Men V.S. Women

I was walking with some friends the other day, and we got on the subject of sexism. there were three males and one female.

now, I will not go into what was said there too much but it got me thinking. Sexism is way blown out these days, especially in movies (which affect the real world). people seem to think that saying that Men and women are different is sexist. Well, they are wrong, or sexism is not a bad thing.

The way I see it is if we are the same, then why can we even tell the difference between the two genders? it isn't like the doctor put a blue or pink ribbon on our wrists when we were born and arbitrarily called us man and woman. we are different, there is no doubt, even if it is merely the external physical structure.

now that we have that to agree on, time to get controversial. we are different in more than just fissile appearance. mails have a tendency of being stronger, more focused, have a heightened leadership ability and are better at controlling emotions. females are usually more caring, are better at multitasking, and are a great support.

where we get the problem of "real sexism" is when we start saying that men are better than women because we are stronger, or women are better because they can multitask better. well fiddlestix, women and men may be different, but one is not better than the other. men are better at some things and women are better at others. for instance, women should not fight in war, they are not naturally made to be effective in that field. and men should not be the mom of the house, we just do not have the brains to do it.

now, the last time I said this to people of an overly opposing opinion (most notably a woman who thought that she could do anything a man could do and that generalisations are generally bad) they said that they knew some buf girls and some emotional men. Well of course you have. this is not an absolute thing, that all men must be strong, and all women must be emotional, just that they have those tendencies.

so to recap, men are not women. we are very different, yet we are still equal. ~=

original

Okay, this time I am going to attack an argument. I have heard this argument countless times, and three of those times have been recent and aimed at me. the argument (if it could be called that) is "is that your opinion or are you just quoting someone else." now, the reason there is a . and not a ? is because it is implied that the question is already answered. the thing is the answer almost always has to be yes, but what is wrong with that?

a simple response is do you believe that the world is round? they will (hopefully) answer yes, in which case you may ask if they discovered that on there own? or are they merely taking the word of another.

there is nothing wrong with quoting others, or believing the same thing as someone else (including your parents).

people who use this sentence are implying that using another's opinion is wrong, the thing is that the only person who can honestly use this sentence is the first one who used it. all others are merely copying him or her.

using another person's quotes and ideas are not an evidence of weakness, far from it. anyone who has had to write an essay for school knows that they need quotes in it if they want it to be a good one. quotes, far from making your essay weaker, make your essay stronger, you get support from the quote, and respect from the reader for doing some research.

this is such a weak argument that just gets thrown around to try and shut down peoples opinions, dismissing them as pareting others and not thinking for themselves. the obvious problem being that no argument or opinion, even the one used to condemn such arguments, are original. there is nothing new under the sun.

God bless.

Dillon V.M. Richard.

a little more

this is the same Dragon, but I messed with the 3D particle's and gave the membrane of the wings a bump simple map.

impossible

This term in VFS, I audited a Maya class. after the first two classes, we started making moving caricatures. most people in my class chose to make, well, people, but I chose something different.

I did this for three main reasons.

1. I did not want to be normal

2. I wanted to make something for my little sisters.

and 3. I did not think I would make it past the modeling stage, so of course I had to.

I will not tolerate intolerance!

Okay, when I go on my little rants on my blog once a month or so, I like to think that it is because I have something that would further educate anyone who read my blog. or encourage those who already share my views. I have recently come to the conclusion that this is far from the kace, a good excuse and hopefully perk, but not the cause. The true reason is because when I listen to some people talk, on the street or in an interview, on occasion, the speaker will make me want to smash a head thru a brick wall. Needles to say, this is a good alternative.

anyhow, on to the matter at hand. tonight it is tolerance. I have spoken about this before  but now I will do so in greater detail. Many people ( at least the ones who get on TV. and the subsequent ripple effect. ) have some funky notions about the word tolerant, and I want to take the word back. first of, I will start with the definition of tolerance from http://dictionary.reference.com.

 1. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices,          race, religion,nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.

2. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one's own.

3. interest in and concern for ideas, opinions, practices, etc., foreign to one's own; a liberal, undogmaticviewpoint.

4. the act or capacity of enduring; endurance: My tolerance of noise is limited.

5. Medicine/Medical, Immunology .

a. the power of enduring or resisting the action of a drug, poison, etc.: a tolerance to antibiotics.

b. the lack of or low levels of immune response to transplanted tissue or other foreign substancethat is normally immunogenic.

My personal favorite is the fourth one. 

and now that we are all on the same page, the false hood. The way some people talk, being a tolerant person means to believe or accept what others say, no matter how they differ from their own beliefs. now, if they would spend five seconds and look at the part where this definition says "opinions and practices that differ from one's own", they would get it straight and I would not be typing at one in the morning ( that is probably a lie, some other ignorant quirk would get on my nerves and I would be typing about that instead.). 

So, I try to tell someone that Jesus loves them and wants them to go to heaven, and that person starts yelling at me saying that I am an intolerant hump( in so many words), and I say." well what is your opinion on things?" and she has little more to say than that I am an evil intolerant heater.
now this is Oober abridged, and happened awhile ago, but you get the jist.

who is the tolerant one? the one willing to hear an opposing opinion, or the one who is too busy crying intolerance so loud she can't hear a fog horn?

I am sorry, that is leading the witness, but it should be blindingly obvious, I just thought that I would make it even easier. it is obviously the first one.                                 (palm to face.)

Okay, now that we all know what tolerance and intolerance is, what is so bad about intolerance anyways? Have you ever thought about why it is such a bad thing to be intolerant? 

Tolerance has its place, but it should not permeate everything. If we started tolerating everything  we would live a short and miserable life. Merder, no problem, that is what you want to do, if it makes you happy go for it. Just do not make me do it( even that statement is intolerant.). you do what you want, and I will do what I want.

Yes, this is an exaggerated situation, but it holds true nonetheless, and I hope it makes the point. not everything can be tolerated.

actually, the only ones that really have a problem( other than the ones having to deal with the people with the problem) are the people calling for tolerance themselves. think about it, if I say "you keep your opinion and let me keep mine," I have just said," I do not care what you believe  I believe that you should not tell me what you believe. so do not tell me what you believe, even if what you believe says that you should tell me, respect my belief that you should ignore your belief."

In effect, they have broken their own code. The philosophy of " tolerance" is fairly sound, until you tell someone about it. if you go up to someone and say" you should be tolerant of everything" or "I will not tolerate intolerance", you have pretty much shot yourself in the foot. both sentences say that you should tolerate everything but intolerance.

This is Dillon V.M. Richard. God be with you all, and may he tolerate our presence on earth just a little longer.

amen.

Argument good?

I want to take back the word arguing. many people give me a weird look when I tell them that I love to argue. they sometimes say something like, well at least you know your own short comings. the thing is, I do not see it as a shortcoming. argument is how we better our knowledge. when I argue with someone, I bring some information to the table, and the other person(s) bring their own information and they but heads. some of my arguments are dropped and so are some of my counterparts. this refines our arguments and even adds to them. If my argument is way off, I would like to know, wouldn't you?

what we do not want is a fight, which is what many people think of when you say argument. a fight is when instead of giving an argument you attack the person. Richard Dawkins interviews are often examples of this when he calls those who oppose him stupid, ignorant and many more names. once we start attacking the person instead of the argument, we know that our argument is weak and should probably listen to our counterpart and researching the topics under discussion.

for those who think I am the pot calling the kettle black with that comment about Dawkins, I was not targeting Dawkins himself, but his argument taktiks. I have a friend who is a huge fan of Dawkins, and he even admits that his arguments are to insulting. Again, not against Dawkins, but his argument stile.

The key is respect. Do not raise your voice, do not interrupt, and listen to the others side of the argument. I am currently in two ongoing arguments with people I consider close friends. We have known that we disagree on this topic since we met, and still became friends, and will remain friends after we are dun, weather we come to agree or not.

as christians, proverbs 27:5 says open rebuke is better than secret love, and 27:17 says iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. I personally like the new king james version of the Bible.
These verses clearly tell us that we need to make sure that we keep each other's wits sharp.

Evolutionists should have no problem with argument. the whole theory is about conflict making the survivors better. when it comes to argument, let it be survival of the fittest.

the two arguments are about evolution V.S. creation and so those are the sides that I have portrayed here.

for the birds.

here are the pictures of me catching a pigeon. I pasted teas to a box trap with a video playing on an I Pad, placed inside. Ah art school, gotta love the assignments.

space 5

this is a promo for a board game that I am making.

swim fish

I maid and animated this, I do not know if you can set it on loop, but if you can it will keep swimming flawlessly.

Interactive Storytelling.

Video games have come a long way from pong. now there are shooting games, fighting games, real time strategy, tern biased, plat former, and so many more, but video games are no longer just a form of mindless entertainment. Video games are a form of telling a story, a story ware the audience is invited to interact with, and even change the outcome entirely. the best of games nowadays do not just have a cool game-play  nor do they stand on awesome graphics and creachers alone  These feachers are just some of the things that make a good game, but for the most part they are not why the game is played. Video games are played for the same reason that some people read books, or watch a move, we like stores. we want to know how the hero killed the dragon, or why the alien race is interested in the outpost, and games allow us to experiences thees things in a way that a move, or a book never can.

Video games take emotional music, intriguing plot and relatable characters, just like a move or a play, the only differences is that they are maid so that the audience can interact with them. The player can decide which person he wants to talk to, what supplies he is going to get before going on a mission, ware she wants to put the bed in the house, or what competition to take her horse to. some games have only one long quest line, ware the hole game is telling one story, others have many quests, usually with one "main" quest, and several "side" quests, in thees games there are several stories being told at the same time. in either case it is the story that will make or break a game.

there are some exceptions to this rule, and thees are the competitive games. thees games do feed off of the game play, but only because they are meant to be played like a sport. in thees games two people or teams will compete against each-other and that is ware thees games get off. That is not to say that thees games are any less valuable, just different. they are like the sports of gaming  and the other games are like the books, moves and plays of gaming.

Now you know that wen someone is playing a game, they are not just sitting there mindlessly staring at a screen, they are partaking in a story that they are making, just as much as witnessing.

evee on top

here is my final animation at 24 frames per second and 19 fps. the 24 fps was submitted so that it was exactly 4 seconds long, but I think that the 19 fps works better.

they are a representation of how most of the fights I get in with my sister. I favor Espeon, and she favors Umbreon, and wen we wrestle I always come on top, but then my youngest sister comes in and jumps on top.
PS it looks better in the original Quick time video.

check it out, it actually snowed here (Vancouver B.C.). for a day anyway.

off hand

this picture took me two hours to draw. and I did it with my left and casted right hand equally.

it is supposed to be Faramair, from Lord of the Rings. I guess I need to work on my faces, but check ought that clasp.

one of my assignments at school was to make a sack jump. so in honer of the old plat-former games, I gave it a double jump.

loving all people

lately I have been thinking about gay's, and pastors who condone there choices. This thinking was inflated wen I read a blog, presumably by a pastor, criticizing pastors who honestly love people and try to help gay people see that the action of homosexuality is a sin. now, if you are not a Christian then this part will have no meaning for you, see the next paragraph. no Christian can honestly reconcile homosexuality with there Biblical faith. if they do not have a Biblical faith than what in the world are they doing being a pastor? Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13 and 1 Kings 14:24, are just some of the more blatant ones of the old testament. but Romans 1:18-32, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 and 1 Timothy 1:8-10 are in the new testament, so we have no excuse. and let us not forget that in the beginning, God found only one helper for man, it was not himself( thank God, we would all be in trouble) nor another man, it was woman.

now for all those atheists. you should be the most adamant against gay's and lesbians. they can not produce offspring without working harder than most of the rest of us, they have a shorter life expectancy and thus are genetically stagnant. and don't give me that bowl that they are born that way. how would the gene be passed on? ware is the gay gene in the body? the only way that anyone could say that a person was born gay, is a theist, who believes that man( yes, and woman) is inherently evil, and will sin in one way or another.

now don't get me wrong. violence against gay people is just as bad as the rest of us. unless some scientist has determined that they are some kind of sub species and I missed the announcement  they are just people like you and me. I have a friend who is getting married to his male fiancee, and I still love him like a brother. I do not condone his actions, but that does not mean that I must throw stones at him.

some may reed this and say that I am just an intolerant hump, and they should look up the word tolerant. or read this one. Showing willingness to allow the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.( a Google definition search.) so I am actual more tolerant than the person who says that. unfortunately  such a person has probably stopped reading by now.

en-taro Jesua.

Firmus means

steadfast, constant, durable, firm, strong, reliable, solid

Assistance.

Just recently I realised a flaw in my thinking. I have always disliked asking for help, I always feel like I am burdening my friends with my problems. but wen I am asked for help, I love it. to assist another is the best use of my time, in my opinion, especially a friend.
I broke my wrist a about a week ago, and thus must ask for help with the most mundane of things. Note: if you wish to hold on to foolish pride do not brake a bone. This got me thinking about this subject, and I finally came to the conclusion most readers would have come to from reading the first paragraph, to give is better than to receive, but if you refuse to receive, you rob others of the opportunity to give.
some readers may be thinking "why would a person spend time to wright such a simple thing." and my response would be that sometimes people struggle with the simple things, unless I am the only one, and a bit of advice never hearts.

Dragon Crystals

I tinkered with a table top game called Dragon Crystals. a tabletop game is a game that can be played on any flat surface, rather than a board. this game was played with little paper and cardboard figures, on cardboard stands. Each player would place a crystal figure on either side of the field  and some smaller crystal's would be placed in the middle area. Dragons would be placed at there owners crystals and the point of the game would be to destroy your opponents crystal.

the rules worked, and the game was fun, but the pieces were hard to make. I always thought that games that were player customizable were cool, but that made the making of the peaces that much harder to make.

the pictures would be colored and cut ought, the two facing dragons cut ought together in one peace. the dragons would be folded so that they were two sides of one dragon, the tabs would be folded ought and glued to a cardboard stand. 

 

Du Rock Games

When I realized that I rely liked making games, I decided to make my own logo and company name. I wanted my name to be more than just an arbitrary one, so I chose to make it have a meaning based in my faith. I came across the verse in the Bible that says, “The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower,” so I resided to name my “company” Du Rock Games.

a begining

I started making board games when I was about 11 years old, my first was a game called battle for life. Unfortunately I have no records of this game anymore, because I only started using the computer to document my game designs around the age of 15. It was a game that was played on a grid, with each player controlling up to five clay caricatures. The point of the game was to maneuver your caricatures to kill all of your opponent’s caricatures. Each player had their own set of personalized units, and since I didn’t use computers, I went through a lot of paper to keep track of stats (levels and the like).

my history

I have been making games since I was a boy. My older sister (by 9 years ) told me story’s about how she would try to play a kids game with me, you know, the kind that no one can lose, and I would find a way to make it competitive so that there was only one winner, and consequently a looser. I have always loved making rules for games, which is strange, because my family has never been fond of games. A joke that is often maid after I have been looked in my room working on a game for a couple of days is that I was switched at birth with an other child.