Yeah, a whole seven months since I spoke here. I'm lazy, but I did remember.
I got XCom 2 and played it until I liberated Earth. I loaded over and over again because I'm too attached to my soldiers. I do not make a good general because I want to see all my soldiers succeed. It was like that with the original game back in the 90's, the reboot years ago, and it is true today.
The game is so much better than the reboot. The maps are more organic. There is more variety in the types of missions, and the pace is quicker. Unfortunately the errors that plagued the reboot also show up in XCom 2: characters clipping objects, shooting through walls (and hitting their targets), odd camera angles obscured by objects, and delays between actions. These are major gripes but I gloss over them because the game is so good and engrossing. Damn I played over 80 hours to get to the end on normal mode and I am playing again in Easy but with Ironman engaged.
Get XCom 2. You will enjoy freeing the Earth from the alien menace.
Monday, February 22, 2016
Friday, July 24, 2015
Your Sexuality Is Not Love
I am finding news posts littering the internet claiming that homosexuality is not a choice. The claims state that many factors (from what I briefly read, external) contribute to a person's sexuality before they hit puberty.
This is disturbing on so many levels. To say that external factors can influence a person's sexual preference suggests that we can program all humans to behave in specific categories. If you want your child to be heterosexual then you will strive to have specific influences be much stronger. Say, corporal punishment to change the child's behavior. That may be an extreme example of a process but it is one that many people are very familiar with.
So what happens to the unconditional love that we, as a society, profess? What happens when the love we said we give and take with our life partners are really just a bunch of factors and chemical influences? What happens to our choices when we can boil it down to initial conditions? What happens when our freedom to choose who we love is no longer a freedom?
If homosexuality is not a choice, then heterosexuality is not a choice. The homosexual men and women who are raising children may raise a child heterosexual or homosexual or some other type on the spectrum. (I'm finding more articles describing more sexual orientations than I am currently capable of fully understanding.) What happens then?
I find that many people on either side of the debate equate social preferences with sexual orientation. A person can come to terms with their sexual orientation if they understand that orientation does not mean they not love and are less committed to their different-orientation partner. If any person says that love and orientation are intertwined they that person does not believe there is any choice in the world.
I will paraphrase what I have said before to clarify this subject: sexuality is not Love. Forget that and you forget why we are human.
This is disturbing on so many levels. To say that external factors can influence a person's sexual preference suggests that we can program all humans to behave in specific categories. If you want your child to be heterosexual then you will strive to have specific influences be much stronger. Say, corporal punishment to change the child's behavior. That may be an extreme example of a process but it is one that many people are very familiar with.
So what happens to the unconditional love that we, as a society, profess? What happens when the love we said we give and take with our life partners are really just a bunch of factors and chemical influences? What happens to our choices when we can boil it down to initial conditions? What happens when our freedom to choose who we love is no longer a freedom?
If homosexuality is not a choice, then heterosexuality is not a choice. The homosexual men and women who are raising children may raise a child heterosexual or homosexual or some other type on the spectrum. (I'm finding more articles describing more sexual orientations than I am currently capable of fully understanding.) What happens then?
I find that many people on either side of the debate equate social preferences with sexual orientation. A person can come to terms with their sexual orientation if they understand that orientation does not mean they not love and are less committed to their different-orientation partner. If any person says that love and orientation are intertwined they that person does not believe there is any choice in the world.
I will paraphrase what I have said before to clarify this subject: sexuality is not Love. Forget that and you forget why we are human.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)