I'm always up for helping someone get started on the DS.

Back in those days, the value of women was pretty damn much nil. Women were property of men and nothing more. It's a trend that is mostly gone nowadays but still shows its ugly head from time to time in various forms. Martin Luther (the founder of the Protestant movement in the 16th century) was the first to try to break the mold of female submission, though this detail is conveniently left out of most records of his history.

Anyone making child pornography deserves to be killed. It's that simple. Someone who looks at it has a mental disorder known as pedophilia. I don't know if it's truly treatable or not, but some doctors have tried various treatments for it. We may look at these kind of people as if they're sick criminals, but they're ordinary people like you and me. They just have a serious problem that they need corrected. However, it's only a problem because our society says it's a problem...many ancient cultures practiced sexual relations with the young (the ancient Greeks, for example), and a few still do today (Thailand, anyone?). Is it a real problem, or is it not? Can't say for sure, so you have to leave it up to your own judgment.

If it says anywhere in the Bible that men should love women and women should love men, it's unknown to me. I don't recall any such passage, though it's been quite a few years since I've read the book. However, if it does truly say that anywhere, or can be interpreted as such, it further reinforces the fact that this is no book to live by. Homosexuality is a very normal thing; it exists all throughout nature. It is theorized to be one of nature's population control methods. No one should ever be shunned or judged for their sexual preference unless that preference harms others (such is the case with pedophilia and sometimes ephebophilia).

The verses following are pretty direct and specific...no interpretation required. Though really, this still doesn't tie adultery to pornography...the verse clearly states that you're looking at a woman, it says nothing of the image of a woman. Also, what if it's a woman looking at a man in lust? Matthew's chapter 5 is mum on this subject. Also, what if it's a woman lusting after a woman? My wife is bisexual and has feelings of lust towards women often. Has she committed adultery against me? You know, adultery is grounds for divorce...but by the same chapter, we shouldn't get divorced. Oh snap!

What an ironic portion of the Gospel. Continuing on from there, we also learn that we should pluck out our eyes, cut off our hands, never get divorced, and give all your clothes to a complete stranger.

"Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and another person who is not his or her spouse, though in some cultures adultery takes place only when a married woman has sexual relations with someone who is not her husband."

Hrm...¬_¬

Most of what you've said here is opinion, and you're entitled to your opinions. However, I'd like to point out a glaring error in your post. You have stated that pornography "didn't exist back then". Sure it did. Pornography predates Christianity by about 5000 years. Furthermore, pornography only degrades a person if that person feels degraded, otherwise that is merely opinion and/or speculation.

Me personally though, I don't need someone else's set of rules to determine right from wrong. I would like to see these scriptures though that show that pornography is wrong, especially considering you have also stated that it didn't exist back then. You've got me curious, especially since I've read the Bible from cover to cover many times.

God doesn't hate porn. He created women as beautiful, graceful creatures that we should admire. He also created every last one of you naked, and gave you the ability to reproduce. Porn is the embodiment of all of these gifts given to you by your God. Nowhere in the Bible does it say anything against pornography in any way. You would have to really grasp for straws to find such a passage (a technique commonly employed by religious people in order to try to force their viewpoints onto others).

Myspace is not Satan, it's more along the lines of Luther.

SMF does it but it's the only forum I've seen that has that capability.

Quite buggy, but great start. Keep at it.

Just giving my late two cents to this thread...

There is absolutely no concrete evidence, whether implied or actual, that a link exists between violent behavior and violent media. Not just video games, but all media. There IS, however, repeated studies documented that prove that violent media encourages violent behavior in a person who already has a penchant for violence. Like so many other things, you cannot make such a blanket statement and think it's going to apply to every single person. The vast majority of game players are not psychotic and understand the difference between fantasy and reality. It's that incredibly small percentage of people that are already violent who are driven further into violence by violent media.

Video games are the new scapegoat, perpetrated by the media over the last decade or so. Since the rise of the video game, the youth of today are watching less television, which translates into fewer advertising dollars. Television had to strike back somehow, so it was time to find a new scapegoat. Anyone remember how rock n roll was "evil" in times past? How it was "causing all of our children to become murders and s***s"? Complete BS. And yet now, the same kind of propaganda is being passed around, and some people still buy it up like cheap penny candy...Orochi was right when he said that nothing's changed in 1800 years and that we humans can't be saved...

The Ten Commandments are certainly religious doctrine in and of themselves. But they do serve a deeper meaning if you look at them from a non-religious point of view...at least most of them do. Feel free to skip over the stuff about keeping the Sabbath, worshiping only one deity, etc. All of the realistic phrases can be applied to everyday life.

I realize this is an old thread but since it was revived, I do have one major point to add...

If you put the Ten Commandments in my school, I expect to see the Eleven Rules Of The Earth next to it, as well as all other doctrines. Fair representation for all religions, not just Christianity. This IS, after all, a country with freedom of religion. Freedom of religion also means freedom FROM religion. So, all or nothing.

I don't like either of the chosen candidates, but it matters not since we cannot vote here in Puerto Rico. If the current state of media manipulation lasts until November, Obama will win with ease. I'm glad Hillary didn't win the Democratic primary...last thing we need is yet another puppet of the establishment in the White House. I could smell the "sexist" remarks a mile away though...there's always going to be at least one person or group that tries to pull the minority card; if it's not racism, it's sexism...as if females are a minority.

I didn't like Ron Paul at all. Sure, he sounded fresh and interesting at first, but as I looked deeper and deeper into what he stood for, he sounded just like every other fruitcake Republican out there. I tend to research far more than most, so I get a clearer picture of each scenario...most people will simply believe whatever rhetoric supports their viewpoint but I can't do that...too many years in computer programming I guess.

And anyone doing the whole "Obama is a communist" or calling him "Obama Binladen" needs to do their homework and stop playing the sheeple card. All of the candidates have skeletons in their closets...your chosen candidate isn't the picture of perfection but instead, the picture of corruption. That goes for them all. It merely becomes a case of "I will vote for the lesser of two evils".

Fixed...

For the PC Engine, I'm the lead coder at Frozen Utopia as "Nodtveidt". For the DS, most of my stuff is unreleased except for "EMC", the Eponasoft Multimedia Codec. Unfortunately, the posts that were made on the PAlib forum were lost when they switched forums. I have a few games in the works on the DS...an RPG, a few platformers (one of which is a platform RPG), a fighting game, and an adult simulation/graphic novel.

From my RPG project, early shots:



and then a composite (even shows the errors I was having with it) (link only):
http://www.eponasoft.com/msrds-composite.png

Greetings. I go by "Eponasoft" but you can also call me Nodtveidt or The Old Rover. BigBob85 recommended this place to me on freenode #palib, so here I am. Anyways, I'm an indie game developer for the Nintendo DS and the NEC PC Engine consoles. Yep, I'm a code monkey.