8th May 2004, 4:38 PM
Yes, it does sound cool, and I coulda sworn I heard it that way once before. Correct or not (and it's not), it SOUNDS about right (and who cares about latin anyway, I wasn't thinking about it). It's like suffixing any word you feel like with "wise". It's terrible grammar, but people do it anyway. Speaking of, gamingwise, calling bomb threats and blaming nazis would be a weird game.
Illusion, your view isn't just "unpopular", it's wrong. There's a REASON no one here agrees with you. Okay, I put my shoes in that of the evil criminal. Alright, first problem I noticed, I can choose to go back home and never rape again... Hmm, door open and.... oh yeah, I CAN CHOOSE NOT TO DO THIS! Sorry, the blame always goes to the LAST person with a free will choice and it's THEIR'S alone! Yeesh, it could have been prevented if they knew perhaps that locking the door would have prevented THAT particular guy, but what about the guy with a rachet set? Who cares if it could have been prevented. LOTS of things can be prevented! Much more effort is needed though.
Answer this question. Let's say they did lock it, but they DIDN'T get a metal door instead of a wooden one. The criminal in THAT instance will only break down wooden doors, so do you blame the victim because they didn't install a metal door? Going onward, do you blame them for not electrifying the door, having a security system, boobytrapping the place Home Alone style, having guard dogs, and not learning martial arts? It's all the same thing.
Illusion, your view isn't just "unpopular", it's wrong. There's a REASON no one here agrees with you. Okay, I put my shoes in that of the evil criminal. Alright, first problem I noticed, I can choose to go back home and never rape again... Hmm, door open and.... oh yeah, I CAN CHOOSE NOT TO DO THIS! Sorry, the blame always goes to the LAST person with a free will choice and it's THEIR'S alone! Yeesh, it could have been prevented if they knew perhaps that locking the door would have prevented THAT particular guy, but what about the guy with a rachet set? Who cares if it could have been prevented. LOTS of things can be prevented! Much more effort is needed though.
Answer this question. Let's say they did lock it, but they DIDN'T get a metal door instead of a wooden one. The criminal in THAT instance will only break down wooden doors, so do you blame the victim because they didn't install a metal door? Going onward, do you blame them for not electrifying the door, having a security system, boobytrapping the place Home Alone style, having guard dogs, and not learning martial arts? It's all the same thing.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)