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Jomb Deddorokku                    Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| I vaguely remember learning the basic scientific facts about sex when i was in middle school. It was very mechanical and felt completely detached from the human experience. It was taken more as a joke than anything else, because by then i already knew much more than they were trying to teach me from experimentation and peers. In fact i had already engaged in sexual activities with my "girlfriend". So, lot of good the abstinance lesson was. This is why i feel that sex education should be made more practical and taught earlier. There should be a great effort to remove the taboo from it and teach kids the facts of life as they actually are and not how adults would want them to be in a perfect world which will never happen (all teens abstaining from sex? are they out of their minds?). By the time sex ed is taught (at least where i live), almost all of the kids in the class know more than is being taught and consider it comical. The only teens i knew when i was in school who were practicing abstinance were the ones who were too socially awkward to get a girlfriend. So then they'd proudly say they were being smart by abstaining. The moment they got a girlfriend though, suddenly they were'nt interested in abstinance anymore. Humans are still a type of animal, and when we hit puberty the hormones can get very powerful. No matter how much we want to believe our little babies would never do something like have sex, they do and will, behind our backs. And its a perfectly natural desire. You cant fight nature completely, so what i think is best is for sex ed to take place at some point just prior to puberty hitting, before the kids have already made up their own mind about sex and might actually be willing to learn about it intelligently. And it ought not be taught from the perspective that the kids will all be abstinant, it should be taught with the understanding that most wont. | |||
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| There used to be a forum here for Game Creation, but it's gone now. I'm creating a game but am now unsure about what forum i'm supposed to talk about it in. Is it this one?
My game is at this time being called Worlds of War. I have coded it in C++. It is a tactical game with some RPG elements (in that units from your world gain exp. and can gain levels). In this game you control an entire world with your own world map. During a war, multiple worlds have their maps laid side by side and units can cross over from world to world, in an attempt to conquer another dimension. The premise for the game is that the number of alternate dimensions was expanding till it reached a critical mass, and now it is shrinking. As it shrinks dimensions bump up against each other and battle for space. To populate the different dimensions i am using classic videogames. So different dimensions will be based on different games. My goal is to eventually have so many worlds added into the game that there will be surprises as you play it, running into units you did'nt expect to see, etc. As of a couple days ago Worlds of War has become playable, mostly. I have one world done, and it's perfectly playable as long as all sides in a war are human controlled. I will be adding in some sort of AI worlds to play against, sound, and at least one more world before i release the earliest version to the public. |
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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Am i actually communicating with Neitzluber, or is this just someone else speaking on his behalf?  |
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| I dont know if thats going to be my final title or not (though i have already drawn a nice title screen using it). This game was nameless for the the 1st 2 years of its existence. If i think up something which i like better, or someone suggest ssomething better, and it still suits what the game is i may change it. | |||
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| No, but you can buy things between wars.
I'm unfamiliar with Warcraft, is it a similar concept? |
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| I know it's a war game of some sort and is fantasy based. I've seen ads for it. Yet i've never actually played the game.
My game is not real-time, so that's one of what must be tons of differences since i've never played Warcraft. I'm not real big on real-time strategy, which is probably why i have'nt played these games. When i'm strategizing i like to be able to take my time and consider my moves, like a game of chess. I also like to see what's going on, and in my limited experience with real-time strategy games, too much stuff eventually starts happening, at the same time, somewhere on the map that you may not even realize is going on. I can see though that the name "Worlds of War" is very similar to "World of Warcraft". When did World of Warcraft come out? Maybe they stole my name! I came up with mine way back in 2001! (edited by Jomb on 07-12-06 02:30 PM) |
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| I've always preffered Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett to Pink Floyd without. | |||
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| I like Paul Reubens as an actor and think his personal life has been blown way out of proportion to what actually happened. But i dont see how Pee-wee's playhouse belongs on adult swim. | |||
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Jomb Deddorokku  Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| My latest hack has a complely new soundtrack, but it's not released yet, give it about 1-2 months I'd say. | |||
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| Is there such a thing? Is it necessary for human society to have at least one group of people that it is socially acceptable to ridicule, beat down and hate? I was thinking about this recently, and here in America, it seems to me that at all times there has been at least one group of people it is OK to feel hatred and to discriminate against. There was the "nigger", then, about the time we (mostly) moved past that, it became the homosexuals. Nowadays (at least in most areas) it is very socially unaccpetable to exp |
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| No, i was'nt thinking about white guys or muslims. Though maybe there could be a case for either of those groups beginning to feel some discrimination. Who i was thinking of is a group who it is not only acceptable to discriminate against and to hate, but a group for which it is encouraged widely across the whole society, oftentimes vehemently and codified as law. So much so that i fully expect to be flamed for even mentioning it, but what the hell, i'm nothing if not controversial. As i've mentioned before i have a friend who is doing time for statutory rape, it is a bullshit charge as i've explained before. But the fact of the matter is that whether it is some bullshit or not, he will be considered a registered sex offender when he is finally released. He wrote me a letter recently and i was thinking about just how much discrimination he is going to have to deal with over that label. Its a label he will never be able to escape from, even if he lives to be 90 and has'nt done a single illegal thing since 19. In many states the police will literally have to go door to door everytime he changes address. How's that for a 1st impression? Most employers will not hire him. There may come a time soon when he'll be forced to wear a tracking collar as if he was some sort of animal they caught and tagged on a game preserve. Many places will not allow him to live there. It's kinda depressing to me to think that when he finally does get out he's really got shit to look forward to. The sad thing is that girl was 15 and consenting, he did'nt actually rape her, this punishment is so far out of proportion to his crime it just pisses me off to think about it. And no one is going to stand up for him because they dont want to be perceived as helping a "sex offender". This is about as institutionized as i could imagine discrimination getting. | |||
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| Do you really know the consequences of the laws ahead of time? I sure as hell would'nt have dreamed in my wildest fantasies that you could get this sort of nightmare punishment over a consentual relationship with a 15 year old at age 18-19. Lets get real for a moment, age 15 is not a little kid, it is well past puberty. A large percentage of people have already lost their virginity by or around 15, this is not a rare or unusual state of affars, actually its pretty normal. 15 is a minor, but not a child, and it does'nt make someone a pedophile for being attracted to a 15 year old. This extreme draconian punishment for this "crime" would be hysterically comical if it were'nt so damn serious. This all happened several years ago My friend is still in prison. In prison he has been severely beaten and raped because his cover sheet says "sex offender" on it. Where is the justic for him? There is none, because society says he is "sex offender" so he deserves no justice. I know both parties to this "crime" personally. My friend was a quiet, shy and gentle man. He was'nt out to take advantage of her, he had feelings for her. And she cried when they sent him to prison because she did'nt want that to happen. She is over 18 now and still feels terrible about what happened.
But even beyond this case, there is something very ugly about this hatred. The people who really have problems are mentally ill. You cant tell me that a guy who was perfectly sane and rational would decide of his own free will that he wants to have sex with small children. I see nothing positive coming out of hating people who are ill. I feel pity for them. The ones who are truly dangerously mentally ill need to be treated as such rather than treated as if they were ordinary sane people who just decided one day to go rape a child. But the ones who are not mentally ill and got caught up in an understandable situation should have some hope for redemption. Taking hope away from someone, isolating them from everyone else and subjecting them to institutionalized hatred is not going to help them, in fact that could very well drive otherwise sane men to become irrational and/or severely depressed. This is only going to compund the problems mentally ill people are facing. So I'd say yes, now my friend has been put into a category from which it is acceptable to hate and discriminate against him, because there is no way out for him. Its not the same as discriminating against a bad employee, because a bad employee can change their work ethic and become a good employee. It would be more like taking an employee who make one careless error on their first day and then holding that over their head the rest of their life and making it so no one else can hire them by law. (edited by Jomb on 07-21-06 08:08 PM) |
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| Whether or not puberty is 100% complete is irrelevant, as it is obviously mostly complete. In most historic societies, almost all our ancestors, regarded adulthood as beginning around 14. It is a very modern concept that we are still virtually infants until 18, then magically full adults. It's over-simplified and out of touch with reality. Some people may not completely finish puberty until they are in their late 20's. Does that mean they are still small children? On a more empirical level, i remember what it's like to be 15, and i had a very strong interest in sex and romance at that age. I was not some innocent child to be conned into sex, as if i did'nt even know what it was. I dont know what wiki says, i rarely consult it. Last time i read the DSM, which was several years ago, to be considered a pedophile one would have to have a deep interest in sex with pre-pubescent children, usually defined as under age 13, while at the same time being over 5 years older than the objects of their lust.
I would agree that under most circumstances someone who engages in extreme and damaging behavior is mentally ill and should be treated as such. The motivation for the crime is the biggest indicator for me as to whether it was mental illness or just bad judgement. If the motivation was monetary, such as killing your wife for insurance money, then maybe you are'nt mentally ill, just greedy. If the motivation was that you killed some random stranger because god told you it was the anti-christ, then maybe you are mentally ill. In our society we are too caught up on getting revenge and as a gut reaction consider many obvously insane people as sane for legal purposes. Being mentally ill does not mean there is no possibility for redemption, it means you are quarantined for your and others safety, in a humane environment, until such a time as you are cured. In theory this is how it should be, whether it works out that way or not is a whole other discussion. But even people who are not mentally ill and make a bad decision deserve a chance at redemption. People change over time. Someone who is a 2-bit thug in their youth may deeply regret that later in life and change. They should be given that opportunity, if the change is genuine. My point is that our system has become so hateful and willfully blind in this area that my friend will never have that chance. period. He could save 100 children from a burning building and instead of being seen as a hero he'd still be seen as "sex offender". Probably his motivation for rescueing the children would be called into question. |
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| Age of consent laws are typically very confusing to people who are educated college people, now imagine how confusing they are to high school drop outs. I've lived in many different states over the years and its always different. In at least one state i've lived in my friend would not only not be a "sex offender" but would have committed no crime. Unfortunately in the one he is in he would have been better off killing her than having consentual sex with her.
So then why does'nt my friend fit the profile of paragraph 2? His motivation was love, not greed. People do things under the influence of love that they would'nt ordinarily do, I know i've done things i'm very embarassed by later! There will always be some slimey people who try to take advantage of the system. Most people who have committed a crime dont fit this profile, so its unfair to treat them as if they are all the most heinous drug dealer/murderer. I was actually involved in an internship way back when i was a psych major in which we looked at the relapse rates of people in the area. Guess what, out of over 200 people with sex crimes only 40 or so re-offended over a 10 year period. And that was counting non-sex crimes and petty parole violations as re-offending. Most of those were for being caught with alchohol, getting a DUI, having a playboy magazine, being involved in a fist-fight (most likely provoked into it). Only 7 had actually gone back and done a new sex crime. So even if you take all that petty stuff as being serious, that means there were 160 men who had apparantly changed. Or at least had'nt done it again. So why cant they have a second chance? Some people do change. When i was a teen i was once arrested for shop-lifting. I've never stolen anything since, because i saw the error of my ways. I learned from my mistake. Luckily for me i was a teen and so i got a second chance. My friend will not be so lucky, even if 50+ years go by with no new charges. This is a great tragedy to me and something which our society would be benefitted by correcting (though i doubt we will in this era of fear and paranoia). |
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| wite - I completely agree with "What we could really use is different degrees of sex offender", 100%. Unfortunately as it is now there is no attempt at all to do something like this, it's all mechanical, like robots they get out their law-book, and do exactly what it says, which in this case says Statutory Rape = sex offense, therefore defendant is registered sex offender. Then, once considered registered sex offender you are treated the same as any other registered sex offender regardless of whether it was consentual sex with someone in high school or the violent abduction and rape of a toddler. Statutory Rape type cases are by far the most common type of sex crime, so we're talking about a majority (or perhaps the largest minority, I'd have to go crunch some numbers) of registered sex offenders who probably ought not be considered highly dangerous. The registry itself helps very little as in most states it is very vague about what the crime actually was or what the events of the crime were, basically leaving you thinking the worst. To compound the confusion the charge's name oftentimes is unrelated to what happened, due to plea deals or over-zealous prosecutors. For example, i know of a guy who has a charge of sexual-abuse of children, 3rd degree. You'd immediately think "child molestor!" but actually he should have Statutory Rape as his charge because what he did was very similar as my friend, but come plea deal time he took that charge because technically it is a lesser charge and carries less time.
But regardless i still think anyone who goes X number of years crime-free and really makes every attempt to turn their life around ought to have a second chance, there needs to be some kind of hope for a better life for these people, or else what motivation is there to change? If society wont have you, there is always criminal society and they'll take anyone. |
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| I think you are onto something, ROM Manic. It seems to me that sometimes our government will just slap the label terrorist on anything they disagree with because it will automatically make the masses dislike it. I'm not really sure i consider hezbollah to be a terrorist group after everything i've heard about them, what kind of terrorist group provides welfare to the poor? I think they are more of a people's resistance movement of some sort. Israel has killed many more civilians than they have, in the name of "shocking and aweing" them, yet that isn't called terrorism. But i thought terrorism was when you killed people indiscriminantly or caused lots of damage to enforce your viewpoint? No, terrorism has become a label of convenience and is losing any real meaning. The idea of a "War on terror" is ridiculous, and somewhat frightening. Seems more like a way to have a never-ending war to me. That way the government can have more power and take away more of our rights because we are "at war". How different is a terrorist from a criminal? Why not just call them criminals? How long until people once called criminals just get called terrorists instead so that they have no rights? | |||
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| I dont have any particular suggestions, other than to tell you that in time the problem will solve itself if you dont solve it sooner. Your sex drive will decrease with age. I was never at the 4-5 times a day point, but i did want it pretty frequently when i was a teenager, now in my 20's i still want it alot, but probably about 1/2 what i used to want. | |||
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| Do you have to take the medication? Can you refuse? If you think you are doing fine dont let some doctor con you into taking medication. Is the medication expensive? Could there be a monetary motivation to them wanting you to buy it? I got the impression from your post that you dont really think you need this stuff. It should be your decision. People have good times and bad times, just because you are temporarily in a bad time does'nt mean you need happy pills. Do you experience side effects with this medication? An ex-friend of mine was once put on Zoloft. She was happier, but also became so flaky and un-reliable that she became an endless source of frustration for me trying to have her in my life. I liked her better when she was somewhat down but completely lucid. | |||
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| My first time i was so young i did'nt even know what i was supposed to do. The girl was very experienced though and guided me through it. She was very into it. I thought it was just wierd the 1st time. I started to enjoy it by the second time though. | |||
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 5910 days Last view: 5910 days |
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| What about for your freedom? Would you die for that? It does'nt have to be over people's lives. What if a dictator took over your country and took away all your rights and freedoms, but posed no direct threat of killing you or anyone, so long as they obeyed and did'nt do anything the government disagreed with? |
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