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There's actually nothing wrong with it considering Thief Deadly Shadows went great on the old Xbox. It's not an FPS after all, precision of a mouse is not a life and death matter as it would be for shooters.

"Besides similarities in anatomy and behavior, our close biological kinship with other primate species is indicated by DNA evidence. It confirms that our closest living biological relatives are chimpanzees and bonobos, with whom we share many traits. But we did not evolve directly from any primates living today. DNA also shows that our species and chimpanzees diverged from a common ancestor species that lived between 8 and 6 million years ago. The last common ancestor of monkeys and apes lived about 25 million years ago." Until that ancestor is found, the evidence is not conclusive. The only way to know for sure is to clone the ancestors. It's like the infinity of the universe. We presume it might be infinite, but we can't know for sure. We can believe in it. But it can't be proven until we go to it's known edges.

Yeah, I just thought what would it sound like to have different sounds from TDM and how it would come together. Both Thief and Deus Ex had great footstep sounds. Kind of a big deal when these are a frequent addition to the game process.

It's a glorified recycle of Far Cry for the most part. And that was all about a Rambo stealth survival gig. Just as Far Cry, when the monsters come in, the game suddenly half way through stops being so great and just turns into an average shooter.

Indeed, if once it was ground breaking to fly to the moon, now it's all about the next iPhone version.

Are you planning on changing the footstep sounds in this mod?

DNA is similar but what are the odds we are an ape evolved and a species now distinct versus the possibility that those apes just went extinct the same way as dinosaurs and have nothing in common with us? Making a round circle - we like to make patterns but we'll still never be sure that it is true. In the same way we thought lobotomy works. It failed horribly. Here the price of an erroneous theory is only someone's mind being confused and tormented What's the objective contribution of the human evolutionary theory to science, epistemology if it is defended as dogmatically as dogmatic religion? In the same way as in USSR by making palaces of atheism but in methods being as fanatic and hysterical as your religious sect extremist. Does that really improve our aesthetic somehow? Are we really calling this progress? Versus getting to the moon 50 years ago? To me this is a dumbing down of all priorities and following a false road until we have more conclusive evidence (which we don't, it's just a slightly more plausible theory but still very vague). Good sources for once secret stuff that the likes of Ezhov, later Lavrentii Pavlovich Beria wanted to hide, Nazis would get followed all the way to Latin America for such experiments, but c'est la vie: http://minval.az/news/25076 (hope at least with google translate you can get the approximate sense, the article is written in a properly dignified way [contains graphic images]).

Without getting too technical, AFAIK it's just a combination of habit, genes and force of will (character traits, developed or inherited). As our knowledge of psychology, especially of psychiatry and most importantly of the brain is still in its infancy, I think we should never defend any theory too dogmatically anyway, esp. if I'm not in the field and all that jazz. By the way, about the value of your doctor's degree - there is none, at least not in and of itself! It is a beggining into the academic field. Getting more advanced in it assumes continuing to do more articles, research and such. That's the most important part to make of the entire process! After all, as someone said "[...] if you want to know more about something, teach about it or write a book about it."

Who decides that we're animal? It's a highly technical question lending itself to be explained by scientists, biologists. I presume you insist on it because you like the evolutionary theory? I'm just questioning why it matters for our overall determinism and cosmological view of the world? Just a more cynical and less outgoing view of life. At the end of the day certain questions can't be answered reliably, views change, science evolves. We went down from exploring space to hunting fake news stories. Quite a dumb down if you ask me on humanity's ambitions. Let's just do our jobs, prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Btw I'm not against the evolution theory. It's just more questionable that we specifically evolved from apes. I mean what are the odds that's true based on fossil and bone DNA analysis? Geological research is more reliable.

You did indeed write a lot and I feel there's just a main thing about utilitarianism from Bentham or John Stuart Mill that you came to like very much. It's an endless argument. But, what you mentioned here about Genghis Khan is actually a deeper thing than it seems. The culture of rape, domination, humiliation and misery that these Asian conquerors created still runs genetically in the Muscovite, Russian country. You will see that genetically, even though descendents of the Tatars or the Pechenegs invaded Eastern Europe into modern Ukraine, Romania, Poland - they still never quite succeeded as they did in modern Russia to practically enslave them and humiliate them as a people for a few centuries into submission, huge fees as vassals and continuous cycles of raiding and capturing. And the result is a genetically modified Russian who today - the continental Russian will want to humiliate in the same way and destroy neighbouring nations into submission. This is the fundamental difference and indicative of their, unfortunately inferior mindset as a country. An individual Russian is a great guy, he is good to spend time and drink with, but as a country Russia is a disaster. It's a national tragedy that the country of Dostoievski descends into mediocrity and medieval obscurity in boyarishnik - and it is a boyarishnik civilization. That is why countries such as Ukraine have a chance to break away from this perpetual darkness of an Asian mindset. I don't know if the evolution theory is right or not, and don't really care - but progress lies not in submission to our instincts even if it's biologically and functionally right, but to do the right thing in the end. Kiev is distinctly different from it's Muscovite tataro-mongol neighbor in that it did not inherit these genes. In conclusion, the rape argument as functional is a trait of the most primitive people in history. Genghis Khan succeeded to conquer but never to keep it all together. It's like the Sith having vigour and hate but eventually destroying each other. And that's what Russia is genetically (unfortunately). You can't possibly think that submission, domination cycles are the way to progress. It's the way of Asian primitive warlords in Afghanistan, of dictatorships in Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgistan and elsewhere. Civilization has a way of developing in a globalized world in a way we have no way of seeing. Countries like the ones mentioned and like North Korea will be ostracized and they have no place in this world, lest they doom their neighbours efforts for development and a better future. I will never accept this, even in an abstract theoretical hypothesis because this line of thought is against everything of rationality, of reason and even common sense. Some felt what the future should be, visionaires like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs - they created and shaped the future with things we never thought we needed. But in the end even a primitive layman mercenary in Syria/Donbass uses a smartphone. And there's nothing we can do about it.

Adultery is related to education and more to how that person lives in general. Education at home and education in public institutions as well. It's pretty certain without any study that the higher your education alma meter, the less likely it is you are settled and married. Education takes time as well as a bachelor's, masters or Ph.D. It depends how you explain it. Super big wealth probably means the money isn't clean and a clever man/woman would avoid that excess. How much does a human need for happiness? Life without labour and absolute wealth would be agony without meaning. So you took the utilitarian philosophy? Imho you have to be careful what to believe, esp. dogmatically. You can certainly look long in the pit hole but then it starts looking back as someone said. Don't agree on that chemical thing. Don't belive that science is just some chemical affecting me. It may partially but not in a way that I have no influence. One way or another there's another chemical that answers for my own will, thoughts and some unexplained brain procedures, molecule, atoms exchanging that beat the testosterone thing, the instincts. At least by rationality and a clear head about what you want and what you do and where you stand. Nothing more and nothing else. The decision again, belongs to everyone personally. Can't be imposed. How can that be proven? Objectively and consciously I don't "smell" people unless their smell is putting off. It's definitely not determining us liking or not someone. Moreover how can you determine someone's immune system by smell? It's an entire system! Today you may eat apples, later in the day you can smoke. No way you can find out if you hide the latter. Not in my country. Here it's a voluntary thing with a pathetic pay. So half are corrupt and the others are decent people. Moreover what's the effort and status correlation of a doctor/teacher to that of a lawyer, judge, prosecutor et cetera? It's harder to be a doctor than a lawyer, that's 100%. It's dangerous to generalize like this because not all people automatically have a nice job and a wonderful life. Someone wants to do more and feel that what they do still has meaning. Like join a job in a hot zone and help people in need through the Red Cross. Arguably you can die there and you won't gain anything. But even if you do, at least you do it for the right thing and you'll be a better professional after you come back than if you hadn't done it compared to peers. Not everyone stays in the comfort zone. And it says something when women do it. It's a personal decision. In a developed society we ought to take responsibility for what we do and say. We're not animals and it's repulsive to keep that angle IMHO. It's counterproductive and demotivating and it doesn't help. Take it easy! Like a good old movie says:

If you still perpetuate the evolutionary angle - why does the generic middle class everyday man/woman just wants peace, stability and a decent income to raise a family? What you say sounds cool, but if you ever participated in a fight or a brawl in the street, you'll see that nobody cares for the winner/loser. Nobody wants problems. What a girl might want is just some protection and a predictable safe haven to return home to from a potential courting partner. While a guy just want a nurturing, soft girl that would coincide with his understanding of awesome. But even if you extend the competition thing beyond real fights to some abstract competitions at work and whatnot, it's never about who wins. Because now it's all about character traits and compatibility with your partner. We're free people after all. Considering how we're much more advanced than other animals - instinct matters the least. Rationality and empirical evidence, most importantly psychologically makes us choose usually the following way: guys choose girls that are alike their mothers in chracteristics, at the very least we like them more than other girls; girls choose guys who are like their fathers in characteristics. Self confidence is not necessarily a sexual-related feat. It's not a turn off/on switch. But it is true that you either have it, or don't. Nobody likes pushovers. It's just a life thing, to impose your will on the world and not the other way around. We're not robots. But only you decide what to do with your life and how to get things done. Look at it the other way around - do doctors, teachers exist to lower someone's social status? They help to let the weak live, those who under extreme conditions would die. They defeat the vicious cycle and help get sustainable development outlined in countless UN resolutions, NGO commitments and so on. For us, sex is not a lifeless, meaningless reproductory act. As superior beings, sex is part of our relationships and a direct representation of how they go. With all due respect, it's totally wrong on your behalf to reduce everything to Freudian nonsense theories - half of which have been proven wrong. The only thing he was right about was the existence of the unconscious in our brains and on the method of tete-a-tete interview in psychology. All of this with 0% intention to bring down your social status because I will probably never meet you in flesh.

On the distrust for authorities in the US concerning that frontier in the mind we're supposed to find and break:

It's also a recipe for schizophrenia to develop traits of having the impression that you're superior to your peers. Waste of time and sanity if you're not a person that has power or have some influence or direct tangetion. Unless you're going to vote or something.

What if it's Gulen against Ataturk? Depends if the state is a democracy or not. Only there condemning the corrupt dude will have sense, logic and will look like justice and not revanchism.

It is really not appropriate to label every more exotic theory as conpirology of course, unless it's nonsense. Be worried about conspiracies that make your local prime minister/president/chancellor have extended powers and turn to the dark side as the next emperor or Darth Vader:

Making uncomfortable people disappear is as old as the state is. The first secret agent network is at least 300 years old with Cardinal Richelieu presumably being the most recent example. In the form we know it today. I'm not sure that Google hides search data. It's all algorithms there. What are the odds someone's going to pay Google to change algorithms in a case like this, where all interested parties (prosecutor, state authorities) probably have better sources ? Google gives the most relevant results based on your location. Maybe try typing it in www.google.nl ? Also specifically for the Dutroux case - it's old. Google appeared in 2005. I see no conspiracy here. ​It's good if there's a group of public people that will speak out against a certain case hidden from the public or one with a hidden agenda. Like politicians and journalists. Our country has conspiracies every day, drawn by narrow journalist, blogger circles of posh snobby people doing political intrigue and flirting with politicians? Conspiracy? Maybe. But it's more of bad taste and overall indicator of a degradation of the people who are supposed to be the elite. It's more of an intrigue where some choose to get involved in for profit. But their minds are most of the time sufficiently closed to do stupid things anyway. They don't deserve to be called conspirators. The point is that in a democracy you can still get to the bottom of at least a half of these stories. Same as how Berlusconi in Italy had a sentence anyway. People who disappear every year in Chechenia will never be found and nobdy will ever care. The Caucasus network is a good source for comparisson of how lucky we all are: http://www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.eu/ Infinite source of European Court sentences if everything is done by the book against Russia here. Politics is a dirty business and only people with a certain type of thinking usually get into it. And not necesasrily the best ones. The reason I mention Chechens is because their money helped separatists in Ukraine and their money is heavily involved against another Mafioso who is hostile with the Russian mafia - Vladimir Plahotniuc. Basically he dumped them and stole 20 million dollars from Russian banks and covered all tracks to offshore them through Moldova. The point is that Chechenia is probably a worse example of running a republic than Saudi Arabia or Iran taken together. They are bad news for everyone.

2 and 3 can be solved by not allowing AI to climb ladders. Just as in TDS and most games. At any rate good animations not only for climbing but during the walk/run cycles is key if the third person view idea has any viability (it's been rolled here for years but I think it never received a warm welcome due to the lack of animators).

Why was it speculated that WannaCry is North Korean origin? Does N. Korea import Chinese keyboards?

What's in the foreseeable to do list for the 2.06 update? Taking care of crashes, missing features or adding as much as possible and planned beforehand? According to the bugtracker, lots of issues have nobody assigned to them since Steve went AWOL. What will be delayed and what is planned to be done?

I actually got it wrong. But the author answered me 2 years ago on the subject, name of the work in the thread among the latest ones.: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/13749-fan-mission-in-remembrance-of-him-by-rpgista/page-8

It's a fragment from a real world philosopher. I remember it was real good. Montesque or Voltaire or someone like that.

Pirated copy of the trilogy in 2005-2006.