UNITY'S PROFILE

I remember thinking that Crystal Pepsi had a unique taste to it back in the day, but for the life of me I can't remember at all how it tasted. If they brought that back, I'd buy a bottle just out of curiosity.

Hope your friend will be okay.

Oh, wow, I totally missed that! Thanks a lot, Housekeeping! ^_^

I don't need it on a case by case basis. I was going to introduce a stronger version of poison and I didn't want it to instantly kill low characters. Also there's a bug that this helps me fix. This is great :D

While I get that the particular devil's advocate argument is an effective way to convey empathy with people who are morally outraged with homosexuals, as a bisexual I find it particularly gut-wrenching to find my attraction to the same sex compared to pedophilia.

However, I calmed down a bit and examined the statement "pedophiles who haven't raped anyone." I can only work with that if we amend it to "haven't harmed a child," to eliminate any middle ground, and then it comes down to "a person who is attracted to children, but knows its wrong and would never act on their compulsions," then I can agree with the point that we shouldn't hate someone in that position as they haven't actually harmed anyone. Is that in the ballpark of what you were after, LockeZ, aside from giving us a parallel for the feeling that some have against homosexuality?

When it comes to religion, I understand completely the knee-jerk reactions against it, but also that spirituality is a powerful factor in people's lives. I was raised Baptist, and as a child I talked to the pastor after Sunday School. I asked questions about some things in the Bible that didn't make sense to me, and I was told, flat out, that my questions would send me to hell. As an eight year old child. The whole message of forgiveness and love wasn't even mentioned in that conversation, and I was filled with despair for a long time.

To avoid going all walls-of-text here, let me just say that as a teenager I began to hate Christianity, and it took me until my mid-twenties let go of that hate. I met people who were Christians and actually lived as loving, forgiving people in a way that I found touching, and who didn't cherry-pick the scriptures to reinforce bigotry as many members of my family did. I also learned that you can be spiritual without being religious, and now I understand how important spirituality is.

Whoa, I totally went all serious and personal. So much for the fluffy light-heartedness of the "What are you thinking about right now" thread.

Good point. I'll check through the code and see what I can find. ...I'm also horribly dumb when it comes to scripting and fearful of messing things up. I guess that's what backup files are for, though. ^^;;

^ This.

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You could even go even more bare-bones than Mario or Zelda and have the objective "Get from point A to point B" or something and you could still make a game.

Said titles actually did have story. It just was backstory.

I didn't say they didn't have a story. I said they have a bare-bones story.

I kinda doubt the discussion the OP wanted to have was "Let's nitpick down to the exact line between a game with a story and no story at all." The point was that RPGs are often used to tell stories, some of them very complex. Others have very little in the way of story or dialog but are carried by excellent mechanics and gameplay. And I think that's cool; both are great.