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Decriminalization of homosexuality, of drug consumption and other progressive movements go in tandem with the adoption of hate speech laws to protect and safeguard these achievements. Else, all of these efforts would have been only half steps. We already see how democracy is eroding, rule of law goes down a slippery slope in Poland, Hungary, Russia, Turkey.

They do NOT care about, it's all fictional. It's posing having totally different goals. In a right-mirrored world you'll got the same "hate speech" nonetheless, targeting who writes/speaks against the "Motherland" or the "Fatherland" and you'll be prosecuted for treason....but not because the leaders are patriots nor because "Homeland" is a real thing, but because they need this idealistic machine working to process more and more consensus and getting voted! Just progressive constructs against tribal constructs with the same electoral goals: KEEP THE POWER.

I am not a guru to give the universal definition of what is hate speech in this forum. States adopt whatever laws they so desire. Possibilities to harmonize laws are always welcome. But we haven't reached that point yet. I've already pointed out that there are numerous recommendations, drafts, projects to accelerate unified regulations and practices in this respect. Make what you will of it. The tendency is unarguably towards criminalizing hate speech. Can't stop it. We don't live in a perfect world. You can't expect everyone to magically agree on a certain policy instantly. That's not how legislative process works. Look at the war on drugs. Decriminalization of drugs is very slow, but it still goes on with mixed success in different countries. Other countries like Russia, on the contrary imposed more severe penalties against drugs users and dealers. Bottom line - a magic wand to fix hate speech does not exist. That's why hate speech laws are the first step to solve the problem. You are correct that the rich use the poor when maneuvering for power. Everybody can make mistakes. Nobody is prescient or without fault. However I don't understand how hate speech should be extrapolated to compare it with censorship in North Korea. In other words, North Korea is lawless. It is only lawful evil in name only. In reality state actors there, like in any dictatorship have absolute discretion - no checks and balances. Every decision can be made arbitrarily. Each arbitrariness reinforces ordinary citizens' situation of being mere bargaining chips for total control over the region. You are mistaken though to see this as some kind of communist conspiracy. Communism is just a label. Eastern Europe is still plagued by old problems from USSR in mentality and so on. Hate speech laws though are progressive norms that can work if implemented correctly by the right people. You can turn any good law into a bad one by using bad faith techniques. For example you can make fake victims of human trafficking to testify against innocent people to make an appearance of super justice. In reality the fake victims were prostitutes who worked for their pimps. That's not justice. But it helps the USAID justify its grants as foreign aid to other countries. But as usual nobody cares. I see where you're coming from. I understand that you want to say enforcing certain laws against the rich - such as money laundering is more important than hate speech laws. I agree with that. More serious crimes should be investigated with priority. But technically it's all about properly implementing public policy and having the right people in power. If you see hate speech laws as an attempt to divide and conquer people based on disagreements between whites and other races... Well, IMHO the way is just to deal with these laws and accepting that the stereotypical straight white male isn't perfect. There's more important stuff than to bother with this. There are still undeniable truths in any joke or stereotype. Regardless how small they may be. For example many Romani are undeducated, illiterate and therefore prone to crime. But that doesn't mean they don't deserve a place in society like many other illegal immigrants.

On the contrary, this thread should really be about my language project. That's what I'm working on in the big picture, and the C++ Program was just one little part. It would be a great pleasure for you guys to ask me about my project so I can talk about it. It's something fun for me! My undergraduate work was in cognitive science, well technically in the Philosophy department, so the logic side of it. But I was taking a lot of cogsci classes. And philosophy of language, language cognition, & linguistics were the areas I was most interested in. And then independently Hebrew & Japanese (and some German) were the foreign languages I studied. So half of it is a fun way to learn how languages work from the inside in actually *constructing* them. And the other half is sort of an homage to the languages I studied by seeing if they could be combined in fun & creative ways -- Japanese, Hebrew, and another language Chickasaw (along with its sister tongue Choctaw), which is connected to my family history. And I was always interested in translating. But it's when I stumbled onto some tutorial sites for *how* to make a ConLang that I saw that it's something that can actually be done. So I ran with it. Alright MD, let's see what you've cracked just from what you've seen. I'm in the process of trying to write all my scattered notes into a grammar textbook, and I'm realizing it needs a lot of cleaning up. I'm learning my own language almost like a foreign language as I go. Generally, you're seeing the Hebrew connection. The other pieces are Japanese & Chickasaw. Chickasaw is the core grammar. You start with a time conjugated verb with a SO prefix, then list the elements. Then like Japanese, the cases are tagged (although as you noticed, Hebrew also does this with "et-" for direct objects. Japanese does it for many of the other cases too, "ha", "ga", "wo", "ni"...). Like Japanese (and unlike Hebrew's "et"), the tags come at the end of the phrase it's tagging. Note on pronunciation, to keep it one letter, C="Ch", X="Sh", and R is between a French guttural R to Hebrew "ch". Yes! You have the 4 letter roots and add vowels just as you said, o-i for present indicative, u-e for past indicative, and a-a for modals, which add a suffix for some modals, "nofo" indeed being the "may" modal, and "halos" for the imperative (not really a modal, but it got into that category. Reciprocal should also be a suffix like Hebrew's hitpael, good guess!, currently "yalos". Also "must", "can", etc.) Yes, by gender & number, in the order SO. So if you wanted to just say "He saw her", you can say the whole thing with just the verb: Yisi-suplel. (Yi ="he" male subj, si = "her" female obj.) If you wanted it to be "John saw Jane", it'd be Yisi-suplel Can ma Cen ca. Yes, ma is the subject tag, and ca is the object tag. There are also tags for indirect objects, and like Japanese, the participles sort of work like tags for objects of participles (in, on, through, from, etc.) Yes. (There is no indefinite article. Like Hebrew a bit again.) And can you see the modifier for plural? (At least one of the words in my translation is plural and you can see how it differs from the singular ones.) Actually it's closer to Japanese, the difference being is that English usually has relative clauses after the noun ("the big train, which I saw.") whereas Japanese (and Turkish) is strictly head-final. All modifiers go before the noun on pain of death! Relative clauses work like adjective phrases. So it'd be "the seen-by-me big train". Now we have a verb again, so we have the Chickasaw/Hebrew style again, with one extra flavor. And this is where the English did influence a little. Instead of "I-it-saw" (for "the train which I saw"), you replace the noun you're modifying with a "what" (or whatever the interrogative word is for it), in this case the TRAIN. So "the train which I saw" would be "I-what-saw". [it's a little like how we do English. "The train (I saw it) was going fast." You replace the 'it' with 'which', and put the "which" up front, so it's: The train, which I saw, was going fast."] So for our Wasmaxna -- if we want to translate "The big train, which I saw, was going fast." -- you'd start with the head verb, "is", the copula linking Train to "going fast" (edit: sorry, actually you'd start with the past progressive "was going", so I'm going to have to fix the next sentences...). So we'd start with "It(subj)-WAS_GOING". Then you add the relative phrase modifying the train, "I saw it", replacing the "it" slot for the train-object with "what". So you'd next have "I-what-SAW". It was a "big train" which I saw, so after the "I-what-SAW", we put the "BIG" adjective. Then you'd finally have the noun head, the word "TRAIN". Then you post mark it with the subject tag "ma", for the first head verb (WAS GOING). (Notice like relative clauses can do, it's also in the role of object of the relative verb, "I saw it", but we don't put an object tag for it. The way we communicate it's an object of that second verb is like English, we use the interrogative "what" (or "which" in English) in the object spot of the verb.) Then finally we have "fast", which is the adverb on the verb "WAS GOING". Adjectives and adverbs are currently indistinguishable. They don't modify by anything. And they don't get any markers. So you just throw the word there at the end and let it stands, and context tells you it modifies either the train or going fast. Hmm, maybe I should distinguish adjectives & adverbs after all. Well, wait, the adjectives all go before the noun... So obviously if it were a "Fast train", "FAST" would have gone next to "BIG". But for adverbs, since it's VSO, modifiers of verbs are currently thrown at the end and the verb links to them somehow. I will have to think about this more. But anyway, currently you just throw fast at the end & context tells you it's modifying the WAS GOING. So using the past progressive form I currently have, the translation would be: Ki-kuybexbit kikul-suplel hiceka liya mae babate. Past progressive of "TO GO" (Kuybex=past simple; + BIT=progressive). KI = the suffix for a neuter subject (notice there's just one slot for that verb since it's intransitive, the subject, the "seen-by-me big train" that takes the slot with "mae", the subject-definite marker. There's no object slot in the verb like you see in other examples, like Yisi-, etc.). And then the word FAST is thrown at the end, with context telling you it's modifying the GOING, which you're supposed to know is referring to "going" by the context. [Footnote: Before I was thinking of "going fast" as a gerund, maybe a stupid mistake. If you did it that way, the head verb would be the copula "IS", which links the train to a gerund "GOING" as a reified noun, with "o-u-o". So if the verb "to go" is KYBX, "going" would be "koyubox", without any suffixes since it's like infinitive. And you'd put "fast" in front of that gerund like an adjective. The TRAIN WAS [FAST-GOING]. "The big train, which I saw, was going fast.", would then look like [it-it-WAS] [i-what-SAW] [bIG] [TRAIN] [subj-definite tag] [FAST] [GOING] [complement tag]. Kiti-hukxer kikul-suplel hiceka liya mae babate koyubox sa. Then a copula tag, "sa" (I think I was going to use that? It's still a trial rule). In as close to literal English as I can get: "Was the-seen-by-me big train fast-going." Hmm, I say it was a mistake to use a copula when the verb was actually past progressive, but maybe my intuition was telling me something after all to use it like a copula (English blurs the line after all). I did run into the problem linking adverbs to the head verb, and that's sort of what the "WAS" serves to do for the Past Progressive form in English.] As you can see I'm still learning it & developing it as I understand it better. Thanks for taking notice! Edit: If anyone reads this far, I'll reward them with the running rough draft of my grammar urtext: https://docs.google....QyjcJfdkVo/edit

Precision is better or worse, varying by country. The argument is that hate speech offers unprecedented protection for historically persecuted groups and individuals. Far from everyone can litigate in their own interests when they have a case. Legal aid is often ineffective and isn't always offered to victims. Hate speech laws are one of many areas to compensate for these downsides. Whether hate speech laws are necessary, at its core depends if there are similar or analogical laws in the country. If they do, one can only be liable only by using one of these laws anyway because of the principle not to punish or judge the same person twice for the same act. But not all countries have anything comparative. Inciting violence is not always against the law everywhere. Meanwhile laws don't always consider the special features that hate speech laws had in mind when they were drafted - aggravating circumstances regarding the incitement of resentment, violence against vulnerable categories of groups and individuals. Correct me if I'm wrong but we're talking about democratic countries or at least hybrid regimes? If so, the homicide statistic should be fairly accurate. It's easy to see how the lack of progressive laws, including hate speech laws has a negative effect on society. And it's not just about ticking a box that the law was drafted, voted and ratified. It's about actually enforcing it correctly. Societies need hate speech laws to: a. Ensure the accountability of state actors such as police, social assistance especially when facing cases of discrimination; b. End the impunity and perpetration of violence; c. Defuse historical inter-cultural, inter-ethnic feuds; d. Facilitate healthy communication between communities as opposed to knee-jerk reactions and polaarization; e. Prevent hate crimes. And many more.

The spoiler tags aren't for you, it's for the rest of us reading this thread so WE don't get spoiled. Thanks for spoiling the frobbable book on a shelf for the rest of us. EDIT: I'll be unsubscribing to this thread to avoid further spoilers. Maybe I'll check back after I've finished the mission Amadeus

It goes deeper than that with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and the Executive Order 12333 signed on December 4, 1981 President Ronald Reagan. Unfortunately US judges and lawmakers aren't progressive enough to extended the 4'th Amendment to the right to privacy. It's simply not in the text. At European level though the positive example showcased by the German Constitutional Court last year should inspire neighbors to do more: https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2020/bvg20-037.html Maximilian Schrems' activity is also promising. He and the NOYB NGO have already had significant achievements in litigation, especially at the European Court of Justice. The European Court of Human Rights had more modest progress. Controversially, they still recognize bulk interception of communications. Mainly, due to the fact that many countries in the Council of Europe are not as free and democratic as in the EU. But still, after a few failures, some violations have been noted: http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-210077

Cleaning Up the Neighborhood by some1stoleit, bikerdude Brief Description: A small-medium sized assassination mission, taking place in a bar and casino environment with streets surrounding the bar. Story: Crime is out of control in my neighbourhood, when thugs attacked my wife I decided I can no longer stand by idly. Unable to rely on the corruptible city watch and the aloof Builders, I must take matters into my own hands. My first target is a bar called the Scoundrel’s Rest which is not far from my home. It’s owned by a man named Godfrey and considered neutral ground to the various criminal factions inhabiting the city district. There is no doubt its presence attracts criminals towards my neighbourhood, contributing to the infestation of crime. Infiltrating the bar not only creates the opportunity to kill Godfrey and shut it down for good but also allows me to find information about the rest of criminal groups that inhabit my neighbourhood. I gave my thieving days when I met my wife, but for her sake I must take up the profession once more and prowl in the shadows again. Notes/Tips: Your lock picks are noticeably old, so you can’t rely on them to get you past every door. Examine the environment and keep an eye out for keys on pockets.If you see a pipe outside, chances are you can climb up it.On Rusty and Practiced difficulty settings there's a map available for the bar’s ground level and the street surrounding it.It should be possible to ghost the every area in the mission. A small amount of loot however may be difficult or impossible to acquire without knockouts.There are a few hidden optional objectives you can discover. Screenshots Download Mirrors: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rbiashq1c1k56ns/Cleaning%20Up%20the%20Neighbourhood%20v1.0.zip?dl=0 https://mega.nz/#!bMtgiSra!Y1KXGovfYfdtG1xxRkmPYndLxgq7wMNVr8oENnS2Qxg FAQ: I dislike when I get stuck on an FM and have to leave the game to scroll through forums to find out what to do. I think the mission should be straightforward enough to beat without answers, but I will provide a FAQ if it’s needed. Just be sure to give a good try working it out yourself before reading this. Thanks: I’ve found the TDM community very welcoming and helpful as a new member and would like to thank several people. Bikerdude, for allowing me to collobarate with him and showing me a different way to build maps from scratch in Dark Radiant, as well as many other mapping techniques.Resources:Springheel, for his Modules and his retroactive permission to use New Job street segments.Amadeus, for doing some proofreading of the briefing and readables.Obsttorte, for his objective checking script used for one of the optional objectives.Rsoul, for creating new internal version of architecture models.Beta Testers:Amadeus, Cambridge Spy, Abusimplea, Shadow, Boiler’s_hiss, nbohr1more, Springheel, JudithPeople who helped Answer my Questions:Destined, JackFarmerSpecial thanks to Sotha and Springheel whose video tutorial series give me the guidance and confidence to start using Dark Radiant.I apologise if I missed anyone, if I missed you please do contact me and I’ll credit you appropriately. About the Development: Initially this was a solo developed mission made by myself, upon some beta testing I agreed to make the mission collaboration with Bikerdude, with the intention to learn good mapping practices from the collaboration. The mission was redesigning using the same layout as the original but using Springheel’s modules instead of my very simple brushwork, and expanded in scope to include a more detailed street, a canal, a sewer and a rooftop segments. Bikerdude’s use of springheel modules and custom skins is mostly responsible for the beautiful visuals, with my contribution being the layout of areas and the writing. Known Issues: None at the moment.

I believe OP is autistic. In fact, I insist on it. When it comes to Afghanistan, collapse is probably inevitable, whether the U.S. pulls out 5 years from now, 15 years ago, whatever. The U.S. is just throwing good money after bad there. One thing that could be done is to take in all of the Afghan translators and others who were promised U.S. citizenship, so they don't get immediately slaughtered. This is happening, supposedly: https://thehill.com/opinion/international/558650-america-must-keep-our-promise-to-afghan-translators https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/561572-getting-afghan-interpreters-out-of-afghanistan-isnt-progressive-its

Interesting, although I'm not sure what to make of that. One of my favorite games (The Chronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena) was published by Atari, and, they don't even seem to care to keep the activation servers running much. Or remove/change the copy protection, which doesn't work at all on Windows 11. I really hope that Nightdive delivers at the end of May... I'm not one of the shit storm crowd (it's absolutely horrible on the Steam forums...), but, 7 years of development is a long time, and delaying the release obviously has become a bit of a habit, to say the least.

Personally I think this is the worst idea ever. The Reason forums has LOADS of info and knowledge, built up through years and years. I'm really sad to see it go away, and I can't understand why they've made this decision. https://www.propellerheads.se/forum/showthread.php?p=1579099#poststop

Welcome to the New Mappers Workshop! This is a communal workshop for new mappers who have never made a TDM mission before. Each week or two I will make a tutorial video and help to guide everyone through the process of creating a small, complete mission. I'm hoping the participants will feel free to ask questions, no matter how small--we're all here to learn from and encourage each other. Since I expect this thread to get fairly busy, I'm going to be heavy-handed about removing off-topic content. ====================================================================================================================================================================== Lessons often include links or other written instructions; direct links to the lessons are collected below: Lesson 1: Planning http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18945-tdm-new-mappers-workshop/?p=407999 Lesson 2: Visportals http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18945-tdm-new-mappers-workshop/?p=408253 Lesson 3: Your First Room http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18945-tdm-new-mappers-workshop/?p=408484 Lesson 4: Decorating Your Rooms http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18945-tdm-new-mappers-workshop/?p=408785 Lesson 5: Connecting Your Rooms http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18945-tdm-new-mappers-workshop/?p=409215 Lesson 6: Outdoor "Rooms" http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18945-tdm-new-mappers-workshop/?p=409322 Lesson 7: Creating Doors http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18945-tdm-new-mappers-workshop/?p=409547 Lesson 8: Functional Props (ie, entities) http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18945-tdm-new-mappers-workshop/?p=409731 Lesson 9: Immersive Details (sound/particles) http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18945-tdm-new-mappers-workshop/?p=410258 Lesson 10: Advanced Brushwork (ladders/water) http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18945-tdm-new-mappers-workshop/?p=410667 Lesson 11: AI http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18945-tdm-new-mappers-workshop/?p=411192

When I tried your .exe, I got this: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/21477-water-effects-not-rendered-through-warp-glass/&do=findComment&comment=475732 You also suggested trying the 'latest development build'. I asked if that can be obtained using tdm_installer, and you said 'yes'. That's what I reported here: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/21477-water-effects-not-rendered-through-warp-glass/&do=findComment&comment=475856 So - I am probably doing something wrong but not sure what

Above 3 items are released now, on the "Barks" thread: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/21740-english-subtitles-for-ai-barks/&do=findComment&comment=483331

Instead of that, you could, in that time period, start learning your own missions and in doing so become more active on the forums, learning from others. It's also great to understand how things work in the engine, when you play. It might spoil some immersion though.. Or learn to build games with other engines, like Godot for example.

There is no SS3, how can they do a remake? And thank god they got rid of unity, that engine is total trash garbage on anything over 60 fps. Just spend 5 minutes on steam forums for Unity project games, and there's just thousands of people complaining about poor performance, stuttering etc.