is a homosexual. Same goes for people who are straight and don't accept homosexuality yet someone wants to force them to accept it otherwise they will call them bad persons. Problem is when both groups do not respect each other and go too far with all this and have demonstrations against each other, which I accept neither of them.
@unaligned - (1/3) Religion organizations tend to contradict themselves. Some christian churches are not accepting homosexuality yet the priests are doing it with each other in secret. Some other well known religions even permit homosexuality. Other christian churches permit and conduct homosexual marriages. Most religions teach that killing someone is immoral yet they are the cause for the blood of many even children. Forcing someone in a religion in any form (also in the way you mentioned in the last paragraph) is unacceptable as well. Most religions knew this yet they only have in mind to take control over people. Another paradox is that religion sometimes stimulate people to be proud of their country to the extend that they become racist (good example when religion was supporting Nazis) and the very same religion is present in other countries and are doing the same thing in each of them yet they claim to be brothers (World War I and II a totally good example of this). (with religion I refer to the institutions and don't have in mind believers nor the faith itself) If you completely erase religion would this world be a better place, is actually a good question. But even atheistic ideology isn't any better just remember what horror had to experience thousands of people in Cambodia and not just them. This world is full of contradictions yet morality is a fundament on which stands humankind. You erase morality and you are as good as dead. Killing people is immoral, right? And this is what I had in mind when saying the game is immoral.
I don't know why I'm posting this but well some stories are really funny to tell. When you were talking about getting the show a bit serous on moments you can mention something like this "did you know that duck hunt existed in 1930s?" - here is a link to the full article called [url=http://www.cracked.com/article_19619_7-classic-video-games-that-are-older-than-you-think.html]7 Classic Video Games That Are Older Than You Think [/url] (it's on the last page) Enjoy ;)
@unaligned - I understand your critical view on religions. I fully agree that religions have done a lot disasters in this world. They can be another way of racism, there are a lot of prejudice caused by it. Their hands in world war II were very very filthy (I live in Europe and had a lot of chance to hear from first hand what they have done) and even before, as you mentioned, the middle ages. There is a long list what else have they done. Fact is they are doing almost always the opposite of what they are teaching which is making them even more disgusting. Yet not all religions are the same (also their representatives are not always doing what heir believers would expect) and even if someone isn't thinking the same as you do, you can always treat him with respect. Personally I believe the whole evolution theory is a theory with little proof in which I don't believe, yet I won't go and insult people because I don't have the same opinion as they have. I don't understand why are you instantly referring to religion when I use the word "morality". Moral isn't just about religion it's also about sociology, ethnology, psychology also philosophy and maybe even more. The only problem which I can think of is that I might am not fully aware what kind a weight does the word "Morality" have in the English language. It might be that in my language calling something immoral isn't such a strong expression as it is in English.
@TheRobRose In my county you don't have the right to offend my personal name or surname thus freedom of speech doesn't mean you can say just anything. Yes we have a lot of rights, I agree, but behind every right stands also responsibility. You have the right to offend anyone you wish but I don't think this is a good idea. If you have rights this doesn't mean you have to be rude. I'm sure there is always a way to treat disagreements with respectful speech. Almost every right can be abused sadly there is less and less dignity in this world.
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