Volourn

FIRE BETTMAN! He lost his bosses billions of dollars!!!

"I don't ever want to talk about DA2 ever again lol " The rest of us cna only hope, but I ahve no doubt we'll be seing you hang around these DA2 threads in the future.

Dragon's Dogma was a fun game for a bit but eventually it got boring. Some good ideas though.

rEAD THE ENTIRE THREAD. gOOD READ.

NHL 13 NWN

"Is that most people seem to be morons. I wouldn't trust them with my finances, with looking after my kids (if I had any), so why should I trust them with actually learning correct and proper gun safety and control and a roomfull of lethal weaponry? " Yet,k the counter proposal is to trust wholly on the gov't to protect people and not tos crew them over. A gov't, run by, you guessed it, people. L0L

I'm more evil than EA. I would not have sales. Cobsumers are evil and don't deserve bonuses like that. I'd charge punks as much as I cna get away with as I know they'd try to rip me off if they could.

"Our citizens, as they are currently armed, would really not stand any chance against the government at this stage. Military technology is just too advanced. But it's not really a necessity either, because our government has nothing to gain from becoming a tyranny. We have a lot more to fear from the megacorporations than anything else." You are assuming the Amerikan army would be willing to go to full war with its citizens on behalf of the gov't. I don't see that happening. Besides, as we've seen in the ME uprisings, it's not always about who has more firepower. National armies eventually stop/split up when forced to fight their own civilians en masse.

"This all sounds so alien to me. I cannot possibly comprehend why people would WANT to have guns. From my perspective the debate starts from the other end - it would be rational to ban all weapons, however the military and some policemen would still reasonably need guns. I mean, what is it that you do with your guns that is so important?" But, if citizens don't have guns then why do police need guns? Do you really trust the police so bliudnly yet don't trust your fellow citizens? That's evil. Why does the army need guns? Aren't we living in a Happy Happy World Where everyone Gets Along? Why do people feel it's okay for gov't to have guns but not private citizens/ What makes gov't more innately good guys who can be trusted with weapons? LMAO You sound like that stupid RFA guy who wants to limit my right to watch movies, tv, and read bok syet gets whiny when his right to ownw eapons are threatened? People shouldn't be crying abotu protecting their freedom onyl when they themselves are threatened. In a real civilized land, it is those who look to ban stuff that need to prove why banning said stuff is beneficial. Nothing I've hard about banning guns sounds to me is beneficial. It would not have saved those children. Period.

"IMO, that might be because schools have slowly become more vicious over the years, in terms of bullying and social status, due to the increase in social media and the level of social interaction." Oh, come on. Schools have always been 'vicious'. Bullying has been the very fabric of school social liekly for as long as schools existed and it was the etachers were the ones bullying people. The only difference is we actually have a word for 'bullying' now and 'bullying' news is spammed 24/7.

"while very rare now, was almost unheard of 20 years ago." False.

Hamas's charter is quite clear - they want Isreal destroyed. Until that fundamental belief and stated goal of theirs is changed they can't be taken seriously. It's why Fatah despite that its nnot squeaky clean or Isreal itself even though they've done horrible things themselves can be taken more seriously when it coems to negoitating.

"You know, there are parties who are in or have been in Israeli governments who don't want to see a Palestinian state as well. And certainly, a majority of past Israeli governments have been for the continued land grab of occupied Palestinian land. How should you treat those?" Those Isrealis tend to lose Isreali elections and are no threat in the long run. Hamas is. theya re supported by the very palestinains that they have no problem murdering.

"Sadly it seems to be the point of the laws in the US to be as ridiculous and outdated as possible. The world evolved and the American justice system did not. I'm glad I don't have to be subjected to its arbitrary stupidity. " Sadly, the popint of you is to be a bigot. All countries have ridiculous and outdated laws . L0L The world has evolved into supporting terrorist groups like Hamas. R00fles!

"I did catch a bit of the NRA Vice-President's speech about it all earlier today, and while he made some valid points he then undermined it by saying that having our underage children play Grand Theft Auto is the problem because it teaches them murder is fun. " *sigh* I'm not a gun nut but I'm pretty much on the pro allow law abiding citzens keep their guns but that commnent just reeks of retartation. Games do NOT turn people into murderers any more than guns do. FFS

"We're talking about a freaking video game here Volo. Fact and fiction doesn't actually matter. I can tell you one thing that is a fact though, and that's that there sure as hell wasn't an avalanche of nerds complaining about the lacklustre opening scene in ME3 on the BioWare forums. Can you guess what the complaining was about? Three different endings that weren't really different at all except for the colour. That's why I said it's hard to believe someone would prefer that over the opening scene of the game but hey, it's obviously not an impossibility." the majority can go to non existent hell as far as I'm concern. The majority of people often like crappy things and hate awesome things. The majorty is a garbage notion that is totally irrelevant when it comes to actual quality. If you want to base your opinion on what the majority thinks that's a failure on YOUR aprt not mine. And, that sentence about the the colours is a flat out lie. The differences of the endings were more than just colour based. Don't make stuff up. It's very rude. ME3's beginning is one of the worst thing BIO's done. The ending is one of BIO's better endings.

As opposed to your post above mine? L0LZ

ME3 opening is FAR worse than the ending. That's not being 'hipster'. That's being factual. Majority vs minority is irrelevant. fact vs fiction is what matters.

"Statistical science is a science." That can be manipulated, twisted, and stretched so the researcher can get the result they want. Not the same as real science.

"Noting that scientific research can be flawed (though I'd adopt a less cynical take in regards to motives) is no excuse for rejecting science. Or should we throw our hands in the air and declare that the evidence around global warming is irrelevant, as it is disputed by some people?" I'd be careful labeling charts like this 'real' science. Its simialir but not quite. It's not the same as, say, putting two elements together and elarning what happens. That's science. This is 'research study'.

"Not sure I can agree with this. Unless you have connections with some sort of criminal element, I don't know if he'd be able to acquire the weapons as easily." From the reports, this attack was well planned out inadvance. From those who knew him that in spite of his mental issues he was actually quite smart - even taking college courses and doing well in them at 16 - so I'm sure as dedcaited to his cause as he apaprantly was he'd have found a way to find a weapon. Be it guns, explosives, or whatever. In fact, in this case, an argument could be amde that this would have been a worse bloodbath if his family dint give him relatively easya ccess to guns since he had the smarts to make a bomb and it was clear he loathed the entire school. He likely would have simply decided to blow the whole building up.

And, making guns illegal to own for sane law abiding citizens will not stop a crazy person from doing this. This guy broke how many current laws commiting thes eheinous crimes/ And, you think illegally gaining guns would stop him from this? No, it won't. Guns don't break laws. People break laws. People pretend that these are common occurances but they aren't. It won't stop a single mass murder. And, isn't that the supposed goal? Wasted effort that can be sued elsewhere to limit such things in the future.

Apparantly, the latets news is that he went on his rampage because he thought mommy loved her students more than him because she (finally) decided to force him to be commited through legal means. The fundamental reason for this shooting has nothing to do with guns. But, with a crazy person who just didn't understand reality (not matter how meantt or nice the people who think they knew him claimed he was).

Some good stuff. Some bad stuff.

"here's certainly evidence that spontaneous 'crimes of passion' (domestic violence primarily) and suicides are reduced by not having guns immediately available," What evidence and from who? Suicide is an issue that's been around forever and has nothing to do with guns.