A room full of true scotsmen

    Which of the following activities sounds worse to you; using curse words (fuck, ass, cunt and so forth), or lynching a person because of skin color. If you choose the latter, and you are among the many [US of] Americans who go on about the “decline of morality”, then would you please explain to me when this morally centered American existed?
    If you think that the conspicuous absence of an arbitrary set of words in everyday language is a larger moral step backwards then segregation by race then maybe you don’t mean the same thing that I do when you say ‘morality’. My point is that a population desensitized to a set of nebulas words that aren't actually a good cause for offense in the first place is a poor metric to measure anything, morality least of all. Come to think of it no such metric exists. Elements of society change at a fair rate, some things improving while others take a turn for the worse. With this in mind I don’t think one can make a generalized statement about morality overall, and would be hard pressed to justified it.
    In hindsight I think its fair to say that things have progressed a fair bit. Woman can vote, black people are not slaves, and coming out as gay is only political suicide, as apposed to before when it was just outright suicide. 
    In conclusion the use of swear words without scruple is not evidence of a decline of morality. Rather, it is evidence of a change in morality. There is nothing wrong with discarding a dogmatic and outmoded convention that never accomplished anything in the first place.


On a side note: I mentioned a few posts ago that I was going to do another piece on windows. That got hung up a bit but is back in the works. Stay tuned.

RE: Nintendo E3 presentation

    I have a really great idea for a new game. It starts out with a quick time event in which all of the major Nintendo characters die in a painful and graphic explosion. Stephen Fry then appears on screen and explains to the player that if he or she is feeling nostalgic about an old favorite game, they should go play the original. The player then takes control of a Nintendo executive and is sent on a quest to fire the game design staff and embarks on a fantastic adventure to employ young and creative game designers and artists. Upon completion the player is rewarded with a cut screen in which a team of talented writers takes the English translation of a Japanese game’s script and use it as a guideline to rewrite the game’s dialogue so it doesn't sound like a 11 year old wrote it.
    It seems fitting that Nintendo featured a Disney game at this years E3 for several reasons. First, and most significantly because they both sold out to the point where the original creative spark is barely recognizable under the low frequency shit storm that is nin-dis-no. Also because both companies hardcore fan bases consist of overly protective fanboys, or in Disney's case sexually suppressed teenage girls.
    In conclusion: The adjective epic should never be used to describe yarn.