Guest posts by Chironex

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Tournament Archive / Re: Eastern Tournament - Dec 18th - Biohazard

« on: December 16, 2010, 09:32:41 pm »

Why is icebolt banned? 

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Tournament Archive / Re: Eastern Tournament - Dec 11th - A Second Chance

« on: December 10, 2010, 12:00:08 pm »

Added Fate Egg and Chimera. Deja Vu is unfortunately too strong with buffs and no CC.

And Fate Egg? Isn't that too strong? I see it turning into dragons or medium sized creatures (4/4 - 6/6) more often than not.

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Religion / Re: What do you believe?

« on: December 10, 2010, 02:17:55 am »

I read too much quantum physics and it's hard do describe what I believe, but if I had to try, it would be something like this:

2. There is probably no "one single truth". I'm leaning towards to believe, that every single view of every single person can be true at the same time.

Is this just a believe about the supernatural/nature of this world or does this extend into your moral theory? Take the normative definition of murder (wrongful killing). Do you believe there is one descriptive definition for that category or do you believe that multiple simultaneous contradictory descriptive definitions more accurately portray the truth of the world.

[Note: In the above paragraph I did not reference peoples beliefs about what is wrong for that is irrelevant. Only the truth matters.]

I also would be interested in you describing: What you think is the characteristics that makes something good, evil, neither and both?

I'm about to go to sleep now. I had a hard time understanding your question. (The question is clear, it is just me that's too tired.  ) I'll have a nice rest now and contemplate the question till tomorrow.

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Religion / Re: Responses to a few common arguments

« on: December 10, 2010, 02:07:19 am »

Would that make the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment scientifically impossible?

Causality isn't violated in that experiment, so it's just fine. An explanation of exactly what's going on is rather involved, but if you'd like to look at it, here (http://www.springerlink.com/content/g7w8441j75831k4x/)'s a proof that causality violations are impossible if the current equations of quantum theory are correct.

The photon decides whether it's going to act as a particle or as a wave based on a future event (the erasure or non-erasure of its path information). That sort of violates casualty.

I read some books about the topic and some of them had opposing opinions, so some of them were probably wrong. This book may or may not be wrong too. Anyway, I'll read it tomorrow. I'm interested but too tired to read atm.

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Religion / Re: Responses to a few common arguments

« on: December 10, 2010, 01:17:29 am »

And 1000 years ago walking on the moon would be just as unrealistic. Or Tv. Or countless other inventions. What counts one thing out as not being scientifically, possible, while something else is? Have you seen the newest GI Joe Movie? What about nano bots that could eat metal? An invisibility suit that takes pictures of whats behind you and puts it in front? An accelerator suit? Do you consider any of those ideas a plausible idea?

Where do you draw the line?

Generally things that violate causality, ie allow effects to proceed their causes, are a pretty good place to draw the line.

Would that make the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment scientifically impossible?

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Religion / Re: The greatest atheist in history

« on: December 10, 2010, 01:00:05 am »

Sure man, whatever.

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Religion / Re: The greatest atheist in history

« on: December 10, 2010, 12:34:50 am »

He's too educated to say 100%. And 100% or 99.99%, that's not my point. My point was that he and some people are way too overconfident in their right. And I still find him unpleasant.

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Religion / Re: The greatest atheist in history

« on: December 10, 2010, 12:04:52 am »

I tend to have less respect for Dawkins for a few reasons... he seems to like the stage too much, he's a bit of a fundamentalist as far as atheists go, and he has a comical tendency to talk himself into corners.

Echo mention of Einstein.  Plus he was portrayed by Walter Matthau, how can you go wrong with that?

Personally I don't like Dawkins either. In my opinion, everyone who is 100% sure in their own right can only be wrong. I just felt he should be mentioned in this topic. 

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Forum Game Archive / Re: Collaborative Drawing Game - Part 1

« on: December 09, 2010, 11:33:44 pm »

Added the paradox boxes with the coolface. 

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Multilingual / Re: 1337

« on: December 09, 2010, 11:11:22 pm »

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Multilingual / Re: Elements description translated

« on: December 09, 2010, 10:56:02 pm »

English
Elements is a fantasy card game online. The player is an elemental, a spirit composed of an element; elements are the fundamental building blocks of nature. Each elemental has an arsenal of skills that can be used in a duel against another elemental; each skill corresponds to a card. The player can pick which and how many cards to use in the duel and collect them together in a card deck.

British
Elements is a jolly fun game to play during tea-time. The gentleman is a being, an elemental. Elements are positively small. Elementals have alot of tactical strategic formations, such as twiddling thumbs, where you can win against a gentleman in a jolly good show, like poker. Each formation has a card, like Spades. The gentleman can choose the cards for the show and make a jolly good deck. You can bet from $1 to $50 to get bloody rich during tea-time. 

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Pirate

Yarr be playin' Elements. Elements be a legendary card game in those thing-a-magics. T' pirate be an elemental, a matey composed o' some junk; thee junk be t' fundamental buildin' blocks o' the seas. Thar elementals be got a rum bottle o' skills that be used in a death fight against another elemental; yee skill matches t' a card. T' pirate be choosin' which and how many cards t' use in t' duel and collect them together in a deck to win yee treasure! "

Zarabian (Arabic-English with Z-English)

Zelement iz a vantazy kard game onlinez. Ze blayer iz an zelemental, a sbirit kombozed ov an zelement; zelements are ze vundamental building blockz ov nachure. Each zelemental haz an arzenal ov skillz zat kan be uzed in a duel againzt another zelemental; each skillz correzpondz to a kard. Ze blayer can bick vich and how many kardz to uze in ze duel and zollect zem togezer in a kard deck.

Epic. 

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Multilingual / Re: Elements description translated

« on: December 09, 2010, 10:55:03 pm »

Elements is a fantasy card game online. The player is an elemental, a spirit composed of an element; elements are the fundamental building blocks of nature. Each elemental has an arsenal of skills that can be used in a duel against another elemental; each skill corresponds to a card. The player can pick which and how many cards to use in the duel and collect them together in a card deck.

Hungarian

Elements egy online fantasy játék. A játékos egy elementáris, egy elemből összeállított lélek;
az elemek a természet alapvető építőkövei. Minden elementárisnak van egy képességekből álló fegyvertára amiket egy másik elementáris elleni párbajban használhat; minden képesség egy kártyának felel meg. A játékos kiválaszthatja melyik és hány kártyát használjon a harcban és összegyűjtheti őket egy pakliban.

I'd refine that a bit. Some things there hurt my eyes. Especially "elementáris". 

Hungarian:

Az Elements egy online fantasy kártyajáték. A játékos egy elementál, egy elemből álló szellem; az elemek a természet alapvető építőkövei. Minden elementálnak képességek arzenálja áll rendelkezésére amiknek más elementálok elleni párbajokban  veheti hasznát; minden képesség egy kártyának felel meg. A játékos kiválaszthatja, hogy melyik kártyából mennyit használjon a harcban és összegyűjtheti őket egy pakliban.