MALADROITHIM'S PROFILE

I haven't played many board games so instead of listing 10 I will list my favorite:

Wise and Otherwise

There are many other games of this type but Wise and Otherwise is my favorite of the ones I've played. I am surprised nobody else has mentioned it? The game plays as such:

- The master of that round (each round the master is the next person to the right or whatever) reads the first half of an old saying

- Everyone secretly writes what they think is the best ending

- The master collects the responses and anonymously reads them all aloud

- Everyone votes on the best ones. Voting for the correct saying scores you a point while securing someone else's vote also secures a point

- While the original intent is to try and come up with what would be good endings to the real sayings it usually takes about ten minutes for the game to devolve into a series of hillarious dirty jokes with everyone being tricked into voting for the funniest rather than the most clever player



I also really like strategic board games like Risk, Monopoly, etc.

Well for a more serious reply:

So yeah before you call me a racist you should probably read the entire post and not just the part where I say that black people have ruined their own lives and that it isn't society's fault. Also I make a lot of very bold generalizations that are by no means universally true and I am not politically correct at all (for example I will not use terms like African-American or African-Canadian because the last time a black friend heard me call him an African-American he was pretty pissed off about it).

I think the real problems with the race barriers in the western world come from a much more more fundamental problem than they do from the shortcomings of the educational system. You can offer scholarships and hiring preferences to minorities all you want, but if minorities are not applying for the scholarships or jobs, then the money isn't going to the right places. I could tell you all sorts of things about how easy life is for a black person living in America as long as they are willing to take advantage of the special treatment afforded to them; the problem is that they do not.

So really I think the problem is not with the system but with the individuals themselves and their values. On an individual-by-individual basis you will find that an overwhelming number of black people in America and I assume Canada are simply uninterested in making their lives better. It does not matter how hard the system tries because it is the individuals that are unwilling to put forth any effort or to take themselves and their lives seriously. The gangs and the drugs and the racism aren't the problem -- it's the individuals who make bad decisions that screw up their own lives.

But you sort of have to think about why the individuals are the way they are and try to address the problems that make those individuals. In my opinion it is other individuals; a black person who does not take himself or his life seriously passes those values on to his children, who think the same way. There are always neighborhoods and parts of town that "belong" to certain minorities, and these communities have fucked-up values that send children down the wrong path. A black child living in the ghetto sees that people of his color live life a certain way and sometimes accepts that maybe his life is doomed from the start. I think this is where ideas like "you'll never get out of the ghetto" come from.

The black-focused school movement in my opinion sounds dangerously like SEPARATE BUT EQUAL and the Jim Crow laws that inspired dangerously violent and angry people such as the Black Panthers and amazing, brave people such as Martin Luther King, Jr. By taking members of a minority under the pretext that they are fundamentally inferior and need the extra help and segregating them into their own separate public school system, the city is taking the ghetto culture and artificially superimposing it onto high schools. Rather than treating black kids like human beings the school system is taking black kids and treating them like highways that need to have their potholes filled and HERE IS SOME PUBLIC FUNDING TRY AND CORRECT THE PROBLEM.

There was a time in the United States where if you were not Jewish you probably would never be a successful person. In Hollywood you can still see traces of that today but it isn't like the 1920s when the Igor Stravinsky and anyone from France were the only people who could be successful in publishing music in the western hemisphere. We did not make opportunities equal for all white people by giving non-Jews special treatment (except for Hitler and well look at how that turned out) but by treating all white people as human beings and letting the system sort itself out.

I think the only result of this system will be that black kids in Toronto will feel even more margianalized and lower-class than they already do. Rather than seeing other kids who come from better backgrounds and maybe feeling inspired to work hard to make life as good for their own kids as it is for their more fortunate peers at school, they'll come from their homes in the black ghettos and go to school and see nothing but a bunch of other kids from the black ghettos. They'll learn all about George Washington Carver while kids in other schools are being told phony shit about the iventions of Eli Whitney (who actually stole his designs from his wife who could not secure a patent due to her gender) but it will be a waste of time because they'll see the same separate but equal bullshit at school that they see back at home in the ghetto. The result is that the black kids you are trying help will only have the reinforced notion that it is hopeless for them to want to get out of the ghetto because hell apparently that's how life is for everyone.

I could go on but seriously I think that this is the worst idea I've seen in terms of race relations since those water fountains where the black person would have to stoop lower than the white person and drink the water cycled through the white person's fountain backwash and all for no reason other to be really fucking spiteful. If you want to see black people succeed and stop dropping out of school you need to treat them like human beings and not like a government project. The most powerful influence in a young person's life is that young person's peers, and if you start to separate young people by skin color, you start to separate them by social class. Even though they live in a society that is officially equal to people of all colors and creeds, if you don't expose young people that are taught by their parents it is hopeless to have hopes and dreams to other young people who are taught that the world is their oyster, you're dooming them to accept the negative attitudes prevalent in their drug-addled ghettos and pass those ideas on the next generation on highschool dropouts.

That's very cute if not a tad geometric. I think it's really awesome that you've just taken up amateur painting out of the blue because not a lot of people do that anymore. Like everyone else has said, your grass texture is the highlight of the painting.

author=kentona link=topic=633.msg10176#msg10176 date=1204822490
Release Something! Day is just two weeks away!

How is everyone doing?

I was doing great until you started being a jerk >:(

author=pantsman9 link=topic=757.msg10033#msg10033 date=1204586154
so i went online and bought another copy to fix the problem

Yeah right.

Anyway if the font fix doesn't work you can also solve the problem by downloading and installing official Japanese Text Support from Microsoft's website. When distributing your game be sure to include instructions for users to install Japanese Text Support or else their fonts will be squished as well.