I don't know why we're assuming ComicCon is the opposite of a Christian event, or an event with an atheist audience. Besides, we don't believe in anything that's equivalent to their beliefs. Of course we have beliefs, but it's not quite the same kind of belief as the kind that someone has in a god.

I do appreciate that atheists feel more embattled in the States. I lived there for some time, and it's a totally different situation than the one I'm used to. In my country, religious people lost their power a long time ago and it's a thoroughly secular society now.

I keep having to say this because it was a bad choice of words on my part, sorry - I don't mean "neutral" like "impartial", I mean it like a halfway point between being totally cool and totally hateful. I think people are hanging a lot of shit on this guy for things other people have said and done.

I don't know what I'm supposed to think about the thing you don't know. I'm just trying to judge this situation by the appearance of the situation in the photo, like everyone else.

Yes, I know. If you look down the thread, I already addressed this with someone else.

They were drawing attention to the website that was running this, not running it themselves. They knew it was controversial and that it wasn't good, and they were just being dry about it. Hover over the words "win an iPod Touch" and you'll see it links to http://whenwillamywinehousedie.com/ (a website that no longer…

Okay. But all kinds of people set up with signs in street to attract attention, who weren't invited, who could potentially be said to be causing offence. In my high street, I'll see campaigners for animal rights - that's how we got a fox hunting ban, because of those people creating pressure and gathering signatures.…

If I thought that, I could read or write comments on this article :)

You can see how it'll be different in Watch Dogs or something where, instead of just watching the character do some kind of hack on his smartphone, you'd have a hack minigame running on your phone's screen. Or you could have some kind of map, or some optional things that friend could operate in a secondary player…

Given that the sound of running water is famous for making people want to piss, it's a got to be a brave man who'd have a toddler sitting on his shoulders in that situation.

The point they're making is not just about the power of the tech, but the fact that the mathematical models are built to be scalable. You might not get mobile-specific titles using all this power, but you will see conversions of games designed for consoles and PC coming to mobile in a form very close to the original.…

Read other replies further down, I've expanded on that.

Yeah, but a lot of people commenting in this article haven't realised the man is not from WBC. They've kind of wrecked it for every other Christian holding a sign, really.

Haha!

Crackdown

Did you mean to reply to me? I can't see how that relates to Blake.

It doesn't say "you are bad for not believing what I believe in". By their definitions of sin, every human being has sinned. Since Christians believe sin is universal and that all people have something to repent, especially themselves, there's no reason to take that word as a personal sleight against you.

No, but luckily that's not what his sign says. You'd have to go through some serious mental gymnastics to make that happen.

Okay, but you're responding to a post where I explained I'm an atheist and I said mostly the same things. I'm an atheist with atheist parents, and as I said, those guys have the right to stand there with their joke signs. It's more about the way the comments have gone than the picture, for me.

It's a phrase from a famous William Blake poem.