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I love FFIX because it brought the killer formula of FFIV to that generation of fans who had been introduced to the series through VII. I love it because, unlike every installment other than I and IV, each character has a full unique set of abilities in battle. I love it because it has that...

While FFVII is my favorite for sentimental reasons, I know in the core of my being that FFIX is, in fact, the best.

I think he understood both our arguments just fine, because I can't enjoy a clear summoning animation with a little voice in the back of my mind saying, "You know, your summons could be more powerful if you'd just use the Boost function." Either way I'm distracted, and that ruins the point of...

Well, I mean several things at once. On on hand, I don't treat perfect as an abstract concept. In its own context, the English-language release we had in 1997 was perfect, right down to the shoddy translation work. It was, after all, the release that sparked a flood of mainstream interest in...

I voted Hate, although that doesn't quite capture the way I feel about it. I love the soundtrack, love the setting and the realism, love the romance focus. But it ranks as my second-worst main numbered entry for all the reasons that have been trotted out ad nauseam: the lack of character...

It was perfect the way it was, just like the GOUT, E.T.'s 1982 release, Jurassic Park in 2D, and black-and-white Gone with the Wind. What I want is not some ridiculous DBZ-style combat and fully 3D environments. All I want is the FMV and prerendered backgrounds cleaned up to HD-quality...

Silent Hill​ for the PS1. Like New copy.

SaGa II (otherwise known as Final Fantasy Legends II). I had no idea what the game was even called at the time, much less that it was an RPG. I really didn't even like it that much. It wasn't until I played the demo for ​Final Fantasy VII and got sucked into its cyberpunk setting and plot that...

The Brain's Way of Healing by Norman Doidge.

For retro gaming, I like MetalJesusRocks and HappyConsoleGamer best, because they remind me of a lot of the guys I went to high school with. PeteDorr is also good, but he makes for a better Twitch channel. Along the same lines, AdamKoralik and The 8-Bit Guy are really great for discussion of...

For the average Joe, learning history is irrelevant. For those who rule, it is critical. When you rule it is good to remember that history is primarily an accumulation of the stories of other people who ruled. It is tempting to dismiss the personalities involved as outdated nitwits who had not...

Read carefully. I didn't say that education would spoil people. I said that people who are already spoiled would demand public education. And they are spoiled because they think that their relative poverty entitles them to violate other people's property rights by taxing those people to pay for...

This is an impossibility. The only reason why anybody even thinks it's possible is because of a watering-down of the definition of religion that has been shaped by the fragmentary philosophies of modernism and postmodernism. Religion is not a compartmentalized section of life. It is a worldview...

This is a nonsensical retort. What, pray tell, is education? Education is the process of bestowing information to young minds that will equip them for life in the real world, all the way from learning to tie one's shoes in Kindergarten to learning how fit exponential decay equations to the...

Education should be completely privatized. Then you wouldn't have this problem. Christians could send their kids to Christian schools, and atheists could send their kids to their schools. The only flaws in this plan are: [1] Sooner or later, you'd get a lot of spoiled people running around...

The vast majority of Christians throughout history never believed in a Rapture. The idea of the Rapture originated only about 150 years ago, and the idea would have fizzled out if secularism hadn't gained the ground it did in the 20th century. Prior to the 20th century, most Protestants...

This argument doesn't even make any sense in light of the statement to which it is ostensibly a reply: Secular worldviews have no ontological basis for morality that stands outside of themselves, and Christians do. It's not an evidence-based argument, and you miss its point by trying to treat it...

Read more carefully. This is not at all what I was saying in the sentence you quoted. What I was saying is that identification of stuctural/functional milestones as the dividing line for the status of "humanness" must presuppose some kind of objective moral authority. A purely secular judgment...

No, I read the posts that came before yours; you’ll see that I posted on this thread just three or four pages ago. What have I taken out of context? You indirectly stated that a defining criterion of humanity is consciousness and pain perception. Not once in that post or in any other post you...

Okay. Now I feel better about the Jew I anaesthetized, then disemboweled, then dismembered, then urinated on. After all, he never felt a thing, was never conscious. That way, when some self-righteous bigot from the Religious Right pickets in front of where I've put said Jew's head on stake in my...