So, a video game. You control one of the four elements, or maybe more if it's based on oriental culture. You have to escape from Wizards who try to enslave you to gain more power. Basically : magic seen from the point of view of... the magic. Gameplay is non-violent, à la Oddworld, because you have to escape.

Also : a series of documentaries on philosophical ideas and notions through various philosophers and civilizations. Divide the subject of interest by theme or concept rather than time (historical events, civilizations) or person (biography). Examples : Idea(s), Soul, Man...
Look at its evolution, perhaps even reaching opposite meanings in different authors or cultures, but keep the same word to designate it. Look at how an author's followers have deviated or not from his original intent to the extent it's possible to know (like the tentatives to mix Plato and Christianity during the Renaissance). Don't discuss specific stances or the correctness of this or that meaning of the word, just present the different meanings and their relations.

Those are just that really, general ideas. I got nothing more precise with them, so feel free.
I have other ideas, for another video game and for a movie or a series, but I don't wanna share them. I actually started looking into C#/XNA for the game (in fact it was the opposite, I looked into XNA because C++ was too hard and unproductive for me, and came up with ideas progressively as I tried to get basic stuff working), but I gave up a couple months ago maybe ? because I felt I was too slow and wasn't getting better. I'm sure I'll get back into it though, so I kinda have hope for the game.
The movie/series is a pure adolescent wankfest though, and it's highly unlikely anything will ever come out of it. It's very immature and I'm aware of it, the ideas I have go both "OMG SO REAL AND GRITTY AND SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS TOO" and "SO AWESOME DRAGONS AND WIZARDS" (yeah, it's fantasy). But I still hold on to it. If I could only work on something at least a little every single day.

>>349842
See
>>349786

I swear to God, if my bosses pressure me into working twice as long as I'm supposed to today...
Like they did yesterday...
And the day before...
And the day before...

>>349530
>>349531
>>349555
>>349752

>he wants to grab a drink next week

>>349852
Part of the problem = not donating money to a suspiciously recent registered charity

>>349022
Well, if he was of the Reform (or possibly Conservative) denomination and you're not Jewish, he wouldn't really have any basis in religion to condemn you.

I keep having homoerotic dreams after hanging out with my friends.

That bothers me a little.

>>349367

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

I am using this thread as a platform to tell all of you how disappointed I am in the quality of your posts.

Eat shit and die.

Is English not your first language?

>You're addicted, which makes it seem so hard to be your friend.

In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

>>349870
God's final message to the Universe:
>Sorry for the inconvenience.
-Douglas Adams

>>349806
It's fucking awful. I had a couple of friends who were laid up for months with that.

On the exercise front: muscle fatigue from yesterdays awesome squats killed my 1000m row time today, but less so than I thought. Medicine ball twists (or whatever the fuck they're called) are becoming decidedly less awful. Tired, sore, and angry at the prospect of having to ride 50km to work: the perfect frame of mind to do some writing.

>>349855
I've had it for months, but it looks like I'm never going to get adaptive immunity. So a few weeks/months out of the year, every year.

>>349856
I didn't know that could happen. That's awful. I hope you feel better soon bro.

Pic: also awful.

>>349816
>I never meant any of my comments to suggest that we should be trying to change human nature. I don't think it's possible.
No, it's possible. However, it has be to subtle and done over a long period of time. You can't say "Parents do homework with your kids" over and over and over and over and then have them go to teacher conferences and actually have it affect them. There needs to be some other incentive that doesn't directly state it's to get the parents involved that gradually changes behavior.

Recently "read" an article about one of those super-funded charter schools fining kids for infractions:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-us-chicagoschool-fin,0,5892718.story

At first you might experience rage at the very idea, but after reading the actual fines are quite low and kind of hard to get (you have to get four demerits in a two week period to even get a fine and detention). Some of the stated demerit reasons seem absurd ("not tracking the teacher with his eyes"), but if we can get rid of those then the system will involve force parents to get involved since they receive the bill, without telling them they need to pay more attention to their child's schoolwork. When they get involved more in the day-to-day activities, they'll be involved more in making sure the kid gets an education.

I'm not saying that's the right or only way to go about it, but I'm glad to see independent schools able to experiment with these kind of ideas. The school in question is an urban in an impoverished area, but according to the superintendent they only have about one fight a year compared to one a day at many other similarly located schools.

Of course, another thing is that because it's an independent school, parents have to take action to get their kid into it. And if the parent takes action,

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P much what everyone else is saying.

Make it so that you can actually fire a teacher who fucks up, when they fuck up, and not have them sit in a rubber room for years, reading magazine and waiting for their case to be arbitrated, all while collecting full wages.

Higher standards for teachers. If you have high standards, but also very attractive pay and benefits, and the freedom to teach creatively, you get the system Finland has: the best one in the world.

Increase the total, and consecutive time kids spend in school. -they don't have to go home and help with the harvest anymore, why do we give them 3 full months off? At least break it up, so there's shorter lapses. Start the days later, and have them shorter, without reducing total hours of class time per year.

Get rid of "no child left behind". Don't sacrifice the successful to try to save the hopeless.

Allow more specialization. If you're set on being a lawyer or engineer or plastic surgeon at age 13, while you shouldn't be exempt from the core curriculum necessary to understand world and national history, and the basic workings of the universe, you also shouldn't have your hopes of law school derailed because you're not that hot at algebra, or your hopes of being a mathematician quashed by a deficiency in creative writing skills.

More trade schools, more vocational schools, more industrial arts. Not everyone is going to college, but that shouldn't destine them for burger-flipping. Our public school system needs to take that into consideration, and commit to preparing those who are going to work, or go into an apprenticeship or further non-university schooling for a specialized blue or white collar job, as well as it does those who want to go to college.

Don't be afraid to challenge kids. Really, I wish I'd been pushed harder, younger, when my brain was more flexible. We should start second languages in grade school, and a third in middle school. We're a global economy now, and while we speak the new lingua franca as our first language, there's no excuse for monolingualism in th

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cut or massively remodel dept of education

>>349765
It's on a personal level mind you.
You can know more than that, but on a interpersonal basis, it stops being feasible at about 150.

>>349804
One thing I'm surprised they haven't looked into is the capacity for humans to expand that number.

I care too much about people. Hell, I still call my mom and check up on and worry about her even though she broke my heart and took my money and is behind most of my messes. And everyone I care about is selfish and self-loathing and damages themselves and is insecure about everything, so they only make me worse.

My true inner demon, though, isn't that I care so much. That makes me human. The real problem is that it's so hard to stay here and not just disappear. I'm in the process - I have a ghost address, get mail at places I don't live at not addressed to my real name. I hunt down job opportunities and scope out different areas I could disappear to. The whole reason I care about these people is - underneath all the things about them and my protective instincts and the fact that I believe they deserve it - that it's the only thing keeping me as who I am, right now. I have no self-identity, I can disappear and start again easily. Especially with this job that will get me enough money to vanish by the end of summer - yes, I've been calculating.

It all boils down to wanderlust, stress, and that selfish part of me that wants to just keep fighting for my own happiness and fuck everyone else.

>>349827
As much as people might dislike it, the new boards are neccessary. As the userbase grows, moot will have to find a way to spread it out and accomodate it. So unless you want 15 /b/s and a handful of actually themed boards, you will have to find ways to diversify and ensure discussion that is, at the least, on-topic.
And if your main concern is just your thinly veiled MLP hate, let it go. It's a fad. It will go away.

>>349827
>I feel like I need a two-piece to get in there now.
Then you're taking the internet way too seriously.

>>349831
Everything just seems so damn formal.

>>349830
I'm always game for new boards, but moot's mostly dead or cavorting with people whose first name is reminiscent of schmuckle. Is he actually implementing quality standards now? Because I think he is.

Tall Man was here

Slender Man is a loser

Angus Scrimm The Tall Man's Gr…

http://www.emcarroll.com/comic/
Quite a few of her comics are relevant to this thread.
And the ones that aren't are still great and I recommend them.

>>349787
>His face all red

NOPENOPENOPENOPE

>>349407
How very romantic.

My college's student engineering club is right in the middle of making one of these, although it's only about the size of a beer mug. We've got the coil wound up, now we just need to epoxy it in place and finish soldering.

Cats are for Pussies
Magnetic Thinking Putty
"Peacock spider"
MATRIX 5
The Prometheus Device
Fastest gun in the world
16-Globus - Heaven Help Us (Eu…
JetLev Promo

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>>349339
That was sarcasm. Come on, I'm a retard, but even I'm not that spergy.

>>349698
As in the EU.

God I fucking love cons
there are times where I love the convention just for the sake of the convention.

last year there was a line to go into the harry potter/green lantern panel, there was a big ass line of people, all mixed up fandoms, green lantern boys talking to griffindoor girls and just a pleasant time had by all.

I have good feeling when going to these things

>>349592
Speaking of Señor, does he still comes by the IRC chat?

>>349651
Great! I'll have to make room for that con in the future then.

>>349681
From time to time, yes