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You're all wrong and this is very frustrating.

Yes I've used lua for modding old games like Natural Selection 2.

The docs and community in roblox and factorio fill in for the deficiencies of the language. Try using lua without support frameworks. Modding ns2 is a nightmare with zero docs and trying to reverse engineer in a terrible debug environment. Lua just doesn't stand up by itself.

You are only discussing the successes. Even built for purpose, game building applications like Core fail miserably to make development easy enough off the back of lua. Far cry 1 had lua scripts that went nowhere.

What love2d games?? The tech demos and hobby projects listed on the website??

For the three or four big successes there are a lot of obscure failures.

The big successes of creative modding projects came out of Half Life, Half Life 2 and Warcraft 3 which spawned Dota, team fortress, counter-strike, left for dead, garry's mod and many other successes.

War3's editor and XNA are the best modding environment's I've seen for individual acheivement.

Kids dont know better, they just put up with the jank and learn from their friends.

The last millenium was indeed shaped by the church but I am very curious what the role of religion or faith will be in the current millenium.

Going to churches because that's 'just what you do' has completely faded. People are expressing more faith in relationships than old institutions.

I mean, so does assembly. Rollercoaster tycoon was written in assembly. But for mere mortals lua is just too much hassle for game dev.

C# with XNA (or monogame) is a nicer 2d barebones game framework to work in, as long as you can dodge garbage collector issues.

Lua really isn't a great choice. It doesn't have enough features to support anything beyond UI layouts and super basic scripting.

Hard to answer that question any better than we can for alcoholism, workaholics and perpetual cheaters.

It's wrong because we own our own bodies. The confict of expanding humanity does not go away when you manage the population, people will want to expand.

Giving the state arbitrary powers to limit population growth is a form of violence. Having a state sactioned sterilization on excess children is just as horrific as a war, without any of the spoils of war.

The problem lies in the fact that the gov is the last body left to resolve our deepest conflicts as we are no longer free to commit acts of violence on our own behalf. Making it through life used to be materially difficult and death was far more common. Living in our current heaven-like atmosphere has far darker implications for the age-old conflicts.

Unions depend on making a black and white argument. The whole idea can't work with a nuanced argument. Either the company bows to the union or strikes start up. Either the employee joins the union or he/she gets kicked out of the company.

It's socialism for the majority. If you want a nuanced argument, meet your union leader at the church he goes to on sunday and see how fervently committed he is to his goals. You're more likely to get a nuanced argument in the face of God, rather than these big dick, black and white union arguments people endlessly wave in our collective face.

The union structure is not free from religious, political and justice problems. Some of the largest unions in the US spend union funds on politically charged topics that easily divide it's own membership.

You won't get a satisfying answer because it has little to do with rational answers and more to do with sexual security. Union members secure and promote their progeny.

If I search "Kleenex" on Google, I'm asking Google to find me Kleenex, not some ads. If Google is going to start listing things in highest-to-lowest bid, then it stops being a search engine and starts becoming an auction house of links.

WASP privilege is fading. It's either melt into humanity or lift the future cultural leaders into heaven. They are doing the latter.

The problem with lifting future leaders is they are not ready yet. They need humanity to grow to a point where the next cultural force has something to say.

The marines come with an individual cost that is frequently less valued than service in the army or airforce.